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ARIS—I have comforting news for those to whom “la toilette” is a sort of religion that the 1830 modes as regards hats are by no means so universally accepted as : many people here would have us believe. The encrmous Victorian hats, weighed down with lace draperies at the back, are worn in Paris chiefly by ladies to whom exaggerated advertisemernt is a necessary factor of existence, but are eschewed by women of fashion and social standing. Spme of these hats have a circumference of 60 inches; a woman would ueed to be a daughter of Anak fo earry off such a headgear with anything like success. Good taste has reigned among us for so many years now, that it is a long time since we have been asked to accept such- monstrous exaggerations as certain houses are trying to foist upon us at present. These immenSse circular hats, with their heavy lace draperies hanging half down the wear2r's back, are too exaggerated and too ugly in themselves to hold their ground for long. - If these Victorian mushrooms had any beauty in themselves, we could enJure their exaggeration betters as, for sxample, however exaggerated a hat may be in one of Reynolds’ or Gainsborough’s or- Romney’s portraits, we admire it, because it has beautiful lines and outline. The Victorian hat, howaver, has mothing of the kind; the bed. curtain at the back overbalances it, and hides all the beautiful lines of the neck and the carriage of the head and shoulders; and when the hat is further smothered by a loose floppy Victorian veil hanging straight from the brim of the monstrous hat like a fly-preserver round a luster, then the woman thus disguised makes the judicious-grieve and the unrighteous person of taste blaspheme. On the other hand, Parisians: are turning their attention to a réVival of the coquettish and dainty Watteau

Dainty Summer Waists

HE tailored shirt waist has : a rival in the simple sheer g blouse, but it has by no means been supplanted; éQ» and, for certain purposes, it is decidedly more desirable : than’ any other separate waist. For outdoor summer sports, the shirt waist is the thing, and a-host of women maintain stoutly that a trim tailored shirt waist is more chic in connection with a .coat and skirt morning costume than the daintiest of sheer embroidered blouses. The lafter is, perhaps, more distinctly feminine, more exquisite in quality, and, strongest argument of all, more Parisian; but it loses its freshness and daintiness readily and when mussed. has littie charm.

The shirt waist, made of stouter stufi and severely tailored, stands rough wear better, resists the reckless assaults of the laundress, and is really an indispensable feature of the summer girl’s wardrobe.

The shirt waist suit is of course smarter than the separate shirt waist, and there is a marked tendency this season to make up simple sKkirts to match shirt waists of all kinds, The embroidered linen and crash shirt waists so popular this sea Son cail f(ir.skillful work, and expert embroiderers are kept busy in the shirt waist shops, carrying out especial designs for customers or copying stock designs in certain colorings preferred by the customer. : -

Bulgarian heavy embroidery in open work designs, Russian cross-stitch and the coarse Scandinavian embroideries are first favorites for the trimming of heavy linens and cottons, and there is great variety in the designs and in the form of the trimmings. Epaulettes, a band down the front, and cuffs are the forms this embroidery takes upon the ordinary shirt waist, and a deep turnover collar of the embroidery, to be worn with a stock, is made to match the embroidery on the waist. - ‘Bands of such embroidery on linen are for sale in the shops and may be tised effectively at an expense far less than that entailed by the special embroidery done in the shirt waisl shops; but the latter has the advantage in designs and colorings and can be done upon any fabric selected for a waist, white the ready-made embroideries are executed upon only a smal! number of materials.

Blue and red, contrasting shades of blue, black and white, and all white are favorite color schemes for such embroidery, but others colors are used, and the all white émbroidery upon fine white linen, crash, or linen etamine has perhaps more distinction than the colored embroidery. - . Heavy cushion embroidery upon the heavy shirt waists is not so popular as it was Tust season, such embroidery beirg this year lavished upon the very sheer stuffs. :

One sees few of the heavy mercerized vestings dear to the heart of the shirt walst gir] Jast summer. Mercerized

