W i fl J i { try / 'A Jm r > A - w\f, W M Sweetest thing that can be seen Is a baby, fresh and clean. Dainty clothes and tender skin Need pure soap to wash them in. Nurse and mother must be sure Baby's bath is sweet and pure. Free from grease or alkalies; Ivory Soap their want supplies. COPYRIGHT 1898 BY THE PROCTER * GAMBLE 00. OINOINNATI A Oilake, r City Cat Storjr. The family group were speaking of C".ts and their ways, and the peaceful looking grandmother was asked to say something. The old lndy smiled, for she is not often slighted when in the company of younger people, and consented to tell a story about a kitten she had when the was a child. e "You know," she said, "I had a stepfather, and he liked to see me working about the house instead of playing with a kitten, so he ordered me to throw it in the brooK which ran through our meadow. "I was forced to do it, though I cried a great deal. I threw it in three times, but'the little thing struggled out each time and finally dragged it self home after me. Then I pleaded so much that I was allowed to keep it. '"From that time on it was kind of wild, not staying in the house, but skulking around the barn. When it was full grown it began to kill our chickeis, so my stepfather said it had to go. This time he caught it and tied a stone around it and drowned it. After an hour or two he drew it from the water and buried it. "Now comes the part that is stranger than fiction. Two days after the same old yellow cat dragged itself up to the barn. We visited the place we had buried it and found it had come to life and rid itself of the stone, in what way I know not, and dug itself out. "It stayed by the edge of our woods, getting the milk I set out every now and then, but disappeared when winter came."—Philadelphia Call. ~y I Mother Had Consumption "My mother was troubled with consumption (or many years. At last she was given up to die. A neighbor told her not to give up but try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. She did so and was speedily cured, and is now in the enjoyment of good health." D. P. Jolly, Feb. 2, 1899. Avoca, N. Y. Cures Hard C No matter how hard your cough is or how long you have had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best thins you could possibly take. But it's too risky to wait until you have consumption, for sometimes it's impossible to cure this disease. If you are coughing today, don't wait until tomorrow, but get a bottle of Cherry Pec toral at once and be relieved. It strengthens weak lungs. Throe sizes: enough for an ordinary cold; .W just right for asthma, bronchitis, hoarseness, whooping-cough, hard colds; SI.OO, most economical lor chronic casys and to keep on hand. $| Af\ f A . 01 A Invest sloto #looand I UU lOr 9IU get 91 oou for 9 100 sure; tare as a bank. WM. REED, 137 8. »th St.PWla.Pa. Save the Nickels. Prom saving, comes having. Ask youi grocer how you can save 15c by investing sc. He can tell you just how you cnn gei one large 100 package of "Bed Cross' starch, one lurge 10c package of "Kubin j ger's Best" starch, with the premiums, twc : beautiful Shakespeare panels, printed io twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all for sc. Ask youi grocer for this staroh and obtain these beautiful Christmas presents free. An Auto Wedding Party. Au electric car profusely decorated with white ribbons, traveling through the streets, was the cause of con i siderable amusement in London re i cently. The occupants of the cat were guests going to attend the wed ding of an employe of the electric tram- j way corporation, who had chosen the novel conveyance for his bridal coach A local newspaper characterizes the bridegroom as "eccentric" in conse quence. Evidently trolley parties are an unknown pleasure iu "the old country." Try Urain-O! Try €irain-0 : Ask your grocer to-day to show you t package of Graix-O, the new food drinl that takes the place of coffee. Chlldrer may drink It without injury as well as th« adult. All who try it like it. Gbain-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha 01 Java, but is made from pure grains; th< most delicate stomach receives It without distress. % the price of coffee. 15c. ant) 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. j Pasadena, Cal., has a sewerage farm ! which in one year returned a net profit of over S6OO. TTill Run Into Savannah, It is announced that, commencing Decern ber 10, 1890, the Southern Railway Compau) will operate through train service over it* own line via Columbia, Perry, Hlackville and I Allendale, S. C., to and from Savannah, Ga | Commencing that, date its through cai service will lie operated in connection with 1 the l'lant System south of Savannah, Ga. and the Florida Kast Coast Hailwav. to and from points on the east coast of Florida, with direct connections to and from Key West, 1 Fla.; Havana. Cuba, and Nassau, N. P., via ! Miami, Fla., in connection with the Florida j Kast Coast Steamship Line; and in connec j tion with Plant System south ot Savannah , to and Iroin other points in Florida, lnclud- i ing points on west coast, with direct c-onnec ' tionstoand from Key West and Havana, via Tampa, Fla., in connection with Plant Steam ship Line.