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KID IYI1J GLOVE 1, > 1 i MV ^ LA 1Y KINO 111 •
ONE TOWN IN FRANT'K ALMOST
SUPPLIES THE WORLD,
Nearly Ten Million Kids Slain An¬
nually for the Grenoble Manu¬
factories No Machinery Used}
It Is All Hand Labor.
REXORLE, a town 400 miles
I /_ southwest of Paris, is the
_
\ place where mo*t kid gloves
come from. France holds the
chief of position in the world in this line j
commerce, and wherever you go
you are sure to find that the best
This gloves are of French manufacture, j
uceew is not due to a question
of taste only, but to excellence of
workmanship also. There is nothing ;
mcchanical about glovemaking; it is
all hand labor; therefore, experienced
and to produce skillful good operatives merchandise. are necessary But J
as
Frenohrnen do not like to leave their
homes it is the Belgians, the Germans i
ami the Italians who go abroad and
themselves to the production
|^an inferior in other kind countries. of goods for toilet
purposes
At Grenoble alone 1,200,000 dozen
pairs of gloves are manufactured an
niislJy. This represents a value of
87,000,000 to $7,200,000, and gives
employment to 25,000 workpeople of
both sexes. There are 4000 men and
21,000 women residing in a rayon of
thirty-eight miles around Grenoble
who live by this work. Glovemaking,
then, is interesting from a social point ,
of view, as it is one of the few callings
open to female labor in which they'
can earn respectable wages without
abandoning husbands, homes and lit¬
tle ones.
Only kids ami lambs furnish glove
skins, the first about ninety-five per
cent, of the whole quantity. As re¬
gards other animals, they have never
covered any person’s hands, and when
you seethe sign “dogskin gloves,” to
designate a certain kind for riding and
driving, accept my word for it that
tho merchant iH taking advantage of
your blissful ignorance.
Kids must bo killed when still at
milk, otherwise their skins are only lit
for making boots and shoes. Only
very small goats can, therefore j
used, and from each skin not more
than three gloves can be obtained. To
produce tho 1,200,000 dozen pairs that
Grenoble alone manufactures no fewer
than 9,600,000 bleating little victims
lnivo to bo killed yearly, The reason
why Grenoble takes the lead over any
other town in the glove industry is
less on account of the number of goats
reared thereabouts than it is to the
special quality of tho waters of that
city for dyeing the skins. Dauphiuy
dyers have reached u perfection in
coloring which cannot, perhaps, be
realized elsewhere. The current card
of a glovomakcr comprises 300 differ¬
ent tints, and everyday consumers de¬
mand novelties which must be turned
out after any sort of sample.
Let us now go into tho manufactor¬
ies and see the different operations
necessary to make gloves, from the
moment that the tanned skins arrive
all white lrrnn the leather dressers up
to their being sent out iu soft tissue
paper t<> the wholesale houses. On
their arrival in a factory the skins are
submitted to an examination that is
very important. Employes look at
them one after the other, and decide
by the grain, tho fineness and quality
of resistance what kind of color each
ought to receive, and it is ticketed ac¬
cordingly.
Before this, though, it had been de¬
cided whether the glove is to be a
placed or n suede glove; for, though
these two sorts appear so different to
the touch, they are, in fact, identical,
except that the first are worn just as
the animal wore the skin—-that is to
sav, the exterior is the hairy side
while with the suede the skin is turned
aud the hair, or “flower side,” to use
a term of tho trade, is in contact with
the hand. The skins which were sent
to the dyers are returned for cutting
Now they undergo a much more deli
os to sorting, this time by the foreman,
who decides how many gloves of this
or that side can be got out of each,
and they go to the workmen,who must
cut according to the measurements in
dicated. Now the skin is in the hands
of the glover and is ready for the
“dolage.” This is to shave the skin
with a very sharp blade, so as to give
it the minimum of thickness with the
maximum of flexibility. This is such
a delicate operation that, before pro
ticiency can be obtained, at least two
years’ apprenticeship is required. The
most export workmen cannot dole
more than six skins an hour.
