roti A eal svat i
Hp li ss
HARRAH bs
weakly
lb a ee DORI ld
: themisel oo by their Intellect
hose ot the greatest twantly. 1
; L but no feathers or ornaments of any
| kind, while a dark bine velvel costunie
lias an enchanting picture hat of dark
§ bilge velvet with ore long white ostrich
i plume. The fist hats have not gone
A {ont of fashion, and yet thers dre pow
renin He ang ar twa
, Hke beauty. he bet-
‘ both the Squinre and :
Mole in toats and
the rides brothers and xis
nuke styles of the fevelor's
hes,
rings and other orna- |
given with miniatures of
relat ve or friend, show. |
| better behavior on the part of the of
fenditig one
P of the Sxures
gold, others of ‘wilver, oth-
new fashionable pewter and |
They are. e fnely chased and
= Brery employe in it seems :
should there be Any difference
ect between this store and
g¢ one? Is pot human nature
same the world over? True,
there {8 a difference.
nse the proprietor is not
ant, but & gentleman, as
ately, ave Dot. He treats
fo Mon ny SAS
thelr edueation a8 could be asetully ap
plied in the struggles of life,
The Sempon's Hate.
Colored hats will be fashionable
t| agaty made of velvet fo moateh the
: sung, of the rough, shagsy hesvers,
and ziso of cloth the same ax the gown
A charming costume of & queer shade
of red tna shagey material has a togine
to masteh with joucher of darker volvet,
10 be seen among the very new shapes
quite a pumber with high crowns
t | style that could easily have been pro
dicted as a coming redstion from the
fiat hats that have been worn for so
long a4 thine. A curious fentare of the
new fashions io millinery fe that there
i% po one distine five stele wet 2xlds for
airy age. The law ix that the hat shall
“i be bedorning and suitalde for the indi
‘vidual wearer which l& the reason
{why this years fashions promise to le
so particularly athuctive.
The broad, rather low hats will on
ol or ‘whole, hold thelr pice in popultir
favor for every day wear, st leant dur.
inp the vacly part of the winier, The
rough felts are to be most papalar for
Conting or tallor-aait hats Harper's Bu
1 BAT.
oan sonal od
The Woman In Authority.
The woman in authority shoaid stody
cansiderition of other peaple’s feelings,
The common scold or the contin;
{ fanit-finder is perhaps the mest dic.
grecable person In the world, pet only
anhappy herself but making (thers sis,
Seoiding, In one Nght, Is really an an. |
Ctomplimbment-that 8 when oeed for
bo the proper correction of servhnte and
* ehtldren. If you feel called pon to des
s livery a retmike fo 8 servant make i
clear to that offender that yor elise th
pleasure BB Justned; peder Hes your
exper, but be calm and digalfind fer |
a rémmier that your bearing Ins mus
“rn do with the respect that YOU Re
¢ bell in by those nuder your suthority,
yi ever let a sending degenerite into
{ nage Hog,
” the iiaing was 8 oatheo |
ft. sach amo being ob lifelike
for i you do vou loss aly
cial a for reepest from the delipasent,
gid Do person at {aul beamoes your
feritio. and a very seornful one at that,
Let sil scolding be gauged by the |
error, bal do not make any one rebuke
long deawn oul. Give sach 8 hopeful
sanding. :
When properly administered a mer
Bed soolding quickly bears the Trai of
Many wives have spelled the good
nature of their husbands by seizing
Bpon some fagit, trivial, perhaps, and
constantly dwelling npon it.
Where home ix made unhappy Ly a
great fault of the husband, If he ial
worthy of loving and saving, be is
more «fectively appealed to by tender
wns than by decunclation or scorn.
Kimono like sleeves are noted on tur
CORE.
Bhaded ostrich feathers are very
modish.
White fox trims white brondail ex.
quikitely,
Flowered broadeloths are a wonder
ful goveity.
