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goes. But In addition to the aqua baths
another of oil Is necessary to keep the
leaves as shiny as they are In their nat
ural state. To get them bright rub the
leaves with pure olive, poppy peanut
oil. putting 1t on with soft cotton swab
or a sponge. Put on the oil close to the
stems first then on the under side, and
lastly on the upper side Of the leaves. for
there must not be enough of II to catch
the dust and thus unnecessarily clog the
pores.
Keep geraniums In the fresh air and
sunshine much as is convenient: water
them when the pot shows dry spots, pick
off the dead or yellow leaves so that they
will not take strength needed by the
young branches and leaves and flowers,
protect them from draughts. and they will
be as healthy when out of doors.
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around The table three times with the adj
monition that they look closely at every
thing When all have passed around the
designated number of times they must re-
turn to the room from which they came
and the door is closed behind them.
Paper and pencil are then passed around
and each child must write down the name
OF every article that she can remember.
ABOUT nfteen minutes may be allowed for
this part of the game.
The papers are then collected. the hostess,
or her mother compares the papers with
a correct list, which she must prepare be-
forehand. and to the child who remembers
most OF the things prize should be given
A consolation prize may also be nroyided
Tor the most unsuccessful of the contest
ants
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
The New Skirt.

There is rumor in the world of fashion
that skirts are to be narrow and skinny.
The latest French skirt is cut with a mar
row front seam, and this extends above the
waist, where 1t is closely fitted to the fig
ure, the side seams being similarly shaped
and fitted. The back has plait, which
also defines the waist. This corselet style
of skirt is most becoming to tall slim
women. AS it is cut to give an impression
of narrowness it is seldom lined, and very
little undertaking is worn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
PRETTY Accessories.

Among the many lovely little dress ac-
cessories now being shown in the shops
are belts of wide Powered sash ribbons
held by quaint gold buckles, either plain
or studded with semi-precious stones Some
of these have slides at the back to match
the buckles-others are merely prettily
shirred and well boned Others are of
white silk elastic studded with silver or
gold dots and still others are Of velvet and
gold gauze. Handsome buckles are used
with all of these fancy belts, and the
0uainter the design the smarter the buckle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
New Waists,

The new lace waists are showing bertha
and harness effects of colored silks laid
over them, light blue or pink or fawn color
being used over the cream lace. The bertha
effect is the prettiest, being cut oftenest in
a triple sort of collar, which comes down
low on the bodice In front and in which
each piece of silk edged with tiny knife
plating projects frvm the one above it.
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Modern Hosts and Guests.

In the good old days when hospitality
meant something more than the exchange
of beds and outlets, 1t is possible that
neither hosts nor guests were so difficult to
please as they today, when you hear
them discussing each other with acidity
born of mutual Observation-Disclosures
Field
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12

the tendency-and a decided one-to revive
blouse effects that hang over the waist belt.
AS yet this Dew-old Outline Is charmingly
restrained and there is not hint of the
Objectionable pouch but can safely pre-
dict that the Russian blouse will slowly.
though surely, come back. The new bloused
effects are now mostly to be seen in evening
costumes, but at the Ritz the other after
noon stunning woman was wearing a
green velvet costume with a semi-eorselet
bodice that bloused slightly. The skirt had
a short train, and at the hem were braid
ings in the same shade as the velvet be-
tween bands Of dark mink. I have called
cleverly arranged braiding at the waist SIM
ulating a shaped belt. A blouse of taffeta
silk exactly matching the velvet hung just a
trife over the waist line. This blouse was
cut away at the neck to show an under
blouse of finest silk guipure inset with
mechIin. The sleeves. arranged in droop-
ing puffs to the elbow, were Of velvet
quantity trimmed with straps of mink, a
whole skin used for each manche, with
heads in front and the tails at the back.
To return to our theme, evening dress,
there is no modistic subject SO difficult to
generalize over. The reason probably Is
original inspiration. Even the least intrepid
dressmakers are disposed to let themselves
go when 1t comes to the fashoning of dance
and evening frocks. The field is such an
attractiveIy open one that it is often i'm
possible to resist the temptation to riot a
little in out-of-the- extravaganza pro-
vided 1t conforms to a certain unwritten
but inevitable law of fashionable smart
ness CATHERINE TALBOT.
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A DOG COMMITS SUICIDE.
ForIorn Cur Leaps from Eighth 3tor,
Of Building.

