Highest of all in leavening H Baking 1S Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE . Economy requires that in every receipt calling for baking powder the Royal shall be used. It will go further and make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. ROYAL BAKINO WWDIR CO., IO WALL $T., NEW YORK. THE GREAT PARIS CONVENT. 1U Important l'rt Id th remlnlna World of tho French Capital. It lii difficult to realize th part which the convent of the Hucro-Ccuur ploys ID the existence 01 in mrisian gran world, and, In (net, of the whole French aristocracy. There la scarcely a woman of any aocial prominence on either bank of the Belne who Una not received ner eauci tlnn within the walla of this celebrated e ml who haa nut aince main tained In lesser dejiree her connection therewith, by enrolling herself among the memberaof an association called the Dames Enfant de Marie, which la compoaed ex oluslvely of former puplla. Once a year tbt member perform a retreat of eight days devoted to prayer and meditation in the convent, wnicn was meir bcuu-h iu times gone by. At..ntaan arlatnrrntlo sm Institution it la located In the very heart of the noble faubourg Bt. uvriiiuin in me nne u ,nna n.a hullillni hnvlni? wrved in turn aa a palace of the Duchess de Maine, of the Duo de liiron, ana or tne uuo ae ino rout, whose widow sold it In 1H20 to .Mine. nrt ilm founder of the order. Mine. Burnt, who died ae recently as 1805, waa the daughter of a cooper, ene was iuhu enced In the ehaplng of ber career by the fact that Her Drotucr was a iiriesn ui re markable eloquence and enlightenment, and It was In deference to bia advice that at the beginning of this century she first laid the foundation alike of ber order and of ber school. For the latter ehe quickly obtained pupils. Convents at that time bad all been destroyed and their inmates dispersed, and means of education for young girls of noble birth Just then were exceedingly rare. So great was the suc cess of Mine, llsrat that Just about the epoch when Napoleon married the Aus trian Archduchess Mnrle lionise Mme. Barat waa elected superior of the order, ber deputy being the Conitcsse de Gram mont, who bad been ludy In waiting to Marie Antoinette. The school occupies the mansion Itself, while the majority of the nuns are boused in separate buildings, which, in several cases, were formerly used by the servants of the original proprietors. One of the fea tures of the convent is Its extensive gar dens, some 10 acres in area, and grand old trees situated in the very ceuter of Paris, beneath the shade of which in their school years have lived such great Indies as the Duchesse do Rohan, the Dueliessed'Ursel, Comtesse de Lostiingo, Comtesse de la Garde, Conitesse de Mun, the Marquise ilervey de Saint Denis, aud lust, but not least, the three daughters of Queen Isa bella of Spain, one of whom, the Infuutn Kululie, Is so well known In the United State. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If You Hum Yourself. The pain from slight burns Is very great. An excellent application is a thick paste of common baking Bo4n moistened with water, spread on a plcoe of linen or cot ton, and bound on the part. This can be kept wet by squeezing water on it from a sponge or cloth until thesmurting is sooth ed. A thick coating of starch can be used Instead of the soda, or wheat flour if noth ing better can be had, but neither should be applied if the skin is broken. In this case it Is better to use viielltie, olive or linseed oil. The doctor will apply some preparation containing carbolic acid. If the air be effectually excluded from a burn, the pain is relieved. Blisters should be pricked and the fluid absorbed with a soft cloth before dressing. If the clothing adheres to the skin, the loose part should be cut away and the patches of material soaked off with oil or warm water. When the Injury is extensive, thesuffer er will be prostrated and may die from the shock. Heat should bo applied to the ex tremities and over the heurt, and hot driukB given until the doctor comes. In burns from a strong acid the port should be covered with dry baking soda or lime, as the alkali will neutralize, the acid. No water should be used, but cos moline or oil applied after the alkali bas been brushed oil . When the burn bus been caused by nn alkali, an acid must be used. A person re covering from the effects of a burn re quires very nourishing food. Ladies' Home Journal. An Anecdote of Mr. Clilltls. Tills Incident lias been ruluted of Mr. Childs, mid I boliove it bus never been printed. Stopping one of his bend em ployee! one dny, Mr. Childs enid: "You aro not looking well. I think yuu must be working too linrd." "I am not fee-ling very well, Mr. Childs, that is a fact," was thoanswer, "but I guess I will be nil right iu n short time." "How would you liko to take trip to Europe?" said Mr. Childs, smiling pleasantly. "Well enough, sir," was tho response, '"hut I cannot nlford It." " You c-nn afford it,"(-uid Mr. Childs, taking him by tlio arm, "if 1 pay your expenses ami pny your salary to your family while you nio