A Matter
IT costs more t make Royal Baking Powder
than any other, because its ingredients
are more highly refined and expensive: But .
the Royal is correspondingly -f'urer and '.
higher in leavening strength, "and of greater
money value to the consumer. The difference
in cost of Royal over the test of the others
does not equal the difference in leavening
''strength, nor make .good the inferior work ;
6f the cheaper powders, nor remove -the .
. impurities which , sucir .powders -leave in,
' the food. . " ;'
Where, JLheJ.'rlneBl food is required, tlie
Rovat Baking Powder only can be used.'
ere.!Ue.q'ucstion oi health is considered,!,.
;; no baking powder but "Roy:al"can be used
t'tanaiyses lO'.-coniaxu jime, ammonia ui aium;
W A jBf fSATION (N CHURCH. -
Jru'luquUiliiv Dog Created Consternation
, 1 '''4b n 4uTltn Gathering.
tSAme ncwioug stories are told hi
-ooonedtion ltith oM Puritan church
customs," said Mr. Hezekiah Butter
Wth'r8ome.;af the old customs
sjnl v'ery;8ny as we see them,
Bftw.. itUj was little lees than 8
B-une npt:to attend church in those
old days unless detained by sickness.
In fact, a jUerson was thought very
, little of who even came late to Sun
day worship.
"One Sunday morning in early au
tumn .Puritan woman, whose repu-
. totion.: for: housekeeping, spinning
and church attendance- was excel
lent, was . belated in her morning
work. She took her long necked
pitcher and went to the pasture
where her cow was waiting to be
nulSed. This duty done, she found
for she could see people on the
Toad that she hadn't time even to
carry the milk back to the house and
get to church in season. So she took
lier long 'necked pitcher along with
h and sat in the gallery right near
where the singers and bass viols
were displayed. After the singing
wasovenand the long sermon had be-Igun-eermons
were an hour or two
long in those days she grew sleepy.
, ' 'Her long necked pitcher sat on the
floor near by and near fhe front of
the gallery. She was soon oblivious
of either milk, sermon or a dog that
came pitpatering up the gallery
BtairA The milk soon attracted the
dog. He smelled and wagged his
jtail, then smelled and wagged again,
then looked mqiiiringly at the uncon
scious milkmaid. He made up his
mind very soon, and into the lone
neck went the dog's head, neck too.
He couldn't get much milk and
wanted to pull back and try again.
"But he couldn't. His head was
wedged fast in. He pulled and used
his paws and tried to back away.
Blinded of course by the pitcher, his
steps were erratic, and suddenly to
the astonished people below there
appeared a sudden parting of the
balcony curtain, an almost blood
curdling yell was heard, and there
was a flash and downpouring, straight
in among the four unconscious dea
conb in the deacons' pew beneath, of
snow white milk, long necked pitch
er and a milk soaked, frightened dog.
"For once there was a great awak
ening in that church, but the poor
woman was frightened nearly out of
her wits, and the superstitious dea
cons weregreatly scandalized."
The BraTery of Women.
Whether "they are recognized as
more than a passive force, women
have played an active port in his
tory and have shown resource in
emergency, presence of mind in
peril, and invincible determination
in the face of seemingly hopeless ob
stacles. They have not degenerated. On
the contrary, with the opportunity
of the present, its broad training, its
liberal education, they are more
ready now for active duty than ever
they were.
Never before hag the state had in
reserve such a force of intelligent,
steady nerved, well disciplined wom
en. Whatever crisis may call it into
action, this reserve is ready, and is
any and every emergency it will not
be found unprepared or reluctant to
do its part with heart, brain and
mind. Chicago Inter Ocean.
of Health
.Coloring Food Product.
Sausages both meat and skin ore
dyed with aniline colors for the pur
pose of hiding the color of unhealthy
or Btale meat which may have been
used. Jams, especially plum jams,
are generally dyed with aniline col
ors, and sugar confectionery is hardly
ever without such artificial dye. Ale
is darkened with burned sugar, as
also are brandies and whiskies.
It must be admitted that in by far
the majority of these cases the color
used is entirely harmless and has no
influence on the health of the con
sumer. Yet there are a number of
aniline colors which are positively
poisonous even when pure. Such
colors are picric acid and its salts,
martius yellow, safranine, methvien
blue, dinitrocresol and aurantia. I
Others, unobjectionable in them
selves, become poisonous owing to
their mode of manufacture, which
leaves in the product poisonous im
purities, Buch as arsenic (rarely),
salts of copper, tin or zinc. The man
ufacturer of sausages or jams has
not the least idea whether the color
he usee may not belong to one or
other of the above, to which doubt
less many others could lie added, and
even if the quality of color consumed
by one individual may be exceedingly
small it is palpably evident that no
such manufacturer should have the
right to use such colors. Drugs, Food
and Drink.
