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Health Officers Speak.
City, State and National Authorities
report the Royal Baking Powder in
every way Superior to all others.
STATE CHEMIST, CALIFORNIA: The Rovai. fulfils all the
requirements. Our tests show it has greater leavening power
than any other.
; STATE CHEMIST, WASHINGTON: There is no question but
.." the Roval is the strongest, purest and most wholesome baking
powder in the market.
U.S. GOV'T FOOD REPORT : 'Rovai. Baking Powder is
shown a pure cream of tartar powder, highest of all in leaven-V:,'--'
ing strength.. ' . ,
CANADIAN OFFICIAL TESTS: Rovai. Baking Powder is
commended as ol highest excellence, and shown to be greatest
of all in leavening strengih.
SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF HEALTH : We cordially ap
prove and recommend ttie Royal Baking Powder. It is
Vf ' absolutely pure and healthful, composed of the best ingredients,
: : of the highest strength and character. . , "
BOARD OF HEALTH, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON : Finding
in analysis that it is entirely free from any adulteration, we
heartily recommend the Rovai. Baking Powder for its great
strength, purity and wholesomeness.
BOARD OF HEALTH, TACOMA. WASHINGTON: In our
judgment the Rovai. is the best and strongest baking powder
before the public.
BOARD OF HEALTH, SPOKANE : Certainly there is no bak
ing powder known to us equal to the Royal.
DR. BINSWANGER, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON : It is also
my opinion that there exists no purer, better or stronger baking
powder than the Royal. I confidently recommend it. '
Do not permit the slanderous stories of inter
ested parties to influence you in using any
other than The Best, The Royal.
1o One to Welcome Him.
An amusing story is told of a well
known and popular young minister
wtio returned trom a vacation spent
m Lnrope to his homo in Brooklyn,
on Prospect heights. The ship on
which he had sailed was notoxpected
in arrive until Sunday nurht or Mon
day, and as quarantine was at that
time difficult to toss there wag
thought to be no possibility of the
doniune reaching home sooner than
expected, bis wife felt no hesitancy,
therefore, in going out to make a
call, leaving the house in the care of
t new servant on Saturday, with in
structions to toll any one who called
end inquired for the doctor to say
tlurt ha would be borne Monday.
Hurried on by favorable winds and
currents the steamship did arrive,
end in the afternoon, expecting to
tnke his family by surprise, the min
ister ran up the stoop of his residence
and rang the bolL The servant in
.response to the summons opened the
door a fnw inches and said. "The
niisat in out, sir." -.
"Are any of thechildren in!" asked
the doctor.
- "Tuny are all out and the doctor
won't be home until Monday, sir."
Somewhat taken back by the idea
that he was gome one else and that
he was still on the ocean, the min
ister said, "I am the doctor," and
pushing by the girl entered the
house. Then, us the story goes, there
began a game of follow your leader
which was extremely embarrassing
to the minister. Wherevor he went
the servant, who was not convinced
, of his identity, followed, until finally
in a lit of desperation the young
divine left the servant in sole posses
sion and went around the corner to
wait for his wife to come and intro
duce him to the now acquisition to
the household. Brooklyn Eagle. '
Lauder's on venation.
iandor was a man who delighted
to talk about his friends to 'his
friends. Of Boutuey, I remember,
ho had much to say things such as
one loving brother might say of
another. The name of Julius Hare
was very frequently on his lips,
while in his heart the memory of
that pure minded man was canon
ized, Literal and free in speech on
religion and politics, before it was
Ljuuuur m ; li lumiMijjjM uavu ueen
trtuuod by an archbishop. It is re
ported of him that he said, "I enjoy
no mciery that t'Jikos too iree with
(ixl or the ladies." Mrs. Crosse in
-Temple Bar. - .,:
T ..i i.i i , I
A Beautiful 01ms. ,i
other (at the seaside) I dent
: :: Br
third
nave
k much of that marine glass you
t.-r - Yon don't! Why, it's just
ty I It makes evcrry sail look all
.'.! ii's of tin; rainbow. Good
love!
