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Some Women Always Poor Because
Even as their incomes increase their
wants become more numerous.
They do not keep account of how
much they spend.
They do not watch the waste in the
kitchen.
They indulge their tastes too freely.
They allow their children to form ex-
travagant tastes and habits which
must be catered to at all costs.
They allow themselves to be im-
posed upon.
They have too great a regard for ap-
pearances.
Above all, they have never been
brought up to appreciate the true val-
ae of money.
" Dinner Gown.
The fashionable dinner gown for the
season is quite different in general ap-
pearance from last season’s style. The
skirt is wider, there is a decided tend-
ency toward crinoline, the waist is
more elaborately trimmed and the
sleeves are much larger.
Plain silk and crepe de chine, velvet
in many different weaves and crepe
meteor (a kind of crepe de chine) are
the favorite materials, although satin,
flowered silks, lace and fancy nets of
all kinds and chiffon are also to be in-
cluded amoig the popular weaves.
Black dinner gowns are always most
useful and are never quite out of fash-
ion, although this season, like last
winter, the light colors are considered
smartest. Plain black gowns are, how-
ever, rather in the background.—Har-
per’s Bazar.
Mittens.
Cast on 65 stitches, widen every
time across at end of one needle up
to 74. Knit across twice plain, then
slip and bind down to 65. Knit across
twice plain, and widen as before to
74. Knit across twice plain and nar-
row back to 65 stitches.
For thumb—Cast on one stitch,
widen at each end till you have 11
stitches, then cast on 12 more for end
of thumb; widen that end 4, and bind
off 4; repeat it; widen 4 and bind off
4; the other end of needle toward the
wrist; widen till you have knit half
the thumb, then bind off one stitch
each time, the other half, when you
have repeated, bind off the last four
stitches, knot down and back, and bind
off the 12 stitches you added, then
bind off each side till you get back to
1 stitch again.
Sew up.—New Ycrk Trib-
une.
Ahout Wives.
Too many men never praise their
wives until after they bury them.
The easiest way for a man to pack
a trunk is to get his wife to do it.
There are men who go to a gymna-
sium for exercise while their wives are
sawing the wood.
There is many a wife hungering for
an occasional word of approval who
will be buried in a rosewood casket.
If men were as ungallant during
courtship as they are after marriage,
it is doubtful if more than one in ten
thousand could ever get a wife.
Why it is that it tires some men
more to do a little errand for a weary
wife than it does to walk around a
billiard table for four hours?
Generally when a man feels the need
of economy he thinks it ought to be-
gin with his wife.—Journal of Agri-
culture.
Not Worth Being Angry.
A writer in The Household Realm
says “A dear lady of my acquaintance
confided to me an excellent piece of
advice when I asked, ‘Now, tell me,
how do you manage to keep so un-
ruffled a temper?’
“ ‘Ah,’ she replied, ‘there are very
few things in this world worth being
angry about, so when I feel annoyance
rising within me I ask myself quite
judiciously, is this worth being angry
over? And in nine hundred and nine-
ty-nine cases out of a' thousand my
common sense: answers, Oh, dear,
no.’ >
“If you want your husband to love
you to his. life’s end, if you want him
to turn to you. as his best friend, if
you want to keep him your devoted
lover, if you want to make him a
thoroughly happy man, be amiable,
even if it is rather an effort and does
not come in you by nature.”
“Mama” Out of Fashion.
It is no longer proper to teach your
baby to call you “Mama.” It is not
even smart to let him say “Mamma,”
or to allow him to use the dignified
title “Mother.” It may be hard to
eliminate language, but if you want to
keep up with the pace of young ma-
trons who never intend to grow old or
even matronly you must relegate that
word to the shelf where now rest such
old-fashioned terms as ‘“Ma,” ‘“Mam-
my,” and ‘“Granny.”
The other day every passenger in a
certain Madison avenue car craned his
neck to see fram whence a wee small
voice issued.
This.forms the thumb.
