THE TOWN t a. a. By beautiful stream lie the Town o' Dream, On beautiful lummrr plain. With belli schime a golden time To the tune of a golden strain. The road lies straight through a golden gate - Men rail it the Tort o' Sleep Where far below dim water flow Through chambers cool and deep. D, fair and bright in the broad sunlight, Her streets and her greening bowers, And all day long a sleep)' song Murmurs of love and (lowers. And never a care can enter there, Nor trouble to cause nnnoy. There rest comes sweet to toiling feet And weary hearts lind joy. .Me-" ASSISTANT Chief of the Fire Department Thierry, of St. Louis, who went to his death j last wee is gnllautly perform ing his Jury, belongs to the class of noroes noted toi slightly In the col umns of the press. A soldier In brittle, as a rule, has something tangible be fore him to combat: niuety per cent, of a police officer's work is a mere ex hibition of constituted authority. A flrontan, from the Instant the gong sounds until his work Is ended, faces unseen terrors, battles with (in enemy whose power he can never openly measure. Blue Duck, of which some mention has beeu In made In these columns In the past, had a tire department a vol unteer force made up of every man. woman anil child in the settlement. It was a bucket brigade for tire en gines, chemicals, pompiers, trucks, and hose had not yet crossed the lied Hivcr. The work before this depart ment was not fighting fires within the town's limit, but tires from without. The prairie tire was the foe of every FANNED T.Y A RISING WIND, community in the grass laud. Lute every summer the farmers and cuttle rneu plowed great furrows around their possessions, that the fire might not leap them. Small patches of ground were burned oyer to check the greater blezes that might come. Wuter was stored ia barrels and tanks for emergencies. Torson, the mail carrier, came over the range one day Willi the comment that the grass was dry, rain lmprob nble aud a prairie Ure Imminent. ion lleinuu Kd., as chief of the Dine DueU Fire Department, Immediately inspect ed his water supply, und found, de spite the dryness of tiie period, that a goodly quantity was ou hand. lie also tested the pump of the one 11 ; teshio well of the town aud found it reudy for arduous duty. "Torson," said he, with a shrug of tila shoulders, 'Til cut the cards with you that Blue Duck gets no singeing this fall." " 'Maybe," nnsivered Torson, looking at the bluo sky, "maybe, but when the grass starts nothing stands. It's burn Jug down lu liny Creek and uorth of H uniar, all the bums are gone aud the cattle roiiMtlug. If it don't come here, good-hut it will." Torson was right and Gentleman Ed. wrong. The afternoon of tho day they talked a tenderfoot from (he East, one of those huppy, innocent fools given to cureless things, riding his horse across the Cub Creek bottoms, flipped a lighted mutch from his pipe to the grass behind liltu. Au Instant later he heard a roar, looked buck, saw eo Immense lliiiuo and fled for shelter, never conscious that his crim inal act brought devastation to thou sands of acres of lund, deuth to hun dreds of cattle and a night of horror for Innumerable meu und worjeu. He was one of thoso gentle fools that made Devon n slaughter-house for In nocent men; that Kent Nufoleon's rid ers to a sudden death; that have bits- , tered the pages of the world's history with wreck and ciiruuga, . ; 1 1 ' ft ft JJf 0 DREAM. Now would ye know the war to go, . To the beautiful Town o' Dream? Ye must seek the Ood o' the hand o' Nod, Kuler of things that seem. And drawing near with humble cheer Ye'll speak the Word of Kin, And if your mind is good and kind Veil i'reely enter in. 0, near and far his peoples are. And he rules them, every one. With a I'leasaner deen and a Kod of Sleep At setting of the sun. By a beautiful stream lies the Tstra ' Dream, Weary ore we and fnin; Come, let us try the portal high, And win our Town agmn! New ork Independent, The fire thus started raged H way through Cub Creek bottoms, and then, fanned by a rising wind, broke to the uplands, and when It came out into the open its flame was a hundred feet high and its width a uiin It spoke lu the language of great guns, ami be fore it lied frightened birds, mad dened cattle, the coyote and the snake. The cowboys came thundering down to Blue Duck, bringing such cattle us they could und giving the alarm. Women in the shacks gathered their children about them, tied to the barns, caught the first horse mid made for the town. If they looked back it was only to see the blast upon their homes, to feel the overcoming heat upon them. Everybody and everything centred for lihie Duck, while in the rear of the fugitives the flames swirled, leaped skyward and roared. Here was work for a fire department work such as rarely. If ever, come to men of the city departments. Here was generalship to be