THE GIRLS OF SAMOA. The? Wear Kilt Skirt* mid \ri klnoci vf Nhark'a Teeth nml Are Horn Coquettes. The girl of Samoa is a born coquette, full of romance and natural grace. Her usual costume is a necklace of shark's teeth, some metal earrings anil a short skirt. The number of shark's teeth in her necklace is the measure of her popu larity among her admirers. The more teeth the greater the belle. From the time she is ten years of age she begins to make eyes from behind a beautifully carved fan. As usual with coquettes, she is fickle in the extreme, as well as romantic. Her nature is as fierce as. that of the warriors of her country, and she is a thoroughly trained athlete as well. She is skillful in the use of arms and is cruel and re lentless in war. She is equal in strength to many of the Samoan warriors. For dress occasions the older Samoan girls wear the same costume as a man. This is a kilt or piece of drapery wound about the waist in a manner which seems to a foreigner nothing short of miraculous. This is called lava-lava, a sort of mat material. A mere scrap of it wound about the waist of a child is considered dress sufficient. Ordinarily the children wear no garments what ever. The drapery is of the same gen eral character as that worn by natives of most of the South Sea islands and the Indian archipelago,as well as the south ern countries of Asia. It is called by the Malays the sarong. But the Samoan girl has been out in the world more or less of late years. The tourists froija other countries have visited Samoa; so the natural beauty of the native Samoan girl is being spoiled by her great vanity. She not only spends a great deal of time in beautify ing herself, but she adopts such incon gruous combinations as a fine mat lava lava and a ball gown waist or velvet basque cut V necked, her hair done up empire style and wearing, to complete Iter toilet, a string of ferns around her waist and a necklace of the inevitable 112 I ' : T ,:fU SEAL. AT AX A. A SAMOAN BELLE. •bark's teeth about her bronze throat. Her arms and limbs are bare. She has eeen shoes, but she prefers to be com fortable. She also refuses stockings, contrary to the Samoan warrior, who, it is told, iii*»c:hed with his comrades in battle array wearing a pair of opera length silk hose, the soles of which were worn completely off. These had no doubt been given to him by some Eu ropean travelers. Although the Samoan glTl does not wear clothes, properly speaking, she is taught while still very young to em broider and sew. The hairpins worn in her hair are beautiful in their workmanship. They are made out of the wood of a cocoanut tree, and are carved with a dead cocoa nut leaf. This is most delicate work. The girls are taught to swim when babies. They are graceful and readily learn to dance. As a people the Samoans are great dancers, and during their holiday seasons they dance day and night. They are also fond of music, nnd have native instruments, which they beat to strange rhythmic music, not altogether beautiful, but har monious. The marriage of the Samoan girl is arranged by her parents. The girl never thinks of having any opinion of her own on the subject, but accepts the parents' decision as inevitable. This does not prevent her from having any number of admirers before or after marriage, which seems to be another matter en tirely. She is far more inleresting in her native costumes, pursuing the cus tomary life of her own people, than when site tries to ape the foreigners who \isit her beautiful tropical country to admire her in all her native sim plicity and beauty.—X. Y. Tribune. To Preserve Old Letter*. Here is a unique method of saving old letters. A youthful bride has been trying to bring herself to burning up her love letters. They had accumulated during the years of her engagement to such an ex tent that to save them all was out of the question, and to burn them was out of the question, too. Instead, she has torn them, painstakingly, into small bits and changed them into an embroidered covered pillow. It's a idea, and might be util ized in preserving all sorts of old let ters and manuscripts. Shipping Trust In England. The consul of the United States at Birmingham reports as an unusual event in Grfcat liritain the beginning of an inquiry