Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. BY THI MOKE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OrvicE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months .50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to Is on the address label of each paper, the ohange of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the flgu res in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must bo paid when subscription is discontinued. Mai.e nil money orders, checks, etc,,payable lo the Tribune Printing Company, Limited. The last analysis of the end of the century; An automobile hearse and cremation with liquefied nir. In looking forward to the destined ! blessings of the next and happier gen eration, note should be made of the fact that their food will be better cooked. Here is a new gun that shoots fif teen miles. The poetical fancy of the "shot heard round tho world" may be turned iuto actuality some day. At least we are working in that direc tion. "While America was in the early days celebrated mainly for its agricul tural products, it is uow well known for its mineral, and is, moreover, gain ing a world wide reputation for its manufactured products. The destruction of the Como Expo sition has created a strong feeling among most of tho scientists of Eu rope that hereafter important docu ments and apparatus relating to tho history of science or to one man should not bo placed under one roof. Deeply rooted in human nature there seems to be au innate love of rivalry in tbo matter of physical en durance. To this liking for muscular competition is doubtless due much of the constantly increasing strength and stature of mankind. In the require ments of modern sport, however, there is such a thing as carrying muscular exertion to a point that is absolutely injurious. Japan is planting her institutions ftll over Korea, possibly with the view of demanding that country as her share in tho general Asiatic partition. It' j she ever gets it Korea may become a 1 power under proper tuition which the | European suzerains of China will have ! to reckon with. Combined with Japan j the Hermit Kingdom would increase I the number of the Mikado's subjects 1 to nearly 70,000,000, a numerical strength nearly equal to that of tho j United States. The boycott is apparently coming I to be regarded as a universal panacea, warranted to right all wrongs, in dustrial, social, religious, national and uow international. Yet it is only an old idea under a new name, A hundred years before Captain Boycott was heard of our Revolutionary fore- j fathers and foremothers —particularly ! our foremothers—boycotted English ■ tea, and would neither buy nor sell ; nor use au ounce of it. And Inter on Jefferson applied tho boycotting idea on au international scale by declaring an embargo against all British ships aud goods. There is nothing new un der the sun. Sivr"t Tonoi from Wood. In Peril, Ecuador, and Bolivia there is a remarkably resonant wood called j hormaguilla. The Qulchua and Ainay ra Indians r. am t excellent musi cal Instrument out o! this wood. It Is on the prim , of the well-known xylophone, only t! t underneath each piece they eon-Tie a sounding-box out of the same wood, varying in size to the note to he n red and sus taining evidences of Hi" o! . prehistoric civilizations. A : y of Teruvians lately traveled through Mexico with one of these large instruments and ere cted quite a sensation among the music-ioving Mexicans. Front the Chicago Tribune: "I can't Quite make out thai En [li ill neighbor of mine." eatd Uncle Allen Sparks. "He was at church the other Sunday, and Joined lustily in singing when the preacher gave out 'America,' but I no ticed that the words lie sung were 'God Bave the Queen.' I don't know whether be did it to give the effect of an An glo-American alliance or whether it was Just a piece of his English bul' headedness." A riagiuriMra. Dusty Roads (his eyes fixed on a party of golfers)— Weary, if you and X only had some swell clothes and a bun dle of sticks apiece they wouldn't call us tramps any longer. Weary Waggles —Yes, I've often thought them golfers wers a-plaglarizinc our nrofesh- Berene t toi l my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; I rave no 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends J seek are seeking me. No wind ca- drive my bark astray, Nor chan'v \ the tide of destiny. <Vl> $ BROTHER TO NECESSITY. { 5 S J BY HELEN HICKS. # Alec McPhersou's mother was never I tired of showing little Alec the picture i in the album of Aunty Morse, whose ; sou had become a millionaire in New j York, or of talking of her cousin, who ] was a senator at Ottawa, aud her sis ter-in-law's brother, who had been ' appointed lieutenant-governor of a province once, but who had died in advertently before he was sworn in. Little Alee looked upon these distinc- j tious, and he saw that they were good. He saw that the men who got tespeet and consideration when they came to his father's house were