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•AW INDIAN iI'STOMJ How kjar>:Klinn Indian* An totally ■'Kilt tl>*» Davil.” ■**«< Tliom»e)ves of the Evil One by Pr»i>acuou< Shootin;. MK>* K. WMF. _____ What i I the preacher* of Christ ridom hue yet lulled to accomplish i» yearly Bon<- by lb - hidi .in of tie Iteutigouche «oun'n it h ad, to their own »uti»fiK-- Cton. <> i Kt. An i Diy every year they "kill th ' 'tevi ," an ti'-liii-vem. nt whi. h I would be greillv to their credit were it not tlia'- th • h dveriary «ecm> to eotne to ' life ftgiifi every Iw ’v-- month*. A 1 SL Ann i \ opp >Mtr thi* town. | writ** a (unpb I '.ton (N. B ) corre epond<‘iit of the //</ r/Z, there jpßtbr r«*< I yesterday a rn mt mot ley and oariotiu cr »w'L The nt earner A inoral C3MU>! up j).ilhou*ie, br.ngin ' wine Hunt! rdd of Fr nch and Indi tn« from «loog the lower Q jebcc coas'. iw fur u-» <top All the Mx-Maci were in fote, for Bt. Anii< ‘* Day in one of th< gr< at of their year. 4)vr*r in < Mil ly road*, pn*t »eor * of 'Calmly wallowing or nursing awinc and ing«, the pariicolored throng poured ! oa toward the Miuion church. Smoked ■ u k etdr.nthil to the comfortable I oontcrubiation of the squaws. They wore ■either hat' nor bonnet*, but each dusky | hrad wux covered with the brightest of 1 ■ bin 1111111111. II itidkerchief* of wary.ng ghudciof r< I glowed everywhere 1 ia the aundiine, giving the ■ fb ■' t of a poppy bid when rovcral »qunw» met or •at «>r mpi'ittc I together upon the gra-.,. Xhirti and jacket* of brilliant hue* put dUte aobercr costume* of white sisters to I A «fau*ie. and even the mon rcj'iieid now in a*>X flwuncl shirt*, again in uhowj itilfi, •TgMidy jewelry, or h it* dicor.it' I with Sarfght '. dim n flies. Presently up swaggered sorn ■ young ladi •ns, decidedly of the hood linn type, I Marrying g ins nnd pistols, weapons which woe Id de ight an antiquarian. T.icy were Mint k irks mid muskets, which" possibly Bated fr out Queen Anne. One rusty bar- | pel was joined to a home-made stock, which ha I apparently been chopped out W a spruce log. All this warlike array meant the as «uh»g mid utter destruction of the adversary, or, as the Mic-M ics have it, "killing Mundou,” Mundou being the Kv» One. In the olden time a silver hall was thought neecssnry for the shoot ing of witches or of animals protected by , ■viqpc, but the Mie-Mace con-ider the •ruinuiiitiun of tho shops effective •gainst his Satanic Mijosty him elf. Now and then some red-skined youth, •merging from his cabin, discharged his . gun into the sir and tho scene was as •nniing a Fourth of July aspect when a ■smage i iimo from tho priest forbidding Bring for the present on account of the •roed, the number of lioises tied along She road and the consequent risk of nc •klent, so the devil was reprieved for n Sarne, but after tho ceremonies in the «burch were concluded tho Indians cclc- Aral <■<l in their own fashion. Tho destruction of Mundou is not n Bstlii-ult matter according to the Mic- M»ca. They appear to hold that the Brvil is hovering in the air somewhere above them. Not knowing exactly where ho may bo, tiny tak pains to fire ■a every direction, riddling the ale towaid every point of she compiss. Thu favorite way •ts shooting him is for two or more Indi as*« to cross tho barrels of their guns, printing upward, an I tire nt the same Auni'u They reason that if the devil Badges one discharge he may blunder ••to llie way of auotln r. Tho fact that devil remains disembodied does not ga m to nuke him proof against cauhly powder an 1 shot, and so the Mie Macs laxul and tire as rapidly as possible in the tou I able desire of hitting the adversary »» the wing. There is something rather fascinating is* the idea of wing shooting at this kind •I game, and I earnestly hope that tho mjwoarioiis burning of ammunition was ■o* wthout a successful result. Thi* MarhMis custom of “killing devil" is of •»ur«' not practiced with the implicit Maith of former years, but the F urth •f July Uproar continues. One feature •f the day has fallen comp.et ly into abeyance, that of feasting upon roasted Bog. It w:u usual with tho Mie Macs, ssa with many Indian tr hex, to honor Chia occasion and oth< r f. stival* by a Aanq irt of dog, but for many year* the Bog has been banished from the board. Tne feast is still held, or rather there were two, one for the visiting priests, •Bo;her for the Indians. I»ry Weathar. lown man Talkin ; about dry weather, Why it'swa actual fact that in lowa the watermelons haven’t a drop in ’em—have to b .