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(t St. ny one ask ? , of ?r Lham's Vegetable e? ndard remedy for 7/1V If fa a does justice to Wf y an famous medicine. 7 / fa cfe1?* \ r ha ;s and herbs, and (I ] / v credit. 11 </ 1/ ^ es all sick women fA \a?In) advice. She has \\|X^^?W^|// 1 free of charge. w 1am, Lynn, Mass. ~ hi by as W! Comforting Assurancri. ^ Doctor?"Most?er?fortunate yoi fq ** consulted me. I'm just the very mar bu to?er?cure you." iat Patient?"Ah, that's lucky! Yoi at ers are quite familiar with my complaint w< me then?" tr< ^ Doctor?"Familiar? My dear sir th :an I've had it myself?er?this twentj th years!"?Comic Cuts. he ys. tor CAUSE FOR ALARM. :he ,as by Seemed to Be Breaking Down With ^ ar" Kidney Trouble. rVi. . _ _ 9r Mrs. J. N. Smith, Chicago St., uu- nc *chanan, Mich., says: "While lifting bu | -1 everything seemed th rs' jSraML to give way and J th id- fel1 gaspIng to the an cal '"W floor* From tlia' cu us, fi tIme 1 was In 111 oi \ ltAJv health?pain in mj i >'s- back a11 the time> hi ;he varied with sharf jre twinges' frequent ius v I f - headaches, trouble ;he lxi J' with my eyes, nervousness, irregular action of the kid- ca sd. neys, and I seemed to be going all tc es, pieces. I began to improve with the c0 ;nt use of Doan's Kidney Pills and grad jj( ess ually the pains all left me. Aftei te ird using a few boxes I was all well agait and will never cease praising Doan'f Kidney Pills." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box fl_ ble Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ion ble Editorial Candor. sa all In Everybody's "Straight Talk" was hi printed the following from an lows hi ? correspondent: aE C "I read over the jokes in 'Undei w< ** the Spreading Chestnut Tree' ever} "r month. This month I found one which seemed very funny to me." he "That was bad enough," say th? he editors. "But when a member oi fyour own family, so to speak?Well here's what happened: Fc " 'Here's a peach of a story,' said ly ;n the "Chestnut Tree" man the othei ?e -11 day, 'but I have a feeling that we've I ! re- printed it before.' *o?J. " 'Is it really very funny?' Hl ota " *Yes> ^ really is.' e(5 iuia " 'Then I don't believe we have.' ' ve tide 1 Of p - Future Captain of Industry. n{ iei?t "Please, sir, have you a match?' he ^ asked the small boy of the hurryinj d Pcucstriau? u, I uave UUL, biiapjjei ick, the man. "Then buy some," er ?? claimed the boy as he held out s Wl ' at handful of boxes. He did business hi pie! ?London Globe.' ? w The Difference. At one time both Montague Mat )rk thews and Matthew Montague were fc" member^ of the British House o; re ae Commons. Mr. Matthews was a big ^ powerful giant of a man. Mr. Mon5 a tague was thin and emaciated. Th? n s Speaker frequently confused the two ^ ?? "I can't understand it," said Men- e<! ia tague Matthews. "There's as muct j " n" difference between us as there is I . \ r tween a horse chestnut and a chestnut horse." ? Everybody's Magazine r Keep on Trying. j w >rs' A litle girl who had a live bantam J si ire presented to her was disappointed at i idy the smallness of the first egg laid by s< ing the bird. Her ideal egg was that of 111 to the ostrich, a specimen of which was is on a table in the drawing room. One the day the 03trich's egg was missing 01 from its accustomed place.. It was oi subsequently found near the spot h [er, where the bantam nested, and on it S o t* Tt/ifVl t Vi Q b eis *> <XZ3 oiuta a. ui " uu mv. kes words: "Something like this, please w I i Keep on trying." ? Dundee Adver- * ' tlaer. ^ KNOWLEDGE. tree tasks Love set me ere he went away? And though he should return nor soon nor late, 'et must I learn his lessons day by day? These three*, to dream, to suffer, and to wait! ?Charlotte Becker, in New Era. ? fWw?wW0D9BWwi(llB0 vmm O The Thief. | By Mary F. Hurley. f He looked in through the open win)w and saw that the kitchen was npty, as he had hoped, and that the ick door also stood invitingly open, fter a moment's hesitation he cauausly entered the unguarded house, s soleless shoes giving no warning ! his approach, for a tramp who id walked many, many miles seldom is other than the upper wrecks of >ots. Slinking against the wall in his ul rags and dirt, he crept through ie narrow hall to the foot of the aircase, where