not i farmers like his father, but the doctor in the black coat, who ordered some- j body to hold his horses and asked ap- [ preheusively if the dog bit, or the minister, who kept the men after a hearty dinner from the hay, while he was praying, aud a thunder cloud was gathering overhead. It was for men ! like these that the silver aud the best j lable napkins were brought out, aud the household routine set aside as a thing small consequence. The hoy began be ashamed of an occupation that compelled a man to wear rough I clothes and carry rough bauds, and the town made him shy and ill at ease. McPhersou's remedy for the disadvantage under which her son had been born was education. She told him what it could do. Education could ! make him a gentleman, give him monoy and clothes, and respect and power, and put his heel on the nock of men who otherwise would have j their heel on his neck. So it came about that by the time Alec was 24 | and his father laid safely to rest under the sod, the boy had taken his bachelor's degree at college, spent a year abroad aud was plunging into the study of Blackstone and the civil | code. It was on an evening in early spring ' lhat he came home. There was still ] xrost in the air, and night was coming on windy with a moon that was no j more than a tilted horn wracked with 1 clouds aud insignificant beside the I lights beginning to come out in the j houses. After 10 miles in a stage over j this bare country, sole passeuger,hud- j died into a corner,with a rug wrapped ' found his knees and his bauds thrust deep iuto his overcoat pockets, the i gush of yellow light from his own door was the welcomest of sights. The low-ceiled room, the familiar en gravings on the walls, his mother's ' lined face under the gray hair, were furniture of his earliest recollections. "Mother," he said, "my health is broken down. If I don't get help j somewhere I'm useless for life!" He told his story, his nervousness, his sleeplessness, all the long months j he had spent trying to work and doing nothing. "Ever since that hot day last summer when I was overcome by the heat, I've never been the same since. When 1 went back, to lectures," I he went on, "1 couldn't work. There | was a doctor I knew, a young fellow, j He thought be could fix me up. Bvo- ] tnide, morphia, chloral—l tried them j all. Then I went to a specialist,aud I lie told me everything. It was a ! shock to the brain; I was a victim of neurasthenia. Mother, I may live to 1 be au old man, but I'll never be good for anything, so far as head work is concerned, agaiu," Mrs, McPherson stood up indig- [ nantly. "Alee! With your constitn- j lion! A little thing like that can't j break you down. Your father was a I ctrong man, and I'm sure there's never j been much sickness on my side of tho | house." "Yes," he said, "that was ] What the doctor said. He said it was in my favor that I came of country people aud hadn't inherited the | hysteria and debilitated nerves that are the common curse. He said, j mother, that coming hack to the farm ' v"- my only hope." He sat silent, witli his clenched hand holding his I lead; then looking round him, "I 1 was in a hospital for a while," he said. I "Thank God, I'm home!" One day in the middle of the fore- ! noon Alee came downstairs with the j unusual feeling that he was a slug gard. The sun was strong, aud just outside the door a turkey cock dis tended himself in its warmth; the bees were busy in the flowers, the men were haying. He took his hat and went out, walking past the barns and along a laue where beside him lay a field of potatoes, their regularly spaced clumps of green radiating like Ike spokes of a wheel from whatever point tho eye chose as a beginning. An unremarkable man was walking between two rows that ran parallel to the fence. In one hand he held a pail filled with greeu-tiuted water,and in the other a whitewash brush. He dipped his brush in the green water and fionuced it over the potato tops on either side, and talked aloud to himself as he walked. ".Saul has slain thousands, and David tens o' thou sands; but I'm slayiu' millions of 'em —millions!" "Hello, Henry," Alec called lean ing over the fence; "paris-greening the potato bugs?" The man set down his pail and stood erect. "Yes, but WAITING. What matter If I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall rest where it has sown, And gamer up its fruit of tears. The waters know their own and-draw The brook that springs in yonder height; Bo How the good with equal law Unto the soul of pure delight. The stars come nightly to the sky, The tidal wave unto the sea; Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, Can keep my own away from me. —John Burroughs. it does mighty little good," he drawled. "This new man Crawford that's just bought the old Garrison place has got a potato patch over there, and his bugs believes in reciprocity. Line fences is no obstruction to them fellers." "Doesn't Crawford believe in paris green?" he asked. "No, nor in