NtWSY CLEANINGS. Austria is arranging a commercial treaty with Mexico. A cotton mill, to cost over $500,000, Is to be erected at Spartausburg, S. C. A non-partisan City Council is ex pected from the next election in Chi cago. A splendid laboratory for anatomical purposes is contemplated by the Uni versity of Chicago. Navigation to the St. Clair flats in I-akc St. Clair has been opened, the earliest ever known. Peru has accepted the invitation to participate in the St. I.ouis Exposition, and will be well represented. A movement lias been started in Bel fast, Ireland, for the erection of a statue of the late Lord Dutferin. It is estimated that over 4000 build ings will be erected this year at Bir mingham. Ala., at an aggregate cost of $4,000,000. It is stated that there will be 2500 colonial troops in London for the coro nation. Practically every colony will be represented. An agitation is on foot among cer tain villages in Lincolnshire, England, with ti view to having poor tenants ex cused from paying poor rates. Glasgow, Scotland, has decided to seek Parliamentary powers to borrow $3,750,000 to build houses for the poor. This sum will build 400 tenements of three stories, accommodating 3600 families. During the year 1000 the number of establishments in the bicycle business in tlie United States was 312; the cap ital, $20,783,650; number wage-earners employed, 17.525; total wages paid, $8,180,817. aud total value of products, $31,015,008. The present industrial activity in Mexico is hardly less noted than that of the Southern United States, and among the principal enterprises are the cotteu mills, which have been very successful, considering the difficulties to be overcome. The Dollar Savings Bank, of East Liverpool, has taken out a certificate of incorporation to conduct business which savings and loan associations are authorized to engage in. Capital SIOO,OOO. The Standard Oil Company is secur ing options on land in the vicinity of Austinburg and Thompson, Ashtabuiq county, and it is understood that test wells will be put down soon. City bonds of Alliance for street im provement to the amount of $101,400 were sold. The Alliance City Sav ings Bank was the successful bidder. The premium was SIOO. TLarllest ItnMlan Millet. Will you be short of hay? If so, plant a plenty of this prodigally prolific millet. 5 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre. Price, 60 lbs., $1.90; 100 lbs., $3.00; low freights. John A. Balzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. A The Christmas tree was first heard of in England about 1444. Iteat l or the Koweln. No matter what ails you, headacho to a can cer. you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCAIIKTS help naturo, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce oasy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuino, put up in metal boxes, evory tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Electric rah service in Paris has proved Tcry unprofitable. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveUe.storer.s2urial bottle and treatisefreo lir. li. 11. KLINE. Ltd., 931 Arch St., l'hila., Pa. In 1009 the Eiffel tower becomes the property of the city of Paris, and will then be used lor its weather bureau. Piso's Cure is the best medicine wo ever used for all affections of throat and lungs.— WM. O. ENDSLKY, Yanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Ratio of mortality im Switzerland haa decreased one-fourth in thirty years. Tired " I was very poorly and could hardly get about the house. I was tired out all the time. Then I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only 1 took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well."— Mrs. N. S. Swin ney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to > bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time, wny? Your blood is im pure, that's the reason. You are living on the border line of nerve ex haustion. Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. 0 Ask your doctor what ho thinks of Ayer's H F'-iTsapai illa. LIE knows all about till* prand B old family MEDICINE. Follow hi# advice and R XI9 will be HntiftfW'd. A? J. C. AYRR CO., Lowell, Mass. BHIII—III MI 11 ■ll 181 ii 111111 I < MI H I HI P. N. U. 14, 'OS. f ISO Kinds Vr 8 6c! f fact tjiat table wvmn'ko 'T% following uupreo-' 1 REGF Tjj/ Hi RN all 150 WND Jpjk 1W HR °our PROFIT 9 K Oat ami Rroinu and Hpeltz. onion TA^NSTAIRFFF 1. Write Wnrfl W\ u\ ( OHN A. SALZER SEED CO.. <§lJ 11(1(1 JJJJJJ La Crosso, Wis. ffij A Quest inn. They say a tiny littlo stream Helps make a mighty sea. Rut do you think that Lincoln once Was just a hoy like me? I know a small black applo seed, Can make a tall, straight tree, But do you think a Washington Can be made out of me? And if I grow and grow and grow, And do the best 1 can, Do you suppose I'll ever make A celebrated man? —Brooklyn Eagle. Nippy's Breakfast. "Bow-wow!" said Boxer, the great St. Bernard. "Woof!" said Rex, the collie. And both the big dogs looked lip from the bones they were gnawing to snap at Nippy, the little fox terrier, who had come up to near to the butch* erman's cart, they thought. "Go away!" snapped Rex. "This is our butcherman; he brings meat for our master and us. He wouldn't