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BERING SEA TREATY.

It Has Been Ratified by th® United States Senate.

AN ARBITRATION COMMISSION.

They Will Consider Claims Made by Citizens of England Against the United States For Seizures of Vessels Engaged in the Capture of Fur Seals Prior to the

Paris Award.

WASHINGTON, April 16.—The senate in executive session yesterday ratified the Bering sea arbitration treaty. The treaty provides for a commission to arbitrate the claims made by citizens of England against the United States for seizure of vessels engaged in the capture «f fur seals previous to the Paris award. It was verbally amended by the committee on foreign relations, but not to an extent to materially change its purport. The senate ratified it without making any changes in addition to those made by the committee, and without «ny dissenting vote. The agreement was explained by Senator Sherman, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, and by Senators Gray and Cullom.

Senators Hoar and Chandler criticised the wording of the document, but interposed no obstacle to its final disposition. Senator Pugh suggested the absence of his colleague, Senator Morgan, and stated that the latter was desirous _of being present when the treaty should

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taken up. Attention was called to -the fact that Mr. Morgan had opposed the settlement proposed by Secretary

Greeham during the last session, but it was stated in reply that Mr. Morgan would be satisfied with the treaty as •amended, and it was urged that as so much time had already elapsed it was important that action be no longer delayed. Some questions were asked as to the amount involved in the proposed settlement, and it was stated in reply that this could not be definitely given. The nearest approximation to the figures possible was the sum which Secretary Gresham had agreed to pay, which was something less than half a million dollars.

MOB DISPERSED.

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ended to Burn a House aud IVIiirder the Iumates.

ATLANTA, April 1G.—A special to The Journal from Selma, Ala., says: News reached this city at 11 o'clock last night that the residence of Judge Alonzo Irwin, seven miles west of Selma, was surrounded by negroes who threatened to murder the family. Sheriff Kennedy and a posse hastened to the scene. The negroes heard the posse coining to the house and dispersed.

The leader, Lewellen Osborne, was found in his house a short distance away. The door was forced open and' Osborne stuck a gun through the crack and attempted to shoot. The sheriff fired into the house and Osborne, who had. refused to surrender, ran out gun in hand. The posse fired on him and he fell mortally wounded, living but 50 minutes thereafter. His dying statement was to the effect that the mob ^around the house intended to set fire to it and to murder the family if they ran out.

Two of the ringleaders have been gailed. The trouble grew out of a difficulty between Judge Irwin's son aud a ,child of Osborne's

EX-CONGRESSMAN SUICIDES.

Charles N. Voorliis Fires a Bullet Into His Temple.

NEW YOEK, April 16.—Charles N. Voorliis, formerly a lay judge of Bergen county, N. J., and an ex-member of y. congress, committed suicide last night in his law office in the Davidson build-

Ing, Jersey City. Shortly before 7 o'clock the janitor of the building heard a pistol shot in Mr. Voorliis' office, and when the door was forced in the body of the ex-congressman was discovered

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a pool of blood. He had fired a .^bullet into his temple. It is thought that the suicide resulted from despondency because of lack of business.

Judge Voorliis was 60 years of age. He served in the Forty-sixth congress. In 1880, when the Hackensack bank failed, Mr. Voorhis was president of that institution. The failure brought about widespread ruin, and President Voorhis was arrested and tried on the charge of having "used the funds of the .bank in speculation. He was acquitted.

North Dakota Republicans.

FARGO, N. D., April 16.—The Republican state convention just closed in this city was one of the most enthusiastic in the history of the state, and in some re.~4(pects it was the most interesting. The •whole northwest has looked to this •state with interest and have waited pa--tiently for the result on the silver queslion and the presidential support. At vll. the convention free silver was turned down. The delegates to the St. Louis convention were instructed to use all honorable means to support McKinley.

Two Men Killed and Three Injured.

