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yEIyETEEN IN FAVOR,

Velveteen, which formerly was such
a despised material. and which has
figured as such so largely i'll novels
and tales, is now woven with glossi-
ness and coloring which makes it de-
sirable for handsome gowns. The
richest weaves have ribs, stripes and
various patterns with figures of dots,
stars, Vandyke and electric lines, and
these of bright contrasting colors with
the plain or moire grounds. The lat
est thing in this material is cotton
plush, which washes we'll and is prin-
cipally used for morning dresses,
blouses and dresses for children. Tho
useful and the beautiful are now be-
ing combined by the mechanical
genius of the age to an extent that
our grandmothers never dreamed of.
Certainly they never imagined day
when plush waists and dresses would
be thrust unceremoniously into the
family wash. Another improvement
in this limo is style of ribbons in
various fashionable colors and in
black, which wash perfectly and are
intended for the ornamentation of un-
dergarments, SO that the decorations
of these articles of clothing need not
be laboriously withdrawn every time
q garment is laundercd.
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Signaling at Sea.

The British Government is testing
new plan for signaling at sea, which
has already yielded remarkable re-
suits. It consists merely Of an or
.dinary gong fastened to the bow OF
the ship below the water line. This
acts as transmitter, and the receiv-
-ers are gongs Of exactly similar tone
and rate Of vibration, one on each side
of the ship below the water line. The
receiving gong will take up and re-
produce the sound Of the sending
gong from long distance. Signals
already have been clearly transmitted
ten miles. - Chicago Herald.
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Punning by Wire Not Allowed.

Some one with an injured right
hand asked telegraph operator at a
summer resort on the New Jersey
coast if he would write down and then
send message. The operator then
volunteered to take the short dicta-
ton and the person delivered the fol-
lowing brief message: "Cannot come
tomorrow. Sorry. G. EYRE"
Being in hurry the sender of the
message went away without examining
what had been written in the blank
spaces. The message was delivered in
New York as follows:
"Cannot come tomorrow. Sorry.
SEA AIR."
The person who received it under
stood from whom the message was,
but did not think much of the pun,
which he thought was deliberate. He
sent back this answer: "You aren't
Sea Air. You are Fresh Eyre"
Then, until explanations were made,
there was a coclness between them
that not even the summer resorts of
North Greenland could equal.-New
York Tribune.
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Samoan Canoes.

'The large canoes, called taumu-
oluas, are built from akeel. The keel
is laid in one solid piece extending
high up in the air at bow and stern,
both ends being shaped alike. The
strips and planks are split out of logs,
and have no uniform dimensions,
varying from six or eight inches to six
or eight feet in length, and are of
different widths. These are fastened
to the keel, and the sides gradually
built up, not by tapping one over Il .
other, but edge to edge, making Il
tight, smooth surface. To accomplish
this, the center of the plank is dressed
down thin along one edge. Then by
boring holes through the thick edges
at intervals, on the inside, and tying
them together with fber-not nail
is used-a tight joint is made, and the
outside left clean and smooth. Often
the seams are filled with gum which
exudes from the bread-fruit tree; this
makes them perfectly water-tight.
'The skill and ingenuity displayed
in making and finishing these craft is
something remarkable, for the reason
that the planks are of such uneven
lengths and widths and every part Is
fastened by fiber. ."-Outing.
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Hotel WDark ROOmS.N

