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THE USE OF COSMETICS.
What Some of the Commonly Used Pow
ders and Washes Are Made OF.

What Some of the Commonly Used Pow
ders and Washes Are Made OF.
The spotted wells began it, so the
ladies say. The terribly trying cleo
trio light makes it almost a necessity,
if one would not look ten years older
than their age. Formerly it was the
actresses only who encircled their eyes
with the aureole bestree to give to
their orbs the electric glance which
shoots out from behind the footlights
to the most extreme distance of the
theater where there stands or sits a
man, and who touched their lips and
cheeks with rouge. Now the fine ladies
have taken it up, and on dress parade
in afternoon or evening gatherings it
is easy to detect that the eyebrows
have been pointed, the cheeks fresh
ened and the eyes frightened. This
improving on the Creators plan, this
dabbling in art, is very insidious when
once it is indulged in 1t grows on one
like the morphine habit, and women
get curiously reckless concerning de-
lection, and rather given to more and
more pronounced effects Perhaps
it's vanity, but one is inclined
to forgive it for the motive is I'M
selfish. A woman cannot see her own
RoAhCSo law yOo hhONs II Biz
she might not give US such crude eff
fects. French women know better
than those OF any other nation the
subtleties of cosmetics, and the art
which conceals art is what is aimed
for by the Parisienne, be she grisette
or grande dame 1t is rare to see a
French lady with obvious traces of
powder on her face, and yet two or
more colored powders, with a pot OF
rouge, are considered indispensable to
her toilet So common is the practice
that madame talks OF cosmetics as one
would speak OF perfumes. and mad
! ame's maid viii give you the secrets OF
thei- compromising.
There Is the violet powder that dain-
! ty women puff upon shoulders and
| arms before putting on a gown to keep
| the lining fresh and dainty 1t is made
| of wheat starch. orris root powder,
otto of lemon, otto of bergamot, and
| otto OF cloves The perfectly harmless
powder for daily use is composed OF
levigated tale passed through silk
sieve; while the more effective powder
for dress occasions Is made of French
| chalk. one pound; oxide of bismuth.
| one ounce; oxide OF zinc, one ounce.
The cheek is made to bloom like the
rose. with different tints for a blonde
and a brunette, but a general recipe is
made up Of strong liquid ammonia. halt
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the nearest and most helpless thing at
hand, he curled the long lash about his
horses TANKS and sent him flying to-
wards the stable yard.
You goes too fast, auntie," said
Ninette, somewhat jerkily. ''Ninette
Is tired
docs not Ninette want to see the
beautiful hower-lady again?" Nora
asked, without slackening her speed.
But in another second she came to full
stop with an exclamation of disappoint-
ment:
''Ah! we are too late"
Along the dusty roadway mule was
lazily stumbling. On his back bent
old negro was mounted, his two knotty
hands clasped about the basket Miss
Fairbanks had been guarding. From be-
meath the damp Spanish moss brilliant
hues and penetrating fragrance es-
capped.
Nora stood still and waited for him.
When they We're abreast she held up
one hand commandingly:
''Cabbages to sell, uncle?" she asked,
in clear, high voice.
NO cabbage, mistress"
Onions, potatoes, turnips?"
only cameliers, violets and sweet
olive, young mistress"
Nora made sign of disappointment
then asked, carelessly: "And how often
do you go to town with your basket?''
every day, marm."
'sAbout this same timer
1.-THE same hour every day. Missy is
like clock-work. Eff you weren't strange
to these parts, you would "a heard that
Miss Idly sells the flowers. 1 carries
them to town for her. 1t looks like a
queer sort of business. But Miss Idly
don't care much what folks says or
thinks
s'Miss Ida is right. Does she bring
them down to the same place every day
herself?''
Every day, marin, rain or shine
''Ride on, uncle. Your flowers will
suffer by waiting" She waved him on
ward with the same imperious gesture
that had brought him to standstilI.
Then she turned herself and Ninette
slowly about
''Come, my pet. We are too late this
time. The fower-lady has gone away"
1t was all one to Ninette. So long as
she and Nora were together out under
the soft blue sky, life was an entirely
agreeable thing. 1t was only when she
was handed over to Celeste that it be-
came burden. But she was to find
that even her beloved Norrie could be
tyrannical sometimes
They We're once more in front of the
big white gate. Nora stopped, and,
taking the japonica from the cl1ild's
tight grasp. sent it as far as she could
into clump of wild indigo which grew
along the roadside.
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Trouble Brewing.

