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CONSTANT ACHING. Bat.-k aches all the time. Spoils yoar nnfitA wMPit>5 the horlv. worries the mind. Kidneys cause it all and Doan's Kidney Pills rclierc?.... hAtf" annovpd ^0! months. I think a | * 1 cold was responsi- " ble for the "''"i" trov.ble. It seemed to settle in my kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it out. It is several months since I used them, and up to date there has been no recurrence of the trouble." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all doaiers. frice uv ceuis yei uua. a-uster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The population of Ireland, which fifty years ago was over 8,000,000, is aow less than 4,500,000. Only 000 people in 2,000,000 die of old age. Mother Gray's Sweet Powder# for Children Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in - fho rKfl/iron'o WAma In Vaut YrtrV flnrfl F^vertahness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, mov? and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed Fsse. Address Ailefi S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Don't think because a man is an expert mathematician that he always counts with the fair sex. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup forchildren teething, soften th? gums, r%dnces inflammatioS.allays pain.cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle It isn't an easy matter to see happiness through another man's eyes. Rheumatism's Killing Pain. T.eft in quick order after taking 10 doses -r r._ ol.:?Til TU XT* CKU Viil a iintuiuai.iV/ vuic^ au mwiv-w form. 25 doses for 25c., postpaid. Dr. Skirvin Co., La Crosse, Wis. [A.C.L.] When ignorance is bliss it is foliy to discover that you are a fool. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.?J. W. O'Brien. 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900. It is impossible for a woman to preserve ft sccret so it will keep. The Improved Diary. "This," explained the bookseller, "is J Qjur latest patent diary. We think it I is the cleverest thing in that line ever ! 'devised." The shopper turns toe jeaves iuij-. | "But I cant ace wbere it is different from my other," she observes. "Xo? Well, if you will look at all the dates after January 23, you will see that in each space has been printed: 'Got up, at breakfast, lunch and dinner. and went to bed.' That insures a complete diary for the year."?Judge. i *^| Mj '? jj? Miss Rose Henn< a poetess and elocut Ky., tells how she inflammation and ov t fi r? r^? i 1 t juyoia e. rinienam s " Dear Mrs. Piitkham : ?I have b <*f Lydia E- Pinkham's Vegetable acknowledge it, hoping that it may hel " For years I enjoyed the best of h do_ eo. I attended parties and receptk chilled, but 1 did not think of the i months ago while menstruating, and and congested ovaries. I suffered excr My attention was called to your Vegc cures it had performed, and I made uj cee what it would do for me. Withi at the close of the second 1 was entirel " I hare advised a number of my themselves as well satisfied with the hiqt2fb8sv, 410 S. 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The Income tax statistics for 1903 show that the highest Berlin income returned by a single individual amounted to over $740,000. The next highest was over $053,750. The taxes paid on these amounted, respectively, to $29,100 and $2G,150. In Berlin the municipal taxes, which throughout Prussia are assessed in accordance with local necessities on income, amounted to exactly 100 pet* cent, of the income tax. The two incomes mentioned are the only ones quoted at over $500,000 a year, but there are thirteen who pay taxes on incomes between $250,000 and $500,000. There were thirtythree incomes of between $125,000 and $250,000, and 621 between $25,000 and $125,000. The number of those taxed on incomes of above $750 was 53,899, while there were 378,484 who paid taxes on incomes below $750. Humor In Boston Charity, The editorial management of Charities has succeeded in infusing an element of humor into the publication, which will certainly help to attract lay readers to the journal. The last issue contains a pot pourri of excellent jests, the best of which is the following, credited to Life: ' Papa, what is charity?" "Charity, my son, is giving away what you don't want." "What is scientific charity?" "Scientific charity is giving away what you don't want to someone else who does not waut it." "What is organized charity?" "Organized charity, my son. is giving away something tbat you don't waut to some society whicb will give it away to someone who does not want it."