"Proof of the 'Pudding Is in the Eating h is not erHcinl Indication*. "You can't judge a man by his oeckties," remarked Mr. Blykins. 'When you see a man with great big checks in front of his shirt bosom md wild colors breaking out all over lis costume, you regard him as a lashing sort of personage, qualified to mow his way through the metropolis mid bend every obstacle before his Ton will." "Yes," said his wife. "One would naturally think so." "Well, don't you think anything of the kind. The chances are that his wife buys those clothes and makes him wear 'em."—Washington Star. Hawaii is said to have more tele phones in use in proportion to the population than any other locality in he world. Keeps My H Soft "I have used your Hiir Vigor for five years and am greatly pleased with it. It cer tainly restores the original color to gray hair. It keeps my hair soft and smooth. It quickly cured me of some kind of humor of the scalp. My mother used your Hair Vigor for some twenty years and liked it very much/ —Mrs. Helen Kilkenny, New Portland, Me., Jan. 4, '99. Used " Twenty Years We do not know of any other hair preparation that has been used in one family for twenty years, do you ? But Ayer's Hair Vigor has been restoring color to gray hair for fifty yerrs, and it never fails to do this, work, either. You can rely upon it for stopping your hair from falling out, for keeping your scalp clean and healthy, and for mak ing the hair grow rich and long. sl.*o a bottle. All towttU. Write the Doctor It yon do not obtain all the benefits you desire from the use of the Vigor, write tlie Doctor about It. Address, Dr. J. C. AVER, Lowell, Mass. I FOR WOMAN'S BENEFIT, j How Mrs. Dewe.v Return* rail*. The wife of Admiral Dewey has raised another social tempest in Wash ington by announcing that she will be unable to return calls except by card. Before her marriage Mrs. Dewey's visiting list was comparatively short, but when she became the wife of the aero of Manila and the adini' al of the aavy she was naturally the object of articular interest and there was a iong string of carriages in front of her house every afternoon, bearing people .vho expected that she would recip rocate their attentions. Now, when .hey are informed that she does not intend to take the trouble to visit them .u person, but merely send a card by ihe hands of her footman or through the postoffice, they areiuclined to say saucy thing?. lints of Moleskin. More lace thau ombroidery is being used by the best dressmakers, aud more new furs aie being used for mil tiueiy aud trimmings. Moleskin looks very smart made into a toque, and in I'aris chamois skins are used exten sively for the same purpose. Kid«aud doeskin, of course, have been in use some time. Some of the new millinery flowers are enormous, gigantic roses, nade of ere;" 3 and silk, big tiger lilies, orchids, pnnsies, and even im mense silk and velvet morning glories in the most exquisite colors are worn on evening bonnets. One of these new moleskin toques is lightly draped with tulle of the same shade, and raised high on one side are three water lilies in tints of cream and faiut ;ose ci.lor. A chinchilla toque is tucked up on one side by a knot of emerald velvet, and is ndorned with nig roses iu black, white and pale blue gauze. One of the very now soft l'elt liats, pastel blue, fulls into the most graceful of curves,and is trimmed with large velvet roses iu shades of bine md pale green, anil placed among :heui is a soft chon of gray satin. I.uriy S'ulUlmu >-*s D.iwdy fiowm. Abeautilul woman iu her younger .lays, of that blonde, stately type of jomliness so frequently to be met with i t England, Lady Salisbury retained aveu to the last traces of her former good looks. She never,however,gave much attention either to dress or to sousuLi'utiou of feminine elegan ,e. Indeed, she was perhaps iu her attire jne of the most dowdy wjmeii in Lon don, aud when Lord and Ludv Salis bury were contemptuously turned iwa.v from the doors of the Casino at Monte Carlo by the gatekeepers, who took exception to the more than shabby attire of the party, it was not alone in eonseqneiice of the shocking hat of the British premier, but also by reason of the odd cut und color of the dress of the marchioness aud the Jiuginess of her bonnet and extraor dinary blue veil. Lady Salisbury's gowns during the last twenty years of her life were al ways of a sort of dark blue cloth, fvliich were neither a credit to her dressmaker nor to her maid,and which conveyed to the public the impression that she had but one single dress. <*olon«>l Nt-lli.