Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 February 1903 — Page 2

¢ Bill 1o Increase Salaries of State * Tax Commissioners Passed. Bill to Amend the Laws Against Cru‘elty to Animals So As To Apply \ To the Killing of Pigeons ' . and Doves. : : Indianapolis, Feb. 12. I have heard a great deal of subdued comment over the fact that Representative Van Fleet’'s bill to amend the law against cruelty to animals so that it will apply to the Kkilling of pigeons and doves, has not yet been reported by the morals committee, though it was referred to that committe January 22. Otto Stechhan, chairman of the committee, said that the bill has not been considered by the committee, but that it will be, in the near future. Other members of the committee expressed the same opinion. The bill is to amend the section of the law that defines “animals,” adding “pigeons and doves.” The gentlemen who conduct shooting matches in which thousands of these innocent creatures are sacrificed for a sportsman’s holiday have felt free from the ‘“‘cruelty to animals” law on the technical score that birds were not “animals.” The fate of this measure is- being watched in all parts of the state. . . >

‘A bill to increase the salaries of the state tax commissioners passed the senate after a hard fight by one vote. The discussion of the bill began in the morning and extended well- into the afternoon session. Senators Parks and Gochenhour, .as on the other day when the measure was up, were its principal opponents. The bill passed the heouse several days ago. :

Senator Wood’s bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within a mile of any state or naticnal soldiers’ home was passed by a vote of 43 to 1. The bills offered by Senator Ulrey legalizing the acts of justices of the peace at Fort Wayne and putting them on ‘a salary basis were also taken up and passed. : -

Senator Fleming also offered a bill which is intended to give the commissioners of Allen county power to make an appropriation and receive donations to erect a monument to the memory of Gen.,Lawton at Ft. Wayne. The amount of the appropriation is limited to $25,000. : . 5

For the first time during the session the governor exercised his veto power Monday. The bill which was thus disposed of was senate bill No. 5, which was to give the East Chicago district power to raise the per capita tax for school purposes separate from the city debt. The veto indicates the death of similar measures. The governor also vetoed senate bill No. 4. incorporating the town of Shirley. The title of the bill included Shirley in both Hancock and Marion counties, and the body of the bill referred to it as being in Hancock county alone. -

. Rev. Marion Crosley, of the Central Universalist church, condemned the lobbying of ministers against the bill providing for Sunday baseball. and said that he did not favor extereme legislation prohibiting the doing of this thing or that thing on Sunday, in an effort to make people observe it as a day of rest. He said that if a majority of the people wanted Sunday baseball they should have it, and he acknowledged that there was considerable force in the argument that baseball might keep men away from worse places on Sunday. :

Gov. Durbin gets down to the state house at least an hour ahead of all the members of* the legislature, every morning. He. tries to reach his office by 8, in order to clear away the mass of correspondence before the legislators and the lobbyists put in an appearanee. -The governor is lobbied more than the members, as not a day passes without several delegations appearing either for or against some bijll.

A good: story is told on one of the legislators . who is an inveterate user of the weed. While on a railroad train a few days ago a woman entered the car whom the solon set down at once as -a “man-hating, tobaccohating old maid.” . Seats were very scarce and the law maker moved over to the end of the seat he occupied to make room for her. She.glanced at him as she prepared to sit down, and then hesitated as she asked snappishily: “Do vou chew tobacco?”’ “Why, not much,” replied he, “but I can scare up a chaw if you want one pretty bad.” - The legislator had his seat to himself for the balance of his trip.

At the end of the week a brief summary was made of the session’s work and it was found that an average of six bills a week had been ground out. On "the theory of Jefferson, that the world is governed too much, perhaps this average is an ample sufficiency, but it is probable that in the remaining days of the session the wheels will revolve more rapidly and the grist be correspondingly increased. Among those signed and *“done for” I might mention the general appropriation bill for the payment of the salaries of the lawmakers and attaches of the assembly; the second the senate bill for the purchase of a sword for Adm. Taylor. The amended reformatory reorganization bill, known as “the ripper,” is the only other senate bill thus far signed. There are three house bills in this list: The Morgan bill for the employment of additional employes ngeded in either branch of the assembly; the Morgan bill authorizing the Indianapolis school commissioners to raise the tax levy to 57 cents and. issue school bonds; the Dirkson bill fixing the time of holding court in the Twen-ty-sixth judicial circuit, and the Trapp bill to authorize the sale of bonds for school purposes in the city of Mt. Vernon. , o While the number of bills sizned would indicate that the legislature bes not been very busy this does not fairly represent all its labors. The principal thing accomplished is the advancement to second and third reading of most of the important measures that will play a part in the rest of the

session and from now on the lawmaking will be accomplished with ‘the greatest. ease except on a few bills which will stir up hard contests.

