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HEROIC TREATMENT.
A Citizen Tells of Country Remedies
 for Supposed Internal Injuries.

4 Citizen Tells of Country Remed ies
 for Supposed Internal Injuries.
 "Eyen novices in medicine run to the experimental, as have occasion to re- member" says a citizen whose word is never called in question. T visited an old aunt of mine this summer. and, while revelng in rural enjeyments, fell out of a cherry tree. There seemed to be general jarring and shaking up of the system, that thought demanded the attention of a doctor, but aunt brides herself on knowing more than half the men who practice medicine, and is committed to the old school of economy. She would bring me round sII right It would be a shame to send for a highprieed physician just to re- heye a few bruises. Of course I was sore internally, for that was to be ex- pected,
 "The first remedy administered was fatnip tea, which l took with that re- bellious spirit begotten of childhood experiences. Then wild onion poul- sices were scattered judiciously over my person. Failure of relief caused my feet to be soaked in hot water and wood lshes, the lye distilled becoming so az gressive that l kicked the bucket over and repudiated the treatment.
 This was accepted as a premonition of brain fever, and a red-hot mustard draft was applied to the back of my neck. To the same end my head was thoroughly soaked in spring water. entered special complaint as to my side, and a poultiee of grated horse fadish was the answer. In response to demand for some exhilarant l was given sassafras tea. was disposed to insist on brandy, but this was another brain fever symptom, and more spring water was called into acquisition. At length I surreptitiously hired neigh bor to go for reputable physician 3
 Did he effect a cure?p
 "oh, yes; had broken rib. De troit Free Press.
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bond and without need of making be- lieve. His name was "Red-Hedge, 9 and he was pretty Iow-down fellow, so that First Companion" feared that "Red-Hedee" might have been drunk the night before and have been left out of the attack.
 But no! At the head of the third di- vision of the captured Ronins marched ''Red-Hedge," very proud in his armor. Seeing the servant kneeling in the snow, .Red-Hedge" gave him mes sages and threw him the pennon of his lance for memento.
 Then First Companion" turned to the lockers on and cried: Look at him! Gentlemen. that is Sir Red Hedge, the brother of my master. He is Romin by adeuPtion only. but see him to-day among the avengers!"
 And in his delight the faithful old servant hurried home, and kept as relics not only the lance pennon, but "Red-Hedge's hat and bottle.
 Of course all the 47 had to kill them selves, but they have become national heroes, especially Kurarosuke, the brave
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even forbidden to build junks above certain size, lest they might be tempt ed to go too far in them. Nowadays there are fine Japanese steamers, but at the time when the good stories grew their theme in Japan was almost al- ways courage and devotion.
 In the year 1701 the head of the Ronin family, or elan-for this tale, like Robinson Crusoe.' is founded on fact-was insulted by a superior off cer and attacked him with a sword For this crime the chief Ronin was condemned to slay himself, that be- ing the usual punishment in Japan. Also, it was decided that his castle and property should be taken away and his people driven off. Accordingly the chief Ronin killed himself.
 The new head of the Ronins was named Kurarosuke. He is the national popular hero of Japan, much like Ethan Allen or Francis Marion in this country. It was Kurarosuke's duty to ayenge his masters death in some way. So he called the clan together to defend the castle against the sol
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In cases where economy of time ane economy of space are considered of the first importance. electricity is increas- ing in use. h such cases it is unqnes- tionably the fuel of the future.
