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MINES AND MINERS.
Salt Mining in British Columbia.—Avorago
Cost ot Coal in the United Stater.
The Coal Production.
It is likely that salt mining may in
the early future be added to the indus
tries ot British Columbia. A Vancouv
er syndicate has properties on Salt
Spring island, in the Gulf of Georgia,
which not only show good indications ;
of coal, for which borings are being !
made, but also contain valuable salt
springs.
Ihe average cost of coal per ton at
the pit head in the United States is giv- j
en on a computation based on the re- i
turns for 1890 as 45 per ton, a-i i
compared with 5s iuj jd in the United
Kingdom, Os nd in Germany, 7s yd in j
Belgium, Ss 8d in France, 5s 91! in New
South Wales, 10s in New Zeaiand and a j
fraction over 5s in Japan. If, therefore,
American coal owners can scarcely yet I
hope to break, with any profit to them- :
selves, the proverbial record of "sending
coals to Newcastle" they have still oth
er countries open to them. As competi-
British coal sellers arc already be- '
ginning to feel more severely than may
lie pleasant the presence of American 1
coal in markets in which English coai I
lias hitherto been supreme.
in spite of continued effort to in
crease the efficiency of engines and
boilers the progress of invention is such
that coal is becoming each year a more
and more important article of com
merce, says the Chicago News. So
short a time ago, viewing the history of
the world, as 1831. the annual coal pro
duction of Great Britain was 24,000.000
tons; for the year 1901 the coal produ.;- ■
tion will probably be 240.000.000 tons,
an increase of 1,000 per cent.
In 1831 the population of Great Brit
ain was 24,000,0 >0 and the next census,
1901, will probably show about 40.000,-
ono in that country, an increase of 66 2-3
:er cent, in 70 years. Therefore the
1 roduction of coal has increased from
' 'e ton per capita to six tons, and the
rate of increase has been fifteen times as
great as the rate of increase in popula
te ■;!. In IS4O the pn duction of bitumin
■ us coal in the Ui it< d States was be
uv en 1.000.000 and 2.000,000 tons, and
the production of anthracite was 1,000,-
coo tons—say a total of 2.500.000 tons,
says the Engineering Magazine. At
that time the population of the country
was 17.000.000, so that there was prob
ably less than one -ixlh of a ton used
per capita.
Compare that with the present ton
nage of 220.000,000 and a population ap
proximately 75.000,000, and it will he !
seen that America is now using per cap
ita eighteen times as much coal as she
did 60 years ago. In fact, since 1890 the
per capita increase has been 50 per
CYCLING NOTES.
The bicycle tax in France last year
was collected 011 838,856 wheels.
One firm has turned out a convert 1- :
ble bicycle which may be used with or '
without a motor.
Forty miles in an hour on a bicycle
is a record made at Brockton, Mass.,
by Will C. Stinson.
Little lias been said so far by manu
facturers of bicycles as to the* output, ■
price and models for next season.
Some people arc of the opinion that
the ideal bicycle has been made, ami
that material improvements are out of;
the question.
The agents of the bicycle manufac- j
turers returning from long trips over j
the country report that trade is good ,
along the line.
One manufacturer has already ar \
flounced his prices for next season, j
His chainless wheel will retail at S6O,
the racer at SSO, light roadster at .S4O,
and ordinary roadster at $35.
Jimmy Michael, the cycler, has de
feated Eddie McDuffee at Chicago. Be
sides riding all around his old enemy,
Jimmy broke five records. The broken
records were those made by Johnny
>< -on for the second, third, fourth,
fifth and sixth miles.
Probably the majority of makers will
strive to reduce the weight of the'r
wheels for next year. Many of the
makers, however, are giving more at
tention at this time to the perfection
of their motor tricycles than they are
to the regulation bicycle.
A rider who has experimented with
different sizes of tires in relation to
cyclometer accuracy has figured that
with , tire one and three-eighth inches
in limeter there is a shortage of a
fifth 1 one mile in every ten, and with
an h and a half tire there is two
fifihs of a mile shortage in ten. while
with a otic and a quarter tire the cy
clometer measures accurately, provid
ed the rims arc of the correct diameter,
AS lu> were
In China the silver tael is the mone
tary unit, but its value varies in the
different cities. For instance, at Che
foo, on July 1. 1900, it was worth 67.8
cents, while at llnikwan it was worth
72.1. The Ilaikan tacl is that used in
the official statistics.
The Chinese boy's ambition is to be
come a civil magistrate. Even servants
save money to educate/ their sons with
this aim.