A bill is beingiprepared by Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Montgomery county, giving the interurbans the same right to subsidy vote as the railroads enjoy. This is in the interest of some of the interurban companies that are not satisfied with the provision of the present law. -

The most interest in the week centered in the.Luhring bill to repeal the blanket remonstrance feature of the Nicholson law and the Sunday baseball bill. The latter has passed to third reading in the senate after the favorable action of the house. The Luhring bill met its death by an overwhelming vote in the house, but the matter will probably have to be refought as Senator Fleming intends to offer a similar measure in the senate.

Senator Newhouse introduced tlre seventh bill to reapportion the state for legislative purposes. It was referred with the other bills to the committee on legislative apportionment. Like all the other measures of this nature it is not aimed to give an advantage to the minority. ;

The immediate 'establishment of a new state industrial -prison in the western portion of Indiana, and the total abolition of the convict labor system at the Jeffersonville reformatory is the end sought by a new bill introduced -by Representative Muir in the house. It does not create a commission to study the question as do the other bills now before the house, but provides for an appropriation of $150,000 and the appointment of a prison board of four members, bi-partisan, to select suitable land, buy it, erect the necessary buildings and machinery, appoint a warden and set the prisoners. of the state reformatory at work therein without delay.

The Luhring bill to remove the blanket remonstrance from the Nicholson law was killed in the house by a vote of 65 to 27. The bill to, increase the salaries of circuit and superior judges was killed, largely through the efforts of ex-Speaker Sayre. The Stechhan bill to increase salaries of factory inspectors and add two deputies was killed, the Kimball compulsory education bill was buried and the Pigeon Roost monument bill was passed.

The house committee cn health has discussed the veterinarians’ bill, which is being urged by the State Associations of Veterinary Surgeoms. It was finally decided to return a favorable report upon the bill, and this will be done upon the next call of committees in the house. '

A bill has been introduced providing for the licensing of all stationary engineers and boiler tenders in charge of boilers larger than eight-horse power. The bill provides for the appointment by the governor of three district examiners, at a salary of $1,200 and. expenses, who are to fix the requirement for such engineers and boiler tenders and to prescribe the examination the latter must pass before they may be licensed. The hiring of unlicensed men to have charge of engines and boilers within the provisions of the bill is forbidden. -

The ways and means committee reported favorably on the bill to provide money for the erection of monuments at Shiloh, with an amendment to provide for $1,500 for a monument to the forty-first Indiana volunteers.

Voting upon strictly party lines, the republican ‘majority in the house unseated Representative Schloof, democratic member from Greene county, and gave-his seat to the republican contestant, William J. Hamilton. At the conclusion of the vote Mr. Hamilton was escorted forward by Mr. Lewis and was sworn in by the speaker. All of the republican members of the committee signed the majority or Hamilton report, while all the democratic members signed the report in‘favor of Schloof

The struggle between the osteopaths and the “regular” physicians of the state, which occupied considerable time in the last legislature, will probably have to be gone over again at the present session, and the bill that will bring the fight on, I think, was introduced by Senator Johnson, of Crawfordsville. It provides for -the absolute recognition of the osteopaths as a separate school of pragtitioners through the establishment of a board of osteopathic resistration and examination taking the control of the practice out of the hands of the state board of medical examination and registration, The bill provides for the appointment of a board of five members by the governor, all of whom shall be resident osteopathetic physicians and graduates of legally chartered schools of osteopathy requiring personal attend--ance during a course of four terms of at least five months each.