The process adopted for glazed
gloves is exactly the reverse of that
for suedes; it is as if in one ease you
took a piece of orange peel and com
meneed to cut on the smooth or shiny
side, and in the other you started on
tho libruous side of the peeling. The
comparison is more exact by saying
that the solidity of the skin lessens by
diminishing n fiom the exterior to
the interior. This is why productions
from South America are used for suede
gloves. Out on the prairies of Brazil
young goats run wild, and from the
day of their birth wander ameng
bushes, where their skins get scratched
so much a* to render them useless for
glazed gloves; but they are more
solid, and what I just now called the
“iihrous side’’ offors au envelope
which, sufficiently resisting, is quite
uuhko that of the goat of this country,
You would perhaps think that some
men would be employed to do the
‘•dolage only, and all others to do
the rest of the work, but it is better
that all glovers should prepare their
own skins, as they thus learn the re
source.-* of each ; hence the dolers do
the dopecage —that is to say.
stretch the skius in both length azul
breadth to ascertain their full
ticity. After this the next process is
call the etavillonage, or the putting
of tho same skin, now divided iuto
squares of desired lengths, on a card
board model which represents a fiat
baud almost precisely. This ends the
work of the glover and cutter. Form
erly, with a pair of scissors, he had to
clip the skins off at the edge of the
frame and cut out the fingers. But
Joumu Xavier found a way, a sort
punching process, In which, with one
blow <4 thc baton, four or five pair
eau be cut at the same time. This is
tbe only mechanical contrivance u--ed
in kid yiovt. maklhtt- I3y it half
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH. GA., TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1894.-EIGHT PAGES.
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uplendid statue has been raised to the
•Jouvin in the principal public square
of Grenoble.
Now the gloves are packed in boxes
and sent to different parts of the mount¬
ain districts, where contractors receive
and distribute them among a consul*
erable number of sewing women. Each
girl or woman sits before a sc .vin<;
machine run by steam ; a simple touch
of the foot puts it in motion or stoj 18
it. One woman fastens the finger
stalls, another the pieces of leather
uniting them, a third puts on the
thumb sheath and a fourth stitches the
back of the glove. Counting up all
the processes to sew one pair it takes
twelve hours to complete a dozen pair
of four-button kids, average size; and
the different cuttings require an equal
length of time, consequently there arc
two hours of hard work in the pro
duct ion of each pair.
But the work is not yet finished.
There are plenty of largehousas where
the stitching is tested by a sort of
glove stretcher, and where all those
soiled or presenting imperfections are
placed to one side, and then comes the
packing. In short, from the time the
skins leaves the tanner up to the mo
ment when they pass into possession of
the purchaser each pair of gloves goes
through nearly 200 hands, or there
abouts.—Chicago Herald.
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\ Chinese Baby.
“The other day,” said a Congress¬
man to a Washington Post reporter,
*‘my wife was passing by one of the
legations of the Orient. It was a I
. . , , , balm . Gay, almost like
narm ’ T i
summer, m truth. Out iu the front
yard was one of the ladies of the
house, resplendent in complicated
silks, and with her blue-black hair
thrust full of gold pins and ornaments
in the guise of miniature fans. But
what caught the feminine eye of my
wifo was the baby this daughter ol
the sun bore in her arms. It had
black eyes aud black hair, and looked
like a little splinter of Asia, q,
course, my wife paused. No woman
on earth could have done less. A new
baby is always a subject of breathless
interest to all women. But add to it
the fact that it is of another and a far
off race and the natural feminine
trasports rise almost to a frenzy. So,
of course, my wife came to a dead
halt. She smiled at the lady of the
tea fields, and was smiled at softly in j
return. Then she looked at the in¬
fant. The gratified guardian, possibly
its mother, approached so as to treat
my wife to a fuller opportunity.
“ ‘How old is it?’ interrogated my
wife, who has ever had a consuming
thirst for data of that sort.
it < Eight moat,' replied the tea lady
with an accent.
< < ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ continued I
my wife, pursuing her regular system.
“ ‘Alice samee likeo inn,’ replied
the other in a pleased, bashful wav. j
The census being now complete my {
wife tendered her congratulations and
left the princess of fans and the little
prince to continue their afternoon.”
