In Iceland men end women are Im very respect politic! equal. The nation, which number about 7000 people, i 'governed by representative elected by men and women together. Onr domestic trade in vessel on lakes, river and coast watcrs.Henalor Frye pointed out In a recent speech, is greater than that of any other three nation in the world put together. "More ships sail the Detroit river than enter Liverpool or London," and the truffle of the Snnlt Kte. Mnriecannl la about twice thut of the Hue;!. The steady increase iu the world' production and consumption of cop per is one of the most important re sults of the growth of the electrical industry. It is ft gratifying fact iu this connection, that the United States not ouly holds its own against the world iu the production nud use ol new electrical appliances, but is the only country in the world which show any marked increase in tho produc tion of copper. Wireless telegraphy is not so cw as most persons suppose. The banks of the Susquehanna, more thau half a century ago, aaw experiments iu it by Morse and Gale; and some islands have maintained communication with the inniu shore of England iu this way for seven or eight years. But this method was by an induced current. If a current of electricity, is seut through one wiro, it will induce a cur rent in an opposite direction iu an other wire parallel to it. This needs long stretches of parallel wire, how ever, and will not work if the wires are far apart. It is pitiful to contemplate the com placency with which unthinking or ig norant parents, rich as well as poor, consent to cater criminally to the in fantile demand for candy. The effect is less disastrous, perhaps, among the well-to-do, for the reason that the stufl consumed is manufactured from supe rior materials. But certain it is that with American children of every class the confectioner is patronized more' generously thau is the butcher or the baker. To this fact is due most of the destruction of teeth in youth, as well as many of the troubles having their rise in the stomach. Care of the teeth and month is essential, of course, and will go far to minimize tho evil results complained of. But no mount of core will "avoid the evil," so loug as parents continue to destroy their infants by feeding them upon candy, and consent to inordinate con sumption by their children of larger growth. It is the prevalence of the "sweet tooth" that threatens to make of us a toothless people. No country has made a showing of commercial activity and growth dur ing the past ten years that is compar able to that of the United States. Our excess of exports over imports in the last three years has amouated to 81,300,000,000, and for last year alone was over 8000,000,000. It will proba by be even greater this year, for we re not ouly holding what we have gained in foreign trade, but are pros ing steadily forward. The reports of the bureau of statistics show that in the ten year from 1888 to 1808 our export trade increased in an unprece ited degree either for the United SUtesofltny-other country. During that period our annual sales inAfrioa rose from $3,000,000 to $17,000, 000,in Japan from $4,000,000 to $21,000,000, in Belgium from $10,000,030 to $47, 000,000, in Denmark from $3,000,000 to $12,000,000, in Holland from $10, 000,000 to $65,000,000, in France from $40,000,000 to $100,000,000. in Ger many from $53,000,000 to $150,000, 000, in the United Kiugdom from $362,000,000 to $540,000,000. The extension of American com' merce into all climes has beeu cae of the most gratifying signs of national prosperity during the past few years, ,aya the Washington Star. Consular gents have taken more intelligent Ht.f..i In l,to t - rl M -M H finlr tlian Ui VD4 QO. M .MV IMP. beretofore. A system of reports from nil-posted agents throughout the XiDS wor'd has euabled producer to'tkpw what to export and where to end it The United State can virtu ally anpply the world with everything it needs. The recently developed line of trade which have cut out cer tain English competitor from profit Lie connection are signs of the awak eniug of thi country to it possibili ties iu thi great field. We cau only bold onr own in the fierce competition which now confront n in every mart by maintaining the quality of onr good and by regulating the pricos by the strict rule of cost and demand. 'Made in the Unitetl States" ought to be sign of excellence and honeBt charge. A long a that doctrine pre , vails the balance of trade ought easily to be held on thi aide. ONLY Vb world In queer In Its awful wayi 'Twasrio Blnon the World begant For tana may fight for wrong or the right And still h Is only man. A man mar struggle to reach the top, And b to bis work a slavei But, though tho best, be follows the rest To death and a six-toot grave. A man may sink to the lowest depths And drink o( the dregs ol lirni Ihmiah ntHpadlnlB wbn death atepeln He leaves the world and strife. AAA A A AAA A. A A TIIC TDAflCnV flC nib iiirtubui ur A BRAVE MAN WHO WAS A DERELICT OF THE FRONTIER. None of us out iu Moulnua ever knew where he came from or anything of his past; he just drifted in among us as a log is left by tun receding cur- ent on a sandy bar. There be was, and no questions were asked, for in those days