and 81.25, giving » of marvellous brilliancy, TREATMENTS --*' DR. AGNEW'S CURE FOR LEADING THOUSANDS OUT OF "EGYPTIAN HEALTH AND UNTOLD SUFFERING TO OF PERFECT HEALTH "i a ~ FASHION'S FORM. ee " ---- NC | Here's An Easily Made Dressing Sacque. Since most women fashion their own dressing sacqies and negligees, it is well to consider models that are ga- tisfactory in effect. Such a one is shown in the illustration. The back a4] 8 two-thirds fitted, and the front | shirred into a short yoke, falling {loose from that Poon, A broad sail - or collar gi t ] fi One of the new flanmels lee may be' oliectively used in. model, a ring-dot pattern in blae 3 jon cream ground being the one illus: J trated, Broad "bande of blue taffeta silk outline the 'sailor collar and finish the belt and slesves. The jacket is #0 well shaped thet it holds its form unlined, and may be made with n seam simply -notched, which will subtract materially from the labor. In Training. : A member of the bar of Baltimore relates how & witness in a trial in that city once "got back" at the Hawyar, who had been endeavoring to "rattle" the witness by a severe cross examination. At a certain point inthe proceedings J the witness suddenly interrupted the cross-examining lawyer hy. exclaiming: "Look here! You needn't think you kin rattle me hy asking = them ques: tions," "No?" was the sarcastic rejoinder. "No, sirree I" came in emphatic tone from the refractory witness. 'Your questions don't bother me at all, I've raised three sons and two grandsons, an" I've been in training a good many years," Inter Ocean. ; Health Means Success. Is imposible for a man or woman to. be a business sueccoss without health, A strong body and an active mind go together. Wade's Iron Tonic Pills give both, Try them. In boxes 25c., at Wade's Drug Store. Money hack if not satisfactory, ------ New Centerpiece. Some of the new centerpieces are made of fine. lawn, almost as delicate as very thin handkerchiefs. They are often a yard and a ball square. and bordvred with exquisite Valenciennes lace and inset with a circle of the same kind of lace. --- PROPHET, BY THE AID OF THAT HEART ACHE? -- 1s your breath short-- Is. it hard to find spells << Do your feet and ankles swell | "A_Gilded_ Fool," headed by ] Kleschna." "Der Kilometerirosser," wil i ish next spring, i Hal Road Burner ? Biatindes hl Sin of David," by tebhen ips, : Maxime Elliott join. their galaxy of stars, but the risk of incurring svndi- cate displeasure holds the actress back J. K. Hackett, who has secured the western rights to "The Little Grey Lady," recently produced in New York, will send a company out in the lay at an early date. It is likely that when Forbes Rob- ertson fully recovers his health he will produce at-the-Seals theatre, London, a play founded on W, J. Locke's no- vel, "The Morals of Murcus Ordeyne," "The Jury of Fate," by the author of Leah Kleschna hus heen shelved after a short and disastrous rm in London, and she will be ceded hy vi t Goodwin in the leading part, : There is a boom in English musical comedy. Klaw & Erlanger will pro- produce "The Orchid," as well as "The Spring Chicken," the the Shub- eris intend to put on "The Blue Moon," and to revive "Veronique," "Judith," the new play which Mme. Bernhardt will producer on an elabor- ate scale, as soon as she returns to Paris in the spring, is by an Ameri: can, Dr. Baruch, of New York, who writes wnder the name of KE. Benedict Demarnay. "The Road Burner," a farce that has been runni for three or four weeks at the Trving Place theatre, New York, will be translated, and presented by an English company next season, under the direction of Klaw and Erlanger, Peter: F. Dailey, in "The Press Agent," has brought his New York season to a close. The English com- ny playing "Veronique," has sailed or home, but the piece will she pre- sented later with an American com- pany, and/a United States instead of a British atmosphere. At the Scala theatre, Lontlon, "The | Pioneers," a society for encour 2 ing, dramatists, presented *"The Firefly," a strong story of Russian life, by William Toynbee. The play has been declined by all the promin- ent London managers, vet it made a pronounced hit, Henri da Vries, the Dutch actor, who made such a success in New York in "A Case of Arson," in which he play- etl the seven parts himself, has made his first appearance in vaudeville, at the Colonial, New York. It is said he is drawing the largest salary ever paid any actor in a variety house. Fire broke out among the scenery on the stage of the New York Casio during the performance of "The Earl and the Girl," one evening last week. A panic was averted by the coolness of the players, especially ¥ddie Foy, who was also on the stage at the time of the big Iroquois fire in Chica- go. $ Barrie's "Peter Pan," now running in New York, has been revived in London," with Cecilia Loftus in the name part. The London Chronicle says of this talented voung lady: "Miss Cecilia Loftus looking