u Every farmer who makes a specialty of fancy stock ° takes pride in exhibiting; the finest product of his farm. To 3 | show to best advantage, the natural colors of the wool or 3 ° hair must be brought out; the white in particular must be 3 2 snowy white and not tinged with dirty brown or yellow. 3 ° o) ° A BREEDER SAYS OF THE IVORY SOAP: 3 o "I have used it for many years and find it for all prac- 3 ° tical purposes superior to anything 1 have ever used. ... 3 o It leaves the skin soft and clear, furnishes life to the coat, 3 o produces a beautiful growth . . . and leaves it smooth, 3 ° glossy and free from harshness. I use it with luke-warm g o rain water, which I find is the best. This forms a rich, oily 3 ° lather, and helps loosen all stubborn scales and blotches of 3 ° the skin. 3 ° oi O roprrltht, IBM. by The Proeter * n*tnhU Co., Clnelnnttl Ol Soinrtliini; Very Noo(hinp There is something very soothing in the use of St. Jacobs Oil for the cure of Neu ralgia. It soothes the pain, while it strengthens and restores the weak nerves. It is prompt and sure. Enterprising Texas planters have shipped 6,000 pounds of cotton seed to Manila. Don't Tobarro Spit and Smoke Tour I.lfc Airay. j To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag ; netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- I Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men ! strong. All druggists, 60c or SI. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. how Much Air Do You DrentnoT "Man wants but little here below" Is an axiom which applies markedly to the quantity of air which is necessary to i upport life. It is estimated that when a man Is at rest he consumes 500 cubic inches of air every minute, an allowance which, at the first glance, appears large. It is, however, absurd ly small when we consider that at this rate of consumption it would take a man five day 3 and nine and one-hnlf hours to exhaust the air In a small j room 15 feet square and 10 feet high. Any form of exertion, however, great- | ly Increases the consumption of air. [ Thus, If we saunter at two miles an ' hour, we require just twice as much air a3 when sitting in our arm chair; and at four miles an hour nothing less than 2,300 cubic Inches will satisfy us. Taking an average consumption throughout life of one cubic foot of air every two minutes, we reach some j very interesting conclusions. Thus, an [ hour's supply of air could be contained in a trunk 5 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. In a day we should ex haust a small roomful, 10% feet long, 7 feet wide, and 10 feet high. For a year's supply we should require a reservoir or hall 100 feet square and a shade over 2G feet high, and the sup ply for a long life of eighty year 3 would be contained in a large hall 1,000 feet long, 500 feet wide and 42 feet high. PREPARE for the turn of life. It is a critical period. As indications of the change appear be sure your physi cal condition is good. The experience is a wonderful one and under some circumstances full of menace. Mrs. Pink ham. of Lynn, Mass., will give you her advice without charge. She has done so much for women, mm m a mwum ■CT wk"TTSLII surely you can trust her. Read K wmWWm bau this letter from Mas. M. C. GRIF- I MBB* BUB dm en\ F,NG - of Georgeville, Mo.: WwUßvßfolfw Kj/r "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:— The MJBBB°S>B*SE By MB*HE 3 doctor ca l le< l m y trouble ulcera- KwIKMJIffJSiLKI Jtj %JIE tion of womb and change of life. —— I was troubled with profuse flov ing and became very weak. When I wrote to you I was down in bed, had not sat up for six months; was under a doctor's treatment all the time, but it did m<? no good. I had almost given up in despair, but your Vegetable Compound has made me feel like a new woman. I cannot thank you enough. I would advise any woman who is afflicted as I have been to on my fourth I feel that I am entirely cured. I can work all day. lean hardly realize that such a wonderful cure is possible. Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound is the best medicine for women." Don't wait until you are prostrated with the mysterious con dition known as "Change of Life." Get Mrs. Pinkham's ad vice and learn how other women got through. WHERE WIVES TRIUMPH. In the Philippines the law which re lates to the property of married peo ple is entirely in favor of the wife. Any property a bride may possess is never by any chance settled upon the husband, and If he Is poor and she well off, he can only become at most an administrator of her possessions. After death, unless sho has executed a deed in her husband's favor, under a lawyer's eye. the property goes to her children and blood relations, but none to her husband. A married woman retains her maid en name and adds to It that of her husband with the prefix "'do" and the children bear the names of both par ents. The husband symbolically endows tho bride with all his worldly possts- I sions after the marriage. In fact, it Is i clearly a case In the Philippines of j "what's yours Is mine and what's mine I is my own," as far as the women folk 1 aro concerned. 