House and Garden 
A GREENHOUSE FOR EVERY NEED 
You will be interested to know this particu¬ 
lar one with its curvilinear palm house 
and curved roof wings, each 16J feet 
long, is located right in the very midst 
of a crowded city. Whether it be a small 
greenhouse for the amateur or the more 
extensive ranges in all their completeness, 
we can build them to your especial advan¬ 
tage. Send for advanced catalogue sheet 
collection No. 12. 
Hitchings 8, Company 
1170 Broadway New 
SPEAR’S 
New Cooking Range New Warm Air Distributors 
Open Grates and Stoves for Wood and Coal 
Speciai Stoves for Laundry, Stabie, Greenhouse, etc. 
Steam and Hot Water Heating Systems 
There are many reasons why you should have only Spear’s Heating and Cooking 
appliances—the most modern, efficient, and economical —In Your Country Home 
Write to-day for further information and estimates Hoteis and institutions receive speciai attention 
James Spear Stove and Heating Co. 
1014=16 Market Street Philadelphia, Pa. 
FR. BECK & CO. 
7th Ave. and 29th St. 
NEW YORK CITY 
BRANCHES: 
Chicago Boston 
Philadelphia Cleveland 
LINCKUSTA WALTON 
Greatest Kelief Decoration 
SEE NEW DESIGNS 
REDUCED TRICES 
THE 
BUTTONS 
ARE 
MOULDED 
FROM 
BEST 
GRADE 
RUBBER 
THE 
THE 
HOSE 
SUPPORTER 
WORN ALL OVER THE WORLD 
DO NOT BE DECEIVED 
BY BUTTONS MADE OF WOOD 
PAINTED OR COLORED TO 
IMITATE RUBBER 
THIS GUARANTY 
COUPON-IN YELLOW 
IS ATTACHED THIS WAY 
TO EVERY PAIR OF THE 
GENUINE — BE SURE 
IT'S THERE 
Sample Pair, Mercerized 26c.»Silk 50c. 
Mailed on receipt of price 
GEORGE FROST COMPANY, Makers 
BOSTON 
HOSE 
SUPPORTER 
IS GUARANTEED TO 
DEALER AND USER 
AGAINST IMPERFECTIONS 
THE BUTTONS AND 
LOOPSARELiCENSED 
FOR USE ON THIS 
HOSE SUPPORTER 
ONLY, 
A Butler’s Pantry Door 
should swing both ways; should close gently and 
without noise and stop at once at the centre 
without vibrating. The only way to accomplish 
this is to use the “BARDSLEY” CHECKING 
HINGE. It goes in the floor under the door and 
there are no ugly projections on the door. 
JOSEPH BARDSLEY 
147-151 Baxter Street New York City 
which still swings on its stout oaken post 
before the house, and the purchaser 
must covenant to keep the relic of a 
bygone pastime in good repair. One 
end of the swinging crossbar of this 
quintain (said to be the only surviving 
specimen in England) is shaped like 
a square target pierced with a number 
of holes into which the point of the 
player’s lance would enter. When 
struck it would swing round, and unless 
the player were nimble the sand-bag 
hung on the other end of the crossbar 
would swing round and unseat him. 
Here is a chance seldom met with in 
these modern days of getting back into 
medievalism. The owner has only to 
don the contemporary costume, tilt 
at the quintain, and imagine that the 
clock has been put back a few centuries. 
—Westminster Gazette. 
CHARLESTON’S HISTORIC POST- 
OFFICE 
A MONO the quaint old structures 
of Charleston, S. C., the old post- 
office building takes the lead in historic 
interest. It was built of brick imported 
from England in 1767 under the direc¬ 
tion of a committee of the Colonial 
Assembly. Its leading members were 
John Rutledge, Henry Laurens and 
Thomas Lynch, who later took a promi¬ 
nent part in the formation of the repub¬ 
lic and whose names will be found 
among the signers of the Declaration of 
Independence. During the occupation 
of Charleston by the British it was used 
as a prison, and between sixty and 
seventy of the best citizens were confined 
there before their removal to St. Au¬ 
gustine, Fla. In the number was Col. 
Isaac Haynes, of the celebrated family 
of that name. In revenge for the exe¬ 
cution of Major Andre, Haynes was led 
out from prison and suffered the death 
penalty by order of Colonel Balfour, 
then in command, without the formality 
of a trial .—Boston Transcript. 
THE PLAGUE OF 1660 STILL DAN¬ 
GEROUS 
S PEAKING of the persistence of the 
contagion of the plague microbe 
which is causing so much anxiety 
in Austria and Germany, the journal 
La Suisse (Geneva) cites a characteristic 
case: “In 1660 the Dutch city of Haar¬ 
lem was devastated by the plague. 
Whole families perished, among them a 
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