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MENAGERIE FOOD. IT COSTS CONSIDERABLE TO FEED WILD ANIMALS. Worn Out Old Horses Make Sumptu ous Meals for Lions, Tigers and Other Carnivorae—Elephants’ and Monkeys’ Diet. “It cost £15,000 a year simply to feed the animals in the Central Park Menag erie,” said Dr. Conklin, the Superin tendent, to a New York News reporter, and he had the ligures to prove it. These are a few of them • Hay, 160,455 pounds, $1257; corn, 551 bushels, $353; oats, 390 bags, of 78 pounds each, $183; fish, 4950 pounds, $247; milk, 2942 quarts, $208; bread, 27,676 pounds, $691; bird seed, 28 bushels, $54; apples, 84 barrels, $262; carrots, 34 barrels, SB2; cabbage, 1500, $lO5, and miscellaneous food, $282. Besides this, $72 were paid for medi cine; $l6O for 10 tons of peat moss for betiding and $250 for 156 horses. This last item of expense will probably seem to the reader to be the strangest one of the entire list. Horses that cost less than $2 each cannot be very valuable. And yet for such purposes ns Dr. Conklin buys horses, they are as valuable as any he could find. Of these 156 horses that only cost $250, 144 were slaughtered, carved into pieces of suitable size, and eaten by the lions, tigers, panthers, leop ards, hyenas and other carnivorous curi osities in the big stone-floored lion house- At 2:30 every week day afternoon— for the meat-eatiug Central Park animals reverse the human order of things and fast on Sunday—a man rolls an iron wheelbarrow into the lion house, loaded down with raw meat. Long before he reaches the building the inmates of the cages scent his approach and as he crosses the threshold, a scene of savage greed and passion ensues that makes some women grow white and some children crv. ! The lazy lion, Jack, bounds from one end of his cage to the other, coming against the bars with a force that makes the building almost tremble. The tigers follow suit, and even the black leopards leave their shelves in the back of their cages and join in the general uproar. Five minutes after the attendant's ap pearance, five minutes after the great pieces of meat are tossed into the cages, the liou house would pass for a zoological nursery. The lions and tigers ore the slowest eaters. They play with their food as a cat does with a mouse. They lap the meat with their rough, red tongues. They nibble at; it and make faint efforts to tear it. After they have satisfied themselves with this sport they go about their dinners in a business-like way, and in a few minutes all the meat is gone and even the hones. But the bones can not be digested by the cat animals. Ten or twelve hours after the bones are swallowed the stomach rejects them. Not so with the stomach of the hyena. Like the goat, he can eat anything. There is no false modesty cither about the hyena. As soon as the meat reaches his cage he begins to eat. lie fastens his powerful jaws in one corner of his portion and putting his paw on the other corner he tears the meat into shreds. He gulps it down as though he had never eaten before, and then proceeds to grind the bone into pulp. Dr. Conklin estimates than the horse meat costs the Park Department 1 cents a pound. He gives each lion, tiger and hyena fifteen pounds a day, which would make the maintenance of these animals reach the tremendous figure of twenty five cents a day, not including water and lodging. Before horse meat was substi tuted for beef the expense was much greater, and the quality of meat was not so good as it is now. The 2000 tons of hay are eaten by the herbiferous animals iu the antelope house, by the cattle in the paddocks,the camels, buffalo and sheep. The elephants also are fed upon it. There are now four elephants in the park, only one of which belongs to the department. Tip, the bad elephant, is a gift to the city- from Forepaug’n. The other three—Tom, Lizzie and Jimmy—are owned by the circus man and are kept in the park as an additional attraction. The cost of feed ing the elephants is $1.50 each per day. They arc fed early in the morning and they are still eating when the lights are put out at night. The corn is consumed by the deer, antelope, cranes and swans. For the latter it serves only as a summer diet and it. put in boxes along the lake every day. During the winter months the swans are fed on cabbages. These are cut up and scattered over such parts of the lake as are not frozen. The bran and oats are eaten by the deer, hippopotamus and rhinoceros. The SSOOO baby “hippo," the late lamented “Mr. McGinty,” had not reached the bran period at the time of his death. The first day of his ex istence he ate nothing. During the next two days he drank ninety-six cents’ worth of milk and the sole expense of the fourth day consisted of the charges made by the taxedinmst who prepared his lifeless body for exhibition. The