-ibi d before we can market ’em. Nebrask . man—Shouldn’t be surprised. W> 'll yo.i > >n 1 have be n with me on a tide I took during the heated term. ••Hot. cUF’ •■Well, 1 didn't feel it so much, but it •ras such a pretty sight to see the corn popping in liie ti Ils.”—Oni’.a Uerld. Inquiadivv peopl ■ are the funerals of •on versation ; they do not tak. in any thing for their own use, but merely to >••> it to another. FOK THE FABM AM» HOME. Ilraltlis llaa*. nas been pretty definitely proved that filth, impure water, and general w .nt of <a <• arc largely conducive to epidemics of ao-ealled hog cholera, n miml/er of disease* —going under that i m ■ when more than usually fatal. In view of the fact that water-courses and ponds arc especially low this aonson, owing to the drouth, those who have droves of hogs should lx: ■ -picially care ful that swine do not gel water from theM sourci ". Such water will be more than likely to carry the gums of malig nant disease. The bi tter plan wou <i be to use only the water of wells, even nt the expense of considerable ixtrn labor. In addition to this great care should be used that nil the wirroundings be kept jierfectly clean. No less important Is a dive sily of food. The man who places his de|>cndcnce on corn as diet for hogs, old and young, is generally the first to sufT r when malignant diseases become epidemic. Hwine are not only gregarious in their habit-, but they arc dependent upon a variety of food, and cannot be kept on one single article even as well as other farm animals. Tho sagacious mm will easily understand the necessity of changing the grain food of swine, ss well as supplying a daily quantity of vegetable food. This may consist of any plants the hogs will eat, including clover. So far as routs are concerned artichokes and potatoes will be indicated, and if swine can be allowed to gather these for themselves so much the Iretter. At the , first symptom, of disease the feeder should look to the surroundings and re move all the animals to dean pastures, separating the sick from the well. When we find drooping cars, low-hanging head, diirrhrei, vomiting,rapid breath, and nn aveision to light, tho hog is far on tho roa<l to death. CirnniiiK Ifurara. ew farm horses are cleaned and cared for ns they should be, says the Live-Stock Journal. Many never feel a curry-comb or brush, unless it be to remove manure . adhering to the hipsand sides from lying i down. Then the merest superficial cur rying and brushing follow-. If a general currying is resorted to, it is seldom thor ough, and the comb is harshly applied to the belly and legs in away that is very ! disagreeable to the horse. No matter how hard the horse has been at worK in the field, he must stand in his sweaty . and dud filled coat, and sleep in it as i well. The best thing he get* is a rollon the ground, which he is almost sure to take, if he can get a chance. He stands all winter in a cold stable, his hair gets long and shaggy, giving him a forlorn , and neglected look, and as soon as warm weather comes this hair begins to loosen, producing intense itching. If the curry i comb is applied it is only to remove the I loesened hairs that appear on the surface and adhere to everything they touch. Buch treatment is n t humane or com mendable. It is not even excusable. The horse is entitled to a thorough cleaning after working in the sweat and dust or I being driven through tho mud. Such cleaning not only ndds to the comfort of the horse, or rather saves him from dis comfort, but is vuluiblo ns a piece of economy, for it will do more good than an extra feed of oats. Someone may say that in a state of nature tho horse would not get a cleaning. We reply that in a state of nature lie would not get so dirty. 11 • would not bo worked in the field and covered with sweat and grime, nor cov ered with mud from being driven on a muddy road. Neither the horse nor any of our other animals is in a state of na ture, and we must take care of them in accordance with tho conditions that exist. Green Feed for Kheep. Professor Sanborn,of the Missouri Agri cultural College, says: "It has been shown that theep are more responsive to green food than cattle are. Yet sheep do not irink more than one-half as much water per pound of dry food eat< n as cattle do. This has led some careless and doubtless l.iry obs rvers to believe and teach that sheep need not be watered; that snow, and even no water, would answer their purp. s . This is a wrong view. While tliey vaporixo less water from the skin than cattle, still some water is thus need ed, and also for moistening tho food, es pecially in winter, for forming the fluids of the