by the board of trade of that eitv into the shipping trust, which is sa-id to be injurious to British in dustry. IS A GOOD DRESSER. Mrs. MeKlnley's (lonnii t i Hi<• ci 11 Tank. Diamonds may be cleaned by brush ing them with a lather of soap and wa ter, rubbing them aftarwards with eau de cologne. If well shaken in a bag of bran they acquire great brilliancy. Cut stones should not be wiped after being washed. Wash in a lather of white soap, rinse nnd put on their faces in sawdust until quite dry. Opals which have become dim may be polished by rubbing them well with oxide of lin or with dump putty spread on chamois leather; finish with damp powdered chalk, also spread on leather. Then wash the opals with a soft brush in wa ter and then immersed in the follow ing: Salt one pine, alum one pint, salt jeter two pints, water four pints. Le&re the silver in this for five minutes, then rinse in cold water and polish with a leather. They should Vie kept in sil ver paper. Oxidized silver can Vie cleaned in a quarter of a pint of sul phuric acid, mijed with one quart of water. Ordinary silver articles may Vie kept bright by cleaning them with a slice of lemon and afterward rinsing in cold water. Then wash in a lather of soap and rinse in hot water, dry with a soft cloth and polish with a leather. Nickel should be rubbed with a flannel dipped in ammonia. Amber may be rubbed with wet powdered chalk; then with a little olive oil applied with a flan nel. Ivory can be whitened with a solution of peroxide of hydrogen, or let the articles stand in spirits of wine in the sunshine.—Cincinnati Commer cial Tribune. WASHING THE FACE. Instead of I'sing Water After a Walk Ladies Should llnthe nitli Lult Virginal. Many skins will not stand constant washing, a practice which indeed tends t<> coarsen the complexion. Thor ough washing once a day is sufficient for most women, and is far prefer able to partial and careless ablutions morning, noon and night. Instead of cleansing the face in water when coin ing in from a walk, or when one feels that a wash would be refreshing, it is a capital thing to bathe it with lait virginal. It is an excellent purifier, easily made and harmless. It is, moreover, delightfully refreshing. I give the recipe: Kose, orange flower, or elder flower water, one pint; sim. pie tincture of benzoin, two ounces; tincture of myrrh, ten drops; gylcer ine, ten drops. Place the rose wa ter in a bowl, and while stirring it with a glass or porcelain spoon, add drop by drop the benzoin, then the myrrh and glycerine. Be sure you get the simple tincture of benzoin, as the compound tincture contains other ingredients quite un suited to the purpose. Some skins will not stand glycerine. If this is tha case with yours, all that need be done is to omit it from the emulsion. Never use pure glycerine to the skin of the face, as it tends to induce hairy growth. The lait virginal should be ap plied with a soft rag, and one is often surprised at the amount of dirt, un suspected because undetected, which is brought away.—Philadelphia Press, The Queen's lee Chest. The stores of ice at Windsor, Os borne and Balmorai castles are very large. At Windsor there is storage room for about 500 tons. There the supply is obtained from the lake be neath the north terrace, from Frog more and Virginia water. Ice is not only lavishly used in the royal kitchen, but also for reducing the temperature of her majesty's apart ments in hot weather. Then it is packed in pretty wooden buckets and stood in the fireplaces. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1900. STRUGGLING YOUNG AUTHOR. > No Big Demand for His Warn Bat Q* la Providing Agalnat a Hush. "I have just finished," said the struggling young cutnor, "another storage warehouse for returned manuscripts, this being of the same dimensions as the other, 20x00 and four stories high, and, also like the other, ; fireproof. I find it cheaper to build that way and insure myself. It costs a little more, of course, to make the structure fire- i proof, but the interest on this additional cost is less than the insurance would be, ! and the difference 1 have set aside as a sinking fund from which to pay the taxes and repairs. j "You might infer from this that there I has been as yet no widespread general