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c j \ K/m Medical Superstitions. j That belief the Chinese have in the remedial qualities of substances forming a part of the human body seems to be irradicable. Thinking that Europeans still entertained the same silly Ideas, leu as mucn as anyming eise 10 the Tien-Tsin massacres of twenty-five years ago. Treliistoric man drank from a human skull, believing that the uncanny goblet had a certain potency. Not so long ago, the skull of a suicide was used in Caithness as a drinking cup for the cure of epilepsy. Even cases have been cited when superstitious people, within the last thirty years, have dug up bodies so as to possess themselves of skulls for the sauie purpose. As late as 1678, in the official pharmacopoeia of the London 11 ~ c t>i ;a ui i uvDiumii?, uicuuiuu 10 made "of the skull of a man who had died a violent death." For centuries in the past, for the manufacture of certain quack nostrums, notably anointment, ground skulls were used. The medical books of Nuremberg of 200 years ago always cite mummia? or the embalmed flesh of mummies? as a sovereign cure for certain diseases. The Egyptian mummy was a specific for one malady, the Teneriflfe mummy for another. Excluding all other strange substances employed in early medicine, there is a trace of cannibalism in the use of those mummied substances. It has been shown that cannibalism does not arise in all cases u from hunger, but that to eat human * flesh is a religious rite, and favored by tbe gods. In some remote manner, it has something to do with sacrifice. Describing snperstitions, the fact is cited that to-day Irish peasants use skulls to hold water in, under the belief that the water thus becomes curative.?New York Tress. Bloudin and His Rope. The baggage of Blondin, the famous French tight rope walker, when on tour consists of the following: A main ? ? ? ? ?' OAA Am/iiiTMfflrnnnn Al rujjc Ui OVV ICCb ) VllUUUAA^ivuvv Vj inches; weight, 800 pounds; twentyeight straining ropes, fifty guide ropes, eighty tying bars?the average weight, not including poles, being five and a half tons. The freight of his fixings ?includic*, we suppose, a huge traveling tent, which can encompass 14,000 people?amounted to $5000 between Southampton and Melbourne. About three days are consumed in making his preparations, with the aid of a dozen assistants. The due adjustment of his rope is his principal care, and he superintends every detail. In a fragment of autobiography written soma vears aco. Blondin tells us that the rope he generally used was formed with a flexible core of steel wire covered with the best Manila hemp, about an inch or three-quarters of an inch in diameter, several hundred yards in length, and costing about $500. A large windlass at either end of the rope served to make it taut, while it was supported by two high f poles. His balancing poles, of ash wood, vary in length, and are in three sections, and weigh from thirty-seven L to forty-seven pounds. He is indifferent as to the height at which he is to perform. Blondin has never confessed to any nervousness on the rope, on/1 TrViilo TPn 1 lrinOf hp CPTlPTallv looks eighteen or twenty feet ahead and whistles or hams some snatch of a song. The time kept by a musical band has frequently aided him in preserving his balance. Blondin is something of both carpenter and blacksmith, and is able to make his own models and fit np his own apparatus. , ?Chambers's Journal. Icebergs in the Atlantic sometimes last for 200 years. i_>r. JVJIiuer s owAair-nwui tuiw all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation lree. Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. It is estimated that electric cars have already displaced 1,500,000 horses. Tobacco l)entroyn Vitality. Nervous system paralyzed by nicotine means lost manhood, weak eyes, and a general all pone look and feeling that robs life of its pleasure. Tobacco is the root of many au impotent symptom, and No-To-Bae u guaranteed cure that will make you strong, vigorous and happy iu more ways than one. "Hr No-To-Ba'; guaranteed and sold by Druggists everywhere. Book, titled '-Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away." Ad. Sterling Remedy Co.. New York or Chicago. To CleanHe the System l Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish,to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity without irritating or weakening them, to dlst*>1 headache?, colds or fevers, use Syrup of Figs. Worne Than Rum. Indigestion spoils more lives than rnm. But you think you have ' malaria" or "grip,11 or something worie. The trouble is all in the digestive tract. Ripans Tabules brine a sort of Millennium with them. One (rives relief, and their habitual use keeps the whole system in tone. Get them of your druggist. Hall's Catarrh Cure is a liquid and is taken internally, and acts direc:ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Write for testimonials, free. Manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo, O. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the turns, reduces inflammation. allays pain, cures wind colic, ^c. a bottle Piso's Cure for Consumption has n^equil a- a Cough medic ne.?F. M Abbott, 3s'J Sentea Street, Buffalo, V.. May 9,1894. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomr foil's Eve-waier. iimcu'isi^semii -.k; prruoi u?If You are Tired All the time, without special exertion, .as tireil iu the morning as when you retire at night, you may depeui upon it. your blood is impure and is lacking in vitality. That is wby it does not supply strength to nerves and muscles. You need Hood's Sarsaparilla To purify and enrich your l>!uo.i. A few Lottle? of this great medicine will give vou Strength ?ind vitality because it will make mire blood. Get Hood's. UamvI'm DSIIr? (Ure in'ntuai const ipt> rOOO PHIS lion. I-'r.cer. cents v ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR 1 * The BEST * FOOE> FOR Dyspeptic,Delicate,Infirm and AGED PERSONS * JOHN CARLO & SON5, New York. * ft, ' BUDGET OF FUN. 1 HUMOROUS SKKTCIIRS FRUM I VARIOUS SOURCES. 3 1 What Turned Her Ifead?Sheriff Will ] Wipe Out the Gans-An In- ^ dignity?The Unhappy ^ Groom, Etc. She had a lovely neck, And everybody said? Who, indeed, might doubt it?? 1 That that's what turned her head. l ?Detroit Tribune. ? SHERIFF WILL WIPE OT7T THE GANG. -j "You say the desperados came in i and cleaned out the town?" t "Yes; and now the town people are i out scouring tbe country."?Kansas < City Star. 1 i A REWARD OF MERIT. ' "Goodluck has had his salary raised; ( was it for extra work?" 1 "Yes. He always listens when the ? proprietor tells his baby's smart say- 1 ings." ? Tid-Bits. c SHE "WOULD NOT BE FLATTERED. Gent?"Mademoiselle looks more beautiful every day." 1 Lady?'Ton have been telling me 1 so for a good many years; what a horrid fright I must have been to Btart with."?L'lllustration. j ____ THE ART OF CONQUEST. I * "Hag the King of UmBquog ever in- ^ suited us?" asked Great Britain. "Never," replied the warrior. "Well, go ont and irritate him a bit. He's got some ground that I'd !: like to own." ?Washington Star. THE TNHAPPY GROOM. Friend?"What makes jod write all the time?" j Groom-elect?"Practicing how to write Jibson and wife on a hotel register without having the clerk ask me if g we're newly married." ? Syracuse c Post. no misunderstanding. "80 the insolent fellow refused to pay his rent." "He did not say so in words, but he intimated it." "How 80?" "Ho kicked me downstairs."?La Figaro. sometimes the wat. "Who's this man who has grown bo rich in your ward?" "Oh, that's Skayte, an ignorant sort of fellow." "And the man who's bankrupt?" ''That's Mazzlep, the eminent authority on financiering."?Chicago Record. a truthful saying. "Well," muttered the collector, as he 6ank wearily into a chair and turned to his employer, "there is one old saying that I can vouch for." "What is it?" a "The one that says: 'You never find s a man ont till you trust him.' "?At- i lanta Constitntion. t A THEOBY INDORSED. 1 "What the Indian needs," said the * eminent sociologist, "is a rational sys- 1 tern of supervision." "That's right," replied the nan who 8 has lived in the far West; "what the J Indian needs is gettin* his rations to v 'im reg'lar an' enough of 'em."? 8 Washington Star. THOSE MUDDLED OBATORS. * "I enjoyed your lecture on the financial issue very much," said the f citizen to the orator, "but I would like to ask you one question." "Certainly," 6aid the orator; "go ' I ahead." ' "What side of the question are you * i ?on /^v,: ' UjU l/mwc??vs wwvuiu. an indignity. C Warden?"Well, what's the tron- y ble?" i Prisoner?"I'vo been unjustly hu- t miliated. I ara serving a term for not c being able to account for S3,500,000, end you've put me in a cell with a man who is doing time for counterfeiting nickles."?San Francisco Examiner. j 1 cautious. Doctor?"Take a stated amount of i exercise daily." j Patient -"Will it be enough if I j walk twice around my wne a tneaire j bat every day?" i Doctor?"You'd better not risk 1 over-exerting yourself at first. Begin i with once and increase the laps as you feel able."?