HOW TO FIND OUT. Pill a bottle or common glass with your water, and let it.stand twenty-foui hours; a sediment or settling'indicates •n unhealthy condition of the kidneys; If it stains your linen it is evidence o] kidney trouble; too frequent desire tc pass it or pain in the back is also con vincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order. What to do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Bwamp-Iloot, the great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in curing rheuma tism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver bladder, and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that-unpleasant necessity of being compelled togo often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Koot is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most dis tressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by drug gists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful discovery and a book that tells more about it, both sent absolutely free by mail. Address- i)r. Kilmer & Co., Kinghamton, X. Y. When writing bo sure and mention that you read this generous offer in this paper. POPULAR S'IYLES IN APRUNS. Colored SIIW mill Xft Aw the fa vorite Mali-rial* Just ut I'rcdi'ii t. Colored silk, plain and brocaded, white or black lace and darned net are the favorite materials for the dainty aprons worn by the young ladies who preside at the afternoon tea tables. A pretty apron, made to wear with a crim son gown, is of black net with velvet bowknots. The rounded edge, is trimmed with an accordion-plaited ruffle of net, edged with three rows of the narrowest velvet ribbon. The belt Is of wide velvet ribbon, tied in a bow, with two long ends reaching a short distance below the apron on one side. lilack and white laee aprons have the center of black, with a strip of white lace insertion on the bottom and sides edged by a frill of black lace. When made in more than one piece the white insertion is used to connect and outline the gores. Some very dainty aprons in both black and white are made of a suc cession of strips of insertion connected by beading, through which are run col ored ribbons. Aprons made of silk, white, black and colored, are slightly pored, with front and side pieces. The fullness at the top is shirred to form a pointed yoke. The three-cornered pock et is also shirred and trimmed with ribbon bows, the belt being of a wider ribbon. The bottoms of these aprons are trimmed with ruffles of lace headed b.\ festoons and bows of ribbon. There are two styles of aprons liked bv women who do fancy work. The first is made of some dark colored or iblack silk having an inch hem all tiround and a.pocket ten inches deep set on just above the hem and reaching across the entire apron. This pocket is divided into three parts for holding ihe different articles used in the work. The hem and pocket are often finished by tows of fancy stitching in silks of con trasting colors. The belt and ties are of ribbon matching in color the silk of the material or the floss used in stitch ing. The second style is made of linen scrim or fine canvas, with meshes so large tint narrow, colored ribbon may be pulled through. These are not gored end the ribbons run straight down and across in several rows. A large, square pocket similarly decorated with rib bons is placed on the right side and wider ribbons form the belt and ties. White muslin, pique, dark-colored nnd black silk and black brillianfine are the materials preferred by school girls. Not the little tots we are accus tomed to see in aprons, but girls of the boarding-school age. These aprons are gored with either rounded or square corners. Those of black silk arc trimmed with a number of rows of nar row satin or velvet ribbon in some bright color. The velvet ribbons are run on perfectly plain, but the satin is eitht-r gathered or quilled. A pretty and durable apron of smooth, black bril liantine is made of three gores with a rounded edge. The trimming is oi crimson braid about three-quarters of An inch wide quilled in box plaits and stitched down the middle. The one pocket, which is on the right side, is rounded and trimmed by a quilling of braid, as is also the bib, which is quite long and fastens on the should) rs. Tfie Ix'it is of black brilliantine and fastens at one side under two rosettes of the red braid. On other aprons of this style the bib and pockets are cut to gether. and sometime* the bib over the shoulders is buttoned at the back. For younger girls and children aprons are. as a rule, of washable materials, and for obvious reasons. The styles are almost innumerable, but the preference seems to be given to those made fa miliar by Kate Greenaway. i!ut it make slit tle difference what th» pattern is. it must be elaborately trimmed with lac.e or embroidery and ribbons. This Introduction of ribbons is a new fea ture. and gives a decidedly smart ap pearance to the garment. A pretty and useful style is made of fine checked muslin trimmed with a ruffle of narrow embroidery put on by a beading Through this beading are drawn nar row sat in ribbons t hat end on the shou I ders and around the low neck with fluffy little bows. The belt is of two rows of beading an inch wide and flie ribbons which are run through them are of course wider than those used on the skirt and body of the apron. Two full bows ornament the front, being sewn on the belt an inch or two from tie middle of the front.