Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY-, BY TIIE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, LimM OFFICE: MAI> STREET ABOVE CEXTUE. FREELAND, PA. SUISSCIII*"ttOX KATES: One Year $1.50 biz Months 7-> four Months 50 Two Mouths .20 The Gate which tho subscription is paid to is on the address label of each pnper, the change of which to a subsequent date te ooines a receipt for remittance. Keep tin figures in advarico of the present date. Re port promptiy to thin office whenever papef w not received. Arrearages must be pah *hen subscription is discontinued. Make all moruy orders, checks, etc.,payable to the Tribu)ie Print in j Company, Limited. The gross earnings of 178 railroad* in 1899 were 51,'210,490,40(5, which shows an increase over 1898 of 8114,- f>G2,98(5, or nearly 101-2 per cent. In ♦his calculation 1G3,090 miles are rep resented out of a total about 191,000. Not many years ago it was consid ered ix wonderful achievement for 10 men to manufacture 48,000 pins in a day. Now three men turn out 7,- "00,000 pins in the same time, and his does not include the hatpins either. The last words of a man who was hanged in Canada tho other day were, "Good-bye, gentlemeu. I hope you will all learn to pray, so that you can meet me in heaven." It never oc curred to the magnificent egotist that ] erhaps the gentlemen would like to go to heaven for some other purpose. Copenhagen's crusade against rats has led to the formation in that city of a Bational Danish ltat Exterminating society, which organization has con structed, at considerable expense, a crematory for the bodies of the ro dents which it kills. The rats are said* to be dangerous carriers of dis ease germs,and it has been found dan gerous to the health of the city to bury them. We have all heard the story of the customer at the drug store who asked for trading coupons with a purchase of postage stamps, but the Kansas City Journal goes this one better. It eays that in Topeka candidates for municipal and county ofhYesgave trad ing stamps with their announcements. The first to do this was a candidate for probate judge an I others quickly followed suit. Tho Theatre Franca is, at Taris, which win burned the other day, was in reality a national institution of France, with centuries of venerated traditions clustered around it. Its support, was one of the concerns of state, and the maintenance of the great company of players attached to it—the "Couiedio Fraucaise" —enlist- ed tho earnest efforts of both influen tial public oilitrials and li'.joral private citizens. The company will soon be housed anew; but Paris will long miss tho century old edifice, with its manv <o! umned porticos, which through three generations had been the inspir ation of dramatic art in the world's art centre. Utilizing the wind as a stumn puller is an Oregon innovation. It was the idea of tho lariner at the state penitentiary, whose tusk was to clear tlie lir-timber from a sixteeu 2tc:e tract. lie was given the winter in which to clear six acres, but with the aid of tho wind ho cleared the whole tract in six weeks, although the timber was of a dense growth, tho firs measuring from one foot to four in diameter. Tho winds in that quarter blow strong from tlie south in the win ter. The farmer put his men at work on the north side of the fir-trees, and then cut the surface-roots of the trees that were to he felled. These prepa rations were made during the first day, and then the men went home and slept while tho wind did the rest. Daring the night a strong south wind blew the trees down, and they in fall ing across the logs pulled up the tap roots. Tho next day tho men sawed up tho fallen trees, burned the brush, and laid tlioir logs fur another lot of trees. They proceeded in this way until the whole grove had disappeared, fll\ Gold Field* In riilllpplnra American prospectors have searched the province of Bengtiet, in the Philip pines, and have found many paying gold fields. Igorrottes everywhere in the interior on high elevations are working good, small quartz veins, and in some places in very primitive style. Much territory belonging to the savage "head hunters" was never explored by the Spanish. Copper and gold, Iron and lignite are sure to be developed by the experts. Rich Igorrottes count their wealth in hundreds of ounces of cold LOVE AND SCIENCE. Bays Love: M Tt often makes me laugh When Science claims the telegraph, Or when sliosftys that sho alone More lately made a telephone. And now sho'.s ready to nspiro To send remarks without a wire! Al), Science! booby! don't you know You're some ten thousand years too slow! When primal man began to woo I tiled my claims ahead of you." 0030000000003003000300000^ § AN AMUSING WOMAN. I o o 00000300030033C030003QQ0C0 O diverted was Lucy Armitage even by her dearest friends xf the' she made j j )SI herself rather unpopular. Peo vS®--' liko her, but it was difficult when she was laughing at them, but without reservation they admitted that sho was the brightest girl iu town. So they made a great lamenting when sho left there with her family and went to