Residents of the northern section of Tuxedo and of that section of Indianapolis east of Woodruff place and between Michigan and Tenth streets, within a few months will be*connected with the business portion of the city with a first-class thoroughfare instead of the present mud of East Michigan street. : . . Never before in the history of the state has there been so many salary grabs introduced in the legislature. It appears that nearly every official of the state is anxious to get a finger in the state treasury in the shape of more salary. The senate and house have been deluged with these graft measures, and the total annual increases asked for to date amount to the astonishing sum of $1,100,000. Bills have been introduced under all sorts of guises to raise salaries, and many of them have been favored by the legislators. o Senator Matson, of Indianapolis, will introduce a bond bill to relieve from, taxation county bonds and other municipal securities when owned and held by residents of the municipality or county issuing the bonds. The object is to give amincentive to keep capital at home and to enable the authorities to secure higher rates for bonds. Alm e s TUN o

STATE NEWS PICK-=UPS.

WANT SUNDAY BASEBALL. : Indianapolis Merchants’ Association Presents a Petition. ~ Indianapolis, Feb. 6.—Only the interposition of cool heads prevented a riot on the floor of the state senate Thursday afternoon. Roused to hot anger, several of the members were prepared to indulge in gladatorial combat, but the peacemakers were effective. The sensational incident arose during the debate on a bill to increase the salaries of the members of the state board of tdx commissioners from $2,000 to $3,000 a year. The bill was introduced and called up by William A. Kittinger, of Anderson. ,

Indianapolis, Feb. 7.—The bill to give every city in Indiana over 16,000 population Sunday baseball passed to engrossment in the senate Friday without a voice being raised against it. The bill will be called up for passage early next week, and the chances are now that it will go through by a narrow margin. The temperance people and the church forces have made their play, and it has not been altogether successful. Many senators who were never suspected of having backbone have stiffened their vertebrae, and have declared their intention of voting for the bill. X

Indianapolis, Feb. 10.—The Indianapolis Merchants’ association, in a circular letter signed by the most prominent and influential men in the city, Monday requested the state senate to pass the bill giving Indianapolis and the other larger cities of the state Sunday baseball. Among the new bills introduced in the senate, Mr. Wolcoft brought forward one of paramount interest. It establishes a railroad comnmission to regulate freight and passenger rates, and to prevent discrimination in freight rates. The bill seeks to bring eveyr railroad doing business in Indiana under the interstate commerce law. It -has the indorsement of the Indiana Grain Dealers’ association, and other organizations. A salary of $3,000 a year is provided for each member of the commission.

Indianapolis, Feb. 11.—The most sweeping anti-trust bill ever introduced in the state legislature was Tuesday killed in the senate after a spectacular fight. Party lines were not closely drawn. Sixteen republicans and 11 democrats voted against giving the attorney general powers to haul the corporations into the supreme court as a tribunal of original jurisdiction, while 17 republicans and four democrats voted for the measure leveled at illegal combinations. The bill is dead, and it will probably not be revived again in any form. The house Tuesday passed a bill prohibiting the hunting of quail in Indiana or the destruction of their eggs for a period ot three years. The bill is opposed by the sportsmen of the state, and the chances are that it will be killed in the senate. - CITIZENS WITH SORE ARMS. Indianapolis the Most Thoroughly Vaccinated City in the World. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9.—“lndianapolis is the most thoroughly vaccinated city in the world,” said Mayor Bookwalter Sunday night. “It is certainly true that wonders have been accomplished by the concerted action of the city authorities with the health board, and citizens who have interested themselves in counteracting the terribly distorted stories which have been circulated broadcast. : “There are but 128 cases in the city to-night,”’ continued Mayor Bookwalter, “85 in the detention hospital and 43 at their homes. Every case of sickness in the city has been verified. The police have made a careful house to house canvass, and wherever a case of sickness of any kind was discovered the attendant physician has certified to its character. During the past week the city alone vaccinated over 8,000 persons, and every physican was busy in their private practice. “Since January 1 over 100,000 persons in this city have been vaccinated.”

SUNDAY BASEBALL. That Was the Theme in Nearly Every Protestant Pulpit. ; Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9.—Sunday baseball was the theme Sunday in nearly every Protestant pulpit, to its disparagement, but Rev. Marion Crossley, of the Central Universalist church, took a more conservative view, saying that if he was a legislator he would probably vote against the bill, but did not think the will of the few should stand against the many. The Commercial = Travelers’ association met Sunday and passed resolutions strongly favoring Sunday ball. :

