Cannot Cast the Future.
A man may presume to know much
of what Is rasslng, but he dare not
predict what part of the passing show
shall disappear, as a fashion does, In
time. It must follow, as no man can
pretend to place his finger unerrlnglr
on Just that particular part, then no
man can begin to tell just what man
or woman living today will be revered
In time to come.
To Remedy Corrosion.
Corrosion in metals Is said to be
prevented by the passage through the
metals of a weak current of electric
ity. This Is a "like cure like" treat
ment, for the pitting of metals la said
to be due to the local electrical action,
that Is, feeble current developed by
the acldular water on dissimilar met
als, often Impurities In the metal It
self, at the rtrt if corrosion.
The Greatest Social Force.
The middle classes are the prepon
derant social force of today In repub'
lies as well as In monarchies In Eu
rope or In America. Everything Is
everywhere subordinated to the neces
sity of satisfying them as speedily
and as thoroughly as possible. Fer-
rero la Paris Figaro.
Mothers wtn find Mrs. Window's Soothing
Syrup luc tx st romedv to use ioi their cilUma
luring toe teeming period.
Don't Let Old Age Come.
Let us have a movement against
mental surrender to old age at any
time. Such a movement would make
for sane moderation .in all things, a
cheerful spirit, appreciation of the joy
and delisht of living. Such a move
ment would dwell on the marvels and
beauties of nature and the grat pos-
siMilties of good in the lowest of men.
THE TRUTH ABOUT BLUING.
Talk No. 9.
This common article fools many
Think of it, large bottle, little pinch
of blue, fill it up with water. There
you are. Does it look good to you?
Buy RED CROSS BALL BLUE, a
pare blue. Makes beautiful, clear,
white clothes. You will like it.
Large package 5 cents. ASK YOUB
GROCER.
Ph ilips on ....... i.i cny.
The late David Graham Phillips had,
like many bachelors, a cynical view
of matrimony. Mr. Phillips, at a re
union of Princeton's class of '87, at
the Princeton club, said of marriage:
"The Persians have a proverb that
every young man should consider well
before proposing. It runs: 'He that
ventureth on matrimony is like unto
one who thrusteth his hand Into a
sack containing many thousands of
serpents and one eel. Yet, if the
prophet so will it, he may draw forth
the eel.' "
Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-
coated, easy to take as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bow
els and cure constipation.
The Wealthy Ones of Earth.
Taking Into account Australia and
all of the islands of the tropical seas,
the world may have 10,000 million
aires, outside of North America and
Europe, Russia excluded. The United
States alone must have more mil
lionaires than the total for continents
which contain two-thirds of the peo
ple in the world.
Manitoba's Fish Industry.
Fish from Lake Winnipeg are now
sent down south as far as Maryland.
Most of them are not white fish, but
cheaper grades. The fishi
wheat as a commercial asset.
MAN HASN'T MASTERED HER !
Characteristics and Peculiarities of
American Woman Due to This,
Says Marian Cox.
Few books in recent years have cre
ated a greater stir In America than
"The Crowds and the Veiled Woman,"
a masterly study of psychology which
has just puzzled and surprised the
thinkers across the Atlantic.
Its writer. Miss Marian Cox of New
York, who Is spending a few days In
London, is a dreamy-eyed woman al
most a girl, with an amazing imagina
tive faculty and a depth of thought
which one might guess was bottom
less. Discussing the American woman
generally, she expressed some inter
esting views.
"The emotional imagination of the
American woman," she said, "la
starved in the utilitarian civilization
of her own country, and this explains
why she flocks to Europe for her chief
enjoyment and interest.
From the excess of leisure with
which the American man's Industry
has dowered her she has developed
both the virtue and the vice of leisure,
imagination and curiosity. And no
where can they be satisfied but in Europe.
"A true Eve, she Is primitive
enough to hunger after, all the fruits
upon the tree of knowledge and is civ
ilized enough to desire no one but her
self to enjoy them. She desires to
shut out everyone sometimes even
her husband from her own little epi
curean garden of success. For her life
is a calculated egotism. This Is the
cause of her famed snobbishness, hard
ness and self-assertiveness. With
American women action takes place of
emotion; experience takes the place
of sympathies.
She Is a born adventurer on
whom is engrafted a caste-worshiping
Brahmin. No matter If she can trace
her ancestry to the Mayflower and
all ambitious Americans do she has
the emigrant instincts in her in
stincts which have made the Ameri
can men the bravest and most Initia
tive in the world, but have made her
the most restless, striving, sensitive
and audacious woman In the world.