 That the cheapest fuel is not always preferred where time and space are of account, is shown by the prevalent use of alcohol lamps for heating baby's milk and for the chafng dish. Prof. James s. Stevens and Mr. Burton s. Lanphear have tested the relative cost of heating by alcohol and by electricity in the University of Maine. Testing the two methods with the calorimeter, they reached this result:
 o... . ..,,,..., ..,..,.. .,...-,.,.,. Gents; 2t Cost per million calories wood alcohol: .64 Cost per million calories, 95 per cent all
 cOnOI .fo'4
 The electric heat worked slightly faster than wood alcohol, but was not quite so quick in results as the more expensive alcohol. Electricity is cheap CT and quicker than either sort.
 Some things are being done in elee- trie heating The auditorium of the Vaudeville theater, London, is heated by electricity at cost of about three dollars per night.
 The Carmelite monastery at Niagara, which is near a cheap source of electric power, is heated by electricity. So is a private house of 12 rooms in Lewis ton, Me, which happens also to be near an important water power.
 The most important electric heating experiments yet made, however, are those of traction companies in heating street cars. Many tests were made last winter in different cities, with quite widely divergent results. Under the extreme weather conditions of Boston cars were heated at cost of 40 cents per day of IS hours. In Albany the Consolidated Car coar22J figured that it cost 21a cents an hour flo heat ear, 1000 watts being used.
 J. r. McElroy, in a recent technical address before the Street Railway as sociation, stated that electric heating of cars cost 17.55 cents per car per day of 15 hours, as against 19.5 cents for coal, including in the latter case the cost of caring for the stoves.
 Mir. Tesla summed up the case for me, as far as an experiment has been car ried, in a few words For general use in heating and cooking, he said, elee- tricity must be made cheaper than it is now. But already it is useful and even economical in light housekeeping, or when q 'quick fire" is wanted in hot weather.
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cents by the cost of heating water to wash the dishes.
 Pies could be baked at a cost of 2.o5 cents each. Ironing was done for the family at cost of 22.7 cents.
 The cost of these operations by the use of coal was, for cooking, 3.15 cents per meal, and for one ironing, 1925 cents.
 Coal was only about 20 per cent. as expensive as electricity for cooking, but it was more than half as costly for ironing. The reason for this diserep- aney is that in the latter operation electric heat is conveyed directly to the irons. none being wasted; while much of the coal is wasted, and worse than wasted, when a whole stove is kept hot for ironing
 The day has passed when a woman's time was worth nothing, The time of ironing, in Prof. Jackson's experiment., was reduced from five hours to four, by electric heating, and he reekons the hour saved as fully worth the ten cents difference in the cost of fuel. There was also a noticeable saving of time in cooking by the otherwise more eXpen- sive method The ironing was done more easily and the cooking was more scientifically accurate when kind of heat which could be exactly regulated was used.
 Prof. Jackson, in his address to the Institute of Electrical Engineers on this subject. stated that a small fat-iron of two or three amperes-which may be attached to the ordinary lighting fix ture in dressing electric tea kettle, and electric curling tongs are eonvenienees likely to be appre- ciated in the average home consider ably sooner than the use of electricity for general purposes. For use in brew ing afternoon tea, electric heat would displaee not cheap but an expensive fuel, as alcohol lamps are at present much used for this purpose.
 Electric heaters are already used in many New York houses for light cook ing. for heating the popular chafing dissEf-;lfeon which the deadly Welsh rare bit IS prepared, and for heating plate warmers.
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COOKING BY ELECTRICITY
Experiments That Have Been Made
 by Prof. Jackson.
The Cost in Comparison with Coal and Gas-The Days of Both of These Arc Numbered
 A Luncheon.
Copyright, ls97.l

