Electrical apparatus used In mining In this country is estimated to be worth about $100,000,000. Ur*. Winslow's Nuothlnf Syrup. ^or^hlulren twit'n*, (often* the yum*, reduce* tp SsmuiaUun, *ll»jr« p»in. cum* wind ooUo. iiciMti* Great souls are always loyally sub missive; reverent to what Is over them; only small mean souls are oth erwise.—Carlyle. Antique Statutory His Fad. Stanford White is one of the largest collectors of antique statuary lu Amer ica. Not only is his house in Gram marcy park. New York, a veritable museum of Greek and Roman art, but the lawn is filled to overflowing with other examples. IRONING A SHIRT WAIST. Not infrequently a young woman finds it necessary to launder a shirt waist at home for some emergency when the laundryman or the home ser vant cannot do It. Hence these direc tions for ironing the waist: To iron summer shirt waists so that they will look like new it is needful to have them starched evenly with Defiance starch, then made perfectly smooth and rolled tight in a damp cloth, to be laid away two or three hours. When ironing have a bowl of water and a clean piece of muslin beside the iron ing board. Have your iron hot, but not sufficiently so to scorch, and abso lutely clean. Begin by ironing the back, then the front, sides and the sleeves, followed by tho neckband and the cuffs. When wrinkles appear ap ply the damp cloth and remove them. Always iron from the top of the waist to the bottom. If there are plaits in the front Iron them downward, after first raising each one with a blunt knife, and with the edge of the iron follow every line of stitching to give it distinctness. After the shirt waist is Ironed it should be well aired by the fire or in the sun before it Is folded and put away, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. Same Old Voice. “No man can disguise his voice in talking through a telephone," said an exchange operator to an interviewer recently. “Every person has some lit tle peculiarity of speech that, no mut ter how infinitesimal It may be, is sure to be actuated and made more recognizable over the wire. The man who nas a sharp ring in his voice will seem to speak more sharply; a gruff voice will be made more gruff and by the same rule an insincere voice is given a greater tone of insin cerity. The speaker who chews his words has no chance at all with a good, lively ’phone. He may only con tort his speech very slightly, but the •phone will do the rest, and at the other end of the wire his remarks will be about as intelligible as pied type.” Faroe and Tracedjr. In the course of his address to the students at the opening exercises of the Baltimore Woman’s college last week, President Goucher said: "A womanish man is a farce; a mannish woman is a tragedy. The enlargement of opportunity obtained through edu cation secured in such institutions as this is attended by enlargement of re sponsibility from which you cannot escape. Your highest ideal should be a womanly woman.” Oiyfftii In Cotnmercn. Raoul Pictet, the Swiss Inventor and chemist, has effected a remarkable dis covery concerning the manufacture of oxygen upon an extensive scale for commercial purposes. The Inventor has been engaged for three years upon this Invention at his laboratory in Ge neva, where he is professor of chem istry and physics. In Memory of Tien T»ln Hero. A memorial portrait of Captain Aus tin R. Davis, who was killed In the attack on Tien Tsin, is to be placed in the Carnegie library, in Atlanta. The library building occupies the site of the house in which Captain Davis was born. Tlie Life Gourds- Giant to Marry. The tallest officer in the English army is said to be Captain Oswald Ames, of the Second life guards. The captain staods six feet eight, and is as finely proportioned as he is tall. He is to marry Miss Violet Cecil, daugh ter of Lady Francis Cecil. Miss Cecil is petite and fairylike. It seems awful selfish to hear peo ple talk of wanting to get closer to God than God is to their neighbor. Shirt Halit Women. The shirt waist proved a great in vention. Nearly every woman wears one. The only inconvenience about the shirt waist is the trouble In ironing caused by starches that produce that, hard, nerve racking effect. Defiance starch contains a chemical Ingredient that does away with the trouble. Ask your grocer for it. Slxteen-oz package for 10 cents. Made by Magnetic Starch Co., Omaha, Neb. The real object of education is to give children resources that will en dure as long as life endures.