: Three Valuable Horses. Shelbyville, - Ind., Feb. 11.—A. M. Merrill, a Boston horseman, has bought three of the most likely horses in this vicinity. Pearl T, with a pacing record of 2:15, $1,500; Baron Patch, a trotter, with a record, $2,000; Don Carr, with a pacing record of 2:17Y,, $2,000. : : A Surprising Decision. Evansville, Ind., Feb. 11.—Robert McGregor was in police court on the charge of drunkenness. When he testified that: he bought the whisky at his father’s saloon the court promptly discharged him, ,claiming he had been guilty of no violation. 2 Two Cases of Smallpox. ' Terre Haute, Ind.,, Feb. 11.—Two nurses in the Union hospital, Miss Lou Gilkerson and Miss Maggie Reed, were found to have the smallpox Tuesday and were placed under rigid quarantine in the nurses’ cottage.

*Trainmen Killed. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9.—ln a headon collision between a passenger and an extra freight train on the Vandalia, two miles west of Terre Haute, two trainmen were killed, two were probably fatally hurt, and a dozen passengers more or less injured. s Dropped Dead of Heart Disease. Logansport, Ind., Feb, 11.—W. C. Coleman, general freight agent of the Vandalia lines, dropped dead of heart disease in the lobby of the Barnett hotel here Tuesday night. His home was in St. Louis. He was 55 years old.

GRAVE ROBBING TRIAL, Judge Bailey Refused to Permit Oral ’ Evidence. 7 Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 7.—The state concluded its testimony in the Dr. Alexander grave robbing trial Saturday morning. ' The state recived a hard blow late Friday afternoon when Judge Bailey refused to permit oral evidence as to the position held by Dr. Alexander at the college. The minutes of the college were finally produced and show that on June 27, 1902, he was recommended by the president of the college for ‘“director of the anatomical laboratory.” But there is no record of any ratification of the recommendation. He is charged in the indictment as being the ‘“demonstrator of anatomy.” It is thought by many lawyers that the variance will be fatal to the state. ’ ; :

The court refused to admit the catalogue of the college as evidence to show Dr. Alexdnder was classed as ‘“‘demonstrator of anatomy.” The indictment charges him with grave robbing as holding this office. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 10.—The evidence in the case of Dr. Alexander, charged with grave robbing, was finished Tuesday and the arguments begun. Dr. Alexander took the witness stand Tuesday morning jin his own behalf. Aside from his testimopy there is little evidence to be introduced except that of a few character Witnesses. The argument will then be %ard and the case will be in the hands of the jury 'some time Wednesday.

The defense is that Dr. Alexander is a‘man of irreproachable character, that Cantrell is insane and that his testimony can not be believed for that reason, and a general denial that Dr. Alexander had any knowledge that the body of Rosé Neidlinger or any other body was illegally obtained. Monday was consumed with the opening statement of Attorney Spahn, the hearing of the character witnesses and expert testimony that Rufus Cantrell is an epileptic insane person. Three expert physicians testified that Cantrell is ipsane. They were Dr. William B_A'le , Dr. Ernest C. Ryer and . Williald C. White, all of whom have made the subject of insanity a special study. - The attempt the part of the defense to prove/that Cantrell is insane and has been/for yedrs was met by determined #dpposition by the state. When My, Spahn asked the first expert wifness a hypothetical question covering the life of Cantrell before and after he became a grave robber, and especially since the time he was arrested, the prosecution made an objection that this was not the time to make proof of his sanity, but that it should have been made at the time he was on the witness stand. Mr. Brown said it was switching the trial from that of Dr. Alexander for grave robbing to that of Rufus Cantrell for insanity, and insisted that the competency of the witness was a matter for the court to determine and not the jury. Mr. Spahn insisted that the court had permitted the record of the war department showing that Cantrell had been discharged from the army for confusional and _suicidal insanity and said that the jury should know to what degree he was insane to determine what weight to give his evidence. .