- Iren« Klrirhlgr. It is not an unusual thing for the wives aud sisters of crowned heads to hold honorary commands as colonel*, with the privilege of wearing the uni form and insignia of rank, but it is an unusual thing for an American girl to have that honor. Miss Nellie irene Eldridge, colonel and daughter of the Missouri department of the Grand Army of the Republic, takes great pride iu the title. She is also the only duly choseu and recognized daughter of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of Missouri. Colonel Eldridge is a pretty girl with au o\al face, regular features, a delicate, peachy complexion, large, clear blue eyes and a luxuriant mass of chestnut brown hair. She is of medium height and has a good fig ure, which her uattv military uniform sets off to advantage. She is pleasant to talk to, aud knows as much about military affairs and tactics as many Dfficers. Her ability to drill a body of soldiers has made her most popu lar. She is daughter of Major .T. W. El dridge, prominent in Missouri. She was born in Hnntsville, Ala., on July 24, 187P, but has lived for the last ten years iu Springfield, Mo., where her connection with the Grand Army of the Republic began. It was at the suggestion of,l. P. Tracy, cougress mau from the Seventh district of Missouri, that she was made colonel. NPW Winter Model*. Some few new models have ap peared with frillings of ribbon. Quite light colors are chosen, with little headings of black, the ribbon being of the special kind that can be drawn up by a thread interwoven in one of its edges. A capeline form, drooping on the right and slightly lifted on the left, is covered with a frilling of white ribbon headed with black, laid on iu a spiral form, the edge of the brim to the centre of the crown. The brim is lined with black \el vet, auil two half auiazons are attached at the side. Un derneath is a bunch of crimson roses, says the Millinery Trade Review. A taste for shaded velvet has been re vived, aud also for combinations of two shades in the covering of a hat. Velvet shaded from deep piuk to amarantbe is used for a new model, the brim of which is folded back, its border standing up at right augles against the crown. Two jet brooches in the form of buckles are inserted so as to keep it in this position and be tween the edge of the brim and the crown are fastened three black os trich tips. And for another, mauve anil bright dark violet velvet, the tip per side of the brim and the side of the crown are covered with the form er, and the top of the crown with thu latter, while the brim is lined with folds of the same coming over tlie edge. Tbe hat is turned up in the same way as the preceding, the brim fastened to the crown by a large bunch of pale Nice violets. These flowers have come in early this season; prefer ence is given to the lilac varieties, aud they are being ordered largely, both double aud single. Tlie Modern Troua*eati. The day when a bridal outfit meant dozens of each article of clothing n woman wears belongs to the pai/t. The keynote of the modern trousseau is common seuoe. Tbe girl of today considers what her future life is to be aud prepares for it as well as her means will allow, but without any of the excess which once was apparent in every outfit of the sort. A wedding gown that cau be made to serve for evening wear, one of less costly ma terial and darker in colors for dinners and tbe like, a tailored gown of hand some broadcloth, a simple one of cheviot for traveling and later morn ing and shopping use, two pretty af ternoon gowns and two for mornings, with a half dozen odd waists, means not sufficiency alone, but ample and evpn elegant provision, while the list can be further curtailed if need be. Underwear need never mean more than a half dozen sets, and can easily be kept from extravagance if tbe work be doue by the girl herself. Dainty finish aud fine material there should always be, but handsome tucks make the moat elegant of all trimmings, and there is 110 need of costly edges if frills be made of fine nainsook rolled and whipped on by hand. Cheap display is always vulgar. Ex cessive elaboration on machine-made garments is far from retined. To be correct the material should be nain sook of line English lougclotli, and all sewing except the seams should be done by hand, but there is no law de manding line la e and tbe like. Valen ciennes edgings and tine needlework frills are attractive aud desirable be yond a doubt, but they should be a second rather than a first considera tion, the all important place being given to material aud workmanship.— Modes. (■rowing 'e is c msidera ble secrecy observed in its manufac ture, but it is kuowti to be practically tbe same as melinite, ecvasite, and other high explosives. Its base is picric acid, which is brought into n dense state by fusion, but when fired it burns violently, aud consequently explodes with great force. Picric acid is also used iu dyeing processes, as i reduces beautiful yellow dyes. M. P. Gancbery has made an ex haustive study of the phenomenon of "uiauisni" iu the vegetable kingdom. His general conclusion is thai tbe peculiarities which distinguish the ex ternal form aud the internal struct ure of plants are, like other charac ters, largely dependent on tbe envi ronment, and are displayed more strongly in the vegetative than in the reproductive organs. A dwarf plaut is not a miniature of the species with all its organs developed iu the same proportion as they are iu a plant of normal size. M. Henri Moissau has recently de vised a new process for the produc tion of ozone, which he has described in a communication to the Paris Acad emy of Sciences. It consists of the decomposition of water by fluorine, and the opeiatiou takes place when the water is at the freezing point and has fluorine passed into it rapidly. Tbe oxvgeu is set free and when analy zed is found to contain a percentage of ozone which iu some experiments was as much as li per cent. The ozone thus produced is said to be practically pure, aud there is a possi bility that the new process will be available on a commercial scale. A Proapert Mi 111 iiißfetl. "Our new clergyman is a bachelor, bnt he looks so melancholy." "What a shame! It's clea- he's en gaged already."