SEE TO THE VAliLtt. A Danger In ."clioolroomw and ICoiv to Prevent It. Owing So the guthering of so many dif ferent olnsses of persons therein, the lu terioc walls of churches, schoolhcuses, hospitals, otc., are apt to becotno reposi tories of ■ilsouse germs unless preveutive measures are taken. These walls should «>iways bo coaled with a clean and pure voinent, such as Alabiistlne, which Is dis- Infectnnt iu Its nature aud more convenient to renew aud retlnt than any other wall routing. The llrst cost Is no greater than for inferior work, while renewals are more easily and cheaply made. The All-Important Question. A North Omaha Sunday-school superintendent always coudncts the lesson review in his school. He spends about Ave minutes iu explain ing the lesson, and then asks: "Now, has any one a question to ask?" Last Sunday he explained the les ion as usual, dwelling at length on its chief thoughts, and wound up with the usual question: ''Now, has any one a question to »sk?" A member of the boys' junior class •aised his hand. "Well, what is your question?" isked the superintendent. "Please, sir, are we going to have a iicnic this summer?"—Omaha World- Herald. Tliree-Cent Piece*. The three-cent piece is not entirely nit of circulation, according to a Pennsylvania baker. He took in 900 )f them last year. That Tired Feeling Just as surely indicates that the blood is lacking in vitality and the elements of health as does the most obstinate humor that the vital fluid is full of impurities. Hood's Sarsaparilia cures that tired feeling by enriching and vi talizing the blood, creating a good appetite aud invigoratiug every organ of the body. Hood's Sarsaparilia "I hail that tlreil feeling all the ti'ne. I took Hood's Sarsaparilia and It 'nade me feol like a new man. My wife wa* all run down and could not do her work. She has taken four bottles of Hood's and is in good health." C. "owley, Manville, li. I. Hood's -Snrsaonrllla is sold by all IniK'sists. Oct Hood's and only Hood's. SACRIFICE SALEH Firs! Class Music. GO PIECES. $2. For sixty duys we will scud FIFTY PIECES OF FIRST CLASS, FULI, SIZED, high prude, standard Vocal and Instrumental ftlf'MC, carefully selected, including Solos, Duets, ((nnrteltN, Waltzes, l'olkas, Opt ra-, Negro »le!odles, Hymns, etc., etc., charges prepaid by post or express to any part of the United States «r Canada, upon receiptof two <!ollars in cash, stamps or uioncv order. The U';iii!iir price of this urtisic is £2O. Address FRANCIS W \YI,AM> GLEN A* CO., ! t!) Broadway, New Yorlt City. torosenpe 'imiled. Send 12c. Birthday. S question* S Beet Cough Byrup. Tastes Good. Csc «ila 5M ? sa£a "I I ncw waS matter 9 S > vX) with me, my cheeks arc so pale, my Rfl )VjC5\ u P s so white, my muscles so weak, Kg I ~x my nerves seem to be all 9 *„ ''"2», unstrun ß* ' ,m j ust about Eg l\ \) ( - >*,/ #s t ' rc< i an d depressed in Bra /p~-v. 112 vv\\ S morn ' n S aS im rt H (( _ J i-* r I night. If I could only get 9 I/ \ / some rest, but sleep seems to do 9 \ Shall we tell you what is the matter ? 9 Tiiafs Anemia 1 Anemia—it's another name for starved blood, thin Bra Mr blood, poor blood. Of course this isn't the kind to have. 9 M What you want is rich blood, red blood. You want the 9 Kg old color back to your cheeks and lips. You want your EH H nerves once more strong and steady. To make this change Rn m| you must take a perfect Sarsaparilla, a Sarsaparilla made upon 9 Dj honor, a Sarsaparilla that you have confidence in. 9 I That's AYER'S I 9 "The only Sarsaparilla made under the personal supervision o! JB H three graduates: a graduate in pharmacy, a graduate H ■ in chemistry, and a graduate in medicine." H 9 SI.OO a bottle. All druggists. 9 99 "Too much cannot be said in favor of Ayer*t Sarsaparilla. Since taking it I KMj 99 feel like a different person. I now enjoy and profit by my sleeping. My appetite BtSM ■9 is good, my nerves are strong and steady, and I know my blood is pure.*' — l-bank BH B Wbnnbbbebg, Des Moines, lowa, Oct. 9, 1899. fen H 25 cents a box. All druggists. 9 9 y°ur liver isn't acting just right, if you are constipated or 9 H bilious, take Ayer's Pills. When the bowels are all right the H Sarsaparilla acts more promptly and more thoroughly. Three Women In m Car. We saw three women in a street cat that were disfigured. One, whon she smiled, showed a hideous cavity in her upper set ol teeth. One had a dark mole on her cheek, a repulsive mole, not one like that which lachomo describes so amorously to the jealous king. The third had au ugly mark on one side of her nose. Apparently reconciled to their lot, they talked together in high glee, sis ters iu misfortune. And we thought of stories—of Haw thorne's tale—of the old legend which tel Is how Guitier won the daughter of Hippocrates and freed her from im prisonment in a snake's body by kiss ing her loathsome mouth. Perhaps we dozed, for the sun was hot and the car was slow. We looked again with a look of ad miration tempered with respectful pity. We rubbed our eyes. Tho women were radiant, without blemish. They had all raised their black dotted net veils.