Ten Strong Words In London this summer one of the weekly papers offered a prize for the oest list of strong words, to number Sen. The announcement specified that but ten words would be considered !rom one person, and a 00m mittee of literary men would seleot from the lumbers offered the ten strongest words in the English language. These »re the words that won: Hate, blood, hungry, dawn, coming, gone, love, dead, alone, forever.—Detroit Free Press. The Government of India is dis posed to employ electricity as its mo tive power in the great oentral factor ies, which it intends to set up at Jub* bulpore. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OP TOLEDO, I _ LUCAS COUNTY, ("• FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Jo., doing businesslntheCity of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every caso of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of 11 ALL'S CATARRH CUBE. FRANK J. CHENEY. 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In speaking the other day of the great progress which has been made in the postal service of the country within recent years, Postmaster Mer ritt told a story to illustrate that there were still parts of the United States which had not been touched by the spirit of improvement. "I stopped in at the Postoffice De partment the other day," General Merritt said, in reciting the story, "and in looking over some of the com munications I chanced on one that took my fancy mightily. It came from the head of one of Uncle Sam's offices way out in the Bocky Mountains, in an almost uninhabited section, and ap peared to have been sent partly as a note of information and partly as an ultimatum to the Government at Washington. It read as follows: " 'Notice—This office will be closed for the next three days, while the postmaster goes on a bear hunt. You can discharge me if you want to, but I warn you beforehand that I'm the only man that can read and writs in the neighborhood.'"—Washington Post. // T GAVE little thought to my health," writes MRS. WM. V. •• I BELL, 330 N. Walnut St., Canton, 0., to Mrs. Pink* ham. "until I found myself unable to attend to my household duties. ' > *1 "I had had my days of not feeling well and my monthly -■ suffering, and a good deal of backache, TH tfitM##2UT * thought all women had these M flVl/ufn m m things and did not complain. m jbaa "I had doctored for some time, but ■1 ■ OJF no medicine seemed to help me, and my mjgMTOkg physician thought it best for me togo WW UiwtKiMw to the hospital for local treatment. I * had read and heard so much of your Vegetable Compound that I made up , t ——— ■grege my mind to try it. I was troubled with falling of the womb, had sharp pains in ovaries, leucorrhcea and painful menses. I was so weak and dizzy that I would |*£jKSp often have severe fainting spells. I took in all several bottles of Lydia £. s|||X.J& Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier and used the PvjVfHKfrwli Sanative and am now in friends thought I was in con- I I headaches, backache and J $ noticed how poorly I looked I and I was advised to take I fit 112 Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- I , table Compound. One bottle I relieved me, and after tak- 1 1 r ing eight bottles am now a *• ' healthy woman; have gained in weight 95 pounds to 140 pounds, and everyone asks what makes me so stout-" Good Field For Honej-Maklnf. "Bubber culture in Central Amer ica offers a splendid field for a pool man," said Mr. J. S. Nodine, man ager of the largest rubber plantation in Nicaragua. "Just as an illnstra' tration let me tell jou of the experience of a neighbor of ours named Wester field. He came to Nicaragua less than four years ago from somewhere in New England, and brought witb him a little child;- He was very much run down and weakened with eon sumption, and came to the tropics to try to regain his health. I happen to know that he didn't have a dollar, and he was glad to take a job olerk ing at about 840 a month gold. Be ing naturally shrewd and energetio, he made a little money trading, and bought a 160-acre traot, which he pro ceeded to have cleared by degrees, setting it out partly in rubber trees and partly in bananas and fraits. In a year the fruit began to return a small revenue, whioh he used in ex tending the cultivation, his idea being to have eventually a well-stocked rub ber plantation, and in the meanwhile to make the other things pay the ex penses. By good management and industry he carried out the program, and in the second year opened a small store for trading with the Indians. After that it was easy, and in consid erably less than foar years he had one of the nicest rubber groves in the re publio. The trees are now on the point of giving their first yield, but recently his wife's health failed and he was obliged to return north, hav ing completely recovered himself. Four weeks ago he sold his plantation as it stands for $23,000 in gold. This is an exceptional case, I admit, but at the same time there is absolutely noth ing about it that cannot be duplicated by industry and pluck."