—Chicago Record IVORY SOAP PASTE. In fifteen minutes, with only a cake of Ivory Soap and water, you can make a better cleansing paste than you can buy. Ivory Soap Paste will take spots (rom clothing; and will clean carpets, rugs, kid gloves, slippers, patent, enamel, russet leather and canvas shoes, leather belts, painted wood-work and furniture. The special value of Ivory Soap in this form arises from the fact that it can be used with a damp sponge or cloth to cleanse many articles that cannot be washed because they will not stand the free applica tion of water. DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING.—To one pint of l-oilintr water add one and one-half ounces (one-quarter of the small size cake) of Ivory Soap cut Into shavings, boil five minutes after the soap is thoroughly dissolved. Remove from the fire and cool in convenient dishes (not tin). It will keep well in an air-tight glass jar. cof¥ RIQHT ises BY pnooTin s> GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI A Ridiculous Shipwreck. The shipping community of King ston is divided between amusement and disgust over a shipwreck which has just happened here. A days ago an Italian brig named the Fabio, bound from Genoa to Pensacola, ran aground on the Palisadoes, the narrow ■ sand spit which forms the breakwater . of Kingston harbor. The weather was perfectly calm at the time. The ves sel drifted aground for lack of wind a few minutes after the anchor had been weighed, with the object of making Kingston harbor. The Italian captain anil his crew made absolutely no effort to save the ship, though the sea was as calm as a mill pond, and by heaving on a kedge anchor they could have lifted her off the reef. They at once deserted the ship, rowing ashore with the Jamaican pilot, who was aboard. The vessel is now a total wreck, but the crew are enjoying a fine holiday in Kingston, quite happy in the conviction that they did enough for honor.—Jamaica Correspondence Chicago Record. Little King's F«>cket, Jfotiey. Five thousand dollars is the sum allotted to the young King of Spain as pocket money every year. The youthful monarch, however, lias to pay various subscriptions to charities out of this amount, as well as to de fruy tli 3 maintenance of several or phans for which he is personally re sponsible, so that he has but little left for his private use. Try Vrain-O! Try <;raill-0! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GBAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try It like It. GBAIN-0 lias that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but Is made from pure griilns: the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. X tlle price of coffee. 15c. aud 25c. per package. Sold by all grocers. The roval deer park at Copenhagen, Denmark, covers 4200 acres. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OP TOLEDO, T LUCAS COUNTY, (' ' FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the Arm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing businessintheCity ofToiedo,County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CATARRH that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my 11 presence, this oth day of December, i SEAL T A. D. 18«S. A. W. GLEASON, ( , ( Nutary Pulittc. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surlaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 750. Hall's Family Pills are the best. England's annual exportation of drugs amounts to $6,000,000. Xew Route to Pineliumt, N. C. The Southern Hallway announcing effec tive January Ist, 1!**), through service will be inaugurated between the East and Pinenurst. X. C., via High Point, X. C. Connections will be made from New York on the Washington Southwestern Limited, leaving New \ ork daily, at 4.25 p. m., arriving at Ptnehurst the following morning at 11 o'clock. Perfect Pullman Sleeping and Dining Car Service be tween New V and High Point connecting with elejtant tnoroughfare coach for 1 ine liurst. Full particulars of Alex. S. Ihweatt, Eastern Pass. Agt., 271 Broadway, New \ork. A storm moves at the rate of thirty-six miles per hour. VITALITY low,debilitated or exhausted cured by nr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. FRE«SI trial bottle for 2 we-ks' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld., 831 Arch St.. Philadelphia. Founded 1871. Tbe dolly medical inspection of school children has been adopted in Philadelphia. After six years' suffering I was cured by Pi so's Cure.— MARY THOMSON, 2U)4 Ohio Ave., Alleghany, Pa., March IH. ISW. New Brunswick has about 7,000,000 acres of crown land. Mrs. Wins low's Soothing Syrup forehiidren teething, softens tlie gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26c.a Oottl*. Fourteen towns and cities In Massachu setts have sewage filtration plants. iPOTATOESfkI?: . Large*! POTATO erowers la Aaerlea \ I ' Prlee«9l.CO * up. Eaomouiiatocki afCraM, i ' Clover mm* Form Meeds. Meed (hi* notice mm* \ < £?%3SCLOVERi | > 'OBI! A. BAUIR SEED CO., LA IHOSBE, WIS. A. 0. 112 Barters INK Has the endorsement of the U. S. Government and all tho T,ending Railrcadf. Balloons in Warfare. 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