In a fit of melancholia. billie
Scroggs," a little wait, homeless and a
wanderer, committed suicide by jump.
ing OF the ledge on the eighth story.
just under the coping of the Evening
Star building. Billie acted strangely
all day. He did not run around with
his characteristic abandon, making
friends with the newsboys, and this
excited comment.
Unobserved, he climbed the stairs
In the newspaper building. It was
pleasant to sit high above the mad.
ding, rushing crowd below, far above
the reach Of old shoes, tin cans and
frecrackers. But, alone and undis'
turbed by curse or kick, his meian.
cholia grew. and with face upturned
toward the new moon, hanging clear
above the post Office tower, he howled
piteously. Finding no ~solace, he paced
up and down, and his agitation grew
when in an agonized moment he saw
little Jimmy in the street below, and
leaped.
Pedestrians passing the corner
stopped suddenly as his little body hit
the pavement with q thud.
Two young ladies of romantic dis.
position who were passing at the time
were deeply affected by the scene, and
were all a-flutter, n of them exclaim'
ing: Il wonder was it live or just
fits"
The little body hurting through the
air narrowly missed several persons
and the suicide created something OF
a sensation. A great crowd congregat.
ed and curses in life were turned to
sympathetic, kindly words in death,
IS Billie" breathed his last,
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MUCH ABUSED SHARK,
$1,000 ReWard for Proof That One
Ever Ate a Man.

The sharks of the oceans are the
most abused and most hated of all
creatures. There are more absurd
stories concerning their ferocity, more
ridiculous nonsense about the con.
tents Of their bellies, than would fill a
large volume.
The late Herman Oelrichs once of.
fered $1,000 for an authentic case OF
anyone being killed and eaten by q
"man-eater'-and no one has yet been
able to get the money.
l have myself offered several times
to duplicate the reward, but met upon
each occasion with such showers OF
authentic" ses-non of which was
proved-that l gave the matter nc
further consideration.
That a shark will not attack a mar
in the water is manifestly too much to
say, for at certain seasons vast hordes
of schools of these pests, or rather
scavengers, will strike" at almost
anything that is dropped into the
sea.
These littorals are fierce from hun
ger and a small fish. which a man
could easily pick up and whirl about
his head-a common way of killing q
shark along the southern coast-will
strike savagely, probably at a man OF
any other living body which offers
something in the way of food. So also
will the bonito, or one of the mack
erel tribe.-Technical World.
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strong. my dear Marjorie" 10 ssfd
how kind they all arc to us!"
A little group Of four people cal
down to the table beneath the Grim
s~on-shaded lights: Lord Nalvin, the
most famous scientist and most
courtly gentleman Of his time; 81,
William Gouldesbrough, the hero Q,
this famous party-to-morrow, wheH
Donald Megbie had done his work. t.
be the hero Of the civilized world:
Lady Poole; and sweet Marjorie Poole
in the grip Of circumstances that were
beyond her thinking. And no one Of
the four, not even Sir William
Gouldesbrough, F. R. g., gave Q
thought to the man in the living tomb
to Gerald Rathbone, who was, even
at that moment, tied up in indiarubber
and aluminium bonds for the amuse.
ment of MI. Guest, the pink, hairless
man Of Regents Park.
Mr.. Guest was drunk with whisky,
and sat happy, hooking his prisoner,
far down in the cellars Of Sir Will
Jams house.
Other folk were drunk with success
and applause in Portland Place. But
Donald Megbie was awake in the In
ner Temple and his thoughts were
curious and strange. Donald Megbie
had left the party too early in the
evening. He was drunk of nothing at
all!
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Potomac Filling Up.

The filling up of the channel of the
Potomac above the new bridges ha.
been very rapid in the past two years
the depth having been reduced from
about % feet to less than Is feet, ant
in the tidal basin, it is stated, the de
posits Of sediment have caused or
even more rapid decrease in the deptl
of the water.
A few years ago the smaller tug.
were able to get into the tidal basir
and cruise about without danger of 20
ing aground, and on several occasion.
the harbor police boat Vigilant, IL
breaking up the ice on the basin
traversed it from end to end. At tina
time there was about six feet of watel
in the basin at the lowest tides, an(
six or seven feet could be found a
the inlet where the basin and river
connect. Recent measurements. it /.
stated, found less than three feet II
the center Of the basin, and it is 81
shoal at the entrance that but few
of the tugs employed on the river car
pass through 1t without sticking II
the mud.
The rivermen are at a loss for thu
cause of the rapid filling of the basir
and channels in the vicinity OF this
city. Some ascribe 1t to the fact tina
the sand and gravel diggers, severa
of which e constantly at worl
above the Long Bridge until within
the past three years, do not now kee,
a good depth Of water close to shor,
and thus give a place where much O
the sediment may settle. The channe
above the bridges and the tidal basil
are to be dredged within the next few
months.
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CHAPTER XVI.

