"He Laughs Best
Who Laughs Last."
A hearty laugh indicates a
degree of good health obtain
able through pure blood. As
but„ one person in ten has
pure blood, the other nine
should purify the blood with
Hood's Sarsaparilla. Then
they can laugh first, last and
all the time, for perfect hap
piness comes with good health
Hood'* Pill» cure liver lilt; the non-lrrlUtlng *nd
only cathartic to take with Hood'i Smrgaparilla.
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> a package of GBAIN-O, the new food * 1
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| The children may drink it without J |
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I , the most delicate stomach receives it < >
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The Moccaain In tlie Forest.
In autumn, when all the leaves and
twigs are dry as tinder, a man wearing
shoe* makes a noise in the forest like
a troop of cavalry; but in moccasins
he can move swiftly through the
woods with the stealth of a panther.
The ftfet are not bruised, fcr, after en
joying for a time the freedom of
natural covering, these hitherto blun
dering members become like hands,
and feel their way through the dark
like those of a cat, avoiding obstacles
as though gifted with a special sense.
Best of all, the moccasin is light. In
experienced sportsmen and soldiers
affect high-topped lace boots with
heavy soles and hobnails, imagining
that these are the most serviceable for
rough wear. But these boots weigh
between four and five pounds, while a
pair of thick moose-hide,moccasins
weigh only eleven ounces. In march
ing, ten miles a man wearing the
clumsy boots lifts twenty tons more
shoe leather than if he wore mocca
sins.—Harper's Magazine.
HOME duties to many women seem more important than
health.
No matter how ill they feel, they drag themselves
through the daily tasks and pile up trouble.
This is heroic but a penalty has to be i ■ ■
A woman in New Matamoras, Ohio, WOMAN'S
MRS. JSABELL JBRABFIELD, tells in the mmTtM
following letter how she fought with MJum w M 0 Uaw
disease of the feminine organs until KLO BUM iff""
finally forced to take to her bed. She m W ffVVfn£
says:
•' DIAR MRS. PINKHAM—I feel it my duty to write to you to
tell yoa that I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and think there is no medicine in the world like it. I
suffer ;d for nine years, and sometimes for twelve weeks at a
time :i could not stand on my feet. I had female troubles of
!i&kinds; backache, and headache all the time.
Seven different doctors treated me. Some said
I would have togo to the hospital and
have an operation performed. But oht
how thankful I am that I did not, that
advice is promptly given without charge.
The present Mrs. Pinkham's experience in treating female
ills is unparalleled; for years she worked side by side with
Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and fpr sometime past has had solo;
charge of the correspondence department of her great busi
ness, advising and helping by letter as many as a hundred
thousand ailing women during a single year.
* 4 ie that Works Easily Works Successfully." 'Tis very
Easy to Clean House with
SAPOLIO
trafM Lead to conaunaptlan.
Kemp's Balaam will stop the cough a
once. Goto your druggist to-day ajid get
a sample bottle free. Sold la 35 and 50
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
gerous.
A spider can live ten months wlthou*
food.
Are You Using 1 Allen's Foot-Ease 1
It is the only oure for Swollen, Smart'
lng. Tired, Aching, Durnlng, Sweating
Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ast for Allen'f
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken Into thi
shoes. Sold by all Druggists, Grocers and
Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FBEE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.
During the last six months of 1898 th<
total Immigration to this country was 125,-
283.
Beantjr la Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean akin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day tc
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that siclcly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Maiden, Mass., celebrates thin year th<
250 th anniversary of Its founding.
We will give SIOO reward for any case of ca
tarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrt
Cure. Taken internally.
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Props.. Toledo, O
The first steana calliope made its appear
ance in Albany in 1858.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tour l.lfe Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak met
strong. All druggists, 50c or SI. Cureguaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Addresi
Sterling Bemedy Ca, Chicago or New Yorlc
A frog cannot breathe with its moutt
open.
