Bellefonte, Pa., April I, 1892
THE THINNING OF THE THATCH.
Oh, the autumn leaves are falling, and the
days are closing in, :
And the breeze is growing chilly, and my hair
is getting thin! :
I've a comfortable income—and my age is
thirty-three;
But my thatch is thinning quickly—yes, as
quickly as can be!
Iwas once a mery urchin—eurly headed I
was called,
And I laughed at good old people when I saw
them going bald ; J 5
But it’s not a proper subject to be likely joked
about, :
For it’s dreadful to discover that your roof is
wearing out !
1 remember asking vncle—in my innocent
surprise—
How he liked his head made use of as a skat-
. ing rink by flies; ]
But although their dread intrusion I shall
manfully resist, :
I'm afraid they’ll soon have got anohter rink
upon their list.
When invited to a party I'm invariably late,
For 1 waste the time in efforts to conceal my
peeping pate—
Though T coax my hair across it—though I
brush away for weeks, ora
Yet I can’t prevent it parting and dividing in-
tostreaks!
1 have tried a hair restorer, and I've rubbed
my head with rum,
But the thatch keeps getting thinner, and the
new hair doesn’t come—
So I gaze into the mirror with a gloomy, va-
cant stare,
For the circle's getting wider of that open
space up there |
People tell me that my spirits I must not al-
low to fall,
And that coming generations won't have any
hair at all— :
Well—they’ll never know an anguish that
can adequately match
With the pangs of watching day by day the
thinning of your thatch. Poh
—runch.
TALL JANE.
“You don’t mean that’s Jane's skirt,
Mrs. Ward 2”
Yes, YT do.”
“Why, it’s larger than yourn.”
“T know It. She's taller than I be.
She's grown all out of everything late-
ly. D’velet down tucks an hems, an
. pieced at the top, an’ now her pink
gingham is most up to her knees. I
had to buy her this new so she'd look
decent to go toschool. Jane, come
here a minute.”
Then Jame came in hesitatingly.
Her small head, with its mat of fair
braids, diooped forlornly, her slender
shonlders were bent. She pulled down
her pink skirt nervously, trying to
make it longer. :
‘Stand up here ’side of me,” order-
ed her mother. “I want Mrs. Mason
to see how much taller you be.”
Jane's pretty young face flushed
pink. She stood beside her mother,
and the tears started in her eyes, al-
though she tried to smile.
“You can’t get through the door if
you don’t stop pretty soon, Jane,”
laughed Mrs. Mason, who was visiting
the Wards, “I never seesuch a sight.
An she ain’t over fourteen?”
“She ain’t fifteen till next month,”
replied Mrs. Ward. An if she don’t
git her growth till she’seighteen I don’t
know where she’llbe. Her father tells
her he’s goin to hire her out by an by
for a telegraph pole.”
Jane laughed feebly when her moth-
er and Mrs. Ward did. Then she stole
back to the doorstep, and the tears
rolled down her cheeks. Itwasnearly
time for her to start to school. Pre-
sently her mother came with her din-
ner pail. Here's your dinner,’ she
said. “You'd better start before long,
so as not to hurry, It's a pretty warm
morn’n,”’
“Yes'm,” said Jane. She kept her
face turned away from her mother so
her tear stained eyes should not be no-
ticed.
“You shall have your new dress to
wear to-morrow,’ said her mother as
she finally started with her school
books under her arm and the dinner
pail swinging. “You shan’t wear that
short thing again.”
Jane tugged at her pink dress skirt
as she went out of the yard ; she even
stooped a little to make it look longer.
Nobody knew how sore Jane's heart
was over her height. She had a mile
to walk to school, and she never
thought of anything else all the way.
Presently she came to a large white
house, with a crabapple tree ia (he
front yard. Mary Etta and Maria
Starr lived there, and she saw the flut-
ter of their blue dresses at the gate.
They were waiting for her.
“Hullo!” said Mary Etta as Jane
drew near.
“Hullo!” responded Jane, trying to
make her voice cheerful.
Maria was eating a crabapple and
did not say “hullo!” but presently both
she and her sister stared wonderingly
at Jane.
