You always get GOOD GOODS t Alexander's.
ind-up Clearance Sale
Tf,;c will be the final sale to disoose of th& lacf nf nnr
L.vt Waists, Wash Goods. Laces, Embroideries and other
Liner Goods.
y(J Torchon Laces worth JSC Vd
Mosqtftto Net Bltfc, Pink, Green. irn.4
White or Red. 3
0r Jr-or Jriitrt Waists 1 AO
lot worth n to fti.yo
!5 per Ceilt OSoaaU Wash Goods
ME COUNTY NEWS
NOT MUCH FAITH.
lexander Dept. Store
RELIABLE CLOTHIERS.
Mlltonltes Do Not Expect Electric
Road for Some Time,
Milton, Aug. 21. The people of this
city have come to tho conclusion that
they will have to wait some time be
fore the long projected and much
talked about Mellmann-Itonio electric
road is constructed. The difficulty
over securing a power site has given
the promoters an opportunity to de
clare they will have to place their
plant at Dayton, Wash., where it will
bo at one extreme end of the line and
there will be much waste of power In
transferring energy.
At the same time tho Miltonltes do
not sec where they should be forced
to sell their land desired by the rail
road company for a power site for
less than its actual value. It was ap
parent from the very first that tho
promoters of the electric road were
anxious to have a power site donated
them, but this was not forthcoming
and so excuse for holding back the
construction of the road is afforded.
The people of this place fully real-j
ize the benefits which would accrue i
from tho construction of the road and
at Uio samo tlmo they nro convinced
that It will not bo built until tho
present company can unload Its fran
chlse to somo outfit which does not
want everything donated.
Wheat Around Helix.
Helix, Aug. 21. In the groat wheat
fields around Helix there Is at pres
ent a threshing outfit for nearly every
square mile of territory, and it is
surprising how many combines arc
being operated this season.
Nearly two-thirds of tho wheat and
barley In this vicinity has boen har
vested and while a fow of tho yields
are very poor, running but 16 to 18
bushels to tho aero, but most of It Is
very good, considering the drawbacks
with which tho farmers havo had to
contend this season.
Harvest hands are fairly scarce nnd
anyone who wishes to work in tho
fields will havo but .little troublo in
getting in a crew in this neighborhood.
Faster work Is being dono in tho
garnering of the grain this season
than for several years past and tills
is making a difference in the yield,
which is most favorable. Nearly all
are anxious to have it go ahead, but 1 the grain is A 1.
let Your Canning
applies of Us . .
We are in position to furnish you good, clean and
fresh fruits and vegetables. Bartlett pears are in sea
son. They are excellent for putting up. Let us supply
you.
5H RIPE FRUIT
We receive daily fresh watermelons, the sweetest
and ripest Vhat grow. Canteloupes that will make you
want more.
JGAR AND SPICES
Sugar and spices of all kinds used in canning and
preparing your preserves can be obtained of iis.
RTIN'S FAMILY
GROCERY AND BAKERY
The place to get clean, fresh goods.
R. MARTIN, Proprietor
Telephone Red 34)
THE WHOLE STORY.
Agriculture
the United
BUY YOUR
UMBER
AT THE
p Lumber Yard
Ita 8t,. opp. Court House.
BS AS LOW AS THE LOWEST
fAH Klads of BullMa Material,
inciuaiag
Doors
Windows
Screen Doors
and Windows
Building Paper
Lime
Cement
Brick
and Sand
I Don't Forget Our Wood Quttera
for uaras aad Dweuiags
t THE
1YAL RESTAURANT
Cooper's old stand,
PSL, Near W.&CR. Depot
royal eood meal. for onlv
P cents.
If Vnil Hino ...Cfl, .. ..
' nun us vuu ctic
41yays satisfied.
trial meal will make you
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ML' onjTWMU key-bcrd, flntctaM
SEWINQ MACHINES
AT BARGAINS . . .
During the month of August
we will offer special low pne
es on
WHITE
Sewing Machines
The White is recognized as
the best machine made.
Come now and save money.
JOS. BASLER'S
Bargain House
WE ARE THE PEOPLE
and the only people In the saddlery
business that carry a complete stock of
Harness, Baddies, Bridle, ;8pure, Sweat
PadB, Pack Baddies and Bags, Tent,
Wagon Covaas and Canvas.
JOSEPH ELL,
LmhHhI HanMM mnI SaMtart
All Over
States.
The census bureau has Issued a
bulletin giving tho condition of agri
culture in 'the United States for the
year. 1900. It shows that at the time
there were 1,379,673 farms in the en
tire country, which were valued at
$16,574,094,217. Of this amount $3,
560,198,191, or over 21 per cent, rep
resented the value of buildings and
$13,124,492,056, or over 78 per cent,
represented the value of lands and
improvements other than buildings."
The value of farm implements and
machinery -was $761,261,550, and of
live stock $3,078,050,041. These val
ues added to the value of the farms
give a total value of farm property
amounting to $20,514,001,838.