“Dearest,” said rne silvery little
voice, “Dearest, may I kneel up and
look out of the window?”
And then they all caught a glimpse
of a curly-locked girl and her equal-
ly curly-locked mother.
“Yes, dearest,” replied the mother
sweetly; for she knew that she had
the attention of the entire car.
Another and more original mother,
who scorns te copy the hero of “Lit-
tle Lord Fauntleroy,” has taught her
baby boy to call her “Darling.” Still
another fashionable mother is known
to her children as ‘“Mamn Marjory,”
“Sweetheart,” “Motherkin” and
“Sweet” are some other endearing
terms that one hears every day in the
fashionable houschold.
It may detract from your dignity
to allcw the little ones to address you
in this familiar way, but it certainly
makes you feel dozens of years young-
er and establishes a sort of bon ca-
maraderie between you and your baby
that makes him or her seem even
more interesting. If this side-.of the
matter doesn’t appeal to you, the elec-
‘trical effect which such words lisped
by a baby mouth, have upon other
people may tempt ycu to gu out ot
the beaten rut.—Brooklyn Eagle.
Fashion in Hair Dressing.
Woman's glory is her hair, and just
now fashion allows her to dress it in
the manner most becoming. She may
have it as prim as a Puritan, or as
elaborate as a chorus girl, for each
is correct. She may draw it up onto
a high pile on the crown of her head,
or wear it in a knot in the nape of
her neck. It may be brought coquet-
tishly down to meet her eyebrow, or
the severe intellectual forehead may
be shown. Woman must be becomingly
combed; that alone is insisted upon.
The wise woman studies herself well
in her mirror before she decides upon
the fashion to adopt.
The Grecian knot is once again
fashionable. The hair dressed in this
manner may be braided or coiled. The
former seems to be adopted when on
the street, while the unbraided coil
is worn indoors.
There is a choice in the dressing of
the front hair. While the loose, soft
pompadour is still a thing of the mo-
ment, yet it is fading away, as have
the hideous bolsters with which it
so long was boosted. Hair loose and
fluffy is still looped low onto the brow,
but it must not have an ugly found-
ation to give it strength and stiffness.
About the face the hair must be loose
and becoming. So much has this be-
come a dictation of fashion that a few
stray locks are allowed to fall about
the brow and cheek.
The figure eight is always a good
style of hair dressing. Besides the
low coil, three puffs in the neck are
much worn by very young women. But
the girl to adopt this mode must have
a soft, tender face, that will offset its
severe stiffness.
The coiffure is the puzzle of the
hour to the feminine mind. Madame
la Mode has issued her edict that the
pompadour with the rat must go, save
for the grand dame with her white
hair, patrician face and velvet gown.
But for once the feminine world re-
bels.
The pompadour, properly dressed,
gives a girl an air of distinction. Very
few faces can stand hair demurely
parted in the middle and knotted low
on the nape of the neck. As a result
the, really clever girl works out a com-
promise between the high dressed hair
and the low, while the girl who does
not know how to do the correct thing
clings to her poripadour in the front
and drops her back hair on‘*the nape
of her neck—a combination which is
startling, to say the least, and leaves
an ugly space between pompadour and
knot.
One of the most pleasing compro-
mises shows the rat removed from the
pompadour and the front hair Mar-
celled just as if the rat were to be
used. It is then parted on the side
(and, by the way, neither the right
nor the left side is obligatory; a girl
must study her face before deciding
where to place’ the part), then the
hair is drawn back lightly and knotted
on the nape of the neck, but ‘not too
iow.
Sometimes no part appears, but the
pompadour, minus the rat, is waved in
three puffs. These puffs are not tight,
but the finger or comb is run through
them to secure a light, fluffy, waved
effect. Ome puff is drawn down slight-
ly over the forehead, and the other
two run back from the temples, or, if
the face needs a different treatment,
the three puffs run around the brow
like a franie, fluffed and waved so that
they practically overlap each other.