body, Ac. ; or two pounds for every pound of food eaten, it is said. I ti .d that 1 ss water is used in this c. un try tor Stock than is u-ed in Germany. Water regularly and give none but pure water. Here we are much nt fault in those parts of our State where stagnant surface ;>onds, filled with surface wash ings and fouled by the willowings of hogs are the source of water. These slimy p o.s are the nursery grounds of s. VI ral sh i p m dadies and must be kept purified, as may be done, or have substi tuted for them other and better source*. Shoe > like hard water. Hut. n turning to green foods, I would advi*o the use of roots for breeding ewes in limited quantities before yeaning, not only because sheep, by all good authori ties, are peeu iar y fond of green foods, but als - because they are valuable tot all animals before dropping their young, re laxing the rigidity of the muscular sys t> m and antagonising the costive condi- tion that is peculiar to breeding cw<-s. Death rate of lamb* and fever and debil ity of th' ewci will be reduced to the minimum. Our dry hay and straw, the former late cut and injured, accompanied by snow or foul water for drink, with the < arbonaceoua or hcatingconcentratc d food—corn meal—give a tr-mendou death rate of both ewoi nnd lambs with us in -M s«oari. We have only to add t < th' se, n hi ii wo do in practice, cxjiosur to col 1 storms, and we have done every thing necessary in negative policy to re press the expamion of our sheep inter est*. I wish to be understood only a* advo cating roots for sheep in the limited way mentioned, unless they arc fed off the ground in the f ill at u little cost. Roots arc too costly a food for this section of the country. * Arm anti Garden %otcs« Tar ought not to be used in marking sheep. It dries into a hard lump, which must be cut off by hand. An application of lye will restore to rough trunks and branches of orchard tree* their original smoothness. If you receive trees or plants shipped from a distance, it is well toplace the roots in water for from 12 to 24 hours before planting out. The over-feeding of any kind of breed ing stock is calculated to impair fertility and that species of thriftiness which prompts to activity and the full working powers of all the vital organs. Fruit that cannot be sold may be dried, evaporated, made into cider for vinegar or jelly. In this manufactured foim it can be kept as long as necessary and sold when a fai price can be secured. To protect young fruit trees in unfenced lota or along the roadsides, drive three stakes around the tree and wind barbed wire around them, close enough to keep an animal’s teeth away from the tree. The Rural New Yorker notes that where the ground is cover 'd to a depth sufficient to keep out frost, with some rich manure, nspura . us can be cut earlier than when it has to wait for tho frost to thaw out of the ground. In buying pigs for breeding stock the best is the cheapest, though it cost a little more money. The reason why breeders justify themselves in saving lunts is because some men are thought less enough to buy them at a low price. Use the scales on the farm in order to more accurately keep an account of all sales and purchases, as well as the amount of food allowed. Every meal should be weighed, and tho gain or loss of flesh carefully observed. A contemporary says: “Dip soft wood posts, such as widow and poplar, into coal tar, and the wood is made to last in the ground equal to the best seasoned oak.” Any person can satisfy himself o( he fallacy of this by trying the experi ment. Straw may be rendered more valuable by being cut in short lengths anil mixed with chopped hay and grain. It will greatly assist in increasing the amount of coarse material, if so fed, and the prac tice is much more economical than that of using it for bedding entirely. In order to guard against flies the stable should be thoroughly cleaned often. A sprinkling of the floors with a mixture of a teaspoonful of carbolic acid and two gallons of water will disinfect the stall, while the manure heap may also receive an application with advan tage. The United Statee Dairyman advises those who are bound to bo mere meat raisers to hie themselves to cheap lands, and use them for all they are worth tiJ civilization encroaches upon their ranches —but those who have good, high-priced hind in our middle west should know that on such land making milk is more profitable than making meat. One kind of clover plant is as nearly worthless as any wee 1 that grows. This is the common sweet clover, which grows thriftily by the roadside on the