ANY TIME-BUT NOW:
Twr.s his delight, Then time stole on
By day and night, Till years were gone.
On cent per cent, to dwell; And lie kept growing old.
And then his dreams Jlis lack in life—
Were filled with schemes, No love, no wife—
To better buy and sell. At length made vain his gold.
"There's time enough Though now he sighs,
To think of love The fair one flies,
W hen business will allow. Nor heeds his fervent VOT.
I'll take a wife, "The time to mate."
To bless my life. Says mocking Fate.
Oh! any time—but now!" "Is any time -but now!"
—Hunter McCidloch, in Puck.
|1 The Courage of a Coward. 1
sjS-3 By Edwin J. Park.
eroS
"j- ERIIY ROBINSON, took on in
I the navy iu 1898, partly be
pl cause lie was and
partly because he had got tired
of packing up and down from Portland
to Philadelphia in a coastwise schoon
er which ear. 1 coal iu one direction
and lime in the other.
Jerry had been on the coastwise
hookers three years, long enough for
the habits of tho farm from which
he came to bo superseded by those
of the deep sea sailor man, and to get
him shipped as an ordinary seaman
when lie appeared before the recruit
ing officer.
We got Jerry at Newport, when he
and a miscellaneous assortment of am
ateur and professional tlatfeet came
over the side of tho Columbia, which,
with the Minneapolis, was cruising off
the Massachusetts coast, looking for
j an often reported but never seen Span
ish squadron.
| Some of the outfit we took aboard !
were ordinary landsmen, and didn't |
j pretend to be any thing else; a few of
j tlieni professed to have been sailors, ;
1 and then gave themselves away by |
talking about going upstairs and down- |
stairs, aild referring to tin "front" and I
1 "hind" ends of the boat instead of I
' saying "fore" and "aft," and it took j
110 time at all for the sh'p's company, '
! especially that part of it composed of
Mulligans, and most of the Columbia's
crew was made up of Mulligans, to
| rate the recruits for just what they
! were. Mostly they were of that de
-1 gree of inexperience which classed
them as "farmers," and a "farmer"
aboard ship is tho "'rookie" of the
i ranks of the army, a thing to despise
and be picked on and generally liial- j
treated by the rest of the outfit, and ■
especially the Mulligan part of it, un
til after great humiliation of spirit and
countless hard knocks they have been '
haltered into a semblance of real sail- J
ors.
Jerry Robinson, as I have said, had
learned enough of the sea 011 the hook
ers to distinguish port from starboard;
he could coil down a rope as neatly
and snugly as the chief bo'suu's mate
himself, and he cou.d splice a hawser
until it took an expert to tell when l
the work had been done; and still he (
was woefully ignorant, of a whole lot j
of things that bad to be done on a j
warship and of the tenets of the eti- j
quette which prevailed on the beixli
deck.
One of the unwritten rules forward
is that a recruit aboard ship can never
have a good standing with his ship
mates until he has whipped the first
one of them who tries to give him or
ders, or, failing in that, has given him
as desperate a light as his strength j
and science will allow.
It is equally its important that a new
man shall refuse to obey orders given
by any member of the crew who in
not a warrant officer or who has not I
a rating, because the old shellback |
have from time immemorial, an.l j
; doubtless will always continue it, had j
a habit of issuing orders to new men, '
: and making tlieni do the extra work
1 which falls to the part of the old i
! hands.
It being a time of war, and every
body being keyed up to the fighting l
pitch when the draft came aboard tli •
Columbia, made 110 perceptible dif
! ference in tho treatment of the new
crowd received.
j Some of tlieni, of course, refused to
obey the orders of tlioir equals iu rank,
and fought them down in coal bunk
ers with so much willingness and eu
• thusiasm that they speedily estab
lished themselves in good and regular
standing with their shipmates, al
{ though they did not know enough
j about the ship to hurt them any. Prac
| tically every one of the draft, except
Jerry Robinson, had had his light or,
maybe, several fights, before the end
of a month, and had been assigned to
his special class; but Robinson had not
fought.
He was a close mouthed, quiet fel
low who had nothing to say out of
the way to any one, and not much to
say at nil, and Mike Brady, one of the
most obstreperous of the A. TVs gave
it out one night that he had made
Robinson polish his share of the brass
work that morning, and that there
after he, Brady, was going to take life
easy and let his hired man do his
work.
That was an invitation to go down
in an empty coal bunker and light it
out with fists, for Robinson heard it,
and he knew what it meant; but he
wouldn't fight.
