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I /TITBITS . [ m New York City.?Simple blouses with gored skirts make the best of all costumes for young girls. This pretty ^ and stylish May Manton model is $ girl's costume. a : 1; adapted both to school wear and to s occasions of more formal dress; the h former when made of sturdy dark a hued material, the latter when of light t weight fabrics in pale or light colors. As shown it Is designed for service, however, and is made of Napoleon bine cheviot with strappings of the s same, collar of blue velvet and chemi- F aette of blue tucked taffeta. The blouse is cut with a plain back, a drawn down snugly at the waist, and 0 slightly loose fronts that droop over * the belt The neck i6 finished with a roll-over round collar, and the chemiiette, or shield, renders it high at the WOMAN'S ^DOUBLE B1 neck. The sleeves are in bishop style c .with narrow pointed cuffs. 1 The skirt Is cut in five gores and is g enug about the hips, while it places | s gracefully at the lower portion. The r fulness at the back is laid in inverted a pleats under which the placket can be a finished, or the pleats can be stitched a flat as illustrated, and the opening c made invisibly at the left front seam, c To cut this costume for a girl of ten t years of age five yards of material twenty-seven iuches wide, two and a seven-eighth yards forty-four inches f wide or two and nve-eigntn yards mty i inches wide will be required. > t Woman's Doable-Breasted Basque. ' The tight fitting, well shaped basque is always in style for appropriate ma- c terials, aud suits some figures far bet- 51 ter than any other model. The stylish May Manton example illustrated in the * large engraving is cut on the latest lines, and includes the newest collar 1 and cuffs. As shown tbe material is a novelty woven of silk and wool that j Includes varying shades of tan and brown, tbe collar and cuffs are of vel- * vet in tbe darkest tone, but all woolen materials of light or moderate weight are appropriate, camels' hair, ( broadcloth, cheviot, serge and the like. The basque is cut with 6idebacks and under-arm gores that mean a per- ^ feet adjustment at tbe back and with 1 ? double darts at the front that curve " ir snugly to the tigure. The right Bide is extended to give a double breasted effect that is both smart and becoming. The sleeves are snug fitting, finished with flaring cuffs, and at the neck is a deep turn-over collar, the use of which is optional. To cut this basque for a woman of medium size three and live-eighth . ; ~rds of material twenty-seven inches wide, one and five-eighth yards fortylour inches wide or one and a half yards fifty inches wide will be required. Becoming Effect* in Fur*. Furs have made their appearance I a ~ /if )?nn? luwilltlflll I aim give *->1 UIUU_1 ur>iui>i.>? aHd becoming effocts. A three-quarter length black velvet coal, all straight lines, is lined and finished on the outside with ermine. The fur is in a broad-shaped band, high around the throat, forming u broad plastron at the front, hold close up to ilie chic, then gradually tapering like a pointed vest to the waist lino, below which ?nly an edge of while allows on either edge, indicating the lining. There are : deep cuffs of the fur on the flaring 1 a eeves. Nothing could be richer or i more beautiful. i ^ I Tulle Bos. The tulle boa has secured great fa'or as a neck dressing because it i? o remarkably becoming. A tall, elenlor woman has usually a long neck, ind she can wear one of these beauties o perfection. Even the plump wornin, whose chin is perilously near her shoulders, can wear me tune ooa. n loos not seem to dwarf her presence, is the ostrich or chiffon or Liberty silk >oa might do. Be careful not to get a K>a which is too broad or too full, i tome of the tulle boas are remarkably ull and broad, and these must be 1 schewed by the short-tliroated sisters, " oint d'esprit net and Brussels net are ilso pleated up into boats, but these, < hough more substantial, are rarely so ' tecoming as the soft, diaphauous boa if tulle. I Belts of Mapney Fibre. Quaint belts are of maguey fibre, a roven white straw, with two strands < f the material at one end and two nnr>K if thn nthnr Thf?rp flrp different 1 ..v ( rays of fastening the belts, the s>m- < >lest being to knot eacb of the two 1 ;?rauds into a button and button the oops over them. ' i New Patterns in Muslin*. 