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All Woman Know That ordinary troatmant falls to relievo painful periods. They know Lydia E. Pink ham s Vegetable Com pound will and does and has, more than any other modlolno. Evory woman knows about Mrsm Plnkham's medidne= Every woman knows some woman Mrs. Pink ham has cured. But nine women out of tan put off getting this re liable remedy until their health Is nearly wrooked by experiments or neg leotl Then they write to Mrs. Plnkham and she oures them > but of course It takes longer to do so. Don*t delay getting help If you are sick. She has helped a million women. Why not you 7 DIO RENTS IN LONDON, Fabulous Prices Paid for Domiciles In Arls* tocratic Quarters. Pretty nearly everybody under lands, of eourse, that house rents are very considerably greater In London than they are in provincial towns and ! that In the metropolis they vary great ly and are very sllff In the regions where society hovers. Hut a writer In Tit-Hits ventures to think that even few Londoners have much Idea of the enormous figures paid for the rentals of fashionable houses In Belgravia and Mayfair or realize how few square yards of the west end It takes to pro duce n million sterling In this way. Now, take, to start with, Park lane, that highly fashionable thoroughfare. It Is ralher staggering to learn that $50,000 a year is really not nt all a very extravagant rent to pay for a good house in this quarter. The plain, simple fact of the matter Is, however, that you cannot get a decent house here for less than $15,000, and even such a one would only have three or four bedrooms and, generally speaking, would not have greater accommoda tion than a house at $250 or $I!(K) a year In the suburbs or at half that price In a provincial town. Grosvenor square and Berkeley square are renowned headquarters of society, which pays astonishingly for Its residence there. Consider the former first. The whole square comprises fewer than sixty houses, but It Is a fact that their com bined annual rental Is about $750,000. Big as the rents are, getting n house here Is a matter of great difficulty, and seldom Is there one to let for long. Nothing can be got for less tlum $5,000 1 it year, and from this figure an in- j tending tenant may go up to $50,000 i a year. Berkeley square Is likewise (lltlleult to pet Into. It is rather old fastiloned and revere, and the average man or woman from the eountry might not he able to see anything about the houses which would Justify a heavy drain be ing made upon a tenant's pocket, ltut. all the same, houses here are always at a premium, and you will not get much of a residence for $2,500 a year, nor yet, so fur as that goes. Is the ac commodation very astonishing If $lO,- 000 a year is paid. St. James square Is another ultra fashionable quarter which a million aire might have to wait years to get In to If he desired to live there $15,000 or $20,000 a year is quite a moderate rent for a house so situated while Norfolk House, where the Duke of Norfolk resides, and such others as Lord Derby's residence, ut oil, would easily realir.e $50,000 a year In rent. Carlton House terrace, where states men and embassadors live, also costs its tenants dearly. At least $20,000 a year must be paid for anything good In this particular neighborhood, and Mr. Astor gave more than slloo,ooo when he purchased one of the houses In the terrace, formerly occupied by Lord Granville. Vet the ordinary man would remark that the houses are not even semidetached and that outward ly. at all events, they are far from im posing. An Indian Summer Ctrl. “What has come upon my daugh ter?” grunted the great chief. "She Is like a goose-feather blown by the wind. One day she smiles upon the love of Foxtail, the soothsayer, and the next she frowns like the thunder cloud. How? Is he not great medi cine ?” "Yes, Father," replied the wilful maiden, whoso education among the eastern pale-faces had been most com plete. "Therefore he should he well shaken before taking.” Catholic Standard and Times. Japan got its first telegraph line In 1860. To-day It has 144,570 miles of line in service, with 1,267 office* Indian V/omen Fond of Fine Raiment and Costly Jewels i There are well-dressed Indian women as well as American women. It does not matter whether the red woman has her dresses trimmed and made ui) In latest styles, because the cost Is there—any money counts. Many women of the Kiowa, Comanche, Arapahoe and Ponca