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| The Fashions of | s the Centurv. i I _ J S ECCENTRICITIES OF THE PAST ONLY ? ft ARE LACKING. & T~ OOKING back through the | r* history of clothes from the [ V year 1S01 to the year 1901 it is easy to see that while different phases have repeated themselves from time to time, the fashions of to-day combine the beauties of the various stages of the past, omitting the eccentricities. The graceful, clinging skirt of the beginning of the last century, almost the same bolero, find a copy in the gown of l'JOO. THe grace ful flcLu of 1838 serves as a model for /Iott wlu'lo the vnlnminous skirts are happily passed by. Though expensive. it was not yet the crinoline, but the petticoat that was responsible for this particular feature. It is said that the skirts widened themselves to balance the width of the shoulders for this was the time of the pelerine. . Sleeves, too. were larger, of necessity. Early in the '30"s was an interesting epoch in the manners of the mere man. for then he was settling down to the simplicity of the present-day attire and dispensing with his elegant kneebreeches?this, however, only after a struggle between the practical and the ornate that had lasted since the close of the eighteenth century. By 1842 ail gowns were trailing again. This was the time of the lace mitten and of the odd little parasols with long fringes and double hanales. By 18C0 the tide had turned, the skirts were wide and tne shoulders narrow. ' By '68 the crinoline had ceased to exist, and the revulsion from width resulted by about 1S7C in the peculiarly monstrous costume of that day. In the crinoline our grandmothers could scarcely sit oown. In '76 their daugb- j ^^^OUTDOOR FASHIONS 0] ters could neither walk nor sit with any ease. Even so late as 1895, the huge overbalancing sleeves put to flight the ideas of grace and symmetry. The accompanying illustration is from the Gentlewoman. In men's attire. 2840 was the age of the gorgeous waistcoats, while at that time the tall silk hat supplanted the beaver, the new species coming from ^Tjiris and ver^.^i^jjjly becp^H^L. a.. S restitution, though abused I durii g all these intervening sixty P years. M n j u to a Hill at La*t. This illustration furnishes convincing proof that tjie British have at least reached the great goal of their desires?Majuba Hill?for here is the " picture of one standing on its summit. ,T ?1?*-4 V.** o Irnn fnv notlnn/ia nn n tie IUlglll UC IClivc.-. jiaiKllVE ?*. monument, so rigid and erect be stands, but. no. be is only a plain, every-day adjutant of the Nineteenth Hussars who attained to this proud eminence by the skilful use of his legs. But what a memory to Britishers is Majuba Hill, where General Joubert, leading an undisciplined mob of Boers, broke a British square and at the same time almost broke the British heart. Here It was that Independence was. won, though it has since been lost, and here the "embattled farmers" of the Transvaal drove the British eol diery like sheep before tliem. Mucl has happened down in South Africr since that time, and despite theh sharpshooting, which won them tlx victory at Majuba, the Boers have ii the main been defeated, and at las Majuba has been "avenged," thougl the memory of its disaster can nevei be effaced. A Lace Novelty. Beautiful lace is as interesting as i is tempting. But very seldom does one come upoi A NOVELTY IN LACE. anything so richly splendid as this new applique which so far has nc name. Though nameless, the figures sug gest both escurial and Russian lace ^y'T?r"TmThe soft beautltul batiste with Its pinky, par F THE LAST CENTURY ply reflexions?such a color! Though it looks very simple, yet 1 is an elaborate arrangement in thre< thicknesses; the figures in the highes relief are of a rather heavy, canvas like weave, showing corded designs then comes a thin silk batiste, and un der this the net. And upon these thre< fabrics all sorts of variations are played. Sometimes the heavies figures are held together by the sof net, and in other places both net am the stieer batiste foundation fabric an cut away. ' * *' . This splendid new appliquV come.' in various widths from the two-and-a half-inch one here pictured (it costs $3 the yard) up to a splendid twenty four-inch all-over at $12 the yard. It must be admitted that the broadei widths show the design to a mud greater advantage. At any rate, it is splendor en ap plique. QnaSnt Customs in Shetlan I. The only part of the United King dom in which the old style of- reckon ing time is adhered to is the archipela go of Shetland, and there Sunday January 15, was New Year's Day. But Sunday being with* the natives a strict dies non for business or foi pleasure, the next day witnessed th< high jinks incident to the occasion Theso included processions of "guis ers," or mummers, and the drinking oi various strange toasts, such as "Heli to man and death to da grayfish," ant the health of the twelve aposnes. In Shetland the remnants of the olc Norse language linger to such a de gree that the dialect is almost a sealei book?even to Scotsmen. The las specimen of the great auk whose egg: are now valued at something like 1(M guineas apiece, was done to deatl there, but the little auk still retains : precarious footing on the lonely isle | of Foula.?London Daily Mail. Ah! i Mrs. Greene?"Notwithstanding Mi Snarler is a man of good judgment. I nntiiw thnt pvervhodv is croine into ec JJ\Sl?V.V. v ?