Ordinary readers must occasionally
be puzzled by the now frequent addi.
tion of the words "dark room" to
the advertisements of hotels and
boarding houses. So numerous ARE
the photographers, amateur and other.
wise, who. now travel about the coun-
try provided with kodak and camera
that the provision of q dark room for
the purpose of their pastime, OF pro-
fession, as the case may be, has be.
come feature with many hotels. It
is sometimes only shed or clubhouse,
rendered absolutely light-proof and
provided with red light for the use
of the photographer, and little water
with cistern for containing it. Some
hotel keepers have at hand for these
customers some of the stock chemicals
they require, the general use of the
dry plate rendering such dangerous
poisons as are scheduled under the
sale of drugs act unnecessary for the
production OF the photographs -
Washington Star.
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material from the gown has been re-
vived, and many rich silks Will be
used, also Turkish and Persian ma
terials. Bayadere stripes are prom
ised us, but checks seem to be striving
for the first notice, Judging from the
appearance of woolen materials, which
are in mixtures of two and three
colors, so blended as to be indescriba-
BILE. Some of the new fancy silks are
in checks the size Of dice, in three
and sometimes four colors, dark blue,
white, light golden brown and black,
or olive, light blue black and white,
and many other shades we'll blended
together. They will not look we'll on
short stout people, but Dame Fashion
seems good-natured enough this sea-
son to have provided for one and all,
and those who wish to look tall and
slender, can find an endless variety of
stripes, some so small as to seem only
a thread, others pin-head stripes,
while many silks have satin stripes of
about half an inch, with shot effects
in colors between.
Indications point to capes of all
kinds as the popular wrap, velvet, jot
and lace for dressy occasions, cloth
trimmed with fur, and the English
military cape, now called by various
names, Scotch, tourist and golf.
The second sketch is Of dark blue
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Keeping Fresh Fruit,

! Fruit which commands the highest
prices in the city markets has all been
picked by hand by thrifty farmers or
their boys and well washed before be-
ing barreled up for winter use.
q, Pears should be packed in boxes
with newspapers between each layer
OF fruit. For winter pears and rarer
varieties, it pays to wrap each one in
newspaper, besides putting papers be-
tween the layers of fruit. Thus packed
with the cover nailed d)wn, with the
name and date of packing and kept in
a cool place where they will not freeze,
] have known the winter Nelis, the
pound pear, Vicar of Wakefield and
other late ripening varieties to keep
perfectly till the June after they were
gathered; luscious when eaten ripe or
baked for tea.
Many who now send hastily gath
cred, bruised, ill-prepared fruit to
market IN early autumn could get
double the price for it did they pick
and pack it in ways herein suggested,
anu a1Ief keeping IL tnree montns or
80 in their own cellars, send it to cities
in midwinter or spring after the first
supplies are exhausted.
Cherries are said to be curative In
liver complaints. Faraday recon-
mended apples as the most nourishing
and healthful diet for grown people
and children, especially eaten raw.
Apples and plums are excellent for
rheumatic people. Lemons are q
pleasant remedy for biliousness, and
in some for rheumatism. One of the
wild grapes of South Carolina is also
said to cure consumption.
Keep costly or rare fruits in clean
paper candy boxes, or envelopes OF
pasteboard, as for flowers or ribbons,
wrapping each one in paper, just as
oranges are packed, retards decay.
have seen melons, grapes and
peaches which had been hidden in hay
in barn lofts, brought forth perfect
5and toothsome to grace New England
Farmers Thanksgiving dinners. This
is an ancient custom.-Detroit Free
Press. .'....
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That Artistic Crease.

Some genius has invented O simple
little instrument, by the use OF which
the dudelet can always easily keep his
trousers properly creased without tho
expense of sending them to the tailor
every few days, or the trouble Of re-
sorting himself to the sad-iron. II is
q pair OF small iron rollers. mounted
on scissor-like hanllos, so arranged
that tho crease can be clamped be-
tween them and pressed hard. A daily
rolling every moraing is warranted to
keep the desirable crease in frst-rate
condition. New Oileans Picayune.
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skirts, are very pretty; also chiffon
bodioes made in the same style.
Blouses of all kinds still continue in
favor. They are mostly tightftting,
and made of very rich materials, for
afternoon and evening wear. Nous
seline de sole in white, trimmed with
guipure lace, is the most dainty for
evening wear.
Black is to be fashionable. Black
embroidered net make handsome even
ing dresses, and certainly the crepons
are very handsome, narrow border.
ing of fur to edge the skirt, and full
front of black chiffon trims the bodice
with straps of jet to brighten and re-
lieve the dull effects of the crepon.
The fashion of sleeves of different
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cross over the chest and then pass
around the waist, so that the cape can
be thrown open to any width without
folding from the shoulders.
There is very little news in reference
to coats. The sleeves of gowns are
still very full, and as long as they
continue to be in vogue let us hope to
wear something that will not ruin our
dispositions and sleeves at the same
time, and certainly coats accomplish
both. If the very full sleeves stay
with us, neither will we have many
looped.up skirts or draperies, not
withstanding the signs of their appear
ance in earnest before winter, as
broad shoulder effects demand plain
haring skirts, with little fullness OF
the waist.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Strength comes with exercise.
Intolerance is never argument.