Chicago. Lucy was sorry to leave the little town, too, when she found that she would be lamented. She began to attneh some importance to herself, a thiugshehad previously failed to do, because of all the absurd creatures in a world of ab surdity she had seemed the most ri diculous. If she had even enter tained an ambition, she laughed her self out of it. Her attitude toward herself, as well as toward tho world, v. as that of a mocker. And if amy of sentiment dared to find its way in to her liicntnl compound ska gave chase to it with derisive mirth. She did, whatever she attempted, well. Iu tho village there had been only the home duties to offer veut to her activity, and she excelledin these. When other girls blundered iu bread makiug Lucy turned out whito and featlicrly loaves. When experienced housewives fretted about the mo notony of faro Lucy invented new dishes. She could make dresses and embroider, and mow the lawn, and curry tho horse and drive a nail. Oddly euougli none of these things had satisfied her. They had not seemed worth while, and she had not been interested iu her own achieve ments. But when she got to Chicago, and found what an awful hurry every body was iu, she got in a hurry, too, though sho laughed all tho time at the senseless fret and rush aud decided to become a part of the breathless aud preposterous procession. Sho Weill around and looked at the city, aud made up tier mind about men, and women, aud business, and politics, and religion, with the splen did ease aud dogmatism of the young. She sent away a number of ardeut lovers. "Love?" said Lucy. "It's an illu sion. Any one over forty will tell you that." "But you are under twenty," said one of the protesting ones. "An accident " cried Lucy. "A mere blunder 011 my part. It will take me twenty years of my life to rectify it, and I shall be so busy doing it that [ really shall he able to think of noth ing else." To herself she said: "When I marry it shall bo for—for reasons of state, so to speak. I shall marry a capable, brilliant, physically perfect man. I believe in the survival of the fittest. I believe iu the selec tion of fspec : es. This girlish senti ment that entraps other girls shall not waylay me." And for once she did not know that she was amusing. One morning she awoke with an 1 idea. "I am going to he a nurse," she said. The more she thought of the idea tho better sho was pleased. For what other purpose had that magnifi cently strong body been given her? She felt as if she could radiate strength and courage. She was taken lor pro bation on tho merits of her general bearing aud intelligence. "But I am afraid you are too fond of excitement," the head nurse said, kindly. "Yon seem to have high (pirits. I fear you will not be able to stand tho discipline aud tho confine ment." But it seemed to Lucy the place for dgh spirits. It appeared to be, more- Yer, the most exciting of places—us Stirring and vital as a battlefield. Here were real tragedies, not mimic ones. Here was the actual heroism. Sho was interested to absorption. There was, moreover, plenty to laugh at—the pomposity of the doctors, tlie solemn reverence with which tliey re garded themselves even in tho face of outrageous blunders and erroneous diagnoses and futile experiments; the hypochondriacal whims of the patients; the dry sloughing off of all moral re sponsibility on tho part of the nurses, who came to regard themselves as automata sot in motion by the physi cians. This phase of the comedy huaianc was deliciously funny to Lucy. 8110 made herself both friends and enemies by her ill-advised merriment. "Doctors are absurd," she com mented frequently. "I have never seen anything so owlish and so in effective as doctors. The way they set up theories before which we ait fall prostrate, and the manner in 1 which they knock the same theories over presently, while we servilely ap- I pland, is truly entertaining. I am 1 glad I came." ! "Yon won't stay if you don't exer -1 cise more control of your tongue," one of tho truly obedient nurseH once 1 said to her. "Oh, well," said Lucy. "The cars i still run by the hospital. 1 can't get ' away." But for all her nonsense she was ' soon connted one the best probation ers the hospital had ever known. Her steadiness of nervo was remarkable. Her pulse was normal when she wit nessed or assisted at an operation. It seemed as if she could divest herself of her own personality entirely for the purpose of saving tho inert creature on tho operating table. Tho majority of life seemed a poem to her at such moments. To preserve at any cost the fragile, divine, mystic, elusive thing which all the science in the world could never synthesize seemed to her half godlike. The physicians gave her extravagant praise. "But still I do not like doctors," sho said. Sometimes she did not like patients, either. There was one old lady, for example, who never could divest her self of the idea that Lucy was a com mon servant, aud that whatever else she did sho must never sit down. One day the girl had been on her feet for hours waitiug upon the patient, rub bing her, feeding