With this dressing’ of the pompadour
the hair may be worn in a flat figure
eight on top of the head, or the waving
may continue over the crown and
back of the head and be caught in
with the back hair in a figure eight
on the nape of the neck. This figure
eight should not extend below the
junction of the collar with the gown.—
Rochester Post-Express.
JEEZ PULPIT,
AN ELCQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
CHAPLAIN CLARK, OF THE
NAVAL ACADEMY.
Subject :
Baltimore, Md.—The foliowing bril-
liant sermon was contributed to the
Sunday Sun by the Rev. FI. H. Clark,
D., chaplain of the United States
Naval Academy, at Annapolis. tis
entitled “The Unlooked-For Incre-
ment,” and was preached from the
text:
“Behold, I have done according to
Thy words; Lo! I have given thee a
wise and understanding heart.” And I
have also given thee that which thou
hast not asked.”—II Kings, iii., 12-13.
Solomon’s request is a surprise.
Left to the promptings of ambition it
is not characteristic of men to ask for
simple gifts or few. The natural re-
quest would have been for the things
the King did not ask—long life. riches,
honor, victory over enemies. Instead
the request was simple and unselfish.
It was made with a most becoming
humility. It was for a wise and under-
standing heart. This would be enough.
Then came the Jehovah's answer: “I
have given thee a wise and understand-
ing heart. And I have also given thee
that which thou hast not asked.” This
was increment, increase, that Solomon
had not counted on.
How much is involved in doing the
right thing at the outset! Somehow
first things take hold on last things.
The energy of the first hlock the child
pushes over in the row is not expended
till the last block is down. The first
branches you bend and tie into shape
make way for the beauty and sym-
metry of the full grown tree. The
shipbuilder can tell from the keel that
is laid the sort of ship that is going to
be built. From the dimensions of
growing columns the architect can
quickly estimate the weight of arches
or dome. So God sees in some simple,
honest prayer we may offer the be-
ginning of all we may ever achieve of
knowledge, goodness, service; sees in
it all our life shall ever mean to our-
selves and other fellow-men. Wonder-
ful are the connections be.ween first
things and last!
It is, too, an immeasurable satisfac
tion that when we have done the right
act, said the right word, offered the
right prayer, put ourselves in the right
attitude in anything our responsibility
ceases. Then the way of Divine Provi-
dence is ppened in our lives. Solomon
made just the right prayer; then God
gave him what he had not asked.
How this simpiifies life! We hava
only to do the right thing at the right
time; the rest takes care of itself. In
ordinary circumstances we all know
well enough what the right thing is.
In the Old Testament a well-known
character said: “I, being in the way.
the Lord led me.” The secret of it
was that Eliezer started on the right
road; then the Lord led him to the
well. The happy outcome we all know.
When our prayer is: ‘Make me true
to this work, this demand, this occa-
sion, this duty,” using the light we get,
we need give ourselves no further trou-
ble. Results are not in our hands.
The disciples all began their careers
by the use of this method. Without
thought of what was to come, they
simply obeyed the Master's call. His
command was: “Follow Me!” and
straightway Simon and Andrew left
the net they were casting into the
lake, and James and John the net they
were mending in the boat, and foilowed
Him. So with all the others. They
left what they were doing to do what
Christ told them to do. They had no
more conception of what was to follow
than the child Shakespeare or the child
Milton had ef what was to follow his
learning of the alphabet. In the sim-
plest, honestest manner the disciples
put themselves in right relations to
Christ, and their act changed the
course of history.
Admiral Farragut touched this truth
on another side. In the darkest days
of the Civil War the President called
him to Washington for consultation.
The people were finding fault with this
General and that General, with the
President, with pretty much every-
thing. One evening in a large com-
pany the Admiral sat listening to the
complaints of the hearthstone warriors.
At length he- said in quiet tones, but
with the strength of moving fleets in
them: “I have one great advantage—
I have only to go where I am sent.”
