Jif Improved Curtain Pole*. The mechanical skill that has devel oped the trolley system has not dis dained to lend itself to that common household belonging, curtain poles. Some new poles are shown by which the hanging is fixed to an attachment that works easily in a concealed groove, after the manner of trolley wheels. A touch slides the curtain back and forth, and jerky catches are unknown. To Hang I'ictnr<*». In hanging pictures remember that j oil paintings look best when hung the ! usual way—sloping in from the top of I the wall to the bottom —but that etch- i ings. water colors and line drawings i look better hung flat against the wall, j No picture should be hung so high | that it is uncomfortable to look at, j though pictures of large design or bril- : liant coloring look better hung high up ! than down low. A picture with ! shadows should have the light side ( nearest the window when possible, so | that the shadows will fall naturally. The stiff effects of "pairs" or "com- j panion" pieces should not be tolerated. 1 There should be no set plan. Pictures j appear most artistic when those of j dissimilar size, shape and subject find ! place on corresponding parts of the j wall. Mouldings are much better to \ hang pictures from than nails in the \ wall, and when suspended from the j moulding any number of wire picture ; cords can be hung from the same \ brass picture holder. —American Queen, j lirnutnft Tliac Sweep Clean. For hardwood or stained floors anrt j those covered with matting a hair broom should be used. The hardwood j floors need to be dusted after sweep- j ing. A very easy way of doing this is to make a Canton flannel bag of ! some dark color and tie it over a | common broom. A vigorous rubbing j with this covered broom will add con- j siderable polish to a dim floor. For ] wiping floors heavy Canton flannel j makes a good cloth. Cut a convenient ; size and overcast the edges coarsely, j This is also an excellent plan for clean- j ing paint. Dusters made of cheesecloth j with the hems run in are soft to use j and wash easily. Old India or foulard j silk is tne best thing I have ever tried j for bric-a-brac and small articles. All j dusters should be washed and dried af- ! ter using. There is nothing gained by j using a cloth filled with dust. It will j not make anything clean. If brooms, ! both large and small, are often washed j and uried, then turned up on their handles, they will sweep cleaner and j last 'longer. There should be a con- | venient place for -keeping brooms, dust- ] pans and cloths. It will save many j steps if a set is kept on each floor. — j Mary Graham in the Woman's Home i Companion. Cracker Balls —Take one and one- ! half cups of oyster crackers and pour i over them sufficient hot water to soften j them; add one teaspoonful of butter, J two well-beaten eggs and a good pinch J of salt. Form in balls and fry in hot ! fat. Eggs a la Tripe.—Peel, slice and fry j in one lablespoor.ful of butter one large I Spanish onion; when done sift in one | tablespoonful of flour; let u brown; j then add one cup of hot milk; season 1 with one-half teaspoonful of salt and \ one saltspoonful of pepper; put to this j four hard boiled eggs, quartered; mix carefully, so as not to break the slices, i Relish Sandwiches. —Cover with vin- i ogar a cupful of freshly grated horse , radish. Add a half teaspoonful of salt. ! Press the vinegar from two tablespoon- j fills of this mixture —after it has stood i for an hour or two —add an equal quan tity of very stiffly whipped cream and Fpread between dainty slices of but tered brown bread, adding a crisp, shredded lettuce leaf for each sand wich. Roasted Chicken. —Select a young chicken almost grown. Clean and cut the same as for frying. Have ready a baking pan nicely buttered. Roll the pieces in flour, lay in the pan as for frying. Put dressing in one end of pan. Pour over all a cup of boiling water in which has been melted a large tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of salt and a quarter teaspoonful of pepper. Bake in a hot oven one hour, basting frequently. Quince Pudding—Pare and grate four ripe quinces, mixing the pulp as you grate it with the juice of half a lemon, to keep it from discoloring. Add the grated yellow rind of the half lemon, four tablespoonfuls of sugar, the beaten yolks of three and the whites of two eggs and a half cupful of cream. Mix thoroughly and bake until firm in a buttered pudding dish set in a pan of hot water. Serve cold, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Cocoanut Souffle. —Add a half pint of stale sponge cake or bread crumbs to a pint of milk; cook over the fire for just a moment; take from the fire and add a half pint of fresh grated cocoa rut. Boat together the yolks of four eggs and a cup of sugar; add them to the bread mixture and then stir ir carefully the well-beaten whites of th eggs. Turn this into individual molds dust lightly with cocoanut and pow dered sugar and bake in a quick oven five minutes, or this may be baked in a large pudding dish for eight min utes Holt Costly of Bilv«r Service*. ~Few people, at least in this country, possess plate worth such a fabulous sum as that owned by London's Lord Mayor during his term of office. Its face value has been computed to be slightly over SIOO,OOO, though three times that amount would not buy it, owing to the historical interest at tached to many of