her and earing for her in fifty ways, and at length even her firm, young body ached in every bone. She dropped into a chair for a few moments of needed rest. "Miss Armitage," said tho queru lous voice of the old lady, "the room appears to me to be untidy. I wish you would pick it .p." Lucy looked over at the discon tented old creature and smiled toler antly. "Miss Coudry," she said, "never before have I been asked to do so dif ficult a thing," aud sat still. Miss Coudry had no suspicion that her phraseology was at fault, aud she reported the nurse. The head physi eiau interviewed hor on the subject. Lucy refrained from commenting up -011 the tyranny of the poor old hypo chondriac. Sho turned the matter with a jest. "I was asked to pick up tho room," she Baid. "I am not the magnetie strong girl, so I said I couldn't do it." The physician tempered his re proof. The month of probation over, Lticy was accepted, aud the first severe case committed entirely to her charge was that of a young doctor who had been severely injured in a railroad accident, aud ono of whose legs had undergone amputation. Tho caso was a bother some one. The young man did not gather strength as lie should have done, cousideriug his youth. Ho sank into a low fever, and drowsed along through life, week in and week out. Lucy stood by him loyally. She endeavored in every way to inspire him to make a fight for life. But for a long time she could arouse no in terest. At last she had an idea. "I will make him fall in love with me," she thought to herself. "It will do me no harm, aud it will help him to get well, and as soon as he is strong ngain he will forget all about it. The others always have." It was a silly comedy to play, but Lucy entered upon her role with en thusiasm. Sho was really a beautiful girl, but she seldom took time to re member it. Now she stuck a rose in her dark hair morniugs aud cap and aprou over her gray gown assumed an indefinable coquetry. She took pen sive attitudes and talked upon senti mental subjects. "What a procious guy I am making of myself," she ofteu chuckled iu the recesses of her naughty soul. "Of all the idiotic parts I ever assumed I have most cause to he ashamed of this!" But it jmoved to bo tho pre scription of which the young doctor stood iu need. Ho watched for her coming iu tho morniug. He hung up on every word, exulted in her spring ing, firm stop, was soothed into ex quisite peace by the touch of her cool whito hand upon his brow, aud when he felt tho grasp of hor two strong hands upou his in hours of pain, it seemed to him that with her by 110 would find strength to eudure any thing. "It will soon bo over," Lucy said to comfort her conscience. "And if I am clever porhaps I can get him away before he says anything to me." But clever as she was she did not succeed in her desire. One day Dr. liaison, convalescent, turned from tho contemplation of the passersby on tho street, and said imperatively: "Miss Armitage, come here." "Aren't your pillows right?" asked Lucy with feigned solicitude. She knew in her soul that the fatal hour had come. "My pillows are well. But I wish to say to you a thing you have been preventing mo from saying for days. You are a beautiful tyrnut, but I will not suffer tyrauuy, eveu from the beau tiful. I find upou consulting with my—with my physician, that I shall require your services indefinitely. I wan,t them as long as life lasts. I must takoyon away with mo. I must have you for my wife." Lucy had many times prepared in her mind the rebukes skat she would utter iu answer to these remarks. She would bring him to au understanding of the absurdity of tho thing. But this is what sho heard herself saying: "My ileal', dear, I kuew you could not do without me. Of course I couldn't think of leaving you." And this time when their hands clasped it was hers that were trembling. Then she laughed! She fairly shout od with laughter till the patients in the other rooms heard and smiled re sponsively. What mad absurdity. What n perversely amusing world! She would marry only a man of great physical superiority—sho hated phy sicians! And she had just kissed a one-legged physician, and promised to be his wife. "I was never so amused," cried Lucy. "You were never so amusing, my dear heart," said her lover.—Chicago Tribune. Hungary leads in glass jewel produc tion. | GOOD ROADS NOTES. I Need if ltetier lli];li\Ttiyi. EVERY owner of an automobile wants pood roads so that he may drive his horseless car riage over them. He is not selfish in this. The man with the hoe —the farmer— wants good roads so that he may bring his produce to mar | ket and his family and himself to the neighboring town with a loss expendi ture of time, wear anil tear, and trouble. In sections of the country where the farinor has good roads he (would not lose tnem for more than (their cost and go back to the old sys jtem of having to haul through the mud pnd over the stoues. He finds that •the value of-his property is increased, (and he can haul two—yes, three— times a greater load in less time to [market, and that he is richer and bet ter because of