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AFTER THE HARVEST TAKING STOCK OF THE GAR. NERED SEEDS. V Happy Are They Who Can Say They Have Lived Up to the Promises of the Springtime—Some Household Lore. There is a sadness connected with the fail of the leaves and the closing months of the year which we have all recognized. With the spring, hope awakens in the heart and “all things seem possible,” but with the ending of harvest we realize how much we have left undone, how carelessly we have sown, how neglectful we have been in cultivating the tender graces that make life worth the living. We all mean so well. We want to walk uprightly, to be kindly alfectioned one to another, sweet and unselfish in our family life, and faithful to eveiV duty set before us; but when we be gin to take account of harvest we realize how far short we have come of what we intended in the springtime. But let us not be discouraged, how ever. From the realization of failures past, let us take fresh courage for the future. “If any watchful thought of ours Can make some work the stronger, If any cheery smile of ours Can make its brightness longer. Oh, let us speak that thought to-day. With tender eyes a-glowing. So God may grant some weary one Shall reap from our'glad sowing.” It is a singular thing that in the great hospitals and training schools for nurses, where everything is sup posed to be done in the most advanced hygienic way, a requirement in the nurses’ ward is that their beds be made for the day within a half hour after the time of rising. This allows for no airing whatever, save the very few minutes while the nurse is dressing. The same provis ion holds in the general wards, where the patients are able to be up during the day. As soon as the patient rises the bed is made so that the ward may look tidy. Sanitary cleanliness in this ease is sacrificed to appearance— a great mistake, as every good house wife knows. There is nothing more restful than a well-aired bed. It is not sufficient to throw back the covers from the foot, for a make-believe air ing. They should all be taken off separately, spread over the chairs near the opened windows, then the mattresses turned and the pillows shaken and put to air. Every child, boy as well as girl, should be taught to do this; yet in how many families do children, and old folk, too, crawl out of their beds and leave their rooms without even so much as open ing the windows. Every few years even the best of mattresses should be pulled apart and made over by an expert workman, then covered with fresh ticking. As for the pillows, they may be made over at home, if one has a closed room in which to work. Empty the feathers into clean sheets, tie up and take out into the sunshine, laying them on boards or a table where the air can get to them. Heat with a light stick or rug beater, and turn often. Mean time wash the cases or make new. as required. After a few days in the crisp air and bright sun, the feathers should be elastic like new. Then re turn to the cases. Old feathers, when well kept, are far better than the freshly plucked ones, unless they are perfectly cured. When carelessly at tended to the quills contain some ani mal matter that is apt to breed ver min. “Lady Baltimore” Cake. Beat the whites of six eggs. Take a cup and a half of granulated sugar, a cup of milk, nearly a cup of butter, three cups of flour and two teaspoon fuls of good baking powder. Sift the flour and baking powder together in to the other ingredients, adding the eggs last of ali. Bake in two buttered pans for fifteen or tweny minutes. For the frosting: Two cups of granu lated sugar and a cup and a half of water. Boil until stringy, about five minutes usually does it. Beat the whites of two eggs very light, and pour the boiling sugar slowly into it, mixing well. Take out of this enough for the top and sides of the cake, and stir into the remainder, for the filling between the two layers, one cup of finely chopped raisins and a cup of chopped nuts. This is de licious when properly baked. White Wedding Cake. Cream together two cups butter and four of sugar. Add alternately two cups milk and six cups flour that has been sifted three times with two I teaspoonfuls baking powder. Stir all I well together, then stir or knead into the batter two pounds citron sliced wafer thin, two pounds almonds blanched and chopped, two medium sized fresh cocoanuts grated and two wine glasses white wine. Last of all fold in the stiffly whipped whites of 16 eggs and bake in a very moderate oven. Flavor with almond or vanilla The Recipe of the Week. Oyster Salad.