—Sydney Smith. Cuarnni Cannot Ha Cared bv local applications, as they cannot reach tha diseased portion of the ear. There Is onl *one way to cure deafness, and that is by constl* tutlonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hear ing nnd when It fs entirely closed dearness is the'result, nnd unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forevor; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing butan Inflamed condition of the mucus surfaces. YVe will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured bv Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.^ CHFNEy & CQ. Toledo. a Sold oy Druggists, 7oc. Hull's Family Fills are the best. “Bob*" la h Great gwordiman. Lord Roberts has had few equals in the handling of sword and lance. He was always especially fond of tent pegging, and so excelled in the diffi cult diversion that he carried off the first prize in the Indian tournament from the whole Indian army when he was already past his 50th year. TARANTULA S BIG JUMP. , f!#rr« Haiti* Wa**d by lln(> 8p»^' Acaluit a Dog "There are strange bights to be.seem m Porto Rico," sa‘d a young civil en gineer whose swarthy skin was speak ing evidence of the year he had spent in Uncle Sam’s newest possession 'Tarantulas are one of them,’’ he con ;lnued, "and you should see a taran :ula Jump! One of them went through a marvelous peiformance, with myself and a dog for spectators. The dog’s barking awoke me early one morning and I slipped Into my shoes and ran out. Spot—that's the dog's name—was making frantic plunges at an enormous tarantula, as big as my palm, and Its legs covering as much ground as a soup plate. Its wicked black eyes made me creep. All of a sudden the thing shrank up like a sponge, and Jumped for the deg; I give you my word It jumped flfte n feet If it was an Inch. Twice the dug ran under the spider's jump—fact. Others were watching by this time, and they nil saw it. Usually, though, he just side stepped a bit. I broke up little pieces af a branch of a tree and hurled them at the tarantula. My aim was just good enough to stir him up; at first he kept Jumping away from ns, but Spot always herded him back again; then he jumped straight for us. At last a lucky shot keo’ed him over, and a few strokes with a convenient club finished him. Drink'ng water would have been * puzzle to us had it not been for the eoeoanuts. When near the coast we gathered these ourselves or sent 'peons’ after them, but inland we bought them of carriers, who would cell you eocoantit for one cent, would chop off the ends with their machete, and bore a hole like a ten-cent piece for you. Then you drink the 'cocoa' water, as they call it, and throw the nuJ, away. **Tho natives are, many of them, > queer lot. The Spanish census made the population 85 per cent white and 15 per cent negro. I rather think the American figures will just trans pose those figures."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. WHERE THE COIN WAS MADE. Location of the Mint Can lie Deter mined by Certain Mark*. Coins and "coons” look alike to most men, but It Is easy to tell where any coin of twenty-five cents or over was made. There are four places of coin age in the country—Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Orleans and Carson City. The first mint was established at Philadelphia, and as the founding of other places of coinage was then unforeseen there was no necessity of putting a mark on coins which came from that city. But as the country grew in territory, population and wealth, and as the mines in the west were developed more and more each year, it became necessary to establish other mints whereby the government could keep track of the output from each place, and, if an error should occur in the coinage, could at once lo cate the mint from which the defective coin had come. All coins are supposed to weigh exactly the same as others of the same denomination. Silver coin age may be pretty well worn before it is liable to rejection, but that Is not the case with gold pieces, and a slight decrease in weight necessitates recoin age. It was for these reasons that marks ere put on coirs made elsewhere than in the Quaker City. These marks are placed below the eag'.e or the bunch of arrows. If there be a letter In the place designated it will be either i small s, o, or the two double letters cc. These bearing the letter s are from the mint at San Francisco. Others having the letter o are from New Or leans, while those b nring the letters cc are from Carson City. If you do not find any letter on the coin at all, it is an indication that the coin came Irom Philadelphia.