1 The muslins this year are delightful. } Caoh season they seem to get more i nd more attractive. The most popu- } nr are still of French design or pin- 1 potted. A few Japanese patterns , ave made their appearance, but they i re inclined to be large, and must > herefore be treated with care. Stylish Shoe Buckles. ] Among the many fancy cut steel j hoe buckles it is a relief to see the ] ilain steel buckle and the gun metal j uckle. These set with rhinestones j re most attractive. The serpent Is, 1 f course, to be found in these buckles, i wo serpents usually to a oucKie. Woman's Shirt Waist. The tucked shirt waist is, and will I i i 1EASTED BASQUE. I ontinue to be, a pronounccd favorite. The very pretty May Manton model riven is made of pale blue ehallie with strips of white, and is of just the cored -weight for cool days, but Saxony ind French flannels, silk cashmere, ilbatross and all soft waist materials ire appropriate. The original is made >ver the ntted lining that closes at the entre front, but heavy materials can >e made unlined if preferred. The foundation fits snugly and closes it the centre front, but separately ; rom the waist. The back proper is j )laiu, drawn down in gathers at the vaist line, but the fronts are tucked o form a pointed yoke, below which 1 hey fall in soft folds, which can be : irranged in gathers at the waist line i >r left free to be adjusted to the figure ! is preferred. The edge is finished j' i-ifh n rcirnlntinn linv nlpflt nnrl th<? I leek with a regulation stock. The sleeves are in bishop style with narrow pointed cuffs. When the waist is unlined, the gath>rs at the waist line are staid with a jand of the material or a casing is ap>lied and tapes inserted by means of ivhich the fulness is regulated. Oth'rwise the process of making is unchanged. To cut this waist for a woman of nediuin size three and five-eighth rards of material twenty-one inches | vide, three and a half yards twenty- , i I woman's shirt waist. seven inches wide, three yards thirty;wo inches wide or two and one-eighth j yards forty-four Inches wide will be , required. DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON ; r SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED t DIVINE. f t Subject: The Power of KindneM ? A < Spirit of Amity and Good Fcellnc i? T to Be Commended ? Victory Throncli t Good Will?Most Potent of Words. 0 (Copyright, 1P01. ] c WASniXGTOX, D. C.?In this discourse T Dr. Talmage commends the spirit of amity j and good feeling and mentions illustrious t examples of that spirit; text, Aetsixxviii, ? - * "" *?i ?i 1 iif. 'I, "ine Darocnyuo jjcupie esuuwcu uo , tie kindness." o Here we are on the Island of Malta, an- } other name for Melita. This island, which has always been an important commercial f centre, belonging at different times to ] Phoenicia, to Greece, to Rome, to Arabia, j to Spain, to France, now belongs to Eng- r land. The area of the island is about 100 c square miles. It is in the Mediterranean Sea, and of such clarity of atmosphere r that Mount Etna. 130 miles away, can be f distinctly seen. The island is gloriously memorable because the Knights of Malta o for a long while ruled there, but most fa- p mous because of the apostolic shipwreck. T The bestormed vessel on which Paul h sailed had "laid to" on the starboard tack, V and the wind was blowing east-northeast, o and, the vessel drifting probably a mile t and a half an hour, she struck at what is o now called St. Paul's Bay. Practical sail- t ors have taken up the Bible account and h decidcd beyond controversy the place of i the shipwreck. But the island, which has V so rough a coast, is for the most part a i earden. Richest fruits and a profusion of j honey characterized it in Paul's time as n " Til- - Z i ? well U8 now. me llilLOL uiai^co, U50 olives grow there. e When Paul and his comrades crawled up n on the beach, saturated and hungry from o long abstinence from food and chilled to r the bone, the islanders, though called bar- t barians because they could not speak g Greek, opened their doors to the ship- t wrecked unfortunates.