RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
Pens"A R. R.
KAST. WEST
7.13 A. M. ».I4 A M
10.17 " 12.16 P.;M.
2.21 P. M.4&» "
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SUNDAYS.
IU 17 A. M. tit P. M.
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EAST. W KNT.
ti.M A. M. S UM A. M.
10.19 " 12.47 P. M.
2.11 P. M. 1.H5 "
«10 " 8.20 "
SUNDAYS
«.58 A. M. 12.47 P. M
tt.IUP. M. 8 20
I'M 1 LA. A READING R. R.
NORTH. SOUTH.
7 82 A. M. 11.25 A. M.
4.UU P. >l. 8.05 P. M.
BLOOM STREET.
7.84 A. M. 11.23 A. M.
4.02 P. M.<>.« 4 P. M.
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SURGEON DENTIST,
(IrviraoM MILL ST., Opposite the Post otflce.
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LL STKEET . - DANVILLE. PA
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THE EYE A SPECIALTY.
Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass
es and artificial eyes supplied.
311 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa.
Hours—lo a. m.to 5 p. m.
Telephone 14:10.
THE WHIRL OF FASHION.
The new embroidered india mulls are
Wrought in designs as line and delicate as
real lac*.
Crape de paris will form one of the
very fashionable textiles for the making
©f empire and other picturesque evening
toilets for the summer.
Handsome Venetian cloths, silky Eng
lish serges, Borneo and Saxony cheviots
and diagonals are among the stylish
wools used for spring tailor suits.
The tucked or plaited skirts as now
Worn and as designed for summer dresses
are a very satisfactory compromise be
tween the kilted styles of other days and
the very flat habit effect so extremely
trying to every figure.
Mercerized sateens, which very closely
resemble satin foulard, and soft silk and
linen mixtures in dainty colorings—strip
ed, dotted and plain of surface —are
among the favored materials for shirt
waists for morning wear this spring.
Finely tucked or shirred yokes, with
matching bodice yokes, are features of
many of the Paris gowns of batiste, in
dia muslin, French organdie, Belfast
dimity and china silk. The long sleeves
or portions of the sleeve are similarly
arranged.
Gored or circular skirts of opal gray
or white wool will be more than ever the
vogue this summer, both with matching
Eton jackets or, during the extreme heat,
with only the shirt waist of silk, linen
iawn, the very pretty mercerized mulls
or of satin foulard.
The smartest of the new bolero jack
ets for "dress" uses are formed of gui
pure lace cut low and rounding in the
neck, curving up slightly on the back,
above the corselet or girdle and also un
der the arms, enough to .show a little of
the silk or satin blouse beneath, and
reaching below the waist in a point ou
the front. —New York Post,
STAGE GLINTS.
Florence Kahn will be leading wom
an with James K. Hackett next sea
son.
There Is an organization of chorus
girls in New York called the White
Mice.
A play founded upon the life of Tom
Moore, the Irish poet, will be used by
Andrew Mack next season.
"Ben-IIur" will remain in Boston for
the remainder of the season, as its hit
has been something remarkable.
Laurence Irving expects to be in
New York in the fall to see his play,
which Mr. Sothern is to produce.
There will probably be five versions
of the French novel "Manon Lescaut"
seen on the American stage next sea
son.
The story first published some mouths
ago to the effect that William Gillette
was to play Hamlet seems more than
likely to be true.
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Ilicks (Ella
line Terriss), according to a London
announcement, will appear In "Alice In
.Wonderland" In New York In the au
tumn.
Joe Murphy, the well known Irish
comedian, has closed his tour togo
tarpon fishing. Mr. Murphy Is a mil
lionaire and appears on the stage for
his own amusement.
Miss Marie Bates, the well known
character actress, will support Mr Da
.vld Warfield next season In"The Only
l«evl." She Is to have the role of au
eccentric old Irish woman.
Mlsa Minnie Ashley, who made a
hit In "San Toy," will be unable to re
turn to the stage this season. The
glare of the limelight has so affected
tier eyes that she must remain In a
darkened room for a long time to come
or run the risk of losing her sight alto
gether.
The Informal Dinner.
Nothing is really informal nowa
days, declares a fashionable woman.
That Is, you need not expect an en
tertainment to be simpler and less
■tately because the word "informal" is
written on the invitation. If you are
asked to dine "informally," you may
be sure that you will be expected to
dress as smartly and that you will
partake of quite as elaltorate a menu
a 8 if it were a grand dinner party. It
simply gives you to understand that
your hostess Is giving a small and ex
clusive entertainment. Oddly enough.
It is what are called the informal func
tions that are the smartest. Miss X.
gives a large ball and asks every one
she knows; then, considering that her
duty to society at large Is accomplish
ed, she gives small entertainments to
a select few, which she calls informal.
