V7 i . SOME PRACTICAL HINTS. Turpenti.nk mixed with carbolic acid and kept in open vessels about the room will greatly lessen the risk of conta(nn in scarlet fever, diphtheria and kindred disease. To clkaxhk jtorcelain saucepans fill them half full of hot water and put in the water a tablespoonf ul of owdered borax and lvt it ltoiL If this dot's not remove all tfie stains, se.our well with a cloth ruhlM-d with soap arid lorax. Ktains of vegetable colors, fruit, red wine and red ink may Imj rf-moved from white; kh1.s by sulphur fumes or chlorine water. On colored cotton and woolens, wash with lukewarm soap, lye or ammonia; silk the same, but more cautiously. Alum water will restore almost all faded colors. ISrush the faded artiele thoroughly to free it from dust, cover it with a latht-r of eastile soap, rinse witli clear water and then alum water, and the color will usually be much brighter than lefore. MAKING POULTICES. Antfaoritnt ive Ilire-tion fur C .'inpounl lK TIioho In (irnrrul I've. The moist heat which, acting alone, will quell all but the most violent in flammations, is uften most conveniently attained by means of poultices, which it is desirable that every fjirl who is M.udyinf household duties should learn to make. We tfive lelow authoritative directions for making those most com monly used: Flax-Seed Poultice. Tour sufficient boilinir water over the ground flax seed to make it as thick as thick cream and let the mixture simmer a few minutes. Apply as hot as can be Ixirne. Mustard Poultice. Mix equal quan tities of mustard, corn meal and Hour in warm water until just thick enough not .to run. Spread it over the poultice , cloth, and if a very quick action of the jHHiltice is desired sprinkle a little clear mustard on before folding the cloth over it. Apply this side next to the skin. Uread-and-Milk Poultice. Simmer old bread in milk until soft enough to mash smoothly. Crackers may be used in place of bread, if necessary. Indian Meal Poultice. Stir the corn meal into water, and cook like mush for five minutes or more. Slippery Kim Poultice. Pour loiling water over slippery elm bark (iow dered) and add a little powdered char coal, if necessary. All classes of poultices should Ihj spread on one-half of an oblong piece of thin muslin; the other half should then be folded over the spread mass, and the loose edges carefully joined with needle and thrcaL If this is done, and the poultice when applied is covered with dry cloths, all annoyance from superfluous moisture and crumb ling or running plasters is avoided. At tention to these points will add much to the comfort of the patient, who prob ably "hates poultices;" and, if nervous, may be seriously fretted by one care lessly made or carelessly applied. Eural New Yorker. EMBROIDERY DESIGN. Impremire KfTerts Produce! with Kco. iiomical Material. The simplest means often produce the best results; this is the case par ticularly with embroidery. Sometimes the most labored work does not pro duce half the effect which is obtained by a few bold and striking stitches. Very large pieces of work may be done quite rapidly by outlining heavily an effective pattern and filling in the con- 7 -.- J ventionalized jetals and leaves with a variety of stitches and knots such as are shown in the pattern given alxjve. This example is taken from part of the detail of a very pretty curtain which has three large conventionalized flow ers outlined with double zephyr. The wool is laid on the pattern like braid and held in place at short intervals, and the petals and leaves are filled in with every variety of stitches with coarse embroidery silk. The connect ing stems and spirals are done with gold cord. The material on which this ef fective work is done is simply un bleached canton flannel, the smooth side leing used, and the Itordering is of yellow flannel put on with feather stitching. Despite the cheap materials the whole effect is very striking, and would not be out of place in one of the pretty, light colored sitting-rooms of the dav. X. V. Tribune. An Improved Cantor. A useful castor of novel form is being used in England. It is intended