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Royal Baking Powder Leads All. From actual analysis made by me, I pronounce the Royal Baking Powder to be the Strongest and Purest Baking Powder before the public. It is entirely free from alum and other additions injurious to health. 0 0 0 0 WEALTH CONTROLLED BY WOMEN. Prof. Cktmiiliy, CMigt cf Pharmacy Ptfl, Vnvmilf of California, All other baking powders are shown by 2 analysis to contain alum, lime or ammonia. J .'''''V'V'''''''-''-' GIT AWL VU KIN. I blecve It's each man's duly In glttln through this Ufa, Tu go er kinder eaayllke Not have no sweat nur strife, Let thing come out the bent th' will Conns don't rush Inter sin But frben yu're gettln anything (lit awl yu kin. If to J' (o'n to buy Mime shoes (Them's very needful thing), Just aak the clerk if he wont pleeee Throw In some extra strings. Yn'U git the ehoea fur Jest the aanw It won't take no more tin But when yu're gettln anything Ultawl ya kin. If It'i a ehlrt yu're goln tu buy, Yu want tn make a holler Jest braco right up tu him an lay lie must throw in eoller. Tfaer nille be tlmei when this won't go. But ehe'll moat alio win So when yu're gettin anything Oil awl yu kin. The tame holds good In goln tu churcht 8'poeln ya git the "power," Olt enough tu liut ynre Ufa Instld of half an hour. I tell yn, boys, my Idee la. An It has alius bin. That when yu're gettln anything Olt awl yu kin. -Brooklyn Ufa. Fishermen's Superstitions. At the beginning of the herring season the crew all try to seize the herring first on board, to see if It be male or female. If it is a male, their fishing may be ex pected to be a poor one; if a female, a good one. Sometimes, however, the skipper secures it and hides it away, salt ing it and laying it past for the season. The boat must not be turned against the son. Certain animals considered of ill omen must not be spoken of in the boat, and ministers in this respect occupy the game place as rabbits, hares and pigs. Fishermen do not like to lend anything to a neighboring boat, lest their luck should go with it If they lend a match, they will contrive secretly if possible to break it and keep part, hoping thereby to retain their luck. Their dislike to have anything stolon is increased by the fear that the thief may have stolen their luck with it To ask the question, "Where are yon goingf of any one who is going on board is equivalent to de stroying all his chances for that time. Persons with certain names are held to be of bad omen, the dreaded names be ing different in different villages. Notes and Queries. Colons; Ingrmoll's Tribute to Woman. Over a hundred well known men ten' inrod Frauk B. Cnntenter a reception recently in New York to celobrato the somplction of Artmt Carpenter's paint ing, "International Arbitration." The picture represents the peaco commission of 1871 and is it present to Victoria of Enuliind. Mrs. Curxon, widow of the lute W. W. Carson, of Dulton, Muss, furnishod the money to purchase the gift. During the spcechmuking aftor the tanquot, Colonel Robert O. ingorsoll paid the following glowing tribute to woman: "1 nin glud that this picture is to bo sent by a woman. The gentleman who siwke to the toast, 'Woman as a Peacemaker,' seemed to believe that woman brought all the sorrows that ever happened, not only of war, but of troubles of evory description, and I want to say to him that 1 would rather live with a woman I love in a world of war, in a world full of trouble and sorrows, than to livo in heaven with nobody but mon. I believe that woman is a peace maker, and I am glad that a woman pre sents this token to anothor womun. And woman is a fur higher title than queen, in my judgment; far hlghor. There are no higher titles than woman, wife, sister, and when thoy come to calling themselves countesses and duchesses and queens, that is all rot That adds nothing to that unseen artist who in' habits the world called the brain. That unseon artist is great by nature, and can not be made great by the addition of titles. And so one woman gives to an other woman tho picture that prophesies that war is finally to cease, and the civil ized nations of the world will hereafter arbitrate their differences and no longer strew the plain with corpses of brethren. That is the supreme losson that is taught by this picture, and 1 congratuluto Mr. Carpenter that his name is associated with it" Back From Georgia. She drove up to the depot in an old cart drawn by an ox with lines attached to his horns, and she repeated her in . qulrios about the train from the east so often that the depot agent finally asked: "Are yon expecting friends on that train?" "I'm lookin fur my son Sam an his wife," she replied. "Coming on a visit?" "No, sah. They dun moved over to Georgy six months ago, but they doan' like it and are comin back." "Mighty good state that Georgia." "I've hearn say so, but Sam can't o-bear it Good lands and good crops, but tbe people is too scrumptious," "How scrumptious?" he queried. Tho Age of Children. During the lust fow years changes have been felt in every department of lubor and capital and have affected all classes of society. Tbey have penetrated tho borne, and while in no way threatening the stability of the family, they have ma terially altered tbe .conditions In the home. Tbe wife and mother has leisure where fifty years ago her work was never done. She reads the newspapers and fol lows with interest the various social and political event. She is an active mem bor of the chnrch as well as of one or more literary clubs and one or more or ganizations for philanthropic or reforma tory work. She may attend to all those and at the same time give more intelli gent care to hor children than the mother of fifty years ago was able