After a lengthy argument Judge Bailey allowed the evidence of the physicians to be introduced. According to their testimony Cantrell is not worthy of belief. THEATER BURNED. . The Fire Is Thought to Have Been of Incendiary Origin. Frankfort, Ind., Feb. 9.—The Columbia theater, the only theater in the city, was burned Sunday. The fire, which is thought to have been of incendiary origin, endangered much of the business portions of the city. The loss is $40,000, with $12,000 insurance. ‘Other losses are: The Maccabees and Woodmen's hall, loss $4,000; Norris & Seigers, grocers; loss $1,200; Cornelison, saloon, loss $2,000.To Control Electric Light Plants. South 'Bend, Ind., Feb. 11.—Fifteen electric .light plants in Indiana cities have come under control of a syndicate headed by A. M. Barrow, of South Bend. The object of the company is to obtain control of all electric light, water and gas plants in Indiana that have been unprofitable. : . Quarantine Raised. _ South Bend, Ind., Feb. 9.—State health officers here have taken the quarantine off Notre Dame university, considering the few cases of smallpox well cared for. Many of the students have left the institution in preference to submitting to-the vaccination orders, 3 : | Price of Coal Lowered. i ‘Terre Haute,. Ind., Feb 111-= The price of coal at the mines in this state has been falling because the mild weather and improved railroad facilities have lessened the demand in Chicago where the market controls the price of Indiana coal. e Seeking ‘a Location. Elwood, Ind., Feb. 11.—A woodworking factory, manufacturing novelties and special articles in furniture, has written the Commercial club here, l asking for a location. Strange to say, no bonus is demanded.

Indiana’s Oldest Editor.. - New Albany, Ind., Feb. 10..—Chas. W. (Cottom, of the New Albany Ledger, who is probably the oldest editor, in point of active service, in Indiana, celebrated his 76th birthday. Mr. Cottom has been connected with the Ledger for 52 years. Express Messenger Kelley Dead. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 10.—T. Kelley, the express messenger injured in the Vandalia wreck Saturday night when a passenger train ran into a freight, died at St. Anthony’s houpétal Monday night. : :

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson in the International Series for February 22, 1903—Chris-/ : tian Love. THE LESSON TEXT. : (1 C0er..13) 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and“have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling symbal. . 2. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though my body be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 4. Charity suffereth lon®, and is Kkind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, . 5. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 6. Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;. 7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8. Charity never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it skall vanish away. 9. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 10. But when that whichis perfect iscome, then that wifich is ¥n part shall be done away. :

11. When I was a child, I spake as a child, 1 understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish+hinge. 12. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face; now I know in ¥art; but then shall I know even as also am known. . : 13. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. : ¢ GOLDEN TEXT.~Now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but .the greatest of these is charity.—l Cor. 138: 13. : j OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. The importance of 10ve.........1 Cor. 13:1-3. The nature of 10ve.............1 Cor. 13-4-7, The duration of 10ve...........1 Cor. 13:8-13, TIME.—A. D. 67, spring. PLACE.—Ephesus. NOTES AND COMMENTS. On account of their disputings this lesson on love was needed by the Corinthians. ' In connection with its study one should read Drummond’y famous address, first delivered to the students at Northfield, on “The Greatest Thing in the World.” What one longs for above all €lse is to him the greatest thing. Among the things that Christians desire (Paul does not refer to others) the apostle mentions eloquence,the gift of prophecy, miracle-working faith, knowledge of mysteries, charity, the hercism of martyrdom. Here is a list from which one might find it difficult to make a choice. And Paul set love higher than all. Why? The last clause of chapter xii. belongs with this section in which Paul speaks ‘of love. He has told them that it is right that they should Gw sire and strive for some of these gifts—the more important ones—and now, he says, he will tell them how. Seek love, and let these gifts be manifestations of love, for only so are they really of any value (vs. 1-3). “Speak with ... tongues”: One of the gifts of which the Corinthians were very proud. It was the utterance of wild and incoherent words and meaningless sounds when under religious excitement. The same thing is observed to-day in coamnection with the ‘“camp-meetings” in the south. Paul said that he would rather speak five words with his understanding “than ten thousand words in a tongue” (14:19). “Of men and of angels”: “Of men, aye, and of angels,” in whom the gift might be supposed to be even superior to that ¢f men—even this, without love, would be only useléss mnoise. “The gift of prophecy”: This. was what we -call “speaking in meeting,” or exhorting. These things, which are of the head, and good in themselves. are “nothing,” so far as character is concerned, unless the heart is right. “Bestow all my goods”: A man may make great gifts to charity and yet be an abominably mean and selfish man. He may endure great personal discomforts and even sacrifice his life rather than yield a theological opinion, and still be a proud, narrowminded, unchristian man. Outward actions do not tel. It is everywhere a question of motive. With love is the governing motive all life and actfon are good; without it nothing is good. ;

