Be.aty la Blood Om». 1 Clean blood means a clean skin. Ko beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the iazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets.—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. It costs over sls n minute to Are the jMaxim gun at the rate of 750 shots a min ute. ter.iTE of Ohio, Citv ok Toi.ebo, I Lucas County, < Fuank .I. Cheney makes oath that, he is the .senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing businessin theCity ofToledo.County and State that said Arm will pay the sum of one hundkek doi.i.aks for each fend every case of catahuh that cannot be cured by the use of iiALi.'s Catauuh Cure. * Fiiank .I. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my ( ——*— i presence, this tith da.v of December, -< seal - A. D. 18S0. A. \Y. OI.EAsoN, ( —r~ \ X'llarii Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blond and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free, F. .T. Cheney <1- Co., Toledo. O. Sold by Drimuists. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are tho best. Knndy, the old capital of Ceylon, and Singapore aro about to install tho olectric light. Coughs Lead to CoiiMtiiiption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Goto your druggist to-day and got a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 50 cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan gerous. Queen Mary used the first sido saddle with a pommel ever seen in Scotland. Happy Cltiltlrvii Aro they who take Hoxsie's Croup Cure for croup and whooping cough. It cures ! quicker than any remody known. 50 cents. Blind men outnumber blind women by two to one. Catarrh In the Head Is an inflammation of the mucous mem brane lining tho nasal passages. It is caused by a cold or succession of colds, combined with impure blood. Catarrh is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which eradicates from tho blood all scrofulous taints, rebuilds the delicate tissues and builds up tho systom. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for $> Hood's Pillscureall Liver Ills. 23cents. It Didn't Apply to Him. During the latter part of September, says the Sail Francisco News Letter, Mr. Willis Polk was a member of a house party being entertained at a country place not so very far from San Francisco. At dinner one night tho subject of art was broached, and the discussion soon became general. The hostess, however, threw a damper on the topic by a frankly expressed dis like of wielders of the pencil and brush. "I can't stand artists," she 3aid, petulantly, and when every one looked surprised she added: "They are always •so dirty, you know." Polk leaned impulsively toward his hostess, with a deprecating gestfire. "My dear madam " he began, in polite but emphatic protest. "Why, Mr. Polk," replied the lady, answering his unspoken exception with airy frankness, "you are not an artist!" AN OPERATION AVOIDED. Mrs. Rosa Gaum Writes to Mrs. Pinkham About it. She Says : Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—l take pleas ure in writing you a few lines to in form you of the good your Vegetable Compound has done me. I cannot thank you enough for what your medi cine has done for me; it has, indeed, helped me wonderfully. „ jrp For years I was trou bled with an eaehyeargrow- 91 \\ ing worse, un- j 11^ to consult with Km be done' for ine but togo under an operation. In speaking with a friend of mine about it, she recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, say ing she knew it would cure me. I then sent for your medicine, and after tak ing three bottles of it, the tumor dis appeared. Oh! you do not know how much good your medicine has done me. 1 shall recommend it to all suffer ing women.—Mrs. Rosa Gaum, 720 Wall St., Los Angeles, Cal. The great and unvarying success of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound in relieving every derangement of the female organs, demonstrates it to be the modern safeguard of wo man's happiness and bodily strength. More than a million women have been benefited by it. Every woman who needs advice about her health is invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass. Sour Stomach "After I was Induced to try CAICA* BETIi 1 will never be without them Id the bouse. My liver was in a very bad shape, aud my bead acbed aud 1 bad stomach trouble. Now, since tak ing Cascarets. I feel flue. My wife has also used Iboni with beneficial results for sour stomach." Jos. Kkehling. 