gone, can't you?" Tho result wns the man spent two months in Europe and returned com pletely restored to health. "That was one of the best Invest ments I ever made," chuckled Mr. Childs when tbo matter was called to bis attention. "Why, Mr. re turned so much improved iu health that be could do twice us much work as lie could before be left. You see, I was the real gainer by the tiunsuction." One of Mr. Childs' characteristics was that he never seemed to take any credit to himself for doing a kind act. New York Press. Wearing Illack. "Englishwomen," remarks Lady Wilde In her Social Studies, "seem to have a fatal predisposition toward black and hav ing reached the middle term, the mezzo cammlno of life, generally retire into black alpaca for the remainder of their days. They ought to remember that variety of dress and the refreshing brightness of col or is charming at all ages and fills the bonse and bonis with a flush of gladness and joy which almost replaces the flush of youth." This iuveigblng against black Is a part of tbt new gospel of clothes as set forth by the Delsartista. "If you want to show every month of your age with inter est," aaysoneof them, "persist In wearing dull, unrelieved black." Tommy Arf as tho Caso. "I don't see what 'a the use of my being vaccinated again," said Tommy, baring bia arm reluctantly for to doctor. "The human body changes every seven years. Tommy," replied his mother. "Yon are 1 1 years old now. You were In your fourth year when yon wer vaccinated first., and It bas run out." "Well, I waa baptised when I was a ba by. Hat that run ont too?" Chicago Trlbona. strength. Uteit 0. 8. Got. Food BeporL Tho Man Who Know. It All. Helienrs within his massive girth tho inoiit and essence of all worth. 1 no siurs round him revolve; tho sky rests on his mighty shoulders high. And so bo walks, erect mid grand, the solar system In his hand, and matched with him tho sun looks snmll, tho mighty mini who knows It nil! 'i'im I,. i tlm aim mi out at noon and throw a towel o'er tho iiiikiii, and let tho stars remote and high ilrop, line loose uui tons, from tho sky nnd send to Night's I'liitiiilmi alinrus vour selectmen mid sophomores, but spun) him for tho gisxlof all, tho !Uj);rhty man who knows it all I Ah, when be dies, will wisdom die, tho sun of knowledge leave our sky, unci we 11 bo left ill dark and doubt, like Moses when tho light went out! Oh. leave us not In darkness blind, thou luminary of man kind tlimnih dark till nil wavs to grope and fall, oh, wondrous man who knows it alii Give to the vulture and tho shark your statesmen mid your men of mark; glvo to the beasts who know no pity tho inciulKin of your school committee. Let bear nnd Hon do their work upon your learned city clerk. Siuro not tho mighty and olieso and portly justleo of tho peace, but wive, oh, save, wo humbly call, the wondrous mun who knows it nil! With him ull truth, all lore begins; om niscience and this mun urn twins. All wis dom's wotermnlns outspread from the main cistern of his head, and should this mighty cistern burst then all tho schools would dlo of thirst. So spare, kind fate, wa immiilv mil. this wondrous man who knows It all! Xow York World. Winning a fuse. Mr. Scrgeunt Wilkilis onco defended 0 breach of promise caso for a slngulurly ugly llttlo mail, which he told the defend ant, nftcr reading his brief, must lie 'bounced" through. And tho sergeant did bounce It through In a truly remarka ble manner. "Gentlemen of the jury," ho said ut the close of a most eloquent speech, "you have heard the evidence for the plulntiff, and, gentlemen of tho Jury, you liavo seen ami have admired that most bewitching plaintiff herself. Gentlemen, do you bellovo that this enchanting, this fascinating, this captivating, tills accom plished ludy would for ono moment favor the advances or listen witli anything Ruvo scorn and Indignation to the ninorous protestullons of tho wretched nnd repul sive lioiniiiieulus, the deformed and degrad ed defendant!"' Ills client looked up from tho well of tho court and piteonsly murmured: ' Mr. Sergeant Wilklnsl Oh, .Mr. Sergeant Wll kinsl" "Silence, sir," replied the sergeant In n wrathful undertone, ' (ienlleinon," ho continued, bringing bis fist down heavily on tho desk before him, "do you think that this luvely lady, tills fulrand smiling creuturo, would over have permitted an offer of mnrrliign to lie made to ber by this miserable ntom of humanity, this stunted creuturo, who would havo to stand on a sheet of note paper to look over twopeneef" Tho Jury at once gave a verdict for tlio defendant. Argonaut. The Count's Reception. Count Tolstoi, being Iu Tula while his play, "The Fruit of Kulighteuineiit," was r.i rehear-iii ny snnie smart young mem bers of the Aristocratic club there, a dep utation of tho aristocrats wailed on him to ask if he would attend their dress re hearsal that evening, u request to which tho count willingly ncceded. He appeared In good time nnd seemed pleased with ev erything except the action of one young noble, who bud to masquerade us a serv ant and drive some peasants oil tho stage. "My