Malta. » There was at the Centennial Exposi tion tho head of a woman cut in but ter, which attracted much attention from the rural visitors. For this they panned by the women painted on can vas or carved in marble ; they were too like tho real tiling, and they probably knew how difficult it is to make butter into moulds. For some reason Malta reminds you of this butter lady. It is a real city—with real houses and ca thedral and streets, no doubt, but you haro a feeling that they are not genu ine,, and that though it is very cleverly done, it is, after all, a city carved ont of cheeso or butter. Some of tho cheese is mouldy and covered with green, and some of the walls liavo holes in tlieni, as has aerated bread or Roquefort cheese, and the streets and tlitj pavements, and the carved facades of the churches and opera house, and the earth and the hills beyond—every thing upon which your eye can rest is glaring and yellow, with not a red roof to relieve it; It is all just yellow lime stone, and it looks like Dutch cheese. Ii is liko no other place exactly that you have ever seen. The approach in to the canal-like harbor under the guns and the search lights of the fortifica tions, the moats and drawbridges, and the glaring monotony of the place it self which seems to have been cut out of 0110 piece and painted with one brush, suggest those little toy for tresses of yellow wood which appear in tuo shop windows at Christmas time. Of course the lirst and last thought one has of Malta is that the island was tho home of the Order of the Kntghts of St. John, or Knights Hospitallers. This Order, which was the most noble of those of the days of mediaeval chiv alry, was the band of warrior monks who waged war against the infidels, who kept certain vows, and who,under the banner of the white cross, became honored and feared throughout the then known world. Their headquarters changed from place to place during tho four hundred years that stretched from tiie Eleventh Century, when the Order was'first established, up to 1530, when Charles V. made over to Malta and all its dependencies in perpetual sov ereignty to the keeping of these Knights. They had no sooner fortified the island than thero began the nine months' siege of the Turks, one of the most memorable sieges in history. When it was ended, the Turks re-em barked 10,000 of the 40,000 men they had landed, and of the 9000 Knights present under the Grand Master Jean ile la Valette when the siege had opened, but (!00 capable of bearing arms remained alive. Harper's Weekly. _____ Missouri lias 9301 school districts, 11,74-1 school houses, 13,G77 school teachers, 822,430 persons of school age, and 610,550 in the public schools. SWELLINGS IN THE NECK Or f/oltt-e, made my neck fully twice it natu ral size. "For three years all my strength seemed togo into the swelling. I took Hood's Sttrsaparillfi, ff which gave mo strength, _ Janßg; J relieved distress in my stomach, and best of all, removrU "MHSHNHT the t/oirre. Xam now Mri. Swlaefard. in tho l>est. of health." Mas. H. C. SWINE FOHJJ, Union County, Mifltinhurg, Pa. Hood's 5S5u Cures When other preparations fall. Hood'* Pilln act caally, yot promptly and effi ciently, on the liver and bowels. 25 c«nU. "August Flower" Miss C. G. MCCLAVB, School teacher, 753 Park Place, Elmira, N. Y. " This Spring while away from home teaching my first term in a country school I was perfectly wretched with that human agony called dyspepsia. After dieting for two weeks aud getting no better, a friend wrote me, suggesting that I take August Flower. The very next day I purchased a bottle. lam de lighted to say that August Flower helped me so that I have quite re covered from my indisposition." 