hats, turned up with ribbons and flowers at the back, which seem to embody the spirit of spring’ more than any other form of headgear. These fashions also mean a revival of the straw industry, and never indeed has straw been treated with such an extraordinary variety and inventiveness as at present. So farcifully worked are many of the newest straws that they hardly need any trimming. Take, for instance, a Watteau “bergere” in the new “paille chi-chi” in cherry color. Each row of the satiny straw alternates with a row of quilled tulle of the same color, and at intervals are placed large ‘“macarons” of cerise straw. Such a shape only needs being' deftly bent to a becoming outline and caught up sharply at the back with a cluster of white cherry blossom, with its exquisite little green leaves and shiny brown twigs, to be ready for wear and admiration. ‘ © The tricorne also holds its own for morning wear with tailor-made dresses, and nothing looks smarter than this natty little hat on a well-dressed head; and the pointed toques, projecting in front and very much curved at the sides, with big bouquets over either ear, are so immensely -becoming to every woman with an aquiline or long nose that they are more worn than ever. Sometimes the straw plaits, are divided into what is known in Paris as a ‘“zizi” in satin, a “sizi” " being the term for a ribbon very lightly gathered; and “zizis"” are the rage in Paris. . Another fashion in straw is the tiny round balls which are placed closely together in designs on a _ground of satin straw. These straw balls are often of different colors mixed together,which sometimes gives the effect of tiny “immortelle” flowers, such as are used in France for funeral wreaths. They are very new, and some of the most recent hats are trimmed with nothing else; but whether they are very beautiful is quite another matter. ANNETTE GIRVY.

effects are still in demand, but they are shown in lighter weights. t Dots, stripes, basket weaves, woof figures of all kinds in silky mercerized material of madras weight are popular and, though not too warm for comfort, give good service. The ordinary madras fs, as usual, well liked. There are innumerable linens—coarse, fine, rough and smooth—and certain rather heavy cottons of linen weave and much resembling linen, but most reasonable i price, are being exploited. ' Linen etamine is perhaps the greatest success among the new shirt waist linens; and deservedly so, for it combines coolness, lightness of weight and a certain softress foreign to linen, with firmness and durability. Then, too, it does not shrink so astonishingiy as most linens, and that is much in its

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favor. “This material is probably the favorite linen for the season’s linen shirt waist suit, and its canvas weave makes it an excellent material for the cross-stitch embroideries. s

The illustration shows a smart Viyella waist. It is made with a flat yoke collar, which might be edged with a piping of plain material to harmonize with the coTored the plaid, is made in a new and very smart shape, and continued down the center of the front almost in the form of a narrow vest. The upper part of the yoke might be ornamented with tiny gold buttons, while the collar-band and the cuffs are finished with little turnover .bands of dark velvet. These, of course, should be detachable, 80 that they can easily be removed when the blouse is washed,

Not theWSame.

“I understand Polkely is working.” - “Huh! he must have told you that.” “No, some one else told me. Isn't it true?”

“Certainly not. He’s merely got a job.”—Philadelphia Ledger. S

SMALLER DINNER PAILS.

Prices Up, Wages Down and Mills Closing, Business Bad and Getting Worse. |

The republicans are doing their best to deceive the people as to the real/con-. ditions in the business world. They are pouring speeches into congress for use in the.coming campaign the tenor of which'is “Stand pat,” “All is well,” “Prosperity is still rampant,” ®espite a few facts to the contrary. They wouid have the country believe that we ars rapidly recovering from the temporary set-back to industry which ocecurred from October to- January, when wage reductions became general and A when nearly half the mills in many industries bad to close. P Although there never was more important business for congress to attend to than at present, in order to bring relief from the tyrannical trusts which «ave put up prices and increased the cost of living to the highest point ever known, while reducing wages in all directions, yet it is the aim and policy of the republicans to adjourn congress just 2s soon as the appropriate bills can be rusied through. They will then begin to circulate their ‘stand-pat’” and “prosperity” speeches, hoping to lull to sleep the great mass of voters and to keep them ignorant of the real facts as to the industrial depression which 4§ still on and which cannot be vanquished, even by republican rhetoric. The republicans know that every day they remain in Washington will not only bring to light new scandals in their administration, but that it will add new evidence of the depression which is now running its course. They know that the democrats hesitate to picture conditions as bad as they really are and that, if congress adjourns at once, the dempcrats will practically be without frankable speeches to offset the frankable prosperity speeches of the republicans. | This, they think, will give them another opportunity to fpol the voters. This accounts for much of their unseemly haste to adjourn congress.

