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When all the world is young, lad, And nil the trees are green; And every goose a swun, lad. And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad. And round the world away; Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad. And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down; Creep home and take your place there. The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. I HIS UNCLE'S CHOICE. J If there was anyone in the world that old Mr. Mortimer loved, it was his handsome nephew Harry, and If there was any one thing that was the desire of liis heart abjve another, it was that his nephew should inarry to Bult him, and at least live years had been spent in the search for some one good enough in all respects for Ills boy. He was rich, old Mr. Mortimer, and besides Harry there was no one in the world to come Into possession of all the immense estates. "And if you suit me, my boy, in the choice of a wife, you shall have every farthing I leave. If you'll marry to suit me, you and your wife shall live in luxury and elegance. If you don't —but you are no fool, Harry." And until Harry Mortimer was -f> he thought it wns the easiest thing in the world to keep in Uncle Jasper's good graces. And then, as the fates would have It, he fell in love with Miriam Langton—a lovely, blue-eyeu. golden-haired little girl, with a com plexion like a sun-ripened "pencil and lips so sweet for kissing. But she was poor apd obscure, and a veritable nobody so far as social position went. And of all things Harry knew his unc*e most desired him to make a most magniHcent match, wliicii the handsome fellow's attract iveness of manner, and the Mortimer wealth to back him, made an easy matter. Brave, bold and honest, Harry went at once to his uncle. "Uncle Jasper, its come at last. I'm in love!" "In love! In love with whom?" And for all there Instantly came a thunderous look on Mr. Mortimer's forehead and eyes, Harry went grand ly on: "The sweetest girl, the prettiest lit tle lady you ever saw. Uncle, sue s lovely enough to captivate even you." "Humph! I don't know that I'm so obstiuate as to require any extra amount of attractiveness to please me. I'm not a—a stick, not a rock, for all I never married. Who is she—this di vinity of yours?" "The sweetest name—Miriam Lang ton." And Harry pronounced it tenderly and caressingly. "Pretty enough name—but a name alone is not much! Who is she? Where does she live? What's she worth ?" And then Harry knew that the tug of war was at hand. "Well, uncle, Miriam lives at the Hampton's. She's nursery governess, and she's poor as a church mouse, sir. and I'm in love with her." Mr. Mortimer frowned. "Then get out of love again just as soon as you can, for if you marry any other girl than the one I've picked out for you you know the consequences." Harry looked at him. "The girl you've picked out?" "Just so—Miss Arabella Burr, worth a cool quarter of a million, and an or phan and a beauty. She is visiting from Liverpool now at the Browns'. Talk about your sweetness and your loveliness. Miss Arabella's the hand somest girl I ever laid eyes on, and I'm a judge, Harry. Something of the blonde, you know." Harry shook his head. "I'm sorry, sir; but I had already made up my mind before I spoke to you. I know perfectly well what 1 resign for Miriam's sake; but. sir, 1 love her, and nothing would compen sate me for the loss of her." "Stuff and nonsense. At your age, too, when there's pretty faces to pick from everywhere. You are not going to be a fool, Harry— an—an ass, I was going to say. Tut on your hat, and come up to Mrs. Brown's with me, and I'll convince you you can be mistaken In imagining there's but one pair of eyes in the world for you. I'll guar-" antee that one glance from Miss Ara bella's eyes will settle you. I've seen her, you know, at a distance, and she's Harry laughed as he took up his hat. "Of course I'll go. I never could re sist the temptation of looking at a pretty girl. But 1 tell you, it's no use, I'm going to marry my little Miriam." And for all Mr. Mortimer's face be came very flushed, ajul his eyes an gry, and his forehead full of deep wrinkly frowns, tye did not say much more upon the subject while they were walking down towards the avenue. But Mrs. Brown was not at home when they arrived there, and Mr. Mor timer was forced to be content with simply leaving their cards. "Unless you wish to see Miss Burr, sir. She is at home in the back par lor." But Mr. Mortimer had not as yet had the great happiness of an Introduction to Miss Burr, and so he was obliged to murmur something about "some other time," and "regrets and pleasures." Nevertheless, as they passed the rose hung bay windows, where the lace curtains swayed to and fra In a soft, perfumy breeze, Mr. Mortimer could not resist a glance into tlrn precinctm of the back parlor, und having looked, he nudged Hardy's arm dellgntedly. There she is now! Take a good look at her! See her? Sitting by the back window, with her hair all crinkly and puffy. Ain't