“What's the matter?’ asked Mary
Etta, finally.
“Nothin’s the matter.”
“Yes there 1s too. You've been
cryin.”
Jane said nothing,
“She's mad,’ said Maria.
Mary Etta lingered. “What's the
matter ?”’ she asked again, quite lov-
ingly.
*Nothin’s the matter. I wish you'd
let me alone,” cried Jane, with a burst
of tears. That was enough. Mary
Etta and Maria hurried up the road,
with switches of their blue starched
skirts, and Jane plodded miserably on
behind.
Poor Jane was the tallest girl in
school, and not only that, but the tall-
est scholar; not one of the boys was
as tall as she, and not only that, but
she was taller than the teacher. It
did seem to Jane that the the commit-
tee ought to have chosen a teacher
who was tallar, just out of regard to
the becoming and suitable appearance
of the school. A stranger might al-
most have taken her for the teacher,
especially since her hair was done up.
When the bell had rung, Jane sat at
her desk, ber pink shoulders and her
pretty, pink face above all the others.
She looked like a tall, pink hollyhock
in a bed of daisies, This was a trying
moment for her. The committee came
to visit the school, and a strange gen-
tleman and his wife came with them.
Jane distinctly saw this strange lady
turn her white plumed head toward
‘ come,” said she,
her, then whisper to her husband.’
Then shesaw him look at her and ask
one of the committeemen who that tall
girl was. She could tell what he said
by the motion of his lips. Then he
told his wife, and a little smile stole
over her serene face between its soft
curls of black hair.
Jane thought she was laughing at
her. She did not dream that the lady
had noticed her because her face was
80 pretty, and not because she was so
tall.” ~
The geography class came and the
visitor were still there. Jane filed out
with the rest. She thought she had
her lesson perfectly, but she missed in
bounding Uruguay, and had to go
down. A little bitof a girl in a long
sleeved apron went above her. She
had a conviction that the visitors were
saying, “What! that great, tall, grown
up girl with her hair done up miss-
ing!”
However, the change brought her
next to Robert Carnes; he shuffied his
bare toes uneasily on the line, as he
bounded Venezuela in a high, sweet
voice; then he cast a quick, shame-
faced, but wholly sympathetic glance
at Jane, which she felt rather than
saw, but it comforted her. She and
Robert were near neighbors, and when
they were children had played togeth-
er a great deal.
But the worst came when one of the
committeemen addressed the school,
and in the course of his remarks said
distinctly chat intellect was not to be
measured by size, and he often noticed
that the smallest scholars had their
lessons much better than those who
were taller and older. Jane felt that
he referred to her and little Hattie
Boker and the bounding of Uruguay.
Her cheeks burned hotter and hot-
ter. Maria Starr, who was three desks
off in the same row, leaned forward
until she see her and tittered. Mary
Etta, in the seat behind, pulled her
sister's arm to make her stop, but she
did not heed.
Jane saw the committee and the
strange lady and gentleman go out,
while the teacher stood courtesying at
the door,and all through a nearing cloud
of tears. When the door closed after
the company she hooped her arms
around her face, and laid it down on
the desk. The teacher came and stood
beside her, and asked her what the
matter was. Jane. only shook her
head and wept. ;
“Are you sick ?”’ asked the teacher,
bending low over her.
“No, ma'am,” sobbed Jane. She
would not say another word, and the
teacher went back to her desk and call-
a class. ‘““Jane,” she said presently, in
a clear, authoritative voice, “You may
go out and get a pail of water.”
The teacher meant it very kindly;
it was considered quite a privilege to
get a pail of water, and then pass it
around in a tin dipper; she thought it
would serve to distract Jane's mind
from her grief, whatever it might be.
But it was dreadfuljfor poor Jane to
pull herself up to her full height and
crawl slowly down the aisle, with her
arms crooked in a pink ring around
her face, and all the school looking.
She stumbled overa protruding nail,
and everybody tittered, and the teach-
er called out, “Hush!” sharply.
Jane went out with the water pail,
but instead of filling it from the pump
near the school house she sat it down
on the platform and fled desperately
down the road to a little bridge over a
brook.