Showing a Faee.
As a rule, the man who rides on a
free pass does not seriously object to
showing it, but he does hate to be
annoyed and suspected by the con
ductor. A passenger on the Royal
Blue was requested to show his pass
four times between Baltimore and
Philadelphia. -
"Look here, Mr. Conductor," said
he at last, "is there anything wrong
with that pass? Did you ever see
one before?"
"If you were in my place, you
couldn't see them too often. You
don't know perhaps that only about
1 pass in 10 is good on the vestibuled
trains, and when a conductor turns
in one that isn't he is responsible and
must stand the loss. Yours seems to
be all right, and we shall not worry
you again."
It seems to be the custom of most
roads to give free pass holders the
benefit of the slower trains. New
York Tribune.
Attention Paid to Walking.
It is enough to imagine the un
feigned amazement of a dame of the
old school if the proper position of
the feet in walking were made a
matter of doubt For years the
dancing master's standard in all
matters of carriage and walk has
been an unquestioned one. The fin
de giecle young woman, however,
has a mind of her own. She has not
found that the conventional train
ing of the dancing master, valuable
as it undoubtedly is, was all suffi
cient in producing that grace of car
riage and elegance of manner so de
sirable in the woman of the world.
On the contrary, she has found
that the physical training of the
woman of the stage has been more
often conducive to the desired end.
Hence it is that schools of Delsarte
have sprung up all over the land,
and systems of physical training, in-:
eluding boxing and fencing, hereto- i
fore relegated to the sterner scot,
have found patronesses in plenty j
IN THE DARK.
0 Thou who art ray only I.Igut,
Thee do I follow through the night;
Though homo nod hope ar out of tight,
Firm trim. In Thee my spirit hath:
Thou kuuwral my path!
Although I cannot Tut face,
1 fool the warmth of Thy embrace.
Infold mo In tho dmiaeroue plane
Whore ala Ilea waiting to betray
Thou kunvveet my way. (,
0 Thou who eeest me through and
through i- '
The thouKUM 1 think, the deads 1 do
Thou knowtwt 1 would to Tiieo be truel -Oh,
draw mucloeer toThy side. J,
My Lord, my Uuidet
Thou knowest me, loredst me In the pact.
Even when the tempter held me fast;
Thy wanderer bee come home at hut,
Never again from Thee to elray
Ifrom Thee, my Wayl
1 know not -what may yet uufold
tioyond the inlumtlur'a galea of gold . '
Till la my heaveu-Thy tinnd'U) hold, '.
. Thy etepN to follow through the night.
My Life, my Light!
Lucy Larcuui in, independent
- IlieeorPoetrjr,'.'-;-!'i '''..
Nearly all the other wtsliove an
official standing. They are endowed,
perpetuated, made part of the appa
ratus of life. But we are as incredu
lous of 'poetry as of the sea serpent,
and the affidavits of those who have
seen the thing itaelf do not convince
a sceptical world. Poetry's killing
foe is wealth, and wealth of late has
grown beyond the dreams of avarice.
Money, which can call into existence
many of the arts, which can rear
architectures, lay out gardens, give
to household decoration a sumptuous
beauty impossible to poor ages, which
can even greatly help in the creation
of music and pointing money has
no potency over the proud and dis
duinf ul muse.
But the future of poetry is im
mense, because when actualities op
press, when utilities task, when,
"tired of all these, for restful death
we cry, " all we need do is to open our
books and without struggle to par
take the strife, without effort to at
tain the ease, without putting off
mortality to have part in the immor
tality of those Bole things which show
a semblanceof eternal life the crea
tions of the divine poets. Ponce de
Leon sailed far for his fabled foun
tain of youth, but the wiser man is
he who tukes down his Homer or
his Shakespeare and discovers there
in the spring the Spaniard failed to
find. Forum.
A Slreuge Selection
It is an easy and very profitable
business to smuggle rifles into Moroc
co. A weapon may be bought in
Gibraltar fur (10 and sold in the in
terior for five or six times that sum.
