Look These Up. lu many educational journals nowa days wo see pronunciation tests, catch words, etc., \\ jich may be valuable for technical use, and yet not being needed every day in every-day talk are—like certain folks I know—chiefly interest ing on public occasions. I should like to put down here a list of words that are very generally mis-pronounced. Everybody knows how to pronounce them, perhaps, but being such com mon little things—mere street waifs with unwashed faces, nobody takes the trouble to "speak them fair." Now, to know what is our duty and fail to do It is n much more culpable thing than not to do it because we don't know wnat our duty is. So here they are, little, commonplace creatures which are mispronounced every day: Toward, again, bade, brooch, apri cot, often, catch, hearth, aye, lien, greasy, sew, scare, years, idea, area, bouquet, ague, bleat, rise (noun), arc tic, shone, route, gaunt, canine, juven ile. corporal, tete-a-tete, bicycle, were, recipe, frontier, depot, process, recess, romance, tirade, essay, tarpaulin, won. The above are in common use and of common abuse. Some of them, of course, come from our sister, France, and people are likely to say they are not expected to pronounce foreign words correctly.—Texas School Jour nal. Clnlins to lie Kins of Tramp*. "The King of Tramps," as he called himself, appeared at Spring Mill, Penn., the other day, and showed relics and autographs which he had collected from all parts of the world. He calls himself the king because he claims to Lave traveled farther than any other wanderer on earth, and also from the tact that he has never been in any one place over two days. This man's make-up consisted of a well-worn silk hat, a faded Melton i overcoat several sizes too big for him, | and checked trousers. The wanderei said they were given to him by a wealthy London banker about one yeai ago. His hair is black as coal, while his mustache and goatee are almost white, which combination gives him a rather cultured look. He claims j that he has done without money foi j one year, depending solely on people's | good nature for the necessaries of life. | —Philadelphia North American. TOM of Criminal!. A great doctor has studied the i fingers and toes of 4500 criminals, and ; finds a deficiency in the size or num- j her of toes quite frequent among them, although very rare among ordinary men. He has also observed that pre hensile toes, marked by a wide space between the great toe and the second toe, is a condition quite common among criminals. medical Book Free. "Know Thyself," a book for men ouly, sent Free, postpaid, sealed, to any mala reader mentioning this paper ; 6c. forpost «ge. The Science of Life, or Self-Preser vutlon, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the beat Medical Book of this or any age, 370 pp., with engraving* and prescriptions. Only 25c., paper covers. Library Edition, lull (flit, SI.OO. Address The Peabody Med ical Institute, No. 4 Bulflnch St., Boston, Mass., the oldest and best lu this country. Wr"e to-day for these books; keys to health. Sixty-two new silk factories were estab lished in the United States last year. Willi I Shall We Have For Desaert! i'liis question arises In the family dally. Let us auswerlt to-day. Try Jeli-O, a delicious ■and healthful dessert. Prepared in 2 min. No boillnKt no baking! Simply add a little hot waterorat ■I Ml lea el testimonials sad 10 day a* tteetaeul Vrsa. is. a. a. easu ••oas.sea a. Atiaata.se EXPANSION'S BENEFITS. SENATORVLODCE ON THE GROWTH OF OUR HAWAIIAN TRADE. Has Increased Threefold Within Five Years and Largely Since Annexation— Of More Value Than Our Business With 31 any European Nations. "One reason why I nm an expan sionist," said Senator Lodge in Wash ington the other day, while discussing the possibilities of our trade with our island possessions, "is because I have watched the growth of our commerce with the Hawaiian Islands. "Five years ago. In 1805, the total Hawaiian trade with the United States amounted to only $11,500,000. Last year it reached s33,soo,ooo,having increased almost tnree-fold within five years, r.nd most of this increase has occurred within the past eighteen months or so. "We may not think that a business of $33,500,000 amounts to very much when our foreign trade is now run ning up Into the billions, but compare our trade with the Hawaiian Islands, with their handful of people, with some of the larger countries of the world, and it gives a better idea of the value of colonies to the United States which ship their products to us and buy their food, provisions and clothing from this country. "Let us begin with Europe. "Our trade with the Hawaiian Isl ands Is over 150 per cent, larger than our total trade with