give anything to a little dog like you." "Please, big doggies," said Nippy, "can't I have the bones when you get through eating them?" "If you don't bother us may he you can," Eoxer growled, munching away. So Nippy sat down and watched them gnawing away. How he wished his master knew such a good butcher man as theirs did, so that lie, too, could have nice juicy bones! The butcherman came out of the house talking angrily to himself. "Here, get out of the way, you dogs!" he said, shaking his basket at Rex and Boxer. My, how quickly those two big dogs slunk off with their bones in their mouths. Poor Nippy, he too, dropped his tail between his legs and turned to run away. No bones for him today. "Why, come here, you poor little fel low. Wouldn't those big ones let you have a share? W r ell, you shall have some breakfast this minute. Here's i bone for you. Now be off, and don't let them get it away from you, mind." Nippy knew better. He grabbed that lovely bone from the butcher's hand and put for home as fast as his four legs would carry him. —Brooklyn Eagle. A Winter Nutting Party. "A letter for you!" said Mr. Chad wlck, looking up from his morning's mail and tossing a small square en velope to Mabel. "For me, papa? I wonder who it is from!" and Mabel in a flutter of antic ipation ran for her taper-cutter. It proved to be an invitation from Ethel Cheney, one of her school mates, to her nutting party on the next Satur day afternoon. "I am so glad!" said Mabel. "We always have such nice times at Ethel's house. But isn't this queer?" and she read aloud, " 'Baskets, but no extra wraps, will be needed.'" "That means you are to gather your nuts in the house, instead of in the woods," explained Mabel's brother Ralph, with a laugh. "I don't just see how," said Mabel. Nobody else seemed to see "just how," and for the next three days the nutting party was the principal topic of conversation among Ethel's play mates. Saturday afternoon found Mabel, with a half-dozen ocher children, on the steps of tile Cheney ljpme, each carrying a basket. Inside were more girls and boys and baskets, and for a time the maid who attended the door was kept busy admitting the bright, merry-faccd guests. When all had arrived, Ethel's grown-up sister, Miss Eunice, made known the way in which the nuts were to be gathered. Two bushels of walnuts had been scattered through the house from gar ret to basement, and the children*' part was to find them. Each one was to carry home all that he gathered, and they were at liberty to search any where for them wherever there were open doors. The only restrictions made were that neither doors nor drawers were to he opened. When the signal was given there was a moment's hesitation, and then what a scampering there was in all directions! Closed doors were soon found to be in a very small minority. The large house had been thrown open and thoroughly warmed from top to bottom, and everywhere the searchers came upon nuts, either singly or in small piles. Beds and bureaus, chairs and tables held the coveted prizes, and many an explorer ol some particularly dark cor ner of stairway or closet was rewarded by the addition of a big handful to his 6tore. Was there ever such another merry time! Such a clatter of nimble feet! Such shouts and squeals! Such musi cal laughter! Such a hum of happy voices! It was worth far more than the trouble just to see and hear it all, asserted Mrs. Cheney, as she watched the boys and girls flying hither and thither in their eager haste. But it was in the old garret that the children had tne most sport. The queer hiding places in which nuts might be found gave zeast to the search, and when Mabel emerged from under the cobwebby eaves with hair a little rumpled, hut triumphantly hoid ing a full pint of walnuts, what a dash there was for the dark corners! At last it was over, the children could find no more nuts, and down stairs they trooped to consider their spoils. It was soon decided that Ma bel Chadwiclt's basket was fuller than ajiy other, and she was a very happy little girl when, as a reward for being the best nut gatherer there, Miss Eunice presented her with a beautiful little china nut-dish that had two minia ture squirrels for handles. There was a pretty box of assorted nuts for the small boy who has the rawest number of walnuts to carry home, and every body seemou contented with the re suits of the nutting, all agreeing that it was almost more fun to hunt for nuts indoors than out in the fields. — Younth's Companion. A Ituftinn lioiumice. Miss Kondachcff, a Rusian author, tells in the St. Nicholas the folowing pretty little romance of Twelfth Night fortune-telling: Here is a true story I was once told, showing that once upon a time this prophecy actually came true. It happened somewhere, in the coun try, many, many years ago, i<i the "good old days," when there were no railroads, and people traveled about mostly in their own sledges or car riages drawn by post-horses, or if the distance was not to great, by their own "troika"—a Russian sleigli drawn by a team of three horses. The heroine of my story was at that time a young girl still in the school room, greatly troubled with lessons, governessea, and dancing-masters, and becoming rather tired