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The Lexington Advertise] THE ADVERTISER RUB. CO., Pubfisher». LEXINGTON. : : : MISSISSIPPI. As to Immigration. Railroao and steamship companies alike agree that the* tide of immigra tion Is again rising, and the record of a million people added to our popula tion in ISM by immigration is likely to be surpassed in the next few years. In the six years, 1900-1905, there have come to our shores 4,281,000 foreign ers, while in the next preceding decade the number was 3,059,000. Many pub licists view these figures with alarm and cry for increased restrictions. It Is noticeable that those who have had the greatest experience with im migration are not for exclusion. Since 1830 this country has absorbed more than 26,000,000 immigrants, and de ducting those who have returned to their own countries it can be seen that the remainder, with their descendants, constitute a large part of what we are always boasting of—our great and rapid increase of population—in fact, an important proportion of our total population of 83.500,000 to-clay,- There seems to be a very general Impres sion in the public ruind that these earlier immigrants, whose descendants to-day are among our most solid and substantial business men, political leaders and citizens, were of some su perior class. The opinion has no war rant ia fact. Under the earlier immi gration laws, the bars were down, and the immigrants came in to seek new homes and develop the fertile lauds and rich mineral resources of the west. Again, it is claimed that now the im migrants do not go west or south to help develop the country, but remain in the cities. It is difficult t or disprove this assertion, but it can be shown that the great growth of the cities is in a large measure due to the crowding of the country people to the city, as is indicated by the con dition of our New England farms. But, as a matter of fact, while the im migration is very large, the proportion of immigrants per capita is much less than it was half a century ago. if there is a problem here it is one of distribution, not of exclusion. Leav ing out of consideration such tes timony as might be given by pre sumably Interested parties like the steamship agents, it clearly has been shown that the arriving immigrants are not the "scum" of Europe. The immigrants who came last year de clared an average wealth of $: head, or more titan $20,000.000 in the aggregate, and as they must have hail from $85 to $95 each to pay lares to this country from their homes, a fam ily of six must have saved up $500 be fore coming. Furthermore, the in crease is not, as large as assumed, be cause, while in the four ports of New York, Boston. Philadelphia and Balti more last year there were 693,000 ar rivals, 359.000 people departed in the steerage. Moreover, the laws of Eu rope are framed to prevent people from leaving the European countries—not to send them here, and the greatest im migration agent is the letter sent home by the so-called "foreigner," become a good American citizen, who has made a home and secured a competence un der American institutions. prove '8 per "Graft" Not New. Grafting proclivities of the Amer ican people took solid root in the days of Washington, according to Prof. Francis W. Shepardson, of the Uni versity of Chicago, who declares this particular method of acquisition is not so bad to-day as it used to tie—com paratively, of course, for the country has grown considerably since its father died. Besides, printing facilities of the present time are stich as to give more space and wider circulation to the subject of graft. Prof. Sbepard son is a recognized authority on Unit ed States history, and as one of the foremost historians of the country his views on "graft," delivered before a gathering of junior and senior students at the University of Chicago a few days ago. were at least theoretically con vincing. Presen*, day grafters did not appear so bad to the students when they heard from the professor's own lipr, that, graft, tainted money and vul gar commercialism all flourished at the inception of this government. "Why, Peter Faneuil, who built Faneuil hall, which historians have termed the 'cradle of liberty,' was a liquor dealer who made i is money by lieating the government," the professor solemnly declared. "There is also proof that cne of the signers of the declaration of Independence was indicted for smuggling," the professor conclude,I. impressively. A sense of humor and a deiicaje compliment was mat of a Holton was lying in a The prettv nurse overheard Wish ing to rebuke him kindly, she came to his bedside and said; "I