"She Is incapable of feeling fear,
and so Is incapable of deep love or
religion. She adopts sects and cults
because of her ever-mobile vitality
and curiosity, as a substitute for her
lack of religion, and she plays the
game of love' better than the woman
in any other nationality, for she loves
with her head and not with her heart.
'She Is eternal celibate coquette,
who is never won, but is always bent
ou conquest. And all her character-
sties and peculiarities issue from the
fact that the American man has never
mastered her," she added with' a puz
zling little smile. London Morning
Leader.
UteiE Huron (sir
mu umt
"Jaws old pfo.ee, I hond my haf .
If ame,&Qeet Jfcm' fo.
w
HAT is a "gay cat?" Per
haps you have never heard
of him, though you know
torn cats, wild cats and fem
inine "cats." He is an in
teresting combination, and his spe
cies Is numbered by thousands. He is
half-tramp, availing himself of all the
hobo's expedients for gadding about
the world without paying for his trav
els, and half-man with a trade, the
goal of whose rambles Is always a Job.
An Ominous St. Louis Siqn. He nas aI1 tne Dum 8 philosophical
There is a sign in St. Louis reading contempt for the man so "easy" as to
Hellrung & Grimm." At first one
merely smiles at it and passes on.
But the thing haunts you. There It is
"ride the velvet," which means to pay
railroad fare. But he also Incurs the
"bum's" astonished disdain because of
n great yellow letters sulphurous let-, hls Incorrigible habit of looking for
apu n n a ia.L- o-rmiTi rl of fflnnnitf WOlK.
black. For a time you content your-
"We travel from wanderlust, from
self with saying that one is Hellrung 'ove of adventure." explained an ex
and the other is Grimm, but even- eat" who had Jlned tne "home
guard or those wno have ceased from
rambling. "When I was a youth I
ually the personalities fade and you
consider the statement as a whole. It
1
s almost profane in its direct asser
tion of n ronrHHon And not a theory.
We assert that this sign is the most ' ?ood. trade and wa3 u7,n at home
wanted to see the country, and see it
right. I wanted excitement. I had a
Shake Into Tour Shoes
Allen "s Foot-Ease, a poder for the feet. It curoa
painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Make
new shoes easy. Sold by all Drucreists and Sho
Stores. Don't accept any substitute. Samplt
t'REE. A'ldr A s n'rv,?prf 7 Roy, N. X.
A Ulb.'w.OU IICBOlli
A certain English family owns a
stiletto which inspires every one who
holds it with a horrible and almost
Irresistible desire to kill some wom
an. This weapon belonged to an an
cestor whose wife deceived him and
drove him mad. He 6wore revenge
against the whole sex. and with the
dagger killed his wife, his wife's sister
and another woman before he was dis
armed and secured.
HOWARD E. BI'KTUl - Anwrer an1 Chemtrt,
Lead villi-. Colorado. HpMeiuien price!!: Ou'nL
Hilmr. Lead. . li.il.i. Silver. Vai; Gold, one: Zmc
or Copper. SI. Mnilin-r ovelniM a id full price lint
"lit oa appl iciHion. lomroi am imnir" wurKW
led.
How Good Heaith Tells.
Poor physical health handicaps
many girl workers and prevents the
highest development of their powers
An anaemic brain produces poorer
work than one that is nourished by
blood rich in red corpuscles. The dys
peptic girl Is Irritable, seedy, and out
of sorts when all her vitality li called
on to make a special effort In her
work. "Nerves" may make all the dif
ference between success or failure.
To keep her health up to a good
standard ought to be the aim of every
girl who wishes to make something
of her life. Too many girls allow
themselves to drop into poor health,
which It so apt to become chronic un
less the tendency is checked at the be
ginning. A girl owes a duty to herself
to keep fit and w ell and attend to her
digestion, her muscles, her breathing.
The habits of breathing properly,
chewing the food thoroughly, dally ex
ercises out of doors, are all small mat
ter; but one or two rules of dally
conduct occasionally broken contrive
after a time to affect physical health
and personality both. Once let a girl
make her mind up to cultivate a habit
of self-development, and she follows
these rales almost automatically.
