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Various Costan.es For Women. Cycling costumes for ■women, made of checked material, are considered by fashionable riders to be passe. All kinds of mixed and fancy cloths as well as plain av© expected to be worn much this year, ribbed velveteen be ing also a favorite during the spring months. Tailor-made white pique suits, with closed or divided skirts are expected to be the proper things for fair days in summer. Xew Idea in Furnishing. Those who love the flavor of new mown hay \, '1 be glad to learn of a Dew idea in the furnishing of a coun try home or sum ner cottage. The Indians of the North make a clumsy but handsome matting of the Indian meadow grass, which is very aromatic and keeps exhaling its odor for months and even years. It is applied as a wainscoting to a sitting room and also as a carpet to the floor. The ^olof" is a cool and handsome sago green and the perfume in damp weather makes the house seem like a hayfiold in midsummer.—New York Mail and Express. Origin of “Bine Stockings.” According to an English magazine the appellation “blue stockings” originated in the dress of a Benjamin Stillingfleet, grandson of the bishop, as he used to appear at the parties of Mrs. Montague, in Portmau Square. He used to generally wear blue worsted stockings, and he was a very amiable and entertaining gentleman. Whenever he was absent from Mrs. Montague’s evening parties, as his conversation was very interesting, the company used to say: “We can do nothing without the blue stockings.” By degrees the assemblies wore called “blue stocking, clubs” and learner, people “blue stockings.” To Stiffen Lace*. ^ The best kind of starch to use for stiffening laces, handkerchiefs, wash ing silks or any other thin fabric is made with gum arabic. Put au ounce of gum arabic into a bottle and pour over it a cup of cold water and place it over the lire until the gum is dis solved; then strain it through a fine sieve or a piece of cheesecloth into another bottle. When it is cold add to it half a gill of alcohol and it will be ready for use when needed. For dainty laces half a teaspoonful of the starch mixed with a half cupful of water will give ample stiffness. Larg er amounts should be added according to the nature of the different fabrics. Fans anil Parasols For Brides. Fans and parasols are as usual favorite gifts this year, either for her friends to bestow upon the bride or the bride to present to the attendants. The fan, like the parasol, can cost very little or a great deal, and in both cases be dainty and pretty. Charm ing fans (or bridesmaid gifts arc of silk and gauze, with sticks of painted woods, decorated with gold and silver scroll work, or of feathers with a cir cle of gauze let in the middle, show ing a little Watteau scene painted thereon, or a monogram wrought in sequins. Parasols of light silks with net or monsseline overslips and big choux of monsseline on tip and handle, and—for the wedding—a spray of flowers fastened on ouo side, are not expensive, and charming souvenirs for bridesmaids. Serving the Hostess First. The custom of serving the hostess first at luncheons or dinners seems a highly commendable one. There are so many littl* vagaries and novelties of service nowadays that it is difficult to know them all. A lady who was a guest of honor at a recent dinner found herself embarrassed by having a platter handed her holding, appar ently, a whole turkey. She glanced it over with quick apprehension and could see no evidence of its having been carved. Thinking that frank ness was the best way out of the situa tion, she appealed to her hostess for instruction, which, of course, was courteously imparted. It was with both chagrin and relief that she found the turkey was in a condition to yield to the touch of a fork inserted in' any part of the fowl of which she wished to partake. The list of table silver grows every season. Many of the utensils are passing fancies and are not heard of, perhaps, outside of circles who constantly seek such novelties. Obviously, the hostess knows how she wishes her guests served, and her ex ample is often a relief and comfort.