THE TWO SIDES OF IT. Thero was a prirl who always said Her futo was vory hard : From tin) one tiling sti" wanted mo3t Shu always waa debarred. There always was a cloudy spot Somewhere within her sky ; Nothing was ever quite just right, She used to say, and sigh. And yet her sister, strnngo to say, Whose lot was quite the same, Found something pleasant for herself In every day that came. Of course things tangled up sometimes. For 'ust a little while ; But nothing ever staid all wrong, She used to say and smile. So one girl sighed and one girl smiled Through all their lives together; It didu't ootne from luck or fa e, From clear or cloudy wea her. The reason lay w thiu their hearts, And colored all outside; One chose to hope and one to mope, And so they smiled and sighed. —Priscilla Leonard, in >'onkers Statesman. A. A. A A AAA * A A A A j The Turtle Doves. ► "It is very Kind of Clincher to malce a present of two turtle doves, Samuel. I wouldn't have thought it of him." "Clincher's fond of us, Maria." "But its only a week ago he got them for himself, Samuel, and here they are." ' Maria presented her husband with two doves in a wicker cage. Spofllns had a general belief in human nature, but he had not implicit faith in Clincher. The doves, however, cood so prettily and looked so innocent that Spofflns became enthusiastic about Clincher's present. The cage was hung up outside the kitchen door, where the doves cooed an.l cooed. "Just like a married couple, Maria," remarked Spofllns. "Yes, Samuel." "Stuck in a cage and can't get away from each other —so fond of kissing, I mean." The doves cooed all day, an J Spofflns swaggered about the garden proud of being the proprietor. At daybreak Spofllns awoke with a start. "What's that?" "Coo, coo, coo, coo, coo!" "It's —no it isn't, Maria." "Yes it is, Samuel; it's Clincher's birds." Sleep was impossible, so the Spof finses came down to breakfast in the j early morning. "I wish those birds wasn't quite so affectionate, Maria —lisen to 'em." "Coo, coo, coo coo!" "It doesn't sound so lovely as it did." "No they don't, Maria. I'll put them down the garden." Spofflns did so, with the suspicion of a wish that some prowling cat might make a meal off them. The neighbor at the bottom of the garden soon sent into have them re moved, as the noise disturbed his household. Spofflns brough them into the house, where they cooed louder than ever. "Clincher Is a smart man," mut tered Samuel, as he saw the reason of his friend's generosity. Then the Spofflnses couldn't stand the row any longer; so they gave Jane a holiday, as she also was getting ill with the cooing. Locking up the house, they went to Bushey Park. On their return they found the let ter box filled with complaints from the neighbors about the doves, who, hear ing Samuel and Maria enter, cooed, seemingly, louder than eyer. "I'll make them a present to Plumptnimble," shouted Spofflns, as the fiendish idea took possession of him. Unhooking the wicker cage he flew round to Plumpthimbles, and made him a present of the doves. The Plumpthimbles were overjoyed —nothing could exceed Spofflns kind ness —they were just what they had always ionged for. Spofflns received their thanks with gloomy reserve, and went home. He, Maria, and Jane passed a quiet night and had breakfast without the usual irritating accompaniment of cooing. But, alas! only a day elapsed and the birds were returned. Plumpthimble didn't want them. "What shall we do?" sobbed Mrs. S., tts the cooing began again. "Do? Why, give 'em to Stiff back," replied Spofflns. The birds had not been five minutes in the house when they were sent to Stiffbaek as a present, with the kind est greetings. That evening the Stiff backs called and thanked Spofflns exuberantly for such a thoughtful and delightful gift. On the following day, however, back came the doves with a message from them. With an expedition born of subdued anger, Spofflns sent them to Miss Shiver of Sparrov/field Park. "An old maid's sure to like them," said Spofflns, considering within himself that he had finally got rid of them for gooJ. Jane returned with the doves in a very short time, with a message from Miss Shiver to say that she had kept doves before, and didn't want them. "Nobody seems to want them," groaned Spofllns, and then in dispair he sent them to the Red Lion Hotel, which let apartments to newly mar ried couples. The proprietor thought the present a very delicate compliment, and he thought his guests would appreciate the novelty. The business of the hotel declined BO rapidly after forty-eight hours cooing that It seemed probable that the dove? would be its only tenants. The landlord was not a man to give anything back or away, so he organ ized a raffle for the doves. One night at the hotel, Spoflln was asked to join a raffle. Without troubling himself as to what the raffle was ho paid half a crown