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TREATMENT OF WOUNDS.
Some Simple Instructions Which
Every Mother Should Con.
stantly Bear in Mind.>

Severe cuts and wounds need most
careful treatment, or blood poisoning
may follow. Careful dressing OF
wounds will often prevent very bad
scars. Over punctured wound place
a pad, which must be removed if in
Illumination ensues to allow the dis
charge to escape. A wound caused by
a rusty nail or similar substance
should be cut to favor the escape of
blood or foreign matter which may be
left in the wound. Water that has
been boiled and pieces of old linen are
always the best to use in dressing
cuts or wounds. On no account use a
piece of unwashed calico for this pur-
pose. Rolls of old linen and adhesive
plaster should always be at hand where
there are children. Cleanse the cut from
blood, dirt and all foreign matter, then
bring the edges of the wound together
and apply diagonally several strips of
adhesive plaster, pressing each firmly
to the skin. When cotton wool is ap-
piled indicated cotton only should be
used
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ried past Uncle Ben into the cabin. He
came out, brushing the banjo and say
ing: ''Whew, the dust!"
The old man sat dazed as the instru-
ment was thrust into his hand. lie
looked pitifully into the faces about
him, but they were all expectancy.
Then his fingers wandered to the neck,
and he tuned the old banjo. Then he
began to play. He seemed inspired.
His listeners stood transfxed.
From piece to piece he glided, pour
ing out the music in silver stream.
His old fingers seemed to have forgot
ten their stiffness as they flew over the
familiar strings. For nearly an hour
he played and then abruptly stopped.
The applause was generous and real,
but the old man only smiled sadly, and
with a faraway look in his eyes.
AS they turned away, somewhat awed
by his manner, they heard him begin to
play softly an old hymn. 1t was "Hark!
From the Tomb"
He stopped when but half through,
and Robert returned to ask him to fin
ish, but his head had fallen forward
close against the banjo's neck, and there
was a smile on his face, as if he had sud-
denly had a sweet memory of Martha
Saturday Evening Post.
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Stand I'm to Fit n Shoe

''People would find less difficulty with
ready-made Shoes" said the expert
enced salesman, ''if they would stand
up to fit them on instead of sitting
down. Nine persons out of ten, partic-
ularly women, want comfortable
chair while they are fitting a shoe, and
it is with the greatest difficulty you can
get them to stand for few minutes,
even after the shoe is fitted. Then,
when they begin walking about they
wonder why the shoes are not so COM
Portable as they were at first trial. A
woman's foot is considerably smaller
when she sits in chair than when she
walks about. Exercise brings larger
quantity of blood into the feet and they
swell appreciably. The muscles, also,
require certain space. In buying shoes
this fact should be borne in mind.''
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MABEL's GOOD LUCK.
A Pretty Story Showing That 1t rays
to BE Respectful to Old
People.

