Royal Baking Powder
Leads AH.
From actual analysis made by me, I
. pronounce the Royal Baking Powder
to be the Strongest and Purest Baking
Powder before the public.
It is entirely free from alum and other
, additions injurious to health.
.. . Pnf. Chemistry, Coiitfiff Phanucy Dtft,
University California.
All other bakihg powders are shown by
analysis to contain alum, lime or ammonia.
. Happy Secouil Marriages.
The dreaming maiden never figures an
a second wile in her love visions, how
ever she may figure in real life later on;
yet a first marriage often fits a man to
be a far tenderer husband and more de
voted lover, fie remembers his first
wife only sufficiently to 'recall his errors
and mistakes, and to avoid them in his
treatment of his second. Most girls,
however, would prefer taking the risk
of his mistakes than deriving the benefit
of his experience.
However numerous may have been a
rail's omonrs, a woman likes to think
that she has brought a new experience
into his life in the honeymoon. A man's
first lawful possession of a pure and lov
ing woman for his very own would seem
to mark a never-to-be-forgotten era in
his life, no matter what nnhappiness
may have followed; yet the human heart
is a strange machine. A sweet and noble
woman, whose nature was profound and
full of feeling, once shocked me with a
confession.
flJ was but twenty-two when my first
.husband died," she said, "1 worshiped
him, and we had been ideally happy. All
the world seemed a tonyb after he died.
I did not believe life held any joy for
me. My only happiness for years 1
found in passing whole days beside his
mjiuu. jev i married again ueiure a
was thirty a man who had awakened, it
seemed to me, a deeper passion in my
heart than the early love. And now
year after year goos by in which 1 for
get to notice the anniversary of my first
marriage or of my husband's death, so
absorbed am 1 in this mau."
Asan opposition to this case, i knew a
stubborn and selfish woman who was
' persistent and constant in her violent
grief at the loss of her young husband.
Years passed with no abatement of her
angry resentment at fate, and yet finally
she entered into litigation with the aged
parents of her husband 'about the prop
erty. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Pnizles In llelatlooihtp. ,
A strango relationship exists in the
family of a couple of Englishmen in this
state. Borne ten years ago two brothers
named Beers came to this country from
England and settled on a small farm in
Menefee county. Things prospered with
them, and soon one of the brothers,
Philip, becoming tired of lonely life on
the farm, wooed and won Miss Lizzie
Johnson, a young rural beauty. They
were married and lived happily together
nearly eight years. Something, how
tver, disturbed the harmony of their
Married life, for last snmnier Philip ap
plied for and obtained a divorce. Life
seemed to have lost all charms for him.
In the mean time the other brother,
Louis, also tired of the unlucky lot of
the lone bachelor, began to cast .about
him for a helpmate, and must have dis
covered in his brother's 3atie 'wife the
sum of all his future happiness, for the
little village near which the brothers re
sided was one day suddenly electrified !o
hear that Louis and the grass widow
had been made one. The news came to
Philip, who simply smiled and replied,
"Never mind; my inning comes next."
Little attention was paid to the re
mark, and certainly no one thought of
the strange denouement that would fol
low. The ordinary routine life of the
mountain village went! smoothly on nn
til.onlya day or so ago, the villagers
were astonished to hear, that Philip
Beers and Mrs. Johnson, his ex-wife's
mother and his brother's mother-in-law,
had been quietly married. Then there
was consternation in the Calmly of Mrs,
f Lotus Beers. '
, The neighbors and friends of the
several parties are now busily engaged
trying to figure out the relationship of
the several parties to each other's rela
tives. Kentucky Cor. Philadelphia
, Times.
. Willing to' Begin.
First Small Boy This paper says chil
dren oughter be taught what to do in
, ease of fire, an they oughter go through
the performance until they know.
Second Small Boy All right Where's
the matches? (loon News,
A Great Day In China.
Within a short time the great day for
state worship will again come in China.
At the coming of the winter solstice the
whole nation is supposed to pray, at least
in the person of t he emperor. This great
worship takes place at night. The em
peror squats on the bottom of a great
elephant car, and drawn by the white
elephant which the kingofSiam sent
mm, is escorted by 2,000 grandees, princes
and attendants, while bands of music
play along the way to the great temple.