9 N I N U—*7 D-r ijuxruinnnnniiruvuvin CDo You Sleep Peacefully JJ " The goods p things of this llfe£ tArc ™[vrn H*. tn order that life mav bo us brlghtr •'"l'l'.v .11 terminable thing eao be." but t.. 2' ii t > th< in all with a thormwh rHlith we imi.it c»"t t;-".h't'i the ilemimdl of nature for uleeti an t- Jr it. Obtain uk 51 Mlgrim I ISprinyr ~ 21 I 5 rj »'»l »' litre that jieaeeful *leep which al.ine eatij J' ivi-.irv ntor-alti lll*' lull fteuae of the en C C • 'l« ■ a healthy life. J r . '""•HIM " I- nia.il) ..f hlghlv le.tt-S 3ft I'l l! Mffl ttlre, l» the I'EKFF.tTIov ~fr C 1 >tn iw«t a Urmia hf««» ~13 2 1 'l' •li.i.t "ititlti.ti wire lliillatl.iuv for "theyC no! what tbey steeni." m 11 11,ti 11, tat No. J! Warren Slr»et. New York. C 3 »it ralu by all rt-llai-'e lVaSirn, § §V No. 501 "5)5 5 TRAPEJ^*— ? C 3 P it. 1 w«viiiN rrtiwvr, Krt*\ 3 Turli ( nrpeiiilM, C - c - 5 2 ttuAu, H4M futxLurj. m ♦***- I*i> tnt.mi. P "ruinru inru uuu uu iruinn» $75.00 lUITIICVIK DEUCITE WOMEN 0» UtMtUM *•»•«. IMmM M« BRADFIELQ'S FEMALE REGULATOR. Every ingredient tupcib Tuna: ■ l'| "t" ♦ •»'»*! etttu it w IHUIIuI nitlu- | «*.; tn t up «l«l Kwatflhtn.ag >u» j by nn >u thiough the „ll napunt**. ll' tlln j.wl I I I ti »ult (1 - Mil lit ; " 1| m t(», m k* N M bull til4m hi tttlt **•- »«.• «.i«( »«.,»«i(. w*«ika ti wtli " i M M. t, AM. I Jfa»• fUt *•" 1 " ***> » " ®| -«••*«» U |i <*» InMi WHEN A SILO IS INDIHPENBABT/E. The silo in indispensable for a winter dairy. And this makes necessary a series of crops most suitable for the purpose. As the main reliance is on corn for the ensilage, thero will be little else grown, but the summer feed ing of cows is iv simple matter. This should be by pasturing, which is the cheapest mode of feeding cows and by far the most convenient, as there will be no time takeu up in driving them back and forth, as they will remain in the pasture during the three summer months. It is thus seen that the winter dairy is most economical in every way, and more profitable than ordinary dairying as well.—New York Times. PRTTNINO ORAPE VINES. Many agricultural writers insist that grape vines should only be pruned in the fall or beginning of winter, and undoubtedly that is the best time, but we have pruned in the spring, after the leaves were half grown, without any injury to the vines. We did not cut back as closely as we should have done in the fall, and sometimes one or two of the lost joints died, probably from bleeding, but there was no ex cessive bleeding, nnd the main vino did not seem to be hurt by it, or the fruit lessened in size or sweetness. It was thought, better than to allow a neglected vine to grow too much wood. But. we would not care to prune between the formation of the fruit buds and the ripening of the fruit, un less to nip off the ends of branches that are making too much growth.— Boston Cultivator. MAKE BEST DVTTEIL. If dairymen will bear in mind tha the best butter pays a profit and the poorest insures a loss, they will have one large foundation stone of dairy economy established. The average grade just pays the cost of production ; the poorest grades fall below and the better grade rises above. The profit accrues from the better grades of but ter produced from the better grades of cows. For while it is entirely prac ticable to always make a high grade butter from a low grade cow, it is not possible to secure a profit, because of the small quantity. Neither can a profit be obtained by making large j quantities of poor butter. First we ! need a good cow, then give the cow j and her milk good care and success is certain. There is comfort in the fact that it is just as easy to make good butter by good methods as to make poor butter by the "old granny" methods, in fact it is very much easier and ten times more satisfactory.— Orange Judd Farmer. STEEI. OR IRON NAILS. Since the introduction of steel nails the iron nails have been slow of sale, yet the latter are often palmed off on the purchaser unless steel nails are especially ordered. The wire steel nails cost a trifle more than the square cut steel ones, but are enough better to j pay, as the wire nails do not split the j timber, or mutilate the fiber of the wood, as does the common nail. A wire nail, if notched, clings to the j wootl, ami for clinching is preferable \ to the common form of steel nail. As ; to durability, both will rust away if in an exposed position. Iron nails break when under heavy strain, or when bent j at right angles, while those of steel | hang with a most wonderful tenacity, I and for fencing, and like purposes, i should always be used. For shingling, j wire nails are best. They do not split : or tear