friend, why so gentler" said the il lustrious ninti of letters, "You should shoulder your nuijiks oil the stage as the doorkeeier below did ma jiiHt now." To a volley of questions the count replied with bis adventure. It appears that the worthy hall porter of the Aristocrntlu bad orders to ndinit none but Count Tolstoi after a certain hour, und refusing to believe that so exulted a personage would arrive on foot and In n sheepskin siirtout hud promptly kicked the great novelist down stairs for trying to effect an entrance. Mm a ranclseo Argonaut. The Chlneia Uunchhack. I mil reminded of a picture I pur chased some time ago. I bought it be cause I thought it wus the ugliest pic turo I bad ever seen. I tried to find out tbo history or inclining of tho thing for some lime without any success until a fow days ago, while studying Taoism, I found tho ugly man was one of the Taoist gods. In his early days his spirit bad tho power of leaving his body and roaniingover tho universe alone. When oft on ono of these trips, wolves camo aud ate bia body. So when bis spirit re turned it found only a few bones. After bunting around for awbilo the spirit found the body of a dead hunchback beggar who walked with an iron cane in bis lifetime. The spirit crawled in this body nnd has lived in it over since. Till Kwaloi, for that is the god's name, carries a gourd on his back, which, if the breath were blown out of it in the heavens, would bring buck his original body. According to last accounts, the breath has not flown out of the gourd. Cunton Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal. Been From a llalloon. A remarkable sight to bo seen from a balloon is the bottom of lakes and ponds. While over Lake Erio Carl E. Myers, the balloonist, sayB he snw clearly a wreck lying under 73 feet of water. It was thut of a schooner, sunk 40 years ago. At a height of half a mile the en tire bottom of a small lake or pond can be clearly seen, and Mr. Myers believe that on a clear day an aeronaut of good vision could see from a height of a mile submarine objects at a depth of 400 or SOU feet beneath the water. Wanted a Receipt. When the lute French Senator Kenaod first came as senator to I'aris from bis borne Iu the Pyrenees, he engaged a mom at a hotel and paid a month's rent l.Mi francs in advance. The proprietor aked him if be would have a receipt. "It Is not necessary," replied Hennud. "God has witnessed the payment." "Do you believe in God?'' sneered the host. ".Mint assuredly," replied Keuand. "Don't your" "Not I, monsieur." "Ah," said the sen ator, "In that case, please make me out a receipt!" San Francisco Argonaut. A Much Married Woman. I find tha following In the famous diary of John Evelyn: "At Haarlem they show ed me a cottage where, they told me, dwelt a woman w ho hid been married to S3 husbands, and being now a widow she waa prohibited to marry In the future. Yet it could not he proved that she bad ever made way with any of brr buebamla. though tbt suspicion btd brought her dl Tan timet to trouble." St. Louts Republic. AGRICULTURAL WORLD Useful Information for Tillers of the Soil. DISCUSSIONS ABOUT DEHORNING. If the Uornt on Our Cattlt Wort Not Frequently Used for I)oln Injury to Doth Han and lleaat, Very Fow Would Advocate Their Removal. This ia the way F. L. Gaston, Nor mal, III., dishes up " horns" in a recent Jersey Bulletin : " In regard to the discussion about dehorning, there seems to be no more chance for all to agree than In the mattor of prohibiting the sale of " horns " that make brutes of men. The greater the nuisance the more some will argue that we have no right to deprive the others of their natural privileges. Were it not a fact that the " horns " men tuko make them even lower than brutes, there would be no occasion for us to try to prohibit their exercising their natural privileges. And if the horns on our cattlo were not frequently used for doing injury to both man and beast, very few would advocate their removal. For several years past our State and nation have been licensing the sale of " horns " that make brutes of men ; now why not allow owners of bulls, by pay ing a license fee, to retain their horns, so if the bull feels like killing Jus master or his master's horse, or his master's neighbor, he shall have the blessed privilege if his owner is only willing to pay the license fee, no matter whether it is high or low. For myself I am satisfied men should be prohibited from buying or taking "horns" which make them go home and kill their wife, ....t.:i,i n noiirlilmr anil an far as mv cattle are concerned, I wish they had not a horn on tliem, i nave iiuiiuieu .1 t.hK a.1,1, anil uMthnnf. hnmfl fljlll llieill uuiu niw - - know they are much easier handled and do loss harm to eacti oilier wmioui iiorns. Have obtained the consent of my better- Uir In .li.hr.rn all tha tTKllA Pill VftS 1111 W ui. .1 w. - ' -" " ------- dropped on our place by using caustic potasll on tne lime norn wnen mo tan umlil Inn rlavfl old. Anil I Mild la will oiguv v. wi. - -, it gives excellent satisfaction to pur chasers. I hope soon to obtain the