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ONE USEFUL EXTRAVAGANCE. One of the pleasant stories told of Queen Victoria is that when she was preparing for her wedding she selected Honiton lace for the wedding dress. At that time, in 1842, English industry was much depressed, manufacturers were idle, laborers unemployed and there was much suffering, discontent and agitation among the working and agricultural classes. In the Hooiton lace district, in Devonshire, were many thousands of distressed lace makers whose product was not fashionable or was unsalable on account of dull times. To encourage a native industry, and commiserating the miserable condition of the poor lace makers, Victoria passed by the richer and more elegant laces of the continent and ordered Honiton for her gown. It became the rage at once and continued to be popular and expensive ever after, although before that time purchasers hardly could be found for

it. If Victoria had given ten or a hundred times the cost of her dress in charity to the lace workers they would have returned to their abject condition when the bounty hstl been consumed, but her timely patronage stimulated an industry that has flourished for half a century.

The lady who closes her purse against the pleadings of poverty in the morning and purchases a lace collar in the afternoon might be. the subject of criticism—from the critics who have their own little extravagance while regtflating the expenditures of others—but it is surprising what a multitude of poor women live by the manufecture of laces and the kindred trimmings, embroideries, rufflings, etc.

The wearers could easily live without buying a yard of such adornments but a sumptuary law against their use would reduce to beggary and starvation hundreds of thousands of women and children. In France alone over 200,000 women make laces and the industry, is very extensive in nearly every European country though the labor is poorly paid. In 1893 the United States imported about $15,000,000 in lace and embroidered goods which represented an expenditure of over $30,000,000, after adding the duty and profits cf the merchant.

Judged by severe and simple tastes all this stuff is frippery and unnecessary for the buyer, but standing in the homes of over a million people, who live by making It, it is as necessary to the well-beLig of the world as overalls or shoes. It would be very hard ou the makers of overalls and shoes if the lacemakers were forced to eater into their trades because it was found to be too 1'lutocratic and luxurious to wear laces and raffles.

Sortie very important philanthropic work lias been done of late years by developing lace-making. The beautiful queen of Italy has accomplished much good among her poor subjects by encouraging the industry find demand, and by teaching the art of lace-making. Keuevolent women came *o the world's fair on behalf of the lace-mak ITS of Ireland to introduce their work and simulate a demand for it. American teachers have taught, the art to our own simple Indian v.'omeu and found it of great assist nnce in training them and helping them to become self-sustaining.. Thousands of Mexican women live by the production of exquisite drawn work, for which they^sel r'.om get what it is worth. Altogether, it appears that the existence of multitudes In every country depends on the use of. what will be called by some a useless and unimportant article, or an extravagance, and consequently this extravagance serves Xiseful and beneficent purpose in the world's reonomy. and makes the wearer of laces a very necessary consumer. Lace ia but one •of many things by which honest toil takes tribute from the surplus of the rich.

THE HEARTS OF OAK.

The wreck of the Warren Hastings, British troop ship, laden with soldiers, adds one more to the innumerable stories of the devotion aud fortitude of "Tommy Atkins" in the face of death. In this wreck it appears that the 1,200 soldiers on board fell into ranks at the word of command, while the ship was sinking, on a dark and stormy night, and maintained their admir able discipline while the women, children and sick were sent ashore, but happily all •were saved but two men.

How long these trained soldiers would •lave retained their discipline and courage tan be jndged from a similar occurrence •-with a more disastrous ending in January, ,aS52, when another troop ship, the Birken jhead. was wrecked OH the coast of Africa, t*hy striking a sharp pointed rock- About l0ft Midlers were on board an4 they

drawn up in rank* on deck, while the boat# filled with the women and children were sent ashore. The ship was sinking too rapidly to admit of the boata returning in time for another load, but the brave men stood as en parade, cheering those who were safe, and soon went down, with the ship, 454 soldiers and sailors being lost and 184 caved by the boats. It Is not strange that Rudyard Kipliag finds his inspiration among the soldiers in the British barracks.

The power of discipline and the cumulative courage of a troop that comes with the touch of elbows is not confined to the Briton. We read but a short time ago of a German gun boat going down while its crew cheered for the Kaiser. In the cyclone at Apia which wrecked American and'British ships the same coolness and courage was shown by American and British sailors. On a British ship which was fighting the storm the band played an American national air as one of our vessels was swept by to almost certain destruction and the Americans answered with cheers. Military training develops fine qualities in men but we want arbitration to keep the noble men from fighting each other, as long as possible.