- My text finds the a ship's crew ashore on Malta and around a t; hot fire and with the best provision the h islanders can offer them. And they go s into government quarters for three days u to recuperate. Publius. the ruler, inviting ti them, although he had severe sickness in p the house at that time, his father down ^ with a dangerous illness. Yea, for three l, months they stayed on the island watch- g ing for a shin and putting the hospitality r ?f the islanderB to a severe test. But it p jndured the test satisfactorily, and it is r recorded for all the ages of time and eter- a nity to read and hear in regard to the in- p habitants of Malta, "The barbarous people v showed us no little kindness." n Kindness! What a great word that is! j, [t would take a reed as long as that which s, the apocalyptic angel used to measure ?< heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the -p height of that munificent word. It is a 0 favorite Bible word, and itis early launched in the book of Genesis, caught up in the u book of Joshua, embraced in the book of r, Ruth, sworn by in the book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalms and en- n throned in many places in the New Tes- v tament. Kindness! A word no more jentle than mighty. I expect it will wres- k tic me down before I get through with it. ji It is.strong enough to throw an archangel. But it will be well for us to stand c iround it and warm ourselves by its glow p as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood h around the fire on the Island of Malta, jj where the Maltese made themselves immortal in my text by the way they treated j, these victims of the sea. "The barbarous r, people showed us no little kindness." S( Kindness! All definitions of that multi- p potent word break down half way. You S1 say it is clemency, benignity, generosity; h it is made up of good wishes; it is a con- b tribution to the happiness of others. n Some one else says: "Why, I can give you h a definition of kindness. It is sunshine of t the soul; it is affection perennial; it is a t climacteric grace; it is a combination of 0 all the graces; it is compassion; it is the perfeotion of gentle manliness and worn- s anliness." Are vou all through? You o have made a dead failure in your defini- h tion. It cannot be defined. But we all jj know what it is, for we have all felt its y power. Some of you may have felt it as Paul felt it on some coast of rock as the g ship went to pieces, but more of us have t again and again in some awful stress of ^ life had either from earth or heaven hands d stretched out which "showed us no little j kindness." o There is kindness of disposition, kind- ^ ness of word, kindness of act, and there g is Jesus Christ, the impersonation of all y of them. Kindness! You cannot affect it; t< you cannot play it as a part; you cannot n enact it; you cannot dramatize it. By the grace of God you must have it inside you, f( an everlasting summer, or, rather, a com- f( bination of Jure and October, the genial- r ity of the one and the tor.ic of the other. Q It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or 0 revenge or malevolence. At its first ap- o pearance in the soul all these Amalekites t and Gergishi'tes and Hittites and Jebu- y Bites must quit and quit forever. Kind- t ness wishes everybody well, every child e well, every bird well, every horse well, every dog well, every cat well. t Give this spirit full swing, and you ]< would have no more need of societies for a prevention of cruelty to animals, no more nor>H nf RPwinir women's asso- t Nations, and it would dull every sword y until it would not cut skin deep and unwheel every battery till it could not roll t and make gunpowder of no more use in 0 the world except for rock blasting or py- <?; rotechnic celebration. J But are you waiting and hoping for some r one to be bankrupted or exposed or dis- ti comfited or in some way overthrown? o Then kindness has not taken possession of a your nature. You are wrecked on a Malta c where there are no oranges. You are en- n tertaining a guest so unlike kindness that v kindness will not come and dwell under t! the same roof. The most exhausting and b unhealthy and ruinous spirit on earth is a a revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as I h know by experience, for 1 have tried it for v live or ten minutes at a time. When some v mean thing has been done me or said ii about me, 1 have felt "I will pay him in t his own#coin. I will show him up. The i, ingrate, the traitor, the liar, the villain!" h But five or ten minutes of the feeling has a been so unnerving and exhausting 1 have t< abandoned it,' and I cannot understand how people can go about torturing