displayed by a chief of the highest order, for all the human life of the region was now In Blue Duck and upon the town the lire was coming. (Jeutleman Ed. was not wanting in courage nor ability to meet t'ne emergency. The prairie conflagra tion was yet seven or eight miles dis tant when he marshaled his men. Out of town came the gang-plows, horses and oxen hitched to them. They set to work widening the furrows al ready circling Hie place. l'.eyond these furrows back and cross tires were started. Between them and the turned ground mounted men rode horses, having attached to their sad- BROKE TO THE UPLANDS. dies long trailers of wet blankets. These they swashed back aud forth over the grass. Tho artesiuu well pump wus going ut Its full cupaclty and the women and children brought the precious fluid out to tho Are fight ers In buckets, tubs, wash boilers, or any other receptacle they could lay bauds ou, The air grew so hot the women be gan to gasp and the little people choked and cried because of parched lips. Men threw buckets of water over them and they were revived. Flaming musses detached themselves from tilts main body of the lire nud sailed luto the town, but the watchers were upon them before they could flare up on fresh fuel. The gray smoke camo and then the black smoke, but the pump still worked and the women tolled for the salvation of their husbands und sweet hearts out on the prairie line strug gling for their lives. Gentleman Kd. was everywhere. Halvorson and An derson wure close to his shoulders. Now they were pulling up u refractory or frightened horse; now drugging u man back Into safety whom the heat bad overcome; now directing new work, new energy against the foe. The skin peeled ou their faces, their hands swelled, their eye filled with blood, but not one of these three men faltered. Mrs. Torson struggled through the smoke with a bucket of water and caught Ed. .lust as bis horse fell with a broken leg. Themuii stopped Just long enough to duck his head Into the bucket aud then on foot plunged forward to where the heut was the fiercest. The wood on the plow blistered and tho Iron grew hot, but wider and wider grew the protecting belt. The buck anil cross fires did not start well. They needed a favoring rush of wind or stimulating fuel. Ed. and Halvor son boldly crossed the furrow lino with n barrel of kerosene und rolled It Into the flame. Anderson found a tar b.irrel aud did the same thing. Torson was watching the roofs of the shacks In the town, checking fire thote whenever It appeared. It was 4 . o'clock lu the afternoon and the great Ore was now within a mile of the town with do sign Of cessation. But there enme of nn Instant one of those seemingly miraculous acts of na ture that men wonder over long afCT danger Is past Right In the centre of the town square of Blue Duck a little breeze started tip. It eddied about the pump, H swirled and bil lowed, It grew In volume and then as a gule It swept cut of the town and Into the teeth of the other gale, and the two Joined strengths and battled there before the people's eyes. The wind from the town conquered and the prairie wind and Its flame turned back from Blue Duck, swept out to tho blnekened land and there died away. The danger was over. Many of the cattle wore dead, many homes were gone, but no human life had been sacrificed. The Blue Duck Fire Dopnrtmont had done Its work well, hud kept the faith reposed In It. Men with swollen faces, seared skins, fell Into each other's arms or tried to mnko a loud noise through their parched throats. The women brought all the good cheer they pos sessed and set It out lu the town square. The children, no lunger frightened, ran about trying to iden tify the men. Beards and hair were gone In many Instances, and counten ances so changed that recognition was almost impossible. "I'y gravy," said Halvorson to Gen tleman Ed., "you look like do Bad One." "Have yon looked nt yourself?" nskfd Kd II. I. Cleveland, in the Chicago Record-Herald. A Dramatic Incident. v It had been an experience meeting. Ten thousand people were assembled hi the great auditorium by the sea. There had beeu the hand-shake, tho wav'r.g of handkerchiefs, the hymns, the prayer, the word which told the spiritual history of many a soul. The bishop stood upon the platform in the act of pronouncing the benedic tion. Emotion was at its height; it seemed as if a spiritual wave had swept over the multitude, wrapping It In a divine caress. At that moment a little child waa passed up to the platform aud the bishop took it in his arms. "Lost child," were the whispered words. Tho baby put Its dimpled arms about the bishop's neck and laid Its head upon his shoulder, Its yellow curls mlnglinjj with his gray hair. "Lost child," said the bishop, lu his deep, sympathetic voice, "does any one In the audience know this baby,' or to whom it belongs? Will the father or mother come