—New Or leans Times-Democrat. Fruit Fits in Demand. Growers of stone fruits can count upon a new source of revenue. The pits of peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and prunes, heretofore thrown away or used for fuel, have a market value. Especially is this true of peach and apricot pits. This year there is a strong demand for them at from $£ to 310 a ton, delivered in San Fran cisco. The kernel is the product sought. From the apricot kernel that j delicious French "nut candy" is made, displacing the almond. Cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg are adulterated with this same pit, ground and highly ! prepared for the purpose. Prussic j acid and essence and oil of almonds are made from the peach atd prune pits, and these flavors are used in a thousand different ways. The pits are cracked in San Francisco, and the ker nels are then sent East. —California Vineyardist. Breezy But Iteilned. Here is a marriage notice from the Stillwater Gazette, which possesses the refreshing element of breeziness without overstepping the bounds ol refinement: "Last week Probate Judge Burns succeeded in tying the matri monial knot which is to firmly secure John McLimans and Mrs. Harriet Whack for life. McLimans is old enough to know better than to get en tangled with matrimonial troubles, but licks experience, being a bachelor o) fifty-nine years of age. The partner he has selected is nine years his jun ior, but what she lacks in ago is made up in experience, as she has been there before."—Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. Dollar Handshakes. Major Blanche Cox addressed a crowd at ths Salvation Army barracks. The hall was well filled. After the singing of several hymns and the Riv ing of testimony a collection was taken up and the presiding officer announced that Major Cox would shake hands with any one for 81. Several were found willing thus to contribute to the cause.—Denver (Col.) Bepublican. CUPID'S CONFESSION. "Cupid, what are those arrows for That In your quiver lie'/" He shrugged his dimpled shoulders And, smiling, made reply: "To pierce the tender mortal heart That flies from love In vain. These little shafts are made (or that: They give delicious pain." •'And what do you do with the golden bow Your chubby Angers hold?" And then he smiled a pitylug smile And said, "I use this old But very useful article To speed my arrow straight, To cleave in twain the tender heart And make it seek a mate." "And now these fragile little wings That from your shoulders sprout. Their use I also fain would know? His laughter rippled out. "I use them only in one case: When two fond hearts I tie, And poverty enters at the door, I from the window fly." —New York Press. 112 THE SPY. | The room was dingy and but poorly lighted. Around the long table in its centre were gathered the conspirators —the men who had aworn to kill the Czar. A strange appearance they had in the flickering candle-light; some with fierce faces, marked by the bitter lines of hunger and hate; some with the enthuaiastic and rapt expression of dreamera; others with the cold impassivity of great generals. One of the last-mentioned, colder, more impaaaive than the rest, aat at the foot of the table,facing the president. His manner ahowed not the slightest nervousness. Yet in an hour he meant to betray the men who sat about him to the horrors of a living death, on the bleak plains of Siberia, gaining thereby the lasting favor of his im perial master. The blow that would ruin his comrades would make him. The clock struck eight as the presi dent rose to speak. "Brothers," he begau, "we have all sworn the same sacred vows, we have all stood the severe tests of our order—we can all bo trusted. It be comes jiy duty, therefore, to speak out. Our days of plotting are passed, tho time for action has come. At last we shall strike a decisive blow for liberty." lie paused, but no one spoke. There was not a sound in the room. Point ing to a powder-keg in a corner, the president continued: "Our materials are at hand; our op portunity also. The Czar visits Kras noe-Selo Thursday " Tho noise of a scuffle iu the hall outaide the door interrupted hiin. Several of the men who aat about the table sprang to their feet; the door burst opeu, and an officer, followed by a squad of soldiers, rushed into the room. In an instant every one of the conspirators was covered by a rifle. "Ton are my prisoners!" said the officer curtly. "By what right?" exclaimed the president. He alone seemed cool; the rest stood as though paralyzed. Ignor ing the president, the officer glanced at the others. "Line up against the wall!" he ordered. Silently they obeyed him—power less to resist. The soldiers raised their guns, ami aimed them at the de fenseless breasts of the prisoners. Again the president spoke: "What do you mean to do?" ho cried: "To execute you at once," returned the officer coldly. Then, to tho soldi ers: "Take aim, Fi " "Stop!" The cry rntig out loud and clear in the deadly stillness of the room, and the spy sprang forward from where he stood against the wall. "(let backl" said the officer, ste?nly; but the spy continued to advance. His soldness, his iuipassiveness, had dis appeared; his face was yellow with fear; his teeth chattered. "You must not shoot me!" he shrieked"! am of yourselves! It was I who informed these men! If you kill me it will be murder!" He groveled on the floor at the officer's feet. The doomed men lookel at the miserable wretch with bitter coutempt while in the presideu't eyes there was something that looked like triumph. "An agent of the police!" said the officer doubtfully. "You have your credentials?" "Ye* —yes!" screamed the wretch, tearing a piece of paper from his pocket and handing it to the officer. "It is there—it is there!" The soldiers, drooping their rifles, sprang upon him,aucl bound him hand and foot. "Brothers," slid the president to the amazed men, who still stood against tho wall, "brothers iu a great jauselike ours we cm not be too care ful. This little