think that 1 heard you call upon the name of the Lord. 1 am one of His daughters. Is there anything I can do for you?" He looked up into her lovely face, and with respect anl admiration marked: "Yes; a«k Him how He would like me for a son-in-law." (Kan.) boy who hospital, him exclaim; "Oh ray oerd!" re Sergius Witte, the czar's plenipoten tiary in the peace conference being held at Portsmouth, N. H , is said to lie the handsomest if Russia's notable men. indeed, ne ls thought to resemble the magnificent Alexander III., fathprof the present czar. He is a very large man and remarkably well proportioned. As straight as an arrow, he carries himself with a consciousness of his superiority thaï is most irritating to a good many people in Russia and is overwheimingly oppressive, ;ays our informant, to tit« masses. MARSH LIGHTS. From the marshes and meadows they rise When the Iasi ray of daylight expires; With a vast constellation of fires They people the dusk of the skit s. In an intricate kind of a dance, In a mystical maze they are led, And I watch them It noiselessly tread With eyes that are heavy with trance. And oft from the whirl and the throng Some lesser light dies In the play; They cease not their dance, but always Go circling and w hirling along. And. watching, I dream that our life is a mirthless dance that we tread, Ne'er pausing to number the dead That vanish away in the strife! We are sparks from the marsh that are filled For a moment w ith Impulse, desire; A moment is ours to aspire, A moment—and then ail Is stilled! —N, O. Times-Ltmocrat. t : 7 By Way of Illustration i I the • j "Anyhow, i am demanding prema- ; turc welcome, I am the first comer." ! "Some one raust be first, and I fan- i cy -" "That I Intended to he first?" R. MORRIS MOORE," was the 1 announcement. '"High-ho! " was the sigh from (of a. "if 1 intrude—" "How can you intrude when you are asked to come?" "D I Vou j j ; ; "1 was about to think so." "And for asking that question t hat I have already asked many lunes, know what it is?" "I know." "And your answer?" "To what?" "You said you know " "Not what to answer." "Then let me tell you what to answer, Stella." "it will he a dull dialogue if you play both parts." "It is no play with me. Do you mean that. 1 may not hope! Is your answer the same as always?" "It must be the same since nty life, my mission, my talents must be given all for progress, for advancement, for wom an's emancipation." "Mrs. West." "Ah, Mrs. West! so glad to see you!" "So happy. 1 came early. It is so hard to see anything of you. Such a crowd about her always, doctor." The doctor was still absorbed in ac ceptance of Stella's rejection. He could not veer lightly into divine moods. Stella thought she had never seen him appear so heavy. "What has our star been doing late ly? Writing! Ah, genius!" "Truly, I have burn writing n story of the revolution," admitted Stella, "and that was why I sighed." "Sighed!" queried Mrs. West. "Ah, was it?" asked the doctor, eagerly. "1 was grieved," explained Stella, hastily; "because I feared I could get 0 *S( ! I ! ► Mä F it  ' «1 V 4 ' 4 MRS WEST, ARRAYED IN TDK OLD WEDDING GARMENT, REENTERED THE LIBRARY. no illustration iu time, lt is a story written for a Fourth of July number." "You are so skillful with the camera, why not illustrate it yourself?" "Landscapes, 1 might. But dramatic Beenes?" "Why not?" "Ah!" cried Stella, warming with an "You give me an idea, if only you, Mrs. West, and you. Dr. Moore, would pose for me. artistic fervor. 1 have two correct, genuine colonial costumes. One ls the wedding dress of my Mistress Nancy Doyle, heroine of my story, the farmer's daughter from whose piggin of milk Washington quaffed «iraught as he rode to Yorktown." ancestress. a "If I had a single ancestor who had done a deed worth telling! Stella, boasting such an ancestress, smiled in dulgently on the little widow, and look ing toward the doctor sighed. He had not the ambition to even express a wish for an ancestor, of course he had none, only plain mothers and fathers and for eelèbrity among them; proof positive, he never told of any such. bears with never a "The other costume was that of a Col. Morris, a genuine continental uniform it is. I was lucky enough to get it at a private auction when I was at school in the city." "Quick! Quick! The costumes! The Before the other guests camera: rive," cried Mrs. West with pleasurable excitement. ur Scarcely ten minutes had elapsed when Mrs. West, arrayed in the old wed ding garment, reentered the library. Never had she appeared to such adv tage. Stella, in her up-to-date gown, felt stiff and commonplace beside the