A — e HOME ena ODUSE KEEPING ‘GOT HIM ON THE RUN. | Oklahoma City .~Not a saloon is open in Oklahoma, and the new State is as dry as Sahara, Five hundred and sixty saloons were A tO A RU SL, le OAS — As A 0 come of the crops of corn or wheat meant large earn- ings, and a poor crop meant vary than they were twenty years or more A bountiful erop RESENT USURPATION SERBART." OF Besides the pleasant memories that American male tourists have left amopg the women of Berlin is one which is not pleasant, to wit: that of “toothbrush,” mustache. barely tolerated on the part of Amer: fcan visitors has become vogue of the “kaiserbart,” or Kaiser's mustache, which has been so As everybody knows, the bart” is trained by the means of a “frixe mustache” which causes the capillary ends to be elevated upward | and the rest fashioned something af-! ter the form of the wings of the Prus sian eagle which one sees on Na tional standards and postage stamps. It is more or less popular all over Europe, particularly in military cir-| cles. The “toothbrush” mustache, which is considered an American im- | portation, is a bristling appendage | claimed by its possessors to have the | advantage of being hygienic and con- | venient—yvirtues which should make a pariicular appeal to Germans, That it did make such an is revealed by the fact that German swells have of late the scissors to their “kaiscrbart” discarded the use of the I tache” The substitution, however, has met with widespread on the part of the fair sex. German lady writes to the Tagenblatt that she will no recognize her male acquaintances who wear “a toothbrush on their upper lips.” | “Man is naturally very ugly,™ writes another. “The only natarai adorn nent he cver had was his mustache, and that he is now ruthlessly mutilat Ing. Instead of the peaceful hirsute prnament of the past he is marring his face with a lot of bristles.” A third woman has declared that the is about to organize a socicty of mnmarried girls, each of whom must pledge herself not to marry a man #ho wears an “American” mustache While awaiting some official pronun riamento on the subject, it is quite kpparent that the German woman will have none of the “toothbrush” var- ety, in spite of its hygienic qualities Why she objects to the new mustache, Sowever, must be left to conjecture, 2s she herself has remained silent Yhat point—Borlin Corresponden M the New York Sun appeal many applied and “frixe mus- rosentment One lerliner longer on DEARTH OF ROMANCE The Countess Jourtales, who fs! +A good American, in spite of her fan ey name, complains bitterly that Tomance has died out im the Bhe admits there still are marria=es and giving in marriages. What widow would not, even though, like the Countess, already possessed of a title and a bank account? But there | nothing romantic about most making in the twentieth century, asseris It is her belief that veérage man and the average of today look on matrimony with a coldly speculative eye says there are exceptions, but only prove the rule. There iz not enough of the simple, childlike af fection that once possessad hearts the world over. too much attention is paid to world ly considerations. Forfines sides are weighed in an ap scales and difference of ar must be adjusted Oh, for a of the days nt the gals wes sighs £ hime 3 of court Countess e8s08 are sne 8so¢g f more foolish romantically bhersell was w de real world love she the woman aweot Altogether on both yhecary's she rang dor, so it is {rom no rience she gpoaks. Mme. d: Pourtals was Miss Helene Barbey before sho cave her hand to the Homan noble man who couried her so that thelr romance was the lion of two worlds. S8he i: the mo:t popular widows in Europe, ind on hor visits to this country is a leader in Newport and other cen | Nes of fashion. New York FHINESE GIRLS AT WELLESLEY. Three Chinese giris are at Welles. | wy Celiege coming on tho personal exp § devotedly admira one of Proas, gcholar- Chinese cf Edo ary, 1.03 ition fa Wellesley, in Febru Two of the students, Miss and Miss Chi Che Wan, a few years older, proved to be not quite ready for entrince upcen ecllege work, an they hav: accordingly been placed ia 2a nearby preparatory school. Th eldest student, Mizg Faung Yuin Tsao, was acceptsd as a specia! sin dent and at once hezan her work i'n Eng ish, literature and sclence were coscorted by Taotai Wan viceroyalty foreign office, and his wife, who were depuled by the Chin esp viceroy, Tuan Fang. The young s~eak English vithease and compara. « Wye accuracy. They are ads Woy new surroundings, and they find Amer. ican life much to their liking. Upon ¢heir arrival they wore the native Chinese costume—a short, somewhat stralghtlined