- ? v ? w c ^ stacies about that picture of Mali] stick's, and you know Snarler said i was a perfect daub." Mr. Greene?"I didn't say his judg ment was good. I merely said he rva a distinguished art critic." ? Bostoi Transcript. DR. TALMAGES SERMON ? J SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED ^ DIVINE. 1 Subject: The Printed Word?A Call For a t Warm Friendship Between Those 1 Who Make Newspapers and Those f Who Freacli the Gospel. IVUJI.VHKUI lin'J. j Washington*. D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage calls for a warm friendship t between those who preach the gospel arid those who make newspapers, the spoken word and the printed word to po side by l side; text. Luke xvi, 8, "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." Sacred stupidity and solemn incompetency and sanctified laziness are here rebuked by Christ, He 6ays worldlings are wider awake for opportunities than are Christians. Men of the world grab occasions. while Christian people let the most valuable occasions drift fcy unimproved. That is the meaning of our Lord when Hs says, "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." A marked illustration of the truth of that maxim is in the slowness of the Christian religion to take possession of the secular press. The opportunity is open, and has been for some time open, but the ministers of religion are for the most part allowing the eolden opportunity to pass unimproved. That the opportunity is open I declare from the fact that all the secular newspapers are glad of any religious facts or statistics that you present them. Any animated and stirring article relating to religious themes they would gladly print. They thank you for any information in regard to churches. If a wrong has been done to any Christian church or Christian institution, you could go into any newspaper office of the land and have the real truth stated. Dedica finn Rprvirps ministerial ordinations and pastoral installations, cornerstone laying of a chu^ob. anniversary of a charitable society will have reasonable space in any secular journal if it have previous notice given. If I had some great injustice done me. there is not an editorial or reportorial room in the United States into which I ' could not go and get myself set right, and ' that is true of any well-known Christian > man. Why, then, does not our glorious Christianity embrace these magnificent opportunities? I have before me a subject of ? first and last importance: How shall we secure the secular press as a mightier re[ .'enforcement to religion and the pulpit? The first thing toward this result is cessation of indiscriminate hostility against newspaperdom. You might as well denounce the legal profession because of the shysters or the medical profession because of the swindling bargain makers as to slambang newspapers because there are recreant editors and unfair reporters and unclean columns. Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, was about to destroy his types and extinguish the art because it was suggested to him that printing might be suborned into the service of the devil, but afterward he bethought himself that the right use of the art might more than overcome the evil use of it, and so he spared the type and the intelligence of all following ages. But there are many to-day in the depressed mood of Gutenbenz. with uplifted hammer, want ing to pound to pieces the type, who have not reached hie Detter mood in which he saw the art of printing to be the rising eun of the world s illumination. If, instead of fighting newspapers, we spend the same length of time and the 6dme vehemence in marshaling their help in religious directions, we would be as much wiser as the man who gets consent of the railroad superintendent to fasten a car to the end of a rail train shows better sense than he who runs his wheelbarrow up the track to meet and drive back the Chicago limited express. The silliest thing that a man ever does is to fight a newspaper, for you may have the floor for utterance perhaps for one day in the week, while the newspaper has the floor every day in the week. Napoleon, though a mighty man, had many weaknesses, and one of the weakest things he ever did was to threaten that if the English newspapers did not stop their adverse criticism of himself he woula, with 400,000 bayonets, cross the channel for their chastisement. Don't figjit newspapers. Attack provokes attack. Better wait until the excitement blows over, and then go in and get justice, for get it you will if you have patience and common 6ense and equipoise of disposition. It ought to be a mighty sedative that : there is an enormous amount of common I sense in the world, and you will eventually be taken for what you are really worth, and you cannot be puffed up, and you cannot be written down, and if you are the enemy of good society that fact will come out, and if you are the friend of good society that fact will be established. I know what I am talking about, for I can draw on my own experience. ^All the respectable newspapers, as tar as 1 Know, are my friends now. But many of you remember the time when I was the most continuously and meanly attacked man in this cquntry. God gave me grace not to answer baeli, and I kept silence for ten years, and much grace was required. What I said was perverted and twisted into just the opposite of what I did say. There were millions of people who believed