Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CIRCUMSTANCES AND CASES. "There's plenty of work for this morning," she cried* "Thereai ba'kmg, and scru'bbing, and sweepirg beside." But she went at the baking with laughter and song, And said as she finished, "that didn't take long." And then to the scrubbing-and how she did scrub! The boards were like snow when she gave the last rub. Her hands were so cleft and her arms were so strong; And she s:'td, as the finished, "that didn't take long." And then to the sweeping-she made the dust fly, S!e looked at her work with a critical eye. And yet all the time sh keDt hummingasong. And sheitacked to the !ast verse," that didn't take long."I The dinner was over, the work was all done; "And now for that errand," he said; "I mus run." Six o'clock comes so soon when the days are so long. And off she went, humming a verse of that sone. The road she'd to travel was as straight as a die. She knew every step, and she meant just to fly; But she met an acquaintance down there by the stle. And somehow-that errand-It took a good while. A FLORAL ARTIST. Marianne North, who spent her time and talent in painting the flora of the tropical regions of the earth was one of the busiest of women, and so well contented with her lot in life that her autobiography has been well named the "Recollections of a Happy Life." in fifteen years of travel, she did an amount of work which might have oc eu-oied an ordinary lifetime. Bhe visited North and South Amer ica, Africa, Hindustan, Japan, the West Indies and Australasia. Neither heat nor cold deterred her from seek ing her heart's desire. Her fkst introduction to the public was through the loan of her pictures to the Foath Kensington Museum. When negotiations were in progress, two gentlemen were sent to look at her 'work, and one was overheard saying to the other, as they entered: "We must get out of this civilly, somehow; I know what these amateur things always are." After looking at the collection, how ever, he cried enthusiastically, "We must have them at any price! When the gallery was finally opened to the public, one visitor said to Miss North, not knowing who she was: "It isn't true that all these are painted by one woman, is it?" "I have done them all," said she, quietly. He seized her by both hands and ex claimed, "Youl Then it's lucky you didn't live two hundred years ago, or you'd have been burned for a witch!" One of her most interesting quests was that of the blue puya in South America. She took a guide and a horse and when tbe ascent was too steep for riding, went on foot "right into the clouds." . "These were so thick," she writes, "that I could not see a yard before me, but I would not give up, and was rewarded, at last, by the mist clearing, and behold! just over my head was a great group of the noble flowers. standing out like ghosts, at first, and then assuming their full beauty of color andform." in 1890 this haupy and tireless wo man died, and England is her debtor for this gorgeous and unrivaled collec tion of paintings.- Youth's Compan ~son.-____ WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING. Helen Kellar, of Alabama, parallels Laura Bridgman. Though deaf, dumb: and blind, she has learned to articulate, and can speak as freely and as fully as an unafflicted person. In long conver sations with any one dear to her, she places one finger across the lips of the speaker and another on the throat, at the larynx. Ia this way she under stands every word uttered Miss Isabel'Smithson is well known in the New York literary world as a clever translatdr;'hergreat charm being, that she renders into readable English, the language and ideas of the author whose writing she translates, in which there is more art than people are apt to im agine. Without in the least destroying the' natioria.lity of the original, she gives you a story told in the English the author himself would have used, had he been perfect master of that lan guage and written in it in place of his own, which is what a translation ought to be. M5iss Em~xily Huntington, the founder of the Kitchen Garden School of in struction and the inspiration of the now paralyzed Wilson Mission Indus trial School, is in Chicago superin tending a kitchen garden exhibit at the World's Fair. She has received a number of flattering and remunera tive offers from public and private edu cational organizations and her return to New York is doubtfl. It was as long ago as 1871 that Miss Huntington, then a lovely girl, "divinely tall and most divinely