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For sale by all leading druggists. Price 50 cents per bottle. Belated Information. Albert Morris Bagby was being con gratulated at the Waldorl'-Astoria in New York on tbs success of bis "mu sical mornings.” "I impute my success," he said, "to the fact that I engage no talent that 1 don’t know thoroughly. In entertain ment, as In matrimony, knowledge is most important.” Then Mr. Bagby smiled and said: “Two ladies were talking the other day about the Chinese revolution. The younger lady said: “ ‘Isn’t it dreadful in China? A wom an doesn't know her husband till she marries him.’ “The other lady, a divorcee, answer ed bitterly: “ 'I didn't know my husband till I married him, either.” — St. Louis Globo Democrat. • Puzzle of Living. Religionists chided about their ina bility to agree on points of faith might point out that they differ only in inci dentals and not essentials, whereas the scientists differ on everything. Take the science of living. A week ago you would have “died if you drank water with your meals.” Now they say it doesn’t do any harm at all. One variety says: “Eat meat, lots of it, to build good, rich blood." Another says meat is poison; that vegetables are the only food. A third declares meat and vegetables both Increase debility, and that you will live twice as long on raw fruits and nuts. Some say “Talk with your meals, laugh; It makes the food digest.” Others insist silence Is never so golden as at the table. Modern Methods. The late A. Tennyson Dickens, dur ing an interview in Chicago, condemn ed the war in Tripoli vehemently. “Slavery,” he said, with a bitter smile, “is now abolished. We no long er steal a people and sell them into bondage. No. no, indeed. We Just steal their country and charge them so much for governing it that they have to work twice as hard as slaves to pay their taxes.” Evidence. “What makes you think our great public men don’t work as hard as they uspd to?” “By the photographs,” replied Farmer Corntossel. "When I was a young feller the big men in politics didn’t take near as much time to git shaved and have their hair cut.” Out of Date. "Every time he opens his mouth he puts his foot in it.” “That’s a great pity. Contortionists are no longer in demand as vaudeville attractions.” Ani oculist can do nothing for a man who is blind to his own Interests. A WOMAN DOCTOR Was Quick to See That Coffee Poison Was Doing the Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisoning, and tells It in a way so sim ple and straightforward that literary skill could not improve it. “I had neuralgic headaches for 12 years,” she says, “and have suffered untold agony. When I first began to have them I weighed 140 pounds, but they brought me down to 110. “I went to many doctors and they gave mo only temporary relief. So I suffered on, till one day, a woman doctor advised me to drink Postum. She said I looked like I wa3 coffee poisoned. “So I began to drink Postum, and gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and am still gaining, but not so fast as at first. My headaches began to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks—long enough, I ex pect, to get the coffee poison out of my system. “Now that a few months have pass ed since I began to use Postum, I can gladly say that I never know what a neuralgic headache Is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that relieved me. "Before I used Postum I never went out alone; I would get bewilder ed and would not know which way to turn. Now I go alone and my head Is as clear as a bell. My brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years.” Name given by PoFttim Co., Battle Creek, Mich. "There’s a reason,” and it is explain ed iu the little book, ’’The Road to Wellvllie,” in pkgs. Ever rearl the Above letter? A new one appent'4 from time to time. They nre -unlne, true, and full of human later cut. ! ADVANCE MODELS ARE ! SHOWING NEW STYLES Flounces Trimmed With Velvet and Bead Sashes—High Waist Line Going. One of the model gowns which was seen recently and foretold fashions for the comi: year was In berge silk, made with lots of narrow flounces from feet to waist, each flounce edged with black velvet. Down the left side the round line of every flounce was caught with a small mother of pearl buckle fasten ing a tiny velvet bow. The corsage had a fichu of creamy net and an over one of beige silk trimmed with flounces like those on tho skirt, only a little narrower. Another new gown shows a fancy little tailormade In cream canvas with one rever of bright patterned toile de Jouy. The sweetest party frocks of sprigged muslin with wreaths of roses aud a folded pink silk sash are also to ! be seen. A complete contrast Is a lovely pale j blue satin dress veiled with a three decker tunic in different kinds of nacre , lace Rnd a hanging sash of beads. These hanging sashes of beads, by the way, are most fascinating. There are also some silk cord sashes made in the same way; one in violet plaited silk. Four rows formed' the waistbelt Rnd from the fastening point fell a dozen long rows caught into a bar at the bottom and fringed. Cords as Finishing Touches. Others are in silver, in beads. In i cords of different colors, and, as a fin- | lshlng touch to a dress, they are cx- ! tremely pretty and desirable. Several of tho afternoon dresses are made with striped velvet tunics. A violet underdress should have a tunic of black velvet striped finely with vlo- i let, and a striped gown should have a i plain chiffon tunic. ! The obvious tendency in the very | newest models toward a rounded ; waistline makes one feel sure that by the end of tho winter the quite high ! waisted dress will be altogether out of ' date; but It will take longer than that to bring back the really full skirt, even J If It ever arrives at great popularity, i Another pretty gown is ^n blue green chiffon, stamped with velvet flowers and trimmed with narrow hands of chinchilla, and there Is a very simple, j smart one In black chameuse, worked , with threads of gold and sapphire blue. WOMANLY WISDOM. From the Farm Journal. The web on tho leaves the spider ! weaves Is like the charm hope hangs o’er men, Tho' oft she see it torn by the breeze She spins the oilghj tissue again. A shoe horn is a great help when putting on children's rubbers. Get the kindling ready the