The total value of farm products
for the year 1899 is given at $4,739,
118,752, of which amount $1,718,990,-
221, was for animal products, Includ
ing live stock, poultry and beef pro
ducts.
The bulletin places the average
size of farms in the United States at
146 acres, and it is stated that 49
per cent of the farm land is improved.
The total acreage for the entire coun
try was l41,201,510. The number of
farms in the United States has in
creased in every decade for tho last
50 years, and so rapidly that in 1900
there were nearly four times as many
fcrms as in 1850, and 25 per cent
more than in 1890. The total acreage
of farm land also has increased, but
decrease in the average size of farms.
Since 1880, however, thetotal acreage
has increased more rapidly than the
number fo farms, so that the average
size of farms has increased. The to
tal area of improved land has increas
ed in every decade since 1850.
A comparison by states indicates
that the most important states in the
agriculture of the country are, begin
ning with the West, Missouri Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. Together they con
tribute 44 per cent of the total value
of farm property and 36 per cent of
the total value of farm products.
Texas leads with the greatest num
ber of farms, 352,190, and also with
the highest acreage, 125,807,017. But
only a little over 15 per cent of the
farm land In Texas was Improved,
and the value of the farm ' land in
Texas was less than in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, New York, Missouri, Iowa or
Illinois being $902,470,273. Missouri
ranks second in the number of farms,
having 284,886. Other states having
more than 200,000 farms are: Alaba
ma, 223,220; Georgia, 221,091; Illi
nois, 264,151; Indiana, 221,897; Iowa,
228,622; Kentucky, 231,667; Michi-
gan, 203,021; Mississippi, u.ouo;
New York. 226,720; North Carolina,
224.637: Ohio, 276,719; Pennsylvania,
224,248; Tennessee, 224,623.
Iowa leads the list in the percent
age of improved lands, more than 86
per cent of farm lands or that siaie
being Improved. Illinois follows with
more than 84 per cent; Ohio comes
next with 78 per cent, and is followed
by Indiana with more than per
cent Illinois is in first position m
the matter of total value of farm
lands, figures for that state being
$2,004,316,297. Other such vajues are
as follows: Iowa. $1,834,345,546; Cali
fornia, 796,527,955; Indiana, $978,016,-
471 r Kansas, $864,100,280; KentucKy,
$471,045,850; Michigan, $090,355,734;
Minnesota, $788,0.1,042; Missouri,
Sl.033.121.8a5: Nebraska. $747,950,-
057; Now York, $1,068,723,895; Ohio,
$l,198,i-,04; Pennsylvania, $i,uju,
629,173; Tennessee, $34i,zu-2,uo,
Vexas, .$962,476,273; Virginia. $323,
G15.977: Wisoonsin. $811,712,319.
The livestock farm lands of the
cpuntry are put down at a value of
,7,505.284,273, or more than 36 per
cent of the whole; tho hay and grain
lands, $6,379,548,543, or 31 per cent
of the whole; dairy products over 3
per cent and cotton over 5 per cent
A chapter of the bulletin is devot
ed to Irrigation and the following ex
tracts from It summarizes the presen
tation: "A comparison of the number of ir
rigators and the number of acres ir
rigated at, the beginning and end of
the decade of 1889-1899 shows that
these have approximately doubled.
The number of irrigators in tho arid
states and territories increased from
52,584 to 102,819, or 95 per cent, and
the number of acres irrigated increas
ed from 3,364,415 to 7,263,273, or 103
per cent Tho percentage of increaso
in tho number of acres lrrigatod is
somewhat larger than that in tho
number of irrigators, and occurs prin
cipally in what may bo termed tho
newer states Idaho, Montana, Utah,
Wyoming. This increaso Is caused
by the Irrigation within recent years
of large areas of ranches in forage
crops and pasture. In California and
Colorado the reveruo condition is
noticeable. The increaso both in
number of irrigators and in area ir
rigated has been proportionately less
than in tho newer stateB, showing a
decrease In ratio of growth, due to
the more complete development and
utilization of available water supply,
"In these states the acreage irrigat
ed has Increased respectively 44 and
80 per cent, or, taking both states
together, 61 per cent Thus tho num
ber of irrigators is increasing more
rapidly than the area brought under
cultivation, showing a more marked
tendency toward the subdivision of
large irrigated tracts and the cutting
up of these into smaller homesteads
mainly devoted to fruit raising."
Trade Review,
THREE BUTTON SACK
The Big
NOT ALL IN WEALTH.
Millionaires Who Are Almost Pathet
ic Failures in Life.
Russell Sage, .millionaire many
times over, on his 86th birthday said:
"If I, were asked to adviso a young
man how to live long and get rich
I would say hard work."
There could be no better practical
advice. But the young man having
got rich and-grown old, why should
he keep on working hard?
Mr. Sage is 86 ad with more money
than he could spend in a hundred
lifetimes, drudges as laboriously
every day as if starvation would fol
low an hours Idleness.
ire is proud of his Industry, too,
though there is really nothing admir-
able about It. Mr. Sage works be
cause ho likes it He doesn't know
how to do anything else. lie Is a
warning and not an example.