THE TREASURY FOR THE WEST. Mr. McKinley has made a happy settlement of "one cabinet place by offering the treasury to Mr. Lyman Gage. Mr. Gage can be counted on as a Republican and for sympathy with Republican legislation. His selection throws light upon the tariff policy of the coming administration, showing that it is to be conservative and business-like. When we remember the important part played by Mr. Carlisle in adjusting schedules in the Wilson bill it will be seen that Mr. Gage's opinions will also be of importance. That he will advise against any measures which will cramp or limit business, Ave can be assured in advance.

An honest and capable man for the position could be found in the East, but the selection of one from Chicago, the heart of the commerce of the West and Northwest will re-asaure those who are unduly fearful of Eastern influence, inspire confidence and disarm opposition. We can be sure of a steady support of a sound and practical financial policy and as sure that there will be no hasty or experimental action by the treasury department, for Mr. Gage understands how sensitive is business and how necessary is calm and confidence to credit, as he has had practical experience and felt the effects of every rise and „fall in the tide of business for a generation.

The use of language Is not limited to the breezy and eloquent West, as will appear from an extract from Mr. Colvin's address at Mr. Piatt's banquet. Alluding to Senator Hill, Mr. Colvin said "Five years ago, or thereabout, -si am advised, a Democratic leader of t. -t day, now suffering with lockjaw, rose before a gathering of his people, great in numbers, and said: 'The Republican party having been organized for a work long since ac complished had best act the part of dis cretlon by going into the haqds of a re ceiver.'

When the Angel Gabriel, standing with one foot on Tammany's temple and the other on Chicago's Popocratlc Convention hall of '96, looks scornfully to the home of Watson in the South when the sea shall give up Its dead when the stone is rolled away from the sepulchre of mankind when there remains not a political conversion necessary in the territory botinded by hundred-har-bored Maine on the East, the chilly breezes of Alaska on the North vine clad California photographs—dozens

on the West, and the warm sands of Texas on the South when the angel shall sound the last trumpet call on Resurrection Day, then, and not until then, will the Republican party pull down its shades, put up the shutters and retire from business. "Today we are so healthy as a political party that the services of the undertaker our friend spoke for are not required, and the only thing that prevents his having appropriate obsequies of his own, apparently, is the insuflicient number of mourners Interested.

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Piatt, will succeed as United States senator the reputed author of this remarkable statement."

John Wanamaker, since he escaped a $3,000,000 fire, Is full of business. As he carries his own insurance his salvation from loss means more to him than to another who would be recouped by the insurance companies, aud consequently he will build a church as a thanksgiving. Mr. Wanamaker will be soundly rated for this act by many a Democratic editor who will see in the church some deep design relating to the tariff. He also intends to reward the 600 employes who worked in the house fire brigade and saved much valuable property. This will be another evidence of Wanamaker's sinister and cunning nature.

If Senior Allen was asked to give his opinion of a blank piece of paper probably he would offer some objections to it In a number of brief remarks. Just at present, after opposing the Pacific railroads on all sides he is trying to embarrass the forecloslire proceedings. First he wanted a settlement and now he does not want^a settlement. His brother senators deserve a little consideration for they have much to endure.

The Hoosier is more sensitive than the Yankees. When an evangelist said this State was fifty miles from the bottomless pit there was talk of a vigilance committee, but in Boston when Sam Jones said blue flames were only half-a-mile away nothing was done unless a company was organized to bore for sulphur.

Some are finding fault with John Sherman because be has been changing his mind. The Bushnell crowd is very much afraid he will change it again, stay in the senate and shut Bushnell out which will be no sign of weakness in Sherman.

Senator-elect Piatt said at the banquet given in his honor that he had not been a candidate and had asked no man to vote for him, all of which fully confirms previous suspicions that he would be forced to accept.

Senator Mason's reputation as'a joker will depend upon his making Senajtor Turpie look pleasant and probably he will lose it.

The Populists of Kansas are of such a breed that a confederate cross makes a better senator than Peffer.

of his re-election. One of those funeral broken-colum1^ would have been more appropriate.

Senator Pe®?r will write a book called "The Way Out." The senator is away out since the senatorial election in Kansas and can speak feelingly.

ABOUT PEOPLE"

Senator John Sherman once said of the newspaer reporter: "He is the greatest enigma of the nineteenth century. I am Interested in him always, respect him generally and fear him sometimes. But I never cease to wonder at bis resourcefulness in searching for news."

Evangelist Moody vill be 60 years old on February 6.

Ex-Governor^Morrill of Kansas has an American flag that will be used as a winding Bheet at his b^ial. It was given to him by fifteen old soldiers from the Leavenworth home. He sal® the other day that he prized* the flag more highly than all the official honors which had been bestowed upon him.

An old rail fence that Lincoln is said to have built Is pointed out to strangers on the premises of a Marion county, Kentucky, distillery. Lincoln's father and the father of Jefferson Davis were neighbors in that region, and are said to have fought side by side in a little brush wim Indians near where the town of Springfield, Ky., now stands.