?Boston Transcript. Keachlnc the Houie. There is not a single advantage which any method of publicity can boast over the newspaper. The magazines make the point that they go into the home; but the reputable and enterprising newspaper is not only regularly welcomed and read in the home (women being the most devoted of newspaper readers)?it is read on the street cars, in the office, store, counting room and wherever men can snatch a moment for reading. For every woman who reads a magazine there are hundreds who read the newspaper.?Philadelphia Record. Caution and Counsel. Boastfulness or flippancy is not successful advertising for a printer. Claiming everything is not convincing and excessive volubility fatigues. Get a j good point and talk to it with modest confidence and the logic of common | sense. And don't forget the period in punctuation, knowing when you have reached it and stop there. This will carry your reader with you over a short journey and he will part company ? -? ? .Alunfnnflrr on/1 ha (rlnrl Willi JU U iciULcauiy uuu uu e.u.^ -v. meet you again.?Progressive Printer. sssy, well known as^ ionist, of Lexington, was cured of uterine raritis by the use of Vegetable Compound* een so blessedly helped through the us? ! Compound that I feel it but just to p some other woman suffering as I did. iealth and thought that I would always ms thinly clad, and would be suddenly esults. I caught a bad cold eighteen this caused inflammation of the womb uciating pains and kept getting worse, stable Compound and the wonderful ) my mind to try it for two months and n one month I felt much better, and y well. lady friends to use It, and all express results as I was." ? Miss Rose Noka. a. Ky. >ny of some of the most noted beyond a question that Lydla E. I Tnll correct all such trouble and i, ana restoring ia? urD-uus iu a it two years ago I consulted a phybecome so wretched that I was no !Vr?Te backache, bearing-down pains, iry nervous and irritable, and this lie physician prescribed for me, but )le to help me, and I then decided to ile Compound, and soon found that s was returning, the pains disappearvell marked. id I was, and after taking the medi[ that I was completely cured of my irty ever since, and no more fear the . .thout pain to me. Yours very truly, aimer St., Nashville, Tenn." successful In restoring to health cannot well say without trying it 3." If you are ill, do not hesitate ;ham's Vegetable Compound and lass., for special advice. Her ado-day. Delay may be fatal. rith prodnc* the original letter* ul signatures of ire their absolute genulneneM. Lydla K. n?kMi> H?d. Co., Lju, HTl? A BALLAD OF CHANCFMy first were innocent and sweet; Their charms in mawkish verse I sung; I loved the ground beneath their feet? That is the way when one i3 young. A something seemed to tie my tongue And so my love I never told; What chances then away I flung! 'Tia different when one is old, And next, in manhood's noonday heat:, From fair to fair I lightly swung: Half-way they would my wooing meet? This is the way when men are young. About their petticoats I hung? I trow they never found me cold; ' Love's changes then I gayly rung; 'Tis different when one is old To sit upon the anxious seat. The all-too-willing maids among. With foolish dreams one's self to cheatThat is the way when men are young With sweetest poison to be stung. To be too shy or overbold, To waste at spigot and at bung! 'Tis different when one is old. L'ENVOI. To chant love's lay with lu3'tT lung, That is the way when one is young. To lightly win and loosely hold; 'Tis different when one is old. ?Chicago News. \ | JUPITER By Karl Edwin Harriman | AOK HE keeper of the Hods of I ^ T An/?An j,7aa " Tlf orHn s iUU JJV/UUVU tlVfV, VAUfc W" O ^ O Riley, began learning his & A K trade young, for his fath^ QMr was lion keeper in a traveling menagerie, and Martin's first plaything was a lion cub. When the boy was twenty-one years old his father left the menagerie, and Martin stepped into his place. To Martin as boy and man lions were as familiar as brothers and sisters are to most of us, and he liked the menagerie well; but the constant traveling began to wear upon him, and long before he was gray