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OUTSIDE CLEANING.
Work That Is Too Often Neglected
NV HOuHekeeuerH.


The last parts of a house to be cleaned
are the piazza and the various portions
of the base which are spattered with
mud stains after the winter SHOWS and
spring rains. This is work which
many housekeepers neglect or relegate
to the outside workers. In small
house, where the immediate premises
of the house, as well as the inside, are
under the care of the housekeeper. this
is certainly a part of the housecleaniRg.
If all parts of the woodwork of the
piaZzas and the base of a house, as far
as it is splashed with mud. be carefully
cleaned it adds great deal to its neat
appearance. 1t is not often necessary
to do this work more than twice year,
at the season of the semi-annual clean
ings. \ good stepladder is necessary
for this work, one of the light-handled
ceiling brooms used to sweep ceilings,
and other brushes. Brush the ceiling
of the piazzas, thoroughly removing all
cobwebs and dust. Dust the openwork
cornice and the balustrade and wipe
them off with Il damp cloth. Brush off
the side of the house. the window casing
and the blinds included in the piazza in
clear, cold water. unless the blinds have
been already washed and wiped with
the other blinds when the inside of the
house was cleaned. Sometimes the dark
woodwork of the piazZas may be i'm
proved by rubbing thoroughly with a
mixture of two parts pure and raw lin
seed oil and one part turpentine. This
removes the gray look which in time
dark paint often assumes. The oil must
be thoroughly rubbed in with firm cot
ton cloth, if it is used. The base of the
piazza and house above the stonework
should be thoroughly brushed with a
stiff broom, and then busted. Brush
the stonework of the founda ton also.
See that the sod grows close to the
house to keep the foundations from be-
ing muddy. A foot or more of clean
gravel is sometimes placed next the
foundations of a house to prevent them
being splashed. 1t is better protec-
ton than the thickest sod if coarse peb-
bles are used. Where there is no such
protection. every rain spatters the
house more or less. and no care can
keep it neat. After thoroughly busting
the base of the piazza and house take Il
pail of cold water and a stiff whisk
brush and scrub over its surface. using
soft cloth to dry it as fast as it is
washed. Change the water as often as
it becomes too sandy to use. and con-
tinue the work until it is done. The
base of house should always be paint
ed a rather dark color. not a light shade,
as so many houses are. A light base is
not only more easily soiled and requires
more care to keep in order. but it gives
the house weak look. inconsistent
with the dignified. substantial appear
ance which a dwelling house should
haven. Y. Tribune.
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FOR THE HEALTH'S SAKE.

Cold drinks. ice cream and frozen ices
do not make people cool. If overheated.
cold drinks are most disastrous to the
digestion. Hot drinks, rather than cold,
areconducive to comfort in hot weather.
If the eyes are much inflamed. bath
ing them in cold water is sometimes
more restful than bathing them in hot
water. Never, under any circumstances.
apply a warm poultice to the eyes. If
they inflame easily, great care should be
taken about going out where the winds
are boisterous and the dust is flying.
To cure fatulency take ten drops of
the tincture of nux vomica in cold water
before meals every day for eight weeks;
also take the phosphate of sodium, a
teaspoonful in teacupful of water
Cooling water to be preferred) upon
rising in the morning and upon retiring
at night. After meals take teaspoon
full of pure glycerin.
A bed should never be made up under
two hours from the time it has been
slept in. 1t should be aired thoroughly
and beaten until it is hight. Open all
the bedroom windows and let the fresh
air and sunlight into the room. Hair
pillows are much more conducive to
healthful sleep than feathers, and light
wooden blankets are better than heavy
coverings.
Eating between meals, says wise
doctor is a bad habit for one to acquire
1t will certainly injure the digestive
process, and soon upsets natural
healthy appetite for regular meals. II
is very easy habit to get into, and is
rather difficult to break up. If any eat
ing is INDUCED in between meals. per
fectly ripe. fresh fruit is the least harm
full Kind of refreShmenf
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DOCTORS AND PATIENTS.
Odd Tales of Physicians of the Old
School in England.