Austria-Hungary. "It Is 75 per cent, larger than our trade with Denmark. "It is 00 per cent, as large as our total trade with Italy. "It is nearly four times as large as our trade with Portugal. "It is over 150 per cent, larger than our total trade with Russia. "It is almost double our trade with Spain. "It Is 125 per cent, greater than our trade with Sweden and Norway com bined. "It Is more than double our trade with Switzerland. "It is ten times as large as our trade with Turkey. "It is nearly thirty times larger than our trade with Greece. "These comparisons are with the thickly peopled countries of Europe. Now we will take the American con tinent. "Hawaiian trade with the United States Is equal to 30 per cent, of our trade with the whole Dominion of Canada. "It is nearly Iso per cent, greater than our trade with all the Central American States. "It is (50 per cent, as large as our trade with Mexico. "It is 50 per cent, larger than our trade with the British West Indies. "It is nearly five times as large as our trade with Porto lUco. "It la three times as large as our trade with the Danish. Dutch ami French West Indies, with Haytl and San Domingo included. "It is almost twice as large as our trade with Argentine. "It is almost half as large as our trade with Brazil, whence we import most of our coffee. "It is nearly 400 per cent, larger than our trade with Chile. "It is nearly 400 per cent, larger than our trade with the United States of Colombia. "It Is nearly fifteen times larger than our trade with Ecqusidor. "It is more than six times larger than our trade with British, Dutch and French Guiana. "It Is ten times larger than our trade with Peru. "It Is ten times larger than our trade with Uruguay. "It is more than live times larger than our trade with Venezuela. "Now let us make some comparison with countries across the Pacific, and we find that our trade with Hawaii is within six million dollars of being as large as our trade with the Em pire of China. "It is more than three times as large as our trade with Hong Kong. "It Is nearly half as large as our total trade with all the British, Dutch and French East Indies, which send us such large supplies of sugar. "It is equal to 05 per cent, of our total trade with Japan. "It is more than five times larger than our last year's trade witu Philippines. "It Is nearly twenty times larger than our trade with Agiatic Russia. "It was larger by four million dol lars than our trade with the whole of the Australian colonies last year, with their five millions of people. "It was larger last year by more than three million dollars than our trade with the emlre continent of Af rica. " "As I said, the Increase of our trade with Hawaii has been very marked since its annexation by the United States, and I look for equally rapid im provement In our trade with Porto Rico and the Philippines. These colo nies will absorb some of our surplus manufactures, and they will also draw uppn this country for their provisions, thus increasing the demand' for the products of the American farms." Farm Values. It was under the last Democratic ad ministration and the last free trade tariff that the farmer could exchange his pound of wool for a pound and a half of sugar. B."t under the McKin ley administration his wool was worth more, while sugar was cheaper, and the pound of wool brings four pounds of sugar. A Matter of Intereata. | The foreign shipping Interests are represented at Washington by an ac tive lobby. The American shipping Interests should be represented by the American legislators. RAILROADS PROSPERING THIS IS AN UNFAILING INDEX TO HEALTHY BUSINESS CONDITIONS. Senator C. D. Clark, of Wyoming, Sliow. the State of Our Hallways Now and What It Wan Under Democratic Rule —More Work and Better Wages. Washington.—"There is no better in dex of business prosperity or depres sion in the United States than the con dition of the railroads," said Hon. Clarence D. Clark, United States Sen ator from Wyoming, who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Railroads. "When railroads are carrying lots of passengers we know that the people have money to spend In traveling, or that business 'compels them to travel. As the movement of freight grows the volume of business transacted is on the increase. The larger the earnings of the railroads the more satisfactory are not only their own balance sheets, but also those of the merchants and manufacturers who are shipping and receiving the goods. "Between the years ISO 3 and ISOS there was a loss of $350 per mile in the passenger earnings of the rail roads of the United States. In 1805 the freight earnings of all the roads were $776 per mile less than in 1893. Adding this to the loss of passenger earnings gives