ED strength non the if to the d death s of this v. How 9 nv walks from fa. imber 0 1! stra; fort and an addi ty. How 't not ter, weré -ere both rdly anv d a coat s a very come un; ‘no, the seeds of soul. “It 1 be” acorn for | years as are not large and tian char: rement in ns bright but death S. ascended rominated r. licago is { ,502. has been Santa Fe, 1g. better en passed nch and curred in d at Och- ctricity in Tennessee of cigar- fied with » take a xample of ing China- vy of the nos Ayres, e, Va. Clayton husiast, of mond, Va. see have the oper- assessment turns the 30.470, as is an in- r cent. ento, Cal, is 20.282, hat shows per cent. lace. ered ayy, everal sep- , the cen- | Imperial ate apart- ter of the - of his of- rounds are cam, flow- mountains, {uring the Colored > gateways t are mod- lescription, ience,” al fine speci- The pal- y Oriental ] News. ! ~ ; . ; i § i i =f: - » | so} i - : «8. - le ——— or Navajoes Sell Wool am Bw Yarn. The Navajo Indians of Arizona are a material factor in the wool market. The tribe is wealthy through its flocks. The tribesmen are believed to own little short of 1,000,000 head, the care of the flocks and the weaving of wool being almost the sole occupation of the 22,- 000 Indians. Singular to relate, only a small part of the Navajo wool crop is worked up at home into the wonderful blankets that have made the tribal name famous. Only the coarser and cheaper blankets are now made of the native wool. The up-to-date Navajo weaver uses Germantown yarn and Dia- mond dyes.—Ainslee’s Magazine. The Boers are losing many horses from cold and lack of food. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded dis- oase that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fratern Catarrh being a con- stitutional dis nires a constitutional treatment. Hall’ h Cureistakeninter- nally, acting d.r ¥ upon he blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the disease, ana giving the patient strength by building up the con- stitution aad J Siig nature in doing its rk. The rs have so much faith in its curative ho ers 0 at, they offer One Hun- dred Points for any case that it ails to cure. Send jestimontals, Addre 'H y & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Drug 7 Hall's Family Bh = are the best. More living fish are sold in Berlin than in any other market in the world. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL Toxic. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Pric Horses, giraffes and ostriches have larger eyes than any other creatures. Worms eradicated. Ch ldren made well and mothers bappy by Frey's Vermifug , 25¢, Druggists and ad country stores. Octopus isl largely caten in the Isle of Jersey. its permanently c o fits or nervous. ess after first day's Se of 5 Kline's Great erve Restorer. 82 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. RIL. Kin Lid. 1 Arch St.Phila. Pa Forty-two inventions charting to cy- cles were taken out last year by women. Piso’s Cure gma bo too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave, N., Minneapolis, Minn. Jan. 6, 1900. A Jersey City justice was paid a marriage fee of 10 cents. recently Throw physic to the doge—1r you dont want the dogs; but if you want good diges- Hon chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum. Germany is largely strengthening her navy and army in the Far East. If sarsaparilla ad the other vegetable ingredients that go into the best are good as a medicine, then Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla is good. If not, we are humbugs. Your doctor will tell you which, because he can have the formula of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla any time for the asking. If you are tired, half sick, half well, if one day’s work causes six days’ sickness, get a bottle of the old Sarsaparilla. Get Ayer’s, and insist on Ayer’s when you want Sarsaparilla. J. C. Aver Company, Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass Ayer's Hair Vigor Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ags s Comatone Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ayer’s Pills Ay s Ague Cure shoes than any er “two manufacturers in .S, ar Ra a in 187 Za Why do you pay $1 to A §5 for shoes when you , canbuy