-Life. ^ 1 FLATTERY THAT WOK. 1 "How did Hopson manage to become engaged to the wealthy Miss An- > tique? I thought she was a man- < hater." i "So she was, but when he advised 1 her not to get a bell for her bicycle, 1 for when she rode it there waB already < one on it, she immediately succumbed." i ?Harper's Bazar. ' WHY HE WAS SAD. ' Spike McGaffney-T"Savl Pete, ! wlien I look inter a bouse like dat an' 1 Bee all der people happy rn' der presents all spread out on der table, it jist brings tears to me eyes." Second Story Pete?"Brings tears j tovereyes! What fer?" it'pike McGaflney?"Cause dey keep ] two bloodhounds, an' dey's got double j burglar alarms on der windy."? Puck. ! HONESTLY WON. ^ "How did you get your title of 'General?'" asked the hero-worshiping girl. , "1 cut my way to it," was the proud : reply. "On the field?'' "V'n' in Tiill Winrmnfi's hotel. Therfi , .. -OD was only two men in our town that harl ever been in the army at all, so , we cut the cnrds to see which should be 'General' and which 'Colonel.' "? Washington Star. THE RELIEF, The Eskimo chieftain was as hard i as to his heart as the bergs of his na- ! tive fastnesses. < "Back," he commanded. The explorer was lam to parley. "I am but one," he urged, "I know it," rejoined the Arcticpottntatfr, "but if I admit you there'Jl all the way from fourteen to lofi relief expeditions after .you, and our . Deople will know no such thing as | privacy." Of course, it was nobody's business, 3ut he did not mind saying he was not ^ jorn yesterday.?Detroit Tribune. o r p THE NOVELIST S REFUOE. a "I can't bring my fagged-out fancy p lp to the point of portraying the cnl- ^ ninatmg love scene between the hero fc> ind heroine of this story," solilo- Sl juized the gifted novelist, "and I'll jf ust say 'the interview between Roder- t\ ck and Penelope, those true hearts so i sorely tried, now so happily reunited it last, may be safely left to the read?r's imagination." This may be a lit;le disappointing to the reader, but it latters him and saves lots of work. , rhere's cheating in all trades but '' ?? a nnfffllidt. ^ jure, cuijuuucu ?ud gn?vu naking a row of stars across the page, , idding a quotation from Byron and writing the words: "The end."?Chi- e :ago Tribune. V STILL BOOM FOR RESEARCH. S] "What is this new substance that I 0 lear so much about?" asked the emi- ^ lent scientist's wife. jj "What new substance, my dear?" "The element in the air that has net been detected." j( "Oh, that, my dear," he answered, ^ learning over his spectacles with the q food nature of superior wisdom, "is mown as Argon." "Oh," "Yes. Its discovery is one of the nost remarkable triumphs of the age. - ^ t has revolutionized some of the old ? heories; or at least it will revolution- ^ ze them before it gets through." "What is it?" 11 "It's?er?a? did you say 'what is ? t?" n "I said that." a "Well?ahem?you see, we haven't ? ts yet discovered much about it exsept its name."?Washington Star. I ' Vi Alter-Dinuer Xaps. 0 There is quite a difference of opinion fcl imong recognized authorities as to the f< isefulness of the after-dinner nap. eSome of these people claim that the w nerest dropping off to sleep is much fi >etter than the heavy, undisturbed re- L >ose in which some temperaments eem inclined to indulge. In this matter, as in almost everyhing else in the world, difference in N :onstitution, condition and circum- E tances is lost Bight of. As a general h ule, it may be said that whoever falls R .sleep and sleeps long and heavily h loes so because the system has need e| >f that sort of rest. Sleep is a com- jj nodity that does not come by will, Bt )ut on the most imperative demand of q ' 11 -i lature. .reopie wno wora nam, eimei vv nentally or physically, who are in any w vay overtaxed or exhausted by effort p >f any kind, must in some way restore w he nervous balance, and in no way is 0( his so readily and satisfactorily done t} .a by long continued and undisturbed w leep, if the individual can indulge tl n it. w There are few things more coveted b! han the ability to sleep quietly and w laturally, and it is very rare indeed p( hat one gets too much of this kind of epose. To be sure, there are persons of luggiBh habit and people who are ^ riven to over indulgence at the table yhich is productive of inaction and an .Imost continuous sleepy condition, j >ut these are exceptions rather than he rule. The masses of people Bleep oo little, and it is scarcely worth ? chile, save in exceptional cases, to :urtail the hours that nature demands ra or this most efficient means of restora- ^ ion. Above all things should chil Iren and young persons, those under wenty especially, be given all the op)ortunity consistent with their occu- , >ation and education for untroubled leep. The fact that naiure demands . ? thing is most excellent reason for granting it. "Forty winks" may do 'ery well for some temperament?, but . b is by no means to be recommended ?11 o persons who are in any degree weary , >r overworked.?New York Ledger. 