A man who has made a fortune
should be capable of spending his old
age in better ways than working to
increase his pile. Mr. Sage Is an ex
treme Instance of objectless Industry,
but this strenuous youug country has
multitudes of rich men who are no
wiser than he. Indeed, it Is the ex
ception, not the rule, for men to retire
from business when they get enough,
Tho reason is that In their Intense
devotion to money-getting they havo
neglected their minds, and often their
hearts. They havo failed to cultivate
Interest in books and art and science
and humanity, so that their intellects,
aside from tho money-making facul
ty, have atronhied. So have their
sympathies. They havo no amuse
ments save to follow the rut of busi
ness routine. They are victims of the
work habit, which is as truly an infir
mity as tho drink or drug habit, and
quite as destructive of any sort of
happiness becoming to a neing wun
an immortal soul.
Comparisons may be odious, but
thy are Instructive. Regard Mr.
Sage tied to his desk at 86 like a
galley slave to his oar, and then con
sider Andrew Carnegie, dotting the
world with libraries, endowing uni
versities, writing books, lecturing
travelling about and meeting every
where people who interest hlra and
who are Interested in him. Mr. Car
negie's existence is full, varied, hu-
A Fall Suit
You'll want something for au
tumn wear something good, and
you don't want to pay the high
prices charged for made-to-order
clothes you would be throwing
away money if you did.
Wc can give you what you want,
garments that will fit you and keep
their shape, made from cloths that
are not seen everywhere.
Remember the guarantee "Your
money back if not as represented."
We give this guarantee, It's backed
by KgyfitJg Chicago, the makers
f clothing sold by this store.
Let us fit you aut aad you will
bt properly dressed.
Yaw dollars aad Asms ga a
ways" at laia
Boston Store
WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF
GOATS that
keep their shape.
KOHN BROS.
CLOTHING
with Individuality.
I f 1 horn our Jraefory I
Bis
Boston Store
Corner Main and Court Streets.
man, sano and dlgnlfiod. Mr. Sago Is
n his olflco cell, condemned by him
self to hard labor for life.
Work for tho young and lolsuro for
the old, that Is tho true doctrine. Any
young man who wants to inako a
worthy place for himself In tho world
must work with all IiIb strength ,all
his powers of body and mind. That
s tho only way to win success. But
having succeeded and holng boyond
tho need of further gainful toll, tho
man who hus so narrowed his brain,
so dried' up his spirit that he can find
pleasure only In useless work, l to bo
pitied as one who has made a pathot-
failure of this little span of life
which God has given us. Heurst's
American and Journal.
ANOTHER EXPOSITION.
Testing One's Politics,
A Kansas editor says he has a nuru
test to tell a man's politics, thus:
Got him Into a hotel bath room. Tho
democrat will wash and empty tho
basin; tho republican will wash and
leave tho water standing; tho prohi
bitionist will wash in tho water left
by tho republican, and tho populist
will comb bis whiskers and not "wash
at all."
Just Look at Her.
Whence came that sprightly step,
faultless skin, rich, rosy complex
ion, smiling face, She looks good,
feels good. Here's hor secret She
uses Dr. King's New Life Pills. Re-
suit, all organs active, digestion
good, no headaches, no chance for
blue." Try them yourseir. only
25c at TaJIman & Coa.
A case of smallpox is reported 1"
Portland.
Jamestown Will Celebrate Her Threa
Hundreth Annlveraay In 1907.
Norfolk, Va Aug. 21. Honry L.
Hchmeltz, of Hampton, rocontly oloct
ed president of tho Jamestown Expo
sition Company, Is showing his fitness
for tho position by tho energetic man
ner In which lie has taken hold of the
preliminaries for tho enterprise.
Though tho exposition is not to be
opened until 1907, which will bo the
tercentenary of tho settlement of
Jamestown, actlvo work Is to bo bo
gun without, delay. At u mooting to
bo hold In tho ns.ir future tho seouo
and character of tho exposition will
be definitely outlined and printed de
scriptive tnuttur proparod. Tho com
pany purposes to ask tho people to
subscrlbo $1,000,000 and thon obtain
1200,000 from the Virginia legislature
and an appropriation from tho nation
al government.
INDIANA VETERAN8.
They Meet and Have an Old-Tlm
Reunion.
Orleans, Ind., Aug. 21. Tho sur
vivors of tho Sixty-sixth Indiana, In
fantry, a noted roglmont of tho civil
war, assembled hero In annual re
union. Many friends and" relatives of
tho veterans aro hero and a success
ful two days' reunion Is promised.
Tho regiment was organized In New-
Albany, August 19, 1802, tho muster
ing officer being General Low Wal-
lace, and tho same evening was, or-.
dored U tho front. It participated, In,
thq bloody battle near Richmond.
Ky., 11 days later and a part of tho
regiment was captured and paroled.' '