fair," graduated at an uptown boarding school and becoming interested in the slum work fostered by the church to which she beionged, turned her back on society, deserted a home where Ahe was idolized and dis heartened a train of admirers, who were competing for her favor, to work as a resident sub-officer in the Wilson Mission. She had light brown hair, a complexion of the most exquisite pink and white, and she always wore a pil grim dress of silver gray cashmere, with mull kerchief, cutfs and aprons. it may have been the glowing roses in her cheeks, the rippling sunlight in her hair, the sympathy in her voice and eyes, or the silver and white toilets that enchanted the naughty boys in Tompkins. Square, but they were en chanted, and they followed "the lady" and formed themselves into the first "Boys Club" of New York. Miss Huntington worked for love. In all that time the only money that she re ceived was from the sale of a text book on the "Kitchen Garden Methods of Instructiou," and the tuitions of a lim ited number of normal pupils. She severed her connection with the Wil son Mission last fall, and although the Industrial School work was continue d something was missing. Mrs E. J. Nicholson is said to be the only woman in the world who owns, edits, manages and publishes a great daily newspaper. She was first a contributor of poetry to the columns of the Kew Orleacn Picaya'ne, which she now owns, undef the name of Pearl Rtivers, and some years ago was made' literary editor of the paper by Col. A. M.Holbrook, its editor and proprietor, thus being the pioneer newspaper woman in the South. After a time she became the wife of Col Holbrook, and at his death inherited the paper, much incumbered by debt and with a dubious outlook. She assumed the responsi bihity courageously, and, with able assistants, hgs put it again on a sub stantial basis. A few years ago she married G*eorge N icholson, who was business manaer of the psar. AZOREAN TRADITION5. Stories 2old of Columbus and Has Adventures on tAe Islands BY E. E. BROWN. On Corvo, one of the most ncrthern -f the A zorean Islands,1s an interestling reak of nature-a firmation high upon he lava cliff-representing a mounted iorsemau pointing toward the west. A cherished tradition among the Azoreans to-day is thatColumbus,, quite liscouraged by the difflculties in his royage of dis:overy, was about to re turn to Spain when a severe storm irove his vessel toward this Island. -eeing the horseman on the cliff with His right arm pointing 'wes ward, he re Zarded it as a good omen, and so he con inued his voyage until it resulted in the liscovery of America. On his return voyage, authentic his tory assures us that Columbus, in his caraval, the Nina, wasdriven by anoth er severe storm under the lee of Santa Maria, the most Soutiern of the Azore n Islands. During this terrible storm Columbus and his crew made a vow that if they were saved they would, on reaching land, walk barefoot and bareheaded, to offer thanksgiving at the nearest hrine. Accordingly, on entering the harbor f Santa Maria on the17thof February, 1493, Columbus sent one-half of the hip's company on shore, headed by heir priest, to fulCll thevow. The Gavernor of Santa Maria,howevei ,laimed to be suspicious of the strange looking procession, fearful, in fact, that hey might be pirates, and thereupanu adered the whole band to be arrested. Meanwhile a high sea and a strong wind had arison and the Nina wa$ )bliged to slip anchor. She Is supposed to have reached San Miguel and to have been unahle to find shelter there. At iny rate she returned to Santa Maria. Here Columbus held a parley with the governor on shipboard, and ehibiting is commissions he was able at last to obtain the release of his seamen. l'ae tradition goes in the Anres, bowever, that the Governor of Santa Maria had previously received secret orders from his sovereicn, the King of Portugal, to seize upon the person of Columbus should he by any chance land on the ishnd, and to send him a prisoner to Lisbon, to be punished for transferring the services a:ad discover. ies to the soverelgn of Spain; and tha the far-seeing navigator suspec treachery and declined, to trust him-elf on shore. DO WIVES LIKE TO BARN MON EY ? The number of wives and mothers who fulfill their duties in their homes, and yet take up some employment by which they also become wage-earners, is steadily increasing. This State of aflairs says Agnes Bailey, in Fasion gives rise to constantly increasing dis cussion, most of which groups itself under three