He first goes into the palace of fasting.
There he meditates beforeacopperstatne
representing a priest with his mouth cov
ered by his lingers, indicating silence.
Upon the altar of heaven he should
sacrifice burnt animals calves, hares,
sheep and pigs. How this worship will
take place, now that the altar of heaven
is burned down, I do not know; but the
occasion may call out some expressions
of opinion from different parts of the
empire which will be more or less dan
gerous. Frank Q. Carpenter in National
Tribune.
Curious Debate on a Burned Pinafore.
A burned pinafore has been the cause
of a curious debate. A girl belonging
to the Cuckoo Lane schools, at Hanwell,
belonging to the city of London and bt.
Savour's nnion, dropped the chalice at a
communion service and startled the pina
fore. Thereupon the high chaplain or
dered the pinafore not to be washed, but
to be destroyed. As it belonged to the
ratepayers the managers inquired hi."
authority for destroying their property.
The chaplain pleaded the precedent
that old Bibles are destroyed in the same
way, but offered to buy a new pinafore.
The managers however are determined
not to let the matter rest, and two com-
mit'ees are to investigate the practices
of Ritualistic chaplains in regard to
damaged pinafores and Bibles. London
Tit-Bits.
A Co-operative Boot Factory.
A striking proof of the steady progress
of the principle of co-operative produc
tion was given Friday at Leicester,
where over 600 delegates from all parte
of the kingdom assembled to assist at
the formal opening of the largest co-operative
boot and shoe factory in the
world. The factory stands on six acres
of ground. The buildings cost $150,000,
and when fitted with machinery the to
tal outlay will have been 1330,000. The
working capita will be (1,000,000, and
the factory will be able to turn out 50,
000 pairs of boots every week. This huge
enterprise has been and will continue to
be managed by workingmen, and the
men who make the boots will share in
the profits earned by their labor. Lon
don Cor. New Vork Times.
Cartons Recovery of Lout Records,
Oorham met with a serious loss over
twenty years ago. About 1871 it was
discovered that a book containing the
earliest town records, from its incorpora
tion in 1754 to 1815, was missing. The
town offered a reward for its return and
many individuals joined in the search,
but hope of finding these records- was
abandoned long ago. Last week, bow-
ever, the express brought from Boston a
package containing three books in excel
lent preservation, without any explana
tion. One of tlrem was the early rec
ords of Urorham". The other two books
contained the marriages, births and
deaths of the inhabitants of the town
from 1704 to 1822. Lewiston journal.
-. tVeutlen In a Hliixard.
In a big snowstorm Miss Lydia E,
Carder and Mr. James William Watson,
both of West Virginia, were wedded by
the Rev. B. Kolk, of Pawpaw, W. Va.
The ceremony was performed on an is
land in the Potomac, near Oldtown. The
wind was blowing a perfect hurricane
and the snow fell thick and fast. The
bride wore a white cloth costume, with
bonnet and gloves to match. Cor. Balti
more American.
The region between the first and second
cataracts of the Nile ig the hottest on the
globs. It never rains there, and the natives
do not believe foreigners who tell them that
water can desceud from the sky.
FORECASTING.
Home day an now the world shall reawakei
The city from tie brief, dream umnrcd
sleep:
The country, from lie lumber pare and
djwu.
To witikn of hint In every nowerinR brake:
And men llg-hl hearted, or with beam that
ache,
Shall riee and go what they have sown to
reap:
And women smile, or elt alone and ween
Tor life oniie ewuet. grown bitter for love's
ease
lut we, that day. shall not be here not we;
v e shall have done with life, though few
may know.
Hetween un then shall awfql atlllnem be
Who spake such words of tillaa, such words
of woe.
As winds remember, chanting fitfully
CuautlUK an now -above as lying low.
-Philip Hoiirke Maraton In Atlantic
Rise of Poor Women.