Every Friday. a little after noon. a group of distinguished men gather in a pretty room in great sky-scraping building on Duane street, New York. Here they talk over the details of vast business, while they discuss the items of a perfectly-cooked and we'll appointed lunch.
 It is the council of the Edison Elec- tric company, and every article on the bill of fare is cooked by electricity, not for display or notoriety-I do not think the fact has ever before been printed but because electricity does the work neatly, quickly and extremely well.
 Ne are now nearer electrical heating, and especially electrical cooking in the ordinary home, than most people real ize who have not followed the recent developments of invention.
 The expense of using electricity for cooking is even now not nearly so great as has been supposed. Prof. John Price Jackson has conducted some interest ing experiments to show exactly what ii does cost. His results were as fol- lows:
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while to be polite to coward. Of course all this was terribly hard for the Ronins to bear. They knew they were not towards, but they could only wait. Some day. though-and some day came at last. When everybody had come to the conclusion that the Ronins had no pluck at all, these AT yagabonds came together one night and carried the castle of their enemy by assault Then they put him to death, and quietly awaited their own fate. They were taken, of course, and con demned 10 kill themselves as their mas ter had done.
 As they were led away in three par ties, a servant of the house called; First Companion "a man of too little consequence to take part in the fight ing-stood to see them pass. that he might carry home the news. One of the Ronins was real drunkard, vaga-
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diers who were to take it. This was quite proper, according to Japanese ideas.
 When they were all gathered to- gether Kurarosule said: We have not met to defend the castle, for that would be useless. We should only in the end be taken and slain. Let us all slay ourselves after the old Japanese manner, and thus die with our beloved master"
 To this 63 of the Ronins agreed, but the rest went away shaking their heads.
 The cunning Kurarosuke, however, had no notion of killing himself. When the 63 were all together he was sure they, at least, would not reveal his se- cret, and he said to them: ''We shall neither defend the castle, which would be useless, nor kill ourselves, which would be no better. But we shall be patient, and wait, wait, wait, until we can kill the man whose insult caused our masters deathh Then he explained his plan and 1T of the 6 agreed oit.
 According to Japanese ideas, what they endured was worse even than sui eide. For they did nothing. Instead of trying to avenge the insult they wandered about and became mere vaga- bonds. It looked as if they were go- ing to make no effort to avenge their master, and this made everyone de- 1 spise them. Even the children would call out after one of them, as he stag gered past: Hey, there goes Ronin. Drunkard! Cowardl 'Fraid cat! 1 'Fraid catl" Or something Japanese I to the same effect.
 The Japanese children are usually very polite because they eat no meat ] some say-but nobody thought 1t worth
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Canary Pudding.