Perhaps the young woman who wrote
this moral story had read about that
nice girl who always looked pleasant at
the deaf and dumb man and found her.
self heiress to his large property when
his will was probated. This is only a
supposition, of course. The story
speaks for itself, as the reader will see:
'Mabel was beautiful girl, just
dawning into womanhood, and she ran
a typewriter. She helped support her
widowed mother, her father having
been lost at sea many years previous to
the beginning of this tale. Mabel could
earn but little wages with her type
writing, because she was also obliged
to answer the telephone, and she
couldn't expect regular typewriting
wages for doing that. But she did not
complain. Every day when she rode
downtown in an electric car she noticed
an elderly gentleman whose clothes
were old-fashioned and pretty shabby.
He had good face,>but she could not
help seeing that his trousers bagged
at the knees a great deal. Other peo-
pie noticed it, too, and snickered and
made remarks, and even called him Old
Baggy Knees but Mabel never did.
She was too well brought up, for one
thing, and, besides, she had good
heart. Whenever she could she made
room on the seat for the old man, and
once when there was no room to make
she stood up and gave him her seat.
After awhile he talked with her, and
found out who she was and where she
lived. One day she missed him. In fact,
she saw him no more. 1t may have
been Il week or so when there came
a heavy rap at the door. It was man
with u package. The address was
Miss Mabel Pinklington, No. 972 Skid
more place. and Mabel opened it with
nervous haste. All it contained was a
pair of much-worn trousers and card
which read: For the little woman who
never called me Baggy Knees, from her
sincere admirer, John Tewksbury.'
Mabel laughed, but her mother shock
out the garment and said: That's a
funny present. She felt in the pockets,
but there was nothing there. Then
she threw the trousers across chair
and plaintively said: You know, Ma
bel, dear, that if we cannot make the
last payment on this home tomorrow
we will lose it,
"Mabel sighed heavily and answered.:
Yes, mother, we will lose it,
"Just then her mother, who had been
looking at the trousers idly, said: I
don't think I ever saw such baggy
knees on human person. They look
fairly solid She came little closer
and felt of them. Il declare, they are!
she excitedly said. She turned them
inside out, and 10! two huge wads Of
$40 bills fell on the floor, one from each
knee. When they counted them up they
found there was $4,1sO in the two
punches. Oh, but that was happy
household! And next morning when
the cruel agent came for his money he
was given it before he could ask for it.
"All of which shows that it always
pays to be good and respectful to old
persons. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Mrs. Mathilde Richter.

Mrs. Mathilde Richter, Doniphan, Neb.
says:
II suffered from catarrh for many
years, but since have been taking Pe-ru-na
1 feel strong and we'll. would advise all
people to try Pe-ru-na. As used Pe-ru-na
and Man-a-lin while was passing through
the change Of life, am positively convinced
your beneficial remedies have relieved me
from all my ills"
Pe-ru-na has raised more women from
beds of sickness and set them to work again
than any other remedy. Pelvic catarrh is
the bane of womankind. Pe-ru-na is the
bane of catarrh in all forms and stages. Mrs.
Col. Hamilton, Columbus, O., says: II rec
ommend Pe-ru-na to women, believing it to
be especially beneficial to them
Send for free book written by DR.. Hart
man, entitled Health and Beauty" Ad-
dress Dr. Hartman, Columbus o.
Remember that cholera morbus, cholera
infantum, summer complaint, bilious collie,
diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all
catarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the only
correct name for these affections. Pe-ru-na
is an absolute specific for these ailments,
which are so common in summer. DR.. Hart
man, in practice of over forty years, never
lost a single case of cholera infantum, dysen-
terry, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his
only remedy was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring
further particulars should send for free
copy of Summer Catarrh." Address DR..
Hartman, Columbus, 0.
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penrl. Of Great Price.

The finest pearl necklace in the world
is said to be that of Countess Henckel,
a wcll-known lady in Paris society. 1t
is composed of three necklaces. each
of which was famous in its day. One
of them. known as ''the necklace of the
Virgin of Atoka," was sold to the coun-
tess by Spanish grandee for E 10000
Another was the property Of the ex-
queen of Naples, the sister of the late
ill-fated empress of Austria. The third
was the celebrated necklace of ex-Em-
press Eugene, which was worn by her
on state occasions and which was sold
not long ago by Il firm of London jewel
ers for 100000. The value of Countess
Henckels necklace at the present time
is estimated at { $4,000.
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The hest Wine Jelly.

This recipe is for small family, but
the quantity of material can be doubled
for larger number of persons. Half
box of gelatine, two gills of cold wa
ter, three gills of boiling water, as
much sherry wine as cold water, heap
ing cupful of sugar, two lemons, an
orange, stick of cinnamon and other
spices to suit taste. Pour the cold wa
ter on the gelatine and let it stand one
hour, then pour on the boiling water in
which the spices have been boiled and
strained. Add the juice of the lemons
and the orange with little grated
lemon rind. Any fruits of the season
may be sliced and sprinkled through
the jelly. This will make it much more
delicious
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however, afford to have the stones cor
respond in color to the object which
the pin is intended to represent the
result is doubly effective.
Chatelaines, which are not out of
place upon informal evening gowns.
have one surprisingly unique feature
they are miniatured. In the center Of
the bar is miniature, and upon each
side of it are miniatures of smaller
size. Each is surrounded with a
wreath of enameled flowers.
10 correspond with the chatelaine,
there is small watch enameled in dec
orative design which is held in place
upon the corsage with feur de lis
incrusted pin with precious stones.
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Wise Hen.