skirt, trim: med with flat folds, and a plain top coat-like upper garment, also edged with folds. In color the costumes are quite toned, grays, browns, blues of dark shades, Indeed, with reference to the present styles of student cos- tumes of skirt and there is so that is conspicuously foreign in the Chinese dress that these newcom- ers might keep to it without exciting comment, They go hatless, to be but so does the average col lege girl. In stature they are of about medium height. These students expect to remain for several years of study at Wellesley, coat sure, teachers in education the yea the imperial department Miss Tsao. eldest of the group, was for five 3, from 1897 to 1802, a student in Cotley Methodist College, Missouri, and since taught in the govern- ment schools of Shanghai She has earnestness of purpose, ig of a and is / lesley r of Miss government has great CHgaging disposition eagerly ent country come and i Z Worse than Wh two ends mee he in table ques ticn is put, Do you play diabolo? All don is struggling to get tl new toy, § i the pr pal sporting gcods the French with the suppl never +} urging to hurry a salesmar 4 game But and off y ‘want it for Then they is : 1 % i nla it i8 DIAS aren me in customers o« adding in an er that the game, know.’ You ipell of id it is the ige. here five min- am up, who, on being ask ticket, fumbles about in an almost disrobes to reach an inaceessible pocket, and in the end discovers that ghe niislald it between the palm of her hand and her glove, which has to be removed laboricusly The time wasted may make all the difference catching and los ing an express, w her SHOW overcrowded reticule, has between INDIVIDUAL PERFUMES The woman who uses a scent at aim to have it individual as elusive, Always choose same pérfume or sachet powder yest effect is gained by keeping root amonz one's thes If the real Florentine orris js bought it keeps its strength in I, however, a perfume ie buy the very best you can afford. and then be Jownright stingy in the we of it. Kemember, a mere guspleion pf violets or heliotrope is fascinating; to reek of as well of corris EE a Hallway engines which were built in England over 50 years ag are put out of business. The day before the closing the liquor stock was disposed of at bargain prices and the saloon doors and windows are now draped in crape. One saloonkeeper has placed an empty barrel in his window accompanied by these words: “Everything going out and nothing coming in." Week's Cleverest Cartoon, by F JWET in the In lianapoli : MRS. ROMADKE, A MILWAUKEE MILLIONAIRE'S Glamour Thrown by a Yellow Newspaper Over Adventures of Criminals Attracted Her to a Similar Life~~She Craved Excitement and Had Nothing Else to Do. Chicago.—Mrs. Evelyn Romadke, wife of the Milwaukee trunk maker, who was sentenced to serve a prison term for burglary, the story of her downfall to Judge Bretano tol woman naturally would desire, to coms to Chicago to associate with thieves, craving for excitement. fall to the constant perusal of stories of crime printed in what she called the “yellow newspapers.” “1 had nothing else to do,” she sald. to add to my amusement or happiness. took to reading coples of this newspaper.” B8he mentioned one by name “The glamour which it threw over the acts and adventures of criminals, the exaggeration of everything but the iniquity of thelr offenses, attracted me. “1 wanted to meet these thieves,” Mrs. Romadke continued. idea I would be absorbed in the stories a real burglar could tell. ’ “1 was married, but no one tried I wanted real. 1 had a desire to detection “Well, 1 eame to Chicago. Part of the time I lived in a South Side fiat. It was there | met Albert Jones, the negro. He came to do some cleaning for the woman from whom [ rented my room. I saw him and asked the time. He drew from his pocket a woman's watch, and with it vertently a woman's diamond ring. He glanced at me surreptitiously, and pocket. Here was | face to face with a thief. We were at the door of my apartment I pulled him into it. ‘I believe you are a burglar,’ I said, and then stopped him as he was about to speak and move away. Stay here,’ I sald. ‘I have wanted to meet a burglar for some time I am interested. I want to know you. I will not give you away.’ you some stories about stealing that would make your hair stand on end.’ Jones told me, or something like that, and that was the way we became acquainted. 