Strength comes with exercise.
Intolerance is never argument.
Keep your troubles to yourself.
Don't keep good news to yourself.
a pleased man is easily convinced.
Victory is often question of hold.
ing on.
Morality never looks well on dress
parade.
Genius and originality are blood
relations.
A waiting game is one which two can
seldom play.
Every reform that comes and stays
begins in the heart.
Follow your leader" is dangerous
game even for boys.
Some parents need an Introduction
to their own children.
Some men never win because they
never expect to win.
There is liable to be much base
alloy in coined words.
Most folks get savage when they
mean only to be severe.
When all men know little, how can
any one man know it all?
How little anything costs that is to
be paid for in the future.
He that smiles and says nothing
often SANDERS and lies most.
The man who is always thinking OF
evil things will mostlikely be sufferer
from his thoughts.
To make well.rounded citizen the
moral sensibilities must be one with
the mental faculties. -
The best stimulant toward right
political action is healthy interest
in what is to be done.
A man who is always boasting what
he has done is not always the boldest
in the hour of danger.
It is not always the damage Of an
injury that is CALLING, but the spirit
in which it is prompted.
Don't try to add to the mystery Of
an unknown subject something Of a
deeper mystery, more unknown.
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The Only Five.Masted Schooner.

The schooner Governor Ames, the
largest fore-and.after in the world and
the only fve-masted schooner, arrived
in Providence the other day with 1926
tons OF coal. She has recently been
engaged in carrying lumber from the
Pacific ports to Australia. She is 265
feet long over all, 232 feet long on her
keel, fifty feet beam, twenty-one feet
deep, and her tonnage register ia
176S.77. She can carry 5000 tons of
coal on draft of twenty feet. She
has centerboard of the best quality
of white oak thirty.three feet long,.
fifteen feet deep, and nine inches thick,
and nine hatchways, each twenty-four
feet cross decks and eight feet fore
and aft. Her outside planking, the
heaviest ever put on schooner, is siz
inches thick, and at the gunwale seven
inches. The five lower masts are called
foremost, mainmsst, mizzenmast, jig.
germsst, and spankermast, and are
each 115 feet in length, the topmasts
being each ffty-six feet long. The
jibboom is seventy-fve feet long, and
the schooner spreads 1000 feet of can.
vas. She has two anchors weighing
$500 pounds each, with eighty fathoms
2i-inch chain, besides a steam anchor
OF 1850 pounds and kedge of 1000
pounds. The sails are hoisted with q
donkey engine Of thirty horsepower,
and she has large steam capstan and
q No. II windlass, the largest made.
It cost S75, 900 to build the Governor
Ames. Her master, Captain Cornelius
A. Davis, of Somerset, Mass, is one
Of five brothers. all of whom are or
have been sea captains, as was their
father before them.-Detroit Free
Press.
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Vagaries of Taste.

An importer of rattan furniture
complains that it is impossible to
keep up with the vagaries Of public
taste. In the seasons when he i'm
ports big chairs customers come
round and complain that there's moth
ing low enough for awoman to occupy
in comfort, and, when next season he
imports small chairs there is growl
because there is nothing roomy and
luxurious. The best of the oriental
furniture imported for the last fifteen
years has taught the Western world
lesson in luxury, and it is worthy of
note that the light, cool chairs,
lounges and the like, of Chinese,
Japanese and East Indian make are
peculiarly fitted to the semi-tropical
summer of this region.-New York
Journal. ...-
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CURIOUS FACTS.