delightfully hoy- ish, made a splendid Peter Pan. fresh and fine, with.many a gentle tear in her voice, which brought the tears to our eyes," "The Bishop's Cariage" has been withdrawn as Miss Mabel Tallaferre, who ix only sixteen, and who . was playing the linding role, was found unable to handle the strongest scenes. Rather than substitute an older act rere, Mr. Tyler. of Lichbler & Co, ix said to have disbanded the company. The Australian manager, George Mus- grove, is trying to obtain the Ameri can rights of the piece so that his wife, who made 'a hit in it in Austra lia, may play it in this country. M. Sardon has just compléted a new vlay--a comedy--which is as vet only in manuscript, but which will shortly be produced in Paris, and. later, in an English dress, with Mr. Sardon hopes. Miss Ellis Jefirevs, in the char- aoter of the heroine. The new work is a reversal of the idea of the same au- thor's mmsterpiece, "A Scrap of Paper," which he wrote forty years ago. Once again there is a missing "scrap," but this time the heroine in search of it seeks it in order to prove herself guilty long ago of a love af fair. She wishes to prove the oxis- tence of this that she may demon- strate the loyalty of a later love, Smallest In The World. The smallest army in the world is that of Monaco, with seventy-five guards, eeventy-fives carabineers and twenty firemen, Next comes that of Luxemburg, with 135 gendarmes, 170 volunteers and 39 musicians, In . the républ,c of San Marino, they can put in the field nine companies, compris. ing 930 men and 98 officers, command- od by a marshal. In Liberia the most striking feature is the proportion of officers to privater, There are 800 of the former and only 700 of the latter. None the less, the republic issues pro. clamations of neutrality when wars break out between the great powers of Europe. ' -- ---------- dates 3. Black, died at his home, in of sight months with consump next season will bit," A Winter's Miss Pilar the ' English provine- Hl be Te will H. B. Irving and Constance Collier are about to produce for a season "of Shuberts are anxious to have 1 have very little wegard for the ight against Tinie WH apes {seit grow old. A woman is as old as she , on. Monday, after an 4 a g prison ure not prisoners sentenced for 'a series of petty thefts will sometimes fo lead the authorities to think they ought not to be 'treated like common felons, hut. removed to the critninal lunatic asylum, Wormwood Serubbs prison' was once very much troubled by an aggravated case of the kind. The man had kleptomania at his rial, Sut all I vain, and five Years was the sentence sed upon bim. He had not hese) oe in Worm- wood Serubbs when all sorts of un- considered trifles' to disappear in the most mysterious manner. For a long time the identity of the thief | was unsuspected. But one day a pris- oner "Wployed in the printing room lost. tton off his trousers, dnd the thief, who worked in the same de- partment, offered to let him have an- other. But it proved to be the identi: cal button that had been lost, and thereupon the thief fell under suspic. ion, which was, of course, the object of his noble offer. On his coll being searched a most extraordinary collec- tion of articles was found in hix mat- tress. The list of items would fill ball a column, but the most common things were buttons, mails, scraps of soap, rags and Hants of wood. At one fell * swodp, "i , everything that had been missed during months past were recovered, The thief, instead. of 'being sent to Broadmoor, was pun but never theless he resumed a and he continued bis thefts" and' secreting them until he was transferred to Port. land in the usual ¢ofirse, when he'sud denly and completaly reformed. = THE FIGHT FOR YOUTH. Struggle Against Age Tsn't Worth Trouble. ™ on a strife with gray' hairs antl wrin- kles. There used to be a picture pub. lished as an advertisement in which an elderly woman bad one side of hée face all ironed out, ~smobthly; while the other was wrinkled and worn, The wrinkled side was the more pleasing. As we grow older _every jinc in the countenance should tell a sory of lov- ing deeds. We are making for our- sélves in youth the mask we shall wear to the very end." Every fretful, discontented, = dissatisfied expression writes itself upon the face, so that the sweetest and ripest natures will have the rarest loveliness when they looks and as old as she feels. A sign of our increased health and vitality to-day is found in the fact that a woman of fifty looks about as old as a woman formerly looked at thirty- five, and many an active woman of eighty has the vigor that was former. lv common at sixty. The mile stones need frighten nobody. Older people are no longer put in a corner, nor are they expected to hug {he chimney corner. It is a womdn's obligation to be charming to her latest day. tn cm-------- Farmers Need Bifds. German farmers are trying to induce the smaller birds to return to their old haunts about the fields, and