two tons and a half of fish were eaten by the pelicans and the water-fowls and the sea-lions. The milk was drank by the civet cats and other small animals and by the monkeys; the latter also ate the eighty four barrels of apples used in the park last year. The carrots went for the birds, and the §283 worth of “miscellaneous food” consisted of nuts and fruits for the lessermonkeys and the great Miss Kitty,the renowned chimpanzee. It costs seventy five cents per day to feed Miss Kitty. Her appetite is capricious. Sometimes it is an orange that she wants. Again she craves a banana or perhaps an apple. Then her milk bill is prodigious, and she varies that diink with an occasional drink of whisky or a do'e of cod-liver <>il or a cup offfiot beef-tca. Her feed ing hour.; more nearly approach those of a human being than tho-:e of auy other animal in the menagerie. She has three meals a day—at morning, noon and night. The birds are fed once a day and that is at six in the morning. TJie hippopo tami, Caliph and Miss Murphy, get their feed of bran crushed oats and a dozen loaves of bread every afternoon at 3. Be sides that they munch hay from morning until night. The rhinoceros is fed an almost similar meal at 9 in the morning. At about the same hour the condors, eagles and vultures are fed a pound oi horse meat each. The antelopes and deer get their portions of hay and oats at 7 every morn ing. At about the same time the camels, native and South African buffalo, the Kerry bull and sacred hump backed kine of India receive their food. The monkey house, irrespective of the attendants' pay, the interest on the money invested, wear and tear and accidents, cost just $8 a week. These eight dollars represent two barrels of apples, at $3 a barrel, and $2 worth of bread. That is what the monkeys cost the Park Depart ment. They cost the public much more. There is hardly a day that from $1 to $3 worth of cakes, candy and nuts, not tc speak of fruits, are not contributed to the monkey house by men and women, children and nurses. These tid-bits are gratefully accepted, fiercely fought over and greedily devoured. The sight of the day is the feeding oi the bears. There are ten bears in the big, iron-barred pit. There are two Po lar bears, a grizzly or two, and several brown and black bears. The Polars are separated by a dividing iron fence from their darker cousins, as a closer relation ship would probably lead to a strife, ir which the Arties would come out vic torious. The Polar bears are frightfully powerful, and have tempers that require little to inflame. The bear food costs the park $2.50 a day in addition to the odds and ends furnished by the curious visitors moved to generosity by the sign “Do not fefed the animals.” The regulation diet consists of forty' loves of bread, weighing I ninety pounds. When this is tossed into the pit there is a scramble, a wrestle and a hustling, and the strongest bear gets the largest share. This bread is stale and consequently hard. The bear is clumsy in body but agile in intellect. He does not relish hard bread crust any more than man does. Therefore when he gets a loaf more than ordinarily hard he takes it to the water basin in one corner of his cage and dips it in the water until it is soft enough not to do injury to his teeth. Only a Beauty in Profile. “I have walked about the public buildings in this city for a good many years, and I have learned iu that time something about beauty,” said a well known Washington correspondent to a Washington Post reporter. “Did it ever occur to you that a sitting posture is a thousand times more attractive in some people than when they stand, while a beauty in profile is homeliness itself when a front view is presented? “I knew a young lady employed in the Postofiioe Department by sight for several years. I have seen her sitting at her desk, bending over her work month in and month out. Her profile was a study, and with all my critical tendency I never saw where an improvement could be made. She was the quintessence of beauty, and passing her door and seeing her sitting there was one of the things that made the journey pleasant. I met a friend one day- and asked him if he knew her. He answered that he did, but when I hinted that she was one of the most beautiful ladies I had ever seen, he only wanted to know where I had been keeping myself. I spoke to several peo ple who had occasion to see my goddess of beauty now and then in transacting business with her office, but from not one eould I get any sympathy iu my admiration. Evary one said they could not imagine whore I could find anything beautiful to admire in that young lady. “I began to think that I had been the subject of an optical delusion, and when I made my next pilgrimage by her office door I glanced in, and there she sat, that profile that defied