A duck which had faithfully stuck to bust
ness during the summer and laid several
dozens Of large fawn-colored eggs COM
planned that she wasn't appreciated: See
that hen over there" said the duck, s'she
hasn't laid as many eggs as l have, nor as
big, but she has books written about her and
is saying word about me- 'The trouble
with you is" said wise rooster that was
standing near, '.that you don't tell the pub
lie what you have done. You lay an egg and
waddle off without saying word, but that
sister of mine never lays one without letting
everybody in the neighborhood know it.
If you want to cut any ice in this community
you must learn to advertise. ''-Boyce's Hus'
tier
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TEACH HER TO RUN.
The American Girl Should BE sxs-
tematically Trained in This
Healthful Exercise.

The American girl can be saved by
proper physical training from becom-
ing the American woman with nerves,
says an authority on physical culture
in the New York World.
"This physical training should begin
during the earlier days of child
hood. Take girl at her fifth birth
day and teach her to run slowly, with
erect carriage, as far as she can with
comfort every secular day until she
reaches her majority. Suppose by Is
she ran as far as she could with COM
fort in ten minutes, would it trouble
her much at Is, or at p, to run mile,
at a good pace, too?
rs it not likely that even several
miles under favorable circumstances
for instance, in a hare-and-hounds
game-would not disturb her? Had
she been taught to run properly, never
touching her heels to the ground, and
springings lightly from her toes and
sole, to hold her arms practically mo-
tionless, her dhest high-as- near her
chin as she could get it, and keep it
there-do YOU think that the muscles
she used in running through all these
years would be weak? Would she have
half-developed lungs or well-developed
ones? Would the muscles which held
her body erect be easily up to their
work, and would it be natural for her
to be erect, or not?
Looking at the girl so trained, do
we not recall Emerson's saying that
TN all human action those faculties will
be strong which are used?' She has
been intelligently using certain parts
of her body and limbs for many years;
not violently, not OVERRIDING them, but
nationally.
"This built them up and made them
strong, precisely as it did for her BROTH
er, who ran with her in all these daily
stretches. Her most important muscle,
her heart-thus, also, trained to strong,
steady sensible, but never violent, daily
exercise gained steadily in quality,
strength and endurance. In short, she
has an educated heart, educated lungs,
educated limbs.'
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PLAYFUL HARBoR SEALS.
Antics in Their Pool Mt the Aquarium
-One Seal Learning from
the Other.

Nellie, the larger OF the TWO harDOr
seals at the Aquarium, long ago devel-
oped in her play very pretty juggling
trick, which consists in tossing things
on her whislSers, the bristles that pro-
ject from the sides of her nose like
cats whiskers. She would find floating
in the water fragment of fish skin
that had become detached from the
pieces of cut-up fish fed to the seals as
food, and juggle that, putting her head
under it in the water in such man.
ner as to get the whiskers on one side
under it, and then bearing the scrap up
on them and balancing it on them.
After awhile she would throw her head
up and toss the scrap over and catch it
on the whiskers on the other side and
balance it there for time, and then,
perhaps, toss it back; and sometimes
she would take the scrap between her
teeth and toss it up and catch it on her
nose or whiskers and then juggle it
about in like manner. Now the smaller
of the two seals in this pool has taken
up the juggling trick, having appar.
emily copied it from Nellie. The lit
tie one, indeed, appears to be learning
all of Nellie's tricks.
One thing that they both do is to
straighten themselves out in the wa
ter and then begin to turn like spin.
die. When one of the seals gets to
turning in this manner it turns so
rapidly that it seems to elongate, and
its rotation is SO rapid that its eyes
cannot be distinguished. They both
turn somersaults in the water, both
forward and backward. For general
,skylarking they are both alike, swim
ming and dashing about with remark.
able swiftness, jumping almost clean
out of the water.
Another form of play that they have
is to make rings of themselves and
whirl around. In this play the seals
bend themselves pretty nearly into
hoop and chase their tail fiippers
around, just as kitten would chase
its tail, round and round, and every
now and then one of the seals will get
one of its tail fiippers in its mouth.
making a complete ring of itself, and
in this form whirl rapidly in the wa.
ter, looking like a big life preserve1
whirling in the water horizontally.
The West Indian seals in their pool
over on the other side of the aquarium
floor have been, what with their greater
bulk, their barking. and especially their
playful habit of squirting water on the
people standing around their pool, the
greater attraction.-N. Y. Sun.
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
lncrease in Area, Population and
Revenue in the Last
Thirty Years.