the good road which con nects his property with the neighbor ing town. In Europe the highway was built before the railway. It was their only means of communication until within the last sixty years. Af terward the railway came, and their system of highways was found so use ful that they have been kept up, and, indeed, improved. It has been claimed that we do not need better highways because of our excellent system of railways. This is absurd. Every pouud of freight which is carried by the railways, except such as is loaded at factories, quarries, mines, etc., at side tracks, must first be carried over our highways. Every passenger who travels on the railway must, to reach the railway, first pass over some portion of the highways. It can safely be said that the highways of this country carry more passengers and more freight than the railways, but of course for a shorter distance. General Roy Stone when lie wasEn gineer-in-Chief of the Department of Agriculture, said that the annual cost of hauling in this country over the highways was $946,414,665. General Stone estimated that nearly two-thirds of this vast expenditure is chargeable to the bad condition of the roads. Let us see what our neighboring Stutes linve done to improve their high ways. Several of them in the past few years have passed good roads laws. The following data of the amounts spent by the States and counties un der their good roads' law, aud the mileß of road improved is made up from returns of the authorities in the different States named: To. Miles. Amount. Mass Dec. 81, 189!) 27014 is, 137.000 New Jersey..Oct. 81, 1899 429>, 2,147,47s Connecticut.Dee. 31, 1899 200 1,289,000 900 $0,573.47S How does the great Empire State of New York compare with her sister States in this matter? Something over two years ago the Higbee-Arm strong bill for improving the high ways of this State became a law. Under it the Legislature has made two appropriations of $50,000 each. The State Engineer's office has ad vised me that up to October 1, 1899, the State and counties had expended $88,032 under this law, aud they had completoil seven and a half miles of road, and had seventeen miles in pro cess of construction. He reports since the Higbee-Armstrong bill wont into effect ho has received 121 peti tions for the improvement of high ways, aggregating about 625 miles; in other words, the counties and local people staud ready to pay their half of the cost of 625 miles of road, and all that remains is for the State to appropriate their half under the pro visions of the Highee-Armstrong bill. It has been estimated that there is something luoro than $3,000,060 a year spent in the State of New York in repairing the highways. The usual method of repairing roads is to plow up a ditch and scrape the silt, grass and roots which are there up ou the road. The fiist time thero is a hard I rain much of this goes back into the ditch and a very large part .of this an nual expenditure of over $3,000,000 is simply money thrown away. What does the State propose to do for good roads? They are littlo arteries which bring the blood of trade to the railways and the canals. If these arteries are poor and if the circula tion of trade is sluggish the useful ness of great railways nnil great canal systems of the State are greatly im paired.—Speech made iu New Y'ork by Albert B. Shattuck, Chairman of the Committee on Good Roads ot the Automobile Club of America. The Need ol Goo<l KomU. Good roads are a business necessity, not only to the farmer, but to every municipality, industry and enterprise, : and all would bo equally benefited by improved highways. This proposi tion is not without supporting evi dence, which can be accumulated in abundance. The farmer who must haul to a distant market the products of his acres finds that such transporta , tion is excessively expensive in time and labor involved and in the main tenance of vehicles and beasts of burden. All this increases the selling cost of the product, without conferring any compensating benefit upon any body. Consumers everywhero are thus compelled to pay a heavy fine for neglect of road improvement. On the contrary, if the public roads should be made solid, smooth aud of easy grade hauls from the farm to the preferred market would be rendered of shorter duratiou and physically less difficult and the stock and vr®iicle account would be shortened, Thcso facts are so obvious that they ought to appeal forcefully to every progrestive citizen. Philadelphia Record. The Ronil Inquiry Iturenu. For several years the Department of Agriculture has maintained an office of road inquiry, upon which devolved the duty of circulating and collecting information regarding the good roads I movement iu this country. The office has had only a small appropriation; sc small, iu fact, that contributions foi its support havo had to be made bj those interested in its maintenance. Argentina Getting Inlerented. The appearance of the automobile in Buenos Ayres has beeu the signal for a good roads agitation throughout j the Argentine Republic. The Argen tine Touring Club has beeu