"Durability is
Better Than Show."
The wealth of the multi-milUonaircs is
not equal to good health. Riches without
health axe a curse, and yet the rich, the
middle classes and the poor alike have, in
Hood's Sarsaparilla, a valuable assistant
in getting and maintaining perfect health.
3Coeds SdUafjauffo
Austria. The citizens of Prague who
are called upon to act as jurymen have
unanimously refused to attend for that
purpose unless a new hall is built to
accommodate them, the old one being
unhealthy and too small.
The Summer Hntli.
Nothing is uriore refreshing and Invigor
ating in summer than a daily bath. But to
have it efTeetual soft water and good soap
must be used. Ivory Soap is the best for
the purpose; it is pure, dissolves quickly,
sweetens and purill s the cuticle, gives a
healthful glow, and leaves the skin soft and
white. Early morning, or just before retir
ing at night, is the most favorable time for
bathing. ELIZA 11. PARKER.
The Lutheran Church in Iceland
numbers about 72,000 baptized mem
bers, which Is about tho total popula
tion.
To Care Constipation Forever*
Take Cuseai ets Candy Cathartic. 100 or 25a
M C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Algeria and Argentine are the only
countries In the world where the horses
out-number the human beings.
Educate Toar Bowels With Cascarets*
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever,
100, 25c. If C. C. C, fail* druggists refund money.
For several years the Church Exten
sion Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church has furnished aid for the erect
ion of two churches a day.
During the past few months the Bal
timore and Ohio Road has materially
extended the runs of the passenger lo
comotives on through trains. Formerly
engines were changed on an average
every 100 or 150 miles. It was thought
that the mountain grades of the Balti
more and Ohio Rail Road would pre
vent an extension of the runs. How
ever, the experiment was made. It has
proved successful and reduced the
number of locomotives formerly re
quired by 24. which can be used in
other branches of the service and save
the purchase of more motive power.
Under the new plan, locomotives are
double erewed and make from 7,000 to
8,000 miles a month, as against 3,500 to
4,000 under the former method.
THE MAKING OF A MENU.
Things to Consider If It Is to Rcsalt
Successfully
The planning of menus is one of the
most exacting duties of a hostess who
desires to make or keep a reputation
as a successful entertainer. "Pot luck"
and "take us as you find us" are all
well enough up to a certain point; but
there are occasions that demand a
carefully thought-out arrangement ol
a dinner, and when anything less
would be a discourtesy to one's guests.
In making up a menu the season
limits one at the start, for, although
It is said that one can now buy any
thing at any time of the year in the
city markets, that pre-supposes a fat
ter pocketbook than most planning
housewives possess. Within a short
time, however, the best of everything
will bo comparatively cheap, and sc
much will be in season that one need
not stop at anything on that account.
A stumbling block that remains
through all seasons are the limitations
of one's cook. If you are not the pos
sessor of a skilled chef it is of no use
to expect high-art cooking and elabo
rately concocted dishes. Plan youi
menu within the range of your cook's
capabilities.
It may be impossible to please all
one's guests, but it will be well to have
those things on the menu that will
appeal to the greatest number. A
hostess who has divined the idiosyn
cracies of her guests and is able to
humor them is sure of success. One
of the chief attributes of success is the
ability to give a personal or distinctive
note to one's dinner, something by
which your dinner may be differenti
ated from every one else and remem
bered with especial pleasure. The
method of serving the character of
6ome especial dish, the decorations,
any one of a dozen things may bring
this about under the management of a
clever and ineenious woman.
TJo 7/frs. IPin/cham,
jCynn, 97fass.
[LETTER TO MRS. FINKHAM MO. 41,307}
44 DEAR FRIEND—A year ago I was a
great sufferer from female weakness.
My head ached all the time and 1 would
get so dizzy and have that all gone
feeling in the stomach and was so
nervous and restless that I did not
know what to do with myself.
44 My food did me no good and I had a
bad case of whites. I wrote to j'ou and
after taking Lydia E. Finkham's Vege
table Compound as directed, 1 can
truly say that I feel like a new woman
and cannot tell you how grateful I am
to you.
44 1 have recommended it to all my
friends and have given It to my
daughter who is now getting along
splendidly. May you live many years
to help our suffering sisters." —MRS. C.
CARPENTER, 253 GRAND ST., BROOKLYN,
N. Y.
Over eighty thousand
such letters as this were re
ceived by Mrs. Pinkham
during 1897. Surely this is
strong proof of her ability
to help suffering women.
OUR NEW NATIONAL PARK.