he paused and conlered the doors leading to the dif rent rooms. He wondered wnicn 01 e closed doors disguised plunder or thind which might be lurking capre and the strong arm of the law. was too risky. He drew in his breath between his llow teeth and decided to try the drooms?they were safer at this lur. With noiseless feet he ascend1 the stairs and tried the door at the (ad of the staircase. It yielded readr to his plundering hand and disased a room?a woman's room? apty. His greedy eyes flew from le object to another, seeking the ost valuable as well as the most porble. It was with satisfaction that s noted the pocketbook lying on the esser, the silver toilet articles and at the brushes were silver mounted. Completing his survey, he turned om these articles and looked at the antel between the windows. He arted toward it; then deciding that held nothing of value, retraced his jps. Again, as if drawn by a kind fascination, he turned and walked ? to it. The first object to meet his es was the picture of a woman's ce in a small old fashioned frame, d at the sight of it he staggered ,ck ana saook as 11 suaaeniy su-ick- i with palsy. A piteous moan esped him, and something fell from e mist in his hollow eyes, from lich the wolfish look had vanished his first tear in many years. Standing there he had forgotten s purpose; it was recalled to him the sound of a woman's singing she opened the door. The song is suddenly hushed as she looked ward the mantel near which stood e tall, gaunt figure, its rags a unirm of color from rain and sun, its irning eyes staring at her. She was a tall woman, and stood '< her full height facing him and 1 jndering if he knew how she was 1 ambling. She did not cry out, 1 ough he expected she would after t e first horrified convulsion of all 1 ir limbs. ? "What are you doing here?" she 1 ked in a quiet, controlled voice. i "I came to steal!" he answered < larsely. She looked vaguely around but saw (thing disturbed. Her brain was isy thinking she was in his power; at her husband would not be in yet; at she did not dare call for assistice and wondering if the self-acsed thief had a weapon. "I'm not going to take anything. haven't touched a thing," said the inted voice as she rema'lned silent. "I meant to steal." She looked at him again. Now e was not at all afraid. "What stopped you?" she asked Imly. "It was all that stopped me. I uldn't do it with her eyes on me." 3 pointed to the picture on the man- 1 I. J She looked at him in surprise, and she did so he thought her eyes oked large enough >to hold an inLite charity and believe him. "I was a gentleman?once!" he id, standing there before her in his th and rags. "Disgrace, shame, inger, have made me the thing I q." His voice was hoarser than it 5uld be some day when he pleaded lot guilty" at the bar. It was evident that having spoken ! was going, for he started toward sr, then stopped and said, as if in stification: "You don't know what hunger is. >r about a week now I've had hardenough to keep soul and body toither. If I were the thing I look, should last out better." "I will get you food," she said, er voice was the voice of social [uality that she would use in conrsation with a guest. "No, no," he said, shaking his i sad emphatically. Then, hesitating, s asked: "Does she live here?" motioning ward the mantel. "She is dead," gently answered the 1 oman by the door, wondering at ' s question. "How long?" came in a husky 1 hisper. "Four years. Several years ago : )T youngest son forged her name, ;d from home in disgrace and has 1 )t been heard of since. She never covered from the shock and died a oken hearted woman. Her last relest was that if he ever returned or his whereabouts ever became known ; be given the picture which interits you so much, for she fully for? V, 4- V, ? * Vim ' IV c ill III auu mat uci iw f v; j.vyi id never wavered." The tattered figure stood as if petfied for several seconds after the oman by the door had finished >eaking. "I think you had better go," she lid kindly. "I'm afraid of your leeting some one. I'll see if the way clear." She opened the door and looked ut. She thought, with a mute apolgy, that it gave him time to reach er purse on the dresser if he chose, he fancied he did linger a moment, ut when she next noticed the purse as untouched. Her