Odd Tales of Physicians of the Old
school in England
A physician with large practice sees
strange sights-some humorous, some
pitiful. and some irritating. Sir Ben
jamin w. Richardson, commenting on
the fact that these singular sights tend
to produce in the doctors mind the
feeling 'All things are alike to ALL
says he once surprised Il bishop by say
ing that the writer of Ecclesiastes must
have been u doctor.
Once a woman who kept fuel store
brought her husband to DR.. Richardson
in little cart with his body covered
with small coal, under the idea that by
this means she was keeping him warm.
Another woman, to whom he prescribed
an ether mixture. therefore volatile,
first made it warm, in order that it
might be agreeable to take.
He was called in the early days of his
London practice to visit a servant in a
large house, and overheard the mistress
ask the housekeeper: What sort of a
man is he, and how did he come? Did
he drive?''
81 think you'll like him, ma'am,''
replied the housekeeper; but, poor
man! he is only a walking doctor yet"
People made a distinction between
the walking and the driving doctor in
former days. A physician with large
paying practice used to ride in a chariot
which cost 300 guineas. Now people do
not care if doctor comes in landau,
or brougham, or a cab, provided he
comes quickly.
The old physician was known by
everybody as doctor. He wore long,
broad-tailed coat, knee breeches, Hes
sian boots, a frilled shirt with ruff1es
at the wrists, and large white cravat
of the finest lawn. He carried a cane
with perforated box at the top, which
held camphor or some other smelling
substance. When he was called to a
consultation, he expected to find a table
spread with wine glasses, decanter of
brandy and a bottle of wine.-Youth's
Companion.
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Take three-quarters of "a pound of
round steak from the upper round, chop
or grind it as fine as possible, then form
it into three round balls. F1atten them
to one-quarter of an inch thick; place
a frying pan with half tablespoonful
of butter over the fire. When hot put
in the meat, and fry about four minutes
on each side, turning the steaks twice
during that time. Meanwhile, stir half
tablespoonful butter with half tea
spoonful salt and one-eighth teaspoon
full pepper to cream. Lay the steaks
on hot plate, spread the creamed but
Republic.
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AN APPEAL FOR FREEDOM.
The Cuban League of New York Asks
for Financial Aid.

for F1nanc1dI Ahu.
The Cuban league of New York,
whose president is Ethan Allen, and
vice presidents such men of national
reputation and honor as Chauncey NJ
Depew. Roswell p. Flower. etc, has is
sued the following appeal asking for
financial aid in its patriotic efforts IN
behalf of struggling Cuba:
ITO the People of the United States;
~ brave and generous people will aid
the oppressed. Cuba is under brutal
tyranny. Inspired by our history she
freely bleeds for independence. and APP
peals to US for help. We must hear.
and hearing. promptly act. An ire
pressible conflict between republican
ism and monarchy was inaugurated by
Washington and his compatriots. and
as trustees of the great political inner
itance from them we must be in that
conflict whether we will or not. when
ever any intelligent people fires the
opening gun for freedom. By an un-
paralleled career of courage and sacri-
flee the Cubans have proved their right
to self-government. Our people, to
keep untarnished the heroic crown OF
our fathers. which our government at
Washington for three years has failed
to do, must extend material support tC
the embattled heroes on Cuban soil
The passive policy of this administers
ton, in emulation of the last, still re-
pressed the nobler impulses of our peo
pie. while foul murder continues. T6
give now is more than to fight. He who
supplies the weapon is brother III
achievement to him who yields it.
"A plan for small subscriptions al
local points, deposited there with
banks or business firms. reaches all
Let those who will serve send addresses
of themselves and bank to the Red
White and Blue League, New York.
.ETHAN ALLEN.
"PreSident of the Cuban Ieapue"'
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Tugaloo, Lambert's impressions were
that the vending of Intoxicating drinks
was the principal industry, as there
were three saloons to one store devoted
to general which estab.
iishment, painted white and with an all
of prosperity and flock of cotton bales
around it, bore the sign of l. Cohen. and
told pathetically that the pioneers of a
relentless and one-sided trade had al
ready made their Judgment in the midst
of helpless community.
1t was sunrise, and not soul was ap-
parently astir. A street led away north
ward at right angles to the main front
of the square, and struggling houses
fined it at intervals on either side. One
OF these, with belfry, at the corner of
the plazl 1. seemed to be a meeting house
of some kind, possibly the pro tempore
substitute for the county courthouse,
thought Lambert, for the center of the
square was still heaped with charretl
and blackened beams and bricks where
once the courthouse stood.
As for the camp or quarters of his
future comrades and associates, Lam
bert could see nothing that in the least
iesembled a military station. and. do
What he could, the boy found it impos.
sible to down the family heartsick,
komesick feeling that speedily took pos
session of him. A dog would have been
welcome as companion, but there was
not even stray dog. For a moment
Lambert thought of arousing the negro,
but after one glance at the wide, red
cavern of his mouth and the emptied
flask lying close to the frowzy head, he
decided IN favor of the mule.
A short walk brought him to the side
o1 the PROSTATE creature, and a long
Pull induced his muleship to stagger to
his feet. but in his struggles he snapped
the old headstall, and the remnant of
the bit and bride dropped into the dust.
1t was not until the vagrant stood erect
that Lambert discovered from the q.
{. brand that he was, or had been, gov
eminent property. The saddle, too,
turned out to be one of the old-fash-
Toned, black-skirted, pigskin McClel-
lans, SO familiar during the war days.
AS the mule seemed only Lalf awake and
unaware as yet of his freedom Lambert
first essayed to reset the saddle. towhich
he submitted without objection, and
then to replace the bride, to which he
would not submit at all, but with low
cred front and menacing hoof turned
Him about and logged over to where
some wisps Of hay lay scattered in
front OF shanty labeled Post Office"
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huge fstfuls of the white staple hat