heads, namely: Do wives like t.) earn money? Do Husbands like to have them? And does -the practice militate agalust the chivalric spirit c' men toward women ? As to the first, there are hardly two sides to the question. Women, both wage earners in small and great amounts, and women in homes, receiv ing no money save from their hus bands, almost invariably answer this question in the affirmative. No woman 'who has received an absolutely Inde pendent income, be it ever so small, relinquishes It without a sigh or at least a smothered regret. She may give up the independence for something more precious, or she may abandon it at the call of a higher duty, but there will al ways be times when she will think longingly of the money she used to earn. Tnere are manyjeasons for the gene al desire to earn money among womeo, happily placed in homes of their own. lhe first and usual impulse is unselfish. Life has become such a struggle arnd meD, intelligent, loving, devoted to their families, wish to do so much for their comfort, education and the estatb ishment in the world, that they wear theselves out in the effort.. The old way of obtaining money by Lhe wife, that or small domestic savings, i pitifully inadequate to her desires, nd there Is scarcely any sweeter pleas nre for a rood wire than the supply Ing some homely need with money o' er -own earning. Then the sense of power which the bility to earn money on even terms with all the world gives a woman, car des with it a subtle flattery, and, better han the flattery, there conres a feeling >f self-reliance from the fact that the ausiness world Eets a money value on ier work, which makes a at mph wom m brave and a wieak -womain strong.. f course, the woman who earns money neets annloyanlces and discouragemente, lable to wound her self-love and her inse of justice and of capacity. Bat cisagreeable things are incident to all 1man relations. A wice woman re members this, and is thanet-ul for the bome-ife and love which partial'y hield and soothe her-a support wholly acking to many women workers. A woman thus encouraged is not likely to meet a business man who will prove more annoying or make her feel more ndgnant or more wretches than an nompetent or impertinent servant it home. There is yet another reason why wives Ike to earn money, and this is a power u argument in its favor, to' thought ul women, Many andl many sorowful imes has been repeated the story of the uitured, home-loving woman sudden y bereft of the home and the love that 1as so gladly protected her. She has mot been an idle wonian as the orderly louse, the healthful family testify, and she may even have had a. training in iome art for self-support in her youth, >r practiced some trade before her mar ~lage. But the years of wifehoed have nevitably weakened her grasp, her echnical dexterity, arnd the busines nstinct that she must put into her iread-winaing pursuit, and when the. lay of needi comei s-he finds herself be iind the requirements of her time, and er services not commercially valuable. t is the knowledge of this painful ossibility which makes th~e modera~ narried woman slow to relinquish the exercise of her wage-earning power,1 *f she had any, and glad to try to ac-, ~uire a moiety of it if poible. The. ~eglar, though small, amount of woz h hat she may be able to do. keeps her in ~ouciwithi the business world, and wore han doubks her opportunities for work f the sad unexpected crosses her ~hresold. There is a lake entirely roofrd 'with ialt near A bdersk, Siberia. The lake Is nine miles wide and seventeen long. Long ago the rapid evaporation of the ake's water left great salt crystals oating on the surface. In the course f tu theaneecaked togntr.r Euis .MADE BY MAN. According to the newspapers, a Phila delphian named Gross hs discovered a prozess for making eg - He has worked with models, an- the --3sults, it is said, are so satisfactor. th j he will establish a factory in PhL._.e.phia at once. He claims that he can make eggs for eight cents per dozen, and they can be sold for a good profit of ten cents all the year round. Re guar antees they will never spoil, and, whether fresh or old they will always taste lite a newly laid egg, and will build up as much tissae'in the human frame, if eaten, as the genuine. The o ly thing Mr. Gross fears is that as soon as he is launched in the manufac ture of eggs, the farmers will combine and have a law passed knocking him out, as they have floored the ,oleomar garine inen. The shells are made out of paper mache baked hard and cast