criticism standing out boldly, the ear perfect aud such a tasteful arraugement of hair as would have made Venus herself envious. There could be no mistake. I said tc myself that the people about the Post office Department were chumps and nothing else. One day as I walked down F street at about 4 o'clock I no ticed a young lady, snort of stature and homely of face, fifteen feet from me, coining in the opposite direction. There was nothing about her that should attract my attention except that she wore rather a sour expression of countenance aud walked in an ungraceful manner. As she came alongside me I happened to glance at her, and I tell you I was star tled. There was that faultless profile that had been the subject of my admira tion for so many mouths. I looked back, the profile had passed and my de lusion was gone. “I have had many similar experiences. A homely profile has developed into a baautiful face. A beauty when frisking about with a tennis racket in her hand sobers down in appearance when quietly seated. A face lovely in animation might become unattractive when in rest, and vice versa. So, you see, that beauty is not one of the exact sciences after all.” Mileage of Locomotives. Says a railroad man: “A passenge, engine averages sixty pounds of coal to the mile, and travels about 56,000 miles per year, while a freight engine averages ninety pounds of coal to the mile and makes about 43,000 miles per year, while yard engines burn less. Freight engines travel much slower than passengers and thei-efore burn more coal per mile. The largest mileage made in 1888 by a pas senger engine was 81,000 miles, and by a freight engine 50,000 miles," Talking 1500 Miles Through a Wire. The longest distance over which tele phoning can be maintained is uncertain. Seven hundred and fifty miles is a com mon daily occurrence, but two gentlemen are reported to have quite recently car ried on a protracted conversation between Charleston, S. C., and Omaha, Neb., a distance of about 1500 miles. “CITIZEN TRAIN.” I*l IE CAREER OF AMERICA’S MOST ECCENTRIC MAN. What He Says About Himself—How He Talks anti Acts —A Great F end of Children—A. Queer Character. When George Francis Train was com mitted to jail in Boston. September 24 last, the manner in which he filled out the regular commitment blank at once furnished some points of interest con cerning himself and reflected a phase of his curious mental character. When Mr. Train handed the blank back to the prison official it read as follows: “Name, George Francis Train, more commonly known as the champion crank! Birthplace, 21 High street, Boston. Residence, Continental Hotel, New York city, now, but generally in some jail! Color, octoroon. Age, sixty. Sex, male. Height, 5 feet 11 inches. Birthplace of father, Boston. He founded Boston Port Society and Father Taylor’s Seamen's Bethel! Birth place of mother, Waltham, Mass. My room, bed, desk in homestead 200 years old still shown to strangers 1 Married, yes! Wife died 1879. Education, three months winter school. Prop erty, one-half of Omaha when I choose to become sane! Ever in reform school? Yes; three times around the world, twenty-seven times across Atlantic. Occupation, aristocratic loafer. Offense charged, Helping poor printer buy printing press sixteen yenrs ago. Nuinbe,-of times committed, twice for this one offense, In fourteen jails for telling the truth. Sentence or otherwise, so long as blackmailer pays my board ! Have not paid a ceut for anything, and don’t intend to! Witness, Geo. Francis Train, who has Boston, Bay State, Re public, American justice’s generating power in a steel trap! Signed, Geo. Fran cis Train, Fifteenth Jail.” Train is undoubtedly America’s chief eccentric. He says it is a great honor to be publicly known as a crank when one is a talented crank. “I despise a chat tering fool or a dull clod,” he once said to the writer, “but a gifted lunatic, like myself, shines like a diamond in an Ethiopian’s ear.” Train once made a speech iu Daven port, lowa, which Austin Corbin de scribed as “about one of the best speeches I ever heard.” It was in 1873 that Judge Barrett, ou the testimony of Surgeon-General Hammond, found that he was non compos mentis. “Insane, but harmless,” was the verdict. Train talks in epigrams. His conversation scintillates with little brilliants, and he is seen at his best in entertaining a party of friends with some of his personal reminiscences. He has traveled all over the world, first as a rich merchant, broker and financier, and later as an “aristocratic loafer,”as he describes him self. His letters to the newspapers dur ing oue of his round-the-world voyages were collected in a volume in 1848, and an interesting and brilliant book it is. Only a limited number of copies were printed and it is now very rare. During the past summer Citizen Train received