—Washington Post, Nov. 10,1899. At a meeting held in London the other day It was resolved to Initiate an automo bile club. There is more Catarrh in this section of th» country than all other diseases put together and until the last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local diseaso and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing tc cure with local treatment, pronounced it in ourable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requirei constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on tht market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly or the blood and mucous surfaces of the system They offer one hundred dollars for any cas« It falls to cure. Send for circulars and testl monials. Address F.J. Cheney& Co., Toledo, O Sold by Dl ugglsts, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Range cattle In the Southwest are sellinit for $lO a head more than they sold for six years ago. Vitality low,debilitated or exhausted curec by l>r. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. Fkrk trial bottle for 2 wet-Its' treatment. Dr. Kline Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia. Founded 1871 Russia has now about 229,000 miles 01 railway line, including the great extension in Siberia. Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved m« many a doctor's bill.— S. F. Hardy, Hopkim Place, Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2,1894. Contrary to popular belief, excltemeu causes much less Insanity than monotony Will Prevent Elevator Accidents. An improved automatic safety lock for elevators is formed of two triangu lar blocks pivoted on top of the oai and held in a folded position by th< cable, the breaking of the lattei throwing the blocks out and operatinf two links, which catch in the sides 01 the well and support the car. The Centre of the United Statea* Ask the average person where th< central point of area is in the United States and he will fix it somewhei'< in Illinois. Tell him it is nearer Sat Francisco and he will be incredulout until he remembers that Alaska it within the boundaries of Uncle Sam Attention Is called to the very useful articles contained in the premium list otthe Continental Tobaoco Co.'s advertisement of their Star Plug Tobacco In another col umn of this paper. It will pay to lave the 1 'Star" tin tags and so take advantage ot ; the beat list ever issued bv the Star Tobacco A RONDFA'J. 0 swaet-day dream—that phantasy achieves, 1 would not wake to find my dream deceives, — It seems so real—that with my will at bay I stretch my arms out in a childish way To grasp the olden hope of morns and eves While the smiling flowers, the buds and leaves, In which the rapture of my mood believes Make glac> 'he summer air like roundelay— Ob sweet day dream! Ah, strange that dreamland ever mocking cleaves, Unto the pleasures, after-memory grieves. Time, when the sun of life filled youth's rare day, When all the future seemed endless May, And Love drew near the light that Fancy weaves, — Oh sweet day dream. > — ANNIE Q. MURRAY, in Boston Sunday Ilerald. IDISCONTEBTEDj "Dear me," said Letty Wyngard, "I shall go crazy. Five (children all clamoring at once, the preserve kettle boiling over, the pickles fermenting, moths in my Sunday shawl and the dog running away with the soup-bone for dinner." And Letty stood in the middle of the room, holding her head with both hands, as if she momentarily expected it to sail up iuto the air like a balloon. Letty was very pretty, after an odd gypsy type, with great dark eyes, a brown, healthy skin,and hair as black as a crow's wing—and, as yet, not even the fivo children, and the endless round of daily cares and duties to which, as the wife of a poor, young carpenter, she was condemned, had planted a wrinkle on her velvet smooth forehead. John Wyngard burst out laughing, and that, iu Mrs. Wyngard's case, proved the oue hair that broko the camel's buck. She 1 egau to cry. "Now, Letty, don't bo a goose," said he, soothingly. "Why, what do you know about real trouble?" "I dou't care," sobbed Letty. "I'm sick of it all. I'm tired of patching old clothes, and hashing old meats, aud hoarding jennies. I'm tired of " "Your husbaud and your children," gravely interrupted Mr. Wyugard, "Is that it, Letty?" Mrs. Wyngard pouted