night be fore. It is a real pleasure, these cold i mornings, to find a v, ell-tilled basket all ready. Do not waste time and energy' trying to wash the bean pot the same day it is emptied. Put it in a pan of water for a day, and then It will clean easily. Being alone in the house, and hear ing burglars down stairs, a woman had tho presence of mind to take a large paper bag, blow it full of air, then break it on the wall of the stairs. Mis taking the loud report for a pistol shot, tho robbers fled. The best way of cleaning tho rub bers on a wringing machine is to rub them clean with a cloth dipped in coal oil. It won’t do any harm if the rub ber absorbs a little. If you want to make the very best coffee, free from ground and which will need no straining, try the experiment of putting it in a little muslin bag be fore placing it in the pot. You will be surprised at the result. The cold strikes up through a mat tress that just rests on springs, and makes one cold in bed at night. Lay one or two thicknesses of newspaper over the springs; this will keep out the cold and save the mattress from wear. Never put tho children to bed when they are nervous or fretful, nor when you have cross words on your lips. A person's last waking thoughts Influence the sleep, so it Is imperative that such thoughts be quiet, happy ones at bed time. And do not neglect the little good night stories. There are some time saving "kinks” about preparing vegetables. We all boil beets v. ith skins uncut to keep the juice in. Now put potatoes also with the skins on in tho same kettle, and the two vegetables cook nicely together; only beets must go in first and boil much longer. They will not discolor the potatoes. NOVEL TABLE COVER. A lovely, if somewhat costly table cover recently seen in one of the shops suggested one of the numerous ingen ious ways in vogue of employing satis factorily any scrap of lace or needle work one happens to have in the house. This table cover or tea cloth, about 60 inches square in ecru linen, was cut out round the edges into four blunt corners, divided by four Vandykes. Be- ■ tween each peak was inserted, point upward, a three cornered specimen of I filet lace, while larger ones, peak down ward, were sewn along the base of the blunt corners. A lace insertion framed the center, fille 1 at the corners with a motif of broderie Anglicise, crossed with bars and connected with powderlngs of the open work. Each of tho four sides of j the frame was tipped with a diamond j medallion in filet lace, and round the i outside edges of the linen square was a white linen fringe with spaced tassels. Musical Best Sellers. From Collier's. In popular songs is the quality of words and music getting better or worse? Do you remember the days of "Champagne Charlie,” “Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,” and “Up In a Balloon, Boys?” "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" was circling the globe at tlie time of the world’s fair and we knew of the captain of a square rig ger who heard the chorus In Hongkong and thought he was listening to a Chl nesu song, in the early '90s came “Annie Hooney,” "After the Ball,” "A Bicycle Built for Two,” and "Sweet Marie." Af ter “The Blue and the Gray” and “lust One Girl” began "the era of ragtimes with "Hello Ma Baby.” "The Good Old Sum mer Time" helped to bring in the new century. "Tammany," "Hiawatha,” and "Tell Mo, Pretty Malden' —tho sextet of “Florodora" fame—camo along about tho same time. Later there have been "Nancy Brown," "So Long, Mary," "Dearie,” "I Love a Lassie." and other Harry Lauder songs, "Yip-l-addy," "Beautiful Eyes," “Rings on My Fingers,” and yet-echoing “Fve’-y Little Movement.” There have been besides whole groups of songs, such as the moon-and-baboon typo of serenade, and the songs celebrating home and child ish oys—the peeping-through-the-knot liole-in-gi'andpa’s-wooden-leg sort of thing. Taking it through 20 years, there lias p ' a bly b*.'*n no steady decline In musi cal quality, but the same cannot be said for the words. Recently we passed art hour at a moving picture show. Between sets of pictures the audience was Induced to jaln In singing tho fit a most popula: songs of the moment. They were these: : “Oceana Roll." "Mysterious Rag.” “Alex | arider’a Ragtime Band." “That Raggy j Ray." and "You Great Big Beautiful 1 Do!*." 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Among Eprcures. "Peris is a swift town." "That’s true, but snails are very popular there.” Garfield Tea, taken regularly, will correct both liver anu kidney drsordcra. Two heads are better than one—In a cabbage patch. w • Didn’t Surprise Mrs. Flynn. Dennis Flynn, while returning from work, took refuge under a tree during a thunder storm. The tree was struck by lightning and Dennis was blown some twenty feet, away by the concus sion and badly stunned. A neighbor found Dennis and began the work of resuscitation; another hurried to the home of Dennis to Inform Mrs. Flynn of the accident. Mrs. Flynn listened to the neighbor's account of the acci dent with mingled terror and joy, and when told that her husband was not mucli hurt and would soon be home, her pleasure was gratifying to behold. "An’ Dinnis was twinty fate away, did yez say?” "About that, yes.” “Och, my Dennis always was quicken his fate,” said Mrs. Flynn, with a proud shake of her head. Natural Avoidance. Mayor Gaynor of New York was de fending Ills anti-suffrage views: "Woman has her place and man lias his," he said, "and when I think of the confusion that would come from intermingling their places, 1 am re minded of an anecdote about Lady Holland. Lady Holland once said to Lord John Russell: ‘Why hasn't Lord Holland got a post in the cabinet?’ ‘Well, if you must know,' Lord John answered, ‘it is because nobody would work in a cabinet with a man whose wife opens all his letters.' " A Beautiful Decline. Ollie James, the gigantic and genial congressman and senator-elect from Kentucky, was in conversation the other day with a Washingtonian when the latter made certain Inquiries with reference to a mutual friend w hom he had not seen for a number of years. , "And how does Col. Prescott spend his declining years?” he asked. "Beautifully, sir; beautifully!” an swered James. “He has a flue farm, sir. A string of trotters, sir. 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