To Florida Reiortii The Plant System reaches the finest re ports in Florldn, Cuba, Jamaica and Porto Rico. Tickets by both rail and water from the East. Trl-weekly steamship service be tween Port Tampa, Key West and Havana. Beautifully Illustrated literature, maps, rates, etc., upon application to J. J. Farns worth. Eastern Pass. Agent, Plant System, 261 Broadway, New York. Spanjsh books will be admitted to Cuba free of duty for ten years. r,anc>« Family iUcdiciue. Moves the bowels each day. In order to bo healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. Senator Wolcott speaks in a high-pitched voice and with few gestures. Warm Blood Coursing through the veins, feeds, nour ishes and sustains all the organs, nerves, muscles and tissues of the body.gHood's Sarsaparilla makes warm, rich, pure blood. It is the best modioine you can take in winter. It tones, invigorates, strengthens and fortifies the whole body, preventing colds, fevers, pneumonia and the grip. Hood's Darilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. Price SI. Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood's Pills cure Sick Headache. 25c. The World's Population Increasing. Even in uncivilized parts of the ■world there is conclusive evidence that population is increasing. The black races of Africa are the most prolific of human beings. A district may be wasted and most of its inhabitants killed, but in ten or fifteen years the devastated region is as thickly popu lated as ever. Some of the most de structive native wars in this century have been waged in the region behind Lagos, on the Upper Guinea coast, but this district, as large as New York State, is now more densely peopled than any other part of Africa except the lower Nile Valley. The Chinese have demonstrated how vast a popula tion, mainly agricultural, may be sup ported in a comparatively small area; and in China, as in some other densely peopled regions, the population has increased with perhaps peculiar rapid ity, because of its enjoyment of com parative immunity from epidemics of disease.—New York Sun. A LIVING WITNESS." " Mrs. Hoffman Describes How Sh« Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for Advice, and Is Now Well DEAR MRS. PINKIIAM:—HE fore using your Vegetable Compound I was a great sufferer. I have been sick for months, was troubled with severe pain in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling I IT-, in lower part of bow e*S ' a^SO SU ® ereC^ with dizziness, gyp &i could not sleep. ' n £ m y casc ant ' replied tell- in sr me 3 ust what to do. I followed your direc tions, and cannot praise your medicine enough for what it has done for me. Many thanks to you for your advice. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound has cured me, and I will recom menditto my friends. —Mrs. FLORENCE B. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland St., Canton, O. The condition described by Mrs. Hoff man will appeal to many women, yet lots of sick women struggle on with their daily tasks disregarding the urgent warnings until overtaken by actual collapse. The present Mrs. Pinkham's experi ence in treating 1 female ills is unparal leled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometimes past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter as many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. BAD BREATH ••I have been using CABCASETIandg« a mild and effective laxative tbey are simply won derful. My daughter and I Were bothered with sick stomach and our breath was very bad. After taking a few doses of Cascarets we have improved wonderfully. They are a great help In the family." WILHELMINA NAGEL, 1137 Kitten house St., Cluclnnatl, Ohio. CATHARTIC (afeccutitod # TftAOe MARK RtOI«TV*CD Pleasant. Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe, 10c, 25c, 60c. ... CURE CONBTIPATION. ... Sterling lUaedy Conpaay, Chicago, Montreal, N»w York. 315 ftin.Tfl.RAP Sold and guaranteed by all drug all" I U"DAv gists to CIJRJE Tobacco Uabit. GO to your grocer to-day and get a 15c. package of I Grain-0 IR It takes the place of cof- Vr' fee at £ the cost. Made from pure grains it is nourishing and health' . Wjr Insist thst your grocer gives you GRAIN O to|jv\ Accept no imitation. INDOORS AT NIGHT. Keen and cold is the wintry blast As the sleet and snow go driving past; There's a strife In the old trees racked and beat, The clouds hang low o'er the firmament, But the household gathers safe and warm, Folded close from the freezing storm ; The lamp is llghtod, the hearth Is bright, And the dear ones are cozy indoors at night. And when shutters are closed and curtains drawn, And the toiling hours of the day are gone, Sweet words are spoken, good nights are said To the wee ones tucked in the little bed, (God's graco watch over each curly head!) Then with book and talk and the dear old song We have loved since the duys when we were young, We will fill the hours with love's delight, Cozy and happy indoors at night. —Margaret E. Sangstor in Christian In telligencer. I RUNNING the AVALANCHE. I