tribes have dresses costing from $750 to SISOO apiece. Some of these expensive dresses are shown in the photographs. Other women wear jewelry worth from SOOO to SSOOO. And all this among the full-bloods, too. The half-breeds are even more lavish In buying swell clothes and jewels. The swell costumes of these women are mostly made from tanned buf falo hides. The leather is soft and durable. It Is made up Into a comforta ble-fitting skirt and loose waist. These dresses alone cost very little—not any more than n good silk dress. But the trimmings cost. Not less than a hundred elk teeth adorn the bosom of the dress and sometimes 200. These can be sold at from $2 to $lO each. Then a row of gold braid must go around the bottom and a string of pearl beads should adorn every swell belt. With other additions of (“Ik teeth, pearls and oyster shells the dress soon be comes valuable. The Ponca women are eager for jewelry, and most of them have bought so much tlrnt they are now good judges of gold and precious stones, ltubics and opals are their favorites. I FALCONRY REVIVED i The Sport Wlilc-Ii the Smort Set I las Taken Up. NOT polo, or tennis, or golf, or fox hunting or yachting or horse racing—none of these u Is the most “swagger” of all sports Just now, hut the noble and an cient sport of falconry. After being a sport which was in England more popular even than fox hunting, fal conry died out and was forgotten. Now It has been revived again, and before long it may cross the ocean and we may have the hen yards of Long Isl and endangered by circling jerfalcons, peregrines, goshawks or sparrow hawks, ltul no kestrels, and you would he of true and good form, for by the laws passed by William the Conquer or, Edward 111., Henry 1111. and good Queen ltess, the kestrel is the hawk assigned by law to a knave or servant, while to royalty belonged the Jerfal con, to the nobility the peregrine, to the yeoman the goshawk and to a priest the sparrow hawk. In England now most falconers hunt with the peregrine, always a popular hawk there, and one which is getting more and more rare along the British coast. It builds Its nest in some almost in accessible niche of a rocky cliff, and an expert and hold climber Is required to scale tin- eyrie and take the young for training. If hawking becomes pop ular In this country it will be rather lmrd on the person who has just learned to say mashie, clock, fore, tee, brassey, etc., to have to go to work and burn the midnight gas learning all the terms of falconry, from cop ing, crabbing, crennce, crop, down to wait on, weathering and yarnk. One term of falconry we have with us to this day In rather common use but misapplied. That is the word mews. In England and In this country one sometimes sees a lane of private sta bles called a mews, such as Washing ton Mews, just north of Washington flXl J PALCONS HOODED 'fplvll 'ON THEIR SLOCKS - > square iu this city. When a hawk moults she is said in the "patter” of the sjwrt of falconry to "mew" and the place where she was put to moult used to he called her “mew.” Hence a row of such buildings were “mews.” Ilnwlcs, not horses, belong In “mews.” The training of falcons is an art re- I FALCON UNHOODED > I?E?ADY FOR THEr FIELD. ilk qulring judgment and patience. Their education begins when they are nearly ready to tl.v. The young hawks are brought to their future home and turned loose In a shed open in front, hut roofed in against bad weather and with sides and a hack to it. Blocks of wood are pegged into the ground. These blobks serve the birds for roosts and for dining tables. On these blocks the falconer places the food for the young birds, consisting of fresh meat, dead rabbits or birds. The hawks soon learn to fly and in a short time can be seen soaring above their home and swooping over the surrounding country. Although before long they can fly many miles, they always re turn at feeding Hpic. This Is the most anxious 'Vie for the falconer. lie must kn~j just when to stop these excursior’jpor his ynjng hawks, for if he gives Ikeui liberty too long the natural Instincts of the bird will as sert themselves and she will stoop to some natural quarry, such as pheas ant or a pigeon. If she begins to do this she will feel her strength and gradually desert her home and go for aging for herself. Another danger when the young hawks are flying free is that they may be shot by some gamekeeper, who takes the bird for a wild falcon. To obviate such nn un happy ending, bells are attached to the hawk's legs which, by tlielr warn ing sound, give notice to the game keeper that the liaw’k Is from a neigh bor’s falconry. Before the falcon learns to forage for herself the falcon er snares his bird and hoods her, that Is, places over her head a cap of leath er to bind her. Then the hawk is se cured by a leather thong to the peg which holds to the ground its feeding block anil roost, and the second part of its education begins. The falconer takes the birds out separately and ex- ' k -'v . - .