In France wine is transported by
rail in tank cars.
Snakes, frogs, toads and lizards are
unknown in Newfoundland.
A snake with two horns on its head
has been seen at Waycross, Ga.
Homing instincts of the swallow
have been utilized in England.
Some of the dentists in Vienna,
Austria, fill teeth with annealed glass.
It is said that in Its hailstone
weighing twenty ounces fellat Murcia,
Spain.
The University of Konigsberg, Ger
many, now expels students who take
part in duels.
Lady Jane Grey read Plato at the
age of thirteen, and Nine. Roland was
ON omnivorous reader at the age Of
four.
Cave dwellings of elaborate con.
struction have been familiarly known
and used in Japan from time imme-
mortal.
A man is in the hospital at Canton,
Ohio, in consequence Of having sawed
off limb against which his ladder was
resting.
A mole's homein the earth has al
ways four or five outlets. By means
Of one or the other the inmate is al!
ways able to elude any danger.
The bees of Brazil hang their combs
outside on the branches of trees OF the
very summit and at the end of the
slenderest twigs, to be out of the
reach Of monkeys.
East Broadway, New York City,
boasts of a boy barber who is but
eleven years old. He is an Italian,
and is skillful little shaver, who has
to stand on stool while he does his
work.
A Cincinnati mans will just made
public, bequeaths the sum of $1,000 to
be used in seeking method whereby
mosquitoes may be destroyed. He
had suffered for years from large
bite on the nose. ,.
In Belgium a dog can ride in any
passenger carriage by buying ticket.
Live stock in this country is kept out
of cars-except the railway hog. By
the way, the dogs ticket is usually
bought for him.
According to Roumanian custom,
when a servant has displeased his
master, the offender takes his boots in
his hands and places them before the
bedroom door Of his master. 1t is a
sign of great submission.
A twist in one of the legs of the
trousers worn by Rufus Smith, Of
Oakland, CAL, caused the gentleman
to stumble and fall while he was
drawing them on. The fall caused in.
juries from which he died.
Most of the so-called marble houses
of the Rome Of Augustus were not
such in reality. The plasterer's art
had then reached high state of per-
fection, and gave to stucco the ap-
pearance Of the finest marble.
Men with weak wrists can strengthen
them by olasping and unclasping the
hands half an hour q day. Make q
hard fist every time the hand is closed.
The strengthening Of the muscles of
the forearm will be perceptible inside
of month.
An explorer in Guatemala reported
the discovery, in an ancient mound in
that country, of many small jars, each
containing the remains of q little
finger from the human hand. It is
supposed to have been the custom Of
mourners in some prehistoric race to
make this sacrifice.
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A Big Shipment OF Salt.

A remarkable freight train went
through the Hoosac tunnel recently.
1t consisted of ffty-seven cars loaded
with Worcester salt, on its way from
the works in Silver Springs, n. Y, to
wholesale grocers in Boston and other
cities in New England. Two loco
motives pulled it, and one held it back
on the down grades. The salt weighed
about 100000 pounds. 1t was the
largest shipment of chloride of sodium
ever made by rail. The train was the
longest that ever passed through the
Hoosac tunnel.-Auburn IN. " Adj
vertiser.
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WHATWOMEN WEAR
FASHIONS LATEST DEGREES
FOR COOL WEATHER.
Tailor-Made Gowns and Coats-Hats
and Sleeves-Black is Fash
ionable-CapesA Are Pop
ular for Wraps.
TAILOR-MADE gowns are de.