Smugglers are continually running
over in feluccas and beaching these
arms somewhere between Cope Spur
tel and Tangier, and curious are the
devices by which they accomplish
their transport.
One smuggler told a traveler thot
he ran his cargo into Tangier bay
after dark and unloaded the rifles
on the beach not a quarter of a mile
from the custom house,
"Who assists yon in unloading?"
asked the traveler.
"I generally employ the porters
of the custom bouse," was the inno
cent reply.
Then, noting the surprise and
amusement of his hearers, he added:
"They are more skilled in unload
ing than other laborers."
It had evidently neither occurred
to him nor to the porters that they
might betray him. Youth's Com
panion. ' ' -
Bypnotlim and Dentlitry.
For a quarter of a century I have
been hoping that the principles of
hypnotism as now developed might
be applied so as to bring relief to pa
tients during dental operations. It is
with pleasure that I am able today to
report a pronounced success in that di
rection a success that I believe will
continue, and the methods will be so
formulated that the art will be with
in the reach of every intelligent op
erator on the human teeth. I found
that it was the opinion of writers on
hypnotism that pain would always
wake a patient from the hypnotic
sleep unless such patient was in a
somnambulistic condition. I felt it
might be quite possible to derive dis
tinct benefit in the lighter stages if
they could be kept continuous. I
soon behoved it possible, and after a
diligent study of Bernheim I com
menced to hypnotize, and my first
effort proved a success, Thomas
Fillebrown, D. M. D., in Dental Re
view, . -' -
Smoke and Cold Wether.
There can be no doubt that the
smoke blanket modifies the tempera
ture of the city. There is nothing
new in the fact, Gilbert White of
Eelbome, who died 100 years ago,
wrote, "When athennometer hangs,
abroad in a frosty night, the inter
vention of a cloud shall immediately
raise the mercury 10 degrees, and a
clear sky shall again compel it to de
scend to its former gauge." St. Louis
Poet DiBpalvh.
YVumen'e Ouwerd March.
There came a time in the history
of my life when I 'suddenly realized
that I enn tell a briorwood from a
meerschaum while it .b being smoked,
(t was bomo in upon me that by
years of subtle training I had come
to know a "Perfocto" from a "two-for-a-uickol."
It flashed upon my
sinful soul that I, Sappho, thescorner
of nicotine, was myself a connoisseur
of the delicate and difficult art of dis
tinguishing oven from the next
room the varying characteristics of
rliff oring kinds of Turkish toltacco. I
found, to my amazement, that 1 knew
the porf umed Turkish cigarettes lose
their national oharacteriHtics coming
over land and sea to Boston, and that
a Richmond cigarette is more grate
ful (vicariously) to my nostrils.
I can smell this moment tho peculiar
peanut nuttiucss of an old cluy pipe
and the almond nuttiuess of a new
HoiAt Clay cigar, and I can recall to
a whiff the experimental odor of a
'Corncob brimming with roiil plug.
x et i never Bmoicea out once m my
life. Then I choked on burning mul
lein leaves recommended for a cold I
It is one of the results of the open
ing of modern occupations for wom
en that I have become so learned in
this way. I don't know yetwhethor
or not I am proud of my wisdom, but
it is certain that I have no vicarious
amusement more charmingly altru
istic than smoking. A Woman in
Boston Transcript. ' :' '"
The Habit of Migrating.
The treat authorities state that the
habit of migrating is due to the fact
that at the time qf the great clima,tlc
change whereby the northern portion
of the globe became the frigid place
it is now the birds inhabiting the ex
treme north were forced southward,
and, further, that in the change of
seasons, when in summer the north
furnishes them the conditions of life
they have gradually formed, the
habit of resorting thither. ' This ex
planation souudB plausible, but there
are some questions which it fails to
answer. For instance, how do the
birds forecast a change of Beanon so
that their flight southward is begun
in time to escape the storms of
winter? And by what messenger are
they informed in the spring that the
time has come when they can with
safety return to their northern breed
ing places?
The latter question receives a hy
pothetical answer in the assertion
that, as most migratory birds breed
in the northern limit of their flight,
it is the sexual instinct which Bonds
them north and the statement is
supported by the fact that the male
birds of some species usually precede
the females and as the sexual in
stinct is always stronger in the male
there seems some reuson in this the
ory. But not all birds are migratory.
Mrs. J. B. Southworth in Albany
Journal. -
Condition of Indian Parian.