1921 Congress St., 8t Louis, Mo. CATHARTIC TRADE MARK MOICTCRCO Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 55c.500. ... CURS CONSTIPATION. ... BicrUav Coapiay, CH—f, M—tr*s», K>w Sit 110-TO-BAC BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If you've a gray-haired mothot In the old home far away— Sit down and write the letter You put off day by day. Don't wait until her tired steps Beach heaven's pearly Kate— But show her that you think of he# Before it is too late. If you've a tender message, Or a loving word to say. Don't wait till you forget it. But whispe* it today. Who knows what bitter memories May haunt you if you wait— So make your loved ones happy Before it is too lato. j We live but in tho present. The future is unknown— Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is all our own, The chance that fortune lends to u. May vanish while w« wait. To spend your life's rich treasure Before it is too late. The tender words unspoken, The letters never sent, The long forgotten messages, The wealth of love unspent. For these some hearts are breaking. For these some loved ones wait- So show them that you care for them Boforo it is too late. —lda Goldsmith Morris. J FOR LOVE OF HER MOTHER, J • • ; 112 The Stlf-Sa:rifice of Kaomouna, the j i j Hawaiian Flower Girl. j • • Tho usual Honolulu crowd was down at the dock when the Hteiunship Australia, seven days i'roiu San Fran cisco, pulled alongside the pier on a brilliant, balmy afternoon in January, 1895. American women, trim, groomed, wholesome to look upon, in summer afternoon costumes, such as happy feminine exiles in the subtropics con trive so prettily and effectively; a few English and a few German women of society, arrayed also for the steamer day (which is a Honolulu function), but lacking in the elusive distinction and that indefinable "last touch" that characterized the appearance of the American women—these leaned back j languorously in their carriages and phaetons, under the shade of parasols, i listening to the Jpzy, complimentary i talk of tho duck-clad, lei-enwreathed j young business men who combined | duty with pleasure in thus waiting for I the great steamer to laboriously slip into her measured berth beside the pier. The usual groups of silent, ex pectant-eyed Kanaka men stood in the • shade of the pier sheds, humble in ! attitude, chary of words, and yet not sulky—your ordinary Kanaka man is the sweetest-natured human animal in all this surly world. Some of the men wore shoulder leis (wreaths of flowers) over their labor-grimed hick- i ory shirts. All of the Kanaka women j (there were perhaps fifty in all at the ilock) also wore leis in cross belt wise over their flowing white mother hub- i bards. In truth, the flower wreaths were everywhere. Staid, middle aged merchants among the whites wore them about their helmets and straw hats,and all of the white women in carriages had belts of Hawaiian exotics. All of the Kanaka women were in their bare feet. They stood about in little groups, as silent as the men of their race. There was no envy in the glances they directed toward the female occupants of the carriages, even if there may have been some wonder- I ment over tho lavishness of the Ameri- ; can and European women's costumes, j A few of the Kanaka women carried j tiny brown babies—silent also. Posi tively, Kanaka babies do not cry. No J mother of children will ever believe j this until she has lived somewhere in Hawaii. The Kanaka women,young and old, wore the flowing mother hubbard. The young women were of varying degrees of prettiness, even of beauty —the countenance of no Kanaka young woman is actually homely. The figure of no Kanaka young woman is ever anything but genuinely excellent —the forms of most of them are simply beautiful. One of these Kanaka women at the dock on this brilliant January after noon was as beautiful in face and form as an empress—in a way of primitive ness, of course. She was clad like the rest of the women of her race. Yet she was stately, even in her bare feet—which were small and perfectly formed. She was fully five feet ten inches iu height, and the white silk cord with which, unlike the other Kanaka women, she drew her white dress about her waist, emphasized the splendid, heroic proportions of her figure. Her glisteuing, raven-black hair hung straight down below her waist. Her features were of the aquiline, classic mold, her skin a dark olive, with a film of rose under her great black eyes. Kaomouna, who had been one of King David Kala kaua's flower girls, was a woman such as many a young student, day-dream ing in the quartier Latin, would have given worlds to see—famous painters did see her, and portray her. Kaomouna, surpassingly beautiful, neemed quite unconscious of her beauty on this brilliant January after noon. The young shipping clerks, hurrying to and fro on the dock, with their pencils behind their ears, t stopped suddenly when they caught sight of her, aud then stolo off be hind bales of goods, in order that they might observe her carefully, un observed themselves. The women in the carriages who had not been long down from the States or from Europe, saw Kaomouna, aud asked the women of longer Honolulu residence. "Who is that glorious creature?" Kaomouna, with a very sad face, spoke only an occasional word to one of the Kauaka women. Her voice was a deep con tralto, like the harmonious monotone of palms and the sea, heard from a distance. The Australia was made fast to the pier, and the passengers began to troop over the gangway. There was one man with his pretty young wife and three-year-old little girl. The little girl was the first to catch sight of Kaomouna as she reached the bot tom of the gangway. She quickly freed her Laid from the grasp of her father's and ran toward Kacmouna with baby words. Kaomouna smiled at the little girl, but did not offer to take her up. Instead, sho folded her arms, lookiug down at the little piuk faced child pleasantly. The child hung