—New York World. Small Oil Blllls. One of the most promising of all in dustrial developments of the South is the establishment of individual or neighborhood cotton oil mills to con sume the cottonseed produced iu the immediate vicinity. These neighbor hood cotton mills have proved very successful wherever they have been built. The writer calls to mind one such mill owned and operated by the planters themselves that pays a divi dend of from twenty to twenty-five per cent, annually. This mill only con sumes the cottonseed that may be hauled to it in wagons. It is kept in operation scarcely two months during the year, yet every planter who has stock in the mill gets an annual divi dend of S'2o to 825 on each SIOO worth of stock that he owns. In additiou to this profit, ho gets good prices for his cottonseed without shipping it, and be is able to provide himself with cheap oilcake and hulls for his cattle during the winter.—Philadelphia Ledger. Ueneral lSotlia'a Irluli Wife. General Botha, the new Boor com mander-in-chief, has an Irish wife, a Miss Emmet, a descendant of the Irish patriot of that name, and the Botha country seat, on the heights between tho Pongola Bivar, near the boundary line between the Transvaal aud Swaziland, bears traces of refine ment, as well as of comfort and lux ury, not usually found in Boer homes. The house is comfortably furnished, there is a fine library, all the latest European papers, a grand piano, as well as an organ, extensive green houses and ferneries. The mansion is surrounded by beautifully-kept grounds aud largo avenues of trees. Geucral Botha is about forty-five years of age, tall and stout, and well edu cated. He is good-natured, rather slow of speech and manner, aud does not give one the impression of possess ing the originality and military re source of General Joubert. Origin of n Yunlcee KxprcHslon. A century ago gloves were unknown in the country towns of New England. Mittens were knitted anil worn iu all families. If a young man in walking with a girl of his choice was holding her mitteued hand to keep it from get ting cold, aud took that opportunity lo urge his suit, if tho offer proved ac ceptable the hand would remain. If taken by surprise, au efl'ort to with draw the band would leave the mitten. So the suitor would "get the mitten," but would not get the hand. A BACHELOR'S DREAM Out on the porch amid the scent Of honeysuckle rich with bloom, I sit aud watch the coming uight, The fire flies dancing in tho gloom. The moon drops down behind the hill, The shadows deepen on the floor; I wander through the yesterdays With one that walks with mo no more. I see an old house long and wide, Aud hear the night winds whispering lo Across the field of rustling corn, And cotton white us drifted snow. The porch is hung with tangled vines, That hide the lovers sitting there, Who droam and plan with happy smiios, I'"or future days so sweet and fair. I slip a ring upon her linnd, She leans on me with loving trust; All, me, how long the years have been, Hiuce that slim finger turned to dust. And yet sometimes it seems to me Hut yesternight, and once again 1 sit by her, aud here once more The darkeys singing In the lane. I hear again her happy voice Upon the night air softly fall. And dreaming of the life 1 planned, I wander why 1 lost it all. Lose! No I did not lose it all, She waits for mo somewhere; and yet Whene'er I dream of those old duys, sly faded eyes with tears are wet. —Adella Washer, in Llppiueott's Magazine. AAAAAA AA AAAAAA THE £ jSiTHGIBnSLIGHT.[| BY OPIE READ. £ JelT Slogan and old man Mattorsou eat at the kitchen table long alter the j remains of supper were cleared away. : .It was a night of reminiscence with ' the old man, and he told of the bears aud wolves he had slain in the days : when Tennessee was young. "My old granddad loft mo the rifle," said he, glancing toward a corner of the room, "and many a time I've been advised to have a percussion lock put on it, I but a flintlock was good enough for him and it's got to lie good enough j for me. Of course you've seen the gun, but I'll show it to you again." "It's a beauty," said Jeff. "Well, yes, uuless you can find a hotter word. And let me tell you something, but you must not say any thing about it. Granddad was be ginning to get pretty old and little things hail begun to bother him. One 1 of his daughters married a no-account stage-driver, and his half witted sou cnt a fellow all to pieces at a sawmill. So he fretted a good deal. Well, one night he was coming home from a muster, and a man named Bridge Peters with him. All at once grand- I dad stops iu the road and says to Bridge: 'lf I only knowed which one of them stars up tbar was my unlucky star, I'd shoot it out.' Bridge asked if he thought iiis gun would tote that far, and the old niau hooted like an owl. 