Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 December 1894 — Page 7

FASHION LETTER. t%« "Winter Season Finds It* Special Fade and Fanelea In Dress and Headwear— The “Penwiper” Skirt—Fur Is Omnipresent—A Medley of Shapes la Hats. v [Special New York Correspondence.] One of the most fashionable dress skirts of the season is shaped with the front and side breadths narrow at the top and flaring broadly from the knee down. In the back are three umbrella gores, so narrow at the top that a single box plait adjusts them to the belt. These gores—one in the oenter and one on each side—increase the width as they near the hem, and are variously interlined to suit individual tastes. The “penwiper” skirt is the latest name for this distended model. On some of the seven-gored shapes, very large godet or organ plaits increasing in size as they near the hem, are stiffly interlined and so stand well away from the figure. A medium-width skirt prevails notwithstanding all that is heard and written of -six and seven-yard modes. A very tall woman, slim to attenuation, would' look as well as anyone in a skirt of this description, but a wobbling shape, a gpass of heavy cumbersome waves ajjij ^a§»I§ B?Uher pretty, graceful nor chic. CreponS o?'

every size ana, jol^r $ro tHe r&g'O, and very beautiful gowns with fur and jet trimmings are this season made of jet black crepon. Ribbed fabrics in fine color mixtures, also in selfcolors, resembling French ottoman or cote de cheval, as:he French call it, are among the most nonular

dress goods of the season. Some of the most effective ribbed fabrics have satin stripes in rich colorings about two inches apart For walking and traveling costumes, modistes and tailors are using dark rich chataigne, or chestnut brown cloth, also rust color, the deep fruit dyes, various new and stylish chrysanthemum tints, and a host of cheviots and fine winter fancy mixtures in chevron stripes, mottled, shot, checked and plaited effects. Besides the entire wraps in cape 6hape, and the varied ways of utilizing fur panels, points, etc., many small pieces of fur are worn, often to the exclusion of any other fur garment. Some of these in collarette shape are large enough to be called capes, as they come well over the shoulder tips, and many are pointed to the waist front and back.

MBMMMT The continued fancy for black and 'white makes these ermine-trimmed garments very popular, though this regal far seems very much more appro* priate for velvet, brocade and moire, than for plain cloth. Jet heads very many of the narrow fur edgings and -on fur-bordered theater capes of black or dark velvet are worn immense spreading Queen Anne or Vandyke collars of Spanish guipure or heavy ecru Irish point. To Wear with capes of this description are velvet hats ornamented with standing sable tails and rosettes of rich lace with, often, one large rosette added of the new magenta pink in satin or shaded velvet. Stock collars, collarettes and

made of this bright shade, which has proved becoming to m o r e women than k one would first ■have imagined. "These fancy accessories are also made of chiffon, Scotch plaid, silk, gay ribbons, and of cerise, black, bine, yellow and petunia velvet; jet, rhinestones and sterling silver buckles effectively used

upon these bodice ornaments. Bluet blue, cerise or cherry, and magenta pink, are the leading colors of the moment with milliners. Jet gleams forth on garnitures of every description. It is intermingled with all sorts of silkcord, opal, pearl and iridescent bead garnitures, and it gives a rich, brilliant color note to hat and bonnet decoration. Hats show a medley of shapes—graceful, grotesque, little and large, and in both high and low effects. The latest importations, either for full or demi-dress wear, are decorated with shaded velvet dahlias, hawthorne blossoms in clusters of three, with velvet foliage shaped in aigrette fashion; or two huge chrysanthemums, mingled with standing plumes and choux of heavy guipure lace, and violets, jacque and briar roses intermingled with fur trimmings and velvet ivy sprays. , . ; Kill Duxham. « s%

AGRICULTURAL HINTS. REFORM MUST COME. Good Roads Considered la the Light of o ClvtlUer. Modern taste will not go back to old, systems of country living. The backwoods will do for adventure, or in .which to fell the timber for farms, or till the virgin plains, but the country as a whole wants more of country air in the cities, and of city comforts in the country, and the good road is the civilizer that will soonest make this interchange of blessings possible. When the country was new and the cities small, culture pioneered, charmed with the glory awaiting success. Cities like magic grew, and the farmer became the banker and remained the farmer still. He was a legislator and a farmer still; but the country district has not kept paoe with the city development, chiefly from the want of good roads, and the country can easily account for loss in population and in caliber as to culture, while the cities acquire the best the country affords. A good road means a fine breed of horses and money in the breeding of