For Instance, the Invitation to-the gen
eral dance, which Is not at all smart in
the sense that it includes society at
large, Is on the stiff est and most impos
ing "at home" card, while the really
exclusive affair is often merely a visit
ing card with "very small dance"
written In the corner. With dinners It
Is the same way. If you are bidden by
a personal note to an ultra fashionable
house, then Is the time to put on your
best and freshest gown and to feel that
you have really received a compliment,
for you will tind to meet you only mem
bers of the ultra exclusive set. A form
al dinner card often includes "duty"
people who are not particularly inter
esting.—New York Tribune.
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and diseases arising from an impure
state of the blood Lichty's Celery Nerve
Compound is an invaluable specific Sold
by Rossman & Sou's Pharmacy.
CINCH WENT FISHING
HE USED HIS HOOK AND LINE IN A
BIG CLOVER FIELD.
It Pnzzleti 111 a Comrudra to Discover
What llr Uaa Augliug For, bat lie
Kiually I.aiiUiil the l'rlse For
Whli'h He W aa Striving.
Some young men who enlisted dur
ing the war with Spain, but never saw
any active service, were talking over
their days in uniform one night and
old, interesting stories of camp life.
The young man who had been a hospi
tal steward told this story:
"A month in our camp in Georgia
;was enough to drive a man to despair,
for not only was it hot, but every day
increased our belief that the govern
ment had no Intentfbn of giving us a
chance to get into action or to let us go
back to our homes. It was a mighty
tough predicament for a lot of young
men who had left business and every
thing else in a burst of patriotic enthu
siasm and expected to get into a scrap
in short order. The men worked every
wire they could to get their discharges,
but It was at a time when the man
with a pull couldn't get any more than
the man without a friend. After awhile
the boys gave up trying to get their
discharges and rrtade up their minds to
grin and bear it.
"As a hospital steward I used to hear
a good deal about the health of the reg
iment from the surgeons, and one day
I was very much surprised to hear one
of them say that he was afraid Cinch
of Company C was going to lose his
mind. I knew Cinch as a big, good na
tured fellow, who tried to get a dis
charge as soon as he learned that we
were not going to have a fight. When
he failed, he became sullen and moody.
The more we watched him the more
convinced we became that something
was wrong with him. Every time we
came around we found him mumbling
to himself, and one day a crowd of us
found him seated on a stump In the
middle of a big clover field, holding in
front of him a long pole, attached to
which was a piece of cord, on the end
of which was a pin bent to resemble a
fishhook. He would drop the hook In
to the long grass and let It stay there
for a time. Then he would make a
cast and when the hook fell would Bit
and watch the end of his line Intently.
Every once In awhile he would jerk the
line out of the grass as though he had
felt a nibble. Once one of the boys
stepped up and said:
" 'What are you fishing for 7
"lie got no answer. All Cinch did
was to turn a pair of hollow eyes on
him and then resume his fishing. After
that a gang used togo out and watch
Cinch every afternoon. They would
hide in the grass and almost burst
with laughter at the seriousness with
which the poor fellow would cast his
line of wrapping cord and his pin
hook and then sit and wait for a bite.
Every once In awhile one of the boys
would saunter out and say:
" 'What are you fishing for, Cinch?'
"It got to be the regimental saying,
and I suppose that the question, 'What
are you fishing for, Cinch?' was thrown
at the man from Company C a hundred
times a day. By and by the news got
to the officers that Cinch tvas going
fast. They heard about his fishing in
the fields, and one day the surgeon
major went out and witnessed the per
formance. He went back and reported
to the colonel that unless Cinch was
discharged at once he would be hope
lessly Insane. The result was that his
condition was telegraphed onto Wash
ington and discharge papers were re
turned at once.
"The colonel In the goodness of his
heart went to look up Cinch and give
him the news, lie found him sitting
on a stump in the field fishing away,
while around him sat about 50 of the
regiment, one of whom would yell,
'What are you fishing for. Cinch?*
every few minutes. The colonel step
ped up and touching Cinch on the
shoulder said:
" 'Cinch, we think your health de
mands that you leave the service, and
so we have procured an honorable dis
charge for you. Here it is,' and he
handed Cinch the i>apers.
"Cinch dropped his fishing pole and
grabbed the papers. He gave one look
at them, and when he saw that they
were all right waved them triumphant
ly over his head and shouted at the
top of his voice:
" 'This Is what I was fishing for,
dang ye all. This is what 1 was fish
ing for, and I got It too.' And with
that he went dancing over the field,
leaving us standing there, the first
gleam of the truth creeping Into our
brains.