Mount Rainier Now Stands as the Senti
nel of the Most Beautiful Park.
(Seattle, Wash., Letter.)
Mount Rainier, the grandest moun
tain peak in America, is holding up its
massive, snow-capped head with added
dignity. Its tremendous greatness has
been recognized by the congress of the
United States, and it now stands as the
sentinel of the most beautiful natural
park in the world.
On March 2 last President McKinley
approved an act to set aside a certain
portion of lands in the state of Wash
ington known as the Pacific Coast Re
serve, which future generations will
call the Mount Rainier National Park.
A great transcontinental railway com
pany was forced to return to the gov
ernment its title to many, many thou
sands of acres of the eighteen square
miles in the newly established park.
The land :1s now under the Jurisdiction
of the interior department, which will
at once take steps to care for it so that
the people may fully enjoy the many
advantages that it offers.
The improvement of transportation
facilities, which is already being con
sidered, will make the Mount Rainier
National Park the Mecca for tourists
from all parts of the world. It is
now, with all its difficulties of ascent,
the goal for the world's famous moun
tain climbers who have not yet reached
its summit. Scores of people have
climbed its slippery side 3 over glacier
ice and snow, and many others will
mount rainier, the sentinel of the NEW NATIONAL PARK "iljl
attempt the ascent within the next few
months.
Washington's National Park Is un
doubtedly the peer of the famous Yel
lowstone and other parks in this coun
try. In fact, comparison is impossible,
as there are no points of similarity
between Yellowstone and Rainier. Yel
lowstone is simply a grand beauty spot
with a few hot-water fountains when
compared with Rainier, its majestic
scenery and boundless attractions for
lovers of nature.
Mount Rainier must be named with
Fugiyama, St. Elias, Ararat and Blanc.
It is more like the mighty mountain
of sunny Japan than the supreme peak
of the snowy Alps. Unlike Mount
Blanc, it is not merely the dominant
peak of r chain of snow mountains; it
Is the only peak in view for hundreds
of miles. Mount St. Helens and Mount
Adams are similarly isolated and are
many miles away to the soutn. Rainier
rises from 7,000 to 8,000 feet above the
surrounding mountains in majestic
loneliness. It springs out of a valley
of wondrous beauty 11,000 feet In seven
miles. Eminent scientists and moun
tain climbers the world over are ready
to bear witness to Its grandeur. The
first view of the mountain to the new
comer is awe inspiring. But its beauty
Is not confined to the huge peak alone.
There are acres of meadow land run
ning clear up to the snow line—verita
ble flower banks—and in the summer
season gorgeous with a hrllliaiicy that
can scarcely be described.
There are wonderful glaciers, scarred
with grim crevices of unknown depth.
These are bordered with evergreen for
ests, and they present a spectacle of
wild beauty that is not equaled else
where in the world. On the summit
of the mountain is the crater of an ex
tinct volcano, out of which jets of
steam and boiling water are continual
ly spouting, giving evidence of terrible
and unknown things in the depths of
the mighty pile of rock and snow.
There are man;- streams full of ice
water dashing over rocks and preci
pices into waterfalls and then finding
their way down to the low lands until
they become lest in the rivere that
smpty into Puget Sound.
The greatest on the list of superla
tive things that the mountain park
affords, however, is the magnificent
view from the summit. This summit
consists of three peaks, the central and
highest being Crater Peak. To the
■oath is Peak Success and to the north
Liberty Cap. The billowing tops of
successive mountain ranges stretch off
in every direction. Below, to the east
and south, lie the plains of Eastern
Washington and the Columbia river
valley, a valley that is known at least
by reputation to every person in the
country.
To the west and north are the tim
ber covered foothills of the Cascades
and the Olympic mountains, the great
coast range. Beyond these a light blue
haze tells where the old Pacific rolls.
Puget Sound lies between like a scroll
of molten silver in its emerald setting
of green forests of fir and cedar. In
several directions, looking like tiny
threads of white, the Puyallup, Carbon,
Nisqually and Cowlitz rivers can be
seen racing on to mingle their waters
with the salt waves of the sound. Their
glacier sources shine like diamonds
when the sun is bright.
In 1883 Professor Zittel.a well-known
German geologist, and Professor James
Bryce, member of parliament, and au
thor of the "American Common
wealth, made a report on the scenery
of Mount Rainier. Among other things
they said:
"The scenery of Mount Rainier is of
rare and varied beauty. The peak it
self is as noble a mountain as we have
ever seen in its lines and structures.