Her mind was made up, she would
not go back to school, she had never
been so miserable in her life, and the
misery was all the greater because she
was ashamed of it and ashamed to con-
fess it. She did not want to tell even
her mother that she minded so much
because she was tali; she crouched
low down in the bushes and wept.
Presevtly she heard a quick patter
of bare feet on the bridge, then a break
in the bushes.
“Hallo!” called a hesitating voice.
Jane made no sound.
“Ho, you needn’t play you ain't
there,” said the voice. “I see you
come in here. I was looking out of
the window. I raised my hand when
teacker asked where you was, and she
sent me out here to fetch the water,
and tell you to comein.
Jane looked up and saw a boy’s face
peering down at her from the top of
the bank, his brown cheeks flushing,
his red lips parting in a bashful laugh.
“I ain't ever going back to school,
Robbie,” said Jane with a sob. All
the old childish comradeship seemed
to come back to her, she had not seen
much of him for a year or two; she
had played more with girls.
“I don’t care, you're the prettiest
girl in school anyhow,” said Robert in
a shamefcced way.
“Why, Robert Carnes! I ain't.”
‘Yes, you are.”
“Oh, Robbie—maybe I shall be—
taller than I am now.”
“I don’t care if yon are, you'll al-
ways be the prettiest. Come along.”
“I ain’t going back to school.”
“Teacher won't like it.”
“I can’t help it.”
“Oh, come along.”
“I won't.” The girl's pink face
turned up toward him like a pink flow-
er from the bushes. There was a look
in it that the boy knew that when his
old playmate said “I won't” in that
tone, she didn’t.
Robert seated himself on the bank
and began to whistle. Jane looked at
him; she could see his slender should-
ers in his little homemade blue and
white shirt, and his handsome face
gazing ahead adstractedly as he
whistled.
“Why don’t you go back to school ?”
she asked hesitatingly.
“Oh, I ain’t going back if you ain’t.”
“Why not, I'd like to know ?”
“Cause I aint. Say, Mary Etta
! has got her head down on her desk
crying cause you don't come in, and I
seen Maria passing along some crab
apples to put in your desk.”
Jane said nothing. Robert whistled
again. :
~ Jane waited a minute. “Well, T'll
“You go ahead and
get the water.”
There was a leap of bare feet over
the bridge, and Jane came out from
the swarm of flower butterflies, with
undefined conviction that brought com-
fort in her childish heart, that how-
ever tall she grew, although she might
outgrow all her dresses, she would nev-
er outgrow love.—Mary E. Wilkins in
Boston Globe. i
Richest Woman in the World.
She Has an Income of Twenty-Five Million and
Lives Like a Queen.
—
The richest woman in the world—
such she has long been acknowledged
——is Dona Isadora Cousino, sometimes
known as the “Croesus of South Ameri-
ca.” Her various homes are in and
near Santiago in Chile. She traces her
ancestry back to the days of the Span-
ish conquest. She has been a widow
for about ten years, but even during
her husband's lifetime she managed
her own property, worth many mil-
lions, which came from her ancestral
estate. i
The Cousino estate—now represent-
ing the property of her late husband,
as well as her own, with the incre-
mente due to her executive ability,
which is said to be greater even than
ber husband's, consists of millions of
money in bank, of cattle and sheep, of
coal mines, of copper and silver mines,
of iron steamships, or real estate in
the cities of Santiago and Valparaiso,
smelting works, of railroads and farm-
ing lands.
From her coal mines alone Senora
Cousino 18 said to have an income of
$80,000 a, month, or $960.000 a year.
This incote from one form of wealth
alone represents a branch of her estate
which should be considered, at a fair
capitalization of its income, to amount
to $25,000,000. The extent of her coal
property, however, is known only to
herself; but whereas it cost: only $1.35
a ton to mine her coal, she readily
realizes for it $7.50 a ton. Her own
fleet of eight iron steamships carries
her coal and ore to market.