of her quiet life in th'e country. So, one fine evening, just before going to bed, she thought silo would like to cast one look into the future and see from what direction she was to expect her fate. She step ped out accordingly upon the terrace, and —whiz —her slipper went skim ming through the cold night air. But what was her discomfiture when she saw it fly over the high fence and into the road beyond! Here was a predi cament. She could not posibly folow and seek it In the deep snow, her feet clad tn sill: stockings, and only one slipper for them both! She did not like send ing out the servants, who were all at. supper, and it did not seem worth while to put on -.hick boots and begin a regular search so late at night. "This comes of being too curious," she soliloquized, as she limped to her own room. "Well, never mind; I dare say I'll find my slipper safe and sound to morrow morning." But her search next day proved vain; fresh snow had fallen during the night, and the lost slipper, she thought, was probably hurled deep beneath the soft white covering. Several years passed. Her parents moved to Moscow, where, in the course of time, she married an officer in the Emperor's guards, in her hus band's study, 011 the mantel shelf, she often noticed, among other knick knacks, a girl's dainty but faded satin slipper. It certainly seemed familiar to the sleigh. The 'something' prove! dered about it, she never could remem ber where and when she had seen just such shoo as that. At last her curios ity grew to such a pitch—the old slipper was always ..alf reminding her of something, she knew not exactly what —that she decided to question her husband about it. "It is nn old story," he answered, "and happened many years ago. I was then a young fellow, just begin ning life, and traveling post-haste to join my regiment. Happening to pass through a village one evening, at a great speed (my horses being fresh and in high spirits), I suddenly felt a stinging blow on the cheek, I heard an exclamation from the other side of a fence—and something dropped in to the sleigh. hTe 'something' proved to he a satin slipper, and as I took it up, my cheek stinging with pain, I own that I felt very angry and indig nant at this unexpected assault. "Then I rememuered it was Twelfth Night; 1 remembered, too, trie ancient custom, and by that time my wrath had calmed down. I even thought of turning back and delivering the weap on into the fair hands that had, unin tentionally, dealt the blow, but on looking round, I perceived that the village, 'Krasnoe' i think it was called, was far behind us, and I. still holding tile slipper in my hand, was being car ried along over the snowy steppes at lull speed. "I have never since been in that part of the country, nor have I any idea whose feet once tripped about gaily in this old thing; hut I came to have a tender feeling for it. I was sorry for the girl who had surely been looking for it and probably wondered about its mysterious disappearance, and as time rolled on I somehow came to associate it with my early youth, and all its golden dreams; that is why I have kept it all through these past ten years. You are not jealous dear, are you?" he added, smiling. "Jealous!—of my own slipper?" she cried. "This is fun! Why, it is mine, mine, mine! and she clapped her hands and . laughed a joyous, ringing laugh. "You said the village was ICrasuoe, on Twelfth Night, and just ten years ago? Why, It must he mine! From the very first I though it looked familiar and like an old friend! Ten years old! I was 15 then, and, oh, so tired of lessons, lessons, lessons, and snow, snow, snow, nil day lung, wilh nobody of my age near, and the winter evenings so lonely and dull that one evening I decided to try the old ex periment, and see whether there was any hope of a change for me. And it lias come true! for didn't it strike you 011 tile cheek? Poor old cheek!" and she patted it tenderly. Five yards in four years is the rate at which the water pouring over the falls of Niagara wears away the rock beneath. ft mMJSL ImpieiVSgWOFg Paper Tapestries. While fashion sanctions tapestry papers as being excellent imitations of (lie genuine antique tapestries, yet they should be used with the greatest care. As they absorb light ravenously they should only be used in a very light room.j They are a very undesir able background for pictures also, but where very few pictures are used, and it is desired to tone down the light ing of a room, they are quite useful and attractive. The Triflintf Annoyances. It is the little things of life often that prove the most trying. Bureau drawers that stick are sometimes more difficult to endure than a serious trouble. It is worth while to slop and remember that to rub the offending edges with a cake of hard soap, a hit of stove-blacking, or even a soft lead pencil wil make life worth living again. If the window of our poorly built houses rattle at night aggravat ingly in these spring winds, a few slips of folded newspaper will stop the noise and bring peace and slum ber. To Remove Ink Stain.