Catarrh Is just as surely a disease of the blood as is scrofula. So say the best authorities. How foolish It is, then, to expect a cure from snuffs, inhalants, etc. The sensible course Is to purify your blood by taking the best blood purifier, Hood's Sursnparilla. This medicine nits permanently cured Catarrh In a multitude of cases. It goe9 to the root of the trouble, which is impure blood. Remember Hood s Sarsapariila [tho best—in fnct the One True Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills with Hood's ierseperill^ The Pueblo Women. "The Pueblodndlau women are . often very pretty as girls, and some of them make stately young mothers," writes Hamlin Garland in the Ladies' llome Journal. "They work generally In groups of three or four, cooking, whitewashing, weaving, or painting pottery. They seem to have a good deal to chatter about, and their smiling faces are very agreeable. They have most excellent white teeth. Their ceremonial dress Is very picturesque, especially the costume of the Acoma and Isleta girls. All burdens are car ried by the women of Aeoma, Isleta and Laguna upon the hend, and they have, In consequence, a magnificent carriage, even late in life. The old women of Walpl, on the contrary, are bent and down-looking. They carry their burdens on their backs slung In a blanket. The girls of Isleta wear a light cloth over their heads Spanish fashion, and manage It with fine grace and coquetry. The evcry-day dress of the llopl women consists of a sort of kilt, which Is wrapped around the hips and fastened with a belt (a modification of the blanket or wolf skin); above tills a sort of sleevless chemise partly cov ers the bosom. Their hair Is carefully tended, hut it worn In an ungraceful mode by some of the women. The wo men of Hnno cut the hnlr in front ■quare across about the line of the lips, while the back lialr Is gathered Into a sort of billet. The front hair hangs lown over the faces, often concealing one eye. The unmarried women In Walpl wear their hair In a strange way. They coll It into two big disks' lust above their ears—'the intent being lo symbolize their youth and promise by imitating the squash flower. The oiatrons correspondingly dress their hair to symbolize the ripened squash.' Some of the maidens were wonderful ly Japanese in appearance." Jewish Longevity. The vital statistics of London are the authority for the statement that on an average the life of a Jew In that city Is twice that of a gentile. Dr. B. W. Richardson says that the Jews of that city are exceptionally free front dl. ease, and Vircbow says thnt the rae "lias at all limes been distinguished by great tenacity of life. Consumption Is scarcely known among the Jews, and suicide Is three-fourths less frequent omong them than It Is among gentiles." Instead of taking the cross of Christ, many try to make one for themselves. HYSTERICS. WOMEN SHOULD UNDERSTANDTHI3 NERVOUS DERANGEMENT. A Symptom of Something Far More Seri ous— Mrs. Harris, of Heuver Springs, lie* lates Her Experience. The spasm at top of wind-pipe, or in bronchial tubes, the ".ball rising in the throat, " violent beating of the heart; laughing and crying by turns; mus* cular spasms; throw ing the arms about, etc., tell of a derangement of '■/ '—^ the female sys- js /j \/l Any female --- L complaint may tcrics, which garded as a £ symptom V . St \ \ only. The / / I \ cause,what- j )/ \ J toLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. It acts at once upon the organ affected, and the nerve centers; re moves the cause, and dispels effectually the symptoms. Mrs. Harris relates her experience for the benefit of others. "1 had been sick with ulceration of the womb, causing all kiuds of dis agreeable experiences, such as irrita bility, sleeplessness, faintness, and at times hysterics. My physician said it was the worst case he ever had. My back ached, leucorrhcea very profuse, and I had a severe bearing-down pain. The physicians thought I should never I a cover, and as the last remedy, they procured your Vegetable Compound. I had not taken more than one-fourth of a bottle, before I was more com fortable. I continued its use, also tho Sanative Wash, and Liver Pills. After using four bottles, I was able to be out, and do almost all my work. I think the Vegetable Compound is the only medicine that will cure female complaints, and it will reach the worst cases in a very short time. I know it saved my life."— Mrs. M. Harris, Heaver Falls, Pennsylvania. All drug, prists. t F N U 47 RINIRRI HOLD,NJEYKK...; ~T T mUNci „. n D.u-.