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DRAWING DISTINCTION. “Somebody has been pulling tue door ; bell out by the roots and breaking the windows again.” said the uian with a tierce look in his eye. ‘'But we can’t tell who did it,” an swered his wife. “There is just the difficulty. If it was our own children it is simply a boyish prank. But if it was the neigh bor’s children they ought to be ar rested.” —Washington Star. niicumallun. Catarrh Cured Jliroiflgh tile Mlood. If doctors or patent medicines hare failed and von have pains iu hones, joints or back, swollen glands, hot, aching muscles or rheu matism, dropping in the throat, hawking, spitting, bad breath, loss of hearing, blurred eyesight of catarrh, then it is for these deep seated cases that Botanic Bioou Balm (B. B. B.) is made. 15. B. 1). will stop every symptom, build up the worn-out body and make the blood pure and rich and nn.kes a permanent cure of the worst rheumatism or catarrh. Don't get discouraged, but take B. B. B. Druggists, sl. Trial treatment sent absolu tely free and prepaid by addressing Blood Batin Co., 12 Mitchell St., Atlanta, Ga. De scribe trouble, and free medical advice given. It costs nothing to try B. 15. B. It has cured over 5000 obstinate cases. It gives vitality and strength to the blood. Roger, King of Italy, is said to have in troduced the silk culture into that country about 1146. Em! I'or ill© l”o\vc)s. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Casoarets help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cas o a bets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C.C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. In the eighteen century silken cocoons sold in the London market for one shilling per pound. If you would he well, keep well, and ward •*>ff diseases of all kinds, keep “Crab Orchard Water” on hand, and take it occasionally, as required, it is Nature's own medicine. The British public claims that the home railroads run too many trains for profit. Mr*. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle Athletic sports are taking strong hold in the European universities. I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump tion has an equal for coughs and colds.—John r. Boykb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1200. Vertical writing has been abandoned in the Toronto (Out.) schools. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0., Props, of Hall’s Catarrh Cure, offer $ 100 reward I'or any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Alaska has only .11 of an inhabitant to the square mile. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ".l6lß after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Or. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 231 Arch St., Phila., Pa. France has 584 towns with more than 5000 inhabitants. If ¥ou Have Ulieiimatism Send no money, hut write Dr. Shoop, Racins. Wis.. Box 148, for six bottles of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Cure, exp. paid. If cured pay $5.50. if not, it is free. The branches of the Mississippi have aggregate length of 15,000 miles. Don’t drink too much water when cycling. Adams’ Pepsin Tutti Frutti is an excellent substitute. Prosperity makes more fools than ad versity. There are six species of mosquito found in New England. To produce the best results in fruit, vegetable or grain, the fertilizer used must contain enough Potash. For partic ulars see our pamphlets. VVe send them free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. UIBIOT PATEIT HABBOW A Light. Durable Harrow, with Steel Teeth, in reach of all. Low in pru-e and d«.es the work Here is something that will save >on NX tine aad labor. It tits on anjr common Iron Plow block. Run it over your Cotton m andcornjuitasitl* _ ■ | JBi , ir up It will ■ ulverize the soil awd get wee, and kill the irst crop of grass. It makes w* \iiMKt and easier aad quicker. Every jtrx twelve TT| _ body delighted T W y. wei .y k rtMIJT ■ lIT With them. ATlreas sa-ssiii 7l Hnrwm^s^ F »>€>—> eeeeeeeeee mi \ K HE&DAGHE ii readily v*> eai ty rsrnc Jjr to take I I Nip 0 A• .2 ral :tl uv.if-r rone,<jfr«t«>d j 1 W Aim ;;-- r • TJC. A iT-'Gtl'’ for ftli J m liver, ki-ln-v. “toiu »< - h and I v»eldi»or'l' , re. ( ) <% ft Torpid M'Pr. Illitotianrii*, Juun, ( > 2 .Hee. « hroiiie •T the KUnejra. S 9 Dnenterr ( ‘•nstlpatlen. I i»f*- 9 drub Orchard Hater w th* tuosteflb J 0 ,* I Appi ’Vtm'F* mark « TR‘6c . ) CRAB ORCHARD WATER CO., Lou ssil’e. Kv. ( \ WOMEN OF THE FAR EAST THEIR SEX IS THEIR HANDICAP IN THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE. DU appointment* at Birth, Slave* In Mar riage, 15ut Kulers After They Become Mother* One Rarely See. a Face That Betray* Fnliapplne**. Woman in China enjoys the distinc tion of having escaped the admiration of foreigners. Her praises are un sung in the verses of other lands: she is not enshrined on the canvas of those whose ideals of outward being the world has adopted; she has (lashed no wit upon the page of romance or daz zled it with her beauty. Everybody has agreed in letting her alone from the ankles up, as though her only pos sible claim to consideration lay in her cramped and tortured feet, which everybody pities, and about which nobody ever does anything except to pass resolutions. Even at home site is under initial disadvantage. She starts life handi capped by her sex. No family ever wants a girl baby. When the women go to the temples they always pray for hoys and buy hoy images In the hope that the gods will remember and favor them. If a girl results, she is tolerated, rather