the articles. The two solid silver soup tureens, which are employed at the banquets to dis tribute 100 gallons of clear turtle to the guests, are valued at $2500 apiece, and are said to have been in posses sion of the corporation for over a cen tury. Moreover, there is a gross of silver dinner plates worth $7500, 200 ice pails valued at nearly §SOOO, 200 ntree dishes, the cost of which $lO,- 000 would not cover; eighty solid sil ver meat dishes, worth another $lO,- 000, and hundreds of other articles, such as grape scissors, saltcellars, waiters' trays, decanter labels, etc., all of solid gold or silver, and valued at over $25,000. This collection of plate is constantly being increased, for every Lord Mayor, at tfie expiration of his term of office, is expected to add an item, the cost of which must not be lower than ssoo.—London Tit- Bits. TTnltickjr Name* For Slilp*. Nothing is ever likely to shake the naval superstition that ships named after things that sting are doomed to loss. Besides the Viper and Cobra, the Serpent was lost with nearly all her crew, the Wasp was wrecked with heavy loss off Tory Island, and a sec ond Wasp, a gunboat, disappeared in a typhoon, never to be heard of again. In consequence of this double disaster to ships named Wasp, that name has been struck out of the Admirality list of available names. In the past we lost Rattlesnake, Gadfly and Hor net. Probably a new Viper and a new Cobra will be built, but should any thing hajipeu to either of them the name is almost certain to be changed by the authorities in deference to sentiment that prevails afloat con cerning unlucky names. The only exception that obtains is the Resolu tion. The present ship is the tenth. No less than eight of them have had tragic fates, and the present one some years since very nearly met disaster at sea. Most of the old Resolutions, however, earned first glory in battle, hence the perpetuation of the name. —London Chronicle. The Appalachian Parlt. The proposed Appalachian national park purchase in West Virginia, A ir ginia, Tennessee and the Carolinas would cover a long, narrow slip of the Alleghany, Cumberland and Blue Ridge ranges. The area would be about 0300 square miles, or one-sev enth the size of the State of Tennes see. It would be more than four times as large as Rhode Island, a quar ter larger than Connecticut, three times larger then Delaware, and about the same area as Connecticut and Rhode Island together. We hope the enterprise will be a success. It is high time that some authority in tervened to save the remnant of the once magnificent Appalachian timber tract in the South from total destruc tion. The States apparently cannot. They will not even try—Chattanooga Times. l'lantf on TVlieel*. Every woman who keeps a rubber plant or a i)alm —and where is the woman who doesn't, nowadays?—has had occasion to lament the usual un wieldliness of its potting. At the re cent flower show movable wheeling dishes were shown, which permit the easy moving of plants from place to place without the marring of hard wood floors or the usual wear and tear on carpets. These dishes, which are like large, flower-pot saucers, are made of fiber, which is not affected by mois ture, cannot rust and are light, strong and durable. They come in varying Sizes, from one inch in diameter to twenty-two, with castors of hard wood. —New York Mail and Express. fWhy Dec&\jse jl |(i l ife inF*! /#%* ■* 11 $2. Its component parts arc all wholesome. ||p Jxiirjf x i 1 It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. I'flN ill ill 1 < % -I IS It is wholly free from objectionable substances. || i| tKfrbwt family lax&tiv* f| ||l iij . It contains the carminative principles of plants. |!j< j | •i|i; j,' It is pure. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are I| | fy; | I ' agreeable and. refreshing to the taste. | Jjj £ | It is gentle. ( ii $ C;U T . • 1 ' All are pure. [j $ .;]• j ! 1S easan • All are delicately blended. jj jV 0| I It is efficacious. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. i ;:j fij ! I It is not expensive. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to 'j; ■?. I"! I 'lt is good for children. the orginality and simplicity of the combination. ,|J | 'V Mi'i It is excellent for ladies. To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine. $ In jiV i*-' It is convenient for business men. Manufactured by j Sj ! & P ,!i": u ; ! !ij It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. ji i I,jlt is used by millions of families the world over. gjL * | A iffl produces. Louisville. Ky. New York. N. Y. !| FOR SALE BY ALL LEADIXG DRUGGISTS. Jj j The Transit of Vssns. In the "Life of Major-General Sir Robert Murdock Smith, K. C. M. G.," we have this story: "On their way between Telriz and Teheran the members of the expedi tion sent to Persia by the German Government to observe the transit ol' Venus met a solitary European lady riding in the opposite direction, a member of the English colony, xvho was as clever as she was beautiful. Having been long resident in Persia, she was fearlessly riding alone, a long way ahead of ner caravan. "The Germans marveled at such an apparition In such a dreary waste — wondered she wasn't afraid—wouldn't she let some of them stand by till her servants and baggage came up? Xo, she was quite at ease, and usually in her travels was far ahead of her at tendants, whose mules, more heavily laden, could not keep her pace. 