'the
! Ctoee llbaorvere of Nature.
The most successful beast tamers are
generally small, wiry follows, with plen
ty of norve and a (rood stock of trade se
crete, derived from the close study of
wild animals. In the latter respect sav
ages, with their outdoor mode of life,
have aconsidernbla advantage ovor their
civilized rivals. In the Chilean Andes
the naturalist Tschuui made the ac
quaintance of a Creole farmer who con
fessed that he had experimented for sev
eral years before he succeeded in cap
turing s live alpaca.
He had imitated the traps of the In
dians, their method of fixing them in
the sand of the river banks, their pre
caution in obliterating the traces of thoir
footstops, but all in vain till an Indian
renegade revealed the secret namely,
that the alpacas select their drinking
places where there is an audible ripple
in the current of the river, perhaps for
the same reason that cows prefer a
brook to a pond and a mnning spring to
a sliurjsh creek.
The mnrmunnft of the stream seemed
to suggest the idea of purer and cooler
water, and where the current was slow
the Indians con trived to produce a ripple
by an artificial obstruction. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
Long Winded Fogies,
"The Scythians," said Sydney Smith,
"ate their grandparents when they be
came troublesome and told long stories. "
Who knows whether the Eumenides may
not suffer a remnant of these useful
Scythians to survive even unto onr day
to be a terror to long winded fogies,
male and female? -
I met at dinner recently an old fogy
who I am enre has his Scythian waiting
for him. Be had been harrying the
company with stunid remarks uhnnt
natnral historv. asking nuestinns. ton
that wonld turn the stomach of a school
inspector. At length, in that peculiar
tone of voice in which theological ohm.
tions are uttered, our foirv said. "Ha,.
an oyster brains?" "Certainly," replied
our host, "for an oyster knows when to
shut up." Temple Bar.
Getting a "Scoop."
I remember seeing a war correspond
ent of a Boston paper at the battle of
Bull Hun. Bullets were flying thick as
hailstones, and shells were cracking as
though pandemonium had broken loose,
bat the correspondent kept skirmishing
around in trie tnics or it all, notebook
in hand. Our major bawled ont to him,
"Lie down, yoa fool you'll be killed."
"Maybe so," he replied, "but I'm get
ting the d dest scoop on tho other
papers ever you sow!" A little thing
like getting killed doesn't worry your
thoroughbred news gatherer when
there's A scoop in sight. Interview in
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ilrearulug of Crows.
'j dream yon see a crow signifies ex
pedition ot business; If yon iissr them
croaking unpleasantly while they are1
flying it is a sign of ill luck. If you
see in your dreum the orow flying on to
the head of a child it will be in danger
nf some misfortune-. All the Veer
bound.
RATTLESNAKES ARE HIS LIVINO.
Vrvo Tluti llttten, but Hot flesdy So
Abandon His Yonetlon.
The popular idea is that a rattle
snake is a curse to mankind and of
Absolutely no use, except possibly to
tive the male coptingout in camping
end picnic partita an exouse for pro
viding a wull known serpent bite
antidote. Andrew Akers, a white
haired ex-miner, who occasionally
conies to town from his lonely home
tway up in the San Bernardino moun
tains, tells us that the rattlesnake is.
Mu its way, a blessing to mankind.
k l reckon I ought to know some
ling about the serpents," said he the
other day, "for I have earned the
whole living of myself and wife for
several years in catching rattlers and
gotting tlie oil out of them. I know
some folks are mighty scary about
rattlesnakes, and for one who dont
know about the critters' ways it is
pretty risky business getting fungod
by a rattler. I occasionally get nerv
ous among tho mttlors, but I have to
keep a steady nerve and quick eye in
my business."
, The old gmitlntnan tells us that lie
had always heard how valuable pure
rattlesnake oil is. and that several
years ago he got tho oil from a dozen
snakes that he came across in his
woodcutting operations in the moun
tains. When the summer was over
he had twenty ounces, and got two
dollars on ounce for ail of it from a
Los Angeles druggist. He has since
made a business of bunting rattle
snakes up and down the mountain
sides and through the canyons. He
catches from lull to 200 snakes in a
summer, and generally gathors from
taou to $400 worth of oil from them.