them- \\ selves five or ten or twenty years, trying ii to get even with somebody. The only o way you will ever triumph over your ene- ii mies is by forgiving them and wishing o them all good and no evii. y As malevolence is the most uneasy and s; profitless and dangerous feeling, kindness n is the most healthful and delightful. And ti this is not an abstraction. As I have tried is i little of the retaliatory feeiine. so I have n tried a little of the forgiving. I do not o want to leave this world until I have ci taken vengeance upon every man that ever il did me a wrong by doing him a kindness, y Let us all pray for this spirit of kind- tl ness. It will settle a thousand questions, k It wiU change the phase of everything. It \ will mellow through and through our en- is tire nature. It will transform a lifetime, ai It is not a feeling got up for occasions, u but perennial. That is the reason 1 like b petunias better than morning glories, si They look very much .alike, and if I should p put in your hand a petunia and a morning tl glory you could hardly tell which was the t< petunia and which the morning glory, but t] the morning glory blooms only a few hours g, ?nd then shuts up for the day, while the w petunia is in as widespread a glow at 12 b o'clock at noon and 6 o'clock in the even- ti ing as at sunrise. And this grace of kind- tl ness is not spasmodic, it is not intermittent, it is not for a little while, but it ir- n: radiates the whole nature all through and b clear on till the sunset of our earthly ex- h istencc. cl Kindness! I am resolved to get it. o Are you resolved to eet it? It does not h come by haphazard, but through culture a under divine help. Thistles grow without si culture, Rocky Mountain sage grass grows ai nrithmtt outturn Mullein stalks grow b without culture. But that great red rose w in the conservatory, its leaves packed on tl leaves, deep dyed as though it had been vi obliged to fight for its beauty and it were a itill reeking with the carnage of the battle. A that rose needed to be cultured, and ol through lone years its floral ancestors ki were cultured. O God, implant kindness tl in all our sculs. and then give us grace to \v nratch it, to enrich it, to develop it! tl The King cf Prussia had presented to tl trim by the Empress cf Russia the root of sc a rare flower, and it was put in the royal V zardens en an island, and flhe head gar- ol lener, <Herr Fintlemau. was told to watch ni it. And one day it put forth its gloiy. g< Chree d.iys of every week the people were idmitted to these. gardens, and a .voung rran, probably not realizing what a wrong hing he was doing, plucked this flower ind put it in his buttonhole, and the gar!ener arrested him as he was crossing at he ferry and asked the king to throw men no more his gardens to the public. The kin? reDlieii: "Shall i aeny to rne housands of pood people of my country he privilege of seeing this garden because me visitor has done wrong? No; let them ome and see the beautiful grounds." And chen the gardener wished to give the :ing the name of the offender who had alcen the royal flower he said: "No; my nemory is very tenacious, and I do not vant to have in my mind the name of the ffender. lest it should hinder me granting lim a favor some other time."^ Now, I vant you to know that kindness is a royal lower, and, blessed be God, the King of tfercy and Grace, that by a divine gift ind not by purloining we may nluck this oyal flower and not wear it on the outside >f our nature, but wear "i t in our soul and pear it forever, its radiance and aroma lot more wonderful for time than wonderul for eternity. Still further, I must speak of kindness f word. When you meet any one. do yon av a pleasant thing or an unpleasant? )o you tell him of agreeable things you ave heard .about him or the disagreeable? Vben he leaves you, docs he feel better _ -1 nil tli? nnwpr of I UUC3 ilC ICCi nuiof. w?, .. ? __ he tongue for the production of happiness r misery! One would t'ninlc from the way he tongue is caged in we might tak? the lint that it has a dangerous power. First, t is chained to the hack part of the month ly strong muscle. Then it is surrounded iv the teeth of the lower jaw, so many vory bars, and then by the teeth of the inner jaw, more ivory bars. Then, 'outide of all, are the two lips, with the powr of compression and arrest. And yet, lotwithstanding these four imprisonments