— New York Evening Post. Fashion Fancies. Checked moire poplin. Foulards in small scrolls. Ties of heavy repped silk. Scoop-brimmed hats again. Bordered foulards and pongees. Neckties of plaided black gauze. Madras in plaids for shirt waists. Japanese kimonos or house gowns. Black skirts with bayadere stripes- Black mohair Sicilian for odd skirts. Plaid taffeta skirts with ribbon frills. Shepherdess hats loaded with flow ers. Alsatian bow effects for tiny bon nets. ^Scarlet shirt waists of heavy repped Black taffeta skirts having pinked ruffles. Covert cloth top coats in black and colors. Cashmere gowns braided with lace, shirred. Plain and fancy crepons in black and colors. Poplins having a velvety effect in the finish. Straw hats trimmed with raffies of taffeta r ’k. Light cloth blouses having a flat, fitted basque. Band trimmings in net and cord like lace work. Light-weigbt tailor suitings in monotone plaids. Turbans with a straw brim and soft silk crown. Shoulder capes of lace and mons seline lined with silk. Short cloth jackets with tucked sleeve tops and revers. Negligees of striped and plaided flannel and flannellette. Black grenadine with roman stripes i t bryadere effect. Tailored suits of heavy cottous, as piques, duck and madras. Black double-faced satin sashes from four to eleven inches wide. Large silk and velvet flowers in the burnt orango hues. String ties, stocks and Asc*t ties of bright plaid taffeta. Tailored jacket suits of covert and serge for girls of eight to sixteen. Traverse stripes of every variety in woolen and silk goods.—Drygoods Economist. Indian Fall* as Sliopllttert A Navajo Indian can hide more bulk within the folds of his blanket than a two-bushel basket could hold, and can successfully hide many stolen articles before our eyes. The settlers along the San Juan and Animas rivers, during the early days, had to put all their stealable possessions in one cor ner of their places of abode and stand guard when the Navajoes were victors, which was a too frequent occarrence. “Chinny ah-go!” (meaning something to eat) was the first intimation, gener ally, that an Indian was near (perhaps a half dozen). They rarely exceeded half a dozen in number, as they, like the American hobo, had learned that smaller numbers stood a better show to get something to eat. One day in A. R. Lincoln’s cabin, on the south bank of the San Juan River, three bachelors were partaking of their evening meal, when a Navajo with a glass eye walked in. All tried to watch the Indian’s movements, but he had managed to get several articles under his blanket, and would not have been detected had not an accident be fallen him. A hatchet which slipped from one of the folds in his blanket fell, and the sharp blade cut a long gash in the calf of his leg. The Indian looked to the roof of the cabin as if wondering where the hatchet had fal len from, but the blood spurting from 'the open gash betrayed him. His blanket was shaken and a butcher knife, miner’s candlestick, several can dles and a package of tobacco, all be longing in the cabin, fell on the earthy floor.—Durango (Col.) Wage Earner. Bound the Barth. The time required for a journey round the earth by a man walking day and night, without resting, would be 428 days; an express train, 40 days; sound, at a medium temperature, 32J hours; a cannon ball, 21f hours; light, a little over one-tenth of a sec ond; and electricity, passing over a copper wire, a little under one-tenth of a second. A Syilpin of Mllltarr Hlghwaya. An elaborate system of good high ways for Pennsylvania is proposed by Arthur Kirk, of Sharpsburg, Penn. As the constitution of that State says “there shall be no State debt created except for military purposes,” he pro poses that the State create a complete system of military roads, which shall traverse the State from east to west in parallel lines forty miles apart, and in like manner from north to south. These military highways are not to utilize old roads, but are to be laid oat new under the most expert super vision; be constructed in the best manner; have no grade greater than three per cent., no matter what grad- ing may be required, and to be from forty to sixty feet wide. The whole charge of Imilding and maintaining these military highways is to be in the Lauds of the Secretary of Internal Affairs, who ia to have three competent civil engineers as his counsellors. All applicants for posi tions of engineers in charge of the construction of these roads are to be rigidly examined before they can be appointed. The Secretary is to ap point a court to hear all claims and award damages for property taken for the construction of the roads. Before each section of road is completed, the Secretary is to sell at public auction the right to lay and use a double track street railway on it for transporting freight and passengers, for a period of twenty years, and money received from this source is to become part of the road-building fund. Before the end of November in each year, the Secretary is to notify the State Treasurer how much will be re quired for the following year, which sum shall not exceed $12,000,000. On