Dailr Service Between Raltimort
and It icliiiiond, •'York Itivvr I.inc.''
Steamers will leave the pier of York Rivei
Line. Baltimore, every afternoon after arri
val of train from New York and the east
reaching West Point the following morning
Connection made with special boat train ovei
the Southern Railway, which makes the rut
to Richmond in an hour and twenty minutes
The steamers are of the most modern build
and the cuisine has no equal—for which th«
Chesapeake service is noted. Full particu
lars, rates and stato room accommodations
address Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pa6S. Agt.
271 Broadway, New York.
In 1897 Hangkow, China, exported 3,250,
000 fans.
Mrs. Window's Soothini? Syrup forcliildrer
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammiv
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2Sc.a bottle
"Hamlet" ha-» made more money thai
any other play In the English language.
No-To-Bsc for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit curs, makes weak
meu strong, blood pure. 60c, tl. All druggists.
Origin of the Elevator,
The elevator originated in central
Europe. The earliest mention of the
elevator is made in a letter of Napo
leon 1., addressed to his wife, the
Archduchess Maria Louise. He writee
to her that, when in Schoenbrunn,
then the summer residence of the
Anstrian emperor, near Vienna, he
used the "chaise volante" (flying
chair) in thai castle, which had been
constructed for Empress Maria Ther
esa. It consisted of a small, square
room, sumptuously furnished with
hangings of red silk, and suspended
by strong ropes with counter-weights,
so that it could be pulled up or let
down with great ease in a shaft built
for the purpose about 1760.
Bohemia'* Strange Minerals.
Not far from Trebitsch, in Bohemia,
are found many glassy-looking ob
jects, of a bottle-green color, and
tending, when unbroken, to an egg
shape, to which the name moldavites
has been given. Doctor Suess, ol
Vienna, from a recent study of these
curious minerals, concludes that they
are really meteorites, and should be
added to the list of foreign bodies that
have found their way to the eartli'f
surface by falling from space.
8 THE REALM OF FASHION. ft
® fIMMI ® it
NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Dame
Fashion has provided most dainty
neckwear for the present season.
Stylish stock collars are expensive
when bought ready made, but deft
fingers using any reliable patterns
can readily fasliion them at small ex
pense. It is necessary to make the
foundation of good stiff oanvas or
buckram, which will keep the shape,
and to make all alterations as to depth
of collar required at the upper edges.
FA.NCT STOCK COLLARS.
No. 1 illustrates a stock collar of sky
blue satin arranged in pretty bias
folds. Lace over satin lines the deep
points and narrow blue chiffon rucli
ings finishes the edges. The closing
is invisible in centre back. No. 2 is
jf white Liberty silk, the scallops of
the flaring portions being finished with
3orded edges. The foundation is
covered with white India silk. The
soft wrinkled stock is gathered in tuck
shirrings at the centre back, where it
closes invisibly. No. 3is of pale pink
A P(^
mousseliue de soie and narrow satiu
ribbon in the same shade. The
foundation collar is covered with pink
satin. The satin ribbon, one-half an
iuch wide, is gathered in centre and
applied on the scalloped edges of the
pretty bow and the flaring tabs in
back, three evenly spaced being
placed aroand the collar.
Tiny gilt buttons with cord loaps
effect the closing in centre back. Any
suitable materials may be substituted
to develop attractive stock collars by
tho mode, lace, net and edging, sheer
lawns and embroideries being exten
sively used.
To make No. 1 will require one-half
yard of plain silk and one-fourth yard
of figured.
To make No. 2 will require one-half
yard of silk twenty-two inches wide.
A Stylish Costume.
The stylish gown of gray whipcord,
shown in the large illustration by Mary
Manton, is trimmed with yellow lace
insertion and narrow bias folds of gray
satin. The toque is of gray satin lace
straw with a tulle rosette, jet quills
and rhinestone ornaments. The waist
is supported by fitted linings that
close in centre, the blouse fronts being
arranged at square yoke depth to close
invisibly at the left side. The seam
less backs fit smoothly in Eton jacket
style, and the right front lapping over
the left closes at the shoulder seam.