—Chicago Chron icle. English Farmers' Muslin. There has been much written about the Indifference of the harvest through England this year. It is true enough that in many parts the crops are thin and the straw extraordinarily short, but there are exceptions. Anyone who has visited the fen country must be astonished at the luxuriance of the crops. There has not been such a har vest of wheat and barley for many years, and the crops of roots are enor mous. Whether or no this is alto gether to the financial good of the farmer is another question, for in re spect at any rate of potatoes in Ireland, America and the continent the crops are equally plentiful, and prices will be low. There is a proverb among fen farmers that “a bad year is better than a good, and a good worse than a bad." —London Globe. Making Water Build Dural. Many readers who do not follow the literature of engineering will be inter ested In the statement that one of the methods employed by American en gineers in forming reservoir dams is to call in the services of a powerful jet of water, as in hydraulic mining. By directing such a jet against the upper slopes of a valley, the Band, soil and gravel scoured from the hill sides can be carried by the force ot the stream to the site of the dam in the lower part of the valley. By suit able management, the water not only conveys the materials, but consolidates them in position, dropping the larger stones at the sides and carrying the finer material to the center of the dam. Brown eyes and a brown dress go well together. The demand for elootrtcal ventilators In India is ahead of the supply. THOSE WHO HAVE TRIED IT will use no other. Defiance Cold Water Starch has no equal In Quantity or Qual ity—IS or for 10 cents. Other brands contain only 12 os. Saving nman things Is the one bad habit cultivated most assiduously by the average woman. I am sure Flso'e Cure for ConMimptloa aaved my life three jesra ago.—Mrs. Trob. Robbins. Maple Street, Norwich, N. V., Feb. 17, 1900. Chronic kickers give the world many an upward boost. Foolish and obstinate people alone suffer from neuralgia or rheumatism. For they can always secure Wizard Oil and cure themselves. When a woman merries a man to reform him the poor fellow is up against heroic treatment. DO YOtTR CLUrMBS LOOK YELLOW? Jfso. useKedCroee Ball Blue Itwillmake them white as snow. 3 ox. package 6 cents. Some men have reasons for doing things—and some have excuses. The young man on t salary of $6 a week I apt to think his best girl dear ox- Ifcac he can afford. Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green’* Sons, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Head their adver tisement in another column of this paper. Some men are so liberal they are continually giving themselves away. Clear white clothes are a sign that the housekeeper u-as Hod Cross Ball Blue La rge 'i oz. package, 5 cents. All the world loves to laugh at the love letters that are read in court. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES color silk, wool or cotton perfectly at one boil ing. Sold by druggists, 10c. per package. They who have no desire for holi ness will find no delight in heaven. CITO permanently cured. No tits nr nerrouttnees after ■ I I O tint day'» uen of Ur. K line * 11 rest Sorre Keeton, er. Scudfor FltK.K 1*3.00 trial Isittlr and troatirn. 1>B. U. U. Klims, Ltd., Ml Arch Street, i’ullaolelptua, l a. The wise girl always rearranges the parlor furniture immediately after a young man has called. then* nutation of \V. I» Doui; las $8.00 and SS.&0 m shoes For style, comfort and wear has excelled m all other makes sold at these prices. This ex-M llent reputation has been won by merit Alone M W.I«I»oUKlas shoes hare to glee bet- ■ ter satisfaction than other |ao shoes must iw* main M talned. T tie standard has always been placed M so high that the wearer receives more ralucv for hit money in the IV, I.. I>«>uk1j»» $3.00 anils $3.to shoes man he can jrct elsewhere. \V. IJ __ anprlas makes and sells more $a.oo and SS.fio shoes tha anv «»t her two manufacturers In the world. Fnstt’oln Kvnetlineil. W. L. Ia|is taiiM i«moM •rramo of lhr high grade leather* ai«d la |& aod f 8 ikoM, Il4 aro Jooi as good la o*»ry way. CaTALoO Frkb. Sold by of Songlat a* ore* in American cities idling direct from factory to wearer at on profit; and the best shoe dealers errryichere. ^ Indd upon hnvlof W. I,, l ongin' ikSMWllfa IUN - aod prlro 'lamped on holloa. Shoes sent any. where on receipt of price and 2fic. addi tional for carriage. 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(Catalogue will be ready for mailing about January ist, 1902.) 1-— Our offer of Presents for Tags will expire Nov. 30th, 1902. CONTINENTAL TOBACCO COMPANY. Write your name and address plainly on outside of packages containing Tags, and send them and requests for Presents to C. Hy. BROWN, 4241 Folsom Ave., St. Louis, Mo.