She owns every house in the town of
Lota, which has 7,000 inhabitants, al-
so nine-tenths of the houses 1n the min-
ing town of Soronel. The town of Lota
is her favorite residence. Trere she
has a magnificent mansion in the cen-
ter of the finest private park in the
world. It is supplied with all the lux-
uries that untold wealth can procure,
brought to her very doors from the
ports of Europe, Asia and Africa by
her own steamships.
She has another park and palace
about an hour's drive from Santiago
on the finest plantation in Chili. Her
vineyard at Macul has upon it a single
cellar 500 feet long by 100 wide which
is kept constantly full of wine, and sup-
plies the markets of all Chili. She has
another large estate about 30 miles
from Santiago, also a great town-house
in that city built mostly of red cedar
brought from California. This house
is decorated by Parisian artists; it is
said, by those who have seen it, to be
os than any residence in New York
ity.
The income of Sencra Cousino is put
at $25,000,000 a year, and South
Americans say her estate would realize
not less than $200,000,000. This would
make her not only the richest woman
but the richest person in the world.
A Marvelous Aqueduct.
England's Efforts to}Fight Famine and Drought
an India.
‘While it is true that California and
Colorado have made great progress in
irrigation development since the Amer-
ican settlers first grappled with the sub-
ject yet there are many lessons to learn
in the various branches of the science.
It is a fact that there are many Califor-
nians who fancy that they ‘knew all
about errigatin’ they want to,” but a
little inquiry will show that these same
self-satisfied irrigators are still in the
depths of ignurance with regard to the
subject of which they knew so much.
The greater number of irrigators in the
State, however, are intelligent men anx-
ious to learn all they can which bears
upon this subject, and these will be in-
terested in a stupendous work recently
completed in India,
India, it should be premised, presents
what are undoubtedly the most ancient
irrigation works in the world, and also
lays claim to some of the most extensive
and costly systems of the present day.
The English G~vernment, led by the
necessity of making provision against
famine, has taken a lively interest in ir-
rigation enterprises, and in its hands &
large amount of expensive canal con-
struction has been carried out.
One of the most extensive enterprises
of this kind is the Sirhind Canal, which
has a total length of 4,950 miles, of
which 503 miles are navigable, that be-
ing one of the prominent features of
nearly all of prominent Indian canals,
and affording a practical demonstration
of the feasibility ot a similar enterprise
in California, which is now under dis-
cussion. The Sirhind Canal cost $12,-
000,000, of which $400,000 was expend-
ed in headworks, $6,600,000 in actual
canal construction, and the balance in
right of way and other features.
By far the most extensive irrigation
system in India is that of the
Ganges Canal, which supplies water tor
4,000,000 acres and has » length of near-
ly 4,000 miles. One of the leading fea-
tures of this, as of the other Canals in
India, is the elaborate and substantial
character of the works by which the wa-
ter is diverted from the parent stream
and the canal carried across water
courses which cut its channel. No such
works are seen in any other part of the
world. To carry the Ganges Canal
through certain districts the tracks of
mountain torrents had to be crossed in
many instances. Some times torrents
had to be diverted in other directions,
and sometimes they are provided with
broad channels of masonary to carry
them peacefully over the bed of the can-
al. Monster wires had to be built across
the big rivers whence the supply of wa-
ter is taken, and the canal carried
across broad sireams on aqueducts,
The Ganges Canal, for instance, crosses
the Solani River on an immense aque-
duet three miles long. The aqueduct
consists of earth work approaches, which’
carry the canal across the low valley
subject to overflow, ‘and fifteen arches
of masonry of fifty feet span each across
the normal bed of the river. Over this
aqueduct flows a stream 200 feet broad
and twelve feet deep.
On a portion of the same system an
immense aqueduct has just been com-
pleted across the Kali Naddi River.
This structure is known as the Nadrai
aqueduct, and it was designed as an ex-
tension of the irrigation scheme of the
Upper Ganges Canal, conceived and
constructed by Sir Proby Cantley about
the time of the mutiny, and was opened
in the year 1876. . In the year 1888-89
the Lower Ganges Canal had 564 miles
ot main line and 2,050 miles of minor
distributaries, and irrigated 519,022
acres of crcps. From this it will be
seén how important a line of irrigation
this canal constitutes, and how urgent
the reconstruction of the aqueduct was.