organized, and roads exclusively reserved for bi cycles and light automobiles are al ready iu course of construction. A NOTABLE CO-OPERATIVE SUCCESS. Keuinrknble A**ocintioii of Farmer* Near Kockwell, lowa. Notable among co-operative suc cesses is that of an association oi farmers near Rockwell, lowa. It has ; rounded its eleventh year ot existence, | and the past year was the most suc cessful of the eleven. It is a wonder to farmers who are not members of it, and it is a thorn in the flesh of the grain-buyers. It had its origin in the dissatisfaction of the farmers over the price they received for their grain and j hogs from the one purchaser with whom i dealings were convenient. At the start ninety-five farmers took stock in the enterprise at $1 a share, the maxi mum limit of individual holdings being three shares. The members were always paid one-quarter of a cent more lor their wheat thau theseller outside the society, and the association, to protect itself from the allurements of higher prices paid by competing elevators, compelled its members to pay one quarter of a cent commission in case the grain was sold to a competitor. The result has been that the Rockwell elevators have paid always one-half ceut to one and a half cent higher than any other elevators in the coun ty. Efforts to disrupt the organiza tion have beeu made, of course, but the only effect thus far was to anger tie members aud to lead them a step further in the co-operative idea. The association now sells coal, salt, flour aud other supplies to its members at prices which defy local competition. From a beginning of uiuety-tive mem bers and less than 200 shares of stock, the association has grown to nearly 500 members, representing GOl shares. From a first year's business of prob ably less than $50,000, the year just closed has shown a business of a half million dollars, and increase in the past year of $185,000. This year, too, they have addod auother elevator, have added 125 new members, de clared a dividend of SGI23, and have a surplus of over S7OOO iu the treas ury.—New York Post. WORDS OF WISDOM. Do not bo ashamed of being big hearted and ambitions to improve yourself in body and mind. Remem ber that one of the best ways of self improvement is being of service to others who need help. The lines on which wo think most earnestly and continuously will de cide our main desires, our hopes, our motives, our actions, our characters. A happy marriage depends much more ou a good, loving, patient char acter than all the circumstances of time, place and money combined. A more glorious victory cannot bo gained than this: that when the injury begins on his part, the kimluess should begin on ours. Be content with doing with calm ness tiio little which depends upon , yourself, and let ail else be to you as . if it were not. A twinge of the conscience doesn't 1 trouble most of us half so much as a j twinge of the toothache. Hope is like the sun, which,fas wo journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. Wondrous is the strength of cheer i fulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. It is so much easier for a genuine humorist to amuse others thau to even satisfy himself. To him nothing is possible who is always dreaming of his past possibil ities. Equal parts of love and sense make the world go round on the square. An Awkwuril Name. lie was dressed like a farmer, and he looked inquiriugly at the clerk behind the eonnter of the chief post- j office, and pointed pantomimically to a bundle of letters the latter was sort ing. "What name?" asked tho clerk. "Louder," said the farmer. The clerk repeated his query in a loue calculated to startled even a dead j mail. But the man only smiled an | uumeauiug smile, aud said: "Louder." j The clerk took a long breath, aud i | tho yell that came out was loud enough to wake the dead. "No offence, sir, I hope? Yes, that's my name—Louder, sir." "Oh, ah!" said the clerk quite softiy. "I never thought of that. | Yes; here's a letter." l>a<lly Shell* Now Used. The ordinary shell which was manu factured thirty years ago only broke iut-o from twenty to twenty-five pieces when it burst. At tho present time it bursts into 210, while a shrapnel shell, which used to scatter thirty seven missiles, now scatters 340. A present-day bomb, charged with peroxylene, breaks up into 1200 pieces, and it is estimated that it would effectively kill any one stand ing within twenty yards of tho ex plosion. Tho Average Woman's Letter. A woman's letter that is puuotuated decently is as raro as a picture of a college girl's room that hasn't a banjo stack np somewhere in Bight. —New York Press. I WOMAN'S WORLD. | PARASOL PRETTINESS. riio New Sunshades Are l£leg;itnt In Nliaite, Material and Coloring. When it comes to the new parasols one's pen almost fails, such is their in Unite variety and so many more now ideas are there than there were last season. They may be divided into three classes—the utility ones) the regulation sun umbrella, to go with an ordinary gown; the long-handled, fussier oues, to be carried with elab orate cloth or silk