"The colonel looked foolish, and by
and by we began to sneak away one
by one. There was no doubt but what
the regimental question, 'What are you
fishing for, Cinch?' had been answer
ed and In a most emphatic and sur
prising fashion. Cinch was as sane as
anybody, but when he found he could
not get an honorable discharge In one
way he tried for It another."—New
York Sun.
Caaldn't Keep It.
After hearing evidence In an assault
case between man and wife. In which
the wife had had a deal of provoca
tion, the magistrate, turning to the hus
band, remarked:
"My good man, I really cannot do
inything in this case."
"But she has cut a piece of my ear
off, sir."
"Well," said the magistrate, "I will
bind her over to keep the peace."
"Vou can't," shouted the husband;
"she's thrown It awayPearson's
Weekly.
The First Instance.
Wife—Do you mean to Insinuate that
your judgment is superior to mine?
Husband—Certainly not, my dear.
Our choice of life partners proves It
Isn't.—Chicago News.
Freedom.
"Have you made any plans for the fu
ture?" asked the interviewer.
"Only this," said the young physician
who had come into au ample inheritance
from a forgotten unoie: "I'm going to
spend the first 15 cents of the money iu
having these side whiskers chopped off."
—lndianapolis Press.
After Conversion.
"nave you noticed any change in
Smithers since he joined the church?"
"Yes. He uses a jointed fishpole in
stead of the old long one."
"What has that to do with it?"
"Oh, he carries it under his coat when
he goes fishing on Sunday."—New York
Herald.
The Spring Fever
is a malady which no one can escape
at this season of the year. The vitality
is usually overtaxed during the winter
months, and spring finds the system all
run down. The blood is thiuned and
impure. The kidneys and liver are in
active resulting in a loss of energy and
appetite, and a derangement of the
nerves. Lichty's Celery Nerve Com
pound will purify your blood, tone up
your nerves, and leave you feeling fresh
and energetic. Sold by liossman &
Sou's Pharmacy.
MEN AS THEY PASS.
Henry M. Stanley is just and ap
parently strong euough to try the dark
continent again.
Eiuier Duver, Senator Hannu's private
secretary, began his career as a newspa
per writer»at 15, when he was a reporter
on the McConnelUville (O.) Herald.
Major General MacArtliur was saved
from a fatal wound at Keaesaw by a
package of letters iu his breast pocket—
neither a Bible nor a pack of cards, just
letters.
Michael C. Murphy, New Y.>rV- now
police commissioner, is prouih :.<•
fact that he once was one of the fastest
compositors in the city. He belongs to
"Big Six" still.
In J. R. Burton, the new aenator from
Kansas, the long, lank figure of the late
Senutor Ingnlis is repeated. There is
also said to be a striking similarity in the
face and in manner of speaking.
Marconi, the adapter of wireless teleg
raphy, is almost as much of au Irishman
as an Italian. He is a first cousin of a
leading Wexford merchant, his mother
having been au Euniscorthy woman.
Senator Lindsay delights in a newly
discovered distinction. He laughingly
greeted some of his friends the other day
with the remark, "A New York paper
says this morning that I'm the loudest
sneezer in the senate."
President Schwab's weekly wages will
exceed the entire year's salary of most
New York bank presidents. Hia colos
sal annual income is greater than the
value of the whole output of iron in the
early days of the republic.
Ex-Governor William D. Bloxham of
Florida, who has just retired, Is the only
man who has served hie state in the exec
utive chair for two successive terms. It
is related of hint that he never forgets a
face or the name that goes with it.
Cyrus Adams Bulloway, New Hamp
shire's tall congressman from the First
district, who has served through three
terms and has been re-elected to the
Fifty-seventh congress, has already given
formal public notice that he will be a
candidate for the Republican nomination
far the Fifty-eighth congress.
Lord Salisbury has just celebrated his
seventy-first birthday. He has lived in
three reigns and just missed living in an
other by being born nine days too late.
George IV had just died when he opened
his eyes on the splendor of Hatfield
House. He has seen seven prime minis
ters and, with one exception, Lord Rose
bery, he is the only man now living who
was premier under Queen Victoria.
Benator R. R. Butler of Washington
county, Tenn., is the oldest member of
the Tennessee legislature in point of serv
ice. He is now serving his eleventh ses
sion in the senate, and before that ha
had served six years in the house. Be
sides this experience instate legislation,
Senator Butler served ten years in the
national house of representatives. He
served in the Union army and was lieu
tenant colonel of the Thirteenth cavalry.
PERT PERSONALS.
We are convinced that J. Pierpont
Morgan is not afraid of dying rich.—
Washington Star.
If Mrs. Nation has any favorite poem, it
must be Tennyson's "Break, Break,
Break."—Kansas City Times.
From the manner in which he keeps
quiet Alfred Austin may be a little afraid
of losing his job.—Chicago Record.