The new aqueduct replaces one of much
smaller size—viz. :five spans of 35 feet,
which was damaged by a high flood in
October, 1884, and completely destroyed
by another high flood in July, 1885.
The Kali Naddi, for the greater part
of the year, is a very insignificant
stream, some 50 feet in width only, but
on the date mention it was swollen into
a river a mile wide and in places 25
feet” deep. In addition to the con-
struction of the Nadrai aque-
duct all the railway and road bridges
below it were also destroyed and many
villages swept away,
The proportion of the foundation to
the superstructure of the new Naarai
aqueduct can be gathered from the fact
that three-fourths of the expenditure of
money and time were consumed by what
is now hidden below ground.
The foundations consist of 268 circu-
lar brick cylinders or wells, as they are
always called in India, all sunk fifty-five
teet below the river bed. There are fif-
teen bays of 60 feet, divided into three
groups of five each by abutment piers.
The abutement piers consist of a double
row of 12-feet wells, spaced two feet
apart, and the ordinary piers of a single
row of 20 feet wells similarly spaced.
The wells are all sunk through a stra-
tum of stiff yellow clay, averaging 15
feet thick, into a substratum of pure
sand. The wells are all hearted with
hydraulic lime concrete filled in by
skips, and in each pier the wells by cor-
beling out the brick work, are joined to-
gether for the superstructure of the pier.
The total quantity cof well-sinking
was 15,019 lineal feet, or nearly three
miles, and was executed by hand and
steam dredging. It was commenced in
May, 1886, and completed in May,1888.
The arching was commenced in Novem-
ber, 1888, and finished in April, 1889.
The well-sinking and arching went
on night and day, the work being light-
ed by ten are lights ot 2,500 candle pow-
er each. i“
The solidity of the great arches and
piers and the fine sweep of the bastion-
like wings all unite to give an idea of
vast strength and stability, while the
monotony of such a large surface of fa-
cade is relieved by the effect of hight and
shade obtained by the bold corbeling
out over the spandrels to form a support
for a roadway on either side of the canal
and the long horizontal lines of the cor-
nice and railings are broken up by a
tower at each end of the abutment piers.
- Under the care of the British Govern-
ment irrigation enterprise in India is
making great headway. Among the
systems that have been commenced and
partially completed within a compara-
tively recent period are the Soonsekala
and Bellairy Canals, from the Poombu-
dra River, 350 miles long ; the Soane,
just completed from the river of the
same name, to carry 4,500 cubic feet
per second, with a capacity to irrigate
about 1,000,000 acres ; the Sirbind Can-
al, from Sutlej River, to cost $15,000,-
000; the Lower Ganges Canal, to carry
6,000 cubic feet per second ; the Orissa
Canrl, built by the East Indian Irriga-
tion Company, all of which are very
large enterprises, some of them rivaling
the Ganges Canal in magnitude and im-
portance. To these may be added the
Agra Canal, from the Juma, and the
Eastern Ganges Canal. All of these
except two have been built or restored
by the Government,which owns all of
them but one.
———Dyspepsia’s victim’s are num-
bered by thousands. So are the people
who have been restored to health by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
——The children’s health must not
be neglected. Cold in the head causes
catarrh. Kly’s Cream Balm cures at
once. Itis perfectly safe and <is easily
applied into the nostrils. The worst
cases yielding to it. Price 50c.
Menu for a Tempting Dinner.
Recipes for the Soup, Fish, Meat, Salad and
Dessert.
MENU FOR A DIy NER.
Oysters on the halt shell.
Bisque of beef soup.
Broiled scrod, garnished with sliced lemon
and parsley.
Escoloped chicken.
Potato balls and baked onions.
Eggs and lettuce salad
Desert—Charlotie russe
Cheese straws and salted peanuts.
Coffee.