W. S. Wltham of Atlanta is president of twenty-seven Georgia banks located in the small towns or that state.

Professor B. K. Emmerson of Amherst College will visit St. Petersburg next August as a delegate to the international geological congress to be held in that city. The delegates will be guests of the czar duping their stay in Russia, and he has arranged for them a trip through the Ural mountains and an excursion to the Caspian sea, including- the oil wells, and to Mount Ararat and Sebastopol.

A Parsee sacred fire which had burned uninterruptedly for twelve centuries in the temple at Leigule. Persia, went out recently. Its worshipers interpreted,the event as an omen of the plague which is destroying so many of their coreligionists in Bombay.

Jackson Jordan, for some time the valet of Charles Dickens, celebrated his 86th birthday on January 8. Dickens picked him up in New Orleans, and he was in the service of the author when the "American Notes'r were written, later accompanying him home to England. At present he is steward of the steamship Coptic, running between San Francisco and China, and he expects to sail for many a. day yet, though he-can remember when there were only two stores in San Francisco and when gold mining had not been begun.

George Wonvbell, who used to be a famous English showman, now makes a precarious living by playing a cornet before the public houses of London.

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Mrs. S. Guarney Lapham of Sntitupe is making a new departure in the field of worn en's enterprise. She has snterested herself so largely in theraatter .of life insurance for women that she is being called upon for lectures and informal talks on this subject.

WRECK OF THE NAHUM CHAPIN.

No One Left to Tell the Story—The Captain's Body Washed Ashore. Not a soul left to tell the story. Not a signal nor a voice out of the howling hurricane to tell why, or how many. Seven, eight, nine or ten lives lost no one knows. Maybe a woman, lashed to a stalwart seaman, went down among the boiling breakers. Possibly—but not probably—a child was lost. No one knows now—may never know. Such is, in brief, the scant history of the loss of the big schooner Nahum Chapin on the icy shore of Long Island, oft' Quogue, at day break Thursday, says the New York Journal,

One body, undoubtedly that of the captain, Ernest De Arey,. was washed ashore. Guards are still patrolling the beach, for others will come in, to the east or west, on the booming breakers..

His body lay on the sanded .floor of the life-saving station all day. None dared to even search his pockets till the coroner gave the order, and up to nightfall he had not been heard from. The .body was clothed in a dark blue flannel shirt, a rough service suit of blue cloth, and over all were heavy oilskins.

With the wreckage came ashore many of them—and from

the lot it was easy to pick out two of the great, bearded captain. One had been taken with his wife standing beside him, a frail, sweet-faced little woman, who made a strange mate for such a gigantic sea dog of a man.

Of the weather it is sufficient to say it was one of the worst nights ever seen along the bleak Long Island coast, where the breakers mount high and come booming far over the bar with a deafening roar. The wind was blowing on shore at a rate of sixty miles an hour, carrying with it clouds of clean, white sea sand that cut the face like a knife, and ground on window panes like emery paper. The wind whistled over the sand duties, and the rain descended in torrents.

The whole coast was under patrol for on such a night the life-savers have been taught by experience of the' past to look for wrecks. Men marched along the sloping stretch of sand till they met the lone patrol from the life station on the east or west. Each was armed with three red Coston heights, signals to any ship in distress that help was at hand.

Of the wrecked schooner it must be said it was the most complete ever known on the Long Island coast. The wreckage was in slivers, extending along the beach for three quarters of a mile. There were a thousand evidences that the ship had been stanchly built. Her timbers showed it The pine was bright and new, and the oik was as heavy and gnarly as it could be, No sham bolts here, but heavy inch wrought iron rivets two feet long, driven home with great shipbuilding hammers. Yet the sea had ripped the large schooner as though she had been a plaything. Heavy timbers were slivered as though they had been wrenched with dynamite. It was the most perfect example of the powerful might of old ocean one could wish to sea.

Even the schooner's name Is not complete. One piece—the cap of the main hatch carries the register and the number carved with a chisel, as the law commands. This gives her net tonnage at 534,12.100 her gross tonnage at 566 92-100, and her number as 130,244.

The life savers on the beach are sorrowful because they were not able to save a single life. They say they did not take one of their great self-bailing boats to the beach because four horses could not have launched them in the face of that gale. The men could not hear each other's shouts mouth to ear, and the sand and ^pray shut out their view except on the sMl line.

The wreck of the Nahum Chapin was discovered bv Charles A. Carter, surf man, of the Quogue station, at 3:65 a. m., who stood near the station on the highest point of the shore, near the bathing houses. The wind was whistling, the rain was blowing full in his face, and there was the blinding sand blast. But he saw through all this and the thick, white sea mist, two winking white lights and one of red, evidently a side light. Then he made out sails, pointed well to the northwest—three jibs, foresail, full mainsail and a three-reefed spanker. There were no topsails, and it was evident they had been stripped along with the mizzen.