the first Tuesday of each month, the Treasurer shall sell at public auction twenty-year, three per cent. State bonds, to an amount not exceeding $1,000,000 per month, until the sum required by the Secretary is obtained. Such highways are expected to benefit the people so greatly that they will demand that they be built but twenty miles apart, and then ten, and then five. Mr. Kirk has given the road question much attention both here and abroad. His proposed Military Road Law has been printed with full explanations. Statistic* IteEardtnjc Good Boad*. This is the time of the year when the average cyclist begins to look aronnd to find out the condition of the roads. It is only the enthusiast who has done more or less regular riding during the winter, but this class is increasing every yesrr Fred erick J. H. Merrill has issued a good- road bulletin for the New York State Museum “of the University of the State of New York, which shows that he has made a close study of the good- roads problem. The bulletin treats of road-building and good road ma terial, and it also includes maps and illustrations of sketches of good roads. The writer shows that this country is in the same condition in regan to roads that Great Britain was at the beginning of the present cen tury, or, in other words, that we are a hundred years behind England in road-building. Mr. Merrill says that the Romans showed a better know ledge of road-building three hundred B. €., than the officials of this State do to-day. He gives the mileage of the important roads of this State at 123,000 miles. Much money, he says, is spent in repairing roads improperly, leaving the highways in worse con dition than they were in before the im provements were made. The maps show the quarries in the State and the kind of stone to be secured in each. The ideal stone for road-building can be had around the Palisades on the Hudson. Mr. Merrill argues that it is not necessary to destroy the Palisades or blast for this stone, for, he says, there is enough loose material at the foot of the Palisades to last for road- buildiug in this district for some time to come. The writer argues that all that would be necessary would be for the road-builders to get barges, pick it up and bring it over. This particu lar stone is known aa “trap-rock,” and it can be found in quantities in no other part of the State. When Memory Beffin*. From 123 answers to questionspub- lished two or three years ago, V. and C. Henri find that a person’s first memory may be of an extent occur ring as early as the age of six months or as late as eight years—two to four | years being the usual age. An improvement which would give teams and wagons a good, solid drive way would immensely expedite and relieve the large traffic over the road. The evidence thus promptly fur nished of the prospective popularity of the proposed law is specially grat ifying to its friends. Something was needed to stimulate property owners on country highways to adopt meas ures for securing good roads. This something is furnished in the State and county aid secured under the; bill. Under the now system there will be a fair prospect that the money will be intelligently and scientifically applied instead of being practically wasted, as the money and labor in the existing system of working out the tax are. After two or three conspic uous' object lessons, such as the Brighton and Ridge road improve ments will be, have been furnished, there will be a rush of applications from rural property owners for road improvements under the new law.— Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Maryland and Good Hoads. There is simple common sense for the good roads question, says the Bal- tiiqore American. Get good men, and make the money reach the roads. As things are at present organized—or disorganized—in Maryland, not one dollar in four or five appropriated for roads reaches the work on the roads. This fact is known. It is admitted. It is one of the chief scandals of the State. Now the time has come for the money to be honestly used. There should be new laws, now regulations, new men and new methods. The lack of good roads is keeping down the price of every farm in the State, costing every farmer more to get his prodnets to market, keeping back that progress which would come if we had better highways. It is a simple matter, but wa hope the Legislature will study it and be gin by wise laws that progress toward better things, which will lead Mary land to the destiny that belongs to it by right of position and by the ex haustless value of its resources. Working of IVrtnUiive Law*. Permissive road laws will not bring the millennium of good roads upon us with a rush. There is still much opposition to road improvement, and it will take a good while, and much hard work, to overcome it. If county aupervisors are simply given permis sion to indicate what roads they want improved, and their constitnents don’t want any done, they will not call for any road building in their districts. Under such laws, the only induce ment for a county to build roads that it does not want, is the State’s prom ise to bear half the expense. As some one remarked, “this is a good deal like asking a man, into whose intel lect no ray of spiritual light had pierced, if he wouldn’t like to be taxed for his salvation.”