Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Leads all other medicines in
the cure of all spring ailments
humors, loss of appetite, that
tired feeling, paleness and
nervousness. Take it.
Get it today In usual liquid form or
(ablets called Sarsatabs. 100 Doses H
IN LATE WINTER
AND EARLY SPRING
We seldom feel JUST RIGHT
At such a time KASFARILL is the best and
fest Blood Purifier, the most successful
prescription for spring humors and such
disorders of the blood as boils, pimples,
pustu4es, blotches, sores and cutaneous
eruptions. Kasparilla is admitted to bt
the best remedy for that lack of energj
and the peculiar debility so prevalent
during the close of winter and the opening
of spring. For derangements of the di
gestive organs it is a natural corrective,
operating directly upon the liver and ali
mentary canal, gently but persistentlj
stimulating a healthy activity. It!
beneficial influence extends, however, tc
every portion of the system, aiding in th
processes of digestion and assimilation ol
food, promoting a wholesome, natural
appetitet correcting sour stomach, bad
breath, irregularities of the bowels, con
stipation and the long list of trouble!
directly traceable to those unwholesome
conditions. Kasparilla dispels drowsi
ness, Oeauacue, uadtacue auu uesjjuuu
ency due to inactivity of the liver,
kidneys fcnd digestive tract. It is a
strengthening tonic of the highest value.
THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE
HOYT Chsmicai, Co. Portland, Oregor
A Week in
BELGIUM
Love Letters Burled With Her.
A maiden lady of Hanley (Staffs)
who died at the age of more than
ninety years asked shortly before her
death that her love letters should be
burled with her. Her relatives
found several letters, dating back
ome of them to the 'SOs, with the ink
almost faded. Her last request was
compiled with. London Evening
Standard.
Miniature Specialization.
A young medical student was being
quizzed by one or his teachers: "In
what will you specialize?" he was
asked. "Disease of the nostril," replied
the student. "Good," said the profes
sor, enthusiastically. "Which nos
trli?"
Mothers win find Mrs. Wlnilow's Bonthlnt,
syrup tiie but remedv to use foi their cLlldroj
luring iht teothing period.
New r .v..
...uicnoe.
As long as the present process of
extracting radium from pitchblende Is
bo enormously expensive It avails lit
tle that new pitchblende fields have
been found In the south seas. How
ever, It Is of scientific Interest if not
of commercial advantage. Certainly
the radium manufacturers are not us
ing all the pitchblende available at thr
oresent tit-"
dance Backward.
Flchte once said: "The day that
opens for us another year Is best used
In beginning that year aright; but ono
wastes no time, In spite of this, by a
backward look or two, not only to
balance his own books, as It were,
but also to take due note of what
memorable men and women have ac
complished In the years that were
theirs. So shall he at once Inform his
mind and raise examples to his future
effort." And the sentences might well
at. -mil text to what has here been
written.
The Chicago tire could have been pre
vented with one pail of water, but the
Water was not handy. Keep a bo tb' ol
Hamlin Wizard Oif handy nnd prevent
the licry pains of inll mmat on.
i rutn ooiore am.
Herodotus tells us, In the first book
of his history, that from the age of
five to that of twenty, the ancients In
structed their children only on three
things, namely: to manage a horse, to
hoot dexterously with their bows,
and to speak the truth. The study of
truth Is perpetually Joined with vir
tue; there Is no virtue which does not
derive Its original from truth, Just as
ihere Is no vice which does not spring
from a He.
Judicial Distinction.
A man whose trousers were stolen
from a Pullman car has been awarded
damages In the sum of $439.50, which
Is doubtless all the trousers were
rorth, but sets a ridiculously low es
timate on the amount of "mental anguish."
LAZY LIVER
"I find Cascarets so good that I would
not be without them. I was troubled a
sreat deal with torpid liver and headache.
Sow since taking Cascarets Candy Cathar
tic I feel very much better. I shall cer
tainly recommend them to my friends as
the best medicine I have ever seen."
Ahm Bazinet, -Otborn
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baa.
ALONG stretch of great white
buildings looming at you
through the haze is your first
Introduction to Ostend. As
une steamer approaches near
er auu uea.1 iu lunuiug mage, lue
outlines of column and gable, tower
and minaret, balcony r.nd arch, and
the sound of distant music come to
you; and then, as the buttresses of
the pier absorb your view, you are
greeted with a babel of French and
Flemish, and all the bustle of a for
eign port. You begin to realize the
delights of having arrived at the most
beautiful summer city in the world
Ostend.
For the moment you may be be
wildered with all that you see. Your
dinner is being served to you In a vast
chamber filled with exquisitely gown-
Hotel de VI lie. Bruges.
ed women and men, mosUy in evening
dress. Through the open French win
dows a great crowd Is passing along
the Digue, the magnificent roadway
which stretches along the sea to the
right and left of Ostend, to France on
one side, to Holland on the other.
You hear every language, and you
oon notice every type of nationality,
but always the best of that national
ity. Ostend Is the congress ground of
the aristocrat from everywhere. Every
body, laughing and happy, everybody
living for the moment, forgetful of the
before, and careless of the afterwards.
