44 A Stitch in Time Saves Nine/' A broken stitch, like the 44 little rift 'within the lute," is the beginning of trouble• 44 1 a.m tired, not ill." 44 It tuill soon pass atuay." " I don't believe in medicine." These" Are the broken stitches thai lead to serious illness. Nature is 'wise and in Hood's Sarsaparilla. she has furnished the means to take up broken stitches. Why ? 'Because & starts at the root and cleanses the blood. Bad Blood "For years / <was troubled <with my blood, my face <was pale, I never felt tvell. Three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla made me feel better and gave me a healthy color." Mae Cross, 24 Cedar Av., South, Minneapolis. Minn. Hood's Pills curft liver !!!■; the non-irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla Jukr as Floats. There are various things used foi floats in fishing, from the pretty little painted floats of cork up to good-sized jugs, these last being used in jugging for catfish in Western rivers. The jug used as a float is tightly corked, and the rope or line that serves as a fish tine is tied to the handle, the hook at the other end ou the bottom being baited with a frog or other attractive morsel. The jug may be used as a float for a single line, or two jugs may be placed as floats, one at either end if a trot line, from which a number of baited lines depend. A big cattish of the kind not uncom mon in Western rivers, weighing fifty )r a hundred or more pounds, would sven make a jug bounce lively in the irater, and a comparatively small fish would give it motion, whereupon the isherman, who might be on the bank raiting developments, would put ofl in his skiff and take up the line. FOR MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN. Two T.ettcrs from Women Helped Through the "Change of Life" by Lydla E—Pink hnm's Vegetable Compound. '• Dear Mns. Pinkham When I first Wrote to you I was in a very bad con dition. I was passing through the change of life, and the doctors said I had bladder and liver trouble. I had suffered for nine years. Doctors failed to do me anj' good. Since I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, my health has improved very much. I will gladly recommend your medicine to others and am sure that it will prove as great a blessing to them as it has to me." — Mp.s. Geo. H. June, •01 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Relief Came Promptly "DeikMrs. Pinkham :—I had been under treatment with the doctors for four years, and seemed to get no better, I thought I would try your medicine. My trouble was change of life, and I must say that I never had anything help me so much as Lydia E. Pink linm's Vegetable Compound. Relief came almost immediately. I have better health now than I ever had. I "Jeel like a new woman, perfectly •trong. I give Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound all the credit, and would not do without her medicine for any thing. I have recommended it to several of my friends. There is no need of women suffering so much for Mrs. Pinkham's remedies are a sure cure." Mauala Butler, Bridge water, 111. Another Woman Helped " Dear Mrs. Pinkham : —I took Lydia R. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during change of life and derived great benefit from its use." — Mary E. James, 13ti Coydon St., Bradford, Pa. The Hon. Geo. Starr Writes No. 3 Vah Nkss Place, New York. Dr. Hadway —With me yonr Relief lias worked wonder*. For the last thiee years I have had frequent, and sever' 1 attacks of sciatica, sometimes extending from the lumbar regions to my ankle, tnd at times to both lower limbs. During the time I have been afflicted I have tried almost i«il the remedies recommended bv wise men ind fools, hoping to find relief, but all proved to be tailures. I have tried various kinds of baths, manipnla Hons, outward application of liniments toe numer 3us to mention, and prescriptions <»f the most tminent physicians, all of which failed to give me relief. Last September, at the urgent request of a friend (who had been afflicted as myself) I was induced to try your remedy. I was then suffering fearfully with one of my old turns. To my surprise and de light the first application gave me ease, after bath tag and rubbing the parts affected, leaving the limbs in a warm glow, created by the Relief. In a §hort time th« pain passed entirelv away. A1 though I have slight periodical attacks approach (ng a change of weather, I know now how to cure ravsnlf, and feel quite master of the situation. fcAL>WAY'S READY RELIEF is my friend. I never travel without a bottle in my valise. Yours truly, rtEO. STARR, Emigrant Commissioner R'« Sold by nil Druggists. KA I)WAY & CO., 55 Elm Street, New Yorl AGENTS! AGENTS! AGENTS! The grandest cutest selling book everpublishedis DARKNESS: DAYLIGHT or LIGHTS and SHADOWS OF NEW YORK LIFE WITH INTBODUCTIOM— ItT IIt:V. LYMA V ABBOTT. frplen<]l<ily illustrated with 