The gale was blowing full sixty miles au hour, and the surf was record-breaker. The tide was dead low. Carter fired, in rapid succession, three red Coston signals, each burning one minute and a half. There was no repiv from the ship. Carter started on.a run to"the.station#.and messages were*

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tugging after them their cart, filled with apparatus. They had to toil to the eastward half a mile. They buried the sand anchor to prevent a recoil "ton the mortar was fired. The first heaving line fell short. The schooner was then 600 yard®

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pounding on the outer bar o&'-aand. It now 4:30 a. xn., and the sheets of the schooner were dearly outlined against the angry sky. The line was pulled in and another shot was tried, ^hlch also fell short. A third attempt had 66 better result.

It was now a. in., and theschooner was over the bar and making fiat the beach. At times she was well out of the water, broadsides on, with a heavjr list to sea. The starboard side was toward the^ beach, the three Jibs were whipped, out by this time and the foresail was completely gone. "The mainsail could be seen on board, for the weather was too thick.

The last line went over at 6:45. Daylight came at 7 o'clock. With the light some of the life savers made out four or five men in the forerigging on the starboard side, clinging one above another half way to the crosstrees. They did not appear to be lashed, Then there were three men on the ropes of the flying jibboom. It could be seen that the schooner had bilged and filled.

At 7 o'clock the watchers saw two men drop into the sea from the forerigging. Then all three masts of the schooner went by the board at once. Thirty seconds later the jib went and that settled all. The ship broke up all at once, and in fifteen minutes wreckage lined the beach.

The body of the captain came ashore at 8:30 a. m. one-half miles west of the sta' tion.

There is evidence that the schooner was making her way from Baltimore to a New England port, probably for Boston. A receipt was found among the papers that drifted ashore dated in Baltimore on the 13th Inst. It was for A tackle block. There was also a letter from the captain wife, under date of August 2, 1896, ..w$t.$nBf?rom Crescent Beach, Me.

It is supposed the schooner was coal laden, for no merchandise floated ashore, and tijere were a few blocks of soft coal in the largest bit of the wreck.. Some think the ship sprung a leak In the storm and was headed for the beach but this can never be known. Captain H, B. Pain took charge of the wreckage, not worth $25, for the New York board of underwriters, on their telegraphic order.

The Nahum Chapin was an American built schooner, 145 feet long, by thirty-five feet beam. She was built at ftockland, Me., in 1882, by Cobb, Wright & Co., and her principal owners were Mcintosh & Co. of Boston. Her cargo was cbtisigned to the West End Stret Railway Company of Boston. The schooner was valued at $16,000, and was partly insured, as was her cargo.

Hundreds vsent to visit the scene of that tragedy which wiped out a schooner crew and to marvel at the havoc wrought by the pounding surf on as staunch a vessel as ever came from the shipyards of old Maine.

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TERRIBLE AFFAIR AT DUNDEE.

Joseph Boxell, a Merchant. Kills His Sweetheart and Commits Suicide.

Hartford City, lud., Jan. 28.—Last evening Joseph Boxell, a merchant at Dundee, seven miles north of this city, shot Ora Brotherton, daughter of the oldest merchant the village, in the temple, the bullet passing out at the back of her head. Then he shot himself In the head, dying istantly. Boxell was 25 years old' and his victim 16. He was for a long time employed in the store of Miss Brotherton's father. He fell in love with the girl and his love was reciprocated. Her parents, however, objected, and Boxell was discharged from the store. Then he started a store of his own.

The lovers kept up secret correspondence, which was discovered yesterday, and Brotherton reprimanded his daughter. Last night Boxell called at Brotherton's house and was met at the door by Ora. She told him he could not enter, as her parents were more than ever opposed to their meeting.

We'll die together, then!" said Boxell, and he fired two shots ii rapid succession. Miss Brotherton fell back into the house, mortally wounded. Boxell fell on the doorstep dead.

The Brotherton family IS tine of the most prominent in the county* j, Sp far as known, Boxell had always borne a good reputation.

The Girl is StUi Lining.

Montpeller, Ind., Jan. j28.—-Miss Ora Brotherton, of Dundee, shoif by her sweetheart, Joseph W. Boxell, is not dead, as reported, but is bravely battling for her life. Boxell began paying attentions to her when she was but 11 years old, but her plrents, as the attachment-continued, objected, because of the discrepancy in their ages. Recently he became-jealous, thinking she was receiving attentions from other suitors. Last evening he seemed to be in unusually good spirits,# hut he told one of his chums that he and Miss,Brotherton had had a quarrel, and be was on his way to settle it. Upon reaching the Brotherton residence, he called for his sweetheart, and evidently was apprehensive of trouble, for she requested her 12-year-old cousin, Ollie Basley, to accompany her. Scarcely had the girl reached the place where Boxell was standing before he asked her what she meant by treating him so, and before she could reply used his revolver. The little girl heard the shot, and hid. in an outbuilding, and, as Miss Brotherton fell, under the belief that he had killed her. Boxell fired the shot into his own brain. He was dead when the family rushed out. The girl was found to be shot in the head, the bullet entering on the left side, near the ear It is the opinion of the physicians that the .girl has a fair chance of recovery.