onto her skirts, and was thus . found by her mother. When the mother had taken the little girl, she raised her eyes to look at Kaomouua. She gave a start—as, inileed, all men and women did, who first gazed upon this woman, who had been King David Kalakaua's flower girl. "Did you ever in your whole lifo see suchaperfectly beautiful woman?" asked the young wife of lier husband in a whisper when he came up. "And Tita seemed to take to her immediate ly. If we could ouly have her for a nurse for Tita!" Kaomouna heard her. "Kaomouna would lovo to be that," she replied in a soft Kanaka-accented speech, smiling. Then a look of pain darted across her face. "But it may not be—it may not be - "and with her hands on her eyes Kaomouna turned suddenly and disappeared among the departing men and women of her race. Three mouths later the parents of the little girl —they had come from the States to settle in Honolulu —were at the dock together to witness, for the first time,the saddest sight in this world—the departure of the lepers from the Island of Molokai. The Kilauea Hon, the leper steamer, was out iu the stream, and the lepers were being carried out to her in barges. A litter was borne through the roped ill closure for the lepers. On it lay a very old Kanaka woman, loathsome in the* final stages of the disease. At the side of the litter walked Kao mouna, still as beautiful as ever, with no tear in her eyes. Yet her face was very sad. The parents of ti e little girl wondered. They spoke to ail official of the Hawaiian board of health, who was busy in the task of embarking the lepers. "Surely," they said, "slie does not accompany the lepers?" "Who, Kaomouna?" replied the health official. "Oh, yes, she does, but it is her own choice. Kaomouna, you know, has been secreting her old mother, who, as you perceive is a leper in leprosy's advanced stage for a number of years. We always knew there was something mysterious about Kaon o ina—that is, we have known it for ino past five years. She had made queer visits to a palm hut far over in the Nuuanu valley. Last week we followed lier—we felt there was leprosy in it We found her mother in the hut—Kaomouna had had her in hiding, trying to save her from Molokai, ever since the disease became evident. Kaomouna is not infected in the least—she has been careful. But she elects to follow her mother to Molokai, and she will be a leper herself after a while. Extraor dinary? Why, not at all! You do not understand the filial devotion of Kanaka women—men, too, for that matter. Such cases are common enough." The parents of tlio little girl looked at each other. There were tears in the mother's eyes. "That is why she folded her arms and would not touch Tita!" she said. "In this world of God, civilized or uncivilized, could there be anything more noble?" » All was ready,and the Kilauea Hon, with Kaomouna and her mother on board, slowly started down the har bor, the Kanakas on the dock setting up the weird, wild chant of farewell which is always sung when tho leper ship sails. The l*as«ion for Wealth. No insanity is more complete than that which unreasonable craving for sudden wealth often produces. Tho great Duke of Marlborough used to walk twenty furlongs through the rain and sleet in the middle of the night to add one English sixpence to his fortune of more than a million pounds ster ling. A celebrated French miser picked bones out of tlie streets, gnaw ing them like a dog, while his income was over SSOOO francs a day. One of the most remarkable chapters iu the early Dutch history is the reference to the tulip mania. The impression was that fortunes were to be obtained in the trading in tulips. The bulbs were bought and sold by weight, each fraction of a pennyweight couuted as carefully as jewel merchants count their diamonds. The trade of the nation was turned into this single channel and ordinary industries suf fered almost complete paralysis. So high at length did the fever rise that over SSOOO was offered and refused for a single bulb. At last the bubble burst. Men once rich became poor, people of the middle class were re duced to pauperism, and Holland hardly recovered from the blow iu a hundred years.—Detroit Free Press. Only One W»jr. Someone tells a story of a judge who could not control his temper and so could not control other people. One day there was unusual disorder in the court room,aud at last the judge could endure it no longer. "It is impossible to allow this per sistent contempt of court to goon," he exclaimed, "and I shall be forced to goto the extreme length of taking the one step that will stop it!" There was a long silence; then one of the leading counsel rose and with just a trace of a smile inquired: "If it please jour honor, from what date will youl take effect?"