Take three eggs, the weight of three eggs in sugar, the weight of two eggs in flour, the weight of one egg in but ter and one small lemon. Melt the but ter to a liquid state. but do not allow it to become oily. Stir the butter to the sugar, add the juice of the lemon and the rind, grated, being careful to grate only the thin, yellow rind and not a particle of the inner white rind, or it will cause a bitter taste. Gradually add the four, and lastly the eggs, beaten as lightly as possible, yolks and whites separately Pour into a well-buttered mold, cover with a lid and plunge into 1t kettle of boiling water and boil stead- gIy for two hours. Serve with lemon sauce or fruit sauce. A nice fruit sauce is made by melting half a glassful of ss4tffnse jjsiily; add the same quantity of water, a little butter and pinch of cin' namon Ladies World.
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FRlLLS OF FASHION
The Latest Notions in Feminine cos-
 tunes.

The Latest Notions in Feminine Cos-
 tunes.
 Pink is the leading color for evening gowns and if it is combined with violet you have the latest whim of fashion
 The new mu1f is a small mountain in size. One of novel design. shown among the new importations, is made of black velvet gathered in double ffills fully 2b inches wide. These stand up like ruches all over the foundation, and not in regular lines, but rather curved around, giving a very peculiar effect. The velvet has the appearance of being gathered several times and the threads pulled out, leaving only the marking of the stitches to show. X knot of lace and a bunch of violets trim one side.
 One of the latest novelties in gold 9rinkets is little fan chain, fastened at the side of the belt, from which very small fan is suspended.
 The noticeable feature of dress trim ming is floral applique, made of silk guipure and braid. Jet, too, is very eonspieuously mixed with embroidery.
 Lace is universally used this season on both light and dark gowns. Ne have lace vests, lace crayats, lace bows in our hats, and lace everywhere that fl can be arranged with good effect.
 Lace gowns of every sort and kind are fashionable White Brussels lace in a very simple design, made over white taffeta, and plainly hemmed at the bot tom, makes one of the pretty new even- ing dresses. It has long transparent sleeves and fichu trimmed with Brus- sels edging draped around the sboul- ders.
 Moire poplins and moire velours are to be worn again this season.
 Crepe de chine, trimmed e1aborately with black Chantilly lace in applique, makes charming dinner dresses.
 Light colors in cloth are the correct thing for afternoon and reception gowns, and all sorts of ieweled embroi- dery on bright yelvets are used as a trimming.
 Plaid hosiery is attraetiyely displayed in the shop windows, and every conceiv- able mixture of colors is represented in this article of dress. There are silk and wool, silk and lisle, all wool, silk, and cotton to suit every shade of tempera- ture
 Handkerchiefs, for those who have dainty tastes and desire 10 be fashion able in all the little accessories of dress, are very plain, beautifully fine and sheer in quality, and finished with one, two or three rows of hemstitehing and the finest of embroidered initials in the corner
 French women claim credit for a clever device for decreasing the appar- ent size of the abdomen by fastening their stocking supporters on either side of the corset steel directly in front This holds the corset down and well in place, and has the additional advantage of doing away with the strain on the hips caused by fastening the supporters at the side.-N. |. Sun.
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Prof. Dolbear says: "The convenience of electrical heaters in a house, their cleanliness and the simplicity of their regulation, commend themselves to housekeepers."
 Even the obstacle of cost is likely to be swept away by better methods of producing and transmitting power. Niagara's electricity is much cheaper than steam in Buffalo.
 The whole question of economy in do- mestic use is still open. An apparent addition of even $150 or $200 q year to the expense of a household would be more than made up if the use of cleo tricity permitted it's mistress to dis pense with one servant. Accepting Prof. Jackson's figures as typical, the added cost of cooking 21 meals would be S2.1o, and of ironing ten cents addi- ton, or a total of $2.20 per week, or about $t15 per year. What electrical heating would cost he does not tell us, but it would certainly be pretty pen ny, and rather beyond the average pocket at present.
 But Prof Jackson says that all his computations of cost are based upon q price of ten cents per lSilowatt hour, the usual price for residence electrical supp ply in nearby town" Nothing is more likely than that a largely increased use of electricity would bring it's cost so far below that figure as to make electric heating and lighting feasible, consider ing convenience, cleanliness and the economy of time.
 The price ot electricity produced by coal can be brought below ten cents, but the possibility of further reductions by the use of natural power is fruitful field for conjecture. Of what can be done in this way, Niagara remains the best example; but along the seaboard tide-power will yet be utilized to fur nish cheap electricity.
 It seems almost certain many years will pass before the smut of coal ham, ding is banished from the house, and the pallid miner whose periodic att tempts to get living wages for his dan- gerous and unwholesome work will be set at some better job above ground.
 JOHN LANGDoN HEATot!.
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Menstrual IrreouIaritiea.

Puberty Is the period when menstruation is established. It is the time when the girl becomes woman, and also the time from which many female diseases date. The menstrual flow usually continues from three to six days and comes on about every varies from two to eight ounces, but the amount consistent with the health of one person may be excessive and weakening in another. Tho function is regarded as being favorable. The departures from healthy menstruation are numerous and should be corrected by using Dr. Simmons SQuaw Vine Wine.
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4 STORY OF CHIYALRY.
The Tale Of a Japanese National
 Hero.
Very Quafnt from Our American Standpoint, But Is Quite Sincere Strange Plot by Which
 Chieftnin Was Avenged.
Copyright, 1s971

The favorite tale of Japan, the tale which every Japanese child knows as inevitably as an English boy knows his Robinson Crusoe, is the story of The Faithful Ronins."
 Robinson Crusoe" is a tale of wan dering and adventures; and that is be- cause the English are a wandering race. Until a short time ago the Japanese never travelled. They were
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To Rennir Damages.