and claim It?" ; There was silence and the baby nes tled closer, and the women who sat near said, "Oh!" Then a man was seen making his way to the altar; It was tho baby's father. Instantly the child stretched out its arms to go to him. Then, as he gave it up, the bishop said: "There are ten thousand lout souls In Ocean Grove. The Father's arms are waiting to receive them. Ho, go, to your Father's outstretched arms us has this little child." Detroit Froo I'rcss. I'rlces For Shaving lXad Men. 1 "The union prices in Washington call for $5 for shaving deud meu," said a burlier of the city, "but it is not al. ways that this sum Is obtained. Tho burlier charges much according to the ability to pay. He seldom asks less than $J.50, and the amount runs ull the way up from that to $5. In the case of rich people the maximum sum allowed by the union Is churged. Un dertakers always charge ?5 if they shuve or have a man shaved. Often they will shave a deud man them selves, without calling lu a barber, aud put iu a bill for ?.". They mever charge less than that amount. Why Is so much charged? Oh, of course, it Is a good deal like the charges of doctors, druggists und undertakers, but in the case of a barber there is the additional . expense of a ruzor. Razors that are used ou dead men canuot be used on live men afterward. Frequently a new razor hus to be bought each time. That takes a lurge part of the fee. Thcu again the work Is objectionable, of course. With some corpses it is anything else than pleasant. I don't think $f is a large sum when everything Is considered. We would always churge it, too, If wo thought the people could pay.-' Washington Stur. " Mftssuges From the Ieoi." Tho "bottle message" nicked tin nt Osteud, und purporting to contain news of the missing steamer Basulo ! written by the captain whin the ship was wrcKced, turns out to have been a cruel hoax, us the owners, Messrs. Huckuull, suspected. Messrs. Buck null obtained possesion of tho scrap of paper which the bottle contulned und made carcfrd Inquiries as to Its genuineness, with tho result that It has been discovered that the message was concocted by two boys lu Worth ing und thrown luto the seu in a bot tle, This Is the second message of the kind received by the owners of the missing Basuto which ou Investi gation has turned out to bo a fraud, und It gives speclul point to their statement, corroborated by Lloyd's, that nine-tenths of these "messages from the deep" ure hoaxes. London Mull. Ireland Losing Mar Paople. According to the figures of the rests liar geaerul, Ireland Is still lotting in population, the decline for the Inst year being figured at 31,4115. This Is entirely accounted for by emigration, for there was uu excess of blrttis over deuths auiouutlning to 111,853, making 'he loss by emigration for the year 45.UNH. The registrar's ligures show that lust year there were Sl.HUO mar riages, 11)1.451) births and 87,000 deaths. There has been. In compari son with previous years, a slight de cline In both the blrtli and murrlage rates, while tin death rato shows an Increase, which Is, doubtless, partially accounted for by the fact thut the reductions of the population by emi gration are almost entirely drawn from the ages in which the death rate would be smallest. Uostuu Herald, ANCESTRY OF THE INDIAN RACIAL PROBLEM OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE PRACTICALLY SOLVED. The Origin of the American Indigenes Is Wow Agreed Upon by the Ethnologists .Rained Cities of Central America Unlit by Koreans. That the racial problem of the West ern Hemisphere has now been practi cally solved Is asserted by Charles Hallock, who contributes an article on the subject to the American Antiqua rian. This solution, he says, clears up not only "the origin of the Ameri can Indigenes (miscalled Indians), but approximately the antiquity of their progenitors whoso ruined nnd silent cities, like those of Asia Mluor. long since passed out of history, and whose massive pyramids, temples and pal aces vie with thoso of the Old World, and are lnferentlally not only coeval with them but closely related." Mr. Hallock believes that these ruined cities of Central America were built by Immigrants from Korea, and that liiey were subsequently wrecked by great disturbances of the earth's crust. Their Inhabitants scattered in every direction, nnd became the ancestors of all the present Indian tribes, who are, therefore, degenerate descendants of a people far advanced in civilization. Says Mr. Hallock: "It Is believed that the progenitors of the ancestors of the Mexicans were au Asiatic colony from Korea, which was at that time tributary to the Chi nese empire, a fact which accounts for coincidences of dates In the first half of the sixth centurj, nnd this opinion is confirmed by Chinese manuscripts ns well as by striking similarities of appeurance, language and customs, nud