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Nothing could more clearly show the close relations existing between Secre tary Gage and the Wall street spec ulators, and the absolute control of this administration by the money kings, than the manner In which Secretary Gage went to the rescue of the Wall street crowd, by purchasing $25,000,000 worth of government bonds. Not two hours before the order was ofliclally , Issued to buy those bonds, Secretary Gage assured newspaper men that no j bonds would be bought. Later he re- j ceived his orders from Wall street, and | promptly obeyed by ordering a purchase of bonds. When the Wall street gang squeezes the public, the government never goes to the relief of the public, but let the screws be turned a few times on the big speculators, and the treasury dumps a big wad of public money into Wall street to ease the pinch, and the gullible public is expected to accept the statement that it is a patriotic act, done to prevent a financial panic, when it is well known that it is really done to prevent loss on the part of the big spec ulators, who do not hesitate to make situations threatening a money panic whenever they think it profitable to do so, because of their knowledge that the United States treasury is behind them. There will come a time—it will have to come—when Wall street speculators will not dictate the actions of the United States treasury, but it will not come until there is an administration in power which does not owe its election to money put up by tho great spec ulators of the country. There will be a chance to'elect such an administration next year. 1 I X Representative Richardson, of Ten nessee, is the first one of the four can didates for the Democratic nomination for speaker of the house, which carries with it the Democratic Moor leadership during the Fifty-sixth congress, to reach Washington and open head quarters. Mr. Richardson says he has received more pledges of support than any one of the other three candidates— Rankhead, of Alabama: De Armond, of Missouri, and Sulzer, of New York— and expresses confidence in his success, but the friends of the other candidates also express confidence of the success of their man in this good-natured contest for the Democratic leadership in the house. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, has not yet reached Washington, but he stated during the last session that he would not again be a candidate, but would support Mr. liankhead for the honor. Some are predicting that then will be a deadlock in the caucus and that the friends of all the candidates will compromise by nominating Mr. Bailey again. X X t In order to get control of the senate finance committee, of which a majority have for years been silver men, even since the committee was controlled by the Republicans, the gold worshippers are going to reorganize the senate com mittee, giving the Republicans nine merabers in those consisting of thirteen and seven in those consisting of eleven. Even then the gold men will only have a majority of one in the finance com mittee, as Jones, of Nevada, classed as a Silver Republican, and Wolcott, of Colorado, who calls himself a Republi can bimetallist, can be counted upon to act with the silver men on the question of reporting a bill to enact the single gold standard. Unless Mr. McKinley gets frightened by those Republicans, | who, although willing to vote for a gold standard bill if compelled to do so, be lieve it will be bad policy to pass one on the eve of a presidential campaign, such a bill is likely to be jammed through at this session of congress. X X X If there were any doubt about Repre sentative Henderson having been the administration's choice for speaker, it would have been dissipated by what has occurred since his arrival in Washington. Almost before he had removed the dust of travel from his clothes, he called at the White House to know whether Mr. McKinley had any orders to giyo as to the committee assignments, aside from tho packing of the committee on bank ing and currency in favor of the single gold standard bill, which was ordered last summer. Mr. Henderson is going to be a McKinley speaker, and this house, instead of registering the will of C/.ar Reed as the last one did, will reg ister the will of Mr. McKinley. Drifton shops are rushed with orders and the employes are working consider able overtime. THE REALM OF STYLE PRACTICAL NOTES ON ATTIRE FOR OLD AND YOUNG. How to Remodel Old Gowns This Sea son—Dress for Everyday and for Parties —Suggestions for Children's Dresses—Hints About the Hair. (New York Fashion Letter.) I Crabbed Alexander Pope showed his ' knowledge of the vagaries of fashion, ; when he penned his famous lines of ! advice: j "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, j