huge fistfuls of the white staple had
been dragged from a dozen gaping
wounds in every bale.
The red soil, showing here and there
through the scant and withered h:rb-
age. was scanned with mule and wheel
tracks, and few rods away broken
down farm wagon lay with a spoke
bristling hub close by its shattered axle,
while the tire, rolling away from the
general wreck, seemed to have crawled
off to die by itself, and leaned rusting
against one of the charred timbers.
The southwark view was limited to a
long, low ridge of ugly, white-fecked
cotton stalks. Eastward the sun was
breaking pathway through the fringe
Of trees along another ridge, and a faint
line of mist, rising sluggishly in the in
tervening low ground, with the hollow
rumble of the train crossing an invisible
bridge, told of the presence of some
slow-moving stream. Westward the
track came into view around a thinly
wooded hillside, with a clearing here
and there, in which some low cabins
were scattered.
With this cheerful outlook to greet
him at three points of the compass,
Lambert turned him to the north. There
was a siding with a switch at each end,
but, as three or Jour rails were missing
opposite the west end of the platform,
it stood to reason that the railway COM
pany found the other all that was neces-
| sary to the traffic of so busting a place
as Tugaloo. A brown freight car stood
| on the siding with wide-opened doors,
and some household goods doomed in
plain sight. There is more honesty
in this community than the United
| States marshal would give us to believe"
| thought Lambert, as he recalled the eX-
tract from a recent report which was
| shown him at department headquarters.
He laid his satchel and sword upon the
platform, and, wrapping his blue cir
oular about his shoulders, took a few
steps forward and a peep into the in
| terror of the car. From the midst of
bedsteads, bureaus and cheap old-fash-
toned furniture. a quantity of bedding
had been hauled out upon the floor, and
from the midst of the bedding a woolly
head protruded-that of a negro fast
asleep.
Beyond the car stood dusty open
square 1ordered on three sides by dingy
wooden structures, some of two stories,
but most of them only one in height. A
wooden sidewalk framed the square in
some places, and in others only indica-
tons of its former presence were to be
seen. The sidewalk was bordered by a
rude railing, to which, it was ev;Eent,
| Forses and mules were tethered during
| business hours, for at one of the rails,
even now. sprawled upon the soft. hoof-
PAVED dust, long-eared quadruped
was half hanging by the bride rein.
while the dilapidated saddle had worked
around during the night until it set
tied upon the animals side.
Judging from such signs or legends
as were visible over the doorways of
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HOUSEHOLD BITS.
Odd Items of Information on Matters
Domestic.