and selected his number. Next morning he received the con gratulations of the landlord of the Red Lion. He had won the doves! There was a pigeon pie at the Spof fins's for supper that evening; the bird cage is empty, and no cooing is heard now in the vicinity of Spofflns'a residence. —Pick-Me-U p. REGULARS AT DRILL. How tlie Soldiers Are Trained In the Tac tics of 'l o<l«v. Any one who has a nice precipitous defile to rent for strenuous picnic par ties can find a two days' tenant by addressing the commanding officer of the United States troops at Fort Wayne. This is the time of year when Uncle Sam's boys are having their schooling in the practice of real war, and all that is lacked by the battalion of the 14th infantry here is a nice defile. The program of operations laid out by Capt. Patten includes almost every form of military action that infantry is likely to be called upon to perform, and in the list Is a day set apart for practice in guarding a defile and another for forcing the passage of a defile. All that is lacking is the natural setting for the maneuvers. The training which the battalion Is now undergoing is exceedingly varied and each day has a different drill. The program takes two months to complete and includes scouting, practice marches, advance and rear guard duty, intrenching patrols, signalling, sick re lief and outpost duty. One day a con voy is to be attacked, another an out post carried, and again advance and rear guard formation in passing through a town is to be taught. A number of very exciting skirmishes , have been fought in the scouting which | has been done. At one time a whole j detachment of the scouts who were j trying to slip past the guards into | Fort Wayne under command of a cap tain, were neatly ambushed and cap tured before they had time to escape ! from the trap. A feature of the practice that shows the different conceptions of army ac- ; tion between American and European i military men, is the dependence placed j upon the non-commissioned officers, j They are sent out in command of de- tachments and are expected to carry j out the movements ordered on their . own initiative, while in continental , armies all orders come from the officers and their men are but machines. The difference is shown when American i regulars are thrown into tight pinches j and in emergencies when every man ! must think for himself. Twice a week all the companies at the fort engage in battalion, which is in reality a rehearsal of the move ments of a battle of the modern sort. There is no posing or drawing of the men up in useless lines. They are used as they would be in real fighting and taught to advance and retreat with the greatest efficiency and safety. At the start the companies are put in double line at one end of the parade ground, which is supposed to be be yond the enemy's range, one company in reserve. Then, rushing in platoons, half the line companies trot forward and drop to cover the advance of the remainder by their fire. The second set of platoons likewise rush forward to fill up the breaks in the line, and by their fire cover the second rush of their comrades. As the advance con tinues the platoons break up into squads of eight, for the smaller the units of movement the less the loss in hit. Finally they are far enough for ward for a charge, and then the line concentrates with a last sweeping fire from the distance of 200 yards from the mythical intrenchments. Then, with a yell that has become familiar to Filipino ears, they cover the remaining distance at a gallop, firing at will. It is all very life-like and the realism is not diminished by tho fact that most of the men in the charging, firing, yelling lines have car ried out the grim reality of the thing in many a furious over-seas fight, where the little brown men of the trop ic islands have been the foe and the charge was directed against very real intrenchments sputtering with Mauser fire. —Detroit Journal. Wliern He Fal o 1. The other morning a youthful des perado appeared at a police court to answer to a charge of shop-breaking. He undertook his own defence, and did it well up to a certain point. Then, however, came an utter col lapse. "I didn't break Into the shap, yer woshup," he told the chairman of the bench. "I just fell into it." And then, seeing the astonishment this announcement created in the court he went onto explain: "Yer sees, it wos this way. I was agoin" fer a walk when I 'appened to bump agin the shop door. Tho win der (fanlight) over the door fell down an' I climbed up to put it right agin. Just as I'd nearly got it right I overbalanced an' fell into the shop. As soon as I'd picked myself together agin I climbed out agin the same way. It wes just then that the bobby saw me an' collared me." "But," said the chairman blandly, "how came it that you had half a dozen mouth organs in your pocket?" After a thoughtful pause the youth ful prisoner shook hid head. "That licks me," he replied, gloomi ly. "That's just the bit as I can't explain."