poorest land. It is a great pity, for it starts early and grows luxuriantly. Even when young and tender, cows will not cat it, nor will any other stock that we know of. It is fair bee pasture, but not better than white clover or many other plants good for other purposes. Among the new and less known points on insecticides are the following: Mix pyrethrum with four or five parts of flour Gas lime water for the cabbage worm is made by rubbing the inside of a cask with a spoonful of gas lime and filling the cask with water. Burning straw over tho strawberry plants for tho tarnish plant bug has proved quite successful. Thu effectiveness of pyrethrum is in creased by the addition of alcohol. Never u<e coarse litter, as it pavs to cut it with a cutter, aud the animals will enjoy it better, while its fine quality will render it more capable of absorbing the liquids. All bedding should be used as much for its absorbent qualities as for bedding purposes, and the labor of pass ing it through the cutter will more than be repaid when it comes to the time that the manure is to be hauled, as it w ill thin l>e fine and easier to handle. Apple trees are often starved in other ways than by neglect to manure. The apple Imrer lead* to starvation oftener than poor soil. The supply of food is cut off by every move the oorer inak< *. Get the borr-r out somehow, even if by i wire and jack-knife. If not soon done , they will quickly get themselves out,and after they have left be euro to keep them ou*. Paper put on in May and then , tarred with tar gas or printer’s ink will .•■ep tin in out. O.ie paper will last three X>i*«ehold Hint*. ,’aint ii. _ ou removed from window glaa* with hot, sharp vinegar. It is a great miitexe to paint the wood work in a house; nothing should touch it that will mar or obscure the grain aud color of the woo l. A very pretty bedroom screen is made , of fine Canton matting an 1 painted with ' a branch of pomegranates in a broad and effective style ;the fram: is light bamboo. Linseed oil rubbed on briskly with a piece of felt will usually remove tho white water mark or ring on the wood of table tops or sideboards, that is made where goblets or pitchers are left to stand that are not perfectly dry under neath. Neat window curtains are made of un bleached domestic, bound with strips of cretonne, four inches wide. Cut lambre quin of cretonne, bind with common dress binding braid, color to match cre tonne. Add tassels made of many colors of double crewel. Recipes. Cod’s Head Soup.—Boil in two quarts of water with two onions, a little sage or marjoram, rind of half a lemon; condi ments to taste. Strain, return to the kettle, add a gill of cream thickened with a little cornstarch, and bring to a boil. Sago Soup.—Take good, clear soup tock, remove the fat from the top and strain. Bring to a boil, and stir in half a cup of pearl sago which has been washed and soaked for half an hour in tepid water or three hours in cold; season; simmer half an hour and pour out. Serve with grated cheese. Salad Dressing.—Put in a basin a saltspooaful of pepper and two or three of salt; mix well and add a table-poonful of good vinegar; stir it with a fork and then drop in gradually, stirring all tho time with the fork, three tablespoonfuls of the best salad oil. Just before serv ing add to it the salad, mixing the dress ing well in with fork and spoon. Cucumber Salad.—Parc fresh cucum bers and then slice as thiu as possible; one or two large onions are sliced iu the same manner and mixed with the sliced cucumbers, and the whole put into salted ice water for an hour. Drain them and putin a shallow dish; pepper and half cover with sharp cider vinegar. This salad is appetizing frozen and served wi h boiled fish. Nat arc’s Secret. Where the diamond comes from no body knows. You can no more predict the existence of diamonds than you can the existence of genius, though, to be sure, all diamond fields, to a certain extent, resemble each other; and all, borrowing as they do their light from the sun, are found only in warm clim ates, says a writer in the Cornhill for August. Nor can you tell where the diamond goes to on cotpbustion. Burn it, and it leaves no ash; the flame is exterior, like that of a cork, and when it has blazed itself out there remains not even so much as would dust the antenna of a butterfly. If man has his mysteries, his strange conversions,his go ing in a sinner, his coming out a saint, so too, has nature. The philosopher’s stone is formed of the vilest materials, and the chimney sweep is covered with that which, under happier auspices, would bo