away the underside of the j shingles, as do the square cut nails of | both iron and steel. When driving large steel nails into hard wood, they | are liable to bend unless struck squarely, i —American Agriculturist. HOW TO GKOOM A HORSK. The few stable hands who know how to groom a horse properly are gen erally too indolent to ilo it. It is quite an art to clean a horse as he should be i cleaned, and it is no easy job. For that reason he is seldom groomed as ! he should be. A groom must be ac- j tive, strong and experienced. Every j inch of the hor'ie. beginning at the heatl, should be gone over thoroughly with brush, comb and rag. I . A man who would not much rather ' take care of his own horse, provided he has the time, has not true love for the horse. No animal will repay one ! t for care and attention like the horse, j He will show it not only in appesrance ; externally, but in health and spirits, i Good grooming will do as much in im- , i proving the eonditicn of a horse as an , additional four quarts of oats per day.1 In grooming a horse properly i»o , should be tied from bide to l-ide HO that I he cannot throw hi« head around and work himself all over the floor, which he is sure to do under the comb if he is not of a disposition too phlegmatic , to feel the tcraehiiifc. A good brush , uutl -ouib an required, a.t well a't it brooineoru Wush for r.tsne and tail ] Never us.' the Comb on the horse's ( bead. If lit has any rpirit at all he J will not endure it Take Ihe brush in the ri|{ht hand ' , an 1 the headstall li the left, steady , bis bead while hnuluiiK gently, anil , then with the comb in the h-ft hand , curry the Heck from behind the tar , and tin entire ri£h» m It. ti • thr, armping the J brush al ;i.|ti i.tr. with the e.nnb to clean it. T' t-u th' riffHt way wit'. , the brush; fallow the Itrtitth with a Wnttltii rat; fitbi>tfit< th< ha'r tip and then •WtMilh it. |H.t. Ik| r 11..-H | grt<***■ and the lio|*r will .1 ■» his , k. ap'i, t rttd net t>« l t, Hsii.it. Kai. .r » I I I ft'ltbittff ttp a. I u kiii fc I . •wal .wins >i «•. ii|. > diiUt l.i*. Htoek loiiiml i» . V <|<« |t#t> M ltftf In hi i «l< in It i« s in, a bull t I* t.j *p» iia*««* , V but is rarely entirely eradicated. The r removal of the manger and placing the i horse's food upon the ground will nol 5 prevent a determined cribber from , swallowing air. The sides of the stall 5 he will sometimes utilize for the same . purpose, and some horses will crib OD , their own bodies. Others learn to cril? , without any support at all. It has been r clearly proved that what is known as [ cribbing is not, as was once thought, , an act of belching and expelling gas 1 from the stomach and swallowing aii • into it. s Horses killed after cribbing have had ! the gases in their stomachs and intes , tines subjected to chemical analysis, with the result that pure air has been found. Moreover, other experiments have been made which load to the same conclusion. An empty bladder inserted in the gullet in a prescribed way if found to be distended with pure ail after the act of cribbing. The vice of crib-biting, in the way it is most usually performed, is destructive to the teeth of the horse, anil BO interferes with the proper mastication of his food. Swallowing air, however, in any way frequently results in serious intestinal troubles—indigestion, flatulency, co licky pains and other ailments. The owner of a cribbing horse is in posses sion of a troublesome, undesirable ani mal. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. If pollen is kept dry it will last for years. Whitewash is a good purifier for the cow stable. Keep the trees growing if you wish them to succeed. The harrow is a grand tool to use early in the corn. Keep the cultivator going every day possible in season. If honey is kept in a warm, dry place it will never spoil. In starting an orchard it is best to have only a few varieties It is suggested that catnip will repay cultivation for honey alone. An application of hardwood ashes will supply the potash necessary for tho berries. Ayrshire and Holstein milk does not cream as readily when set as Jersey or 1 Guernsey milk. A good corn crop will produce more