hoein', neither, I guess." Alec laughed. "Mr. Crawford doesn't seem to bo n thriving farmer." "Well now, Mr. McPerson," Henry said, briskly, as if entering on a topic that interested him, "Mr. Crawford, ho thinks himself a gentleman, but, he don't own that farm no more nor I do. The company owns it what holds a mortgage on it, and he's really just workiu* it for them. His crop ain't his'n; it's got to go to pay the interest, aud some says his horses aud cattle and implements is all cliatteled for inoreu't they're worth." "That's a lie!" Both looked up. Tho man they were discussing had risen from beneath a clump of elder bushes aud was leaning over the fence with battle in his eyes. He was lank and cadaverous, with a thin, goat's beard, protuberant blue eyes, and wiry yellow hair. The man was plain ly not in robust health, aud he had the look of having reached that point iu his cups when amiability is swal lowed up iu a growing desire to be quarrelsome. "Well, maybe it is, Mr. Crawford," Henry said, soothingly. "Maybe it is." "And they say you're a reg'lar gentleman," Crawford re marked, turning to Alec aud looking him up and down with scornful amusement. "A reg'lar gentleman that never hud his nose to the grind stone and keeps money in the bank all the time. Is that so?" "No-o, I guess is isn't so," Alec answered, mildly. With surprisiug quickness the man got over tlie fence that, seua ratcd them. "And you dou't think I'm a (hi iviu' farmer,eh?" he queried, thrusting forward his white,impudent, face. "Take that, young npstartl" And suddenly raising the switch in his hand he laid it smartly across Alec's face. The next instant he hail fallen forward with his face in tho grass, aud his thin hands grasping convulsively before him. They turned him over, but though the muscles of his lace moved, his heart was quite still. The two men looked at each other in consternation. "This is hard on Lyddy," Henry said at last with a great sigh, pointing to the prostrate form. "lie's a widower, and Lyddy keeps things together, and there's two little uns." They carried the dead man up to his house, where little Blanche Mary was helping Lyddy got dinner, and Tony, the six-year-old, stood washing himself with legs Het very wide apart at a big basin on the outside stoop. They were all thin, elfin creatures with bright hair ami radiant eyes of corn-flower blue. "Well," said Mrs. McPherson, when the funeral was over, "Lyddy Crawford's got a hard row to line. She'd like to stay on the farm; it's like home to her now, and they've got to have a roof over their heads some whore." "But the mortgage," Alee objected. "They can pay the inter est, and that's enough just now. And she's going to make real,old-fashioned preserves out of wild raspberries aud kuckleberrries and long blackberries, and sell them on Buxton market. Oh, she may get quite n trade!" Alec was pleased. Gradually it be came his chief interest to watch Lyddy s undertaking. Sometimes he met her iuthe woods with the children, gathering berries, Tony trailing a long, dead branch ns a protection against bears. He never saw Lyddy now ! without a sharp sense of the beauty j nt her hair, her small woman's figure, j her brown, small hands. It seemed ito him that she embodied all sweet, ; country things—light and breezy days , and the fragrance of little underfoot flowers. As for Lyddy, rfit night, at I bedtime, she wrapped a thin, black ! shawl about her bend and shoulders, aud slipped out of the house and down the hill to the bridge, to see if the lights were still burning in Alec's windows. She did it every night,and it had assumed for her the sacredness j of a rite. j When fall came, Alec was better. | He was less thiu, his band had a firm j grasp, his skin was a healthy brown, [ his eye was steady. He had almost ! forgotten liin languid days and sleep j less nights iu the buoyant pleasure of rising up early in the autumn dawn to feel himself the director of all the activities of the farm. It was at supper one night that his mother spoke to him. "Alec, you have been at home close on eight months now," she said, and waited for an answer. "Yes," he said,brief ly. "And your health is ever so much better than you ever thought it would be again. You're almost as well as you ever were. Isn't that so?" "Yes," he said again. "When are you going back to the law?" He went on crumbling his biscuit, and did not meet her eye. "I am not going back, mother," he said U last. "I am determined to stay here." "Thi is no place for a young man of youf education," she expostulated. "That's what I thought once* mother, but everything seems differ ent now. I cau be just as useful here* It's better to be a good farmer than a poor lawyer." "You needn't be a poor lawyer. Besides I'd rather be that than a farmer. I hate the name of farmer. None of my relations were ever that. There isn't any excuse for such low tastes." He was nettled. "Let us take some oases we know of," he said quietly. "There's Walters, the sharpest young