Minister Wu is a prolific talker. He
wovld probably hesitate to say so much
were he living In China.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Russell Sage predicts a squeeze in the
money market, and we will also venture
the prediction that he will not imperson
ate the lemon. —Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
Messrs. Jeffries and Ruhlin are now
confronted with the advisability of en
tering a profession which can be prac
ticed In the United States.—Syracuse
Post-Standard.
As harsh a thing as ever has been said
about Spain is that Weyler is the stron
gest man in that country. It would seem
Impossible for defamation togo any fur
ther.—Kansas City Star.
The Belgian parliament has passed a
law absolutely prohibiting games of
chance. Leopold's visits to Paris incog'
nito are liable to be more frequent here
after than formerly.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
FOWLS AND THEIR FRUIT.
It is of no advantage to sell the old
geese.
One drake and five ducks make a good
breeding pen.
Feed cracked wheat to the little chlcka
aa soon as they will eat it.
Regularity in feeding is of more conse
quence than quantity. Many poultry dis
orders are caused by alternate gorging
and starving.
Never attempt too much. Keep only
as many fowls as you have ample room
for and only as many varietlea as you
can do justice to.
The evening ration should be of whole
grain and generoualy fed, the object be
te* to keep the crop of the fowls full
ttaring the night.
With proper care in selecting and mat
iu. the qualities of a strain of fowls may
to improved and their egg production In
creased aa well as their plumage.
FLOWER AND TREE.
Hu highest trees In the world belong
to a species of eucalypti found in Aus
tralia. Single specimens have grown to
a height exceeding 400 feet
A new species of nasturtium, whose
distinctive feature la its profuse and con
tinuous flowering, has been developed in
the greenhouses of the University of
Nebraska, where experiments have long
been in progress.
Water in which mignonette has been
placed should be changed often, since it
quickly becomes fouL Heliotropes should
not be mixed with other cat flowers in
water. They decay quickly and have a
harmful effect upon the other blossoms.
TALES OF CITIES.
London has the poorest water service
of any of the large cities of the world.
Boston pays $106,000 a year for Its
schoolbouse janitors, and the ochoolhouse
janitors' opiuion is that the city gets off
cheap.
The oldest waterworks system in the
country is that of South Bethlehem, Pa.
The original mains laid were made out of
cedar logs, some of which have been re
cently taken up in a good state of pre#er>
ration.
Honae Fornlahinva.
Have nothing for show. Let your
rooms look ns if they were lived in. Pro
vide convenient cases for your books,
comfortable chairs to sit in, tables or
desks at which one can write with com
fort, pleasant pictures or engraviugs to
look at. I>o not envy the melancholy
splendor or superfluous apartments, rare
ly opened and full of ghostly shadows.
The time and money expended in the
care of these possessions are out of all
proportion to any pleasure that can be
derived from them.—Good Housekeeping.
As the war tax reduction bill takes
effect ou July 1, the people can cele
brate the Fourth with especial zest.
Congresses may come and go, but
Delaware deadlocks seem togo oo for
ever.
When You Get A Headache
don't waste a minute but goto your
druggist and get a box of Krause's
Headache Capsules. They will prevent
pain, even though your skull were
cracked. They are harmless, too.
Reed the guarantee. Price 25c. Sold by
RoHsman & Son's Pharmacy.
, WOMAN AND HOME.
A VOUNG WOMAN WHO IS TREAS
URER OF A RAILWAY COMPANY.
Ideals of Womanhood—Care of the
Eyes— lull aence of Mannerisms.
Care of Wkooplug C'uiiKh —Small
Sbuti Mniia futr Health.
Miss Roberta M. Shaw of Chicago is
snid to be the only woman in the world
v>;..i occupies the position of railroad
treasuur. Born at Lima. 0., in 1872,
I er paivuts moved to South Dakotu and
from there to Chicago, when little Ro
berta was about 12 years old. She studied
stenography and bookkeeping, and on 'he
death of her father the young woman as
sumed the position of sole breadwinner
for the family. As public stenographer
and accountant she opened an office in
Chicago and was remarkably successful.
MISS ROBERTA M. SHAW.
Thin business she resigned to enter the
employ of the Wisconsin and Michigan
railway and rose to a confidential posi
tion in the president's office. On the reor
ganization of that company she became
the treasurer of the Wisconsin and Michi
gan Railway company. Even in these
days when women are doing so many
things that have hitherto been considered
the peculiar field of men a woman treas
urer of an important railroad company i 9
Quite unique. The fact that she has risen
to the position from subordinate posts
where her superiors had a chance to
gauge her ability shows that she must
have unusual aptitude for the work.
Ideals of Wsmanhood.
