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.
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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.
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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
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known, combined with tho best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces. Tha
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what produces such wonderful results in cur
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Sold by Druggists, price, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
A woman need never hope to keep a se
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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,
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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.
False teeth are now made from paper
and are said to last a lifetime.
MISS LAURA HOWARD,
President South End Ladies 1
Golf Club, Chicago, Cured by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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Mrs. Ptnkham invites all wo
i men who are ill to write her for
advice. Address Lynn, Mass.,
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