MURDERER PALMER ARRESTED.

Captured In St. Louis-He ia Believed to Be Insane. St. Louis, Jan. 2?.—Arthur Palmer of New York was arrested at the Planter Hotel yesterday. He is a handsome, well dressed man, 45 years old ,and had been at the hotel a week registered under the name of Paul Jones. The arrest was made on a long distance telephone message from Sheriff Johnson of Westchester county, New York, who said that Palmer murdered his mother, brother and sister about nine days ago and fled. The sheriff telephoned that Palmer had been traced to St. Loois. Palmer is supposed to be insane. On the night of January 18th Palmer, who lived in Mamoroneck, Westchester county, "New York, shot his brother, Leonard Palrier, killing him almost instantly, and fatally wounding his mother and sister,

The murderer had bien^considered mildly insane for some time, mtflil a fit of frenzy selzed him, and several fyjfurs later he procured a revolver and attacked the family. He began a general fusilade, first turning the weapon his sister Gertrude. He fired two shots at her, both of which took effect, one in her abdomen and the other in her right arm. Then he shot his mother, three bullets entering her body, two In the ba^Jc and one in the side. Leonard palmer, who heard the shots while wording in the barn, ran Into the house. The insane man-met him with several shots, one of the bullets striking him squarely in theforehead and killing him.

Tickets and reserved seats on sale at Paige's music store.

THE OUT DOOR GIRL

HOW SBB CAM PfT THE ROS*S IK BER CHRE18.

Should Not Permit the Weather to Interfere Wltl# Hec Kxerelse.

Now that the cold makes exercise not only more attractive but positively necessary to her comfort when she Is In the fresh air, what is the outdoor girl going to do, inquires the Chicago Record.

Of course, there is the possibility of her becoming an indoor girl there are books for amusement and study, and plenty of stitches always necessary to the keeping of a feminine wardrobe in good condition. There are the thousand and one little domestic duties that an energetic woman always finds ready and waiting. But even then there are many hours left over which she had no trouble to occupy during other seasons of the year, and which must, by contrast, hang somewhat heavily upon her

hands-. Now, there are many entertaining as well aB beneficial ways of spending these hours, but they are all dependent upon the circumstances governing each individual girl. Perhaps she is fortunate enough to have a fully equipped gymnasium at her disposal and then the choice comes to her ready made. First she rehabilitates herself by exchanging her skirts for knickerbockers, voluminous to allow absolute freedom of movement, and her tight fitting bodice is replaced by a loose blouse. Then, if she be methodical, she conscientiously makes the rounds of the various appliances for strengthening and making more flexible every muscle of her anatomy. This gives her a certain easy grace that marks the difference between her every motion and those of women who seem to regard indolence as the chief prerogative of their sex.

Even the inelegant punching bag claims a share of her attention. It Is too beneficial an exerciBO to be tabooed merely because it has been aggressively advertised, with a vast prodigality of color. It teaches a quick dexterity and an instantaneous readiness to act, a deplorable lack of which may ben seen In nine-Tenths of the women on the crossing of State and Washington streets any afternoon. These exhibitions oMeminine vacillation which cause drivers and gripmen to revise their mothertongue, and which makes It necessary for two or three policemen to be all eyes and ears and readiness, are truly pitiable on every crowded crossing in the shopping districts. But a girl who has learned to dodge a punching bag of goodly size and skillfully "stop" Its next lurch at her may cross a street without causing palpitation of the heart to any one.

Then there are the parallel bars, and to acquire the art of swinging up on them from the floor gives a firmness to her arms and an elasticity of every muscle in her body.

Perhaps these accomplishments savor so strongly of the modern circus lady that they will not meet with the approbation which the more genteel fofm of calisthenics elicits, but to condemn them unreservedly is a mistake of judgment. Provided a woman be in a moderately good physical condition to begin with, the practice of the more vigorous form of gymnastic exercises can only improve her in health, spirits and appearance. More than half of the nervous mental depression so deplorably common to many women, even in the very young, is due to a lack of exercise and physical endurance—a thing which must be cultivated untlrlnbly and the benefit of which cannot be overestimated when acquired.