250 superb engraving. fr«#i ft nAh-livht photographs of real life. Ministers nay: •• God speed it." Everyone laughs and cries ove» It, and Agents ar»- selling it bu thousands. %W 1000 more Agents wanted all through the South—met and women. $ 100 to J§gOO a month made. Henc for Terms to Agents. Address 11AHTFOKD PUimslHNO CO., Hartford, Cow, ' HOW TO SET OFFICE of Home Instruction b? fhe Government Office Training School, Wash in* ton, D. 0. Women Eligible. Positions Permanent d&GnaaaHHaaasEßfc I*J CURES WHtRt AU. ELSE fJUIS.Ba Eg Best Cough Syrup. Good. Use H El in time. Sold by druggists. HI WITH LOVE-FROM MOTHER. There's a letter on the bottom of the pile,. Its envelop a faded, sallow brown, It has traveled to the oity many a mile. And the postmark onmes a little unknow& town. tint the hurried man of business pushes all the others by, And on the scrawly characters he turns a glistening eye. He forgets the cares of commerce and his anxious schemes for gain, | The while he reads what mother writes from up in Maine. There are quirks and scratchy quavers of the pen Where it struggled In the fingers old and bent. There are places that he has to read again And ponder onto And what mother ineaut. There are letters on his table that inclose some bouuelng checks; There are letters giving promises of profits on his "specs." But he tosses all the litter by, forgets the golden rain, Until he reads what mother writes from up in Maine. At last he flnda ''with love—we all are well," And softly lays the homely letter down •Vnd dashes at his headlong tasks pell mell, —Once more the busy, anxious man of town. But whenever in his duties as the rushing mom on ts 11 y That faded little envelope smiles up to meet his eye. He turus again to labor with a stronger truer brain. From thinking on what mother wrote from up in Maine. Through all the day he dictates brisk ro plies. To his amanuensis at his side. —The curt and stern demand and busi ness lies —The doubting man cajoled, and threat defied. And then at dusk when all are gone ho drops his worldly mask And takes his pen and lovingly performs a woluome task; For never shall the clicking typo or short hand scrawl profane The message to the dear old home up there in Maine. The penmanship is rounded schoolboy stylo, For mother's* eyes are getting dim, she wrote; And, as he sits and writes there, all the wbilo A bit of homesick feeling grips his throat. For all the city friendships'here with Tom and Dick and Jim And all the ties of later years grow very, very dim; While boyhood's loves in manhood's heart rise deep and pure and plain, Called forth by mother's humely words from up in Maine. —Holman F. Day, in Lewiston Journal. j the Diamond, i j A SOUTH AFRICAN EPISODE. \ Ned Ctimmings went into Cape Town in an Indian steamer in tho tiist year of the dinraoud excitement. He h.«ul never had as good a chance to get rich easily, and he was not going to let the chance slip l>y. So, one lino morning, with a knapsack slung over bis shoulder, a good American revolver strapped to his hip, and a Hottentot as a guide, be tramped away toward *be Yaal river. Ned, swinging along under tbat southern sky, caught up with two men tiampiug in the same direc tion. "Shipmates ahoy!" roared Ned in 'lis jolliest sea voice, which he could raise above the souud of the tempest. ''Whither bouudV" "For the mines, and be blowed to j you," growled one of the men. ".Bet you a plug of navy you out | adrift from your ship without asking leave of the old man." "What's that to you, you lubber?" was the reply of the man, a sulky, darkbrowued fellow, evidently a sailor, but far from a pleasant-looking one. j "My name is Matt Fralick," said Ihe man."l deserted from the bark Assumption, bouud to Ceylon. This mau is a Lascar, named Joe, who cut away with me. Now, who are you?" "Ned Cummings, able seaman; left tho steamer Rajah at Cape Town, becuuse I wanted to make a strike for these near diamond fields; for you see I've mined iu Californy, Peru and Australy, and I don't want it said there's any new places, whether gold or diamonds, that I ain't had a ba'id in." Days passed, and they were yet upon the way, holding a course by the skillful guidance of the Hottentot, who knew the way well. They came down into the camp amid the balking of dogs, but scareelv noticed by the miners, who expected to see new men come into the fields day after day. Ned was an active man, and before night he had learned all the rules of the camp, and had marked off a claim for himself and his two companions. His Hottentot looked on in supreme disgust as he saw his friend mark out the ground and fall to work. "That's so foolish," he said touch ing Ned on the shoulder, "i'ou come hunt?" "Ned showed him a small diamond, not larger than a common, shot, which had been given him in Capo Town. Kanadu uttered a snort of disgust. "You come hunt," he insisted. But Ned refused, and Kanadu