The empire is now territory of H.
100000 square miles. or 100000 if we
include Egypt and the Soudan; and in
this territory there is a population Of
about 407 100000, or of over 400 ,OOO, 900
if Egypt and the Soudan are included
"a population about one-fourth of the
whole population of the earth. Of this
population about 100000 are of Eng
fish speech and race, the ruling race
in the United Kingdom, in British
North America, and in Australasia;
and the remaining 350,O0O,OOO to 37O,-
100000 are the various subject races, for
the most part in India and Africa, the
proportion of the governing to the SUBJ
ject races being thus about one-eighth,
says the Spectator.
The increase in area and population
in this empire, excluding Egypt and the
Soudan, amounts since 1871 to 1854, 900
square miles of area, or more than one
fourth of the whole, and to $4,000, 900
of population, which is also more than
one-fourth of the whole. The increase
of the ruling race.included in this popu-
lation amounts to about 12.5OO.OO0, or
about onefourth of the number in 1897;
and the increase in the subject races is
112 100000, or nearly one-third the NUM-
Der in 1897. This increase is largely due
to annexation. The existing revenue of
the different parts of this empire added
together amounts to e 257,653, 900, and
the imports and exports to C !, 1875 ,O0O,-
| 900. The increase since 1871 is e115,-
! $4,000 for revenue. or more than 40 per
cent. of the present total, while the in
crease in imports and exports is 6 42s,-
100000, or about one-third of the pres
ent total,
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Approved Style in Table Linen.

Pure white damask is the approved
style now and more elegant always. 1t
pays to l'uy good quality, as it looks bet
ter and wears longer. The German da-
mask is the heaviest and the best for
wear, although there is a very good
quality of domestic manufacture to be
obtained. Table linen should be en-
trusted only to thorough laundress,
as poor one will spoil an expensive
cloth in one washing. Soda and strong
soap should not be used in washing.
Coffee and tea stains are best removed
by the action of the sun with the assist
ance of soapy water.
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CORRECT SUMMER FAN.
Something Entirely New, but AbsO-
lutely Useless, in the Breezy
Little Toilet Accessory.

The fashionable new fans forcibly re.
mind one of spring muffs-they are only
for show. In these days when the old
fashioned palmetto is looked upon with
horror, the proper summer fan is the
one which is covered with thin silk or
gauzy material, deliberately embroid-
cred and very often handpainted.
Here is model to delight the fancy
of the most fastidious. The frame is
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The Fastest River Boat.

Portland, Ore, claims to have the
fastest sternwheel steamboat in the
world. The Hassalo, recently complet-
ed for the Columbia river trade, has
made spurts of 26 2-3 miles an hour.
She is 1856 feet long, with tGbed boiler
eight feet in diameter, and compound
engines of over 5000 horse power. Tae
boat is so swift that it was found nee
essary to strengthen her rudder.
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FOR TIE cHATELA1NE.
A Glimpse in the Up-t$-Date Girls
Jewelry Box shows Many
Pretty Ornameats.