It is the opinion of a Chicago woman
who has given a good deal of observa
tion to women in fiction that the ideal of
the novelist in regard to the eternal femi
nine is constantly and more or less rap-
Idly growing. From a wide scope this
delver has come to divide the considera
tion of woman by the novelist into six
periods, covering the commonplace type,
the artificial type, the domestic type, the
growing type, the thinking type and the
living type.
Under the head of the "commonplace
type" are cited a number of characters
of familiar fiction, among them Richard
eon's Pamela and Clarissa Uarlowe.
Then there is Fielding's Amelia. As still
other examples of what is considered
the commonplace woman are mentioned
the wife and daughters of the vicar of
Wakefield and Fanny Burney's Evelina.
Jane Austen's Emma and Mrs. Ben
nett and her daughters in "Pride and
Prejudice" are 6poken of as being arti
ficial types. Others given are Elinor
and Marienne in "Sense and Sensibility;"
Thackeray's Amelia in "Vanity Fair,"
who is referred to a 9 "a good but Billy
woman;" also the clever but unscrupulous
Kecky Sharp, Ethel Newcome, Laura
Feadennis, and Lady Castleton.
Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens
are considered as experts in bringing out
the strength and weakness of the domes
tic type of woman. Jeanie, Effie Deans,
Kowena, Rebecca, Amy Itobsart, Agnes
and Dora of "David Copperfield" fame;
Lizzie Hexam, Little Dorrit, and Esther
Summerson are some of the characters
brought forward in support of this par
ticular style of woman.
When it comes to the "growing type,"
the idea of women attaining a higher in
dividuality of their own, Charlotte
Bronte's Jane Eyre, Shirley and Lucy
Snowe are mentioned in company with
Mrs. Browning's Aurora Leigh.
George Eliot's heroines are put for
ward as some of the beat examples of
the "thinking type"—that Is, representa
tives of women who have been and are
being influenced by the era of modern
culture. Dinah Morris* Romola, Mag
gie Tulliver, Dorothea Brooke, Gwen
dolln Harleth and Fedalma are speci
mens of this class of women who also
figure in fiction.
The central figures of present day au
thors make up the "living type," and
some of those mentioned are Mrs. Hum
phry Ward's Katherine Elamere, Mar
cella and Laura Fountain, Thomas Har
dy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, George
Meredith's Diana of the Croasways and
Hall Oalne's Glory Quayla.
Whatever may be the general opinion
of the position of these women of fiction
there can be little doubt that they are
women of interest
Car* of the Byes.
Nowhere is the comparison between
an ounce of prevention and a pound of
cure more applicable than in the care of
the eye*. For the neglect of seemingly
trivial affections, perfectly curable in
their beginnings, may lead in an incredi
bly short time to permanent impairment
of vision or even to total blindness. The
care of the eyes should begin with the
moment of birth. The new baby's eyes
should be the first part to receive atten
tion. They should be wiped carefully with
a piece of absorbent cotton wet with
a warm solution of boric acid of a
strength of about 00 grains in four ounces
of distilled water. After the lids have
been thus carefully washed on the outside
they should be gently separated and some
of the solution dropped into the eyes.
In washing the eyes one should be care
ful never to dip again in the solution a
piece of cotton which has once been used.
A fresh piece must be taken each time
the eyes are wiped.
The baby's eyes must be protected from
the light. Its crib should be placed where
the eyes are not exposed to the full light
from a window, and the carriage should
have a shade raised only about a foot
above the baby's head.
Children eften suffer from inflammation
of the edges of the lids, which are red
and scaly, and the lashes fall out and
break off. Tliia may betoken a general
scrofnlous condition, or it may depend
upon some defect in the sight which
causes eye strain, or it may be only n lo
cal trouble. If it is only a local trouble,
a few applications of boric acid ointment
at bedtime will generally effect a cure.
Conjunctivitis, or inflammation of the
membrane covering the globe of the eye,
may be due to a cold, to the action ol
bright sunlight or reflection from watet
or from snow or to eye strain from soui«
visual imperfection. Usually the boric
acid solution will give relief here, even
when the trouble cannot be permanently
cured until proper glasses are worn.
Another painful consequence of eye
strain is a succession of sties. When a
child suffers frequently from sties, from
sore lids or from conjunctivitis, the sighl
should be tested.
Much harm is often done to the eyes,
as well ns to the general health, by too
long application to books, either school oi
He Is A Wonder.