The thing in hand occupied him ab-
sorbingly, wholly. What he sought
was the wise and understanding heart
for: the present duty; the rest was in
the Almighty’s hands.
Great men for the most part have
been as simple-hearted as Solomon in
"his prayer. They placed the emphasis
not on what they wanted to do, but on
what they wanted to be: not on dreams
of life, but on fitness for life. They
took the same ship, so to say, in the
beginning from which they disem-
barked in the end, though they were as
ignorant of the voyage before them as
Solomon was of the coming events of
his reign.
There are many things we desire
about which we need not much concern
ourselves if we make use of this prin-
ciple. Solomon, for example, did not
ask for a long life; yet leng life was
involved in a wise and understanding
heart. The man who sets cut to do his
duty in all respects should not trouble
himself about the number of his days.
Let him live the life, and, whether it
be long or short, it is a life. But the
chances are that it will be 'ong. It has
been noted in armies that the men who
are fussiest about living are frequently
the men who do not. pull through.
Xenophon noted this fact more than
2300 years ago. In the Anabasis, we
recollect, when Clearc! and other
leading Greek Generals had been slain
in the tent of Tissaphernes through the
bad faith of the Persians the Greek
army, in the heart of the enemy's
country, was greatly discouraged.
Then Xenophon addressed the army
in words like these: “I have observed
this, O men, that as many as desire
to live by all means in military af-
fairs, these for the most part die cow-
ardly and disgraced. But as many as
recognize that death is common and
fiecessary to all men, and strive to die
honorably, I see these, by some means
or other, arrive at old age, and while
they live live successfully.”
The same truth applies to happiness.
Counters and shelves are crowded with
+ books on happiness:
The Unlooked-For Increment
“The Art of Hap- |
piness,” “How To Be Happy’ —count-
less titles, ringing the changes on hap-
piness. The pursuit of happiness is the
quest of the day. Many people are
pounding the drum of happiness so
hard as to smash the drum. The truth
is, only fitness for happiness brings it.
A man never cayght it by running after
it. It is a rainbow, with its pot of gold,
that must come to us, and come when
we are not expecting it. The happiness
seekers are the happiness losers. The
man who achieves happiness is the
man who has aimed for something.
liigher. Think nothing about happi-
ness; only put your best into each
day of life.
The same thing holds true of repu-
tation. One of the things Solomon did
not ask was honor. It was enough for
him to be wise and just. Wisdom and
justice were the highest sources of his
honor, For wisdom and justice he is
reputed above all else. If day by day
we strive for the inward things from
which reputation takes substance and
shapeliness, we need give ourselves no
further thought about the matter.
What men think of us will take eare of
itself. Growing plants do not give
themselves concern over summer; they
are the gift of spring to summer, and
summer will take care of them. So,
living as we ought, we commit our rep-
utation to God. whose presence and
whose eare are the real summer of all
good things among men.
If Solomon informed his courtiers of
Lis request to Heaven they probably
told him that he had missed a great
opportunity. They might easily have
said: “Why did you not ask for riches,
for vastly extended power and do-
minion? How much better they would
1ve been than wisdom? We could
Lave furnished the wisdom.” But the
prayer was of the right sort. Jehovah
was pleased with its modesty: and the
things that were not asked for were in
dne time given. The Surprise of life
often lies in the insignificance of the
means to some great end. People in
the navy know that the smallest thing
connected with a great gun is the most
indispensable—the firing pin. That
gone, and the gun, so to say, is on the
shelf. In the army one of the smallest
duties of the cavalryman is the ear-
ing for his horse. There is an instance
in history where cavalry that did this
duty well and cavalry that did it ill,
otherwise equally matched, fought a
battle, in which those who neglected
their horses were cut down almost to
a man. Doors to great events swing
outward on little hinges. Art and reli-
gion and education and war abound
with decisions and acts and incidents,
small in themselves as mustard seeds.
yet so growthful that great events and
agreat deeds have come and lodged in
the branches thereof.