Nor vet the last to lay the old aside." ; So the wise virgin who has not al i ready ordered her winter wardrobe, is now able to take advantage of the | more settled styles, j Unless you can have many gowns. don't have your winter frock made i with a habit skirt. Choose rather the J latest model, which fits as closely about the hips but lias two box pleats ! in the back. The pleats turn under and are stitelied for a few inches, be low which they fall in a graceful fan like folds, quite becoming to the aver age woman. It is an easy matter to remodel old gowns this year. Of course, the amount of work depends on the original cut. One five gored skirt was made into a habit skirt by simply taking out the two back gores and allowing the su perfluous soutache braid to outline the seam in the middle of the back. Another skirt which had the but toned placket in the buck was easily remodeled by simply making a narrow single box pleat in the back, outside instead of inside. A pink taffeta waist was made as good as new by the addition of a few yards of wide fancy ribbon with a black edge. The ribbon was adjust ed to simulate a bolero. It was laid in tine box pleats, starting from the uude*' arm scam, and following the arm hole to the shoulder seam, who e it was fastened. The rihbou was then brought in folds from the shoulder to the waist, terminating iu a bow. A high stock of the ribbon made a really handsome waist. Speuking of stocks, there is an al most endless variety to choose from, beginning with the simple ribbon and ending in tho fluffy combinations of chitfjiu and lace that are so universal ly becoming. Most of the scarfs have very high stocks ending in points in the back, while the knot and cuds ure of vari ous tfhapes and materials. Crepe de chine is the most popular material for neck sashes made to go twice around the neck before tying, while the favorite colors are the "pas tel" shades. The children come in for their share of finery and the exorbitant sum asked by u fashionable dressmaker for u single frock of a schoolgirl, would enable many a mother who makes her own little girl's dresses to buy a good outfit for the winter. So overdressed are some little maid ens that a few schools have sent out word that they will not allow their pupils to be attired extravagantly. For everyday wear, gored wool skirts, mude plain or trimmed with rows of bruid are worn with tlanuel shirt waists. For parties, dresses of fine lawu, trimmed with lace are used, and the all silk frocks are worn on many . occasions. A little maid of six years was critically comparing a tan covert (loth box coat, beautifully stitched with a red cloth one made with flar ing skirt and broad cape collar. The little witch knew as well as the sales woman which was tho later style. Boys from three to six years wear Dewey suits of navy blue broadcloth, trimmed in full military style with braid and brass buttons, and the long sleeved, double-breasted coat, cap and long trousers make them look like Lil liputian soldiers. Boys older than six combine many of their fathers' styles with their knee pants and straight (no more blouses) tucked waists, leaf her belts ami stand-up linen collars, which must he "done up" at the laundry along with papa's are now quite necesary ad juncts to the young man's toilet. But to go back to the grown-ups. It is rumored that just as we have all succeeded in getting refractory locks in the proper condition required by the pompdaour roll, the edict is said to be coming from Paris which will Insist upon a woman parting her hair iu the middle. Such visions as this rumor calls forth none but a woman whose hair has been rolled back for nearly two years, and who has tried to get a pretty even, white part, can under stauil. The hair will obstinately persist in not staying parted, and really the only remedy which seems to be left to the would be up to date woman is to go i to bed with her hair carefully parted and plenty of bandoline, and then she will have to wear something tied tight around her bead, until the refractory tresses take unto themselves the de sired parting. Long before the pompadour goes we shall all be wearing poke bonnets irre spective of the color of our hair or the shape of our faces, since our American duchess has brought the quaint shape! into fashion again. Hers is made of black velvet and bus hand-painted roses scattered over both the crown and brim. in the di rect front of tho bonnet, nodding over the poke, are four black ostrich tips.! There are long streamers of pink Lib erty gauze, which are both caught .to the bonuet in the back with a little bunch of pink rosebuds, and then are brought around and tied under the chin in a big fluffy, captivating bow. '1 he poke is faced with shirred pink Liberty gauze. AGNES