The condition of the unfortunate
pariahs in India continues to occupy
the attention of philanthropic per
sons. Apart from a series of careful
investigations undertaken by the mis
sionaries, Mr. Tremenheere, the col
lector of Chingloput, has been per
sonally inquiring into the subject,
and he has embodied the result iu a
report to the government. While the
missionaries, however, have been met
with a peremptory official denial of
their allegations, Mr. Tremenheere
has been Bevercly rebuked by the
government, who pronounce his state
ments "sensational," and declare his
proposals to be "utterly impractica
ble." '
Yet those who have a personal
knowledge of the unhappy victims
of caste prejudice declare that they
are oppressed by a system which can
only be described as slavery. The
pariah, it is said, finds it difficult, if
not impossible, however hard he may
struggle for an independent exist
ence, to hold a plot of land, and even
the humble cot which shelters him is
no longer his own if it should un
fortunately happen to take the fancy
of some covetous and scornful village
'"marasdar." London News.
' One Man'e lnaneldea.
The writer once entered into con
versation with the inmate of an asy
lum, at the request of the superin
tendent, who said he was a mono
maniac, and invited me to find out
if he could the particular point of
his insanity. "It is a rum subject to
go mad on, I must say," he added,
by way of helping me. I tried him
on various subjects without success j
in fact, be seemed better informed
than myself, and I was turning to
go when he tapped me on the
shoulder and whispered in my ear:
, "It's long time coming, isn't it?"
"What is)" I asked.
"Why, the day of pentecost, of
coursel" he answered. '
And that was the only Irrational
thing be said during the whole In
terview, London Tit-Bits.
.. iiiii'iiiihii n
I Htylae In AlaHka. '
I It is strange how soon one becomes
accustomed to and adopts the cus
toms of the country in which one so
journs. All our party have gradually
come to wear native clothing, more
or less, '
Sealskin boots flmir soul, not the
fur seal), either with the hair on or
off the uppers and legs, as maybe de
sired, with walrus skin soles, worn
' with an insole of dry gross, wore the
first articles of apjMtrel adopted,
They are the most comfortable I have
ever worn. They are also the most
clumsy looking.
But one Boon forget about the ap
pearance, and a person with a pair
of American made leather boots or
shoes looks as much out of place' as
an Eskimo would on the streets of j
Portland with his parka (coat), hood
and boots ou. '
I It is too warm for us to endure the
fur coats made of reindeer, seal,
squirrel tmnksklus, etc., but most
of the party are provided with them.
I The hoods are usually attached to
the coat and are thrown back in
I warm weather, leaving the head ex
posed. I The winter boots are made of rein
deer and other warm skins, with the
fur on, but are not worn in wet
weather. The hair of the reindeer is
as soft 08 beaver, and a coot of its
material will keep out the cold more
effectually than 10 times its weight
in woolens.
In fact, as 1 am told by residents,
one cannot wear enough woolens to
keep warm in winter, the weight be
ing too great. Furs are also a neces
sity for bedding. Cor. Portland Ore
goniani Rome Other Man,
"Holla, ;Joel" cried a youth on
Broadway yesterday as he slapped a
gentleman vigorously between the
shoulders. . -
. "Oh, I bog a thousand pardons 1"
he continued as in response to the
blow the other turned his head and
revealed an unfamiliar fuce.
"Took you for another man, you
know," be added by w(ity of an apol
ogy. "And so I am anotlier man," re
plied the stranger luconicolly as with
a shrug of the shoulders he struck
aorosB the street, leaving the young
man to wonder how he Bhould have
framed a more effectual apology.
New York Horuld.
A Pagoda In China.
The porcelain pagoda in China hod
nine Btoriesof the combined height
of 200 feet, and tho pinnacle was 148
feet above the highest story. It de
rived its name from being covered
with plates of porcelain. It cost
2,4an,4K4 ounces of silver. St. Louis
Ulolie-Demoerat. '
THE REASON.
Let us look into the force, mean
ing, reason of the oft-repeated line:
Cures Promptly and Permanently.
Puin Endured for AO Ycurs,
2M'enrB,
20 Ycurs,
10 Years,
Have been promptly Cured by
1ST. JACOBS OXX
By the use of:
A FEW APPLICATIONS
A HALF BOTTLE
ONE BOTTLE
TWO BOTTLES.
Correspondence with Sufferer shows
entire permanenoe of oure up to tins
tlmo, In aome Gases ooverino
6 Years,
7 Years,
8 Yeurs,
10 Years,
nfld so on, Md tb.li proof wo hold.
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