W.L.Douglas >» shoes for $3 and ” $3.50 which are justas A Sr THE RE IASON more Nn Dongles Siam t any other make is RHEY BE ARE HE HES TI FOR MEN. THE BEST |: : BEST S350 ‘$3.00 SHOE. 2 | SHOE. r dealer should Jeep them ; we give one dealer exclusive sale in Take no ia Insist on havin, L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. If your dealer will not get them for Jon send direct to factory, enclosin rice and 25c. extra for carriage. ‘LIBBY'S LUNCHEONS We are meat cookers and canners, Our business is fhe largest of its kind in America. We have tried to learn : syspyihing that anybody knows about making cooked meat good. We seal KE product in key-opening cans. Turn a key and you e meat exactly se it left us. ‘We put up in this wa Potted Flam, Bees and Tongue, Ox Fougue (whole), Veal Loaf, Deviled Ham, Brisket Beef, Sliced Smoked Beef, and two dozen other Sheciaties. im possible for Siybody eon meats any Your grocer a have them. Libby, McNeill & Liddy, Chicago. “How to Make Good Thi t. 3) will be sent free if Vor ko ®t 50000000 Don’t Stop Tobacco Suddenly! It injures mervous Sele to do so. is the only cure that Really Cites BACO- GURO and notifies you wi hen to stop, with a guar=- antee that three bo s will - R is Seg etuble and cured thousands, iH will eure you. repaid, $1.00 a box: Writa BUREKA La Crosse, Wis. and Made of the best i th 1t is to make lunch- 82 50, Booklet I CHILI L CO. THE IDLE DOUBTER. “What are we tolling for?” ke sighed; “Why do we strive on, day by day? When ry trouble’s ended and ya has What shall it profit him, anyway? ain he then awaken again to know That men are praising him here below? “When do you toil and how?” she said; “What are the things that you have done How many steps have you gone ahead, Where are the honors that you have won?’ Ab, he will 1 lie dead and be dumb for aye Who tides his thumbs and doubts toda —8. E. Kiser. 00000000000000060000000000 Fv THE STORM. 3 os seostetirstresttitess “If we can't agree, ma'am, it's high time we parted company,” said Mr. 3arnabas Buffington. “My sentiments exactly,” said Miss Patty Chickson, “and the sooner the better, according to my way of think- ing.” Mr. Buffington was a portly individ- 1, with a Roman nose, iron-gray and a stout, short figure. Miss Chickson was tall and spare, with little spiral curls and the remains of a complexion, and with blue eyes, that had been passing bright 20 years ago. “There is an end to all human endur- ance,” observed the gentleman stern- 17. ¢ Sir” said Miss Chickson, “I have put up with your eccentricities until forbearance has ceased tobe a virtue!” “A month's notice!” said Mr. Buf- tington, savagely flourishing his yel- low silk pocket-handkerchief. “You are quite at liberty to go at the end of 24 hours, for all 1 care!” retorted Miss Chickson, with dignity. “Madam, I take you at your word,” said the gentleman. Mr. Barnabas Buffington had lodged with Miss Patty Chickson for 10 years. He was rich and eccentric; she was poor and proud. As young people, there had been certain love passages between them—or ratler the buds of loves passages, which had never blossomed into full perfection - and when Mr. Buffington came home from China and found his old pastor's orphan daughter trying to gain a scanty livelihood by letting apart- ments, he engaged her entire second floor at once, and paid his way like a rajah. “Poor girl! poor girl!” nabas Buffington. old-maidish she has grown! I really can’t imagine how I could ever have =A 1 ui hs said Mr. Bar- fancied her a divinity. What fools young men are, to be sure!” “Poor, dear Mr. Buflington! how : he has become!” said “And only to think was once! How the vouthful days do al- stout and vulgar Miss Chickson. how slender he dreams of one’s ter!” Mr. Barnabas Buffington was perfect enough to be canonized, not “But how thin and | and | Miss Chickson had her petty peculiari- | ties. The consequence was that little collisions were inevitable. And one day there came a longer measuring of wordy words than usual, and Mr. Buflington and Miss Chick- son formally parted. “Ten years is quite long enough to | srate this state of things,” said the | tolerate this state of things,” sald the rattered the Indy. old bachelor. “I'm only