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——- - - Choose the Be.! Lands. Southwestern Missouri lands are the most fertile in the country. The soil is productive and a good crop always assured. An abundance of the best of good, pure water. Special inducements are being offered just now for those desiring to secure lands in this part of the west For particulars, regarding the rich mineral, fruit and agricultural lands of southwest Missouri write to J. M. i'urdy, manager of Missouri Land and Live Stock Co., Neosho, Missouri. See advertisement in another column of this paper. To strain Jelly, An ingenious woman says a good strainer for jelly may be made by US 1, Ing a wooilen chair without rails on the inside. Turn it upside down on the table, lake a perfectly clean cloth, tic the four coi ners on the legs of the H chair, setting a crock or pan under neath to receive the jelly. The cloth should be dipped in boiling water be fore using. Jellies may be strained a third time If necessary.—Fittsburg , j . Dispatch. Hall's I atarrh Cor* la a constitutional cure. Frice, 75c. Language. "No,” the warmly rejoined, *‘I will not admit that the spheres of man and woman are essentially distinct Cer tainly not It is true tiiat woman can not at present nail down a carpet, but you don’t Imagine, therefore, that she could not, were she properly educated, attain to a sufficient command of lan guage.”—Detroit Tribune. We will forfeit 11,0 0 if any of our pule lislif-d testlrnonln * are | roven to lx- not genuine. Tug Fiso to., Warren, Fa. When E J. (Slave died on the Congo last year, after having crossed Africa in the interest of The Century, it was announced thnt his noteH. journals arid photographs had been saved. From these a group of separate papers has been made up, UDd the first one will appear in the August Century. This tells of the adventures of Mr, Olavu for nearly a year while he was with the liritish troops, who were chasing the Arab slave traders. How lo Grow 40c Wheat. Halzer's Fall Seed Catalogue tells you. it's worth thousands to the wideawake farmer. Send 4-cent stamp for catalogue and free samples of - i . M J.. 11 _i t MIND »liu f(iitncn,a tvi John A. Salzer Seed Co., LaCrosse, Wis. __ McClure's Magazine for August ia to be a mid-summer fiction number, with f stories by Octave Thanet, Stephen C rane, Clinton ltoas, K. \V. Thomson ft and Annie Eliot. Stephen Crane'a story will exhibit the hero of his suc cessful novel, “The Red Radge of Courage,” grown and old man, but still capable of a fine act of bravery; Clinton Ross’ will deal with Perry's historical tight and victory on Lake Erie; and Annie Eliot's will depict a sprightly love episode in a Yale and Harvard boat race. A tiKKAT ISOPsTKY The Htark Bro s Nurseries, this city and Kockport. Hi.. Is a veritable beehive. The propagating plants of the "Two Tikes," enlarged. "Old Pike's” salesmen work from New York Westward, 'I he office force is hurrying out ft W) new style canvassing oulllts, photos of fruits, trees, orchards, packing, fruit palmed from nature, etc. Several departments give all their time to securing salesmen, htark lire's have room for energetic solicitors. With such progress, and millions of fruit trees, dull times unknown.—[Louisiana, Missouri, Tress. Fifteen years ago the Atlantic Month ly gave Mra Stowe a breakfast on her seventieth birthday at which a nota ble company was gathered. At her death it pays a tribute to her in aorne ways quite as significant The leading article in the number for August is Reminiscences of Mrs. Stowe by Mrs. James T. Fields, who was tier intimate friend during the whole period of her fame. ANY ONE who has been benefited by the use of Hr. Williams’ Pink Pills, will receive information of much value and interest by writing to "Pink Pills," P. O. Rox 1592. Philadelphia, Pa. tils I ocatlou. "I live in a town," said the bewhisk ered man, who was tilted back in the hotel etiair smoking a rank cigar, “where a father, two sons and an uncle, all members of the same family, ran for office at tne last election." "Pardon me," ventured a bystander, "but what part of Ohio are you from.” — New York Sunday World. V I Gladness Comes With a better understanding uf the trauaieul uature uf the main |>hj a U-al Ilia, which vanlnh before protiereh forte gentle elturte |>lea*aul rlfoits ngbtlv >11 re, ted There la oumfott la the knowledge that *u u»auv forms of