The rise of the wife of London's lord
mayor is another instauce of the demo
cratic tendencies of the times and the
overthrow of the social nobility which
has so long ruled the world. Bhe was a
chambermaid at a fashionable hotel In
West Kemp, where David Evans, alder
man of the ward of Castle Raynurd and
now lord mayor of London, used to stop
during the hunting season. He fell iu
love with the pretty girl who waited
upon him, and iu a manly and demo
cratic spirit proposed to her and was ac
cepted. So now the humble servant is
elevated to one of the highest social posi
tions in the world s metropolis, and will
in the future entertain royalty and the
most distinguished men and women of
the nations.
Her experience, however, is not
unique. Tbe wife of Jules Qrevy, ex
president of the French republic, was
his washerwoman before she sat in the
palace. Many women of the highest so
cial prominence have risen from humble
surroundings. Ever siuce the days of
King Cophetua, who made the beggar
maid his queen, there have been men
courageous enough to ignore the sneers
of the lofty and to marry the women of
their choice, in whatever circumstances
they found them. Brave old Andrew
Jackson was proud of his beloved wife
till the day of his death in spite of her
homely manners and her unfamiliarity
with the ways of the polite world, and
his secretary of war married tbe daugh
ter of a tavern keeper.
But at no time have men of promi
nence picked their wives from the mod
est walks of life with greater frequency
than at preseut, and the custom is grow
ing. It is carrying out democracy in
earnest, and what is best of all, the men
never teem to regret their choice. Chi
cago Globe.
Novel Wedding dirts.
A novelty in the line of wedding pres
ents has just been put upon the market
If you have a friend who is about to top
ple over the brink of matrimony, and
would take pleasure in presenting him
with something besides that eternal
punch bowl, or those perennial knives
and forks, or that customary ormoln
clock, go down and see one of the big
safe companies on lower Broadway. The
safe man has gone so far ahead of tbe
gentle ourglar in solidity of construc
tion and tool defying locks that he can
now afford to give some of his wares a
touch of the decorative and picturesque.
His first venture in this direction has
resulted in a series of little strong boxes
made up in odd shapes. The favorite
one is that of a portable writing desk.
The safe proper is concealed beneath a
covering of inlaid wood, and not one
person in a hundred would suspect it to
be anything but a desk. It can be car
ried in a trunk or satchel and is admira
bly fitted for the transportation of large
sums of ready money. Once locked it
would take a small blast of dynamite to
open it.
The one objection to it is that should
the burglar ever suspect the real identity
of the innocent looking desk he would
only have to put it under his arm and
tote it away to crack at leisure. New
York Commercial Advertiser.
She rinds Her Plaee.
Facts are stubborn things. This la a
trite remark, but, like all trite remarks,
true. There are certain facts which to
day are applicable to the woman ques
tion that the hard headed opponents of
woman's advancement find it difficult to
combat. The chief fact is the persistence
with which woman "bobs up serenely"
in all the live questions of the day. Take
her all around she is very much alive,
and is demonstrating her old conceded
ability to put in the last word and put
it in often, with a success that takes
away the breath of the old fogies. With
a consciousness that she is one of a mil
lion of her own sex competing with men
for bread and butter, she puts her hands
in her jacket pockets and says, firmly,
bnt courteously: "A little more room, if
you please, sir. God made this world
just as much for me as for you." And
he usually finds the extended elbows
gradually succumb under her persistent
pressure. Chicago Herald.
No More Bed Parasols.
Ladies will be surprised to hear that
the use of red parasols has been officially
forbidden In many villages of the Tyrol,
The peasants say that the startling color
irritates the grazing cattle, and that a
number of accidents of recent date were
due to the display of red sunshades,
London Queen.
A Brooklyn girl only eleven yean of
age has formed 030 intelligible words of
the letters found in the word incomprehensibility,
Across the Continent to Marry and Didn't,
Seattle contains today a disappointed
young couple who believe not that mar
riage is, but that it would be a failure.
The man is Basil Huporislm and the girl
is Miss Florence R Bathrlck, of Do Kalb,
Ills. Thoy became acquainted through
correspondence resulting from the an
swering of an advertisement in a Chicago
paper, and the acquaintance finally re
sulted in an agreement to marry if upon
meeting each was satisfied, Miss Bath
rick came out here, her eager lover met
tier at Puyallup, but the wedding has not
taken place and will not, Miss Bathrlck
sayB!