gowns; and, lastly, the distingue kind of lace, appliquet, chithn and pleatings, marvelously elaborate and elegant as to shape, material and variety of colorings. The erstwhile familiar coaching parasol has a formidable rival this year in a similar kind, only with one or two points of difference, termed the automobile parasol. This is of per fectly plain silk, of any desired shade, only, of course, Damo Fashion has first say, and decrees that one shade shall be smarter than all others, but you may choose what you like. Last summer exclusive women chose either a green or a purple coaching parasol; this year the proper automobile sun shade is cither red or purple. They have a wooden handle like the coach parasol, but it is medium iu size, not so short or so thick as formerly. A tiny ruche of white Liberty silk, put ou so as to fall over the edge, is some times used ou the automobile parasol, but a coaching one is uuiversally very plain, therefore making a most con sistent accessory for a tailor-made gown. One must not mistake because these parasols are so plain that they are inexpensive. Au contraire, they only come iu the high-priced Kinds, but they are so useful, serving on so many diflereut occasions, that really they are cheap in the end. Care should be exercised in their selection, as unless it is a good silk they very soon crack, and then all is over, of course. The curved and the square shapes are developed in mauy of the second class of parasols mentioned above, the latter shape being very new, and olteu made up of one of the recently iutroduced silk squares, with plain centre and fancy border, or vice versa. The result is extremely effec tive, especially those of Persian color ings, with the same color and white carried out iu the border; these are dainty and pretty enough to be en tirely consistent with almost any gown. Of course, the greatest elaboration and variety of ideas is shown in the lace and chiffon parasols, as here greater scope is had, these materials lending themselves to DO much greater diversity of design in the way •of tuckings, pleatings, ruohings, ap pliques, etc. Eccentric might almost he applied to the mode of fashioning ifioine of them. For instance, there is a centre tucked or plaited chiffon 01 lace over a silk lining, then around this a lace inserting, then a band to match the centre, then ouo or two lace ruffles. Entire accordion-plaited chif fon or lace paiasols over transparent linings are new and handsome, but as a useful sunshade, leave much to be desired. The parasol introduced last sum mer, consisting of rows of tucks of Liberty silk or chiffon over a thiu lin ing to match, is still very smart, but must match the gowu in shade, or at least match the trimmings. This sun shade is extremely pretty, either open or shut. Very light colors, white or black, arc the only shades in which it is made, ami the bottom tuck is made wide enough to fall over; it is nevor linished with a laco or chiffon ruffle. Very handsome and elaborate para sol handles arc the fad of the season, and where expense is not considered many most expensive and original de signs are used. Gold or silver-tipped ouos are quite usual, some of these being oven further embellished with small colored stones, or made of some thing like malachite or lapis lazuli. Coral or ivory exquisitely carved is the newest and most beautiful, but necessarily proportionately expensive. Women anil Forestry. The lovers of trees will all be glad that young women iu colleges are tak ing lessons itt forestry. Report says that iu the University of Washington, at Seattle, sixty young women have taken the lectures in forestry during the last four years; eleven have done the same thing iu the University of Nebraska. In the college of forestry at Cornell thecourses are strictly pro fessional, and are intended for the in struction and training of mauagers of forest properties. Whilo no women have been admitted to that depart ment, a special course designed to give general information ou the sub ject is open to them, aud iuterost is growing iu it. Professor Maria Sanford, of the Minnesota State University, has been hard at work for the last tifteen years frying to save the forests of jortheru Minnesota from the covetous hands of lumber contractors. Her eil'orls, with the help >of Colonel John S. Cooper, have prevailed with the Government to sot nside a tract of virgin timber between the head waters of the Miss issippi aud the Rod River of the North as a rorest reserve, with the name of 11-isca Park. Through the influence of the women who took up the matter of planting ami cultivating trees on College Hill, Cincinnati, a dilapitated locality has become attractive, and prooerty in that section has advanced twenty-live per cent, in valuo in two or three years. In New Jersey, Miss Vermilye, in an address before the State Federa tion of Women's Clubs, brought for ward the importance of an intelligent understanding o.' forestry. All such efforts are laudab'e, and the women's clubs throughout the country should extend hoping ha ids towards the all too small company -if tree-lovers. Ar bor Day in schools, tree-planting iu honor of great men and women, all these exercises work for good, yet there should always be a strong effort made to awaken an intelligent as well as sentimental regard.