For three months" said the returned Klondiker, "all I had to eat was dried beef and hardtack"
 But you brought a good lot of gold back with you?"
 sYes.o
 And I suppose you have. got it safe ly invested ?"
 Yes. I've had a good deal of it put in my teeth Chicago Tribune.
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of the throat or head, or any pulmonary all ment, slight cold or hacking cough is a serious thing to have-it is so serious you can not afford to have 1t. Delays are danger ous. Dr. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey will cure cough or a cold in one night. It will remove the catarrhal affection or pulmonary ail- ment, and build up the tissues supporting the lungs.
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This is the prayer of the nervous who do not sleep we'll Let them use Hostetter's Bitters and their prayer will be speedily answered. Insomnia IS the product of indigestion and nervousness, two associate ailments. also remedied by the Bitters, which also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver complaint, rheumatism and kidney com, rnlainte
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To Louisville and Eastern Cities, 53 miles the shortest from St. Louis, makes quickest time, Pullman Sleepers, ParIor and Dining Cars. All trains leave from St. Louis Union Station For complete information address J. R. Tapp, Travelling Passenger Agent, Kansas City, Mo. R.. 4. Campbell, General Passenger Agent, St. Louis, Mo.
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 I-euoorrhna-.'Whifea.'s 's

This is disorder from which few women escape at some period of their lives. It is in the nature of nasal catarrh. In q healthy condition the lining membrane of the genital organs secretes sufficient mucus to moisten them, but if the mucus membrane is con- gested or infla4aeu, the secretion becomes profuse, irritating and offensive. The best results Viii follow the use of our Mexican Female Remedy as an injection, and dose twice Q day for some time of that great uterine tonic, Dr. Simmons SQuaw Vine Wines will cure the complaint.
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Alabama Marries Mississippi
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Oxford, Ala, writes. Have
 useu Urs III. z1. l5InmonB
 Liver Medicine 25 years.
 I know 1t cures Dizziness
 of Head, Sour Stomach,
 Sick Headache, and
 manyother diseases. I tried
 'sT he dford,s Black Draught, n but did not find Lit to be half as good as the III. Simmons Medicines
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between M. A. S. L. M. and e 2eilin'a eTjS9 Iya1 Regulator. The latter by careful test hay. Ing been found not so reliable has been dis caTded.
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PAINFUL REFLECTION
A Son Writes a Letter Telling How Ills
 Father Was Troubled

WINAMOE, IND.-s.My father was troubled with boils and carbuncles. After suffering for some time, he heard of a similar case cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. He began taking this medicine and con- tinued it's use until he was cured. My mother is taking Hoods Sarsaparilla for rheumatism and it is helping her. GUY E. NEwKIRK, Box lS4. Get only Hoods.
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FIoored Again.

Mir. Hicks-A burned child dreads the fire, you know Melissa.
 Mrs. Hicks-Well, that's where burned bets on horse races.-GIeveland Leader.
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The Old Man.

A son is surprised sometimes, when his father unbends little, to find what good fellow the old man really is.-Somerville Journal
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Where She Shone.

Miss Passaway-I have been called the handsomest woman in many assem- bIages.
 Miss Pert-Were you so awfullv fond of masked balls ?-Brooklyn
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It is made for it. St. Jacobs Oil
 Cures Neuragia-soothes and strengthens.
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Hit hard, bruised and sick. Used St. Jacobs Oil; cured him quick.
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It is not safe to eritieise folks too reck- lessly, for you can't tell whose relatives they' may Washington Democrat.
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 Give Us ReSf.

A good time to quit bad habit is when you are out of money.
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Take tbe Air Line

There are people who know what has be come of every cent they ever had.
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Energy, Mss, writes; h1s A. Simmons Liver Medi- cine has been used20 years in my Fathers family for Nervousness, Sick Head- ache, Dyspepsia, Bil- lousness. My Sister was confined to bed formonths from Enlargement of Liver. Our Doctor gave her up to die. She began
 taking M. 4. S. L. M. and
 was soon entirely well.
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It penetrates the sciatic nerVe-St. Jacobs Oil, and cures the pain.
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 Unanimous.

Medium--The spirit of your wife is here, and says she never dreamed of such happi- ness since you two parted.
 The Man-Tel her feel the same way.-- life
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Hnod,c DiIfc cure Liver Ills; easy to AOONA , 1A19 take, easy to operate. 25e.
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There are f.425 chara books Dickens wrote
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The average of number of meals was 13.1 cents, which was raised to 16.6