—X. Y. Sua. LIFE IN NEW MEXICO. It I* Peculiar llut ut the Same Time Has Some I'lenKiint null Pretty Feature*. We in the east do not realize the ex tent to which New Mexico is a foreign land. Many villages have no American residents, except the merchant ami the doctor, with perhaps a saloon keeperor two. All the rest are native Mi xicans. They not only use the Spanish lan guage, but they are unable to under stand a word of English, at least they pretend they cannot understand it, which amounts to the same- thing, vi hen one w i sites to converse with t hem. It is difficult to see how this condition of foreigners can be soon changed. The country is full; it is peopled about to the limit of what it will support, un less the scanty rainfull be impounded and none allowed to run away to the sea. Quaint sights abound in these old Mexican visages. The first impression if, that the people have no eye for the I|!JJ | - rj IN NEW MEXICO. beautiful at all; their houses fronton the street with no dooryard; there are no trees or shrubs —not even so much os a blade of grass—near them, liuilt of adobe, the better ones plastered with lime mortar, they have the pro portions of squatty brick kilns; win dows are small and wide apart. Yet, on closesr study, there is an apprecia tion of beauty in the senorita's mind; she has decorated the interior of her home with bright-tinted and warm looking stucco of some sort, often of different colors, well blended, on walls and ceiling. In her tiny windows tin cans hold earth in which grow house plants, generally blooming well, ller dress is neat, and often picturesque,her person not unattractive. Her housekeeping is different from her eastern sister's, as would be ex (pected under such different condi tions. ller children are not so com pletely covered, although it is not often that they pose for"the altogether." Everyone knows that she uses quanti ties of red peppers in her cookery; not everyone knows that she suffers from dyspepsia as the result-. She ireats her household to "frijoles" many times dur ing the month; she prepares the really toothsome "tortillas" of corn meal just as the books say. When she has a bak ing to do, she builds a fire of cedar or pinone wood in Ihe outdoor oven until it is quite hot—the queer-looking little adobe oven —then she puts in her bread and beans and meat, and closes the opening with a stone, and there rest from baking for several "mananas." I am of the opinion that our Mexican brothers and sisters have about them many very good traits of character. One, I know, is that of hospitality. An other is love of home, of children, but perhaps all women have enough of that. They are a patient people, gentle ex cept to their burros, good shepherds, when directed a little, strong and pa tient laborers, but not too energetic. Anyway, they possess.the land and hold the offices down there, and will to the end of time. —Joseph E. Wing, in Coun try Gentleman. Children'* llnndn nn<l Feet. Tie particular to dry the hands and feet of a child well. Dampness left be tween the toes may cause soreness or even a corn, which may be troublesome to get rid of. In washing the hands do not leave any dirt between the lingers; press the skin back from the nails and slightly pinch the tips of the fingers after every washing if you want your children to have pretty hands and nails. A little trouble taken at the first will save a great deal of bother afterwards. The children should be taught, when old enough, to do this for themselves. They should be taught to take pride in nicely-kept hands. Tlie I'eftNliulMt IN Mail. For every thunder-laden storm that breaks A hundred mornings fair the sun awakes. For every vulture foul that flaps its wing A hundred tuneful larks mount up and sing. For every comet, in its reckless flight Ten thousand stars are orbited aright. There's more of laughter than of tears on earth And fewer dirges far than odes of mirth. Upon the whole, there's more of good than bad; The world's all right, the pessimist is mad. —Richmond Religious Herald. Faith, ll»|>e uixl Churlty. A London weekly has given two guineas for a definition of faith, hope and charity. It is as follows: l-'aith— Wind trust in a first page. Hope— What investors are fed upon. Charity —What, some of tnein are likely to be brought to. That is certainly not bad, but this one is, perhaps, even better: Faith —The gift that saves mankind. Hope—The gift that cheers mankind. Charity —The that makes uian kind. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1899. GLASS HOUSES HOLD HEAT. HnrrKV front Sun I'nxm-n Tlirongti Gln«a In W»TH of l.luM, He runira llt-ut nnil tuunoi Dacupr. It is very curious, said the old pro fessor of physics, to see how many market gardeners there are who raise things under glass, make money out of the process and yet do not know why their heating frames and their hot houses remain hot inside. Now, as a matter of fact, the heat mechanism of a hol house depends on a well-known proposition in physics. I suppose you are acquainted with the fact that the energy from the sun travels in the form of little waves. The energy does not come down to us in straight lines; it comes, as. it were, in a zigzag manner, dancing from side to side as it comes along. If these waves are very short, light is the result; if they are a trifle longer, they take the form of heat. If the light waves strike anything on the way down, they are very apt to be turned into heat. Now, the waves which form light are so short that they will readily pass through glass, but the waves which form heat are so long that they will not pass through. From this, therefore, you may see why a hothouse remains hot. The energy from the sun passes, into ihe house through the glass roof in the form of light. Then it strikes the ob jects in the house and is turned to heat. But this heat cannot pass out through the glass. The heat waves are too long. So the light keeps coming in atid the heat keeps accumulating, and soon the hothouses become very warm indeed, even on the coldest days in winter. Of course our dwelling houses are heated by the sun in the same way. The light comes in through the win dows, but the heat cannot pass out. — Boston Globe. TWICE A HEROINE. Why tlic CoiiMrrcKS of tlic lulled StnteM Awarded a !tlednl to .MTN, lCdwarri White. Mrs. Edward White is twice a heroine She has distinguished herself as a life saver, for which exhibition of daring and bravery she was awarded a medal by congress. She has braved the perils and dangers incident to life in Alaska, jjjjj DESIGN OS MRS. "WHITE'S MEDAL. having for six years traded with the