Let us also treasure the words of the
Master in direct line with the truth we
have been considering: “Seek ye first
the kingdom of God and His righteous-
ness, and all these things shall be
added unto you.”
The Poverty of Christ.
Is a man poor! Let him remember
Christ's knowledge of his poverty. It
is no light thing to be poverty-stricken
in the midst of wealth. To see loved
ones denied comforts and even ne-
cessities merely tLrough lack of a few
pieces of glittering metal; to have
growing sons and daughters deprived
of an education: to see suffering ones
unrelieved; to have no opportunities
to increase one’s usefulness; to expose
one’s family to moral degradation be-
cause of lack of a competence—these
are but a few of the evils of poverty.
To men in such circumstances, Christ
said, “I know thy poverty.” Who Dbet-
ter could understand? Had He not
as an eldest son seen something of
sordid economies in that carpenter's
home at Nazareth? Had He not as a
widow’s main support suffered in the
harsh limitations of a Galilean peas-
ant's lot? - Had He not at times been
deprived of a place to lay His head?
It was for your sake He became poor.
—Pacific Baptist.
“Ye Shall Know Hereafter.’
What is approved by :God—honors
Him, resembles Him—must be made
successful, triumphant and predom-
inant, in His empire. He will not for-
ever suffer the enémy’s camp on His
grand field. The awful mystery, why
this trumphant ascendancy is so slowly
achieved, so long delayed in this world,
will, it is reasonable to believe, be one
of the subjects for illumination in a
higher state of existence, where en-
larging faculties will have endless
duration for their exercise. It may
then be seen that the. whole course of
this world, from the beginning to the
end, was “a day of small things,” as
compared with the sequel—only as a
brief introduction to an immense and
endless efonomy.—John Foster.
How Prayer Helps,
We all know that a good life and a
humble testimony to the goodness and
faithfulness of God have a very great
influence for good on the minds of all
who see and hear; but how does prayer
help? In the first place, prayer, if it be
true prayer—an earnest and confident
appeal to God for the blessing sought—
has a wonderful effect upon the charac-
ter of the person who offers it. Such
prayer brings the petitioner into close
fellowship with God ‘and opens his
whole nature to the ‘influence of the
Spirit of God; and by so doing fits him
to become a zealous and effective wit-
ness for God.
In One Single Hour.
In that single hour when he brought
Peter to Christ, Andrew accomplished
more for the world than in all his life
It may easily be so with us.
3usiness men are satisfied to get ten,
five, or even two per cent. returns. from
the capital, but no investment equals
in returns the investment of a little
time and courage in soul-saving. The
interest ‘is literally millions per cent.
Indeed, if you remember the endless
reaches .of eternity, the interest is in-
finite.
besides.
Use Positive Arguments.
It is necessary to lay stress upon the
fallacy of the negative attitude towards
truth, because that attitude is one of
the chief obstacles in the way of win-
ning souls for Christ. If we would be
soul-winners we must first of all get
rid of any tendencies we may have to
look upon things negatively and to pre-
sent them negatively to others, and
then we must help those we would
save to develop a d efor positive
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Faith makes fit.
Life is all a lesson
Frost leads to fruits.
The world hateth the hampered per-
son.
“Forgetting the things behind” is no
reason for ingratitude.
The more of a gas works a man is
the less light he gives.
There never was a bad man that
had ability for good service.
It takes an admirable quality or two
fo float some despicable personalities.
Eighty years hence it will matter
little whether we were peasants or
peers; but it will matter much wheth-
er we did our .duty and played the
man.—Stopford Brooke.
MAINE'S BiG GAME SEASCN.
About 4350 Deer and More Than 200
Moose Were Killed by Hunters.
The big game seascn in Maine has
ended and no more deer can be kill-
ed legally until Oct. 1, 1905, and no
more moose until Oct. 15. Notwith-
standing the fact that weather condi-
tions have been very untavorable the
sportsmen have killed nearly as much
game as in 1903, the receipts at Ban-
gor having been 4253 deer and 217
moose, compared with 4457 deer and
232 moose for the season of 1903.