Only Ostend, Relne des Plages, can
produce such a scene; nowhere In all
the world Is it equalled. Then, off to
the station, for you are going to see
as much of Belgium as you can in
your week's holiday.
In half an hour you are In Bruges,
the old, old City of Flanders, "The
Venice of the North," as she once
proudly called herself, when she could
boast of 200,000 Inhabitants, of a sov
ereign's brilliant court, and of mas-
KITCHENS IN OLDEN TIMES
Size of Culinary Department Was
More Important Than Its Fur
nishings Long Ago.
In olden days the size of the kitchen
seems to have been of more import
ance than Its fitments In detail. At
Hurstmonceux, for Instance, there was
a kitchen 28 feet high, with three
huge fireplaces, and a bakehouse with
an oven 14 feet In diameter; then
there Is an old Welsh kitchen at
Penrhyn Old Hall, near Llandudno,
dating from the Fifteenth Century,
which has many primitive culinary
contrivances, now obsolete or super
seded by more modern devices; a
meatjack with a flywheel, a steel
toasting stand, and a fan bellows. A
wonderful old kitchen Is at Battle
Abbey, and that at St. Mary's Hall,
Coventry, Is remarkable for the fa
mous "knave's post," to which possi
bly recalcitrant scullions were tem
porarily attached. There Is a medieval
kitchen it Westminster Abbey, al
though nowadays little remains
Whereby to identify it ave the rubble
sive walls and a powerful army able
to defy an emperor's wrath. Now
Bruges has nothing but her thrilling
romantic past and the inestimable
treasures of art which even her con-
In Ghent you must see the cathedral
with Its world-famous altar-piece "The
Adoration of the Lamb," by the broth
ers Van Eyck, and the tombs of for
mer bishops, wonders In carved mar
ble. Nor -must you fall to pause a few
minutes before the town hall, where
you will view the stone pulpit from
which Jacques Van Artevelde, "dear
gossip and ally" of Edward III, ad
dressed his turbulent fellow-burghers
The belfry, with its "Roland" bell, is
close to the town hall and a few steps
further is the Castle of the Counts,
former palace of the sovereigns of
Flanders. It Is now a partially re
stored ruin of great extent, with a
torture chamber beneath the Donjon,
and other uncanny evidences of how
they did things in the good old days
After dinner you had better catch
your train for Brussels, for you will
arrive at the capital long before mid
night, and you will have ample Unit
to see something of night life in "Lit
tle Paris" before you go to bed.
Brussels Is more or less familiar
ground to everybody who has been on
the continent, even if the rest of Bel
glum is not so well known. Having
breakfasted, you will start early on
your sight-seeing, and If you have not
been to the Belgian capital before
you will begin with the town hall'
This remarkable Gothic building dates
from the fourteenth century, and wit
nessed the execution of Counts Ek
mont and De Horae by Alva. You
must do the cathedral and picture
galleries before you lunch, and you
will find an excellent restaurant in
one of the many arcades, where you
may also be tempted into buying some
lace. After lunch, drive through new
Brussels with its splendid boulevards
to the great Palace of Justice, which
crowns the upper city.
Antwerp is only half an hour's train
from Brussels, and you should give It
a full day, at any rate; so arrive as
early as you can from Brussels, and
begin with the cathedral, If only to
see the Rubens masterpieces. There
are one or two more churches almost
of equal interest, one of which con
tains the family mausoleum of Rubens
Then there Is the Plantln Museum of
Printing, with the residence of the
great Antwerp citizen Just as he used
to Inhabit It, and several picture gal
leries crammed with treasures. But
Antwerp is the city of pictures, and
you must watch your time. You
should walk along the splendid docks
there are raised stone terraces for
promenading and in the midst of the
bustle of mighty commerce there is
flooring, the buttery hatch and an ad
joining cellar now or lately the dining-room
of the resident canon. Hamp
ton Court Palace, too, has Its "great
kitchen," with a vast vaulted roof and
sets of antlers on the walls.
Our ancestors fully recognized the
advantages of having a large kitchen.
An order, dated April 19, 1106. com
mands Hugh de Nevill to have the
king's kitchen at Clarendon roofed
with shingles, and to eause two new
kitchens to be erected, one at Marl
borotfgh and the other at Ludger
hall. to dress the royal dinners In;
"and it is particularly directed that
each kitchen shall be provided with a
furnace sufflcienUy large to rout two
or three oxen.
Arizona Dates,
I am on my way to Arizona, where
I go to inspect the African date which
I brought to this country through the
aid of the agricultural department of
Washington In 1889. The dates were
obtained In Arabia, Egypt and coun
tries along the Mediterranean, i have
not seen these date trees since they
ware planted la 1890. They wer
On old Steen Castle to be explored,
the former fortress of the port and
palace of the Marquesses of Antwerp.
Here is a collection of all manner of
mediaeval marvels, musical Instru
ments, beds, torture-machines, and a
variety of horrible dungeons in the
depths below the basement.