that there was a large sofa in my pulpit, although we never had anything but a chair, and that during the singing by the cont gregntion I was accustomed to lie down a on that sofa and dangle my feet over the " end. Lying New York correspondents * for ten "years misrepresented our church services. But we waited, and people from every neighborhood o<* Christendom came ' there, to find the magnitude of the falsehoods concerning the church and concern2 ing myself. A reaction set in, and soon ? we had justice, full justice, more than just tice, ana as much overpraise as once we had underappreciation, and no man that ' ever lived was so much indebted to the 1 hewspaper press for opporunity to preach i the gospel as I am. Young men in the ministry, young men in all professions and occupations, wait. 5 You can afford to wait. Take rough misrepresentation as a Turkish towel to start . uo vour languid circulation or a system ' of massagS. or Swedish movement, whose pokes ana p?>Us and twists and thrusts are salutary treatment There is onlv ont -person _ yoii need to manage, and that is yourself. Keep your dispositions sweet by c<W3dimunion with Christ, who answered not agajn. get society of genial people and walk oUt- in the sunshine with your hat off and yoiJ? "will come out all right. And don't join J-he crowd of people in our day who spend much of their time damning newspapers. Again, in this effort to secure the secular press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion, let us make it the avenue of religious information. If you would secure the press as a mightier re-enforcement of religion and the pulpit extend widest and highest Christian courtesies to the repre5 sentatives of journalism. Give them easy r chairs and plenty of room when they come , to report occasions. For the ntbst part they are gentlemen of education and refinement, graduates of colleges, with families to support by their literary craft, f many of them weary with the push of a . business that is precarious and fluctuating, each one of them the avenuo of infomation ? to thousands of readers, their impression of the services to be the impression j adopted bv multitudes. They are connecting links "between a sermon or a song or a prayer, and this great population that 1 tramp up and down the streets day by t day and year by year with their sorrows uncomforted and their sins unpardoned. ^ /\L. iU/. Knn^ro/la r\f tUiif>n/L nf>nnln . VII, WIIC IIUUU4VUO V?4. VllVUCUIiU.) V*. I' f J in our cities who never attend churches! i Our cities are not so much preached to by t ministers of religion as by reporters. Put t all journalists into our prayers and sermons. Of all the hundred thousand sermons preached to-day there -will not be three preached to journalists and probably not one. Of all the prayers offered for classes of men innumerable the prayers offered for the most potential class will be j thought a preacher's idiosyncrasy. There 1 are many journalists in our church memberships, but this world will never be [. brought to God until some revival of re? iigion sweeps over the land and takes into -he kingdom of God all editors, reporters, compositors, pressmen and newsboys. And if you have not faith enough to pray s for that and toil for that you had better get out of our ranks and join the other 0 side, for you are the unbelievers who make the wheels of the Lord's chariot drag heavily. The great final battle be? tween truth and error, the Armageddon, I think, will not be fought with swords and shells and guns, but with pens?quill pens, steel pens, gold pens, fountain pens and before that the pens must be converted. The most divinely honored weapon of the past has been the pen, and the most divinely honored weapon of the future will >10 flio non?nrnnhet.'s nen. and evanorel ist's pen and apostle's pen, followed by editor's pen and author's pen and reporter's pen. God save the pen! The wing of the Apocalyptic angel will be the printed page, '''he printing press will roll ahead of Christ's chariot to clear the way. "But." some one might ask, "would you make Sunday newspapers also a re-enforcement?" I have learned io take things as they are. I would like to see the much scoffed at old Puritan Sabbaths come back again. I do not think the modern Sunday will turn out any better men and women than were your grandfathers and grandmothers under the old-fashioned Sunday. To say nothing of other results, Sunday newspapers are killing editors, reporters, compositors and pressmen. Every man, woman and child is entitled to twentyfour hours of nothing to do. If the newspapers put on another set of hands, that does not relieve the editorial and renortorial room of its cares and responsibilities. Oar literary men die fast enough without killing them with Sunday work. All things are possible with God, and my faith is up until nothing in the way of religious victory would surprise me. All the newspaper printing presses of the earth are going to be the Lord's, and telegraph and telephone i.nd type will yet announce nations born in a dav. The first book ever printed was the Eib|e, by Faust and his son-in-law, Schoeffer. in 14C0. and " !