a total loss of $1126 per mile iu 1805, as compared with the freight and passenger earnings for all the roads in 1803. Apply this to the 180,000 miles of road in operation in that year, and we have a total loss of $202,680,000, and for all the roads. "Now, look at the other side of the picture. In ISOB both passenger and freight earnings had begun to pick up again, the passenger earnings in that year being $49 per mile more than in 1895, and the freight earnings being $643 more per mile than in 1895. Last year the showing was even better, the gain In passenger earnings being slßl per mile over 1895, aud in freight earn ings SSOI per mile over 1895. This gives us a gain of $982 per mile in 1899 over the earnings of the roads in 1805, or a total of $176,760,000 more earnings from these two sources last year than in 1805. "Now, summarize these figures, and we have In 1803 total gross earnings of S7OOO per mile. In 1805 the total gross earnings were only $6050 per mile, a loss of SIO4O per mile within two years. In 1808 the total gross earnings were $(3775 per mile, an In crease of $705 over 1805. but last year the total earnings were $7067 per mile, an increase of SIOO7 over 1805. "Naturally enough when the rail roads were carrying fewer passengers and less freight in ISOS and their earn ings were fulling away, they began to economize, and more than 100,000 men were discharged during the second ad ministration of President Cleveland. In 1898. during President McKlnley's administration. 89.524 men had been re-employed, making a total of 956 more men employed in 1808 than there were in 1893. Last year the railroads increased their additional help to up ward of 100,000 men. and the total ad ditional amount of wages circulated throughout the country, from this one source alone, exceeded $100,000,000. "But this is not all. Business pros perity is continuing in the country, and bids fair to continue. Arrange ments have been made for the con struction of about 50,000 miles of new road during the coming year. The av erage number of employes is 474 to every 100 miles of road, so that this new construction means employment for 270.660 more railroad men. and this means the further circulation of $280,000,000 more in wages. Unless business seemed to be on a sound ba sis. aud the railroad managers felt that it would continue so, you can be quite sure that such large additional expen ditures of money for wages would be instantly stopped. "A few more facts and I have done. The dividends paid by the railroads of the United States decreased under President Cleveland's second adminis tration by $12,610,041. In the three following years there was an Increase In dividends paid of $13,251,752. thus bringing the earning capacity of the roads in 1898 back to a condition a little better than It was In 1802. The net earnings of the roads decreased by almost $30,000,000 in President Cleveland's time, but have since in creased by almost $66,500,000. "During Mr. Cleveland's second term railroad building was almost at a standstill, there being only 3549 miles built. But in 1898 and 1899 there were 6719 miles built, and there will be about 59,000 miles built this year. In the total freight tonnage carried by the railroads there has been an In crease of a little more than 23 per cent, under the present Republican adminis tration. The total passenger earnings were $293,557,476 in 1802. in ISOS they amounted to only $260,949,741, show ing a loss of $32,627,735. In 1808 the earnings were $272,508,581, showing a gain over 1805 of $11,659,850 in pas senger earnings alone." Agulnaldo's Representative. The voters of South Dakota will not have togo to the Philippines to de liver a blow to Aguinaldo. They will have this opportunity when they choose a legislature to elect the suc cessor to Mr. Pettigrew. The Missing Link. Mr. Bryan now has two-thirds of his nomination. The missing link will lie supplied by the Kansas City con vention. \ Scarce as Bnftaloac. Another year of prosperity will make the advocates of free silver as scarce as buffaloes In Kansas. The Tammany Tract. Perhi.ps the Tannnany Ice Trust is what Mr. Croker would term "private business." TRANS-PACIFIO TREAD Will Exceed On* Hundred Million Dol lar! This Fiscal Year. Exports to Asia and Oceanlca, in the fiscal year which ends June 30, will for the first time In our history exceed $100,000,000. In no part of the world has our export trade grown with such amazing rapidity, with the single ex ception of Africa. In 1803 our total exports to all Asia and Oceanlca amounted to only $27,421,831, so that hi the fiscal year now about to end they will l>e about four times as great as those of eight years earlier. The growth in exports to Asia and Oceanlca is