*•'' 1 < S'- y j. v *• v * • t v' 'MV"'! V '{£ FIELD-CADGE WITH FALCONS AND srANUELS. ercises them. A long string is tied to the jess (a leather strip about eight incites long which always remains around the falcon’s leg) and the bird is encouraged to fly in circles over the falconer’s head. When she gets to circling around pretty lively a piece of meat, or a (lead pigeon is thrown to the ground, and, as the liawk has not been fed, slie stoops to it. The falconer is constantly with his hawks, handling them and dissipating their natural fear of man, and every effort is made to get them accustomed to the presence of strangers. This is called “manning” a hawk. Finally the education of the hawk is so far advanced that she is tried afield. The hawker, being in the field, unhoods the falcon, which is sitting on the gaurilletcd glove he wears on his left hand slips the leash from the jess, gives the bird a toss, and away she soars iu widening circles until she ir V n,)Av^e x VI, “casting” a falcon after a rART IUDGE, spies the quarry, when she swoops down upon it and kills it. A piece of meat is given to the bird as a reward, and she is taken up and hooded again. When several hawks are taken out for Held work they are carried on a wood en frame called a “cadge” until the falconer gets ready to fly them. A falconer after a successful day will bring back home a bag of pheasants, hares, rabbits, quails, partridges, etc., which will repay him for the trouble he has had in training his falcons.even if the sport itself did not—which it does. In North Africa falconry has been for a vast number of years a favorite sport. Ancient Egyptian carvings seem to show that it existed in the days of the I’liaroalis. At this day the Bedouins fly their falcons and go following them over the sandy plains of Tunis and Tripoli on their fleet horses. The reintroduetion of falconry as a sport into Europe has been so successful that international meetings are now held. In a recent contest of falcons at Spa, Belgium, several prizes were taken by the hawks belonging to C. E. Itadetyffe, an Englishman, who devoted much time to the sport. His hawks are especially well trained, and were much admired at the meeting in Belgium. He has the advantage of an open country around his home at Wareliam. in Dorset, so that when game is flushed the falcons have a fair chance of striking their quarry. It should be observed that It is the fe male hawk Which is employed in fal conry. Falcons are found in almost all parts of the world, and peregrines can be bought in this country and trained if the sport of hawking ever crosses the ocean, and it is Hkely to. —New York Press. Government Contract With Indiana. The Crow Indians of Montana, who raise a great deal of wheat, have en tered into a contract with the United States Government to supply the Cheyenne Indians with flour. They have constructed a system of irriga tion for their farms, and have a good flour mill at the agency, while they are building another at a distant part of the reservation. They have sold much farm produce annually for sev eral years to buyers in the country round, and many cattle and horses. They are rich in farms and flocks and herds, but this is the first time a Government contract or a railway con tract was ever let to an Indian—at least to a “blanket Indian” of the mountains. Klectrlc Cartrldgea. An Italian electrician has invented an electric cartridge, which he offers as a substitute for dynamite and smokeless powder in mines, rock blast ing and for heavy ordnance. The com position used in the cartridge is made up of carbonates of potash and chlo ride of ammonia, the proportion vary ing according to the use. The dis charge is effected by an electric spark, which produces electrolytic effects upon the chemicals. The inventor claims that the cartridges, until sub jected to the effect of electricity, are entirely inoffensive and perfectly safe, so that there will be no necessity