Prom Antwerp go to LUge, about an
hour and a half's Journey, but the
views from the train will repay you
The old city of the prince-bishops and
the birthplace of Charlemagne is sin
gularly free from smoke and noxious
vapors and other outward signs of Its
commercial activity, thanks to its sit
uation. It Is built In a sort of basin
between the hills around It; on the
slopes of the hills are the factories,
and all the unpleasantness blows over
the city.
The Palace of the Bishops, the unl
versity and the citadel can be done
by you, with lunch between, and In
the later afternoon you can catch a
train for Spa and arrive at the cele
brated city of springs In time to make
yourself presentable for dinner.
At Spa you are again In the midst
of the best continental society, with
the usual sprlnkline at AmeHm'n mil.
Uonalres and English "milords;" and
it Is Wednesday evening In your
week's holiday. You will nnd Spa
full of amusement, for It Is the sports
center of Belgium. You can now takt
the railway to Coo, where there Is a
waterfall of wondrous beauty, and yov.
find yourself amid the wild scenery
of the Ambleve river, and on the bor
ders of Belgium's' miniature Switzer
land, tt" T f "vinous nnrsrilaa nf tho
Ardei r -v F c n Coo you can take a
drive to ' r Iiamps, a little town
shio f-.4: g rhi Ambleve rapids and
lyir j in tfce n l ist of scenery of 'extra
ordinary beauty.
However, your week Is coming to a
close, ar.d so you had best take a
train from Remouchamps to Jemelle,
on the main line again of the state
railways, and manage to reach Namur,
traveling the while through one of the
most picturesque districts, not only In
OTTUMWA
WOMAN
CURED
By Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound
Ottumwa, Iowa. "For vears I was
almost a constant sufferer from female
trouhle in all its
dreadful forms;
shooting pains all
over my body, sick
headache, spinal
weakness, dizziness,
depression, and
everything that was
horrid. I tried many
doctors in different
parts of the Uniteul
States, but Lvdia E.
NjPinkham's Vegeta.
Jble ComDnnnd ha
done more for me than all the doctors.
I feel it my duty to tell you theso
facts. My heart is full of gratitude to
you for my cure." Mrs. Harriet E.
Wampler. 624 8. Hansom Street
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Consider This Advice.
Kn woman ulw.i.1,1 o,,l,..,;f ....4
" . - ..... .. OUUUU, IA. a DU1K1-
Cal ODeration. which mav mpan Hnafh
until she has given Lvdia E. Pinkham'a
v egetaDie compound a tair tnah
This famous medicine, made only
from roots and herbs, has for thirty
years proved to be the most valuable
tonic and invigorator of the female
organism. Women residing in almost!
every city and town in the United
States bear willing testimony to the"
wonderful virtue of Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham, at L,ynn, Mass.,
Invites all sick women to write
her for advice. Iter advice is free,
confidential, and always lielpf nL
Guild Houses, Antwerp.
Belgium, but in all Europe. Namur
la the ancient fortress which has fig
ured in the wars of history for more
than six centuries.
Namur, Indeed, is encompassed with
the fairest charms that nature can re
veal. The lovely valleys and hills of
the Meuse, the Lesse and the Ourthe
rivers, the grottoes of Han and Roche
fort, and many other romantic attrac
tions In the way of feudal ruins, pic
turesque cascades, fairy glens, and
noble forests can be made a menu of
daily sight-seeing, to be prolonged or
curtailed as your holiday permits. The
fortress of Namur, with the ramparts
and earthworks, which were so formid
able In the days when William of
Orange besieged It, are now portion
of the public pleasure ground.
During your week of rapid sight-seeing
you will have discovered that Bel
glum Is not only the country that
seems to have been the center place
of the world's history ever since his
tory began, but that every Inch of Its
territory Is romantic and Instructive.
Its natural beauties and perfect acces
sibility from end to end make it the
most enjoyable tourist and holiday
land In all Europe.
Originality.
People are always talking about
originality; but what do they meanT
As soon aa we are born, the world
begins to work upon us, and this goes
on to the end. And after all, what
can we call our own, except energy,
strength and will. If I could rtv. an.
account of all that I owe to great pre
decessors and contemporaries there
would be but small balance in my
favor. Goethe.
INDIGESTION
"T CAN BE
RELIEVED
AND
HOS TETTER'S
STOMACH
BITTERS
is the medicine you can rely
on to do the work
It is a real digestive
help. Try it today.
Refuse all Substitutes
rooted suckers and every year the
planters down there send me a box
or two of each year's product as a
sample. The orchards having date
trees ' are becoming more numerous
every year, and It will not be long be
fore we have all the dates that we
can consume and will do away with
the present ImportaUon. The date is
suitable to Arizona. Professor Van
Dusen, in Sunday Oregonian.
-Mm f M i a,
To Protect Plumblnq.
Paper, being a non-conductor ot
heat, makes the best possible cover
for kitchen or laundry pipes that are
apt to freeze. Wind around tightly,
fastening into place with a string.
True Charity.
"It is no great matter to live loving
ly with humble and meek persons, but
he that can do so with the peevish and
perverse he hath true charity.".
Jeremy Taylor.
An Illuminating Remark.
"Is Belle a girl who lights up wall!"
"No. but keep it dark,"
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