The market price foT the product is
two dollars an ounce, and there is
little fluctuation, liattlesiinke oil in
used in rheumatic cures and in oint
ments for some skin diseases. The
oil when sold has a peurly white
color and is free from any odor. It
tastes much like tallow. A Rood
sized rattlesnake will furnish from
one to two ounces of oil.
"How do I catch the snakes!
Well, that is eusy enough. I wear
boots up above my knees so as to
protect mc from any rattler I may
tread upon, and I always go with a
strong forked stick or club in my
hand. I have to keep my wits about
me constantly, and to think quick
when I am in a snake locality and
hear a rattle. I always try to got
the rattlers by putting the fork of
my stick over their neck as quick as
a Hush, and then I have the critter
just whore I want him. I next
strangle the snake by pressing my
j fingers down upon the neck. I get
I the rattlers in this way so as to keep
them from biting themselves, and
, thereby letting the poison into the
oil that I am after. In nine cases
out of ten rattlesnakes will bite
j themselves if they have a chance,
and they are the smartest things
alive, except human beings. Once
,in awhile I get ths rattlers by
' smashing them in the head, but I
: don't like that way, for it's more
dangerous and the od is not so good.
I "Have I ever been bitten? Yes,
; five times, and I suffered so much
i the last time that all the monny on
earth would not induce me to be
poisoned so again. That was four
years ago, and I can feel pains from
it to this day. I don't believe any
one ever fully recovered from a dose
of genuine rattlesnake poison. It i
the most awful fltuff on earth. I
have seen great big cows die of a
drop of the poison in an hour's
time." Pomona (Cai,) Progress.
i Locomotive Kog Signal,
, An improved imothod of signaling
to tbedrivors of locomotives in thick
.weather has been brought forward
in England. On the locomotive it
self is fixed on electric boll, to which
is attached a contact device, which
operates by means of a movable bar
which is associated with each signal
box. When tho engine passes suah
a signal box contact is made and the
bell rings, and by the number of
beats upon the gong the engine
driver knows whether to proceed or
whether to stop. The apparatus
does not intefere with any existing
signaling arrangements, and would
lie quite automatic in action pro
ivided that the signal man attended
to his levers just as if the weather
was clear. London Lotter.
An Aneedoto uf Whittle.
' A friend in conversation with Mr,
jWhittior, the poet, remarked that ha
was about to contract to furnish a
lot of oak timber for tho govern
ment gunboats, arid asked him if he
thought it was in consistence with
the peace doctrines of the Quaker de
nomination. Without saying any
thing calculated to decide the ques
tion the two arrived at their parting
place, when Mr. Wbittier, shaking
his friend's hand, said, "Mosos, if
thee does furnish any of that oak
timber thee spoke of, be sure that it
is all sound." Philadelphia Inquirer.
Wkr the IIImiuIIi Were Had.
It was no fault ol the couk. althonirh
she whs blmnwl by the mistress because
the biscuits were not as light, delicate
and finely flavored as usual.
When It was too late the cook found
she had been unnosed upon bv the am
eer or his buy, who bad given Her a new-
brand of baking powder in place ol the
itoyai, wmen sue nau always nssd wltn
Hoo'it luck, and which had been ordered.
She had used the new kind, spoiled the
biscuit; and cot a scolding.
Tne Hoyal Baking Powder, as every
cook knows, Is always to be relied upon.
It is one of the greatest aids she has.
She is siwsys able with the lesst trouble
to mage the very finest hiscuits. cakes,
muffins and crusts. Manv cook's ren-
utation has Been made by" the delicious
things she has been able to make with
it. It is no wonder that she is iuriignant
when the grocer sonde her another bak
ing powder in Its place, which snoils ber
food, Injures her population and brings
her blame.
The grocer sends her Ute new brand o!
baking nowiier sitnnlv because it eosts
him so much less and he can make more
profit by selling It than he can on the
Royal. The Royal is made from the very
finest materials and costs much more
than anv other brand, which accounts
(or its supsriority, although it tt sold to
consumers at tne same price.