wearer of that glimmering, rose-odored antique costume. The doctor, in all the glory of conti nentals, entering just behind the w idow, flashed at her a look of amazed admira tion. an He himself had the ill-grace to declare that he felt uncomfortable while he looked kingly. "Now. who are we? Ar.d what are we doing?" cried Mrs. West. "You are Nance Doyle herself." raid Stella. The artist's fervor gave her warmth, in spite of the discomforting j admiration that the widow's fetching i appearance created. "You are her true and faithful lover." "Yes," assented the doctor, fervently. "Patriotism only burns brighter in each breast than does the love of each for each, pure, changeless." "How truly you tell it," breathed Mrs, West "it is the moment of parting before the decisive battle." "And the pose?" "Take that of the Huguenot lovers, already immortalized; the costumes will give the needed difference." "We must be quick about it," de clared Mrs. West; "the other guests will be arriving in a moment." Stella w as focusing. "Ready," she called. The doctor seized the widow's hands in his and pressed them to his heart. She lifted to his. eyes entrancing!)' t beautiful, for the moment brimming : with expression of devotion; his own (what man's could not?) met hers with an equal ardor. Stella peering through the lens caught the glance and felt a great sob rise to her throat. "it seems so long since murmured the widow. Stella felt as If the black cloth over her head were sti fling her. -so long—" "But now—at Iasi." breathed Moore. Stella's hand shook so that she could I scarcely draw out the plate holder. It • was plain that these two had loved in j the long ago. Possibly the little widow had come early this afternoon looking find him here. They were renewing the old affection right under her eye3. ; htt, l repulsed her persistent lover ! • once too often, and now her heart i her—too late, ti "Any other pose?" "Too late," raid Stella. Her voice I frightened lier as she uttered tHe words Too late. "But you are content with your j work?" quoted Mrs. West. Not if it was to give over her lover to the widow. "You do not need me now? You do j not want me?" The doctor was eager ; to lay aside the continentals. ; "I can't toll until—until later develop ments." beating in her heart. But here the guests came. They were captured with the grace of the old cos tu mes. Was there magic, in the ancient uni form, Stella wondered. Had she ever fancied the doctor heavy? Only Her culean. Had she ever thought him stiff? Only stately. Clumsy? Only courtly. Tales of the brave days of the revolu tion were rife in Stella's parlors that afternoon. Each told a tale of his or her own until Mrs. Clitheral,'wearing her gray hair like a duchess' coronet, and across her breast as many badges and insignia as a field marshal may boast, turned to Dr. Moore. "You say nothing." she announced, "and you are the only one among us whose ancestor was a signor." "And you never told me," murmured Stella in his ear. "But you were so interested in progress, in advancement, in emancipa tion from all old customs, how could I know you would care for such old things?" "And your father's family," continued Mrs. Clitheral—her 1). A. R„ Colonial Dame, Daughters of Colonial Governors. Child of Royalty badges tinkled as she talked—"are, if I mistake not, of the Moores of North Carolina of name and fame, closely connected with the Moore, present marquis of Drogheda Castle, Ireland." "And you let me boast to you of farmer girl ancestress with her pail of foamy new milk." "She was one to boast of, brave, sim pie. true." While the guests gathered about Mrs. Augustine Shepperd t hundredth time her favorite story of the revolution; how Col. Will Shepperd rode neck and neck with the captured Tory across the How Fields, the doctor whispered to Stella: "1 will tell you now that it was I who pawned these continentals which 1 now wear." "Not really?" "To buy a decent coat in which to read my graduating thesis." "And now?" "And now I have had success enough to feel warranted in asking you again that question." "But. Mrs. West? You loved her once? I heard he" say to you as you held her, oh, so closely: 'It seems so long.' " "Since you had kept us playing the fool while you worried with the era." my hear for the cam "And you, gazing at her so ardently, said: At last!' N. O. Times-Demo crat. GIFT FROM DYING ENEMY. Moving Episode That Took Place the Field After the Battle of Mukden. on A Japanese officer. writing of the scenes after the battle of Mukden, gives the following incident: "Among the wounded Russians upon the field was a Uoy of scarcely 16 or 17, a drummer boy, shot through both legs, ary in his hand, praying. Poor mite, the pity of it! as he spoke German, He was so thirsty that my bottle was not enough for him. so another half of the bearer's bottle was given to him, too. and he had some biscuits. I had a strong yearning to ask him about his home, but he was weak, and his spirit needed keeping up. 