8oliliri nml Feather*. The effort to persuade women to j cease adorning their hats with birds or j tlieir plumage has not been very suc cessful, for feminine vanity has de- I manded this slaughter of tho inno ' cents. Englishmen have on this occa sion proved themselves more humane than the women of the land. Sir John Lubbock has secured the abolition of I the use of osprey plumes in the British army. He pointed out that these plumes were stripped front the birds In their breeding season. Involving the death and the destruction of tlieir young by starvation. On learning this the military authorities decreed tht.t officers should no longer aid In this wanton destruction by wearing osprey Dlumes in their helmets. The price of medicine In Pruss'a Is regulated by the State, a new price list being published every year. The Island of Luzon has the same area as Ohio. SC)C^CI8k)IO(f*X>IC(OiO((3<0(0(OK)JO(OIO(OK^^C^^ 1 NEWS AND NOTES | | FOR WOMEN. | Polonaise. on Parisian Gowns. Polonaises, or semblanoes of them produced by the arrangement of vari ous dress trimmings, are seen on very many of the imported gowns from Paris. Spring Walking Coats. English walking coats, as closely fitted in the skirts as a riding habit, with rounded, open or half-open front arching back towards the hips, repre sent the leading features of spring shapes prepared for general wear. Lengths vary greatly among these coats, the majority being of medium length. L'seless Long Chains. One of the most useless things ever pnt on the market to tempt fair wom en's purses is the long dangling chain. It is neither for a watch nor for a chatelaine, and why it is in vogue is more than any man and many women can determine. These long chains of amethysts, olivines, imitation sap phires or turquoise and garnets alter nating with imitation pearls are worn with theatre hats aud light gowns. From the chain dangles a single orna ment, a big heart of the predominat ing color in the chain. Brushing Hair Backward!. Have you ever tried brushing your hair the wrong way? There was a little woman whose hair had long been thin aud scraggy. She was in despair, having used a host of different tonics without benefit, when a French maid suggested brushing the hair the wrong way, assuring her mistress that in Paris this was a favorite way of groom ing the hair. The American woman decided to try the experiment. Her maid carefully divided the hair iuto many small parts, and then, with a huge and very still brush, began her work. Holding the extreme end of the strand to be brushed in her left hand, she started at the bottom of it and brushed upward toward the head. After each strand had gone through this process the maid smoothed each hair back into its original position. Now the woman brushes her hair in this mauner each uight aud morning. She declares it has proved more beneficial than an expensive tonic.— New York Herald. Women of th® Legion of Honor. It is interesting to note, in conneo- ; tion with the fact that one of the nuns attached to the naval hospital at Cherbourg, France, has just been decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honor by the Minister of Marine, that she is the sixty-eighth woman who has been received into the famous order since its foundation in 1802. A glance at the list reminds us how female valor has become recognized side by side with charity and devotion, talent, also, not been overlooked. Thus, nmoug the soldiers we find Virgiuie Ghesquiere, Sergdant in the Twenty-seventh Regimentof Infantry, who obtained the much-coveted re ward in 1808; Marie Scnellinck, Sub- Lientenant, who was wounded at Austerlitz and Jena, aud Widow Brulon, Sub-Lieutenant in the Forty second Regiment of Infantry. Four vivaudieres also figure on the roll,and amoug the ladies who have done good and noble work Mme. Furtado-Heine, Mme. Coralie Cahen, Mme. Koechlin- Schwartz and Mme. Foucher de Careil. Rosa Bonbeur, the great painter of animal life, is an officer of the order, and among other praise worthy entries may be remarked the following: Mme. Abicot de Ragi">, wife of the Mayor of Bizou.—Boston Transeript. Chicago's l'et Sculptress. Nine years ago a little girl walked into the studio of Lorado Taft iu Chi cago aud announced her desire to study the art of soulpture. To-day that girl is still little and also famous. Her name is Bessie Potter; her age is twenty-five. Bessie Potter is all the rage in Chicago. It is the oorreot thing to have a portrait statuetto fash ioned by the deft fingers of this di minutive woman. Genius is sometimes described as unlimited capacity for work. Measured by this definition, Bessie Potter is a genias; for no one ever saw her idle, and the number of her productions is something phenomenal. When it is added that besides the virtuo of indus try she has love of art and good taste, her success so early in life iB not sur prising. The first of her work that attracted attention was a bust of Professor David Swing. She gave expression to his pioturesque porsouality as it had never been done before. Her special line took the form of sketchy little statuettes. Her statuette of Susan B. Anthony is pronounced by critics the best portrait of Miss Anthony extaut. Bessie Potter is seen at her best iu figures of young women aud girls. She gets on famously with the little folk, aud has done some delightful portraits of babies. There is au individuality about her work that is ofteu lacking in the production of other sculptors aud artists, and she means to retain it. She has pronqunced opinions on the Bubject of American artists who "go to Europe, settle dowu there aud copy year after year until they lose all individuality." She thinks it well enough to bo informed on what Exrope has produced aud is producing, but that is all.. It is pleasant to be able to say that while society has made her a fad, her work is appreciated by artists. Haf faelli went wild over her statuettes. Vonnoh is an euthusiast on the same subject. Taft •is very proud of the fact that he was once her teacher, aud the rest of the Chicago art colony leeius to feel a proprietary interest iu Bessie. The consensus of opinion in every studio was summed up by Lora do Taft when be said: "Bessie Potter is destined to take a very high place in American art."