he sought and secured employment from the Royal Zoological Society, of London. "He's the best lion man in England," the superintendent of the gardens once said. For fifteen years Riley kept his place and remained whole, although he had often been attacked in the cages, and once he thought the end had surely come when a ferocious lioness, lately deprived of her babies, struck him over tne ear wun ner open paw. The blow bared a portion of his skull which is now covered with a hairless patch of scalp. It was in June, two years ago, that Riley had his most dangerous and curious adventure. One afternoon, after carry/ug great pails of water up to the lion house to bathe some of the beasts, he set the two pails down at the door of the long, low building and entered, to be greeted by roars from a few of the ten cages ranged along the wall upon the right. The cages were exactly similar, and at the back of each was a sliding door leading to an enclosure, where Riley usually turned loose any animal that he wished to bathe. He crept along the iron raiting which i Is in front of the cages and walked the length of the building close to the bars, scrutinizing the beasts behind, and now and again stopping for a word With one or another. T'hiiH ho tvonf nn +n tha lnsf behind the bars of which stalked back and forth two immense male lions. As the voice of the man outside fell upou their ears they stopped in their promenade, and shaking their manes, roared. Then Jupiter, one of the beasts, advanced to the front of the cage, and raising a forepaw lightly from the floor, thrust it out between the bars. Riley seized that paw in both hands and shook it violently. The other lion glared upon this display of friendship from a dark corner at the back. His eyes glowed in the half light like two coals. "And how are you, Jupiter, old boy?" asked Riley. The answer was a roar that might be termed mild, for to Riley's experienced ear it bore no note of anger. In fact, Jupiter, ever since his cub days, had always shown remarkable fondness for the keeper. "I'm thinkin' ye need a bath, Jupiter," said Riley. Another roar was the answer. "Well, tben, you shall have it. And there's Jim glowering with jealousy at us. He shall have a bath, too. Ye shall both get it in about two minutes." The keeper went back to the door of the building, where he had left his pails; picking them up, he shambled along the path at the rear of the lion house until he reached the iron enclcs* ure, which was just behind the cage occupied by Jupiter and his companion. There he stopped. Drawing a bunch of keys from his coat pocket, ho selected one, and fitted it to the padlock on the door. Throwing back the heavy screen upon its creaking hinges, he lifted both pails inside the inclosure, and then clambered up on the cement floor himself, shutting the gate after him. and slipping an iron bar through the heavy cleats to hold it shut. Merrily whistling "Mary of Athlone," Riley shuffled over to a corner of the enclosure, and put down the pails. A roar came from the inner cage. "Now don't you get excited," sard the keeper, as he crossed over to the door connecting the cage with the enclosure. "I'll be there in a minute." As he spoke he released the sliding nanp! bv rmnovimr a Dez: it vrent Ul> automatically, being raised by tiie weights attached to chains running over blocks at the top. '.'"here was now nothing but air between Riley and the two beasts. "I guess I'll take you first. Jim,'' ho said, but both animals attempted to pass through the narrow opening at the same time. "Get back there, .Tnpiter!'' he cried, and cut the* lion over the muzzle with his short slim riding whip. Jupiter crouchcd back in the cage, nnd Jim stalked past the keeper, out | into the enclosure. Once in the open air the big beast stretched, open wide his immetlae paws, yawned, and then roared. "And now. Jim, my boy," said Riley, ???????? as he approached, "ye'Il J.ave youf lovely collar put round your lovely neck, and be chained nice and tight to the dure, while your old frind soaks you with a big sponge." Jim stood very still while the heavy collar was being buckled round his neck. Riley always managed this with one hand, hi3 other being occupied in dangling the whip before the lion's eyes. "Come on, now," he said, when he had finished, and he half dragged the big beast over to the pails. There was a ring fastened to the flaor with a