TALOR-MADE gowns are de-
II cidedly chic and trim look
/ ing, being single-breasted
with much smaller revers
than last winter, and buttons are
small and quite close together. These
coat bodices are either quite long or
short, as the wearer prefers. The
skirts are round and fall, very similar
in cut to those of last spring. A
stylish costume seen last week was q
tweed mixed in color, but in effect
rather peculiar shade of steel blue,
round skirt, short bodice, single
breasted, small revers, strap seams,
which almost ornamented the skirt,
white chemisette, standing collar with
turn down collars and hand
tie.
The first sketch is a new shade of
golden brown cloth, long coat single
breasted, with collar and cuffs of black
velvet, the revers of cloth, small black
trimmed buttons. As the season ad-
vances, and it grows too cold for thin
chemisettes, one of black velvet full,
also colla-, would make this costume
more rich-looking and more dressy. :
The hat is of brown felt, with pom
pom, and band of black. These long
coats may be sort of warning of the
approach of redingotes, and there is a
whisper that embroidered polonaises
will be next in order. Chemisettes of
full soft materials, such as silk, surah,
crepon, and mousseline de sole, are in
high favor; the latter is also used to
make dog.collars, arranged in folds
and kept in place by bars of jet pearl
or steel. They are considered very
elegant.
Lace bodices, with silk sleeves and
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PRETTY NEW PETTICOATs,

Sor,e of the new petticoats are
works of art. One very handsome
skirt is of Merveill.ux satin, shot in
three colors, with large satin checks
in pale coral. turquoise blue, and
garnet. Handsome black satin skirts
are trimmed with colored ribbons and
lace. Some OF the skirts are frilled
up to the waist ct the back, suggest
ing the coming use of steels. Brocade
is extensively used, and for those who
love the rustic OF silk are lined with
glace,
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plaids, some of rough cloths, others
tweeds in exceptionally fine quality,
reversible, and are procurable in
many different colors, one of the most
successful having one side in oak
brown, and the other in a smart red
and E1ue check. Very pretty also are
the combinations of fawn black and
white, with check in pale tan color
crossed in red, and cigar brown, with
ton check crossed with pale blue.
Plaids of all descriptions, in fact, are
used for one side of these reversible
cloths. These new wraps are comfort
ably long, and smartly cut with stylish
hood, and most ingeniously arranged
with straps from the shoulder, which
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A Mean. Ont Of rhe Dimeulry.

Any strain or bending Of the back for any
length of time leave es It in weakened con-
idition. A means out OF the difficulty is al
ways handy and cheap. Do as was done by
1ir. Herman schwaygel, Aberdeen, s. D.,
who says that for several years he suffered
with q chronic stitch In the back, and was
given up by doctors. Two bottles OF St.
Jacobs on completely cured him. Also Mr..
John Lucas, Elnora, Ind, says, that for sew
eral years he suffered with patnsin the back,
and one bottle Of st. Jacobs Oil cured him.
There are manifold instances Of how to do
the right thing in the right way and not
break your back.
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q WoMANS ILLS"
MRS. W. r. BATES, G

MRS. W. R. BATES, Of
Diluo,th, TrHmbaA Co.,
Ohio, writes
"a few years ago I
took Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescription,
which has been a great
benefit to me. I am In
excellent health now.
I hope that every wo:
man, who Is troabled
with 'women's Ills
will try the 'Prescrip.
ton and be benefited
asI have BEEN"
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A Silver Spoon In His Mouth.

A little boy who has just been born
in London is the heir to $3.50, 600
year, large estates in County Down
and Berkshire, very fine London
house in the very center of the fash
ionable quarter, marquisate, two
earldoms lone Irish and one English),
two Irish and one English viscounty,
an English and Irish .barony.-Chica-
90 Herald. 49,
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Pasquinsdes took their name from
the shop of Roman tailor named
Pasquin, the square in front of which
contained celebrated statue, on the
pedestal of which all sorts of squibs
and lampoons were posted. .-
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Dr. Kilmer's SWAMP Roof cures
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
So Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y.
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= The smallest telegraph facilities are pos
eessed by Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru and
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How'S This !

The pecan trees OF Texas yield every year
1900, 600 pounds of nuts.
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cloth, with lining of cape and hood
of plaid silk in dark blue black and
tan, crossed with red. Many are made
of reversible cloth, having one side in
dark colors, and the other in gay
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WALpING, K1NSAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
tng directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c, per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
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