it wasn't considered good form to be inquisitive. Home men dn't care to have their antecedents particularly inquired into, nud one who persisted in looking up the record of people he mot sooner or later found himself looking into something differ ent the muzzle of a six-shooter. He hnd evidently come from some mining country out onto the plains, for we noticed that one of bis pack homes carried a pick, shovel and goldpnn and other implements of the prospector. But he wasn't broke like the majority of those wanderers of the earth, for ho carried a little sack of gold coin, and after sitting around few days, listen ing to tho boys and gettiug the lay of the land, be purchased a wagon and trading outfit of the corupauy and be came an Indian trader on a small scale. On the company' books his flame appeared as Obrien Osborne. Perhaps it was his right name, and , perhaps it wasn't. The boy called him Briny. He was a thin, round- shouldered man of medium height, black-hnired and black-bearded. He had very peculiar eyes; they were deep set, behind great bushy evebrows and had an appealing, supplicating expression in their gray depths like that seen in certain timid animals nt bay. 1'lie Indians, quick to note any little peculiarity of a man, named him Ko-pop-in-e (Afraid Eyes). hen Jtrinv came into the fort with a load of furs he would at once buy a new outfit of trade goods and then spend his surplus capital aiming the boys. The last dollar expende I, he would hitch up bis team and drive out over the great plains to t'i j Indian camp, wherever it might I' located at the time, to trado for a.: ..her loud of robes and furs. Briny was always so quiet and ap parently of so timid a nature that the boys used to make fun of him and speak to him ia that half-contemptuous, half-patronizing way in which rough men will address one whom they consider their inferior mentally and physically. But if ever these men made mistake they made it wheu they sized Briny up the way they did. When they found out their error, however, they acknowl edged their fault and from that time ou treated him like the man he was up to the hour of his untimely death. One winter Briny made a successful trade jvith the Picgan Indiana, who were hnuting and camping along the Missouri river iu the vicinity of Cow inland. The ice beiug very thick and strong, he concluded to drive tip the river with his load of lurs to the fort, instead of traveling over the cold, bar ren prairie where neither wood uor shelter was to be found. In those times meu not inaptly called wood- hawks were strung along the river at oonveuient points generally the foot of loug rapid and made a livelihood by selling fuel to the steamers which plied up and down the stream during the high water of spring and early summer. lue woodbawks were a tough set ojjueu and their occupation hazardous iu the extreme, for they were constantly exposed to the at tacks of war parties from the surround' iug tribes, especially the Sioux, Aasini boins, Cheyennes and Crees. Wood cost $20 a cord and more, and where money ia to be made men are always to be found to make it, regardless of the risks involved. It was a very common occurrence for a steamer to land at a woodyard and find the owu era scalped and dead by the smoulder iug ruins of their cabin. Traveling long ou the ice, then, Briny reached the yard of a couple of acquaintances one afternoon and camped with them for the night. The woodhawka were glad to see him, for not a living soul had they met since the preceding summer. Moreover, Briny had been at the fort two months before and could give them many a bit of newa, It was late whon they retired, after eatiug a second supper of buffalo ribs roasted in front of the wide, fireplace, The woodhawka arose at au early hour the next morning, Briny re mainiug in hi bed until breakfast should be ready. One of the men went to the river for pail of water while the other began to chop some splinter from dry log aoine fifty yards from the cabin with which to start the morning fire. Iu the early light ot dawn, or perhaps some time during the nigut, a war party of six or seven Asainiboin had discovered the lonely little cabin aud laid plaus to kill U occupants without auy risk to themselves. Choosing places in the dense brush within abort ranee, they lay concealed and patiently wait ing lor the men to appear, livery thing happened a they wished. When one of the men reached the river and the other the log, they opened flre.and poor Joe Mines fell dead on the ice. Briny wa aroused by tbe sbootiug MAN.' A man may have at til beck and nail Oreat stores of wealth and ot gnldi Out strive as he may, no hand con stay The death, and hl story Is told. A man may fight the wolf from the door And breathe of poverty's breath; Yt long may wnlt for the hand of fate, The sweep of the scythe of death. The world Is ipimr in Its awful way, 'Twas so slni'r) the world begun: For man may llght.fnr wrong or the rlitht, And still he lit only man. Htorrs Nelson, In ftenvor Sews. A A. .A. .A. A A A A A A A j ACDfllfl evee HI llnlU l.ll.J. and rushed out of the door, Winchester in hand, just in time to see three As siniboins rushing toward the other woodhawk, Arnold, whose leg hnd been broken by the volley. In n second