she a beauty? Did you ever see a tinor turned shoulder In your life? Bless me! It makes ni> wish 1 was 20 years younger! Wouldn't I enter the lists and cut you out!" But Harry made no answer. He stood staring at the lovely, graceful figure, with the golden hair lying loosely on the shoulders, and a tiny spray of blue hyacinths nestling among the flossy puffs. "Is tliut Miss Burr? Are you sure it is she?" "Am I fool or ain't I? I'm not pur blind yet that I know of, if I am ris ing 70. Is it Miss Burr? Yes, it is—the girl I've picked out for you to make my niece." They walked away together. Harry unusually quiet while Uncle Mortimer talked vigorously. "Will you marry her—that's the question? Yes or no. Consider it well, Harry—a beautiful, ladylike, wife, with a fortune beside herself, my blessing and favor, aud a luxurious, happy home, with no wish ungrati fied. Yachting, summer residence at the seaside, continental travel when you wish—everything, and that lovely girl for your own. Or " And the ominous silence was suttt cient description for the reverse side of the picture. Then Harry laughed. "If you wish me to marry that beau tiful girl you showed me I'll d<u it. She has captivated me already." And old Mr. Mortimer slapped Har ry's shoulder heartily. "Bless the boy! I knew ho hadn't nn idea what a darling she was. Now go ahead! Mrs. Brown and I have talked it over, and the lady herself is willing to meet you. All you've to do is an easy walkover. Tomorrow I'm off on a visit to the cape for three months. And when I come back I'd like to bring your bride a wedding present—eh, Harry?'* "It shall not be my fault. Uncle Mortimer." And while Jasper Mortimer was chuckling as he rode nlong in the train '24 hours later Mr. Ilarry was sitting in Mrs. Brown's back parlor on a gray and crimson satin sofa, with his arm around the waist of the beautiful girl his uncle had pointed out to him." "I never was so surprised in all my life as when lie insisted upon it that you were Miss Burr, my darling! Even now I can hardly realize that it is you, my own little dear, domesti cated with Mrs. Brown as companion." Miriam lifted her lovely face to her newly engaged lover. "I hadn't been here two hours, Har ry, when your cards were left, and Miss Burr had only gone out of ttie room a moment before. There really is a general resemblance between her and me, which accounts for the mistake your "uncle made." Harry kissed the red lips. "And what a grand mistake it was Miriam! He ordered me to marry you, and I shall obey his orders—inside of three months, too. Oil. yes, you need not look so startled, because it must lie as lie says, and as I wish, my dar ling. We will take Miss Burr and Mrs. Brown into our confidence, shall we?" And a grand secret they all found it —even pretty, insipid, good-natured Miss Burr, who was enchanted by the romantic turn tilings had taken. So the weeks went on.and a few days before it was time for Mr. Morti mer to lie home lie received a letter from Harry stating that his one wish was accomplished—he had that morn ing been married to the young lady whom liis uncle Und chosen and shown him, and that he would welcome him in his own house on his return. Mr. Mortimer found his house bril liantly lighted when he reached it, early in the dusk of an autumn even ing, and in the exquisitely decorated drawing room Harry met him, with his beautiful bride on his arm, blush ing, smiling, lovely as a picture. Mr. Mortimer kissed her rapturously. "My dear, I am very happy to see you here. Harry has done the most sensible thing he ever did. Welcome, my children! My dear, you will ac cept this as my gift to you!" And he handed Miriam a check for thousand pounds, just as Mrs. Brown and a pretty, fair-haired girl in trail ing black silk and diamonds swept Into the room. "We are very glad to see you, Mr. Mortimer. Allow me to present my niece, Miss Arabella Burr!" And instead or returning Miss Burr's bow Uncle Jasper stared like one who is transfixed with amazement. "Miss—who? Miss—who?" "Miss Burr, my niece. You remem ber —■" "Then, who the dickens is this?" He waved his hand wildly toward Miriam. Harry stepped forward. "My wife, formerly Miss Miriam Langton, sir—the young lady you pointed out to me In Mrs. Brown's house and requested me to marry." And Miriam sprang forward laying her lovely little hands on the old gen tleman's sleeve, and lifting her eyes pleadingly to his face, looking so sweet, so enchanting, that even an an chorite would have felt his pulses stir at sight of her. 'Tlease forgive him, sir—please do! It was all my fault. I—l love him, and " For one minute Uncle Jasper strug gled against the influence of her beau ty and sweetness—for one minute he was full of wrath—and then he grunted and said, ' Humph!" and sighed lugubriously. Then he smiled down la Miriam's upturned pleading face. "Well, my dear, you are pretty, and no mistake, and I'll be hanged if 1 wonder at Harry's imposition on me. Your fault? Bless your sweet face, give me a second kiss! There children, we'll all live together, eh, until Mir iam—that's your name isn't It?