surprised that I haven't turned him away long ago,” said the old maid. So when Mr. Buffington had gone away, in a cab piled high with bag- gage, Miss Chickson rang the bell for her maid. “Barbara,” said she. “Yes, ma'am?’ said Barbara. “Mr. Buffington is gone at last,” “So I perceive, ma'am,” said Bar- bara. “And won't he come back again, ma'am?” “Never!” said Miss Chickson, with spirit. “Oh!” said Barbara, rather sur- prised. “It will be necessary for us to re- duce expenses,” remarked the mis- tress. “Of course I cannot any long- er afford to keep so large a house as this. Mr. Buffington, whatever were his faults, cannot at least be accused of parsimony.” “Certainly not, ma'am,” bara. “Of all liberal, spoken gents—"’ “Barbara, you will oblige me by hilding your tongue!” said Miss Chick- son. “Certainly, ma’am,” said Barbara. “Get me a cup of tea,” said Miss Chickson, “and when I have drunk it 1 will go out to look for a cheaper house, in a less aristocratic neighbor- hood.” Barbara brought up the tea, in a quaint little Wedgewood teapot, on a Japanese tray. Miss Chickson drank it in looking sadly at the fire. Tea was, so to speak, Miss Chick- son's inspiration. When she was low- spirited or in doubt or puzzled, or in any way thrown off her mental bal- ance, she drank tea, and straightway became herself again. Meanwhile, Mr. Barnabas ton, in the solitary west end hotel, was at ease. “I don’t like this sort of thing at all,” said Mr. Buffington to himself, one morning a month later. “It Isn't said Bar- free-handed, kind- silence, Buffing- splendors of a scarcely less ill homelike. There's no cat here. Patty Chickson always kept a cat. There's something very domestic and cozy looking about a cat. I'll go out ana look down the advertising columns of the daily paper and see what Induce- ments they have to offer in the way of quiet, respectable hones for elder- ly gentlemen.” So it came to pass that Mr. Barna- bas Buffington sallied forth, not house hunting, but home hunting. It was not a so readily disposed of business as he supposed. This house was next to a livery stable; that one | , 4 | settles the matter. p » p » Mr. Buffington. “They keep a cat! there—a gray cat. It's not splendid, but it looks comfortable. I'll try it.” He rang the bell; a neat little maid- | servant in a white apron and frilled | cap responded to the summons. “Please, sir, misses ain't at hoe, but I knows all about the rooms,’ said the little damsel. “I can show | ‘em, and I can tell you the terms. Barnabas Buflington liked the look of the rooms. There was a bright coal fire burning in the grate. “Misses wanted the rooms to be well aired,” said the girl, courtesying at every other word. “Your mistress, my girl, is a woman of sense,” said Mr. Buffington. “This I'll take the apart- ments for a month certain, with the privilege of renewal if I find myself suited.” He took comforter sat down the grate. off his hat, unwound the from about his neck and before the cheery shine of “Go and tear down the bill at once,” | said he. “And leave the door open so that the cat can come in. I am partial to cat » “But, sir,” hesitated the white-| aproned lassie, “if my missis—" “Never mind your mistress,” said “She want- What Mr. Buffington, cavalierly. ed a boarder, and she’s got one! more would she have?” And, so speaking, he hailed a cab in| the street and bade the driver zo for | his trunks and hat boxes without de- | lay. Miss Chickson and Barbara had been out selecting some new pie-plat- | ters and pudding basins and little Bet- | Fresh Air in the Sick Room. A clever ening the air in a room and at the same time affording a mild spectac- ular entertainment for a patient able to move is the following: Put a teaspoonful of the whole coffee berries in a saucer and set where the invalid can see it. Fill it up with toilet water— eau de cologne or perfumery—and set fire to it. If this is done when the room is dark the effect will be found | especially pretty and the change of air most refreshing. 