lawyer in Buxton, and the best pleader; he was in jail 24 hours for voting twice at au election. There was Barr, who started poor antj died rich; ho lost his seat in Parlia* ment and was disqualified for open bribery, and there was things in hi* private life far worse. No profession is going to make a man's life houort able. I'd rather be a man like my father, mother, than be Barr or Wal* ters." Ho had the impulse to burst into contemptuous laughter,but something checked him. He leaned forward, in stead, and placed his hand on hers, "Mother, I disappoint you, but don't drive me away. This is the denrest place on earth to me. I cau understand Horace now! 4 Happy is the man who, far from business, like the ancient race of men, works his paternal field* with his own oxen.' I can under stand that now." Mrs. McPhersoa picked up the teapot and set it down with fierce emphasis. "Then I sup pose the truth is it's that girl that's keeping you bore," she burst out. "Whut do you mean?" he asked hotly. "I mean," she Baid, without quailing before his angry eyes, "that I suppose it's that Crawford girl your hanging after. The dear knows what alse keeps you here. You dou't seem able to tell. 1 think you must be pretty soft. To see her eyes following me round like a tame cat would be enough for me if I was a young man. It makes mo sick. I should think she'd be the laughing stock of the neighborhood." Her son looked at her in blank amazement. "Oh, she knows which side her bread is but tered on. You'd be a pretty good catch for her, wouldn't you? I'll tell you something, too," she went on, hoarsely. "If you take up with such trash as that, don't come here ugain. As long as my head is above the sod this house is mine, aud if you go against me, keep out of it. God knows I've slaved to give you chances to make yourself somebody! Yes, you've been dearer to me than the apple of my eye, but unless you make up your mind to go back, I will never own you for a son again." She turned her back upon him and marched away with her usual soldier like tread, and he heard the key turn iu the lock as she closed her bedroom door, lie flung out of the house in a passion of opposition. O the shoddy pride, the vulgarity of it all! Some words of Tolstoi recurred to him, printed without flaw on his memory: ''Everything which I used to think bad and low—the rusticity of the peasant, the plainness of lodging,food, clothing, manners—all this has be come good and great in my eyes." He leaued agaiust tho railing of the little wooden bridge and listened to the hurry of water underneath. There was a watery, intermittent moonlight, and every now and then a snow flake, damp and adhesive, touched his cheek. He looked up aud saw Lyddy stand ing i I the road, her startled face peer ing at him from its framing of black shawl. With an exclamation of joy he went quickly to meet her. —New Eng land Homestead. Wooing a School Teacher. "Yes," said a young man, as he threw himself at the feet of the pretty school mistress, "I love you and would go to the world's end for you." "You could uot go to tho end of the world for me, James. The world, or the earth, as it is called, is round like a ball, slightly flatted at the poles. One of the first lessons in elementary geography is devoted to the shape of tho globe. You must have studied it when you were a boy." "Of course 1 did, but " "And it is no longer a theory. Cir cumnavigators have established the fact." "I know, but what I meant was that I would do anything to please you. Ah, Minerva, if you knew the aching void " "There is no such thiug as a void, James. Nature abhors a vacuum. But,admitting that there could be such a thing, how could the void you speak of be a void if there were an ache iu it ?" "I meant to say that ray life will be lonesome without you; that you are my daily thought and my nightly dream. I would go auywhere to be with you. If you were iu Australia or at the north pole, I would fly to you. I " "Ely! Jt will be another century before men cau fly. Even whon the laws of gravitation are successfully overcome, there will still remain, says a late scientific authority, the diffi culty of maiutaiuing a balance " "Well, at all events," exclaimed the youth, "I've got a pretty fair balance in the bank, and I want you be my wife. There!" "Well, James, siuce you put it iu that light, 1 " Curtaiu.