con sent of my better-half to also dehorn all the heifer calves dropped on our place; then we shall have Jerseys without horns. . . . If my neighbor prefers to have stoc. III. kn,n. nn anil la willinff t TlftV an annvivirtna linrtnan HIlfHeient to COVer all damage done by these same horns, per haps he Bliould have the privilege; and if human beings will sell that which makes a man Kill nismmuyor insneiijii bor and our State and nation have a con trolling interest in the cursed business, why not make the whole business re sponsible lor tlieuamage caused inereny i 1 ..1 u li.l.nrn nnr mt.t.lA and See llOW LKV 11 U i.l-ll". . . w... ------- much nicer they behave, and let us feed the young America on pure, iiiinuiiiiar ated Jersey milk instead of soaking thorn in boer and see how much better tliey behave. Boll for Olives. A a In the kind of soil in which the olive succeeds, Ellwood Cooper of Santa Barbara says that he has trees growing wlilinnt Irrigation in black adolie, on stony hillaidos, on table land with clay subsoil, in shady lands made Irom tne wash of the mountains, with no differ ence in the bearing of the trees or the oil made. They are known to succeed where peach, apricot and nectarine trees i..,.. i. rl..iiir..,.,l I, ir tl.o lilni'k alkali. J11.VO 1rC, UUOHJI;U and also in land so rocky and steep that it cannot be plowed. Our virgin soils of ... . , i: ,i,nuK Ualilornia are ncu in nine mm puio, two of the chief constituents required by the olive tree. Prof. Hilgard has stated that the substance of olive oil is taken entirely from the air, and that if the crop is made into oil, and pomice and all other offal returned to the land from the outset, it needs no other manure if the soil is a fairly good ono; it does not wear out the soil, but if the fruit is pickled returns Bliould be made to the soil, and then potash and nitrogen are especially called for. The olive tree flourishes under varied climatic condi tions; it will withstand a temperature of 14 degrees above zero ; it succeeds in the dry, interior valleys of the State, where the mercury during the summer often rangcB from 100 to 120 degrees in the shade along the coast and on the high foothillB of our mountain ranges. In Algeria, latitude 35, it thrives at nn elevation of 4.H00 feet above the level of the sea; in Italy at a height of 3,200 foot and there is a bearing orchard in about tlm InlifM.la nl Vnmiina nitliatAll linWai'll of 3,000 feet above the sea. California Cultivator, Now Way of Curing Lemons. Theodore PickctiB of La Canyada sug gests a plan for curing lemons which he says he has tried-successfully and which he calls " the poor man'B method." He cuts his lemons from the trees, UBing all tho ordinary precautions in handling, puts them in reeular fruit boxes, having openings at each end for the purpose of bundling Bume. lie then places his boxes on the north side of the house or in Borne Blindy place where the sun will not reach them, and packs five or six boxes high, putting a sack over the top of each and letting the ends come dawn over the openings at the end bo as to exclude the air and light. About once a week he gives the lemons a shower bath of cold water bv inserting the end of a hose in the openings at the end of boxeB. Ho repeats this operation ahont once a week, or, tl the weattier is cionuv, not bo often. Ho produced Bome really fine specimens cured in this way, and he aavs he has kept them eix or eight months. His I'enrmain apples are kept by this method until the first of May. 'This is, to say the least, a new and unique plan, and it might not be amiss for others to try it in a small wav. We would advise, however, not using this method extensively until better ac- 3uainted with the results. Los Angeles ournal. It requires twenty-three to twenty-sii days to hatch pheasant eggs. I'liilmile l.uve o Myth. Love 1s t ween women nnd men was uot invented for the entertainment of pbilos ophers, but largely for domestic pnrsises, and if platouic love is to have anything better than a hazardous and unstable ex istence the conditions of it must lie such that It may prosper without conflict with nature's more iinHirtant euds. Thus we see why platouic friendships between young people who might marry do not en dure. Such couples get married, and their friendship merges into a more durable sentiment, or else one of them marries some one else, and then it lapses. At least it should lapse, for. if it d.s-s not, it not only militates against peace in a family, but It tends to keep the unmarried phi tonist from going alsmt bis business and finding himself a mate according to na ture's design. Kvery marriageable man besides ber husband that any woman ab sorbs Involves the waste of some other wo man's opportunities, and nature bate wastewitba proverbial antipathy. Scrib ner'a. "Xow wnd ye plare look pliizant, led dyf" said the polite Irish photographer to a woman who came for ber photograph. "Oh, only Jrst for wan moment, Irddy!" The sum of 1130,000 it spent yearly in China for the paper money burned in an cestra! worship. TUB PORTLAND MARKKTI. Wbtat Markat. The local market Is dull and quotations are nominal, as follows! Valley, 770 percental; Walla Walla 75c per cental. Product Market. FiiOUB Most grades are higher at follows: Portland, Salem, Cascadia and Dayton, 2.16 per barrel; Walla Walla, 2.IHJ; Hnowllake, $2.70; Cor vallis, $2.50; Pendleton, $2.50; graham, $2.40; and superfine, $2.25. Oath Steady at !kk per bushel for white and 35u for gray. Hollod oats are quoted aa follows: Bags, $5.75(t).00; barrels, $tl.00(fi.26; cases, $.'1.76. Miujirurrs Bran, $15(417; shorts, $ltlmlH; ground barley, $20; chop feed, $15(ii III; whole feed barley, $17 pur ton; middlings, $:'.')