3 o ? d )ne ol the COO an International Rwie. t In the Rogues' Gallery of the Secret f1 service Bureau of the Treasury Department is the card photograph of a mce famous counterfeiter who was arrested by the Treusury agents and * iV rv nade to serve a long term in ine pententiary. Tho face is that of a rather ilain-looking man of about forty-five, c vith the sort of face that impresses " because of a look of fearlessness un- *? niDgled with boldness. The photograph is that of a German e *ho served in the British Army as a n private and passed through one of the uost exciting events of the Crimean o dVar. He was a member of the fa- q nous Light Dragoons, the immortal 6( 300 that rode into the valley of death 11 !n their charge on the Russian position, and one of the few that survived ;hat terrible engagement. He was 1c listinguished by the British Governuent, but went to the bad, and even ifter his experience in the United ^A*1 ? ? ? ? L i a .1 ft Atmilny nvirrid in til jtutes cuiiiujjucu u dhuuiu w*hu^ *?* jermany and whs again sentenced to i long term of imprisonment.?Wash h Ington Post. ? tl Japanese Shop?. The Japanese shop is like a big and q highly ornamental bi>x, with oue side knocked out?the side toward the tl street. Especially valuable go^ds are not exposed iu the shops, but. kept in ai [jodowns or safe deposit vaults, to be b brought out when wanted, but in is most shops the whole stock can be seen from the street. If the purchaser is in a hurry he siiupiy sits down ou the edge of the floor, which projects c, over the 6treet?there is no sidewalk and calls for what ho want?. For e purchases of greater moment he enters jj the ebop, squats cross-legged, and is treated to tea by the salesman. j] Vnf ..nlv omi (inn .nt* vviintfivfir POPS T J.WI -v.- o J. on in a Japanese chop, but even in ft w home there is 110 privacy. If it is t| night, and the sliding shutters of oiled tl paper arc drawn, tho lump light 1 throws strong shadows of the people ^ within on the opaque shades, and (] hhows precisely what all nro doing. K Some say that this lack of j>iivacy en- t courages in thp Japanese their polite n ways. They are always on their good j behavior.?New York Recorder, "i b WOMAN'S WORLD. LEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. JXAXVO, Ii?iAO?i IV XlkAViiVLi It ia reported that MrB. Mary E. lease and Miss Mary Morrill, both f Wichita, will shortly form a law artnership and open offices in Topeka nd Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Lease racticed law in Wichita before she rent into politics. Miss Morrill has een stenographer at the Topeka Inme Asylum for several months. She j a graduate of the law department of he University at Ann Arbor.?Chicago 'imes-Herald. <;i?A_\U.LNU OIIUE3 ur nAin uiudainu. Some of those people who lead our ishione, whether we will or no, are eginning to wear the hair low in the eck again in a loose sort of coil. This 3 to be deplored if the styb should ecome general. The '*bun" is tidy, asily arranged and "stays put." A oil in the nape of the neck is inariably wild after a very short time nd requires more attention than, to peak plainly, it usually gets. It soils ne's collars, too, and rubs against hem in such a way as to break the air badly. In fact, almost the only bing in favor of such a manner of airdressing is that the wearer of it joks much younger than with her air worn higher on her head.?New >rleans Picayune. THE PAGODA CUFF. Last year perforated cloth, cut in atterns resembling guipure, was emloyed for mantles. Now this same Int.h hnt with the r>attern em roidered in silk, is one of the new* latroducticms for bodices made .L ver colored silk. Never was so much laterial wanted in dresses. Sleeves re beginning to take almost as much s the sheath-like skirts of a year ago. 'he pagoda cuff worn in the sixties is oming back to us. It is gathered ver the wrist, and the cuff turns toards the hand fall and wide on the utside of the arm, narrowing inside lie wrist. It is one of those uncomjrtable shapes which will dip into yerything. A new form is a gigot ith a joint on the outside of the arm :om the shoulder to the wrist.?St. iouis Star-Sayings. A DIG AT THE MEN. In an article entitled, "Why Should 'ot Men Be Beautiful?" Miss Frances L Willard takes the ground that men ave set a high standard of beauty and lorahty for women, and they have ad so much power to insist on this iandard tnat women are pre-emineni 1 these respects. "To my mind," she ijs, "the key and core of the woman ueBtion consists in this: That when, ithout taking away men's power, omen are in possession of the same ower over them that men have over omen (whioh is what I should like to ;e, no more and no less), then with le growth of the centuries women ill set sach a standard for men that ley will become as beautifal as omen, and as pare, to the incalculale increase of man's happiness and ell-being and of woman's joy and eace."