A crush belt of gray satin ribbon is
clasped in the back with clasps of gun
metal studded with rhinestoues. The
fashionable stock collar closes in oentre
back, high points being shaped to
stand up close behind the ears. The
fashionable sleeves have epaulettes
applied in points near the top,
and the slight fulness is gathered be
tween the points. The stylish drapery,
which may be worn over anyekirt, is
modelled on lines corresponding with
the jacket fronts. It is of full skirt
length in back and cut away in front
to disclose the skirt, which may be of
the same or contrasting material. The
drapery may be cut with or without
side seams, the width of material used
deciding the advisability of cutting
this skirt in two or four portions.
Attractive gowns of cashmere camel's
hair, broad or Venetian cloth, drap
d'ete, foulard, crepeline or other soft
wool or silk fabrics may be stylishly
trimmed with applique, insertion,
braid, gimp, ruchings, satin folds or
ribbon. The style also suggests pos
sibilities for remodelling that are never
despised by the home dressmaker.
A Pretty Combination.
This attractive dress shows a pretty
combination of bluet drap d'ete and
corded taffeta silk in the same shade,
the yoke being of cream all-over lace,
underlaid with white satin. The
trimming consists of narrow satin
ribbon frills applied in three over-lap
ping rows on the smoothly shaped
bertha, flaring cuffs and around tho
foot of skirt. Wider ribbon of the
same shade forms the crush belt,
which is prettily bowed on the left
side. The waist is smartly adjusted
over fitted linings that close in centre
front. The yoke is applied on the
back lining, and the front yoke, being
included in the right shoulder seam,
closes over on the left. The back fits
smoothly at round yoke depth, the
pretty fulness being drawn closely to
the centre at waist line. The curved
fronts are gathered at the top and
joined to the lower edges of the bertha,
which conforms to its shaping. The
bertha extends on the front edges to
the waist, the right overlapping the
left from the seam, the closing being
effected invisibly.
The two-seam sloeves aro gathered
at the top, the wrists being finished
with flaring cuffs that are trimmed to
match the bertha. The five-gored
skirt has the correct flare at the lower
edge, where it measures a trifle over
three yards in the medium sizes.
The top fits smoothly, the fulness in
back being arranged in two deep un
derlying pleats that meet over tho
placket in centre back. Either skirt
or waist may be worn separately or
both may be of one material. Flat
trimming of gimp, passementerie, ir
regular insertion or applique chiffon
WAIST AND OOBED SKIRT.
bands may be effectively employed as
decoration.
To make this waist for a miss of
fourteen years will require one and
one-half yards of material forty-four
inohes wide.
rfPLPS FOR HOUSEWIVES,
Novel Picture Frame*.
Picture dealers have betaken them
selves to architectural effects in their
search for novelties in framing. Very
quaiut and attractive little frames they
are, too, with their Doric, lonic or
Corinthian columns surmounted by
the appropriate architecture, looking
like a miniature fireplace and mantel
piece. The dealers in Boston, true
to the spirit of erudition which pre
vails there, have adapted the Egyp*
tian arch to their uses, and the small
columns are covered with cuueiform
hieroglyphics. These make very
charming frames in dark wood for the
photographic reproductions of the
decorations in the Boston library,
which are so popular now. A series
of these pictures framed in a series of
arches makes a pretty panel.
A Dainty Decoration.
Every woman who entertains should
have among her table belongings sets
of ribbon colors for table decoration.
They can be used agaiu aud again,
need not be of superfine quality, and
therefore cannot be called expensive,
especially when it i3 considered how
enormously they count in effectiveness.