The cook should examine earelully the
label of the baking powder and set that
she Is not imposed npon. If the grocer
ends anything hut the Royal, send it
luck, as one cook did five times nntll she
got the Royal. The only safe wav is tor
the cook to have the finest things to
work with, and the Royal is netonly the
nnest, out tne moat economical to nee
because it goes so much further,
Spurt for tbe Hog,
The most laughable thing 1 have seen
lately was the discovery of a new kind
of game by a lively young setter dog. It
was in a large dry goods store where
cash is scut to the desk in little boxes
whirring along on slender rails. The
dog was following his pretty mistress
sedately enough, when he heard the
sound and saw the swift flight of the
of tho oash box. He thought It was a
bird, and tore np and down the aisles
after it, scattering the crowd and amus
ing everybody in sight. As he would
not be convinced of his illusion, he had
to be removed forcibly from what he
probably thought the best hunting
ground lie had ever struck. Kate
Field's Washington.
An Idea of fleaven.
On one occasion be leader of talk
started the subject ot (he generally pre
vailing ideas about heaven. After the
nsnal hit at the materialistic views of
the Mohammedan, be turned to an
Anioriaan gentleman at the table and
asked what were his notions on the sub
ject? The Yankee, with his slow,
nasal accent and cool manner com
manding attention, replied, "Waal my
notion of heaven .a that of a quiet,
green place, without money and without
price." Mrs. Anthony Cross in Temple
Bar. '' '
Mo Head for Btialneae,
Mose Bchaumburg, Jr. Vader, a shen
tlemans vsnts to know if dot unshrinka
ble undershirt don't shrink a leedle any
vay. Mose Scbnumbnrg, Sr. Does dot shirt
fit him?
"No; it vim ohonst a little too pig."
"Of course it vill shrink. Vy don't
yon have some houds for plshnees."
Texas Sittings.
Frederick barbarossa, emperor of
Germany, was drowned while crossing
small river in Asia Minor when oo bis
way to fight the Turks.
One dsv nl RlekneM will en more tn convince
n young niAQ that hi moth'f In hi best friend
tliau evouUiOu rolutueii of nruverbt.
HIS 1PEUSONAI, BXI'KBIBNOI.
Hon. James W. Ilusted, while serving
his sixth term as Speaker of the Assembly
of the State of New York, writes :
"Btatk or Nsw York,)
Assbmiii.y OnAMitsa,
Alhasy, Jan. Hi, 1SIU.)
I desire once more to hear mv teKtiinnnv
to the value of Allcock's Pobous I'i.as
tkks. I tiave used them for twenty-tive
years pust, and can conscientiously com
mend them as the best external remedy
that I have known. - Years ago, wheu
thrown from a carriage and seriously in-.
jured, I gave them a thorough trial. In a
very nnori tune tne pain ttiat 1 was sutler
ing disappeared, ana within a week 1 was:
entirety relieved. On another occasion,
when suffering Irom a severe cough, which
ttireatened pulmonarv ditlicultlrs. whlah I
was recummeniled to go to Florida to re
lieve, i determined to test the plasters
again. I applied them to my ohestaud be
tween the shoulder blades, and in less than
a fortnight was entirely cured, On still
another occasion when sintering from an.
attack of rheumatism in the shoulder to
sucii an extent that I could scarcely saise
my arm, I again resorted to the plasters,
and within a very few days the rheuma
tism entirely disappeared, I have them
constantly By me, whether at home or
abroad, My lamiiy as well as myself have
found them to be a sovereign remedy, both
lor external and internal troubles. 1 ne'er
had but one kidney dilllculty in my life,
and tbe application of the plasters cured
me in a week. I denire, as 1 said bolore to
bear my testimony ina puhlio way to their
ethcacy, and I know or no better way of
doing it than bv giving vou mv nersonal
experience."
Winning s bet doean't aIwats pnyi
In fuel, there ra men who rue In
Smith won lint on election nar
And hu ever slaw talked Ibroush it.