— Youth's Comnanion. LITTLE HAMPERED BY BLINDNESS lteinarkable Things Done by a Sightless Man in the Ifoosier State. John Wnlther, who lives within two miles of Clinton, Ind., has been blind from birth. Until he reached man hood John lived on the farm with hie father, and it was not uncommon to Bee him driving to the city with a load of corn, wheat or other farm prod uce. A piece of ground was given to him, and each year he would plant and cultivate a big garden, which he would market in Clinton and place the proceeds to his credit in the bank. He would buy horses, cattle and hogs. Even wheu a boy he was regarded as a good trader. It is now a common occurrence for John to stop in the middle of the road and trade horses with some jockey, and it is said that he is never worsted. He will go tc auy part of his father's large farm, unattended, in search of a truant horse or cow, and his searches are usually successful. How he manages to distin guish the stock for which he is search ing is a question which puzzles every body, aud a mystery which the blind man himself cannot or does not ox plain. When he decides to come to town he goes to the woods and, with appar ently us little difficulty as a man blessed with two good oyea, selects his favor ite horse from perhaps a dozen grazing in the pasture. He has each season for years made a hand in the harvest field, and the farmers regard him as one of the fastest and most reliable wheat "shockers" in tho neighbor, hood. It was thi ee years ago during harvest that tho blind man's brother became entangled in the machinery of a harvester and suffered a broken arm. As soon as the accident occurred John started on a run from the field to the barn and began hitching a lean to a spring wagon. Ho worked rapidly, and when the men bore the injured man to tho house the blind boy had the team hitched up, driven out in the road and ready to start with his brother to a doctor iu this city. He drove almost at breakneck speed, made the turns of the streets after reaching the city,and brought his horses to a standstill iu front of a doctor's office. Alter as sisting tho wounded brother up the stairway into the office he drew out liis watch, slid his index finger quickly around the dial, and, with a sigh, re marked. "Just hull'-past 10—I was only twelve minutes driving to town." There is no work on tho farm that the blind man canuot do, aud during idle times he builds aud repairs fences. He can lay the "worm" for a rail fence as well as any man, and prides him self on tho rapid manner iu which he gets along with the work. Ho built a plank fence along the gravel road iu front of the Walther house. The line is perfectly straight, while the work manship on the fence aud gates is not excelled by many meu who cau see and who profess to be carpenters. John Hriglit*« Prophecy. Colonel Birch tells in a Plattsburg paper of the following conversation he had thirty years ago with Colonel Vincent Marmaduke, aud its applica tion to present conditions is such that we give it to the public. Every Mis souriau knows that Colonel Marma duke, like his brother, was a decided Confederate, and during the war he was tho bearer of despatches from Mr. Davis to Mr. Mason, who repre sented the Southern confederacy in England. Marmaduke says that one eveniug Mr. Mason said to him: "Mr. Marmaduke, John Brigiit is to make a speech to-night in the House of Com mons, and I think it would be to your pleasure and interest togo down to hear him." It will be remembered that at that day Mr. Bright was the most conspicuous figure in England. Marmaduke went, and during his speech Marmaduke says that Bright stopped, and changing his line of remarks, said : "Mr. Speaker, if our kinsfolk on the other side of the At lantic settle their civil war satisfacto rily, and get back together in peace, iu forty years there will not be a gun fired in the world without their con sent." This statement at that day seemed preposterous, and no one but a man with Bright's comprehensive miud, could have dnred to make such an assertion togo before the world. It has been but thirty-five years since Mr. Bright made that statement, and yet events have happened in the last few months which give to Mr. Bright's words the spirit of prophecy, and no one would now hesitate to reproduce it. —Kansas City Journal. A Painter's Secret Vanished. A fortune awaits the man who painted a station sign at Harper's Ferry on the Baltimore & Ohio rail road shortly after the completion of the line at that point. The Western Society of Engineers iu Chicago has the fign on exhibition iu its rooms in the Monadnock building. The engineers are using every effort to ascertain who mixed the paint and applied it to the sign, which was placed iu position at the Harper's Ferry station about 30 years ago. The summers' heat aud winters' storms have in no way dimmed the lustre ol the paint used tb make the words "Harper's Ferry." The words stand out as boldly as the day they were formed by the artist's brush. The wood around the letters has beeu worn abont one-sixteenth of an inch by sand beaten agaiust it by fierce winds, but the letters have withstood the ele ments. It is claimed that no paint manufao tured nowadays is equal in durability to that which was applied to the old sign, and if the persou who mixed it is living and will take advantage of the secret he possesses as to its composi tion it is said he can, by engaging in the paint manufacturing buainesa. soon accumulate wealth.