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TO MOTHERS Hrs. J. H. Haskins, of Chicago, Bl., President Chicago Arcade Club, Addresses Comforting Words to Women Regarding Childbirth. "DEAS MRS. PIXKHAM: - Mothers need noi dread childbearing' after they know the raino of Lydia E. Pink ham's v cgctablo Compound. While I loved children I dreaded the ordeal, for it left mc weak and sick MRS. J. H. IIA SKINS. for months after, and at the time I thought death was a welcome relief; but before my last child was born a Eood neighbor advised Lydin~E.Pink am's Vegetable Compound, and I used that, together with, your Pills and Sanative Wash for four months before the child's birth;-it brought rae wonderful relief. L?a.rdlv had an ache or pain, and when the child was ten days old I left my bed 6trong in health. Every spring and fall I now take abottle of Lydia E.Pinkh am's Veg etable Compound and find it keeps me in continual excellent health." MRS. J. H. HASKINS, 3248 Indiana Ave., Chicago, 111. -$5000 forfeit Ifaboeo fesf/mo nlal lt not genuine. Care and careful counsel is what the expectant and would-be mother needs, and this counsel she can secure without cost by writing to dlrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. Is the oldest and only business College in Va. own ing its buildiuR-a grand new one. No vacations. Ladies & gentlemen. Bookkeeping,Shorthand, Typewriting, Penmanship, Telegraphy, &c. Leading business college south ol the Potomac rivery --/Vi ?7?. Stenographer. Address, G- M. Smithdeal. President. Richmond. Va. $3&$3??S W. L. Douglas shoes are the standard of the world. Vf. L. Douglas made and sold more men's Good year Welt (Ilan.l Si? we:! Process) rhoer In the Hr: six months or 1002 than any other mnnui'a? tnrer ciTi nnn bem ?Rnv,i"1,0 v*iA*? ?uooncwiu V ! UivfUU ran ('improve this statran :it. W. L. DOUGLAS $4 SHOES . CANNOT BE EXCELLED. Itt G ao?t In. timmi lit C mooth., ?,840,000 Best Imported and American lcct: er*. Hey l's Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf. Calf. Vici Kid. Corona Colt, Mat. Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelet* UM-il. Catrt?OH' ! Th0 (renufne have "W. I*. DOUGLAS' * aami> and price etiunped on bottom. Slice: by mail, 25c. extra. Illus. Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS. BROCKTON. MASS. Avery & McMillan, 51 ?nd S3 S. Forsyth St.. Atlant*, da. ALL KINOS OF MACHINERY Reliable Frick Engines. Boilers, all Sizes. Wheat Separators, all Sizes. BEST 1RPR0VED SAW MILL ON EARTH. Large Engines and Boilers supplied promptly. Shingle Mills, Corn Mills, Circular Saws, Saw Teeth, Patent Dogs, Steam Governors. Full tine En. gines and Mill Supplies. Send for free Catalogue. c I-generally had a headache every day. I thought I would try glasses, but .still I had the headache. One day my niece asked me why I did not try RIpans Tabules. I have bien taking them since last Septem ber and am gaining in health. I only weighed 110 pounds and now I weigh 140. I take four Tabules every day of my life-one in the morning, two at noon, and one every night before I go to bed. At druggists. The Five-Cent packet ia enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. HaufceS* Spectacles art? ?old by ten thousand * i ?ii o roh ant? throughout the United States. Never * > edd tdd. None genuino without "Hawkes1'la ' stanrpau on frame. Take no Imitations-your eyes may he Injured. KYERY BOY that plays Foot Ball should have Spalding-'* Oillrml hoot BsUl (?tilde. It contains a lund of general loot ball Information rom .jirftiLtr chapters for bertacers. foot nail for spectator* requisites forth? ?rame, the ethical functions of foot ball, ?11 Aumrlea team. Southern foot ball. Western foot l?eH, the new rnl' a rec ords of contre and school teaius for 1WI. and phobos of Mo playe. s. Kor sale by all dealers and A O. SPALD ING .1 BROS.. Sew Ycrlt, ChiCAiio. NEFPENSIIL?WS^ 1BK KI our. 91A F ?l.j PI???J.filS?. :~ The Frisco System Offers to tte colonists the lowest rates with quick and comfortable ser vice to all points ia the west and northwest. Thirty dollars ($30.00) from Memphis. Tickets on sale daily during September and October. Cor respondingly low rates from all points in the southeast. For fuil information address W. T. Saunders. G. A. P. D.; F. E. Clark, T. P. A., Pryor and Deca tur streets, Atlanta, Ga, CALM SUPERIORITY. "You deny that you plagiar! r^d your play?" "Emphatically," said the French poet, languidly. "But there are some passages that seem strangely similar." "The author should congratulate himself instead of finding fault with me."