'Don't you worry about that,' said ho. Must pick out the star you think is the cause of my bad luck and out she goes.' "Bridge was a sort of reckless fel low, so he looks up, he does, and says: 'There she is, that star off there about 15 feet from the moon.' The old man didn't hesitate a miuute. He raised his gun—this hero old one right hero—and she cracked like a whip—and what do you think happened? Out went the' star like snuilin' a tallow caudle. Bridge he took to his heels, and it was enough j to scare auy man,hut granddad didn't run. Ho walked off slow to show tho other stars that ho wasn't afraid, but he begins to git sick at his stomach, J and lie the time he got home he could hardly hold up his head. Aud, sir, he laid for iour weeks, and then died. •let!' looked hard at the old man and said: "I don't believe a word of it." "How do you account for it?"' "I accouut for it by not believ- ' ing it; that's how." Jeff was in ! a sorrowful mood that night, and was not prepared to believe oven the most apparent truth. "What are you thiukiu' about, Jeff?" "Liza Sn»ith aud her party." "Sorter iu the dumps because she didn't ask you?" "Well, 1 dou't like it." "Why dou't you kill her dog?" "What good would that do?" "Why,don't you kuow that the best way to git even with a high-headed woman is to kill her dog? It is— there's a sort of a charm about it, and ; if you kill a woman's dog, aud fhe ' don't find out who does it, she'll fall in love with yon. It's a fact; she'll ; drap right down iuto pure love. Say, j that Smith girl has a dog that sho tUiuks tho world of. Why dou't you j kill him as yon go by there tonight on your way home?" "I'm half a mind to. Got a pistol?" "No, but you can take granddad's gun." "18 she loaded?" "With a double charge of powder aud a slug an inch long." "I'm half inclined to do it." "I'll bet the gal drape down into the purest sort of love. I jest waut to :-ee it; these ain't uothin' puttier to me than a fust rato article of love." Ouly when he was out iu the road did Jeff realize that he carried the old gun upon his shoulder. He halted and, bare of head, sat upon a rock to let the cool air fan him. From over the hilltop came the bark of the Smith gill's dog. Jeff got up and strode along until he came within sight of Smith's house. Ho could hear the merrymaking of the Smith girl and her guests. Through a window he saw the company daueiug; and the Smith girl danced with a fellow named Ab Squat Jeff hated S'luat. He was cross-eyed and low of brow. He thought that he saw her smile at Sqnat and he gripped his gun. But there was no murder iu his heart. He aspired only to assassinate a dog. Jeff I saw him coming down the hill. The dog came at a gallop, cut a caper of delight,aud before Jeff could tire, had licked his hand. Then there came a gulp of remorse. He put down his gun, stroked the dog and hugged him in his loneliness. "I wouldn't hurt you, old fellow," he said. "They thrust you into the darkness,aud they dou't iuvite me out of it, and so we are brothers. Hello! there is the moon, brim full, just above the trees." The dog whined. "Just as well shoot at it ns to bark at it, old fellow," he said. He took sight and touched the trigger. Off' went the gun. And then Jeff's heart flew to hi* mouth. The moon exploded, and the sky was full of fiery snakes. The dog howled. Jeff dropped tho gun and, over logs and through bushes, tore home. When Jeff reached home the world was dark save tho pale stars slowly weeping out their light. He went to his room and, sitting at tli3 window, strove to reason with himself. But it was of no uso to reasou. He had seeu the moon fly to pieces aud till the air with with snakes. "There's no use iu talking, I've done it,"he moaned. "The moon is gone. No use trying to reason—gone. And here lam sick at tho stomach, and will keep on getting sicker till I did. Peo ple can't plant their potato crops iu the dark of the moon, because there •won't be any. Ami when I dio tho moon will come back, and all tho peo ple will be glad." He went to bod and tossed for a longtime; he slept finally, but what a sleep! Old women came aud begged him to give them back the moou. They couldn't inako soap without it. Maidens came and on their knees im plored him. There was to be no more love-making. Poets flocked from afar to revile him; aud the oceau stood dead, with no tide. When he awoke the sun was shiniug. And he smiled, believing that it was nil a dream, but just then he heard his father talking in ru adjoining room. "Yes, thoy were having a good time over at Smith's, but somebody shot out the moon, and " Jeff fell back, sick almost unto death. They called him to breakfa-it, but ho moaned that he was sick, and they let him lie there. He was gag ging when his father eaine into tho room. "What's the matter with you. Jeff?" "I dou't know, sir." "What time diil you get home?" "I—l don't know, sir." ".