(" 28 pur ton; chicken wheat, ti5c($l per cental. Hay (Jowl, $10(tl2 per ton. Butter Quotations are as follows; Oregon fancy creamery, 20("22'e per pound: funcy dairy, 17(20c; fair to good, 12,' b(' 15c ; common, Out 10c. CueifSK Oregon llJi(el2B0 per pound; young America, mkic; Swiss, imported, 30(i32c; domestic, li 18c. Koos The market is firm at 15c. There appears to be plenty of eggs on hand, but if they were fresher they would sell better. Poultbv Old chickens are quoted at $3.50 and $4 per dozen. Young are worth from $2.00 to 3.00, according to size. There is no demand for old ducks or geese. Young ducks are quoted at $3.00 ((4.60, and young geese, $0.00(;8.00. Turkeys are slow at 8m 10c. Onions New California red, le per pound; yellow, lo per pound. The market is weak. Potatoes Weaker; quoted at 8500o per sack. , Vegetables String beans and toma toes are lower. Cucumbers are higher. Corn, egg plant and peppers are now in market. Oregon cabbage, 40w,(J0e per dozen; California cabbage, $1.00 per cental ; cauliflower, $2.75 per crate, $1.00 per dozen ; parsley, 40c per dozen ; string beans. $1.00 per box; Oregon, 68c per pound; wax beans, $1.50 per box; as paragus, (J0(()5c per dozen ; peas, Z dc per pound; cucumbers, $1.25 per box, $2.25$2.50 per largo box; Cali fornia tomatoes, $L per 25-nound crate; corn 35c per dozen ; egg plant, 10c per pound; green peppers, 12,'u15c per pound. Berries Strawberries are quoted from 8,g'5c per pound ; raspberries, 4(3) 5o per pound; blackberries, 10c pur pound; currants, 4(5c. Tropical Fruit California fancy lemons, $1.50; common, $2.OO3.00; Sicily, $(1.00(3 6.26; Mediterranean sweets. $3.50(ii3.25; St. Michael, $3.25 3.50 per box; bananas, $l.752.50 per bunch: Honolulu, Il.uMZ.ou; Beeuungs, 43.00(il3.25; pineapples, Honolulu, $3.00 (ii 3.50; sugar loaf, . ' Fresh Fruit Oregon cherries, 15 60c per box ; California cherrieB, C090c per 10-pound crate for black ; apricots, 80(ff!)0c per 25-pound box; California apples. $1.25 per 00-pound box; 75c per 25-ponnd box; peaches, 60(390c uer box; plums and prunes, 90c per box. . . Duikd Fruits 18W3 pack, mite nrniies. OioSc: silver, I0(itl2c; Italian, 8Ml0e; German, 6(8c; plums, 6(5: 10c; evaporated apples, 810c; evaporated I in IK,., lit... n.a..tiAd UpriUOkO, AUVAVV, vwm..wu, i,Aw, pears, YCillc per potuiu. Wool, Dull. Valley, 10(il0$c per pound; Umpqun, 10( lOJiJc ; Eastern Oregon, 4(5j7c, according to quality and shrinkage. Provisions Eastern hams, medium, c per pound; large c; hams, picnic, 1 1 12c ; breakfast bacon, c ; short clear sides, OcOjfllc; dry salt sides, 0( 10c ; dried beef hams, 12! 13c ; lard, compound, in tins, 8'tjlOc; lard, pure, in tins, lOffllDac; pigs' feet, 80s, $5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, $3.25; kits, $1.25. Meat Market. Beep Top steers, $2.502.75; fair to good steers, $2.0O(2.25; cows, $h76 2.00; dressed, 4(ft 5c per pound. Mutton Best sheep, $1.752.00j ewes, $1.0001.75. Hons Choice, heavy, $4.00; liglrtand feeders, $3.75; dressed, 5c per pound. Ve Air Small, choice, 5c; large 34c per pound. Merchandise Markat. Beans Small white, No. 1, 3c per pound; No. 2, 3'bc; large white, 3ljo; pea, 3,'ac; butter, Sc; bayou, 3,'cj Lima, 4'ijC. CoKFEK-Costa Rica, 23c ; Rio, 2223c ; Salvador, 22c; Mocha, 2(l,(28c; Ar buckle's Columbia and Lion, 423.50 per 100-pound case. Rice Island, $5.00(S5.25 per sack. Cordage Manilla rope, l'i-inch, is quoted at Oc, and Sisal, 7?i'c per pound. Coai. Sales are alow and prices steady. Domestic, $5.00(17.50 per ton; foreign, $8.50(gll.00. Wheat Bags Calcuttas, 6'c, cash, Suoab D, 47aC; golden C, 5,'u'c; extra 0, 63uc; confectioners' A, c; dry granulated, 6Jttc; cube, crushed and powdered, t,'.c per pound ; J4C per pound diacount on all grades for prompt cash; maple Btigar, 15(!l0c per pound. BAN l'HANCISt'O M Alt K UTS. F1.0UR Family extras, $3.40(S3.50; bakers' extras, $3,30(ii3.40; superfine, $2.50(2.75. Wheat No. 1 shipping, 00(B02Jc for something choice; milling grades, $1.00 ( 1.07). Baulky Firm; feed, new, 85(387); old, 87)(ft00c.j brewing, new, nominal. Oats Milling, $l.22l11'0i:1.32! ; sur prise, $1.37).i1.42'.i; fancy feed, $1.30; good to choice, $1.15(1.25; poor to fair, l,02,e(n,1.12V; black, nominal; red, nominal; gray, $1.15(41.25. Hops Quotations remain nominal at a range of 012c per pound. Potatoes Larger receipts. Early Rose, 30( 50c in Backs and 40jr50c per cental in boxes; whites, 45(iTCTe in sacks and 50(JOOc in boxes. -Onions In good