—Spring held Republican. Iletweeu Two (Jneena. It is said that young Queen Wilhel mina has offendod her friend, Queen Victoria. She has espoused the side of the Boers aud made indiscreet re marks about the English. Wilhel miua is warra-hearted, impetuous and very fond of Wilhelmiua'a way. Queou Victoria has written her mauy letters of affectionate adviee, and when urged to marry Wilhelmina has found it con venient to quoto the Queen of Eng land, who reigned several years as a virgin Queen. But Wilhelmina has not accepted the many invitations of Victoria to go to Windsor on a visit. She has replied evasively aud put off the visit each time it was proposed. Tho great lady of Windsor has never beou treated in sueh a manner before, and she has known four generations of European potentates. As her majesty grows older she becomes more and more particular about the ob servance of all rules of etiquiette, and she is pained and surprised at the modern independence of tho youth ful Queen of the Netherlands. But Wilhelmina is neither a grandchild of Victoria nor a scion of the house of llauovor, so she cannot be scolded.— New York Commercial Advertiser. Grace Culture. A woman who has improved a natur ally ungraceful figure says that it has been accomplished by remembering every time she is required to stand to lift herself upon her toes aud let her self down gently, leaving her weight upon the balls of her feet, iustead of upon her heels. "When this is done," she says, "it is not necessary to think of chin or shoulders. She has learned to walk in this way, and says that her feet grow less tired than formerly, be cause the portion of her foot which was intended to bear the weight is in proper use. A glance at tho position of the arch of the instep will prove that tho body's weight was never intended to rest upon the heels, and the habit of throw ing it there accounts for weak backs aud kindred ills. Tlie I.one Clialn. The present popular way of wear ing tho long chains of pearls or corals is in a single loop about the throat aud a second loop tipped with a pen dant hanging to the edge of the gown. Frills of Fashion. Belt buckles covered with suede in its natural color, and ornamented with steel, jet or turquoise, are one ol the novelties. It is said that in England khnk eloth has attained considerable promi ueuee as a fabric for fashioning almost everything, from slippers to costumes. A freak of fancy or fashion, as the case may be, is haud-paiutecl flowers 011 gauze, silk and suede, all of which are used for trimmiug gowns and hats as well. Tho new hats show very decided crowns, more or less high. Plaited straws are in evidence, and choux of tulle, wings, fruit aud flowers are favorato decorations. Heliotrope and pale blue are colors that have been seou iu combination for some time, and in the latest hats piuk in a pale shade is seen combined with the other two colors. Among the foreign novelties shown in tho shops is a lino of illuminated silk aud wool orepou effects. There are two designs in six colors, and in every instance tho black yarn is thrown to the surface to produce a crepon effect. Due of tho things which may bo at tached to the nook chain Or chatelaine is a gold buttonhook for gloves. The new ones open aud olose like a pocket knife, and when handsomely engraved or studded with jewels are both ele gant aud costly. Among the novelties in silks that have met with favor are satin Liber ties printed in Poi'Hiau designs of pastel coloring, Foulards have not lost ground, and bid fair to score tho success that was predicted for thorn at the opening of the season. Mauy new crepe ties are in, in all tho different shades—pink, blue, red, white and heliotrope. Some of them ore fringed, some appliqued with lace, and some embroidered, whilo others are hemstitched. The white, pink and blue will wash well, and possibly the other shades. Tho new jackets are very short and finished with rows of stitching or very narrow piping with Btitoliing above. Some of them are double-breastod, with handsome buttons for a finish. Eaton coats are shaped down below the waist line in front and aro quite short in the back. Pretty silk waists, not intended for the tab, come in plaids, divided by Valoueieuues lace insertion; in white and pale blue, embroidered with black spots, aud iu almost as great a variety of designs as tho more elab orate separato waists that havo beon worn throughout tho winter. Women who have long necks will oertainly welcome the latost fashion which, by the way, is only the re vival of a fashion which was in vogue raanyyeais ago—of wearing a velvet neckband, the wider it is the better, so it is understood that, at the present moment, the longer your neck the better. These neckbanks frequently match the dress with which they are worn, but in many cases they are of black velvet.
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