'Your wound is nothing,' I said. 'The Japanese hospital attendant will be here soon and take you away. able to go home to your parents,' He held a ros He was a Pole. I believe. And soon you will be "Covering him up with blankets and coats taken from the Russian dead, 1 was just walking away, when he cried out after me: A moment, officer, a mo ment. Kind officer, I have something to give you—this book, to me by my father when I was leaving home for the front. I have nothing more valuable to offer yon. sir. It is the most precious thing I possess.' And he kissed my hand repeatedly, crying bitterly. "I accepted the book, and without a word turned away to find another suf ferer. I would not have broken down for a colonelcy before those bearers anû my own men. The book was entitled Himmelsbrod; or Ein Gebetbuch fu Jugend' (Brea*' of Heaven; o* A Pray erbook for the Young). It was given these Fish in China Caoa.s. The canals which form a network throughout a great abound iu fish, are irrigated with the tarais places lot them. pvt of China The rkt fields, wh.eb water from make ideal hatch, .-.g ! ' I MIDSUMMER GOSSIP PROM THE EASTERN METROPOLIS. COMING INSURANCE INQUIRY Investigation Committee Cannot Do a Job of Whitewashing in Face of Public Sentiment—Je rome and Tammany. EW YORK. — A humdrum legisla tive inquiry—eight sleepy statesmen behind a high bench, a lawyer droning long ques tions at a forget ful witness — that is not a picture of the legislative in quiry into insur ance corruption which the state of New York has re luctantly underta ken. A senator of the United States, Chauncey M. Depew, is to have a -liante to explain why he toot; a large retainer from the Equitable foi years; , . , and why he allowed it, while he was a .. , , . .. director, to loan money and lose to the , , , . . , , . boom town ot Depew, n which he was , , , interested; and why. having guaran . , , , , . , . teed the loan, he welched upon the agreement. David B. Hill reeks a chance to explatn why, for no discover able reason he drew a salary from the Equitable for years Jacob H Schiff. who was treated wt h as a high am bassador of finance by Witte, of Rue sta, and other financiers almost as powerful are to explain, perhaps why be), as directors apparently sold to tüe Equitable bonds in whose sale ihey i . rj , . were personally interested. Beniamin . rn *ii j. ' e * 1 .. , » », I Ah, there we strike fire! Ex-Gov. t , j Hill may not expect overmuch mercy , 1 .... , . from a committee ot eight, of whom , , ,* only two are democrats. But ex-Gov. .. . ... , p ! Odell is the republican boss of the t ■tate-to or was; some think that Gov | lltggins is displacing him. Mr. Odell , comes in o the inquiry in two ways. | •1rs , It is alleged hat mon. -y of the Equ,table was used to pay him his lossel through the shipbuilding trust swindle, which was worked by a few unprincipled scoundrels, some of whom were and are Equitable directors; sec ond. it is pretty we 1 understood that a j mysterious loan of $685 000 made on behalf of the Equitable but not item- J ized upon its books covered, among other queer expenses, donations both to the republican and the democratic State campaign funds. The republican majority upon the in vestigating committee might like to slight, some points of this nauseous muddle. To aid in that pious endeavor the two democratic members are utter ly unworthy of the responsibility, be ing ordinary city politicians of the Tammany type, selected in preference to respectable minority members be cause they are more manageable. COURT j fo « . f. % ■Jt 'V 'Oi M i 'Ll holders in every j part of the nation The People Are Aroused. UT there are rea sons why the com m i 11 e e can not whitewash the dis honesty which has □ h smirched theEqui table company and others. Policy L are interested. The state of New York has chartered the .. *Y-, company to do what it has done. The state itself is on trial. Failure to be thorough will hurt the state in a business way by arousing resentment against it in the west—and there is enough already. Finally, the voters will not have it. They are thoroughly aroused and de termined not to pardon any slighting. The six republican members of the committee are of good average ability and repute; they know the public feel ing in the