in molds the shape of an egg. A small hole is left in one end, and first the white is put in and then the yelk. The manu facture of the shell is simple enougb, but Mr. Gross declines to tell by what process or out of what materials he produces the interior of the egg. He says he has applied for a patent and this part of his invention must remain a secret until his rights are secured. One defect in the method of manu facture must yet be overcome, and Mr. Gross thinks he can successfully accomplish the fact in time. After the contents of the egg are put inside, the difficulty is to seal it. At present the seal is easily broken, especially if the egg is bodled. Speaking of the arrange ment inside, Mr. Gross said that the yelk is likely to be in any position,but under no circumstances will the white and yelk mix. In some eggs he had broken, the yelk was found in the centre, in others it was in one of the ends. Mr. Gross claimed for his egg all the virtues possessed by the real article. It can be used for all purposes in cookery. It can be beaten like the hen's eggs, and assists in producing delicious cakes of all kinds. The white may be used for frostings and icings, and lastly, the manufactured egg may be served on the table. It is easily boiled, fried, poached or scrambled. Smuggler's Tricks. Speaking of smuggling, a custom house inspector says, in a New York News interview: "The dried en trails of a beef or hog will hold a good many quarts of liquor, and it is not a difficult matter for a petty ship's officer or seaman to fill one of those receptacles, fod It around his body and boldly walk ashore. "Speaking of imported cigars, when the proprietor of a fancy establish ment bands out a box on the sly ana remarks that "if they hadn't run the blockade they would be worth a Q uar ter instead of 10 cents," you may be pretty sure they are domestic. "The custom people once made a seizure of several dozen boxes of these home-made productions on the sup position that they had been smug gled, but the proprietor paid the duty like a little man rather than have his customers learn the decep tion he bad practiced. "The Chinese on the Pacific slope In smuggl~ing opium, manage their business in various ways, until they were finally discovered and che::ked. The favorite plan was to use hollow articles n-t open to suspicion, such as sticks of wood, or the handle of an oar sawed apart and chiseled out so that being put together it was a mere shell "These were then filled with opi umn and dropped overboard, where they were picked up by persons on the watch. RAG UARPETS. In spite of all that has been said and written about rag carpets, there are comparatively few country homes with ot at least one of them. I saw a very handsome one a short time ago. The stripes are as follows: Plain dark brown stripe, forty-two threads. The bright stripe orange sir, green six, yellow and red rLwisted four, purple six, yellow six, green and bla--k twisted six, red six, brown six. ysllow and red twisted six. The last is the centre of the bright stripe. Almost all the rags in this carpet were cotton, and all of them were dyed wih Diamond dyes. The carpet took the premium at a county fair two years ago and has been in constant use ever since. Although it has been washed once, the colors are still bright. Another carpet is composed of shaded stripes. Trhe brown stripe is five inches wide, light brown in the centre, shaded to dark brown on either side. The colors in the bright stripes are black, drab, purple, lilac, orange, yellow, red and pink in the order naed. After the rags were dyed black, same as many more were put into the same dye and came out a prett~y drab. In the same way lilac was dyed after the purple, pink after the red and yellow after orange. In this way each dye was used twice, and none of it was wasted. Diamond dyes were used for each color. Very pretty carpets are made byv sewing the daik rags, "hit or miss" for the wide stripe, and dying the light colors for 1the bright stripe. One and a fotfrth pounds of rags will make a y ard of carpet, and seven and half ponds of chain will be required for twenty-five yards. E. J. Ci., KNSAss. EFFECTS OF COFk'EE. Coffee owes its stimulating and re ,reshing qualities to caffeine, says the Boston Jousrnal of Commerce. It also contains gum and sugar, fat, acids, casein and wood fiber. like tea, it powerfully increases the respiration; but, unlike it, does not affect its depth. By its use the rate of the pulse is increased and the action of the skin diminished. It