back had been iirned to him and she did not see his asty step to the mantel. "It i3 all right," she said In a lowered tone that gave her the feeling that she was the thief. "Go quickly." "Yes, it's all right," he muttered softly as he passed out. She watched the ragged, fluttering shadow pass down the stairs out of sight, then closed the door. She sat down suddenly in a chair and her knees trembled from the reaction of her fright. "I'll put that picture a\Fay," she thought, and forced herelf to rise. When she reached the mantel the picture was?gone. "Well, that beats all," she said aloud. Then the color came into her face, and her eyes grew a thought wider with memory. That instant's pause while she had stood at the doorway hoping that the thief would help himself?had he not done so? Then the possible meaning of his last words dawned upon her, and she wondered if he had come into possession of his own.?Boston Post. ? j Peanuts and Sleep, j ? ? Recently a friend who had heard that I sometimes Suffer from insomnia told me of a sure cure. "Eat a pint of peanuts and drink two or :hree glasses of milk before going to jed," he said, "and I'll warrant you'll ie asleep within half an hour." I did is he suggested, and now for the benefit of others who may be afflicted with insomnia I feel it to be my duty :o report what happened, so far as I im able to recall the details. First, let me say my friend was ight. I did go to sleep very soon ifter my retirement. Then a friend vith his head under his arm came ilong and asked me if I wanted to juy his feet. I was negotiating with aim when the dragon on which I was iding slipped out of his skin and left ne floating in midair. While I was considering how I should get down, i bull with two heads peered over the idge of .the wall and said he would laul me up if I would first climb up md rig a windlass for him. So as I vas sliding down the mountainside ;he brakeman came in, and I asked lim when the train would reach my iestination. "We passed your station four hunIred years ago," he said calmly foldng the train up and slipping it into lis vest pocket. "At this juncture the clown bounded nto the ring and pulled the centre pole out of the ground, lifting the :ent and all the people in it up, while [ stood on the earth below watching nyself go out of sight among the :louds above. Then I awoke, and !ound I had been asleep almost ten ninutes."?Good Health Clinic. An Item of the Future. A reckless aviator, who is said by i number of eyewitnesses to have )een greatly exceeding the speed imit, ran the end of his aeroplane ;hrough a large plate glass window in ;he sixty-seventh story of the Cloudand building yesterday afternoon and leriously injured Miss Bertha Dalington, who happened to be sitting lear the window when the crash oc;urred. Hastily backing away, the >perator of the flying machine succeeded in escaping, but not before jeveral people had noticed his num)er, which was C4257. It is shown >y the city records that this is the lumber attached to a machine belong, ng to Henry H. Hodge, the millionlire popular song writer, but it was ixplained by him that he supposed his Iyer was safely anchored at Watson's iviating station, where it is always sept when not in use. At the station t was said that the machine had been :aken away by a man who had not nentionea nis name, ail irresponsive ittendant having rented it to him jecause all the machines that were kept for hire happened to be out when he called. A1 H. Wingfield, manager of the station, declared he tvas sorry the accident had occurred. ?Chicago Record-Herald. New French Academician. M. Rene Doumic, who has been ilected to Gaston Boissier's seat in :he French Academy, is a Parisian jy birth, and was at school at the Stanislas Lycee with M. Henri Lavelan. Adopting the profession of a pedagogue, he became professor of hetoric, first at Moulins, and then, for fifteen years, at his own old school, where he had M. Edmond Rostand for one of his pupils. A iterary controversy with Brunetiere Drought him an invitation to join :he staff of the Revue des Deux Vlondes, and he made a great repulation as a witty lecturer. He ha? lectured, by invitation, at Harvard, md he has just finished a course of popular lectures in Paris on George 3and and her work.?Westminster