That the business world, after some slight recovery in February and early March, is again on the down grade is reasonably certain. The testimony of the trade papers is conclusive. Thus, that greatest of all trade journals, the Iron Age, in its issue of March 31, mentions numerous wage reductions and closed mills, some of which are: “McKinley lodge, Amalgamated Association of Steel and Tin Plate Workers, Elwood Ind., all hot mill men and numbering 500, have decided to quit work rather than accept the 20 per cent. reduction in wages proposed by the American Sheet Steel and Tin Plate company and indorsed by the officers of the Amalgamated association.” = “At New Castle, Pa., the men /in the lodges of the Amalgamated association employed in the tin plate mills in the Greer & Shenango works of the American Sheet & Tin Plate company, have voted to accept the reduction of 20 per cent. in wages which went into effect on March 21. At South Sharon, Pa., the men in the lodge of the Amalgamated association have voted not to accept the reduction in wages.” “While the Amalgamated officials refuse to give out anything to-day as to whether the v?te isin favor of or agaiust the reduction’ in wages, we learn from

SYMPATHIZE WITH TRUSTS.

When Combines Cannot Be Accommodated Republican Leaders . Are Unhappy. o

The Tawney tobacco bill has| ripped open the republican party lines in the ways.and means committee, to tlle great disgust’of Chairman Payne. He told the republican members® that he thought it was foolish for the committee to attempt to do any business at this session and useless to have any committee hearings. So because the republican members of the greatest committee of the house of representatives cannot all agree on one bill, the whole machinery is to stop. What a travesty on popular government. The representatives of the people in congress assembled are Supposed to be engaged in legislating for ths wants of their constituents, but because some of his associates do not agree with Mr. Payne he threatens to shut up shop, stand pat and go home. The pluck of the republican members has certainly greatly deteriorated or they would resist the do-nothing policy when there is so much legislation that is demanded. Mr. Tawney’s bill, the matter that raised this rumpus, was to prevent tobacco manufacturers from putting prize coupons into packages of cigarettes. It is said to be in the interest of the tobacco trust, and because some of the republican members of the committee voted with the democrats and defeated it, led to this outburst of Chairman Payne. When a trust cannot be accommodated the republican leaders appear to think it is time to quit doing business. Possibly the voters may take a different view of, it when they cast their ballots next fall.

ISSUES FOR DEMOCRATS.

The Party Must Oppose Trusts and Tariff, Says Former Vice Pres- . ident Stevenson.

Speaking at the Iroquois banquet, Chicago, April 13, Adlai E. Stevenson, former vice president, said:

“During the century that has passed since the proclamation of this ‘political creed by Jefferson, the democratic party has kept the faith. The champion|of equal and exact justice to all, it stands to-day, as in the past, the relentless foe of special privileges, of organized greed, of high protective and prohibitory tariffs, of all unlawful combination, monopolies and ‘trusts,” of whatever tends to oppress or to enrich a class at the expense of the people, To the end that labor be lightly burdened and commerce encouraged, the democratic party stands now, as in the past, for tariff for revenue only, for the reduction to the minimum of the cost of all articlés of necessary consumption. * s “With the living i{ssues—tariff reform, antagonism to trusts, rigid economy in public expenditurs, honest métheds in all departments of the public service, a réturn frgm hazardous experiments in administration to the safe pathway of the fathers—with these well to the forefront the hour of democratic opportunity has dome. To the end that it may prove likewisé the hour of democratic triumph let the spinit of conciliation, of unity, of harmony, be invoked upon all our counsels.”’ |

——lt might be a shrewd precautionary measure if President Roosevelt would enact a law pensioning expresidents. He may need the ‘money after March 4.—Atlanta Constitution.