—Wichita (Kan.) Eagle. XVorsc Meat Than r.oat. The big packeries ara now slaugh tering thousands of Texas goats and selling the flesh for mutton. The de ception is reprehensible, but tho meal is all right. A juicy Texas angora is about us toothsome to a white uiau as a rat i to a Chinaman or a baked dog to an Indian. The angora is all right. What we object to is the gutta percha beefsteak and the papier mache a an. •ages. —Memphis Commercial Appe al # § NEWS AND NOTES 1 I FOR WOMEN. I A Beautiful Gim. Turquoise is one of the prettiest gems worn. The exquisite shade of blue whitens the wearer's hand by contrast, aud its presence is distin guished at a greater distanco than al most any other stone. Novel Cane-Umbrella. The convertible caue-umlnella is a novelty. By unscrewing the tip and touching a spring tho cover is re moved and the stick becomes a stylish oaue, while the cover cau be carried in u dress suit case. By reversing the proee#'?. a sun shade or water shedder for use. Dresden handles for umbrellas and parasols are on the wane, while silver, bejeweled gun metals aud elaborately carved woods are appearing in every conceivable design. The cotton um brella is now a thiug of past. The Modern Woinan'n Wardrobe. Woman's wardrobe includes a greater number of costumes to-day thau ever before. She must have a bicycle suit, with numerous pique shirtwaists to wear with it; a yachting suit of flan nel; a golf suit, including a cloak; oue bathing suit, if not three or four; a coaching costume, a tailor made dress, summer silks, organdie.s galore, silk and cotton shirtwaists, extra skirts aud oveniug gowns. There are other cos tumes she may demand —her riding habit, a rainy day suit and her steamer coat. All of which goes to show how times have changed. The accessories that are all "pretty things to wear" include a wonderful collection of stocks—belts, ties, sashes, "fronts" and vests. Then, there are lier hats to go with different gowns, her parasols, sun shades and umbrellas; her gloves for street, driving, riding and eveuiug; her shoes, slippers and boots; her world without end of hosiery; her jackets, wraps aud cloaks; her veils and handkerchiefs, and then the myriad of costly trifles from the jewel ler's, including shell hairpins, jewoled hatpins, Cyrano chains, studded vinai grettes, lucky charms, gold buckles, lans of ivory and pearl, shirt studs and cuff links, skirt pius, chatelaines, cardcases, mouogrammod purses, stockpiuß aud brooches for her hair. After which the most money to be paid out for any oue thing will bo for jewels. "It is no wonder," said a mother, "that papas grow gray audyouugmen fly from matrimony like clouds before a sea breeze!" Sunbaths For tho Flair. Proper and constant care of the hair is the most essential duty of the wom an who would he well groomed. The attention which is giyeu by up-to-date women now to their tresses is one which requires time and patience, but no woman begrudges the time, money or labor expended on the proper care of her hair, be it dark or light. The woman with light hair should always when possible dry her hair in the bright sunshine. All last winter, from a back window, a sight was pre sented in a certain neighborhood about twice a month which was a source of great amusement to the residents. A girl with a beautiful head of golden brown Uair, after washing it, used to sit in the window, if in winter, close to the glass and let the sun stream in on her loosened tresses. After the weather got warmer she used to cover the windowsill with pillows, and, rest ing her head on them, let her hair hang out of the window in the Bunlight, with the soft spring air acting as a fan for drying it. Ateaspoonful of household ammonia added to each basin of water used in wushing assists materially in keeping it light. Dark hair should be dried in the shade or it will fade in streaks: But if the dark haired girl wisheß to lighten her tresses without a bleach, she can partly accomplish her purpose by adding a little borax to the water, and after, drying the hair iu the shade, give it a sun bath as often as praotica hie. For a dry sun bath, if such a con tradiction may be used, tho hair should be spread and shaken ont oonstantly, so that the sun's rays may reach all the roots alike.—New York Herald. Women n. Inventors. In a most interesting and instruc tive lecture delivered before a wom an's club in New "York City upon "Women as Inventors," Airs. Ida C. Bowles has given the result of twelve years of deep research, covering the history of invention from the Egyptian goddess Isis down to tho modern Yankee product of to-day. She in cludes silk weaving, invented by the wife of the fourth Chinese Emperor; bronze work, by a .Japanese woman; tho weaving of cashmere shawls, by a woman of the Indian harem, and the lost secret of Venetian point lace, rediscovered by an Italian woman. Harriet Hosmer is mentioned as hav ing iuveuted the way to make marble from limestone, which the Italian Government had long been seeking. Mary ICecs is spoken of as the first woman iu this country to take out a patent (1808), and this was for weav ing straw with silk or thread. During the next twenty-five years only fifteen patonts were grouted, owing to limited means of education. Among these inventions were a globe for teaching geography, a baby-jumper, a fountain pen, a deep-sea telescope and the first cook stove. In the next twenty-five years, when more privi leges were accorded women, the num ber of patents ran up to thirty-five. During the next twenty-five years, from 1809 to 1884, the patents num bered 1503. Taking their husbands' places in wartime on