1 | ) | i | sick | To Clean Tapestry. Tapestry and cretonne may be cleaned and revived by this process: | Cut up some soap into shreds, allowing | four ounces of soap to each quart of | water, and boil to a jelly. Have ready two tubs of pretty hot water. Add to | this enough boiled soap to | good lather. Add two handfuls of bran to prevent the colors running. Wash | guiclly with little rubbing, first in one, and then in the other tub, and then rinse out in either salt and water or | vinegar and water. Shake well to get! trid of the bran, and dry at once. | Starch in a thin bolled starch, roll | tightly in a clean cloth, mangle, and 1 then iron with a moderately hot iron. sy was eagerly watching for them at | ame in. Betsy, ‘the the area door when they “Please, missis,” said room is let. And he's now, with the cat in his lap.” “Who is?’ demanded Miss Chick- son. “The new boarder, “What is his name? “Please, ma'am, Betsy. Miss Chickson walked into her little parlor and sat down, fanning herself with her bonnet. “Betsy,” said she, “go upstairs, pre- | sent my cempliments to this stranger, and tell him that I shall be glad of an interview at once. He may be a burglar, for what I know!” “Yes'm,” said Betsy. And away she tripped, presently. “He's coming, ma'am,” said she. And in stalked—Mr. Barnabas Buf- fington! “Good Chickson. “It's Patty Chickson, Mr. Buffington, staring with all his eyes. “I might have known that it was the same cat. However, ma'am,” relapsing into a belligerent attitude, #1 won't intrude. I'll leave the premises at once.” “Don’t,” said Miss Chickson, ly. “Eh?’ said Mr. Buflington. “I—I hope you don’t bear malice,” said Miss Chickson. “I'm afraid I was a little impatient.” “Don’t mention it!” said Mr, ton. “It was all my fault.” “I was unreasonable,” said Chickson. “I was a brute,” said Mr. Buffington. “I have reproached myself bitterly,” ma'am.” returning gracious me!” said Miss isn't it?” said faint- Bufting- Miss “l haven't had since,” said Mr. sincerely. “Shall we a moment of peace Barnabas Buflington, forget and forgive?’ | whispered Miss Chickson. | hurts the man who contained a young lady that was! practicing for an opera singer; the third smelled as if the drainage was defective; the fourth was too splendid; the fifth too shabby. “I don’t know but what I shall be compelled to sleep at the station house,” gloomily remarked Mr. Barna- bas Buffington, “for, come what may, | nothing shall induce me to go back to that noisy hotel, don’t come until you have rung the bell 40 times, and the soup is served half cold. where the waiters ! He was walking pensively along a | quiet and shady little street, with both hands thrust deep down in his pockets and the front of his hat tilt- ed down, over his nose, when, chanc- ing to look up, he perceived a gray cat dozing in the bay window of a modest- looking house and on the doorway thereof was placed an unpretentious notice: “Board and Lodgings at Moderate Prices.” “I like the look of that place,” said Ly “I know a better plan than that” said Mr. Buffington. “Let's begin the ” world on a new basis. “I don’t understand you,” said Miss Chickson. “1 like you and your ways,” said Mr. Buffington. “I didn’t know how much until we separated. Let us set- tle down together for life, Patty Chick- son. Let's be married.” “At our age?’ said Miss Chickson. “We shall never be any younger,” said Mr. Buffington. “If you really think people wouldn't laugh!” hesitated the spinster. “What do we care whether they do or not?” said the bachelor, recklessly. And the result of this conference ras that Mr. and Mrs. Barnabas Buf- fington are now sitting, one on either | side of the hearthrug, with the gray cat in the middle, as harmonious a trio as one will often find. | And the bill is taken down perma- yenslyliivengy Times-Herald. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Surprises, like misfortunes, rarely come alone. Cheap flattery is always dear; the | best sort of flattery tion. He is young enough that has health, and he is rich enough who has no debts. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for origi- nality. is honest imita- The worst romance is not so corrupt- ing as false philosophy, or false politi- cal essays. Evil thoughts swarm only in ocenpied minds. Be busy things, if you would be the ignoble. about noble saved irom Nature has given us two ears, two eyes and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak. Affectation is the confession of in- feriority. It is an unnecessary proc- lamation that the individual is not living the life he pretends to live. Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about, and possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed. Do not be ashamed of being hearted and ambitious to improve yourself in body and mind. Rememn- ber that one of the best ways of self- improvement is being of service to others who need help. Straw Hats. Our first straw hats, worn about the beginning of the century. were of the palmleaf variety, the material being imported from the West Indies and braided in this country. Following them in a few years came the moun- tain Leghorn type. made from imported Italian straw, and then, in the twen- ties, the Maracayboes and Panamas In 1840, or thereabouts, straw braids were imported from Italy and shaped into hats, and factories sprang up in all parts of this country. Straw braids are now imported from Japan, China and Italy. Over $35,000,000 of capital is invested in hatmaking in the United States—New York Press. In 1892 there were 220,487 Prussian farming land sold by auction, sitting up stairs | I don’t know,” said | un- | big- | acres of | { For My Lady’s Boudoir. For one’s own room a pretty device | is to take a yard of broad satin ribbon | and prepare a handsome bow for each (end. Take a number of photographs | and paste a strip of strong paper to the back of each, leaving an unpasted | space at the center through which the tun the ribbon band that the row | ribbon may pass. through the openings so of photographs stand face outward mounted on the strip. Sew the bows | to the end of the ribbon and tack the | bows to the wall. A vertical row of photograghs can be made by running the strips of paper across the backs of the photographs and only tacking the upper bow to the wall, or prefer- ably putting no bow at all below. Homemade Soap. Take a pound box (sheet iron, not a tin one) of the concentrated lye, knock off the lid carefully, and throw box and contents into one gallon of boiling water Next morning add two gallons more, and when the whole is boiling throw into it four and one-half pounds of clean fat: boil gently for two hours and 10 minutes, then sprinkle into it a half pint of salt and boil for 35 min- utes longer: add a half gallon of hot water and boil again for then pour it into a wet tub or The next morning cut the soap cakes with twine. The quality of the soap will be improved by the additior of a quarter of a pound of pow dered | box. | borax. The soap should be allowed to harden before using; turn the cakes over and expose them to the air to promote the drying. The Fashion in Tablecloths. Tablecloths to which up-to-date women accord the highest homage are of plain [rench damask, hemstitched and worked with magnificient sprays of filled-in embroidery. These spray. are varied in shape. Some tablecloths have two, and swinging their way along the ends and up the opposite side for a short distance others have bands across the ends, while still others have great, bunchy effects. The important thing about these sprays is, of course, that they must not interfere with the plac- ing of the plates. | When the filled-in embroidery covers the sides of the tablecloth thoroughly no monograms are used. | But ordinarily a tablecloth is embroid- (ered with four, one at each corner, 24 inches from the end and 12 inches | on each side of the centre. This ar- rangement places them so that they re- main uncovered during the entire meal. For more ordinary use tablecloths are’still of French damask, with wide hemstiteh. The patterns vary; some are large, others small, and generally a woman chooses them to suit her fancy. - Yet there seems to be a ten- | dency to select the small, plain pat- terns, rather than those more elgbo- rate. For instance, a popular design is merely striped damask, with a fancy | square woven in the centre. Fringed | table linen rarely mow is used. Spiced Gooseberries—For five pounds of fruit allow three pounds of sugar, one pint of vinegar and one | tablespoonful each of ground cinna- { mon and cloves. Mix all together, cook until thick, stirring occasionally, and seal in glass jars. Currant Pie—Make with under