chiefly In cotton, bread stuffs, provisions and manufactures. Exports of agricultural machinery to British Australasia in the nine months ending with March, 1900, were $600,- 323, against $340,550 in the correspond ing months of IS9S. Exports of flour to China in the nine months ending with March, 1000, was 4(5,001 barrels, against 14,016 barrels in the same mouths of 1808: to Japan, 417,430 bar rels, against 107,401 barrels in 1S08; and to Hong Kong, 1,000,248 barrels, against 047,088 barrels in the same months of 1808. Carriages and cars to Australia amounted to $412,254, against $251,802 in the corresponding months of 1S0S; cotton cloth to China in the same period, 150,830,255 yards, against 77,900,670 yards in 1898. Raw cotton exported to Japan amounted in the nine months ending with March, 1900, to $11,517,968, as against $5,843,071 in the same mouths of 1808. Builders' hardware exported to Asia and Ocean lca in the nine months ending with March, 1900, amounted to $1,254,000, an increase of 50 per cent, over the same months of 1808; while boots and shoes sent to Asia and Oceanlca in the nine months ending with March. 1000, reached nearly one million dollars, against a quarter of a million iu the same months of 180S. The lloer Knvoys. Secretary Ilay quickly made it clear to Boer envoys that the adminis tration could do no more than it al ready has done to bring about peace in South Africa. The United States Government acted promptly when an opportunity offered, through the ap peal made to the representatives of the various nations at Pretoria, and was the only nation which did act. As its offer of mediation was then courteously declined by England, no further opportunity is now afforded. Democrats For McKlnley. Judge Allen B. Morse and Hon. It. A. Montgomery, two of Michigan's most prominent Democrats, have an nounced their intention of support ing the Republican ticket this year. They stuck to the party, hoping it would purge itself of Populism, but now realize that the present Democrat ic managers are bent oil going to the extremes. The exits of the Dem ocratic party are going to be busy places this year. Railway Earnings Larger. During the lirst four months of this year railway earnings for the whole country were 15.8 per cent, larger than iu the corresponding months of 1899. In the same months of 1898 the increase of 15 per cent, over the earn ings In ISO". In 1809 the increase was 4.5 per cent, over 1808. Business has kept on steadily improving ever since President McKiniey was inaugurated. Democratic Frauds. Democratic papers are making a great outcry about the Cuban postal frauds. But they forgot to point out that the record of defalcations of Gov ernment funds shows stealings of $.".17 iu every SIOOO under Democratic ad ministrations, as compared with only 40 cents in every SIOOO under Repub lican administrations. Southern Hxpoit*. The export trade of the South for tiie past twelve months amounted to over $400,000,000, more than one-third of that of the entire country. Those are figures which speak more eloquent ly than the narrow Southern politi cians who contribute so liberally to the Congressional Record. A Great Opportunity. The Hon. David B. Hill has forgiven the Democrats for throwing him out of the Chicago convention and will give them an opportunity to repeat the performance at Kansas City. David has a forgiving disposition A Democratic Chance. A Wisconsin judge has granted an injunction to prevent a man marrying a widow witli four children. Ferhaps some such heroic treatment may be adopted by the gentlemen who have been trying to rescue the Democratic party from the embraces of Populism. Sending Eggs Abroad. Supplying our colonies with eggs is one of the benefits to farmers of the expansion policy. Last year we ex ported 3,700,000 dozen eggs, as com pared with only 151,000 dozen iu 1805. Lay on, Oh, hen I A Gloomy Corner. When the Kansas City platform builders get together they will find that the Sioux Falls aud Cincinnati conventions have about cornered the gloom output. It Paid Better. Mr. Croker could not put Judge Van Wyck into the New York guber natorial chair, but lie let him in on the ground floor of the Tammany lea Trust. They Like Disaster. A Treasury surplus always furnishes a Democratic convention vlew-with alarm material. Democracy never fails to shy at solvency. Where It Belong*. The Sioux Falls platform should be referred to the committee on imagi nary wrongs. THB E©l©T& Of= FASHION- New York City (Special).