Bisque of Beef *oup—Use a pound of
beef (have the butcher cut it in small
pieces), a quart and a half of cold water,
half a pint of milk, a quarter of a cup-
ful of rice, half a capful of strained to-
mato, half a teaspocnful of salt, a little
pepper ; put the meat and bone into the
soup-pot with the cold water and heat
slowly to the boiling point ; then skim
the liquor carefully and set the soup-pot
back where its contents will cnly sim-
mer, during the next three hours. At
the end of that time strain the liquor
and return it to the pot. Wash the rice
thoroughly, and after adding it to the
bisque cook for half an hour ; then put
in the milk and seasoning and boil up
once. The addition of the tomato com-
pletes the soup.
Broiled Scrob—Place on a well-greas-
ed gridiron, broil delicate brown, spread
with butter, sprinkle salt and pepper ov-
er it, remove toa hot platter, garnish
with sliced lemon and sprigs of parsley
Scrod.is young codfish and is very deli-
cate and appetising.
Escalloped Chicken.—Free the chick-
en from the skin, bone and fat and chop
it rather coarse. To one pint of ‘the
meat add a quarter of a teaspoonful of
pepper and one teaspoonful of salt. A
gravy is then made by this rule © Put a
tablespoonful of butter into a small fry-
ing pan, ard when it is hot add a gen-
erous teaspoonful ot flour, stir until the
mixture becomes browned and then
gradually add a cupful of cold water;
let the gravy boil tliree minutes and sea- |
son with salt and pepper. Put alternate
layers of gravy and chicken into an es-
calloped dish, having three of gravy and :
two of meat ; cover lightly with grated
bread crumbs and cook in the oven for
twenty minutes.
Potato Balls.—~With a vegetable
scoop out a quart of balls from raw po-
tatoes and put into cold water. A
quarter of an hour before serving put in-
to a saucepan with boiling water enough
to cover and cook for twelve minutes.
After pouring oft all the water dredge
with salt and a little pepper and pour
upon them a little melted butter.
Baked Onwons.--Take four good-sized
onions, wash clean, but do not remove
the skins ; boil three-quarters of an hour
in boiling salt water, changing the wa-
ter twice. Turn off the water and lay
the onions on a cloth, then roll each in a
buttered piece of tissue paper, twisting
ing it at the top to keep it closed, and
bake in a slow oven about half or three-
quarters of an hour. When tender all
through peel them, put in a dish and
brown slightly, basting with one table-
spoodful of melted butter frequently.
This will take perhaps fifteen minutes.
Serve in a vegetable dish and pour over
Isles butter seasoned with pepper and
salt. .
Egg and Lettuce Salad.—Boil hard
eight or ten eggs ; chop and wash some
fresh, yonng leaves of lettuce and mix
with the eggs. Pour over it the salad
dressing. :
Cheese Straws.—Take well-beaten
biscuit dough, roll it out as thin as pos-
sible and sprinkle it out as thin as possi-
ble and sprinkle a thin layer of grated
cheese overit. Fold the dough together
roll it out again as thin as possible and
sprinkle with grated cheese. Repeat
the process until the cheese has been us-
ed three times, then roll it out thin
again and cut into narrow strips as long
as the middle finger. Bake a light
brown in a slow oven. Tied in bunches
with narrow ribbon they look very
pretty.
Salted Peanuts.—Shell and put into
boiling water to remove the skin ; turn
them into a hot buttered frying-pan and
keep there long enough to brown ; re-
move from the panand sprinkle with
salt.
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A Judge Giving Testimony.
An Important Case Summoned Up As Follows.
—Chronic Catarrh— Twenty Years—Settled on
Lungs--Could Get No Relief— Permanent
Cure at Last.
New VIENNA, CLinToN Co., O.
Dr. S. B. Haitman & Co.--Gents: I
take pleasure in testifying to your med-
icines. I have used about one bottle
and a half, and can say I am anew man
Have had the catarrh about twenty
years. Before I knew what it was it
had settled on my lungs and breast, but
cannow say Iam wel. Wasin tte
army, could get no medicine that would
relieve me. Yours truly,
W. D. WILLIAMS,
Probate Judge of Clinton County.