—Tit-Bits. There are now 1142 different submit rine cables, with a total length of 19,- 880 miles, owned by governments, and 318 cables, altogether 146,000 milei long, in the hands of companies. New York City.—The skirt "with the circular flounce mnkes a marked fea ture both of present and coming styles. The much graduated effect is the very ■WOMAN'S THREE-PIECE SKIRT. latest that has appeared and has the advantage of being graceful and be coming as well as smart, as shown In the fashionable May Manton model, while the fan pleat cau be omitted and the flounce made plain when preferred. The material which the original Is made of Is camel's hair in a rich golden brown, with the edges simply stitched, but all materials used for gowns and odd skirts are ap propriate. The upper portion Is cut in three pieces and is litted snugly about the hips, the fulness being laid in inverted pleats. The flounce is narrow at the front, but widens suddenly to run well up at the back, making a specially de sirable model for wide fabrics. The fan pleat Is a novel and fashionable feature, besides which. It adds to the flare and freedom about the feet, but when desired the flounce can be made plain. To cut this skirt for a woman of me dium size eight and ft half yards of material twenty-one inches wide, six and three-quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, live and a half yards for ty-four inches wide or four and five sighth yards fifty inches wide will be required. Woman's Fancy Blouse. Fancy blouses are in great demand both for entire gowns for Indoor wear and odd bodices to be worn with jack FANC^ et suits, to the theatre. Informal lunch eons and the like. The May Manton model shown Is essentially smart and is well suited to both uses. The mate rial from •which the original was made is Louislne silk in pastel green, the bands being white edged with black velvet and worked with French knots In black, the narrow vest and collar nilk of a deeper tone trimmed with Persian bands, and the undersleeves ;he deeper toned silk to match the vest. The fitted lining closes at the centre front and serves as a foundation for the various parts of the waist. The back is smooth across the shoulders, but drawn down to gathers at the waist line. The fronts are laid in five tucks each, that extend to yoke depth and provide soft folds below. The narrow vest is plain and Is arranged aver the lining and beneath the fronts, being attached permanently at the right side and hooked over onto the left. The sleeves are novel and gener ally becoming. The upper portions are snug, but not tight, and are curved at the lower edge to allow the soft puffs af the undersleeves to fall through. At the waist is an odd shaped belt that Is wider at the back, narrower at the front To cut this waist for a woman of me dium size three and three-quarter yards of material twenty-one inches .vide, three and a half yards twenty seven Inches wide or two and a quar ter yards forty-four inches wide will lie required, with one and a half yards twenty-one inches wide for vest and un-lersleeves. Lace Flowers oil "Winter Tints. For winter wear on felt or beaver nats we will use lace flowers, stiffly wired, and adorned with Jet centres »nd orange silk stamens. The combin ation of lace and jet in artificial flow ers seems strange. Sometimes white lace wired flowers have a soft border of fine black chenille. The lacey petals are often very beautiful, and look es pscially well when used on velvet toques or where fur trimmings are em ployed. There arc black lace flowers, with jetted centres and orange silk sta mens, and they are quite as handsome as the white lacc flowers, although scarcely as novel. The Indispensable Hon. Boas are part of an outfit that no woman can afford to be without. Those of lace and chiffon are still being worn, and for evening wear will be in use throughout the winter. But for street and visiting, warmer ones are taking their places. Ostrich feath ers lead, and gray gray and black, combined, are preferred. Silk, satin and chenille, and whatsoever the in genuity may devise, are nice Severe and Stately. Some tall, well-formed woman is to look no end of stately in a new suit of very fine and very heavy black zibe linc; in this case the material has a fur-like nap. The coat is a cutaway, the skirts being rather long and plain. For a waistcoat there's a black and white mixture embroidered in dull col ors. No trimming, not even strapping, mars this plain and stunning rig. Irifth Crochet Lace*. Irish crochet laces are to be used ex tensively for millinery purposes as well as for trimming costumes. Girl's C'ostnme. Cashmere in all the brighter, lighter colors is much worn by little girls and makes charming frocks. The