SAMPLE OF A COUNTRY ROAD. fi jHighways, so-called, like this depopulate our1 rural districts in the east as well as in thewest ] them. It means a ready exchange within the country districts, of country produce. It means the ability to at any moment deliver produce or seek a market for it by team. It means the lordly independence of the farmer because it promotes barter. It means making the country attractive to visitors, who will seek retired nooks for quiet, assured of delightful drives in getting there. It means in the country parts a freer, more delightful interchange of social life. It means happiness and joy where now reigns the dreary monotony that kills. Then the old-fashioned taverns may come back without the old-fashioned drinking, for they may be places of social interchange, where country statesmen, still in the green state, may put up their teams and enjoy the contest of talk and brighten their wits for higher triumphs. Dirt roads will solve the monopoly of the railroada The farmers will cluster about busy centers, content with smaller farms. Busy centers, therefore, will increase. A back country that is handsomely accessible is the very life of the busy center, and its support Then, railroad managers, in order to maintain their expensive equipment of men and material, will so conduct their roads, with a view to local traffic, as to tickle the farmer with a victory never be fore achieved. Railroads are desirable, but they are most desirable and at their best when they serve the people best at a fair profit to the corporation, and this can soonest and best be compelled when the country is gridironed with the best dirt roads known to modern means and to modern experience.—Horatio Crane, in Good Roads. MOVING LARGE MAPLES. kn Operation Costing Considerable Time, Care and Money. To a correspondent who asked how to move and prune large maple trees, six or seven inches in diameter, the editor of Garden and Forest replies: In removing trees the roots are generally injured to a greater or less extent, and those which are bruised must be cut away; it is good practice to prune in the branches to a corresponding extent, so that there will be not more leaves than roots can supply. Norway maples of the size indicated cannot be removed without the loss of many roots, and. pruning will be necessary. Such pruning will be perfectly safe, as these maples are not injured more than any other trees by this operation. A great deal of this pruning can be effected by thinning out the inner branches, but there should be no hesitation about cutting back limbs where this seems necessary. When the ends of the branches are pruned they should be cut back to a limb, the wounds should be covered with coal tar, and no stubs should be left to decay. In removing such large trees it is good practice to prune the roots back by digging a trench about the trees, say five feet from the trunk, and if this trench is filled with good soil new feeding roots will start out during the next year,*so that the tree will be in excellent condition for removing in a year from the coming winter. Large trees can be removed with success, but it costs time and care and money. Persons who do not choose to go to the extra expense, however, can console themselves with the reflection that, as a rule, it is best to plant small trees, and that a tree ten or twelve feet high will probably be as large in ten years as one planted at the same time when it was twentyfive feet high. From a Commercial View Point. We recognize this good road movement as one having in view results of the utmost commercial significance, and our effort has been to do all that was possible in the way of practical assistance.—E. Keyes, Manager Stocks Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. A Word A boat Road Foundations. The action of sand is quite analagous to the action of water — both must be confined to make a satisfactory foundation.

CALENDAR FOR 1895. -O ^ A MIRACLE IN TEXAS.