While it is a fact that Pe-ru-na can
be relied on to cure chronic catarrh in
all stages and varieties, yet it is not of-
ten that it will so quickly curea case of
long standing as the above. Hence it is.
that so many patients fail in finding a
cure because of their unwillingness to
continue treatment long enough. Many
people who have chronic catarrh for five
ten and even fifteen years, will follow
treatment for a few weeks, and then, be-
cause they are not cured, give up in des-
pair and try something else. These pa-
tients never follow any one treatment
long enough to test its merits, and con-
sequently never find a cure. Its a well-
known law of disease thatthe longer it
has run the more tenaciously 1t becomes
fastened to its victim. HI
The difficulty with which catarrh is
cured has led to the invention of a host
of remedies which produce temporary
reliefonly. The unthinking masses ex-
pect to find some remedy which will
cure them in a few days, and to take ad-
vantage of this false hope many com-
pounds which have instant but transient
effect has been devised. The people try
these catarrh cures one after another,
but disappointment is the invariable re-
sult, until very many sincerely believe
that ne cure is possible.
CATARRH IS A SYSTEMIC DISEASE.
and therefore requires persistent internal
treatment, sometimes for many months,
before a permanent cure is effected. The
mucous lining of the cavities of the
head, throat, lungs, ete., are made up of
a network of minute blood vessels called
capillaries. The capillaries are very
small elastic tubes, which in all cases of
chronic catarrh, are congested or bulged
out with blood so long that the elastic-
ity of the tubes are entirely destroyed.
The nerves which supply these capilla-
ries with vitality are called the ‘‘vasa-
motor’’ nerves. Any medicine to reach
the real difficulty and exert the slightest
curative action in any case of catarrh
must operate directly on the vasa-n.otor
system of nerves. As soon as these
nerves become strengthened and stimu-
lated by the action ofa proper remedy
they restore to the capillary vessels of
the various mucous membranes of the
body their normal elasticity. Then, and
only then, will tne catarrh be perma-
nently cured.” Thus it will be seen that
catarrh is not a blood disease, as many
suppose, but rather a disease of the mu-
cous blood vessels. This explaius why
it is that so many excellent blood medi-
cines utterly fail to cure catarrh.
Colds, winter coughs, bronchitis. sore
throat and pleurisy are all catarrhal af-
fections, and consequently are quickly
curable by Pe-ru-na. Each bottle of
Pe-ru-na is accompanied by full direc-
tions for use, and is kept by most drug-
gists. Get your druggist to order it for
you if he does not already keep it.
A pamphlet on the cause and cure of
all catarrhal diseases and consumption
The World of Women.
Fewer sealskins more cloth jackets.
Mahogany is the right thing for fur-
niture again.
Carriage blan kets for babies of white.
Bedford cord.
Many Japanese silks in plain and
printed styles.
The beau-catcher, a stream ot ribbons.
down the back has again revived.
Flecked gray woolen gowns, with
mannish skirts and cravats, suggestive
of summer days at the shore,
Elizabeth Strong, the voung Ameri-
can artist whose pictures were hung in a
prominent place in the last Paris Salon,
isa girl from Californix who has made
her own way in the art world.
New York bas & woman embalmer of
the dead. Sheis one of four in the Un-
ited States and of six in the world. Her
name is Miss Heaton Dart and she
makes about $5 on each body she em-
balms.
The late Anna Sharp, of Lancaster,
bevueathed her entire estate of $5,000 to
the First Methodist Church. Naomi
Frances Resh. who died last week, left
$1,00 to a Mennonite Church at Lancas-
ter. Her estate is valued at $20,000.
Miss Laura Clay, daughter of Cassius
M. Clay, of Kentucky is a close and dil-
igent student of polities and is sufficient-
ly well posted to run a party or engineer
a convention. Few men have as clear
and comprehensive a grasp of national
questions as she has,
A long cloak of soft dark brown cloth
was buttoned on each hip with four
great rough poarl squares. A shor
cape, which came only to the waist, had
no trimming save a very fuil vest of an
exquisite quality of brown faille. It was
very simple, but rich and effective.