One needs only to take passing
glance into the jewel box Npf the up.
to-date girl to see that her jewelry
forms no small part of the beautiful
belongings of her wardrobe.
For morning and afternoon wear
there are beautiful stick pins of every
imaginable shape wrought in every
conceivable material. Where one Gan.
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DAINTY FAN DESIGN.

covered with heliotrope spangled tulle
and the sticks are oflight oriental wood
profusely carved. Sewed over the tullc
upon both sides are swirling designs in
genuine cut steel. The edge is bor-
dered with frill of the spangled tulle
finished with delicate metal tracery.
Such fan makes a costly addition to
an evening toilet, as the glittering re-
Elections of the cut steel look like dia-
monds as the fan is waited to and fro,
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ghe &pillistou Graph!
B 3. COPELAND, Publisher.
STORM.
i e4rasa an tha Land

Storm and stress on the land,
And stress and storm on the sea;
And wind that tolls for the unblest souls
That asleep in its green caves be.
The raindrops splash on the pane;
The fogs sweep in from the east;
And the seagulls fly DER the breakers high.
On the hearts of the drowned to feast.
A horror lies on the sea;
On the land does terror fall;
Twas in storm like this sailed the fated
ship
To the death that lay wait for all.
And the laugh Of the treacherous sea
Rings out DER their unknown graves;
While its scorn leaps high to the cloud
wracked sky,
With the hiss Of its conquering waves.
For the ships may sail from the east,
And the ships may sail from the west
AThey may pierce with their anchors It's
untamed heart,
And furrow with steel it's breast.
If It pleasure that heart to wait
1t can smile like some guilt.ess thing,
And no words can tell of the magic spell
The throbs Of its surges sing
But it's hunger is heavy to see;
And it's anger is death to feel;
In the awesome hour that beholds its
power.
Like reeds are the ribs of steel.
It is hungry for souls tonight;
It has won, it would win once more.
It is sick of the wrecks it has dashed on
the rocks
And strewn DER the sand-paved shore.
Oh! the moan of the wind and the rain
aH Oh! the crash Of the seas fierce hand,
AS it filings the gage of it's quenchless rage
At the feet of the cliffs on the strand!
God pity the ships that reel
Ger its pitiless breast tonight,
And guide their way through the storm
swept bay,
Ere the dawn of the longed-for light.
And God pity the souls that wait,
In anguish and nameless dread,
Till the morn shall wake and the storm
shall break,
And the sea TOSS back their dead.
Boston Transcript.
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THE CLOTHES CASE.
A New-Fanglel Piece of Furniture
Which Is to Take the Place
of the Old Closet.

The architects are puzzled. They
have never been able to put enough
closets into q new house to satisfy the
cts at all.
They have suddenly discovered that
English houses never have closets.
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He Needed Practice.

Mae-Why did you break your en-.
gagement with young Golfer?
Ethel-Every time he tried to kiss me
he fooled his approach and landed OF
my nose or chin.-N. Y. Journal.
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German Emigration.

Last year the number of Germans
who emigrated to other countries
across the Atlantic was only 2O,966, as
against 12o,GS9 in 1891, and 100000 in
1ssi.--Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Consolinx Thought.

Geraldine-Life will be one grand
sweet song after we are married.
Gerald don't care as long as it
isn't piano solo-Town Topics.
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"No,''' said Fido through the fence to the
tramp dog, Il don't mind being washed. 1t
is such fun to roll in the dirt afterward. -
INDIANAPOLIS journal.
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It's good memory that sometimes ad
mits of discreet forgetfulness. - Chicago
Daily News. .r ...a
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Some people demand that the world not
only be patient with their foolishness, but
that it applaud.-Atchison Globe.
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Man once ate the cream, but now they
cremate the man.-Chicago Daily News.
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Storm and stress on the land,
And stress and storm on the sea;
And wind that tolls for the unblest souls
That asleep in its green caves be.