T IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA. INDUSTRIES ALL ACTIVE Improvement Is General, but Order Are Still Small, According to Bradstreeta. New York. ''Improvement Is more manifest to general trade and Indus try this week, but there is still pres ent the feeling of conservatism hith erto noted, which makes for email and frequent, rather than heavy Individ ual sales. DovcCopments have been largely favorable, chief among these the Increased arrivals of buyers in most markets, a greater disposition to take hold for fall and spring deliv eries, a very favorable government crop report, the continuance of the marked strength in Becurlty markets, the growing firmness of the time money market. Trade with first hands in dry goods is fair, while job bing trade expands most rapidly, and retail trade expands most raptdEy, and retail trade la still engaged In digest ing the remnants of summer business. The railroad situation is improving and idle cars are disappearing on the Western lines, as the winter wheat movement enlarges. Industries are active. Iron and steel leading, -with railroads reported buy ing freely of rails, cars and tocomo tlves. There is increasing evidence of growing scarcity of help in some sections, notably the coke regions, from which emigration was heavy during the depression. Collections show a little improvement, but as yet do not reflect the influence of new crop marketing, possibly because of the farmers being busily engaged. Building is active and trades catering to this lino note rather more doing. Business failures in the United States for the week ended with Au gust 12, were 219, against 184 Oast week, 249 in the like week of 1908, 146 in 1907, 143 in 190C, and 147 in 1905. Business failures In Canada for the week number 24. against 27 last week, and 31 last year. MARKETS. PITTSBURC. Wheat No. t red t Rye No. 2 Corn No. 2 yellow, ear 88 Ri No. S yellow, shelled si gi Mixed ear 03 ,,9 Oats No. S white 51 v. No. a whlto ! 5i Flour Winter patent 073 0 80 Fanoy straight winters Hay No. 1 Timothy 1651 1 01 CloTer No. 1 lao.i 12 rvi Fesd No. 1 white mid. ton :SM 210) Brown middlings 26a '.'8 50 Bran, bulk 27 03 WS 00 traw Wheat , 8 00 8 W Oat 8J 8 5) Dairy Products. Butter Elgin cronmory f 'J9 SO Ohio oreamm-y 2!) sfl Fanoy country roll 19 15 Cheese Ohio, new 14 -, New York, new 11 1 , Poultry, Etc. Hens per lb t 17 19 Chickens drenned a) tl Eggs Fa. and Ohio, tresh 23 it Fruits and Vegetables. Potatoes Fancy white per bu.... 101 1 0"i Cabbage per ton 65 (1 1 DO 00 Onions per barrel 1 6J 1 J BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent S 1 71 19) Wheat No. II rod I Oi Corn lined ,n 71 Kgfjs !!7 28 Butter Ohio creamery ail a PHILADELPHIA. Flour-Winter Patent $ 5 9) 5 01 Wheat No. S red 107 Corn No. 2 mined 75 7.. Oats No. S white el 02 Butter Creamery 28 28 Eggs Pennsylvania firsts t 1 NEW YORK. Flour Patents I 19) I 00 Wheat No. 8 red I 15 Corn No. w Oats-No. 8 white 63 63 Butter-Creamery 28 -9 Eggs State and Pennsylvania.... 25 80 LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTLE Kxtra, UN) to lflOO pounds 6 6) 675 Prime, 1800 to 1400 pounds. 8 40 6 60 Wood, 1200 to MOO pounds 6 90 6 80 Tidy, 1060 to 1150 pounds. 6 60 4 6110 Fair, WW to HOD pounds 42 6 40 Common, 700 to VU0 pounds. 8 00 4 416 Bulls 7 8 00 6 00 Cows 2U0J u55 0J BOOS Prime, heary 8 16 4 8 SO Prime, medium weight 8 & Best heayy Yorkers 8 20 4 8 5 Light Yorkers. 8 15 8 25 Pigs 8 00 4 8 10 Hough 6 23 7 40 blags 6 20 4 6 0J BUSINESS CKRDB. JUSTICE OF THK PEACE, Pension Attorney and RealtEstate Ageaa. RAYMOND E. BKOWN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BROOKVILLIt, PA. q7 m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rutl estate agent, patent secured, col .ectli.ns nnicle promptly. Office In Byndlcau finding, Hoyiioldsvilla, Pa. JMII H M. McCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. Oat lections will race to prjmpt attention. Omot In the Ueyr.oldsvllle Hardware Oo. building, Ualu street Heynoldsvllle, Pa. t)R. B. E. HOOVJEB, DENTIST, Resident dentist In tbe Hoover bulldlaf Main street. Ueulleness In operating. DR. L. Ik MEANS, DENTIST; Office on second floor of 'he First Hatloaal bank building, Main street. DR. R. DeVEKE KINO, ' ' , DKNTIST, noire on second floor of the Syndicate built jig, Main street, Keynoldsvllla, Pa. IJENUY PMIESTER