"I don't want any trouble with you,"
he said, as he looki d out to sea; and so
Mike Brady told him that he was a
coward, and the rest of tho mess set
Robinson down as a quitter ,and avoid
ed and looked down en him accord
ingly.
Thereafter he was rvoided, and 1
though be attended to bis duties faith
fully, and improved i his usefulness
so that he was rated an able seaman
at the end of a year, he had no friends
aboard.
; The Columbia saw no fighting during
1 the war, and when Dewey, ut Manila.
.'iiid Sampson, at Santiago, liad sent
the Spanish warships to join the sub
i marine fleet of war vessels, and the
crews of our own vessels began to
get shore leave, there was no one in
the l each parties to chum with Robin
son, and he was left alone when he
hit the beach to look out for himself.
Long confinement aboard ship had
made the crews feel like making pret-!
ty free with themselves when they
were on the beach, and most of the
men were entered on the liberty boo* j
as "D.and D.,"v hicli means drunk and
dirty, when they tumbled over the rail,
and also got them marked down for
close quarter fo* six months. Robin
son had a "clean and sober" after his
name every time 011 the liberty book,
and the men hated him for that, too.
They liated him worse than ever
when they found him in a draft for
the Oregon, which was going out to
1 Manila, and the hatred was deepened
! when he got a rating as gunner's
| mate.
| Robinson showed no airs when
he got his rating badge, but attended
j strictly to business, as he always had
j done, and still the other men would
! have nothing to do with him. He was
j easy to get along with, too easy to
I suit the rest of the crew, for he
' wouldn't fight, and they felt he was
a coward, but in some way most of
them had a certain feeling of respect
for him which they couldn't define.
Some of this feeling crystalized
when rat Flaherty, a coal passer in
the second watch, came 011 deck for
a breath of air and fell overboard from
th'. rail, 011 which he should have
j known better than to have seated him
j self, especially when there was a
J swell 011 that had made it necessary
: to lash down the guns in the turret,
j Mike Brady saw Flaherty fail and
1 ho shouted "Man overboard!" so loml
! l.v that the captain heard him in tin 4
| chart room: but Mf.ke Brady did not j
make any further si - ps to rescue Flah- j
orty. who was his "buddy," except to i
jump up and dowv and get excited. |
Jerry Robinson, isolated from his i
shipmates as over, was smoking his I
pipe 011 the berth deck forward when !
he heard the cry. Before a bell could !
\ b rung, or anything else done 10 stop I
j the hip he had seen Flaherty rise on i
| the crest of a swell and going astern,
and he rolled him elf overboard, pipe
still in mouth, and struck out for the
coal passer, Who was already in a bad |
way, and steadily getting worse from j
•i v cramps engendered by the cold
v>a r 011 his superheated body.
Robinson got hold of the coal passer,
nunchod him in the jaw until he was
j aeuseh-Fs, and therefore tractable
j enough to be turned on his back and
1 don t ed, in which posit ion he kept him
until a boat was lowered to bring them '
both back to the ship,
j Flaherty was grateful, of course, and ;
! oven Mike Brady offered to shake i
hands and call everything square, |
i which was his way of apologizing to I
| Jerry; but the latter said he hadn't
: <! 1:0 anything much, and refused to
I talk about his bravery.
! It was still the opinion of the crew
that Jerry was a eownru, in some de
i g at least, because he wouldn't
light with his lists and lilted to he left
| alone, and that idea was never fully |
! • radicated until the day a landing par
; t.v went ashore on Fanny l'or a scout, j
| The newspapers had already told of;
the fight they had had and of the four
11( n killed and the nine wounded, but
they had nothing to say of Robinson,
except that he was one of the dead.
As a matter of fact the entire detneli
• ment would have been killed if it
hadn't • been for Jerry Robinson, up
1 to that time rated as more or less of
j a coward, but eulogized after his death
I as a hero of the first water.
The landing party met an over-
I whelming number of insurgents in a
• ravine and were driven up against a
bill from which there was 110 escape
j at the rear and no chance of getting
; hack to the beach except through
f 1 three or four hundred of the enemy.
• ! Still, they wore standing off the insur
• gents and had had only one man killed,
when Braily, who had been lying be
• hind a rock, working his magazine gun
< with all his might, threw up his hands
- and fell over in full sight of the enemy,
> and without any protection from their
s bullets.-
He was well ahead of the machine
1 gnu, which was spitting a steady
t stream of bullets for the benefit of the
. enemy, when Jerry saw him. It ap
peared to be certain death for any one
to go out in the face of that fire and
got liim, but Jerry passed up a new
belt of ammunition to the gunner,
1 jumped over the hastily improvised
1 breastworks, and went out.