chain attached to it, the end of which was fastened into a clasp. The lion stood between the two pails. Facing him, the keeper threw aside the whip and stooped to pick up the chain. As he rose slightly to snap the catch upon the collar, a loud roar broke from Jim. He had become suddenly Infuriated. Before Riley knew what had happened an open paw had struck him, and the claws tore open his right cheek. He staggered back into the corned and half crouched there, dazed. The keeper did not scream. He hardly breathed. The breeze, brushing his raw, lacerated cheek, stung him; he felt the blood running down his neck, hio linkup nil hist plnthca. aiVUg UIO t/VUJ, UUV.V ?... ? but his trained will kept him quiet and uamoving. The lion was lying now almost flat, gazing at the man. It would all be over in a moment, Riley thought, for he saw that the beast was about to spring. With a great bound it jumped through the air. Then the enormous bulk of the animal fell on him, bearing him to the floor beneath its weight. With one sweep cf a mighty paw Riley was torn from his chin to his hip, and his clothing ripped i^to shreds, as if it were so much cambric. Yet he kept his senses and lay still. The pain was distributed; it seemed to be everywhere, even in his feet. He wondered if his feet had beeu gnawed off. He could not have moved had he desired to do so, and he knew that the slightest motion would mean a fresh attack from the animal, sta- ling there in the middle of the enclosure, shaking its head, and watching him with yellow, burning eyes. Riley wondered if he was dead. He could think still, and to satisfy himself that his end had not come, he ran over in his mind all his experiences with lions in the past. It had been carelessness to lay aside the whip, even for a moment; for, slight as it was, there was not a lion in the Zoo that it did not cow. Then he wondered if he could not reach it. With a great effort he drew his knees up slightly and pressed his heels hard upon the floor, thinking thus to slid his own body, little by little, to the spot where lay the whip. Jim saw the movement of the 'knees, and TTo wnnltf KTU'in ?T Strain. '-I. UUtlltU, JLAV ?. V?-v- ? j. 0 _ w _ Riley closed his eyes. He did not need to open them to feel tile two rows of sharp teeth meet in the muscle of his arm at the shoulder, or to feel himself dragged across the cement. When he did open his eyes he looked down the length of his own body toward the opeoing of the inner cage. There, in the doorway, stood Jupiter, his head raised, his eyes angry. Rile** remembered that he had struck Jupiter unnecessarily but a few minutes earlier. Was the lfon coming to share in the killing? Riley watched Jupiter, but Jim did not see his cage mate, for his tail was to the opening as he crouched for another spring. But before he could leap there came a roar that shook the palings. And then Jupiter bounded to the middle of the enclosure, lacing Jim. The manes of the two lions bristled upon their necks like ruffs. - Jupiter plunged forward and instantly the-horrible fight began, which is still spoken of in tones of awe among the keepers of the Zoo. Riley, lying there, too weak to move a finger, saw it all. The lions roared and snarled, and tore at each other, now rising above the prostrate man, clawing, snapping, biting; now rolling over and over upon the floor, all wet with the blood of man and beast. Jim's resistance was gallant, for he was the inferior in both strength and weight. Finally, with a sudden upward throw of his head, Jupiter's teeth closed upon the throat of his antagonist, and he shook Jim as if he had been a rat, and then beat the dangling head upon the floor of the enclosure. At last Jupiter's J jaws opened with a smack, and Jim's dead head fell solidly upon me cemeui. With his muzzle raised high. Jupiter stood for an instant motionless, his forefoot planted upon Jim's carcass. Then opening wide his jaws, he gave a mighty roar of triumph and revenge. Then lie strode over to the prostrate keeper and looked down into his face. Only for an instant did the scrutiny last. Then Jupiter turned and passed through the doorway of the inner cage, where he lay down in a corner to lick his wounds in silence. It was Morton, the snake man. who at last found Riley lying motionless on the floor of the lion yard. "Are you dead, Riley?" he called thvough the bars. "Not yet," Riley answered, faintly. "But I would be if it wasn't for Jupiter."