and was silent. Sho didn't like to own to it, but for the moment she almost felt that sho was tired of them. "I might have married rich," she said, slowly, twisting the baby's bib- Btrings around aud about her finger. "I might have beeu Howard Liuds ley's wife, and he is a very wealthy man they tell me." "It's a pity you didn't," said John, provokingly. "Yes, it is a pity,"said Letty.stung beyond endurance, as she flounced out of the room. Aud then as she sat down to sew a button on Johnny's jacket and braid little Helen's hair and show Rosie aliout the arithmetic sums, and, finally, wheu the four eldest ones weie packed oft' to school, to batho the baby aud rock it to sleep, Letty Wyn gard could not help thinking how much brighter and smoother her path way would bo if.iustead of sayiug"no" to liaudso'iie Howard Lindsley, she had uttered, the other monosyllable. Not but what she loved John better, far, than Howard—but this wearing, grinding succession of petty cares and toil was sapping all the life aud elas ticity out of hei. She looked disdainfully down at the faded calico dress she wore, patched and da' lied in more than one place. "If I had married Howard Linds ley," she said to herself, "I could have worn silks and jewels every day, with hired servnnts to wait on me and an elegaut carriage to drive out in whenever I pleased. Oh, dear, what a world of trouble this is!" And as Mrs. Wyngard laid her little rosy-cheeked infant down to sleep,she felt as if her lot had fallen in very thorny places. Just as she had taken her place once again over the brass kettle in which she was trying to "do up" same rocky pound pears which a neighbor had given her, there came a knock at the door. "Come in," said Letty, aud the housekeeper from Hadfield Hall, the big mansion on the hill, came mincing across the threshold. Letty dusted off a. chair in consider able of a flurry, for Mrs. Ellison was a grand lady in her way, who wore black silks aud laces and had her bon uots directly from a New York mil linor every spring and fall. "Won't you sit down, Mrs. Elli son?" said she, coloring to the roots of her pretty hair, and secretely hop ing that Mrs. Ellison did not observe the patch ou her calico dress. "Thank you, my dear—l am in a great hurry," said Mrs. Ellisou, "I have some fine laces and «nuslins aud Valoncinnes handkerchiefs here from my lady at the hall. The laundress hasn't come down yet, and she ain't willing to trust the lady's maid with 'em, and they must be ready by dark —and so I told her I knew a person in the villago that was a master hand at laces aud fluting and such like,and I depend on you, my dear, to do 'em up for mo." Letty hesitated an instant. "She'll pay you a dollar at loast," said Mrs. Ellison. "She ain't noue of the stingy sort, my lady ain't." A dollar, iu Letty Wyngard's eyes, was no inconsiderable sum. A dollar wonld buy the new shoes that Hosie neeiVed so sadly—or llauuel for tho baby's winter sacks—or half a hun dred other necessaries which Letty could think of. "i'es," said she, "I'll do it. My preserves will soon be finished. Lny the bundle on the table please. So the new family have arrived at the hall at last?" Mrs. Ellison nodded assent. She had lived housekeeper with the Had fields of Had field Hall for '2O ve»rs, and was sorry enough when the old place went into other hands. But a situa tion was a situation, so she had stayed on. "Yes," says she. "Mr. and Mrs. Howard Lindsley." Letty gave such a start that the preserve kettle had nearly tipped over iuto the lire. "Lindsloy!" cried she, with a little, hysterical laugh. "What a funny name!" "Handsome, stylish people, with more money, to all appearances, than they know what to do with," went on Mrs. Ellisuu. "I just wish you could see her dresses and jewels! Stephanie, the French maid, showed me, when she was unpacking 'em, and it's as good as a play!" Letty said nothing, but stirred busily away at her preserves, while the old housekeoper maundered on about tbe wealth and grandeur of the new possessors of Hadtield Hall. And all this might have been hers! "When shall I send for the laces?" Mrs. Ellisou finally asked, when she rose to depart. FU take them home myself, about dusk," said Letty, inwardly resolving to get for herself a glimpse into the paradise which so nearly had been her onii. And so,at twilight, with the daiutily ironed and fluted laces in her basket, she walked up to Hadtield Hall. How stately it looked with its broad colonnaded facade, all glitteridg with lights, its grand conservatory at tbe back, where palm-leaves and I ananas brushed the top, and its terraced grounds! Oh, if she had only said "yes" to Howard Lindsley 11 years ago! Within, everything was in keeping. Axminister carpets,liko banks of