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