Say, Jimmy" said one small Free
man street boy to his neighbor, in
sepulchrally pleading tone, please
don't sling all them old chicken heads
over in our front yard"
''Why not?' was the cold reply.
why" said the first. with q suspi-
cious tremble in his tone, the preacher
in our church is in the Parlor and II he
sees them chicken heads he'll stay to
dinner sure-and there's only one pie,
and it's got sugar on IL, too
One touch of nature made the whole
world kin, and the chicken heads were
not thrown. = Cincinnati Commercial
.1azetta
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S5EzESE sl<J6ANETTf g. HA[WORIHA
CHAPTER IIL-CoNr1NUEp.
2 u VcT0xaNNeAN a.0ANeMNN

''Not by half. On the whole, think
am going to find the Fairbanks alto
gether the most interesting people
about White Cliffs"
1t was not the words themselves, but
certain tenseness of voice and manner,
which removed them from the realm of
simple feminine curiosity. John felt
unaccountably irritated by her manner
Nothing pleasant occurring to him to
say, he lapsed into a grave revery, which
lasted until the gate of White Cliffs was
close in front of them.
Suddenly he shook himself, very
much after the fashion of big New
foundland dog that has been uncom-
fortably dampened. He flung off his
depression with a visible physical effort,
and with it the feeling of inexplicable
dissatisfaction with Nora. He freed his
right hand from the whip and reins and
slipped his arm about her round waist
There was no one to see
'Norrie," he said, coaxingly, s'don't
let the child make a display of that
flower. Put it in water upstairs, some
where"
''Why?''
Because flowers like that bloom no
where DQC al Olen Durn16."
''Well?"
"And mothers dislike for everything
connected with that name is not to be
reasoned down. That white iaponics
would irritate her tremendously"
Red rags and bulls, and so forth,
said Nora, lightly. Some of these DAYS
will get you to give me the history OF
the Observation-Disclosures feud. l think
feuds are delightfully."- interesting. Sc
aristocratic and clannish, you know"
1t was one of her f1ippant days. John
was distinctly conscious of certain re.
current periods of lightness in Nora's
manner that repealed him. There were
days on which nothing seemed worth a
serious thought to her. To-day was one
of them.
He got down to open the big gate.
When he turned towards the cart again
she, too, was upon the ground, holding
up her arms to Ninette.
''Never mind driving into the yard.
John. Ninette and 1 know very well
how to use our own feet, and we have
not had half enough of this glorious
Sunshine. Ta-ta."
With Ninette's tiny hand clasped in
hers, she started back over the road
they had just travelled at so brisk walk
that Ninette's short legs could only
compete with it at full run
John Lorimer looked after her in mo-
mentary surprise, then, with that un-
reasonableness which inclines the aver
age man to take his ill temper out OF
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back to the horse.you will stretch your
self in the sunshiniest corner of the
gallery-in peace. When dinner is
over, you will crunch your chicken
bones-in peace. When night comes,
you will go to your kennel-in peace.
Come, let US go home, Step"
At the first tap of her boot-heels on
the hard marble floor of the hall, a
withered, yellow face, surmounted by a
brilliant turban, appeared at one OF
the doors opening into it. The yellow
face wore palpable look of anxiety.
Ida looked at her questioningly.
'sWell, Nam Dido?'
cit amt well, my baby. He's in a
way"
HE is always in way, Dido. Can't
you get used to things?-as have?'
She added this clause with dry laugh
full of irony.
poor darling, and don't feel easy about
your going up. Hunt says he believes
he's heard from Mr.. Sib. He got let
ter to-day from somewhere"
''From my brother Sibley?"
CHATS what Hunt thinks. He's just
been a-charging up there, my child.
OOu 1cel sale Dout YOUR SO1uS hiSu
him.
ssNonsense!" Ida was smoothing her
hair with her hands in front of the hat
rack glass. She was supremely quiet
| outwardly. ALI the passion she had
| displayed out there in the woods was
either expended or once more under
| control She was trife paler than
| usual, but then Nam Dido was not
given to critical observation.
81 amt sure it is nonsense, my baby.
At any rate, here stay until you come
! downstairs again"
Every well. have not the least OBJ
| lection to that. think it probable
shall dine downstairs to-day. Tell
Fanshaw, please
Overhead they could hear the ceaseless
shutting of slippered feet. Nam Dido
pointed to the ceiling:
Hes been going on that way for
nigh two hours"
Poor old nan. Poor old unhappy
father! And 1 have been very wicked
this morning. 1 am wretch"
1t was to herself and not to Nam
Dido she made this humble confession
as she hurried up the broad stairway
that curved in an elegant spiral through
the central hall at Glenburnie.
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CHAPTER w.