—de cides what she will do with her check." And so Harry Mortimer and his fair bride were happy, and Uncle Jasper never tires of telling them always to "obey orders" even if it "breaks own ers," which In this case—well, Miriam often wonders who owns her, Harry or old Uncle Jasper, so much does he love and depend upon her.—Chicago Times-Herald. TEA AS AN ACTIVE POISON. Its Characteristic Element Kills Cats and Rabbit* in a Luburatory. Tea tippling has become the fashion able dissipation. We have borrowed the habit from England. Over 80,000 000 pounds of tea is consumed each year in the United States, women With overtaxed nerves are the great con sumers. Dr. J. 11. Kellogg declares that tea is an active poison—that Its active principal, a substance called thein, which can be distilled from tea in a dry report, is fatal to life. The thein in tea is about 0 per cent, of the total bulk. Experiments have proved that about one-eighth of a grain of It will kill a rabbit and 7 1-2 grains will kill a cat. In one pound of tea there Is an ounce of poison—enough to kill 50 cats. Ten grains of theirn will make a man ill and a half ounce of tea con tains from 10 to 10 grains. Professor I.,ehruann, a German phy slcian, gave several men from eight to 10 grains of thein each by way of ex periment. None of them was able to work for two days. There are tea drunkards. There have been cases of delirium tremens from tea drinking. By chewing tea leaves people can become thoroughly intoxicated. The woman who is tired takes a cup of tea and is relieved of her weariness. But tlie sensation of weariness is a danger signal. Under the influence of a stimulant she does not know when she goes beyond the limits of safe exertion. Tea is a drug, not a Too-. Not only does tea contain no nour ishment, but it interferes with diges tion. The craving for it is not nat ural—as is the desire for food, 'l'asie must become vitiated by its Tiau.iunl use before it becomes an apparent necessity. Children drink it for the cream an- sugar, older people for me effect. Every one knows that tea contains tannin. Add a little iron to tea and it becomes black. Tea made in nn iron kettle is as black as iiiK. Even sur ring a strong cup of tea with an iron spoon will make it turn black, me combination of the tannin of the tea with Iron makes ink. Leather is made by soaking hides in a decoction of bark which contains tannin. A man who eats a beefsteak and drinks a cup of tea starts a leather manufactory in his own stomach, for the tea, combining vitii the connect ive tissue of the steak, soon trans forms it into strong leather. To prove this, soak a piece of beef steak in a cup of strong tea tor ha... an hour. At the end of that time tin. steak will lie so tough that it will l>e Impossible to chew it. Not only is tea a hindrance to the digestion of fats and albuminoids, but it prevents the digestion of starch. Saliva digests starch, aud the tannin contained in tea hinders the produc tion of saliva. The 5 o'clock tea table lias become a social evil. The prevalence of tea drinking is due to the fact that women are trying to do more than tneir strength will permit. When uieir energy is exhausted tliey turn to tea. But the habit is spreading among men. If that were not the case the con sumption of tea in this country would not amount to about $0,000,000 per an num.—New York Journal. A New Kind of Fly. An astonished, but apparently satis fied spider was one upon which a gen tleman recently made an experiment. The result of his investigations is told In Public Opinion: While watching some spiders one day, it occurred to him to try what ef fect the sound of a tuning fork would have upon them. lie had a strong sus picion that they would take It for tue buzzing of a fly. Selecting a large, fat spider, that had long been feasting on flies, lie sounded the fork and touched a thread of the spider's web. The owner was at one edge of liis web and the thread selected win on the other side. Over his wonderful telephone wires the buzzing sound was conveyed to the watching sp.dc-r, but from his position lie could not tell along which particular 1 .no the sound was traveling. He ran to the centre c.f the web in hot haste, and felt all rpni'-i urti' lie touched the thread against the oilier end of which the fork was sounding. Then, taking another thread along with him, as a precautionary measure, he ran out to the fork and sprang upon It. At tills point he found out his mis take. He retreated for a short dis tance, and stopped to survey this new buzzing creature which should hive been a fly, but strangely unlike any in sect he had ever seen. At length, ap parently convinced that the object at the outer edge of his web was more suitable for amusement than for nil article of diet, he got on it again and danced with pleasure. It wns evident that the sound of the fork was music to him. THB B©l©Tg> Of= New York City (Special).