scene was devised to discover what traitors we had among ns. It has succeeded. Yon who have proved faithful are quite safe." "The men looked at him as though they could scarcely credit their senses; then one or two began to sob, and one man laughed. "And this spy?" he questioned. A fierce murmur ran round the room. "Kill him—kill him!" they shouted. Tho president raised his hand. "Stop!" he cried. "The man is mine—mine to punish as I see fit. Leave him to me. You will accompany our brother Vassoloff"—indicating tho pseudo-officer—"to a place of re fuge. From our friend's admission, we are no louger safe here." The conspirators turned, and silent ly went out. Then the president was alone with the spy. He stood looking at him for a moment, a cruel smile on his white tearded face. Presently be took from his pocket a long fuse.p'acjd one end iu the powderkepr, and wound the other about one of the tallow candles, an inch from the burning wick. Then he placed the candle iu front of the spy's face, where he could almost touch it, and turning, weut to the door. At the threshold he paused. "Your fate will be a lesson to your fellow-spies," be said—and was gone. The spy heard his steps is be went down the paasage. He counted them till they died away in the awful silence of the night. Then he looked at the candle. How loDg would it take au inoh of tallow to burn? The police would not come till niue. He looked at the clock. Twenty minutes past eight. Would that inch of tallow last 40 minutes? If it should not, would being blown up be so painful? He looked at the candle again. It seemed to melt away before his gaze. He tried to shriek, but could not. He became unconscious. He dreamed of his mother, dead years before. He thought that he was a child again, and that she had taken him on her lap, and was telling him the old stories that he loved. It was summer, and he conld hear the reap era singing. He laughed with happi neaa. He opened his eyes. The darkness of the room frightened him, and he tried to call his mother. The gag was still in his mouth, and, like a flash, the whole dreadful, sickening truth came back to him. The hands of the clock pointed to 20 minntes before nine, and the candle was more than half burned. Again he looked at the clock. Ten minutes before nine. The candle seemed to bum lower. Would the police come iu time? He strained bis ears to bear their comiug, but there was no sound. It was five minutes to nine. He tried to pray. At last he could hear the soldiers approaching, but the clock was striking nine! A knock oo the door and the flame had touched the fuse. He watched the spark as it crept, like a snake, across the floor— nearer, nearer, to the keg. He tried to scream. The sound of a door being broken upon! The footsteps of men 011 tho passage, outside the door, but the spark had reached the keg. A flash A second later, when the soldiers entered, they saw a sight that fright ened even them. A dead man, bound aud gagged, lay upon the floor. His face was green with terror, his hair snow-white, and his eyes red, staring, aud protruding. Ou tho floor was the black mark where the fuse had burned, and iu one corner was a powder keg, empty! The spy had died of fright. —Answer. CREED OF THE DUNKARDS- It Prevent* tt Farmer From Taking Back a llorae Stolen From llim. The refusal of a Duukard farmer to rec ive back a horse that had been stolen from him, created a deal of dis cussion in tho region surrounding Church town, Penn., where nearly every farmer belongs to a religious sect. The farmer whose horse was stolen made no effort at all to recover the beast. He did not make his loss known to his neighbors until they had inquired what had become of his big roan. Then he said that one night somebody broke opeu his stable door aud took the horse, but uothiug else. The news soon spread aud a township constable captured the ani mal on the Welsh mountain, but the thief escaped. When the constable took the horse back to the owner, the farine.' said: "I do not want the horse. The man who took it must huve more use for the auimal than 1 had or he would not have beeu driven to steal. Give it back to him. If be wants my harness and wagon, let him have them also." The farmer wa.s a man of his word, and the horse was le I away, aud is still iu possession of tho coustable. Strangely enough, nearly every man belonging to his special sect approves his action. They refer to the Bible as their authority. One passage cited is Matthew v: 4l): "Aud if any man will sue you at the law and take away thy, coat let him have thy cloak also." Aa these sects never goto law, they simply believe that if any man takes their coat they should also freely give their cloak; or if auy one takea their horse, they should also let him have their wagon. Once a thing is stolen from them they will never re ceive it back as their property. The same thing holds good with the women folks. Thoy would not think of receiving bai-k again any property stoleu from them, nor do they want auy o ie to pursue a thiof, or to have any one hand iu his punishment. No matter how much a fanner may owe on his land, he will bear his losses by theft without a murmur. The farmers of these sects sometimes go into debt when b ying laud. In almost every thing else they pay as thev go. The question as to receiving back a stolen horse lias create 1 a division in some of the other sects, however. The j eople who favor receiving back the stolen animal argue that the Bible does not tay that where a thief steals, your property you shall not receive it lack; that not to take back stolen goods and not to punish thieves, is aimplv encouraging and inviting such criuie; and that it is wrong for a man in debt not to take back stoleu property which he cannot afford to lose, and which may interfere with him in the payment of his interest money. A Familiar Character. Friend—Considering that yonr liv ing expenses are fully up to your in come, I don't see how you contrived to get such a reputation a? a philan thropist. Mr. Spend all—Oh, I never give anything; I do the bat pouting - New York Weekly. | NEW YORK FASHION I I Designs For Costumes That Have Be- f| |j come Popular in the Metropolis. |j SSSMSBiiSSKHII New Yorx Citt (Special).