Domestic.
A medical journal inveighs against
rocking, warning its adherents that
the soothing. feeling which it superin-
luces is really a mild congestion of the
brain. This, it is cited, is as applicable
to the woman's rocking chair as to the
baby's cradle.
At the silversmith's are to be found
to hold the blocks of ice which serve fol
any one of several dinner or luncheon
courses.
Englishwomep complain when they
come over here that they never get q
cup of hot tea. This will not seem
strange to any American who has par.
taken of that beverage in an English
home, where it is served-and drunk by
the natives-at the boiling point.
A gardener. one of the observant, old
fashioned sort, who knows that the best
sap comes from hill maple trees. and all
those shades of plant and tree lore, gives
a suggestion that may be of value tc
suburban residents. 1t is in relation to
the current worm. which he says can be
kept away, or. if established, driven
away, by a sprig of pine thrust in the
center of each bush.
Chemists protest against the preju
dice held by most housekeepers towards
cottonseed oil. They claim it to be very
unjust. Such oil is pronounced whole
some and having good food value by
some of the most careful scientists, and
it's use is preferable to that of much
of the lard in the market. The oil of a
seed is certainly cleaner in its asso
citation as well as actually than that o.
an animai-N. Y. Post.
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How They Came to London,

The following conversation took place be-
tween two gentlemen in crowded London
club room. They had been talking about the
condition of things when they first came to
London. Mr.. Rawson said:
'When l first came to London | had only
ragged coat, with knife and few mar
bles IN my pocket.
You We're better off than |, then, for
had neither a coat nor a waistcoat, nor a
knife, nor even marbles"
"Nonsense!" was the reply. How could
that be-"
"Well, | will tell you. When came here
l was baby in long Clothes"
The roar of laughter that arose could have
been heard miles away.-Tit-Bits.
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EaahfOu.s Fads.

Blouse bodice of yellow and red
changeable silk.
Belts and chatelaine bags knitted of
silk and beads.
Black silk grenadine showing scroll
design in white.
White satin belts and collars for wear
with gowns of foulard.
Fine alpacas and silk flannel, suitable
for blouses or shirt waists.
Delightfully."- summary hats, all in
varying tones of green.-Chicago Rec
ord.
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Did the Job HimS&lf.

1t is related of the late Due d'Aumale
that lack of decision is illustrated by
the following incident: When about to
enter room at a reception in 1873 he
was asked by the usher what name
should be announced. "Gen. lie Due
d'Aumale." he answered.; and then. sud-
denly changing his mind. he said: mo:
announce his royal highness, Due
d'Aumale." But, not feeling satisfied
with this, he said: Say merely Due
d'Auma,e." Finally he said: Say moth
ing" and walked in unannounced.-N.
Y. Times.
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Use Gcntleness.

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys.
otherwise you will excite and weaken them.
The happiest results follow the use of Hos,
letters Stomach Bitters to overcome renal
inactivity. Avoid the unmedicated, fiery
stimulants of commerce. The kidneys have
a delicate membrane easily irritated, and
upon this the action of such excitants is
pernicious. Malarial complaints, indiges-
ton, rheumatism, neuralgia and biliousness
succomb to the corrective influence of the
Bitters,
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The Mead Cycle Company, Chicago, is
the original house to sell reliable bicycles at
low prices direct to the rider. They have
built up large business by their honorable
dealings and have won the confidence of
their customers. They ask the public to be-
lieve that the house which leads and con-
trolls the best source of supply is the best
house to do business with.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally. Price 75c.
A Resem blance.

Death and the people of Germany are
alike in one respect
Name it."
"The people of Germany like to use money
direct from the mint
go on"
Death loves a shining mark, too. Pitts
burgh Chronicle Telegraph.
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The Appropriate Place.