lessens the amount of blood sent to the organs of the body, distends the veins and contracts the capillaries, thus preventing waste of tissue. .It is a mental stimulus of a high order, and one that is liable to great abuse. Carried to excess, it pro duces abnormal wakefulness, indiges tion, acidity, heart-burn, irritability of temper, trembling, irregular pulse. a kind of intoxicstion ending in delir im and great injury to the spinal functione. Unfortunately, thers are many coffee tipplers who depend upon it as a drankard upon hii dragi. On the other hand, coffee is of sovereign eftacy in tiding over the nervons sys tem in emerg encies. Coffee is also, in its place, an excellent medicine. In typhoid fever its action is frequently prompt and decisive. It is indicated in the early stages before local cm -nd lethargy, is an antidote for many kin ,s of poison, and is valuable in s,,,modi6 asthma, whooping cough, tnolera infantum and Asiatic cholera It is also excellent as a preventive agaiust infections and epidemic dis eases. In districts rife with mialaria and fever, the drinuing of hot coffee before passing into the open air has enabled persons living in such places to escape contagion. AN UNUSUALLY LIVELY CHOIR. 9iscord Among the Singers Put the Par son to Flight. Perbaps if the Rev. Lamb Agnus 3f Weeping 'Canon, N. M., knew as much about church choirs as he does now he would not have attempted to start a male choir at that place. If the reports of the Weeping Canon experiment are correct, Mr. Agnus had but recently left a theolozica! school and had more enthusiasm than p actical know edge, but there can be no doabt that his intentions were the best. It was said many times in Weeping Canon that the clergyman "Im ant well but had no 'sabe.' " At all events, according to the generally credited accounts of the affair, as given in the B. ston Adver tiser, Mr. Agnus set about forming a male choir soon after his arrival in Weeping Canon. At his personal and urgent solic'ta. tion about every cowboy and miner in that part of Sierra County who could siug, or who thought he could sing, was taken into the choir on trial 'he first few iehearsals were a source of many sleepless night to Mr. Agnus, but matters finally pro gressed to such a stage that it was announced that a concert would be given by the choir on an evening in the early part of June. It was gen. gally supposed that an influential ani popular individual who was known as "Chloride Jack" would be given the leading part because of his remark ably powerful if not particularly sweet voice, but Weeping Canon was startled by the announcement that a young ranchman, Pompilio Peraltes, was to be the star of the evening. It was noticed that "Chloride" was ab. sent from the rehearsals after that, and many of the older and wiser m.:mbers of the choir at once resigned from the organization. The concert was held on the even. ing as announced, but what the Weeping Canon Coyote, the local weekly, described as an "unfortunate misunderstanding" served to shorten the program noticeably. After the choir had sung two athems, which were vigorously applauded. Senor Peraltes started in on a solo. He bad hardly finishea a brief recitalion when a double-barreled gun was thrust through one of the open windows and a heavy load of buckshot was dis charged at the soloist. As the buck shot "scattered" to a great extent szoeral persons in the audience were more seriously injured than Senor Peraltes was, and the injured ones made haste to whip out their six shooters. A large portion of the audiencel made a rush for the door; many oth ers dropped quickly to the floor and crawled under the benches; some vicious cowboy "shot out" the lights and, to quote the Weeping Canon '.oyote, "the scenes th'at followed beggared description." A&bont 9 o'clock that evening a young man In clerical garD halled the Hermosa stage excitedly and clam bered in. His muddy and dishevel d attire was not such as the Rev. Lamb Agnus usually wo.e, but he was the individual. He was afterward in dluced to return to the Weeping Canon Church after a few weeks had elapsed; but for several years since hisretrnje has insisted upon puret conlgregational singing~' The "Gatored Mnle." ''Did you ever hear of a gatored mule?'" asked Mr. William G. Thompson of New York, who is on his way home, after a year spent in Florida for his health. "A 'gatored male,'- as he is called in Florida, is one of that stubborn race which nas been driven partially insane from an alligator fright. In fact, while a mule #ill