Donald Megbie's Strange Experience.
Like most writer's, Donald Megbie
was Of a nervous and sensitive tenn
permanent. Both mental and physical
impressions recorded themselves very
rapidly and completely upon his con
seriousness. He arrived at the Inner
Temple with every nerve in a state of
excitement such rs he had hardly
ever known before. He walked down
the dim, echoing ways toward the
river, his chambers being situated il
the new buildings upon the Embark
ment. A full noon hung in the sky,
brilliant and honey-colored, attended
by little drifts of amber and sulphur
tinted clouds.
But the journalist saw nothing Of
the nights splen6or. He almost stun
bled up the stairs to the first floor. A
lamp vas burning over the door of his
rooms, and his name was painted in
white letters upon the oak. He went
in and turned on the electric light.
Then for a moment he stood still in
the hall, a richly-furnished place sur
rounded on all sides by doors painted
white. His feet made no sound on the
thick Persian carpet, and the whole
fiat was perfectly still. He felt un-
easy, c%uriously SO, as II some calamity
was impending. The exhilaration of
his stirring talk with Sir William
Gouldesbrough-so recent. SO pro-
foundry moving-had now quite de-
parted. His whole consciousness
was concentrated upon a little box Of
metal in the pocket Of his overcoat.
It seemed alive; he was actually con
scious of its presence, though his
fingers were not touching it.
by love-" he said to himself, aloud,
"the things like an electric battery.
It seems as If actual currents radiated
from It," His own voice sounded odd
and unnatural in his ears, and as he
hung up his coat and went into the
study with the cigarette case in his
hand he found himself wishing that he
had not been given a holiday-he had
allowed him to 60 to Windsor to spend
q night at his mothers house.
A bright fire glowed in tho crate Of
red brick. It shone upon the book
lined walls, playing cheerily upon the
crimson, green, and gold of the bind
ings. and turning the great silver ink
stand upon the writing table into q
thing OF flame. Everything was cheer
full and just Is usual.
Ito Be Continued.)
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Giving Him q Pointer.

"Once upon a time, when I was SELL
Ing lightning rods" began the man
whom we all sized up as a returned
missionary from China, Il came
across q farmer who had quit the
plow for a shady fence corner and was
thoroughly out with agriculture. He
didn't want anything in my line ex-
cept advice. !.
stranger says he, hard work and
me don't agree. want to strike
something easy. I'm thinking Of let
ting It be known that I have struck
natural gas on the farm and selling
out for . big price,
But have your I asked.
mo. but I could fool EN-
II told him that he couldn't work
no such racket-that he would have
70 show the gas before anyone would
buy. and he then said:
wouldn't 1t be the same with
coal!'
~ might pretend I had an iron
nine Ia that hill
YOU'D have to show the ore.'
HE suggested two or three other
impossible schemes on which / had to
throw cold water. and finally. In des-
poration, be said:
"'6tranger. IL you've got any brains
n your head give me . pinter on how
% At along without work.
"'aave you any daughters?'
-Four Of EN- b'gosh!!'
"'Has each n got q beau?
1.-TWO or three apiece
sssThen let them bring suits for
hreAch OF promise and the money will
come rolling In faster than you can
count Il. It's Z snre thing with Q jury.
and any lawyer will take the case on
shares. That's Why I am in the light
ning rod bnslness-because I have ND
aaughters.'
"s6haksl' says the man, holding out
III paw. You are smarter'n chain
lightning. and I'm Q fool. That's the
way-of course It Is. and II you come
back this way this week you'll hear
ehat my gals have got four breach Of
promise suits on hand and are lookin'
Tor more!'"
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NIX THIS YOURSELF
0tciPG ron siMPLE HOMEMADE
KIDNEY CURE.
lnDxpenelve Mixture Of Harmless Veg
stable ingredients Said TO Over
oome Kidney and Bladder
Trouble Promptly.