moss covered the floor—marble statues in velvet-lined niches—lights glowed softly, and tables, loaded with rare ornaments, stood around. "Hush!" said Letty, as Mrs. Ellison with some pride, pointed out the vari ous beauties of the ploce. "What is that noise, like a woman crying? In the next room. I think." Mrs. Ellison's face clouded over. "It's Mrs. Lindsley, poor dear," said she. "The master's a brute. He's been drinking too much—Mademoi selle Stephanie says he always drinks too much—and he struck her! Struck her, and called her a whimpering fool before all of us servants. I never saw a man strike a woman before, and I declare it made me sick all over. But Stephanie savs it's a common thing enough. Oh, my dear, she's wretch ed in spite of all her money." "Has she no children?" Letty softly asked. "She had two, but she lost'em both. Mademoiselle Stephanie says she often cries and wishes sho was dead, too. And I don't wonder much, with such a husband as she's got. Hush! there he comes now." And shrinking behind a carved group of Italian marble statuary, the two women watched Howard Lindsley stalk g'oomily by, with rod, inflamed eyes, sullen, down-looking face and shult'insr, unsteady footstep. Silently Letty Wyngard went home, thanking God in her heart that she was a poor man's wife. "Have you heard of the accident?" asked old Peter Styles, who was stand iug out at his gate, as she hurried by in the deepening <lusk. "Xo; what accident? What has happened?" "That there house as your husband was workiu' in lias tumbled in! All a lieapjof ruins! Something wrong about the foundation, they say, aud " "Oh, my God!" wildly interrupted Letty, clasping her bauds. "Was he hurt? My husband?" "Well, "hesitated old Styles, "there was two men killed and one had his arm broke. But " Letty waited to hear no more. Swift as au arrow out of a bow she sped homeward, a horrible dread winging her footsteps with almost incredible speed. Oh! if John should be killed—John, her faithful, loyal husbaud, whom she had recked so lightly of—whom that very day she had allowed to leave her without the good-bye kiss. If her children should be fatherless—if "John! John!" she wailed, as she pushed open the door, and went, breathless, into the kitchen. "Well, little woman, what is it?" Aud oh! thanks to au all merciful Heaven John Wyngard himself turned his bright, living face toward her from the hearthside, whore he was sitting, with a child on either knee. "I know what is in your dumb, ques tioning eyes, Letty. lam not hurt, thank God. I had just gone to the hardware store for another barrel of nails when the building fell. No, Letty, you're not rid of me quite so epsily." Letty threw herself, sobbing, into his arms. "Ah, John, John, love me. Hold me closer to your heart, John. I've been repining and selfish. I've never been half good enough for you; but, please God, I'll be a better woman, aud a more faithful wife from this night henceforward." And th< n she told him the history of her day's adventures. "It's natural enough, little wife," said 'John, kindly, stroking her hair. "But for all that I'm glad you've real ized money isn't always happiness." Aud a mure contented couple than John Wyngard and his wife Letty never sat by cheery fireside upou that ble ik winter evening. Letty profited by her lesson. It is supposed that the average depth of sand in the deserts of Africa is from thirty to forty feet. 1 FARM AND GARDEN.] Warm Shelter for HOB*. In protecting fattening hogs from the oold of winter, it is best to depend ; at,her upon warm sheds and wind breaks than on the,#moant of bedding too much exposure will make neces sary. When chilled by exposure,hogs will invariably pile up, and with large heavy hogs this will prove disastrous to some of the herd where any num bers are kept together. Too much bedding will only add to the danger. Last winter a neighbor, on one bitter ly cold night, lost more hogs than would have paid for help to have made a warm and sheltered place for the s wine to sleep in. A hay shed three feet high at the back and four and a half feet high in front, facing the south, would have cost him nothing for material, as it was lying about his place unused, and if he himself could not have found time to construct the shed, he could have hired the work done for less than the cost of one hog. It is looking at 6uch things as these in time that mark the difference between the successful and the unsuccessful farmer.