MEADVIIXE, Pa., April 16.—A broken "-rail on the New York, Pennsylvania *»nd Ohio railroad, near Geneva, Pa., -'about noon wrecked the third section of freight train No. 82. Two men were .killed and three others seriously injnred. The dead are: Patrick Kerr, ^engineer, and Burt Rowley, brakeman. 'The injured are: Elmer Rush, fireman §£$0. McFarland, engineer, and A. M. fe^Weir. All lived at Meadville.

An Ore Hauler's Crime.

CENTRAL, CITY, Colo., April 16.—Sam•«el Covington, an ore hauler, in a rage yesterday caused by an attachment of ?fus wages, shot City Marshal Michael

Kelleher and ex-Mayor Dick Williams. Covington then started to drive off in wagon and was pursued by 100 men. -J^Henry Lehman shot Covington, killing

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,,. Jiams will recover.

Chicago's Population.

CHICAGO, April 16.—The school censns of this city, now practically com*£)3eto, shows the city to have a populaof approximately 1,770,000. This an increase of 200,000 over the school •^eensu? of two years ago. The directory 4saBBtiinate of 1895 was 1,695,000 V.

CHEATCp THE CHAIR.

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XENIA, O., April 16.—Charles Morris, the condemned murderer ef Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Douthett committed suicide in the county jail here yesterday morning. Morris' trial ended about three weeks ago, after an exciting session of 15 days, Morris being found

uilty of murder in the first degree, and Smith had sentenced him to be barged on July 24, and he was to have bcM taken to the Columbus penitentiary in a few days to be placed in the annex there.

Sheriff Grieve received his commitment papers Tuesday night and decided to take the prisoner to Columbus yesterday. He went to the jail to tell Morris to get ready for the trip, when the prisoner excused himself, saying he wanted to go to the water closet, where there is a little recess in the wall. There, obscured from the eyes of the sheriff and other persons, he drew a razor across his throat, making a hole big enough to insert a tin cup, and the blood spattered in all directions. He walked a few feet and fell.

The body was removed to Moore & Broadstone's undertaking establishment, where it was viewed by thousands of excite people. The county will lose about $3,000 and costs, which could have been recovered from the state if Morris had been taken to Columbus. Where Morris got the razor is a mystery, but it is supposed he had it hidden away for an emergency.

MICHIGAN MINE WORKERS.

They Will Soon Demand an Fight-Hour Work Day.

ISHPEMJNGJ Mich., April 16.—The: upper Michigan mine workers, through their delegates in convention here yesterday, decided to demand an eighthour work day. The vote was unanimous. It was agreed that the present conditions were unfavorable for making an immediate demand, owing to the overstocked condition of the ore market and the supposed willingness of mine owners to suspend operations, and it was decided to refer the duty of making the demand to the executive council, with instructions to act as it sees fit.

The council consists of seven members of the union. It is considered certain that the council will not order a strike immediately in an effort to enforce a demand for an eight-hour day. A member of the executive council said last night that it might be decided to hold the demand open for several months. Several mining companies are discharging union men, three concerns having discharged 1,000 within a few weeks, and this is considered far more likely to cause an early strike than the eight-hour question. If a strike is inaugurated it will throw 40,000 men out of work and cover the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.

FREIGHT IN BOND.

The Amount Delivered to Canadian Railroads Last Year.

WASHINGTON, April 16.—Assistant Secretary Hamlin of the treasury department has sent a letter to Chairman Hepburn of the house committee on commerce, in reply to a resolution introduced by Mr. Hardy of Indiana calling for information as to the amount of freight delivered to Canadian railroads under bond through the United States customs officials during the past three years.

According to the information in possession of the treasuiy, which was secured by the United States customs officials, the total amount last year was, in round numbers, 8,000,000 tons of freight, which was contained in 430,000 loaded cars. This was an increase over the amount of bonded freight in 1894, but was less than the traffic of 1893. In 1893 there were 450,000 loaded cars and in 1894 420,000 cars in round numbers.

ARGENTINE AND CHILI.

An Agreement lteaclied Between the Two Over the Boundary.