jewels. This mysterious process of crys talization places between two bodies of the same nature a greater difference than between bodies differently com posed. And yet not so great a mystery either, tor every year a process is dis covered for making diamonds—only, somehow, the diamonds are never made, or, at the best, so microscopic and at such an enormous expense, that they are absolutely useless, except to gum on cards at the British museum. In France they say a solution of phosphor us in sulphuret of dhrbon yields min ute diamonds; but that these things are better managed there thjn here has been long allowed. He Was Still Dmid. A good story is told of one of our local politicians who was canvassing for the nomination for a county office. One afternoon he attended a gathering in an out township, and meeting an intelligent looking young man who he thought might have some influence, walked up to him and shook him warmly by the hand, inquiring: “How is your father?” The young man answered: “My father has been dead three years.” “Indeed?’’ replied the candidate, “I bad not heard of it; I knew him intimately; he was one of my best friends, and I regret to hear it; he was one of the best and purest min lever knew; you have my svmpathy,” etc. The same evening he met the same person in a villag? near by, and having forgotten h s face accosted him the second time with the interroga tory: “How is your father?” The young man looked at him for a moment and said: “He is still dead,” *nd wa'ked off. —yfinneapolu Timet. Art in Ute Household The very latest of fashionable fancies . in furniture aud decoration, says an authoritv, i* what is called the Colonial | craze. 'lt necessarily embraces some of the features of the Renaissance, but it derives its suggestions primarily from the domestic fashions of the George's reigns. It lacks the color and luxuriance and elaboration of the French styles, discards the gorgeousness and freedom of the , Oriental, and gives special prominence to the two ideas of lightness and grace. In it the draperies are generally of lighter texture; what little upholstery there is is lighter in color, with a touch of pretti ness aud a Dolly Varden tendency, and ■ the chairs, tables and other articles of i furniture are lightly made, with lots of I spokes and open-work. White and gilt i are greatly used, though mahogany and cheiry and the darker woods are used in ■ preference to ash and the similar light woods that have l*en so long in vogue. It involves the use of most enpensive | materials in small quantities in upholster ing, and reminds one of the Chicago lady ; who, finding that her social rival had outdone her in a new dress of an expen- l give pattern, invited the rival and all her set to a reception where all the furniture had been upholstered in exactly the same material. It is a very queer and curious > thing that just as plush has gone out of fashion for upholstery, ladies are going | to wear plush dresses, and that the ma- : terials in most popular favor for covering I chairs and for portieres arc the painted I and brocaded silks and velours, which , were high style for evening dress a year or two ago. This season, then, the most fashionable women will wear what they have been upholstering their chairs with, and cover their chairs with mater ial similar to their old ball room dresses. In all the furniture shops, especially those patronized by the fashionable ele ment, the chairs and the tables and near ly everything else will be seen either carefully copied or modified after the Washingtonian era in this country—some what straight-laced, but substantia], neat and witli a certain pr< ttiness peculiarly their own. What the French call cuyvre, which is something between a rose and a shrimp, is the popular tint in draperies. It is warm, but light; “neat but not gaudy.’’ Witty Dudes. “What summer resorts do you prefer, Blobbs ?” “Mint juleps and sherry cobblers.” “Ha! ha! very good. I Like lowa towns best.” “What! cyclones and all?” “Yes. Didn’t fear cyclones where I was.” “Why not?” “We just sand papered the shingles, and the wind couldn’t get a hold. Great place out there.” “I guess I’ll go, too, next, season. Plenty of room?” “Oh, yes, always plenty of room for cne mower in the hay-field.” A Knock-Down Argument. “Did you know Battershea ?” “The street car conductor ?” “The same.” “Disappeared mysteriously, didn’t he?” “Yes, went West, and came back with the story that he killed over a hundred Indians there.” “That’s probably exaggerated.” “Said he had the proof of it. Took his fore-ringer with him; everytime he killed an Indian he rang up the register.” “Then the register ought to show.” “Well, it didn’t. Got so used to knocking down fares that he only regis tered fifty-seven of them.’’ The Lion and the Lambs. Bobby Bancroft got too sharp the other day. He called his new stepmother “Stranger” when he addressed her at the table, informed the company present that his father liked good cooking, and mar ried again for that reason, but was kick ing on too much devlied tongue; but subsided when his father asked him about the Sunday school lesson. “I think it was about the lion and the lamb, sir,” he said, humbly. “You do, eh? Well, my son, I hap pened to see you fishing at the brook, and was at Sunday school myself to-day. You just come into the wood-shed and I’ll give you a practical demonstration of the lying and the lam!” Scandinavian Names. “Funny thing about my ancestry,” said Ole Williamson, a son of Scandina via, the other day. “Away back, my original ancestor was Ali Oleson, his son was Ole Alison, and he named his boy Andrew Oleson. His son was John Anderson ; his son Andrew Johnson. My grandfather was Jacob Bergstrom, his brother William Stromberg. My father was called Henry Jacobson, and they named me Ole Williamson.” “Then your son ?’’ “Will be William Ilenryson.” Blue His Favorite. Mr. Flippins ain't so jocular as he used to be. The ether day he told a friend that when the barber cut his hair lie used to save the locks, tie them with blue ribbons, and sell them to admiring lady friends for ten cents each. Mrs. Flippins heard of it. Blue is still a favorite color with Flippins, for a neighbor says he hasn’t been out of the house for a week, and has his head bandaged up in a blue-checked apron, where his wife hit him with the rolling pin. An Obstacle to Physical Well-Bein*. Physician* rightfully characterize constipa tion us a i obst nate impediment io the welt..re of the body. Tue periormance of ti.o more im:or:ant functions, such as digestion, bilia v w. retion and an active circulati n of the blood, are interrupted by it to a greater or less degree, as t e development ■ f the complaint i» ncipient or matu e. Notatonce. of course, but with reasonable , roniptitu 1 ■•. Hustct er’s stomach Bi levs will re eve every sympt-.m I" w ... h it gives ri-e. as we lihe niino- ma'a dles that spring from it. among hem ; diges tion and chronic bi.iousnes-. I ron drenching cathartics it is vain to h. p- tor i-er-nanent be ci t. and there ~re few p r_at ves fliai are n t violent and profuse in tnefroperation. Blue pdl and ca omel are''esig e toac upon the liver only, and taken fr qtw-nfly are ter nicious te health. Tie Bitters roducs re laxation of the bowe sw- thou pail . nd a re newal of the.r regularity. It as. onr;uers fever and acue. rheu attsui. neu: a 4 :a and in activity of the kidneys. Ihe l ae of Tapestry. One of the most exquisite example* possible of the entirely new idea ( or rather resurrected idea) of covering the entire walls of rooms with silk and simi iar material has the four walls and ceil-1 ingof the room in question covered with rich Louis Seize tapestry, very light aud delicate, almost salmon pink and fluted and gathered so as to make friezes and cornices of the same material. The doors and windows are curtained with the same material and the furniture is Ul ,_ bolstered with it. All the furniture is dainty and of white wood. Another room is similiarly done in pink and amber brocaded satin. A young man who has lately married, having obtained a dispensation to keep up some of his bachelor tastes, has made a new and original departure in domestic arrange ments, by making the smoking-room the most prominent and striking apartment in his new house. The first room upon entering is the dining hall, which has curious Arabian hangings. Back of it is the smoking-room, which is thorough ly Oriental, with curiously marked cur tains from Afghanistan, with knotted ‘ edges, a genuine Persian embroidered divan, walls in guilt relief, and even a meshreebeah or latice window, such as they have in the harems. Back of the smoking-room is the parlor, which has three sets of rose velour curtains, all I alike, and a sort of gold and ivory traus ! parent stuff draping the windows’ Great artistic taste must be exercised in the arrangement of so much richly colored stuff. The same rules governin'' i needle-work may obtain. A general effect may be made by throw ing down the silks upon the ground, | witeu a trained eye will quickly discern I the proper tints and the proportionate qualities to use. An absolute rule is that no harsh transactions must be