than enjoyed. While hardly out of her babyhood her feet must be swathed, if she belongs to a proper family. As she grows her liberty is restrained. She known noth ing of life outside the walls of her home, except such glimpses as she may catch from a window, or from a covered chair in which she may oc casionally he carried to visit families in which there are other unfortunates like lie-self. Thus she remains a prisoner until ready for delivery to a husband she lias never seen, henceforth becoming the slave of that husband and Ills par ents. A brood of her own springs up about her quickly enough and by the time that process ends she is a grand mother. Life becomes easier for her as the children mature, for the wives of her sons must be her handmaids, and the children are bound to provide for her comfort 11s the most sacred of their obligations, and to respect her authority as long as she lives. Modern credulity is taxed to recon cile a life so circumscribed with a con ception of happiness 11s free agents understand it. The difficulty lies - 1 the appreciation of environment. A Chinese woman knows no life but this. Her aspirations are restricted to it by traditions and customs that seem to her as immovable and as im pentrable as the walls that hedge in and defend her city. There is 110 one to suggest other thoughts to her. The minds against which her mind brushes have limitations as narrow as her own. She usually makes the best of her lot cheerfully and turns out a fond wife and devoted mother. Os her wifely duty she is larely forgetful. A womanly instinct to please prompts her to make lierself attractive to her husband. Heartbreakings may not always be violent when the man strays abroad and returns with other women for Ills household, hut they are often pathetic. Yet custom permits and the wife must bow, whatever her feelings. Her main comfort, is that additional women can not he wives. She is alone in that re lation. Secure iu her place she lias an innate sense of its superiority and of the dignity that befits it. Hence it happens that wives are tolerant of the others, and often provide for them when husbands die, and rear the chil dren they have borne. This sketch of life, as found among those of good estate. In character as well as means, is analogous 10 a sum mary applying in Western homes where conscience joins with custom iu regulating social and domestic con duct. Circumscribed though the life of a Chinese woman may be. and dif fering so sharply in detail from ac cepted standards elsewhere as to make it seem almost Intolerable, it has compensations of some weight. The privation, drudgery, and subordina tions to which a Chinese woman is subject come when she has youth and strength and buoyant vigor. As these depart and she needs relief, social and family customs provides it, and with advancing years her cares I‘ghten, her comforts increase, aiid her afternoon is pillowed for her. In spite of limitations Chinese wom an is quite human. By foregoing the pleasures of courtship and selection, she does not, as a matter of course, shut her heart to romance. When at her marriage the gates of the world open a little wider to her than before, she puts her sharp little eyes to the uses for which they were intended. If they are looking for a ITince Charm ing and they fall and linger on the husband to whom she is Introduced, there is occasion Tor thanksgiving. It happens also that mild and yielding disposition in a newly wedded pair is not Invariably more pronounced in the woman. When one of that sex is assertive, the imagination is taxed to believe that she is the subject party. Man is, of course, supreme, but he not infrequently finds it politic to declare himself oDly in a figurative way and for practical purposes appear to be submissive. The national costume, which puts the trousers on women and the frocks on man in China, does not always seem displaced. The Chinese do not think it worth while to name a girl. She is sister, and goes by number. If her mother gives her a pet appellation, that Is their own dear secret. The husband never learns of it. To him she Is the Chinese equivalent for “HI, there,' or “Oh, say.” until the babies arrive when she becomes "Chang's mother," or is oth erwise Indirectly designated. That Joe.- not bother her, for she knows no -liber gii-1 except as the owner of a certain number in ,-oine man’s home, i’-t mother is a term of love ami power. A man may do as much as he likes in regard to his wife, hut though he be gray and bent he cannot embark in any enterprise or undertake a jour ney, if his mother is living, without her consent. Sons will once in a while get a refractory Western notion into their heads, and imagine that since they are middle-aged, and have for many years kept the pot boiling for a large domestic establishment, they need oonsult no wishes but their own. It 13 in the power of a mother to cause tlie arrest of such a son for dis obedience and to indicate the number of bamboo blows he should receive in punishment; and the Magistrate must give the order that she prescribes. If civilized woman were always kiniuy treated, it might he worth while pointing out instances in which that lot has not uniformly fallen to her Chinese sister; but careworn faces are rare in China, and one of the most common sights is that of women trudging about with quiet babies siting in strap cradles across their hacks, or at play with their chubby, laugh ing, heathen offspring. Foreign fami lies who employ Chinese nurses find them tender and faithful. They think themselves of a family when they join it, and the children love and trust them. Higher in the social scale, where women are kept from the gaze, not only of visitors hut also of all natives except the closest friends or relatives, there is no reason to suppose that they .