Paul was writing to a particular church about the little rivalries and jealousies of its church life, which were utterly inconsistent with the Christ-spirit, but the lesson is needed fully as much by us as it was by the people in Corinth. “Love suffereth long”: But more than that, though tnjured, love is “aggressively kind.” “Envieth not’’: When it lacks; is not too greatly *“set up” over what it has. “Taketh- not account of evil”: Is not always looking for personal slights, and does mot bear grudges. “Prophecies ... shall be done away’: All those gifts which are useful to us now, children as we are, in the knowledge of divine mysteries, will be no longer needed “when that, which is perfect is come.” They are partial and temporary. But faith in God, joyous hope in view of the future, which is God’s future, and love, which is the summing up of the character of God, and the fulfilling of all obligation—these are eternal; “and the greatest of these is love.”

FACTS FROM FRANCE. ’ Confirmed gambling is, according to recent decisions of the courts of appeal at Paris, regarded as sufficient grounds for divorce in France. The ribbon looms operated in St. ‘Etienne, the greatest ribbon manufacturing city of France, are now supplied with electrical power. Ten and a half hours is the limit allowed by law for a day’s work in factories, women and children, as yell as men, in France. Twelve hours is the maximum day in factories employing men exclusively. - - i A new method of making alcohol by synthesis from acetylene has so alarmed the society of agriculture of the north of France that they have demanded that a high tariff be placed on the carburets which must be imported to make acetylene, A man arrested for theft at Lyons, France, was found to be tattooed in the most extraordinary way. He had a perfect picture of the assassination of Henry 111., by Jacques Clement. on his chest, and an equally good one of the death of Carnot on his back.

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T no time of the yearis the , tea gown out of place. It serves its purpose in summer ‘as in winter, but it is especially appropriate to talk of them during the lenten season, and it is also especially appropriate to wear them at such a season, for theyvare supposed to be simple little garments and not to represent the vanities of the world. The truth, however, is that they are not simple, and that they, quite as much as any other garment of fashionable feminine attire, represent the vanities.

For the woman who wishes to pose as a person of fashionable propriety, at least so far as her wardrobe is concerned, the tea gown and the tea jacket are necessary. She must don these each evening between the hours of five, and seven, at a time when she is supposed to be alone within the confines of her home, but if her tea garments are of the up-to-date modish type, and if she is mortal, she is more than likely to retain them until.the unexpected guest of the evening arrives, and then to appear clad in all the glory of her home splendor, at the same time making excuses for not being properly gowned for the reception of guests. if the caller be a gentleman he is flaftered at the compliment paid him by the hostess in thus appearing “informally,” and at the same time the hostass realizes that_.she is gowned in just such a way as to make the best effect. In its most exquisite expression the tea gown is a costly thing, so much beautiful material goes into its making, such a wealth of elaboration may be introduced into its careless elegance. Then, too, in its flimsy forms it is perishable, but that fact cuts no figure with the women who affect it.

Just now all-white tea gowns are the ones most approved and possibly the most satisfactory of them are of white crepe de chine, which has the required delicacy and grace, yet is more durable than the mousselines and nets used for some of the gowns. Thereare

The Easter Ha.t Draweth Nigh

4 OON it will be time for the : ‘é Easter hat. Already it is ‘@ time.to consider its con\x struction; of what it shall \‘% ') be made; of its trimmings; S of its form and style. All of these things have been given consideration for months past by those entrusted with the responsibility of making our fashions for us, and very beautiful are the models they have evolved from which we may select.

Buy a flat hat for Easter. That is buy a flat hat if you wish to be in the prevailing mode, for flat hats have the vogue. Though they are flat they are not lacking in elaboration, and for this purpose there is an abundance of fur and feathers used. TFlat., fur and feathers—three = F's—represent the spring vogue in millinery. They form a combination that has seldom been equaled in point of beauty and attractiveness when applied to millinery. To these three should be added flowers, though the flowers may or may not be used, but just as it takes flowers to make a spring so it will take flowers to make an Easter hat that meets with the approval of the true woman, who looks to the appropriateness of things. So it is that we need to add a fourth F to the list that shall stand for flowers. s : : The vogue of flat-topped hats means that the Chinese hat, which is very