for isolating the magazines where they are stored. London Commercial In telligencer. STUDY IN SALT. Extracted From the Oceans and Rolled Into a ltig; Rale. The London Daily Express says: Roughly speaking, if you take the salt out of sea water you deprive it of a thirtieth of its weight. On this basis one-thirtieth of the entire weight of all the sea water in the world is salt, and as salt and water bulk about the same we may estimate also that, by bulk, one-tliirtietli of the huge mass of the oceans Is pure salt. What does this bring us to? Taking the 130 odd million square miles of the live oceans to average a mile and a half deep, we have in them alone 200 million cubic miles of salt water. A thirtieth of this should give us the hulk of the salt contained in the great waters of the globe. Rounding the figures we get some thing like seven million cubic miles of salt. If it were all taken out and spread over the surface of the six con tinents they would be covered with Its snowy powder to a depth of twice the height of St. Faul’s. To put it another way, if all the earth wore salt water there would be enough of the flavoring principle in it to make two moons of solid salt but very little smaller than our present satellite. SALT J TIIE SALT IX THE OCEANS. But these comparisons are almost too huge for handling; let us take something smaller. The rolling waters of the English Channel are familiar to all Londoners. How much salt is there iu them? Close upon a hundred cubic miles. Made into a convenient block and swung over the metropolis by a giant derrick it would grind Lou don to the dust. A Feminine Artifice. When a girl lends a book to a man to read she always marks .the things in it that she thinks look me deepest. —New York Tress. Insects in Psrto Rico. The mosquitoes of Porto Rico are distinguished by bodies as big as our house flies. During the night they would congregate in the little shelter tents and amuse themselves by sing ing and making onslaughts on the sol diers, drawing blood every time. In the morning we would see them at the top of the tent, gorged after the ban quet. In fact, these buzzards of the insect tribe spilled mere American blood than did all the Spaniards iu Porto Rico. At first they' were very annoying, but after a time we became mosquito-immuues and indifferent to them; or perhaps they ignored us when the climate had reduced us iu weight all the way from twenty to fifty pounds apiece. Mosquito netting was early discarded by the men, the at mosphere being too close for its use with any comfort. The ants should not be forgotten in this connection. The large black ones would infest our mess kits by the thousands, and the little red fellows would get between our fingers and bite with a viciousness out of all propor tion of their size. Then there are the wasps, whicu one of the men stirred up one day while knocking down a green cocoanut and which swarmed over the horses and caused them to stampede. Another insect well to avoid is the “jigger” flea, which is fond of burrowing in a person's flesli and laying its eggs under the skin, necessitating surgical attention. The soldiers were not troubled by them, however, as they prefer to devote themselves to persons who go about in bare feet.—New York Mail and Ex press. Th. Terms. First Ex-Convict—You say you have a diamond pin. What did it cost you? Second Ditto —Six months. —Indian- apolis News. Rare Philippine Jewels. The rarest corals in the world are to be found in the Philippines and have now be come American property. As precious as this jewel is, there is still a rarer one, and that ts the jewel of health. It may be pos sessed by any one, who will keep the diges tion active and the bowels regular with Hos tetter's Stomueh Hitters, the king of all remedies for indigtstion, dyspepsia, consti pation, biliousness, belching, heartburn and sleeplessness. Try it. Sour Grjipt-s. “Papa, what is the vain pomp and glory of this world?” “My son. It's the things wo preach against when we don't succeed in getting them.”—Life To Cure a Cold In One l>ay. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggiste refund the money If It falls to cure. E. W. (.rove's signature is ou each box. doc. Looks Ifeasonable. We are in receipt ot the following inquiry: "Dear editor: our cow has gone dry, do you think we could sell her lor drlde beat? if so wheat-?” —Indianupolts News. MITCHELL’S Ijjjj Price. 28c. 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