-Washington Star. A Bk Tonr Vealer Tor Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder. It rests the -""?it. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sor*?, Hot. Oallous.Achlng, Sweating Feet und Ingrowing "*ils. Allen's i Foot-Ease mnkesnewortlghtsho"!seasy. At I all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25 cmts. Ac cept no substitute. Sanadlo malled FUSE. Address Allen S. Olms'-.'d. LeRoy, N. Y. Crematories for the destruction of the bodies of animals which have died from in fectious diseases are to bo erected at sev eral centres in Silesia. W. H. Griffin, Jackson, ?Jichigan. writes: "SufTerod with Cutarrh for fifteen years. Hall's Catarrh Curo cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75c. A man may pocket his pride, but a woman hasn't any pockets. FITS permanently cured.No fl ts or nervous ness af ter first day's use of Dr. Klino's Great NerveRestorer.$2trlal bottle and treatisefroe Dr. B.H. KLINK, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. The photographer who doesn't wish to be a flat failure must flatter. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion.allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. abottle When a fool is thc victim of hereditary influences he is a chip of the old blockhead. Piso's Cure is the be3t medicino wo overused for all affections of throat and lungs.-Wu. 0. EKDSLEY, Yanburon, Ind., Feb. 10,1900. Some people would rather lose their char acters than their money. HAMILTON COLLEGE ls ono of tho oldest and best collogo- for ftlrls ;iud young women. Thlrty-thrco yetis i f uninterrupted success ls Its refuronce ami gu.imnieo of prcsonr efll crioncy. Its faculty is composed of men and women not only graduates of the world's gr-nt est colleges and universales l ut whohav- many ypfirs of succi'Rsful experience. Cession begins Kopi. 8. ll. c. Haberman, President, l.oxiugion. Ky. A scholarship, -.11 expenses paid for one yoar. may bo secured from Kenedy's Monthly, -Moxla, Tcxns, foi u few days' work. If talk is cheap any man can afford to make extravagant assertions. Lost Hain '* My hair came out by the hand ful, and the gray hairs began to creep in. I uied Ayer's Hair Vigor, ond it stopped the hair from com ing out and restored the color." Mrs. M. D.Gray, No. Salem, Mass. There's a pleasure in offering such a prepara tion as Ayer's Hair Vigor. It gives to all who use it such satisfaction. The hair becomes thicker, longer, softer, and more glossy. And you feel so secure in using such an old and reliable prepara; tion. Sl.?O a bottle. All druggists. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar aud wo will express you a bottle. Ht, euro and give tho name of yout nearest ex].ress olhcc. Address, J. C. A YUK CO., Lowell. Mass, g Headache ? Appetite poor? Bowels con stipated? h's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills. Want your moustache or beard a"] beautiful brown or rich black ? Use 50cts. et drugg'ntsorR. P. Hillie Co., Nsshus.N.H in BWSJBtstl Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as good." LSBBY'S NATURAL FLAVOR FOODS Are V. 8. GoTrmment ta. .peeled. Perfectly pucked CANNED FOODS, nnd como to you Fresh, Dainty and delleionolj flavored. Pat up in convenient sized key-opening cans. Ask yonreroosr. If not In stoek. ha will order lt at jour rattiest. Propored only by LIBBY, MCNEILL & LIBBY, CHICAGO The World's Greatest Caterers. Our now edition of "How TO HAKE GOOD Trna aa XO KAT" sent free for the Milne. WANTED aSO Young Men Atone? to qualify for good positions which wo will guarantee In writing under a $5,000 deposit io promptly procure them. The Ga.-AIa. Bus. College, MACON, GEORGIA. olioj^ltoliofcofcofcofcoMoteofeofeoii EADACHE, ??? I FEVERISH CONDITIONS 2 AND COLDS CURED BY o CAPUDIINE o M I Sold by all ?rn jg! ats. StOHOltO HO HO 9.09\O S? O ft? o a? c no H 01(0 HAMLIN'S. WIZARD OIL SORES'UL?ERS ALL .. DRUGGISTS' 3"ELL IT pen ri iv Knell v made, at home, iCftlMJ malling circular?. No can: *n?alna. The Homo K???)?Gy Ct?,, j THE CHAhlIY OF TIME. Aa some poor mother, with a mind dis traught, Clasps a dead Infant to her torturod breast, Close to my heart my wither'd hopes I pressed, And of their uselessness believed naught; For still I fed on fancies vision-wrought, Or fashion'd them like pinnacles of rest, To which I clung; and yet, by grief 6 be quest, My mind was stung by many an ambushed thought. 