to obviate the difficulties arising from the ordinary construction of castors, where the roller is carried on a crank swivel arm, which is easily broken off. The center pin of the roller-bearing is fixed in a small plate, rotating freely round a center pin secured in the body of the castor. The plate named, when pushed round into any position, rests on the base of the cup or disk of the castor, and is thus, while quite free to move in any direction, thoroughly supported in every position- It is in fact, a well supported universal joint. The castor is a great improvement on the older types. Volunteer' Padding. Take three-quarters of a pound of bread crumbs, with ten ounces suet chopped very fine, add three-quarters of a pound of sugar, the gTated rind of two lemons and two ounces of candied .orange peel and a little nutmeg; bake in small buttered molds about three quarters of an hour. When done turn . them out on a dish and pour soma lemon or any such sauce preferred over hthem. .,' ' THE LATEST IN CAPES. a Picturesque nealgn Which Will Trove Great Favorite. A light cape, much in favor, is made without lining and vith the edge smoothly cut, so that the bulk of a hem is avoided. These capes usu ally have deco rated yokes and are oftenest noted in silver, dove, blue-gray, wood, olive, old rose, J.teel-blue, sapph ire-blue and very light golden- brown cloths. Of course, the j'oke and col lar require a lin ing, and ttiat is AricTi KKsyi KUKsKiX. usually of loft silk matching the cloth in the ca'. The ease with which a cape may be as turned anil tjic amount of protection it will give make it take the place of the various fancy shawls that for many years have leen in vogue at the seaside and mountain resorts when it grew cool in the evening. A Spanish woman may. know how to arrange her mantilla gracefully, but the American girl gen erally looks bundled up in her white shawl, so that a picturesque cape there is a decided change for the better. A ca(H3 similar to the one described, that is having uo lining, is shown here. It is of mode cloth, reaches quite 1h-1ow the waist, is raised on each shoulder and is gathered into a yoke of the mode cloth, shaKd out to form a high, round collar. The yoke is thickly studded with jet nail heads, while the edge of the collar and the fronts, as well as of the yoke itself, are outlined with a nar row jet beading. The. lottom of the cape is plainly cut and without a hem. The hat worn with this is a picturesque one of black net, finished with a bead ing of jet, and having on the inside, resting on the hair, a wreath of pale pink roses: on the outside is a high clus ter of black ribbon loops. In gray with steel stars, in black with jet, in wood-color with gold, in black with gold, in gray with black, in blue with steel, in dark-blue with black such a cape would be in very good taste. A black one ' would, of course, be most useful for an all-the-time cape. Hy the by, the gil who fancies an all-white cloth toilette eruld have a cape like this with white mother-of-pearl stars in place of the nail heads, and the effect would Ihj very picturesque. For the one who likes the contrast of black and white, a whitecloth cape studded with jet stars, und having a high collar lined with black feathers, js commended. Such a -jape would, however, have to Ihj kept for special occasions, as. if it were worn often it would grow tiresome to look upon. Then, too, it would require special care lieeause of its daintiness. Ladies' Home Journal. HORSESHOE PEN-RACK. Convenient, Ornamental and Easily Mads at Home. The pen-rack illustrated is convenient and ornamental as well as easy of con struction for home work. It is made as follows: Cover with plush a piece of board seven by nine inches, or larger. IJronze or gild over a horseshoe and eight nailt:. Place' the horseshoe, ends up, well ('iv,n on the plush-covered board. Through each nail hole tack a nail into the wood sufficient to hold fast the show; also leaving the heads of FOR I'KX-HOLDEKS. the nails out far enough to hold, hori zontally, four pen-holders, each resting on the heads of two nails. A bracket lehind holds