—Scald large oysters in their own liquor until they be come plump and gills ruffle. Drain, sprinkle with a little lemon juice, salt and paprika, and let get perfectly cool. If very large cut each oyster in half lengthwise, using a silver knife. When ready to serve mix with sauce tartare or mayonnaise and arrange in cups made of crisp, tender lettuce leaves; garnish with a star of mayonnaise sauce and a few capers or chopped gherkins. A Matter of Spelling. A trolley collided with a mill, wagon and sent the milk splashing on the pavement. Soon a crowd gath ered. “Goodness!” exclaimed a man. “What an awful waste!” A very stout lady turned and glared at him. “Just mind your own business,” she ^ snapped.—Lippinc^tts. People Without ideas of Art. The Kibalans, natives of Formosa, are probably the only race in the world to whom drawings or pictures convey no idea whatsoever. MONKEY PLAYED MANY PARTS. Defined by Customs Men as a Bird, a Handbag and a Deg. On the travels of a monkey from Genoa to Heidelberg an amusing farce might be written. A German gentle men brought from southwest Africa a tiny monkey weighing barely a couple of pounds. From Tanga to Genoa all went well with the Lilli putian animal. It was a favorite with everyone, and traveled free until Genoa was reached, when its troubles began. Brought under the notice of the Ge noese customhouse authorities, it was promptly deprived of its identity. It was no longer an animal: it became a bird, and as a bird, on which 28 cents was charged, it was conveyed to the Swiss frontier, where, at a stroke of the customhouse officer’s wand it was transformed into a cat at. the in creased assessment of $l.i>6, and borne by train to Zurich. On its arrival there it ceased, as a cat, to exist, and became a mere pack age—an item of luggage that was con veyed to Constance for the nominal sum of 16 cents. Still as luggage, though ntetamor phized from a package Into a handbag, it went on its way to Stuttgart, where a great honor awaited it. It was, on payment of $2.04, exalted into a dog, and it was as a dog that it ended its journey at the university town of Heidelberg.—Stray Stories. CHURCH PEW HIS BED. Tramp Finds Rest for His Weary Bones in House of Worship. The janitor of one of Portsmouth's largest churches was given a big sur prise Sunday morning as he stepped into the auditorium after opening the big front doors to allow of the usual airing out. He came face to face with a strange and tough-looking man. At first the janitor feared a touch of the chills, but he finally brought himself together and inquired of the man what he had been doing. The fellow said that he had been en joying a night’s rest on the cushions of a pew away down front. Saturday night he was attracted to the church by the singing of the choir during re hearsal. He found the door open, walked in and sat down. The music had that soothing effect and the wanderer fell asleep. He knew nothing more until daylight, when he awoke wondering where he was at. He said that in all his life he had never found a more comforable bed. The janitor looked about, saw that nothing was disturbed and then al lowed the stranger to go.—Portsmouth. N. H., Times. FISH IN NEW PLACES. — Wild Ducks Found to Bear Fish Eggs Ready to Hatch. A correspondent from Saffi wrote in 1 our June issue expressing his mysti- : fication as to how small fish come to ; be in inclosed waters. A naturalist suggests an explanation. He says: “If the wild ducks, etc., of Morocco are similar to those elsewhere there is no mystery. For some years there j ■was open-mouthed wonder as to how i perch, bream and crayfish could get into newly cut dams near the Mac quarie river in New South Wales. “In some ’cases the water had hardly i settled after the rain had filed the dam than the fish were observed, and the farmers started n large theory of spontaneous production. “This obtained till a Sydney profes sor chanced to pick up a wild duck and found its breast feathers and webbed feet well dotted with fertile and almost hatched fish-ova, on which the spontaneous production' theory was promptly withdrawn.” — Cham-| bers' Journal. __ I Size of Heads. The average adult hear, has a cir cumferance of fully 22 inches. The ! average adult hat is fully 0% size. ! The sizes of men's hats are 6% and 6's generally. “Sevens” hats are com mon in Aberdeen, and the professors , of our colleges generally wear 7% to 8 