Asa consequence they i
disposed toward him and |
for waists and dresses,
that such good will is re
E eatinent of bis ous subtable for shirt walats.
Dresden-flowered loulsine are smong
the choles silks,
Corduroy crepes are very rieh and
drape gricefully.
Lace more and more Is to figure as a
rimming for furs.
SiR kimonos for winter are fined
: with white albatross
Changeable taffetas are the vogue
Maire soleil is a sativ-bareed plaid
Panoe finish velvets look quite like
paune and gt much less cost.
Draped ztranids of jet are effective as
a facing for a smart black turbse
Rich green and the varloos tan
+ shades take a modish combinative.
Clenille worked in wheel like affairs
faves the brim of one fascinating hat
Lace weave stockings are to tw the
ting In hosiery for house and eve ening
swear.
Polka dots, like water markings and
of various sizes. adorn a new turquoise
moire.
Rivh plaid ribbons with black velvew
“eigen are among the splendid new of.
| ferings.
Some clever evening stockings in
white lace effect are adorned with deli
cate black pansies,
Many of the rich new silks are given
| additional splendor in the shape of a
| linish of panne-like lustre.
A stunning turban is composed of
shaded blue and green velvet folinge. a
few green roses being under the lett
wn
Jasper gray is a pure gray—thag is. a
mizture of black and white without a
thread of any other color. It wily be
z ante or dark.
German officers
brutally ma
Cinterelere,
Daring English Equestrians.
NE of the most extraordinary |
frais of bhorsonianship ever
performed in this or any
other connlry was that of Mr,
John Leech Maning at the White Hart
Hotel, Aylesbury, pearly farec-quar-
ters of a century ago. He rode his
morse upsinirs into the divigg romm,
and while the meal wax in progiess
mmped the animal clean aver the able,
Dregiribing the incilent not very bong |
Nothing was
repaoyed frome the table In fal, the
Huper was scigally going on 1
spe Mr. Mapping sand:
jamped fhe horse bareback, witht a
bridie. before moze than forty penile
Ben, who were dining after the steapls
chases”
Seven or elghl ye
formed an extraordinary syuestrian ex.
plodt—or perhaps escapade ft ought io t
be e¢alled. Shortly afier 10 one nleht
six lieutenants of the Thirteenth Jira-
gouns dashed gut of the barracks on
thelr chargers viad in nothing tat flier
storie, Without pausing they charred
ah adiacent café, breating ‘the dws
wag and windows and leaping fled
botses over the beads of tha terriied
rustoaners. Two of then actually rade
ground the lange hall of the cafe, the
Yibera panleniing thetuselives with
ading their borses rovind hy the
bridies. The police were 81 ounce sent
for By the proprietor, but as obs cone
stable whe veniured to expos uinte was
settled for his temerity,
the others thought ft prodent not
rowdy officers remounted their stesds
and rode off Gain at a gallop. RH i
hardly necessary fo gad at thetly Lit. :
1 rageous conduct created o
3 ArTsE
tions in the evn.
For the zake of a wager a remoarkalile
feat of horsemanship Was SoD VERN
aga aecomplished by a sporting nolile.
man fn a cerigin Waser End mansion
He mada 8 ber with a friend that hw
would vide his pony {ram the ground |
Sous af the honise $05 ‘the £0 : gad Gann bo DIE
Pia x
ia pErEnasion ~ Hamp Hh
but it was Saally perfor though
Mie Lh Tha BiAlY CATIMIR
sinonniag ta dw
which had ts be paid by the winner,
The foregoing 8 pert farraasivs Was pur
siieied by the exp
farswer who, dt Kirke vulgar, in that
MERLIY syecteided dn riding a Poti Up |
two Sights of stairs into a room and 1°
Ha the ground Boor again. The weenie of fa ;
dls equestrisn Teal was the Georze un | *
at Rirton Lisdsey, and (& was consi)
ered all the more remarkable becagne |
the wealzht of the rider was as mek fin
twelve stone, while that of his mount J 3
was ander thirty stone,
A marrelous feat in the | homing field
uk reported 3 few mewihs ginoe from
idgring 8 ron
w arfnambtont Victoria
of the Joes] boautide 4 horse Fnown fs
Handy Andy, ridden fy Mr. M1. Tey
on, aporoached 8 s{iY four resid fenes
in the nelghborbiand a Grasmere. Ai
ather borse, bearing Dr. MaecKnighy,
stopped within a few feet of the ole
stacle, and, ranuing Sowa the fence,
got in the way of Handy Andy. The
latter then Jumped the obstractin
horse, vider and feure just touchine |
the doctor with his hoofs. The feat
was superldy dene but anf artanately,
Handy Andy stumbled en landing am
ensented bis clever and intrepid rides.