‘reliable sources that the tin plate work~ers have voted against the reduction. It is not known at this time what action ‘will be taken by the association in this event, but it is probable that a-number of the union- tin plate mills will be closed. At other plants where the men voted in favor of the reduction, as they did at the Greer & Shenango works of the American Sheet & Tin Plate company at New Castle, Pa., the plants will likely continue to operate at reduced wage scale. The whole situation from the Amaigamated association’s stand‘point i serious, and it will require the greatest diplomacy on the part of the officials of the organization to hold it together.” . i The Wool and Cotton Reporter of March 31 mentions a 5 to 10 per cent. reduction ‘in wages at the Arlington mills, Lawrence, Mass., affecting 2,000 of the 4,000 operatives, which took effect on March 28. It also says that the woolen mills at Newcastle, Del., and the Chester (Pa.) Manufacturing company have closed down for indefinite periods. Also that the West Warren Cotton mill (Mass.) has shut down No. 3 mill and that the mills of the Lonsdale (R. I.) company wijll, in future, run only five days a week. Turping to.the New York Journal of Commerce of March 31 we learn that 'some of the drawer finishers in the Harrower Knitting mill at Troy, N. Y., are ~on strike because of a cut of 214 cents a ‘dozen on the goods handled. Again, on 'April 1, it tells us that 30,000 textile operatives in Philadelphia are idle because ' of poor conditions in the cotton and 'woolen goods trade and that “in the next few weeks it is probable women and children out of employment will be increased materially.” It says that “many mills are running on half time, and some have closed down entirely. Among the latter are the Dobson Cloth & Blanket mills at Manayunk, and the Winfield Manufacturing company.” ' Other trade and commercial ocrgans contain similar news asto industry. Only two or three weeks ago 190,000 soft coal miners voted to accept a reduction in wages of over 51, per cent. It has become known that the average reduction in wages of those of the 168,000 employes of the steel trust who were not discharged a few months ago was more nearly 30 than 10 per cent. o The window, flint glass and silk .industries are perhaps in as bad condition as are those of steel, textile and coal mining. Railroad earnings are greatly decreased, notwithstanding that thousands of men were recently laid off and that hundreds of thousands have had their wages reduced. Only a few days ago President Mellen, of the New York, New Haven & Hatford railroad, announced that the trade depression in New England had become so severe that his road had found it necessary to curtail its passenger service. These are scme of the facts that indicate that republican tariff and trust legislation is rapidly reducing the size of the working man’s dinner pail. Not only have money wages declined greatly recently, but the cost of living, according to Dun’s tables of prices, is now 43 per cent. higher than when the Dingley tariff bill became law. If dinner pails are to be full this year, they must be very, very small. To get a feeling of fullness, the working men must wear shorter belts than usual and keep them buckled up tight.. ' : BYRON W. HOLT.

DODGING THE MAIN ISSUE.

New York Republicans Were Afraid to Denounce Illegal Trust and Comkbinations.

The republican state convention, of New York, had the courage of its cowardice. Not daring to define its. position toward trusts and monopolies, it dodged the main issue of the gampaign. The only sentence in its long platform that can be even supposed to refer to this question is the commendation of “Theodore Roosevelt for the fearlessness and good judgment with which he entered upon the soiution of problems of social economy and government.” :

“In the name of the prophet, figs!” What does “social .economy -and government” mean in a political platform? It is not even a “glittering generality.” It is a dull and pointless platitude. .

In a convention dominated by Gov. Odell—who has been repeatedly denounced as mercenary and corrupt by that able and outspoken republican organ, the Sun—and in which Senators Platt and Depew, both as thoroughgoing corporation men as can be found in the state, were prominent figures, no vigorous denunciation of “combinaticns in restraint of trade” was to have been expected. But that a convention in New York met to elect delegates and ‘““direct” them to “use all honorable means to bring about his nomination,” should ccolly ignore, not merely the main issue in the campaign, but the greatest achievement of Mr. Roosevelt’s administration, is almost incrediole.

. The New York World justly says that if there is any act of the president that has made him more friends among the people, or more enemies.in Wall street than his action against the Northern Securities merger, nobody knows what it is. And yet within less than a month of the decision of the Supreme court sustaining the- antitrust law, and thus vindicating the action of the president under it, the state convention of his own party, in his own state, makes no mention of this most creditable achievement, and ‘'has not one word to say as to other trusts and monopolies that oppress the people in contempt of law. This omission is incomprehensible on any other theory than that “‘the stars in their courses” are working for the defeat of a party too long intrenched in power, and for the restoration of the government to the direction of a Judicially-minded chief magistrate, “the antithesis of Roosevelt.” l

—lt is not conceivable that any democrats will vote for Roosevelt this fall, while it is certain that tems of thousands of republicans will vote against him, if given a clean, ' conservative democrat to vote for.—Atlanta Constitution, el ——Utah is for Roosevelt. Whether this is. because its citizens agree with the president on the question of race suicide, or because, knowing his vanity, ‘the Mormoms think to tickle it effectively, we don’t know. It is enough tnat Utah is for Noosevelt.— dtica Observer.

A CALL COMES FROM PERU.