r limitations, how many take no hint in egard to the dangerous power of the ongue, and the results are laceration, carification and damnation! There are hose if they know a good thing about you nd a bad thing will mention the bad hing. and act as thousrh thev had never eard the good thing. Now, there are two ides to almost every one's character, and re have the choice of overhauling the virue or the vice. We can greet Paul and the hin's crew as they come tin the beach of falta with the words: "What a sorry joking set you are! How little of naviation you must know to run on these ocks! Didn't vou know better than to ut out in the Mediterranean this winter nonth? It was not so much of a ship, nyhow. or it would not have gone to lieces as soon as that. Well, what do you rant? We have hard enough work to lake a living for ourselves without havig thrust on us 276 ragamuffins." Not o said the Maltese. I think thev said: ~ o.'i. J v.. !,? ??,i uome in: oil uuw? u? ui& mc < *<* arm yourselves. Glad that you all got ff with your lives. Make yourselves at ome. You are welcome to all we have ntil some ship comes in sight and you ssume your voyage. On your way back to your store you leet a pessimistic merchant. "What do ou think of the commercial prospects?" ou ask. And he answers: "Well. I don't now. Wheat and corn crop blasted in [ansas and Missouri, and the grain gam'ers will get their fist in, and the hay rop is short in some places and in the outhern part of Wisconsin they had a ailstorm, and our business is as dull at ; ever was." You will find the same difference in adgment of character. A man of good eputation is assailed and charged with ome evil deed. At the first story the essimist will believe in guilt. "The papers aid so, and that's enoueh. Down with im!" The optimist will say: "I don't elieve a word of it. I don't think that a lan that has been as useful and seemingly onest for twenty years could have got on rack like that. There are two sides to his story, and I will wait to hear the ther side before I condemn him." My hearer, if you are by nature a pesimist, make a special effort by the grace f God to extirpate the dolorous and the vpercritical from your disposition. Beeve nothing against anybody until the prong is established. When you can speak a good word for ome one, speak it. If you can conseieniously give letter of recommendation, ive it. Watch for opportunities for oing good fifty years after you are dead. Lll my life has been affected by the letter f introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van franken, of New Brunswick Theological eminary, wrote for me, a boy under him, -hen I was seeking a settlement in which o preach the gospel. That letter gave me ly first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken has een dead more than thirty years, yet I eel the touch of that magnificent old prosssor. Strange sensation was it when I eceived a kind message from Rev. Thomas Juard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist rator, six weeks after his death. By way f the eternal world? Oh, no; by way of his "rt-orid. I did not meet the friend to ,'hom he gave the message until nearly wo months after Thomas Guard had asended. So you can start a word about some one hat will be on its travels and vigorous )ng after the funeral psalm has been sung t your obsequies. Kindness! Why, if fty men all aglow with it should walk hmmrVi the lost world methinks they rould almost abolish perdition! Furthermore, there is kindness of acion. That is what Joseph showed to his utrageous brothers. That is what David howed to Mephibosheth for his father onathan's sake. That is what Onosipheus showed to Paul in the Roman peniteniary. That is what William Cowper recgnized when he Kiid he would not trust man who would with his foot needlessly rush a worm. That is what our assassiated President Lincoln demonstrated :hen his private secretary found him in he capitol grounds trying to get a bird ack to the nest from which it had fallen nd which quality the illustrious man exibited some years before when, having, rith some lawyers, in the carriage on the ray to court passed on the road a swine ist in the mire, and after a while cried 0 his horses, "Ho!" and said to the genlemen, "I munt go back and help that og out of the mire." And he did go back na put on solid ground that most uninerescing quadruped. Suppose all this assemblage