—Nothing could be more attractive and dainty than the evening wraps which are now the rage for very young women aa well aa older ones. Mateiials now DAINTY EVENING WT.AP. employed are of the handsomest. The lininga alone are made of fabrics that were formerly deemed quite beautiful enough for a handsome evening gown. The fur and lace used for trimming must needs be of the rarest description. There is no question but that the wrapa this winter are to be every whit as costly as those of the last few years. The designs have been sent 'j I A USE GOWN over to tliis country, and women who have been abroad buying their winter wardrobes have sent over accounts of the new wraps that have just been designed over there. The present fad is to have at least one long black satin wrap. This, at first sight, would seem to be a most economical investment, for it is not so conspicuous as the light brocades or velvets, of which most of the wraps are ma !e, and it is possible to wear it in public conveyances, which, of course, is not possible with the other wraps alluded to. The smartest black satin wraps are wonderful creations of the dress maker's skill combined with the beau tiful trimmings supposed to be neces sary to tbem. CottuineH For Kvery-Day Wear. Two useful gowns are shown iu the large illustrations. One is a brown tweed with an absolutely plain skirt. The blouse waist is tucked and the wide collar and flaring cufts are finished with stitched braid. A stock and a long-ended cravat of cream silk complete the costume. With it is worn a jaunty brown felt hat, which is ornamented with brown quills and velvet. The other frock is designed a little more elaborately and has the strap trimming which has become so popular for this season, particularly for out-of door wear. The straps of black braid trim the pointed tunic and is seen on the circular flounce of the jupe proper. The material is rough blue serge and the vest is cream silk tucked, with revers of lemou-colored cloth orna mented by a fancy braid of blue, red, cream and silver threads and setotll>y tiny black buttons. The revers and slashed jacket are of the same material as the skirt and are braided to corre spond. A broad-brimmed rough straw, blue and white, is loaded with berries, leaves and rosettes of black tulle. The Vogue in Handkerchief*. Handkerchiefs in colors are in great demand, and some of the prettiest and newest are in silk and linen. The plaids ate to be found in these new styles, pretty soft plaids, the whole handkerchief composed of them, but in the most delioate colors, one having violet predominating and another green, and so on. A pretty handker chief in which there is a large propor- tion of silk is of solid greens tipes, which does not sound well, but is ex ceedingly pretty in reality. Red ia found in these plaids in stripes, and also in handkerchiefs with narrow hemstitched edges, the hem being of the solid color embroidered with tiny dots. All shades are to be found in those little colored hems. Anothei variety of the handkerchief with tho solid red hem has red dots worked in side on the white liueu, or tiny red bow knots in the corners. Pretty Idea In Gold Chains. The jeweled hearts figure as slides in some of the new gold chains com posed of fine links. Colors For Velvet Gowni. Deep plum, garnet, gray and tau are the fashionable colors for cloth and velvet gowns. Hamltome Coat For Winter Wear. The tittle covert coat has been im proving the shining hour by assuming decorative touches of fur that will un doubtedly prolong its sphere of use fulness far into the season. It has appeared lately in gray, brown and green, eut on the mode of a basquo coat that is fitted to the figure witb a rounding tail on the hip and Hat collar revers folding in a group of three on the shoulder. An enterpris ing tailor saw tit to run a narrow piping of mink on the edge of the re vers, over the fronts and arouud the tails, and his happy thought has evidently found instant favor, for these trimmed coverts are almost the first of the fur-touched wraps togo into active service. Evidently womankind is not yet prepared to resign the comfort of the short, close-fitting fur jacket, 'for it is easy to count them by the dozen in the furriers' cupboards, while they are being snapped up over the coun ters. Until last year these "cozies," as they are termed by the trade, were cut of Eton shape, sheered ofl : sharply at the waist line, or a flute of [ fur stood like a waucy little tail about . the hips. Now the mode is to fit the short haired fur basque-wise to the body, letting a spade-shaped tail fall below the waist line for five inches at back aud front, but cutting out the pelt high on the hips. Not one pinch of fullness is giveu the sleeve at the A DEC'ORVTKD COVERT COAT. shoulder, and it runs to the knackles on the hand.
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