All who see Mr. C. F. Collier, of Cher
okee, lowa, as he is now, cheerful, erect,
vigorous, without ati ache, could harldy
believe he is the same man, who, a short
time ago, had to sit in a chair, propped
up by cushions, suffering intensely from
an aching back, in agony if he tried to
stoop all caused by chronic kidney
trouble, that no medicine helped till he
used Electric Bitters and was wholly
cured by three bottles. Positively cures
Backache, Nervousness. Loss of Appe
tite, all Kidney troubles. Only 50c at
Paules & Co's drug store.
story books. Three hours of looking at
print by daylight and one hour in the
evening should not be exceeded by any
child under 14, for that is as much as his
eyes, even if their vision is perfectly nor
mal, will stain! without injury.—Youth's
Companion.
Influence of MannerlNma.
Self consciousness is often a barrier to
popularity in social life, and it is a
malady from which some girls suffer.
Not every one can be graceful and easy,
but one can be self confident without be
ing self assertive, serene aud dignified
without being dull. Morbid fears as to
what others are thinking and overanx
iety as to one's appearance may be over
come. Little nervous mannerisms, a lack
of repose, consciousness of one's clothes,
are all bad form and to be avoided, says
The Delineator. One of the most care
fully dressed as well as attractive women
I ever met had been required in her girl
hood by her mother to attend scrupulous
ly to every detail of her toilet and then to
think no more about it after leaving her
room. No touches to hair and drawing
on of gloves were permitted after she had
left her bedroom. If these apparently
trifling matters had been neglected, she
was obliged to return to her room to at
tend to them. For this early training,
which seemed irksome at the time, she
never ceased to be thankful when she
grew older. She acquired extreme neat
ness in her personal appearance and an
entire freedom from any fussy conscious
ness about it.
No one can make a good impression
or talk agreeably if half absorbed in
putting on gloves, clasping a bangle or
a pin or arranging stray locks of hair.
It is a mark of good breeding to be j
neatly dressed in every detail and never
to appear conscious of one's clothes.
Sometimes one sees a girl in a street car
drawing on gloves or adjusting a veil.
Even at the opera one frequently sees an
occupant of a box buttoning gloves, rear
ranging a jewel on a bodice or touching
the ornaments in the hair. These self
conscious manners in public are bad form
and detract from a woman's charm.
Care of Whooping Cough.
One complication of whooping cough is
pneumonia, and it is this which makes
the disease so dangerous in infants. This
complication occurs most frequently dur
ing the winter months, while in summer
diarrhea Is the more serious complica
tion. It is doubtful if medicine is of
much value in whooping cough. There are
one or two drugs which are occasionally
given to control the spasm when it is un
usually severe, but they must be given
only under the direction of the physician.
As a rule, expectorants and medicine do
more harm than good. They upset the
stomach, especially that of an infant, and
the stomach, above all, should be kept
in good condition, as it is upon the
strength derived from its nourishment
that the baby has to rely to carry it
through the siege. The thing which has
been found to give the most relief in
whooping cough is the inhalation of plain
or medicated steam. This can be accom
plished by an ordinary inhaler or a kettle
which is kept boiling in the room at cer
tain intervals, the child thus inhaling the
moisture laden air. A piece of absorbent
cotton or sponge may be placed in the
spout of the kettle, on which has been
placed the medication. The steam pass
ing through the cotton or sponge per
meates the room with medicated vapor.
Creosote and cresoline are considered the
best substances to use for this purpose,
a solution of either placed in a dish and
vaporized over an alcohol lamp making a
good substitute for the croup kettle.
Cloths wrung out in one of these solu
tions and hung up in the room are often
helpful.—Marianna Wheeler in Harper's
Bazar.
Small Sboei, Poor Health.
Many women spoil their health by
cramping and crushing their poor, unfor
tunate feet into shoes too small for
them. This is really a most idiotic thing
to do, as it not only causes the most in
tense pain, often ruins the gait entirely,
but frequently brings about, if not really
serious injury to the foot, at any rate
such painful, unpleasant and uncomfort
able results as corns, bunions and other
pedal disfigurements, says the Jackson
ville Times-Union and Citizen.
A woman who persists in wearing
shoes too small for her cannot long re
main in good health, for she learns to
dread exercise because of the pain and
difficulty Involved. A shoe that is either
too short or too narrow is such an instru
ment of torture that one would think no
really sensible woman would ever have
recourse to it, but every shoemaker
knows that not a few fashionable women
habitually undergo this self imposed pen
ance, and, though they are invariably
wrinkled and aged before their time and
a pained, anxious and even disagreeable
expression becomes permanently fixed on
their once pleasant features, they still
persist in thinking the game worth the
candle and that the possession of "a
pretty little foot" atones for all the pain,
discomfort and misery which are their
constant portion.
A squeezed in foot, however, can gen
erally be detected and, as a rule, is any
thing but a thing of beauty. The whole
shape is often altered until the foot is
almost deformed at length into the Chi
nese variety.
Work and Ifervomneii.