de- | mand for the productions of my pen; and, j if you should, your inference would be quite , correct; indeed, such unanimity of senti ment as appears seems to take the form of rigidly observed neutrality, with the re sult that my second warehouse has already begun to fill rapidly. "Hut I have still no fear of the outcome; else, I should throw away these manuscripts j Instead of storing them; but as it is I think I am simply putting down a gold mine. Then why doesn't somebody see at least a color in these manuscripts now? Well, I don't know; you can't always tell about those things, but some day the gold is dis covered; J've built both m.v warehouses on corners; so that when that discovery is made, and the publishers swarm around the buildings asking for manuscripts, I can de liver not only from doors but from windows, too." BAD MAN TO INTERRUPT. He Demonstrated to a Certainty That He Knew What He Ha« Talk- Ins About. "Wen MOSCP tell de sun to stan' still —" began the old deacon. "Dat warn't Moses," interrupted a broth er in the amen corner, "dat wuz Joshua!'^ "Kz I said," continued the deacon, "w'en Joshua tell de sun —" "You didn't say dat at all!" said the brother who had corrected him. "Hit wuz me dat said it! Hit wuz me dat tuck you up to it!" The deacon's patience was exhausted. He folded his brass-rimmed spectacles, laid them carefully on the table before hwn, walked over to the amen corner, took the objecting brother by both arms from be hind, and, witli the swish of a cyclone, swept him forward toward the door, landing him precipitately in outer darkness. "Ez I wuz saying', fo' dis little incident occurred," he continued, "w'en Moses tol* Joshua ter tell de sun ter stan' still—" Some of the older, learned brethren moved uneasily in their seats. They looked like they wanted to correct him, but they diid not. They let it go at that! —Atlanta Con stitution. For the Holiday Trade. "What!" she exclaimed, "you want $2.50 for this? Why, when 1 priced the same thing here a month ago it was only $2.20." "Very likely," replied the honest sales man. "That was before we began our marked-down sale for the holidays."—Chi cago Post. Wliul Saved Him. Finnepan.-—lt's a wonder Clancy don't {?•'' killed, the way he lets his tongue run on. .Nlpriarty.—He would, begorrah, only the way he lets his legs run off.— Judge 112 If jtra are in doubt about it, don't do It. Daily News. She —"Would you be willing to die for me?" He —"Why, I'm dying for you now!" —Brooklyn Life. A man is seldom rich enough to afford lux uries before his stomach gets too worn out to digest them.—Atchison Globe. A good many men boast of their method ical habits who never have anything but unpaid bills to file away.—Atchison Globe. A North Atchison woman who is nearly 60 years old is so tender-hearted that she cannot kill a fish. The other day she had a fish to kilJ. and couldn't do it, so she sent for a neighl>or, and the neighbor was tender hearted, too, so a darky boy was called in and received ten cents for the terrible job.— Atchison Globe. "Bridget," said the mistress to her sick servant, "would you take a little medicine?" "Faith, ma'am,' said she, "I'd take any thing to make me well, aven. if 1 knew 'twould kill me."—Philadelphia Record. Supply and Demand.—"She pays her but ler so,ooo a year." "Yes; there are so few butlers who are really competent and yet look less important than her husband. Detroit Journal. "Was she a trained nurse?" "I guess she must have been. She hadn't been in the hospital a week before she was engaged to the richest patient."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mr. Northside —"Who was that friend you had with you this afternoon ?" Mr. Shady side —"That wasn't a friend. That was my father-in-law."—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele graph. Mrs. Fogg—"A gentleman called to see you, David, this afternoon." Mr. Fogg— 'Did he have anything to say ?" Mrs. togg —"Only that he would call again." Mr. Fogg—"H'm—evidently a dun; but to give warning of his second coming betrays inex perience. Beckon there's no greet dange* vom him."