Deer will continue to arrive from dis-
tant points for some days yet, and
the total for the season will probably
foot up about 4350.
Deer are now more numerous in
Maine than at any time in the
last ten years, and the - same
may be said of moose, although
most of the moose are young
bulls, scarcely fit for trophies. In an-
other season or two there should be
plenty of good sized bulls with fine*
antlers, in Maine. There is some talk
of asking the legislature to make a
law providing for a close time of sev-
eral years on doe‘deer and forbidding’
the killing of bucks whose horns have
less than a specidd spread, but there
is really little need of such a law,
The deer are plentiful enough, and
the fact that fewer were shot this
year than in 1903 is accounted for by
the weather conditions, which, dur-
ing.a good part of the season were
very unfavorable. Heavy rains filled
the swamps and fiooded the lowlands,
so that the game took to the ridges
and hills, where none but experienced
hunters could follow them.
This season about 30 persons have
been wounded by accidental shooting
in the woods and 15 killed, six of those
killed have been “mistaken for deer.”
The law provides a heavy penalty,
fine or imprisonment, cr both, for
reckless shooting in the woods, but
as yet none of the men who mistook
others for deer have been prosecuted,
and it is not likely that any of them
will be punished.—New York Sun.
English Words Good Enough.
Why do people persist in using
French words when there are good
old English words to serve the pur-
pose? It is a habit that is growing
daily. For instance, at dinner people
give you “menu” instead of “bill of
fare,” though the items are such Eng-
lish dishes as boiled cod, roast beef
and apple tart; one is accommodated
with a serviette instead of a napkin
(an English word, but originally of
French origin), as is the Scotch word
napery, used for household linen.
When you enter a shop you are served
with corsets instead of stays, cos-
tumes by a costumiere instead of
dresses by a dressmaker; “blouses”
take the place of shirts, or waists, as
the Americans have it; and hose are
offered for stockings. The former word
is, however, English. At the theatre
we have programs instead of play-
bills, and matinees in place .of after-
noon performances; toques are adjust-
ed with as much ease as hats, and we
eat in a restaurant as cheerfully asin
a dining-room. There are, of course,
untranslatable words which must be
used, but our good old English lan-
guage is rapidly becoming a hotch-
potch of foreign words, while teleg-
raphy is doing its best to oust all the
crisp and racy Saxon speech. When-
ever possible let us determine to use
an“English instead of a French word,
both in literature and conversation.—
Lady Violet Greville, in the Graphic.
Literature in the French Navy.
There seems to be something in the
French navy which makes for litera-
ture. Pierre Loti is still a naval officer,
and his collaborator in the transla-
tion of “King Lear,” Mr. Ernest Ve-
del, was a lieutenant until the state
of his health compelled him to give up
the service. He once commanded a
small warship charged with the duty
of preventing the entrance of foreign
vessels into a Siamese harbor. A
Scandinavian ship, with a Siamese
commodore who called himself Ar-
mand Duplessis de Richelieu, no less,
attempted to enter by the alleged
authorization. of the French minister
at Bangkok. M. Vedel wrote a note
in there terms: “If you don’t desist.
I shali open fire;” and learning that
Mme. Richelieu was with her hus-
band, he tied the note to a magnificent
bouquet. The commoddre with the il-
lustrious name desisted, and thanked
the polite lieutenant profusely for the
flowers.—London Chroreécle.
The Cussedness of Things.
McFlub—Bilkins is working on a
boat that looks as if it will never go
down.
Sleeth—Gee! That would be quite a
thing, wouldn’t it?
McFlub—He don’t seem to think so.
Sleeth—Why not?
McFlub—Probably because it's in-
tended to be a submarine boat.—Hous
ton Chronicle.
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COMMODORE NICHOLSON
RECOMMENDS PE-RU-NA.
COMMODORE
‘NICHOLSON.