Some extraordinary equestrian es.
ploits Have taken place in New York
At a costly balguet. given ome tm
| BRO In the carriage room of Me WwW 31
Clark, an Aweriean mi tr hin
favorite fe was rualden rogsd tha
table by one of the forty guests afier
it had enjoyed a poetical “feed” of i s
Afterward | UY
Bhetland ponies were ridden into and : :
about the rosin by others of the PUONIR,
the revels belong prolosged inte the
stall hours of the morning.
Bowers and champague.
Some volunteer aficory in Wales roots
their harses at full galls af midaiehy
8 > : £
over the rocky declivities of a neigh
baring mountain without mishap 10
Len of mounts Ti-Bis
Fighting For Life in x Net,
Tanzied nw Dig fishing Seine After a
the capsixing of thele bout one nile
roan shore, Charles Beek and ais son
LR
eX x i i " gt yw
Genre Back, Wo Bvasstoen Braghen
Sr R20 a number of |
stationed at Motz per.
A Tew minsiies Inter the
of 8 Tine oi bidet
ing meshes fell to the father
isting thes last strands of the seine
ftotir Oooan,
Rall Trippea Ep the Tents.
son 6G. MeConk, and himself 8 veteran
of the Rpanish- Amsoriean War.
“Traring the Porto Rico campaign”
camping In 8 fold por far fram the
town of Adinntas A barbed wire
fers separated the camp from Spother
tle. The fence was taken as guard Ene,
ing the night a frisky bull tn the ad
foining field tonk it inte bis dead to
Fenarge the fence, with the iden of get.
ting At the sentry on the other aide
i troglon, and when the bull got within
: range prodded Bim sharply in the nose
trea todd with an anery roar
other rash for the fenee,
a vidtanx stab.
| thie genir
wan i hs nildas of the camp io 8
gary. geserintion
#isenine in the Hitle ‘pug’
through the field he
stumbled over the tent ropes and Ina |
few minutes dosons of mon Were sirag.
ging to get focse from the canvas sod |
| nirsal nn ied on them. A sivike’ In
i ino evwiing allay is not mare csenplete
| than the war ia which the lndignant
bal ders
tents The
in Conigany A"
Sys Ama a
Tost Lads Rather Thin Eatrent,
SErgenRnal nan
Wend hie
af a His was Cabin #
be “American
wlors Tien.
with & I5Essn
Totomed Asean of fhe ointh Ine
¥ 5 : wis ander
Wore Ta res
{dma fo
Pow I Brapgbe the word to Lisgeum” said
3p F fhe atary Ylascuigs
Daa up and Heo waa aand
refepa in Toralng to
Fave Wie the worst wisglne 1
ayer roosly There wo stood aut in
Lhe opin, with the ballets Byinz bo all
dirvtions. andl the Culopel saliing to
LBD 16 attention. and Rt wasn't the Bose
ig sou Lortab fo position i the world wit
Anois MOOD Niners shooting at os.