But to leave the fortunate girl who has the entree of a well-stocked gymnasium and take up the case of the girl who has not. Let her rise three-quarters of an hour before breakfast ,take a quick, cold sponge bath, a vigorous rub down with a rough towel, and, after getting into something loose and warm, go through a series of exercise with a pair of small dumb bells, according to the illustrated directions that come with every pair of these convenient, strengthening little articles. If not these, have a pair of pulleys In the room which can be secured upon the woodwork with very little trouble and use them energetically for ten or twenty minutes. Then follows that delicious glow which, though worn threadbare by being misapplied, is perfectly delightful when really genuine. This sort of thing is more productive of health and youthful appearance than any drug prescription or patent medfeine ever compounded.

Women should learn to walk. The process Is commonly supposed to come very early In life, but it is a positive exception when a girl can take anything more than a leisurely stroll, which is not enjoyable in cold weather to any one. Of course for the woman who wears a No. 3 shoe on a 4% foot there Is no hope but she is rapidly growing less numerous, fortunately, so that she not need be taken into account at all

To watch the women on a bright Sunday after church, on the Lake Shore drive, gives an idea of how vastly in need of practice in this art of walking most of them are. And it is an art—one, too, that pays, returning to its devotees value threefold in grace and color and appetite. If a girl thinks it stupid to walk briskly for an hour, at'least, every day, she should do it, nevertheless. Let her fix a point two miles from home, and determine to reach it and get back inside of sixty, minute?. One arm may be allowed to swing in time to her step, which should be free and rather long than the least too short, but theother arm should be held at her side. This last is according to a longestablished rule of training, which does away with excessive stiffness, at the same time preventing too much looseness of motion. She should breathe deeply and slowly, for that has much to do with the benefit derived from any exercise, particularly in the open air.

If a young woman resolutely determines to follow out such a practice, after a week's experience she will find herself not only thoroughly enjoying it, but missing it greatly if it must be given up for any reason.

But one reasbn should never be used as an excuse—that of the weather. Snow or rain or wind should make no difference.

There Is a certain young woman on the South Side who is so fond of tramping in a storm that she never misses a northeaster. With rubber boots and mackintosh, she walks energetically for five or six miles and returns with her cheeks glowing with color and eyes bright with enjoyment, declaring that people who don't know the pleasure of feeling wind and rain against their faces and being warm and dry underneath miss one of the most pleasurable sensations in

life. In the spring the warm, soft rains are

gazting with the advantage of no hill to dlmb. During the first cold snap this winter the Des Haines river, fifteen miles west of the city, crept along beneath a Bheet of the smoothest kind of ice, and after six miles of that, with the most picturesque of surroundings, ft was hard for a party of young people, who skated from Riverside to Maywood to be satisfied with the Pine street pond. This pond, however, is infinitely better than nothing.

To much cannot be said about women, or to women, or at women, concerning the advantages cf active exercise of the more vigorous, wholesome and even muscle-making kind. If she would only forsake her brother's collar and Derby hat, sacrifice her dream of the ballot box and adopt a few of his strength-producing, healthful, energetic habits of exercise she would make not only a more graceful and attractive girl, but an infinitely more cheerful, useful and capable woman, sfcb rJfll'

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Their Original Moilr, Some of Which Found tn Popular Sonps. The dance hall is the interesting place of all others In a dive, writes the Memphis correspondent to the New York Sun. It Is the bohemia of 'the negro—a place indescribably dirty, where songs indescribably vulgar are sung to beautiful and catchy music, and where dancers of perfect grace swing their bodies and beat their feet In vulgar, dances. Around the walls of the hall long benches are placed for the comfort of the habitues of the hold. In one corner of the place is a weak-toned piano, where a negro hammers out the music for the dancers and the singers. The piano and the "piano pounder"— he is known by no other name—are protected by an inclosure of thick boards from any beer cans or pieces of chairs which may be thrown at them by a dancer or singer whose performance has been marred by a discordant note.. Ink that corner of the dance hall in'which the piano is situated a platform about three feet square and raised about two inches from the floor is placed. On this single and double dances are done. The quadrilles are danced on the floor of the hall. .•

The dancing board is near the lower end of the miniature elevator, by which beer and other drinks are sent into the hold from the saloon above. The principal drink of the dlte habitues Is beer, which is sold in large cans. The stimulant, however, which the majority of the female patrons of the dives use is cocaine, but' they take this stuff before they retire, contenting themselves with beer in the early part of the night. The dances executed ar those characteristic of the negro, except the Persian dahce, which is done by the women. The performers are not paid by the divekeepers they dance and sing because they like to be applauded. If one closes one's ears to vulgarity the dances are beautiful. The time is always perfect. The music of the singers, too, is beautiful.