He picked up the wounded man and
had started hack with him. when he
went down with a bullet in his leg.
Then he shifted his burden to his back,
and with one leg and his arms only
s to crawl with, lie worked his way
i back to the gun and comparative safe
s ty. What a elieer there was then! It
stopped the attack of the enemy for a
4' minute, and in that minute the ma
i. j chine gun became jammed. The gun-
ner tv .s trying to get it at work
again, when he fell with a bullet
through his head, and the insurgents
started a rush for the diminished laud
ing party, now practically helpless.
Weak as he was from the loss of
blood, Robinson realized he was the
only man in the party who could re
pair the gun if it could be done at all,
and dragging himself to it, ho pulled
himself up 011 the one leg which would
bear his weight and went to work as •
calmly as though at practice drill.
Still the enemy came on. They were
within one hundred feet of the gun
and in the open when he got the plug :
out and the gun ready to work. Then
he turned it loose into the crowd of
half-naked savages and mowed them 1
down in swaths.
Demoralized by the fierce fire which 1
was decimating their ranks, the iusur- j
gents broke in confusion.
"Charge them!" yelled Jerry, and the ;
little party did so, taking Mike Brady
with them. Tliey emerged from the
ravine in chase of the Filipinos just as
a company of the Twenty-sixth Regi
ment came up to complete the work of
clearing out the enemy, who ran into i
the tangled brush and defied pursuit,
and then the rescued party thought of
Jerry Robinson.
They went hack and found him ly
ing across the gun, dead, a stray bullet
having struck him just over his right
ear. They buried him where he fell,
and one wrote on a piece of wood j
which they put up to mark his grave, !
"He was a brave man."
"You bet your life!" said Mike Brady,
when they showed him the board, "and
you can put 011 that there board that
Mike Brady says so."—Waverley Mag
aziue.
An l nnji ration.
"It's a go." announced the young
man with beaming face, "and the hap- i
py day has been set!"
"So you got your courage up to the
point at last?" said the friend who un
derstood the situation.
"Yes. Say! it isn't hard when you
get started. But it Is a wonder I
didn't get nervous prostration before I
made the plunge! I was six months I
trying to get, courage enough to ask !
the all-important question. But every i
time that I opened my mouth to speak j
I simply broke out into a cold sweat j
and couldn't say a word for the life 1
of me. 1 would have retreated a
dozen times, hag and baggage, if I
could have done so gracefully. Not
that I didn't want the girl, but simply
for the reason that I despaired of ever
being able to ask her to bo mine. The ,
girl acted, too, as if she had a right
to hear something to the point. But
1 could only sit there like a chuckle
headed idiot and abuse the weather.
I would have been right there in the
same horrible situation if something
hadn't happened to break the ice.
"One night last week we were sit
ting side by side 011 a sofa, and dur
ing one of those blissful moments,
when nothing was being said, I
chanced to notice the girl's eys intent
ly fixed upon a motto that hung 011
the wall opposite, and which read:
'Low One Another.' I'll ho hanged if
( ever saw that motto before, but it
gave me an inspiration, and I leaned
ov >r and murmured: 'Shall we?' and
she murmured: 'I don't mind,' and it
was all ovi r but the shouting!"—De- j
troit Free Press.
Hardly tho llight Thing.
"That was what 1 call an exhibition
of blamed bad taste."
"What was'.'"
"Joe llarkins was married to Maud
Vernon, last tyight, you know. I was !
one of the guests. Well, old man Ver
non is always anxious to do such
things up in good style, so he hired a
male quartette to stand behind a lot
of palms and other potted plants and
sing songs while the guests were as
sembling. Joe used to belong to the !
militia and has a fine soldierly bear
ing. His falher-iu-law is very proud
of him, too, and I suppose it was at
his suggestion that military songs wore
scattered pretty freely through the
programme. 'The Star Spangled
Banner' was rendered with telling ef
fect, and 'The <iirl 1 Left Behind Me'
was another that the quartette gave
with great spirit.
"I don't sec anything so terribly out
of the way about that. Of course, it
may have been a little inappropriate
as ho wasn't leaving the girl be
hind "
"But, say, hold 011! As tho minister
took his place at the iloral altar and
the bride and groom moved forward
in a very stately fashion from the li
brary tho quartette struck up. Just
Before the Battle, Mother!'"—Chicago
Times-Herald.