Investigated by the Texas Christian Advooate and Vouohed for by Dr. O. H. Stansbury. (From tho Texas Christian Advocate.) Our representative has made a careful in vestigation of the H. £. Spaulding case at Longview, which is here published for the first time, and which will be read with great interest by medical men evert-where. In reply to the Christian Advocate's questions Mr. Spaulding said: About eight years ago while running a locomotive I contracted sciatic rheumatism in my left side from my hip down. It came onslow but sure and in a few months I lost control entirely of that member, it was just the same as if it was paralyzed, I was totally unable to move out of my room for a year and a half, six months of which time I was bedridden. I tried every remedy suggested, and had regular physicians in constant attendance on me. I was bundled up and sent to Hot Springs where I spent three months under the treatment of the most eminent specialists, all of which did me no good, and 1 came back from the springs in a worse condition than when I went. I came home and laid flat on my back and suffered the most excruciating agonies, screaming in pain every time anybody walked across the room, the only ease I obtained being from the constant use of opiates. After three months of this kind of agony, during which time my entire left leg perished away to the very bone, my attention was called to a new remedy called Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, by Mr. Allison who is now train dispatcher at Texarkana, and who was relieved of locomotor ataxia of twenty years duration. At his urgent and repeated solicitation I consented to give them a trial, after taking a few doses I began to improve. I continued taking the pills and kept right on improving until I was finally cured. My leg is just the same size now as the other one, and I am sure that Pink Pills not only cured me but saved life. The reporter next visited Dr. C. H. Stans bury, a graduate of one of the medical schools of Kentucky* and a man who enjoys the confidence of everybody in Longview. He said: “I know that Mr. Spaulding had a terribly severe attack of sciatic rheumatism of which I tried to cure him; used everything known to my profession in vain and linallv recomm ended him to go to Hot Springs. * He came back from the springs worse than when he went and I thought it was only a matter of time until his heart would be affected and he would die. I also know that his cure is the direct result of the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” “That is rather an unusual statement for a regular physician to make, doctor.” “I know it is, but a fact is a fact, and there are hundreds of pecple right here in Longview who know what I say is the truth. I also know Mr. Allison and know that he was relieved of a genuine and severe case of locomotor ataxia of twenty years standing.” A Test of Character. An election is sometimes spoken oi as a test of character. Certainly a man whocan rnn the gauiftlet-and come out unscathed in reputation must have a straight record. The unfairness of the election test lies in the fact that it is the bad qualities of the candidates rather than both their bad and good qualities that are held up. Such kinds of tests are elevating neither to the public nor to the ordinary political life. The writer always liked the reply of an old darky who was unfortunately sentenced to imprisonment by the police justice for some petty offense: “Well, Sambo,” said one who attempted to console him, “adversity tries us and develops our better qualities.” “ ’Twan't dat away at all wid me, sah,” replied Sambo“lugubriously. “It wasn’t adwersity what tried me, sah, but a ole fool judge; and he deweloped all ob my bad qualities and none ob my good ones.”—Boston Budget. _ —That even the kings who persecuted the Jews in the middle ages were obliged to employ Jewish physicians is wall known. A writer in the Barcelona Revista de Ciencias Medicas now* shows from the Vatican archives that the popes also employed them, and in return protected them in holding to their faith. Adgelo de Manuele, a Jew, was appointed physician to Boniface IX. and the conclave of cardinals in 1392. Julius II. had for his doctor a Spanish rabbi. The popes of the renaissance, Leo X., Clement VII., Paul III., all employed Jews. As late as 1339 the religion of the doctors was u(,«iu*.trfcrred with.

Important In Broad Making* The temperature at which bread la both raised and baked is of the greatest importance in producing the perfect loaf. Dr. Woods, of the Connecticut experiment station, places the proper raising temperature at from 80 degrees to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, and the baking temperature at from 400 degrees to 500 degrees. In a late paper on bread-mak.'ug he cautions the housewife against cooling the loaves of bread too rapidly after taking them from the oven. 4‘Much of the souring of bread,” he adds, “is doubtless due to lack of care during cooling. Owing to the high-water contents, and the large amounts of nitrogenous substances and sugar which bread contains, it is, especially while warm, a good soil for the development of various kinds of molds and bacteria. A loaf of bread hot from the oven, taken into a poorlyventilated room crowded with people, will become sour in the course of two or three hours.”—N. Y. Post. —“That’s a go-.d match, that one of Charlie Dullard and Ella Talkaway.” “I don’t think so.” “Oh, I do. They average up well on conversational qualities. He can talk for about five minutes a week, and she'd talk forty hours a day if she had the time. He can help her out, and so add to his own stock.”—Harper's llazar. •100 Howard, 9100. The reader of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly on the blood axyd mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving tie patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to core. Send for list of testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, O. SSgRSold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Puls, 25 cents.