matter; and while .hey try for the name of the party to shield Odell, they will really do their best to recommend a good code of laws to pre insurance may vent stealing in the future, men themselves are now convinced though it took a four months' cam paign of brilliant fighting on the part first of the World and afterwards of other papers to bring them to the point—that the work must be thor oughly done. The counsel selected typify the nat ural hesitation, the irresolution of the committee, confronted by tremendous scandals and half retreating before the storm. Charles E. Hughes, the senior counsel, is a legal bloodhound, relent less, alert, resourceful, unconnected v, ith polities, unpledged to anyone. He will, from instinct and from sense of duty and from professional pride, do his utmost to lay the festering wound open. The other counsel, Mr. McKeen, was a year ago a better known law per; he is of a more showy oratorical type and has had rather more to do with politics. If Hughes represents the rigor, McKeen is supposed to repre sent the mercy of the law. This is a case where Hughes has the easier part. The people who have invested in life Insurance policies aren't hankering after mercy toward the very wealthy men who have practically stolen their money—millions of it. So. for once, a legislative investiga tion is going to be a rather dramatic affair. Jerome and Tammany. _HILE the pushing J of District Attor ney Jerome candidate for mayor is now seen to have been mature, it plainly shown that no one cares 30 cents about poli tics in hot weather except the profes sionals. It is a o.ueer sit uation. Host peo ple like McClellan person ally. He is honest presentable, intel ligent. makes a good speech has a good ciean-cut face and meets the (ity's guests like a gentleman, cot like yy as a '■'M /?/? ?\ pre has 9 X . sf iJV ers é ~x.. Mayor ! a boor, as did Van Wycit. It was the ' proudest hour of the life of the latter I when he affronted the polite captain of a Spanish man-of-war who visited New York in the ticklish days just be fore the war. McClellan is happy in his name, his ancestry, his wealthy wife, his friends, bis literary abiity, his state# manlike ability, which is not small. But the gang that follows him! The leaders he has to placate! The following he has to satisfy! Jerome's challenge to him to deny that he had made appoint ments of unfit men for political rea sons remained unaccepted. Half the great city departments are headed by utterly unfit men—men known to be unfit by the meanest intelligence. The city suffers from this; yet McClellan is personally popular and Is hailed as a good mayor. If to be good is to be personally sat isfactory and yet to surrender the city to the boss, the present nead of the city government fills the bill. Nor would a partisan republican be much improvement at present. The bare fact is that the best men of the city are outside the machines of both parties. If Jerome only could smash both ma chines the whole country would be merry at its downfall, including many very excellent machine men. _ , ,, , .. HF t f th W H « , country may think » ij| » ml of New York what gil , n it will, it (toes one BS „ great service. It /npft , , . « sL*d) acts as a catch basin am , settliug WHIT) pool for the huge VMf/ 8tream of immi _ gration. much of gathers m QH»£) New York and costs it uncounted Jsf .... .„stance of (- this ls tl , e repor t i . .. , ., . ot the board oi . , . . . . „ f health that an alarming proportion of I the children of school age in a poor .._ „ .. . . . , j section of the city are physically de* .... ä . . „„„„ fective. These are foreign born, very . ... n „ fVw largely. The revelations follow the . . „ . , , ... ! much misquoted saying of Robert Hun t tcr fba , fhousands of New York - s ch „. | drpn are undPrfed 0ne chiW in 20 , the lon examined is mentally not | normal ' and should have 8eparat e lea ,. hing not iu the common 8choo l s . New york mUBt larUlf , the problem _ practically a8 a trusfee for tUe t Superintendent Maxwell of the ublic echooI system , ong ag0 adv0 cat cd frpe breakfaBts for poor rhildren , j many of whom are t00 hungry to do thelr work in school . lt S0U nds un J Amfirican _ but what are you going t0 d(J , On the first of last Janua'ry there were over 800.000 ail-the-time paupers in England and Wales; besides hun dreds of thousands receiving part-time assistance, a still vaster army getting private aid, and millions of the self supporting but underfed. The latter clgss rises,to one-third of the total population in a town like old York, whose picturesqueness so many American tourists admire. And yet the