—This sea sou the gown of cloth or silken stuff or voile may have its bodice made with a bolero of lace, over which, to properly incorporate the lace into the A NEW BOLERO. design, there are laid strappings of the material. The lace bolero o.' our sketch is just such an instanc >, and might be made of guipure, with the strappings either of the mater al of the skirt or of silk or of panue to match that material. Dainty Continue* For Yonng Folks. A dainty little red lawn dotted with 1 FUOCKS FOi: YOUNG GIRLS. white is the fabric used for the charm ing frock on the left of the double-col limn illustration, from the Chicago Record. The gimp is of tucked muslin, the belt of white satin, and much lace is used in effective decoration. The pretty Swiss gown on the cen tral figure is black and white, with yoke of white net and broad lace straps to outline yoke. It has shaped ruflle and bauds of lace above. The sash is of tine black net. The modish little toilet to the right Is of red and white China silk, having a yoke of fine needlework and deep bertha of lace. Belt and bands are of dark-red velvet, and the red straw bon net Is dressed with white satin ribbon and pompons of tulle. A New Development. The so-called tucked flounce being Introduced is by no means what is suggested by the name. Most people would fancy that the flounce is trimmed with one or more tucks arranged hori zontally parallel with the hem. In stead of this, the new tucked skirt measures considerably less, about half at the top from what it measures at the bottom hem. The tucks are run up and down for about half the depth of tho ounce. They occur at the top and end half way down. The tucks are introduced as a means of disposing of the excess fullness of the flounce, so as to make it swell and spread. It is a graceful scheme. You sometimes see a skirt tucked about the hips so that the fullness may bo released be low the waist and made a graceful skirt. The same idea has been adopted for the flounce. You would not desire to have more than one frock made this way. because there are otner modes in fashions, besides the tucked flounce. Summer Silks. The desirability of India and China silk for summer wear is not half un derstood. When one buys a good qual ity it wears excellently, and is cooler than any other fabric for either street or house gowns. Every woman who values comfort in summer should have an empire gown of India silk to get Into when she enters the house hot and tired from walk or ride. The pret tiest mode of making Is the tight front. without darts, and watteau back. It should be cut with a low, square neck that may be edged with lace or tilled in entirely, as preferred. The sleeves should be loose puffs, reaching only to the elbow. A gown of this description made of black India silk can be worn all summer without becoming shabby, and no woman who has ever had one will allow a summer to pass without providing it. Gown For ■ Young Girl. A pretty gown for a young girl is made of a rich red homespun. The skirt is made 1 lain and stitched, and the short little spencer jacket shows the broad black satin folded belt, which is almost a bodice in itself, and a long black satin scarf Is worn over a white blouse. High Comelet Girdle*. High corselet girdles are worn with shirt waists, and dimity gowns as well. Formed of rows of lace, and embroid ered insertion running around, they are especially pretty for the flowered muslins. A Touch of Fnnhlon In Millinery. A summer shade hat has its own "inlet" of black velvet ribbon high up on i.he crown, as near as possible to the small flat top, aud matching the velvet binding of the brim. The inlet gives point to the hat, and is quite broad to match the very broad binding of velvet on the brim. The monture is of heliotrope, shaded wondrously like the natural flower. It is arranged on the left side, reaching to the front. The flowers range from one black band at the brim to the "inlet" above. Incrn>tation« of Black Laca. The "dernier cri," as the Fr'-nch call it, is to have a garment decor.ited witli incrustations of lace in w l'.eh both black and white have part. On-> nny be over the other, and usually the black |is on top. Black lace used over glis- tening white silk, sucli as a glace taf feta. is very fashionable, auil some handsome costumes are built of these materials. More elegant than the en tire lace dress is that encrusted with medallions of lace. It is more elabor ate and, therefore, more costly. A French Tailor-Made Model. This picture of an extremely smart tailor-made gown is presented to the fair renders ta show its unusually styl ish and effective treatment of machine stitching and applied bands of the same material. Another noticeable feature is the thoroughly French touch in its soft stock yoke and vest of silk muslin, in combination with its strictly tailor made features of bands and stitching, so different from our English models of the severely plain tailor-made. The A SMART TAILOR-MADE. tout ensemble, however, is smart and novel In the extreme, whether strictly in accordance with our ideas of a tail or-made or not.
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