'And now, gentlemen,' she said, 'who are you, and where are you bound for?' "They introduced each other; one was the astronomer, another the photo grapher, another the archaeologist and naturalist, and so on, and they were going to Ispahan to observe the tran sit of Venus. The lady smiled, started her pony, and waved her adieur, say ing: 'To observe the transit of Venus. Ah! well you can go home now, gentlemen, your duty is done. Good bye.' " Queen Victoria Trying to Servants. Even in tho royal household the post of housemaid is apparently no sine cure, and I remember long ago hear ing a story of a lady who, while en gaging a new servant, naturally made the inquiry as to "why she had left her last place." It came out then that she bad been employed at Bucking bam Palace, and that she left because "really Her Majesty (the late Queen) was that particular that after you had done dusting everything , quite as much as necessary, she would pass her lace handkerchief across a table or a chair and notice even the tiniest speck." Even Buckingham Palace is not good enough for servants nowa days, it seems! It was told of the late Queen that she was so difficile as to the making of her bed that it took the chambermaids two hours daily to make it, as the undersheet had to be most carefully and smoothly stitched to the lower mattress so that there never was the slightest wrinkle, which ' story recalls the fairy tale of the Prin cess and the crumpled rose leaf.—The Onlooker. Caligula's Gulleya. Prince Oi'sini, who is the owner of the beautiful Lake Nenii. near Itome, has facilitated in every possible way the efforts of the Italian Government to raise the two galleys of Caligula which were sunk A. D. 41 off the shores of this lovely sheet of water. Sufficient has been recovered at pres ent to disclose the astounding fact that the vessels in question measure respec tively 225 feet and 237 feet in length by GO feet and 75 feet in wid'h. Their decks were evidently covei Hi with splendid mosaics, and already an im mense number of niagnitieeut bronze objects, among them a beautiful head of Medusa, are to be seen at the Prince's villa, where eventually a mu seum is to be organized of objects in connection with the sunken galleys. Teacher* Driers c Better l'ay. The average life of the country teacher is not over three years. Why is this? Why does he not continue in the business as long as he lives and is able to work? The reason is evident. The remuneration is not sufficient. I This state of things should not exist lin our schools. Well qualified teachers [ should receive, at least, as much as | first class mechanics. Until this is I dont, teaching will never take its proper place, and the Lest results will never be secured. Teaching has to be learned, like any other kind of busi i ness, and it is a reckless waste all round to have teachers leave the work I just when they have learned to do it : with some facility.—John Mcßurney, I in Ohio Teacher. Ulster, Ireland, had only seven dry days in December. Prostrate With Itlieumatic Fever Six Time* Within Twenty Years. This was the case of Mr. Eli Wiltshire, of Landsdown Terrace,. Calne, Wis., who, during this time, suffered the most intense agony. He writes: "I heartily indorse the testimonials which you publish of St. Jacobs Oil as a pain killer, for I have been a sufferer from rheumatism and kindred complaints at different times during the last twenty years. I have been laid prostrate with rheumatic fever six times during that pe riod, therefore I consider I know some thing about rheumatism. During nil of these twenty years I have tried various ad vertised rheumatic remedies, oils, oint ments and embrocations. None of them gave me much relief, but when I tried St. Jacobs Oil I found quite different results. It eased the pain almost immediately, and has done for me what all other remedies put together never began to do. "I could give you several eases that have been cured, which have come under my notice, and through my recommendation; also one of toothache, one of faceache and one of sore throat. "I have recommended St. Jacobs Oil and shall continue to do so by every means in my power, as I consider you deserving of every support." A barrel of gasoline confined in a cellar has twice the explosive force of a barrel of gunpowder. A Christmas Dinner That Wns Not Eaten Because of indigostion! This sorry talo would not have been told if the system had been regulated and tbo digestion perfected by the use of Nature's remedy, Garfield Tea. This wonderful Herb medicine cures all forms of stomach, liver and bowel derangements. clean«es the system, purifies the blood and lays the foundation for long life and con tinued good health. Woman's crowning glory is sometimes her hair, but more often her bat. Each package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYE colors either Silk, Wool or Cotton perfectly at one boiling. Bold by all druggists. The glazing of pens, in some varieties considered an important operation, is done with shellac dissolved in naphtha. Wish All a Happy New Year. ITappiness that come 3 with good health Is given to all who use Nature's gift, Garfield Tea. This Herb Cure cleanses the system, purifies the blood and removes the cause of disease. The Laplanders average four feet eleven inches in height and are the shortest peo ple in Europe. Winter