— Philadelphia Press. Woman Should n c Well Corseted. The first and most stringent com mandment of the modistes now is, you must be well corseted. If you are not, and if you have principles against reducing your waist measure by means of a long, steady pull on your stay strings, then don't, for good looks' sake, attempt to have the sea son's gowns cut on the new mode. A large waist is not to be tolerated with the shape of skirt aud basque well dressed women are now wearing. Most of the new corsets are, to begin with, absolutely plain, their only or namentation beiug a littlo decorative needlework about their tips. They are heavily boned, but the best of them are not mado of the clumsy coutille, by the strength of which such store used to bo laid. Coutille, it is agreed, gives the figure a stiff, hard expression, and nowadays the desire is to be closely laced without losiug supple grace of aspect. The truly well-cut corsets are made very short in the back, curved out under the Bhoulder-blade and on the hip proper they are short and boneless, while the steel and whalebone is brought to the front. By this simple devioe it is wonderful the way useful curves are thrown out and humpish superfluity crushed in, aud a woman whose stays are very tight moves about with the apparent elasticity of a skirt dancer. Now, no hygienio questions will be raised here, but it is asserted that, from n modish point of view, the new oorset accomplishes wonders, and if you happen to be as thin as the pro verbial fence rail, so thin, indeed, that no amount of lacing could pro duce hips or bust, then you can easily buy a pair of prepared stays that will produce them for you. These will be made of a linen net, having aerated pads in the right places. The pads, by the way, are so prepared as uot to heat the bodj' and so diminish the flesh, as clumsy cotton pads do. For the summer such delicately built women as need neither to lace nor to pad. will popularize the littlo corsets made all of a tough, flat linen lace, while already for home wear tho cor set makers are showing pretty things made of horizontal rows of linen beading, through whioh broad satin ribbons run to form the walls of tho slay.—New York Sun. Gossip. Queen Victoria dislikes cold meat, suede gloves, artificial flowers and the odor of furs. Miss Helen Gould has read law. and, did she so desire, could pass the examination for entrance to the New York bar. Mrs. Virginia Key, a daughter-in law of Francis Scott Key, is living quietly in Chicago at tho age of eighty-five. Miss Mabel Campbell, of Dallas, Texas, has succeeded in climbing to the snow-capped summit of Mount Popocatepetl, of Mexico. Mrs. Sheridan and Mrs. Logan are among the largest women pensioners of this country. They receive rospeo tively $2500 and S2OOO a year. Miss ICingsley, the African travoler, contemplates another expedition, this time for the purpose of studying the criminal law of the West African races. A St. Paul woman who died the other day left by will enough money to pay taxes on certain personal prop erty which she had not returned to the assessor. Mrs. Grace Espy Hatton Cowles, the Superintendent of Public In struction of Colorado, has jurisdiction over 1500 school districts and fifty-six counties, which she is expected to visit at least once o year. Miss Florence Lundbarg, of Oak land, Cal., has achieved artistio fame in Paris in an unusual manner. She undertook the decoration of a cafe in the Latin quarter, and now all Paris is hocking to see her work. Mrs. Hearst proposes now to build not only an ideal university, but also an ideal city. She is said to have provided a fund of $150,000 with which to procure architectural and other plans for the improvement of San Francisco. The women of the National Capital are about to erect a statue iu honor of General F. E. Spinner. The move ment is in recognition of the fact that General Spinner, when Treasurer of the United States, was the first to give women employment in tho Federal service. Gleanings From the Shops. Files of new wash goods. Batistes, in a diversity of dosigns Many raffled ribbons, narrow and wide. Silk gauzes showing bold brocaded designs. Black Chantilly lace gowns made over rose pink satin. Windows full of new silk—striped orepons iu light colors. Sashes of plain and fancy ribbons with knotted fringed ends. Crepons in new weaves that simu late shirrings aud pulliugs. Tight-fitting sheath skirts having the lower edge cut in deep scallops, pipod withacoutrasting shade of satin. Narrow turnover collars of fine nain sook trimmed with lace or embroidery to bo worn with the silk or sntiu stock. Very