stolidly wait to be thrown off a railroad by a ]oco motive before he moves, he goes into a wild state of terror at a single glimpse of a saurian monster. "There are hundreds of 'gatored mules' in Florida To tell the truth, I helped to 'gator' one myself. How did It happen? "Well, I had been staying at Oca la some weeks, and finally agreed, with several friends, to go hunting In the South. About twenty miles from town we located upon a small stream abounding in game. After pitching camp I went for a walk, and before lona found a 'gator hole.' From the strong, musty odor whi::h issued from it, Iknew that the owner was at home.. "Calling my companions, I decided to capture him. We rammed a long pole into the burrow several times. ILinally we heard a snap like the re port 'of a gun, and the pole remained fast. The 'gator had seized it. We tried vainly to pull him out. Then some one suggested that we try our camp mule. We sniouted. The mule was led down to the hole, a chain fa,tened to the pole, and then the frighltened animal was started. "There was a creaking of chains, a roar, and the alligator, fully seven feet in length, came out with a rush as tne mule started on a wild run for the road. The saurian's teeth were sunken so deeply into the wood that he could not release himself, and away went the mule, pole and all. The alligator spun around, hissing like a steam engine, but he held on, while the mule, thinking himself pursued, snorted and ran. We rol lowed, into the streets of Oscala flew the mule and his queer load. Corm pletely exhausted, he was stopped by a party in front of the postoffice. The 'gator was dead. We skinned and stuffed him. The mule recovered, but the sight of a swamp now throws him into a perfect frenzy of terror." -Washington News. W1--y They Are Called SpInsters. Among our Industrial and frugal English forefathers it was a maxim that a young woman should never be married until she had spun herselt a set of body, table ano bed linen. Frm this custom all unmarried women were termed spinsters, an ap pellation they still retain in all our WHEN I WAS MARY'S BEAU. BY XUGa4NZ FIELD. Away down Eas5t, where I was reared, among my Yankee kiti, There used to live a pretty girl whose name was Mary Smith; And though It's many years since last I saw that pretty girl, And though I feel I'm sadly worn by Western strife and whirl, Still, oftentimes I think about the old familiar phlace, Whic oftentimes seemed the brighter for Miss Mary's pretty face. And In my heart I feel once more revivifed the glow I used to feel in those old times when I was Mary's beau. On Friday night I'd drop around to make my weekly call, And though I came to visit her, I'd have to see 'em all. With Mary's mother sitting here and Mary's fatner there, The conversation never flagged so far as Fm aware; Sometimes I'd hold her worsted, sometimes we'd play at amnes, Sometimes di6sect t he anvles which we named each other's names oh. how 1 loathed the shrill-toned clock that told me when to go. 'Twas ten o'clock at half-pist eight when I was Mary's beau. And Mary, should these lines of mine seek out your bidine place. God grant they bring the old sweet smile back to your pretty face God grant they bring you thoughts of me, not as I am to-day, With faltering step and dimming eyes and aspect grimly gray; But thoughts that picture me as fair and full of life and glee As we were In the olden time-as you shall al ways be, Think of me ever, Mary, as the boy you used to know When time was fleet and life was sweet, and I was Mary's beau. STATE or OHIo, CITY OF TOLEDO, . LucAs COUNTY. FRAN J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of C uarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HA.L'S CATARRn CURE. FKAN.K J. CHENEY. worn to b-efore me and nubscribed in my prewence, this 8th day of Lecember, A. D. 1888. A. W. GLAsoN, Notaru PubTfc. Hall's Catarrh Cure istaken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. 