—Boston Transcr.pt. It Curfs Oolda, Coughs, Sorp Throat, Croup, Influ •nia, Whooping Cough, Bronrhitia and Aathma, A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, ar>d a sure relief in advanced atagea. Use at occe, Yc" will see the excellent effect after taking the first doae. Sold by dealera everywhere. Price, 1!S and 50 centa per bottle. CARTERS INK Just as cheap as poor ink. VIRGINIA FARMS for SALE —Good land, good n«4*hhbi»r.«, school* and churches Convenient. Mild healthy climate, free from extremes of both heat and cold. Low |»ricci and easy terms. Write for fice cata logue. It. B. CHAKFIN & CO. tine.;, RICHMOND, Va. M CURES WHERtALI ELSE FAILS. TO ■m Boat Coutfh oyrup. Taaton Good. Use PJI Cri in time. Bold by drugginu. pf Deafness Cannot Be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There i» only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mu cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal con dition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases of of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed conditio* of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars f«r any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Seilll for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Words and Their Effects. "Do you believe in the influence of single words on a person's character? Some poet ical fellow has advanced the theory, you know." "Yes, T do. There's my wife, for in stance. She rises in the morning pale and listless. She picks up the morning paper. Suddenly her eye brightens, her face flushes, her whole appearance changes. A single word has wrought the miracle." "What's the word?" "Bargains!"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Many People Cannot Drink coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. Yon can drink Grain-* > when you please and sleep like a top. For Orain-O does not stimulate; it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-O is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer to-0 cents. Clam chowder is often productive of the deepest melancholy.—Chicago Daily News. I can recommend Piso's Cure for Con sumption to sufferers from Asthma. —E. D. Townßend. Ft. Howard, Wis., May 4, '94. We always criticise; others find fault.— Philadelphia Times. Millions of Women Soap Exclusively for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp of crusts, scales, and dandruff, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and healing red, rough, and sore hands, in the form of baths for annoying irritations, inflammations, and chafings, or too free or offensive perspiration, in the form of washes, for ulcerative weaknesses, and for many sanative antiseptic purposes which >eadily sug gest themselves to women, and especially mothers, and for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. No amount of persuasion can induce those who have once used it to use any other, especially for preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, and hair of infants and children. CUTICURA SOAP combines delicate emollient properties derived from Cun- CURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cieansing ingredients and the most rcfresh ing of flower odors. No other medicated or toilet soap ever compounded is to be compared with it for preserving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands. No other foreign or domestic toilet soap, however expensive, is to be compared with it for all the purposes of the toilet, bath, and nursery. Thus it combines in ONE SOAP at ONB PRICE, viz., 1 WENTY-FIVE CENTS, the BEST skin and complexion soap, the BEST toilet and BEST baby soap in the world. All that lias been said of Cuticura Soap may be said with even greater emphasis of CUTICURA OINTMENT, the most delicate and yet most elFective of emollients, and greatest of skin cures. Its use in connection with Cuticura Soap (as per directions around each package), in the "ONE NIGHT CURE FOR SORE HANDS," in the "INSTANT RELIEF TREATMENT FOR DISFIGURING ITCHINGS ANI> IRRITATIONS," aud in "A SHAMPOO KO* FALLING HAIR, and ITCHING, SCALY SCALPS," and in many uses too numerous to mention, is sufficient to pror« its superiority over all other preparations for the skin. Complete External and Internal Treatment for Everv Humor. VII I. 11l HI 1 C° nslsUn S CUTICURA SOAF (2flc.), to cleanse yie skin of crusts and scales ami eottrn thr thickened cuticle V? lIWUI U COTICITRA Ointment fftOo.), to Instantly alliur itching, tnllammatlon. and irritation and sciothe and heal an^f CUTICURA RESOLVENT (50C0, to cool and clFanse the blood, A SINGLE SET Is oftSn sufflcdent ITO cure then" > r Tur prr fl> I 1 r hW l ' itching, and burning skin, scalp, and blood humors, with loss of hair, when all else falls" THE SET, $1.25 * wwrld - iuirKß u * oo **-i««!