and all to rhom these words shall come by printers' ik should resolve to make kindness an verarchinjr, undergirding and all pervadlg principle of their life and then carry ut the resolution, why, in si:: months the hole earth would feel it. People would ly: "What is the matter? It seems to le that the world is getting to be a bet- ' er place to live in. Why, life, after all, 1 worth living. Why, there is Shylock, ly rrcighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit f foreclosure against that man, and beiuse he has so much sickness in his fam y he is going to have the house for one ear rent fi?e. There is an old lawyer in bat young lawyer's office, and do you now what he has gone in there for? Wiy, lie is helping to fix up a case which i too big for the ycung man to handle, nd the white haired attorney is hunting p previous decisions and making out a rief for the boy. Do you know that a trange thing has taken place in the pulit, and all the old minister# are helping lie ycung ministers, and all the old docsrs are nelping the young doctors, and tie farmers nre assisting each ether in ithering th? harvest, and for that farmer ho is sick the neighbors have made a ee, as they call it, and they have all irned in to help him get his crops into tie garner? And I heard this morning of a pocr old lan whose three children were in hot deate as to who should take care of him in is declining days. The oldest son delared it was his right because he was the Idest. and the youngest sen said it was is right because he was the youngest, nd Mary said it was her right besause ic better understood her father's vertigo nd rheumatism and poor spells and knew etter how to nurse him, and the only ay the difficulty could be settled was Ly ?e old man's promise that he would diide the year into three parts and spend third of his time with eacn one 01 mem. nd neighboring stores in the same line E goods on the same block are acting indly to each other. It seems to me that lose words of Isaiah are being fulfilled hen Tie savs, "The earpentcr encouraged le goldsmith, and lie thai smoothed with ic hammer, him that smote the anvil, J :ying, it is ready for the soldering." I /hat is the matter? It seems to me our <3 world is picking up. Why, the millen- j ium must be coram*; ia. Kindness ba9 it the viciary. Wonderfol Swimming Feat.? The Roman record in swimming has , just been broken by two Italians, not for swiftness but for tbe length of ra time they were in the water. Under a Ei burning sun ana witn a sironsisw wmu id they took to the water, Signor Montal- at *>oddi accomplishing twenty-five miles Wl in seven hours thirty-five minutes, and no Slgnor Altleri the same distance in jc seven hours fifty-five minutes. This tu means, of course, continual swim- wi ming without a break. Both arrived of at their destination without great ex- jn haustion or cold.?Tit-Bits. tei The Bad Man. "In all bin violent deeds," writes E. ? Hough In his vivid etory of a "Bad ,0] Man" In Frank Leslie's Popular ^a Monthly, ''Harrison had never been ^ known to resort to the use of weapons. He fought cimply with the tools 8e< that nature had given him, and able, va indeed, at roueh and tumble must be j tt, the man who would oppose him. Un- esj der the creed of the country he was m{ commonly met at his own terms, and wc as commonly he was victorious. Once ]y> upon a time it occurred to one of his pP former victims that, though the era- h0 nium of William Harrison might be nG impervious to the human fist in so far th< as such fist was possessed by himself, vrl this same cranium might none the less ic be susceptible to the impact of a well- to aimed brickbat. Accordingly, he an stepped up behind William Harrison of one fall day at the county fair and to tried the effect of his theory in regard rei to the brickbat and the skull. Mr. Har- gr rison, smitten to the earth for the first th< time in his career, fell heavily for- co ward, and for some moments remained ar quite unconscious. His tearful wife, 'Min,' apppeared apon the scene, led him to the nearest pump, and for 1 some time bathed his wounds. The jts expression of the champion's counte- mu Trn n An a Af mlnfflfl/1 onmrlto imi uauvic ?vao vuc uj. uiiu^,iv,u um*I .u.j rage and determination. He remarked bo to his wife that he would whale the dei life out of Jim Babcock the next time lik< he met him. He did so." ?id tac Fortunate Findings. bot