- I had the misfortune to spill ink on the fronj of a handsome double-faced walking skirt. I sponged the spots im mediately with cold water, then with sweet milk, changing the milk and the rag used in sponging as often as they became discolered, and kept this up until the rag showed no further discoloration. As soon as the skirt was dry I sponged it thoroughly with gasoline, and not a vestige of the ink remained. Soak the worst soiled sponge in sweet milk and it will coma out sweet and clean. I usually rinse mine afterward in water containing a few drops of carbolic acid. —Good Housekeeping. Sen-Untiling nt Home. There are few people who do not find the daily sea hath an agreeable tonic; yet there are multitudes who hesitate to continue such baths in their own homes after they have left the seashore. The truth is that daily bathing in any water is in itself re freshing and agreeable, so long as the individual is in health, and it is just the tonic that weak, nervous women need. The best time to bathe is usually early in the morning, and the best temperature for the person in health is about 70 degrees, or the tempera ture pf tile room in which the hath is taken. Such a morning dip should not be continued longer than from three to five minutes, and should ho instantly followed by brisk rubbing with friction towels in order to put the skin in a glow. The best authorities seem to agree that all the advantages that come from a sea bath can be secured in from five to eight minutes. It is also desirable to keep up brisk exercise in sea bathing in order to gain the greatest benefit from it. All these rules apply with double force to a hath at home, which lacks the tonic effect of salt water. A great many persons always add a cup of rock salt dissolved in a little warm water to their daily hath. It tends io prevent a chill. A little perfumed al cohol is also used for the same reason. A hag of bran and orris root, soaked in the water, gives the bather the faint, fresh fragrance of violets, though it has no special hyg<mic value. When one feels chilly after bathing It is a sure indication that there has bean no reaction of the skin, and that it is not safe to Indulge in so cold a bath. Such peoples hould take batlis at night at a tepid temperature. And if a morning bath Is also desirable, it should be at least slightly warmed, of short duration and a brisk rubbing. L>D /A# rt£C/,°£S BakA Bananas —Remove the skin from six medium bananas, lay in gran ite baking pan, sprinkle with one tablespoon of sugar and pour over one cup of hot water. Bake in a good brisk oven 20 minutes; serve with or with out cream. Very wholesome. Stuffed Prunes—Soak California prunes in water until soft enough to pit, then fill each prune with one tea spoon powdered sugar, one-half tea spcn'ul chopped English walnuts and one-half date. Shape the prunes. Heap them in a glass dish and sprinkle witli powdered sugar. Horseradish Sauce —Scrape clean and grate one stick of horseradish. Add one gill whipped cream, one des sertspoon of made mustard, one des sertspoon of powdered sugar, one tea spoonful salt, a generous dasii of pep per and a tablespoon of vinegar. Mix well and cook for live minutes. Servo cold. Kidney Omlattc—Chop cold boiled kidney quite fine; make an omlet with three beaten eggs, three tablepsonn ful's of milk, a pinch of salt and a little pepper. Put one teaspoon of butter in a frying pan; when melted turn in the mixture; lot cook slowly until a crust forms on the bottom. In the mean time sprinkle over the omlet the chopped kidney and a little chopped parsley. Fold it. half, turn out on a hot plaNcr and spread with bu tor and garnish with parsley. Mrs. Francis Podmore, President W. C. T. U., Saranac Lake, New York, Owes Her Health to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. Read Pier Letter. "DEAR MRS. PINICHAM : For several years after MY last child was born I felt a peculiar weakness, such as I never had experienced before, with severe pains in the ovaries and frequent headaches. " I tried the doctor's medicines and found it money worse than wasted. A friend who had been cured through the use of ILydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advised me to try it. I did so, also your Sanative Wash, and I must say I never experienced such relief before. Within six weeks I was like another woman. I felt young and strong and happy once more. "This is several years ago, but Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is my only medicine. If I ever feel bad or tired a few doses brings instant relief."— MßS. FRANCIS PODMORE. SSOOO FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and " want-to-he-left-alone" feelings, blues and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuso to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. lALABASTBNE "5 A J&525i % The Only Durable Wall Coating Sddi s "w"liSn- ? £ Kalaomines are temporary, rot, rub off and scale inated by wall paper % Write us and see how helpful we can be, at no cost to you, •i* in getting beautiful and healthful homes. Address ❖ J Alabastine Co M Department D, Grand Rapids, Riinh* t Nome's population this winter is es timated at about three thousand which is 1,500 less than last winter. Patience nnit Perseverance. Three million packages of Putnam Fade less Dyes are put up every year. To do this necessitates the handling of one hundred thousand pounds of dye stulT. The packages aro filled by dipping the dye Btufr up with a largo wooden spoon and plac ing in an envelope. Five car loads of dye stuff handled with a wooden spoon! This is accomplished every year by the dozens of young ladies employed by the Putnam Fade less Dye Co., Union'viilc, Mo. London requires 000,000 cows to supply it with daily products. iirnny School Children Are SlcUiv. Mot her Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, Now York, break up Colds in 24 hours, euro Feverishness, Headache, Htoraaoh Troubles, Teething Disorders and Destroy Worms. At all druggists', 25e. Sample mailed Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Hoy, N.Y. Scabbards worn by Russian officers are made of papier-maehc. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, 1 LUCAS COUNTY. F' * Frank J. CHF.NET, make oath that he is the senior partner of the firm P. J.Ci i VK\ .V Co., doing busiuess in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, a.id that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every ease of CATAitnn thai cannot bo cured by the use of HALL'S CATARim CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my ,—. j presence, this 61 h day of December, • SEAL. >A. D., 1880. A. W. GLEASON. ' •v— •' JS'olnry J'ultlic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O Sold by Druggists,7se. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The biggest average farm in the world is in South Australia, where the average ■auatter holds 78.000 acres. Sir Conrad Reeves, of Rarbadoes, who was the first negro to receive a knighthood, has just died, aged 75. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES are fast to sun light. washing und rubbing. Soid by all druggists* Australia wants to form an Aus tralasian navy as an auxiliary to the British sea forces. A naval reserve will first he established. The Best Insurance Vogcler's Curative Compound furnishes the best insurance at a very small cost. The cures which it has made of blood, nerve, skin, liver and kidney diseases, are most marvellous. It insures protection against the development of those eveiy day ailments, which are a menace to life and happiness. A few doses of Yogeler's, when dyspepsia, constipation, headacne, or nervousness appear, will insure good health. A free sample bottle will he sent on appli cation to the proprietors of St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd.. Baltimore, Md. bold by all druggists,. PROVIDENCE ROAD, GORLESTON, GT. YARMOUTH. I have used St. Jacobs Oil for several years for lumbago and sprains and find it the greatest pain reliever before the public. I had a severe sprain on tny right ankle which I received last week, and by using half a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil it is thoroughly cured. It acts like magic. All my friend's in Gorleston, through it having cured me, are using it when occasions require, and say it is worth its weight in gold. JAMES SMITH. iMSIiSMINAIniMt: OF THE FISH NOT FAIIS L IN A WEI m • Tt-T: F-ISH as a eigp. has a history. tT'Rij is told in on interesting booklet which is yours for the asking. A. f.T. TOWER CO. DOATON, MASS. Madera of WET WBATHBR CLOTHING oua GOODS AES OW 3ALE- EVtaYWHEEB. f OVItK/ to My family physician told me to try Ripans Tabu I as, as he had found them of great benefit in sev eral obstinate cases of indigestion and dyspepsia. I felt better within a day, and was soon greatly relieved. I have always been subject to bad sick headache until I began taking the Tabules, and you don't know what a relief it is to be entirely, free from these. ( At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, SO cents, contains a supply for a year. Capsicum Vaseline Put up In Collapsible Tubes. A Substitute for an<l Superior to Mustard or any other plaster, and will not blister the most delicti 1 a akin. The pain allaying and eur.itlvo quVit'.os of (hie itrl i lo are wonderful. It will stop the t otka -ha at once, and relieve headache and srlation. We recommend it as the best and safest eternal counter-irritant known, also us an external vemoly for pains in the chest an 1 stomach and all rlteuma ic, neuralgic and gouty c >mplain'.s. A trial will prove what wo claim for it, and it will be found to be invaluable in tlie household. Many people say "It is the lKst of all y. nr preparations.' l Price, lficenl?, at all druggists, or other deal • s, or by sen V.nr this a nount to us i i postage s.amps we will still you n lube by mail. No article should bo accep.e 1 by tha public unless the same curries our label, us otherwise it is uot genuine. CUI2ESEBROUGH riANUFACTURING CO., 17 St* to Stroot, Kow York City. H w J JI! E£REA Jj E. A Detroit. Physician In thirty years' practice has cured thousands of I.KI'<'OKKIIOK A and Kindred diseases with I.Kl'ro. Immediate ro Her. One weeks treatment absolutely free. I.a dies can materially add !<• their Income >y noting as our agent. DKTHOIT HKMKDY CO , Drawer 800 Detroit. Mich. DROPSY'raOTI'^ C.lm BO.IK ill turilliuo' IV nlld 1t) (111 >M' trniltiuo .( if rco. Vr. U. 11. OuWa'Sdoht. box u, Atlanta, Oa. If* A pHI T Wall Fapir. Border same prlen, I.J M rUL! also i.V, -Jiyc, :k\ -ic, .-.•• up. Sam ples free. Cw i g Wall
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