A Silly Fashion.
m The Prince n • of c Wales , is responsible ...
for a good many thing* which con
travene the canons of good taste and
goed morals, but none ot the fashions
ho has set is more open to criticism j
than that of the elbow style of hand- j
shaking. It is said that this fashion
had ite origin m the circumstance that
the I mice, being afflicted with a ooil
somewhere in his anatomy, was unable
o indulge lnmself in a genuine,
honest hand-clasp, and so resorted to
the gentle vibration of the elbow and
dainty touch of the finger-tips whum
lias now Become so common among i
uma-o.HU,si, folk. Tlio boil, althongb
painful and annoying, u Renerally
supposed to serve a useful purpose i„
relieving the system of unhealthy
humors. It was never known before
o have in it the core of a social fane
turn, h veil ,1 ol,, who perhaps was
even richer in the matter ot boils than
iu eamels iuul oat tle, never pretended
his fiction was meant to suggest
the fashions for his pathizing friend*,
But Job > though one of the great men
of llis time » Wrts not a Prince or lieir
a Pl ,ftrpnt > »nd could hardly be ex
Uccted to a88Ume the attributes ol
sovereignty, even as to the pettiest
1,aft £ os of society. Only a prince ol
the rertlm ecmld do that.— Fran],
Leslie’s Weekly,
China Losing Territory,
Vast and populous as China is, thf
experience of the present century
shows that she is weak for aggressive
j purposes. Bhe has not the hold or
j territory adjacent to her borders
j which she could claim 100 years ago.
j European Nations are pressing on her,
j both on the South and on the North.
She has been forced to cede a portion
j of her territory to England, and she
has been compelled to avail herself ol
the help of Englishmen, both for civil
administration and for military com
“
maud.
All these things show that an ex
pausion of the Chinese race docs not
necessarily involve an extension ol
j Chinese dominion. On the contrary,
they tend to prove that it is the ordei
introduced by European administra
tion which leads to the multiplicatior
of these industrious people, aud there
is, therefore, at least as much ground
for saying that, though Borneo,
Sumatra and New “Guinea and the
great islands of the Eastern Archi
pelago may be intimately peopled by
yellow races, they will be governed by
the white races, as for believing that a
new Chinese empire is in process ot
formation; a Chinese India may. in
other words.be developed in these
great and fertile islands.—Edinburgh
Review.
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A** Incident ot Mild Bc.l> Lne.
.
| life An interesting witnessed incident by hunter of wild in beast Aso
was a
tin County, Washington, recently. A
deer came bounding down the steep
side of a bare, rocky hill on the edge
of the Snake River, just above tbe
month of the Grande Rondo, closely
j followed buck plunged by a headlong big mountain iuto lion. the river The
;
' a<ad swam for dear life toward the
; farther shore, The big eat stopped
' snort at the water s edge, put its paw
angrily but gingerly into the water,
and .hen drew oack and watched the
( deer gain the opposite bank in Safety
and disappear in the woods. With a
j disappointed -“T bicago snarl Herald. thc lion bounded
; .away. ■
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HOG-GUESSING.
A PECULIAR SPORT VERY POTU
EAR IN NEW JERSEY.
The Farmer Who Comes Nearest to
its Weight Gets the Porker
— How the Experts Do
Their Estimating.
JT J OG-GUESSIXG t is a species
1 amusement peculiar toNorth
i f ern New Jersey. It is not
known to be popular and
prevalent anywhere else in the coun¬
try, except, possibly, in a remote cor
tier of Long Island. Hog culture is a
science in these parts. The average
Sussex County farmer knows how to
grow the fattest, laziest hogs on the
least fodder of any man in the world.
He prides himself on the large amount
of pure lard he can get in the
possible time and at the least expense,
The breeds were imported, and
owners claim that they have been vastly
improved by wallowing in the mires
of upper Jersey. It isn't a bad busi
ness, either, that of raising champion
swine. There is one farmer, Peter
Scott by name, who fast year raised
fifty-six hogs, averaging 330 pounds,
or a total of 21,280 pounds. He got ;
six made cents good a pound profit for his pork, which J
a for a year of panics
and failures,
The sport of hog-guessing is finely
developed. There are hundreds of ex¬
perts at the game. Most of them are
old farmers, who travel around with
“Horace Greeley whiskers,” wear
overalls and rubber boots that reach
to the knees. The younger blood
doesn’t care so much for the pastime.