a copy of this book by mail from some unknown friend. As he tore the wrapper from it in front of the Continen tal Hotel he said: “There's a book that contains more information than the Bible. It is better written and some day will sell for its weight iu gold when you can buy a Bible anvwhere for fifteen cents.” Citizen Train’s title of “champion crank’’ has been pretty well earned. lie is full of idiosyncracies that would retain the belt for him, but being a “brilliant lunatic” enables him to do occasionally things which distance all competitors. No one but Train could have for years denied himself speech with all mankind as absolutely as if he had been dumb. During this long period of silence he would communicate only through the medium of the p n and pencil. He carried a little paper pad in his pocket, and if any caller in Madison Square Park or at the Ashland House, where he then lived, desired an inter view with the “philosopher,” lie had to content himself with digging it out of Train's eccentric ehirography. He wrote rapidly, but briefly, and always said a great deal in small space. He has not shaken hands with any one for many years, because, he says,the contact would weaken his vitality, distribute his geuius through all the population and reduce him iutellectuallv and physically to the level of the common people. “I stand on the summit of the mountain,” he says, “and all the rest of the world grovel in the valley below.” When a man in Madison Square Paifc asked him if it paid to keep his mouth shut, he wrote on a card: “Yes; silence is golden, and 1 am the Comstock lode. Train found his speech during the ex citement growing out of the trial of the Anarchists in Chicago. He thought these people were not getting a fair show and he wanted t take the stump in their be half. He announced his intention to speak in their interest. He did speak in this city, but his reception was not very kind. '‘lnspector Byrnes told me,” said Mr. Train, speaking of this incident, “that he would send a squad of police to my meeting to protect me. I told him he could send his police if he wished to, but they would be required to pony up the price at the door or they couldn’t get in. The police came,” continued Mr. Train, “and they had to pay, too.” In May, 1888, Train left New York with the avowed attention of never re turning. On the eve of his departure he said: “Mr. Jones, the manager of the Grand Opera House at Omaha, has got up a syndicate of bankers, and he has ar ranged with me to give a 100 lectures in a 100 cities. I will expose fraud. What will be the consequence! Blaine, Cleve land and Depew, will all refuse to run Chicago will go down to the bottom of Lake Michigan." His 100 lectures in a 100 cities did not pan out, and he went into voluntary exile for awhile. Return ing to New York and again taking up his place in Madison Square Park, he receiv ed a royal welcome from the thousands of children whose friend he is and who re gard him as a man only second to Santa Claus. During the past summer he took crowds of children every Saturday to Cherry Hill, Central Park, where the afternoon would be spent picnicking. Train would engage a photographer, and these joyous parties would be photo graphed. Mr. Train being a prominent figure ia the foreground. Train has over a hundred of these pictures. —New York World. _________ He Did Whip the Grizzly. Colonel Thomas,F. Barr, Assistant Ad vocate-General of the Army, arrived at the Grand Pacific last evouing, says the Chicago Tribune. He is going out with General Crook to investigate tee Leaven worth prison, but when he met the General in the rotunda of the hotel the trip was dismissed with a word and the evening passed in discussion of bear huut iug. “I see,” said Colonel Barr, by way of opening the conversation, “that you say no man ever engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with a grizzly bear and got away alive.” “Yes, sir, I said that,’ the General re plied with emphasis. “And I will even go further. I will state that I don’t be lieve there would be enough left of a man who would do that to build a tombstone over.” Colonel Barr smiled and said: “Gene ral did you ever meet Tom Selkirk in the Bad Lauds?” “The Scotch Indian trapper?” “Yes.” “I did.” “Strong man, eh?” “Strong, indeed.” “He whipped a bear single handed.’ “Don’t believe a word of it.” “But he did.” “Now, Colonel, I’ve been hunting bear for twenty-five years, and you ought to know better than to tell me that.” “But it's a fact.” “How did he do it?” “Choked it to death.” General Crook arose and frowned. “Colonel Barr,” he said, “I have al ways esteemed you a gentleman and an officer,” and walked away. Colonel Barr sat still and grinned. The General walked around the iioiel for two or three laps, then came back, and with his hands buried deep in his pockets stood in fr*nt of the Colonel. “Barr,” he said, “as man to man. llow old was that bear?” “About two months, I reckon.” The General took the Colonel's arm without a word and executed a right face. The pair marched due south twenty-five feet, wheeled, and moved west until they were lost behind the red cedar partition, and shortly thereafter this conversation floated over the partition: “Well, General.” “Colonel.” And then there was deep silence. The Black Bishop of the Niger. The Right Rev. Samuel Adjai Crow ther, D. I)., missionary bishop of the Niger territory, is now staying at the Church Missionary house in Salisbury square, Fleet street, says the Pall Mali Gazette. He has come over to England from Africa upon a special mission, namely to raise funds for the building of anew church on the Niger. The bishop, who is a venerable-booking old gentleman, now iu his eighty-first year, very quiet in manner and with all the impressive ac tions which belong to the Africau race, has had a life full of adventure, which has been almost entirely devoted to the propagation of the Christian religion among his fellow natives. While yet a child he was kidnapped from his tribe— the Yorubas—and sold in Lagos in 1822. He was however, rescued by a British ship, taken to Sierra Leone and educated there by the Church Missionary Society. He was baptized in 1825, was afterward employed as a teacher and in 1843, hav ing been ordained he was sent to his own country, Yoruba, to assist in the conver sion of his own people. In. 1857 he was appointed leader of the new Niger mis sion and on St. Peter’s day, 1864, he was consecrated at Canterbury Cathedral the first Bishop of the Niger. Since that date his whole time had been devoted to the conversion of the heathen in those two regions. Clothes for Animals. “It may sound very odd to most peo ple when a suggestion is made that horses and stock generally should wear clothes,” said M. P. Kay, the agent of the Hu mane Society, to a reporter of the Wash ington Post, “but that is one of the inno vations that is sure to be reached in time. In Norway they now have their cattle graze while covered with blankets, yet we in the United States ignore such methods of producing good results in the treatment of stock. A cow that has boon giving a liberal supply of milk dur ing the summer will continue giving the same quantity if, when the chill air of January comes along, she is kept warm, but if that is not done the supply will fall off. There is a livery stable keeper in this town who declared to me some time ago that he believed that horses should wear night shirts, and that they would be just as beneficial to them as they are to men.” “What are the styles of clothing that you would consider suitable?” “They should be made warm enough to keep them comfortable from the time cold weather sets in until it has passed, and should be made to fit the animals for which they are intended.” To Avoid Accidents in Factories. Avery useful invention, tending to lessen the possibility of accidents in fac tories. is now being extensively adopted in England. The breaking of a glass, which is adjusted against the wall of every room iu the mill, will at once stop th* engine, an electric current being es tablished between the room and tlia throtle valve of the engine, shutting off the steam in an instant. By this means tire engine was stopped at one of the mills recently in a few seconds, and a yong girl, whose clothes had become entangled in an upright shaft, was re leased Uninjured. WOMAN’S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR FEMININE READERS. DRESSING TWO DAUGHTERS. Two sisters of nearly the same age in England are not arrayed now in the same colors nor stuff, but in tints and mate rials which complement and harmonize with one another, and thus clothed they send the young women forth to conquer. The only bad feature of this plan is that in order to show one another off the girls must stay together. THE WEAR OF WOMEN’S SHOES. More leather is worn out by active women in the house than on the street. Climbing stairs, rubbing the feet against chair legs and the fashion of sitting upon the feet are among the causes for this. The wear of uppers of women’s shoes by the friction of the skirts is greater than many people suppose. Men's trousers do very little damage compared to the heavy and constant rubbing of the skirts against the back of the shoes. There are no shoes made for women that will compete with men’s calf shoes in durability under hard knocks. Unfor fortunatcly, women do not and will not wear calfskin shoes; they are at a disad vantage in this respect —New York Tele gram. ANOTHER FEMALE OCCUPATION. Some of the uses men and women are put to are very pecular. Now we hear of a large wholesale eloak house down town where a dozen girls are employed. They