Gazette. Monkey? as Coin Testers. In Siam monkeys are employed bj the leading merchants to detect bad coins, writes a correspondent. A traveler the other day told me tha* the merchants have monkeys whicfc possess a remarkable faculty foi judging good and counterfeit coins by tasting them. The ape sits be side the merchant and receives thf coin after it has passed through thf man's hands. After putting it in its mouth the animal will drop (;he coin if it is a good one. into a cash bo? near by, but if it is a counterfeit it will make a remarkable clatter anc give it back to its master. Siam ha? a vast amount of spurious coin. I was informed, and the monkeys in this way perform a very useful commer cial service.?London Chronicle. Fish Famine. The mention of out-of-the-wa3 dishes recalls to a correspondent s story of a hungry Irishman who en tered a restaurant on a Friday morn ing during Lent. "Have ye ana; whale?" he inquired of the attendant A surprised shake of the head wa; the only reply. "Have ye annj shark?" This time an emphati< "No!" "Arrah, then, for the love o.' htvin, bring me a noice, underdone steak, for It's toired Oi am askinf for fish."?London Chronicle. I P'aking a Lawyer. Miss Amy Wren, of Brooklyn, N. Y., Is making good as a lawyer. Judge Chatfield, of the United States I Circuit Court, has made her receiver | for a business firm. It is said that i she is the first woman receiver in this i part of the country, and that her fees will amoi'nt to at least $3000. Nature's Concert. i "If you would hear a beautiful concert," said a country loving wornj an, who had been exercising after J an ice storm, "walk in the high tufts of grass and listen to the exquisite I chimes and tunes given out With the J falling bits of ice shaken from the | blades and stems. Each, as it strikes | the glazed snow, gives forth a fairyI like note, and I have walked over I two fields out of pure joy in my discovery."?New York Tribune. Don't Let Them Know It. One of the best known women in society, who is remarkable for having no enemies, laughingly said not long ago that she attributed her popularity to never letting those she disliked know of it by any word of i hers. "I avoid discussing any un| pleasant person/' she continued, "and I also never join any social club where a member is included that I do not care to invite to my house. By this means I am free to do as I please, and I also never offend my own friend3 by having persons that I know they dislike at my house when they are there, as that is quesI tionable hospitality." ? New York I Tribune. Thin Goods Pleated. Though Empire and Directoire models still prevail, some of the cotton and thinner linen goods are made with pleated skirts, quite high ^ ? ? * ? ? -in-i a x? | oi course, tne pieats suitiieu iu ui the line meeting the short body portion, and so neatly and smoothly arranged over the hips that they give the impression of a plain skirt. The bordered goods and the flouncing are materials that lend themselves well to this manipulation, and the style is one especially becoming' m j Caramel Sauce.?An "3 o J fashionei batter pudding C3 o. \ lowing: Mix .together a i CCS 2 1 a bay leaf, a piece of len *Sjg ?? | Let it boil five minutes. C3 s ing pan two tablespoonful 2 S them until they become ?3 ? ( cupful of boiling water, i Cm, ~ ) melted, add .the syrup af S3, a ) lomnn rind and cinnamon to growing girls (whose figures are, of course, immature) and to slender women. The waist may be plain, but the effect will be better if a few pleats are set on the shoulders. The Load Dress. Girls sometimes blame young men for insults or bold advances, when their own dress or conduct invites the j same. The modest dress and plain hat is a protection to young women in cities. It is related that certain working girls who reside in suburbs often wear Deaconess bonnets, or the uniform of some order. Others wear the cross around the neck as meml bers of the order of King's Daugh| ters. These things are a bulwark of defense to young women if they are * - - - ? i??