Conductor— ‘How old are you, little girl?” Little Girl—“II the company doesn't object I prefer to pay my fare and keep my own statistics.”—Vogue. Piso’sCure for Consumption has no equal as a Cough medicine.—F. M. Abbott, 383 Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y., May 9,1894. “You’d better discharge that new writer —he can’t spell.” “You are mistaken; we have merely discovered a great dialect genius."—Atlanta Constitution. THE MARKETS. (Ol & NSW YORK. Dec. 22, CATTLE—Native Steers.I 3 50 & COTTON—Middling... @ FLOUR-Winter Wheat. 2 85 @ WHEAT-Na 8 Red. 80 CORN—No. 2.. OATS—No. 2.. 31 PORK—New Mess. . 13 00 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... BEEVES—Shippiug Steers... 5 00 ® Medium. 4 25 HOGS—Fairto Select.. 4 15 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 2 00 FLOUR—Patents...... 2 5» Fancy to Extra do.. 1 95 WHEAT—No. 2Red. Winter... OORN-No. 2 Mixed. 44*« OATS— No. 2 . 29W RYE—No.8...,. 52V = TOBACCO-Lugs.. 3 50 Leaf Burley. TOO HAY—Clear Timothy.......... #00 BUTTER—Choice Dajry.. 15 nine EGGS—Fresh PORK—Standard Mess vNew). 13 12H@ BACON-Clear Rib. & LARD—Prime Steam. @ CHICAGO CATTLE—Shipping. . ... 4 00 @ HOGS—Fair to Choice.. 4 25 @ SHEEP—Fair to Choice. 2 50 @ FLOUR—Winter Patents..... 2 50 Spring Patents.. 3 10 @ WHEAT—No. 2 Spring.. 58*(f<j No 2 Red. 53X<?% CORN-No. 2 . @ OATS—No. 2.. @ PORK—Mess (new). 11 75 @ KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 3 25 @ HOGS—All Grades.. 3 75 @ WHEAT—Na 2 Red. (ct OATS-Na 2. 32 CORN—Na2. 40 NEW ORLEANS FLOUR—High Grade. 2 50 CORN—Na 2. 52 OATS—Western.... HAY—Choice... 16 00 PORK—New Mess. BACON-Sides.. .. COTTON—Middling. LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-Na 2 Red. 54 CORN-Na 2 Mixed (ear). 44 OATS—No. 2 Mixed.. 33 PORK—New Mess. 12 25 BACON-Clear Rib. COTTON—Middling.. in On? Great Grandfather's Time,

big bulky pills were in general use. Like the “blunderbuss” of that decade they were big and clumsy, but ineffective. In this century of enlightenment, w‘e have Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets, which cure all liver, stomach and bowel derangements in the most effective

Assist Nature a little now and tlien, with a gentle, cleansing laxative, thereby removing offending matter from the stomach and bowels, toning up an£ invigorating the liver and quickening its tardy action, and you thereby remove the cause of a multitude of distressing diseases, such as headaches, indigestion, or dyspepsia, biliousness, pimples, blotches, eruptions, boils, constipation, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous to mention. If people would pay more attention to properly regulating the action of their bowels, they would have less frequent occasion to call for their doctor's services to subdue attacks of dangerous diseases. That, of all known agents to accomplish this purpose, Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are unequaled, is proven by the fact that ouce used, they are always in favor. Their secondary effect is to keep the bowels open and regular, not to further constipate, as is the case with other pills. Hence, their great popularity, with sufferers from habitual constipation, piles and indigestion. A free sample of the “ Pellets,” (4 to 7 doses) on trial, is mailed to any address, post-paid, on receipt of name and address on postal card. Address, Woruj’s Dispensary Mkdicai. Association, Buffalo, N. Y.

No Substitutes For Royal Baking Powder. The “Royal* is shown by all tests, official, scientific, and practical, stronger, purer, and better in every way than all other Baking Powders. Its superiority is privately acknowledged by other manufacturers, and well known by all dealers. If some grocers try to sell another baking powder in place of the “Royal,” it is because of the greater profit This of itself is good evidence of the superiority of the “ Royal.” To give greater profit the other must be a lowet cost powder, and to cost less it must be made with cheaper and inferior materials, and thus, though selling for the same, give less value to the consumer. LOOK ipth suspicion upon every attempt to palm off upon you any baking powder in place of the “ Royal.” There is no substitute for the “ Royal.*