are picked girls, representing the grades between school misses of twelve and queenly matrons of thirty-five. They are hired to show off cloaks to mer chants in town to stock for the winter. The girls have all the different styles of cloaks ready in a little room, and as they put on the different kinds, one at a time, they parade down a long room before the merchants. They can display 100 cloaks in a few minutes, making the most rapid changes as they pass through the little room where the goods are piled. —New York Sun. WHY HE MARRIED HER. “How did I come to fancy my wife?” repeated an old gentlemau, one of the successful men of this age, whose wife was noted rather for her domestice virtues than social qualities. “Why I saw her Bewing, busy mending and repairing the clothes of her little brother. I had been meeting society girls, who sat idle and listless, or who stared hard at me, but I never felt drawn to them. When I saw Lucy bending gracefully over a bit of plain sewing and repairing rents and sewing on buttons I thought of whut *h* would be in her own home. It made mo wish to have her in mine. I knew she would make a good wife, and she has.” Now, girls, remember this. NVho knows but you may weave a young man’s heart m with your needle. Men like domestic girls, and sewing is the best accomplishment a woman can have. Remember, too, that domesticity is not incompatible with social qualities, for some of the best housekeepers and most devoted wives and mothers are queens in tociety. WHAT A PRETTY WOMAN IS TIRED OF. lam tired of the woman who culti vates her brains at the expense of her heart. Tired of meu who don’t take care of womeu. Of clothes made by a machine that np when you pull the string. Of meu who climb over you between the acts, tear your gown, make you cross, aud knock over the bonnet of the woman in front of you. Of children who arc dressed in silk and lace rather than in flannel, and who wear more jewelry than they do good manners. Of mothers who think children a nuis ance. Of hearing Providence blamed for one’s own mistake. Of the continued claim that women are not paid ns well as men when they do as good work. Of sewing on shoe buttons and sharp ening lead pencils. I am tired of almost everything except the American girl, good looking men, chocolate, hot bread for breakfast, broad nibbed quills, and a big sheet ot paper to write on, fox terriers, and babies. Given a nice, sweet, plainly dressed baby, from the cannibal to an angel in heaven, there is a keen appreciation of it. —New York Sun. AN ECONOMICAL WOMAN. “Hannah's husband's sister sent her a barrel of old clothes while I was there,” said an old lady after a visit to her daugh ter iu the country. “She had the barrel opened in the shed chamber. It was filled with old dresses, underclothes and stockings. “You would be surprised to see the useful things she got out of that barrel. She ripped up, washed and pressed two old dresses and made herself a morning dress out of them; she found a flannel shirt all good but the edging, so she ravelled out some superannuated stock ings and made some trimming from the yarn and put on the skirt; she ripped off some Hamburg from the underclothing and used it again; she got quite a supply of stockings for herself and the children by mending and cutting down; out of some of the large pieces she made petti coats for the children, and out of the small pieces she made a slumher quilt to throw on the bed cool nights. Wtat was left didn’t amount to much for rugs or carpets.” “It is nice to have rich rela tions,” we ventured to remark. “They are not rich,” replied grandma. “They are not as comfortable as Hannah, for Hannah's husband owns a good farm, while they are obliged to hire rent I shouldn’t be surprised if a very comfort able house had gone into their rag bag or iu some such wav, but I ought not to complain for Hannah gets some of it, and she’s handy and knows how to use it. I always told your grandfather a man must ask his wife to thrive. Hannah was al ways like me, knew how to save.”— Lewuton (Me.) Journal. WHY WOMEN ARE FASCINATING. The power of fascination inherent in women may, moreover, be divided into two kinds. All of us have seen the old lady, generally whitehaired, with kindly, pleasant features, on whieh time has set no unfriendly mnrk, who still retains all her attractiveness. Note how the boys and girls adore her. They will go to hei and confide their sorrows, their hopes', their ambitions, even when they would not breathe a word to their mothers. The kindly, loving interest evinced iu a lad’s affairs by such a one has time and again first implanted the impulses in his heart which eventually id him on to an hon orable career. Quickly, almost by stealth, the r ood is done by such, aud the good seed sown whieh will ripen in after time into a rich aud