1 talked with him, getting the stories at first hand and from the yellow newspapers any more own hand 1 did it, you know not how many times, and 1 thought doing it undetected. my head.” Mrs. Romadke was weeping when she finished her story. even try stealthlily put it back in I was AND NOW FINLAND ABOLISHES ALL LIQUOR. Drastic Prohibition Results From Women Voting--"Sentiment'” Ruleg~- it is Belloved the Czar Will Veto the Measure. London Finland fur of universal suffrage combined with virtual control by Socialist Its Legislature consists of a single chamber of 200 members. Fi cent. of the volers at the last election In the towns and fifty per co rural districts were women. chamber. The Social Dem other sympathizers, passed a drasti $ ¥ ec act for t tal prohibition of spirits be keg iy for medical uso wine, and technical pur- of wine for the t alcoholic drinks in his prove that they 3 n his poss the have ful 1 and I servitude Ther: houses may be Lh 38 of Huss vieo is forbidd pein police a, distill known women members men m ra, al importance it was qr 2 prevail.” This moved 1ite vg the remark “Tqere we have the true inwardnes: Social Democratic naked and unashamod The : ointions w the “Age ’ meant It was the Bocial Democratic revolutio Jaugurate the "Age of and we have yet to ane At any rate it far as it has gone in if the Grand Duchy of one heavy blow at the prin not expected that the law velo of the Czar is regarded as c« FRANCE HAS GOLD BEYOND lution ere content to rurale reserved for Sentiment,’ means, so Finland, It is learn ita a ——— AA ——————— HER NEEDS. Enormous Holdings in Her Creat Bank and in Other Financial Institu~ tions~~No Ob ection to Lending, But the French Have a Liking For Government Guarantees, Paris.—Never before perhaps in the history ot France Ras there been such occasion for pride in the wealth of the country as during this week, when practically every Stock Exchange in Europe and America has been sending petitions to Paris for more gold. Although much gold has left Paris in the last fortnight, France still has more of the precions metal than she knows what to do with French thrift knows no limits In France no one is idle; every one gaves. Nor is money saved to be hoarded The huge semi-official banks which have no counterparts in America, and which not only accept deposits but give advice concerning investments, have more customers today than over before. The Postoffice Eavings Bank, State controlled, where a deposit of one sou Is as welcome as that of a hundred francs, also shows a tremendous increase In business for the present year. Although the maximum account allowed to one depositor is only $300, it is estimated that the deposits in the Postofiice Banks this year will run up to near a billion dollars by the end of Yecomber. Money lent abroad is doubly profitable in the case of France, for a fair percentage of it is brought back to France by the horde of foreigners who annually visit this favored land, : Death Test Which Will Prevent Possibility of Burial Alive. Paris.~~A new death test, which absolutely precludes the possibility of | burial alive, has been discovered at ; ; We Lariboisiere Hoapital, in this city. It will be sent al once to Washing. Fxperiments have shown that radio- ton, where it will be put on exhibl- | graphs of bodies, taken oven a fow tion before it is taken to Mount Ver- | minutes afier death, reveal clearly pon and hung there. The portrait, | the outlines of all the organs, where. i i New Portrait of George Washing. ton Here From Scotland, New York City.—Bearing a por. | trait of George Washington when he | was a wwajor in the Colonial Army, R. W. Austin, Amorican Consul at Glas- gow, Scotland, arrived. which is life size, is still the property | az if the radiographs are taken dur- of tiie People’s Palace in Glasgow, | ing life the organs are not revealed, but it is Joaned to the American Gov. {The discovery has caused a great stir ernment for an indefinite period. in sclentific clreles. A RAILROADS SYSTEM OF CROP REPORTS. _ 52525252 OF CEREALS AS CLOSELY AS DO GOVERNMENT of BUREAUS. 1 How Facts Are Gathered. the 1st Crop reports after of Octo- ber assume the character of reports of results rather than of predictions regarding the probable outcome of the work of the country's farmers, This is true not cnly of the reports issued by the government bureaus, but as well of the reports privately com- agements of the great raflroad sys tems which must needs keep in touch with the course of in the agri cultural districts In order to be pre. pared for the traffic supplied by districts as well as to be informed regarding the general i ness which is so «cl with the recently conditions of prominently before the publi to the part which tha the Hlinois Central ple between the pr evenls thege course of busi 1 ogely connected £ outcome of the crops. Quite these rallroad the the crop reports on rought were | Cron la y and ish reports tral ponded « prepared by