These patriarchal sports understand
how to run the tape measure around
the necks, loins and stomachs of the
porky victims, and guess within a few
pounds of their exact weight. They
size up a hog in mighty short order,
and then have the guess recorded by
the landlord of the hotel in front of
which the hog-guessing contest alway
takes place. The act of recording
costs the guesser a couple of cigars or
a drink or two of soda water. !
The sport is now in full bloom. A
description of the game at one inn is
typical of them all. This occurred a
few days ago at a regular back-number
hotel a few miles from Newton, N.
J. Nearly 300 sports participated.
They came from all directions, in
ancient vehicles or “on the hoof,” as
they expressed it. Four hogs were on
hand to be guessed at. * They seemed
to be altogether too fleshy for their
frail legs to hold. The difficult feature
of the guessing was to get the hogs to
stand erect and assume a military at¬
titude. When one of the farmers
prodded them with a cane they set up
unearthly yells, and their huge bodies
shook and trembled like delicate
molds of jell}'. A young man finally
drifted in, and soon had them all on
their feet by blowing clouds of smoke
in their faces.
No sooner had the four hogs fallen
under the influence of the smoke than
a dozen experts in hog products leaped
the bars and began winding tape
n ,ensures about them. They have a
ot ‘ multiplying the loin mcasure
meilt by that G f the neck, and divid
ing it by the len g t h from ears to tail,
The reBult , they say, furnishes the
hug , weight ,. Before any one was al
lowed to make any scientific researches
within the bars the hotel man made
Slire tllat be was propel -ly registered
on thc long Iist tied with cigar Znosyll*hle ribbon,
and thftt tbe aacred VA
« aid » was reC orded opposite “ his
nam{ , Iie wbo guessed ° n rest to tbe
wei bt wa6 to ba e tbe bo
ia„. “ ”, f.....i i “4n i i
,„ ted be *
o{ pktform 6e „ les Iolled to
tha aMe „ f tllc inclosure and a boxon
, vlfe<jl8 at one ead , vos laced
inBille . F , nu . 6tahvart mea then began *
to try nud h number on to
enter the box, but he could no more
b<J imUtccd to do s0 tban aBy timl of
a hog could be induced to cross a
bridge. Fair means having become ex¬
hausted, each man tried to persuade it
to stand erect and walk gracefully by
the urgent prodding of sharp sticks.
Failing in tbis, two pieces of stout
planking were procured and placed
beneath the hog, but, when the men
began to lift, the planking bent,
cracked and broke, and the hog gave
out grunts of approval. When no one
could think of an ingenious scheme by
which the mammoth porker could be
inveigled into the box the boy in pos
session’of the smoking habit came along
and said he could perform the job.
He tried to the extent of burning half
of a cigar, and succeeded in moving
the hog to the opposite side of the in¬
closure.
Without wasting any more time the
landlord, who seemed pained at the
delay, brought forth some four-inch
timbers, a block and tackle aud nails,
I n a short time a derrick was rigged,
and when a noose was placed about
the hog’s body, eight men took hold
and hoisted him into the box, while
he whs making more noise than an
average-sized pig under a "ate. The
box was rolled noon the scales, the
weights adjusted and the .beam
balanced. After deducting the weight
0 f the box the hog’s weight NcT was found
to be 408 pounds. one guessed
right, but the man coming nearest
to it thought 398 pounds and won the
hog. The penalty for the good luck
was that he had ‘to treat the crowd,
which cost over §18. His hog, at six
cents a pound, was worth §24.48, and
he really saved something over §6 by
entering the contest, instead of buv- ‘
. ! ing outright.
The other hogs weighed 363, 418
! and 349i pounds, respectively. No
! one guessed the exact weights, but
J several came near them. None of the
i experts who used a tape measure
assist his wavering opinions got a
hog, and each man" who did get one
had to treat the crowd. The luckiest
| man in the whole crowd was the land
j lord. He admitted that his receipts
! from dinners, cigars, etc., sold to the
- sportsmen and witnesses amounted to
J nearly §100. He said that there had
been ten guessing contests at liis hotel
so far, and he expected several more,
; He is getting rich from the sport.
| Borne of the guessers have records
they are proud of. One old farmer,
who must certainlv have passed the
-eventieth milestone of his career,
i ^id he had been guessing on hogs for
j j near*v twenty years. thvught, He had guessed
afiyut 5U9, h* aiid
won more than naif of them. On the
occasion described he didn't win a
single sample of pork.—New
Recorder.
