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
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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.
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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. *
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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
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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."
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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