—Chicago News, HELPS FOR HOUSEWIVES, To Clean Morocco. Hold the leather as taut as possible and scour it briskly with a stiff brush dipped in soft soap and tepid water, 'o which has been added a few drops J{ oxalic acid. Hang the leather over 4 line or chair back, and when dry rub over with a rag dipped in sweet ail. For Cleaning Carpet on Floor. Dissolve one pound of best laundry soap in four gallons of hot water, add two ounces of sal-soda, one ounce of bora* and one ounce of fuller's earth; nix thoroughly, then add four gallons if cold water and set aside. When you are ready to use it add three or four ounces of ammonia. Put a pint o- more on carpets, scrub very lightly with common scrub brush; scrape ofl the suds with a rubber window-clean er, that raises the sap, wipe as dry as possible with dry cloths. Do only a small place :it, a time and be sure your :leaniugs meet. To flown 111 licit Silk. Wheu a thrifty Frenchwoman wishes to clean black silk she brushes it thor oughly and wipes it with a cloth, l'hen, after it is free from dust, she lays it flat on a board and sponges it with hot cott'ee which has been strained through muslin and freed from sediment. The silk is sponged nn the right side, allowed to become Inrlf dry and then ironed on the wrong side. The coffee removes every particle of grease ami restores the brilliancy of the silk without giving it the shiny appearance or the crackly and papery stiffness which results from any other liquid except ammonia and water, which last does not freshen the color ind gloss of the silk as coffee does. The silk is much improved by the process, and the good effect is perma nent. Silk should nevev be ironed with a not ii on put directly on the silk. Al ways lay thin wrapping paper, such as is used by our best dry goods stores, over it, and iron through the paper. When stitching t' in silk or, indoed, my goods flimsy enough to draw iu the machine, lay paper over it also and stitch through. The paper will .ear away easily along the line of per forations made by the needle. The Care of Picture*. It is necessary to take care of pic tures hung upon tho walls, as well as jf everything else. Engravings, though carefully framed, become mil- Jewed and rusty on the edges, though the house shows dampness in no other way. The fancy that any one can frame a picture is a mistake. Do not trust auy one to frame a valuable en graving but some one who under stands the business. Engravings should be hung iu a strong light, be cause they are not injured by it as watercolors are. Watercolors, which ire liable to fade, should be hung iu a more darkened part of the room, tine attention being first paid to their being hung where they will be seen to the best advantage. As a rule, wa tercolors look better framed passe partout than any other way. Such frames should have a rough, creamy white mat of watercolor paper, about three or four inches wide, and should be bound with white. Photographs look well framed with out any mat to the edge of the picture aid mounted in frames the color of the photograph. Photographs ordi narily fade, but the excellent English olatinotypes and the carbon photo graphs are made so that they are nearly permanent, like engravings, the paper of which bleaches a little. All "/liese pictures should be protected by glass. Oil paintings are not seen to advantage when they are protected in this way, and are only placed under »lass under exceptional circumstances. Dust oil paintings with a feather dust 3r, and about once a year, at lionse jleaning time, wipe them oft' so care fully with a soft flannel rag wrung Dilt in warm water that the varnish on the outside is not injured. Do not ittempt to clean a valuable picture, out submit it to a person who under stands the business. —New York Trib me. Reel p 3d. Molasses Cookies—Two cups of mo ..asses, boiled and cooled, one of but ter, four eggs, one tablespoouful of extract of ginger, a little salt, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, flour for dough. Roll half an inch thick, bake in moderate oven. Savory Eggs —Boil eggs hard, shell and split lengthwise. Remove the yolks and set the whites covered in the oven to keep warm. Rub the yolks through a sieve. Add salt, pep per and cream and a little minced chicken. Heap in the white sholls, put a bit of butter over and brown in hot oven. Coffee Sponge—-Make an infusion with one-quarter of a pound of ground sofl'ee, strain it through a cheesecloth bag; then dissolve three-quarters of a pound of sugar in one pint of cream, add this to the yolks of six eggs, then putin the coffee and shake until ol the consistency of lemon sponge. This may bo piled high upon a dish, aud makes a most attractive aud delicious dish. Creamed Onions—Peel one quart of medium-sized white onions, place them in a saucepan, cover with boil- Jug water, add one teaspoonful of su gar, boil till nearly done; add one tea spoonful of salt, boil a few minutes longer, then drain them in a colander. In the meantime melt one ounce of butter, add one-half tablespoouful of flour, stir and cook two minutes; add one-half pint of hot milk, cook two minutes; season with one-quartet tea spoonful of white pepper and a sprin kle of salt; put the onions in a hot dish, and pour the sauce over it. Hardships of Army Ml«> From, the Press, Milroy, Ind. One of the first to offer their services for the country iu the Civil War was A. 11. Bof ton, of Milroy, Rash