United States Besought for the Loan , of an Expert Geologist by fe o That Country. '

“Come over into Macedonia and help us” is a cry that found a western echo the other day, when the Peruvian government asked the director of the United States geological survey for the loan of a geologist. The official who made the request is the chief of the corps of mining engineers, an organization that corresponds somewhat to our geological survey. In answer to this appeal Dr. George I. Adams, of the geologic branch of the survey, has been selected for this Peruvian work and expects to leave early in April for his new post. His headquarters will be in the city of Lima, whaich is situated six or seven miles inland and about 500 feet above,sea level. Here on the west coast of the Pacific ocean, only 12 degrees from the equator, he will still be due sousy of Washington, safely ‘perched on the familiar 77th meridian, the self-same one that runs through' Fifth Street East, of our capital city. : Dr. Adams’ chief duty will be to organize a branch of government servica for hydrologic and hydrographic work. The Peruvian government is developing the resources of the country, es. pecially in the arid plain between the Pacific ocean and the Andes moun-~ tains. In places thesé mountains descend abrupily into the sea, but in other parts the coastal plain is from 50 to 100 miles wide. Owing to the fact that the moisture from the clouds is nearly all precipitated on the mountain sides before it reaches the plain, this narrow strip of land along the ocean is a sandy desert except where it is traversed by small rivers that are fed from the melting snows on the mountain sides. The population of the coast rcenters along these streams, which are the hope of the irrigators. Anciently, under the Incas, all this plain was watered by an extensive sys tem of irrigating ditches, but the Spaniards allowed them to fall into” disuse Lately some attempt has been mad to irrigate this region again. The sat® isfactory results of this effort are accountable for Dr. Adams’ present plans. Dr. Adams will study the geologic formations of the arid district in the hope "of locating artesian basins and ' developing wells. He ‘will take with him the latest American drilling machinery and will have the aid of a topographic assistant and a well driller. With sufficient water for irrigation, this valley will produce abundant crops of sugar, tobacco and cotton, and the low foothills of the Andes will offer an invitifig field for the endeavors of the vine-grower. An effort will also be made to supply the towns with water suitable for domestic uses. .

PICTURES AMAZE INDIANS.

foving Figures Thrown on Screen Cause Much Excitement Among ‘the Red Men.

Burton Holmes, the lecturer, visited the home of the Moki Indians in Arizona to witness the weird snake dance which those savages have practiced at intervals for centuries. While near the home of the IMokis, says the. New York Tribune, .he set up his moving picture machine and-made a film shcwing Apache Indians and cowboys in horseraces and in feats of daring while on horseback. :

The film was developed and proved to be excellent. A year later Mr. Holmes visited the same region again and one night gave an exhibition for the benefit of the natives. .

The Indians observed the picture which Mr. Holmes threw on the screen, which was stretched on the side of a store building, with stolidity, and made no comment until the moving picture machine was started and the film made in the neighborhood a year before was thrown on the screen. !

“Then there was almost a riot,” said ﬁr. Holmes in telling of the affair. “Several of the Indians who had taken part in the races the year before had died, and when they were shown on the screen, riding for dear life, their friends were amazed. The dead had been brought to life. It was astounding.

“The Indians gazed at the picture, then looked at each other as if uncertain that they saw what they saw. Then they began talking excitedly, pointing at the moving images of those who were dead. It did not strike the savage mind as unusual that live men should appear on the screen and seem to be moving, but with dead men it was different. 3 g

“When the film had all gone through the machine the Indians hastened forward to examine the white cloth on which the pictures had been shown. They fingered it nervously, raised it to look through it in a vain endeaver to find the solution to what was to them a mystery. They paid no attention at all to the machine that had projected the picture. All of the magic, to them, was in the cloth.” Ll

Penny-in-the-Slot Innovation.

An innovation among the penny-in-the slot weighing machines is the tallking weigher, which announces the registered number of pounds through a phonograph horn attachment. A woman in a department store was recently noticed slyly—she was stout—dropping a coin into the machine with the halfafraid manner women always assume when they imagine other persons ars gauging their weight. The music played, but the little printed card did ngdt drop out. The woman flushed. She was annoyed, but plucky, and she stood still. Then the phonograph hurled out the ceadly truth: “One hundred and eighty.” It was all so unexpected that the victim of her own penny tottered un« certainly on her platform pedestal before she fled.—N. Y. Post. :

World’s Smallest Kingdom.

The sovereign who reigns over the smallest monarchy in the world is the king of the Cocos, a group of islands near Sumatra. These islands were discovered about 300 years ago by the captain of the Keeling, but were comparatively little known till 1825, when Mr. Ross, an Englishman, visited them, was struck by their beauty, and took up his abode there. It is his grandson, M. George Reiss, who now holds sway over the Cogos. ) e e

DRESS FOR THE BOUDOIR.