the forms and in .the work • ihops, women invented many im proved agricultural implements, ana new kinds of machinery, Nursing in hospitals, they invented camp beds, bandages, canteens, etc. At the pres ent time colleges, sloyd and manual training are developing woman's powers, and patents resulting from her ideas numbered 3905 in the twelve years between 1884 and 1895. Gossip. XJphoistering is a trade women are learning. A Jersey City woman makes her living by painting signs. In the Postoffice Department in Washington IG2 women are employed. A domestic servants' benevolent in stitution has been established in Lon don. Though rubies and pearls may bo more costly, woman, as a rule, is true to diamonds. The Queen of Saxony possesses four sapphires equal iu size and beauty to the one that glows in the crown of England. There is a saying to the effect that in Kansas there is no interest, no pro fession, no trade and no deal without a woman iu it. The Immigrant Girls' Home, iu New Fork City, is constantly broaden ing its field. Finnish girls are now coming to the home. Caroline Brown, who has just died at Lisbiirn, England, was born on tho held of Waterloo whilo the battle was raging, on November 18, 1815. Mrs. John Itittenhouse, recently killed with her whipstock a gray wolf which attacked the buggy occupied by herself and daughter, Mrs. Lyons, on Wyoming Hill, five miles from Muscatine, lowa. Miss Fraukie V. Mudd has been appointed by Governor Stephens, of Missouri, as inspector of oils for the city of St. Charles. This is the first time that a woman has ever filled that p)ace in Missouri. Miss L. L. M. Coote, the daughter of the Secretary of the JJritish Vigil ance Association, has just accom plished the dangerous fent "of climb ing the Wetterhorn—one of the most difficult mountains of the Alps. Miss Sybil Carter is doing for the Indian women of the United States what Lady Aberdeen did for those of Ireland and Queeu Margherita for those of Italy, in teaching them the art of lacemaking as a means of sup port. The first woman regularly ap pointed to the Interior Department in Washington was a Miss June Nesbit, whose salary was S3O a mouth. Be fore that date, which was 'OS, women had been given work which they took to their homes. Mrs. Shiver, who lives in Southern Georgia, ought to hnvo a place in the world's history. She has had no fewer than 010 descendants, 235 of whom are still living. This great-great grandmother is ninety years of age, j but still brisk and energetic. Miss Mnrtha Laura Mason, of Chi cago, has been appointed by the new Librarian of Congress, Herbert Put nam, as head of the department in which the thousands of musical com positions that come to the library, either as a gift, by purchase, or copy right, are classified and catalogued. She is said to be the first woman to hold such a position in the National Library. Fmhliloii Notes. liibbons are used in a great variety of styles. The shirtwaist of silk is still much in vogue. Heavy chenille fringes finish the ends of elaborate black neck rallies. Bronze shoes with square toes are the latest in dressy street footwear. Velvet is one of the handsomest things to combine with organdies and lawns. Narrow ties of white gros grain rib boa two or three inches wide have pointed ends with laco insertion and edging. Largo gauze butterflies in strikiu2 black and white effects are used on many of the smart new hats as their sole trimming. The present sheath shape of skirts is singularly adapted to plaids, which are again much in evidence on the counters of our host retail stores. The idea of panels has just been started, and already they are becom ing exceedingly fashionable, and a successful future ia predicted foi them. The jaunty little silk linod broad cloth jackets are attractive, and are particularly adapted for wear with the separate skirt that continues to be pre ferred by many. A velvet turban of the gay automo bile pink is toned by a discreet use ot black chenille and jet and paradise plumes, and is distinctly handsome without being loud. Velvet belts and plain stocks of black velvet have large steel buckles in frout. No one lias yet learned why a woman wishes to give hersolf the ap pearance of being in a harness. Neckwear must be immaculate and coucisely arranged, though more lati tude is allowed as to the material to be used. Lace and taffeta scarfs arc no longer considered impossible. Black flowers are worn a great ileal by elderly ladies. They are made of either velvet or gauze, or both. Iris tulips, marguerites and roses all show to good effoct in this way. Colored flowers are mixed with the black of tentimes. Among the most serviceable of the new golf hats are those made of stitched cloth to match -he golf skirt. They are modified Alpines in shape and are trimmed at tho side with a eUtched bow of ribbon through which miniature golf sticks in gilt are thrust. PEARLS OF THOUGHT, There is nothing makes a man sus pect much more than to know little.