demand. Quotable at 30(f 35c per cental for red and 60(a70c for white. POULTRY NOTES. A hen in her prime, when properly fed and cared for, Bliould yearly furnish three times her weight in eggs. A chick of one the larger breeds hatched in the incubator until the twenty-second day indicates that the temper ature of the egg drawer was a tri fie too low. Kjrgs from hens not in company with cocks have been found to keep very much longer than those from hens mated with cocks. In summer, after hatching is over, remove the males, aa the hens will lay as well without them. The a nf Contrast. "How Is it you find so much comfort iu Hint Knglish humorous paper?" "Why, it's this way: When I nnd one of the jokes and then look at the picture, the picture seems llrst rate." "Yes?" "And then after I've looked at the pic ture I go back to the jokt, and that seems first rate." Chicago liccord. Persous convicted of vagrancy and sim ilar minor offenses in San Francisco are sentenced to work in chains on the public street. A heavy lugging chain, 0 feet in length, to which is attached nn iron ball as large as a man's bead, effectually pre Veuts the esca;ie of prisoners. It ia not generally known that when a strain fulls into tin. wntera rommnn felt hat may I made use of as life preserver, and by placing the hat upon the water, rim nown. won me arm arounu 11 presa Inu it sliubtlv to the Ineast, it will bear a man np fur hours. There are S.S-J5 linhthonse station in the world. f theie Kntflaml has a 1 7. the I'nilril Stotm Si'-, Canada and Newfound land 4'.'4. and France cornea fourth with 444 lights. The hole nf K 11 rope hat 3.477 lighthouses or at.ition. Swindling Exploits of Edward Howe and Martha Stiles. THEY UAVE A CLEVER NY STEM. lis Swindled Harvard (InxlualM All Orel tha Country While Nlia Worked tha O. A. It, l'iMti With "Kriiniuier lly" Htory They Cum lo flrli f at l.at, Tlio risrut arrest In New York ol'y ol Martha K. Stihn, alias Kale Clayton, wiu tbo means of throwing full light upon tin unrrntlniiKtif the cleverest pair of swin dler known III American imiIIco anna!. Tbo other memlK-r of the pn clous duo li KdwanI Hobblin Howe, wluwo urresl Iu Chicago for defrauding various llarvan' nliiiiuil Inst iNiviuls-r raiiMtl a wnsutlnii and who now languishes In tho Cook coun ty Jail awaiting trial oil 1:1 Indict incuts. The mellimlH of Ilowo nnd bis wife foi such ho Manlia Htlli-s proved to be stand out as the most unbiio and singular lv siiee,u.sfiil ever euiiiloved by cunnlnu rogues. Tiielr victims Mil iiiinils're.1 In every largo city ill the 1'nllcd Wales, ami for it) years they have lived Iu luxury from obtained of oblluing collegians. Howe made the study of the Harvard 11I1111111I his life work and has the History of every graduate since IHilo r,t hit f.lltl.ltl s (ml. Ilo has rlehlv nrofltcd from bis close knowledge of the Harvard Issly graduate and has tnnleil iimiii Its gi r oslty and gissl nature to tho extent nl thousands of dollars. Howe was well ncqtmlnti-cl with mem bers of Harvard clubs In towns tho conn try over, and he glided from one to nu mber with tho facility of n drummer nnd nl wavs left victims behind. Ho was In the habit of registering at tho best hoteli lu tho places he visited and then calllnp lixin the Harvard men thero. The story ho would unfold was invariably liko this: Ho had Just urrlved In the city nnd va 011 bis way to udlstant town, where press liur lniuliii.su eiiipiiireinetits weru iilrcndv overdue,. Tho first night of his stay In EUWAliD IK.WK. had been nibbed of JJiOO ut his hotel and hnd nut enough to proceed upon his Jour ney. He usked for funds to carry him tc his destination and always obtained thf sums he wanted. These amounts he would repay In a day or two, but hero ends the chapter. Tho money was never returned. The list of victims was Increased. In Chicago, however, Howe met lib Waterloo. Ho ''negotiated loans" until his creditors became as thick ns tho louvi of Ynlluinhrosa. Ho piled up his "an gels" threo rows high, and llnnlly they cunio together and concocted a plot to put nn ond to bis guino. J. C. Hnrtlett of 4C Sidney court had him nrrestl, und Doc. '1 Ilowo was thrust into the county Jail. When Howowns placed behind the burs in Chicago, his wife went to Xew York ond commenced to gather In a harvest in order to securo money for her husbimd'f defense. Her work met with n decided hindrance, by her arrest, but sho had won away large stilus from (iothiiinltes before Ijeliig detected. .Martha Stiles was lwrn In Amherst, X. II., In 18 IS, nnd is of an excellent Xow F.nglnnd family. Her sis tor is married to ono of Chicago's most prominent business men, who balled Howo out in December. Martha began her career of crookednosi soon after the close of tho wur, fastening her clutches upon tho G. A. H. posts as the first experience teachers. Sho told a ro mantic tulo to tho old soldiers. Sho said sho had enrolled In the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts volunteers ns a drummer boy nnd served until thcbnttlonf Lookout Mountain. There at her post of duty she was wounded and her sex discovered. This