NEW YORK, April 16.—A special to The Herald from Valparaiso, Chili, gives the following additional particulars regarding an agreement on the boundary question. The governments of Argentine and Chili have reached an agreement on the boundary question and that a protocol will be signed.

The points covering the line of demarcation have been changed to meet the views of both governments as far as possible and it is believed that arbitration will ensue as to any difficulties that may arise in the future.

The question of the granting a port on the Pacific ocean to Bolivia, has yet to be considered.

The news of the pacific agreement has had a good effect on the exchange.

Italians Ordered Hack to Italy.

NEW YOKK, April 16.—The immigration authorities at Ellis island yesterday ordered 531 Italians, at present detained there, to be sent back to Italy. Twentysix were deported yesterday and the others will be sent home as fast as possible. Commissioner Senner last night telegraphed to the treasury department at Washington that he did not like the attitude of the deported men and their friends, and appealed to the department for permission to swear in special guards. The commissioner also asked for permission to arm the guards, so that they will be able to cope with the men should any violence be attempted.

Receiver For a Railroad.

PITTSBURG, April 16.—In the United States circuit court, Judge Joseph Buffington, yesterday, made an order appointing W. R. Blair of this city as Bpecial master in the receivership of Thomas M. King of the Pittsburg and Western railroad. Receiver King presented a petition in open court to be allowed to carry on the operations of the road by continuing bills, paying notes that fall due and contracting new debts. A decree was made allowing him to do •o. The amount of bills payable is $1,616,000.

Protected From the Steel Pool.

CLEVELAND, April 16.—The wire nail manufacturers concluded their session yesterday and left for their homes. The pnly announcement they would make was that they had partly succeeded in their object, which was to maintain the prices at card figures and provide themselves with such safeguards as will protect them from the newly formed steel pool.

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MINERS ARE HAPPY.

But Little Work Work For the National Convention.

NO GRIEVANCE TO REPORT.

Resolutions Were Adopted Favoring Free Silver and Urging the Adoption of Cash Payments and Abolishing Company

Stores—The Convention Hereafter Will Be Held in January Instead of In April.

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dent John McBride of the American Federation of Labor addressed the national miners' convention congratulating the delegates on the fact that for the first time in the history of the convention there had Teen a grievance committee with no grievance to report. He said the miners made a great mistake in too frequently denouncing their leaders as demagogues.

A proposition was submitted providing that hereafter any mine which has been organized for three months, and such organization fc^s been allowed to lapse, it shall be in good condition for one year before being again entitled to representation in the national convention. The delegates to the next convention will be instructed by their constituents how to vote on the proposition.

It was decided to hold the convention hereafter the second week in January instead of April.

Resolutions were adopted favoring free silver and urging the adoption of cash payments and abolishing of company stores.

A resolution was adopted favoring a rate of 62 1-2 cents summer, and 70 cents winter, for mining in the Wilmington (Ills.) coal field, 15 cents per ton to be credited to brushing and keeping roads.

FOREST FIRES.

Four Villages Are in Danger of Destruction From the Flames.

SANDWICH, Mass., April 16.—A forest fire started from a pile of burning weeds in a yard in Gataumet village yesterday, leaped into a grove of pine trees and was soon burning fiercely over an area of 100 acres. A call for aid to quench the flames was made to neighboring villages and about 50 men responded, but their efforts were useless and the flames swept steadily onward.

The villages of Cataumet and Wenamet are in danger of destruction. The fire is extending towards this place, Monument Beach and Bourne village. The villagers are working under the direction of the fire wardens and much excitement prevails.

A second fire is burning in the woods between Barnstable and West Barnstable.

It is estimated that 15 miles of territory in length, varying from one to four miles in width, has been swept by the flames. No lives have been lost.

Physicians Puzzled.

CHILLICOTHE, O., April 16.—Physicians here are puzzled over the case of Mrs. Peter Bennett, 80 years old, who was completely paralyzed three weeks ago. She was given up to die, but four days later got out of bed and walked around. She appeared perfectly rational, but did not speak, and it was supposed her vocal organs were impaired. Yesterday, however, she appeared to awaken from a long sleep and wanted to known what had happened. She had no recollection of anything that had taken place from the moment she had been paralyzed. She had seemed awake, but was asleep all the time. She is now completely recovered.