'Twas then I courted comfort here bolow In vain. So heavenwards my pray'rs did climb And still I found not sympathy. But, lo ! As years rollM on. a peacefulness sublime Crept o'er my stormy soul, and I did know The unobtrusive charity of Timo. -B. M. R., in the St. James's Gazette. j SUSAN'S LUCKY SHOT. [ It was a very pretty prospect that confronted Miss Susan Galton Brown. The scattering white home* among thc trees in the valley, the blue hills be yond with their fringes of pine trees, the clear sky that was such a novelty j to the girl from the great manufactur ing town-ii. was all blight and fresh and so delightfully clean. Miss Susan Galton Brown looked back on the peaceful prospect for a lingering mo ment or two and then pressed ahead up thc mountain road. She certainly was an unusual figure for that quiet neighborhood. Attired in a close-fitting suit of gray with a short walking skirt and a wide brimmed gray felt hat that concealed her beautiful hair, she might, at a dis tance, save for the skirt, have been taken for an extremely handsome boy. Her gait would have carried out the impression, there was such an uncon strained swing to it. But her high boots were not a boy's boots and her hands were neatly gloved. Miss Su san Galton Brown carried something under her arm. Ic was a light maga zine rifle, thc gift of an adoring father. For she could shoot and fish and swim and run, and do it all in a way that met that adoring father's critical ap proval. She had minor talents, of course-an education rounded off in a finishing school, a pleasing smatter I ing of music, taste for art that was only second to her taste for nature. But all these were quite dwarfed in her daddy's opinion by those manlier attributes that he so assiduously cul I tivated. She was nis coa-.pani?n on i long hunting and fishing trips and an I ideal companion at that. It is needless to say that quiet Elm I wood looked upon this accomplished ! young woman wi'. a very doubtful tx ; pression. She was a little too ad I vanced-that was the term they used -for Elmwood's old-fashioned ideas of i maidenly modesty. The mothers of ; Elmwood held her up as an example ! of the baneful coming woman, and the j girls of Elmwood thought her dread i fully bold-and secretly envied her. ' As for the men-well, there were but i few of them in Elmwood whose opin ? lon was worth recording, and of these ; a mere handful dared to express an j honest opinion in the face of the uni ! versal feminine condemnation. Of i these independent souls it must be ad I mitted that Mr. John Cortwright stood \ first and foremost. If Miss Susan Galton Brown knew ! of the unfavorable light in which her ! short skirt and her Teddy hat had i placed her-and there is no doubt she I did-the matter failed LO wj.-ry her in I the least. She had corni down to Elm wood to stay a mouth wi'b her maiden cunt-her dead mother's only Bister who lived in the big winto mansion cn Main -street, just beyond the Bap j tist meeting house. It was this fund i aunt who had invited Jack Cortwight i to call, and although this was a par ? ticulttr youth, with high ide?is P? worn : anhood. he called again, and :ain. and again. What was strr.njrv about lt, too, was that Jack ha;led from the east, and from Puritan surroundings I at that. Yet with all thi3 discreet bringing up he certainly was fascinat . ed v.llh the wild we^terr. hoyden. They all said that Jack Cortwright ! was a rising young man. Boston capi j talists had sent him-fresh from col lege-to the western town to look af ' ter their interests in certain undevel ! oped coal mining property that lay a few mfles north of Elmwood. And Jack had taken off his coat, metaphori cally, and gone to work to develop it 1 There was plenty of capital behind : him, and he had built a railway branch i to th^ mine, and started a bark In ? Elmwood, of which he was temporary j cashier, and stirred the little town : Into making certain improvements that had long been discussed. In short, i Jack Cortwright was recognized oven i by those who didn't approve of hi? j revolutionary tactics to be the live'iesl factor of progress the sleepy little hamlet had ever known. ! Miss Susan Galton Brown .il poor : luck that bright October afternoon. She didn't rouse a solitary rabbit. But. i after all, it was the tramp she was ; after rather than thc gciine. Still sho must have a shot at Wiielhins. Sn I she pinned a brilliant leaf to u tree j trunk and at 20 paces -;; pl it it at thc I first trial. The sun was still high above the hills when she .'darted to return to j her aunt's. As s.ie went down the old State road a sudden clattering caused , her to turn her head. Three men ! mounted on powerful horses came ! trotting down the slope. Susan stepped ! O?ide to let them pass ami one of the horses, catching sight of her, sudden I ly sprang aside and almost unseated j his rider. Susan looked up anxiously j and saw to