-eem to be sorter short on know in', don't you? Were you at Smith's when the moon was shot out? What's the matter with you? Why, you've got the ague. Well, sir, it was a funny thing. You know that Smith doesn't like for his company to stay late, so he told the boys that they might remain till the moou went dowu. Well, an ingenious fellow hit upon a plan. Ho got hold of a cheese box, put a kerosene lamp in it, pasted n of greased paper over it and just as tho moon was goin' down be hind the hill, hung the box high up iu a tree. The old man cau't soo very well, and it fooled him completely till some fellow came aloug aud shot —what's tho matter with you? What are 3-011 savin'? Goin' to git up, are you? What makes you cut them capers? Folks say you look like me, but I never seed the day that I had as little sense as you've got."—Saturday Evening Post. A JAPANESI CHARACTER. The Crafty .Jiiiril.Klni-m'ui tlio Unite ami of Travelers. Onoto Watannn, the gifted Japan ese writer, writing of"The Horseless Carriage of Japan" in The Woman's Homo Companion, gives this descrip tion of the most picturesque laborer of her native land: "The jinrikisha mau waits at, tho street corners and solicits fares, though this is contrary to the exact police regulations. How ever, the jinrikisha man is not always as principled as ho might be, aud has little, if any, regard for the police or his regulations. Ho has no compunc tion whatever in overcharging the scale of fares sot by the police, but as a rule the customer himself pays hut little attention to this. Tho fa' e is usually higgled over before riding, and whilo they walk, and sometimes great distauces are covered before terms have beon reached. The jin rikisha-man also generally (unlawful ly) demands drink-money, especially when he is forced to wait at tea-houses or pleasure resorts on the road. He is constantly being set on by the police for charging more than agreed on, threatening to put dowu female customers unloss his demauds are ac ceded to. A woman hiriug a vehicle, for instance, may sometimes find her self within impossible walking dis tance of any town or point, and a surly man demanding extra fare or threatening to 'dump' her. Counter threa's do not affect him. Bettor pay and be done with it. However, when you have melted his heart withaliaud ful of sou 110 be 01110s a friend worth having. It is true he may 'spot' you as one whom it is worth his while to keep in touch with during your visit in the city,and you will find it difficult to leave your hotel without encounteriug him hard by, importunately soliciting your patronage, though on each and every occasion he will call to you as though you wore nn utter stranger to him and he has never seen you before, or does not appear to recognize you as the person who tipped him so well the previous day." Manila In tlio Kveninjj. Manila is as gay as the climate per mits. Every oue likes to look at his best, especially during the late after noon aud evening. The drive along ! the Luenta during the hours around | sundown is u set ne kaleidoscopic iu i color. C ircuiustances permitting, | there is plenty of social life in the | evening. THE £©l®T& Of FASHION}, NEW YOBK CITY (Special).—Are we to wear panniered dresses? Panniered dresses Lave been brought from Paris. The shops stTOw them; they have been worn at the A DBESS WITH PANNIERS. operas, at restaurants and at evening parties by a few extremists or experi mentalists. Will they be accepted by women in general? No one expects it. The panniered dress is a freak, a whini, and is likely so to remain. Yet fashions are as uncertain as the stock markets. Panniers are worth watch ing. The quaintest and most piquant of the Watteau dresses yet finished show flowered underskirts, with overskirts of different materials, opening in front and diaped on the hips. Thoy HAIR DRESSING THAT BECOMES. assimilate themselves to the prevnil iug mode by a lavish use of tucks and l>laitiuga. A model dress of this order is made of Venetian eloth, of a mauve so palo as to be only a shade or two removed from white. The front of the skirt