A little woman who is in the uphol
stering business says there never was
work of any other kind as good for nerv
ousness. She is a delicate looking wom
an, slender and not overstrong, and the
work is hard, but she is in love with it
and says that in the fascination of work
she forgets all personal ills and that
this is a world of sin and woe. She ham
mers away and strikes her nail on the
head every time. It is strange that the
part of the work which takes her to the
sewing machine or gives her other kind
of work sewing is the most unpleasant,
and she is apt to get. as other women do,
to "feeling as if she should fly." But
•vlth the harder work her nerves tak«
wings.
Upholstery is a good work for women,
she says, but they must have a talent foi
it. She herself has always had more lik
ing for a hammer and knife than for the
needle and scissors, and the knowledge ol
the work apparently came to her without
an effort. One great demand that there
is in the way of workwomen, she be
lieves, and for a work that does not re
quire a special talent, is for sllpmaking.
It is a delicate task and must be done
well. It takes common sense and judg
ment in addition to a knowledge of the
work. It is almost impossible, she says,
when she needs help in her work to find
a woman who can make slip covers in a
way that is at all satisfactory.—New
York Times.
Fooled Ilia Doctor.
The late Rev. 11. R. Hawels, who
was equally notable as preacher, jour
nalist. lecturer ami musician, suffered
from a dangerous hip disease when a
boy of 9- The celebrated Sir Benjamin
Brodie, who was asked If a change of
scene would benefit the afflicted
answered, "Take blin anywhere —it
does not matter."
Hawels lived to laugh at bis doctor,
and half a century later, after a life of
exceptional Industry, he was in vigor
ous health—New York World.
Fought For His Life.
"My father and sister both died of
Consumption," writes ,T. T Weather
wax, of Wyandotte, Mich., "and I was
saved from the santa frightful fate only
by Dr. King's New Discovery. An at
tack of Pneumonia left an obstinate
cough ami very severe lung trouble,
which an excellent doctor could not
help, but a few months' use of this won
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CHOOSING A CAPTAIN.
A Cnri. id* Ctintoui of Jnpnnesr Flab- !
rrmen In llunull.
Where ral years ago the fishing for
the supplying of the Honolulu market
was done almost exclusively by the na
tives in their canoes ami a few China
men now the bulk of the work is done
by the Japanese, who are at it in great
numbers.
The boats which they use are built
here after patterns used in Japan, anil
once in awlnlt* an oriental steamer arriv
ing from the west brings an imported
fishing boat, which the fishermen think is
superior to those of local manufacture.
The boats are of a peculiar shape and
are of different sizes, some able to accom
modate but three men, which is an ordi
nary crew, and others are large enough
for seven or eight men.
Notwithstanding the frail appearance
of the boats they are strongly construct
ed and good sea boats and as a usual
thing are fast sailers.
On Punchbowl street, in Kakaako, a
great many of the boats are built, aud
the launching of one of the larger kind
is always an event of a great deal of in
terest to an onlooker and of great impor
tance to the men who are to operate the
boat. When the boat is completed, the
owners and builders anil their friends
decorate her with Japanese flags, lan
terns and flowers. Then they take her to
the water, into which she glides amid a
great shouting and halloing by the crowd.
Up to the time that the vessel is launch
ed there is no captain selected for the
boat. The choosing of this important
factor in every case is left until the boat
is in the water. It is known who the
members of the crew are, and front them
the captain is selected. A knowledge of
seafaring is not apparently necessary for
a man to be a captain of a Japanese fish
ing boat, as the following will show:
When the boat is in the water and
moored securely, the members of the
crew, who are generally the owners of
the boat, strip themselves and get into
the boat. Then the fun of making the se
lection of the commander begins. There
is no voting or drawing of lots to settle
the matter. At a given signal from one
of the crowd on shore, who are watching,
the men in the boat begin with all their
might to try to throw each other out into
the water. Each man is against the oth- ■
er, and so the struggle, as a usual thing, i
lasts a long time and is remarkably ex-|
citing. All the time the play goes on the
friends of the contestants yell words of
cheer to the struggling men in the boat
and throw buckets of water on them and
into the boat, seemingly with the idea of
making the battleground more slippery as
well as refreshing to the men at work.
As soon as a man is thrown out of the
boat he must stay out. but may assist
with water if he so desires. The man
who stays in the boat longest, or, rather,
who is able to put all the others out of
the boat, has by his prowess shown him
self competent to be captain, anil so he
is greeted with much applause and show
ered with congratulations at the termina
tion of the scullle. There is no appeal
from the selection so made, and the man
so chosen continues to be captain until
he voluntarily retires or sells out his
share in the boat.
! The novel way of getting a skipper
seems very satisfactory to the fishermen,
I and it certainly affords a great deal of
amusement to strangers who happen to
be about during the selection of a com-
I mamler. —Honolulu Republican.