BYsleiug supplies to losely to many the atten Naturally rallroads which pay the for thay ly dependent upon than are Crops, crops the rails east Roads son, the greater or which keep planting, the growth and ing of the These gathered much as ernment reports, the the taking tha place of field representative of the Depart ment Agriculture These reports are the like the St Great Paul, the Atchi Northern lesser extent roads gerve the districts close harvest- are gov agents of the renort a re } Ors « rops vary are the 1s 1 OCH) raflroads the gathered by Division Super intendents and in turn transmitted to the hens where the ire Scat the light demar Igquarters throw of each they coreals or other and on th general prospects rail roads Three very practical tion of a purpose opera oad f it is en that of wheat 14 Prox 11ct rally rai the crop corn or other promis ly bountiful in some tion, the their plans a ahead to supplying to each when time 1 arrives, required along the officers of ay accordingly Jowk gection, he the for movir Toya On Crog the equipment whic may be It the general crop out line of any railroad is good new equipment is frequently dered with a view to keeping the well handle this traffi = pared to aid prospects If the bad likely Cron orders : equipment kept down to a mi What trie coreal crops are of be fruit suf in shipn berries in wou any delay ent say, of wretion geason to varies 0 Ereatly another that day day reports SOABON8 In on manager of a probable ion fruits and are der necessary at some to keep the road informed requirements of refrigerator cars, in which early vegetables are trans ported from the southern States to the northern markets, or from the California fruit farms to the east In the actual gathering of these reports the railroads are put to only of the each sec for work. Mora, probably, is spent In transmitting these reports, which in many are sent by telegraph, than in actually compiling them James J. Hill, while president of the Great Northern, gave much atten. tion to the gathering of crop reports, and under his direction the agents nf the Great Northern were trained to keep watch of the course of the crops cases at frequent intervals In the stages of the crops the reports are made at infrequent intervals, but jat- er weekly, and in some cases even more frequent, reports are forward. ed by the agents along the line to divigion headquarters, and thence transmitted to the superior officers of the raliroads In former days these crop reports were regarded as even more momen tous than now, for in past years the fortunes of the socalled Graager ——————————————— A ——————_ ago. Traffic has become so diversi fied even on the roads which still are designated as granger roads that the outcome of the crops is of less vital importance to these lines than it was formerly. Crop reports are in dicative of much more {an vol ume of some particular crop, and thay the but indirectly, in furnishing as good a barometer as an) her of the probable course of in the agricultura The New York Time general JUBILOES From SHORT NOSED PEOPLE. May Be Baid Ip Favor. i« Their other jot takings “That Nag by some one 3 de Bergerac's, an ex therefore books and Shakespe: Duke of We that he xg Merry lington’ you suppose *.2 wan f # n 3 » would written th Wives been a ever of Windsor He might theatre man but would ver have become have ager, a literary Democrat, artist.” —8 Louis Globe Discarded War Stores in Potomac. id many rion thing» in the in the between gguare as water tight we nition evidenti civil during war, Captain Lawson the and sel was still had it We took whole jot out into the rn off, and every one ra lot of nage Washi English Auto Ethics. w OWS When pa churches On : ing cyclists or pedestrians When entering a m road When you see man on the road. When passing ete., on the road Stop: When an accident of any Kind hap pens, whether your fault or not. Ren der all assistance in your power, and ag a safeguard against feure pro- ceedings, ascertain the names of a few witnesses of the affair When vou see any likelihood of a horse making a fool of himself. If necessary, do this even before the driver of"the animal holds up a warn ing hand or even begins to swear at you. Always remember That other road users may do the wrong thing at the unexpected mo ment--that is, a nervous driver may pull the wrong rein, or a pedestrian hesitate and try reversal courses be fore finally choosing the worst ona dusty muddy roads when pass ain road from a an aged or drunken cars, sheep, dogs not the other The road i» It is business, danger. your be courteous mul considersts There ethics usught (0 be guacted
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