her astonishment that the man's heavy beard was twisted very much to one side. But he quickly re gained his seat with an oath, and, 1 striking the horse, clattered after his companions. Susan wondered why the I man was disguised, and dimly fan~: d j that the three rough-looking strangers 1 were up to some mischief. But she ! was thinking of Jack the next moment, j and the strange incident was shelved. A few moments of brisk walking I brought her to the brow of thc hill j where the road turned sharply and ran at an oblique along the side of the : steep descent. Susan seated herself I on a log and looked down into the vii j l?ge, which lay. as it were, at her I very feet. She traced the one long . street of the hamlet, which was but a i continuation of the highway, an' fol i lowed its dusty line past her aunt's ! trim home, and tho little park with Its soldiers' monument, and the town . hall, and then along to the bank i Jack's bank-and there her gaze rest I ed. Miss Susan's eyes were good ones ; and the air was very clear. She saw a horseman sitting in his saddle at ! the bank door. Hr was holding the bridles of two riderless horses. Even j as she noted this the two riders rushed ; from the building and leaped into their saddles. There were puffs of white smoke and sharp detonations. Susan could see people running in wild con fusion. Then the three riders started ftt a Sharp canter up the road. Every rto??n ya.rd? er BO ma would turn in his saddle and fire down the roadwa;:. Susan knew what this strange scene meant. It was a daylight bank rob bery, one of a series that had terror ized all the countryside during the past summer. Tho three robbers were retreating with iheir plunder. What had happened in the bank? Why was Jack not pursuing their.? She sudden ly turned sick arid cold. Then an indescribable impulse seized her. She let herself over the edge of the bank and began a mad scramble down the steep declivity. She meant to intercept the ruffians. She slid, she stumbled, once she fell, but she never let go her hold on her precious rifle. And then, as the carta ; suddenly seemed falling away from her, she reached the level ground in a confused heap. But she was up on her feet in a moment. The highway was directly before her. The robbers were cantering by. The man in the rear was the man with the beard, and he had a coarse bag flung across the saddle before him. He was directly opposite Susan as she plunged down to the edge of the roadway. He must have taken her for an enemy, for his glittering revolver flew up and he fired in her direction quite at random. Su san felt a sudden twitch at her broad brimmed hat and quickly dropped be hind some bushes that lined the road way. The barrel of her rifle rose. The robber was rapidly increasing the dis tance between thom. Could she shoot this man in cold blood? She had him covered. A moment more and lt might be too late. Slie thought of Jack and fired. The horse of the fleeing man sud dr,ily leaped to one side and flung his rider heavily to the earth. As h? went down he dragged the bag of plunder with him. The riderless horse gal loped after his companions. Then Susan Galton Brown sprang into the roadway and fired five shots in rapid succession after the two horsemen. She did not aim to hit them, but rather to frighten them away. They hesitated a moment and then dashed madly ahead; the rider less horse galloping in the rear. Susan ran forward to the prostrate man. He was unconscious. She stooped over him for a moment and then drew awa; the coarse bag. As. she suspected, it was half filled with currency. She shuddered as she looked at the livid face of the ruffian and then at the blood that was slowly saturating his coat sleeve. She be gan to feel a little faint. She was aroused by the sound of wheels and the shouting of a man. A light phaeton was coming toward her. In a moment she recognized the driver as the local livery stable proprietor. He leaped out beside her. "Nailed him, didn't you?" he shout ed in a paroxysm of excitement. "I was just ready to drive out o' my stable when they pelted by. As I got into the roadway I saw you blazin' away. Kill him?" "No." said Susan, "he is stunned by the fall from his horse. I only aimed to break his shoulder." "You done it all right," cried the liveryman. "By George!' he shrieked, "it's Jim Bascom himself!" Susan felt her head going around. "Mr. Tompkins," she said, "will you kindly drive me to the bank as quick ly as you can?" "Yes. ma'am, I will," he replied, willi great heartiness. "You've got the stuff there, have you? Jump in." And a moment later they were speeding toward the