to do. Indeed, the dangor at the present time is not that mothers may neglect their children, but that they will injure them by excess of attention, making them the center of in terest and the all absorbing subject of conversation. In spue of the act that women lire now more tliun ever before occupied with affairs outside the home it remains that this is pre-eminently the children's I age. Thoir needs ure studied, their health .. "I doan exactly know, but I reckon looked aftor, their books selected with Sam can explain. He hud't bin thar' but fo' months when they tarred an feathered him an rode him all over the country on a rail" Detroit Free Press. Grief of a I'et i'lgeoo. One morning one of the two pet pi geons belonging to my father was found upon the highroad dead, its body bearing marks of injury, but from what cause we never knew. We carried the doad body home and buried it in a sunny and quiet spot in the garden. For three days the surviving pigeon with untiring energy searched the cotilitry-fur and near for its mate, but in vain. It refused to touch food, and even the influence which my father usually exercised over it was gone. On the third day we found it dead in the dovecot, its little heart broken with grief by the loss of its lifolong companion. We buried it beside its mate. Cor. Lon don Spectator. Burglar Proof Safe Quickly Melted. Mr. Swau, the English electrician, de clared recently that he had seen electric al blowpipes capable of melting the stoutest iron so rapidly that to mult into a fire and burglar proof safe with this j Instrument would be the work of only a Jew minutes and would be both an easy and noiseless operation. As, however, it fjuld require a 40-horscpower engine to operate such a scientitio tool, banks need be under no apprehension from this mode of attack on their vaults. New . YorkTelegram. gtondhand Platinum. Hot a little platinum is sold as old metal and usually comes in the form of bite of wire and scraps from broken in candescent lamps. It is now largely used by dentists, but it is sent to New York for treatment, as it can only be melted by means of a compound blowpipe, and there is no place in Boston where that tadone.-Boston Herald. Nothing will give permanent success la any enterprise of life except native capacity cultivated by honest and per severing effort Genius is often but the capacity for receiving and improving by icipline.-George Eliot A newspaper thus describes the effects of a hurricane: "It shattered mountains, ore up oaks by the roots, dismantled churches, laid villages waste and-over-turned a bjrystackr V Invitations to a family dinner are often given by word of mouth, in which case a card of reminder must follow, else the day and hour may be mistaken or for gotten. K!ir.T.rflquehr' 00 tb southeastern coast .of India, there is a specie, of fi,b which aot only is ble to walk on level ground, but caa climb trees, wiser care, even thoir toys and their plays aro chosen and directed in a way that shall conduce to thoir mental and moral development. So that as far as the homo of well to do families is con cerned the changes which the now time has brought and the more public char acter of woman's interests cannot bo said to be other than ndvuntiiiroous to the homo if wisely used. Chicago Hern Id. The Common Seme of Things. There's a lot being written nowadays about decoruti ve mutters things beauti ful, As a matter of fact not one person in ten can toll what a beautiful thing is, for we do not follow the Greek custom of placing a tiling beautiful beyond do bate by obedience to certain unvarying forms aud proportions. On tho contrary, a thing that is beautiful to us is simply something that we individually fancy. Beauty is not a fact; it is a whim, liut we are getting into the old rut of mat ters decorative; what we wish to speak of is the common sense of things. The other day we heard of an accident resulting from the common habit of in jecting naphtha or benzine over moth infested fabrics. A room thus treated had been closed up, and at night when the lights were lit tho gases exploded with awful effect. We should imugino that the dangers of such experiments had been sufllciently exploited. There is no need of any such treatment. There are ways of treating hair or other animal fiber which goes into the tilling of fur niture that renders it impervious to all insect pests. Philadelphia Upholsterer Will Save Many I'aira of tlauda, A remarkably ingenious and simple orange and lemon peeler is now being introduced, by which it is claimed 1.0U0 oranges may be peeled without soiling finger or glove, or losing a drop of juice. The peeler is a pioce of wire, nickel plated, very much in the shape of a but ton hook, but with a tiny blade let into the inner bend of the hook. When the point of the hook is drawn into the fruit it slides between tho pulp and the peel without danger of entering either, while the blade divides the peel easily and rap idly, after which it may be removed Without trouble. New York Telegram Istyals Females Are Worth the Knor- mnus Hum of 378,000,000. A New York club man, who was once an assessor of taxes, and who fell into the habit of finding out how much peo ple are Worth, lias made some curious figures regarding the fortunes of out rich women and what they might dc with their money. According to his fig' nres there are forty widows in the conn try whose wealth aggregates 2 1.1,000, 000; fifteen spinsters, worth ilS.'i.OOO.OOO: eleven married women who control their own fortunes, in all $38,000,000. This makes a total of sixty-six women who control the enormous sum of f 178.000, 000. Tbe club man has the name of every ono of tbe wealthy ladies, with the amount attributed to each. Those of them who are among the rich