Each detail may be unimportant In
Itself, but the turn of them la not
They are the points that tell In the
making of what should be every glrl'i
aim to obtain health and oersonalit
obsessing in the country. You will
not be able to forget It. At this mo
ment you may pish and pooh, and say
it is all nonsense, but before you go to
sleep tonight "Hellrung & Grimm"
will clatter and clamor through your
brain like a set of brazen bells fall
ing Into a heap of dlshpans and cym
bals. Tomorrow you will try to shake
It off, but by that time It will begin to
whisper to you a sly, shuddering sort
of whisper. Day after tomorrow It
will assure a grim (there It goes
again) a grim, cacophonous cadence,
and the next day It will rumble
through your thoughts as persistently
as the refrain to Poe's "Bells." There
Is something Dantesque about it. It
tempts weird rhymes. It sounds like
a warning. Let us see now what its
effect will be upon you.
How Little She Saw.
"I thought it was a pretty fair sort
of telescope for one that wasn't very
big." said the squir:, "I rigged It up
In the attic by the high north window
and had It fixed so it would swing
round easy. I took a deal of satis
faction In looking through It the sky
seemed so wide and full of wonders;
so when Hester was here I thougrt
I'd give her the pleasure, too. She
stayed a long time upstairs and
seemed to be enjoying It. When she
came down I asked her If she had dis
covered anything new.
" 'Yes,' she says. 'Why, It made
everybody's house seem so near that
I seemed to be right beside 'em, and
I found out what John Pritchard's
folks are doln' In their outkitchen.
I've wondered what they had a light
there for night after night, and I Juet
turned the glass on their windows
and found out. They are cutting ap
ples to dry folks as rich as them cut
tin' apples!' '
"And, actually, that was all the
woman had seen! With the whole
heavens before her to study, she hai
spent her time prying Into the affairs
of her neighbors!"
Had Unique Tombstone.
Maspero, In his "Dawn of Civiliza
tion, tells of a rich Egyptian noble
who lived more than six thousand
years a;o and whose splendid fruit
flower and vegetable garden, formal
ly plotted and laid out, was described
upon bis tomb.
but the lure of the road called me.
"I could have paid car fare and rid
den In the railway cars, but you can't
see the country that w-ay. What man
looking through the windows of a Pull
man car, knows anything about the
regions through which he has passed?
You must travel a few hours at a time,
on a' slow freight, and be thrown off
at the most unexpected places by
brakemen, to see the country. You
want to mooch (beg) a handout at
backdoors to get acquainted with peo
ple. You even learn something when
some 'fly mug' (detective) gets so cor
dial that he insists on your staying In
his midst for 30 days on the rock
pile. What dude In a palace car can
learn as much about his native land
as I did In 14 years as a 'gay cat'?"
The Wanderlust Never Dies.
This man was a miner by trade, and
had followed the profession from
Pennsylvania to California, and from
California to Alaska. He never begged
save In an emergency of hunger, and
usually had $1,000 or so tucked away
In a bank In this city or that. But It
was only after many years of wander
ing as a knight errant of the pickax
and shovel that the wanderlust of his
youth was quenched and he settled
down to be a prosaic hotel clerk.
In the shabby sitting room of a 10
cent lodging house In St Louis there
lounged recently half a dozen weather
beaten and hardy men, self-confident
of mien and monosyllabic of speech.
In their short words was none of the
whine of the professional beggar, and
In their straightforward look was noth
ing of the hangdog. They had trav
eled to most of the countries of the
globe, and, ignorant of alien languages
and customs, had supported them
selves by the sole resource of their
own hands. They were confident of
taking care of themselves in any situation.
Who would have thought that the
squalid parlor, into which the warm
sun filtered, was a place of dreams?
But so It was. The taciturn little En
glishman in the corner, who was born
in South Africa, was gazing Into space
upon the yellow corn fields of the Ar
gentine Republic, upon construction
camps in the Andes, and upon broad
roads leading by gentle stages through
the pampas from one hospitable ranch
to the next. Aroused from his artic
ulate vision by a question, he stated
In a matter-of-fact way that he would
be In Argentine next fall.
l ne booted, gigantic Swede was
thinking of logging camps In Minne
sota, of perilous drives to the lakes, of
flst-to-fist battles between champions
among the snows. Another, in bis
mind's eye, beheld the sunny orchards
of California; another Imagined him
self helping build steel bridges in
Mexico. The sap of spring was rising
in their veins, and, like birds of pas
sage, they were impatient to be off. A
few more weeks would see them scat
tered to the points of the compass,
ensconced in box cars and on blind
baggages, but all bent on the quest
of their "golden fleece" the perfect
job.
Some would fall by the wayside
mangled or slain beneath the wheels
of trains, and would be burled -In the
pauper graveyards maintained by the
railroads for their vagabond victims,
But of these the army of wanderers
would take no heed.