The best width for the*e ribbons is
four inches, the quantity required
depeudiug upon tke length, size or
shape of the table. A simple and
pretty arraugement is to draw the rib
bon in a flat band diagonally across
the table to within a few inches of the
line of covers, terminating it in haud-
Bome tied bows. These bows ate
prettier if the loops are stood up on
their side 3, to avoid flatuess. Extra
loops may be added, and a little of
some perfect fruit of softly contrast
ing shades held within the folds. The
ribbon band will, of course, run over
the lace centrepiece.—Woman's Home
Companion.
The .Separate Sewing Room.
The convenience of a se, arate sew
ing room is so great that it pays in
families where there is a large quan
tity of sewing to be done to heat a
room specially for the purpose. In
many families the sewing is looked
upou as an incidental of work, not a*
an essential part of the household
duties. In only a few families is
there a room set apart for se-yiug,
though the duty of preparing the
clothing of the household ought to be
second only to the duty of preparing
the food. It is true that a large
amount of the clothing of the mascu
line portion of the household is now
purchased ready made. This only re
lieves the household partially from
sewing. Ready _ made clothing for
women and children is more expen
sive aud not as durable as that made
at home. This iucludes the greater
part of the clothing,aud sewing should
therefore be recognized as certaiuly a
part of the housework as cooking. In
order to do the sewing of the house
hold in the best manner there should
be a room set apart the sewiug
machine, the cutting table aud all the
tools for superior work are kept. In
a bureau in this room new material to
make up and old materials to make
over should be left. In one drawer
or in a l>ag there should be patches
aud scraps of various materials left
from gowns and other garments. A
stand, with drawers containing spools
of silk and of cotton,should be placed
somewhere in the room, aud there
should be a large workbasket contain
ing the various necessities of the
seamstress. A wire skirt form, on
which skirts cau be hung, is a great
convenience, though the waist forms
have proved of no special value. The
systematic arrangement of the work
iu such a room is in itself an incentive
to accomplishment. It is not too
much to say that a womau with an or
derly sewing room will do twice as
much work as one whose tools ars
scattered over the area of throe or
four closets.—New York Tribune.
Recipe*.
Rhubarb Marmalade —To seven
pounds of rhubarb, pared and slice
allow five pounds of sugar. Put the
rhubarb find sugar into a porcelain
kettle, add the pulp of four oranges
and the juice of four lemons aud boil
for two hours.
Prune Custard—Stew half a pound
of prunes slowly for au hour and
a quarter, having sufficient water to
make a thin pulp; then remove th«
stones and skins and press through a
colander. Place on the stove again
and let it remain until nearly boiling.
For each cupful of fruit stir in one
well-beaten egg; remove at once and
stir iu any tart flavoring extract de
sired. Putin molds and set away to
cool. Serve with cream.
Codfish Cakes—Soak a pint bowl of
codlisb over night. Next morning
drain and add one and one-half pints
of raw sliced Irish potatoes. Cover
with cold water aud when it reaches
boiling point throw it off aud add fresh
boiling water and cook until potatoes
are tender. Drain aud mash well and
add a bit of butter and pepper and
moisten with a beaten egg and enough
cream to form into round cakes one
and one-half inches thick. Roll each
one in flonr and fry in hot lard until
they are a delicate brown. The lard
must be boiling and the cakes fried
gently.
Bread Sticks Wheiv yoa make
bread, either white or whole wheat,
take—at the time when you mold your
bread and put into pans-a table
spoonful of the dough aud roll it na
der your baud iu a long sound roll the
size of your little finger, and as long
as your pan. Let rise half an hour,
brush over with water, and bake
fifteen miuutts iu a quick oven. Place
the rolls fir enough apart in the pan
so ttsy will not touch when baked.
The idea is t<> secure as much crust as
possible. Those who are troubled
with dyspepsia or indigestion caj eat
bread sticks when other forma of
bread would prove detrimental.
Lauci ItmilJ lamicine.