fnblo was very productive until punctured by a suspicious Ohio veteran. Then Mar tha, who called herself Kato Clayton, van ished. She married Howe, und they went "n-stnrrlng" and found tho west a good market. In 1885 they went on tho stage and at Boston appeared In Mine. Modjcs ka's company. They were ull tho while continuing tho Harvard scliemo totho det riment of about 800 graduates' purse throughout the entire country. In tho.Harvard 18(14 classliook Is a long sketch of Howe's lifo up to 188(1, which hi' wroto himself. Howe was born in l4!l nnd belongs to a respected Cambridge (Mass.) family. He fitted for college at Phillips Kxeter academy. After gradua tion ho entered tho Lnwreiico Scientific school as a student of engineering. In ISO" ho left for Freiberg, Saxony, where ho remained as n member of tlio Hoyal School of Mines for two years. After con siderable European travel ho returned tc the United States early In tho seventies. Ho was superintendent of tho I'opieroy (O.) rolling mill for 10 months und then went to Sun Francisco und wus assistant auditor in thu Western Union Telegraph ollico for a short time. Ho then engaged In tho refining of lead and silver and the examining of mines in western Nevada. Ho next occupied a prominent position with a Sun Francisco hardware firm. He came east and worked with several rail roads in Massachusetts, but went back to California and was appointed u stnto com missioner to the New Orleans exposlilon by the governor. His history has been one of remarkable tips ond downs, und his ability, if directed la a proper channel, would have won him a good position in the world of science. His family have made repeated efforts to reclaim him, but havo utterly failed. As to the ultimate punishment of Howo aid his wife, there ore enough Indictments against them to glvo them prison homes for n century to come should they escape the clutches of the law now. Absurd. "The new president has no more Idea how a sewing society should be conducted than a child." "What did she do?" "Planned a lot of sewing for the mem bers." Chicago Inter Ocean. A It lln ak. Editor Dr. Knidec has sued us for libel. Assistant What for? Editor I wrote, "The doctor took the patient's pulse before he prescribed foi bllll, "nnd the intelligent compositor set il up '-purse." Truth. Xot Itown on the Mehrtlulp. Clara Don't you say your prayers any more? Maud Not since I went to Europe on a personally eouducttd tour. They didn't allow for them. New York World. Miori Sif hUl. Crimsonbeak Don't you see that very red spot over there? Bacon You evidently cau't see auy fur ther than yutir uo&e. Youkers Statesman. Aqorooa. "Them's my sediments,'' said the hy drant water as it went through the filter and came out on the other side. "I fcope 1 make myself clear."' Chicago Tribune. I.Mimi r tin 1-ariuMlaU, Jiint by wlmt jiriM-t'BH the ciwtoiu of lxTiitinicuii'l browlx'HtiiiK wltuos ea cunio to be eutubUshes nmoug Uiwyem Is not known. Prommably it count! from thelioe that by work ing upon the IndlKtmtinii of the wit pens lie can be 111111I0 to lone his bead, contradict hiiiiw.'lf aud bo lose tb vuluo of hia tiMtiinony. The lawyer who flint cowvivii! thin jilan of crow examination wus a grvut man and a grand originator. He doubth'NH won many cokc by its use. He dimum much credit for his aliui'imt'sM. Out the thotimiuibj of cl.cup imitators lie hus bred up in our courts are enough to blot bia memory forever. Every crack voloed flouring of the law school thut baa his fii-Nt chuiii'o nt tom examination ubly taken pattern from the "power ful lawyers" ho him iteen in the same linitihli gumn und MiueukH biaabuHO at hitt bettor in tho witness chair. His chief desire weins to bo to limko oh thorough piu-iHl an idiot of himself iim potihiblo. Judges chuiklo at him, old lawyer smile ut him, witucsHee call him impertinent when they lea v tho Btmid, and every ono who heart ami Bees him very properly despiso him. Vet lie grows up in the busmen nnd expands, und hw abusive propen sity increitses with his fees. But bul ly inn does not ulways win. Thera ure finer method of discomposing a witness than that. Dickons told of nn old lawyer who never fulled to discompose bis victim by a much simpler und inllnitely less offonsivt method. Tho old lawyer took snuff. Just us he wa nlxjut to ask a vitul question ho would take a piuch very slowly und ceremoniously. Then lis would draw out un immense red bundkerchief and spread it upon bis bund. Ho would then put the question, screw up his eyes us if the snuff irri tated him und dclilierutely wait Iuun expectant nttitudo before blowiiighis nose until the witness could answer. These tactics, so the uuthor said, never fuiled to distract the victim, and his answer would invariably be hulting, compromising und of Inesti mable vulue in "impressing the jury." Tbo bulldozing lawyer will probably continue to bulldoze until the courts discourage tho custom generally and thus fill a long felt waut Chicago Post It Is the MI111I That Sees. How do we see? Did you ever chance to think? I have asked quite a number of people lutely, and