—Orange Judd Farmer. Charcoal an a Fertilizer. There is scarcely arny fertilizing ele ment iu charcoal itself, excepting the small amount of potash that it con tains. Even this is not so available as it would be if the charcoal were completely bnrned aud reduced to ash. But the dark color of charcoal enables it to absorb the heat that the sun's rays bring to it, so that when spread upon garden land where a warmer soil is desired it may often be an advantage to early vegetables, pro viding always that the plants where it is spl-ead be covered at night, so that the warmth gained by day may be re tained during the hour.-* of darkness. But charcoal may be mado directly u fertilizer through its great capacity for absorbing ammonia after it has been placed in stables where nitro genous manures are fermenting. This ammonia the charcoal will retain, uniting with whatever potash is avail able for such use iu the charcoal, and thus forming a nitrate of potash. Charcoal is the best thing to place in the bottoms of small plant pots to give the roots drainage way. Stones are often used for this purpose, but if auy fertilizer material sinks down to tbe stoues it would run through and be lost i i the saucer holdi g the pot. Where charcoal is used it would re tain all the nitrogenous fertility so that roots coining i i contact with the fertilized charcoal could use whatever it coutainod that they needed. Indian Cultivator* or th» Soil. Those who coutend that the Indian is incapable of becoming a good agri culturist take their cue from a few isolated cases. In most cases where failure has been recorded the failure comes from the inability or incapacity of those who are appointed by the government to lead them. Whoever has had the opportunity of traveling through the country settled by the Clierokeos aud Choctaws must have soon quite as frequent evidence of ag ricultural success among those people as could be seen among white people anywhere. It is, however, to be sug gested that this is chiefly on account of the country beiug more favorable to agriculture than localities further north. But we learn from the Heleua In dependent that the Crow Indians are rapidly udvancing iu industrial agri culture. Crops have been raised iu the Crow region chiefly by irrigation. In less than ten years these Indians have constructed eight large irrigating canals, sufficient to irrigate from two thousand to ten thousand acres each, and are now working on another that is even larger. It is to extend for probably fifty miles. A few white men are employed as skilled artisaus by the Indians; but the work itself is done by them. It is said that they are remarkably thrifty, not spending all their mouey, but saving some, which is invested in iruly sensible and business ways.—Meehan's Monthly. Tlte For cut Worm. The development of the forest worm with such astounding rapidity compels ns to look iuto the future with a good deal of alarm. Are we to have thie post for several years in succession? As neor as I can find out they have appeared in New York but once before within the memory of anyone now liv ing—that was iu 1830 or in 1881. At that time they remained for only two years. We have no record of the cause of their disappearance. It is probable, however, that they were met by some counter attack, either of the insect or of fungoid character. My sons inform me that such enemies of the caterpillar are already at work, while other foes are attacking them in the cocoon state. They were hatched out this year about the firßt of April —appearing first on the plnm trees and apple trees, and rapidly spread ing to most of the other shade and fruit trees. They did not touch the magnolias, tulip tree, Kentucky coffee tree, persimmon, pawpaw, English elm or Norway maple, and in general did not prefer the soft maples of any variety. Among forest trees they objected to the butternut and the walnut, but ate the maples, white elm, oak aud bass wood, taking the ash as soon as it leaved out —later than the rest. Among the fruit trees it did not choose the pear or the cherry. It stopped its work of defoliation about the twentieth of June, although many cocoons were spun earlier than this. The moths emoi ged from the cocoons about July 1. The work of the moth lasts from two to three weeks. Vlie eggs appear to be identical with the tent caterpillar, but they are gluod ou all sorts of trees. I have even found them wrapped around currants on the currant bushes.. The tent caterpillar confines himself to the apple and wild cherry, with an occasional nest ou a pear, plum OK peach tree, but the for est worm eggs must be sought foi everywhere, even upbn the flower shrubs. The problem what to do bus no more definite answer than fight, fight, fight, and kill, kill, kill at every stage of the existence of the pest. My lawns and orchards are nroof thai where the worm is at its ~t we can conquer. We met them with torch, with arsenical splaying, with kerosene emulsion, and where the worms weie gathered, as they were, in vast masses, we crushed them with gloves saturated in kerosene. We have only tore member that while kerosene is death to them it is also death to trees il carelessly applied.