— Bacon. There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul. — Emerson. There is nothing truly valuable which can bo purchased without pains or labor.—Addison. To communicate oneself is Nature; to receive a communication as it is given is culture.—Goethe. Whatever touches life with upward tendency is education.—Dr. Arnold Tompkins, Illinois State University. Be content with doing with calm, ness the little which depends upon yourself, aud let all else be to you as if it were not. Feuelon. Friendship which makes the least noise is very often most useful, ?r which I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.— Budgell. The woman who takes into her heart her own children may be a very ordi nary woman, but the woman who takes into her heart the children of others, she is one of God's mothers.—George McDonald. Consciously and unconsciously each intelligent beiug makes a choice at every turn, either fulfilling or outrag ing the higher law of his nature,either entering into or refusing fellowship with God.—John Watson, D. D. The crown of patience cannot be received where there has beeu no suf fering. If thou ret'useth to suffer, thou refuseth to be crowned; but, if thou wishest to bo crowned, thou must fight manfully and suffer pa tiently. Without labor none can ob tain rest and without contending there can bo no conquest.—Thomas a Kenans. Did you ever hear of a man who bad striven all his life faithfully and singly toward au object and in no measure obtained it? If a man con stantly aspires, is he not elevated ? If a man constantly aspires is he not ele vated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them—that it was u vuiu endeavor? —H. D. Thoreau. SEEING HIS NAME IN PRINT. Unt Hit* Little Itiixc Didn't Kraidt in a Eulogv, :ih Expected. "Some people are so crazy to see their names in print,"said an amateur cynic the other day, "that they would be willing to die if they couiil only read their deuth notices." "Did you ever actually know of a case of that kind?" asked an old re porter to the group. "I can't say I ever did, "replied the amateur cynic " "Well, 1 have," said the reporter. "Tho star actor in the little affair was a lumberman,and a pretty well known lumberman, too. He doesn't live hereabouts now, and T suppose it would be safe to tell the story. This lumberman conceived the idea that he was a very valuable and popular citi zen iu the community where lie lived. Tho hallucination was unshared by uuy of his follow beings, but it bad such a firm bold on his mind that on one occasion, when he was in New York, he decided to wire home that he had been found dead, merely to get a chance to peruse the eulogies he felt certain would appear ill tho local papers. He intended, of course, to telegraph later on that it was all a mistake. "Well, he sent the first message, signing some fictitious name, and awaited developments. In a couple of days the local papers came to hand, and when he read them he nearly had a tit. Tiie.y had at once adopted the theory that he died from tho result ot a big spree, and printed a spicy re sume of his past career to support the hypothesis. They also iutimated that the community could struggle along very uicely without him. After he had digested these pleasing tributes he concluded not to send the other tele gram, but to return in persou and pay his respects to the editors. I forgot now which licked, but the affair was the talk of the section for months, and effectually cure I the lumberman of any hungering lor newspaper noto riety. By the way, this yarn is letter true. The incident occurred in Texas." I'nrtucupue v*. Spaniard*. It is the custom of many Americans to think aud sjje.ik of tho Portuguese as if they were the same as Spanish. Ihe two peoples come of the same stock, it is true,but their resemblance is only superficial. Tho Portuguese lacks the diguity of bearing of the Spaniard; he is of e more sunshiny disposition, more "good natured," we should say. JIo is more indus trious and more willing to put hi* pride in his poi'kot. Ee o the Portu guese are a cleanly, thrifty, law-abid ing people. Though Portugal and Spain are neighbors, they are the re verse of fneuds. The Spaniards af fect to despise the Portuguese, aud tho Portuguese do not disxe üb'e their hatred of the Spaniards, a ha'red born of remembrances ol' the misrule Portu gal suffered when dominated by Spain. —Boston Transcript. Ah Automobile C itnm:tran. An arrangeme t is saifi to have been perfected by menus of which automo biles may be made to ride on the water. The floating portion of the apparatus consists of a catamaran, somewhat resembling a life-raft, ami on which the vehicle is placed. The modus op erandi then consists in throwing oil' a chain from a sprocket wheel that trans mits the power to the wheels of the horseless carriage, aud attaching it to another sprocket wheel that causes the propelling shaft between the two oyliuders to rovolVj at any desired •peed.
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