WORDS OF WISDOM,
Much bending breaks the bow ; much
unbending the mind.
It thou desire to be wise, be so wise
as to hold thy toDgue.
Every generation of mati is a laborer
f or that which succeeds it.
He who is firm and resolute in will
molds the world to himself.
Bicbes exclude only one incon¬
venience, and that is poverty.
Speak but little and well if you
would be esteemed a man of merit,
Romance has been elegantly defined
as the offspring of fiction and love,
M„rn in the white-wake of the morn
j ns? f s f a , came furrowing ° all the Orient
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The great fact . . that lire a
is is ser
v *. ce ‘ Uhe only question is, ‘‘Whom
will we serve?
Be rather bountiful than expensive;
do good with what thou hast, or it will
Ho thee no good,
If you mean to keep as well as pos
sible the less you think about your
health the better.
The book to read is not the one that
thinks for you, but the one which
makes you think.
From lowest place, when virtuous
things proceed, the place is dignified
by. the doer’s deed.
Our country’s welware is our first
concern, and who promotes that best,
best proves his duty.
Pride is a vice, which pride itself
inclines every man to find in others,
and to overlook in himself,
This gives force to the strong, that
the multitude have no habit of self
reliance or original action.
Lively Old Persons.
A young scapegrace, having been
severely flogged by his schoolmaster,
took an oath that when he grew to be
a man he would flog the master. When
he arrived at the age of about forty
live and the master about seventy, he
met him and proceeded to execute his
threat. The result was that the old
gentleman downed him in about two
minutes and gave him r worse flog¬
ging than he had before. When at
length the master let him up he said
he would now wait until the old gen¬
tleman got to be 100 before he tackled
him again.
One good friend, Patrick Donahoe,
w'hose cheerful happy face is kuown to
almost everybody in Boston, will, on
next St. Patrick’s Day, be seventy
nine, and he looks as though he might
remain a director of our two societies
tw-enty years longer. Oliver Wendell
Holmes is as bright as a new silver
dollar at eighty-four. Neal Dow is as
full of fight as ever at ninety. Henry
W. Longfellow, on the fiftieth anni¬
versary of his graduation at Bowdoin
College, wrote:
Cato learned Greek at eighty. Sophocles
Wrote his grand CE iipus, and Simonides
Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers
When each had nu tuber oilmans than four¬
score.
Goethe completed “Faust” when
over eighty. Theophrastus began at
ninety his work on “The Characters
of Men.” Our good friend, Miss C.
F. Orne, of Cambridge, known to
many of our readers, writes us that
her mother, an octogenarian, at sixty
five learned Hebrew, at seventy-five
Latin and still later German, French,
Spanish and Italian, all of which she
read fluently; also, to some extent,
Sanscrit, Saxon, Bulgarian and others.
—Our Dumb Animals.
Indians Who Visit the Great Father,
The richest Indian who visits Wash¬
ington is Quanali Parker, the wealthy
Cherokee, who is called Colonel and is
one of the most powerful men in that
rich tribe.
Colonel Parker is a tall, fine-looking
man, and is in Washington every win¬
ter. He has several wives, and has
had three of them in Washington with
him at different times. The women
cling to their usual inode of dress, aud
Colonel Parker, who is very wealthy,
always buys the Mrs. Parker who is
with him everything she wants and
gets costly presents to take home to
the rest of his family.
The Colonel has a nice home in the
W 7 est and spreads his table with sil¬
verware bought in Washington.
On one occasion Colonel Parker
wanted a shawl for his wife, who was
with him, and after overhauling an im¬
mense assortment it was evident that
something was wrong, for he looked at
them all with disapproval.
What he did want, and finally got
was a rich, red, long piano cover that
cost §17, and which was afterward
trimmed with §10 worth of fringe.
This made Mrs. Parker a brilliant
shawl.
Another Indian, who is a regular
monthly visitor, is White Wolf, who is
just mourning the loss of §8000 which
he had hidden by burying in the
ground. The money was found and
taken away, and White Wolf is a sin
cere mourner.—Boston Globe.
Some Animal Snicitlei.