bank. They had not gone 20 yards when they met the first group of hastily armed men w>v_ were on the trail of the robbers. "You'll find Jim Bascom lyiu' up there." shouted the liveryman. "She shot him an' we've got the bank stuff all here!" And he touched up his horse again. And the ne>t group heard the same story, and the next, and the next. And they all turned and stared after blushing Susan Brown. And then they were at the bank. There was a little crowd about the door. But they quickly made way for Susan, and the liveryman, and the pre cious bag. And there was Jack sitting up in a big chair, and somebody was bathing his head, and he was blinking queer ly like a man slowly waking up. But he suddenly seemed to regain his fae- I ulties when Susan Brown, forgetful of j all the curious eyes about her, sudden ly dropped on her knees beside him and put up her loving arms and cried, "Oh, Jack!" "Why, Susan, dear!" murmured Jack. "There, there, don't worry. I'm just a little dazed. One of them hit me over the- head with something from behind and stunned me. I'm almost all right again." "Oh, Jack," moaned Susan Brown, "I-T thought they might have killed you, ancV-and I shot the man, and and-and got the money back-oh, oh, ch!" And here poor Susan quite broke i down, and putting her face against Jack's ccat, sobbed convulsively.. And Mr. Tompkins told what he knew, and j then the astonished and il3llghted Jack I turned the recovered trersure over to his assistant, who had been temporar ily absent at the time o? the attack, and, borrowing the happy Mr. Tomp kins phaeton, drove^Susan to her aunt/s. "Oh, Jack," she murmured on the way, "it was so unwomanly and so j ccld blooded!" "I'm afraid it was, my dear," said Jack in a painfully solemn voice; "but as it saved the bank in which I am intimately interested $37,000 in cold cash, and at the same time ap pears to have broken up the most j desperate gang of thieves the state has ever known, I fear I must con done the fault. But you will promise not to do it again, won't you dear?" Susan promised.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. PEARLS OF THOUGHT, There are no pure lives without pure hearts. The tree of knowledge is not th6 tree of life. Receding waves do not indicate an ebbing tide. . No truth can be expressed by the tongue alone. We are more likely to lose our gains than our gifts. The richest promises are for the poorest people. To do is not to be. We ought to be more than we do. Don't trim your lamp so zealously as to extinguish lt. Character is the best commercial asset in the world. Fear may influence action, but I" cannot change character. The man who gives to advertise his charity has no charity worth advertis ing. It's of no use for your lips to be talking of grace unless your life tastes <i it. Truth does not need any proof of evidence, for the rea) truth Jp ??lt-?vt: owti^Ram'? Harri; WAYS OF MEN IN LOVE A SCIENTIST HAG CATALOGUED THE ACTS OF CUPID'S VICTIMS. A Serious-Minded Gorninn Professor lins Evolved a Guide Hook of Love Games -Caressing, Fighting, Self-Exhibition and Coquetry - Make Love as Sport. The long ago pootical phrase, "The sportiveness of love," asumes a fresh significance since Professor Karl Gross evolved a guide book of love games and catalogued them into classes and sections with erudite observations upon the heads in general and enter taining tales by way of specific in stances. Love games, says Professor Gross, aro chiefly four: Caressing games, games of self-exhibition, fighting gtmes, and games of coquetry. Sweet hearts play caressing games because they like to be near each other; they play games of self-exhibition because they wish each other to behold their merits; they play fighting games be cause tiny find it necessary sometimes to fight t") win each other, or because fighting is 0:10 method of displaying their adorable qualities; they play co quetry games because they are made coquettish and for no other reason in the world. Despite thc fact that they have been pursuing their games finee time pre historic, and although they are sup posed by those outside the enchanted pale to be laughable alike in their coo ing they have not decided upon a uni versal pattern for their games. Not even the kiss is excepted when Pro fessor Gross propounds this interest ing revelation, honored with supreme glory by dreamy bards as well as by intoxicated suitors. All children play catch and hide and seek, no matter whether they be the dainty scions of lordly Fifth avenue houses or sooty lit tle beggars from South African hovels, or heathen Chinese, but when they are grown and begin to