-ire less blessed than the lower orders with the essential of happiness In their station. One may get glimpses of their round, contented faces, of tlie tiny feet that charm a native hus band, of silks, velvets, and embroid eries with which tlielr garments are fashioned, and of gleaming hair, orna mented witli pearls, heads, jade and gold—a setting so ornate that one can not doubt tlie quality of the jewel. Chinese history is not minute enough to tell how far she has shaped na tional character and destiny. In tlie two instances In which she lias so far risen above the plane set for her as to become the ruler of the vast empire, her talents have not suffered by com parison with those of the Emperors. Tlie Empress Wtt, 1400 years ago, in trigued her way to the throne, but she ruled ably and did as much for China as any other ruler of the Tang dynasty. To-day an Empress Is a refugee, but under her rule the trade and prosperity of Chinn have assumed proportions never before contemplat ed, and when the history of the for eign troubles may he Impartially writ ten. in the light of all the facts it may not unlikely appear that they owed their first impulse, not to the Empress, but, perhaps, in spite of her; to the instigation and advice and ir resistible pressure of her superior council of men.—Frederick W. Eddy, In the New York Times. If in Good Story. This young man has a good place with a Wall street firm, and is anxious to “get along.” He also likes to shine as a raconteur, but lie has a very bad memory as to details. However, the germ of the story sticks in his mind, and he is aide to make a good blufl at telling it. Recently he heard a funny “Wall street story.” Nothing but the story end of it stuck to him. A week or so later the junior partner in high good humor because of a certain suc cessful manipulation, in which tlie young man had been concerned in small degree, magnanimously invited him to luncheon. The young man strove to “be agreeable,” and told a number of stories over tlie coffee which seemed to amuse his employer. Then he told in elaboration liis latest Wall street yarn. There was no re sponse. “I thought that was very funny—did the bloke up rich,” said the young man. “Perhaps you’ve heard it be fore.” “No,” said (lie junior partner slowly, “I don’t think I ever heard It before, hut I know something about it. I was tlie bloke.” The young man is now cultivating the study of mnemonics.—New York .Sun. Break*. To write a social letter to n man and ask him to reply. Boors are not In so ciety. To ride one’s hobby-horse around tlie dining table, to the confusion of one’s hostess. To toast “youth” where women of uncertain age predominate. To Ignore one’s humble friends for one’s smart acquaintances. Fortune plays madcap pranks. To boast of our own. Human nature repeats itself and family prejudice is never convincing. To he inquisitive. No one cares for a human interrogation point, and who asks all shall know nothing. To he too anxious to shine, glitter and glare, conversationally, is not the highest proof of clever polish. To seek favor. Merit Is self-evident. Mediocrity seldom achieves, socially or otherwise. To pretend. Age has given the world wisdom and a keen eye for shams. To gush. The being who faces about on all necks has strangling possibili ties. To protest too much. The obvious refutes doubt, and goodness needs no placards— Philadelphia llecord. Indian Girl* ami Whit© Hu*ban<l*. The South McAlester Tribune ex plodes the popular notion that Indian maidens fancy white men, and that a white man who wants to become a “squawman” can have liis pick. “’I he average Indian girl,” says tlie Tribune, “would not give twenty-five cents for a white husband. It was Pocahontas who is responsible for the erroneous belief.” The f.urgrut Opal. Tlie largeHt opal in tlie world weiglut seventeen ounees, in worth and belongs to tie.* Emperor of Austria. The Chinese make a fetish of their dead. Some of the finest shops to be seen in Chinese towns are the ones selling eoffius. England’* Army and Nnvy. It wm recently stated that England’s nrmy | and navy is inadequate to properly defend 1 hornelf from a sudden onslaught. England is, in this instance, like the individual who allow* disease to creep into hi* system through a stomach too weak to properly digest the food taken into it. To strengthen the stomach there is nothing better than llostetter‘a Stom ach Bitters. It cures dyspepsia, constipation, indigestion, liver and kidney trouble, and as a tonic, is incomparable. Tutuila and adjacent islands in Samoa _ DON’T RUIN YOUR STOMACH WITH MEDICINE. I © Hunyada J&nos 1 IS A NATURAL LAXATIVE MINERAL WATER. M ". Endovaed and used by the most prominent physicians H r \ tn the world as the b«*t and safest remedy for dis- ■ * Y ordered stomach, biliousness, liver troubles, gnut and ■ It Cures Constipation! 1 (PlflllitipElf Take one half glassful on arising in the morning and IE llafvaßsi > ivli J you will feolthe remarkableefTects iu half an hour. ral V ASK-'— I LOOKI " I | u „y,j|.n nM ,”| centre Panel. L; 'tti' \ Sole Exporter, Firm ot Andreas Asxlchn.r, 130Fulton5t.,N.Y. B B 1 ron ? onc * a y to Saturday—at every jj l STANDARD OIL COMPANY. | FRAGRANT FREE SAMPLE \ ' ''' YOLO,, O, agent* ate making from Will you introduce It by nailing or getting um an J. L. 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