a proficiency iu the nrts and archi tecture. Their writing was in hiero glyphics exclusively, nnd this medium of communication is spread all over' tho continent. History shows that the Koreans migrated to escape tyranny, undertaking n sea voyage of nine weeks to the northeast. No matter who first peopled Central Amerlcii, the Koreans certainly were In communi cation with America ns far back as the second year of the dynasty of Tslu, Emperor of China, who declared war against Koren. Migrants were able to maintain the high civilization of their forbears ns long as their basic relation and environment remained unchanged,-n postulate which is abun dantly attested bj nreheologlcnl evi dence, as well as by the enduring tes timony of the petroglyphs. But finally came those stupendous terrestrial dis locations, upheavals, emergencies, droughts, denudations nnd associated dynamic phenomena, which punctu ated tho lapse of gcogologicul time and changed the contour of the continent. By the same great cataclysm which broke up the 'foundations of the great deep,' according to the Scripture, and Inundated so large a part of the globe and Its antediluvian fauna aud flora, the fructifying rivers of Central Amer ica were engulfed, and the acequias, aqueducts and Irrigating canals were destroyed or rendered useless. Some disjointed records of this overwhelm ing catastrophe are inscribed upon py ramids, temple walls, monoliths and porticos of those massive ruins which attest to their extinguished greatness, while oral traditions, next In historical value to the libraries which Cortez and his fanatical priests destroyed, have beeu transmitted down the cen turies, evcu to Southwestern Indians of the present day. Drought, famine, malignant diseases, persistent interuc clne wurs, und ultimutc depopulation supervened, and after persistent ef forts to maintain themselves on the homo sites, the discomfited survivors scattered, even to far-off Alaska, curt up the eastern slope of the continental ridge to the mouth of the Mackenzie River, leaving traces of their successive occupations all along the Pacific coast and the mid-continental route, not only In memorials of massive masonry and exquisite pottery, but lu linguistic simi larities, religious practices, mortuary rites, superstitions, social habits, oral traditions and physical resemblances of a marked character. For many centu ries lnrge communities tarried In Mex ico, New Mexico ftud Arizona, sections of which were populous up to the ar rlvnl of Corouado lu 1540, but unully urldlty of the Boll, caused In large part by forest dcnuudutlon, frequent tidal waves, the deflection of surface waters Into subterruneun rock Assures, the merciless rulds of the Spaniards, aud Internecine wars, scattered them over the lava beds aud alkaline wastes of sage brush and cactus, to eke out a precarious livelihood with their starve ling flocks. The remnants ultimately betook themselves to the cliffs and me sas, which they fortified, nud attempt ed to subsist on crops which they forced from scantily irrigated gardens ou the urhl pluius below. This for a distressful period, nud thcu uorthwurd again to more peaceful and fertile lo calities In Eastern Colorado, where melting snows from the uplifted con tinental divide afforded perennial mois ture. Here they mulntulned u ioug protruded status as agriculturists aud shepherds, establishing thrifty towns nun vllluges, of which a few remnln to this duy us 'pueblos.' Records of their vicissitudes nnd dire extremity ure pecked upon many a neighboring rock or the continued attacks und de fenses, and how the cliff dwellers were liually cut off by their enemies, uud how few escaped. "The advent of the Spaniards nnd their ruthless quest for gold broke Into the bucolic life of the I'ueblos. Many were exterminated, whr.e others, ha rassed uud Impoverished, abandoned agriculture in despair and took to the chuse for a livelihood. From thut to semi-savagery tho lapse was easy; a couumon wineu was aggravated by the religious superstitions which they retained, involving human sacrifice. self-torture, Immolation cf war pris oners, aud sundry barbarous ceremo nies which dnte back to earliest times, and obtain even now lu Isolated parts of North America. Tho sun dance of the plains Indians Is a relic of the sun worship of Chlchen ltza aud Peru, with Its attendant cruelties. All tho Indian tribes buruud their captives on occasion a survival of ancient rites. "Untold and uuculculntcd years It took for the Central American rnlra tlon to reach the western Vergo of th Great Dalns, which had emerged and grown to grass during thf Interval since It was the quarternary floor of the sea. For nearly four centuries their polyglot descendants, who were dubbed aborigines by European explor ers, have been an ethnological puzzle to the world, but time seems to have solved the problem. The hypothesl of