—Good Roads Bulletin. Preserving Good Boad*. The effect of wide tires on roads haa been shown clearly on a street iu Springfield, Mass., over which heavy quarry wagons are driven. The road was formerly badly cut up, but a number of years ago it was given a heavy surface coat of gravel with the understanding that wide tires should be put on the wagons carrying the quarry stone. This was done, the tires being four to five inches wide, and since that time the street has been in good condition, although little has been done on it. Mew Boad Daw Already Popular. Before Governor Black had attached his signature to the Higbee-Armstrong State roads bill, the property owners along two important highways iu Monroe County had taken steps to secure the benefits of that bill when it shall become a law. The movement was first started on the road between Rochester and Brighton, and the property owiiers on the Ridge road, between Hoosio Hill and Lake avenue, are a good second. Both of the thoroughfares men tioned are important ones leading into this city. The Ridge road, for exao. pie, is a splendid natural highway leading westward from the Genesee River to the Niagara. Its greatest breadth makes it appear like a superb boulevard, and along its entire length, country cross-roads from the north and south run into it, many of them from important villages. Bat as it is a great natural ridge of sand, the wagon tracks along this road are, during most of the year, very heavy. In the WronK Place. It is said that 27,000 tons of water fall every year on each mile of road. This water does its best to run off and join some watercourse, but is general ly so hampered iu its efforts that much of it soaks directly into the sur face, so that dirt roads become mud, and stone roads are ruined. Proper drainage alone would go far toward improving all our highways. Cobalt Mine Bichor Than a Gold Ono. A cobalt mine is more desirable than the richest golden bonanza of all of the Rocky Mountains, and cobalt has been discovered at Grand Encampment, Wyoming, by the French mineralogist, Charles Poulot. Cobalt is worth $1.60 a pound, and George Doane, the copper king of the Grand Encampment district, has a mine where thousands of tons of this ore are already in sight. Cobait is the active principle that colors blue all porcelain and glass. It is the active principle of blue in oil and water painting. It is one of the rarest minerals; Norway, Sweden, and Bohemia have in the past furnished the bulk of the world’s supply. The Doane mine yields $148 to the tbn in cobalt. This is only one among hundreds of copper mines at Grant Encampment, and if they all contain cobalt Wyoming’s new mining district within a year may be producing more wealth than any three mining districts in the world, not excepting Klondike, the Transvaal, and Cripple Creek. If cobalt exists in the Grand Encamp ment copper ore to the extent that M. Poulot asserts from his chemical an alysis of tLv Doane ore Grand En campment will add to the mineral wealth of the world $100,000,000 an nually or else the price of cobalt will be reduced to a minimum.—New York Times. tfS;; An Ancient Caatont* \ From Republican Traveler^ Arkansas City, Kan. PUgrimages to some skrine of St. Vitas to care the disease known as 8t. Vitus' dance are no longer made. The modern way ot treating this nftllctlon is within reach of every household, ns is shown by the experience of Karl A. Wagner, the elevon-year-old son of George Wagner, of 515 9th St., Arkansas dtV Kan. The fath er tolls the story as follows: "Over a year ago," he says, “Karl was taken with St. Vitus’ dauoe and continued to grow worse during live months he was under a physician’s care. His tonguo be came paralysed and wo could not under stand a word be said. He became very thin, lost the use ot his right leg aud seemed doomed to become a hopeless in valid. We had about given up hope wbeu Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People were