-hr,cVla K f".. e 2: HOW MUSICIANS POSE ATTITUDES ASSUMED BY DEV OTEES OF THE DIVINE ART, Attitudinizing na a Part of tho Bnai-' ncaa—The Musical Director and the Drum Major—The Pianist and the Cornet Player. An Art of Itself. Exactly why musical performers should feel It their duty to attitudinize as well as to play or sing is one of those curious problems presented by the com plexity of our civilization to which a definite answer Is not easy to give, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Music, according to the most highly Inspired of poets, Is a heavenly gift, appealing directly to the soul, while the striking of attitudes Is an earthly acquisition, gained through much practice and ap pealing to nothing In particular, unless It may be In an indirect way to the pocketbooks of the beholders. It Is quite possible that at some time In the history of the divine art, men and wom en played and sang without posing In such away as to attract more atten tion by their attitudes than by their music, but that day, If It ever existed, has long gone by, and music at present Is as much a matter of pose as of tone, and appeals In many cases quite as strongly to the eye as to the ear. It Is quite possible that this fnct may havo grown out of the conscious superiority SIONOB BCRA I'EIiETT.I. that every musician and singer feels In regard to all other persons, no matter of what class, rank or condition—the feeling thnt one divinely endowed with the gift of musie should take prece dence of all others of the human race. Nor does this feeling demand, as a pre vious condition, much of an endow ment, for It may sometimes be observ ed among musical folk that tlie less they know about music the more con ceited they are apt to be about their at tainment In tills direction, as the lead ing soprano In a volunteer church choir often gives herself more airs than Pattl, and the old darky who fiddles for till the dances In a country neighborhood not Infrequently regards his own mu sical attainments as more profound than those of I'ngnnini. Leaving the quantity and quality of musical knowledge and skill out of the question for the time being, however, the attitudes struck by musical people of different lines furnish a curious and exceedingly Interesting subject of study, as going to show that the musi cal art of the present day Is felt and ac knowledged to be as much a matter of pose ns of melody or harmony. That tills statement Is true Is readily sus ceptible of proof. No artist would be willing to play or sing behind a screen for nn audience In front. It Is possible Hint, persuading himself under such cir cumstances by a sort of legal fiction, he was quite nlone, the plnnlst might pour forth Ills soul through his finger tips, and give mneh better renditions of the works he sought to Interpret than he would when consciously playing for effect, but he would not he willing to try. No orchestra, no body of singers, would be willing to go through their K ..J® IIEItR BI.OWISHEDOFP. performance behind a curtain, unseeing and unseen, and yet, theoretically, this ought to he the most satisfactory meth od of rendering a musical work, for, lu this case, tlie singers and players would be undisturbed by tlie sight of the sen of faces before them, and the audience could enjoy the music without having their attention called away by the per sonality of the performers. No more than the singers and players, however, would the audience be satisfied with the screen and curtain arrangement, for the people who gather at a concert want to see how the chorus looks, and LIEUT. THUMP. whether its members are as old and ugly as those of the grand opera chorus, and what sort of person the prima don na assoluta Is, and what she has on, and how It fits, and how many men are in the male chorus, and how wide they can open their mouths. Even a thenter crowd, In a place of entertainment where the music Is merely subordinate and Incidental to the main attraction, want to see the orchestra, gaze upon the lipid back of the lender's bald head, watch the fnclnl convulsions of the man whose business It is to pierce the atmosphere with the upper notes of the piccolo, and sympathize with the man who extracts dying groans from tho double bass. So the posing business seems to he quite satisfactory to both artists and their audiences, and so long as each party Is content, it is not easy to see why any one else has a right to com plain. Of musical folk, the most competent posers for effect are the nrtlsts of the lyric drama. Posing Is their business, and not Infrequently they devote more attention to their attitudes than to their music, as reckoning that any deficiency in the latter will he condoned by the audience on account of proficiency In the former. They have abundant facili ties for exercising all their gifts In this direction, and the only criticism that can be justly made on their efforts Is thnt tliey fall Into regulation nttltudes, which are In accordance with the tradi tions of the stage, and hare been In use so long thnt they have come to he con sidered Indispensable to the proper ren dition of the part. Nobody, for In stance, ever saw .an nctor play the heavy villain without bending his legs at a sharp angle and walking about on the stage as though afflicted with chronic anchylosis of the knee Joints, for crooked knee Joints and heavy vll- NO TIME TO POSE. lalny go together, and the former nat urally suggest