women familiar to newspaper readers are not given as large fortunes in this Interest' ing schedule as the newspapers accord them, and he insists thut his estimate in every case is under rather than above tbe actual figures. In many instances his figures have been obtained by evi dence produced in court, as In the case of Miss Blythe, of California, whose for tune has been so much exploited through litigation. I asked this man who, according to his financial figuring, was the richest woman in the country. "Hotty Green In my judgment," he said, "is the rich est woman in America. Mrs. Green one of the plainest dressed women in New York. I have never seen her when 1 thought her whole outfit was worth over nfteen dollars, and yet sue has more handsome diamonds than half the rich dames who make a specialty of tine jewels. But she would scorn to have them for show. She picks up her dia monds simply on investment, and be cause she knows they are much better property than nine-tenths of the securi ties that are offered to her in Wull street It is a fact that Hetty Green has 'bag full of diamonds,' and yet 1 doubt if she ever wore one in her life. She has a great deal of contempt for a display of riches in the matter of clothes, but at the same time she is not the parsimonious woman that some newspaper reports make ber out She is a sturdy, bonest, conscientious woman, and there is hardly a charitable organization in New York, Philadelphia or Chicago that has not dis bursed large sums in chanty for ber. According to my club friend, Lotta is tbe richest actress in the united States. She makes less money than Bernhardt, when Bernhardt strikes a popular wave, but she makes it continuously aud does not squander it Lotta has a great deal of money invested in western real es tate, but her heaviest investments are in Boston and New York. One of her New York assets is a big flat bouse up town. The richest umarned woman in this city is said to be Miss Julia Rhinelander, who has inherited the fortunes of half a dozen rich relatives. She is scheduled at $13,000,000. Miss Rhinelander is an orphan, but manages to get along right well in the world for all that. A richer ipinster than Miss Rhinelander will be Jay Gould's daughter when she comes into her inheritance, but at present the former is credited with being the wealth iest maiden on Manhattan island. When 1 asked my club friend why he kept a tub, so to speak, on all the rich ladies in the country, he grew confiden tial and said: "1 have a great financial project the greatest, I may say, of mod ern times. It will nppeul to you. It is to mass all the rich women of the coun try together in one grand commercial concern, combining this capital of $378, 000,000 in business enterprises. With such an aggregation of wealth they could control the markets of the world and revolutionize" But tliis financial phantusma did not appeal to me. I fled from the prospect. New York Cor. Buffalo Express. narrow opening in the dress, precisely as it is now worn by the eldorly gentle men in the "School fur Scandal" and other old fashioned plays. Chiffon is the material most used, but the innocent seeming gauze is a delusion and a snare, as frail as it is fair, and usually gets into a hopeless crumple with second wearing, Mouseeline de soie, crepe de Chine, China silk, and all kinds of lace are no more extensive and quite as effuctivo, besides lusting ail entire season. For theater wear the soft gray plastrons are particularly useful, and the bouse dress Is varied and made attractive, Indeed when freshened by thoir bright grace fulness. They are the one cheap and redeeming feature in a winter of dis couraging elegance and expensiveness in drees. Now York Sun. The Silk Walk. Two girls were walking down the ave nue the other duy. They were bot h very stylish aud well dressed, but they looked as if their clothes had been mode ut home by a woman who sewed by the day Another girl passed them at a rapid pace, whose light cloth suit had an unmistak able Paris cut Her block hut was very high in the back, her feather was very fluffy, and alio walked with a curious motion, a simultaneous one of the shoul ders and hips, and as she passed there was a sound of silk, swish, swish. "1 bet thut is a New Yorker. Hasn't the got the silk walk down to a fine point?" said the taller and darker of the two girls. "What do yon meun by silk walk?" "Why, Alice, huven't you noticed the way all the girls are walking now, and that lovely rustling soundf "Oh, pshaw, anybody cau have thut who has a silk foundation to her skirts." 'Indeed they can't, then. Your dress is made up on silk, and 1 can't hear a sound. No; you've got to have on a silk lining and a silk petticoat too. I was wild for one, and when I found I couldn't afford it they were twenty and thirty dollars I almost cried, until I thought of an old silk dress I had, and I've got it on now. But they (h'u't make a bit of noise unless you wriggle your knees, a sort of corkscrew motion, like this. And the taller and darker of the two girls wriggled her way down the avenue so successfully and with such a rustle of silk that an old colored womun put down her basket of clothes and gazed after her, saying: 'Dat young lady sat nly gwlne to tear dat dress tor pieces ef she don't walk mo' etiddyl" Washington Post lints About Christmas Greens. It is best not to put up the decorations until the afternoon before Christmas. The halls, sitting room, dining room and library are the most appropriate places for the holly. Place large branches over mantels and sideboard aud some of the nictnres. Fill the fireplaces with large dishes containing holly and laurel, un less you are to have a fire at once. I lure long sprays of English ivy iu small, wide mouthed