Simple and Dainty Costumes for Indoor Wear—Pretty Sacques, Kimonas, Etc. :

The simple Japanese kimona is in greater favor than ever for neglige wear, because of its ease and grace and the quickness with which it can be arranged cr discarded. Many beautiful and quite oriental designs in cotton crepes are shown in the shops for this purpose, reports the Washington Star. These can be made up quickly and inexpensively, or, if desired, fashicned out of dainty silks. The boudoir maid who affects kimonas usually wears the heelless tcilet slipper macde cut of a piece of the fabric in her kimona. . The short kimona is also much favored, and is usually made of cotton or silk crepes or of handkerchiefs. Red and blue bandanas and white hardkerchiefs with ¢olored borcers are favorite for this reglige. More fullness is required for the kimona than the ccmbing jacket. The strictly Grecian costume of white, made to fall very full in gathers, with cord and #assel arrangement at the neck .or waist, is arother style which finds high favor. Sometimes the material is draped to fall from the leit shoulder or from both im soft folds, heid by a knot or buckle. China and India silks, crepe de chines and cotton crepes are desirable for such’ rocbes. For the thoroughly modern boudoir maid a bewildering display of materials is offered—white and delicately tinted chiffons, mousselines, gauzes and point d’'esprits. A liberty silk roteis shown in opal shades, with an opalescent sequin girdle. to sZcure it at the waist line.

Dressing gowns of tne colonial style are picturesque and becoming, in addition to their merit of ease ard comfort. ) :

Rufiled and plaited ruchirgs have invaded the realm cf the boudoir gown. A red crepe de chine has angel sleeves of accordion plaited chiffon, edged with red ruching. The yoke is made entirely of the ruching, which has a tiny silk cord edge. Many pretty and practical thirgs are shown in dressing sacks in -China silks and laces. A typical one Wwas made of blue satin vibbon andinsertion, with little plaited, fan-shaped pieces of silk inserted at intervals below the waist. This feature also made a full, graceful collar ard sleeves. Pongee sacks with heavy lace collars of Irish crochet make serviceable garments. The honeycocmb efiect is a pleasing feature of tne newest pongee boudoir sacks. It gives graceful folds, and is varied by little touches of beading and tinsel. \

WAS A MODERN -SHERLOCK.

Doctors Diagrosed Woman’s Case So Minutely Ske Took Fright and Fled. .

The grave physician (this method of speaking of physicians is significant of results, rather than of demeanor) carafully examined his patient, relates the Baltimore American.

She had just called in at his office and said she was ailing in so many ways that she was mystified. After having noted that she was indeed grievously afflicted, he said:

“Madam, before I can do anything at all for you, you must move clcser into the heart of the city.” With a start the woman said: 0, sir, but how did you know I didn’t live near the heart of the city?” Gazing pityingly upon her he said:

“Madam, you do not know, perhaps, that we physicigns have been considering special treatment for the ailment now khown as the northwestbaltimoreitis. You live somewhere near North and Maryland avenues?”’ : “Yes, sir,” wonderingly. : “You are accustomed to standing on the northwest corner of that thoroughfare and waiting for a car?” . ““Yes, sir,” astoundedly. “You have been cdoing this since the fire crippled the company’s service and the number of cars for awhile reminded you of hen dentistry?” “Yes, sir,” aghast. : “Your case is plain. You have varicose veins in both ankles, from standing. You have partial paralysis of the muscles of the jaw from chewing gum you got from that slot machine at the corner.iThe muscles of the right side of your face and neck, also those of your back, are strained from leaning out from the curb looking up to Twentyfifth street to see the car turn. Your eyes are popped halfsway out of your head with the staring incumbent from that rubbering stunt. Your toes are covered with corns from having them trodden upon in getting on the car and afterward. You are partially deaf from hearing the conductor say: ‘Move up forward, please.” You are threatened with apoplexy on account of the anger you have felt when you hung to a strap while a long-legged man sat near you with his legs sprawled out to the limit of their reach—"’ -

But the woman, who was ‘superstitious and believed he was a wizard, had fled- precipitately lest she might add insanity to her other ailments.

Classified at Last.

A man advertised for a wife, and requested each candidate to inclose her carte-de-visite. A spirited young lady wrote to the advertiser in the following terms: : S

“Sir: I do not inclose my carte, for, though there is some authority for putting a cart before a horse, I know of none for puttinrg one before an ass.”’— London Tit-Bits. j . :

An Insinuation.

An inspector of muisances went into the office of a firm of real estate agents and asked to see the head of the firm. A new office boy, with commendable alacrity, opened the door to the chief’s sanctum and announced: ‘lnspector of noosances to see you, sir.”—London Tit-Bits.

Miicew on Jam.