for this purpose are setting out hoxes and other artificial devices to serve the birds for homes. The farmers need the birds to destroy the inscets, but the birds are disappearing, not only be- cause of their direct slaughter, but also because the old trees.in the de- cayed hollows of which they built their nests, the old copses which they haunted, and both of which were prolific in insects, together with the stagnant pools which yielded hem food in abundance, are all disappear ing before the closer cultivation of the present time, Going To Get Hit. An Irishman was walking along a road alongside a links, when he was suddenly struck between the shoulders with a golf ball. The force of the blow knocked tim down, and when he got up he observed a golfer running toward him. "Are you hurt ?" quer- ied the player. "Why didn't you get out of the way ?" "And why should I get out of the way *' asked Pat. "I didn't think there was any assassins around here." "But 1 called 'fore,' that is a sign for you to get out of the way." "Oh, it is, is it?' said Pat. "Well, them, whin I say 'foive' it's a sien that you are going to get hit on the nose." King John's Fishery. A London syndicate has purchased the thirty years' lease of the Lax Weir at Corbally, in the Shannon, near Lamerick, for £12,000. The Irish Times says. The fishing weir was used and named by the Danes when they occu- pied Limerick, and a charter exists of a date prior to Magna Charta hy which King John granted this fishery to William de Broasa. In the reign of Bdward 111, the fishery went to the Limerick corporation, who disposed of it about twenty years ago. ---------- William Clare, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan McKay, Smith's Falls, passed away on Saturday, The family have been sorely afflicted the past two months, three of their children having suffered from typhoid fever, the young- est being still quite ill, Dr. EB. G. Cooper. Calabogie, suffers from typhoid fever. The Best Is Cheapest. "Solution. of Ozone (the coupon kind)," is the purest and best form in which Ozone is put up. Each bottle of it contains a coupon entitling you to a package of "Celery King," the well- nown tonic laxative, which should al- ways he used with Ozone, By Suying "Solution of Ozone (the roupon kind)" wou get Ozone in ifs most efficient form, and you get ab- out twice as much of it for your money as of other brands. You also get the package of "Celery King" ab- solutely without cha for it. No other brand of Ozone offers this advantage because no other firm can you the "Celery King." That is the ouly way to procure the full value of wour Ozone ue, : : "Solution of Ozone (tHe coupon | Rian Acids EL RT kind)" is fifty cents and one dolla continue their practice in jail in order government supervision | | WHAT HAS BEEN GAINED. By the Recent Insurance Investi- gation. Wall Street Journal Peonle who are afraid of an investi gation because it might disturb con tdence and unsettle business by re vealing unpleasant truths may with profit these results of the re quadraple investigation of the i able, first by the Frick committe tudy second, by the insurance commissioner, third by the Armstrong committee and fourth by the chartered account ants appointed by President Morton A saving in cost of administration of $1,200,000 a vear Reduction in deposits in banks and trust companies from 836,000.000 t F11,000,000, this resulting in : A gain in income from investments of $500,000, The policyholders of the Equitable would seem to have every reason jor rejoicing that the. company was inves tigated, What have those engaged in the in surance as a life business gained fron the recent investigations A magnificent proof of the solvency of the companies, a fact that cannot fail to increase public confidence in in surance, What have policyholders gained ? generally Better and more economical admin istration which will result msurdnce, cheaper not neces lower premiums, but by ine vidends. Better insurance in cheaper sarily hy ased di loans and of insurance world of business What has the vained ? Higher standards for the perform: ance of duty hy trustees of oth D er peo ple's money, ---------- Wanted To Make Sure. An old negro went to the bank in which he kept his hard earned save mgs, and asked the paying-teller to give him all the money he had deo- posited. He offered ne explanation of his sudden desire to withdraw his funds, and after vain argument ' with him the teller counted out the hills and delivered them to the old man He eved the paper money for a mo ment and said : "Kip | . git dat mn silver, boss #° The teller assured him he conld, and forthwjth made the exchange. Phe old negro retired to a neighboring desk, remained crouched | over it a long time, and. then to. the tedler's great Surprise, returned to the window and glecfully theust: his money back through the pige whole, Before he could -#peak the old man said, grin. 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