Tornado in Soutli Dakota.

FAULKTON, S. D., April 16.—A tornado passed through Faulk county northeast yesterday evening, resulting in two deaths and several injured. Considerable damage was done at Cresbard, .Millard and Burkemere. Several houses and barns were blown away. The residence of E. T. Evans, near Cresbard, was completely destroyed, killing his two children and badly injuring himself and wife. At Burkemere the Winona Mill company's elevator was demolished and the Cresbard church was removed from its foundation.

Shot by His Tenant.

GALLIPOLIS, O April 16.—Edward Arrington, son of Joseph Arrington, a wealthy landowner, living opposite here in West Virginia, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a man named Oldaker, an unwelcome tenant, whom he was trying to eject. The bullet struck Arrington in the center of the forehead and ranged downward, and the physicians have been unable to locate it. No arrests have been made.

Trouble With the Indians.

CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., April 16.— Meager reports from the Lower Brule agency states that Handsome Elk, an Indian belonging to that agency, shot two Indian policemen who were presumably trying to arrest him. Indian Commissioner Browning and United States Marshal Peemiller have been notified, and deputy marshals passed through here to the scene of the difficulty. More trouble is feared.

Postoffice Burglarized.

ALLIANCE, O., April 16.—Burglars entered the postoffice at East Palestine at 3 o'clock yesterday morning and blew open the safe with dynamite, securing $800 cash and a large amount in postage stamps. The noise of the explosion awakened residents, but the cracksmen had disappeared when people got on the street.

Renominated For Congress.

SHELBY, O., April 16.—The Republicans of the Fourteenth congressional district yesterday renominated Congressman W. S. Kerr of Mansfield. Arthur L. Garford and Jacob Cahn were selected as delegates to the St. Louis convention. Resolution indorsing McKinley were adopted.

Death of an Ex-Fire Chief.

OMAHA, April 16.—Ex-Fire Chief John Galligan died last night at his residence of consumption. For 25 years he served as Omaha's fire chief and was probably one of the best known fire fighters in the west. Last year his health forced him to retire! During his long service he saved many lives,

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BEAUTIFUL HANDS.

As I remember the first fair touch Of those beautiful hands that I love so much I seem to thrill as I then was thrilled, Kissing the glove that I found unfilled When I met your gaze and the queenly bow As you said to me laughingly, "Keep it now!" And dazed and alone in a dream I stand Kissing the ghost of your beautiful hand.

When first I loved in the long ago And held your hand as I told you so, Pressed and caressed it and gave it a kiss And said, "I could die for a hand like this!" Little I dreamed love's fullness yet Had to ripen when eyes were wet, And prayers were vain in their wild demands For one warm touch of your beautiful hands.

Beautiful hands! O beautiful handsI Gould you reach out of the alien lands Where you are lingering and give trie tonight Qnly a touch—were it ever so light— My heart were soothed and my weary brain Would lull itself into rest again, For there is no solace the world commands Like the caress of your beautiful hands. —James Whitoomb Riley.

DIANA'S SPIDER.

The Band, Gusset and Seam is a society recruited from an exclusive circle of Nob /Will'a youthful matrons. It mefets through the winter, with aggravated activity during Lent, at houses of the membe* its motto, "First flannels to the indigent its symbol, a thimble crossed./ by a pair of scissors argent on a background of flannel gules surmounted by a spool of thread couchant.

The demure maid who serves bouillon, tea and chocolate to the society's fair Dorcases hears tales from every quarter of the globe—of life in the summer colonies along the New England coast, of yachting cruises through Norwegian fiords in the yellow wake of the midnight sun, of walking tours in the Landes and camping trips in the north woods. She knows her planet better than many whose orbits are less circumscribed and can safely be relied upon for information regarding elk in Oregon or salmon in the Columbia, the proper time to hunt the grizzly in Assiniboia and the relative merits of the Andalusian donkey and his twin brother, the Rocky mountain burro.