j than twice as much food per acre as a heavy hay crop. The quality and. quantity of the milk will be improved if cows are fed and milked regularly. Crowd the cultivation of corn now on till haying and do not let tho grass get too old before cutting. Fine manure, raked or cultivated in near the surface, will add fertility to the soil and niako the plants grow. At a late honey show in England a large manufactured hive, which coukl be taken apart, attracted much atten tion. One German paper recommends dip : ping the new queen in liquid honey ; and then dropping her among the bees. It is not too late in most parts of the country to get in corn and have it make a pretty fair crop for silage or | fodder. Two crops of hay from the though will give a hay better relished by stock than one. Cut one early, tho other | before frost. Every sheepman should attend tho i farmers' institutes. If the fair asso ciations do not give sheep a fair show, ' attend the meetings of the board and tell what they want. Many people do not like the honey gathered from buckwheat. It is ' neither so white nor so delicate as clover honey, which, however, it sur passes in richness. Alsike honey has a slight amber tint and is said to tuste I liko basswood honey. Every mutton raiser, and all are | going to be who are not now, should study the local trade of his neighbor hood and then goto the city stock ! yards, slaughter houses, anil follow up the carcasses to see where they go, who buys them aud who eats them. No man can tell another how to do a thing that will certainly make as much as it did for him ; but almost anybody cun tell something that will suggest a new idea that may be turned to ail van tage. This is what sheep raisers need now a little more than any other claim of live stock men. It is interesting aud profitable to know what is done with the fifth quar ter, the skin, entrails, head, blood and manure of sheep at th« slaughtering houses. It is a fact thai this fifth quarter, so often a loss on the farm, atTonls a big profit to the trade even if there were no other. War (James. The war games best calculated to I yield really useful results are those | which are Mimell lues played in autici- i patitin of some field day or series of ! iiiaiiit-nvres. It m surprising h<>w | ofteu there In total disagreement l>e tWeen the probable 1 none* arrived at, severally, bv real men oit real ground, ! and those bridlifht HIHIIII by lead piece* tipmi the map or mode!. Ground tea ttifes, MI appari-iitlv liiMKiuficaiit that their existence in iiUillst-o\■ red even II poll tilt »t settle um|M>, wtllaoliie- Ullies Mlfflee to niter the «Btir« sltlia tinu. H|H'akitttf generally, tb« com moii result of much playing of waf Maine* in tt llietllcut. tin mistaken idea tlmt, jjivt 11 ft it tin U1 1, * eoiitiiat lias a M*< tl Isoile AM Otlliet of |ifit'lllHi In woftlt a toit uf theory. IMm of tliu llr*t thing* atiifh it IK iMH iitial to *|> I r flat* l« in aat tin ru la no Mtclt tiling a* 11 1 Mint t mi l that It Is the MIM ip»et. I who Ii terv Iriqil. lillj lm|. |H its All tlmt tie I- at tfvfe' Is) mil U< Is to I Mart lie ill xirttl H*nlt m fat m* he is able, an 1 make p»o|«, | pr« |>ala tton* (or a» • tin , Hi. .|ifti»i«Hy tu cm t>l failure |tv»! Arm fit* i«,.r.t» p|.«»ae«||foUt 4 KlltgU tl«« »| > eulU . ill >I"W|4 Wi H"« thWM »«• *>l4 ii* (w* fII.UUU. I HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. A SEASONABLE RELISH. A seasonable relish is a stuffed en cumber. Bemove the peel from a large cucumber and cut it into pieces about half an inch thick ; place these in a steamer and steam steadily until they are thoroughly cooked—about half an hour. Have ready in a sauce pan a well-seasoned mince or force meat of any sort. Carefully scoop out the seeds from the rounds of the cu cumber and fill them with the mince. Garnish each with a ring of capers placed near the edge and serve on a border of spinach snrrounded by thick tomato sauce.