the reversion Is easy v Their pro genitors, like all pioneers, unquestion ably took with them all necessary 'store clothes,' tools, seeds, mechanical appliances and domestic utensils, but after they were isolnted from the par ent stock and base of supplies, they learned to substitute makeshifts for whatever was worn outorlost. Dresses of sklus, furs and pleated grasses re placed their home garments, and Im plements of stone, horn, bone, shell and Ivory took the place of their original tools of lrou, bronze and copper. Some of the more Intelligent and energetic discovered mines of various ores, and worked them In a rude fashion for a while, like those nt Lake Superior, but the industry was Anally abnudoned because It was easier and cheapet to use what was handiest. Metal orna ments, pottery, baskets, footgear and woven fabrics were retailed the long est, because they were indispensable. The manufacture of these wns nn art thnt cotild not be lost. Reversion Is not necessarily a slow process. It de pends largely upon the environment. Intercourse brings Intellect. Isolation clogs It, and will nometlmes banish It." According to Mr. Hallock the Indians may be divided into two great classes, the forest tribes nud the hunting or horse tribes. Between these there speedily grew up enmity. The Chip pewns may be takeu ns it typical ex ample of the first class and the Sioux of the second, nnd the last great liattlo between these two wns fought as re cently ns 1857. Mr. Hallock believes that the great series of Western mounds had their origin In these In terminable wars between the sedentary woodsmen and the tierce plainsmen. Some are entrenchments, displaying "much military engineering skill," while others nre "great tumuli, where hosts of the slain are burled." Others si 111 were used for "sacrificial pur poses, for dykes, as sites for temples nnd dwellings, ns refuges from inun dntlons. as amphitheatres tor ball games nnd for ornamental purposes, ns Iu public parks and gardens of the present day. Many In the semblance of elephants, leopards, turtles, rats, snakes, deer nud the like were copied from the Aztec nnd Toltcc gardens, and from others extant In the Z1111I und Mohave country. They were re produced Just ns we copy patterns from the Old World." Mr. Hallock thus agrees with the best modern au thorities that there was 110 race of vanished "mound builders," out that tho mounds were t'ae work ef the im mediate ancestors of the Iudians of to-day. In conclusion, the writer as. serts again that "every new archeolog lcal discovery adds to the anology which go to make up testimony to es tablish the more than hypothetical or igin of our American aborigines, and the close relations between their an cestors of Central America and the peoples of Egypt and Asia." If it hi) true thnt a race far enough advanced in clvillzatlou to construct tho cities whose rulus nre the wonder of Central American travelers has de generated luto the wild Indian tribes of to-day, that fact Is certainly provo cative of thought. Wo are accus tomed to assume that our descendants must advance Iu civilization no matter what their environment may be. After all, we cau reassure ourselves by re membering .hat, according to this the ory, the "aboriginal" races of this con tinent were Asiatics. Perhaps Cauca sians would uot have deteriorated un der the same conditions. Literary Di gest. Antiquity of Iron. Iron, the most common of all the metals and the most essential, has been used Since the very earliest duys. Iu the Book of Deuteronomy It is spoken of as the essentlul and last fruit of the promised land. Mention of it by the Greek writers indicates that it came luto quite general use at a very early date. On Egyptian monuments, dating from the fourth dyuusty, representa tions of butchers sharpening their knives ou burs which were evidently steel have been seen. Tubal Cain is spokeu of ns "nn Instructor of every nrtlllcer in brass nud iron." Smelting was known In England at tho time of its occupation by tho Ro mans, and in various places coins of iron made by tho Romans have beeu found. Steel working wus also known In England prior to the time of the Nomina conquest, uud we ure told in histories thut officers of high runk had u smith whose business It wus to look after the masters' arms. The prluclpnl seats of the manufac ture of Iron were iu .Sussex uud the Forest of Dean, und It has been ascer tained thut wotk.i existed In thut part of Gloucestershire lu 1233. Wlnlei- Traveling in Siberia. The dlUlcultieu encountered in cross ing Lake Baikal lu winter ure shown by a published atutement thnt the Trnus-Slbetian express, which reaches Myssovaya, cue of tho termini of the lake passage, on Juuuaiy D. wus de tained at that place for six days. The pnsseurfers were finally compelled to cross tha frozen surface a distance of upward of thirty miles, lu open sleighs aud on