bottles, which can be hung behind picture frames. Twine the ivy around the supporting wires and the frames. Do not hang the greens near a fire or over a register. They curl and wilt very quickly when exposed to dry heat At least a week before Christmas get at the florist's about fifty cents' worth of the green stuff called "Wandering Jew.'' This will fill several bowls and vases. Arrange it gracefully in the various dishes aud fill with water. After wip ing the outside of the receptacles per fectly dry, place on tne corners or man tels, bookcases, etc. Change the water every other day. To do this do not dis turb the plants; simply hold tho vase under the faucet and let the fresh water run until all the old is displaced. In a week's time the vines will have grown into a graceful, luxuriant mass, and with care they can bo kept in this condition for months. Smilax, asparagus fern and other deli cate vines can be used for pictures and statuury, but the exiamse puts them out of the reach of the majority of people. There is a hardy wild fern which all flor ists keep now and sell for about ten cents a dozen sprays. Buy a few dozen of these and place thm on the cellar floor Sprinkle well and I hey will keep foi weeks. A large bowl tilled Willi tnew and a few flutters will make an effective piece for the center of the dinner table; or the bowl can be placed on a low table in any of the rooms. These suggestions are for people with modest purses. La dies' Home Journal. The Latest Things In Gloves. A French glover in New York city suvs. "Uauies uuy wuue sueues aim weur tbem uutil they are black." The beauty and chto of white suede gloves consists of their freshness, which may easily be renewed with a bath of dry cornmeal or benzine, hence no ex cuse for dirty gloves. Every now und then fancy silken em broidered or lace top ball gloves are shown, but they never seem "in it, in the expressive if not elegant language of the day. Gloves having embroidered gauntlets have not taken as briskly as was expected. For day wear a four button glace, eight button mousqnetaire or Biarritz are the correct mode. Pearl and silver gray shades are having run of warm favor for both day and evening wear. Jacket sleeves are antagonistic to the stiff gauntlets. They will hardly go over them and must not go under, or Dame Fashion will be horrified. Many good gloves ure spoiled by the thumb cut being just a trifle short A narrow and black stitching makes the hand look more slender. A pair of white suede gauntlets tor theuter wear were lately brought from France and had the cuffs thickly en crusted with Rhinestones, gold spangles and pearls. Dry Goods Economist nie weddings on tins side the water ire developing the same tendency. Grooms men, as such, are no longer In favor. Ushers and best men are the necessary male attendants. Some lute bridesmaids' gifts, which in England are usually presented by the groom, are gold wire bangles, with moonstone hearts; pearl bracelets, with entwined heart and true lovers' knots jcwoled brooches; gold bungle, with pearl initials, and crescent shape brooches, with monogram of bride and groom in colored enamel, Her Point of View in New York Time. Women's Wateli Pocket. Women's watch pockets are always difficulty to their modistes and tailors, Our fickle sex lias grown tired of the bangle watch, which is indeed not very feasible with our very long sleeves. The newest idea is to insert a tiny pocket in side the gown just over the chest, where it cannot affect the fit or cause an mi sightly little bulge. Short chains are not worn, except those little idealized fob arrangements about four inches in length aud finished with a small ball These are pinned up to the dress above where the watch is inserted. Long chuiqs, such as our grandmothers re joiced in, are coming in, just as are other forms of old fashioned jewelry. London Cor. Chicago Herald. There is a New York woman who de. serves honorable mention. Less than a year ugo the editor of The Doll's Dress maker, who conceals her identity under the most suitable pen name of Jennie Wren, started tier venture in this nniquo literary field. Now it takes SO, 000 copies to supply the demand for the little monthly, a brilliant testimonial to what a woman can do when the need Is great Dr. Emily Kempeu, professor of the law class of women students, is the first woman professor to lecture before class of men students since the women lectured at Bologna in the days of the Fifteenth century. Her murked ability has been so clearly demonstrated in her work with women that Professor Russel has included her among the instructors of the men students. Among the New York ladies who own beautiful aud valuable jewels ure Mrs. Lindley Chapiiu who lias a diamond necklace, which she sometimes wears as a tiara, worth $10,000; Mrs. John Blood- good, who has a pair of solitaire diumoud earrings worth f,000; Mrs. George Lew is, who has a pair of splendid solitaire diamond earrings and a handsome dia mond necklace. Caroline S. Brooks, the sculptor, who prefers butter, putty or dough to clay for modeling, and who became famous fifteen years ago when she exhibited the Sleeping Iolanthe"in butter at the Cen tennial exhibition, will send the same model iu marble to the World's fair in lWfltf. Mrs. Brooks came from Missouri. but has lived in New York several years. The Woman's Baking Company of Chicago has just been incorporated with capital stock of $2;0,000. It is com posed of Women's Christian Temperance union women, and is pledged to use only the purest materials, to have the work lone entirely by women, and to run the establishment on strictly business prin pies. Five 100 scholarships for young wom en at the California State university have beeu recently endowe d by Pluelie Hearst, widow of the lute Senator Hearst. East Indian Families. Millions of men in India live, marry and rear apparently healthy children up on an income which, even when the wife works, is rarely above fifty cents a week and frequently sinks to half that amount Exchange. A Long, Long Tin. 