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Proper Classifieation, Mrs. Oldwed—Did you ever meet my late husband? Mrs. Newbride—Your late husband! Why, you don’t mean to say he is dead? Mrs, Oldwed—Oh, no; he’s very much alive, thank you. But, of course, you don’t know his habits as well as I do. —Chicago Daily News. :

numerous soft white wools or silk and wool mixtures which are favored; but crepe in any light shade is the preferred tea gown material. ) - Sometimes the whole gown is made of the crepe. More often an outer robe of crepe is worn over an under robe of chiffon or mousseline. ' Flowered mousselines are most effective over plain mousseline, and among darker color schemes the black gauze, flowered and made over plain black gauze, is beautiful. . , There are, of course, more substan‘tial tea gowns in velvet, dark crepe, soft silks, ete., and the velvet robe over a chiffon petticoat and chemisette has much to recommend it. The Empire robes, too, are especially good in velvet, and jeweled clasps and girdles are suitable details for the velvet gown. But the velvet must'\ be beautiful sheen and soft clinging quality, and that means a first expense that far exceeds the cost of the erepes and mousselines. A chiffon velvet comparatively new is an ideal material for the soft. flowing robe. S ' ' For the woman of moderate means, a fine velveteen in a good color presents attractive possibilities, but in using velveteen one should keep to the dark colors, which show less plainly the inferiority of the.material. The tea gown is in its essence an edition de luxe, and it requires an artist of uncommon skill to fashion ordihary fabric into a garment worthy to associate with the tea gowns of fashion: But there are other negliges not dignified by the name of tea gown which may come within any wellgowned woman's reach and are charming in their own genre. -All negliges, like Gaul of old, are divided into three ‘parts: tea gowns, boudoir go“‘n;s, dressing gowns, , : T The dressing gown must be ¢omfortable, durable, easily th rown on and off, suited to careless lounging and rough treatment. It hasfound picturesque fulfillment in the kimono and there are other dressing gown models attractive and.becoming. e

very light felt, looking like cloth, with only the Easter flowers to proclaim the fact.that they are spring hats. : It would be hard to go back to the period in which these hats were worn, for they even exaggerate the flat hats of a hundred years ago, and when one sees a hat perfectly flat on top, nearly

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And in this respect to the flat hats there are vagaries that may turninto things of beauty and may not. One of these is the flat top, all made of wire and covered with chiffon.. It is five inches wide just where it projects out over the forehead. The top is untrimmed except for a very flat flower garden on top, and at the back there is a bow with two velyet ends. i In a number. of ways the Easter hat will show many of the tendencies observable in the winter hat. And there will be a union of feathers and fur, lace and flowers, felt. and straw; : Before the suns of Easter week have set the bands of fur, which were put away on KEaster Sunday, will be broughtout again, and the spring hats will be abundantly trimmed with this becoming material.. And there are new ways of using fur, one of these being in the shape of a narrow strip in the middle of a chiffon ruching. Delightful is this mingling of feathers and fur, of flowers and lace, of heavy fabric and light, for it gives the iilliners a chance to display -their art without being hampered by a lack of material, and it also gives a woman a chance to utilize her odds and ends without eternally buying more. : ELLEN OSMONDE.

Still in Doubt. L Adorer—l know I am poor, but I will inspre my life for $20,000, which, at six per cent. interest, will give you enough to live on comfortably in case anything should happen to me.”. Miss Flightie (doubtfully)—Do you think it would beé enough to support another husband?—N. Y. Weekly. °

- THROUGE NILE RAPIDS. Thrilling Experience of One Travelew . While Canoeing on the Great e " .Egyptian River. : — T - Wiliam Gage Erving earries the readers of Century on an exciting trip from Khartum to Cairo in his Adirondack "canoe. Of one adventure he writes: e : “ When my faithless pilot told me that the cataract was passed he .deliberately lied. I had gone barely a mile, proceeding in the very middle of the stream without a thought of danger, when just ahead a long white ine appeared, spanning the entire river. In a few seconds this had developed into a barrier of spray-capped billows “from which there was no escaping. Im ‘a twinkling 1 found myself at the top of'aninclined plane of water, where the river shot over the underlying ridge in one unbroken sheét, as water over a dam in time of flood. Down this the canoe rushed with the speed of a racehorse, rose sharply on the billows beyond, hurled itself seemingly through space, and fell upon the top of a chaos of foaming waves with a crash truly appalling. A yell of terror escaped the lips of my boy as he frantically grasped ‘the gunwales, a mass of water drenching him from head to foot. Fora few moments the canoe tossed wildly about, kept head on to the waves only with the greatest difficulty, and then plunged madly through foam and eddies into ‘the smooth water beyond..