horseback, with the thermo meter registering twenty-seven degrees below zero. The powerful Ice breuk ers, built in Eugluad, are useless against the dense mass of Ice, which, owing to high wludi, overlaps und pucks, muklug tho Eurfacu extremely rough aud almost linpusuable. It Is not expected tha the railroad uround tho lake will be compiled under two years. An Ai tittle dike. The Grand Duke of liesso Is nn art 1st. and his art la rather a peculiar one for n man. Ho does the most beautiful embroidery, aud is most skil ful lu his urraugement of colors. He Is also very foil I of music, dancing, uud acting, and though he both hunts nud shoots ho cams far less for active outdoor pursuits thuu thoso which are more or less artistic. LATEST MODELS FOR" SPRING HATS Tfew Tork City. Thne was, and not so very long ago, when It mattered not a bit what the back of a hat was like, so long as the front was be- coming. Now the back is almost the most important part of it. Perhaps It is in recognition of the truth of what George. Eliot says in one of her novels, SATISt STRAW CHIFFON, NEW 8HAPB OF YELLOW STRAW. "If you want a mnn to tuke an Interest In you turn your buck ou him." But whatever tho cause, the fact remains. You must consider the buck of your hut as well as the front, and give full consideration to Its sides. Generally speaking, hats will be low l.id flat. These effects will prevail In the early spring and for outings all through the summer, but the dressy affairs show a strong tendency to lift their brims high on one side, as In those brilliant days when Marie Antlouette sported as a dulrynmUl at La Petite Trianon, The brims to huts roll off the face or droop softly back und front, aud are made very soft and fluffy. Grace fully spraying flowers or luce over great, soft rolls of tullu ornament the under side of theso bat-brima us well as tho upper parts. Both hats and toques will bu worn tillgbtly off the face. Braids ure of all kinds that give l soft, smooth or lucy. uppeuiuncc. There are the Tuscan, horsehair, sutln, Ullun, and the uew fancy , straws (Vj-T. liter chrysanthemum, which resembles the scrawling, graceful flower, and the car nation pink and milkweed, which also are like the blossoms for which they are named. They are stained In all the pastel colors, so fashionable for gowns, for the hat must still match the gown with which It Is worn. Soft silks, ribbons, laces, flowers and fruit nre used In profusion as trim ming, while yards of chiffons and mnllnea nre tucked and pleated Into most beuutlfiil clouds. Many of the most stunning hats have streamers of velvet or Liberty sutln ribbon of varying lengths. On some of the large ones pompadour ribbon In huge bows forms the sole trimming. Except when used ns a foundation the heavier laces give way to the lighter for summer millinery. The nll-lnce or all-chlffon hats will.be n feature of the summer styles. Their outlines harmonize most beautifully with the lllmy fluffiness that is to be observed in all of Fash Ion's ercntlons for this year. Oddly enough there Is hardly nny thlng worth mentioning between these two extremes of "rough nud ready" and the graceful, delicate creations that seem more fitted for well kept gardens than our eemlng city streets. How ever, they nre In keeping with the fashions In nil other things. The trim, the trig, the tallor-mnde look has given way to flowing lines and floating, curl lug ends. It Is a rebound from the masculine tendencies to the truly fem inine. It seems ns though there never was anything one-half so beautiful ns the modes of the present day. Ostrich feathers will not be seen on any kind of a summer lint. With the exception of the wings Just mentioned, plumage will form uo part of the com ing season's millinery. Even these PEARL QUAY TUCKED CHIFFON. CBIFFOM HAT. wings will have but a short-lived reign, only until the beginning of the warm weuther. Then soft ribbons, flowers, foliage nnd lace will be seen exclusive ly. As the seusou advances brims will grow wider and more drooping, to pro tect ,tho wearer from the dazzling rays of the sun. The trimmings will be come simpler even though retaining the outlines already given of what will bo worn ou tho head during the next few months. In outing uud rough weur stitched felts und silks will rival straws, which will offer the peculiar combination of being stiff, yet soft; rough, and yet smooth. Such a bat irs this is possibly tho most satisfactory a woman can have. It Is suitable for every occa sion on which a shirt walMt can be worn. They nre peculiarly shirt waist hats. They stand every kind and con dition of weather and have a Jauntluess all their own, By all meuns have onn of these, whether you buve any other tucked away somewhere or not. These are trimmed with folds of soft silk, velvet, wings or ooque faatbers. Woman's Home Companion.
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