After serving the Bradamante of the society with a cup of tea and a caviare sandwich, she retires to a dusky corner of the room, refills the lamp under the brazen kettle and rearranges the Dresden cups and saucers and the jewel mounted spoons upon the teakvvood table.

When the fluffy haired Mrs. Jack, the society's president and the hostess of the occasion, begins hen story, there is a lull in the talk, which the wind fills in with a neatly executed arpeggio.

Mrs. Jack's mouth droops in wistful curves, and beside her eyes an infant's would seem sophisticated. "Jack says I must go with him to Africa, but I shall never dare to look a tiger in the face after my experience on the Big Mudd."

Mrs. Jack's adventures have familiarized the society with Tin Cup, Big Bug, Bumblebee and Medicine Hat. But the Big Muddy offers delightful fields for speculation, for it has not yet found a place on any map, and its only high roads are the half obliterated trails left by the Utes when they unwillingly departed for new hunting grounds. "You remember the bighorn I shot after Jack and the guides had tracked him for ten days over the Rattlesnake range in Wyoming?" Mrs. Jack continues plaintively.

The society remembers the big-horn as well as the giant shark in the Mexican gulf, the mountain lion and the cinnamon bear with amber eyes picked off by Mrs. Jack's rifle in the San Francisquito mountains. The idea of her not daring to look a tiger in the face under any circumstances taxes the credulity of the society. Has she ever known fear, ever quailed before beast, bird or fish— this modern Artemis?

When she accompanies her husband on his hunting expedition, she wears the woods' autumn livery—leaf brown and scarlet—an abbreviated skirt and leggings of brown corduroy, a scarlet leather shirt with elk's teeth for buttons, a hat festooned with trout and salmon flies and shining leaders. A cartridge belt girdles her slender waist, with its depending revolver and hunting knife.

It is remarkable that Mrs. Jack has escaped the cinnamon's embrace, and bruin might well be pardoned such an indiscretion. "Jack has always said that my physical courage first attracted him. But I bad never confessed to him that there was one test to which I should be unequal It came on the Big Muddy. Listen: "We were camped in the quaking aspen. Snow had fallen, and the elk were coming down. You could hear them bungling on every side just before dawn. It is easy to stop a band of elk as they pass near your camp by imitating their call upon an empty cartridge shell. I have learned the trick, and Jack had ro hesitation in permitting me to choose my own trail one morning and following it alone afoot, he and the guides scattering in other directions. The taste of the camp coffee was still upon my lips, my cheeks tingled with the frosty breath of the morning air as I kept cautiously to the windward of the elk, Whose trumpeting stirred me like martial music. "A stray bear track showed here and there in the fresh snow. But I was after elk. A hundred miles lay between our camp and the nearest settlement. Ah, the solitude of those woods 1"

Mrs. Jack leans back in her chair and sighs reminiscently as she gazes into the blazing hearth fire, a charming picture in her house gown of old blue, brightened with gleams of Persian embroidery, interwoven with uncut jewels. "I had gone three miles, perhaps four, over fallen spruce up the steep side of a rugged mountain, when crash across my trail came a band of elk, headed, by a magnificent bull. "Crouching behind a bowlder, I waited. I have waited so often for big game, from Alaska to the gulf. Jack says I have seen more than he can ever hope to see if he lives to be 1Q0. My hand