crust. I%ill a deep earthen pie plate three- | fourths full with the currants, after | they have been heated to the boiling | point, sprinkle over a cupful of sugar, cover with rich paste and bake in a ! moderate oven 40 minutes. Dust the top with powdered sugar Spanish Sweet Pepper—Parboil for 10 minutes three green peppers; halve | them, dip in oil and fry for 10 minutes; | when cool shred fine, mix with an equal weight of cold cooked fresh fish flaked; sift in a cup of shredded young lettuce; pour over a mayonnaise and serve on lettuce nests. Krehutyne, or Bohemian Doughnuts {—Two eggs, three tablespoonfuls of water. Mix with flour into a stiff dough, adding a saltsponful of salt. Roll out as thin as a soda cracker. Cut into fancy shapes, fry in hot lard. Another way of making this is to sweeten with a tablesponful of sugar. Serve cold. Biscuit—One pint of sour cream; dis- solve a scant teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of hot water; stir it into the cream, heating until it foams over the cup; add a saltspoonful of salt and flour enough to make a soft dough; pat over with the hands to the thickness of an inch; cut with small cutter and bake. Chicken Salad—Two large boiled: two large heads of celery. Cut the meat and celery into small pieces For dressing—The chicken gravy anc | one-half pint of vinegar, a small piece | of butter, one tablespoonful of must- ard, a small tablespoonful of cayenne, | { fowls od one tablespoonful of salt; stir in the yoke of eight eggs just before taking from the stove; when cold stir in one while the amount in 1898 was 80,794 | cup or more of thick cream. Mix to- acres. | gether with a fork. idea for changing and fresh- | un- | make a 10 minutes; | into starting at opposite corners | pretty | YESTONE STATE HENS CONDENSED PENSIONS INS GRANTED. Many Relics of Former Ages Discovered, Contract Let for Electric Line—Braz- nell Mine Fire Boss Arrested. Pensions have been granted the fol- lowing persons: John Shawmon, Believe ernon, $12; Christopher C. Ger- hart, Brookville, $17; John Getz, Beav- er Springs, $12; Lewis O. Barnes, New Simont Brighton, Waynesburg, Eldred, $8; Isaac M. Grandon, burg, $10; George A. Brown, v City. $8; Elizabeth Kesler, Beaver Yall | $8; Harman Boeck, McKees Rocks, $ $17; William O. $10; Randall William Sarver, Braddock, $12; Mar- garet A. Gilchrist, Indiana, $8; John M. Graham, Bennett. $6; Dorsey Peddi- cord, dead, Indiana. $30; Catherine Ped- dicord, Indiana, $12; Israel Freeze, | Bellefonte, $30. | The initial contract for a network of | | | electrical railways to cover the western part of W. estmoreland county has been let to Edgar A. Tennis, of Philadelphia, by the Creighton, New Kensington and | Springdale Street Railway Company. | The line under contract connects with the Tarentum and Natrona trolley line | and extends south, with a loop across | the Allegheny river { to Aspinwall, where connections will | be made with the Consolidated Traction | Comapny’s lines to Pittsburg. | James Radcliffe who was fire boss at ! the Braznell mine when the explosion | of gas occurred there December 23, has | been arrested and is in jail at Union- | town on information made by Charles { Connors, mine inspector for this district. Radcliffe is charged with violating the | mining law in not reporting to | mine foreman, as the act of assembly | requires, that gas or firedamp existed in joe mine on the morning of the explo- | | ins Harper, former curator of | Carnegie museum,” has returned to | Pittsburg from an exploring tour of three months in the lower Rocky moun- tains. He has brought with him corn | which he claims was stored by people who lived 5,000 years ago, and other interesting specimens, among them weapons of stone, flint and vol- canic glass. The people who made these Woppons were the Pueblos, or cliff dwellers. An effort will probably be made soon to move the county seat from Mercer to either Sharon or Greenville. The matter will probably be put to a vote. Residents in some parts of the county complain of the difficulty in reaching ercer on account of the poor railroad | facilities and the roads leading into the town, which are at times impassable. The increase of P pulation in the val- ley is