One of the romances of moaey-mak- cm ing is the story of a man who found a Inc newspaper in side a shark when fish- go< I ing in Australia in 1870, and who < I learned the news of the Franco-Ger- Bet ! man war in this way early enough to ?oi i make a fortune out of it The story may be true or not; everybody in Australia knows it. Another after the same kind is that of the Hilford Ha- } yen trawler, which, while fishing off Carlingford Lough a year or two ago, caught up in the net a packet of pa- .J pers, tle^l together with red tape and tjj I carefully sealed. The skipper of the j boat handed the documents to a law- gu; | yer, and it was found that they proi vided a missing link which stood beI tween a woman and her fortune. They ^ I proved the right of a Miss Macdonald M5I j to certain estates in Ireland, which its I she had claimed ten years before, but i 2? which she had failed to win because the will could not be produced. It ire; was this will which was brought up "J111 from the sea.?Philadelphia Telegraph. the Defenseless America. itit America has an army of less than 100,000 men, with a short supply of dre officers, and no reserves either of sol- Sei diers or of material, says Brooks s Adams in the Atlantic. At the mere I rumor of war 100,000 men would have , to leave the country to garrison Cuba, pi( Porto Rico, the canal, the Philippines, u'y j and Hawaii. More ought to go, if more could be obtained. But to send f 100,000 men abroad would strip the eai Union bare. Even the ports would be boi defended by militia, and no reinforce- cur , eas ments would be at hand to supply eei, the waste in the tropics. Such garri- cai sons could hardly stand against the overwhelming mass of troops which . could be concentrated against them. ! The navy is even feebler in proportion to the task which would be re quired or it. xne umtea states nas * 520,000 tons of warships built or build- ^ ing. France and Germany have 1,- Dr 102,000, and France, Germany and . Russia have 1,731,000. re] fetockholm'g Rat-Tai! Bounty. I Last February the Municipal Coun- my cil cf Stockholm passed an ordinance BIli offering to pay three cent3 for every 4 rat-tail that was brought to the Police Headquarteri. Rats had become so ~ numerous a: to imperil the health as 0 we.l as the comfort of the population, e and sanitary officials attributed to ? them the spread of contagious dis- r eases. Therefore a war of exterminn- V tion wae decided iipon, a bounty was i offered, aoad up to July 31 more than 100,000 tail6, have bsen brought in by J. the -.'ft catchers. Several men went ^ into the business and advertised in the newspapen, offering to rid premises ^ that were aftlietea by the nuisance "oi a nominal lee. Thuj they doubled ^ their earning-;, and made a profitable things of it. The war is still going on, -k but the county hao been /educed to a cent and a half per rat. Even at that * price the rat catchers can make a gojd ~ living.?Chicago Record-Herald. ^ * Parting the Iialr. -J Nearly all aen who have hair to part * and part it, part it on tho left side. H Why? Bccause most uien are ri^ht- * handed??New York Tress. ^ ? The Absence of It. ^ if there is any truth in the saying that hap- 4 pineBB is the absence of all pain, mental and ^ physical, the enjoyment of it can only be + found in heaven. But so far as the physical is concerned, it is within easy reach ; at least + measurably so, as far as cure will go. The ^ aum of human misery in this line is made up ^ of greater or less degrees of physical suffering. ^ The minor aches and pains which afflict mankind are easy to reach and as eaailv cured. ^ There are none in tho whole category, which, ^ if taken in time, cannot be cmred. They must .n some form afflict the nerves, the bones, the ? nuseless and joints of the human body. They -fc ire all more or Icb i hurtful and wiisteful ts K ,he system. St. Jacobs Oil is made to cute ;hem. to Bearch cut hidden pain spot*:, and to * >.. or.,1 Inctinir jure promptly m ? nuo iviuvu... ^ay. Very, very many have not known hapjinesa for years till they used it, and very ^ nan] are putting off cure and happiness lie- ^ ;ause they don't use it. ? ->c When a woman gets mad she always ? wishes she weve a man and could swear. ^ Mrs. WinslcMT'd Soothing Syrup for children * ;eething, soften the gams, reduces inriamma- * (ion,allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle K What