ALCOTT. ' | COST OF PRESENTATION. Enormous Expense Attached to This Ceremony. It costs more to make one's debut In England than in America, for over there a girl is not properly introduced till she has been presented at court, and the cost of launching a daughter in society is something to drive impe cunious fathers into a lunatic asylum. One girl who came up from her Berk shire home to be presented last spring lias given an account of what she en dured, and what her father's pocket book suffered. First, a large, aristo cratic and handsomely furnished house was rented in London for the season—nearly everyone rents his town house now—and a big rent charged. Then begau the work of laying in a wardrobe. This girl first made a visit to n place where corsets are made to order. She had a pretty figure, but madame in- i slsted that she must have an eighteen inch waist to be beautiful. She was measured and fitted for riding, opera and ordinary corsets, and the bill mnic to SIOO. Twenty-five pairs of the smartest boots and slippers added to the bills. A score of pretty hats, to go with various dresses, made a big hole in s.">oo, and three times the amount went to the dressmaker. A riding hab- ! it cost SSO, a bicycle suit the same, ' and several dozen pairs of gloves to match were no small item. The presentation dress cost SOOO, I though it was plainly made of exquis- ! ite white satin broclie. For a fee of sls a lady came and taught the young woman the court bow, the way to courtesy and carry her train. This was hard work for a debutante, and she said she was as tired after an after noon with her teacher as though she had spent all the time on the golf links. And after all the time and trou ble it was but a few brief seconds she i spent, in the royal presence. But she; was properly launched aud happy.— Kansas City Star. A Misses' Wrapper. When the school-girl comes home at night, she should have a wrapper in place of the more uncomfortable ; school dress. This ilustration shows a pretty one with two collars and gath ered at the waist with a belt of rib bon. What Women Are Doing. Miss Allot; Serbcr, of New York, who is the first Russian woman ad mitted to the bar in the United States, has been admitted to practice in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York—the first woman ever granted this privilege. Miss Serbcr lias been in i this country for eight years and was admitted to the Stale bar in 1800, af ter being graduated from the New York University Law School. She was; born in Bar, Russia, and when she came to this country in 1801 could not speak English. But in a little* while she mastered the language, and within five years had completed her law) course. She then served as maimg ing clerk with Miss Rosalie Loew and David Solomon. Now she is in busi ness for herself. Dr. Rose Kidd Beere. the Red Cross! nurse who returned to Denver with the Colorado regiment, says: "I re joice iu the fact that California worn-1 I en are not club women. I rejoice, be- j j cause they have had time to be patri | otic. Every returned volunteer will i bear roe out in tills—there are no wom en iu the world to equal California women. At the biennial here we thought that because only two clubs from California were represented that the women in that state must be be nighted indeed, because they were not club women. Thank God they ure i not." Mrs. Mary Grinned Men re, -who has been returned to the Presidency of the New York State Assembly of Mothers, combines personal charm with execu tive ability. She is a fluent speaker and an untiring worker. It is large ly owing to her efforts that the as sembly has reached its present promi nence. Mrs. .Hears is the wife of the Rev. Dr. D. O. Meal's, of Albany. Miss May me Jester, probably the on ly female press agent in America, is i a niece of Buffalo Bill, with who.-e show she Is. She was in the uews | paper business in Duluth. Minnesota, ! when she talked her uncle, as she puts it. into trying her as a press representative. She got along so well! that she has been || body at bmrt neck, "■ xB Beautiful Pluh Cape to you by express, oo . ® anil nation. You on your expresn office a if found perfectly satisfactory, ex uctly us This Circular Plush Cape ,'o'f nmt't Half, sral Flush, JO in, lies long, cut full sweep, lined throughout with Jlereerlxe.l Hilfc In bl rk, blueor red. \ erv elaborately embroidered with aoutaeha braid and black beading as illustrated. Trimmed all around with extra line Black Thibet Fur, heavily interlined with wadding and fiber chamois. Write for free Cloak < ataloffue. Addreaa, SEARS. ROEBUCK & CO., CHICAGO (beara. Roebuck Ai Co. are thoroughly reliable.—Editor.) P. F. McNULTY, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER. 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