regarded as sufficient to warrant the change of the county seat. on the Aaron Stewart farm, in Econ- omy township, Beaver county, about 3,000 feet from the Neely pool and the famous well on the Robert Wallace farm. The bit had gone but a short distance into the sand when the oil be- gan to surge and sputter with such force 2s to prevent further drilling. Duff Bros., of Beaver, are the principal own- ers of the new well. Golden & Crick, contractors, have se- -ured the contract for the New Graand Army home at Hawkins station, near | Pittsburg, at an estimated cost of about | | | | | |. $31,0c0. ture which was de stroyed by fire some time ago. will be started at once. It is to be plain in design, replete with all | modern improvements and ready for oc- cupancy about March 1, 1901. John Ricber, 18 years old, a Slav em- ployed at the Red Jacket furnaces, New | Castle, was found dead about 100 yards | from his boarding house. His shoes were gone and his legs were tied to- gether. A bottle containing whisl | and sherry wine was found beside him. | It is believed that the man was mur- | dered, although no wounds that would have caused death were found. Mrs. Annie Kline, aged 33 years, wiie of Rudolph Kline, a prominent farmet and citizen of Mifflin county, was burn ed to death near Granville. She w assisting her husband to remove a large kettle from over a fire when her cloth- ing became ignited. Mr, Kline, ing to save his wiic's life, was, it is feared, fatally burned. The home of “Daddy” | German living out in Connellsville township. Fayette county, was burned | Friday. In the house he had hoarded | $2,000 in a sack, and the the | house was $1,500 additional, without | any insurance. The old man is almost | destitute and neighbors are helping i He had no faith in banks. | i Lantz, an old loss on A stock company has been organized | for the purpose of furnishing oil and natural gas to Johnstown consumers. The company has already secured 3.000 acres of land in Westmoreland county and has several other large tracts in view. The necessary machinery for sinking oil wells will be purchased and operations will begin immediately. regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, will 10d a re-union at Kittanning on Oc- tober 12, the 30th anniversary of the muster of the regiment. The Kittan- to give the veterans a royal entertain- ment. The American Tin Plate Company has ordered the shipment of all raw material from the Pittsburg and Penn- sylvania plants at New Kensington. plants there will not be started this year and may be abandoned. Cornelius McCue, confined in the Indiana jail awaiting trial for the theft of two hams from a neighbor, was found lying dead in his cell in a pool of his own blood, with his throat cut, Sunday morning. At his head lay a razor. Superintendent of Public Instruction Schaeffer fixed Friday, October 19, os the date for the autumn arbor day, in his proclamation calls for a jeer al observance of the day by the planting of trees. Rev. Andrew G. Grinnan, pastor of the Episcopal Church at Point Pleasant, has accepted a call to St. Paul's Church, Weston, and will enter on the duties the fourth Sunday September. A water tower, go feet high, erected on 12 steel columns, on which will be placed a tank that will hold 62.000 gal lons, is to be located on College hill to give better fire pressure to Beaver Falls, and also to provide the town of College Hill with water On October 1 a rural free delivery route will be established from Espey- ville station, Crawford county, with two carriers, who will cover 38 square miles and serve 976 people. A girl named Allen has been com- mitted to jail for attempted arson at Morganza, Pa. It is claimed she was the leader of five girls who tried to burn the girls’ dormitory. They said they wanted to be sent to the peniten- tiary. The State Magistrates’ met at Reading Tuesday with over 75 delegates in attendance. Various legis- lative matters were considered, includ- ing the subject of whipping-posts for wife beaters. Cheap Reading a Novelty in London. The sixpenny novel has come to stay, much to the consternation of the pub- lishers., who fear that this cheap litera- ture will work a revolution in the book trade. Almost every day