To keep jam from mildew dip rounds of white paper into the white of an egg and lay it en the top of the jars or pots. Cover closely, and the jam will keep perfectly clear of all mildew for any length of time.—Washington Star. . Temperance. Mrs. Jones—My husband drinks 11 cups of coffee a day. 4 Mrs. Brown—Oh, how awful! Now, my husband.never drinks more than seven.—lndianapolis Journal,

. ~ : O - \)n \ Q) §1 L 3 B Y/ M A 6 '@ J.';ef..»é Y YA e P 3 , & AT A DI IRAE) {l7 WM 9%001e Y PN W Ao Sl i HIDING FROM PAPA. Papa’s coming! Little Grace 1, Runs to hide her baby face. Shall it be Lehind the door? No, he found her thére before. Nor within the curtain’s flare, . He would surely find her there, So beneath the lounge she’s pressed Head and hands, but allthe rest - Of her dimpled person lies Plain in sight of all our eyes. ’ Now he's talking in the hall: . ‘“Where’s my baby ?”” hear him call, ‘“Where is papa’'s little Grace? I must-look in every place. I must look behind the door. Mo she’s not there any more. Is she underneath the chair? - Dear me—no—sheisn’t there.” . Paby giggles. In surprise, Papa turns to where shelies. X “Oh, but that's a splendid place!” Oh, the raptured little face, _ Sweet beyond the power of rhyme: “I was hidin” all ze time.” —Good Housekeeping. ) A PRETTY INDIAN LEGEND. old Cottonwood Tree Tells a Little White Boy of the Birth of the Oxeyed Daisy.

On thé western prairies, far from others of its kind, stands an old cot~ tonwood tree, where it has stood for decades—found there first by theSioux, but never molested. Under its branches Ogallalas and Brules have met many times to plan for the chase or streak their faces with carmine. Near the old tree a little village has. sprung up, peopled, in part, with bright-faced boys and girls, who guard the ancient landmark as carefully as did the red men. ‘ - : Up into the branches climbed one -day a little dark-haired boy, with eyes large and round. , : “I wish you’d tell me a story,” said the little boy to the old tree, for they were fast friends. ' : ) The'old tree loved the little boy and this is the story it told: “I see you held in your hand a bunch of oxeyed daisies,” it began. “They remind me of their birth, which happened here on the plains many years ago. I am very old, ‘you know; just how old not even the red men can tell. But under my shade’ these wild children of the west used to.gather .and hold councils.of war and smoke the pipe of peace.. I was always glad when they smoked the pipe of peace, because there was to be no war, but I shuddered when they painted their faces' and dipped their arrows in new-made poison, for I knew the wail of the wounded would be brought to my ears by the winds. . - T ‘““One summer there was a great camp of Ogallalas arournd the range of sand

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dunes back of you. They were a peaceable and happy lot until one day the medicine man warned them they must go out to fight the Arapahoes, or all the wild game would be Kkilled or driven away from the hunting grounds. “All . that night the south wind brought me gounds of bustle and hurry, and next morning, just at break of day, I looked out and saw the warriors going away. The moaning of the squaws, the wails of -the children and the howls of the dogs foretold grief. “Half the day passed and-then little Wau-nee, the favorite son of the chief, was missed. He had followed his father. Again the moaning and wailing was resumed, for it was feared little Wau-nee would never-come back alive.

“Next day there was a terrible battle and many Indians were slain, but the Ogallalas had been victorious. And vet, at what a cost, for among the others, found with his face to the foe and a tiny bow in his hand, lay the pride of the chief—Wau-nee. SRS

“Carefully the body was lifted and brought back to camp, where for three days and three nights he and the others were mourned. Even the old chief shed tears; perhaps the first in his life, and in his Ig%ian tongue vowed that up from the heart of the little boy should spring a flower which. would spread all over the west and prove to the Arapahoes that the race of the Ogallalas was immortal. : “Then they buried the little Indian boy, digging a deep grave by my side, and over the mound they héaped rocks brought from the banks of the Rawhide, leagues away. : “Summer passed, fall waned and the plains were covered with a mantle of snow. Under the snow slept the little red boy. Then spring came and the south wind melted the snow, I watched and one day saw a green leaf coming out of the little red boy’s grave. Day by day it grew, and then I saw a bud forming, and I was so pleased that I dampened the grave with dew. Another day passed and the bud opened, and the first wild oxeyed daisy had its birth. ;

“Still another season passed and spring came and the little oxeyed dai-sies-scatteréd farther and farther from the little red boy’s grave. They crept up hill and down dales—far out on the plain, and now you ean find them growing everywhere, but, as the old chief said they would, they all sprang from the Heart of the lJittle red boy.”—Eugene O. Mayfield, in Chicago Record-Herald. e S

England’s Gold Supply.