The "gay cat" believes that his con
stitutional right to the pursuit of hap
piness Includes the privilege of rid
ing on trains without paying fare.
The most he will do Is to pay 50
cents to a "shack" (brakeman) for
permission to ride unmolested over
his division. Frequently a supposed
vagabond crouching painfully In a
brake-beam has $100 In his pockets
and a bank book for several hundred
more. But he would have suspicions
of his own sanity should he spend any
of his money for the comforts and re
spectability of a seat In a railroad
coach.
The "gay cat." In an emergency. Is
not abashed at begging a meal at a
backdoor. But as he has more self-
r&spect, he usually employs greater
art and skill In his "mooching" than
dose a "bum." One roving mechanic
accosted an astonished housewife with
the question:
"Madam, have you a hatchet?"
"WThat do you want with a hatchet?"
she countered, suspiciously.
"I want to knock my teeth out," an
swered he with solemnity.
"Lands alive!" almost screamed the
woman. "Why should you knock your
teeth out?" ,
"What's the use having teeth If you
have nothing to eat?" was the re
sponse. The "gay cat" obtained one
of those rare feasts known in the ver-
nacular as a "sit down."
ORIGIN OF THE CALENDAR.
The Julian year consisted of 365l4
days and exceeded by 11 minutes 13.95
seconds the solar year of 3G5 days, 5
hours, 48 minutes, 46 seconds. In con
sequence of this the equinox In the
course of a few centuries bell back
considerably In the time of Julius
Caesar It corresponded to March 25,
and by the sixteenth century it bad
retrograded to March 11. It was at
this time that a physician of Verona
named Gblraldl proposed a plan for
amending the calendar. He died be
fore he had opportunity to carry It
forward, but his brother presented It
to Pope Gregory XIII., who assembled
a number of learned men to discuss
it. It was passed upon favorably and
adopted, and thus was given to the
world what has since been known as
the Gregorian calendar. In 1582 Greg
ory Issued a brief abolishing the
Julian calendar In all Catholic coun
tries and Introducing the reformed
one.
The reform of the Gregorian or new
on the Julian or old consisted in drop
ping ten days after October 4, 1582, so
that the 15th was reckoned Imme
diately after the 4th. Every one hun
dredth year, which by the old style
was a leap year, was to be a com
mon year, the fourth century, divisible
by four, excepted; that Is: 1C00 was to
remain a leap year, but 1700, 1800, 1900
were not to be reckoned as such, while
2000 is to be so reckoned. In this
calendar the length of the solar year
is taken to be 365 days, 5 hours, 49
minutes and 12 seconds, the differ
ence between which and the truo
length is Immaterial.
SUBSTITUTES FOR MATCHES.
A pocket lighting device Is exten
sively used in France by smokers In
preference to matches, which are ex
pensive In that country, their manu
facture and sale, like tobacco, being
entirely monopolized by the govern
ment. The most popular lighter la
a nlckle-plated box, containing a res
ervoir, filled with gasoline or ben
zine, communicating with a wick at
the top. By pressing a button the
lid opens, producing a flame by the
friction caused by a small wheel com
ing in contact with a piece of fer-
rocerium. Most of these devices were
made in Germany. One lighter will
suffice for 1,500 Ignitions without re
newing the Interior parts. These
lighters became so popular that the
government has decided to permit
their manufacture and sale in France
under very strict regulations.
When you need a
tonic, appetite restorer,
a real digestive help and
a preventive of Cramps,
Diarrhoea, Costiveness,
Malaria, Fever and Ague,
take nothing but
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS
It has clearly proven its
right to be called "the
best."
A Tonic, Alterative and Resolvent, ine
best remedy for Kidneys, Liver and Bowels.
Eradicates Pimples, Eruptions and Disorders
of the Skin. Purifies the Blood and give
Tone, Strength and Vigor to the entire system.
Skylights Tanks Gutters
Down Spouts Steel Ceiling
. C. BAYER
2u4 Market Portland. Oregon
SEND FOB CATALOGUE.
8almon Roe for Caviar.
Owing to the diminishing supply of
sturgeon caviar, Siberian fishermen
have been experimenting with salmon
roe, a commodity that was formerly
thrown away as valueless or even In
jurious to health.
HOW NANTUCKET SLAKES
THIRST.
ITS
There Isn't a stream or a brook In
the Island of Nantucket, off the New
England coast, but there are plenty of
windmills, which pump water to tanks
and thus supply community needs.