Here II Q simple homemade mix.
ture Al given by an eminent authority
on Kidney diseases, who makes the
statement In q New York daily news.
paper, that It win relieve almost any
case Of Kidney trouble II taken be-
fore the stage Of Bright's disease. He
states that such symptoms as lame
ba0k. pain In the side. frequent desire
% urinate; especially at night; painful
and discolored urination. are readily
overcome. Here is the recipe; try 1t:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce: Compound Kargon, n ounce;
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three
ounces. Take a t~easpoonful after each
meal and ut bedtime.
A well-known physician is authority
that these ingredients are all harmless
and easily mixed at home by shaking
veil in Z bottle, This mixture has q
peculiar healing and soothing effect
upon the entire Kidney and Urinary
structure and often overcomes the
worst forms OF Rheumatism In just q
little while. This mixture is said to
remove all blood disorders and cure
the Rheumatism by forcing the Kid.
nots to filter and strain from the blood
and system ell uric acid and foul, de-
composed waste matter, which cause
the aflictions. Try 1t II you aren't
we'll Save the prescription.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25

when I person has used coffee for q
number Of years and gradually d.
e1fned Ia health. It IL time the coffee
ohcdld b left on 81 order 70 ses
wmGkher Or. mot II has been the
oou6o az the trouble.
AlAdy IN Huntsville, Ala, says she
- coffee for about 40 years, and for
- past 80 years has had severe
oAnGhach trouble. II have been treat.
~ " many physicians but AL IN vain.
Nxefything failed to give relief. Was
r~ro9lrated for some time. and came
- dying. When ! recovered sum.
e1onfx to partake OF food and drink !
49, coatee again and It soured on my
6nally concluded that coffee was
muse OF my trouble and stopped
h. / tried tea IN it, place and
nllk, but neither agreed with
- / commenced using Postum.
prcpefly made and Il VA very
~ The taste.
So ~ used 4 four months.
oalth q % greatly improved
~ almnSt anything ! want
80 well, whereas. before,
~ years With insomnia
I'D the ennse q ny tros
7 - q ~ rid q them.
n1supc1 Il, 4 hppFeciafe
S6e,S = nSasgs Rea6
SWSuyjllays = 49,
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A Warm Bath.

A young man wnnt into q restaurant
and ordered roast beef, coffee and
rolls. In q few minutes a trim little
waitress tripped up with the order.
A she turned to leave the young man
discovered that the meat was about
@ cold as a refrigerator.
II don't care for cold beef" he said.
Il should like to have 1t hot"
Tho young woman ttok the plate.
and. going to the dumb waiter shaft,
shouted down: "Hortense, / want this
meat hot; pour some warm gravy on
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25
Public Speaxers-Take Notice.

A well known dramatist was dis
cussing a rather tiresome drama.
1T was ssuch a DRAMA" he said,
that a French playwright read the
other day before a committee Of the
French Society of Comedy. AS the au-
thor plodded through his second act
he heard an odd sound, and looked up.
to see a mar asleep and breathing
heavily. He was greatly annoyed.
Monsieur he said, monsieur.
wake up. Please remember, monsieur,
that I am reading this play to the com.
mittee in order to get its opinion.
How can q man who is asleep give an
opinion?'"
"'How?' said the drowsy one with
a yawn. Easily enough. Sleep 10 an
opinion"
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tommy shook his head.
Find Relics Of Old Race.

Prof. Harlan l. Smith, Of the Ameri.
can Museum Of Natural History, who
with q party Of assistants from the
faculty Of the University Of Michigan
went to Wyoming to explore the great
fossil valleys, found evidences Of the
existence of several large villages
whose inhabitants antedate the Ameri.
can Indian, possibly by many cen.
turtles. Many ancient burial mounds
were unoaSAAed
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25
MoonliQht.

All the world was sunk In gloom
till gradually a rayonnant heralding
halo Of q pallid and lustrous green ap'
peared above the deeply purple sum.
mits; In its midst, the yellow moon
slowly revealed herself, and with q
visible tremulousness rose solemnly
into the ~ascendancy Of the night"
This is the way a lady novelist has Of
telling her readers that 1t IL moon.
light.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25
Stuna.

StunQ.
A little girl was being put to bed
one summer night, and after she had
said her prayers her mother kissed
her good night, and said:
Nov go to sleep, dear. Dont be
afraid, for Gods angels + watching
over YOU"
In a short time, while the mother
and father we're at tea, q small voice
from up stairs was heard.
Mammal"
Eyes, little one; what Is it,"
Goods angels are buzzing around.
and ones bitten mel"
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Optimistic Tommy.