left the camp, and the men washed on under the burning sun. There was not much work in Matt Fralick or the Lascav, and the burden fell on Ned's shoulders. "Let's quit without any hard words Matt,"he said. "I want a mau with me that can take a fair share of the work, and you and the Lascar are just about equal, yon see. I'll strike a new claim, or buy you out." They chose togo out, thinking he could do nothing alone; but Ned had made his plans, and alter the two left him, he hired a half-breed Hottentot to sort. From that time he did bet ter, and found several stones of fair value. Two weeks of this work and the two came back,and wauted to join him again, offering to let their united labor go against his. But Ned would not do it. A month later Kanadu sauntered lazily into the camp looking for Ned. He grinned widely as he saw the sai lor at work. "Find him, master?" he asked. "Some of 'em," said Ned. "How are you, old chap?" "Me well," replied Kanadu, grin ning again. "Me always well. S'pose you let me see what you find." Ned produced the bag and showed the diamonds and Kanadu gave a snort of disdain. "Look dis," he said, opening his hand. In the centre of his brown palm glowed a diamond of great size and brilliancy, the largest Ned had ever seen. "You take him, Ned," he said. "Den you come out dat hole and hunt good deal." "You give it to me?" cried Ned. "No want him. S'pose you gib me gun, dat all right," said Kanadu. Ned eagerly accepted the offer and quickly hud the jewel, fearing that other eyes might see it. Other eyes had seen it—those of Lascar Joe, and he was literally stricken dumb at the sight of the wonderful diamond. Ned was busy all that day, and in the night, with only Kanadu for a com panion, he slipped away, and before morning was far away from the camp. He had bought another revolver at the mine.sand Kanadu bad a beauti ful rifle, the price of the big diamoud. That night they camped beside a shining river, and the Hottentot kepi watch while Ned lay down to sleep. He was tired and awoke after some hours as a cry of agony rang through his ears, and started up with his re volver ready, to see Kanadu lying on his face, his blood soaking the earth and two men springing at him, with knives and pistols gleaming iu the moonlight—men whom he knew — Lascar Joe and Matt Frulick. "(live up the diamond and you shall go free!" hissed Matt, as hf leveled his pistol. "Never!" cried Ned. The pistols cracked together and Matt fell dead aud Ned staggered back, with a bullet through the flesey part of the arm. He fell over the prostrate form of the Hottentot aud before ho could l iso the foot of the Lascar was ou his breast. Ned was weaponless, for his pistol had fallen from his bund as he re ceived the bullet. "Fire!" cried Ned. * "I'll never Vieg for life from such as you; don't think it." At this moment came a loud roar and a great, hairy body passed over the prostrate man, sending the Lascai to a distance of 20 feet. Ned stag gared up and ran iuto the woods,leav ing his enemy a prey to the lion, which had come to his aid so oppor tunely. Five minutes later he was joined by the Hottentot, who had been stunned by the bullet which grazed his skull, and the two kept on their way all night.and finally reached the settlements. Here Ned bade tha Hottentot farewell and reached Cape Town. The diamoud sold for $50,- 000, and Ned owns a ship which runs from New York to San Francisco. But he never saw the Africau coast again, and probably never will. THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE. All Knglnmi Wa» Mad to Sii|>|>ort Thlt Surpri*inif Delusion. '1 he advances iu science lead to hope! of the sudden accumulation of gold, just as the discovery of new worlds led our ancestors to invest in inanj intlated enterprises of commerce ami conquest. This older temptation has passed away, for there are no new worlds to discover, and this small globe has been practically staked out but the mysterious domains of science are still illimitable, and att'ord vast op portunities for intlated schemes which have their prototype in the South Sea Bubble. Let us refresh our memory of this surprising delusion. It arose in the reign of Anne,nearly 180 years ago, and when we consider the extent of the speculation and gambliug which it eaused and the number of those who lost everything and who cousigued their families to bitter poverty, we are tempted to class it with those other calamities which preceded it and which atMicted England so heavily— the great tire of London and tha plague. The South Sea company claimed to have onormous sources of profit in certain exclusive privileges, obtained from the Spanish govern ment, for trading in their possessions in South America and Mexico; audit may be well for us in these times of the flotation of schemes for obtaining gold from salt water and from sands, of power from air and something more ethereal than air, to be reminded of the many bubbles that caine into ex istence and burst at the time of the collapse of the South Sea Bubble. The stock of the South Sea company rose from one hundred to a thousand, and an army of future victims crowded the offices of the compauy, anxious to invest in what they believed would suddenly enrich them. Indeed, all Englaud seemed togo mad, and the craze of the time is reflected in the writings of Pope aud Swift.