the latter. So, no one ever saw a lover and his sweetheart on the lyric stage wind up an amorous duet without lennlng ngaiust each oth er, the hands of the heroine clasped in an attitude of wild despair, while tho hero throws one arm around her cling ing form and extends the other in mid air, while the twain jointly emit a screech that makes you involuntarily feel for your scalp. It Is not madness; It is merely attitudinizing, and tlie clos er they lean together and the more ear plerciug tlie concluding yell the more ardent Is tlie expression of their undy ing affection and the greater their de testation of the deep-dyed villain with Ills much-bent knees. Next in posing ability to the operatic artists come the pianists. They do not enjoy the same facilltlos for posing, be cause, being confined by the nature of their art to one spot, they cannot caper about the stage and transfix the audi ence with astonishment at their ability to turn round 011 their toes a dozen times without once falling down, but they make the most of their opportuni ties, under all the circumstances, really do very well, and from their initial triple bows to the boxes and parquet to their "Exit, Right," furnish their pat rons with a very passable show. Lady pianists are always expected to furnish a preliminary entertainment with their gloves, which, after spending half an hour in pulling on in the dpeflping room, require five minutes to pull off after being seated at the piano. The gentle men of this nrofesslon, not wearing gloves on entering, do n little stage business with the piano. No matter where It is placed, It Is always a little too far one way or the other, and the services of the two uniformed Xlate beles appertaining to the establishment must be brought Into requisition to make it right, while the pianist cheer fully tackles the bossing of the Job. Of course, they always push it too fnr, and then pull It back too far, so that a good deal of careful manipulation Is re quired to place It exactly right; but the pianist docs not object to working over time, the audience Is always patient, for they know perfectly well what to expect, and that it is quite Impossible for the artist to play until his instru ment has been successfully established over a certain crack in the floor, and the Matebeles have nothing to say about it, so everybody Is satisfied. Con finement to the piano stool after the manual aud pedal performance has ac tually begun does not limit, though It hampers, the posing of the performer. Before actually beginning the program he may run over the keys, and then give the stool a hitch as the stage sailor does his pantaloons; duriug thoughtful, tender passages he may lift ills eyes heavenward, as though gazing Into in finite vacuity, so that the women In the audience may see how intense is his inspiration, and during the Scherzo ho may sway back and forth, throw his coat tails about and kick under the piano as though driving out nil imagin ary canine which had taken refuge there, and all these gyrations will be regarded as the outward and visible signs of an Inward and musical genius. They are looked for by the audience, who have made up their minds to en dure tlutn as placidly as possible, knowing that they are absolutely essen tial to the proper rendition of a piano composition, whether Nocturne by the dreamy Chopin, Moonlight Sonata by the rugged Beethoven, or Rhapsodle Ilongrolse by the Incomprehensible Lists. The director of a musical organiza tion, no matter of what grade, has op portunities for posing somewhnt supe rior to those of the pianist and some what Inferior to those of the operatic hero, and Is allowed liberties not per mitted to either of the others. It Is un derstood that he Is always to keep the audience waiting for Ave minutes aftet the last straggling fiddler hns straggled in. tnken his seat and tuned his fiddle. This Is the director's privilege and he avails himself of It to the uttermost. He takes it for granted that the public will be sufficiently entertained by lis tening to the tone as given out by the clarionet man, and Immediately suc ceeded by scrapings and blowings In every key that Bach discovered for the well-tempered clavichord, so he relies on the rest of the orchestra to furnish the fun for n reasonable, sometimes an unreasonable, time, then enters with a strut as dignified as that of a turkey gobbler and as Imposing as that of a peacock, hears with satisfaction the thunder of applause given by a tired audience glad of any change, and with deprecatory how calmly appropriates to himself the credit due the entire or ganization. The drum major Is commonly regard ed ns a caricature of the.orchestra di rector, but this is a mistake. He Is nn institution of himself, the darling of the street, the envy of the policeman, the admiration of all beholding small boys, who feel that to lie a drum major Is greater than to be n king. Every streel band Is properly gauged by the drum major, and the bigger this