?Atlanta Constitution. (JUIAJK UUJCLBJ_.-SAAiU.-0. Color combinations are even more I izarre and startling than heretofore, id for those who like bright color lere is plenty of it. Yet the truthil chronicler of the modes must recrd the fact that the most successful awns are in quiet tones with bright >lor used very sparingly. It requires master hand to manipulate such jmbinations as dark blue, green, and eliotrope, and pale blue, with.'purple, i a pleasing way, and the novice is arned against attempting it. Whiie there are plenty of new farics, there are no decided novelties ccept the chiffon crepons, which have een mentioned before. The beauty f these is greatly enhanced |Jby the iste exercined in the choice of the lk lining; for example, a black ad gray is given a silvery sheen y a .lining of pearl-white taffeta; oe of white and blue has the elicate blue ground beautifully rought out by a lining of ciel blue; ad a gray and heliotrope is made over eliotrope. ?Demorest's Magazine. rAT.TIES OF SHOPPERS. Is there any season of the year ben women don't "shop?" I suppose there must be, but I delare whenever I visit one of the mam 10th emporiums, it is filled wnn tne tir ones, as busy as bees. They generally hunt in couple?, or pen in threes or fours, and the shoplen and women rather resent this. For, if Miss Jones is alone, she has nly one mind to make up. But a uartet means four times the work, or ) the employes have often assured le. For instance* "Oh, that'6 ju6t lovely! I've been >oking for that all day. Can you let le have fourteen yards?" "Yes'm." The shopman unrolls the silk and ikes out bis scissors. "Wait a moment. Jennie, do you ke that for me" Jennie likes it very much and again le pcissors flish in the air. "What do you think of it; Emma?" Emma has her doubts, and Susie is uite sure it won't be becoming. "Oh, then wait! You needn't cut int. off. I'll look at something else." The thopniau pockets his scissors, <1 brings out a sigh instead, for the evy in time float away, and that sale ; dished.?Chicago Times-Herald. WOMEN* ON AMERICAN* FAP.M3. The very nature of farm life entails ertain conditions that are inevitable, nd their tendency is to shut in and nfetter a woman's life, until soul-life, ke her'outward life, becomes narrow, istorted, and unfruitful, writes Mary 1. Woodward in the Woman's Journal, 'hese conditions act upon our farm -omen intellectually and socially, as be iron bars of a prison would upon beir physical powers. The compara* r i:t- k;., ive isolation 01 xurm me, wmuiucu ^ith the routine drudgery of every ?y (and Sunday, too often) is a Irong bar against social and intellecual enjoyment. Woman, co less than lan, is "a social animal," and needs reqnent intercourse with her fellow eing6, for that mental atimulus with imprison the lives of so many women on our farms?to do away with the isolation that shats in so much latent nobility, hidden talent and true womanhood. The social side of Grange life is a blessed boon to many a farmer's wife and daughters, who through its influence have been drawn into more frequent intercourse with others, finding warm friends, and even nearer and dearer ties among those who but for the Grange, would have remained entire strangers. While thus creating a warmer social atmosphere, which has a strong and humanizing effect, there is another Grange influence reaching out into our farm homes, developing intellec tual strength and freedom. In mental capacity there are no women in the world who surpass the women of our farms, but intellectual life, like plant life, requires favorable opuortunities for growth and progressive develop* ment. These opportunities the Grange affords, and through the edncational influence of the Order, we are developing on our farms intellectual ability of a high order. Grange influence has been an important factor in removing popular prejudice against woman suffrage. The rural conservatism that recoils from radical changes has been gradually overcome by the subtle forces that work through our Order. In woman's admission to the Grange upon equal * jrms with her brothers, in sharing -qually in the duties, the privileges, ... > honors and the responsibilities, we have grown accustomed to think of her in her relation to matters outside of the domestic circle. Her interest in public affairs is stimulated by the discussions of questions of the day, in which she is