Tourist Hates—Season 1901-1003. The Southern Railway, the diroot routs tj the winter resorts of Florida, Georgia, the Carollnas and the South and Southwest, an nounces excursion tickets will be placed on sale October 15th lo April 30th, with final limit May 31, 1002. Teriect Dining and Full man Service on all through trains. For full particulars regarding rate, descriptive matter, call on or address New York Office, 271 and 1185 Broadway, or Alex. S. Thweatt, Eastern Pass. Agent, 1185 Broadway. It's easier for a woman to drive a bar gain than to drive a nail. Best For the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCAUETS help nature, euro you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CAB CARETS Candy Cathartic, tho genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. When a girl becomes a Mrs. she never will be Missed. A Good Way to Begin 1903* Cleanse the system, purify tho blood and regulate tho liver, kidneys, stomach and bow ols with the Herb medicine, Garfield Tea, in suring health and happiness for the New Year. Knowledge is power except in the case of a man who knows he's been whipped. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Br. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dr. It. 11. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch St., l'hila. Pa. The only reason some people don't make fools of themselves is because the opportu nity is lacking. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25cabottle. Many a man thinks his wife is gifted as a mind reader when in reality he talks in his sleep. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken o' as a cough cure.—J. \Y. O'BBIEN, 322 Third Avenue, N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. ti, 190X Fortune smiles on some of us, and gives the rest of us the laugh. How's This? i Wo jffer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, havo known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and beliovc him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by thoir firm. WEST A TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALDINO, KINNAN A MABVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pillß are the best. The most ductile metal is platinum. Wires have been made of it very little thicker than the threads of a spider web. BronchitisS I " I have kept Ayer's Cherry Pec- Q toral in my house (or a great many 9 years. It is the best medicine in fl the world for coughs and colds." | J. C. Williams, Attica, N. Y. I 1 All serious lungi 1 troubles begin with ajj R tickling in the throat. | | You can stop this at first | I in a single night with | I Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 8 j Use it also for bronchitis, I consumption, hard colds, 1 and for coughs of all kinds. 1 Three sixes : 25c., SCc., sl. All Jraftfsts. B 112 Consult your doctor. If he says tako It, K I thon do as ho sny». If he tells yoa not H v.to taka it, then don't take it. Ho knows. ■ I Leave It with him. We are willing. | b J. C. AYEU CO., Lowell, Mais. B B—BW BWWIIL —I N — I IWP DISCOMFORT AFTER MEALS Feeling oppressed with a sensation of stuffiness and finding the food both to dis tend and painfully hang like a heavy weight at the ]}it of tne stomach arc symptoms of Indigestion. With these the sufferers will often have Constipation, In ward Piles, Fullness of the Blood in the Head, Acidity of the ttomach, Nausea, Heartburn, Htidache, Disgust of Food, Gaseous kructations. Sinking or flutter ing of the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a lying posture. Dizzi ness on rising suddenly, Dots or Webs be fore the Sight, Fever and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellow ness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in the Side, Che3t, Limbs and Sudden Flushes of Heat. A few doses of gjADWAY'S II PILLS will free the system of all the above named disorders. Purely vegetable. Price, 25 cents per DOX. Sold by all drug gists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. MDWAY & CO., 55 Elm St., N. Y. Be sure to get "Radway's." Capsicum Vaseline Put up In Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for an J Superior to Mustard or any : other planier, and will not blister tl_j most delicate i skin. The pain allaying and curative qua ities ol this arti le are wonderful. It will stop the t otba.he at once, and relieve headache aud sciatica. We recommend it as the bast and safest external counter-irritant known, i.lso as an external remedy for pains in the chest and Bto:nachaudal* rlieainatic, neuralgic and gouty complaints. A trial will prove what we claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in tho household. Many people say "It is the best of all 3'cur preparations." Price, 15 cents, at all druggists, or other deal?!*, or by sending this amount to us lu ;ostuK- stamps we will send you a tube by mail. Ko article should be accepted by the public unless the same carries our label, as otherwise it is not genuine. CHEESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING CO., 17 Stite Street, New York City. Dr. Benermann's Healing Salve, • Used in his private practice fo.