£ Florida, West Indies and Central America. ' The facilities of the Louisville & Nash ville Railroad for handling tourists and travelers destined for all points in Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, or for Nassau, are unsurpassed. Double daily I lines of sleeping cars are run from Cincin- i nati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louil through Jacksonville to interior Florida • points, and to Miami, Tampa and Orleans, the ports of embarkation for tho » countries mentioned. For folders, etc., write Jackson Smith, I). P. A., Cincinnati, O. Abnormal. Mammy—l wouldn't want no gal ob mine j to marry dat Sam Johnson. Dinah—Yo' wouldn't? "No. Why, dat fellah am jes' as crazy j 'bout dress as a sensible niggah ud be 'bout s watahmiliions!"—Puck. Largest Seed Growers In the World. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, I Wis., recently shipped Twenty thousand bushels of seed potatoes to Alabama, Flori da, Texas and other southern points. This firm is the largest grower of seed potatoes as also farm seeds in the world. "When a man's young he's anxious to show his knowledge," said the Manayunk philos opher; "and when he gets older he's just as anxious to conceal his ignorance."—Phila delphia Record. The neen a * co w " mu *' 112t H S»l/i*r'« Rape Spelt*— plTex Uich, -1; jjKTfJ W'hutl*ltl Jriin CaUtot SEEDS^. ®*lWi Hwds are Warranted to Prodoco. ilablon Luther, E.Troy .Pa. th* H 10 DOLLARS WORTH FOR !0c- Cj 85 P k *" earlifit v«» ? ela 112 wu«>dy^ > tlo lntnlo» •dr. nil ** one » HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS In Tennessee. North and South Carolina, Ceorgia. . Florida. Cuba, Porto Rico and are Levi aal ' most easily reached via the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry., Over which lino and its connection* thw FAMOUS DIXIE FLYER, with through 12 section Pullman Palace, Bullet Flaep* ing Cars are run daily the year round, between St- Louis and Jacksonville, Florida. Close ci.nimi-tion# are made at Nashville from Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville, affording a delightful diiylit-'lt ride be tween Nashville and Atlanta, passing through the most Historical and pictureS'ju® section of tbo South, via Lookout Mountain. Cheap Hoineseekers* round* trip tickets are sulci on the Ist and 3rd Tuesday of each month. For full information, maps, folders and all matter pertaining to Tourist Hates to those resort®, write to U.C.GOWiRDI\\ W. P. A., 11l Merchants Exchange building. St. Lou la. I>. ,|. MI LLA.XKY, S. £. I* A., 69 West 4th Street, < lnclnnatl, O. VIKIAIIU F. IIII.L. S. P. A., 328 Marquette Bldff., Chicago, 111., or W. L. DAXI.EY, «. P. A T. A., Nashville, Tenn. MILLIONS OF ACRES I KB IffPt ,tfl of choice aurlruliural land! now opened for FWn. jN Kettlement In hTgitestprice^lnti'e rnaiS 1M la kcts of the world. Thou* 112 112 sands of cattle arc fat- W toned for market without j ■ fed grain, aud with out a day's shelter. Send for information and te cure a free home In Western Canada. Write th# Superlutendeut of linnngration, Ottawa, or addreM the Undersigned. who will mall you atlases, pam ! phlets, etc., free of cost. F rKDLKY. Sunt, of Ita* migration. Ottawa. Canada; or to Al. V. McINNJCA, No. 1 Merrill Block. Detroit. Mich. READERS OF THIS PAPER DESIRING TO BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN ITS COLUMNS SHOULD INSIST UPON HAVING WHAT THEY ASK FOR, REFUSING ALL SUBSTITUTES OR IMITATIONS. II JT| nO W NEW DISCO V hit Y: i?t*c» *J l\ V 1 O I quick relief and euro worst cases. Book of testimonials and Ml ireatirient Free l)r H. H. GKKEN'B SONS, Bo* D, Atlanta. U». ASTHMA, bronchitis, croup, etc.. curedf simple home remedy. In.taut relief} costs fewcenta. Kecipe, etc.. 10c. 0. W. aUBLCTTK, Silieurclailj.S.l. A. N. K.-C 1796 n IT r 11 TO Advice ai to patentability and inventor*' g«t4« 1 I A I L n I O "«• B. U. K v A*i, l«lt r, VubluiUM, p.« 7