was steady. Jack often gets buck fever. I never do. I took deliberate aim. The elk came toward the bullet and dropped dead without a struggle. Blazing the trail as I retraced it toward cainp for the pack animals, I saw that there were new bear tracks. I was not out that day for bear, and I did not care to come upon one 'alone, although I had no thought of shirking the encounter were it forced upon me. "A bear in a bear pit is a clumsy creature. In the woods he challenges your admiration by his clever fashion of covering the ground without apparent effort. The one I soon descried ahead of me was lumbering along like a bunch of tumbleweed, lengthening the distance between us at a rapid rate. "Foolishly I indulged myself in a shot at him, striking his shoulder. He turned upon me with a roar of pain. At that instant I needed all my nerve. This time I chose a tree for cover and awaited. He came on without ajiialt, straight toward me. I fired again, missing him. I was just about to try a third shot when the test came, of which I have spoken." "The test?" murmurs the society breathlessly. "The test of my courage to which I had always felt I should be unequal— the thing I had. dreaded in my forest wanderings with Jack." "What!" the society demands, with one voice. "I had raised my rifle, when I felt something fluttering in my hair. I fan cied a leader had slipped from my hat rim. Oh, horror! It was a spider! And as I shook my head violently to dislodge it, it struggled into my ear. "I have never been conscious of hav ing fired that third shot. Somehow the rifle was discharged, and by the same chance the bullet laid the bear low. "I fainted, and when I came to myself I was lying across the bear's body, with six strange men standing around me. "Ten thousand boiler factories were at work in my brain. 'Hear the noises!' I cried. 'Will no one stop them?' "And now comes the strangest part of my story. "The engineer of Jack's yacht once got a mosquito in his ear. It drove him quite mad before we could find a doctor. He lmng over the yacht's side, held by six of the crew, begging for death. When the doctor arrived upon the scene, he applied a handkerchief wet with ether to the man's ear, quieting the mosquito's struggles and restoring the man to sanity. "I believed myself in the man's plight—stark, staring mad—When, upon this peak of Darieu, 500 miles from an ambulance and a surgeon, I heard one of the men to whom I had so wildly appealed reply quietly, 'Have no fear, madam. You are in safe hands, for we are all doctors.' "They deluged my ear with water from a nearby stream, which they brought in a tin cup. Finding the spider still unsubdued, one of the doctors asked for a hypodermic syringe. Five were instantly proffered. An icy arrow penetrated seemingly to the seat of the gray matter—still, without effect upon the spider, whose pernicious activity caused me indescribable agony. 'Ether?' cheerfully returned the doctor who was attending to me. 'Why, of course. Brown, fetch out your ether bottle.' And if Brown did not produce from the depths of his waistcoat pocket a small bottle of ether may I be instantly retired from the presidency of our society. It transpired later that Brown was a physician with an alien hobby—entomology—and carried ether with him everywhere to anaesthetize his specimens. "In an instant relief came—such blessed relief as only one who has passed through an experience like mine can appreciate. "The rest of the story is soon told. When I had gathered myself together, the six doctors presented themselves to me with due formality. They dined that night at our camp on my elk. "Jack was thoroughly ashamed of me. What did the elk and the bear matter with the memory of the spider fresh in our minds? "No, decidedly," Mrs. Jack repeats as the maid fetches her a second cup of tea, "I shall never dare to look a tiger in the face after my Waterloo on the Big Muddy. It would have beei a pleasing legend for my tombstone, this: "One To whom the forests were an open book, Who joined to Diana's daring the skill of her spear.

Lies here, Slain by a bug in her ear."

Mary Wakeman Botsford in San Francisco Argonaut

Dore as a Beggar.

Gustave Dore could show invention not only in his wonderful illustrations, but also in matters of everyday life.

One day a friend at Verona was taking a photographic view of a picturesque old street, and Dore tried to assist by keeping off the crowd of idle lookers on. It was a difficult task, and the more he gesticulated and threatened the greater became the throng. Suddenly Dore had a splendid idea "Wait a minute," he called out to his friend, "and I'll disperse them."

He then took off his coat, threw it on the ground, and, assuming a pitiful expression, he went round, cap in hand, to beg for a few soldi. As he advanced the crowd drew back and melted away, and his friend quickly obtained the negative.—Philadelphia Press.

Castles In the Air.