or two more they would have been upon the unfortunate man, but before they realized what was up Briny dropped two of them, and the third ran oil" into the brush east of the cabin, lliiuv then rnu down the path toward the river and saw the other Indians gathered about poor Hines, whom they were proceeding to scalp and dismem ber. Two of them fell nt his first shot, and the rest ran across the ice toward the other shore, but only one of them reached it, for nt the fourth shot Briny managed to bit the othor, and he tumbled over with a wailing yell. Not knowing how many more Indiana might be concealed in the brnsh or in the vicinity. Briny went quickly back to where Arnold was ly ing and packed him into the cabin. He knew Hiues was dead aud that there was no use in risking a shot from the Iudinns by going after his body theu. Closing the door and fas tening it securely, he got Arnold into a bunk, stanched the flow of blood from bis wound and temporarily ban daged the broken limb. He next pro ceeded to knock the mud chinking out on the three aides of the cabin where there was no door or window and from the small openings there made watched carefully for auy signs of the enemy. Hours past, and no one was to be seen, not n sound was to be beard. Arnold, in great pain and grieving over the death of his larttier, Spoke not a word and merely shook his head when Briny asked him every few minutes if he could do anything for him. It was about noon when they heard iu the direction of the river a faint wailing, qnaveiiug chant which grad ually increased in volume and then died away. "What's that, do you s'pono?" Briny asked. It's one o' them toilers you shot out on the ice singiu' bis death song," epliod Arnold, who was bettor versed n Indian wavs. "Theu his pardners must a' lit out and left him," said Briny. "Anyhow, 1 can t Maud this any longer. I ve got to go out aud see if the rest really are gone." "Ves, go," Arnold urged, "and put a ball through that critter so'the won't jo.vl any more. But first give me my gun, so I can fool a little safe while you re gone. Briny Blid out of the door aud made a short dotonr to where ho could plain ly see the nrst two Indians hs dropped. Both were lying ou their backs, arms outstretched, having died without struggle. He went down tbe path to the river. The two he shot at the water hole were lying just where they fell, one of them pnrtly resting ou Hines' body. The one wouudod when part way across the rivor had niauaged to drag hiniself,guu and all, to the other shore, but hadn t sufficient strength to climb the steep bank iuto the brush. There be was on his hands and knees, hia body swaying aud head drooping, again chauting that weird death nong.but in uniting, weaker tones. At the crack of Briuy'a rifle he pitched forward with a lurch, and all was ovor. Having made n tour of the big tim bered bottom and fqund the trails ot the two survivors who had left it at different points and at good speed. judgiug by the loug distance between their footprints, ltriny returned to the house and reported to Arnold, who had become very uneasy after bearing the shot tired, lue horses were safe, ho found, and that was something to be thankful for. "Briny," said Arnold, after they had made a pretence ot eatiug some dinner, "we've got to light out o' here. In a few days the whole As ainiboin camp will be here for re venge." "I know it. I'll dig a nice, deep grave aomewhar this afternoon aud bury Ji.n as good aa I kin, and to mori er we'll atrike for the fort." A few days later they drove iuto the little trading post, Arnold having had o aoft aud easy bed ou top of the load of fnra. Briny hadn't much to say, bnt Arnold lost no time in telling all that had happened, and then the boys learned their mistake and couldn't do enough for the man they had before treated rndely. Tbe butTuloes, hemmed in ou all ides, were practically exterminated in 1883-4, aud with them went the days ot prosperity for must of the white in habitants of the country aud for all the Indians, who were brought sud denly face to face with starvation and waul. Merchants failed, and most of the small traders aud the hunters left the country. Steamers uo louger brought goods up the i)000 miles qf swfft river from St. Louis to return loaded to the guards with bales ot fur aud roue. Bail ways were enter ing the country, aud civilization waa close at baud. The fw white who remained in the country turned their attention to stock raiaing or farming, nd lucky were those who stayed with the few head of cattle they managed to ?;et together. In few" years they onnd themselves rich beyond their wildest dream. . Briny located ranch ou the Marias river and put into practice some cher ished theorlet he had about raising cropa on the benchlands without irri gation. Like many another old-timer lie had married an Indian woman, and with their child of six or seven year they lived frugally and for time in peace. Two or three miles up the river another former tinder bad lo cated, who was also married to an Indian woman, and Briny's wifo often went np there to stay a day or two with her friend, who was of the same tribe as herself. Late in the full a) big bull outfit, or freight train of wagons drawn by oxen, came to the river to