UNDERTAKER, Black and white funeral ears. Mala street BeyuoldsvlUe, hearth 'j0m W ' JEWELRY. Jewelry Is supposedly worn for ornament, but much of It is kept in such a condition that it is anything but ornamental. There is no surer sign of carelessness than to wear pins, rings and chains so black and greasy that onlookers may be pardoned for questioning the personal cleanliness of the wearer. There is no excuse for this dirti ness when soap and water are to be bad. It is well to purchase a small box of jeweler's sawdust to expedite drying and polishing. A roughed chamois is also helpful. It is particularly Ill-advised for the girl who works to wear dirty Jew elry. Indeed, she should wear as lit tle as possible. A watch, cuff but tons and a simple brooch or pin at the neck is all that is permissible for good taste. These should be kept shining. Remember thnt dirty Jewelry is an offense against good taste that no well-bred girl will commit. New Haven Register. KNELL OF THE "FROU-FROU." The time was when woman was tinder the despotism of the frilly- and the starched. The time was when she delighted in the rustic of her silk and lingerie petticoats and when the latter must be stiff and uncompromis ing as a brand new college diploma. That was the good old period when Wnmfln'a nnnronch Wfl na frnnlr na ' that of a road engine and when the novelist delighted to speak of the frou-frou of his heroine's skirts on the stairs beyond which the expectant hero waited. Nowadays! however, all this is changed. The entry of woman is heralded no longer by a noise akin to signboards In a fierce nor'easter. No ! longer is her parting injunction to Hlmbnrb Tnrt. Sift into the mixing-bowl a cupful of flour, a level teaspoonful of baking powder and a few grains of salt. Rub in with the fingertips half a cupful of lard and add a few tablespoonfuls of Ice water. Mix It into a rather firm paste. Use almost all of It to line a deep pie-plate. Pre pare sufficient rhubarb as for stewing, only Instead of cutting it in one-inch pieces, cut it In quarter-Inch pieces. Fill the lined pie-plate heaping and add a cupful of sugar. Roll the remainder of the paste very thin; cut It Into narrow strips and lay them across the tart diamond shaped. Bake it about , thirty minutes in an oven that will brown flour In four minutes. Ol, a o 8 OS vt a 3 . s f V) o - the laundress "get everything good and stiff." The clinging dress of this latter day has interrupted the reign of the frou-frou and now skirts must not even murmur to the floor on which they fall. The stiff and sib ilant petticoat has indeed gone and in Us stead we have undergarments of supple silks and unobtrusive appear ance, undergarments that are lithe and sinuous and serpentine. Pitts burg Dispatch. EMPRESS LOUISE HOOD. The gossip in Paris says that women are absolutely given over to the Empress Louise hood for evening Wear. It is fashioned after one worn by the Empress in her flight from Na poleon, The new ones are trimmed with fnr as well as satin ribbon and roses. They are made of chiffon, of lace and of moussellne. Mink, ermine and chinchilla, as well as black lynx, are used as a trimming around tbe crown. The lining under the white sheer fabrics is in blue, red, pink and vio let. The streamers are of tulle or chiffon more than of satin ribbon. These hoods are on a wire frame and protect the hair Instead of disarrang ing it. One of the richest is made of pale blue panne velvet, trimmed with bp.rrds of satin, with a frill of silver lace over pleated white chiffon around all edges and a tiny bank of ermine above it. Marabou is also used Instead of fur. It would be' difficult to conceive of any piece of millinery, including muffs and shoulder pieces, that has not a touch of it. They say in Paris that It will come out as trimming on the spring hats, dyed in the new col ors. Philadelphia Ledger. HOLDING UP TRAFFIC. There should be a school to teach women how to thrust out their hands from motor cars to hold up traffic. Since this English fashion of stop ping vehicles behind in crowded thor oughfares has been adopted here It Is one of the usual sights in a string of motors or carriages, to see a wo man's hand go out suddenly, and aB Inflexibly as that of a police officer when he holds up a line of traffic. He, however, does it as one to the manner born, but the woman who can put her hand