skkweaa are not >lua tu auy actual dta raw but slut |»ly tu a inUstUW trd i-oluil ttua uf the system. which the |>lea»aot family laaative, Myruguf tigs wr»u>fi ly reuMire* That la why It la the uaiy remedy with millions uf families, andte • eviy where esteemed *u highly b* all whu value good health. It* heaaf, tel rfik are due tu the fact, that it I* the uue remedy which prsunotea internal t Wnnllneaa without dehilitatiag the (>«MH ua whkh it acta It la there hue all lw|wrteat, ta order tu get it* hear ft ta! effect* tu aute wheti you gur h chase, that you hare the geaulu* arti eh which la manufactured hy the fall ho Mia 1% hyrug tu ,«lji aid add hy ail renatahm draggtata If tu the ra>>ywrsl of g*»«l health, sed the at stout * regular la satire* u* other reused tea are the* not a reded If afMh'ted with auy actual disease, uae may he euasmeadjed tu the am*t shillful tditehtaa*. hut if la need uf a leaatire .ate ahuMM hare the heat, eud with t|te •flMafMMf eeeeywhere ftyrug uf i |* stands high*** aad ta wuwt largely twad aad girea stoat general eat Ufa* tUrn AUNT’S ADVENTURE, es&r^ VBNINO had closed darkly round the little brown farm-house in the hollow; gray No vember nightfall and the wild Ni J«« figura of crimson sunset Are had ==£- y - - - poured Its flaming .tides long since In to the great unseen ohallce of splendor that IDs hidden somewhere beyond the western hori zon—the monumental urn where rest entombed alike the days crowned with roses, and those baptized In tears. There was no sound without, save the branches of the huge sycamore tree ^haflng uneasily against the moss-en ameled roof, and the plaintive wind among the brown and scarlet drifts of leaves that carpeted every dingle of the woods. Nobody would have suspected Peter of such romantic meditation, as he sat there sorting out seed corn and packages of blue beans on his round table, and labeling them with porten tous deliberation. There was a third person, sitting in the red hearth glow, however; a young man of about twenty-four years of age, with dark brown hair and eyes to cor respond, who amuaed himself by tanta lizing Aunt Miriam’s kitten with the good lady's ball of yarn—the animal, like all the rest of her sex, becoming more and more anxious for the woolly sphere the higher It was held! "So you’ve really mode up your mind to get married, Jamee~-do atop teasing that kitten!” said the old lady, with a constrained voice. “Yea, Aunt Miriam; It Isn’t good (or man to be alone, you know.” There was a silence again. James Arnett wound and unwound hla yarn very unnecessarily; Uncle I’eter eyed hla seed peas thoughtfully, and Mrs. Kenner knit energetically on, with puraed'iip lips and a scarcely percepti ble shrug of the shoulders. "Aunt Miriam, I wish you would see Mllllcent,” said the young man at length. "1 can’t say I have any desire to aee your city young ladles, James,” aald Aunt Miriam, coldly; ’’they’re too fine spun for an old woman like me. White hands and piano-playin’ may be very grand—I dare say it Is—but it don’t suit my taste.” “But, aunty, I am sure you would like her. Come, now, do be reasonable, and go over to Squire Brownell’s with me tonight. She la spending a week at her grandfather’s and she would be so much gratified to aee you!" “Thank you, 1 ain’t curious on the subject,” responded Aunt Miriam, primly. "Only I heerd that Mis’ Brownell hud a bad stroke of the rheu matiz and 1 don’t see how she gets along to wait on her new-fangled granddarter!" ”1 can’t understand why you are so prejudiced against poor Millicent, Aunt Miriam," said the young man, uneasily. 1 won’t disguise from you that it makes me unhappy to think of marrying without the approval of one who has been a mother to me and yet-” “And yet you are determined to go your own gait; that’s the plain English of it, James,” said Aunt Miriam. “Well, I s’pose you can do without my consent; you’ll never get it, anyhow!” And she poked the fire vigorously, as the old clock began to strike. • are YOU CRAZY?” "Seven o’clock!” ejaculated Jamee, starting up, "and I promised to t>e at the poitofllce by tbla time There’s 'o be a meeting about the minister’s Thanksgiving donation party, you know. Uncle 1‘eter! Hlees me, I didn't Imagine bow late It was." And. with a gay. parting nod to hla Aunt be disappeared. "There he guea aa good a boy aa exer lived,” said Uncle I’eter; "but I gueaa afore the evenin' tomes to an