Well Liscnm had fost abaut fin.
iehad with one tack snd was begin
Bing another when all of 8 sudden be
fran of me think that was the first
tisse: I ever regretted the sud of a wig.
saa y ty there and call me down as
ona we in harrekz while haidets
: wera whiz Ang on ail skle
Hocowt Bin bis life” Xow
saved From an Alligator,
aif
sana o pellveman,
far the danse of the ory. A short dis
Isnee away they saw a big alligator
dragging 8 ¢ Bil away, having secured
Bald of its dress ian its mouth. The
chil was Wirteking The posse rosiied
too rhe regeve. and the ‘gator redonbiled
fo ta Bayan nearby.
48 fey gin
len ad dasisd at the
The "gazes whaeked ita
i anened
wa dd
sirsticied for their Hees for ton hoooa
Festorday in Lake
Nat anil the mpeg mes
the net, which was 200 fost 3
Iwo, Were Ley able Io extricate
solved. © Ther, thoriug)
$i
with their efforts to Levy 3 fas ha wl
they were escapiog from the deat!
rap, fhuy vohssiled adi with he Sve
and, by aiding ene another swam In
the beach in safety,
x
&
The Hacks who live at 2140 Maples:
avenue, Evanston bad gone ent sarily
to the morning to take In the se
Cswwhich they bad sel off Groswe Point M
Lighthouse. They were gape ig; evel y
hauling in the petfnl of fsb when a
squall arose. Thelr boar, a fat-bob
tomed scow, swung into the trough of
the sea and filled with water, Whils
they were hailieg out the water with
thelr hats the scow capsized. throw.
ing beth its occupants bio the lake |
Immediately the arms and legs of the |
men became entagled in the seine amd
rendered them powerless to wip
Divesting themselves of their rubbs:
coats and boots the father aml aon,
with a fishing kpife, began euiting the
cords from thelr bands nd ankles.
When once they had cut themselves |
loose amd had started (oo swim toward!
Lou Bd led
lang
Mire Got Two Cangars With Two Bullets.
Prpirowsky, the vonng
a. Jewsler, killed
Hous on Sunday at Bear
wean and
into the socds but last
Rilled Ber first monnialin
e wn aloss ob the mountain
when whe was aftractad by the
i having of ber hound She found he
Bad a large Han spea tree As she pre.
Cvared to shoet 8F 10 ahe saw a second
von doaking hangrily at her through
the this foliage. Just thon ber hus
ha! onme up, aliracted by the noise
two rifles rang ont amd two tawny
{ brates fell to the earth mortally
wodaded. As they rolled in their death
Cstrugeles Mrs, Dobrewsky saw a third
| Hon higher up in the yree than his fel
lows Bad been. She Killed bt with one
Fy
shore they again became vntangled in { ball. The smallest lon measured five
the big pet. The son's streug.k began | feet. —San Francisco Chroulele,
said Mr Mo vg nal “my COTTA LEY ¥ was
field, In which were a number of fat- |
and gentries were posted along it. Dar. |
with Bix wward bayonet The all re
in tie field. Ay the angry animal rolled |
ripped and |
doabded ap and went down In a heap in
ng. The : 25 sor nerve of the man fo
Was Wine |
Bemiled those who hastened fo seared |
. £
TF ta the hill eqme !
dashed
% 4 pr 2 don 3
bis wife go
the log. AD the enunr of three
Bimeelf and Mis son from he impend- :
Tie iatter's endurance bad newly |
givin out when he succeeded in separ. :
Both fishermen were so proktrated |
wion they reached shore that ther had |
to be assisted to their home Chicago |
A new rendering of the old story of :
the Bull in the china shop is told by |
F. 1. McCook. & nephew of General An. | sometimes extending over periods of several years, had occurred: but o
The sentry natarsily resented the in- |
radenily the Injured nose fronbded |
the animal for presstly be made an- |
Again he met
By ie time the inf
farlsted Asteal was roused. He upset |
¥. snapped the wire fence and |
sectnd. The soese thar followed beg |
The company waa WN
tents nem
bowling in pain se the fest of the |
} fire. PREY, on the banks of the Saline
| The test was made from eld water in
{ time for foreign engines in getting a stream from the bose was from eight
sued the company steer of | gn fwelve minutes Thelr streams reached about half way across the river.