sizes. Heads wearing hats of the sizes 6% and smaller, or being less. than 21 inches in circumference, can never be powerful. Retween 19 and 20 inches in circumference heads are invariably weak, and, according to this authority, “no lady should think of marrying a man with a head less than 20 inches in circumference." People with heads under 19 inches are mentally deficient, and with heads under 18 inches "invariably idiotic.” > —Young Woman. IT’S THE FOOD. The True Way to Correct Nervous Troubles. Nervous troubles are more often caused by improper food and indiges tion than most people imagine. Even ' doctors sometimes overlook this fact. ' A man says: "Until two years ago waffles and butter with meat and gravy were the main features of my breakfas". Final ly dyspepsia came on and I found my self in a bad condition, worse in the morning than any other time. I would have a full, sick feeling in my stom ach, with pains in my heart, sides and head. “At. times I would have no appetite for days, then I would feel ravenous, never satisfied when I did eat and so nervous I felt like shrieking at the top of my voice. I lost flesh badly and hardly knew whic^i way to turn until one day I bought a box of Grape Nuts food to see if I could sat that. I tried it without telling the doctor, and liked it fine; made me feel as if I had something to eat that was satis fying and still I didn’t have that heaviness that I had felt after eating any other food. “I hadn’t drank any coffee then in five weeks. I kept on with the Grape Nuts and in a month and a half I had gained 15 pounds, could ea!; almost anything I wanted, didn’t feel badly after eating and my nervousness was all gone. It’s a pleasure to be well again.” Name given by Postum Cc>., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the book. “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs. “Uhere’s j • i-aason ” A PUBLIC DUTY. Montpelier, 0.; Man Feels Compelled to Tell His Experience. Joseph Wilgus, Montpelier, O., says: “I feel it my duty to tell others about Doan's Kidney Pills. Exposure and driv ing brought kidney trouble on me, and I suffered much from irregular passages of the kidney secre tions. Sometimes there was retention and at other times passages were too frequent, especially at nigjjit. There was pain and discoloration. Doan's Kidney Pills brought ine relier from the first, and soon infused new life. I give them my indorsement.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. ENGLISH SHOES GO UNSHINED. London Observer Admits Truth of American Indictment. An English reporter, fired with pat riotism on seeing the assertion made by an American visitor that London ers polished their boots less frequent ly than the people of any other coun try in the world, set out to disprove the charge. He visited a number of well-known shoeblacks at important points in : London, but what he learned all tend ! ed to confirm the allegation made by j the American. One shoeblack said he had custom ers who look like millionaires but get only one shine a week. After hearing ! similar stories from other shoeblacks the newspaper man took up a position in Piccadilly Circus and examined the boots of passersby. • ; He confesses that of 80 people who passed, the boots of 60 looked as if they had not been polished for a week. Twelve of them had their boots well polished, but the remaining eight had to be labeled indifferent. After that, nothing was left but to acknowledge that the indictment of the American had some foundation.— N. Y. Sun. I RUNNING SORES ON LIMBS. Little Girl’s Obstinate C?*e of Eczema —Mother Says: “Cuticura Reme dies a Household Standby.” “Last year, after having my little girl treated by a very prominent I physician, for an obstinate case of ! eczema, I resorted to the Cuticura j Remedies, and was so well pleased i with the almost instantaneous relief I afforded that we discarded the physi cian's prescription and relied entirely : on the Cuticura Soap. Cuticura Oint ment, and Cuticura Pills. When we commenced with the Cuticura Reme dies her feet and limbs were covered | with running sores. In about six | weeks we had her completely well, ; and there has been no recurrence of the trouble. We find that the Cuti- ; cura Remedies are a valuable house- . hold standby, living as we do, twelve | miles from a doctor, and where it ' costs from twenty to twenty-five dol- 1 lars to come up on the mountain. Mrs. Lizzie Vincent Thomas. Fair mount. Walden's Ridge, Tenn.. Oct. 13, 1305.” Wouldn’t Fit. Some visitors from the north at tended service at a colored church in j Alabama and were much amused when I the good old preacher referred to John I. and John II. as "John with one eye and John with two eyes!” But when he gave out a hymn be ginning “Purge Me with Hyssop,” there was consternation in the choir and great fumbling around for a tune to lit the words. At last the leading chorister addressed the preacher: “Say, Brother Johnsing, won't you please try some odder yarb?”