expected to take active part, and her unquestioned ability, given an opportunity to express itself, f A Tin* Q nf HOP. I fulness. I have only written of one phase of Grange work?the breaking down of the barriers that prevent the fullest development] of the truest womanly nature on our American farms. The Order is also building up, from the foundation of American agriculture, a broader and higher type of manhood and womanhood.?Pablic Opinion. FASHION NOTES. "Hats of chiffon or gauze are a novelty of the season. All summer house dressee are adorned with insertion of lace. It is a new fancy to make up thin white gowns over colored slips. Many challie and crepon wrappers are in blue, pink or yellow effects. The summer girl wears four-in-hand ties of bosket-woven cotton threads. An all-silk stripe whicli has tne appearance of velvet is a novelty greatly in demand. Nid d'Abielle, or bee-hive effects, are annonnced among the newest designs in French crepons. The beautiful cheney riboon, and also the Dresden, come very wide and are used to give broad effects. A chain of small daisies between two flexible gold bands composes a new bracelet of an admired style. Flowered stripes on taffeta grounds, either plain or changeable, are one of the favorite combinations in silk. There is a great rush toward blouse effects for bodices, and the puddingbag front is considered very stylish. Bonnets of vivid-oolorod straw combined with jet and lace wings are considered the proper thing for Easter. The sale of plain and fancy velvets for capes and dress accessories this season has been exceptionally large. Simple in construction is a heart outlined in slender wire, holding a diamond, a sapphire and a ruby at its points. English embroidered nainsooks in cream tints, wrought with yellow or batter color, are especially pretty for thin dresses. A frock of silky green mohair, with an invisible hair stripe of gold, is made dashing by the great ribbon bow on the back. A pretty little imported bonnet has a tiny round crown made of basket braid, with full rosettes made of straw at each side. The newest Eton jackets are cut low around the shoulders, where they are fluished by a round collar about three inches deep. A favorite ornament on hats is the jetted Mephisto plume, which is of good height, with tips curled off from each other at the top. Vai-rr olioor summer tpYtilpfc ATS made up wholly unlined, and in this case a white surah or taffeta princess slip is worn beneath the dress. A revival of dainty white blouses trimmed with narrow edges of Valenciennes lace for elaborate wear is one of the summer features of dress. Dotted Swiss muslins continue to be popular, and the pretty silk ginghams, too; but the most fashionable materials are organdy and the new batiste linens. Very dainty wash silks are ma.le with a blouse-jacket front that is like a blouse waist slit up the front to show a blouse shirt that pushes bravely Through. Sheer, gauzy muslins are no longer made over silk, but are worn over elaboiate white petticoats finished with overlapping flounces edged with lace on the bottom. Some chic aud charming gowns sent from Paris are made of finest India bilks in various small patterns, and in nearly ever^ case the costume has a smart little butterfly cape to match. For elegant dress garnitures are shown expensive passementeries, buckles and buttons made to match, the buttons in varying sizes, to be used on different portions of the costume. A noted French designer uses very pretty basket-woven silks in little checks of rose color, cream and green, ecru, petunia and pale brown, fawn color, violet and old rose, etc., for youthful-looking gowns. out which there can be no true progress. She needs time for the cultivation of the higher powers of her mind, that she may be enabled to fight life's baStles more bravely, bear its burdens more easily, and enjoy life's pleasures more fully. For there are pleasures to enjoy on a farm. ii is tue mi83ion 01 ine urange xo hroalr r?Trn coma r\f i.Vio irrm Vmra flldt. I / w i The Spanish Bull, The bulls used for fighting purpose* are a specially selected, specially cared for class. They are all pedigree animals. Andalusia is, above all, the district of the bull. Here, at the age of one year, the young bulls are separated from the heifers, branded with the owners name and turned out loose on the plains to graze with others of their own age. When a year older the young bulls are gathered together, in order that their mettle and fighting qualities may be tested. One of them ie separated from the herd and chased by a man on horseback, who, by the skillful use of a blunted lance overthrows the escaping bull, whereupou another rider