British are about the best fed of the immigrants we get. The Irish, espe cially, who 50 years ago used to come to us gaunt with famine, are now so much more prosperous at home that the still flowing tide of immigration brings sturdy, well-nourished speci mens. But "assisted emigration" from the British cities means immigrants who have to be assisted when they get here. And oh, the hunger of the poor Russian Jews, slaves of the sweatshop j to men of their own race! __ The Real East Side. WERE is no place T in the world like (M the East side of New York. Com pare it with Lon don. The people are better fed, more hopeful, less careless of appear ances than those one sees in an English city; but also they are more crowded to gether upon the groaning acres than h u m a nit y anywhere else in the world except, 1 have heard, Bombay. And not even in Bombay, plague-stricken as it is. do the tall houses shut out the sun as in New York. The nine-story tenement has become a common feature upon New York streets; many of its middle aged tenements were built under a law that permitted 90 per cent, of the lot to be covered by the building; and upon a single floor in a 25-foot plot in genuity has cheated even the benefi cent new law by crowding an unbeliev able number of people. At times the population bursts out of the East side, like water out of a full barrel when a hole is bored in it. When the great new Williamsburg bridge was completed, 135 feet wide and a mile and a quarter long, piercing the very heart of the East side, it soon caught the name of the Jewish Pass over. A hundred thousand people have literally swarmed over it into Brook lyn. Their coming changed, wherever they went, the very conditions they sought. Cheap rents? A corner plot on a wide street in Brownsville, a sub urb six miles from the city hall, inhab ited almost exclusively by Jewish tail ors. rose in value from $3,000 to $22,000 in less than three years. What chance had cheap rents in a place like that? But the public bath and the private school for adults, and the hospital and the dispensary and the boys' club go where the people go. The wealthy Jews of New York pour out their wealth with the utmost liberality in aid of their co-religionists. Strange to say. they are almost as widely sun dered in sympathy and understanding as are the poorer Jews and rich Gen tiles. The rich German Jews and the poor Russian Jews are not much alike; can scarcely understand each other's familiar talk. And there is much bit terness of the poor who expected too much of a free country against their brothers who have been here longer and have done better. If the city presently undertakes the Titian task of partly feeding the chil dren of the very poor before they set out for school no one need be prised. Private charity is already do ing this upon a liberal scale, and leav ing the ethics of the case for theorists to atgue about, H 'k 3 H C\ uIiæË a 'I err CJ J sur OWEN LAXGDON. RICH! SORT OF HOUSE. The Kind That Keeps to Morris Ideal of Discarding Everything Lack ing in Beauty or Utility. One of the eiercal quiseions is this; How shall we. on our incomes, make oui home as we want it? The characteristics desired are com fort, convenience and a measure ol beauty. To attain the last is usually th« hardest problem. Some few are able ft build their ow n homes, planning ever) room and nook according to their idea but most people must live in houses oi flats built by others—rarely persons ol artistic susceptibility—and it is there that the woman needs most the exercise of thought and ingenuity if she would have her home a consistent and fine ex pression of herself. She is responsibh for it—often her very character will b» judged by the imprint which her indi viduality has left upon it—and it is het part to make her .environment an adorn ment by which she may be fairly judged In this connection let me say that cosi has nothing to do with it. A pretty ant harmoniously decorated home does noi necessarily mean the outlay of largi stints of money. It does mean a largt outlay of rightly directed thought anc care, and with this a hovel might almost be beautiful. Decorating can be done artistically without following rigidly all the rulet of "high art." but there must always lx found fitness, proportion, simplicity harmony and durability in every homi which pretends to beauty. "Have nothing (in your house) whict you do not know to be useful or whicl you do not believe to be beautiful." The famous rule of William Morrit should be emblazoned on the mind of al would-be house decorators. If It wen to be enforced ail at once in one of ou; large cities, what tons and tons of brio a-brae, ornaments and pictures—would go to the dump heap, drawn from ever) home. it is just this tenacious clinging to ug!) and usless things which gives so mart) homes the aspect of old junk shops oi which ruins the harmony of an otherwdsi beautiful room.