—New York Times. TO CLEAN WHITE STLK LACE. There are two well-known recipes for cleaning white silk lace. One is to wind it around a piece of wood, like a piece of broom-handle, or a glass bot tle, and to soak it all night in warm castile soapsuds and milk; rinse in warm water, soak in soap and warm water; rinse again without rubbing, bleach in sun and dry. The second method recommends that tho lace be spread out upon white paper, covered with calcined magnesia ; another sheet of paper placed upon it, and laid away for three days between the pages of a large book ; then shake off the powder, and the lace will be clean and white.— Now York World. now TO MARE A SKIRT FORM. Take a block of wood two inches thick and at least a foot square. Bore a hole through the center and fit into it a wooden rod a little longer than the dress skirt. Then from a pine board saw a circle the size of your waist. Screw this securely to the other end of rod; fasten seven drcssreeds to the board, placing them so that one comes in the middle of the back. With two reeds make alioop that fits loosely over the hips and place this under the reeds five inches below tho waist. Tie firmly wherever the reeds cross. A second and slightly larger hoop should bo placed five inches below the upper one. Place aver tho reeds a small hoop-skirt from the bottom of which several rows of wire have been re moved. Fasten tho skirt to the reeds, sew tapes to edge of the skirt at regu lar intervals, draw them down and tack to tho block. This holds the skirt in position.—New York Voice. now TO STARCH. The starching is nearly as important ns washing. Let the prints dry before doing it. Use starch properly colored for colored grounds, unless there is white in the design to be muddled by it. See that the starch is well cooked, free of lumps, not scorched and not too thick. Turn your garments wrong side out, dip them in, kneading them well into the starch, but not lotting it flow in the right side. Turn and hang out, well spread, in the airiest shade you can find until bone dry. That is for thick stuffs, ginghams, cambrics, calicos, and so on. Muslins, lawns and airy batistes re quire different usage. The best starch for them is clear gum water—either gum arabic or gum tragacanth. Take care that every fibre is well wet with it, but squeeze, not wring, out all tho surplus and hang to dry. As soon as the garment feels a lit tla rough on the surface—when they are neither damp nor dry—takedown, fold and roll. Unfold a breath at a time anil pat anil pull it between your two hands until it is almost dry. When yon have gone over the whole garment sprinkle it lightly and roll tight. Leave it for at least an hour, covering so thickly that the outside cannot dry. Sprinkle and roll iu the same way the thicker garments, which, however, need a great deal more water than the muslins. But do not make them too wet; above all, do not have wet splotches on a semudry ground. Any fabric that will hiss under the iron is too wet for good results. Do your sprinkling with the atomi zer or fine rose-nosed watering pot, so gently that a mist, not a thunder shower, shall descend upon your gar ments, that is, if you would escape smears anil sticky irons.—Atlanta Con stitution. SEASONABLE RECIPES. Palm Pancakes Well beat three fresh eggs, then mix three tablespoon fuls of dry flour with a pint of new milk. I'ass it through a sieve into tho eggs. Put one-half ounce of laril into a clean frying pan, and when it isquito hot pour in a little batter as thin as possible. Scatter over it some finely minced candied citron peel; then cover with batter as thin as before. Fry a light brown ; drain dish and serve very hot with half lemons. The pancakes must be not larger than the palm of the hand. Liver —A very nice and tasty way of cooking liver is to cut it in slices about an eighth of an inch thick, anil to j&akc the dish look nicely stamp the livor in rounds with a pastry-cutter and season it with popper ami salt; then entirely Cover with eggs and bread crumbs and fry in clean hot grease un til a nice golden color. Fry some very thin slice* of bacon and arrange them between the liver, and pottf a thick brown sauce round the dish, aud un less you prefer the sauce plaiu, you will find the additiou of a little chopped 1 gherkin and capers will improve it j very much. Peach Short Cake Use canned | peaches and prepared flower for this j dish. Chop quarter