comes in front of the animal with a sharper lance to withstand the expected attack. If the bull on regaining his feet attacks the rider twice he is passed as a fighting animal, but if he turns tail and runs off he is set aside to be killed or to be used in agricultural work. And so with each animal until the whole herd of the two-year-olds have been tested. Each bull that has 6tood the test successfully is then entered in the herd book, with a description of his appearance, ana receives ? uatue? each R6 Espartero, Hamenco and the like. This process of careful selection goes on from year to year until the bull is five years old, when, should his mettle prove true, he is ready for the arena, and flaming posters appear on the walls of Madrid or Seville, announcing that Esparto (or whatever his name is) will on snQh and each a date make his first and final appearance. A good "warrantable" five-year-old ball for the fighting ring costs from 8350 to $400.?Buffalo Times. The Watchdog Exchange. An Englishman and a German in Chicago are partners in a new business which they advertise as a Watchdog Exchange. They will be piepared soon to sell dogs trained for watching, r\f 4-Vi/a Ar\rra mnr V>o AT? fro nrprl hv A month, week or night. The German partner has the experience, having been employed as a keeper in a similar business in Berlin, where there are several of these exchanges doing a good business.?New York Sun. The production of sugar in the West Indies ehows an annual increase of 1,000,000 tons. Highest of all in Leavening Po I Koyai ABSOLD1 Marvelous Story About Clifl-Dwellers. A marvelous story is that which :omes from Arizona, where a few months ago some prospectors in the Bradshaw Monntains came upon a 2liff-dwe!l ers' village in 'one of the most inaccessible canons of that range ?the largest village of the kind ever fet discovered. Se veral of the houses were explored and large quantities of pottery and some instruments, evidently used for cultivating the soil, were found. In one the skeleton of a man, not over four feet eight inches in height, was discovered. The canon at this place is half a mile wide and shows evidence of having been cultivated. If this theory proves to be true it will thnw more light on the habits of this little known people. So far as known no other evidence has ever been discovered of cliff-dwellers I having cultivated the soil.?Atlanta Constitution. One of the most popular religious books in Japan is "Pilgrim's Progress, " illustrated by Japanese artists. Dr. PIERCE'S PLEASANT ? mPELLETS JjjS ^CURE^ B3?K SICK HEADACHE, rWfl BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, SSw* INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, iflMIMJM and all derangements of the ?.t x Stomach, Liver and Bowels. *??& ?f al1 druggists. KrV* ONCE USED ? CSpl ALWAYS IN FAVOR. WHO is That insists upon rj\ U" | ^ \\ keeping a stock of y I ) ?' TIai^iitaii'a Dnnrfii IlntSnf itduway 8 ntjauy nuiioi In tiie house ? Why. tne wise mother. Because, when taken internally it cures in a tew minutes, Cramps, Spasms. Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Summer Complaint, Colic. Flatulency and all intern1.! pains. DOSE?Halt a teaspoonful in halt a tumbler of water. Used externally, it will cure Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Mosquito Bites, Stings of Insects, Sunburns. Bruises, Burns. Scalds, Coughs, Colds and all throat troubles. Radway's Ready Relief, aided by Radway's Pills, will cure Fever and Ague Malarious. Bilious and other Fevers. Fifty Cents a Bottle. Sold by Druggiati. RASWAY & CO., New York. When Hamlet Exclaimed: Gould He Havi SAP< THE GUN MAKER OF 1LI0N. <J JEFFERSON* M. CLOliGH REFUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FliO.V THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. His Health -wan too Foor to Ferm't Attcatlon to KuHlnenfi. A Great Sutt'erer for Many Year* But Has Now Recovered. . (From (he SprlnofcltJ, Mass., Virion.) There Isn't a gun manufacturer in the United States who dees not know Jefferson M. Clcugb, nnd why? Because ho has been Intimately associated all his life with the <'evelepment of the two best American rifles, the Remington and Winchester. For years he was Superintendent of the E. ItemiDgtoa A Sons' great factory at llion. N. Y. After leaving there he refused a tempting offer of the Chinese Government to gc to China to superintend their government factories.? and accepted instead the superintendent of the Winchester-Arms Co., at fcew Haven, at a salary of 87,500 a year. It was after this long term of active labor as a business man that he found himself in-f capacitated for further service by the embargo which rheumatism had laid upon