made; but | if it be necessary to pass from one color ■ to another which conflicts when placed i side by side it can be done by some re- I lating tint, as has been described. In needlework it is easy to do this because ' of the enormous variety of shades in silks and worsteds. The Japanese method is laid down as a good one. They work the silks in one color, or lay them on the surface, an<l then with related hues work them up to a harmonious whole. Another law is that when two portions of the same or nearly related r.bes ate placed at a distance from each other with neutral tints between, both become intensified and appear brighter than they did before. Thus in working out a de sign in harmony there must be no de tached single bits of color. They must be led up to by broken tints, or there must be other patches of the same color near enough to be taken in by the eye at the same time. This will enrich both. Graduated tones of the same color are always pleasing. This is properly called the analogy of color. A good mtample of this is given in the treatment of orange-brown with broken tones of gold or broken yellow, even up to butter color. In Chinese embroideries we often see daring effects produced by working on a ground of imperial yellow. It is necessary in using such a ground, how ever, to work through yellows in broken tints only to the most delicate of bhtes, reds and greens. The ground is thus treated as the Chinese treat it, and the colors worked down from that to broken tints containing but a small proportion of yellow. Pretty Girls. It has been either broadly suggested that pretty girls cause most of the trou ble in the world. Os course the greatest of all evils on this mundane sphere is money, but pretty girls stand seconc best. It seems odd how much of these great evils an ordinary man imagines he car take care of. Like champagne, he will never acknowledge he has too much for his own good. Young men in society are warned by a careful sister that such and such pretty girl is to be avoided, as likely to prove dangerous to his peace of mind. De they ever heed? Never. That very pretty girl's favor they most assiduously seek. Then when she breaks his suscep tible heart, she is loudly denounced. She alone is to blame. Os course she is. The sister warned him, he could not re sist her fascination, consequently she is to blame for being charming. It cannot be denied that pretty girls have been involved in nearly every trag edy and scandal of history. That won derful wooden-horse would never have been built, had not Helen of Troy been beautiful. Juliet Capulet was wondrous handsome or her neighbor’s boy. Romeo, would not have climbed the garden wall. Cleopatra must have been “perfectly lovely,” for the photographs of her are so, and most of them were taken when she was not feeling well, having been bit ten by that poisonous asp. Homely women are fortunately not called upon to participate in these unfor tunate affairs. It is peculiar, however, that men prefer to fall in love, tight and die for pretty girls, and it is just as much a fact as it is peculiar that girls prefer to be pretty und run the risk of these fatalities. Mr. L. D. Vinson, Cashier D. dt I. R- R- has tried and endorses I tod Star Cough Cure. Lightning struck a house in N- -w J y snd smashed six empty whisky hott!i s. Thr-'e fil l bottles were not touched. The tbui J w:.s evidently familiar with the e ' j Jersey whisky, and knew it won d g--i wi r-o-d in a collision with the able-bodied stulf. Mr. Arthur Shurtleff, Parker, Dakota.write! that he suffered for two years with a am* knee, wh ch was entire'y cured by the use of St. Jacobs OIL Ho considers it a most won derful remedy. It conquers pain. The «on of a prominent pre ate was ushered into Rufus Choate’s offic- one day. Choate, who was writing, mere.y said. “Take a cha.r. and continuid to write.*The visitor, becoming impatient, sa-d. “I’m Bishop ’a eon. Choate replied, “Take two chairs.’’ Expresses his Gratitude.—Albert A. Lar son, of Kirkman. la., writes to the propriet - of Alien's Lung Balsam: “1 firmly believe rn' wife would have died of consumption, if: for the timely use of your Balsam.’’ Price 50c. and 81 per bottle,’at Druggists. Go slow in deciding against your own good ju .gment. Yoc will get more comfort for Sets, m Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners than in any other arti cle you buy. If afflicted with sore eyes uee Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye- water. Druggists sell at 25c per bott.e If a cough disturbs your sleep, take Ptso » Cure for Consumption and rest well.