'Don't you think," the mother said proudly, "that her playing shows a remark able flnishf" 'Yea," replied the young man absent! r. "but she was a long time getting to It," Boston Globe. A Seaeooabla Economical Pad. One of the whims of the economical woman of this year is an abundance of the dainty little guimpes and plastrons of crepe or chiffon for sale in the shops. l our plainest street coat is trauslortned to luncheon elegance by the insertion of ne of these little gay, frilled plastrons ef crimson, crepe or yellow chiffon. Your old black silk will take on all the needed dinner graces with a pale blue or pink chiffon guimpe, with its full plaited bit of pretty needlework nnnder the chin. All the dainty arrange ments are copied from old time courtiers' drees, when gentlemen indulged in ruf fles and frills and adjusted" them with the grace and skill woman has not improved on through all the centuries. Mechlin lace seems one of the newest and most popular materials for the craratlike or naments sometimes seen with street gowns. 1 he go wn has usually in sucn j case a kwent vest, and tbe lace falls j from the neck nearly to tbe bust from a Stage Costumes Cheap. The sale of the stage costumes belong tMg to the lute Emma Abbott was con. tinned recently at the auction rooms, 81 Liberty street. The prices brought were ridiculously low in comparison with the original cost. A dress which was said to have cosf $4,500 went to a customer for $13. Ai ermine trimmed velvet mantle was sac rificed for $20, while a Felix gown, the bill for which accompanied it, found no competition, and a dealer got it for $100. The cost, according to the voucher, was $4,000. A garment made for "Josephine in a new opera,- on which 100 woiueu worked, weut beggiug at $45. A revolving Sevres vase brought $240, as did also its mate, and a mahogany secretary brought only $36. A pretty onyx and ormolu clock, with side pieces to match, sold for $120. Nobody seems to kuow where a beauti ful double barreled shotgun, by Moore, of London, came from, and it was sacri ficed for $.10. Handsome Louis XV and Louis XVI chairs and cabinets went for small prices, aud a Juliet gown of white satin brought only $15. A "Carmen" costume, never worn, went for $18, and a handsome sealskin cape, which must have cost $100, was knocked down for $13. Tho total receipts of the sale were less than $,000. Most of the buyers were theatrical people. New York Cor Phil adelphia Press. Poultry Panning for Women. Why in the world are not a few more tnterprising women, with a small capi tal at their disposal, coining forward as poultry farmers? There are one or two already "in the trade" and doing ex ceedingly well, and there ure hundreds and thousands of women who "make little money" by selling eggs and poultry in an amateurish way. liut while we have such facts before us as the follow ing, which comes from a reliable source, it is not amateurs, but practical profes sionals that are required. During the last eight months no less than 114,8j,i,ooO eggs were exported from liussia into England. They represented a value of '.',2.)0,000 rubles. The condi tious under which poultry fanning may be successfully carried on are infinitely more favorable in this country than iu Russia. Why, therefore, should not English eggs supply the English market? Of course poultry farming means some thing besides the acquisition of a small "run" and the proper placement of a few uests with nest eggs, but the science of rearing chickens is pretty well exact and not very complicated, aud there is no doubt that if ponltry farming is done in a practical and businesslike way it will have practical and satisfactory results. -Pall Mall Gazette. Emma Trapper does the best work nowadays on the Brooklyn Standard- Union, next to Murat Halstead, and Is well paid for it. An Apparent Paradox, "I had always been taught that cold contracts and heat expands," Baid Har old Burwell, "but I have had an ex perience that is different. In my office I use incandescent lights, nnd on my desk I have an upright bulb, with a standard. The shade was broken on it, and I placed it on top of the desk in a corner between the wall and a cabinet of pigeonholes. The other morning on entering the office I hung my derby hat on this bulb. Later on I went into an adjoining room, which was dark, and needing some light pushed the button in the wull that set the electric lamps aflame. The lights gave the place such a cheerful aspect, it being a stormy day outside, that I did not turn them off. At noon, when I was going out to lunch, 1 reached for my hat, and it was baked. The incandescent lamp, which had been aglow nil the while, had made it very hot, and the leather band was so drawn and contracted that I couldn't get my hut on my head. It simply sat A FAREWiLL. Tlrporlrd by I lie Moon.) "flood night, sweel In-art!" said Hlrephoa As the clock struck half past nine, "Good nlifht, iny love!" quoth Phyllis, With a kiss I wished were mine A kiss of lingering sweetness, Much as rarely comes to men A kiss that was not over When the clock was striking ten. "Glial night, swerthearti" qnolh fltraphoa As the hands showed quarter past. "Good night, dear hoy!" said Phyllis, Willi a kiss just like the last- A kiss of clinging softness. Such as kings might quarrel o'er A kins that was not over Ateleven thirty-four. Then each the words repeated, With the usual refrain. And wheu at one 'twas finished They observed good night