- * This lasted but a short distance, and scarcely had I recovered my breath when- a new danger confronted me. Not a quarter of a mile ahead a ridge of rocks appeared, extending across the river, a mass of black bowlders amid foam and spray of dazzling whiteness. Nowhere in this roaring inferno upon which I was being rapidly borne could I discover a sign of even the narrowest passage. Absolute destruction of the canoe seemed inevitable when. catching sight of a greattflat rock the front of which, thirty feet in width, rose above the: brink of the fall, I seized the last chance and headed directly for ii, sheering shatply to the left when not six feet from the granite barrier. As, almost grazing its stony face, the boat sped alongside towards the maelstrom beyond, 1 caught up the long painter coiled at my feet and made a fiving leap, landing on the sloping surface of the rock, worn smooth by long actien of the-water. Fortunately my bare feet did not slip, and by bracing myself the cdnoe was brought up with a sharp jerk.” Suleiman, who through‘out had ‘behaved splendidly. sitting motionless in the bottom of the beat with both hands grasping the sides and his eyes never leaving my face, now rolled eut, and in a few seconds canoe and kit were high and dry om the rock,; and I was running te the brink to cool my feet, blistered from toe to heel by the scorching stome. Our desert isle stretched some three hundred feet down the stream. and below it the rapids appeared Iless dangerous. Here, then, we launched the canoe, and at length reackhed siioother water. The terrors of the Mograt. lay b®hind us.” ‘

WOMEN CONTORTIONISTS. How. Daughters of Eve Use Their " Hands in Buttoning Gewas _ : Down the Back. . - © “I.was reading somewhere the other day,” said the man with the concave countenance, according to the Philadelphia Press, “that the reason why a girl can’t spin a top like a boy is that her arms and shoulders are not build right for that kiad of work. Maybe it’s for this same reason that a woman can’t throw a rock at a hea without breaking a window; that she can’t drive a nail straight, and so on. _ “But I want to tell you of one little stunt that a woman can do with her arms that no man could ever get away with. I don’t care if he is eight different kinds of a contortioni;t. That's buttoning one of these hbre waists that’s got buttons sewed on on the back. :

= *“l'd be willing to make a gamble and give five to one for any amount up to two months’ pay, thatthe he-thing doesn’t live and breathe that could button a shirt up the back, supposing shirts were build that way, withoat going mad and running amuck - and slaughtering a few fnnocent people.

“I've- often watched my wife get away. with that job, and every time I .see-her do it the Teeling comes over me that, after all, compared with women men are a lot of no account, impatient, unenduring skates. Why. say, I can’t even button the thing standing behind her with both hands free. 1 tried it one evening not long ago-when we were in a hurry to make the theater and made the dismiallest kind of a hash of it. I won’t say that there were a million buttons, each of ’em -about the size of a black-headed pin, on the back of that waist, bul there sure were a whole lot of them.

“It’s funny to watch ‘em do that They can begin either at the top or bottom—it doesn’t make a particle of difference to them. I don’t know anything -about the top spinning of the female, but I do know that a woman's arms must be placed mighty free and loose in their sockets to permit of her reaching back that way and feeling around for those teenchy buttems and slipping them into the buttonholes without evér getting red in the face, or trying to kiek the cat, or doing anything like that. -

“Women may not be deft in a few little things that there’s no occasion for them to be deft in, but when it comes to turning flip-flaps into their clothes, no matter how idiotically the same may be contrived and manufac‘tured, they’re there or thereabouts with both little tootsie-wootsies, and for patience and self-control under the most horrible dressing difficulties they make their husbands look like a nickel’s worth of borax in a busted bag.” - s : True Happiness, . Mrs. Nextdoor—l suppose -your daughter is happily married? Mrs. Naggsby—lndeed, she is. Why, her husband is actually afraid to open his mouth in her presence.—Qakland Tribune. - v Two Kinds of Werkers. - The nfan who works eight or fem hours: a day and spends his nights at home, does not work nearly so hard as the man who dallies and potters around during the day, and has “a good time” at night.—Atchison Giobe.