It will perhaps surprise some to know that among the very devil-may-care, 'debauched, but happy negroes originated the tunes of songs which the whole world has whistled and sung. Any Mississippi river steamboat mate who has been employed at his work for the last fifteen years will attest to the truthfulness of the statement that the tune to which "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-Ay" is sung is one ,to which about 200 verses of vulgar doggerel were Bung before Lottie Collins ever heard of the song which she made famous. The song "Oh, My Baby," which has had a great run, originatel in a levee dive. It bears the earmarks of the dive as it is sung today. "The New Bully," with which May Irwin made such a hit, was sung with different words lotig before the frolicsome comedienne ever heard of it or dreamed she would sing it. Today songs are sung in the dives of this city to music which was a happy ebullition of the heart of some ignorant negro. To dress these songs so that an educated audience would enjoy them would be the work of but a few moments.

The dive singers have a readiness for rhyme-making which is remarkable, and this accounts for the length of their songs. In Tennesse the agent of the penitentiary is Joseph Turney, a brother of the present governor. For nearly half a century he has guarded prisons at regular Intervals from the Jail in Memphis to the penitentiary in Nashville, and he has become known to the negroes. One of the minstrels of the dives composed a song of about 100 verses describing Joe Turney and a trip to Nashville under his guardianship. This song is very popular, and almost any inhabitant of any of the dives can sing it, though neither the words nor the music ever appeared on paper. The words are simple, but the music is beautiful and sad almost to welrdness.

TWO REPORTERS DROWNED.

Orleans Picayune Men Lost in Boat Collision. New 0rleaBS( Jan. 88.—At 12:85 o'clock this morning aeallisten occurred on the river about twelve miles above the quarantine station between the steam yacht Argo and the fruit steamship Albert Pumois, in which the jaefat had her bew stove In and sank within a very few minutes after the accident. How the aeeident eeeurred aud who was to blame for it, the eeurts will, moat probably be called on to deoid* The Dumols was Inward beund from Port Llmon, and the Argo was beund down the river on her way to the quarantine station to meet the steamship Whitney, with the congressional committee on beard. On board the Argo were three renerters of the Picayune, Messrs. H. P. Hester anu'F. Blassini of the staff, and an extra man, A. C. Llndauer, Mr. H. L. Frantz of NeW Orleans, was a guest. A crew of four men commanded by Captain James Brown was In charge of the craft, and the vessel made excellent time down the rlvei^ running an average of fifteen miles an hour.

All in the cabin had retired, and nothing untoward occurred until about 12:30 this morning, when the Dumois was encountered coming up the river. The Argo signaled for the right, au4_Uis- Lmmols answered by two whistles, or a signal that that vessel would take the left side. The Argo crashed into the starboard bow of the huge steamship, which had one of the plates bent, but the Argo had her bow stove In, and In a few minutes sank.

The captain and the crew of the Argo lowered away a small dinkey, Into which they sprang, while of the passengers only two—SVanta and Llndauer—succeded iu reaohin* the little boat. The boat had barely left the side of the vessel before the Argo plunged headforemost Into the river, the stern standing up high in the air. The Durante failed to lower a boat to go to the rescue of the litlie yawl, which, overcrowded

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However, ice skating is far more Interest- something of tbo missing men, they fining than is any other exercise which the ally abaB'toued thtt search and headed up the winter months make enjoyable. "Within the river. ./ last few years this pastime has become fash- The young m«n who are mlaaing, and who ionable and so possible with women who are doubtless drowned, were well known would never have dreamed hoyr negligent aad popular reporters on the Picayune. Mr. fashion really is in picking out the most Hester waa the son of Mr. Henry O. Hester, eharmlus sports. But to enjoy skating most secretary of the Cotton Exchange, in this one must learn to do it best. The swing ^ty, and the nephew of Mr. C. Harrison motion, strong and free and swift, which pirker. Mr. Blasslui waa also well known cornea after the trying preliminary struggles }n the lower section of the city. and patient practice is over, holds the real ~~7. u-om»n SL. 1. .£»Uu» ail. pleMur.

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There was a man In our town who though* himself wondrous wise. Said he: "What costly trumperies the average? husband buys! Now, I'll cut oat all the 'Household Hints". 'IM and give them to my wife, And she'll furnish the bouse on nothing afr' all, you better bet your fife!" So he bought some ancient newspaper files*.' and his wife got oft her knees And began to manufacture things with eie* gance and ease.

She gathered a lot of barrel staves and mad^^l^' a window seat ""ft? She thought of a new canary cage and a hoopV 0+ skirt was her meat She painted old shoes with liquid gilt

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hung them over the wall She covered a keg with turkey red for a haf rack in the hall She made some beautiful picture frames of her husband's cast off roc Kb. And built a table and sideboard out of aif ,tH empty dry goods box.