I I W WW WWW WW WW w W WW WW WW WW WW WW In Byron Kelly's hunting party,that lingeredunusuully lateinthe denuded region above Lake Tahoe, was Ross Kelly, Byron Kelly's son, a lad of fifteen,who went badly astray one forenoon in trying to cut across the hills and reach camp, after a long hunt. He wore skees. The traveling was very difficult because of the forest wreckage left by lumbermen, and Koss was very tired and much dis couraged when finally he came out on the side of a shaggy mountain, and stared about him in hopes to get his bearings. Above him, piercing the clouds, the mountain lifted a vast white wall of light snow, the very sight of which gave the boy a sense of uneasiness. There was an abandoned lumbering camp on the slope. The roofs of some of the huts were crushed in by snow. Near the doorway of one hut was one of the peculiar log wagons common to the Sierras, and beyond this wagon showed the upper end of a long slide, or larg", sloping, wooden trough, which .as strengthened by bands of iron. It dipped down the mountain at an angle of nearly thirty degrees. Koss noticed that the slide, at a place far beneath him, spanned a small val ley at whose bottom lay a canyon; and it ended, of course, at the river, now frozen over, nearly a mile below. Ross had seated himself near the head of the slide on a log for a few minutes' rest, and was wondering how he was ever to rejoin his father's party, when his attention was caught by something going on high up the side of the mountain, where the flaky wall of snow seemed heaviest. Ho noticed that the wind, which was not felt by him, was lifting the snow and pouring it in a white cataract over the brow of a snowy cliff. The youth, putting off his skees, watched this for sometime with a lazy curiosity, uot thinking it meant peril for him. He observed the little hill made by the snow blown over the crest grow larger aud larger. Then i to the right and totho left of the cata ract snowy cascades began to play, piling up a whole range of little hills, while the big one in the centre con tinued to increase in size with aston ishing rapidity. Suddenly a trembling seemed to run through the mountain, aud a sighing sound came down from the heights. If there had been pines on the slope Ross would have thought the sound that of wind soughing through their tops, but on that sky reaching expanse there was not a tree. Then the hills, the cataract and the cascades appeared to leap together in a white smother and shoot outward and downward with a jarring, grum bling roar. Although Ross Kelly had never seen a snowslide, he knew now what it was as well as if he had witnessed hundreds. The top of the mountain appeared suddenly to have forsaken its place in a wild dive for the canyon and the river. A sense of deepest terror gripped the boy's heart, stilling it, holding him for a moment rigid in his place, with lips apart and cheeks blauching. Flight seemed impossible. He was sure that in auotlier minute he should be overwhelmed and buried beneath the snow, so deep that the suns of a hundred years could uot resurrect him. Nevertheless, after that first shock of heartstilling fear he starte:! up, took a hurried step, caught up one of his skees aud scrambled on across the logs with frantic haste to the top of the slide, with some idea that he might shoot down on his back withtho skee under him; but he found himself jerked outward and downward sud denly, for he had stepped on a log which had lain with more than half its length in the log slide, and his movement aud weight had tipped it and set it iu motion. It ground icily on the snow for a moment, theu away it went with a lurch that almost threw him off. Impelled by fear, and with thoughts too chaotic to be called reflections, Ross dropped down on the log and clasped its huge girth with his arms and legs. Unthinkingly or mechani cally he had placed his skee under his breast, aud crosswise of the log, so that it somewhat resembles a balanc ing-pole. The roar of the avalanche was now more than a roar; it was involved with a whistling shriek, with a wail like wind blowing through a network of wires, with a snapping, crashing and rending, as tall stumps and meshed boughs, torn from their places, were flung down the mountainside. The mountain itself appeared as if dis solved in a cloud of snow that thun dered and crashed, boomed and ex ploded. After the first lurch tbo log went on more slowly for a moment or two, ita seeming hesitation being caused by much friction; then its velocity became so great that the sensation to the terrified boy was like that of fall ing. He could not look; he could but shut his eyes and hold on, yet he was aware that the skee touched now this and then that edge of the slide trough. Probably this kept the log from rolling, for the least touch is enough to balance a cylinder rushirg swiftly. Fast as the log sped, the snowslide seemed to follow faster. A snowy scud fanned ont in its front, envelop ing the flying log and the boy. The avalanche seemed demoniacally pos sessed with a