of a pound of but . ter into a quart of prejMireil flour, ! quickly stir into it enough sweet milk to make a soft doiigh ; put this into j twu round cakes upon buttered tin i plates tt ltd bake the lit in a hot uveu. -M< ant Hue open a eau of peaches, re serve th< finest for tin two top layers I au.l cut the rest IU small quarters. Inn the short cakes iu the oven are doll, mid Cool enough to handle, tin 111 o|ien with the aid of a fork, lillt ler lln llialdea, divide I lie cut pMtchta upon th« iwo Im.Hoiu layers, and ar lange the fine t'U.s oil the others j thickly iblsl all with sifted powdered sugar, lay lh« top* uiuiii both un let pleee* and ser»e the short c«kea With li. r. sitla «! sugar »l. t sweet re ant the uf the calmed acht**, Well • Wwetened with p> mlt♦ « d »U*tft« i«M It* U*ed Ibstmsd of . »■ am 11.. |. Hit Uu'ssi aeiuraa, using || iintimi mm u f .awtanaia and plodu lug a« anwttft) wulpulwA UUWftJUW The Highest Egg. "We now come," Raid J. C. Stephens, at his auction rooms in King street, Covent Garden, "to the egg of the Aepyornis maximum, the biggest bird living or extinct. It has been extinct for some time, and only two of its bones have been found. According to the catalogue the bird was more than ten feet high and was flightless." "I should think so," said a prospec tive egg buyer. "It would seem to me," said Mr. Stephens, "that the bird that laid this egg must have been something like thirty-five feet high—about as high as a house. You will sec by the cata logue that it measures 34} inches in its longest circumference and twenty eight inches in girth. This egg is several inches larger than the egg we sold last year. It is, of course, a great rarity, and not more than thirty of these eggs are known. "This, I think, is the finest egg ol the lot. It should bo remembered that there are sixty known eggs of the great auk, and they sell for a couple of hundred guineas each. I don't mean to say that this egg should bring as much as a great auk's egg, but wo sold one not so good as this last year for seventy guineas." The egg was passing from hand to hand in a wooden box while the auctioneer was speaking. It looked too large for an egg, though in othoi respects it seems natural enough. It was not difficult to understand how a bird that had laid such an egg bad be como extinct. The strain must havd been equal to tho horse-power of an Atlantic, liner, and the cackle that fol lowed the arrival of the egg must have made the welkin ring until its head ached. The egg is of a brownish gray color and sounds like porcelain when it is drummed on with tho knuckles. The bird that was accustomed to lay this sort of egg lived, it is said, in Mada gascar, and buried its eggs in the sand. It is only possibly to find the egg by digging in the sand, and more egge may yet bo found, as a good deal ol tho seashore of Madagascar has not been dug up yet. The egg was finally sold for sixty seven guineas.—Pall Mall Gazette. Persian Needle-Work. The difference between Persian and the nee(,Ue work we are accustomed to see seems to lie in the thoroughness sincerity, an artist would call it— of the former. Every stitch is taken with mathematical precision, and there is no slighting at any ppint. The wrong side of the work is as admirable in its way as tho right side. In some specimens the stiches cover tho design on both sides, the needle being carried across underneath, as it is in the em broidering of China crape shawls. On other pieces the needle is put back toward tho wrong side close by the place it was drawn through, thus throwing all the work up on the right side and leaving what looks liko beau tifully regular outline-work on the re verse. This is the method used in working sofa pillows, table covers, or anything which only exposes one side. But for curtains, handkerchiefs, shawls, etc., tho double-faced cm broidery is invariably used. A favorite method of this Persian worker is the introduction of texts or sentences upon the border or centre of her pieces. Tho lettering isso quaint, angular, and disconnected that at the first look it seems liko a geometric pattern. On one white linen table cover, heavily worked in flowers and foliage with gray silk, was a border of lettering wrought in gold thread. Tho eharacters were about four inches tall, and the sentiment they conveyed, "God is great; Good is good," took up a very short space, but the text was repeated again and again.