learn the games of love they each make up games of their own fancy. Perhaps the little play toying with insignificant objects is the nearest ex pression of universality in love games of caressing. Even those borightei1. peoples who have not discovered the ecstasy of kisses enjoy this petty trif ling of which the lovers in the Mill on the Floss are a type. Kitty was do ing her fancy work and asked Stephen for the scissors, which were passed and repasscd between them without the least reason for doing so. except the proximity to which it lcd and the hand ling cf one object together. It is tho trick of the boarding school hoyden and who shall say hov/ many others of the fair-to let her shoestrings untie so that thc spruce stripling who has captivated her heart may have the op portunity of tying them again. The dignified Oriental wooer who disdains the intimacy of a kiss does not scorn the delights pt* examining the orna ments worn by his beloved not only with his eyes but his fingers. The more naive tho period or social class, thinks Professor Gross, the more common is this sort of play. At the spinning fetes of olden-time Europe ; coupl-2 after couple sang a spinning i song while their hands crept in and about the spinning apparatus. Plays of self-exhibition arise out of j the lover's desire lo present himself in the most advantageous light possi ble before his loved one. "With this in view he plays a part. He acts as though he were braver, stronger, more j skillful, handsomer, of more delicate i leeling and keener intelligence than he is actually and habitually. A com ic paper once observed that a lover always tries to be as lovable as possible and hence always makes himself ri diculous. The lover not only has the aim in ! view of plcasirg his sweetheart but he also enjoys his little exhibitions for :heir own sake Ile appears to be look ing on at himsclt, listening Lp is own fairy tales, and e?ijcyirg his own par ading. When this is done to excess his game is commonly known as flirt ing. One of the features of self-exhibi tion arc the contests of many swains before their ladies. The old-time tour naments, whose victors were given the privilege of crowning their chosen one as thc queen of love and beauty, are one of the many examples. And man in a contest feels double stimula non to do his utmost when ladies are present. They have lonii learned that prowess and a martial bearing are ad mired by the fair ones. This admira tion is in part a relic of the earlier form of lover-like exhibitions. Th>e Indians use their war paint and feath ers primarily to delight the squaws. In some tribes mon do not dare to marry, for no wr-man will have them until they have shin a number of foes. The conquest of rivals in ibis way becomes one means of self-exhibition. lt proves his supremacy. In some tribes thc youths gather together and fight (or the belle, and the conqueror bears her off as bis prie. In the west Victorian tribes a man is allowed to carry away another man's wife if he can defeat the man in combat. Both the husband and the new suitor aro en tirely satisfied and tho woman takes her fate as a matter of cours-? In New Zealand, when two suitors pre sent themselves before a sing'e charm ing maiden, and both are tqually strong, courageous, and clover in bat tle and in combat, she gives the cov eted "yes" to the man th it can pull her arm the most vigorously. Each man takes an arm and they pul! simul taneously. In the Arran Islands when thc peo ple of a village see some hushandless maiden whom they think ought to be married they gather together and con fer upon the subject of a suitable con sort for her. When the youth is chosen th^y serve a notice that she is to bc "bidden" on the next Sunday aller mass. She prepares cider for a large party and the vnlage en masse gamers at her home, where a sling con test ls held. The champion player be comes her spouse, quito irrespective of the previous choice of tho villagers. Men like to exhibit themselves in boldness and taking risks or in enter ing upon tests of strength and trials of skill. In the Alpine villages every man likes to wear the edelweiss in his | cap because he thus gets a reputation ! among thc village beauties for bis fear lessness. Richard Coer do Lion voices the suitor's love of preis? from his mistr-iss in Sir Walter's Stol t's "I\on hcc." "Joy to the fair, my name unknown, each deed and all its praise thine own. Let grateful love quell maiden shame, and grant him bliss who brings thee fame." Personal and physical charms aro among the pot exhibits of thc self-dis playing lovelorn lad. Everybody knows of the famous