—E. P. P., in New York Tribune. Points About Milking. A good milker can not make a good cow out of a poor one, but a poor milker can and will spoil the best ol cows and neutralize the most judi cious feeding. The foundation for s good or poor milker is laid at the verj start. In order to succeed, the beginnei should have a liking for tne business. He must become acquainted with his cows aud not only know them by sight but should study their individual characteristics and temperaments in order to know just how to handle them. He should also have some competent person to show him just how to begin. No one could reason ably expect children to become good penmen by giving them a pen, a bot tie of ink and some paper, but that the way a majority learn to \ it They are given a pail, a stoar shown a cow, and left to tha/m A miserable failure is often tjß The eow on which to 'ghoul'l 'ghoul 'l be a quiet, easy milker, r/iat is not giving a large quantity. " i'mder no circumstances should the beginnei continue to milk after his arms ot hands commence to ache. Better have another finish the cow. This will only have to be done a few times. Milk well and milk fast from the verv start, but don't milk too much. Al ways avoid that jerky motiou which is so common. Also the habit of strip ping with thumb and finger. The practice of wetting the teats is very bad, as it induces the growth of warts and scabs and is as unnecessary as it is filthy. Deal gently but firmly with the cows, and bear in mind that a good milker is always a skilled workman. New England Homestead. Clearing anil Fencing in Winter. During the next few months there will be a considerable length of time which can be devoted to clearing aud fencing. Thickets and hedge rows of briers surrounding fields that are be ginning to encroach upon the culti vated lands should be cut back. We oftentimes see small five or ten acre fields divided by a strip of two or three acres of second growth pine. These little orchards of pines could bo easily cleared and the small fields thrown together, making a large one. Time, a most important item, would be saved by bringing all the work pos sible in one field. The sunshine would have a better opportunity to reach aud furnish the growing crops with its life promoting rays, while tie evil influences of shade from surround ing trees aud their constant drain upon the soil would be dispensed with. There is never a day, even in bad weather, when the farmers cannot find some useful employment for all the labor on his premises. There is not a farm, little or big, which does not at every season of the year find use for a good, well fenced pasture. Keeping the cow,calf and horse enclosed within a lot and no pasture in which to let them graze is an expensive luxury. Oftentimes the trouble about provid ing water in sufficient quantities each day becomes a hardship on certain members of the household, and the work is but poorly done. It is rare that one sees cattle confined in these close lots looking well; generally they present a rough coat; are poor and have saddened faces. Every man has an abundance of spare time from field work during the year, especially the ■winter portion, in which to cut, split rails and build a nice pasture, through which a stream of good water should run. It is always preferable to have two pastures, one located on bottoms where grasses can be found growing during winter and the other on higher lands if desired, to utilize the summer grasses. Every pasture should be occasioually plowed aud harrowed if possible, aud such grasses and clovers sown as will give best returns for the labor expended, through the cattle and stock for which they are intended to feed. There is too little attention paid to our pastures. Oftentimes when the pasture looks green and in viting, the grasses are deficient in nutrition and the stock do not fatten and thrive near as well if better grasses were used. There is no finer grass for permanent spring and sum mer pasture than Bermuda, and no grass which cau be more easily sodded. For upland or bottoms nothing is superior, and it is the most nutritious of all grasses grown in the United States. Let us have more and better pasturage. It will mean more and better cattle. It will give to each farmer a larger profit on his business and more satisfaction and pleasure in the conduct of his affairs.—Atlanta Journal. Apologetic. Bridget—l can't stand missus, snr. Von Blumer (sarcastically)—lt's a pity Bridget, that I couldn't have se lected a wife to suit you. Bridget—Sure, sur, we all make mistakes.
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