CHAPTER ".
When Ida Fairbanks sent that white
iaponica futtering through the air and
waited kiss and smile to the pretty
child in John Lorimer's village cart, she
was acting a part with consummate
skill and effect.
When she turned her back on the
White Cliffs people, and, picking up the
heavy basket of flowers, walked off
with it, with a fine assumption of alb
sorption in her responsibilities as a
flower merchant, she was consciously
posing for effect.
When she had found stump COM
pletely hidden from the grass grown
road, whose almost effaced wheel marks
might have forewarned trespassers, she
planted her fragrant burden upon it
and seated herself on neighboring
stump, facing in the direction from
which old Cato, her carrier, must pres
emily come shambling. Ostentatiously
opening her book, she spread it upon
her lap and fastened her eyes upon its
printed characters. They might have
been Greek or Hebrew characters for
all the meaning they conveyed. She was
still acting part. Her smooth fore
head was rumpled by frown.
The dog was sound asleep beneath
her feet, and to all appearances she was
reading absorbedly, when the lazy
shutting of Cato's mule along the road
way made her look up.
''This way, Cato" she called, in her
clear. commanding voice, and delivered
her basket of flowers with strangely
curt directions. This is packet day.
You must be there before the upcoun-
try boat gets in
Then, seating herself once more, she
opened her book where her handker-
chief kept the place. Mechanically she
finished the interrupted passage. 1t
was one of Goethe's sage aphorisms.
She read it aloud in a student voice,
somewhat as if resolved to drown every
other voice in that of the sage:
THE thoughts we have had. the pic
lures we have seen, can be again called
back before the Imagination, but the
heart is not SO obliging; it does not re-
produce its pleasing emotions"
She locked up. Cato was entirely out
of sight. The mask might safely be
thrown aside. While she drew one
long, half sobbing breath, with hyster-
zeal energy she turned, lifted the book
high in her right hand and sent it
hurting into the thorpy, brandy
underground.
With a sharp note of surprise, Step
MAX scrambled to his feet and sprang
to the rescue. Ida watched him with
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The exposure of another Oh
Raum's little tricks viii excite no sur
prise in the mind of anyone who has
followed at all attentiyely that ex-
traordinary persons career.-N. Y.
World.
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Across the Ruhicon.

He-My dear, / have discharged
Bridget, as you requested, but she says
she won't go.
She-Well, what are you going to do
about il?
He-Well- thought yo- might rent
another house. You kno-s.-Wasp-
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Plenty of Company---Mrs- Slim
diet-"Don't you find il little lone
some sitting down to luncheon all
alone?" Bordaire-''Oh, no; the cheese
Is re.s-Truth.
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-Repu blicans have confidence

-Repu blicans have confidence in
Mr.. Cleveland in this exigency because
he has been tried in financial crises
heretofore, and has always fully justi-
fed the trust reposed in him He has
been on the safe side of the money
question since the beginning, and his
recent utterances show that he occu-
pies it still All sound money men, ir-
respective of party relations, will rally
around the administration in this
emergency, and aid it in protecting the
country's credit and in defending its
financial stability. In the presence of
any such peril as this party lines disap-
pear, and regard for the national honor
and interests becomes paramount-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat tRep.).
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Ninette looked up at her in fearful
amazement.
do not cry, my pet. 1t is already
wilted. You shall have more. You
shall have all you want. Some day all
the flowers that bloom at Glenburnie
shall be your very own"
'Extravagant and groundless as this
splendid promise may have sounded, it
suficed to send Ninette into the house
smiling instead of weeping.
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THE FOSTER FAILURE.
A Strong Arraignment of the Late Repub-
Hcan Treasurer.