Her Fifty Dollar Purchase.
j "Goodness knows," said a Detroit wo
i man who lived several years in New \ ork
I city, "how many mistakes are made here
every day i:i the sale aud delivery of
goods, but it was just awful in New
York. In my own experience there I
cannot number all of them, and I sup
j pose other people could tell stories of
I carelessness not much different or fewer
than mine.
"On one occasion I bought a SSO rug
from a big department store where I was
known, and the bill was to be sent in on
the Ist of the month. It was not sent,
however, and 1 waited for another
mouth. Still no bill, and at the end of
four months I called to see about it. It
had not even been charged, and the result
of my call was that some one was dis
missed for negligence and I paid the SSO.
' I was told afterward by several persons
that I should never have said anything
about it.and I was sorry I had, because
my SSO did not add greatly to the profits
of the store and lost some poor fellow his
place."—Detroit Free Press.
Annoylngly Precise.
"Imitation," remarked the wise man,
"is the sincerest flattery."
"Indeed," answered the cold blooded
iconoclast. "I wasn't aware that any flat
tery could be 'sincere.' James, pass the
dictionary."—Washington Star.
An exchange says: "No man ever
amounted to much who waited to follow
the crowd." That depends upon what the
crowd intended to do.—St. Louis Star.
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A HEN'S SUICIDE.
Tie Stor> of n Ponl Who Wan Too
Const'ientiotiii.
"YDS," declared a new man 011 the
country court jury to his companions the
other noon. "I maintain that h«-ns has
souls jest as does human bein's. Mebbe
not all on 'em, but now an then ye strike
a bird that has reasonin faculties an feel
in an 'motions jest as ye an me. They
has their joys an their sorrers. So, 1 says,
they has souls. Now, here's a proof. 1
bad a line Plymouth liock what was a
master layer. When th' other lieiis was
takin a vacation, she was 'tendin ter busi
ness an layiu aigs.
"Well, one day she come out a-cacklin,
an 1 went inter git th' aig. It 'pears that
while she was tellin me about it my boy
"Willum took th' aig an put a hard boiled
one in its place. Itid it fer a joke on me,
ye know. J noticed the aig looked kinder
queer an ciacked her open. Well, if ever
ye see a hen look dumfouuded! She
thought she'd laid it. I thought nothin
'bout it till I looked down, an hanged if
she wasn't cryin. Big tears was rollin
down her furrered cheeks, an I tried ter
tell her that she was all right, that 'twas
tome of Willum's horseplay, but she jest
sighed kinder human like an walked slow
ly off.
"Th' next day she didn't lay, but moped
round th' yard sad an homesick like.
Well, it went on fer a week, an still nary
an aig. Then I noticed she was quittin
th' feed J was givin her an tryin ter pick
up a livin. She had a conscience, ye see,
mi wouldn't eat boughten food 'less she
could repay me in the right kind Of aigs.
She knowed she wan't ldoked to ter lay
hard boiled aigs as she thought she'd
done. 'Father,' says Willum one day, '1
guess we're goin ter loose that hen. Sue's
thinkin up somethin desperate. I just
caught her 'xainin a scythe out back of
th' barn.'
"Well, we tried our best, ter cheer her
np, but 'twan't no use. One day I found
her in the toolhouse, dead. She had drag
ged her neck across a scythe, cnttin her
throat. Over in one corner was a aig jest
left ter show me that she intended ter
do what's right. But if ever 1 seeM a
clear case of suicide, her death was one
yes, sir. Killed herself out of remorse.
So, I says, some hens has feelin's jest as
does a human bein, an therefore 1 'low
they has souls."—Rochester Poet-Ex
press.
Her Sympathy.
First Visitor (reading ffom museum
I catalogue)— This is a Roman lady.
Second Visitor —Poor thing! Wot £
brute of a husband she must 'av' 'ad.
APHORISMS.
Sorrows best antidote is employ
ment.—Young.
All cruelty springs from hard heart
i edness and weakness.—Seneca.
Delicacy is to the mind what fra
i grance is to the fruit.—l'oincelot.
i Contempt is the only way to triumph
over calumny.—Mme. de Maintenon.,
The usual fortune of complaint is to
i excite contempt more than pity.—John
j son.
Consideration is the soil In which
wisdom may be expected to grow and
strength be given to every upspringing
plant of duty.—Emerson.
All the while that thou livest ill thoc
hast the trouble, distraction and in
conveniences of life, but not the sweet
and true use of it.—Fuller.
Enjoy the blessings of the day 11
God sends them and the evils bear pa
tiently and sweetly, for this day onlj
is ours; we are dead to yesterday and
not born tomorrow.—Jeremy Taylor.
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