desire to capture the helpless bit of humanity that fled on before it with such lightning speed. Its roar resembled a deep growl oi hate and rage. The boy scarcely knew when he crossed the valley. In helpless terror ho realized that the foot of the moun tain awaited him below, and feit that death awaited him at the foot of the mountain. He could not distinguish the roar of the avalanche from the roar of the log on the slide. The journey seemed very long, just as when one leaps from a height the de scent seems to take more time than the leaper expects. Ross had begun to think a little, and to wonder on his chances of escape, when he was torn from the log and hurled upward and aside blindly through the air. The skee had struck some obstruction, perliapj a spike, 011 one edge of the trough. He felt himself sailing up and Jip, then descending like the railing stick of the rocket, till he dropped into a snowbank head first, and lay for a time 1 a.'dly conscious of where he was or ol waat had happened. With the full return of his senses, whish was probably hastened by the chill of the snow against his hands and face, he seemed to be standing 011 his head. He sought to turn round and extricate himself, but this was a difficult matter. However, at last he contrived to turn end for end in his snowy bed, and began to dig, like a gopher,toward the surface. When he had dug his way out, after perhaps teu minutes of the hardest work of bis life, there was absoluto silence in the air. He looked about. The avalanche had filled the valley across which the slide had borne him, and its crest had run high up the lower side, but only its crest. The great bulk of the snow mountain lay in the valley and in the canyon. Ross climbed up into the slide and went cautiously down it afoot. His log had not left the trough, for he saw that it had reached the river,only a short distance below, where, strik ing end 011, it had pierced the thick ice like an arrow shot through a pine board. Now it stood, with one end protruding, at an angle of forty-tive degrees. It took Ross ail hour to travel through the heavy drifts three hundred yards to a trail he knew, where fortunately lie was found by his futher's party that afternoon, hav ing suffered little more than a nervous shock from his singular adventure. —John H. Wliitson, in Youth's Com panion. THE ARAUC ANIAN?. Primitive Customs of Thenn Ouci r South American Indian*. The Araucauians of Argentine live partly in villages, where they use wooden or wattled osier houses; partly in the country as farmers, herdsmen, and horse-breeders. Each village has a regular market placo on certain days of the week, when all the adjacent country buys and sells. Computation is made with knotted cords. They have always known the divisions of time into years, days and weeks, and allow for the intercalary days. Yet with so much practical and inherited knowledge which belongs to what we call science, this people disdains books, and the acquirement of reading and writing is discouraged as leading to effeminacy. Bards recite the history and deeds of the forefathers in spirited poems to keep the fire of patriotism forever aflame, going from house to house, always sure of reverence and warm hospitality. Christianity has made 110 headway among them, for the South American form of the religion with which they would come in contact has but little charm for a race marked by sagacity and good sense, and without super stitious leanings. They believe in a Supreme Being, in various minor deities who are his agents, in a future state, and in omens and divinations. But they have 110 priests, 110 idols, 110 temples, 110 rites, no ceremonies, not sacrifices, and their worship, f>r the most part, is in the spirit. The Ro manist missionaries have long since given them up as desperate cases, al though these Indians have never in terposed objections to their people be coming converts at their own choice. Their skill in farming and stock breeding is noted, their knowledge of the arts which conduce to household comfort and personal self-respect,such as carpentry, pottery, metal-working, cloth-weaving from wool and cotton, ample. While they seek no contact with the white man, they are most honest and hospitable in the receptiou of all strangers. Possessed of so many of the finest traitß of civilization, it is a marvel that they have followed in tact so many of the primitive customs of their ancestors. Possibly this has best insured their survival as a hardy and virile nation. Harper's Round Table ' _____ Great Expectations. "What do they do when they install a minister?" asked a small boy. "Do they put hini in a stall and feed him?" "Not a bit!" said his father. "They harness him to a church and expect him to draw it alone." 