Also, Nantucket possesses what Is be-
ieved to be the oldest windmill for
grinding corn In actual operation In
America. Nathan Wilbur, a Nan
ucket sailor, who had seen the busy
windmills of Holland, as he sailed
abroad, built it out of timbers of
wrecked ships In 1746. There has
never been a day in, all the 165 years
since that time when the mill has not
been busy. There Is always a wind
to turn Its outstretched wings.
THE CHINESE "YANKEE."
The Chinese are said to have Invent
ed spectacles as well as to have been
the originators of the chief of all arts,
printing, the mariner's compass, pe
culiar stoves, chain bridges, silver
forks, India ink, chain pumps, winnow
ing machines, and, sad to say, It Is
charged that Instead of wooden hams
originating in Connecticut they aro
also monuments of Chinese Ingenuity,
and one writer long ago said, referring
to the wooden products, "they are so
adroitly constructed that numerous
buyers are constantly deceived, and
frequently it Is not until one Is boiled
and ready to be eaten that It is dis
covered to be nothing but a large
piece of wood under a hog's skin."
SWISS FUNERAL CUSTOMS.
Swiss funeral customs are most pe
culiar. At the death of a person the
family inserts a formal, black-edged
announcement in the papers asking
for sympathy, and stating that "the
mourning urn" will be exhibited dur-
ng certain hours on a special day. In
front of the house where the person
died there Is placed a little black ta
ble covered with a blnck cloth, on.
which stands a black ar. Into this
the friends and acquaintance? of (he
family drop little black-margined vis
iting cards, sometimes with a few
words of sympathy on them. The urn
is put on the table on the day of the
funeral. Only men ever go to the
churchyard, and tbey generally follow
the hearse on foot.
OWES
HER
xii
HEALTH
To Lydla E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Scottville, Mich." I want to tell
you how much good LydiaE.l'inkham'3
V e get a Die uom-.
pound and Sanative
Wash have done me.
I live on a farm anl
have worked very
hard. I am forty
five year3 old, amj
am the mother ofl
thirteen children.
Many people think:
strange that I am
not broken down
with hard work aDl
the care of my fam
ily, Diit I tell them of my good friend,
your Vegetable Compound, and that
there w ill be no backache and bearinif
down pains for them if theywilitaku
it as I have. I am scarcely ever with,
out it in the house.
"I will say also that I think there is
no better medicine to be found for
young girls to build them up and make
them strong and well. My eldest
daughter has taken Lydia E. Pink,
ham's Vegetable Compound for pain,
f ul periods and irregularity, and it haj
always helped her.
"I am always ready and willing ti
Break a good word for the Lydia E.
rinkbam s Kemedicg. I tell every ona
I meet that 1 owe my health and hap.
piness to these wonderful medicines."
Mrs. J. G. Johnson, Scottville. Mich..
E.F.I). 3.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots anil
herbs, contains no narcotics or harm.
ful drugs, and to-day holds the record
for the largest number of actual cures
of female diseases..
A Barber-out Idea.
In Chicago a voice has been raised
against the cat's whiskers, which are
alleged to carry microbes. The future
may develop barbers for cats, for It
Is not to be supposed that in this age
of enlightenment and fads cats will
be permitted to go about with microbe
laden whiskers. Judge.
VACUUM
CLEANERS
MINES.
IN COAL
Vacuum cleaners are said to be lh
means that will In the future be u?ed
for the purpose of cleaning coal mines
of the dangerous coal dust that ha
often been the cause of so much ex
plosion, and through which many min
ers have lost their lives. The ma
chines are stationed at a suitable dis
tance from the scene of operation.
Two men, each holding the "suction
cleaners," then go over the mice,
drawing the dust from the top, sides,
and bottom through the hose Into a
car or truck In waiting, which Is then
taken out of the mine and dumped.
Expert mechanics are of opinion that
3 tie machine could thoroughly clsao i
half-mile of entries In one night.
Destroys
Hair Germs
Recenidiscoveries have shown
that falling hair is caused by
germs at the roots of the hair.
Therefore, to stop falling hair,
you must first completely de
stroy these germs. Ayer'sHair
Vigor, new improved formula,
will certainly do this. Then
leave the rest to nature.
Poet not cfionee the color of the hair.
A
Formal withjMoh bottl
y their It to your
Aak h.m .bout It.
tba do m h Hri
yers
Recent discoveries hive also proved thit
dsndrulf is csused by germs on the scalp.
Therefore, to cure dndruff, the first thing
to do is to completely destroy these dtn
drulT germs. Here, the tame Ayer'sHair
Vigor will give the same splendid results.
ir i -' " -p"- ' i lTm i
1