—Lip pincott’s. Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can t turn it into a defense.—Meyrick. ..— KURT, SRU3SE OR SPRAIN 10" THE OLD-MONK-CURE RELIEVES FROM PAIN Price 25c and 50c .' .i , 111 m .mi i b , ■ SICK HEADACHE “ -“s—| Positively cured by OADTCfAQ these Little Pills. OHl\ I Ll\0 They also relieve Dls tress from Dyspepsia, In ITlLE digestion and Too Hearty 8 F 82 EatInS- A perfect re ra il V fcu Hu edy for Dizziness, Nausea, PILLS. 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Women's Shoe3, $4.00 to 81.60. Misses* «Sc Children’s Sho.s, $2.25 to $1.00. Try W. L. upliw Won ten’s, Misses and i Children's shoes; for style, fit and wear they excel other makes. It 5 could take you into my large factories at Brockton, Mass.,and show you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes are made, you would then understand why they hold their shape, fit better, wear longer, and are cf greater value than any other make. Wherever you live, you can obtain W. L. Douglas shoes. HU name and price is stamped on the bottom, which protects you against high prices and inferior shoes. Take no substir iutr. Ask your dealer tor W. L. Douglas slues ind insist upon having them. Fait Color Euelets used; thru will not wear brassy. Write for Illustrated Catalog of Fall Styles. W. L. DOUGLAS, DepU 12. Urockton.'Masa. I l I | I I I I | I 1 STOVE POLISH f always ready to use. no ? DIRT. DUST. SMOKE OR SMELL NO MORE STOVE POLISH TROUBLES IRFAFIFR^J of ‘his paper de- If lU-ifliLf LiiAO sirrigto buy any- || thing advertised in its columns should insist upon having II what they ask for, refusing ad suDsti- II lutes or imitations. ■ “»reweewai'^ Thompson's E«e Water W. N. U.. OMAHA, NO. 46. 1S06. Are You Happy ? i___ WRITE US FREELY and frankly, In strictest confidence, telling all your troubles, and stating your age. We will send you FREE ADVICE, in plain sealed envelope, and a val uable 64-page book on “Home Treatment for Women.’* Address: Ladies’ Advisory Department, The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. _i The Dark Side of a woman’s life is seldom seen by anyone but herself. What agonies, what misery, what fits of melancholy and the blues, the poor, miserable sufferers from female disease have to endure, one month after another! What wonder so .many thousands cf women cannot truthfully say that they are happy! Are you? Happiness cannot be called complete without health, and health is best obtained by which has made many thousands happy in restored health and strength. "The doctors said I had nervous prostration, but gave me no relief,” writes Lizzie Matthews, of Mt. Vernon, Ga. I was sick for nine years. I could hardly eat and could not sleep. My back and hips ached, I was very irregular and would have to stay in bed two or three days. I have used 3 bottles of Cardui, and now I can say that my health is better than for the past nine years.” Cardui relieves pain, regulates fitful functions, strengthens your weakest organs, makes you well and HAPPY. Try it. At Every Drug Store in $1.00 Bottles Fruit acids will not stain goods dved I with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES, and 1 the colors arc bright and fast. The man who sows his life in the , furrows of human need will reap a rich reward.—W. Smith. Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar ! made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your ! dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. If a man is really in love with a girl the redness of her hair is invisi ble. _ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teetnmtf- softens the cums, reduces in flammation allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. Every duty which we omit, obscures some truth which we should have known.