We have seen nothing more beautiful
in Switzerland and Tyrol, in Norway
or the Pyrenees, than the Carbon river
glacier and the great Puyallup gla
ciers; indeed, the iee of the latter is
unusually pure and the crevasses un
usually fine. The combination of ice
scenery with woodland scenery of the
grandest type is to be found nowhere
in the old world, unless it be in the
Himalayas, and, so far as we know,
nowhere else on the American conti
nent."
There are several routes to the sum
mit, but the only one that has ever
proved practical is known as the Para
dise valley route. All of the more in
teresting features of the great moun
tain and the park that surrounds it can
be seen from this road and it will
probably be the only one used this
summer.
The start under present arrange
ments Is made by stage from Tacoma.
For two days the prospective mountain
climber travels rapidly over a good
road through one of the Washington
forests of gigantic trees to Longmire
Springs. Timber line is then but six
miles away, over a plain trail. The
distance can be covered by pack horses
or by walking.
Paradise Park, which is a place of
beauty beyond description, has been
named by untrained mountain climb
ers. Here muscles are hardened by
climbing over the snow fields and gla
ciers and one becomes generally ac
customed to the high altitude. Here
also guides are to be obtained, for it is
not safe to attempt the ascent without
an experienced escort. That strang
ers have gone to the top of the moun
tain and returned in safety is no proof
that others can do the same. The ele
ments at this high altitude are very
uncertain and a storm is likely to blow
up at any time. Then the danger is
very great for even those who know
the mountain thoroughly.
To any one except a hardy moun
taineer the ascent requires more than
ordinary strength. This Is especially
true In the case of women, and none of
the gentler sex should attempt the
Journey without at least a month's
training by taking long Walks until
twenty miles or more can be covered
without fatigue.
From Paradise Park the climb com
mences. Two full days are usually re
quired for the ascent, although it has
been made by small parties In much
less time. Camp should be broken
very early In the morning, and with the
necessary baggage strapped on pack
animals the journey is slowly contin
ued until Camp Muir is reached.
The night is spent at this point, and
a second start is made at 4 a. m. on
the following day, in order to pass
Gibraltar Rock before the sun begins
to loosen rocks on the side of the
mountain. The route continues past a
spur which divides the Nisqually and
Cowlitz glaciers, and on to the famous
rock, which has proven a stumbling
block to so many. The terrors of pass
ing this butte causes the nerves of the
novice to tingle. He is ready to be
frightened to death by the first real or
imaginary danger, and unless securely
roped to competent guides is likely to
fall to his death.
A REMARKABLE TRIP
Of au Ocean I.lner In Trying a New
Route.
The steamer Gaspcsla, which was first
to attempt to reach London by the new
route via the Gulf of St. Lawrence and
Milford Haven, Wales, had three
months of such experience as happily
but seldom falls to the lot of an ocean
liner. The dream of a certain group
of capitalists is over, for although the
distance Is appreciably less by the way
proposed, the fate of the ship which
came limping back into port ten weeks
after every one had given her up will
cast a damper upon all future efforts.
The Ghspesia left Milford Haven on
Jan. 11; she made the south coast of
Newfoundland on the 19th, and entered
the gulf on the 20th. She should have
reached Faspebiac in one day. The
trip actually took six. It was Feb. 7
when she starte'd out, with her return
cargo and three passengers, in the very
worst weather of an unusually hitter
winter. She was caught by the ice
floes and held helpless. Keen winds
raged about her and the rigging froze.
The fires were put out to husband coal,
and every one on board suffered from
cold. Her 75 sailors wore clothed
only for an ordinary winter passage in
the North Atlantic. They did not know
when they would be released or wheth
er they might not be driven from a ship
crushed like an eggshell to wander
over the shifting floe to their death.
There are 50.000 square miles of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Gaspesla
saw a good deal of drifting to and fro
with the wind and current. Deliver
ance came when the famous sealing
steamer Kite signaled the Gaspesla and
went to her assistance. The Kite likes
ice; she was built to resist it, and car
ries dynamite to blast her way through
it. By several days' hard work her
crew opened away for the Gaspesia,
and she reached St. John's nearly three
months out. She was almost a wreck,
and the crew and passengers were quite
exhausted. It may be shorter by the
new route, but the chances are that
ordinary travelers will prefer the old,
although Nansen might enjoy the trip
as practice.
Argon tea I Wall Paper.
The former popular fear of arsenical
wall paper appears to have quite sub
sided. However, several cases of al
leged poisoning by arsenical wall pa
pers having occurred in Ithaca, Dr. E.