sixpenny edi- tions of popular novels are being launch- ed on the market. The success of the sixpenny ventures is attested by the enormous circulations that have been secured. The six-shilling novel circu- lates from 1,500 to 30.000, with a phenomenal instances when the _sale has leaped to 60000 and go,000. But | the edition for this reduced price gen- erally begins at 30,000 and goes up to 150,000. at New Kensington, | the | many | A 1,000 barrel oil well has been struck | Work on rebuilding the struc- | in try-i The survivors of the Seventy-eighth | ning people are making arrangements | This is interpreted as meaning that the | Minor Planets Weak in Bravity Power. worlds are is extremel gravity pow in diameter Eros would be ton stone with | would never come realms of Post. space.—Saturday Bakers in the Middle Ages. E ! An article in an nglish technic cal | journal gives some curious deta gard to bread and bakers in the Ages. Jakers were subject to laws and close government sup In London only farthing and penny loaves were allowed to be made. Ii the baker retailed his own bread he was not | allowed to sell it in his own house, be- fore it, or before the oven in was baked. He was obliged to dispose | of it in the market on Tuesdays Saturdays only, and sometimes on Sut care A baker of white bread was no | allowed to make bread of wunbolted { flour, and bakers of the latter were not} permitted to have a bolting sieve in their | possession. They were not allowed to 1d 151011. heat their own ovens with fern. stubble or straw or to bak . They were not allowed to tl back bread from { hucksters when once it 1 become | cold. Hotels and keepers of lodgi | houses were not permitted to | bread. Private individuals who had no oven of their own were in the habit of sending their flour to be kneaded by | their own servants at the moulding | boards belonging to the baker loaves being baked in their ovens. profits of bakers were strictly defined. The quality of bread made 1s ind gree indicative of the rank of people who ate it. The finest and whitest was called “simnel bread” and was only con sumed by the most luxurious persons occupying high rank and in affluent cir- cumstances. The wealthy middle class used “waste bread,” which is supposed! to have resembled what we know as the | | French “gatean.” Poorer middle class | people bought bread of an inferior qual | ity called * cocket.’ A still lower grade | was “tourte” made of unbolted meal. It was so called because the loaves had | a twisted form. Tourte was used by the humbler ¢ and the inmates of monasteries. Three other inferior} grades of bread were made; by whom consumed it is not stated. The Taiping Rebellion. The new Boxer recalls the Taiping gan in 18350 4 | 14 years, being the result | outcry against “the existing [a general dissatisfaction ¢ reforms which had been promised being unfulfilled. outbreak ominous rebellion, of a popu dynasty : owing to which it] and | which be-| 1¢ lasted over a period of | ! | | #4 1 |B | | E | The province of se was the| | first to rise in open reve and chose for a leader Hung-sew-tseusu, whose energy of character and political and religious enthusiasm speedily ed fo him the support of Phe discontented Seizing on the longing for a of an absolutely Chinese dynasty, he pro- claimed himself Emperor, under the | title of Teen Wang, or the Heaven! r | King. Having embraced Cl he professed to abhor the vices of rulers both in their laws and in pr acts. Crowds gathered to st | Without much dif ficulty he suc subduing the neighboring provinces 11 The war which England proclaimed | against the Tartar dynasty, and in which France joined in, scemed to aid | and abet his scheme, but upon the com | plete victory of the allies a 1 | force was sent out inst the | under the late General Gordon, | was successful in utterly defeating Teen Wang, with whose fall the whole re ion came to an end in July, 1864. | The cotton industry in Bombay | a dismal condition. Out of { are shut up, and the rest time. The - in China is hitting th is in > on short t manufacturers especially hard, and firms | complain that they are receiving tel | grams daily countermanding orders. 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