up In the same fashion and not havl it look either wooden or Billy Is the exception. One dear little old white-haired lady whose big touring car on the avenue was In line thrust out a tiny hand with the fin gers juBt as wide apart as she could spread them. It was grotesquely funny to see everything In the street") back of her car come to a standstill because of those five little stiff fin gers. Other women at such times let their hands flop limply, while still Others regularly saw the air. Borne of these mlgfit practice at hone be-i fore a mirror a way of holding tip traffic that would be at once effica cious and dignified, as well as grace ful. The combination is rare at pres ent. Pittsburg Dispatch. HER CHARM. There was a delightful school mistress who Used thus to impress on her scholars certain refined dis tinctions: "My dears, horses 'sweat,' young men 'perspire,' young ladles 'are all In a glow.' " in these out spoken days, when a spade is called at the very mildest a spade, the gen tle euphemism Is a matter for amuse ment, to be laughed at with affec tionate patronage like an old-time gown out of grandmother's chest. Young ladles have disappeared and girls get qutta as warm as their brothers nowadays, and on the whole the change is vastly for the better, frankness being own sister to truth and mortal foe to affectation. Yet the further we go from the brocade days, the more inevitably we must recognize a price paid for our free dom, n certain stately charm gone out of life and human intercourse. The formality of those times made barriers, and In barriers, after all, lies the half of romance. It is the face beneath the veil that we are most eaer to see, the voice behind the wall that tempts us to most stren uous climbing. What could be pret tier or more inaccessible than a young lady all In a glow? Man is still at heart essentially old-fashioned, and the modern girl, rejoicing in her new equipment of frankness and courage and uncon ventlonallty, sometimes finds hira strangely unresponsive. Theoretical ly he Is thoroughly In sympathy with her, as a reasonable being needs must be, but for all that he dimly realizes that something is missing a price has been paid. The ostentatiously modest scoop bonnet, with its de fensive ruffle behind and Its lace cur tain across the front, gave a piquancy that the unveiled Intercourse of to day can never attain. New Haven Register. There is inevitably an increase in the width of skirts. It is an unusual notion to combine heavy trimmings with sheer material. So far no bustle, but the dress makers seem to be leading us along that road. Black collars on white serge suits are not so often seen as earlier in the season. Tbe bottom of sleeves are much trimmed, while the upper parts are left plain. Charming for women with fresh faces and fair skins are the new ame thyst hats. v The unllned transparent coat Is one of the most pronounced fads of the season. Mescaline silk in exquisite Dres den patterns makes charmingly dain ty underskirts. Frocks of silk, crepe and other un llned materials are weighted down by broadcloth facings. Among the half-precious stones so much in vogue there is none more popular than the lapis lazuli., Stockings of lisle with self-colored "clocks" are generally the most sat isfactory for every day. - ' The apron front, the successor ot the panel, is much employed, and Is usually elaborately trimmed. The fancy for trimming sleeves around and around at different parts of the arm is a growing one. . Pearl buttons, triangular, oblong and irregular, will be worn as trim mings on many wash dresses. Softest sheer satins are used for underskirts with wool or silk frocks, thl tops being of silk stockinet. Children wear socks of the bright est colors, and especially white ones, blocked oft with colored stripes. Stockings for wear with evening froc!ts and slippers are ot finest ma terial, beaded with Jet, gold, silver or steel. In order to look well It Is neces sary that the arrangement of the hair should harmonize with the style of the gown. Prince Edward ot Wales, the oldest son of the Crown Prince of Wales, has just entered the Royal Naval Col lege at Dartmouth as a cadet, after having completed bis training course at Osborne. New York City. The misses' coat that is finished with a belt, giving a suggestion of the Norfolk Idea, la one of the latest