M. Chamot, of the chemical depart
ment of Cornell university, undertook
a series of analyses of wall papers of
various colors and patterns, as a result
of which he is said to have asserted
that nearly all well papers sold at the
present lime contain arsenic, some of
them in large quantities.
Central Af acrlcan Floral Curiosity.
A strange flower has been found on
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It grows
on a small tree and forth a per
fume only at noon, I It this la not the
queer part, for in the morning it is
pure white, at noon red and in the
evening blue.
A woman may say all Borts of un
kind things about her husband, but
she is not true bine if she lets any one
else say them
DUNKHORST A MAMMOTH.
Record of the Boxer Who Will Fight
at Athens.
Since the days when Joe SlcAullffe
came out ot the west to win tame In
the prize ring there never was a boxer
ot note who possessed the same gen
erous proportions claimed by Ed
Dunkhoret, who meets Joe Butler at
Athens tomorrow evening. Dunk
horst is six feet high, and weighs, in
condition, 225 pounds. He has been
nicknamed the "Mastodon," and it is
well earned. But Dunkhorst is differ
ent from most of the big fellows in
that he is fast as a feather-weight.
Those who witnessed his terrific fight
with Peter Maher at the Arena need
no further verification ot that state
ment. Fast as Maher was, Dunkhorst
was equally so, and, although Maher
won, he did not get off scot free by
any means. While a comparatively
newcomer in the ring, Dunkhorst's
dozen battles have already demon
strated the possibilities of his huge
frame, when thoroughly seasoned. One
peculiarity of Dunlthorst'B is that he
seems to be immune from the blows
soporific, which so many boxers suc
cumb to. Up to the present time he
has never been knocked out, and it
looks as though he never will be. Al
though he was in no condition for a
contest when he met Maher at the
Arena, and the Irish champion landed
again and again on his jaw the pum
meling he received did not seem to af
fect "Dunk." He took it all good na
turedly, and Maher, who always be
lieved his good right hand was invin
cible, was dumfounded. Dunkhorst
has declared that had he been in
Bhape he would have beaten Maher
that night, and many good Judges
agree with him. When Gus Ruhlin
was at his best and Dunkhorst only a
novice it took the former twenty-two
rounds to win from the Syracuse man
at the Greater New York Athletic club.
The experience he gained there did
Dunkhorst good, for he went right up
to Toronto and beat Charley Strong
so badly that the referee stopped the
bout in the fourth round. Frank
Chllds, the colored giant, met "Dunk"
at Detroit for eight rounds, and the
Cadillac Athletic club witnessed the
fastest fighting ever seen in that sec
i~~
The Church Missionary Society of
England has been celebrating its cen
tenary. This society dominates mis
sionary thought and action in England,
and has the largest income of any mis
sionary society in the world. It has
sent out over 2.000 missionaries, the
first going in 1803.
Bcnuty Is Dlooil 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 pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascaretß,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
The Afro-American Review advo
cates an alliance of nil African Metho
dists. They number 6,500,000. and rep
resent four large bodies and numerous
smaller ones.
LHTY |
(S& Y7hy let your neighbors |
know it?
And why give them a j
chance to guess you are even J
five or ten years more? I
Better give them good I
reasons for guessing the I
other way. It is ve-y easy; 1
for nothing tells of age so J
quickly as gray hair. jj
; Ayer'sl
vigor •
is a youth-renewer.
It hides the age under a
luxuriant growth of hair the
color of youth.
It never fails to restore
color to gray hair. It will
stop the nair from coming
out also.
It feeds the hair bulbs.
Thin hair becomes thickhair,
and short hair becomes long
hair.
It cleanses the scalp; re
moves all dandruff, and H
prevents its formation. tj
, We have a book on the &
4 Hair which we will gladly
you do the bens-
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W",™; '-of l>it health that IM-P-A-N-B
m i.5! v" t" n ." 0 V. S * nd ? u,, to '"P""" ' 'hemic.l
ivv York, lr 10 urn pie* auil loou kitlißoatoU
The harvester earns his bread by the sweat of hi 3
brow, but when evening .comes, after resting and cooling
off, a tub of clear water and a cake of Ivory Soap will
make him feel like new. The Ivory Soap bath will fit
him for a good night's sleep.
Ivory Soap costs less than medicine and will do
more to keep the man in good working order.
NO DISCRACE.
Eu.jcll S B o Will Dlo In Full PoMewlon
of His Riches.