?Youth's Companion. LoDz-Range Prayer. The Swiss mountaineers have a custom of calling through speaking trumpets at dusk each evening: "Praise the I.ord God!" This call may be .started by one herdsman, and is answered by others from neighboring peaks, the sound bein.!? much pro.i< -if rpvprhrmtos from one Ibountaiu to another. After a short interval, supposedly devoted to prayer, a herdsman calls in the same manner. "Good night!"' this, too, being repented by his fellows. Then they al! retire to their huts. A Pugilistic Kangaroo. The National Society of Fine Arts in Paris has just recovered from the proprietors of a circus damages to the amount of $G1X>0 for injury done its premises by a kangaroo. The proprietors had rented from the society u portion of its premises in the Champ do : Mars. One morning the kangaroo, which is a trained boxer, saw its rp> flection in a mirror. It immediately i swatted tne stranger in tne gxass, wbicli was quickly reduced to splin* , tors. Hence the damages. - - V, TURKISH WOMEN CONTENT, Tlieir Prevailing Passion U a Fondness For Sweet* and Smoking. ( It is not an easy matter to form a gust idea of the beauty of the Turkish [Women, for beneath their coquettish iveils and unenviable dresses, their l-i 1 1?l.UAlf ^1UW1U^ LVUipiCAlUUO, lUiiUCXiOC uiaca (eyes, well turned chins, perfect outline (of face, their figures! may be anything jbut charming. 1 Paying calls and attending wedding [festivals, promenading, driving, shopping and seeking the bath are the chief amusements of the odalisque. Before the outings faces are blanched, then touged. eyebrows and eyelashes touched \jp, and numerous little coquetries reported to, which, when toned down by the transparent yashmak, are calculated to provoke admiration in the breast of a spectator. Only a few of the rich garments of the harem are worn ? they are too heavy, and only intended for display. A hnrpm is onmnosprl of various na tionalities, and occasionally it is difficult to enforce harmony. MaRy times we have been amused by stage pictures representing a seraglio "tempest in the tea pot," fancying it an exaggeration, but if we recollect the dust that flies when two lady birds are disagreeing, we may readily realize that fifty.- or more damsels might cause, with but little effort, cyclonic effects. When the inmates of the harem, take advantage of their outing to indulge in a little harmless flirtation they have the advantage of being able to avoid the male relatives. It would be imI nnssihlf* for a man to recoernize his wife beneath such a costume, and whll^ the husbands are devoutly smiting their breasts in the mosques, the wives are driving in their carriages, enveloped in clonds of gauze and decked with jewelry. , What can prevent or eclipse the flashing of the black, swimmiDg, languid eye? A voluptuous form, delicately small white hands, features not at all coarse?all these are hidden. The eye alone must bear all the odium , of, the intriguante. The Turkish woman is neither so bad nor-so good as she is painted, her coquetry is not of the.perilous kind, and she obeysrher lord apd master passively.- Her prevailing passion is fondness for sweets and smoking?nothing can describe the amount of confectionery and tobacco consumed in a harem. .. Treating Stubborn Halr> Brushing, shampooing, etc., which are such important elements in good grooming, will improve even .seemingly hopeless locks, while systematie training will after a time make the most obstinjito hnir lie in the desired direction. Because the hair lias been somewhat neglected in this respect in the past, do not work on the principle that if a certain amount of care is beneficial a good deal will do wonders; heroic measures almost always prove disastrous. Coax but do not force matters, as too frequent brushing and other manipulations of the hair irritate the scalp and cause the hair to fall out. Hair which is scrupulously clean but very stubborn In its habit of growth needs training instead of shampooing, a common error in this day of good grooming. Close observation will soon, teach One the difference between fluffy hair and that ftvhicCi is extremely dry. Never under jkny circumstances allow the hair to remain at night in the coil or pleats worn during the day. for injury is done the scalp, and the hair soon assumes .'awkward lines from the hours of pressure In the