-—Har per's Bazar. "I can heartily say to any vomit: man who is wanting good employment, work for Johnson & Co., follow their instructions anil you will succeed." So writes an agent of RK. Johnson A- Co., Kichmond, Va., anil that's tho way all of their men talk. We fare K ii pi u re. No matter of how lon* standing. Write for free treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J, Hollensworth & Co., Owego, 'l ioga Co., N. V. Price $1; by mall, $1.15. E. B.Walthall & Co., Druggists, Horse Cave, Ky., say ; " Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every one that takes it." Hold by Druggists. 7.x . Inventors of anything made of wood assisted financially or otherwise to patent or place on market. Wm. Mattison, Kmc :{|7'.', New York. Hatch's Universal Cougli Syrup costs no more than others and benefits more. Beecham's Pills correct bad effects of over eating. Heechnm's—no others. 2T>cents a box. I Bring* comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when j rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's lust products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid i laxative principles embraced in the remedy, ttvrup of Figs. It« excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable aud pleas- I ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly j beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative; effectually cleansing the *ynteu>, dispelling colds, headaches aud fevers j and permanently ruling constipation, it has gi\eii satisfaction to millions and met Willi the approval of the utedieal profession, U-r.iu- it acts on the Kid ney*, l.iver aud llottels without weak- I ruing ihrin audit is |« rfvctly tree from • trry objectionable substance. *yrup of Figs is fi*i sate by all drug got* in -"Mie aud #1 bottles, but it la mati ul.e Im.d by the tfcli forma Fig fcyrup TO only, WIHNS. • IUMU< is pitiuedon »-verjr p44 kagi', also the MUM', 'Up of Figs, I a» I hting »cl! iukumm, you wiU nut Jn'irpl iili) * lb? Ut uU. if uihled. BIG MONEY . ,* -....u v ''( ii *- 1 il«r* m ««.? r. Jrxa if v.lv.-.., .. Dandies in the (■ermnu Army. Referring to the recent order of the German Emperor with regard to the dandyfied irregularities which had be come common in the German Army, a correspondent at Berlin calls our at tention to tlio fact that the Kaiser him self is not altogether free from affecta tion of this kind, inasmuch as he him self sets the fashion of "bangle" wear ing. In most of the many portraits of tho Kaiser tho bangle is brought into special prominence by the position of tho arm. But though addicted to the bangle he never condescended to the earring, which formerly was very com monly worn among his officers. T N EVERY Re -1 ceipt that calls jiji.uifor baking powder use the "Royal." It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. "We recommend the Royal —* Baking Powder as superior to all others."— United Cooks "iTy /1 and Pastry Cooks Associ- , 'Wj l ' , \N( at ion of the United States. ' ' iyfMF.ICs I / A Sjr iSSadtl aPTsO. 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No tool! required, Onlv a hammer needed to drive find clinch them easily and quickly, leaving the clinch Absolutely smooth. KeqHiring no hoie to be made In the leather nor burr lor the Kivcta. Thev are airoiic, tonuli and slurable. Millions now in use. Ali iemrths, uniform or assorted, put up In boxes. Ask your dealer lor them, or send 40c. in stamps tor a bo* of iuo, a&aorted Man id by JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO., walthax, ma HS. N IDEAL FA MILY "M ITb Tc |"N C* I For Indlccstlon. Hlllousucrs. I i llcudai hr, ton*iipatiun, lliid 14 umuU-xloM, Offtuwlvc Itrrnth, j and all disorders of (he Stoiuach, ■ = Liver and Bowels, _ ■ KIPANS VaBULES fV 3 P* A*ll a<*t gently yet promptly. Fnfe< t = I digestion follows their uw Hold I *by druggists or twint by mail. Box " (6 vials >,76c. 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