pretty May Manton design illustrated shows the material in cardinal red, combined with black velvet and simple cream lace, and Is In the height of fashion. The yoke Is simply banded, but the bertha is overlaid with velvet, leaving only an edge of the rod, and it and the sash are finished with applied medallions of the lace. Albatross serge, henrietta, plaid materials and simple silks, trimmed as illustrated, or with velvet only are, however, equally appropriate and equally in style. The waist is made over a fitted lin ing that close* at the back, but which is quite plain and smooth. The waist proper is gathered at the yoke and again at the waist line and blouses slightly over the belt. The bertha la oddly shaped and exceedingly becom ing and Is arranged over the joining of waist and yoke. The sleeves are in bishop style with narrow cuffs and the neck is finished with a standing collar. The gored skirt Is smooth at the front and the box pleats at the back may be omitted In favor of gathers If so preferred. The upper edge Is joined to the body and the sash serves to conceal the seam. To cut this dress for a girl of eight years of age five yards of material twenty-one Inches wide, four yarda CHARMING COSTUME FOR LITTLE GIRLS. twenty-seven Inches wide or two nnd a half yards forty-four inches wide will be required, with one yard of vel vet to trim as illustrated. w Something Al»o»it Starch. It sounds contradictory to advise making cold starch with hot water; but those who have once tried it find its results most satisfactory. This does not necessarily mean that the water must be boiling hot, but comfortably warm. Starch made in this way works much better than that made with cold water. A little salt added to cold starch is an improvement, preventing it from stick ing to the iron. It is always better to let clothes re main rolled some time after starching them, as they will then iron much better. If after these precautions you find the starch inclined to stick to the iron, it is because it is too stiff. — The Ladies' World. Salvage Soap. In a month's time quite a sizable heap of nubbins accumulates. We sort the bathing soap from the household brown article. Melting the latter in some boiling water, wo bottle the solu tion and keep it to use in an emergency wash, particularly of flannel and wool en goods. With the better soap we do noble things. We pick out the un scented pieces, and to a cupful add three cupfuls of boiling water, dissolv ing thoroughly and adding lastly 5 cents' worth of salts of tartar. The jelly-like resultant is absolutely unri valed for cleansing rugs and carpets. Scrub it into the article to be cleansed and then scrape perfectly dry with a smooth stick. To the scented bits of soap add boiling water in the same pro portion and a small lump of washing soda. This mixture will also jelly and makes an invaluably convenient sham poo. One member of the family, a fad dist, saves her bits of soap to dry to chips when she pounds them to a pow der and mixes it with bran to make a bran bath. Another member, phil anthropic, keeps on hand a decoration of soapsuds and glycerine, treating the children to an occasional bubble party. —Alice Judson, in Good Housekeeping. A Stitch in Time. All housekeepers who look well to the ways of their households appreci ate the value of a stitch in time. The principle inculcated by the proverb may be carried to all departments of the house. The household belongings which arc kept continually In order by being mended as soon as they need mending cannot suddenly give out and need to bo replaced. Prudent house keepers keep a pot of glue ready to be melted when needed, a cement bottle for china ,and once a month or once a week, as it may be convenient, they repair breakages in china or in furni ture. It is more trouble to learn to use a soldering iron, but this can be done, and when necessary a hole in tinware or in almost any common met al can be mended. Usually all that is necessary is to stop a leak in time, so it will grow no larger. It is an excellent practice to keep a list of everything about the house that has gone awry, and every six months at least, if not oftener, see that it is made right. The best time is just after the spring and fall housecleaning. If this is done the house can be easily kept in order, and at much less cost than when every repair needed is left until it has become necessary to the comfort of tho home that It should be attended to.