him and resigned his position more than two vears aco. and returned to Eelchertown. -MSH Mass., where ho now lives and owns the Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has fivo hundred acres of land. Being a man of means he did not spare the _ cost and was treated by leading physicians and by baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth notice. During the summer of 1893 and the winter of 1894 Mr. Clough was confined to his bouse in Belchertown. being unable lo rise from his '. ' //S bed without assistance, and suffering con- ' tinually with acute pains and with no taste or desire for food, nor was he able to obtain % sufficient sleep. ' . Early in the year 1S94 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. He began talcing these pills about the first of ' ivSSB March, 1894, and continued to do so until the first part of September following. The first effect noticed was a better appetite and , he began to note more ability to help himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August (1894) he was able to go alone to his summer residence and farm of 1G3 acres on Grenadier Island, amouK the Thousand Islands, in the river St. Lawrence, where ^39 from the highest land of his farm he commands a view for 13 miles down the river, and 60 of the Thousand Islands can be seen. o Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and has been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the ' .jffjfl men employed there and he is thankful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have doi>e for These pills are raanufrtctored by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schondctady, N. Y., and are ?<old only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a ' box or six boxes for $2.50, and are never sold ' : ''THa JU UUIK. i. 11 vy mny uo IIUH wi au uiu^^icw t or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medl- J cine Company. j\aj 1 p. i Sri Some of the giant cactus trees of Arizona $|H are over sixty feet in height. wcr.?Latest U. S. Gov't Report I Baking I Powder I FELV PURE < ||| The Greatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. v|l KENNEDY'S ! Medical JDiscovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS., . .'|i Has discovered In one of oar common jjJ pasture weeds & remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula ' down to a common pimpi& fie has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases % -I J i n. k.. (n (DOlD lauouer uuuiuij. no u? uun u* . his possession over two hundred certifi- \ cates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is warranted j when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected It cause* shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducta being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Head the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. '-i!? No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can gat. and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonfui iu water at bedtime. Sold by all Druggists. X Y N U--M SIMPLE, CLEANLY. | J|| EFFICIENT. ?0n the Cars. At the Theatre, Anvwhere. }|| IF YOU WOULD OE IK FASHION TAKE A FEW I RipansTabules i ALONG WITH YOU WHEBEVER YOU GO. * |jj Ion can slip them into your pocket, jour satchel, your wallet even. To a dyspeptic this means ueace of mind under many otherwise , i trying circumstances. 0 0 1 K ti rv. , Crtc. for complete system for de- ?'J 4-s V.-lsnlr Kaixli-uttlUK ladles'and / / Cal (Ireu'N WarmeutK i.y mail post/ J P-> 'I, <>rfor$: will seed you romp eu> ! / \ nystfin audHniv?^al?l-eve.'e?l<ner .k, j I iimJM'lf- uHtructor. OurNHf-Iusiruo I ! ! / tor l>41)- uK <if ilip'Kn; ini'dmyoii \ r M t ! >>" to lukemi-asuieturiit , ...aft,cat I It/V. A and nt a.l-..yl-hoi j,ariiK-ii..-; uowtii ' / / II M I". put tut-ill to, el her, irim and tiiaku Mir f 'V mem up: ulv) all other useful aud / V> Info inatlou e^enilal to i l?iil L u?*~ hi>(*c ass ..re<? a il rkia'< making. "I'm- Ora'i! i* ?UTU Co.,'.'iC-'-'IS Cl^rk . I., hit igu, li. . 4'. rj t Y *'Olt PI.UAMXT WORK ?>: y jwurrd tiirourt inl an e any npi'iication lor Loral Aict-tic.r o sell tho AVIS CREAM SEPARATORS ?o Farmer* and ]>?iiymen. I'r.e fiy.e ?' > ?ho?n in last number or this journal. Anuiher Mill soon be I pictured out. Meanwhile, wri'c lor H?ni'.??ire Illuatr-itfd Book free. Imvis .* iukxin bli<G >and vtKi} CO.. Sule Manufacturer*.m? W. L?ke St .Chit'AtfO. 1 aitimiikiv. \vin.n ill'/, i.l KIED?Youug | 5 Men to leant TV ; latloi uu i Express | Ajjfrus' Dutlc. I<" Wii 1TK.M V X. Chatham. X. Y. T* CURES WKtRfc ALL ELSE FAILS. Ed j m Best C0114I1 Syrup. Tmu GikiO. Cae Wl. i >,/ " Aye, There's the Rub S" - rt-Z J 1. e nenmtu it# DLIO