She hung the coal scuttle over the door ('twas lovely, so she said) She turned a hldeouB henhouse into a handy folding bed: She cut new mantel draperies out of old plaiif undeskirts She made some parlor lambrequins of her hus* band's flannel: shirts She planted a palm In his old silk hat and tied up his cane with bows. And what she didn't finally do, the Lord he only knows! The husband puned and pined away and tick' ly grew his soul, As he saw her making a standing lamp of pitcher and curtain pole. And his step grew slow and his cheeks grew wan as she hammered away with force A-making a fancy Japanese screen of rickety old clothes* horse. One day she began on a chandelier and the. he went outside And wallowed poison, cut his throat and shot himself and died. —New York Press.

The theft of a $2.50 wagon seat recently co»i Midland county, Michigan, ?150. During the recent holidays every single girl in the town of Brookstown, Ky., was married,,

A St. Paul judge ha# awarded a cltizon t£ damages because a motorman refused to stop a car for him.

The retail grocers of Omaha, Neb., are compiling a list of customers who can pay and refuse to pay and are to be made to pay.

Five bachelors of Shelbyville, Ind.. who dined together on Christmas day. tjf pledged to marry before the expiration of toe tweivemonth.

They fire big guns in Boston when Massachusetts inaugurates a new governor. When a governor Is re-elected he is reinstated without a noise.

The judge of the supreme court of Florida draw straws for the position of chief Justice, the constitution of the state providing that official shall be cbossn by lot.

In the state of Nsvada, which is popularly supposed to be the poorest in the oouhtryt the tax fcate is exceptionally low, while a large surplus has acoumuleted in the school fund.

The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical society has purchased 108 acres In warren county, being the remainder of Fort Ancient, the best specimen of the work of the mound builders.

During 1896 South Carolina's state dispensary sold $1,306,613 worth of liquors to the county dispensaries at a profit of $200,000. hs county dispensaries sold $1,500,000 worth at a profit of |122,000.

Walter Nichols, 12 years old, has been sen-' tenced to nine years' imprisonment at Suffolk Va., on two charges of grand larceny one of safe breaking and the other for robJ bing a jewelry store. ^,

New Haven. Conn., is soon to have a socletV of those whose ancestors came from Great Britain and were entitled to display coat armor, according to the records of the herald 4college in London.

Street cars in Washington are now permitted to run twelve miles an hour, the permissible speed having lately been raised from ten miles. Outside of the city limits they may run fifteen miles an hour.

Among the Christmas tree decorations at an Indianapolis home were representations of scenes in the Cuban war, and there was also shown a company of United States troops marching to the aid of the patriots.

It is said of a Hartford City (Ind.) man that the only present he ever made to his wife was on the twenty-fifth anniversary of their wedding, when he gave her four yards of cotton cloth with which to make him a shirt.

The Wendell Phillips Memorial association is endeavoring to increase the fund for the Wendell Phillips scholarships at Harvard University and Tufts College to $5,000 each. That at Harvard is now $1,300 and th£ one at Tufts $1,400.

The manufacture of oriental rugs in this country, while still in its Infancy, iB making rapid progress, and a representative or t.ne industry recently presented a petition before congress calling attention to undervaluation or imported goods.

The work of seining the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and of transferring the edib.e fishes to the Potomac has begun. By this means it is hoped to save the black bass aud to annihilate the German carp, with which the canal abounds.

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There are said to be ten Scottish dukes, five marquises, twenty earls and five lorus— forty in all-who have a direct flnanoial interest in the continuation of the drink traffic. In England and Wales the name® of no fewer than 172 members of the upper house appear as owners of one or mor4 licensed places.

The Buffalo Newa reports that the y®'1'" munk oil field, in Cattaraughu. oouuty Now York, is not fulfilling expectations. 1 he oil is found at a depth of about four hundred feet in a shallow sand, which Is a new feature of northern oil field developments. The wells are "flashy." Many of them have started to flow at a two hundred barrel gait, and In two weeks their production would not be greater than twenty barrels per day. The wells have beSn drilled so thickly that the shallow saud Is beginning to show a marked decline. Last month the total output of the »elJ *4'l}bo" 40,000 barrels, but present m°nth ^ll doubtedly mark a decline of at least 5,000 ha. rels.

SOME LATE NEW THINGS. A recently Invented chopping l.a. 1 W in three sections the blade having a rccesn cut in each side tdreceivetheendsof th«taa portion, which is hinged In the head, ths two back pieces surrounding the handle^and being attached to the blade by means of a screw.

One of the novel uses for electricity recent!* patented consists of a pair of fiat separate insulated conductors, surrounded by a flexib insulating and nonconducting material, the conductors being conned* an ordinary electric light socket by means or a wire, ine current passing through the eonduetors heutlng them and warmiug the person using device. a n»tr hnndle bar for bicycles has a loop or

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