the whole upright. A further ornament of hand-painting represents sprays of flowers issuing from the ends of the horseshoe. Amer ican Agriculturist. Kest an a Medicine. A physician, writing of rest as a medicine, recommends a short nap in the middle of the day for those who can take it as a beneficial addition to the night's sleep. It divides the working time, gives the nervous system a fresh hold on life and enables one to do more than make up for the time so occupied. A caution is given against the indul gence of too long a sleep at such a time, under a penalty of disagreeable relaxa tion. There has been much discussion regarding the after-dinner nap, many believing it to be . injurious, but it is, nevertheless, natural and wholesome. A Delicacy for Lunches. , Two eggs beaten separately and very light; stir in sifted flour until it can be rolled out in molding board. Roll as thin as possible and cut in strips an inch wide and an inch and a half or two inches long. Fry a delicate brown in very hot fat. Sprinkle either with powdered sugar or salt as you take them from the fat. To be eaten soon after frying. Very nice for lunches or high teas. To Exterminate Roaches. For roachesmake a flour paste into which has been stirred, while hot, phos phorus, in the proportion of a dime's worth of the phosphorus to a half pint of paste; when nearly cold add a quarter as much grease. Put on pieces of board where-the roaches are. They will die while eatirj the paste. i. . m in ii ONE GRADUATING DAY. A HOMELY SUBJECT THAT AT TRACTED MOST ATTENTION. f A lirlglit liirl Told What She Knew About "Itaiited llread,"aud the Applause That Greeted the Heading of Her Essay Eclipsed That Given to All Others. "Well, 1 don t care if them other girls are tfoing to write about 'Thought,' and The Marble Stan's Waitin.' n 'Genius, and all them other things. Mebbe my M'randy can't say much that's edifyin on them subjects, tho' it's my opinion she could if t-iio tried. But she can make beautiful ti bread, and she's goin' to tell them how to do it." Wifh this expression of faith in "M'raudy's" powers, Mrs. McGillicuddy gave an emphatic twist to the garment she was wringing out of the suds. The subject first under discussion was of no small importance in the village, for it related to the graduating exercises at the village high school With but one exception, the boys and girls in the class sought topics that would "sound well" and make a good show in the daintily printed programmes. One of tho young ladies began to writa on "Twilight Thoughts;" another chose as her subject "Destiny:" another wrote at the head of the first page "Every Cloud lias Its Silver Lining." Of course each one soon learned what subjects had been chosen by the other members of the class, and loud were the complaints when it was known what Mi randa McGillicuddy proposed to write about. It was agreed that the c3as3 would go down into history forever dis graced. "But you pee," said Miranda, "1 don't know anything at all about these high toned subjects that the rest of you have. I couldn't say one word about them that would be worth hearing, but I think I do know how to make bread, and I'm 6ure that many in the audience will be interested to know some of the quirks and the twists that turn out a handsome loaf." 4 "Well," said another, "1 envy you the abundance of things you can say about it, but it's so awfully commonplace; why, it's it's as commonplace as eat ing!" AN INTERESTING ESSAY. Graduating day at last arrived, with its flutter of excitement, its flowers, its proud fathers and mothers and sympa thizing friends and its somewhat envious lower classes. First came the salutatory, which was listened to with marked attention, as would be the case even with a thought ful paper on the ''Identity of Identity and Nonideutity" if it came first on the programme. Then came an oration on "Greece," by a boy, followed by an essay on "Phi losophy." By this time there were 6igns of rest lessness, and some quiet whispering go ing on among such as were not carefully polite. Fortunately music came in at this point, after . which the audience was