Co., Ind. He made ft good record. The life of evory soldier is a hard one, and Mr. Sefton's case was no ex ception. "Wo were in Tennessee, penned In on all sides. Our rations wero very scarce," said ho, "and wo had begun togo on quarter allowanco, and ns the rain was not enough to replenish the wells or streams, our canteens went empty. We were hur ried on, and tho only way to quench our thirst was togo down on our hands and knees and drint from tho hoof tracks made by tho horses. ; Our Canteens Were Empty. "Some of us wero taken sick from the effects of this. I was laid up several woeks in a field hospital from fever. From that time I was always afflicted more or less. "About four years ago I became much worso. Our family doctor seemed puzsled over my ease, and it began to look as if there was no hope for my recovery, and that tho inevitable end was near. "Last November I was advised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. The physicians said they were an excellent medicine, but would do no good in my case. But I tried them.i ttud «TTi glad I did, for I became bettor at once, jiigut boxes taken according to di rections cured me. I used the last of tho pills about a year ago, and have not boen troubled with my ailments since." The power of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People in the vast numl.»r of dis eases due to impure or poisoned blood lias been demonstrated iu thousands of in stances as remarkable as the one related above. World's nnnual coffee production is 1,- G00,000,000 pounds. Five Cents. Everybody knows that Dobbins' Electric Soap is the best, in tho world, and for :S"> years it has sold at the highest price. Its price H now 5 cents, same as common brown soap. Bars t ull size and quallty.Order of grocer, Adv Little Girl Caused a Delay. The President's visit to the Omaha Exposition was the cause of a pretty bit of by-play. While Mr. McKiuley was passing through the buildings tho immense crowd was lined up on either side, and super-abundant enthusiasm was restrained—as usual—by ropes. But there was one who was not to be kept back, As the Chief Executive of the Nation entered the Manufactures Building a little girl, with tawny hair, slipped under the ropes, and before the vigilant arm of a burly policeman could obey the warning of his more vigilant eye she had gripped the Presi dential coat-tails. "Please, Mr. McKiuley," said a small voice with a childish lisp, "Please, Mr. McKinley, won't you wear my rose iu your buttonhole?" The President paused, smiling. "Certainly, my dear," he said. "We'll exchange." Taking from the lapel of his coat the red carnation that he always wears, he gave it to the little girl and put the rose in its placo. Then, and not until then, was the long proceseion of Cabinet Ministers, diplomats, Governors, Senators and soldiers allowed to pass on, wondering what could have been the cause of this delay.—Philadelphia Press. The Anti-Germ Barber Shops. Even barbering is becoming scien tific. The germ theory now comes to tho aid of a man who is getting his chin reaped or his hair cut. Chicago barbers are introducing "antiseptic shaves" and "sterilized razors" and "hygienic" brushes. In * many of the first-class shops all the towels, shears, razors, combs and brushes used on a customer are sub jected first to a bath in an antiseptic fluid. The operator likewise washes bis hands in a solution warranted to destroy germs. Every customer is furnished with a separate cup, which is kept for his individual use. It is claimed that by this method infection is impossible. Under the old system germs throve and were transmitted from face to face by the barber's tools.—Chicago Inter-Ocean, An Elizabethan Letter. I have sent the a letle provision ageu this time, but I cold wish it wero; much beter. Ther is a goose pye, a netes tounge pye, aud a mutton pastie for standers for thy table this Cris mas, for a nede, I knowe they will last tell twelftide, for they arc now newe baked. I have sent the a goose and ij capens alivo for feare they wold not last tell ye holy daies if they had been killed, but I wish the to kill them [on Saterday at ye iurdest lest they growe worse. * * * I prethe doe so much as bestoe for me vjd or yiijd in sume oringes or lemons or ij pouns siterns and sonde them downe nowe by Hale * * * and so with my best wishes to thee and Kitt I rest,' THY MOTHEK, S. D. —Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer. Hawaii's Liabilities and Assets. The total liabilities of the Republic of Hawaiian) 83,914,608.35, while its assets as represented in Government lands, which include the old orown lands; harbor improvements, water works, public buildings and cash in hand, are about double that amount. Hawaii is not a jtauper country. It is probably wealthier in resources de veloped and undeveloped than any locality in the United States, and, in stead of being a drag and expenso on the United States, it is well able to take financial care of herself and will pay its just proportion of the coun try's expense and thereby enrioh rather than (as nome would make it appear) impoverish the home Govern ment by just that much. —Chicago Inter-Oeeau. —;
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