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New Shah of Persia. MOHAMMED ALI MIRZA. Improved Kettle. Very often a little Improvement here and there will add fifty per cent, to the value of an article. A little attachment which a Pennsylvania in ,[. m.m. ii . n ■ ii... I Lid on a Hinge. ▼entor has added to cooking vessels Improves their usefulness consider ably. It Is shown In the accompany ing Illustration attached to the lid of a kettle. Instead of the lid lifting off freely. It is hinged to the top of the kettle. When it is necessary to refill the kettle, the lid Is tilted back on the hlngp. I?y thus permanently attaching the lid to the kettle, there Is no danger of the ltd being mislaid, as is often the case. The convenience of this little attachment will be ap parent to every housewife at a glance. Emperor of China's Tea Garden. The Emperor of China’s tea is grown In a garden surrounded by high walls so that none but the culti vators can approach it. The pickers must bathe three times daily, wear special gloves, and abstain from eat ing fish lest their breath should spoil the leaves* aroma.—London Tit-Bits. A FEW CURVES WITH THE ROLLER SKATES. i S ill These figures show some remark able teats In roller skating, the now Reviving pastime. The originals Were by Hal Berte, and the And Intricacy of the figures them selves sufficiently attest the skill needed to execute them. The figure at the top shows the skater at the completion ot a “figure 8." The sec Waking Him Up. She—“l have some alarming in formation for you, dear.” H (startled) —“What Is it?” She —"1 have set the clock for six to-morrov morning.”—Baltimore American. Tongb. Waitress—“ Did you say the meat was tough, sir?” Customer —“Tough! Why, I can’t stick my fork in the gravy!”—lllustrated Bits. What’s the Answer? Some fellows take delight in get ting the public crazy over some such idiocy as “What is the plural oi grapefruit?”—Atlanta Georgian. A Transient. The New Curate—“ Your husband is a confirmed invalid, is he not?” Mrs. Gubbins “Confirmed, sir? No, sir; he ain’t Church of England." The New Curate—“l mean, is he a permanent invalid?” Mrs. Gubbins —“Permanent? Lor’, no! Doctor says he can’t lasi through the summer.” ond is a marvelous achievement. The figures explain themselves, but attention may be directed to the grapevine and Maltese cross, the lat ter particularly intricate. The pose of the skater, the upright balancing on two spiral wheels and the general characteristics of the outlined figures are all interesting. * 1 Smart Styles for Spring. New York City.—svery variation of the Jumper blouse, or the one that gives the gulmpe effect Is in vogue just now and each new one is sure to meet with a welcome. Here is ac ex ceedingly attractive model that can be made plainer or more elaborate as may be lilted and which gives more or less of the gulmpe Idea as the sleeves are made to match the chemisette or the waist. In the Il lustration it Is made of Shantung pongee trimmed with velvet and com bined with lace, the square bertha being embroidered and edged with velvet. But if the embroidery in volves too great an expenditure of time or labor applique can be sub stituted, indeed, any trimming that \ may be liked. The fancy lace sleeves are exceedingly dainty and dressy, but plain ones, either long or short, can be substituted. All seasonable materials are appropriate, the waists being equally well suited to silk, wool and the many pretty cotton stuffs. There is a fitted lining which is closed at the back. The back portions of this lining are faced to form the back of the chemisette, but the front Df the chemisette is separate. There are also the fronts and the backs of the waist and the front is joined to the chemisette'and the whole is ar ranged over the lining. The bertha outlines the yoke and finishes its lower edge, while the closing is mad,e Invisibly at the back. The fancy sleeves are moderately full with frills arranged over them and the plain ones can be joined to cuffs or to bands. The quantity of material required for the medium size is two and a half yards twenty-one, two yards twenty seven or one and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide, with the frills and five and a half yards of binding to make as illustrated; three and a half yards twenty-one, two and a half yards twenty-seven or one and seven eighth yards forty-four inches wide uith one and one-eighth yards of all iver lace to make with plain sleeves. Burnt Orange With White. A departure from the usual vombre velvet or silk collar, cuffs or revers, that finish white serge coats of cos tumes, is the substitution of burnt orange, or pastel shades, which are braided in white soutache, embroid sred, or an applique of lace. Dainty, Fine Lawns. No woman needs to go ether than ueatly dressed when dainty, fine lawns can be had. Blouse or Shirtwaist. The shirtwaist that is tucked on ! becoming lines always is the one in most demand, and here is a model that gives the tapering effect to the figure- at the back while it can be made to provide more or less fulness at the front as may be desired. As illustrated, it is made of white linen with round neck and attached collar and the tucks at the front are stitched for their entire length, but there are several variations of the model that can be made with ease and with success. The tucks at the front can be stitched to any desired depth while the neck can be made high and worn with a separate collar, either of the high roll over sort or with any pretty .stock that may be liked. Again, sleeves can be in elbow or in full length so that a great many possi bilities are