For OoueJiK, Uoldn and Throat Disorders
Brmm't Mmmhiat Trmhtx." have nrnwd
their eliicisoy by a test of many years.
only m boxtt,
flarmourln the llnoaeholfl. Mn. nreoe no
vou end your hiiattentl aver rii,irft-e? Urn.
Cliaee No, tndeeetl At leut mj iuubaud never
dees.
Tn Qmau for breakfast.
A perfect oil dressing1 for fine
kid shoes, guaranteed absolutely
dust-proof, or money refunded.
Watson's Peerless Polish. Use
no other. For sale by all dealers.
NOTHE'S IiE IT.
40 YEARS OP PAIN CURED.
THE CASE.
K, Albanv St.,
Ithaca, N. Y
Dec 19, jftBi.
For over 40 years
1 have been a
victim of rheu
matism. I was
persuaded to try St. Jacobs Oil. I
have used two bottles, and s man
more free from rheumatism never
walked our streets, My limbs that,
were once stiff and lame are now ss
light and limber as in my youth.
JOS. EDSELL.
AFTER FIVE YEARS.
Ithaca, N. Y., July 5, 1.
Suffered many years injury te
hip resulting in rheumatism, muscu
lar weakness and contracted cords.
Two bottles of St. Jacobs Oil re
lieved me so that I now walk about
and intend to daily duties at (rl.
I heartily endorse it.
103. KDSKIJ..
Onrea Oonanmntlon, Conglu, Oronp, Sore
Throat, Sold by ell Dnissitt on Guarantee,
Fore Lime Bide, Beck or Che Shllob'i Poroas
Plaster will give great Mtinfecliao.-! seats.
SHILOH'S VITALIZE!?.
Urn. T. 8. Hawkins, Cbattanoogu. Tonn.,earfli
ShltoH-i VUiUtm-'SAVlil) MY LIFB.' I
tmMdltlh4bMnrndyfm-adeMUMliiwlim
ImeruMd." For l)VHenlii, Llvor or KWi
trouble ttoxoele. PrloeTOota,
SHILQHVl i catarrh
Hsvoyoutisutrrbf Trvttto Remedy. Itwllt
relieve and Cure you. Price Ml ets. Tills In
lector for Its ftiiooeeefnl treatment Isrurulsbed
free. Bhllob's Hemerilee are sold by us oa
rmimntoutoglvelaUafeuttou.
Fresh Air and bercisa
Getall that's
possible of
both, if in S
a -tn 1 ,
strength
and nerve
force. There's need, too, of plenty
of fat-food. '
Scott's EnlsiGi
of Cod Liver Oil builds up flesh
and strength quicker than any
tthcr preparation known to sci
ence.
Scotl's Emulsion is constantly ef
fecting Cure of Consumption,
Jlroiichitis and kindred diseastt
ivhrre other methods FAIL,
Pr.niw! Sr R-f" Bewne. N. V, All S
ROLLER SKATES
eW"iiJ8
SKATE
rAT-Affl.Eb. IUH1
aUS.lll.ISSS
A nil sleek of Ravmnnd Rvleimlmi Unlw i
Skates oonatantlr ou bend,
Fire Arms, Fishing Tackle
. . AND
sporting Uoods ot 1 very Ileer.rlpllnnj I
H. T. HUDSON.
S3 TIrat Street, '-. . PORTLAND, OB. I
Send A rents in stamps for now ll2.pgeme-
trued catalogue.
1 be sent by mall. May-
nap you snow 11. By freinht, prepaid if
preferred, we ship Balely i, 6 or 6 ft. trees;
2-yr.Koses o( rare excellence, everything I
Yon actnally pay less than for the puny
stuff. 1,010 aores Nurseries. 20,00.) acres
Orchards. xact information about trees
and fruits. Stark Bros., Louisiana, Mo.
INVALID GOODS.
nomn
theirs
Beellnlnt
t'lialrs
Book Urate
(lomntodee.
V.IIOCUIbialnSlS,F,
FRAZER AXLE
BestintheWarid
GREASE
Set the Genuine!
Said Everywhere!
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