end, he’ll contrive to get round to Squire Itrowuell’o. Miriam, you moy os woll aay yea." before Uncle Refer had Bnlshed hla tank and announced hla determine!! m of going to bed. Aunt Miriam had de cided oo o plau to grotlfy her deeire to tee MIIUcool, end yet noi accompany James oo a formal coll She tmpa llenity walled for her husbond to re (Ire. and then as impatiently for the easel signal of hie sleep At Iasi II tome, sad she hurriedly laid oalde her touting She pondered a oecead or two longer Ikon ruee hurried)» esiiagulahlag the little condlo that stood lo o shlaiug broan cnndlo-aiteh on the montel. Its looed O at a we at to Ike unbroken mo tremor of facie Route eaereo, and \ muMlng a shawl round her head with- 1 draw the hoil of the ktiebeo door, and sropt out Into the storleeo |lwn of Ike Nevemhot night1 It woa but o abort distant# under j iCo teeSeee branches of Ike gnarled oM apple tree and low the lo’hpthe rood Auht Miriam felt o llitlo eon *>-too>e-etrWheo ae she lifted lb* wtehot of Squlro groooeli a goto, and , stole nolt loftty up the chrysanthemum bordered walk; she couldn't help won dering what Elder Oliver would say If he were to become aware that she. the sagest old lady In his congregation, were prowling about like u thief In the night. "It's all for .la" , s’ sake," snld the venerable dame, under her breath, as she pushed aside the great sweetbrlar that hung over the panes, and peeped slyly Into the window. Mrs. Brownell sat In a big arin-ehalr by the fire, her feet swathed In flannel; the squire was smoking his pipe over a three-days-old newspaper, and be fore a pine table, at the end of the room, stood a rosy-cheeked girl, of perhaps seventeen, the sleeves of her crimson merino dress rolled up abovs a pair of exquisitely-dimpled elbows, and her hands burled In a wooden tray of flour—engaged, In fad, In the opera tion which housekeepers call "setting a sponge." Bo mueh at home did she seem In the culinary art that Aunt Miriam said to herself, very decidedly: "This can't be the city visitor; I wonder where she Is?" when her doubts were all dispelled by Mrs. Brownell's voice: "Mllllcent, I wish you'd write out the recipe for that cako you made for tea •I don't see where you learned to be so hAndy about the house?" "Why, grandmamma!" said the young lady, golly, "you seem to forget that my mother was educated under your eye. Bhe does not believe that L’eanak »»»./! mnuln n i.n/.ei/t k I h ■/ t hu I a girl needs to learn. Now do put those stockings down—I'll see that they are duly mended by and by.” Aunt Miriam turned away from the window more bewildered than ever, but with a very satisfied feeling stir ring under the heap of prejudices that had filled her kind old heart. If. this were the much-talked of Mllllcent, things might not be so very bad after all. And Mllly worked at her sponge, the merry smiles dimpling over her face, like sunshine on a bed of roses, utterly unconscious of the audience of "one” who was now contemplating u retreat. But the adventures of the night were not yet at a close. As Aunt Miriam groped her way toward the path, la menting the pitchy darkness of the night, and the crackling of the crisp leaven as her not very elastic foot shuffled through them, every pulse In her frame came to a sudden pause of terror, as a pair of muscular arms were thrown around her, and a moustache came in contact with her cheek! Such a kiss Aunt Mlrlarn couldn't remem ber its like since the days when Peter Fenner courted the beauty of the vil lage. In vain she struggled breathless ly to escape—whoever the Individual might be, he didn't do things by halves, and evidently had no disposi tion to relinquish bis prize. “My darling little Mllly! how old you know I was coming to-night?” Then came another kiss, before Annt Miriam could exclaim. In stifled ac cents: "James Arnett, are you crazy? Do let go of me, and behave like a sensi ble creature!” The arms unclasped with electric speed. "Aunt Miriam! how on earth-" “Hush! don’t speak above your breath! There now—If you're going to laugh like that, you’ll raise the town!" "I—1 can’t help It, Aunt Miriam,” gasped James, climbing to the gate post and vainly trying to check the gusts of laughter that would come. What will Vncle Peter say? Who would have expected to find Mrs. Fen ner, Vice-President of the Dorcas So ciety?” "James, hold your tongue, If you don't want me to box your