-i j brignt am. oeauutui. w LlCII xiuuiau i ! male hyenas stand on corners?when j young girls pass, let the girls look I straight ahead and attend to their own business. Loud dress and hat are bad. I recall a family of girls and their conduct was questionable. They always wore the loudest and most brazen hats. If the fashion said "big hats," | theirs, were the largest. Peculiar colors were always their choice and when mutton leg sleeves were in I favor, theirs were broader than others wore. II is a fact that modest women will wear modest dress. It is an illustration of one's nature.?Lillie Rice Stahl, in the Industrial Farmer. Old Fashioned Women. The old fashioned woman sui-nte* and just as we had fancied the "new woman" was having it all her own way! 'At least one man says: "Wo| men have a habit of toying with a | biscuit in public and getting really I busy, so to speak, only in private. Readers of 'Pendennis' may remember Thackeray's remarks on that point. Then, again, there is another aspect of the matter. Women do not I assail chops and steaK3 witn me iurj ! of the male, but they rage like devouring locusts among ths things on the counter at a confectioner's shop, which the average man will nc-t touch. As a character in a contemporary remarks with some sadness: 'Even Ethel, when she's let loose among the | marzipans and meringues, simply j clears the counter while waiting for i "a cup of tea and a plain biscuit, j please." ' An interesting light on | women's methods regarding food is i thrown by a passage in a recently published book. It has frequently been noted that women, when alone, dine on a cup of tea and an egg. This, | according to our author, is not due | to fairy refinements of soul but to j pure slackness. Women grow so j tired of ordering food for their famI ilies that, when relieved from that | duty for a moment, they simply canI not be bothered to order anything for | themselves." I Is he right??Philadelphia Record. I Mrs. Vanderbilt's Chinese Blue. I Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt is one I of the few fashionable women who j do not devote half their lives think| ing of something new to wear. It is i her rule to give hersalf almost com| plctely into the hands of her dressmaker with regard to her attire. Probably her chief interest is the big string of show horses of her husband. She is essentially an outdoor woman. Occasionally, however, she nDDlies an original idea to her. ward Hi robe, and her latest expression In this direction is a frock of Chinese blue. She takes honest pride in this gown, and not without reason. Chinese blue is the rarest and most beau-, tiful blue known, and it is only for the woman with no limit to her expenditures. Chinese blue comes only from China, unlike many of the alleged Chinese silks, and its rarity is due to the fact that it takes two years to dye it. The gown is of the finest possible texture and its material ranks as one of the costliest and at the same time most attractive manufactured In the world. The process of dyeing the material has been a secret with the Chinese for many centuries and it is seldom any of the finished product is exported. Mrs. Vanderbilt obtained her blue 8ix months after she had placed an order with a Fifth avenue firm. The frock is of the princess design, and as Mrs. Vanderbilt says, "It is almost too lovely to wear."?New York Press. The Hearty Grip Again in Vogue. In a recent London paper it was said that the fashion in handshaking was changing; that the weak-armed, weak-minded, "elbow-shake" was going out, its place to be taken by a more hearty and natural gesture. Hurrah for Dame Fashion! For once she is engaged^in a good work. What could be more discouraging than to go up to a person, beaming with pleasantness and good will, and be met by a lackadaisical grasp of the hand and a forearm motion, suggestive of a severe chill. It is enough to dry the springs of brotherly feeling. But it was fashionable, and so, in the words of a famous old lady, "it had to be did." The manner is passing. Let ua speed it on its way. When it is quite gone, and it no longer has fashion's approval to back it, then let anybody try it, and they will be met witti a rebuff that will show clearly enough what people have been thinking all along, and have not dared to say. At most it was a chilly and unsocial mannerism. A man is known by his handshake, v excellent caramel sauce for old ;s and sweet custard? is the folcupful of water, a cupful of sugar, aon peel and a stick of cinnamon. While, it is cooking put into a fry? Is of sugar and one of water. Stir a dark, rich brown. Add half a " * ?