Moves the bowels each day, In order t*
be healthy this la necessary. Acts gently
on the liver and kidneys. Cures slok'head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
Only one per cent, of the population ol
India know the alphabet.
America's greatest physicians have con
quered La Grippe and its after effects.
Their treatment has been thoroughly
tested in the hospitals of Europe and of
this country, and is embodied in Dr. Kay's
Lung Balm.
Kev. H. B. Dye, of Morrison, lowa,writes:
"Mrs. Dye had a bad nttack of La Grippe
which settled on aer lungs. She used Dr.
Kay's Lung Balm, with most decided good
effects, which is a repetition of past ex
perlence with her. Nothing Is so prompt
and positive in Its effects on her lungs."
You shoufld write for free advice and a
copy of Dr. Kay's Home Treatment, an
illustrated book of Ufi pages of receipts,
etc. Dr. B.J. Kay Medical Co., Saratoga
Springs, N.Y.
Nearly 20,000 pounds of bread is daily
saten In the Sultan of Turkey's household.
An Excellent Combination.
The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
STRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa
tive principles of plants known to be
medicinally laxative and presenting 1
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from senna and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG STRUT
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid imitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCIBCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, N. T.
For sale by all Drußpista.—Price 50c. per bottle
Remarkable Statue* Discovered in Egvpf
Two of the most remarkable statnes
irer found were recently unearthed
oy M. Georges Legrain, a French
Egyptologist, from the ruins of the
;emp!e at Karnak on the Upper Nile,
in Egypt. One of these is in alabas
;er, and represents the great Theban
god Amnion.
This alabaster god is eighteen feet
uigli, aud was originally made froai
one solid block of stone, the largest
alabaster statue in the world. It was
found in three pieces, which were
sasily put together. The artistic liu
ish is perfect.
The second statue is one that was
set up by King Userteseu I, in honor
of his father back iu the days of
Abraham. On the lap of this effigy is
a slab upon which are carved inscrip
tions proving the work's antiquity.
Accompanying M. Legrain when he
Qiade the discovery was Charles N.
Crewdson, corresponding secretary of
the Chicago Society of Egyptian Re
search, who is tourinoc Egypt iu the
interest of the society he represents.
—Chicago Times-Herald.
Paper Collar* in the 60' d.
In the late 6i)'s the euormom con
sumption of paper collars was not re
stricted to the United States. Ex
porting them to Canada and Central
and South America added hundreds
of thousands to the annual revenues
of the paper collar manufacturers.
An American firm erected a plant at
the Paris Exposition of 1867 and
manufactured collars before the eyes
of astouished visitors. Immediately,
and as a result of this exhibition,
orders were received in this country
for the naoessary machinery, and
paper collar manufactories were estab
lished iu Germany, whero a tremen
dous business flourished for a time,
that country supplying nearly all
Europe with paper neckwear. Th«
first plant was established in Leipsic,
and is still operating, although all the
others have ceased to exist.
Did Not Have to Lay Eg?*.
A young woman of Sheffield, Eug
!aud, came into a fortune and promptly
hunted up a country house, where
she played the role of chatelaine to
the manner born according to her
own ideas of the part. One day some
of her old-time friends cams to see
her, and she condescended to show
them all over the place.
"What, beautifni chickens!" ex
claimed the visitors when they came
to the poultry yard.
"Yes. All prize birds!" haughtily
explained the hostess.
"Do they lay every day?"
"Oh, they could, of course; but,"
grandiloquently, "in our position it
isn't necessary for them to do so."
Cycling Iteneflcial to Health.
A physician who was asked why he
recommended cycling to • patient
aaid: "The benefit of physical culture
which delays the decline of bodily and
mental vigor. The debility and ill
health which beset young men and
women of the day is generally due to
ft stagnation of euergy indulged by a
desire to take things easily.and cycling
has been found to alter this state of
things in a comparatively short time "
—New York Trihnne