vere wag Hithe seep that Bight | fn five mincies and thirty seconds the Amerienn ensine threw a stream that
knew trot personal et Tt ro Sega of thelr pa
| fienlar places of resklimes had changed sine they ‘were bors;
tht they had reliable landmarks ta show that fhe streams wep
drying up that the precipitation was growing Jess, and that the
Winters were Becoming milder, antwithetsnding the fact that
carefully taken observitions of temperature and rainfall for each
day for the previous Imndred years at their place of residence
showed no alteration of climate. Of course wide variations
defile at one lite was made 9p BY An XPS at another :
Te be sure changes must Rave taken pisce doring geoloris periods. but
thevse have been so slow that it ls deubifal I man MW his civilized state has
occiapied the earth jong enough to discover ait appreciate quantity. Quite
sccprate records of the opening of navigation in Burope and of the time of
vintages for 500 years show no change in (he average data of the sree
ten years as compared with the average of five last ten
The date palm, the vine, ami the fig tres flourish as luxarisntly today is
Palestine” as they 413 in the days of Moses, Dried plants have been taken
froin the nmibmimy cases of the FPharoabs axactly similar to those Bow
growing in the soil once trod hy those amcient monarchs
HEREV ER the Americas goes in Eorope. itis witha fealing of ts
isfantion that be Ainix, in fhe mor important cities, the sdaptation
of otir ideas for fighting fire. (ur steam fire engines, our Briss
poles that bring men down from the Boper stories of their sia.
tan houses, our blnged collars that snap around the horses”
Becks at # touch, sre everywhere. At every fuportant interns.
tional =xhibition of recent yeirs, beginning sven with that of
Parie In ISBT, American fireengioes and ladder-trocks have
taken iter. At the Paris Exposition of two years ago an
American Ara team from Kansag Clty, fourteen men under Chief George C
| Hale, carried off all 1he most important hooort at the International Fire Cone
CEreRs, al which were represented America, Fragee, Portugal. Holland, Norway,
| Belgigm, Switzerland, Denmark, Italy, Germany. Turkey, England. Scotland.
Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Ina. Anstris, Mexico and Peru Nearly S000
firemen took part in the competitions. The first contest wae made with steam
About 100 ehzipes competed.
the Dboller. The sverage
PWel people on the opposite bank. 8 distance of 310 feel. The size of the
| sirenm wis nearly double that thrown by the other sugines From “Pires
: Fighting Today and To-morrow, ? in Reribners.”
phere ng fieares at hae |
vvres at New Lop.
RAO SNE Eo
A eT PE AeA
™ bizla 8 number of PASSES Wire {
wd fndv iy fo ty the o marning rain AY Pabls iF i
. PR
Trach, Pla, they heed the wall of a)
Diormty Rheri® |
By Helen Oldfield,
| RINCIPALLY the ¢ause of what {s called woman's unreason
| abdeness is the dint result off ber pot being (old the trth
Hull the time a woman does not kuow bow she stands to face
4 proj, beeatie she c30R0Y get a man to tell her the simple
Taetz [on the case. He will sup all sorts of soothing (Mings to
her ard misiend er with rosy hopes, and he will try to make
np by the fervor of his compliments for the les he i» telling
her. and so she goes biondering along, making all sorts of mis
takes, that she tight have bien saved from if anybody had
had the ¢ sarirane to tell her the trib, :
A Aammple of this eave sage under my own observation A man
died] Isaviy s widow without any wanes of support. His friends fn the most
dedicate way in the world, provided for we and began oxerting themselves to
Ret ie occupation for ber by which she could support herself. Place after
place was offered, but she scornfully rejected every one.
dag
Did you ever bene of anything so aureasonable (a your Life” cried the
: 85 | men to each other, "nol a peony ip the world, scrually living on charity. and
me for falr. Of couse, I had to stand |
wolt't do a thing” Floally io a gust of passion one of the men blurted our to
fhe woman the snaked trath--that her husband had died absolutely bankvopt,
aad that bls Criends had been providitg for her. The woman was aghast, She
isd never su idea of the real state of affairs, and the minute she knew the truth
she avvepted the situation with a courage, a philosophy asd a determination
to ruake the Lest of it that fairly astonished every ope.