—New York Tribune. SJrtS ,t * £C/P£:S Orange Sauce —Cream one-half cup ful of butter. Mix one saltspoon of salt, ualf a saltspoonful of paprika, four tablespoonfuls of orange juice, one ta blespoonful of lemon juice and one half cupful of water; stir into the well beaten yolks of two eggs and cook over hot water, stirring constantly, until thick and smooth. Add the creamed butter and serve at once. Rice —Boil sufficient rice in milk till soft, sweeten to taste, then pour into a mould to cool. Peel a lemon very thick, cut the peel into half-inch lengths, cover with water, boil for a few minutes, pour off water, sever with a cupful of fresh water, add juice, and sugar to sweeten, then stew gently for two hours, after which allow to cool, when it will be a thick syrup. Turn the rice into a glass dish and pour the syrup over it Sweet Potato Fritee —Boil three me dium sized sweet potatoes with their skins 011 until done, then remove the skin and cut each in half; place them in a shallow baking dish with a tea spoonful melted butter over each one, sprinkle with sugar and set in the oven to bake until they have obtained a fine golden brown color. Salt is omitted, as some do not wish it with the sugar; a half teaspoonful, how ever, sprinkled evenly over the hot po tatoes as soon as they are peeled will remove all flat taste. Preserved Pears —Peel, halve and core six pounds of pears, dropping at once into cold water to keep from dis coloring. Putin a preserving kettle four pounds of sugar, two cupfuls ol water, the juice of two lemons and rind of one cut in strips and an ounce of ginger root. Boil together 30 min utes. drain the pears, putin the syrup ard boll about 15 minutes, or until tender. Take them out, lay on plat ters and boil the syrup until thick. Put In the pears once more, let them lust come to a boll, and can. J3k currod V A patient mond Lunatic Asylum, and \. dering nbout the city was sum. on a Coroner's jury by the police, assisted in finding a verdict. The lunatic has since been captureo *nd taken back to the asylum. The fellow -who never has anything of importance to say always manages to say It. CatarrH Cannot Be Cured. local application!!, RB they cannot reach the gcai. of tho disease. Catarrh is a blood 01 constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you most take internal remedies. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts direct ly on tho blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It waa prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular pre scription. It is comprised of the best tonics known, combined with tho best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. Tha perfect combination of the two ingredients ia what produces such wonderful results in cur ing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, price, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. A woman need never hope to keep a se cret. Age will tell on her. ISest For the Roweli. No matter what ails you, beadachn to \ cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure yon without a gripo or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CAS CAHETS Candy Cathartic, tho genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. A square foot of honeycomb contains about 0000 cells. Brooklyn, N. Y., October 22d. —The Oar field Tea Co., manufacturers of Oarfield Tea, Oarfield Headacho Powders, Oarfield Tea Syrup, Oarfield Belief Planters, Oarfield Digestive Tablets and Garfield Lotion, are now occupying tho large and elegant office building and laboratory recently erected by them. For many years the Oarfield Ro inedics have been growing in popularity and their success is well deserved. Germany has one physician to every 2000 inhabitants; the United States one to every 636. FITS permanently cured. No fits ornervons ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise freo Dr. B. H. KLINE, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Phila, Pa. Among the 282 medical journals pub lished in the United States, twenty-eight are devoted exclusively to hygiene. I do not believe rise's Cure for Consump tion has an equal for coughs and colds.— JOHM F. BOTEII, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, L'JOO. 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How I ' wish Sil suffering women could only | know of your remedy ; there would be I less suffering I know."—LAURA HOW ARD, 113 Nowberry Ave., Chicago, lIL —ssooo forfeit If abovt tattlmonlml It net ft nil In*. Mrs. Ptnkham invites all wo i men who are ill to write her for advice. Address Lynn, Mass., giving l full particulars. i +++**++++++++++++-5-++++++++ LIBBY'S! I I ./nil 1 Mince • j ' Meat. %H|! X In our mammoth t J kitchen we employ a chef n 2 * T who is an expert in mak- Wi V $ 4. ing mince pies. He has \JU V If 4. T charge of making all ot , 4" T Libby's Mince Meat. He |||||nM I 5 uses the very choicest ma- 1 jISL | + + terials. He istold to make 1 xjffl irj If T the best Mince Meat ever I J X sold—and he does. Get a + + package at your grocer's; m* J] Bwi* t enough for two large pies. X You'll never use another kind again. 4. X Libby's Atlas of the World, with 3a T new maps, site Sxii inches, sent any- T T where tor 10 cts. in stamps. 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