Another pretty costume which was
particularly appropriate for receptions
and afternoon concerts was of bright
dark blue satin mervetilleux, with fine
wavy red lines an inch apart all over it
and tiny green spots between these glow-.
ing bars. The skirt was plain gored,
demitrained and flounced round the bot-
tom ander a full ruche of migonette
green velvet. The bodice was seamless,
and folded into a belt of the velvet,
which fastened on the side with a dain.
ty rosette. The collar and cuffs were
simply copies of the belt, being bands of
velvet finished with rosettes. The
sleeves where the regulation “leg 0’ mut.
ton,” and the entire gown though com-
bining such contrasts of cclor, was an
artistic success from start to finish.
A traveling dress is of a neat plaid, in
dark blue and yellow, with a blue vel<
vet bodice made something like an Eton
Jacket and a full vest of yellow erepe.
the sleeves are full to the elbow, and
have tight-fitting cuffs of the velvet,
The hat to be worn with this gown is of
a combination straw in blue and yellow
trimmed only with a large Alsatian bow
of blue moire rihbon and odd little pins
in curious enamel.
A handsome spring jacket is made of
cheviot of blue-gray color. The lon
basques are slashed atthe seams os
trimmed with a blue-gray braid. A
perfectly straight ve:t of plain cloth ex
tends from the neck to the bottom of
the basques, and the opening on either
side is trimmed with the braid. The.
full sleeves are gathered into short
gauntlet cuffs, also braided,
If one is obliged to purchase a cheap
coat there are rules by which it may be
becoming and serviceable, Black—a
good, honest black. and not a rusty,
dusty substitute—will wear better and
be more satisfactory than any other col-
or. Tans and fawnsare apt to spot
easily unless in expensive material. A
lined coat is more economical than one
much cheaper and unlined. The un
lined soon has a flimsy look and never
has the air of substantial respectabulit
which the lined garment possesses. If
one is a deft needlewoman an unlined.
coat may be lined at home with good
sateen or farmer’s satin, but the under
taking is by no means an easy one. The
sleeves should always be lined with
silk, and then the coat will slipon eas-
ilyjover any dress, and much tugging
and consequent ripping and tearing will
be spared.
SPRING MILLINERY:
The thing that particularly impressed
the writer was the great prevalence of
green, Charteuse green particularly,
which is used on almost every hat,
whether it crops outin the faintly-tinged
spikes of flowers, the brim or in tuft of"
ribbon nestled under the brim, or in the.
entire body of the hat. Combinations.
of green and coral, green and heliotrope
and green and black are seen on almost
every one of the pattern hats.
Crowns are new and striking ; the Ox.
ford, which is the typical motar board,
vies with the stove-pipe for popular fa<.
vor. Both are pretty, aud it is hard to
choose when a deft arrangement of lace
and feathers, ribbon and jet would ren
der even a coal scuttle charming. On
the bonnets the long strings are not sup~
posed to fly in the breeze, but are to. be-
decorously fastened in a loose bow just
below the ear. A charming example
illustrating this style was of the very:
popular creamy Point a’ Irlande lace.
with a fine cut jet crown, the intersection -
of crown and rim being outlined with a
tiny puffing of black crape. Velvet, jet
and lace loops formed a pretty trim<
ming for the front and long velvet ends
tied on the left side.
Perhaps you will think this was a
mourning hat ; the writer did until she
was informed that black crepeis to be
used quite extensively on colored bon-
nets and gowns this season. It was
pretty, but for festive occasions a little
of it would go a long way, as owing to
our ideas, which have been foistered by
years of social observance, crape signi-
fies mourning and is ever a reminder of
the sable trappings ot woe.
In direct contrast to the foregoing is
just the most delightful little traveling
hat you ever saw—one of those fancy
braids in a mixture of ecru, brown and
turquoise. Ft has the Oxford crown in
dark blue and the trimmings are blue
corn flowers, brownish yellow marigolds
and loops of dark blue moire ribbon
and streamers of the same,
———The Nicaraguan Governmens? is
making the most liberal offers to intend-
ling coffee growers. It gives to a mar
sent free to any address by The Pe-ru-na j ried man 240 acres and to a single man,
Drug Manufacturing Co., Columbus O.
120 acres of good coffee ground.