winter, and the owner of it, man limited Tridtet, made arrange ments with Briuy'a neighbor to board himself end bis men. Tricket wns n fine looking man nud evidently well off, and seeing Briny's wife nt the ranch often, be flnnliy persuaded her to quit her husband. When Briny heard that bis wife had deserted him, which he did iu tbe course of a few days, he qu etly saddled hia horse and went up to where she waa stopping. His little son was playing out iu the yard with some other children, and calling the child to him he lifted him up on to the saddle and returned to his home. While the boy's mother didn't care for her husband she did for her- son and fretted continually about him. One day she told Tricket that if he did not go nud bring the child back to her she would leave him. Tricket de murred; he hnd uo use for the boy and didn't want him around, so he kept putting the woman off with all kinds of excuses. Finally Tricket' herder, a wild young fellow who hud come west with his head filled with dime novel yarns, told the woman he would get the boy for her aud saddling bis horse rode away down the river. Ar riving in front of Briny's cabin he shouted to him to come out.and when Briuy came to the door he levelled his rifle at him and said: "Now, then, you old potato eater, I've come after that kid; his mother wants him. Give him ont here quick or I'll fill you full of holes." Briny looked him quietly in the.eye and replied: "The boy is mine. -I will not " But he never finishe) his sentonce; the herder shot him squarely in the forabead, and down he went iu a beat). The murderer got oil his horse and stepping over Briny's body into the cabiu grasped the ter rified child, threw him np into the addle and returned home. By the time newa of the murder reached the settlers the murderer had become alarmed end ha 1 disappeared without leaving a trace of his course. The little baud of determine I men who hunted for him were finally ob lige 1 to give up the search aud return to their homes. A mouth later they heard some news which caused them to re'oice thnt they had not fouud nud hanged him. The mail carrier from Fort Muclood, away across the border in Canada, brought word that on his way north on the previoun trip be found the fellow wandering about ou the prairie ba lly frozen. He carried him in his wagon to the fort, nud there the eurgeon was obliged to cut oil' both bunds and both feet. Thus his punish ment waa vastly greater than if be hnd been hanged or shot. No warrant was ever asked for his extradition; the frieuda of Briny wished him to live nd suitor. The following spring Ui lny s son died, and late in the snmmor the woman followe 1 hiin. The writer was at the ranch of a friend where she was stopping the night she died. She had beeu sinking rapidly all tbe eve ling. and about 11 o'clock, attar repeated supplications to the got. s of hnr people to spare her, she euid to tho rouoh man: - ... 'Tray to Vonr white mn i'i God for me. Ask Him te let me live. "Womnu," said he, "I cannot pray for you. I cannot forgot that you were the cause of Briny a death. ' A few moments later she died. Ndw York Bun. Hlnmfiaa Football. The Siamese youth have only one game worth considering, aud that one is iudigenous or native to Burniah the question of parentage being a much-mooted one. At all evonts.the game requires a certain amount of activity, aud ia very intertating to the on-Iooker. It is a kind of football in fact, I have heard it called Burmese football played with a ball about four inchei iu diameter, made of braidod rotnn, verv hollow, very strong and resilient. The uumbor of cou testanta ia not arbitrarily fixed, but piny ia sharpest wheu there are enough to form a circle about ten feet in diameter. The larger tlie circle after it has passed the desirable diameter the slower the play. The game ia to keep the ball tossing into the air without breakiug the circle. A man fails at his opportunity he drops out, and when their remain but four or six tbe work is sharp aud very pretty. The bull la struck most gen erally with the kuee, but also with the foot, from in front, behind, and at the aide. Some become remarkably clever, I have seen a player permit the ball to drop directly behiud his back, aud yet, without turning, return it clear over bis head and straight into the midd a of the circle by a well-placed backward kick of his heel. Harper's Weakly. Wlinn II linn liibera. "We hardly ever soe any congress gaiters now," said the elderly boarder. "That' a fact," aaid the Cheer ful Idiot, "thi'tigh I can remember when they might have been seen on very baud." Indianapolis Journal. ' ) THE REALM Nrw York flcrr fSnsnUhNlnVi.1 Rray taffeta, showing corded stripe of wedgewood blue, is here delightfully combined with blue satin in that pop ular shade. The waist and sleeves re made on the bias. The backs fit smoothly and may be made with or without tbe centre seam. The fronts are arranged over fitted lining that close in centre. Their front edges re deeply underfaced with the plain satin and rolled back to form pretty pointed lapels, the back edges extend ing over the under-arm gores of tbe lining. Single aide pleats are laid at the shoulder seam, which give grace ful fulness over the bttet. A double