has a panel of figured panne of a :leeper mauve tone; the sides and hack are of cloth laid in flat plaits, stitched down. Small panniers are laid in tine folds about the hips, seem iug to be held by large silver clasps at the waist in front and behind. The bodice of this dress has a vest of panne; Venetian cloth is draped fichuwise about the shoulders and carried in fine tucks down to the waist line. Panniers will show more vagaries of decoration than distinct novelties of .Iress. The dominant note will be on insistence on the perpendicular line. Dresses nre tucked from top to bot tom, and the variety of tucks is limit ess. Hair Dressing Style*. One of the most absurd idoas wo women are possessed of is that we must adopt a new style of coiffure, no matter how unbecoming, because it is the latest thing out, Harriet Hubbard Ayer recently remarked. Since the pompadour made its ap pearance I believe more womeu have heen sacrificed to the Juggernaut of fashion than ever before. Now, the pompadour is becoming to women with rather low foreheads and round faces. It is, in its unmod ified form, wretchedly unbecoming to hollow cheeked women with high fore heads. Before settling on the style of hair dressing she is to adopt a woman shonld take an account of her head, face and figure after this fashion: A short, fat woman should dress her hair so that it will give an ap pearance of additional height to her figure. When the head is round the hair dressing shonld always bo high. A very round head with the hair gathered in a pug at the nape of the neck gives a woman an utterly inane, goose-like look. The height of the forehead, the size of the nose, the shape of the head, the general type expressed must be carefully considered. A woman with a Madonna-like faca is almost a sacrilege in puffs and frizzes. She is quite out of place ex cept with her hair in bandeaux. On the contrary, a girl with a pug nose, short upper lip and generally piquant make up, masquerading in a Cleo do Merode coiffure, deceives no one. She is only an imitation of tho type she aims at, and a very palpable one at that. It is well to recolleot that the hair "dressed forward," as the coiffure ex presses it, makes the features appear to recede. If the features really pro ject, the forward style of hair-dress ing modifies this defect and is be coming. Iu the large engraving six styles of dressing the hair are shown. They may be described as follows: No. I.—Elaborate hair-dressing be coming only to women of regular fea tures. No. 2.—Modification of tho Ma donna style. No. 3.—For short women with high foreheads. No. 4.—Becoming to one with a long, narrow face. No. s.—Becoming to an oval-faced woman. No. 6.—Becoming to women with round faces and low foreheads. With a Deml-Traiu. A cool gown for summer wear is oi old-blue crepe de. chine. The skirt has a "demi-traiu" and falls in long graceful lines. The only decoration is the groups of fine tucks which are cunningly managed to make the besc display of tho natural lines of th*j figure, and to give additional height. The waist is a modified bolero shape in front, edged with creamy luce, which accentuates the outline of tho two jacket fronts. The laco seems to run upward under the armhole from the deep points in frcnt. A vest of white chiffon over cream satiu shows il3 narrow line iu front. A high girdle of old-blue panne velvet risen beneath the jacket fronts. The plaiu sleeves uro edged at the flaring cuff with lace. Soft, Silky, Sal lorn. Manila braid lines tbe brim of tho new sailor hat, which is sewed of silky straw, and has a softness unknown to the brusque old-fashioned sailor. These soft little developments of the sailor shape are in request just now for young girls, and will appear with the first wearing of wash frocks. A Substitute For tlie "False Front." Enter the silet! No cause for a!arm> however, as gilet is but French for waistcoat. It is a decent substitute for the "false front," au abomination attached to a stock and forever escaping its moor ft> gs. The gilet does away with all this. The one worn with the black mohair dress pictured is of white taffeta and lastens plainly dowu the middle of THE FASHIONABLE OILET. the back. The shaped stock and the trimming covering the front are of white mousseline with ecru lace appli ques, the design picked out with nar row black velvet ribbons. This stunning black mohair dress, as you see. has its novel and modish little jacket bodice fairly covered with stitched taffeta strapping, a white mousseline yoke showing fluffy under. A crushed taffeta bow finishes the back of the mobair skirt at the belt A wide black taffeta plaiting edges tht shaped mohair skirt.
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