wrong direction. Before retiring brush the hair thoroughly and confine ' It in one or two very loose pleats. This will insure a free circulation of air through the hair and relax the delicate muscles of the scalp which are more or less irritated by the pressure of numerous pins and the weight of the hair ponfincd at oDe point. To assist in the training moisten the hair with a little I good tonic such as a preparation of quinine and bay rum containing a 6mall per cent, of oil, and brush in the desired direction each time the brushing is done.?Marion Olcott Prentice, In Mirror and Farmer. Why Always Pretend? What a good thing it would be If j t- - i W0IH6I1 W0U1UL OcJ irue iu lutriuoci?to and converse intelligently when in the society of gentlemen. There is nothing that honest men desire more than to understand that mysterious race that Is so like themselves, and yet so unlikfc, who share their homes but not their thoughts; who are so shrewd, so practical and so irrational. The poor men yearn to break down the invisible barriers and see into the real life of those they love so well. But the loved ones smile and chatter and say pretty things, -things they have borrowed from men and improved in the borrowing, but never a word of the really true, and in many ins-tances vital thoughts that are working in their busy brains, says the Business Woman's Magazine. So the men flatter and lie because they think wonion like it. and the wornen accept it all beeause they think it is man's nature, and the men think women are dear empty-headed angels, and I the women think men are fine intemI gent brutes*, and the two classes go on I loving and despising one another acI cordingly. and al! for the want of a little discernment and truthfulness in conversation. Trouble* of the Wi<i?w5, The widows of Kansas occasionally have a heap of trouble with the pension department at Washington. Mary Ann Petty, widow of John Petty, of Neodefcha, recently applied lor a pension. She found that John had been possessed of four wives before he married her. and that the department wanted to know what had become of them all before it would grant the pension. After considerable effort ehe was able to show that three of them bad died, and that one bad been divorced. ,v SSli Another case was that of a Wichita widow. Many years ago she was divorced from her first husband. Recently she applied for a pension on account of a second busband who bad died. The department discovered that she bad been divorced from "Edward" Jones instead of "Edmond" Jones, a mistake having been made in the divorce papers. Now she is compelled to institute a suit for divorce against the first husbaud in order to make the record clear on the claim that she was the legal wire or tne man on wnose account she expects the pension.?Kansas City Journal. Lots Marrlajcw. "We married for love.': How really few there are who can say this with any degree of truth? There are so many marriages of convenience nowadays, so many ordinary unions, and, besides, it is so sentimental to confess it that oae seldom hears of a marriage purely through love. But these ideal marriages do exist, nevertheless, and, despite poverty, prove blessings from beginning to ending. It is a pleasure to toil and scrape and save for one another; It is a pleasure to deny oneself for his or her dear sake, and if good fortune falls their way, it is all the more enjoyable because of their devotion in trying periods. Alas! so many have married for love which has existed only for a year or two. Commonplace life rubs the gilt off the gingerbread, and love marriages often develop into very ordinary unions, indeed, where husband and wife seldom mention anything of love, preferring only an outer polish necessary to comfort. True love marriages grow stronger as the years go by, and devotion lasts until death severs. Latnt Note In Embroidery. The very latest note of embroidery is found in the oblong figures which remind one of framed pictures. A small bouquet of flowers Is embroidered in the* centre and an oblong frame is worked around it. Again there is a neat little application of flowers, and, around it, is worked a frame of silver with a few pearls inset. The delicately embroidered head, in ? -?1?monr iueuamuu ffiiapc, 10 a lcauwuc. vjl uiuu^ ah embroidery scheme, 'and these heads are almost always surrounded by little circles of gold thread. One exquisite