OMMODORE Somerville Nicholson, of
the United States Navy, 'in a letter
from 1837 R Street, Northwest, Washing-
ton. D. C., says:
“Your Peruna has been and is now
used by so many of my jriends and
acquaintances as a sure cure for
catarrh thal I am convinced of its
curative qualities and 1 unhesilat-
ingly recommend it to ail’ persons
suffering from that complaint.”
Our army and our navy are the natural’
protection of our country.
Peruna is the natural protection of the
army and navy in the vicissitudes of cii-
mate and exposure.
. We have on file thousands of testimon-
iajs from prominent people in the army
and navy.
We can give our readers only a slight
glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited en-
dorsements Dr. Hartman is constantly re-
ceiving for his widely known and efficient
remedy, Peruna.
If you do not derive prompt and satis-
factory results from ‘the use of Peruna
write at once to Dr. S. B. Hartman, Pres:
ident of The Hartman Sanitarium, Colum-
bus,. Ohio, and he will be pleased to give
you his valuable advice.
Workman's Ancestral Failings.
The strictures passed upon the
working men as a whole might have
been passed ever since Tacitus de-
scribed | our Anglo-Saxon ancestors,
but the brighter facts are compara-
tively modern.—Christian Common-
wealth.
10,000 Plants for 1Ge.
This is a remarkable offer the John A.
Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., makes.
Salzer Seeds have a national reputation
as the earliest, finest, choicest the earth
produces. They will send you their big
plant and seed catalog, together with
enough seed to grow
1,000 fine, solid Cabbages,
2,000 rich, juicy Turnips,
2,000 blanching, nutty Celery,
2,000 rich, buttery Lettuce,
1,000 splendid Onions,
1,000 rare, luscious Radishes,
1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers.
This great offer is made in order to in-
duce you to try their warranted seeds—
for when you once plant them you will
grow no others, an
ALL FOR BUT 16C POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice, and
if you will send them 26c in postage, they
will add to the above a big package of the
earliest Sweet Corn on earth—Salzer’s
Fourth of July—fully 10 days earlier than
Cory, Peep o’ Day, ete., ete. [A. C. L.1
The Public Health Committee of
Camberwell, London, proposes to fit up
the public baths in the borough for
cricket practice during the winter
months. Apparently the Camberwel-
lians do not bathe in winter.
The Automobile in England.
The use of automobiles is increas-
ing rapidly in England, and this year
promises to be an excellent one for
the trade. On April 1, 1904, there
were 14,887 cars in use in that coun-
try—representing an increase of 25
per cent during the past two years.
There was also a corresponding num-
ber of accidents. Take London alone
for example, During the year ending
May 1, 1904, there were 310 accidents
to automobiles, of which 13 proved
fatal. This” will make the enemies of
the automobile hold up their hands in
horror, but the figures will not seem
as ‘bad when placed in comparison
with the accidents caused by and hap-
pening to horses and carriages during
the same period. There were 7,584
of them, and 190 were fatal. But the
automobilist must remember that
there are far more horses in London
than automobiles.—Springfield Re-
publican.
A WOMAN'S MISERY.
Mrs. John LaRue, of 115 Paterson
Avenue, Paterson, N. J. says: “I was
troubled for about nine years, and
what I suf-
fered no one
will ever
know. 1-used
about every
known reme-
"dy thatis said
to be good fer
kidney = com-
piaint, but
without deriv-
ing permanent
relief. Often
. when alone in
the house the backache has been so
bad that it brought tears to my eyes.
The pain at times was so intense that I
was compelled to give up my houschold
duties and lie down. There were head-
aches, dizziness and blood rushing to
my head to cause bleeding at the nose.
The first box of Doan’s Kidney Pills
benefited me so much that I continued
the treatment. The stinging pain in
the small of my baek, the rushes of
blood to the head and other symptoms
disappeared.”
Doan’s Kidney Pills for sale by all
cdealers. 50 cents per box. Foster-
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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