epoch In a youth's life when his eye has captured a glimpse of some sylph and he forthwith ! applies himself to render his person I pleasing to the gaz*!i He is neat, aa faa ' vid'onB pp. n<jY8r before about tho beauty of his-teeth and nails and hair, as to the fit of his coat, and the bril liancy of collars and cuffs. He watches most impatiently for the first premoni tions of mustachios. The higher tue culture of a pair of sweethearts the more prominently do mental displays mingle with the ex hibition of pl" ideal fascinations. The cultured suitors delight either in sim ply showing their power to charming woman or in making a direct at'ack on her heart. Many men enjoy this s i keenly that they play the ganant with out any serious love intentions and ensnare every lady with their 1. H liat-ce of. conversation. Thc mascu line post-prandial withdrawal to thc smoking room is explained by Pro fessor Gross as a desire for relaxation after the fatigue of montai exertion in displaying their charms to wemen fir ing the dinner. The stilted ornate styles of love let ters are another form of self-exhibition adopted by the suitor who would fain win his sweetheart by the power of smoothly written words. Self-exhibition is retaliated in full by thc woman, but with a difference. She alternately seeks and flees, and in parading her wonders never ad dresses herself to her adorers. She turns aside when she secs him appre ciative of them as if she were shy. While he parades his strength she shows much of weakness, helplessness, and her housewifely accomplishments. She veils her intentions, and while making far more daring exhibitions than man over attempts she carries them off with such disguise that she is never compelled to acknowledge their purpose. When displaying her mental graces the same disguises comes into opera tion.-Chicago Tribune. MERRY CAME CF SQUASH. Prom loo* to 1$c Most Popular of til? Season's Sport*. Squash, whidh was comparatively little known a year or so ago, prom ises to be one of the most popular of this summer's sports, and squash courts are going up everywhere. Just why the unpoetical name of squash should have been given it is not discoverable. It certainly has no bearing upon summer squash, the vegetable for, being an in-door game, it can bo played as well in winter as in summer, and no other points of re semblance can bc traced. Properly speaking. Squaslh Ball is the title, and "squash" is only the ab breviation. To have your squash-court this sum mer, if you have any pretensions to style, is as necessary as to have your ping-pong table or your automobile. Last summer the game was to much of ;.. novelty that thc story is told of a family in a fashionable sea-side re sort who made their way into the elect through their squash-court, it being the second only of its kind in tho place. This year it is even more essen tial to one's social success. Yet there are many people clamoring lo know what squash is. Squash helor gs to tho lawn-tennis family, and under different titles and with a few minor differences, has been known since thc time of Henry VIII, of England. As yet there has been little squash literature, hence tho world-a^-largc has had no opportunity of becoming acquainted with it in story. Even the squash joke has not yet been sprung. The game of fives, which is still played extensively, ls of the squash family. In this game, as it was originally played, thc hand was used, hitting a ball against a wall on lines laid out for a tennis-court. Going back into early history, we find the royal princesses playing lennis in this way. using their fair hands, or, in some cases- gloves. When the bat came into usc it was called Bat Fives. Then another evolution, and the ten nis-racket c?mo upon the seen.-1. The walls were enclosed, a floor and ceil ing added, and voila! rackets. Squash h merely a variation of rackets, and the courts aro the same. Thc walls are marked off by painted lines; the service-line, above which the ball must strike when served, is six feet from the floor. Another line, called thc tell tale, is two feet from tlhe floor, and after a ball has been served, the sec ond played must return it onto the front wall above the telltale before it has bounded twice. The players then continue to return the ball alternate ly until the rally is lost. A ball is in play until it touches thc roof, posts, cushions, or is driven into the gallery. It ls then out of court. The court is divided by a line into two equal spaces. There is a cross-cut. through the centre. 