1 NEW YORK FASHIONS. I 3J ___ G| 111 THE LATEST DESIGNS FOR BETWEEN-SEA- G SONS' COSTUMES " $3 NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Fash ions come and fashions go, but the shirt waist stays with womankind. It is well that this is so, for man says that nine women out of ten look bet- A RICH EFFECT IN WAISTS. ler in a shirt waist than any other style of bodice. A simple but decidedly rich effect is here gained by the association of golden brown velvet and seeded crepon in the same shade, the trim ming being open-meshed black silk braid. The stylish arrangement is made over glove-fittings that close in cen tre-front, the smooth vest of velvet A SJIALLT BASQUE JACKET. being included in the right-shoulder seam and hooked over with the smooth collar at the left. A short yoke is applied on the back that forms in its outline a continua tion of the scalloped edges of front. Each front is shaped in four rounded scallops that form graceful outlines, single side plaits at the shoulders af fording desirable fulness over the bust while backward turning plaits at the waist give a very moderate but stylish blouse. The whole back is smoothly drawn in at the waist with overlapping plaits at the centre. The belt of velvet is shaped to curve low in front according to the latest fancy. The two-seamed sleeves are very slightly full at the top, the cap of velvet being applied over the top. The wrists are finished with a rounded cuff of velvet to match the other decorative features of this hand some waist. Very many stylish combinations in plain, plaid, figured or striped silk, tucked or corded taffetas with plain or figured effects in silk, wool or mixed fabrics and decorations of pas sementerie, irregular insertion, gimp or braid may be used appropriately. To make this waist in tho medium size will require one and three-fourths yards of forty-four-inch material. A Ketween-Seanons* Costume. The model depicted in the large en graving shows an extremely smart and effective design that is particularly well adapted to wear between seasons. The material is steel-gray broadcloth and the fronts are closed with small, round crystal buttons. A tailor finish of machine stitching completes the edges, and the spotless linen chemis ette and collar worn at the neck are accompanied by a small tie-bow of Cuban red satin. Hat of crushed steel-gray velvet, with wings and eatin chou in a lighter shade. The basque of fashionable length is trimly adjust ed to the figure by the usual seams and double bust darts. Above the closing the fronts are reversed to form pointed lapels that meet the rolling collar in notches. Laps and pleats are formed below the waist line in back that are pressed flat, .according to the present style, tho sides fitting smoothly over the hips. The fashionable two-seamed sleeves have very slight fulness col lected in gathers at the top, the wrist* being plainly completed with machine stitching. Basques in this stylo are usually made to match the skirt in tweed, serge, camel's hair, cheviot or other close-woven wool fabrics. Vel vet or poplin makes up smartly by the and both are much in vogue to wear with different skirts. To make the basque in the medium size will require two yards of forty four-inch material. Tea GOWIIM Cut Low. For evening wear many tea gowns are cut low, with elbow sleeves. Long lace scarfs are desirable adjuncts to wind about the figure. For such gar ments blue and cerise is a new com bination. A pale-blue liberty silk neglige is cut with a polonaise and a shaped flounce, this being edged with creamy lace and cerise ribbons put on garland fashion. The full front is of lace falling from a butterfly bow at the neck and caught here and there with cerise ribbons. The sleeves are of accordion-plaited lace, hanging in straight vuffles to the elbows. Artiflcnl Flowers in Favor. Artificial flowers are very much in evidence with evening gowns, and even with street gowns a small bunch of artificial violets may be worn, a filmy lace haudkerchief being used as a background, or the flowers may be tied into a loose end of the lace scarf. Needless to say, they should not be of the regular kind used by milliners for trimming, but flowers of ultra fine quality made especially for the wear described and delicately perfumed. Fur Toques In Vogue. Fur toques, which are so much in vogue, have the rims and sides of fur, the soft crown in many showing so little that it is hardly noticeable. Their only decoration is stiff wings or breasts. Many of the jeweled bonnets are exquisite. A charming model of jet and rhinestones is ornamented with a large white tulle bow fastened with two large jet ball pins. A Dresitv and Comfortable Jacket. This comfortable and rather dressy jacket of fine French flannel in bebe blue has small polka dots in white silk embroidered all over its surface. A deep lace frill surrounds the fancy pointed collar, the trimming of irregu lar insertion being applied on collar, yoke and cuffs. A semi-girdle of pale blue satin ribbon is gracefully bowed in front. The pointed collar may be omitted if a plainer effect is desired. The modified bishop sleeves are shaped with inside seams and gathered at upper and lower edges, the wrists being finished with straight bands that roll back iu prettily pointed cuffs. Pretty jackets in this style can be made from cashmere, challie, camel's hair, French or outing flannel and other soft woolen fabrics that will soon be made up for next season's wear by provident women. Lace insertion, "frizzed" ribbon, WOMAN'S HOUSE JACKET. narrow braid and embroidery all furn ish suitable decoration. To make this jacket for a woman of medium size will requ're four yards of material twenty-seven inches wide. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co. only, and we wfth to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par ties. The high standing of the CALI FORNIA FIO SYISUP CO. with the medi cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, makes the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. BAN FRANCISCO, C*l. LOITISVILLF., Ky. NF.W YORK. N, Y, How a Ship Can Tell Its Position. At a recent meeting of the Acndemie des Sciences, Paris, M. Mascart, the well-known French electrician,brought forward a method of enabling a ship to tell its position off a coast in thick weather or darkness. The plan was invented by a French electrician in Turkish employment. It consists of connecting two shore stations at some distance apart by a telegraph wire or cable, permitting an electric current to control the acoustic fog or night signals of the stations, and make them simultaneous. Suppose one station emits the note "Do" and the other "Me;" a person on board the ship will readily distinguish them, and whether they are heard by him simul taneously or one after the other will depend on the position of the ship with respect to the stations. The interval of time between the sounds multiplied by the known velocity of sound in air will give him the differ ence in his distances from the two stations.—Public Opinion. Lady Mamiser of n ljni,,a»y. The election o* Josie Kates as general manag«? 01 the Kates Baggage Company, of Atlanta, is a compliment worthily bestowed. She is a young woman of sterling worth and is thor oughly familiar with all the details of the business. She has a host of friendr. throughout tho city who will be glad to hear of her promotion in this special field. —Atlanta (G.a.) Constitution. Fruin Head to Fool. For nil aches, from head to foot, St. Jacobs OH has curative qualities to roach the pains and aches of tho human family, and to relievo and euro theia promptly. Tho Peruvian government has decreed tho re-establishment of tho habeas corpus, act. FLORIDA AND THE SOUTH. Opening of Social Season. The opening of the Florida season was sig nalized this year as usual by the placing in service between New York and St. Augustine of the "Now York and Florida Limited," u train that is acknowltdged to be the finest in the world in its appointments, luxury and detail of llnish. It is composed of Pullman compartment cars, each room a work of art and supplied with private lavatory and toilet; Pullman drawing-room sleeping cars of the latest desi»n; a royal club car for gen tlemen; an observation car; a library ear. and a (lining car whoso service and cuisine rank with those of the swell New York ho tels. This surpassing train's schedule calls for a daily service leaving New York at 11.05 a. m. via the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Southern Hallway. Florida Central and Pen insula Kailroad, and the East Coast Hallway. St. Augustine is reached at 2JJO p. m.the fol lowing day, the picturesque trip, which ex ceeds KAII miles, being made in but little more than "4 hours. At Columbia, S. > ~ one ear is detached for Aiken, while at Everett, <4a., pcrtcct connections are made for Brunswick and Jeekyl Island. The "Florida Short Line" <jlso operates two other tine trains between .New \ork and Florida, the "Washingloii and Southwestern Vestibule Limited." leaving New ifork at 4.20 p. m.daily, and the "t'nited States Fa«t Mail'' leaving New York at 13.05 midnight and it affords the most direct, most delightful and the quickest service to Nas sau, Havana and Key West. For all informa tion, reservatlons,etc., apply to A. S.'l hweatt, E. P. A., Southern liy, 371 B'way, New York. This country is now a creditor of Eu rope. A Itemed)' I'ur the (irippc. A remedy recommended for patients af flicted with the grlppo Is Kemp's lialsam, which is especially adapted to diseases of the throat and lungs. Do not wait for tho first symptoms of tho disease, but get a bottle "to-day and keep It on hand for use the moment it is needed. If neglected the grippe has a tendency to bring on pneu monia. Tho Balsam prevents this by keep ing the cough loose. All druggists sell it Heat holidays havo been established by law in tho public schools of Switzerland. Easily Gotten Over. A cripple from a sprain is oue who neg lects to use St. Jacobs Oil to euro it. Prompt use of it brings prompt cure, and the trouble is gotten over easily. The national debt of Japan does not ex ceed J250,000,000. Cducatn Your Dowels With Cuscaret*. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druKKlsts refund money One-half of the Confederate pensioner jn Mississippi are widows. 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