- ~e *U? TT?7? mat consecruuuii ui tjri'c w x?vi.v Scriptures? was a prophecy of the great mission of printing for the evangelization of all the nations. The father of the American printing press was a clergyman, Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was a prophecy of the religious use that the gospel ministry in this country were to make of the types. The tendency of criticism in the theological seminaries is to file off from our young men all the sharp points and make them too smooth for any kind of execution. What we want, all of up, is more point, less humdrum. If we say the right thing in the right way, the press will be glad and echo and re-echo it. Sundayschool teachers, reformers, young men and old men in the ministry, what we all want if we are to make the printing press an ally in Christian work is that which the reporter spoken of suggested?points, sharp points, memorable points. But if the thing be dead when uttered by living voice it will be a hundredfold more deaa when it is laid out in cold type. Now. as you all have something to do with tne newspaper press, either in issuing a paper or in reading it, either as producers or patrons, either as-sellers or purchasers of the printed sheet, I propose on this Lord's day a treaty to be signed between the church and the printing press,, a treaty to be ratified by millions of good people if we rightly fashion it^ a treaty jjiujuiaiiig mat nc VTJII n^ip vuvu vunv,* our work of trying to illumine and felicitate the world, we by voice, you by pen; we by speaking only that which is fit to speak. You help us, and we will help you. Side by side be these two. potent agencies until the judgment day, when we must both be scrutinized for our work, healthful or blasting. The two worst off men in that day will be the minister of religion and the editor if they wasted their opportunity. Both of UB/are the engineers of long express trains of influence, and we will run them into a depot of light or tumble them off the embankments. What a useful life and what a glorious' departure was that of the most famous of all American printers, Benjamin Franklin, whom infidels in the penury of their resources have often fraudulently claimed as their own, but the printer who moved that the Philadelphia convention be opened with prayer, the resolution lost because a majority thought prayer unnecessary, and who wrote at the time he was viciously attacked, "My rule is to go straight forward in doing what appears to me to be right, leaving the consequences tn Pr/ividfl?rp " and who wrote this quaint epitaph showing his hope of resurrection, an epitaph^ that I hundreds of times read while living in Philadelphia: That Providence intends the profession of reporters to have a mighty share in the world's redemption is suggested by the fact that Paul and Christ took a reporter along with them, and he reported their addresses and their acts. Luke was a reporter, and he wrote not only the book of Luke, but the Acts of the Apostles, and without that reporter's work we would have known nothing of the Pentecost, and nothing of Stephen's martyrdom, and nothing of Tabitha s resurrection, and nothing of the jailing and unjailing of Paul ana Silas, and nothing of the shipwreck at Melita. Strike out the reporter's work from the Bible, and you kill a large part of the New Testament. It makes me think that in the future of the kingdom of God the reporters are to bear a mighty part. About twenty-hve years ago a representative of an important New York newspaper took his seat in my Brooklyn church one Sunday night about five pews from the front of the pulpit. He tool: out pencil and reporter's pad, resolved to caricature the whole scene. When the music began, he began, and with his pencil lie derided that, and then derided the prayer, and then derided the reading of the Scriptures, and then began to deride the sermon. But, he says, for some reason t 1 1 1 A- A. t-l_ J I. 11.. nis nana negan 10 irenioie, uuu jic, iuiij- i ing himself, sharpened his pencil and started again, but broke down again and then put pencil and paper in hip pocket and his head down on tne front pew and began to pray. At the close of the service he came up and asked for the prayers of others, ana gave his heart to God. And, though still engaged in newspaper work, he is an evangelist and hires a hall at his own expense and every Sunday afternoon preaches Jesus Christ to the people. And the men of that profession are going to come in a body throughout the country. I know hundreds of them, and a more genial or highly educated class of men it would be hard to find, and, though the tendency of their profession may Be toward skepticism, an organized common sense gospel invitation would fetch them to the front of all Christian endeavor. Men of the pencil and pen in all depart- . ments, you need the help of the Christian religion. In the day when people want*to get their newspapers at two cents, and are hoping for the time when they can get any of them at one cent, and as a consequence the attaches of tne printing press are by the thousand ground under the cylinders, you want Goa to take care of you and your families. Some of yeur beet work is as much unappreciated as was Milton's "Paradise .Lost," for which the author received $25, and the immortal poem "Hohenlinden" of Thomas Campbell when he first offered it for publNcation, and in the column called "Notices to Correspondents" appeared the words: "To*T. C.?The lines commencing 'On Linden \$.hen the sun was low' are not up to our standard. Poetry is not T. C.'s 0 men of the'pencil and pen, amid your unappreciated werk you need encouragement. and you h*ve it. Printers of all Christendom, editors, reporters, compositors, pressmen, publishers and leaders of that which is printed, resolve that you will not write, set up\edit, issue or read anything that debases ftpdy, mind -or soul. In the name of God, by the laying on of the hands of faith and prAyer, ordain the printing press for righteousness and liberty and salvation. All of us with some influence that will help in the right direction, let us put our hands to the Vork. imploring God to hasten the consummation. In a ship with hundreds of pas^ngers approaching the South American', coast the man on the lookout neglected \his work, and in a few minutes the ship wpuld '.;<ive been dashed to ruin on the rock*?