covered by the single de sign. All waisting materials are ap propriate and this season they are exceptionally lovely and exceptionally varied. A novelty, and a pretty one, is the use of unbleached linen in a canvas weave with white collar and cuffs, and sometimes the waist also is worn with the additional box pleat and frills that can be bought separate and attached to any waist. The waist is made with Tronts and back and is finished with a regula tion box pleat at the front edge. When made with rcund neck the col : lar is joined to the waist, but when the neck is cut high it is finished , with a neck-band, and the high roll . over collar is made separately and • attached to it by means of button- I holes and studs. The sleeves are of • moderate fulness and can be finished ; with roll-over cuffs below the elbows or with deep ones that extend to the wrists as preferred. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and five eighth yards twenty-seven, three and a quarter yards thirty-six or two yards forty-four inches wide. Good Use For Laces. If one posseses rare laces she can make good use of them as chemisettes for her most dressy costumes, for jewels and laces cannot be too rich for these gowns. Large Buttons in Front. Large, cloth-covered buttons down the front of colored shirt waists of the same cloth as the waists are i mounted with tiny white lace medal lions. HOUSECLEANING. One Man Complains About it and the Other Dosen’t. “You look as if you’d just eaten a lemon someone had handed you,” ob served the flat dweller to the subur ban householder. “What’s wrong?” “Everything’s wrong,” replied the householder, gloomily. “Nothing’s right. Society is rotten to its core; our youth is degenerate, our govern ment is a farce, morality is dying, re ligion is dead, honor is an empty name, marriage is a failure, life is a hollow mockery. There’s nothing to it.” “That’s so?” asked the flat dweller, cheerfully, as he handed his coat to & waiter. “How’s the grub today?” “Dead sea fruit and gall and bitter ness.” “Bring me a pint bottle of hyssop, William, and see if you've got any funeral baked meats,” said the flat dweller. “Never mind that order, though. On consideration, you may make it the, usual thing and hand me the bill of fare. What’s the specific trouble?” “My wife announced this morning that she is going to clean house early this year and have done with it,” said the householder. “You know what that means.” “I suppose it means houseclean ing.** “That’s the size of it, exactly. It’s liable to happen any time now. I’ll go home some evening and find all of the furniture out on the front porch, fall headlong over a bucket of paint in the hall and I’ll know that it’s be gun. For the next two weeks I shall eat my dinner in various rooms of the house, beginning in the children’s bedrorim and winding up in the sum mer kitchen. I won’t be able to sit down on anything without sticking to the varnish. I shall taste soapsuds in everything I eat and get fresh paint over all my clothes. In the morning I shall be aroused from slumber by the rhythmic whack of the carpet beater and the drafts from the open windows will give me the influenza. My wife will go about in a dusting cap and a wet gingham apron and my wearing apparel will be scattered around from the igarret to the basement.” “It must be pretty bad.” “Must be pretty bad? You bet it is.” “I imagine it is.” “You imagine? Don’t you know it is?” “Well, not by actual personal expe rience,” replied the flat dweller. “Only by hearing unfortunates like you tell about it.” “Do you mean to tell me that your folks don’t clean house?” “Certainly they don’t.” “You mean to say that you are sens ible enough to let things go in a sane, orderly way year in and year out without wrecking your happy home just because the leaves are budding?” “I didn’t say that,” said the flat dweller. “Then what in nation do you do?” “Do?” echoed the flat dweller. “W-* move.” —Chicago Daily News. A Wonderfully Stupid Lad. The Coroner of a certain town in cen tral Pennsylvania was once called upon to hold an inquest over the remains of a Hungarian laborer. The only witness was a lad of the same nationality, who spoke no Eng lish. “Where do you live, boy?” was the first question of the Coroner. The boy shook his head. “Do you speak English?” next came from the Coroner. Again the boy shook his head. “Do you speak German?” Still another negative from the lad. “Do you speak French?” was the next interrogatory. * For the third time the boy shook his head. No reply from the witness. Then, after a pause, the Coroner asked: “Do you speak Italian?” The lad remained silent. "It ain’t no use,” observed the Cor oner, turning to those in the room, “I’ve questioned this here witness in four languages and can’t get no an swer. The court is adjourned.”—Har per’e Weekly. His Identifying Mark. Viscount Tumour, the Earl of Win terton’s son, was being interviewed in New York about clothes. On this sub ject, however, the young man refused to talk. “You,” he said, “are the sixth report er to talk clothes to me today. You give me no rest. You remind me of a friend of mine at Oxford who used to like to drink a mug of ale at the Mitre. He was always very particular about having his own mug. “At the Mitre one evening, he said to the barmaid: “‘A mug of Bass, Nellie; and be careful to draw it in my own pewter. Make no mistake.’ “ ’No fear of making a mistake about your pewter, sir,’ the barmaid answer ed. ‘I can tell it with ease.’ “ ‘How so?’ my friend asked. “ ‘By the handle,’ said the barmaid. ‘lt's always warm.’ ” —Washington Star.. Pike’s Peak. The reputation of Western scenery I for honesty gets a severe jolt in the discovery that Pike’s Peak is fifty feet lower than It was boasted as be ing for many years past. A recent government geological survey shows that it is but 14,099 feet high, when it has long been credited with tower ing 14,147 feet intoi the clouds.—Ken nebec Journal. “THE MARRYING SQUIRE." \ Justice Geo. E. law, of Brazil, Ind., Has Married 1400 Couples. Justice Geo. E. Law, of Brazil, Ind., has fairly earned the title “The Marrying Squire,” by which he la § known far and wide, having: already mar ried sons 1400 cou ples. Ten years ago he was Deputy Coun ty' Treasurer. “At .that time," said Jus tice Law, “I was suf fering from an an noying kidney trou ble. My back ached, my rest was broken at night, and the passages of the kidney secretions were too frequent and contained sedi ment. Three boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills cured me In 1897, and for the past nine years I have been free from kidney complaint and backache.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ■ Two Oklahoma Statesmen. “Demslte” Jones will be a Demo cratic candidate for senator in the Cordell senatorial district. President Bill Murray is finding it hard to adjust himself to the quiet of farm life after playing the role of “Alfalfa Bill,” the politician, at Guthrie. Since the convention re fused to adopt alfalfa as the state flower, Murray has been nicknamed “Cockleburr Bill,’’ and there is a possibility that the cockleburr wij.l be nominated as the State floral emblem. —Kansas City Journal. Argo Red Salmon is an ideal food. Thompson’s Dietetics, one- of the standard works on foods, gives Scam* mail’s tables as follows: t The per cent, of muscle building material! in beef is 19 per cent.; eggs, 13 per,‘cent;'sal mon, per cent. As a brain food, beef, 2 per cent.; eggs (whiteJ, 2% per cent; (yolk>, 2 per cent.; sal mon, 6 and 7 per cent. The hillocks of white an(ts in Cey lon contain chambers about as large as cocoanuts, which inclose sponge-: like nests, each occupied by thous ands of ants. The “termite truffles” described by Dr. Doflin, of Munich, are pin-head nodules of white fun gus, cutlivated in these nests as food. SIOO Reward, SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dis ease that science has been able to cure m all its stages, andthatis Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being anon stitutiohal disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu cous surfaces pf the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the 'con stitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. The coal miners’ strike in the dis trict of Alberta, Manitoba, is becom ing serious, and although President Mitchell has ordered the men back to work, it is said they will refuse to obey. The Argo Red Salmon of Alaska has the deepest red color, and the finest flavor of any Salmon packed. It is packed entirely by machine, and not touched by the human hand. One trial makes a customer. The Emperor of Japan has joined in the popular welcome of General Booth, of the Salvation Army. For more reasons than one, Garfield Tea is the beat choice when a laxative is needed; it is Pure, Pleasant to take, Mild and Potent. I Guaranteed under the Food and Drugs Law. As a knocker oppnstunitv cannot compete with the strenuous end of a rou'e Itch cured in 90 minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At druggists. Men who whis'le ar their work seldom work pnv o-'t-r th >"-h-y whistl ■■ The Parmer’s Wife Is very careful about her churn. Sha scalds it thoroughly after using, and gives it a sun bath to sweeten it. She knows' that it her churn is sour it will taint the butter that Is made in it. The stomach Is a churn. In the stomach and digestive and nutritive tracts are performed pro cesses which are almost exactly like the ■ churning of butter. Is it not apparent then that if this stomach-churn is foul it makes foul all which is put into It? The evil of a foul stomach Is not alone the bad taste In the mouth and the foul breath caused by it, but the corruption of the pure current of blood and the dissem ination of disease throughout the body. Dr.’ Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery makes the sour and foul stomach sweet. It does for the stomach what the washing and sun bath do for the churn—absolutely removes every tainting or corrupting ele ment. In this way It cures blotches, pimples, eruptions, scrofulous swellings, sores, or open eating ulcers and all humors ordiseases arising from bad blood. If you have bitter, nasty, foul taste In your mouth, coated tongue, foul breath, are weak and easily tired, feel depressed and despondent, have frequent headaches, dizzy attacks, gnawing or distress in stom ach, constipated or irregular bowels, sour or bitter risings after eating and poor appetite, these symptoms, or any consider able number of them, indicate that you are suffering from biliousness, torpid or lazy liver with the usual accompanying Indi gestion, or dyspepsia and their attendant and com!(lions, as attested qy me.vmllngs wytiiuiascpT airtheseveraT spools of medical nrantlce. have, been skiilfuiLx. ami. lurm.uaiuii3y i-nmninwi In |)r. t'lPlTfi “ nwr-nvery That this is absolutely true will be readily proven to your satisfaction 1 If you will but mail a postal card request [ to Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y„ for a free obpy of his booklet of extracts from | the standard medical authorities, giving I the names of all the ingredients entering into his world-famed medicines and show ing what the most eminent modteal men of the age say of them. •* If