England receives every =onth about $5,000,000 worth of new gold from Africa, and about $7,000,000 worth from Australles = - : *

COW AND PIG WERE CHUMS. An odd Animal PFriendship Which . Led to All Sorts of Trouble : : and Mischief. A lady who has a large estate in Brookline, Mass., tells an amusing story of an odd friendship between two animals that lived on the place. The cow had been a resident for over two years when a pig was added to the stable Piggy was put for a few weeks in quarters beside the cow. In May the cow was staked out in the field to feed on grass. Contrary to her previous custom, she seemed very uneasy, feeding a little and then uttering a serious of mournful bellows, like a cow deprived of her calf. The-pig inethe stable, too, kept up a series of shrill squeals. :

Disturbed by the noise, the ﬁa? sent for the stableman, to ask what was the trouble. o

“Sure, ma’am,l dunro,” said he. “The cow do seem most unhappy. An the pig, toco.” :

“Put the cow back in the stable,” the lady said. I cannot endure stch noise.” This was done, and quiet prevailed for the rest of that day. The following morning the cow was again turned out. The lamentations began again. Again was the cow returned to the stable, and silence reigned. The third day the stableman quieted the tumult by putting piggy out in the field, too. Both animals fed in peace and quiet. And since the pig did good to the orchard rather than harm by his rooting, he was allowed the freedom of the field with the cow.

If the pig got a few rocds away from his friend he would throw up his snout and squeal his loudest, and then scamper ; back to her as fast as his legs wdulé carry him. When they slept the pig lay beside the cow. Theiraffection was mutual. ) A s

The friendship continued in this wise until spring,- when the cow had a calf. She had then small interest in her friend, the pig, and he, poor creature, was consumed with jealousy. He rooted the hoards of his pen so persistently that he broke it down and got in with the cow. Then he rooted-and bit the calt viciously. The maternal wrath of the cow was roused, and there was troublse in the stable. The cow was hooking and trampling, and-the pig was rooticg and biting cow and calf indiscriminately. The stableman went to the rescue. He drove the pig back into his own quarters and repaired the pen. Piggy sulked for two days, refusing to eat. and then he apparently recovered his spirits and accepted the new conditicns. At times during the summer, however, he turned jealous and rooted viciously at the dividing boards and squealed forth his hurt feelings. : » ; '~ Whethez the cow and pig would have resumed {Beir former friencly relations cannot be told, for the luckless porker, being now fn good condition, went the way of his kind.—Youth’s Companion. OWL AS A HOUSEHOLD PET. Favorite Roost ¢f the Bird of Wisdom s Is on the Top of a Largs € : Office Clcck. i

Perhaps one of .the oddest pets in Albany is a full-grown owl owned by William Hill, of 37 Washington -avente. Mr. Hill has a farm in the ¥icinity of Greenbush Heights, and last {all -while gathering the apples from his. orchard he captured the owl and brought it heme with it. ? : ’An owl, when captured after attaining its full growth, is considered one of the hardest birds in -the wirld to keep alive in captivity. Yet Mr. Hill’s owl has never shown any signs of pining. Its favorite roost is on the top of a large clock in Mr. Hill's place of business, where it perches for hours at a time, like Poe’s raven on the marble bust of Pallas. On this account it has been christened “Owl Father Time.” Three or four times during the day it ‘will fly around the rom. ; - Mr. Hill believes that owls can see much better in the daytime than most persons suppose, for his bird has no trouble in making the circuit of the room without colliding with anything. Moreover, when a piece of fish is left on a bench the owl promptly files to it and devours it. At other times when hungry the owl will leave his perch on the clock, fly down to the fcot and take his station within about two feet of

his master, where he will cock his head first on one side and then on the other in the most comical manner. When ha is given something to cat he promptly returns to his perch on the clock.— Albany (N. Y.) Press. :

BEET LOOKS LIKE A BIRD.

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seen, is a fairly good likeness of an owl, but it is really another beet of what is known as the Yellow Tankard variety, and was grown by a farmer in-Lna Angeles county. Recognizing its resemblance to a bird he completed it by plicing buttons in its head to represent eyes, then tied a ribbon around its neck and placed it on exhibition.—N. Y. Herald. : . Metric System in Mexico. : - In Mexican stores the metric system of weights and measures is in general use. : : 4