"I came out here to marry Basil Supo-
riska, but have found that he is not tbe
man I thought he was. I was led to be
lieve that he owned about half of Seattle
and wnsacapitalist. I think I'll go back
home, for there are plenty of men there
that I can marry. Indeed, I've just
had a telegram from a fellow who has
wanted to marry me all along, and 1 will
go back and take my old beau. I have
some money, and 1 think that is what
Suporiska is after, but luckily I did not
bring the money with me, but left orders
to have the check sent to me after 1 was
married."
Miss Bathrick brought a large trous
seau, including a white wedding dress
with a train eight feet long, white hat
and gloves. Cor. Chicago llerald.
Hot Water Foot Warmers.
A commission sent by the directors of
the French railways to England and
Germany to report npon the means
adopted in those countries for warming
railway carriages during the winter
finds that France has nothing to learn
from her neighbors in this respect, hot
water foot warmers similar to those in
use on French railways being employed
almost everywhere. On the Northern
of France railway, however, an import
ant experiment is about to be tried on a
large scale.
All carriages, even on short distance
trains, are to be warmed, and the warmth
is to be produced by means of boxes of
acetate of soda. The chemical is put in
a solid state into the boxes, And these
are then plunged into hot water about
100 degs. The effect is that the soda be
comes liquid. On being taken out of
the water the boxes are wiped dry and
are put into the carriages. By degrees
the soda solidities, and as long as the
operation lasts that is, for about live
or six hours it gradually gives off the
heat it has absorbed in the melting pro
cess. London News.
A Mighty nunter's Triumph.
"There was one incident in the woods
this season," said a North woods guide,
"which was amusing, to say the least.
A wealthy Albanian, who spends his
summers in the vicinity of Lake George,
and who, by the wny, enjoys a military
title, came into the woods with great
pomp when deer was in season, and re
quested that a deer be captured for hii.
This was done and the animal tied to a
tree. Then the military gentleman, who
is a member of a society for the protec
tion of fish and game, brought his gnn
up aud blazed away at the tethered ani
mal. It required six shots from the gun
of the Albanian to mortally wound the
deer. What do you think of that for
hunting? The guides in the woods when
they heard of the affair vowed they
would lynch the man if he came up
there again." Albany Journal.
Surprise nt a surprise Party.
A surprise party was given J. O'Don
nell and wife, of Beaver Fulls, by a lot
of his neighbors. Mrs. Bridget Donavan
was one of the guest. She weighs
about 330 pounds, and when she essayed
a skirt dance it truly was a surprise
party. The floor was weak, Mrs. Dono
van was heavy, and in the middle of a
difficult figure the floor gave way, and
the fair dancer disappeared into the cel
lar along with the kitchen stove. She
was quickly extracted from her perilous
position by the men of the party by the
aid of levers and ropes, and was found
to be but little injured. The stove,
fortunately, contained no fire, and did
not fall upon her. Cor. Pittsburg Dis
patch. A Canine Hero.
A case Illustrating the sagacity of the
canine race has occurred at Jackson,
Miss. Several negro children were play
ing on the banks of Pearl river, near the
bridge, when one of them, Robert Jack
son, a boy, about seven yearsold, slipped
and fell into the water. He was being
borne rapidly away by the current when
his dog, a little black setter, plunged
into the river, and, seizing the child by
the clothing, swam safely to shore with
its heavy burden. The boy was pretty
full of water, but soon recovered and
ran home with his dog following at his
heels. Cor. New Orleans Times-Democrat
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, " The Care of an Umbrella.
There are a couple of points with re
gard to the care of an umbrella with
which I would wish to supply tbe pub
lic for 1 am a crank on tho subject One
is In connection with tbe rolling of it
up. To do this so as not to injure the
ribs nd joints, firmly grasp the points
below the cloth with your right hand
while you glide downward with your
left till the folds are nicely bid. The
other is, when the umbrella is soaked
with wet, set with the handle resting on
tho floor and let tho water run off the
ends of the ribs. If you got it with the
ferule down the water will rust the
hinges at the crest Interview in Bt
Umis Globe-Democrat '
Ileauty of Person.