* 1 Anflfalv ina waea me uaiauici uao cuu??i; ter removing from it the bay leaf, t. Send hot to the table. perhaps. And yet we hesitate to believe it, because of the really nice people whose manner of shaking hands leaves much to be desired. The "next most annoying" variety is the person who shakes your hand for an inordinate time, until you become conscious of the fact?wonder if he is ever going to stop, when he is probably wondering the same thing and don't know how, and finally you fairly jerk your hand away, followed by slight embarrassment on both sides you vow inwardly that hereafter you will bow and smile only. There is a third species, less feeble, and less disconcerting,, but genuinely painful. That i3 the man and woman, too, nowadays, who seizes your hand, wrings it, until you imagine you hear the bones grind against each other? and if they are a stranger you hope - ? ? i* tney aia not see you wmuc, auu *?. they are not strange you hope theyv' did, and then drops the hand with a final jerk. It aches for hours, and again you decide to bow and smile only, but you don't. As a form of friendly greeting it has taken such a hold upon us that we shall probably suffer and be strong, for some time to come.?New Haven Register. Ribbon watch chains are quite the thing just now. ' Coats for girl3' suits are plain and almost straight. When you cannot afford to buy jewels use beads. New gowns from Paris have corsets made in them. Plumes are only rivalled by flow ers as na.l gtuuituic. Wreaths and garlands are among the fancies of the day. Jet buttons are so much favored a? to?appear on white linen rigs. Many of the blouses are tucked ali over, bodice and sleeves alike. The fichu is one of the pretties* finishes given to the modern gown. The elbow sleeve with full ruffles ii sometimes seen on evening gowns. Do not over-trim a baby's dres^ It makes him look fussy and unattractive. The fashionable old-rose shad* seems to be becoming alike to thosa of light complexion and to those who are dark. Nutmeg brown is a color very mucli like the spicy blossom, and will be a favorite, while every shade of taup?/ will be used. For a young girl a strip of heather* bloom is quite as satisfactory as silk to wear under sheer frocks, and much more girlish. Buttons will become popular on cotton and linen gowns and will re? main almost a necessity on silk and heavier fabrics. White pearl buttons in every variety of carving and some with a Frenchy decoration of gilt lines and flowers are seen. Parisian styles are seldom adopted just as they come to us, but are flri? modified. This is true of the fashion for jet. By contrast we are using W moderately. ' i Undoubtedly. "Do you play any instrument, Mr. limp?" "Yes, I'm a cornetist." "And your sister?" "She's a pianist." "Does your mother play?" "She's a zitherist." "And your father?" "He's a pessimist."?Tit-Bits. Wilbur Wright has gained twenty3ve pounds In weight during the last Ave months. He thinks that aviation aas something to do with it. The University of Heidelberg has received from a foreign benefactor Interested in the advancement of science the sum _of ovgfr $30,000 toward the foundation of a radiographic 'jwtitute. British cocoa firms have decided aot to use any more cocoa from the Portuguese Islands of Sao Thome and Principe because of the ill treatment >f the natives laboring on the plantations. Though Swansea. Wales, is in the heart of the Welsh anthracite coal field, stoves suitable for burning it V are conspicuous by their absence. THE1R~SKIW~TR0UBLES CURED. Two Little Girls Had Eczema Very Badly?In One Case Child's Hair Came Ont and Left Bare Patches ? Cntlcura Met with Success. "I have two little girls who have been troubled very badly with eczema. One of them had it on her lower limbs. I did everything that I oould hear of for her, but !t did not give in until warm weather, when it seemingly subsided. The next winter wfcen it became cold the eczema started again and also in her head, where it would lake the hair out and leave bare patches. At the same time her arms were sore'the whole length of them. I took her to a' _ ohvsician, but the child grew worse all the time. Her sister's arms were also affected. I began using the Cuticura Remedies,, and by the time the second lot was-used their ?kin was soft and smooth. Mrs. Charles Baker, Albion, Me., Sept. 21, 1908." Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Props. if Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. Australia is twenty-six times larger than the British Isles. Rheumatism Cared In a Day. Dr.Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action is remarkable. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. First dose jreatly benefits. 75c. ana $1. At druggists. The smallest quadruped in the world is the pigmy mouse of' Siberia. A CURB_FOR FITS. The Treatment Is to Accomplish What Science Has Been Struggling to Attain for Centaries; The intense interest that has been manifested throughout the country by the won- ' derful cures that are being accomplished / | dailv by epilepticide stili continues. It is really surprising the vast number of people who have already been cured of fin and nervousness. In order that everybody may have a chance to test the medicine, large trial bottles, valuable literature. History of Epilepsy and testimonials, will be sent by mail absolutely free to all who write to the Dr. May Laboratory, o? rcari ocreet, Nctv Sfork City. I The epilepticide care is creating great public interest^ u well as among Doctor*, Student*. Hospital* and visiting Phyaician*. The Apple-Tree Fleet. "The humorists 'long shore call them the 'apple-tree fleet,'" writes Holman Day, "because their skippers intend to keep them on the sale side of the seafaring?or seafearin', as tho aforesaid humorists insist; so carefully on the safe side that they do not venture off shore far enojigh to lose sight of the apple trees." The "apple-tree fleet" consists of certain antiquated coasting vessels that run cargoes from Maine ii\to the New England ports. Many of these relic* ' date for nearly a century; one of them, the Polly, was a privateer in the War of 1812. Many are the amusing stories which the author tells of these ships and their skippers. One Captain Shibles sailed from Thomastown with a cargo of lime, but found a dull market in Chesapeake Bay. "I know what I'll do," said Captain Simeon Shibles to nimseii. "I'll put on my best clothes and go up to Washington and see ""esident Jackson." The captain dtu so, was admitted to the White House, and, with his "plug hat" under his arm, thus delivered himself: "President Andrew Jackson, Esquire, I have called to pay my respects to a man I admire, and to say that I shall continue to vote for you as long a? * uve. And not to take up any more *?r yout valuable time, I want to ask you if you have any use in your business or in the business of the United St?tei for a cargo of Maine lime." The President bought it for the navy yard. ?Haroer's Weekly. LIGHT BOOZE Do You Drink It? A minister's wife had quite a tussle with coffee, and her experience Is Interesting. She says: "During the two years of my train-L ?t. !1? nterVit HlltV I log as a nurse, wuuo UU Ui^uw ?? ?? I ? _ became addicted to coffee drinking. Between midnight and four in the morning, when the patients were asleep, there was little to do except make the rounds, and It was quite natural that I should want a good, | hot cup of coffee about that time. It stimulated me and I could keep awake better. "After three or four years of coffee drinking I became a nervous wreck, and thought that I simply could not live without my coffee. All this time I was subject to frequent bilious attacks, sometimes so severe as to keep me In bed for several days. "After being married, Husband begged me to leave off coffee, for he feared that it had already hurt me almost beyond repair, so I resolved to make an effort to release myself from trie nurciui naou. "I began taking Postum and for a few days felt the languid, tired feeling from the lack of the stimulant, but I liked the taste of Postum, and that answered for the breakfast bev- I erage all right. "Finally I began to feel clearer headed and had steadier nerves. After a year's use of Postum I now feel like a new woman?have not had any bilious attacks since I left off coffee." "Ther?'? & Reason." Read "The Road to Weftville," in pkgs. I Ever irad the above letter? A. j new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of I human interest. -- ML