Kenitseys and other Cook inlet tribes, and she has delved for the riches in the golden tributaries of Turnagain arm. She was successful as an Indian trader and has already accumulated a fortune at mining, being still the pos sessor of some of the best claims in the golden north. Mrs. White rescued three of the crew of the British ship Ferndale. For this act of heroism congress awarded her a gold medal. It is of appropriate de sign, the medal proper being about double the circumference and thickness of a S2O gold piece. It is suspended from the beak of the traditional American eagle. On one side is represented a great ship lying helpless in the break ers, with the rescuers, near by, throw ing out a lifeline. WELL-DRESSED WOMEN. They I>ifTor fro in Thone Whose Ap« purel Im L'nattractlve in Tttll- Tule Trifles Only. Every normally constituted woman desires, rightly enough, to appear pleas ing to those with whom she conies into association. Thist feeling, in its proper expression, is not vanity; it is com mendable and eminently right, for it is one of the forces which goto make liv ing a more pleasant tiling. It is only when this natural and worthy ambi tion subordinates other and more im portant aims that it becomes offensive and dangerous. The elements of femi nine attraction are many, including those of nature and those derived from woman's own art. Among the latter, one of the most important is the art of dressing well, and that art consists not so much in richness of attire as in con siderate attention to details. So good an authority as Harper's Bazar, touch ing upon the topic, says:"The main respect in which the well-dressed wom an differs from her whose apparel is un attractive is in the trifles which make a costume elegant. The pretty shoe, the handsome stocking, the well (fitting glove and t he becoming veil add a finish that makes a woman what is known as well dressed. So one can afford to neg lect these little things. The well-laun dered collar and cuffs and the correct tie attract the attention of the average observer much sooner than do the ele gance of the material of a gown and the style in which it is made. If a cos tume tits well it depends on the wearer to make it stylish. In this day of vast variety and beauty in neckwear a cos tume may be made as elaborate or as se vere as the owner wishes." THE pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well-known remedy, SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company, illustrate the value of obtaining the liquid laxative principle* of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the list® and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening luxative, CLEANSING THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY, DISPELLING COLDS AND HEADACHES, PREVENTING FEVERS, OVERCOMING HABITUAL CONSTIPATION PERMANENTLY. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and substance, and its acting 011 the kidneys, liver and bowels, gently yet promptly, without weakening or irritating them, make it the ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but THE MEDICINAL QUALITIES ARE OBTAINED FROM SENNA AND OTHER AROMATIC PLANTS, by a method known to the California Fig Syrup Company only. In order to get its beneficial effect-! and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. Consumers of the choicest products of modern commerce purchase at about the same price that others pay for cheap and worthless imitations. To come into universal demand and to be everywhere considered the best of its class, an article must be capable of satisfying the wants and tastes of the best informed purchasers. The California Fig Syrup Company having met with the highest success in the manufaetnw and sale of its excellent liquid laxative remedy, SYRUP OP FIGS, it has become important to all to have# knowledge of the Company and its product. The California Fig Syrup Company was organized more than fifteen years ago, for the special purpose of manufacturing and selling a laxative^ remedy which would more pleasant to the taste and more beneficial in effect than any other known. Ihe great value of th JB remedy, as a medicinal agent and of the Company's efforts, is attested by the sale of millions of bottler annually, and by the high approval of most eminent physicians. As the true and genuine remedy named SYRUP OF FIGS is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company only, the knowledge of that fact will assist in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other parties. |TC .SVRVP We^ F c^ C/sc q For* Sale by All "Tommy—"That church is over 200 years »ld." Cissy—"Mv aunt says it's only 100." Fommy—"Oh, well, I suppose that's as far sack as she can remember."—Stray Stories. Creaeeul Hotel, Spriugn, Ar kamai, Opens February 23. In the Ozark Moun tains. Delightful cilmate. Beautiful scenery. Uneifualed medicinal waters. Cheap ex cursion rates. Through sleepers via Frisco Line. Address J. O. Plank, Manager, Room H. Arcade, Century Building, or Frisco Ticket Office, No. 101 N. Broadway, St Louis. Mo. . He doubles his trials who complains of them. —Watchman. I am entirely cured of hemorrhage of lungs by Piso's Cure for Consumption.— Louisa Lindaman, Bethany, Mo., Jan. 8, '94. A rheumatic affection is never recipro cated.—Christian Work. See! Bad sprain is cured. St. Jacobs Oil's magic worked it. Some men think they deserve credit for liking their own children.—Washington (la.) Democrat. St. Jacobs Oil cures Soreness. St. Jacobs Oil cures Stiffness. Theoretical philosophers are sometimes practictl fools.—Chicago Daily Jfews. For Infants and Signal Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought " FORBID A FOOL A THING AND ! ? THAT HE WILL DO." | DON'T USE | Athletic Goods "Spalding." Accept no substitute. Handsome Catalogue Free. A. Q. SPALDING & BROS. New York. Chicago. Denver. THE SCHOOLS Of Greater New York, Boston, and many other places use Carter's Ink exclusively and won't use any other. 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