—New York World. HOME DRESSMAKING HINTS Instead of Laboriously Basting Hems One Can Flatten with an Iron on Some Goods. If one has several shirtwaists to make for the same person, it is a good plan U make a diagram on a piece of paper qpc write in the measurements—length shoulder seams, disiance front back o! neck binding to belt, length of sleeve ant neck. etc., these measurements to bt taken from a shirtwaist which is exact ly right. Then it* one has a pattern tha fits, the waist can be made with but onct trying it on—that once to see to th< setting of the sleeve. One is inclined U think she can remember all these litth details, but. if she waits long before the next waist is made, sh'e is almost sure U forget, so if she writes down all these little points, she will be saved much tim« and vexation of spirit. Did you ever do your basting with i flatiron? it works nicely on some kinds of goods—ginghams, percales, prints etc. Hems may be turned and ironec fiat fully as quickly as they can be bast cd, and all the time used to pull out th« threads is saved.—Rural New Yorker. o NURSERY HINTS. Be Careful About the Food and Ob serve Scrupulous Cleanliness .n All of Baby's Surroundings. When baby sleeps outside see that trie sun is not beating down on bis head oi shining into his eyes. Unripe fruit.—Be very careful not t.c let children eat fruit which is at all ripe. This is most dangerous. In summer mothers must be specially careful in the matter of all-round clean liness of feeding bottles and of babies alike. Fruit for little ones—In giving chil dren fruit avoid the skin, stones and pips, and be careful that the fruit is absolutely fresh. Too many sweets tin Too many sweets are very liable to decay the tteeth. The first set of teeth should be watched and attended to. as the second to be infected by the decay of the first are very apt set. Baby's meal time—Baby should have his meals as regularly as grown-up peo ple, only that the meals are oftener. Every two hours during the day and three times during the night is quite often enough for an infant during the first two or three months.—Boston Globe. Lamb Pie. Bone three pounds of the breast loin of lamb. Stew the bones with one pint of cold water, one sliced onion and blade of mace for one hour. or a Mix to gether on a piate one tab!espo<*nfui flour, a spoonful of chopped parsley and a little salt and pepper, meat into small pieces two inches wide and one inch long. Boil these in the seasoned flour, roll up each piece, put them into a baking dish, add a cupful of water. Line the edges of the dish with puff pastry then cover and decorate. Paint over the top with egg. bake in a hot oven for one and a half hours. When ready, strain the gravy from the bones, add half a teaspoonful of gel atine. pour into the pie. Allow to set and serve when cold, ornamented with a little parsley. Divide the Lemon Pie. Cream a tabiespoonful of butter with a cupful of sugar; beat into the mixture the grated rind of one large lemon ami its juice; beat the yolks of three eggs very light, and whisk to a froth the whites of two. reserving one white for a meringue, fold in the whites thorough ly, and bake with lower crust only. When done, cover with a meringue made of the white of one egg and a table spoonful of powdered sugar, flavored with two drops of lemon extract. Set in the oven to brown palely. This makes one pie. and to our notion, a much better one than where cornstarch is made to take the place of eggs. Try it ami be con vinced. Raisin Pies. To two cupfuls seeded raisins add three cupfuls hot water and cook ten minutes. Then add twc-thir.is cupful sugar, one beaten egg. one tabiespoonful ccm «tarch and a small piece of butter Lu uiuie to a boil and cooi before filling pits. MINI PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE Lydia £• Pinkham's Vegetable Compound The wonderful power of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound over the diseases of womankind is not be cause it is a stimulant, not because it isa palliative, but simply because it is the most wonderful tonic and recon structor ever discovered to act directly upon the generative organs, positively curing disease and restoring health and vigor. Marvelous cures are reported from all parts of the country by women who have been cured, trained nurses who have witnessed cures and physicians who have recognized