—Simplic ity should mark the frock for the small girl. This is especially so in summer, when these little dresses pass COLLARS FOR THE SMALL GIRL. about as mucn Mini iu soap and wa ter as they do in actual wear. Outside the fitness of things that is the reascn white is so pre-eminently the proper thing—the more it is boiled the whiter it gets. How would it bo V\*ith pink or blue? A wide hem should be the skirt fin sli, but something more "fixy" may 'je more becoming round Miss Little girl's neck; hence this suggestion. As pictured thes-> fancy collars are made >f tucked linen or null and lace or jnibroidery with insertion. And very attractive they are. ELABORATELINEN. Dainty Summer Costumes. In the large engraving is shown a dress of ecru linen, trimmed with cream embroidery. The skirt has broad pleats back and front aud three rows of embroidery caught together at intervals by openwork embroidery ornaments. The hem is festooned with ecru silk. Blouse bodice under a bolero of the embroidery, gathered sleeves with embroidered cuffs. Waist belt of bright, cherry-colored silk, and knot of the same silk in the straw hat, which is also trluimed with marguer ites. Here also Is shown the waist part of a dair'y gown in cream muslin. It has a yoke collar of guipure Joined across the neck and fronts by tabs of black velvet aud with a fichu ef fect draping the front. The hat Is of poke bonuet suggestion, with simple satin ribbon for Its adornment That hat is of the burnt straw tone, and the ribbon is a very pale blue. Millinery of the Moment. Tulle and chiffon form the two chief components of the millinery of the moment, and just imagine what the goffering aud tucking of tulle mean! Recollect the hopeless way in which it sticks to one's fingers and the bedrag gled appearance both tulle and chiffon have when not absolutely fresh. Al together the best millinery this year displays the highest workmanship in is manipulation, and the most beau tiful hats, which look as if they are blown together, are the results of four or five days' labor. Even simple cy cling hats have stitclie 1 taffeta rosettes and bows, all of which necessitate a great deal of work. The picture hat is lovely and whole crowns are formed of ostrich plumes. A Favorite Material. Embroidered holland is a favorite this year amoug the summer fabrics, and pique treated with Incrustations of coarse lace Is as effective as It is striking. Pique and duck costumes are again worn. Some piques shown are quite light in weight, having an openwork dot. really an eyelet hole that is worked around with hand or machine embroidery. The fashiou that lias heretofore been popular of wearing silk waists with pique skirts still prevails, but now the white waists are the correct thing, and the thin materials, like the embroidered mus lin, wash silk or those made of lace and ribbon, are preferred, and over them will be worn bolero or Eton jackets of pique. The Eaiieit Way. The easiest ay to modernize a sleeve of either wash frock or spring costume, is add tne flare cuff cf tucks or embroidery and to introduce the triangular bit of decoration so much affected in the upper part of the sleeve just below the shoulder. This makes it up to date, and for the com fort of womankind, it may be added that the sleeve is not very tight. So thst it looks close fitting is all that is necessary. It need not cling close ly to the arm. Loose L'.eeves add to one's comfort in warm weather, which makes a tight sleeve feel like a vise or a bandage, or both. For Golfing or Cycling. A band of white epe de chine is folded about the crown of a white silk golf hat for ladies. The brim is broad and shn.dy, the deep crown is indented sharply in the middle. Matron and maid,misses and children alike wear outing hats of stitched straw. The coarse braids are pre ferred to the smooth. The hat i bound with a strip of red or green flannel and is trimmed with a band passed around the crown and a bow to match the flannel with polka dots of white or black. Itlue Str»w With Jet. Black silk roses trim - pretty pale blue straw hat, which has the brim turned up at one side. A little fol iage of grei - ' is introduced into the spray of black roses. The crown is smartly draped with pale blue chiffon, which finishes at the back with a bow that is drawn through a buckle of sparkling jet. The chiffon 'drapery is caught down to the hat here and there with very small and q '.ite inconspic uous pins with jet heads. Protect* the Throat. A piece of inch-wide white satin ribbon sewed inside the neck-b-nd of a bodice protects the throat from the defacing mark that Is a common result from the wear of the prevailing high dress collars. It is not intended that the ribbon shall show from the out side. A Summer Tea Gown. This is a simple tea gown for warm weather wear, composed of lavender crepe de chine and trimmed with rich full ruffles of tea-tinted lace. A broad ivory satin ribbon belts its loose folds and falls la long cads ID front.