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself"
said the judge to the gentleman who had
been caught picking pockets at a funeral.
Have you no sense of decency?'
Yes, judge; but you know people in
place like that are SO easily touched. In.
dianapois journal.
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There are 100000 words in the English
language, and most of them were used on
Sunday by woman who discovered after
coming out of church that her new hat was
adorned with a tag on which was written:
Reduced to shillings III pence. Tit
Bits.
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TWAS sun-up and swapping cold when
the brakeman shouted "Tugaloo," and
gratefully Lambert stepped from the
train and felt free air. Mr.. Potts was
sleeping soundly, doubled up in one OF
the seats. The only wakeful bipeds in
sight were the conductor and his train
man. Unseen hands forward had
showed the trunk out upon the frosty
boards. The sun was just peeping over
low wooded ridge before them. The
track wound away among some desolate
fields where tiny flakes of cotton still
chung to the brown and withered stalks.
In cloud of steam the train pulled away,
leaving Lambert and his trunk to look
after each other as best they might. and
as the cloud lifted the young officer
looked curiously around him.
He was standing on a rude wooden
platform whose shrunken planks left
black, gaping seams between their up
per faces, now. at least, beautiful in
their thick coat of sparkling white. En-
cept where the footmarks of the train
men married the smooth expanse, and
where in two or three places the planks
were gone entirely, this cleaning sheet
stretched the length of the platform to
where the white bulk of his trunk stood
on end at the eastern edge. The charred
and blackeEed relic of fight of stairs
led from the platform 20 the sloping
ground some five feet below, but not
even a hand-rail warned the unwary
against breakneck plunge into space.
pnrt Of hn loyf
burned away, and some charred and
blackened posts, sticking bolt upright
from the ground in the shape of mar
row rectangle, showed that a wooden
building of some kind had formerly
stood along the rear of the rickety
staging. Midway along its length, on
the southern side, shed with sloping
roof had been loosely thrown together,
and the ends nearest him, boarded in
and pierced for door and a couple of
windows, bore over the threshold in
black stencil the legend Ticket Office"
Under the shed were a couple of
plows and some boxes. Out on the
bare slope, midway between the track
and a snake" fence that paralleled it
some twenty yards to the south, a dozen
bales OF cotton were huddled, three of
them partially covered by old war-worn
'paufins and ponchos, the others en-
tirely exposed to the rain of sparks to
be expected from any passing engine
when the wind happened to blow from
the track; and all of them, evidently,
defenseless against the predatory
hands Of pilferers, for jagged rents were
torn in the coarse sacking Of each, and
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l have found Pisos Cure for Consumption
an unfailing medcine.-F. r. Lott, 1905
Scott St, Covington, Ky, Oct. l, 1894.
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Men say more evil Of women than
they think; it is the contrary with
women toward mems. Dubay.
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Dead beats all know Just what property.
is exempt from Washington
Democrat
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A cold church can only be warmed by fire
that comes from Heaven.
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on. Several men in gray wooden shirts
were washing their faces at the stream;
others. in light-bluc overcoats, were
sauntering about the tents. some of
whose occupants. as could be easily
seen, were still asleep.
Standing at the edge of the winding
road. and thinking how easy a matter
1t would be to toss hand-grenade into
the midst of the camp, Lambert paused
moment and studied the scene. Rest
ing on his sword, still in it's chamois
case. with his cloak and satcheI
thrown over his shoulder. the Young
officer became suddenly aware of a man
wearing the chevrons of corporal who,
fshing-rod in hand. was standing just
beyond clump of bushes below and
looking up at him with an expression
on his shrewd. "Bowery-boy" face in
which impudence and interest were
about equally mingled. So soon as he
found that he was observed, the cor
poral cooked his head on one side, and,
with arms akimbo and quizzical grin
on his freckled phiz, patronizingly in.
quired:
SWELL, young Teller, who made them
clothes?"
Lambert considered a moment before
making reply. One of his favorite in
s.ructors at the academy had spoken to
the graduating class about the splendid
timber to be found among the rank and
file OF the army. 'They are like SO
many old oaks" said he, and some of
Lambert's chums had never forgotten
it. Neither had Lambert.
ITO BE Continued