- But a cricket on board the vessel that lu^d made no sound all the voyage set up a shrill call at the smell of land, and the ^aptain, knowing that habit of the insect, shopped the vessel in time to avoid an awful wreck. And so insignificant means may now do wonders, ana the scratch of a pen may save the shipwreck of a soul. Are you all ready for the signing o|f the contract, the league, the solemn ti'caty proposed between journalism and eyangelism? Let it be a Christian manfiage of the pulpit and the printing press. .The ordination of the former on my head, ;the pen of the latter in my hand, it is appropriate that I publish the banns of sucl>? a T l.om fmm tKia .law Vio /tine in the magnificent work of the world s [redemption. j ) An AvtMRoltlle Christening. A christening on an automobile has taken place for the first time In Belgium at the Church of St. Croix, at Brussels, says the London Daily Mail.; The father, the infant, the godfather and godmother took their places on an automobile decked with blue and white ribbons. As snow was falling the infant was ensconced under an umbrella. The beauty o" checks and -women are judged from the same standpoint ?face and figure. At an experiment in St. Joseph, Mo.. a cat was apparently killed by a shock of electricity carefully administered. Two hours after the heart had ceased to beat: the current was reversed and the second shock restored the heart beats, faintly at first, but growing stronger until the cati was finally released as playful and frisky as ever. There 1? a Clan of People r Who are injured by the uue of coffee. Recentlj there has been placed in all the grocery etore-j a new preparation called Gbaix-O, made oj pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it withoul distress, and but few can tell it from coffee, It does not cost over % as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. anc} 25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for Gbaix-0 The Women's University Club, of New York, is the latest organization among college graduates. The alumnae of the various colleges have planned an organ iza: tion with the object of building a clubhouse such .is those enjoyed by the men. Seven hundred women graduates were o f n tt% /inl i n rt Vi1 n rl f ViQ oil^/'DQa |ji cpcuii c* iiiccwiii^ Iigm, uuu iuv. ouvvvqu of the scheme seems assured. Try Grain-O ! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of Gbain-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drinU it without injury as well afl the adult. All who try it, like it. Gb 4in- 0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Jar a, but it is made from puro grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % the price of coffee; 15 and 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. Experiments are being carried out in the Austrian Army with a new portable oven for field and transport purposes. The oven at present in use is a very unwieldly and heavy article and has to be transported in sections. The new oven, however, may be carried intact upon a cart, and if necessary can be utilized for baking purposes while on the march. Lane's Family medicine Moves the bowels each day. In order to bq healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on thq liver and kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50 cents. Upon the battlefield of Gettysburg in a remote and wild place, far from any habitation, lives Frederick Thomas, a man sixtv years old. He has two or three pet chickens, well up in years, the only other living things near. Upon the death of his wife, years age he determined to live the life of a recli'- nd has studiously kept his resolution. Con eh i rip, end* to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once, delays are dangerous. * 1L- T) 1. I A macnine in me uaun ui ui^muu >v> weighing sovereigns and half sovereigns is so extremely sensitive that it can de-, note a tenth of a grain difference in the, weight of the com. It automatically weighs twenty-six coins in a minute. The coins of full weight it throws to the rightr and the others to the left. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you use Potnam Fadeless Dyes. Sold by all druggists. The fellow who always tells the truth' loses lots of friends. Socialists in Paris have organized a bureau to spread their doctrines. Beit For Itae Bowela. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cabcabets help nature,' cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cascabetf Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. The elevator man who calls out floors tells stories. If you want "good digestion to wait upon your appetite" you should always chew a bar of Adams' Pepsin Tutti Frutti. The chance of two finger prints being alike is not one in 64.000.000,000. For 0O Years rrey'i vermuugo Has been curing children of wormB. Itie sure. Never fails. 