white waist was made of white China silk. Along the yoke there were small painted heads and each head was set in a frame of gold. A White Waist. - A lovely white waist is made of,panne crepe de chine, a new, very soft fabric. It has a square yoke of fagotted together bands of the material, the points of the yolks extending over the sleeves, giving a very long^houldered effect. Below the yoke the waist is simply gathered, and is very likely bloused into a narrow belt. The full bishop sleeves are gathered into cuffs of the fagotted bands. Directly in front, crossing the edge of the yoke, is applied a large rose of Venice lacf, the petal edges of which are heavily raised with hand embroidery. Similar lace applications are seen on each shoulder. A Prlncesse Gown. A princesse gown of turquoise blue chiffon had a high girdle and a hip yoke of close shirring, from which the accordiou - pleated skirt fell in long lines crossed by several groups of shirred tucks. The waist above the shirred girdle was accordion-pleated and had a close band of shirred tucks around the upper part. Below this fell two full ruffles of the chiffon, forming a bertha. Many strings of pearls and turquoise pendants were worn. The Correct Thine. Pleated skirts and Etons of all sorts may be relied upon as correct with perfect safety. j fpSgypM Hops appear in millinery. Small fruits flourish on the early hats. Little jackets of lace look well over ( the silk gown. I ' White coats this winter are dreams of elegance and beauty. Rows of fine machine stitching are used on both cloth and velvet gowns. _ White seal, which is jnst clipped white rabbit, is used for little lacebordered scarfs and other dressy accessories. T~ TV*..:-, 4-1*ziAnronf holt" fa fi soff. Ill ? cilia ma cviic.vb vw.v r broad band of leather, drawu narrowly into straps in front, where it buckles now. Hat pins have become exquisite bits of jeweled elaboration and add a distinctly elegant touch to my lady's headwear. Very .smart buttons can be made by covering wooden molds with suede leather of a color to harmonize with the suit. Such lightness and softness in furs and velvets is unprecedented. They are as light as chiffon and as sofc as featherdown. A charming hat of pieated white mou^seline has an upturned brim of gray squirrel, with one white ostrich tip on the front. A umdi^i stock has two loug pieces of wuito taneta veacmr.s 10 mv u*.-n., turning- back like a waistcoat and fastening with p?arl buttons. Brocaded basques over a skirt of mousfleUnc, finished with Waek satin beit Qud lace titTbu. is a costume typical of ceri\--o<i eighteenth century styles. WILD ANIMALS FAR-SIGHTtu. Defect of Keur-Siffittednea> Appear* to B# F roil act of Civilization. "The effect of near-sightedness ap"' pears to be altogether a product ofciT. ilizatioD, of oar method of living," says Dr. Grier. "The natural condition of* the eyesight for all kinds of animals is ; what is commonly termed far-sighted. N Wild animals are invariably far-sighted, and remain that way even after | capture by man and confinement in meoageries or zoological gardens. Animals, even as young as four and five months old, when captured continue far-sighted in the zoos until their death. but the animals born in captivity art always (there may be some exceptions, though I have never heard of any) near-sighted. This is probably due to the constricted range of their vision^, for which nature endeavors to adap^ I their eyesight to the best advantage. * V "Among human being* it is very nearly me same, a uourer, iruppvrur sailor, a man who spends most of his life in the open and has an unlimited range for his vision, has the natural eyesight, and can discern objects a great' distance beyond that possible to the eyes of the dwellers in cities. We have little need to see far away in-a city, and the telescopic power of our eyes, therefore, diminishes perceptibly, from generatioti to generation, until in the coarse of time it is probable we." may all be near-sighted, without the power to see distinctly over 10fryards.( "The many hours each day a child spends in the schoolroom with its re* strlcted area helps spread the nearsightedness a great deal. The little} one before it enters school can see^ much farther than it can a few years after having begun its scholastic ca?^ reer. 