a Strong Arrangement OF the Late Repub-
Hcan Treasurer.
! The failure of bank owned and
! managed by 'Calico Charlie" Foster,
eX-secretary of the treasury, surprises
no one.
Why should it?
Why should man who made in the
conduct of the United States treasury
the momentous and disastrous blunders
from which the country is now suffer-
ing, and must continue to suffer for
many years to come, be able to carry
On his own affairs with any distin-
guished success? Foster ran the United
States treasury as if it were gambling
establishment He lay awake at night
devising schemes for squandering the
public money, and the present stress of
the national treasury, consequent from
the continuous expectation of gold, is
entirely due to his policy.
Under Fosters regime such wanton
legislation as the Mckinley bill. the
Sherman silver act and the unspeakable
corruptions of the pension bureau had
an easy time of it. Anything like
order, economy, mere decency in the
public expenditures, was apparently
beyond s'Calico Charles ken. He was
perhaps the most incompetent and
most ignorant official that ever held
the office dignified by such men as Alex
ander Hamilton, Hugh Mccullough and
William Window.
1t seems to be expected that public
prints should express the sorrow of
their owners and editors for the mis-
fortune that has come upon Foster. As
personally he may be a very good man,
we have no heSitaucy in adding our
voice to this inane chorus of sympathy;
but that does not moderate our opinion
that Foster was an utterly vicious
official. who probably conducted his
own financial affairs with as little abil-
ity and prudence as he did those of the
nation.-Illustrated American.
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MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
OF. CARROLL COUNTY.
OFFICE, WESTMINSTER, MD.

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY:
J. W. Herring, President, Westminster, Car
roll county.
Richard Manning, Secretary and Treasurer,
Westminster, Carroll county.
DIRECTORS.
J. W. Herring, Westminster, Carroll county.
Granville S. Haines, Union Bridge, Carroll
county.
David Prugh. Freedom, Carroll county.
Granville I. Herring, Sandyville, Carroll
county.
Charles B. Roberts, Westminster, Carroll
county.
Edwd. Lynch, Westminster, Carroll county.
David Fowbie, Westminster, Carroll county.
r. Manning, Westminster, Carroll county.
Dr. j. j. Weaver, Jr., Uniontown, Carroll co.
L. T.. Reindollar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
AGENTS.
John T. Difenbangh, Westminster, Carroll
county.
J. Oliver Wadlow. Freedom. Carroll county.
L. NJ. Anderson. Mt. Airy, Carroll county
Louis Dielman. New Windsor, Carroll co.
John S. Repp, Union Bridge, Carroll county.
Alfred Zollickofer. Uniontown, Carroll co.
T.. +. Reindollar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
j. W. Weant, Double Pipe Creek, Carroll
county.
William h. Shower Manchester, Carroll
Granville 7. Herring, Sandyville, Carroll
county.
W. U. Marker, Tyrone, Carroll county.
William A. Abbott, Hampstead, Carroll
county.
John Jones, Mechanicslowa, Frederick Co.
D. A. Horner, Emmitsburg, Frederick
county. jams tt
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Mr.. Billtops's seesaw Story.

"Pop," said little Frankly BilltoPs, "tell
me a story"
'Well, Frankly said Mr. Billtops,
''once there were two little boys who
thought they would like to have seesaw
little bigger than usual so they got a
good strong plank about twelve miles long
and carried it up and laid it across the top
Of mountain about two miles high"
"Why, Pop" said Frankly, show could
they tell when to teeter? They couldn't
hear each other talk so far as that
"Why, they had telephone, Frankly" p"
said Mr.. Billtops, 'and when they were
all ready they gave the signal and away
they went, bump-bump, bump-bump,
bump-bump, though of course they
didn't go as fast as that, for you see that
the boy that went up went up about four
miles and the boy that went down went
down about four miles, so of course they
couldn't go as fast as that, but they went
fast enough, and the seesaw worked beauti-
fully.
eBut there was one thing the boys had
not thought of, and don't know that you
could have expected them to, for they were
both very young, you know, and that was
the danger from storms. Going up so
high there was always more or less danger
of getting mixed up with storms.
'sWelI, one day when the boys were
teeteripg the boy who was going up saw
when he got up pretty near as high as they
went a big thunder storm coming He
knew that If he went on up he would be
caught right III the thickest Of it, and he
tried to telephone to the other boy to let
him down until the storm had passed.
But something had happened to the tele-
phone aud it didn't work, and the other
boy didn't get the signal he saw the other
end of the plank disappear in the cloud,
and then the first thing he knew he went
down with i big jounee, and then he knew
that something had happened 70 the boy
up in the air.
Just exactly what did happen to him,
Franky, nobody ever knew positively, for
he was never heard Of after that; but every
body always supposed that he was carried
off 10 that thunder cloud.
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Tended him beyond forgiveness, and that
he would never return to her, assailed her
at intervals all through the day.
When Mr. Delameter did actually come
home at his usual hour, she hardly dared
raise her eyes to his face. But he was
very quiet and did not slam things and
hardly looked up from his food all tea time.
When Mrs. Delameter had cleared up
the dishes, she slipped up behind her hus-
band as he sat in the bay window with his
elbows on his knees. his face between his
hands and his eyes on the carpet and
dropped the bone of contention, the pocket
book, into his lap and fed.
He caught her dress before she had got
very far and pulled her back.
"Fannie," he said, with whimsical seri-
business, ''do you believe there is money
enough in this pocketbook to induce some
muscular man to kick me all | deserve to
be kicked p
"Oh, Tom p sobbed Mrs. Delameter,
''can you ever forgive me? You don't
know how 1 hated to be so hateful y
"Oh, come now oupretend tosay
you didn't enjoy it"
''0f course | didn'tr' was the indignant
answer, and then Mr.. Delameter threw his
head back and laughed and laughed.
Finally he sobeFed down. "Well," he
said, in a very businesslike way, snow
well have this thing fixed up Have you
any idea how much our household ex-
penses are p
II have kept an account of that and of
my personal expenses, - said Mrs. Delame-
ter, bringing him the book, "but didn't
know how much you earned, or how much
your expenses were.
Mr.. Delameter glanced at the neat col
umns and turned over the leaves to look
at the footing up for the whole year. He
gave low whistle.
'Fannie," he said, ''you are dear little
economical angel"
Then he proposed that whenever he was
paid off the housekeeping expenses should
be deducted from the amount received and
the rest equally divided between them.
They followed this plan, and it worked
like charm.
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So PER ANNUM.
DO r s A L E.