and smartest. It will be worn during the between-seasons time and the early autumn, and Is adapted .to every material appropriate to the season. This one, made of serge, is finished with a collar of satin In matching color, but the coat Is adapted to the separate wrap as well as it is to the entire suit, and if liked it can be worn without the belt as shown In the smaller view. The coat Is made with fronts, side fronts, back and side backs. The seams extend to the shoulders, so giv ing slender and becoming lines and the shawl collar finishes to neck. The sleeves are In regulation coat style. When the belt is used It Is slipped through slashes, which are cut and bound on Indicated lines, and there are the patch pockets which make Buch a feature of the season arranged over the side-fronts. The quantity of material required for the slxteen-3'enr size Is five and a half yards twenty-seven, two nnd three-quarter yards forty-four or two and three-eighth yards fifty-two Inches wide with one-quarter yard of satin for collar. The amethyst tones from deep to light are in the height of fashion. Amethyst the Color. At the Parts theatres It was shown that, the dressmakers there havq gone quite wild over amethyst Both tones of this seml-preclous stone are used. There Is the deep rich purple and tht pale hyacinth. Both are popular, and are brought out In every kind ot fab ric. Lovely as these shades are, they will not stand the sun. The heat draws the amethyst out ot the fabric ard leaves It a dirty gray. Tucked Blouse. The simple tucked blouse Is always a smart and a useful one. This mod el has the advantage of allowing ft choice of sleeves ot two lengths, and It will be found appropriate for every material thin enough to be laid In small tucks. It is just as well adapt ed to the entire gown as It is to the odd blouse, nnd it Is altogether U practical as any waist of the Beason. The tucks are tiny, providing Just sufficient fulness to be becoming, and the neck can be finished as illustrated or with a stock collar as liked. Mer cerized batiste Is the material Illus trated. The blouse Is made with front and back. The sleeves are made In one piece each, and when three-quarter length is desired are gathered into straight cuffs or Dands. The neck cau be finished with a neck band or regulation stock collar. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and three-quarter yards twenty-one or tVenty-four, two and three-quarter yards thirty-two or two and an eighth yards forty-four Inches wide with one and a quarter yards of banding, two yards of edging. The much-ribbed parasol, called the "Japanese," Is very prominent this season. Chamois Glovos. Chamois gloves in cream color and pale yellow are extremely smart with tailored suits of wool or mohair, but when the weather is very warm noth ing but a silk glove Is bearable. Conceal the Ears. Many of the very newest Btyles ot dressing the hair entirely conceal the ears. These are invariably the model which Include the centre parting. - Whole Body a Muss of Raw, Bleedings Torturing Humor Hoped Death Would End Fearful Buffering In Despair: Cured by Cuticura. "Words cannot describe the terrible s sema I suffered with. It broke out on my head and kept spreading until it covered my whole body. I was almost a solid mass of sores from head to foot. I looked more like a piece of raw beef than a human being. The pain and agony I endured seemed more than I could bear. Blood and pus oozed from the great sore on my scalp, from un der my finger nails, and nearly all over my body. My eRrs were so crusted and swollen I was afraid they would break off. Every hair in my head fell out. I could not sit down, for my clothes would stick to the raw and bleeding llesh', making me cry out from the pain. My family doctor did all he could, but I got worso and worse. My condition wos awful. I did not think X could live, and wanted death to come and end my frightful sufferings. "In this condition my mother-in-law begRcd me to try the Cuticura Remedies. I said I would, but had no hope of recov ery. But oh, what blessed relief I experi enced after applying Cuticura Ointment. It coolod the bleeding and itching flesh and brought me the first real sleep 1 had had in weeks. It was as grateful as ice to a bum. ing tongue. I would bathe with warm water and Cuticura Soap, then apply the Ointment freely. I also took Cuticura Re solvent for the blood. In a short time the ores stopped running, the flesh began te) heal, and I knew I was to get well again. Then the hair on my head began to grow, and in a short time I was completely cured. I wish I could tell everybody who has ec zema to use Cuticura. Mrs. Win. Hunt, 135 Thomas St., Newark, N. J., Sept. 28, 1908. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp., Sole Prop of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. 34 1908 CATHOLIC CONVERTS Church Records Show That 28,709 Accepted Catholicism In Amer ica During Year. ' The record of conversions to the Cathollo church during last year, a revealed from official and carefully compiled figures before the congrest of missionaries at Washington, indi. cates the tremendous progress the church Is making throughout the country, says the Rosemofry Maga zine, The statistics of the apostolic mis sion house place the number of con verts for 1908 at the great figure of 28709. These figures were received from the report of chancery offices, and, while some few returns are mis sing, 1 28,709 represents the aggregate of adult baptisms in all the dioceses of this country. In 190G, In preparation for the con gress of that year, there were found to be 25,055 converts. Two years later the number had grown to 28,709, or 3,644 more. In 190G it was diffi cult to get exact figures, for in many chancery offices there was no 'note taken of converts at all. In some dioceses they were a negligible quan tity. Since the congress of 1906 the Idea had so grown that with very lit tie difficulty accurate results have been secured. Rogues Gallery of Chauffeurs. It Is becoming plain that much of the trouble caused by automobiles on the highways and streets is due to the recklessness or incompetence of indi vidual chauffeurs, possibly because they are afflicted with the genuine speed mania, or becnuse they are tem peramentally unfitted for such a re sponsibility. In recognition of this fact the authorities of New Jersey, where many accidents have occurred, are planning to establish a sort of "rogues' gallery'' of portraits of men who have been convicted of reckless driving within the boundaries of that Commonwealth. Washington Star. Motives In Education. In University Administration form er President Eliot of Harvard says: "The bread and butter motive should not prevail In a university's profes sional school to any greater extent than It should prevail In a college. In both departments It Is reasonable for the individual student to keep Ira view the means of earning a livelihood, but in both alike the domlnent motive should be the desire to be serviceable and to be well equipped to give and to enjoy giving effective service." BAD DREAMS Caused by Coffee. "I have been a coffee drinker, mora or less, ever since I can remember, until a few months ago I became more and more nervous and Irritable, and finally I could not sleep at night, for I was horribly disturbed by dreams of all sorts and a species of distressing nightmare. "Finally, after hearing the exper ience of numbers of friends who had quit coffee and were drinking Pos tum, and learning of the great ben efits they had derived, I concluded coffee must be the cause of my trou ble, so I got some Postum and had It made strictly according to directions. "I was astonished at the flavour and taste. It entirely took the place of coffee, and to my very great satla faction I began to sleep peacefully and sweetly. My nerves improved, and I wish I could wean every man, woman and child from the unwhole some drug ordinary coffee. "People really do not appreciate or realize what a powerful drug it is and! what terrible effect it has on the hu man system. If they did, hardly a pound of It would be sold. I would never think of going back to coffee again. I would almost as soon think of putting my hand in a fire after I had once been burned. "A young lady friend of ours had stomach trouble for a long time, and could not get well as long as she used coffee. She finally quit coffee) and began the use of Postum, and Is now perfectly well. Yours for health."- Read "The Road to Wellvllle," in pkgs. "There's a Reason.." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. Tliej are genuine, true, and full of bunuur Interest.
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