personage the taller his mighty hat, tho longei his big-headed cane and the more tricks he con do with It without letting It fali the better the band. He Is strictly or namental, for Ids cane keeps no time, and after Its first premonitory Jab into the atmosphere as a signal for the baud to turn Itself loose on the public, none- \ A I'ENSEIIOSO, of the players pay him the slightest at tentlon. But for this fact he cares noth lug, as It Is generally understood tha he owns, In fee simple, not only tin band, hut also the whole parade whlel It precedes; that. In fact, the publii demonstration has been arranged In his honor, and especially that he may allow the glories of his uniform to gladden the eyes of his fellow-men. Compared with the drum major, the artist who comes before the public with an Amati or Stradivarius under his arm Is a mere trifler in the art of pos ing. He does his best, it is true, stands "I'M TM LUSia or TBI BAND." first on one foot, then on the other, while he delicately tunes his lyre, so to speak, and waits for the piano man to get up steam, and then gracefully sways back and forth as he tortures his unfortunate instrument into emitting shrieks of agony, but Ills opportunities are limited, and unless he breaks n string, thus gaining a chnnee to show what a variety of squeaks he can com pel the others to utter, he is at a dis count. Even the cornet man is better off than he, for the professional whose Interest and pleasure It Is to stuff wind into an E fiat cornet is able to distort his face, roll up his forehead Into laps and assume an expression of intense agony that never fails to excite the sympathy of all beholders. His rival in this form of spectacular entertain ment Is the man with the big horn, who makes faces, not from choice, but of necessity; for the labor of filling so enormous a receptacle with air and keeping It full is so great as to draw drops of perspiration from even the baldest and most poreless cranium. Of nil the list he poses least in a conscious way, but most unconsciously. He has not time to think of posing, for If he did his horn would get empty and sur cease from its labors. The man who nightly thumps a drum on the street as a means of grace, the blind man who uses an accordion in his efforts to n> tract the attention of the charitable aud Induce them to pay him to stop, may pose In a humble way, and frequently do so, but the big horn blower has both hands and his mouth full, and, though Innocently a spectacle, Is, unconscious ly, an object of sympathetic regard. He might pose If he could, but he can not. He alone, of the whole musienl fraternity, makes no conscious effort to attract public attention, though he de serves more than even the drum major, for without n big horn the largest or chestra would be a thing unbalanced and out of Joint. Thomas Corwln. Thomas Corwln was born in 1704. In his prime, life In this country had a local, bucolic, and primitive flavor, which In politics was grotesquely ex aggerated. Clay was commended to the people by the fact that he was the "mill-boy of the slashes;" In the cam paign of 1840 the Whigs showed their love of tile people and their sympathy with simplicity of life In public men by putting up log-cabins and serving out hard cider from them; Corwin, hav ing had to find employment in early life by driving a wagon-load of provisions for the army in the war of 1812, was. later on, favorably known In politics as "the Wagon-boy." The Ohio commun ity of Corwin's boyhood was a com munity of pioneers—their dwellings of logs. The presiding justice first select ed for the southwestern circuit of Ohio was not a lawyer, but qualified himself for admission to the bar by practice In his judicial capacity. The salary at tached to the office was seven hundred and fifty dollars; at the bar the highest professional Income was one thousand dollars. The common dress was of homespun or buckskin; a professional man wore black and shaved himself. Corwln throughout his life was "Tom" Corwln. In 1828 one James Shields, a Jacksonian, was nominated for Con gress against Corwln. In order to dam age him irretrievably a certificate was published to the effect that prominent men of his own party had declared, among other things, that It was his hab it, on going to bed, to exchange Ills cam bric shirt for a night shirt, and Corwln afterward confessed that It was this charge that gave him his first hope of an election, as he felt confident that Jacksonian Democrats would never unite In support of a man who was too good to sleep hi the same shirt he wore during the day. He once confided to some young man, who asked what eourse he ought to pursue to achieve success In public life, "Be as solemn as an ass." But he did not guide his life by this axiom. His declaration in the Senate that- were he a Mexican he would offer his own countrymen a wel come with bloody hands to hospitable graves has become an oratorical com monplace. 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