h &M@S
i'll Acres yD5. prime Wid9.a. Limestone 81.
,a n,;ies from Westminster; fine buildings all
in GOOD condition; very desirable farm;
nriee SI2, ,OOO-half cash, balance on years
time. W.:
ster, p miles from PataPsco Station, W. M.
r. Il. Buildings fair. Price S2,5O0.
CHOICE little farm of 554 acres, half mile
from Westminster; good soil; brick house;
LARGE barn; all in good condition;price Sll 900.
Nice little home; 8 acres; prime land;
miles west from Westminster; brick house;
hank barn: more land if desired; price ", 500.
Plaster and bone mill on w. Md. Railroad;
buildings new; best of machinery; IA acres OF
land: good water power; q splendid opening
N engage in profitable and growing business;
terms easy; price $1,000.
3250 acres prime timber land on Cheat
river, West Virginia. Heavy original growth
of poplar, red oak ash, walnut, cherry, &c.;
land valuable for grazing purposes after timber
IS off; price 81 per acre:
Machine shops at New Windsor, Nd; all
the necessary buildings for the manufacture
and repair of machinery. This property will
be sold; bargain at easy payments; price
4,5O0
5 or acres of woodland, near public road
from Westminster to Mt. Airy,4 miles south
east from New Windsor. Price $3.50.
A small home, acres, on road from West
minister to New Windsor, ! mile from former
place; good house, good stabling, good water.
extra fine fruit, &c. Price $125O.
Fine brick house on John street, 9 rooms,
conveniently arranged. all in first class con-
diton. Quite bargain at S260O.
81 acres prime land, half mile from West
minister; large bank barn, fine orchard, splen-
did building site for house; price $4,000.
Large brick hotel in Westminster, on Main
treet, near Railroad Depot; price 81, 900.
Farm As acres, u miles from Westminster;
land good; buildings good; orchard choice
fruit; price $50 per acre.
Farm 73 acres, 8 miles from Westminster, 2
miles from Hampstead, nearest r. K. Station,
good house and barn; SO acres cleared land
in good condition; $35 per acre.
Nice Little Home, one mile from West
minister; 60 acres of prime land, good brick
house; price, $500.
Twenty acres good land, good buildings,
near Westminster, 1900.
One hundred acres, best quality of land, q
miles from Westminster; buildings only fair,
good water, &C.; price, $500.
Brick house and lot in Westminster; 81 200.
Double brick house and lot in Westmin-
ster; $500.
Also, some fine pasture lots, ranging from
, to acres, adjoining Westminster
For particulars call on or address
sepS,tf Z. LYNCH, Westminster, Md.
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One Of the times when man begins 9
cry and sigh that all men are nal honest s
when be geis The wrspe hat