recommended to my wife by a lady whose daughter had been cured ot a simi lar affliction by the pills. “I bought a box of them at once and soon noticed a change for the better in Karl's con dition. I was so well f pleased that 1 bought more o t them, and when he had ^ .. taken live __ —-J | boxes the —rF disease dis appeared. A Iloptkmt Itmalid. "That was six months ago and there has been no return of the disease. The cure was olTectual and permanent, and I feel gatistled that no other medicine could have pro duced so marvelous a result. We feel re joiced over the restoration of our son, aud cannot help but feed that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are the moat re markable medicine on the market." No discovery of modern times has proved such a blessing to mankind as Dr. Will iams’ Pink Pills for Palo People. Acting directly on the blood and nerves, invigor ating the body, regulating the functions, they restore the strength aud health In the exhausted patient when every effort of the physician proves unavailing. ‘jbese pills are sold in boxea at 50 cents a £^x or six boxes for t‘2.50, and may bo had of nil druggists, or direct by mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.. Schenectady. N. T. Returns from a Lottery. The diary of an old woman who late ly died In Vienna showed that she had spent 38,240 florins on lottery tickets, while her winnings amounted to only 6.000 florins. V TV* // Tobacco Chewera Taxed. Tobacco chewing members of the Methodist Church In Albcrtsvlllc, Ala., have been levied upon by the stewards for a special tax of $10 a year. Everylxxly scorns to know Just where the north pole is aud yet no one is able to And It. A large head is about as much evi dence of brains as a paper collar Is of a shirt. Comfort Costs 50 Cents. 1 rrltatlnc, aggravating agonising Tetter, Eczema, Ringworm and all other Itching akin diMases are quickly cured by theuso of Tet-' terlne. It is soothing, cooling, healing. Costs ui —......— —*—.j ' - - 50 cent* a box, post'pftid once. Address.!. T.Sn — _» comfort at uptrlae. Savannah, Ga. Clubs are always trumps In the hands of the police. hvono’* “Pick Leaf “HmoklntTobacco does not make every mouth as sweet as a rose, but comes "mighty niKh”-does give every ono a most delightful Huoke. Try It. Man was made to mourn, but a widower usually outlives it. Experienced Mothers and Nurses of our large cities do not now dread the teething l ' ,nce they can give nR. MOFFETT'S Tkkthina (TEETHING POW. DERS). Tbxthina aids Digestion, Regulates the Rowels and makes teething easy and Into a period of Buffering and dread. A groundless rumor manages to cover a good deal of ground. Deut Tobacco Spit tad Smoke Tour life a w *y. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag. netlo. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- uac. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men druggist#, Mo or II. Cureguarao- teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Ca, Chicago or New York. Woman’s no often menus yee, but her yea never means no. Pise’s Cure is a wonderful Cough medicine •Mns. W. HioKBBTjYan Hiclen and Hlak* Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. art, img. A man’s pride would be vanity if possessed ly his neighbor. Fits nemvtnently cured. No fits or nervous ness efter first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great N erve Restorer. $3 trial bottle and treati se free Dr. R. H. Kmnx, Ltd.. (Ml Arch 8t., Phila, Pa. The man who buys a gold brick makes a j'.lt-edged Investment. To Caro Constipation Forever. fake Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOe orOo. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. The highwayman hold up other people in arder to support himself. J. C. Simpson, Marquess. \V. Va. «*r*- Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad’ case of catarrh." Druggists sell it, 75c. Borne of the revolutions brought about by the bicycle are only somersault*. n” n 'MKY to keep house without Blue Ribbon Baking Powder. At all Grocers. B. R. B. P. Company, Richmond, Virginia. Repentance Is often confounded with a de termination not to get caught again. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money Hit falls to cure. 15c. The average life of women who work fora (ting h 36 year#. Educate Tear Bowels With Coeearota. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation fore vet 10c, 15c. It C. C. C. tail, druggists refund mone#. It takes thirty-seven specially constructed and equipped steamers to keep the sub graph cables of the world In re pair. W UWr you write ’em. tell ’em yon saw their advertisement In this paper. Be. 2/