Some excellent people take serious ex
ception to Grant Allen's remark that,
being a uinn, he took it for granted that
the first business of a girl was to be
pretty. Now, it may bo that Mr. Allen
is not so far out of the way after all. It
is certainly the duty of every woman,
and man, too, to be as good looking as
possible, because beauty gives pleasure
to other people. Beauty of person Is the
expression of something corresponding
to It in the mind and soul, and is to be
prized accordingly. True beauty comes
from the cultivation of the liigltor graces
of the mind and soul, as well as the care
of the body, and cannot exist without
this, A dried up old professor whe
knows forty lunguugos, and yet is weak
eyed, lank haired, stoop shouldered anil
dyspeptic. Is as far from being a per
fectly developed man oh the prize lighter.
Of the two the prize fighter is far the
more agreeable object to look nt. The
Greeks were neurcr right than we think
when they gave physical culture so high
a place. Ho, girls and women of all
ages, lie ns beautiful us you can. Make
yourselves lumdsomo by physical oxer
cise, by intellectual work and by cul
tivating a sweet temper and generous,
kindly spirit to all mankind.
A. I). White and Coeducation.
Ex-Prosident Whltu, of Cornell, is en
thusiastically in favor of coeducation and
athletic exercises. Coeducation makes
womon moro womanly and men more
manly, he says, And sunshino, fresh
air and vigorous physical exorcises are
moro important for girls than for boys
even, because "co-ed." girl students ra
their zeal for study are apt to neglect
their bodies. In hiB judgment no girl
should be permitted to take a college
course nolens she uIko took a proper sys
tem of regular exorcise iu a gymnasium
or elsewhere.
Tricks ot Manner.
To illustrate how tho little tricks of
manner are copied and become the fash
ion, it is told of a debutante of several
seasons ago who siieedily liecamea pro
nounced belle that ut her lirst few ap
pearances iu society, out of sheer embar
rassment, she invariably stood with her
hands clasped. Before sliu ceased to re
sort to this peculiar method of relief her
reign became established, mid all tbe
girls of her set, recognizing her suprem
acy, quickly saw and cupied her inter
twining lingers.
A Volume In a Word.
Friend What became of that young
man yon were engaged to lust summer?
MissCathem (innocently) Which one?
-New York Weekly.
In the pockete of clothing discarded by
a burglar at Crawfordsville, ind., was
found translation from Cawar's Com
mentaries and an example In algebra, li
dicating that the night prowler was a
student
The Duke of Westminster has agaia
this year given to the Chester infirmary
the sum of (2,800, being the proceeds of
the shillings charged Uon visitors for
admission to Euton hall and gardens.
Miss Maggie Dongur, of Shelbyville,
Ind., began a unique course of treatment
for consumption last week. Under the
advice of her doctor she uses a diet made
up exclusively of young dog flesh.
MERCURIAL
MrJ.C. Jonon.of Fulton, Ark,, saysof
agKSn -ftuotit urn yearn ugo I con
rffirrfl traoteda Boveiooasoof blood
poison. Loading phyKiouins proscribed
medicine aftur medicine, which I took
without any rollef. I nlao tried mercu
rial and potash romedies, with unsuo-
RHEUMATISM
oosflf ul results, link whloh brought on an
attack of morcuri-1 r-eumutisra that
mode my life ouo of ngouy. Aftor stif
ering four yours I gave up all remedies
and commenced using B. 8. S. Aftor
tuking several bottles, I was entirely
cured end able to resumo work.
fis the greatest medicine far
blood poiwoulng to-day cm
the market."
Treatuw on ntnod and Rkfn DlieaMit mailed
free. BwirToi'icumoUo,,AtUiuui,Ua.
Bakin&PoiVder
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the greatest novelty at the Exposition.
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afternoon and evening on our pretty
.lowui una niove. uveryuoay cordially
invited to have a biscuit with us and set
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Baking Powder proved by actual work.
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