—Prof. John Trowbridge, in Appletom' Pop ular Science Monthly. Two Definition*. The humors of examination papers were illustrated by Dr. Haig Brown, who, speaking at the City of London college upon the responsibility which rested upon examiuers in weighing fragments of knowledge, said that the question, "What are the Chiltern Hundreds?" once received the reply, "Small animals which abound in such numbers in cheese." The inquiry, "What is a cherub?" elicited, iu its turn, the answer, "An immoral being oi uncertain shape."— Argonaut. | NEW YORK FASHIONS. 1 H Designs For Costumes That Have Be- §| come Popular in the |j NEW YORK CITY (Special).—This city is the point where all milliners ?et their first selections. The new SPRING MODELS PROM PARIS. (1. Empire. 3. Trliinon. .t. Cbantilly 4. IJoer. 5. Directotre.) style indication already approaching is leaving on one side toques, berets and round hats of the folded and cum bersome order. These will be re placed by picture hats, which in point >f style will astonish the world by the time the early season begins. Marked favor is bestowed on all sorts of head wear approaching the Directoire and First Empire styles aff] tmkea box Plaits {jfpffl ■SriTCft&DTuoKsffip Pox Tl ait [( J3Coc TI, AITErP *-*• SIX WAYS OF DRAPING A SKIRT. either in shape or mode of adorn ment. These will be huge straw affairs with wide brims, filled iu between and on top with magnificent flowers, pre ferably roses. Lots of lace, with strings tied under the chin and flow ing over the front of the gowns, is a fair outline description of what can be expected in the later seasou. The great hats of Neapolitan, Swiss and fancy braids will be anything but liglit looking affairs, summery ouly in the sense of protection to the face and in lightness of material and decora tions. Cot of the Now Skirts. Just because we are one and all to have skirt fullness thrust upon us, there is not the slightest reason to fear that there's to be any painful sameness about said fullness. No, we may have our fullness where we want it, aud how we want it. It may grace a skirt or an overskirt, or any other arrangement known to feminine apparel. It may be thiok or thin, or in clusters, only it must be graduated; shapely, you know, and flaring out toward the foot and taper ing in at the belt. Iu the large en graving are six of this approved ways of introducing the fullness. SINGLE. We will take a look at the singlo box plait first. This one is orna mented with stitched satiu applique, which, of course, puts it in the more elegaut list. The very same plait, sans ornamentation, however, is every bit as graceful aud figures on any number of effective skirts. If inverted this box plait forms the old fashioned fide-plaited effect. DOUBLE. The double box plait is almost as great a favorite, though one mnst ad mit that there's more of it to get out of shape, and disorderly generally. One thing, we must be careful in holding up the skirt thus adorned, for plaits awry cease to be ornamental. TWINS. To return to the single plaits—some like them in pairs. And, indeed, some figures really do seem to be bet ter sot off by twin plaits than by one. In this case the plaits are always single. THREE OF A KIND. In this case they are single, too. There's really no need for explana tions, since the cut tells the wholo story. BOX PLAITS ALL AROUND. Though these paragraphs deal with the arrangement of back, fullness, the plaits on this graceful skirt go all the way around. STITCnED TUCKS. This is another way of taking care of the übiquitoas back fullness, for if we have to have said fullness at all, we want it so well anchored that it will stay where it is put. This is au attractive way of mauaging this part of a skirt, which is made of crepe de chine or like fabrics—textures that are not sufficiently heavy to make a good, solid box plait. As you see, this tucked arrangement is habit back, as to shape. An Innovation in Girdle*. The unprecedented vogue of jet ha? led to its use in forms in feminine dress hitherto unheard of. The last uew arrival to make its appearance among us, straight from La Bello France, is shown by our illustratiou. This is an ornamental jet girdle, made of fine quality cut blank jet beads, on a silk foundation, with its ends fin ished with tassels to match. Some fasten simply with a hook aud eye, while others fasten with a slide. They onlyoome in one size, as they will fit any figure, because they are not iu tended to be worn tight. The continued demand for jet foi costumes, millinery, chatelaine bags, PARISIAN JHT OIP.DLH. belts—in fact, for almost ever? pur pose under the sun—no doubt be speaks for this jet girdle a warm *»!