abundant crop. On the other hand, we have most of us seen, perhaps in real life, certainly on the stage, the fasci nating adventuress who, by her thralling beaute de diablo, enslaves men’s souls and leads them (on the stage) to dare all for her sake. Such is directly opposed to (he sweet old lady in her old-fashioned chair, and these two form the opposite poles between which the women who fascinate vary. Types differ, and any one you may select has some position between these two opposites. Take, for instance, a pretty and maybe witty woman who, hardly of her own free will, makes every man fall in love with her to a greater or less degree. She may be innocent of all evil intention, but her position on the scale is not vastly removed from that of the melodramatic sorceress. Or, again, take the instance of the pretty young matron who, while devoted to home, husband and children, yet hits several in timate friends of the male persuasion. But her influence is all for good. Her fascination is exerted in a worthy cause and she has found out a great truth—that there is no friendship so lasting, so true and so pleasant as one between persons of opposite sexes, where a true feeling exists and there is no pretense to love making. Such a woman, if she lives long enough, bids fair to develop into a snowy-haired old lady on whose friend ship the children will rely .—Brooklyn Eagle. FASntON NOTES. Stiff collarettes, girdles and epaulets of jet are very stylish. Moorish jackets cannot be worn to ad vantage by plump girls. Flat muffs are confined almost ex clusively to carriage and evening wear. Short cloaks for evening wear are pop ular made of satin brocade or mateiasse silk. Flouncs have appeared upon dressy winter toilets, dinner costumes and tea gowns. The simplicity of fashionable coiffures is one of the distinctive charms of the season. A charming adjunct for the chatelaine is a tiny mail pouch iu oxidized silver, for stamps. In furs fr>r mourning wear black Persian lamb, black astrakhau and black fox are preferred. A pretty new fur collar is wired to flare out from the face and has a fur plastron shaped to a point at the waist. The real Tam O'Bhanter cap is made of black and brown cloth, and is trimmed at one side with the historical quill. The rancy for a fur robe on the bed has lately come into prominence and is now regularly considered by the fur rier. The woman who wishes to appear well dressed will not use ribbons on her gowns unless she cun be lavish of handsome ones. Amid the variety of new styles seal skin wraps have not lost a shade of pop ularity aud are made up in all sorts of shapes. Feather trimming is much used as a bordering to the silk G'onncmaras lined with plush, intended as wraps for even ing wear. Round muffs are rather larger than in past seasons, the slightest increase in size causing those made of fluffy furs to ap pear quite large. The very long, wavy white furs are most delicate aud beautiful and also very becoming, especially when employed to border opera cloaks and mantles. Long cloaks and coats have made friends with short wraps and jackets, and are no longer rivals, each forming an important part of a stylish wardrobe. For the making of dancing toilets and for debutantes’ gowns a variety of lovely gold-meshed tulles, stripesl and flowered gauzes and nets in exquisite evening tints are imported. In long wraps the choice lies between a tight-fitting, single-breasted ulster, a princess coat, a Russian coat and the new Russian circular, which fits closely at the back and falls loosely at the front. The fashionable contrasts in colors and materials for house wear are not unlike those seen in street gowns. Velvet may be united with any material from tulle to serge, but is most frequently combined with wooljgoods. The great distinctive tendency of the times Is to silk. The typical fashionable woman is silk robed from the skin out, even though the last garment, the one for the public eye, be of Irish frieze or al leged homespun. The shoulder cape is growing more pop ular daily with those sufficiently slender to wear them becomingly. A novelty destined to find great favor, fits the figure closely in front like a basque, while the back is a round cape. A charming Scottish toque is in black i velvet, with a soft crovrn laid in plaits like the regulation article. Around the edge is a double row of jet, and in front a dark blue butterfly is held in place with gold pins and an aigrette. The [ chic is in the twist of the velvet. WHAT A FORTUNE Is a good hoalthy,pearly skin, Few are aware of the short time It takes for a disordered liver to cause blotches on the face, and adark greasy skin. One bottle of Beggs’ Blood Purifier and Blood Ma ker will restore the organ to its natural and healthy state, mulcleanse the blood of all impurities. It Is meeting with wonderful success. We guarantee every bottle. M. F. Word, druggist. meh7-ly BUCKI.ENS ARNICA ITaIVE. The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, uloers, salt rheum, fsTor sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion, or money refunded, Prioe 25 cents per box. For sale by J. It. WlkleA Cos., druggists. mchl7-ly English Spavin Liniment removes all hard, soft or calloused lumps and blem ishes from hor>es. Blood spavin, curbs, splints, sweeny, ring-bone, stifles, sprains, all swollen throats, coughs, eto. Save sf>o by uso of one bottle. Warran* ted. Sold by M. F. Word, druggist, Cartersville. novl-ly ADVICE TO MOTHERS. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syruf, for children teething, is the prescription of one of tiie best female nurses and physicians in the United States, and has been used for forty years with never failing success by millions of mothers for their children. During the process of teething, its value is incalculable. It relieves the child from pain, oures dys entery and dyarrhoea, griping in the bowels, and wind colie. By giving health to the child it rests the mother. Price 25c. a bottle. augl9-ly WHY IS IT That people linger along always com plaining about that continued tired feel ing? One bottle of Boggs' Blood Puri fter and Blood Maker will entirely re move this feeling, give them a good ap petite and regulate digestion. For sale byM. F. Word. may7-ly A GOOD GOUGH STRUT. There ie nothing parents should be so careful about as selecting a oough syrup. Beggs’ Chery Cough syrup costs no more than the cheap and Inferior nos trums thrown on the market. The bee* la none too good, be sure and get Beggs' Cherry Cough syrup. We keep It on hand at all times. M. F. Word, Drug gist. mar7-ly CHILDBIRTH MADE EASY By a wonderful medicine offered by us. This remedy, after thirty years’ trial, proves to bo the panacea for woman’s sufferings. After an active practice of thirty years Madam Chavel'e began the use of this remedy, which she calls Legacy to suf fering woman. It gives tone and vigor to the muscles enfeebled by long con tinued distention, and relieves the gnaw ing, grinding pains always experienced by preguaut WOiiiCiJ, anu when the hour of oonflnement arrives, the parts having been previously put In good condition by the uso of this Legacy, the labor ie of •hort durations, the pains neither so se vere nor so prostrating as usual, the womb is held in its proper position, whieh could not have existed without its use. Price SI.OO. feb2s-ly BEGGS' CHERRY COUGH SYRUP Is giving splendid satisfaction to ths trade and the sales are positively mar velous, which can be accounted for In no other way except that it ie without doubt the best on the market. Ask for and be sUre you get the genuine. We keep ft. M. F. Word, druggist. m&y7-ly My motner nas naa a ooutfh ror twen ty years, pneumonia leaving her with a bronchial trouble. Two years ago, her lungs becoming involved, she became very much emaciated and lost all strength, being under regular treatment of a physician and taking medicine all the hours of the day. This continued until a year ago when I saw yonr adver tisement of Acker’s English Remedy for consumption and procured a bottle, as the tickling In her throat was unremit ting and so Irritating as to make talking impracticable. Sho was so much re lieved that another bottlo was procured and wo now buy by the case, she never being without It. She has no physician and takes no other medicines. She re marked lately that if she had not pro cured It when sho did sho would be dead. We have recommended it to others, who always receive benefit from it. If any ono desiring further particulars will ad dress me with a stamp I will answer with pleasure, as I deem it the best medicine made. A trial only Is neces sary to convince any one of its merits. Very respectfully, D. W. Simmons, P. M., jan3l-ly Cave Spring, r,j. For sale by J. R. Wikle <fe Cos. I desire to state voluntarily and for the benefit of the public, that having been troubled with a severe bronchial d*m culty and a terrible cough for th# past two years, so that at times I felt almost discouraged and even despaired of get ting better, I have, through the use oi Dr. Acker’s English Remedy for con sumption, been entirely cured, and can not say too much in its favor. Judging from its effects upon me,l consider it the greatest remedy in the world for all throat, bronchial and lung troubles. jan3l-ly G - G - Leake, Ceda r town, Ga. For sale by J. R. Wikle A Cos. CHEAP MONEY. The Atlanta Trust and Banking Com pany is prepared to negotiate loans on Bartow county farm lands, at 6 and 8 per cent., with reasonable commission. Apply to DOUGLAR t\ IKLE, ff Attorney at Law. Prof- Loisette’s MEMORY DISCOVERY AWD TRAINING METHOD I. .pit. 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