ears. And If you breathe a word of this to any living soul-’’ "Well, I won’t. Aunty—I won’t upon my word; only the whole affair is so supremely ridiculous.” "Nonsense!” said Aunt Miriam, slip ping through the gate. “There, you needn't turn back with me, you silly boy. Go In and see Mllly—I know that's what you prefer. And Jamie-’’ "Well, Aunt Miriam?" *Tve changed my mind about that little Mllly of yours. I don't believe you can find a prettier wife, or a bet ter, to settle matters as soon as you please, and we ll see whether your Aunt Miriam has forgotten bow to make a wedding cake." "But are you In earnest, Aunt?” "Never wu» more ao In my life. "What ha* altered your convictions? Surely I may ash that one quest Ion’" "That isn't at all to the purpose, young man Hut remember, not a word of this ridiculous adventure!" "You know how to administer bribe* Aunt Miriam." said the youth, gaily, as he enfolded the old lady la hi* arm* and gave her a third hie*. Through th* claries* darkueaa *h« hurried under th* wlnd-ie**ed apple tree, and beneath the friendly shadow of her own porch, where I'neie deter • more* ret feeou'aded like mutBrd trumpets. "What makes you w lata, wife?" de maadsd a drowsy vote* from the laasr apartment. as she gilded around, re placing ehawle and wrappers 'ft* been as fast asleep aa a dormouse I an belters but I did thlah I beard the click of tbe boll." "It meet bare been the bitten among ike tm pan*.' quoted Aunt Miriam Ibe nearest appro*, h le a 9b ab* seer indulged la. before or after. bad la eubeequeal Ufa. abea tbs 9rm convict tun seised b*e that Jam** Arnett bad imparted her secret la •trot «oabde*t* at IKPM tn bte pretty wife *h* »»*a*ot#»l betself br ea* tag mentally Well. I 4ea't rare If be baa Hr my part. I aball aloayt be (lad at (bat poop tpto dqulre Hroo veil • eiedew. A pound of phoepberua bends IM* Nf maisbea. INQUISITIVE WOMAN IN WHITE. | Entertained n « »r Foil end Worried a I’oliir Conductor* I The power on the 2d avenue trolley line that run* to Bensoiihurst, Brook ! lyn, suddenly failed late Sunday after* : noon and cars were stalled along the I dusty road about a mile from Ulmer park, says the New York Times. Lightning had begun to dance aoross the angry-looklng clouds and ths thunder kept up a continuous growl. t About flve minutes after the cars bad 1 stopped a middle-aged woman, dressed In white, came out of one of the little houses along the road. She got Into a 2d avenue car and took a seat. "Can you transfer me to 3d avenue?" she asked the conductor. "Yes, ma'am," was the reply. "Are you sure?" "Quite sure, ma’am." The woman seemed satisfied. Pres- I enlly she asked: "How long before the car starts?” "That depends, ma'am," said the con ductor. "Ten minutes?” "Anything up to half an hour may be only flve minutes, though," replied | the conductor. "Well, anyway, you can transfer ms : to 3d avenue?” repeated the woman. The conductor showed her bis trans fer tlcketpad, with the words, "2d av enue to 3d avenue,” on each ticket. Tbs woman nodded her head, an If satisfied! In less than a mlntue, however, she be gan again: I "Are you quite sure, now” Because I don’t want to get caught In the rain, you know," glancing at the threatening clouds. The conductor reassured the woman, politely. "Be cause my mother," she went on, "took a 3d avenue car and couldn’t get a transfer to a 2d avenue car-~no, I mean she took a 2d avenue car and couldn't get a transfer to a 3d avenue car. So I hope you are right.” Everybody In the car was listening with a suppressed smile by this time, but the conductor’s face was quite grave when he again Informed tbs woman that she could get the transfer all right. She sat silent for a few minutes after that. Then, suddenly Jumping up, she said: "You haven’t rung me up yet, have you?” "No, ma'am, you haven’t paid your fare yet," said the conductor. “Well, 1 guess I'll try another car, then,” and she picked up her skirts and started down the road. The conductor mopped hts forehead while be drew a deep sigh. "My,” be said to the man In the rear seat; "but them women don’t aak questions, do they?” Meanwhile, the woman in whita walked down the line of stalled cars, attacking every conductor In turn. Just as she reached the last one, which whs so crowded that she could not get get a seat, the storm burst In all Its fury, and In less than a minute her white dress looked like a fishing net. No Oood. “How do you like your new music teacher?”’ "He’s no good.” "Why, what makes you think so?” "Yesterday I played a common tune clear through and he didn't say it would take a week's practice to offset the harm done.”—Cleveland Leader. A C'abbifc Httttl. That was a ready retort of the Bath amateur who, when a cabbage was thrown upon the stage, announced that the party who had lost his head could have the same by coming forward.— Lewiston Journal. NOTES OF THE DAY. The city of Jerusalem Is becoming modernized. There are now eight printing offices In the city. There Is a lime tree at Nuestadt. Wurtemberg, which is said to be the largest In Europe. It Is over 1,000 years old. In an Eastbourne, England, paper "A Baronet's Orandson” offers to give irrttmiM in uicycie riuiug at u ■uiHinia a lesson. The night watchman In Albany, Mo., rings the big bell when he thinks the clouds Indicate the approach of a heavy atortn. According to Leuweuboek there are aulmalculae so small that 10,000 of them could be bidden under the dueet grain of sand. The number of horses killed for con sumption as food In I’arta last year i was 23,1 Mi, this being escluelve of 44 mules and 3k3 donkeys. According lo the method which Is : now adopted for reckoning leap years la Kngtand. December, January and February will be the summer months ( , about 7W,ooo years beats Wyoming la te have a new national j park. A treaty baa been concluded i with the Mhoehoas and Arapahoe tribe# ! for the com ion ta lbs government of a i section of laud ten miles square in one carper of the reservation A graph!. Idea of the immense else ; of dlbarle mat ha gleaned from the i billowing compertewp All of the •raise. hlpgdoma. petheipallUea sm | 1 01**#. ale., of Kurup# tegcept Moaatei. ! | *P4 All nf the t’nlied Ntetea. ia«ludieg btaehn, avoid he placed side by aide la Mtbsrta, and yet but Mills asrv than cover that immense territory The largvet gray volt hilled by dog*, so tar as yet bur.l from we* taken at the Ouse bill#. Wyoming The animal measured I M I laches from the P“lut uf hie none to the root of hie Mil and stood >4 Ip. hee high Fvem tha patpt uf hie peas to the top of hie bead •*a II is,h*o end hla hid# eloa# , asighad tveply pounds j IIer MhJmIj Ipprote*. Queen Victoria haa beatowed her gracious countenance on women'a cluta, and they are , iic-rearing In nuni tars The Oreon I’urk t lub la one of the beat of there orir ini/.atlona In Lon don. and ia at the aunu- tune one of tho moat nrlstocralic. To thia club the queen baa aent her portrait, with her autograph. Tho La<iles' international I lub ia one of the ncwoat dobs in the Kngliah metropolis Ita home ia in Bond street. Ita avowed desire ia to entertain friends from all purta of Kngiand and from foreign countries aa well, particularly the United Ntntes. New York club women have, therefore, a warm peraonal interest in the new London International. A Veil of Mist lllrlnv at morning or evening from aotno lowlands, often carries In Itr folds the »< e ia of malaria Where malarial fever prevail no one I* ante, iinli-sr piotected by roine cillclriit medicinal rnfeginrd llorlctle; a ' Uimach llltlerr lr hoth a prole, lion and a remedy .No perron who Inhatdlr, or so journ* In a miasmatic region r country, ai.oiild emit to procure t hi* fortifying agent, which I* aim the tlucat known remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, Money trouble and rheumatism. If the henr are well cared for while mint ing they will lay hofore winter. 'I he duiit l ath la absolutely necearary for fowl*. If the llaliy I* tint tin* Teem. •a aura and um that old and wall triad ran.rdy, Mas Wtsaiaiw’a auotaiao grave for Child ran TaatMng A diet, of fruit and milk, It I* raid, will reduce tlcali at the rate of five pound* a week. I lii I'uture Warfare. “Kir* low!" The general wai experienced in war fare. and hi* troop* trusted him “It will be a hard tight," but we will win if you do a* 1 say. h ire low and puncturtfthelr lire*"—New York Sun day World. llr|fiiiNn « « NMNM If ** wllh ti<y ftffllMk I’m "* < »«k! Ktw*4*f T*n«l«*r orlb»r* K#*«\ Chilblain*, rlk>. A*'. C. <4. ('Urh < o,# N«*w (JfL W* all have our understudlaa, and w* a I hat* them. Poor | | Pilgarlic, | £ there is no need for you j hj to contemplate a wig \ 'J when you can enjoy the >} 3 pleasure of sitting again v I under your own “thatch.” ? 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