• come on this eide of the water. Shrinkage in Uooac Value*. The value of a book depends a great deal on whether you are buying or selling it. Bay a book for a dollar, walk to a second hand shop around the corner, and you will be offered ten seats for it. The value shrinks nine ty per cent, in nine minutes. The touch of your fingers has made a sec ond hand book of it. Go back in a quarter of an hour to buy the book *gain, and it is worth fifty cents. Four hundred per cent, has been idded to its value in fifteen minutes. You must understand the necessity of profits to pay rents, living and other expenses before you comprehend the necessities of these sudden fluctua tions. Persons who sell second handbooks are always surprised at the smallprice affered, yet every dealer has a tale of woe, of dead stock, and books that »re worse than vacant shelves. It is difficult for buyers and sellers of sec ond hand books to be in sympathy.— New York Herald. Your KeiK hbor Haw Them. Has wlmt? Those beautiful Shakes peare panels given away in introducing •Red Cross" and "Hubinger's Best" laundry starch, J. C. Hubinpter's latest and greatest inventions. All staroh put jp under "Red Cross" or "Wash Tub" trade mark brands is genuine, and goods of a manufacturer with twenty-five years' experience. These are bis only brands; he has no interest whatever iu any other starch, *0 be sure you got only the best. The latest device to encourage high stepping in coach horses is a glass worn like goggles, the crystals being so formed that the ground appears aearer than it is. It is said to work *ll right. T« Cure a Cold In One I)ar. Take Laxative Bkouo Qcinink Tablet*. All druKiflsts refund th« money if it falls to cure. K. W. Uuovi's ttluauturu la un oach box. 'Ac. Students govern the dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania. My Hair Was Coming "About a year ago my hair was coming out very fast. I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor to stop this. It not only ■ Stepped the falling, but also made mv hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length and very thick."—Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchison, Kans., July 25.1899. It Fee the H Have you ever thought why your hair is falling out ? It is because you are starving your hair. If this starvation continues your hair will continue to fall. There is one good hair food. It is Ayer's Hair Vigor. It goes right to the roots of the hair and gives them just the food that they need. The hair stops falling, becomes healthy, and grows thick and long. Ayer's Hair Vigor will do another thing, also: it always restores color to faded or gray hair. SI.OO a bottle. Ail drazgUU. fVMMHntfMOMSItfnXEZKiaifIeSKIHMMMBI Write the Doctor It yon do not obtainall the benefits you desire from tlie use of tlio Vigor, write the l>ortor about it. He will tell you just the right thing to do, and will send you his book on the Hair and Scalp If you request it. Address, I)r. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. >al»r. Itape . ■ Speltx fires filch, What in It 1 r e S* Catalog a R t.ll* SEEDS^%, Lon J%y Salxer's S*ds areWarrantrt to rrodnc*. Ak*/Mxhlon Luther, E.Tr«>y,Pa.. astonished th<* world br growing 'JjObushels Big Four OaU; J. Brelder, lfishicott, Wis., 173 bua. barley: a:id H. Lorejoy, KedWing, Ulna , by growing .ITObush. Salzer'»cnra per acre. If yea doubi, write them. We wish to gala ■M 300,000 new customers, hence will send on trial " 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR 100. Fj Wig 10 pkgs of raro tarm secdsi Salt Bush, tbe S eared IMI ■H Corn—Spelu, producing 80bush, food and 4 Cons hay per acre—-above <>a:i and bailey. Bromus Inertnis fIV moth Plant. KruitamJ Seed Catalog, telliugall ¥a aboot .Salzer s Great Million l>«ll«r Potato* all mailed for 10c. postage; Potatoes $1.20 a bbi. and PM« earliest regeta ■end Catalof ndr. with tl°ne,f» c , W. L. DOUGLAS S3 & 3.50 SHOES jj 4&yVorth $4 toS6compared M\ with other makes' / A 1,000,000 weureri, [ZSt « 112 jjlf The genuine have W. L. ■ 1 /sfP Douglas* name and price I PI Ti\ (j# stamped on bottom, 'lake m no ® u bstitute claimed to be 1 M V3B 518 good. Your dealer should keej> them— receipt of price and 25c. for carriage. State kind of leather, U* and width, plain or cai> toe. Cat- free SStvarrs *• L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., BrocWon. Mass DR. ARNOLD'S COUGH Cures Coughs and Colds. MTSS S PH Vrcvaata Consumption. ■ II ■ ■■ H All Orucslsta. Me SmStatataSi no ODCV MEW DISCOVXKT: aim SJ n, wft S quick rslisf and oarss wont Bu„. n( testimonials and 10 days' trsstmsat Vru. It. «. m gUUIIOIi. >w a. AUsata. «a.
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