Dr. John Wilkins wrote a work in the reign of Charles II to show the possibility of making a voyage to the moon. The Duchess of Newcastle, who was likewise notorious for her vagrant speculations, said to him, "Doctor, wherQ am I to bsit at in the upward journey?' "My lady," replied the doctor, "of all the people in the world I have never expected that question from you, who have built so many castles in the air that you might lie every night at one of your own.''—Pittsburg Dispatch.

""WOMAN'S WORLi).^

Teachers—Three Successful Girls.

Society circles in this city have a young lady member who swings Indian clubs for charity, and she is so expert and so pretty that she is being talked about considerably in the Lakeside district.

She is Miss Rita Mylotte, and first took up club exercise two years ago for her own personal benefit, and found that she got such physical aid from it that she soon gathered about her a class of little boys and girls whose parents could, not afford to patronize gymnasiums, and gave them lessons free just for the loveof it and for the benefit she might reap from the exercise.

Miss Mylotte made so close a study of this branch of physical culture that she has become almost as proficient as the best of club swingers in the various and many gyratory movements practised by professionals. Her services are In demand now at nearly every charitable entertainment and concert within her circle, and her work is so good that she never fails of an encore.

Miss Mylotte talked modestly about her achievement, but grew enthusiastic

MISS EITA MYLOTTE.

Many young women of my acquaintance swing clubs now, and I am sure that if girls knew the benefits to be derived they would soon secure clubs. The limbs are soon developed from a state of weakness and deficiency to one of strength and fullness, and the whole body feels the change a few lessons will bring."—Oakland Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.

The Kenewing of Skirts.

A woman in moderate circumstances always likes to be as saving as possibla Therefore a bit of advice in regard to widening skirts of the past season should not go amiss.

A skirt may be very near the fashion and yet lacking in width for present requirementa They being really the most important part of a dress and the most costly, a little ingenuity and discretion work wonders.

To widen a dress of last year rip the Beams to or above the knee, according to the width required, and fill in with full pointed panels of a different material. A spring silk skirt would look well with panels made of lace edged with a narrow braid or cord.

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AN OAKLAND GIRL WHO SWINGSCLUBS^^ FOR SWEET CHARITY.

The Renewing of Skirts—Traits of American Women—The Double Bed—A Warning to Wheel women—Married Women a#

when physical development through club swinging was touched upon. "Physical culture," said the little woman, "is a subject on which volumes might be written before its possibilities and necessities are fully understood. Professors of the art have multiplied, yet doctors and hospitals are as liberally patronized as ever. 'Favored classes can indulge in the luxury in the many elaborately fitted gymnasiums that have sprung up in all our cities and towns, but until the art-,-»-is more practiced in the public schools the poorer classes can get no benefit. 'Club swinging I regard as the best of all the exercises in this line, because almost any one can practice it. There is. no costly apparatus to pay for, and all the exercise that is wanted can be taken in one's room on arising in the morningor just before retiring. I would not advise too long practice at a time to beginners, for the exercise brings every muscle in the body into play, and onefeels the effects after a few minutes.

Then, again, should the skirt be of a fashion dating beyond last season, the. best method for altering it would be to addatablier. To do this the seams must be ripped all the way up, and the front breadth cut up the center and let flow back on each side. Then the side seams •... should be taken in at the hips and darts added. It is quite necessary, if the skirt is to be well fitting, to have the seams Is.'i flow the full width of the material from the hips downward The space in front can then be filled in with a lining as foundation for the tablier.

If the skirt is for evening wear, pretty way would be to mount on the lining a tablier of some light material a trifle narrower than the lining, say, about one inch at the waist and widening toward the bottom, and cover the re- *.'vj maining space with firmly lined revers. tapering from the waist on either side.

Another way would be to cut away "J'B, the lower portion of the tablier in an ornamental line at the lower edge and fill in the space with velvet or lace covered satin. To conceal the junction of the two materials, trim with a narrow guipure and finish with ribbon bows.-— New York Journal.

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Traits of American Women.

One can rarely open a newspaper nowadays without coming upon a paragraph concerning the American woman. Her wit, her beauty, the smallness of he* feet compared with those of Bag-