When the seventh son was born.
there was great rejoicing. Two or
three days after the event, n OF the
neighbors. meeting Tommy. the eldest
son, asked If he were not sorry that
his baby brother was not a baby sis.
ter.
Tommy shook his head.
mo ma'am. not mel" he replied
with great decision. "Y' see we're try.
in for a baseball nine."-Everybody's
Magazine.
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was impaired and the kidney secre.
tons we're badly disordered. I was
completely worn out and discouraged
when I began using Doan's Kidney
Pills, but they went right to the cause
of the trouble and did their work we'll
l have been feeling we'll aver SINCE"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
Foster -Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25

Ave months In q hos
pital was dis
charged as %incurable.
and given only six
months to live. My
heart was affected, I
had s m t b 8
spells, and some
times fell uncon.
scious. I got SO I
couldn't u 8 my
arms, my eyesight
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25
PATENTS.
List Of Patents Issued Last Week %

List Of Patents Issued Last Week -
Northwestern Inventors.
Reported by Lothrop & Johnson,
patent lawyers, GIL Pioneer Press
building, st. Paul, Mimi: Walter r.
Clark, Glenwood. Mimi, check-holder:
Turina Ditmanson, Summit, s. D..
clothes drier; William Echers, Min
neapolis, Mimi, wheel: Albert Erlitz.
saltwater, Mimi, burial vault; Erik
Kyllonen, Enterprise, N. D., tubular
CRATE; Pattison F. Mcclure, Pierre, 8.
d., s~moking-pipe: Ole Peterson, D+
luth, Mimi, propeller.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25

Maybe m incubator 10 Ill right"
unused the Leghorn, but Il can't
scratch for worms like mother used to
do"
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Madam

Aunt-Elli, do not vex your husband
too much. He will end by going back
to his parents.
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FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Discharged eecaues Doctors Could Not
Cure.

Levi p. Brockway, 8. Second Ave-,
Anoka., Mimi, says: after lying for
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-25

A touchy disposition often goes with
a tough heart.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-24
HOTEL. ARRIVALS.

Hotel st. George.-W. d. Gilman,
Portland; j. b. Bush, Kansas City; f.
A. Morton, Spokane; C. Green, Hunt
ington; NJ. S. Rosenbladt. Chicago; c.
A. Ramsey, Portland; Room and wife,
Spokane; T. A. Emerson and Wife
Boston; ]. f. Mcknight, Hermiston;
George o. Bradley, Spokane: M. p.
Thamhan, Omaha; w. B. Towne, Spo-
kane; F. C. Hanley, Portland; o. Kel-
sey, Spokane; S. p, Gould, Portland;
]. NJ. Bates, Walla Walla; L. Ruzzi
Portland; George H. Payne, Walla
walla; F. S. Mcmahon. Portland; E
C. Kessler; A. NJ. Brown, Tacoma; II
NJ. Cockburn and wife, Milton; H
Krack, Walla Walla; Mrs. L, II. Clark
Colorado Springs; David Husband
Eugene; Maurice D. Scroggo, Hermis-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-09-24

doctored there four months, the baby
never getting any better. His hand
and legs then had big sores on them
and as for his sleeping, we could not
fered so terribly. First tied his hands
to the crib to keep him from scratching,
but when 1t got so bad tied him in a
shawl or he would scratch himself all
bloody. When he was seven months old
we tried set Of the Cuticura Remedies.
The first application OF Cuticura let
him sleep and rest well. in one week
the sores were gone but it stayed red
and sometimes it would itch so we
used Cuticura for two months, then he
had q clear and white face. Now he Is
two years and seven months old and
has never had eczema again. i hope
this letter will help some who are suffer-
ing from skin disease. Every mother
who has baby suffering with skin
disease should just try Cuticura; there
is nothing better. Mrs. Louis Beck. r.
Eds, San Antonio. Tex, Apr. 15, '07."
A single set Of Cuticura Remedies Ia
often sufficient to cure torturing, dis
figuring, itching. burning. and scaly
humors. eczemas, rashes. and irritations,
from infancy to age, when all other
remedies fail.
Complete External and Internal Treatment for
Cleanse tho Skin. cuticura ontmen, s53c.J 10 Heal
the Skin. and Cutcura Resovent t50c.), Tor In the
form OF Chocolate Coated Pills 25c. per vial OF 60)
70 Purify the Blood. Sold throughout the world.
Mass
ns- Mailed Free. Cuticura Book on Skin pi,c--,a