—The reason beer is often weighed instead of measured is due to the fact that when the beer is drawn the foam makes an accurate measure impossible. A pound and a quarter of begr is equivalent to a pint, although it would measure much more. Scre to Have a Good Time.—“Have you received an invitation to the Bachelors’ ball*” “Yes, indeed. I'm to be the only girl there.” “What!” “Yes; really. You know the bachelors only had an invitation apiece to send out, ana I've received one from each.”—Harper’s Bazar. If Santa Clans Were bilious he wouldn’t be the jovial friend of little boys and girls that he is. Bilious people are cross. They ought to take Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters ana banish the bile from their blood and their tempers at one and the same time. The Bitters is an infallible preventive of malarial, kidney and rheumatic ailments, and triumphs over dyspepsia and nervousness. It regulates the bowels without griping them. Stocklt—“I hear that your son went into the office to work this morning.” Jobly— “Be went into the office to work me. I was out, but I guess I'd have been out more if I’d been in.”—Philadelphia Record. 93.00 to California Is price of double berth in Tourist Sleeping Car from Kansas City on the famous “Phillips-Rock Island Tourist Excursions.” Through cars oe fast trains leave Kansas Oitv Wednesdays via Ft. Worth and El Paso, and Fridays via Scenic Route. Write for particulars to G. D. Bacon, G. A. P. D., 106 N. 4th St„ St. Louis, Mo. John Sebastian, G. P. A., Chicago. “I am summoned to another climb,” said the bellboy as the indicator announced a call from the top floor.—Philadelphia Record. Mothers. When Your Children Take cold and are sick with a Cough or Croup, give them Allen’s Lung Balsam; you will be pleased with the result. r It contains no opium and its action is expectorant, causing the phlegm to rise and the inflamed membrane to heal rapidly. Not His Weak Point—Ajax—“Wert thou not wouuded ip the battle to-dav, Achilles? Methoughtl saw thee stricken by a Trojan spear.” Achilles—“I was stricken, Ajax; but, fortunately, Igotitiu the neck.” —Puck. How Mt Throat Hurts !—Why don’t you use Hale’s Honey of Horehouud and Tart Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Teacher - “Now, Charley, tell us what you know about Croesus?” Charley—“Dudes wear ’em in their pants.”—Harlem Life.

Stranger—“Zura Donnerwetter, now,R» have cut my chin a second time. If joa can’t shave better than that, you will toe* all your customers pretty quick.” Barber's Apprentice—"Not at all! I am not allowed to shave the regular customers yet; 1 only suave strangers!”—Fliegendo Blatter. Jcxiorcs—"The governor writes, in reply to my last letter asking for money, thatJby is on the verge of giving up in despair.” Sophomorocus—“That’s encouraging. My dad curtly informs me that he doesn’t pna» pose to give up at all.”—Buffalo Courier,

KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with* less expenditure, by more promptlyadapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due tc Hs presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fever* ana permanently curing constipation. I: has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medicat profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free fnufeevery objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug* - gists in 50c and$1 bottles, but it is mai*> ufactured by thec California Fig Syrup • Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, . and being well informed, you will not. accept any substitute if offered.

Cures $T. JACOBS OIL^HES Rheumatism, Sprains, Swellings, All Aches, Neuralgia, Bruises, Soreness, Stiffness, Sciatica, Burns, Headache, Cuts, Hurts, Lumbago, Wounds, Backache, Frost-bites. ....WHAT MORE IS NEEDED THAN A PERFECT CURE. CLAIRETTE SOAP SOLD EVERYWHERE “S? THEN.K. FAIR BANK COMPANY. St. Lows.

General blacking is uneq Hasan annual Sale of 3.00 IWjWE ALSOMANUFACTURETHS TOUCH UP SPOTS WITH A CLOTH MAKES NO DUST, IN 5&I0 CENT TIN BOXES. TVe only perfect Paste. . Morse Bro ^Prof's. Canton,Mm

OB BB m Cold and Silver Watches. ■ Silver Tea Sets. Alantei i|« gJB SB Clocks. Umbrellas, etc.. p! irtveu iu exchange *— ■ B Bn MB Coupon CerUMcatea, . __ sued only to Agents. One !Tfl rPLkITv Coupon given with every > I {I uhfll I A8S.O« worth of Knives.’ > I u nui.ll I U Kor fartbM. particulars