again. And I lion I had to leave them, For my lime had come to set. When next I Rased down on them. They were saying good night yet. I think I see why pnets Hneak of sorrow In love's apetli Its eettasy seems mingled With perpetual farewell. -I'egity l'attlson In Life. Aloohul as a Food. And now a word about alcohol. Of all tbe substances that enter into the dietary of man that are used for stimula tion, to check waste and promote repair, none is superior to alcohol. So great is its reconstructive powor that strictly speaking it must be classed as a food. Whenever the powers of life are waning, be the cause whatever it may, alcohol ranks first among remedies to check it. Like opinm, it is good if properly used and baneful if abused. It is scarcely accessary to say much for or against al cohol. It is too woll known to all of us to need much comment, and I shall con fine myself to speaking of Its use medic inally by those who never tasted it be fore a physician prescribed it for some disease. Alcohol Is unquestionably par excel lence a food adjunct in the severe forms of fever where nutriment is urgently re quired to keep up life, but where the di gestive organs have lost their i-ssimila-tlve function. Here, as long as the actual waste is compensated for, alcohol does good. Be yond that it is worse than useless. Un fortunately such restricted dosage does not satisfy the careless doctor of easy conscience, tie gives it by the oft re peated tablespoonfuls without stopping to discover that the rosult wished for has been attained in the slower, fuller pulse and stronger heart Hundreds and hundreds of men and women in all walks of society contracted their tippling habit by regarding as un restricted the advice of their physicians that wine or stimulants of some kind are necessary for them to take. The advice In itself is justifiable, but tbe lock of re striction is culpable. And so these poor, deluded convalescents go on taking stim ulants, which they find not only agreea ble, but desirable, uutil they become slaves to drink. New York Herald. VOIVUZS COULD BS WMTTSN, filled with the testi mony of women who nave Deeu rosue wen and strong by lr, Pierce's Fivorlts Prescription. It's medicine that's made especially to build up women's strength and to curt women's ailments an Invigorating, re storative tonic, soothing cordial, and bracing? nervine: nurelr vegetable, non alcoholic, and perfectly harmless. For all the functional derangements, pain- ful disorders, and chronlo weaknesses that afflict womankind, the "Favorite Prescription" Is the only fuaranlud remedy. It muif have been the medlclue for most women, or It couldn't be sold on any such terms. Isn't It likely to be the medicine for yen r Bold by druggists everywnerv. i-kr-Lt la VlUl U II ZMZL I Cima Dromntl CSotsU toot., and 11.00 per Dottle? One cent a dose. Tuts flasiT Cooob y cure Couih and Aethtns. For Cooeumptlca It has no rival has cured thousands, and will curb tod Ir taken In time. Bold by Druggists on a guar antee. For a Lame Mack or Chi-sC uaa SHILOH'S BELLADONNA pLASTKRJKo. wnera all others fait Coughs, Croup. Tnroai, Hoarseness, wnoopiog i ILOH'tCATARRH teraiSeL0: remedy; Have toii ( -.'.arrh ? This remedy Is gui lu our you. Price, 60 eta. Injector ran- tree. (TINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE "German Syrup" Mr. Albert Hartley of Hudson, N. C, was taken with Pneumonia, His brother bad just died from it When he found his doctor could not rally him he took one bottle of Ger man Syrup and came out sound and well. Mr. S. a. Gardiner, Uerk with Druggist J. E. Barr. Aurora, Texas, prevented a bad attack of Eneumonia by taking German Syrup i time. He was in the business and knew the danger. He used the great remedy Boschee's German Syrup for lung diseases. DR. GUNN'S mraovso LIVER PILLS MILD PHYSIC ONE PILL FOR A DOSE. la naMMMrr fbr tha yvtain makm lo Tbsjf our Ilststdswh. btiiMau tb A tnrmmt of tha bowl Mob d: Ml lb. Tb pill supply what th ay tain lad ad ulaar lh Camplaiton bllr Gk II rf uUr. vM anil ulaar a at I os, f hay wt mildly, nalthar (rip nor amkan a otbst pill do. To oouvIdo you ol thatr mart la mm Will snail aarnplaafraa, or a full boi for Ufloauta. Sol mrrwtwi, UoMuko Mud. Oo- bliaWlphla, . KIDNEY, Hlsdder. Vrlnsrr snd I.Ivor l)lu.auu Hrnni Urarel and Diabetes are cured by HUNT'S REMEDY THI BEST KIDNEY AND LIVER MEDICINE. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures Rrlghl's Disease, Retention nffXAiCn tentlonol I'rlne, I'slni Iu the Hurli, Ulns or Bide. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures tnU-fnpersnoe, Nervous Diseases, Cirneral Dejitwy, Female Weakness aud Kataauvs. HUNT'S REMEDY Cures nillnnsncss, llesdarhe, Jaundice, Hour Htomach, Dyspepsia, Constipation and l'llcs. HUNT'S REMEDY AC'la AT ON(?E on the klsnnvi. I.lver and Hawrle. restoring them to a hoiilthy ao. Hon, and ti KU when all othnr medicines fsll. Hundreds hare been saved who have beeu flveu up to die by friends aud physicians. OLD BY ALE, 1) HI l S I ft. Of the dlneHscs to which It Is adspted with the best rcKiilts, Hosteller's HtomHch Bitters, a fam ily medicine, comprehensive In Its scope, has never Deeu inriisi upon puuuc aueniion in ine nine oi a uiuverimi iMiisces lor oouiiy ins. his clHim. daily arrnvHted In the columns of the dailv tireitM liv the iirODrletors of medicines lar interior lo it as specifics, has in a thousand ins slices dlsKiintcd the public In advance by its absurdity, and the prospects of other remedies oi superior uiihiiiics nsve oecn nmiaicnpiiea dv the pretension of their worthless predecessors. Hut the Amcrlcsn ncoDle know, becsuse thev have verlllcd the fnct by the most trying tests, that the Bitters posscuses the virtues of a real y.uu.lllfl l ( ,..lu(ul ll.rA. .Il.,...lu