Bo far as Dusiness womwn are concerned, the chief enemy to their progress
fr man'z fear of telling them the froth. A man whe has a clerk who falls inte
careless ways or has sofbe annoying fanlt, will talk to him plainly and give
him a chance 10 correct it before le dismisses him; bot be will not give a girl
the sage chance. He won't tell her the truth nbont her fanita. He will make
an excuse about busioess being bad, amd then turn ber off rather than speak
the truth to her. Hew inany times hax that happened io our big cities! Girls
Kaw,
Another thing-aud | don’t kttow a more pathetic (hing is that the whole
ari seems banded together fo deceive women about the real facts of working
Now there's plenty of work in the world Gur every indndivious and intelli
on, at is nothing short of a erime to nake ber belleve that there I
get-rich-quick way to fortune: and I never read any of these romances
“iy plot aresgine Hates af 3 geting i Hy ng that fails to arouse in me 3 vightects
By Ralph M. McKenzie.
g HE hunger dbplayed by all ¢lasses of people for lterature
a prpstical or esolerte character is beyond the belief of
ene Bot connected with the sale of books or period.
pot in tench with the woark of public lbhraries
roughont the eougsty. This includes fortune tolling by
ends, palmdstry, astroiogy, the phegemenn of hyppoilem,
stroestive tHerapesiing Sprite, pond reading, faith cure,
theusonhy aml everything copnested with the divining of
the fatare or the wavstiad or arent in mind, matter or
ra Sgpls
PRlaaaf aed
Many periodicals eating of these various subisets are published pow
"in many languages, aml he clreniations of soo of them have ineregesd
{ ua : fo
fwanderinily, A curious phinse of the sglijedr
i tielew in these
i otae fact that partioniar ar
periadieonls gliradct wile attention, and are often gnoted sod
diseussed iy coreries which are not ssgally sapposesd to be lnforested ia
matiers beyond the domadn of the lve sensow. Some of these magazines
in the Libwary of coogress are Rept ander lek and key, and only given
ont for remling © Bpown persons apon ead. because the temntation to
cut or mutilate corialg select portions of the 0X seems to be oo great for
those of less than endinsry will pewer
Of course, there 8 much of this lterature of distinct valine, especially
aed as relates to payehology in any diroct or indirect way. A great deal
ef it ta ethical, dnd 3 of no value as oral aesitkaction or teaching, A great
deal of fp is obscure, and some of it is almost as ansatisfactory to the ine
telligeat reader as a chapter of Pavacelsas or any of the old alehemists or
searchers after the oiixir of hfe sud the plileseophivr's stone. Even the
many volumes devoted to palmiEny miny be said to have a raison etre outs
shile of their mere or less fabled vale as a aeeans of divining the future.
They serve, perhaps. te draw the attention of people to their hands and
ta secure for them better ears and sore cleanliness
The ¢ause which more than all else has ld to a great revival of Interest
fn this class of Hteratwie ls, of course, the wonderful spread in the belief
hn spivithin amd the cousaquent deduction that the spirits must needs
kuow something of the future of mortals and can be depended upen in
poi Vague WAY to communicate this Enowledge to the material world
Some leek to the clairvoyant fa the most reflable source of this supposed
spirit. knowledge of the individual's future: others depend upon (he reader
of vards, the reader of palms, of the veader of the sts. But it ean’ “all
be reduced to the one cause—ihe yearning of man for Unmoitatity amd for
t knowledge of the future years sd his manent slate. New Sek Nowe