0. WSold by Druggists, 75o. The orange was first planted in Southern California by the Franciscan fathers soon after they established their first mission in the state at San Diego, in 1769. We Cure Rupture. No matter of how long standing. Write for free treatise, testimoniall. etc., to S. . Hollensworth & Co. Owego, ioga , N. Y. Price $l; by mail. ". Miss Dod, the lady tennis champion of England, only recently celebrated her twenty-first birthday. She is also in excellant bicyclist and golf player, as well as a singer and pianist. POSTAL GUIDE FOR 1893 Contanining all the post offices arranged al phabetically, in States and Counties, with all other matters relating to post office aff.,irs cii be ordered from B. SALINGER P. . oox. 1182. Philadelphia. Pa. No business man should be without it. Price $2.00 paper cover with mouthly; $2.AJ cloth cover with mouthly. In Untch Guinea the women carry upon their persons all the family sav . ings in the sthape of heavy bracelets, aklets, necklaces and even crowns of gold and silver. What Do You Take Mfedicine for? Because you are sick and want to get well, or because you wish to prevent ill ess. Then remember that Hood's Sarsaparilla :cas all diseases caused by Impute blood. Purely vegetable-Hood's Pl~s-L5c. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, the brilliant author of "Old Kaskaskia," began her literary career when a mere cild as contributor to a Boston juven ile magazine. All that u'e can say as'to the mertta or Dobbina' Sleotrio Soap, pales into not~angness before the stor -It will tell you Itself, of its own per-fad aity, If you will give it oee tral. Don't teake unitation. There are lots of them. Some of the women of China are be ginning to comprehend the "folly of cmpressing the the feet. A missionary as beeln enlightening them on the sub ject. Freor kAle Greese. Dont work yor horses to death with. poor a'le grease: the Fae Is the only relIable make. [se it once and you will have no other. A story is told of a New York mil ionaire's wife who has been for the last three years "travsag all over Europe trying to match a pearl." Caun% Kidney Cure fbr Dropsy, Grave], Diabetes, Bright's, Heart. Urinary of Liver Diseases, Ner ousness, &c. Cure guaranteed. $31 Arch Street, Philad'a, $1 a bottle, 6 for '5, or druggist. 1030O certificates of ures. Try it. The people of Germany and Belgium are the greatest potato eaters; the onsumption mn these countries annu ally exceeds 1,000 pounds per head of population. Beecham's Pills cor-rect bad effects of over eating. Bieecham's--no others. 25 cents a box. The topaz took its name from a re k word meaning guess, since the acients could only guiss at the locali ty where this beautiful stone was ob tained. If afflicted with soreeyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at25c. pet bottle. A large black turtle, weighing nearly 2000) pounds was caught off Cape Look out, North Carolina, recentl~y. 'August Flower" My wife suffered with indigestion and dyspepsia for years. Life be came a burden to her. Physicians failed to give relief. After reading one of your books, I purchased a b)ottle of August Flower. It worked like a charm. My wife received im mediate relief after taking the first dose. She was completely cured now weighs 165 pounds, and can eat anything she desires without any deleterious results as was formerly the case. C. H. Dear, Prop'r Wash ington House, Washington, Va. @ Do Not Be Deceived with Pastes, Enamels anid Paints which stain the hdinjure the iron and burn red. * a u tv Polish Is Brilliant, Odor oonuseanpa yefor no tin BEST METHOD OF CLEANSING THE SKIN. I fancy I hear some ladies exclaim: "Why. we have been told that already. We have been told how to wash our faces with cold water and soap!" Yes; you have been told how to wash your faces, and so keep them clean when they are clean, but how about the skins which are disfigured by all sorts of eruptions and impupties which, having been thrown to tIfe sur. face, remain there for lackof an outlet? What about the blackheads, caused by the natural oil, which owing to the dampness of the atmosphere, cannot escape through the pores, and which settles in them, attracting to itself a cart da amount of dust? What aboat ccz 3 is, which is the result of heat in the ;lood, and an accumulation of pwaonous matter which is thrown to the surface? What abott the pimples, acne, and all the tribe of aisfiguring eruptions, which are the cause of grief to so many ladies who write to me plaintively: "My friends tell me I should be pretty if it were not for my bad complexion?" Can these troubles be cured by the use simply of cold water and good soap? No; 1 own frankly that they cannot, and I will tell you why. The sain may be compared to a piece of.honey comb. The comb represents the true skin, the honey the founda tion, or solid matter of the skin, and the cap over the honey the epidermis that meets the eye. Few imagine the cells of the skin to be fillel with a gradual accumulation of fatty matter which canrot escape, because the en trance, or perhaps I ought to say exi', is clogged. It must, settle there, and