the virtue <bf Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and are fair enough to give credit where it is due. If physicians dared tobe frank ami open, hundreds of them would acknowl edge that they constantly prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound in severe cases of female ills, as they know by experience it can be re lied upon to effect a cure. The follow ing letter proves it. Dr. S. C, Brigham, of 4 Brigham Park, Fitchburg, Mass., writes : "It gives me great pleasure to say that I have found Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound very efficacious, and often pre scrits it in my practice for female difficulties. "My oldest daughter found it very benefi cial for uterine trouble some time ago, and my youngest daughter is now taking it for a fe male weakness, and is surely gaining in health and strength. ■ ' I freely advocate it as a most reliable spe cific in all diseases to which women are sub ject, and give it honest endorsement." Women who are troubled with pain ful or irregular menstruation, bloating (or flatulence), ieueorrhœa, falling, in flammation or ulceration of the uterus ovarian troubles, that bearing-down feeling, dizziness, faintness, indiges tion nervous prostration or the blues, should take immediate action to wa rd off the serious consequences, and be restored to perfect health and strength by taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound, and then write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass., for further free advice. No living person has had the benefit of a wider experience in treating female ills. She has guided thousands to health. Every suffering woman should ask for and follow her advice if she wants to be strong and welL WET WEATHER WISDOM! \ THE ORIGINAL I32 : r S V v \ V K SLICKER BLACK OR YELLOW WILL KEEP YOU DRY NOTHING EL5E WILL take no substitutes CATALOGUES FREE ShowingTull line of carmekts and hats. A. J. TOWER CO. , BOSTON, MASS., U.S. A. TOWER CANADIAN CO., LTD., TORONTO. CANADA. GEOGRAPHICAL JOTTINGS. The Malay states produce about seven teuths of the world's supply of tin. Bengal is the most populous and pro ductive province in all British India. Barley grows wild in the mountain# of Himalaya, where it is apparently in digenous. Near the Panama canal exists gold mines abandoned by Spain centuries ago. They will soon be reopened. Aden is the only fortified point be tween Egypt and Bombay, and is re garded as an outpost of the Indian em pire. The principality of Lichtenstein, sit uated between Austria and Switzerland,, is the only country in Europe without an army. Sea turtles are caught in very iarg® numbers on Ascension island. They each weigh between 500 and 800 pounds, and 50 shillings is their average price. A Case of Want. A prison visitor recently asked on© of the prisoners how he came to he there. "Want," was the answer. "How was that, pray?" "Well, I watch. wanted another man's He wasn't willing I should have it, and the judge wants me to stay here five years."—Tit-Bits. So Changed. Elvira was dressed for the bail when her girl chum dropped in. "How do I look in this new gown, Stella?" she asked. "Positively handsome," Stella. "Why, I really didn't recognize you at first."—Tit-Bits. answered STRONGER THAN MEAT. A Judge's Opinion of Grape-Nuts. A gentleman who has acquired a Judicial turn of mind from experi ence on the bench out in the Sunflower State, w'rites a carefully considered opinion as to the value of Grape-Nuts as food. He says: "For the past 5 years Grape-Nuts has been a prominent feature in our bill of fare. "The crisp food with the deliciots, nutty flavor has bssome an indispensa ble necessity in my family's everyday life. "It has proved to be most healthful and beneficial, and has enabled us to practically abolish pastry and pies from our table, for the children prefer Grape-Nuts and do not crave rich and unwholesome food. "Grape-Nuts keeps ns all in perfect physical condition—as a preventive of disease it is beyond value. I have been particularly impressed by the bene ficial effects of Grape-Nuts when used by ladies who are troubled with face blemishes, skin eruptions, etc. clears up the complexion wonderfully. "As to its nutritive qualities, my ex perience is that one small dish of Grape-Nuts Is superior to a pound of meat for breakfast, which is an Im portant consideration for anyone. It satisfies the appetite and strengthens the power of resisting fatigue, while its use involves none of the disagree able consequences that sometimes fel low a meat breakfast" Name given by Postum Go., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. it