- 30 year?, now first given to the public for old ulcer* an t rnlining norc* that your physician has failed to < ure. Try i it. cents. Prepared only by his daughter, Mrs. ELIZABETH SEYLEK, 86 Hush street, Brooklyn, N. V. I ADVERTISING SB!" VVV : The Beet Sugar Industry. A most important article giving Messrs. Oxnard's and Cutting's views on the beet sugar industry in this country appeared on the editorial page of the New York Evening I'ost of De cember 12 last, and as every house hold in the land Is Interested in sugar the article will be of universal Interest. THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. The Evening Post bids the heartiest welcome to every American Industry that can stand on its own bottom and make its way without leaning on the poor rates. Among these self-support ing industries we are glad to know, is the production of beet sugar. At all events, It was such two years ago. We publish elsewhere a letter written in 1599, and signed by Mr. Oxnard and Mr. Cutting, the chiefs of this indus try on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, showing that this was the happy condition of the trade at that time. If parties masquerading as beet sugar producers are besieging the President and Congress at this mo ment, and pretending that they will be ruined if Cuban sugar Is admitted for six months at half the present rates of duty their false pretences ought to be exposed. The letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting was probably Y>-ritten for the purpose of inducing the farmers of the Mississippi Valley togo more largely into the cultivation of beets for the sugar factories. This was a laudable motive for telling the truth and show ing the large profits which awaited both the beet grower and the manufac turer if the industry were persever ifigly and intelligently prosecuted. To this end it was pointed out that farm ers could clear s(ls per acre by culti vating beets, and might even make SIOO. But in order to assure the culti vator that he would not be exposed to reverses by possible changes in the tariff, they proceeded to show that the industry stood in no need of protection. The beet sugar industry, these gen tlemen say, "stands on as firm a basis as any business in the country." They point out the fact—a very important one—that their product comes out as a finished article, refined and granulated. It is not, like cane sugar grown in the West India Islands, a black and offen sive paste, which must be carried in wagons to the seaboard and thence by ships to the United States, where, af ter another handling, it is put through a costly refinery, and then shipped by rail to the consumer, who may possi bly be in Nebraska, alongside a beet sugar factory, which turns out the re fined and granulated article at one fell swoop. Indeed, the advantages of the producer of beet sugar for supplying the domestic consumption are very great. Wc have no doubt that Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting are within bounds when they say that "sugar can be pro duced here cheaper than it can be in Europe." The reasons for this are that— "Tlie sugar industry is, after all, merely an agricultural one. We can undersell Europe in all other crops, and sugar is no exception." It follows as naturally as the making of Hour from wheat. If we can pro duce wheat cheaper than Europe, tluui naturally we can produce flour cheap er, as we do. But the writers of the letter do not depend upon a-priori reasoning to prove that they can make sugar at a pro tit without tariff protection. They point to the fact that under the McKinley tariff of 1800, when sugar was free of duty, the price of the article was four cents per pound. Yet a net profit of $3 per ton was made by the beet sugar factories under those conditions, not counting any bounty on the home pro duction of sugar. They boast that they made this profit while working under absolute free trade, and they have a right to be proud of this result of their skill and industry. Many beet sugar factories had been started in bygone years, back in the sixties and seventies of the nineteenth cen tury, and had failed, because the pro jectors did not understand the busi ness. Since then great progress has been made, both here and abroad, in the cultivation and manipulation of the beet. What was impossible thirty years ago is now entirely feasible. The industry is already on a solid and en during basis. There are factories in the United States, these gentlemen tell us in their letter, capable of using :>oo,ooo tons of beets per annum at a profit of $.'J per ton, and this would make a profit of $1,050,000 as the in come to be earned under absolute free trade. It must be plain to readers of this letter, signed by the captains of the beet sugar industry, that the people in Washington who are declaiming against the temporary measure which the President of the United States urges for the relief of the Cuban peo ple, are either grossly ignorant of the subject, or are practising gross decep tion. The tenable ground for them is to say: "Other people are having pro tection that they do not need, anil therefore we ought to have more than we need." This would be consistent with the letter of Messrs. Oxnard and Cutting, but nothing else is so. w.sioHjin, Washington, I».C. "Successfully Prosecutes Claims, Late Principal EXHDISd«p U.S. Pension liurnau. syrs in civil war. lftruUndleatiuLeliv.uis.ftttT ND HDCV NEW DISCOVERY; ! ••• \J ¥ qu:ck rali« and cnrtp <■»««». B >o» o< testimonial «ud 10 (la)'*' '* I' l-eu. Or. II H. OaEM'SIOMII. B>x ». S». Gold Xcifal *t RufTat* Rin#ittton. 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