box-pleat ia formed in centre of the plastron vest, which is sewed to the right front lining, and closes over on the left. A standing collar ot the plain satin, to the top of whioh scalloped flare portion is joined, completes the neck, and the wrinkled stock of rib bon may be worn or not, as preferred. The two-seam sleeves have a becom ing fulness gathered at the top, the wrists being finished by scalloped flare cuff portions of the plain satin. Some handsome combinations can be developed by the mode, as the vest, collar and cuffs may be of lace, tack ing, corded taffeta or other contrast ing material. When made of pique or other cotton wash fabrics, the tin- A POPULAR DLOUHB WAIST. WOMAXM WAIST ASI) SKIRT. ing may be omitted and the vest por tion closed under rever. Waists iu this style made of black or colored satin, taffeta, peau de aoie or poplin, may have the collar with plastron finished separately and made adjustable with hooks and eyes on both sides of front. This allows the introduction of other separate trouts with stock collars, .whioh imparts charming variety to dressy wa'sts. To make this waist for a woman of i medium size will require three yards of material thirty inches wide. Kaillr Maria at Hoiuc. Gray crepeliue de iioie aud white tuck-shirred chiffon are charmingly combiued in the large illustration, the trimming ot niched satin ribbon be iug in darker shade of gray. Dame Fashion revels in dainty fabrics this season, and the fact that chiffon yok ing in tbia and many other styles can be bought dl ready for use makes home dressmaking an easy accom plishment. Fitted linings support the over-fronts and back, that show prettily scalloped edges in the latest desigu. The fronts may be arranged over tbe yoke portion of plastron, and together closed invisibly at the left shoulder, arm's-eye and under-arm aeams, or they may open in tho centre id tbe full plastron ouly close at tbe shoulder and ariu'a-eye, aa shown in the small sketch. The sleeves are faced at the top with tbe truck-shirred chiffon, the material being shaped and trimmed in scalloped outline, to har monize with the waist. The liniug backs are faced in deep-yoke effect, tbe over-baoks shaped and trimmed to match the fronts, having slight ful ness, which is drawn snngly to the jiaist line, The skirt comprises five mm OF FASHION. gores, which are shaped In pointed outline at the lower edge, aud to which Is joined full circular flounce that reaches over half-way to the belt in tbe back. A smooth-fitting adjust ment is rendered by the shaping of the gores over the hips, and the ful ness in the back is arranged in flat underlying pleats that meet iu tho 3entro over the placket, where they are closed with silk buttons aud loops. Tbe flounce flares in graceful ripples all around, the fashionable dip being given in tbe back with perforations that shape to round length. Stylish combinations by the mod may be carried out in plain and dotted or figured silk or satin foulard, the flounce of skirt matching the yoke and caps of sleeves. An exceedingly dressy black gown bad the waist, sleeves and upper portion of skirt of jet spangled net, the shirred yoke. tops of sleeves and flounce being of plain Brussels net, trimmed with men th mch . Folds i d at tbo under- 1 ie modov' idellintr. ings of the net and satin ribbon of turquoise-blue velvet showe top of the poiuted collar aud faced the flaring wrists. The suggests possibilities for remodelling. whioh are always acceptable to home dressmakers. To make this waist for woman of medium size will require one and half yards of material forty-four inches wide. To make tbe skirt will require five and half yard of same-width material. Waist Willi t'nlque Sliaplna. Polka dotted foulard in dove-gray and black made this haudjome waist, tbe collar, yoke and cuffs being edged with stitched bias folds ot black satin. A stylish feature of the waist is the unique shaping of the yoke and collar. Two box pleats are formed in each front, a third being taken up ou the right front edge, which laps over tho deep hem on left, closing with studs or buttons in centre. Three backward turning pleats are laid on each side of centre back, which are joined to tbe top to straight yoke lining, the plaits being overlapped olosely at the waist line with pleasing effect. The box plaits at shoulder edges of front are brought together and joined to the front edges ot lin ing yoke, the yoke of mateiial with its rounded edges being arranged to overlap the pleats iu front and biok. The neok is completed with band in regular shirt waist style, aud the stock collar is made separately to close in centre back. The shirt waist' sleeves are correctly shaped, being both stylish and comfortable. Gathers adjust the fulness at top and bottom, slashes at the back beiug finished with laps in the usual way. The cuffs have rounded corner and close with link cull buttons. Attractive waist may be made by this pattern of silk, fine wool or cot ton wash fabrics, and the regulation BOX-rLKATKD S3IRT WAIST. linen collar may be substituted for the atook, it so preferred, i To make thia waist for ladyfVf iree I x tyiucf medium aise will require thi one-half yards of material thir i wide.
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