dark-blue chiffons with alter nating bayadere silken cords of blue aud whito with polka dots inter spersed. White mousseline scarfs havirg the ends trimmed with appliques of black Chantilly lace and largo black chenille dottings. ' I'IIE pleasant method and beneficial effects of the well-known remedy, SYRUP OP FIGS, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company, illustrate the value of obtaining the licptid laxative principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing to the taste and acceptable to the system. It is the one perfect strengthening laxative, CLEANSING THE SYSTEM EFFECTUALLY, DISPELLING COLDS AND HEADACHES, PREVENTING FEVERS, OVERCOMING HABITUAL CONSTIPATION PERMANENTLY. Its perfect freedom from every objectionable quality and substance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, gently yet promptly, without weakening or irritating them, make it tiie ideal laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but THE MEDICINAL QUALITIES ARE OBTAINED FROM SENNA AND OTHER AROMATIC PLANTS, by a method known to the California Fig Syrup Company only. In order to get its beneficial effects, and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name,of the Company printed on the front of every package. Consumers of the choicest products of modern commerce purchase at about the same price that others pay for cheap and worthless imitations. To come into universal demand and to be everywhere considered the best of its class, an article must be capable of satisfying the wants and tastes of the best informed purchasers. The California Fig Syrup Company having met with the highest success in the manufacture and sale of its excellent liquid laxative remedy, SYRUP OF FIGS, it has become important to all to have a knowledge of the Company and its product. The California Fig Syrup Company was organized more than fifteen years ago, for the special purpose of manufacturing and selling a laxative remedy which would be more pleasant to the taste and more beneficial in effect than any other known. The great value of the remedy, as a medicinal agent and of the Company's efforts, is attested by the sale of millions of bottles annually, and by the high approval of most eminent physicians. As the true and genuine remedy named SYRUP OF FIGS is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Company only, the knowledge of that fact will assist in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other parties. (XUP3RNIA JTG SYRVF (J e^ F cAu C/sc q VORK,'^' For <Sale by All Druggishs , Price 50 $ Per Bottle. Two thousand large trees in the Ber lin Thiergarten have been cut do\Vn, leaving many acres of the park bare. The excuse is that they made the ground damp and unhealthy and served as a hiding place for criminals, but the King's taste for formal land scape gardening and for statues is be lieved by Berlin people to be the real cause of the vandalism. StrlltcM In. The chill of frost strikes in and carries | with it nohas ami pains. St. Jacobs Oil ( will follow close bohind and drive them ! out of the system. It will search and cure Rico Wine. Rice wine, a vicious concoction as we know it. has been used by the Ja panese for 2,000 years. The use of the Juice of the grape, of course, is many thousands of years older. Beatify Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pjmples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. The Parliamentary reporters are up In arms against the length of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's name. To Care Constipation Forever* TaUo Cnscarcts Cundy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. (f C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money Canvasbaek duck were so numerous In the early days in Maryland that employers were obliged to enter into contract with their laborers that the ! latter should not be fed canvasbaek ji ducks more than three times a week. | One man could easily shoot 100 ducks ; in a single morning in those days. ! Now the fowls cost $5 a pair. In Lon- | don they are worth $25. Dr. Soth Arnold's Cough Killer Is ft won derful medicine for Weak Lungs.— lDA HAUKOWS, Deer Grovo, 111., March 21, LsiM There are about 80 different tribes rjmong the natives of the Philippines. The Morns are the most bloodthirsty savages known. Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup forehlhlren teething, softens the gums, reduces intlsmnm t'.on, allays pain, cures wind coHc.2sc a bottle. The largest telescope in existence does not make the planet Mars appear any bigger than the moon does through j an opera glass. Plso's Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs.— Rev. 1). Ili'riiMUKL LEit, Lexington, Mo., February Hi, IbUL "The More You Say the Less People Re member." One Word With You, SAPOLSO Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide EI>ITKI> IY IIENRY GHAIIWICK . PRICE 10 CENTS, POSTPAID. Official """"""""""l Scientific Average* B ha'tin -, Nnti -i.nl KfetV i ng. ? Tissr rlay ss an>l a> running; | I college HZXgh HI 9 how to I ' •- Balls.' players. etc. I New Playing Rules. A. C. SPALOIN3 &. BROS.. New York. Denver. Chicago. E BMi RICYCLES B * awuauu ' oi QPd'hand wheels, jfood | EARN a B'GYGLE i K. F. Mooii Cycle Comnuuv. Citu-auo, 111. I !i:|HI|CARTER'S INK! I know how o. 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