invited to listen to some "Twilight Thoughts." Then appeared the "Cloud" that was supposed to have a "Silver Lining," but which certainly -cast no gleam over the audience. This condition, strange to say, seemed to be intensified when "Hope" appeared. At this point the presiding officer an nounced an essay on "Raised Bread," by Miss Miranda McGillicuddy. The eager interest that came into ev ery face in the audience was quite hu miliating to those who had already ap peared du the stage, and etill more hu miliating was the close attention that was suddenly paid to every word that was said. The essay discussed the importance of good bread in a hygienic point of view the effect which a "flat" biscuit fre quently has upon the disposition of the eater, as well as upon his stomach; the nutritious and nonnutritious qualities of various kinds of flour, and the whole method of procedure, from the making of yeast, through the successive stages of mixing, working, raising, reworking, molding and baking till that consum mate flower of good housekeeping ap peared a light, nutritious and delicious loaf of bread. THE JUDGE'S REMARKS. Not one word was lost by the audience from beginning to end. The ladies were chiefly interested, perhaps, but men lis tened very attentively too. When the reading was finished the essay was given the heartiest applause of the evening. After the programme had been finished and the audience was preparing to de part, Judge Gildersleeve, chairman of the school committee and the most im portant citizen of the town, rose to make a few remarks, and this was what he said: "Before the audience diperses, I have a suggestion to make, chiefly for the benefit of those who may belong to the graduating classes of the future. If you wish, in preparing a graduating essay or oration, to interest your audience and it is needless to say that you do let your remarks apply to a period not later at least thau a hundred, years ago, and better still if they apply to a time not later than a hundred days ago. And let them be on a subject in which you are interested, and in which your audfence is interested, however homely it may ap- pear. "It is not necessary that it should be on the proper way to bake bread, like the very interesting, practical and well written paper to which we have just lis tened, or on the right way to make a bed, which would be another good sub ject; but it would far better be on these objects, if you know what you are writing about, than upon Time, Genius r The Ideal, even though you treat them thoughtfully. "We are a practical people, and we like to be approached upon the plane of our everyday life. We are greatly inter ested in our schools and scholars, but we want to see you with your feet both of them on the ground, which precludes the possibility of your heads being among the clouds." Webb Oonnell in Youta'a When you take ((Utility and .Make in CoiMrienition yen Can not Kuy ( liea per anj Place in the Wo h than of The On TO APPRECIATE JOE'S You inu-t c;ill and Examine li is Super or Clothing, Joe buys 0 nly -:- JOE -:- Quotes no Prices But he Will Sell You The Best Goods FOE THE LEAST MOXTJET5T. Money Cheerfully Refunded if Goads; FQundna t Sa t is factory or as Mop res exited: Opera House Corner We're After You. That greatest western paper, The Weekly State Journal, is deter mined to double its circulation this fall. To do this the paper has been enlarged to twelve prices every week; new departments added, and every column freshened and brightened by crisp and ordinal ideas. The Journal is the true and able exponent of western enterprise and thought. It has grown apace with the progress of our common wealth and statids to-day at the head of western newspapers, equalled by few and excelled by none. This will be an exceptional fall and wiuter for newspaper reading. K very man who thinks for himself and wants his boys and girls to do the same; should have the weekly Journal in his family. Write for sample. You need only to see the paper to appreciate it. Send twenty five cents for a three months' trial subscription. You will then be come a regular reader. Kigiity-five