23 feet from tba back wall. The game is played with a ball, usual ly of India rubber, and a light-weight tennis-racket, strung with gut. The squash-bat weighs -between nine and ten ounces. Keeping out of the way is one of the objects of the game. If the ball hits the striker's adversary above the knee, or if it hits the strik er's partner or himself, it counts against the striker. One of the rules of the game is that every player should get out of tlhe way as much as possible. If he cannot, the marker is io decide whether it is a let or not. The marker's decision is considered final. Squash may bc played either with doubles or singles, and in a four or a three walled court. Any carpenter can build the house, which is not elaborate in any way. T/he height of the front wall is 16 feet. The total length of the court is 31.C feet, and the breadth. 1G.3 feet.-Col lier's Weekly. Encoiiraclnt: Lltawty I floris oT n Hon. Mr. Joseph Carey, one of the district superintendents of the street cleaning department, thc performances of whose alphabetical hen have been re corded from time to time in thc Sun. is now wondering whether thc hen is going to finish spelling his name for him by laying eggs bearing the letters R and Y. Those arc thc only two letters left, for the hen has just laid an egg with a perfect E on it. having previously laid them with C. J and A in the order named. The letters arc on the small end of the eggs and are formed by unevennesses in the shell. -Baltimore Sun. Til? End or tin- Wai-. A country correspondent tells us that the end of the war was announced to him by a servant in thc following quaint terms: "Oh, sir, the bells has been rit ging all night, and thc war's at peace." Many country dwellers who went to bed reasonably early on Sun day night were awakened by imex- I pected bells. One of the quietest vil lages in Surrey was flooded with chimes at ll o'clock at night. Indeed, it may be said that peace, in this in stance, more than war, "startled the villages with strange alarms."-Lon don Academy. Last year there wore circulated in Japan 138,000 copies of the Scriptures. Until 80 years ago the- printing and rmtj'ibuttop ?rab!? itfosiblMi AN ITALIAN CAPTAIN Cured by Pe=ru=na of Catarrh of the Stomach After Doctors Failed. Hon. J. D. Botkin, Congressman (rom Kansas, Writes an Interesting Letter. CAPTAIN O. BERTOLETTO. Captain 0. Bcrtoletto, of the Italian Barque "Lincelles," in a recent letter from the chief office of the Italian Barque Lin eel les, Pensacola, Fia., writes: "1 have suffered for several years with chronic catarrh of the stomach. The doctors prescribed for me with out my receiving the least benefit. Through one of your pamphlets 1 be gan the UM of I'cruna, and two bot tles have entirely enred me. I rec ommend Peruna to all my friends. " ~<>. Bcrtoletto. In catarrh of the stomach, as well as ca tarrh of any part of the body, Peruna is the remedy. As has been often said if IV runa will cure catarrh of one part it will cure catarrh of any other part of the body. Catarrh is catarrh wherever located, and ; lie remedy that will cure it anywhere will cure it everywhere. The following letter from Congressman" Botkin speaks for itself: HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C. Dr. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, 0.: My Dear Doctor-It gives me pleasure to certify to t..e excellent curative quali ties of your med-??>>>#?>w ?cmes - Peruna J and Manalin. I* have been af-1 dieted more or * less for a quartet ? of a century with J catarrh of the .? stomach and con-} stipation. A rcsi- * dence in Wash- ? ington has in- i creased these trou- * bles. A few bot-J ties of your med-* ?cine have given? me almost com-* Flete 'chef, and? am sure that a ********** continuation of them will effect a perma nent cure. Peruna is surely a wonderful remedy for catarrhal affections.-J. D. Botkin. This is a case of catarrh of thc stomach which had run for twenty-five years, ac cording to his statement, and Peruna has at once come to his relief, promptly accom plishing for him more benefit than he had been able to find in all other remedies dur ing a quarter of a century. It stands to reason that a man of wealth and influence, hke a Congressman of the great United States, has left no ordinary means untried and no stone unturned to find a cure. If such cures as these do not verify the chi ?rn not only that, dyspepsia is due to ca tarrh of the stomach, but also that Peruna will cure catarrh of the stomach, it is im possible to imagine how any evidence could do so. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from thc use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. 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