'men zor a nan aozen oaun daily it is called upon to look no great* er distance than to the teacher's desk, less than thirty feet away, so its eyesight becomes adapted to seeing clearly at thirty feet, but not so well at 100 feet, a decided contrast to the quality of the primitive eyesight.'* ?St Louis Globe-Democrat. -C' An Uns?lTed My?t?ry. , It is a most unpleasant truth t&atH during the last thirty years" the death H rate from cancer has nearly doubled, H and that as yet there has been 110 ef- H fective treatment fonnd for It X fl In England and Wales in the year 1876 out of every 1000 deaths twenty three were from cancer, whilf in 1899 H this had increased to forty-six per 1000, H and the proportion is still Increasing^} with greater'rabidity. The foregolngMj considers the sexes togsther, but whenH we separate the statistics we find thatH women are much more subject tnann men. In 1899 thirty-four desths out of Hg every lOOOfor men, and fifty-six out of^R every 1000. for women, was cancer'aH record. Cancer is at'present perhapsH the worst disease that attacks adutts ofH mature year?, those under twenty-flve^B years being practically free from and as yet no cause can be definitelyBj assigned. ?M During a good many years the opinjH ion has been stated by physicians thalHj cancer can be caused by too much mea^H eating, or by an overfed condition, acflj companied by. indolenco, and statistia^B seem to bear out this conclusion; " A Kemcdy For tho Coniiumptlre. The electrleal current offers a remedj^H ' * Jl J? for the consumptive, accorouiK iw ui<h I Lancet, London. Experiments I been conducted to this end by Dr. Cunningham Bowie with a high defl| gree of success, the doctor seourin^B the best results with an alternatin^H current of high frequency and low po^H tential. A special apparatus wa^H made for the work, one permitting of great range of adjustment In practic^Hj the current density ranged from 300 tflB 800 milliamperes and from fifty to fiev^H enty volts, and the application froJH ten to twenty minutes. Almond o^lj containing Iodine, thymol and Othe^H antiseptics was used for intralaryngea^H injections. The.arrest of the lestoHS| was' brought about much more quichl^H than by The' simple use of antisepti^H oils alone, and the doctor says he entirely satisfied that the use of-^h^M alternating current promotes healing. More Than One Home. *B| Mr. Newrich, tbe contractor, havin^H made a fortune?part of which he iia^H invested in house property in the of London?wished to rise into "smart^H society.. He soon found an impeci^H nious aristocrat who, says Tit Bits, w;^H| willing- to show him the way for a co^HH 6ideration. jMfl The new friend advised Mr. Xewrk^Gfl that visiting cards were one of the n^^B cessities. As a model to be used preparing copy for the engraver, tl^^| aristocrat offered one of bis own card^^J which read: |BH "Harold De Vere, ' fijfiK "Iona House, Portsmouth Square, Two days later, as Do Vere was ting in bis dressing gown at breakfaflH a servant brought in on a salver a' v^^H 'fine r\<ird bearinc the following: |0 "Epbraim Newrich, . "I own twenty-three bouses, Londc^Hg E." BWH ______________ HQ Other Strinxi to His Lyre. |3H Joe Lincoln, the poet of Cape C<^|H yiough lacking considerably of bei^EH eligible to the Fat Man's Club, coi^KH not, on the other hand, pass bimsBSB I off as brother to the liring skeletfl^H A lady who met him for the first ti^^H the other day said: 8HS "Mr. Lincoln, I have always greaSHj I admired your poetry, but you are iH| I confess, just my idea of a poet^^H thought all poets ware thin and their hair long." SfijM I "Madam." returned Mr. Lincoln, i^B^E burst of connaenee, "ii i uepem^^wg wholly on poetry I should tit your id^HH precisely. But I write a story odffl sionally, and so manage to get euoi^Hnfl to eat and to have ray hair cut wHM it needs it."?Saturday evening Pos^HM The Involution of the Folding Bed^^^wl Mrs. Do Flat?"Have you anyth^HHB in folding beds":" mEm Dealer?"Only this, madam, and^^Hj really is quite a success. On arisind^HH the morning you touch a Spring, an<^BK9 turns into a washstand and batht^^^l After your bath, you touch anotB^Q spring, and it becomes a dressing cflH with a French plate mirror. If breakfast in your room, a slight pr^HB| ure will transform it into an esten^^^B table. After breakfast, you press buttons at once, and you have an HSXj right piano. That's afl it will do.HBB cept that when you die, it nuHS changed into a rosewood coffin,^hHN Weeklv. MBBBS