has the weather done that it should Le talked about ao much? Llfe'a ExpenafTenen. rhe standard of living has been ised to such a high pitch now in agland that there is some excuse for e excessive worship of wealth which present disfigures society. What ere formerly luxuries for the few are w necessities for the many, and life so expensive that a moderate forno T?r?nT cnnllo ohohhw rronfll I fr T f Ill not suffice to meet the expenses entertainment as now carried out all Its refined details.?Susan Ctfan3S of Malmesfcury, in Ladies' Field. Tramps Are Pampered Pete. rhere ought to be places in every mmunity where all tramps, good and d, can give an earnest of their wllgness to wcrk?a sort of test bouse lere a man can prove that he is a ?ker of labor and not a professional fabond, writes Josiah Flynt in Good msekeeping. Such institutions once !a.blisbed, a law should be passed iking it a misdemeanor for man or >man to feed beggars indiscriminateIf such a plan were honestly and rsistently carried out, neither the usewife nor her husband nor her ighbors wonid be much troubled by i knights of the road. The overtiming majority of these knights this country are men perfectly able worK, ana yet tney prerer to roam d beg. The only way to cure them their vacant habits and desires is punish them after they have once fused employment. Feeding them atis and allowing them to ride on e railroads as they now do, merely firms them in the belief that they 2 the pampered pets of the nation. An Incomplete House. Ve run wild over the furnishings of a house; furniture, carpets, hangings, pictures and ic and always forget or neglect the most jortant requisite. Something there should always on the shelf to provide against sudi casualties or attacks of pain. Such come 5 a thief in the night; a sprain, strain, [den backache, toothache or neuralgic atk\ There is nothing easier to get than a tie of St. Jacobs Oil, and nothing surer to e quickly any form of pain. The house is omnlete without it. Complete it with a >d supply. Some girls would like to be rich just to i how much ice cream soda they could QBume at one sitting. man in Calaveras County, Cal., is tching pheasants in incubators. Pijtnak Fadeless Dyes do not stain the nde 01 spot the kettle. Sold by all drugts. Do not despise humble occupations, ren the hod carrier clinbs to the top of e ladder During the preserving season there is no ch word as can't. Can is the word. 100 Reward. 9100. "he readers of this paper will be pleaqed to -n that there is at least ona dreaded dise that science has been able to cure in all stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh ro is the only positive cure now known to modical fraternity. Catarrh beins? a conutional disease, requires a constitutional Ltment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interly, acting directly upon the blood and mu:s surfaces of the system, thereby destroytha foundation of the disease, and giving patient strength by building ug the con ution ana assisting nature in noin^ its rk. The proprietors have so much faith in curative powers that they offer 0n3 Hund Dollars for any case that it fails to cure, id for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. lold by Draggists, 75c. lall's Family Pills are tho beet. fou can come pretty near judging peo! by their clothes when you see the fam' wash out on the line. Beat For (lie Bowels. fo matter what ails you, headache to a icer, you will never get well until your toIs are put right. Cascabets help nature, e you without a gripe or pain, produce v natural movements, cost you just 10 its to start getting your health back. Casiets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put uu metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. mped on it. Beware of imitations. Sugar exists not only in the cane, beet ot and maple, but in the sap of 187 tier plants and trees. ITS permanenily cured. No fits or nervousis after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great rve Restorer. $2 trial bottle aud treatise free . R. H. Kline, Ltd., C81 Arch St., Phila. Pa. Unpleasant remarks are by no means iittinauic. amsurePiso'e Cure for Consumption saved life three years ago.?Mbs. Thomas Robrs, Maple 8t., Norwich, N.Y., Feb, 17,1900. kutomobiling may be dangerous, but it esn't seem to be as much so as walking. ASTHMA-HAY FEW , ? 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