—Ruskin. important to Mothers. Eramine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, i a safe and pure remedy for infanta and children, and see that It Bear? the Signature of' la Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. World’s Gold Production. In the last 500 years over twelve | billion dollars' worth of gold is esti mated to have been dug from the . earth. Not much more than one-half of this is definitely known to be in j existence in the monetary stocks of the globe. Of this, however, the United States is believed to hold from a billion and a quarter to a billion and i a half. — Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine wash goods when new, owe much of their attractiveness to the way they are laundered, this being done iD a manner to enhance their textile beau ty. Home laundering would be equal ly satisfactory if proper attention was given to starching, the first essential being good Starch, which has sufficient strength to stiffen, without thickening the goods. Try Defiance Starch and you will be pleasantly surprised at the improved appearance of your work. Ladies’ Privilege in Leap Year. The ladies’ leap year privilege took ' its origin in the following manner: By an ancient act of the Scottish parliament, passed about the year 1228, it was "ordonit that during ye j reign of her maist blessit majestie, j Margaget ilka maiden ladee, of baith high and lowe estait, shall hae libertie to speak ye man she likes. Gif he re fuses to tak hir to be his wyf, he schal be mulct in the sum of ane hundridty pundis, or less, as his estait may be, except and alwais, gif he can make it appeare that he is betrothit to anither woman, then he schal be free.” Mysterious Find. She went down to a sw'ell play the other evening, attired in a superb white gown and wearing a splendid opera cloak. In fact, she was stun ning. As she seated herself, she was about to remove the long red cloak w'lien with horror and consternation depicted on her face she discovered something! My, what a predica ment! She had prepared supper be fore leaving for the show', and there, covering the front of the white skirt, was a lowly calico cheeked apron. She managed to remove it after the house had darkened, and the next morning the sweeper at the Colonial found an apron under one of the seats. —Pittsfield .Journal. |The Laxative ®r L Known Quautm , There are two classes of remedies; those of known qual ity and which are permanently beneficial in effect, actinar 2^ unknown, uncertain and inferior character, acting tempo *" rarily, hut injuriously, as a result of forcing the. natural EjJ functions unnecessarily. One of the most exceptional of the remedies of known quality and excellence is the ever pleasant Syrup of Figs, manufactui d by the California Fig Syrup Co., which represents the active principles of plants, known to act most beneficially, in a pleasant syrup, in which the wholesome Californian bine figs are used to con tribute their rich, yet delicate, fruity flavor. It is the remedy of all remedies to sweeten and refresh and cleanse the system gently and naturally, and to assist one in overcoming consti pation and the many ills resulting therefrom. Its active princi ples ami quality are known to physicians generally, and the remedy has therefore met with their approval, as well as with the favor of many millions of well informed persons who know of their ov.n personal knowledge and from actual experience fVA' that it is a most excellent laxative remedy. We do not claim, that it will cure all manner of ills, but recommend it lorwhati; really 0 represents, a laxative remedy of known quality and excellence, ■J containing nothing of an objectionable or injurious character. There are two classes of purchasers; those who are informed as to the quality of what they buy and the reasons for the excellence of articles of exceptional merit, and who do not lack courage to go elsewhere when a dealer offers an imitation of any well known article; but, unfortunately, there are some people who do not know, and who allow themselves to be imposed upon. They cannot expect its beneficial effects if they do not get the genuine remedy. To the credit of the druggists of the United States be it said that nearly hll of them value their reputation for professional integrity and the good will of their customers too highly to offer imitations cf the \ Genuine—Syrup of Figs | 1 manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., and in order to v. A buy the genuine article and to get its beneficial effects, one lias only to note, when purchasing, the full name of tiie Company— '§ California Fig Syrup Co.—plainly printed on the front of every x package. Price, 50e. per bottle. 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