percent of trial subscribers stick. That's a good record. Published at the state capitol the Journal is luore in touch with the great masses of the people, and the ques tion that agitate the hour, than any of its competitors. Don't forget to send for a sample paper. We want vou to see one. The paper itself will do the rest. One dollar per year. Address. Weekly State Jour nal. Lincoln, Neb. WANTED. A bright, active agent in every town in the state. Kasy work and good pay. Address. weekly State Journal. Lincoln. Neb. How Insects Breathe. If we take any moderately large insect say a wasp or a hornet we can see, even with the naked eye, that a series of small spotlike marks run along the side of the body. These apparent spots, which are eighteen or twenty in num ber, are in fact the apertures through which air is admitted into the system, and are generally formed in 6uch a man ner that no extraneous matter can by any possibility find entrance. Sometimes they are furnished with a pair of horny caps, which can be opened and closed at the will of the insect; in other cases they are densely fringed with stiff interlacing bristles forming a filter, which allows air, and air alone, to pass; but the apparatus, of whatever charac ter it may be, is so wonderfully perfect in its actions that it has been found im possible to injure the body of a dead in sect with even so subtle a medium as spirits of wine, although the subject was first immersed in the fluid and then placed beneath the receiver of an air pump. The apertures in question com municate with two large breathing tubes, which extend through the entire length of the body. From these main tubes are given off innumerable branches, which run in all directions and continnilly divide and subdivide, until a wonder fully intricate network ia formed pervading every part of the structure and penetrating even to tv9 v Lir."T"i ur-rvr. c y One Price Clothier in Oass So Furnishing Goods, Hats, Etc THAN THOSE KEPT BY II IS COMPETITORS, From the Best Houses in America. 3) It All ECZEMA ON HA BY A Head one Solid Sore I teed awful Had To tie his Ilandsto Cradle Cured bj Cuticura Our little boy broke out mi his bead with a bad form of ec.ema when he w lour mouth old. We tried tlnee doctt rs bat they did not lieluhtni. VTlit-n we i scd your three Cuticu ri Kkvehiks, ami alter usin them eleven week exactly according ta directions ue uetraii 10 steadily im prove and alter the line of them for seven month- his head was eu t'rely well. When we be can ueini; it his head waf a solid sore from hU iTown to his eyebrows. Jt was also all over lis ears inot of Ins face and Miiall place on different paits of bis body. There were sixteen weeks that, we had to keep his ba'ids Ue'l to the cradle and in a llietn when lie was taken up ; and had to keep mittens on his hmid to keep In linger nails out of the sores as he wold scratch it he could in any way tret Ins hand!' lorse, e know vonr Cutictki Kk.m Ki) if.s cured liiin We feel safe in rtc comendiiij; them to others. (;eo. 15. and Janetta Li an is, Webster. Ind. CUTICUItA KKS0LVE3T 1 lie new blood and skin purifier, and jjreatest of Humor Kemedies. cleanses the blood of all impurities and poisonous elements and thus remove the cause, and Cn i uk A, the preat Skin Cure and :l'Ticcka Soat. an exjuisite Skin Purifier and Jieautilier. to clear Jthe skin and scalp aim restore the hair), speedily cure everv humor and disease of the kin, scalp, and blood, with l .s. of hair, whether itching, burning, ncalv. pimply, ami blotchy, si !i sen';) and olood di sease, from pt'iiv! t fr'.i from infancy to age when tiie i i liysiciani fail. Sold ev ry w here. Price Cctht'K 4. .00c, So p 2"2 ; Ke.soi-VK.nt Si. 00. Prepared by the Pot ter Drug and Chemical Corporation. Postyn. fdiSreL'd fohow to cu e :kin Ceseases." Dinvin Skin and -calp purified and beautl- uuui unea (. l i icxki SoAP.AbseJutely puie PAINS AND WEAKNESSES Of female! i.ietant y relieved by that new elegant and irJfallibly antidote o pain lnnamat ion and Weakness uecuticuri Anti Pain Plas ter Bank of Cass qq aaty Cor Main and Fifth street. Paid up