gradually become discolored. When this has happened, either through an excess of impure matter in the blood, through the injuadicious use of grease and clogging cosmetics, there is noth ing for it but to use such remedies as will cleanse the outer cuticle thorough ly, leaving a clear, fresb, surface. You have all noticed how white and fair the hands, and usually the face, look after a long illness. You know also that owing to various causes the skin usually peels during an illness. The old enticle - being removed, the fresh I one which is underneath, appears free from impurity. We require, therefore; something to remove this dead or clogged cuticle. We do not need to do all in our power to keep it on by constantly greasing and powdering it, but to get rid of it. When the old and disfigured outer skin is removed, the use of ordinary soap and water should keep it fresh and bright, unless there is an unusual amount of impurity in the blood If the blood is impure no good will be done by taking such medicines as draw the impure matter b-ack into the sys tem. A lady wrote to me a short time ago that she was greatly troubled with an eruption, which disappeared when her doctor gave her medicine for it, bat that the disappearance always made her so ill that the eruption was really a sign of health. Now this was a direct proof of the correctness of my theory. Nature was laboring to throw off tne imnure matter. She threw it to the surface, where, because the pores were clogged, it could not escape. There it remained for want of an outlet. Then medicine was takenl to get rid of the disfigurement; then the poistnous matter was all drawn back into the system. How much better it wo.'ld have been if it had beeu cleared from the surface and Na tre's own hint takenl A strong blistering lotion is not needed. What is wanted is a carefully prepared astringent lotion, which by gradually removing the outer cuticle, will, as I have said, leave the skin fresn and smooth. 1 have spoken simply, for there is no occasion here for me to enter into a scientific disquisition on the nature and structure of the skin. 'lf I hav: sueceeded in impressing upon ladies the importance of my theory, I shall be quite satisfied. One thing I may say, that if only one tithe of the letters thai I receive" complaining of the spoiled condition of the skin through 'orts of greasing and clog ging prepar obe published enire, there would be no 4on me to preach the gospel of hardening the skin; the letters would be more eloquent than any words of mine. AmuA BRr. PUEE AN~D WHOLESOSIE guALrrY Commends to public appi oval the Cali fornia liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. It is pleasant to the taste and by acting gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels to cleanse the system efeo ually, It promotes the health and com fcrt of all who use it, and with millions It is tne best and only remedy. USEFUL .BASKET. St reet shoes should 1te removed a soon as the wearer returns hom.e They should be pulled into form while still warm and placed so that they will pro. perly air inside. Dip fish in bollng water for a mo ment before scaling them,. Half a lemon, dipped in salt, is good to clean a copper or brass tea-kettle or oter utensija. The bollyhock has been promoted to decorative purposes at Newport dinner parties and rivals the sweet pea in fa vor. Those used are the- new double varieties, and come in beautiful rose reds and faint pink and lemon, and they are said to be extremely effective, for asthetic purposes. Whiskey will take out every kind of fruit stain. A child's dress will look entirely ruined by the dark berry stains oIt, but if whiskey Is pourd on the discolored places before sending it into the wash it will come out a good as new. A homne-made paste that can be re commended in unqualified terms is made or two tablespo )nfuls of laundry starch and one tablespoonful of gum arabic Dissolve ti'ese In a little warm water and pour over them about a pint belli rg water. Sztir rapidly over the ire for a few minutes and iet it asidt-* to cool. When the paste is nearly cold add three drops of oil of cloves to keep It from moulding or beina discolored. it brightens a carpet wonderfully to wipe it off with a sponge wet in wat'r te which a tablespoonful of turpentine has been added. This should be done once a month after the carpet has been tacroughly swept. sA good thing to do on cloudy days ito try to push the clouds away from somebody else's windows. 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