“Animals sometimes commit sui¬
cide,” said B. F. Taney to the corri¬
dor man. “It is not common, but
there are a number of well-authenti
cated instances, and two of these are
1 known to me personally. We had
two canary birds which had been
: mates for‘several cage' years. They occu
; pied the same and exhibited un
j ! usual signs of affection for each other,
One dav the male bird died, and foi
two or three days afterward the female
bird manifested every sign of grief,
She refused food, she would not bathe,
but hid in a corner of the cage ano
staved there all day long, scarcely
; moving. One morning her bathing
cup was set out filled with water as
usual. The girl who attended thf
, bird left the room for a few minutes,
| and when she returned the canarv hac
its head thrust down under the watei
and was dead. It seemed to be a plain
case of suicide. The other instance
was told to me by a friend of mine,
and was the case of a dog whose mastei
had died. For days the animal re
fused to leave the grave, and was
finally found drowned in a stream neai
by, although he was an expert swim
uler. The natural conclusion, there
fore, was that he had committed sui
Jlio.ubj Glebe-PemQCjat,
An Official Guide for the Married.
In Belgium it is the custom to give
certificates of marriage in the form of
little books with paper covers. These
books, which are often produced iu
the course of law proceedings, and are
taken in evidence, are apt to become
dirty and dog’s-eared. The Burgo¬
master of Brussels has therefore hit
upon a new plan. Henceforward a
charge will be made for the books,
which w ill be neatly bound in morocco
and gilt-edged. They will be SOU1G
thing more than a mere certificate.
A summary of Belgian law on the
marriage state is given in them for
the use of young couples, and among a
mass of other miscellaneous informa¬
tion are directions for the feeding and
care of infants. There are also places
for entering the names and birthdays
of the children of the marriage, the
authorities considerately affording
space for twelve such entries. To
poor persons the books will be issued
free of charge. One of the town
councillors was in favor of adding
directions for obtaining a divorce, but
his suggestion was not adopted.—
London News.
She’ll Reform Him.
Minister—You say you are going to
marry a man to reform him. That is
noble. May I ask you who it is?
Miss Beauti—It’s young Mr. Bond
clipper.
‘ 'Indeed ! I did not know ho had
any bad habits.”
“Yes, his friends say that he is be¬
coming quite miserly.”— N. Y. Weekly.
Ugly Tempers
Are a product of bad digestion. Your dys¬
peptic is almost invariably a cross-patch. The
way to renew cheerfulness of disposition and
an equable temper soured by indigestion, is
to take a course of Hostetter’s Stomach Bit¬
ters, which not only banishes dyspepsia, chills but
also relieves biliousness, constipation, kidney trouble.
and fever, rheumatism and
Use it with persistence three times a day.
It is never too late to mend, but the longer
you put off the mending the more you have to
mend.
_
Ladies needimr a tonic, or children who want
building up, should take Brown’s Iron Bit ters.
It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indiges¬
tion, Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes
the Blood rich and pure.
He is the wisest who is content to make
money slowly and take the rational pleasures
of life as he goes along.
An important Difference.
To make it apparent to thousands, who
think themselves ill, that they are not a fleet¬
ed with any disease, but that tho system
simply needs cleansing, is to bring comfort
home to their hearts, as a costive condition is
easily cured by using Syrup of Figs. Manu¬
factured by tha California t ig Syrup Co.
Get wisdom, yo ung man; even if you have to
marry for it.
Many persons aro broken down from over¬
work or household car s. Brown’s Iron Bit¬
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re¬
moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A
splendid tonic for women and children.
It pays to take some stimulants now and
then. That is, it pays the saloon keeper.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury.
as mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole system
when entering it through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used except on
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damage possibly they derive do is ten them. fold to Hall’s the good you
can from Catarrh
Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken
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mucous surfaces of the system.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure he sure to get the genuine.
It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
£$F-SoId by Druggists, price 70c. per bottle.
Grass and Clover Seed.
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Special low freight to New York, Pa. and the
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If you will cut tbis out and send it with
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
A Chapter on Divorces.
Iu Ohio a divorce was recently
granted because “the defendant pulled
the plaintiff out of bed by tho whis¬
kers.”
In Illinois a decree was obtained by
a “during long-sufferiug husband because
the past year tho defendant
struck this plaintiff repeatedly with
pokers, flat irons and other hard sub¬
stances. ”
A New- Jersey wife got a divorce
because “the defendant, the husband,
sleeps with a razor under his pillow to
frighten this plaintiff.”