capital. Surplus $90 000 25 000 OFFICERS 0. H. Pamele President Fred (iorder Vice President J. M. Patterson Casheir T. M. Patterson, Aest Cashier DIRECTORS 0. H. Parmele, J. M. Patterson, Fred Gorder. A, B. Smith. K. B. Windham. B. S. Ramsey atd T. M.Patterson A GENERAL BANZ1NC BUSINESS raANSATED Accounts solicited. Interest allowed on time leposit and prompt artentiongiven to all bus iness entrusted to its care. Organdies, lawns less than cost, at & Son's. flouncings at Win. Ilerold tf Kstrayed from my premises this morning my bay carriage mare. Finder will please return to K. L. Siggixs. Ladiep, among that sample line are some of the finest shoes you ever .laid eyes on Wm. Herold & Son's tf LOW PBICES 3Iake ami (Jualily of Plattsmouth, Nek HUHUXtirON & MISSOURI III VKIt It. .'. TIME TABLE. OF DAILY PASSKNGKK TRAINS GOING EAST " GOING WEST No. 5 : or. i m. Vol i :M a. in. No. 4 lV:30a. n. No. 3 5 ::J0 p. lit No. 7 ; ii p. in No. 5 9 :25 a. in. No. 10 9 : 45 a. m No. 7 T -IS a. m. No. 12 Ul :U a. in No. 9 6 5 p.m. No. 20 8 :30 a. in No. 11, ft :2f p. in. No, 13 11 :03 a. i. SEUIIKT SOUl ETIKS K7 NIGHTS OK PYTHIAS. Gauntlet Indira o. 47 Meets everv Wedneda v eveniui? ai meir nxn in rarineie Ar i ralf; DlocK, All Vis itin knights are coidia'ly invited to attend C. C. Marshall, C. C. ; tin iiovey, K. 1. S. V J L'N i M KN 'S H l I s'l I ON ASSOCIATION J ateruian blot k Main .Street. Koorim open from :. a in to S :'.M mj For men only Gospel meetinc every Kundav aUernoon at. 4 o'eioek. A O. I.'. XV,. H. Meeis ay aM evening" of ea h month at G. A. It. II in Kockwook block. Frank Vei miiyea, M, W J), h. huenoie, Kecorder. A o. C. W. No. S4 -Meets eccond and feurtli Fridav t veninos in t be mont Ii a' G. A . K. hall in Kockwood block, li. .). Morgan, M XV, I-, P, Isrown, Peaorder, l?OYAI. 11 llutr A IIC'A NAM CrtHf Coi.ucil No lojl, it the K.of I, hall in the Parmele ft ('rain block over Pernci t ft '.uft, visirini? brethren intited. Henry Herald, Keent ; 'I hos Wailing, Secretory. CASS I.OOGK, No. m;. I.o. o. F. meets ev ery Tuesday tiiht at their hall in Fitzgerald block. All Odd Feilowf are cordially invited o attend when visiting in tie city. J Cory N. G. S. W, Bridge, Secretary. FLACKS OF WORSHIP. Catholic St. Paul's Church. Oak. between Fifth and Sixth. Father Carney, Pastor Services : Mass at H and 10 :30 a. m. Sunday School at 2 :.'io, with benediction. Chkistiak. Corner locust and Kiihth Kt Services morning and evening. Kliler J k. Iteed, pastor. Sunday School 10 a. m. Episcopal. St. Luke's Church, corner Third mm mi-, jvev. ji ii. mirge. pantor. Ser vices : 11 a. m. ai d 7 :.i0p. m. Sunday School at 2 :30 i. m. Gkrman Mkthodist Corner Sixth ft anf Granite. Hev. Hirt. Pactor. Service.iV a m and 7 :30 I-. m. Sunday School lo :30..3X.. Pukskytkkiak. Services in new church. cor- oiAiu ,ii i u oiauue sic i;ev. J . 1 . liaird pastor. Sunday-.se rool at U ;?A Preachinir at 11 a. m. and p. m. The Y. K. S. C. K ol tbi church meet every Sabbath evening at 7 :ir in the basement ol thechuerh. All are invited to attend thet meetings. First Methodist. Sixth St.. betwen Mai,, and Pearl. Kev. J. I). M Buckr.er. pastor Service.. : 11 a. m.. :oo p. M . hunday School 9 :J0a..m. Prayer meetiig Wednesday even ing. Gkrman Ikpskytrkian. (lomw iair. Ninth. Kev. Wltte, pastor. Services : usual hours. Sunday t-ehool j :ao a. m. , Swhkdish CoXfjRF;ATlo.VAl Granite be tween Fifth and Sixth. e" y Colokku Batist. Mt. Olive. Oak. h-twi... Tenth and venth, Kev. A. Boi-well. pas tor. Services 11 a. m. and 7 -rio m i.:. . ' meetiug Wednesday evening. ' ' , . ouvr. Mkx'8 Christian AssociatioL Koonis in Waterman block, Main street. Gos pel meeting, for men only, every Sunday af ternoon at 4 o'clock. KooniH opu week dav from 8:30 a. in., to -j : 30 p.m. South Wood Park Takkkvaclk liev. j m Pastor. .Services : Sur.dav Kh.w.i lo a . in I reach in e. n. m. .,i a .. .T.' prayer meeting Tuesday night; elioir prac tice Friday night. All are welcome. W iiieu ah active, reilob e msn nalarr Increase, to rerrMnt In hie own Faction Bouse. Keferences, Box 1585, Kew York. a responsible New York MAMUFACTCBKB, Lot t i ; ) 1 ' 1