25c. Druggists and country stores. The notes of the Bank of England cost exactly one-half penny each. Piso's Cure for Consumption ie an infallible medicine for cough9 and colds.?N. W. .Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. The vast majority of Hindus do not drink intoxicants. A LUXUR MS Watch our next advertlsei I In every package of LION COFFI fact, no woman, man, boy or girl wi comfort and convenience, and whicl the wrappers of our one pound seale Had No FtTori Shown. In some personal recollections of the fate Prince Christian Victor, the head master of a well-known public school Eioints out that he was the first EngIch nrlnm tn crn +Vir?iif?h thp nrriinflrV Routine of a public school like any pther boy. When he was sent tq Wellington College it was expressly stipulated that he was to be treated in ail prays just as the other boys were, and (the experiment was eminently successful. Possibly no prince before him in pny civilized country enjoyed such freedom, and he made good use of it. ; There is more Catarrh in this section of the (country than all other diseases pnt together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurablei. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to teure with locAl treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a (constitutional disease and therefore requires ponstitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, [manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 'Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the ;market. It is taken internally in doses from jlO drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly or 'the blood and mucous surfaces of the system jThey offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J.Cheney & Co.,Toledo, O Sold by Druggists, 75c. > Hall's Family Pills are the best. The golf writer believes that the pen ii mightier than the swapd. Stock Raising South. There is a (rrowinj? interest in live stock ir 'the South, especially as regards beef, dairj cattle, horses, mutton, sheep and hogs. The Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont sections ol Virginia, the mountains of East Tennessee ,Western North Carolina, the upland regionf of South Carolina, sections of Georgia, Ala bama and Mississippi and the famous blue grass regions of Kentucky furnish large areai bf fine grass lands with an abundance of pun clear water. Over this section the climate ii such that stock buildings need not be expen iBive. Rough lumber is comparatively cheaj and within easy reach of every farmer. Nc flection of country can furnish cheaper graz ing or feeding than the South. Besides t great variety of pasture grasses and greer forage plants there are cotton seed and iti products, one of the cheapest stock foodi known. During the past season several verj fine bunches <of cattle have been shipped ovei the Southern Railway to Chicago and t< Europe, besides supplying in part a very brisl |iome market. Lists of these lands can be ob> tained free by addressing M. A. Hays, Ageni Land and Industrial Department, Soutneri [Railway, 228 Washington St., Boston, Mass. or M. V. Richards, Land and Industrial Agent {Southern Railway, Washington, D. C. ' In China coal miners work twelve houn 3 day f<>r ten cents a day. i'~" HELP FOR WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS TIRED. "1 do not feel very well, I am so ' tired all tne time. 1 do not know what 'is the matter with, me." ; You hear these words every day; as ; often as you meet your friends just so 'often are theBe words repeated. More than likely you speak the same significant words yourself, and no doubt you ;do feel far from well most of the time, i Mrs. Ella Rice, of Chelsea, Wis., [whose portrait we publish, writes that I she suffered for two years with bearing-down pains, headache, backache, and had all kinds of miserable feelings, '.all of which was caused by falling and inflammation of the womb, and after doctoring with physicians and numerous medicines she was entirely cured by issbl Mas. Ella Rics Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. ? If you are troubled with pains, fainting spells, depression of spirits, reluctance to go anywhere, headache, | backache, and always tired, please re| ynember that there is an absolute Remedy which will relieve you of your puffering as it did Mrs. Rice. Proof Is monumental that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the -greatest medicine for suffering women. |No other medicine has made the cures ithat it has, and 'no other woman has helped so many women by diitct advice es has Mrs. Plnkham; her experience is greater than that of any living person. If you are sick, write and get her advice; he. address is Lynn, Mas& V U/ITUIM TUP DPAO.I WW ? m m m mm m m mm m m O fe MY p,c I^T=j|* g?es on ;|J Uonj J Make sure th on every pacl ? f\ That tells you that it is I If you don't see my h? jf \\ If not at your g / \ \ All lead tjLION ' went."1 now the and is used EE you will find a fully illustrated and < 11 fail to find in the list some articie whi< 1 they may have by simply cutting out a :d packages (which is the only form in wl W00L30N SPICE CO., TOLEDO, OHIO. V' Newly DiicoTerrd Fompeiian Till*. I The newly discovered Pompeilan villa, near Herculaneum, Is attracting great attention, says the Paris Messenger. 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