constipation, nervous, rlieuniiitic, stomach ami Kinney irouuie. n nai ll noes 11 aoes norougn- iy,aua mainly ior tuts resson it is inaorsea ana reconunenitea iy nosis oi respectaoie mwncai men. T 1. a "I .. H ....... . fAB t MlrUui." "Whst was it, Llsettef" "Colonel IlronBon said you Wero exceedlnslv well nre- Murvpil " STOOD THIS TEST. alloook 8 foKot'S I i.abtirh are unap proachable iu curative properties, rapidity and safety of action, and are the only reli able plasters ever produced. They have successfully stood tbe test of over thirty years' use by the publio; their virtues have never been equaled by imitators who have sought to trade upon tbe reputation of alk'ock's ny making piasters with boles in them and claiming them to be "just as good as Ai.lcock's," and they stand to-day indorsed by not only the highest medical authorities, but by millions of grateful pa-, tienls who have proved their elllcacy as a household remedy. Beware of imitations. Ask for Allcoi-k's. and do not be persuaded to accept a snbati- line. Dbaniihith's Pills will purify the blood. "I know Jack hasn't much money, but we can live on laim, you snow." "Ann nope, too, 1 suppose." " Yes, and charity." Mr. J. C. Jones, of Fulton, Ark., says of "About ten years aso I oon- IsisaBstaBail tructod a severe case of blood poison. Leading phrsiolans prescribed medloine after medicine, which I took without any relief. I also tried mercu rial and potash remedies, with unsuo- RHEUMATISM oessf ui results, but which brought on an attack of mercuri 1 r eumutism that made my life ouo of agony. After suf erlng four years I gave up all remedies and commenced usiuir 8. S. S. After taking several bottles, I was entirely mired and able to resume work. yTJTl is the greatest medloine for ?7!S11 blood poisoning to-day on me marKet." Treatise on Blood and Rktn Diseases mailed Bee. BwirrBmcurio Co., Atlanta, Ua. P DOCTOR 's Mil THE GREAT CURE -FOB- INDIGESTION AND CONSTIPATION. Regulator of th s Liver and Kidneys A 81'EniFIC FOR s BOW'S THIS! We offer Ono Hundred Dollars reward for any on the top of my cranium like those tiny Zme of catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Toledo.'o. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che- hats that variety comedians souiotimus wear, I held it on as best I could and went out. The wind caught and carried it long enough to give it a thorough cool ing. It was long before, the baud re. laxed ana tne hat was all right ngiun, so far as fitting my'head was concerned, If that wasn't a first class case of heat contracting and cold expanding, I'd like to know what contraction and expansion are. at. Louis Ulobe-Dernocrat. I'oarleen llrldrsiuaids. The excess of bridesmaids, which is a feature of fashionable English wedding", culminated recently in the rase of a bride, an honorable miss, who was at tended at the altar by no lees than four teen bridesmaids. They were all dressed alike, in white beng:iline, trimmed with chiffon, white hats with white ostrich plumes, and white embroidered shoes. They carried bouquets of dark red and pale pink carnations. Snch a procession would in the opinion of many have a rather monotonous effect, particularly as the gowns were all of the bridal white. Eight or ten bridesmaids are quite tbe rule in English high life, and faahiona- Uull Boys and Mechanical Ability. Great has always been the comfort that the parents of boys dull at their books have had in thinking that they would probably be particularly bright in some other direction. If there was any doubt about it, the fact could always be proved by stories of artists, writers and musicians, who have been thought dull ards at school. But mechanical genius and dullness at books do not, it is said, go hand in hand. The director of a lurge western school of manual training says of such cases: "As a rule, such a boy fails to show marked ability of any sort. A boy who comes to us with a passion for machinery, who cannot be kept away from engines, the rattle of cogs and the snapping of belts, never gets beyond a sort of morbid, simple curiosity to 'see the wheels go round.' He develops no curiosity nor the ability to do good, ac curate work. His book work is of a very similar character." New York Post. Telegraphlo Codes. Eversinoe submarine telegraphy be came an established means of communi cation much ingenuity has been ex pended on the compilation of codes, partly for secrecy, but principally to abbreviate the messages and save money in rates. To snch a fine point has codify ing been brought in this latter direction that the telegraph companies are at their wits' end to maintain a proper equi librium between the number of messages sent and the number of words traus mitted; in other words between the vol nine of actual business and the amount of revenue. All large commercial houses now use complicated codes, in which a single word of ten letters rep resents a sentence of ten, fifteen oi twenty words. Electricity. ncy for the last fifteen years, and believe him p rfectly honorable-Ill all business trsnssctions anil financially able to carry out any obligation insue uy ineir nrm. n ull dc i kiaa, Toledo, O. Wholesale Drumists. ' WAI.DINU. KINNAX & JIARVIS. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, actini directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces o the system. Testimonials sent Iree. Price, 76 i-eiiis per uouie. otuu oy an uruifgisis. Use KnsmellneStOTe Polish; no dust, no smell Tar Gsrmia for breakfast. Praise is Good For any medicine you bear about, but to be made well by Its use Is sun oeuer. i nsve rot many years suflared with an irritable Itching all over my body, ana my left leg swelled and became so sore I bad to give up work. Physi cians prescribed for mc for scrofula, but did not cure me. Hood's 8ama- Sarllla save me Imme late relief, drove all disease out of mv blood and gave me perfect cure." W. O. DuMM, 21 uuupsuu lAJiiri. A.ausaa uuy, aid. HoodssJCures BR ThlsTrsde Vsrklaontbebest WATERPROOF COAT In the World I A I THWFR. RffiTON. MASS. IUuitrated UsUaioffu EOCENE. Boeclsl brsnd of BiirnliiK Oil. which we manufacture expressly for r AMU Is LV IhE. IT IS A PtCKtrKCT ILLUMINATOR. ITISHK1H KIKKTKMT. IT lti OF VNIFOUM QUALITY We guarantee It to be ihe iimiiuht posmblk GRAM! OF 1I.LI'M1NAT1N0 OIL. ASK IOr II. 8TANDARD OIL COMPANY. MASQUERADES, PARADES, 111 A 'tATF.I'H THEATK (everything Iu the above line. ICAI.N. Costumes, Wigs, Benrds. I'roDerMcs. Onera and Plav Books, etc. furnished at greatly reduced rates and In supe rior quHiny oy meoiuesi. largest, Desirenownea snd therefore only reliable Theatrical Supply llouae on the Pacific Cvatt. Correspondence so licited. Goldstein & Co., 26, 28 and 30 O'Farrell street, also 8U0 Msrket street, Kan Francisco. We sunniv an meatert on iie uxw. 10 wnoni we re- speciiuny rcicr. FREE THK Buyers' Guide JONES' CASH STORE. Hood's Pills cure constipation. Try a bo- mlderi Haw Maeh Bare Kats. A horse consumes every year the prod- nca cf six acre in oats and hay, and may be said to consume one-sixth of what he cultivate. If a horse is kept hungry for any length of time, he will afterward devour his food so voraciously as to distend his stomach and endanger an attack of staggers. London Tit-Bits. Baking Pon der When in Portland be sure tn tabs in the greatest novelty at the Kxpoeition. We shall bake biscuits and cake every afternoon and evening on our pretty Jewel Gas Stove. Evervtoiy cordially invited to have a biscuit with us and see the wonderful merits of Golden West Baking Powder proved by actual work. CLOSSET&DEVERS, PORTLAND, OH. n Pise's Remedy v caurrk Is tbe S I I Faswet sn Tse. aoi Cfaeapwc I I t SoM ft druasttis or sen by asati. I U son. m. T. aaaahta. Warssa, ra IJ The Biters' Quids Is published the first of each month. It Is issued In the Interest of sll consumers. It gives the lowest cosh nuotatlons on everything In tne grocery line. It will save you money to consult it. Mailed free to any address on application. Don't be without it. It costs you nothing to get it. It quotes whole sale prices airect to tne consumer. Mention this paper. Address - JONES' CASH STORE, 130 Front Street, - Portland, Or. FBAZER AXLE BestintheWorldinnr A Or Get the Genuine! Iinr fin r SoldEverywherelUHLHUL l-BANK WOOLBEY, A(ent, Portland, Or MDC WINCinW'C Soothing IHIIWt MIIIVJLWII O SYRUP FOB CHILDREN TCETHINQ I ParsaUkyallDraaabu. a Ceats a bettU. HAVE YOU GOT ITCH I NO FIXES known by aoistof itcmna PUJtl Ilka naranivsLflrav miias IntJinSba lthll hen warm. Tlila form ma UJ-iH UNO or PBOTBUDLNQ YIELD 1T05CI TO DR. BO-SAH-KO'S PILE R&MEDY. wtsJeb svt dtrvctly on parts aireewd, abswwha lumnra ail lan tfwV, I rtm affuStns Dtt iTO prmafirntnir. Prit? 6oa. brufsrlita Ti-WtCU vnui Pr. Po-uio, ptillsvlo) p. la, fa. Scrofula, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum, Neuralgia- And 111 Other Blood and Skin Diseases. It Is a positive cure for all those painful, deli cate complaints and complicated troubles and weaknesses common among our wives, mothers and daug nters. The effect Is Immediate snd hinting. Twoor three doses of Da. Pardee's Krmedy taken daily keeps the blood cool, the liver and kidneys act ive, and will entirely eradicate lrom Ihe system, all traces of Scrofula, Halt Hhcuui, or any other form of blood disease. No medicine ever Introduced in this country has met with such ready sale, nor given sucn universal satisfaction whenever used as that ot Da. Hardee's Remedy. This remedy has been u-ed In the hospitals throughout the old world for the past twenty live years as a speclBc for the above dlsenses, and It basand will cure when all other so-called remedies fall. Send for pamphlet of testlmonluls from those who have been cured by Its use. Druggists sell It at I1.U0 per bottle. Try It and bo convinced. ' For sale by MACK & CO., O and II Front St., San Francisco. Hercules Gas Engina tuas wis uasuLiaaj Mad for Power or Pumping Purpose.' Th Cheapest Reliable Oas Kiujlna on the Market. Out cr Enoins m Pump. For Simplicity It Beats the World. It oils Itself from a Reservoir, Ho Carburetor to get out of order. Mo Batteries or Eleetrlo Spark. ft runs with a Cheaper Oraile ot Oasollne than any ouier AJigine. SKND FOR CATALCOnS TO PALMER & REY, MANUFACTURBJIt, 40S Sansomt Stmt, San Msn, CaL AltD POBTXAND, OBXGOtr. SOCIETY BADGES. A. FELDENIIEIM KR, leading Jew eler ef the PaclUo Northwest, keeps a large stock of all SECRET SOCIETY BADGES on hand. Best goods at low est figures. Badge made to order. S. P. N. U. No. 612 S. F. N. U. No. 580 Brooklyn Hotel 201-21! Busk St, San Francisco. This favorite hotel Is under the management of CHARLES MONTGOMERY, and Is as good it not the best Family and Business Men's Hotel In Ban Francisco. Home Comforts! Cuisine Unexcelled 1 First-class service and the highest standard of respectability guaranteed. Our rooms cannot b lurpatted or ararais and comfort. Board and room per day, 11.25, 11.50, II. 76 and $2.00; board and room per week, 17 to IU; single rooms, 600 to II. Free ooaca to and from botel. HE THAT WORKS EASILY. WORKS SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH SA POLIO RHEUMATISM CURED BY THE USE OF Moore's Revealed Remedy. Airrosu. Omsow, January IS. I eaa state with pleasure that by th as of MOORS B REVIALED B.E9SUI By oosbaao was reilered rrrm anoiacaaeol BHEr MAT1BM MATIBM and ny youngest boreurad entirely of INFLAMMATORY &HSO LM wnn lb beai doctor I Moid (at did bin bo food. Tours in rraurad, MBS. X. V. iTilLA. OLD f)T TODB DBDMIil.