A Virginia wife was set freo because
“the defendant does not como home
until 10 p. m., and then keeps this
plaintiff awake talking.”
A Tennessee court liberated a wife
because “the defendant does not wash
himself, thereby causing the plaintiff
great mental anguish.”
A Connecticutt man got a divorce
because “the defendant would not get
up iu the morning, nor call the plain¬
tiff, nor do anything she was told.”
A Michigan wife was released be¬
cause the husband did not provide the
necessaries of life, saying “he would
not work his toenails off for any
woman.”
A New York wife was granted a
divorce because her husband threw the
baby at her when she hit him wfith
the coal bucket for spitting on the
stove.
A Missouri divorce was once granted
because “the defendant goes gadding
about leaving the plaintiff eupperless,
or if he gets any he has to cook it
himself.”
In Pennsylvania a henpecked- hus¬
band was relieved from the yoke of
matrimony because “the defendant
struck this plaintiff a violent blow with
her bustle.”
A Wisconsin man got a divorce be¬
cause his wifo kept a servant girl who
spit on the frying pan to see if it was
hot enough to fry.
In California a defendant husband
was adjusted guilty of cruelty because
he did not provide water at his house,
neither would he repair the house to
make it comfortable.
A decree was granted in Massachu¬
setts because “the defendant keeps this
plaintiff awake most of the night quar¬
reling.”
An Indiana applicant testified that
“my wife would not walk with me on
Sundays and pulled a tuft of hair out
of my head.”
In Minnesota a decree was given to
the wifo because “the defendant never
cuts his toenails, and, being restless in
his sleep, scratches this plaintiff se¬
verely. ”
A Kansas wife was released from her
husband because, as she stated in her
petition, “the defendent pinched tho
nose of this plaintiff, causing it to be
come very red, thereby causing the
plaintiff great pain and anguish of
mind.”
A New York man, in petitioning for
divorce, pleaded that “ “the plaintiff
would-not sew on this plaintiff’s but¬
tons, neither would she allow him to
go to fires at night.” a species of op¬
pression decided by the court to be
cruel and inhuman, and therefore en¬
titling the plaintiff to a decree.
Uses of Electricity.
In the transition through which the
whole world is passing, in placing it¬
self upon another basis, the electrical
field is one that is making great
strides in the economical appliances.
Electricity is slowly but surely mak¬
ing a revolution in housekeeping, and
pleasantly robbing that department of
a great deal of its drudgery, and the
tendency is still onward in develop¬
ing new appliances which add to the
luxury of our latter-day civilization.
The la test device in this w r ay is an
electrically heated shaving pot. The
pot is hollow, like the bottom of a
champagne bottle, the lamp being fix¬
ed inside. The lamp is about eight
candle power, and its cost is about two
cents.
The transmission of power by elec¬
tricity, a pomblem which has exercis¬
ed the minds of electrical engineers
for years, has been solved in one way
among others by the transmission of
10,000 volts from a waterfall twenty
eight miles distant, by which the cities
; of Pomona and Ban Bernardo, Cal.,
are lighted in a very satisfactory man¬
ner. — Hardware.
Still Room for Improvement,
American Youth—“Well, Parkins,
*1° you think I will look presentable
at the reception this evening?”
Imported Valet—“Heverything his
hall right now, sir, hexcept your
ghastly Ilamerican haccent .”—Street
| & Smith'S CrOOd ^SCW8.
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Found a Mistake.
Smart Boy—“Pupa, you said ;^Yi’d
give me ten cents every time l found
a mistake in your paper. Well, hero
is one, aud right in your own editorial,
too. It says “Contentmentis Wealth.”
Country Editor (wearily)—“What’s
wrong with that?”
Smart" Boy—“It should be, ‘Wealth
is Contentment,’ of course.” *
Country Editor (thoughtfully)—
“Here’s tho dime. ”
Advice.
“I am a poet,” said tho yofing man
resolutely.
“Indeed?” replied the kind-hearted
but absent-minded editor.
“Yes. And I came to see if you will
not give me a trial.”
“Dear, dear! My good fellow, I
wouldn’t bother about a trial. I’d just
plead guilty and take my chances. ”—
Washington Star.
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