they reply: "With our eyes, of course. How else?" or words to thut effect. Did you ever renlize bow much of our vision is men tul? We see noth ing properly and definitely until the mind lends its perception. We may gaze steadfastly nt a picture, yet be uuublo to see anything but a con fused muss of color, because the mind is seeing faces and scenes a thousand miles away perhaps. Call the men tal vision buck, and the figures on the canvas take their proper pluces. At once we see tho picture. Or shut your eyes. Can you not see the fnce of those you love or bate as clearly as you ever saw them with the phys ical means of sight? How many times one glances at bis watch, yet when usked the time as he replaces it iu his pocket is unable to tell, sim ply because he looked only with the eyes nnd not with the mind also. Boston Advertiser. Inculisisteoey. Customer I thought you pretend ed to be a tempera uce mun or a pro hibitionist or something of that sort. Clothier I am, sir. Customer-Why don't you sell pro hibitionist goods then? Clothier How do you mean? Customer I got a $1 umbrella ber Inst week, und it came home soaked the first time I took it out. That1 one thing. Three days ago I bought a pair of $3 trousers. 1 noticed that they were n little full when I got them. Last night lifter the shower they got tighter'u auy pants I ever had on, nnd today they're off again. Then there's that thin coat 1 bough, here; bad a regular tear Wednesday and hasn't been fit for business since. You're in fiuo company here if you'r a temperance man. Lemuie see ft standup collar, if you've got one thai cau stand up. Farm and Field. Webster's Cuinuient. The junior counsel in a case whert Daniel Webster was the senior in formed the great advocate that the opposing parties were bent on secur ing a continuance, while the inter ests of his client demanded imme diate decision. Among other annoy ances mentioned was the fact that the other side had occupied six days cross examining one witness. When Mr. Webster appeared the next day, he soon hud occasion to remark: "They ask for a continuance of thia case. Why, may it please the court, they have already occupied as much time in tho cross examination of one witness as it took the Almighty to create the universe." Minneapolis Housekeeper. Use Knameltne Stove Polish: no dust no (met. Tbt Girmia for breakfast. WOMEN WHO SUFFER each month, eon find relief and cure in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It regulates and restores the monthly function, braces up the exhausted, run - down, overworked and delicate; allays ana luinishes all Nervous Weakness, Spasms, Hysteria, Fits, Chorea, . S Vi,.,.'. Dance; cures Weak nesses, Bearing Down Sensations. Backache, Catarrhal Inflammation, Ulcera tion and kindred maladies. For those about to become mothers, it is a priceless boon, for it lessens the in and perils of childbirth, shortens " labor " and the jieriod of confinement, and promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. THOA THIHLWFT.t, Of R,ltrtlWllff, Pit, says: l cannot aiilliciently express to ynu my irratituile lor the benefit your ' Favorite Prescription ' has conferred Uxn my (le us ti ter. I f late she hnn suffered no pain whatever. It is simply murveloua." w I A -.rJl 1 -HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO MALARIA I NKAHINU TIIK (IIIAVK. In old as Innrniillii and weakiiMa hasten In eli mi the sap Iwlwoon u ami Ilia inn. Il-plIyM-laiilllfa reavaioh and phnrumcsUklll hn allied IheuiM'liea Iu luriilitiliis ut a relUWe Dieam ol auielliiratlni Ilia alluieiita Incident 10 iln lllllnS yraraalld of rellewlllf waillllK I'll) "I al energy, lu naina la llinluller'l Slouineh lllltrra. a widely runiirelienlva remedy In ule oaHtaud an lii.atliiiabin lileolui 10 lh elderly, the fe hl and Ilia cniivnleM-viit. Ic httninalle allineiiu.lroulilewlih Ilia klilne) and ImiiUaK" araauiunif toil mora eumtiioii allineulNof liie aaid. 'Iheae araeffaeiiialiy iiiiiiUtrautei by tlie Ulnars, Hhlcti l IlkewlMi a prevail linn and cu rative uf malarial eiiiuilaluli,dyHiHiala,eoiiiil. laitlon and hilluiiiueiH, Il In huffily priimiiilve if appetite, uliup and tha acipiUltlou ol viKor. "Thai arnur.ilal notion l nul a bad one," ld Ilia man al a aafe dlalauca, "ooiialdsrluif Ilia bluff-bole that I" In your lauv." ritOVi:i) TO II K Til at IIKST. 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Kor s areal many yeun iIimuiwi pro nounced It a Inert) dlat-iive, slid pieMtrllH-d IochI rvmedlea, and bycmmtalitly fablns to curewllh local treatment pronounced It Incurable. Sci ence haa proven ciitarrb lo lie a ciiimtliiillomil illaraM) ami lliuieloru rripilrea conmitiilloual Irciiliiieul. Hall's I'aisrrh Cure, mainifaciu'fil by K. J. Cheney it Co., Toledo 11I1I0, . the only e tllutinual euro 1111 Hie market. It la taken Internally In diiwa from ten ilropntoiiteaapiiiiu ful. Il acta illrecily 011 the blond and iiiueoim urfticca of Ilic yatem. They ntnir one liiin.ired diil'ari for any cane II full 10 cure. Send for fir cularaaud Ic'llinonia - AihlrcM K. 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