"A disgrace to die rich?" asked Rus
sell Sage. "Certainly not. Wealthy
persons should use their money to
bless the world —that is my theory. But
If they give it all away early in their
lifetime they will lose their capacity
for doing good." Mr. Sage was stand
ing in his office, with a light brown
overcoat on and a soft felt hat in his
hand as he uttered these philanthropic
opinions, and he declared that he had
been misquoted in reference to Andrew
Carnegie's utterance. "I believe," said
Mr. Sage, "that it is my business to
husband my resources as far as possl-!
ble and conserve the great property
and great highways that I have been
instrumental in building up (referring
to the Manhattan and other railroads),
and that I should protect the interests
of the hundreds of people that have put
their savings into these companies sim
ply because they thought I would pro
tect their interests. If I were to give
away all I have now I could no longer
be connected with these enterprises,
and my power for doing good would be
lost. Yes, I have given a great deal
for charity, and shall continue to do
so, but I must keep the bulk of my for
tune in order to protect the invested
Interest of others."
A Now Form of Kite.
Scientific kite-flying has made great
progress in recent years. The Compan
ion has frequently noted the achieve
ments at the Blue Hill observatory ir
Milton, Mass. Mr. G. A. Frismuth ol
Philadelphia has borrowed an idea
from the balloon fly. or "telltale," used
on ships to show the direction of the
wind, and has constructed a kite con
sisting of three cones, one within the
other. The mouth of each cone con-;
sists of a bamboo circle, to which the
silk bag is fastened. The circles in
the experimental kite are 12, 18 and 24
Inches in diameter, and the cones are
24, 36 and 42 inches in length each
with a two-inch outlet at the end. A
little protuberance at the bottom oi
the outer bamboo hoop shows where a
small lump of lead ballast is attached
The weight of the entire construction
is seven ounces. The kite at a height
of 1,000 feet registered a pull of sixteen
pounds. It Beems to be an easy lorm
of kite for boys and amateurs to con
struct.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr Life Ixaj.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To j
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men 1
strong. All druggists, COo or (>l. Cureguaran- i
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Ca. Chicago or New York.
The result of some investigations on
the feeding of milch cows, recently
carried out in Germany, was to show
that the production of milk is depend
ent in certain respects upon the nature
of the food supplied to the cows, but
not as is commonly supposed, solely i
on the albuminoid ratio.
No-To-Bsc for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 60c, 81. All druggist*
Probably for the first time in history,
it is said, has a street in a German
town been named after a rabbi. This
has occurred at Ostrowo, where It was
decided to call a street Freimann
Strasse. In memory of the late liab
biner Dr. Freimann.
Fits reminnently cured. No fit* or nervous. :
rem nfter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Groat
Nerve Hostoror. S2 trial bottle and treatise
free. Dr.R.H.Ki.iNR. Ltd. 981 Arch St.Phila,Pa
Mrs. Window's Soothing Byrnp for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wiml colic.2sc a bottle.
I cannot spenk too highly of Piso's Pure for
Consumption. Mrs. Fuank Mouus, 216 W.22U
St., New York, Oct. 29, 1894.
E. B.Walthall Co., Druggists, Horse Gave,
Ky., say: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures every
one that takes it." Sold by Druggists. 76c.
"A Good Tale Will Bear Telling Twice/
Use Sapolio! Use
SAPOLIO
"My wife liad pimples on her face, but
she has been taking CASCAKETS anil they
have all disappeared. I had beon troubled
, with constipation for some time, but after tak
ing the first Cascaret I have had .10 trouble
with this aliment. Wo cannot speak too high
ly of Cascarets." FHEDWARTMAN.
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Columbia Bevel-Gear Ghainless
S6O to $75.
Ask riders of the C- lumbla Uevel-Gear
Chuinless their experience with the wheel.
We hcve yet to hear of one who does not say
that ihe Chainless Is easier to take care of
than the chain wheel: that it has a longer
life; that every ounce of power applied to
the pedals is inailo effect' - * - " *hat It seems
to possess an activity and life nr its own and
that you will notice this in starting, stopping,
buck-pedaling, riding on levels and especially
in aso-'iding grades.
CHAIN WHEELS.
Columbias, Hartfords and Vedettes
Prices, $25 to SSO.
PUPE MPS. CD., HirM, Conn.
"810 FOUR"
"THESEA LEVEL ROUTE"
NEW YORK.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE.
WACNER SLEEPINC CARS.
DINING CARS.
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j President, Gen. Pass. Ji Ticket Agt
GOLDEN CROWN
LAMP CHIMNEYS
Are the best. Ask for them. Cost no more
tlutn common chimney*. All dealers.
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