Would ISriiiK It Next. Time.
A small boy who lives uptown was
much puzzled tho first day he went
10 school by the fact that the pupils
said "Present" when their names were
called. His eyes opened in wonder as
( ach little fellow used the same word,
and when it came his turn he said
"Present," too, although in rather a
Umid and uncertain way.
Before lie went 1o school next morn
ing lie had a little talk with his grand
mother. And this accounts for the
fact that when his name was called
ho spoke up loud and clear: "I ain't
got no present yet, teacher, but grand
ma said 1 could bring you one to-mor
row morning, sure!"— Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Artllfi'lul Oygtera.
Artificial oysters are now being sold
in Paris. Those who have indulged
in these counterfeit bivalves say that
when lemon juice or vinegar has been
added they cannot be told from the
real article.
The secret of their manufacture has
not yet been disclosed, but tho ingre
dients of which they are made are
said to be harmless. Surely, remarks
the Caterer, they are not the harm
less necessary egg and vinegar?
IBP% rtev/s^tfoTEs
! FIST K 4 ' RT * FOR
; WtfMEbf
Owls* Honda on Toque*.
Owls' heads look down from the
fronts of small toques. Tlie wings of
I tlie bird of wisdom droop at tlie sides.
Thistle-Head Pompous.
Outing liats are trimmed with black
and white thistle-liead pompons and
with military pompous made of eoques'
feathers.
A Pretty Fancy.
White ell iff on tucked with gold
' thread and laid over gold tissue is
j one of the latest and prettiest fancies
for vests, collars and the like.
Used on Kilihnn Ends.
Those little gold bindings and fancy
metal ornaments arc used on the ends
of ribbons to fasten fancy collars at
the bust, and occasionally ribbons
hang from hats with the same orua
! meuted ends.
\ Dainty Lounging Kobe.
A pretty lounging robe of silk is
I made long and loose, gathered in at
the waist with a heavy silk cord, witli
hell sleeves, a turned-back cuff, and a
Capuchin hood. It has the cut of a
monastic garment.
A Queen's Harpist.
The woman orchestra player has
won Queen Victoria's approval, which
is a matter of considerable impor
tance in England, often making or
i marring an innovation. Miss Marion
| Timothy, a harpist, has been appointed
I to a place in Her Majesty's private
hand, and is the first woman to appear
in that hand. The woman's orchestra
i has been successful in the United
! States for a number of years, but has
hitherto been looked at somewhat
! askance in England, and this new ap
pointment offers great encouragement
i to women musicians there. '
Hints For Home Sewing.
| The sewing machine should he got
j in readiness at least a day before any
: protracted work is undertaken, in or
| der that the oil may penetrate about
j every intricately placed screw. Several
needles of a proper size to "take" the
fabric should be provided in advance,
in order that an accidental delay
through breakage may be precluded,
j Hand or machine needles should be j
carefully selected with a view to se- j
1 curing Implements that will make 110 !
unnecessarily large punctures in silk ;
or cloth. A small emery cushion
should be kept at hand, that the points j
of needles may be sharpened and j
cleaned by running through it from !
| time to time. Homo dressmaking j
never should be begun until each |
needed article required for the new
' gowns has been purchased and is held
in readiness. Linings, whalebones,
sewing silks and cottons or crinoline,
hooks and eyes, or buttons, are among
the necessities; also buttonhole twist
for buttonholes, for the making of
loops, or for the tiny "tacks" that are
so frequently employed upon cloth or
ta'lor gowns. Nor must the important
shields be forgotten.—Harper's Bazar.
English Women In Kiisinesn.
1 A progressive Englishman calls at
tention to the rapidity with which
women are entering every profession !
and business in his country. lie re- j
marks that the majority of people sup- j
pose there are few women doctors, j
! whereas he has looked the matter up
and found that in London there are
ninety-one, while in the whole of Great
Britain he estimates the number as
250. He notices also that there are a
small number of dentists, while he 1
knows of several chemists' shops en-
I tirely managed by women, and many
are employed in pharmacies, and he
recommended it as both a suitable and
profitable employment for women, and
suggests that, many women might get |
the post of dispensers of drugs in hos
pitals, and earn SSOO and over a year.
, To come down a peg lower he notes
that quite a decent army, some 155
women, travel in England as drum
; mors, and do well; also that women
make excellent rent collectors, lie
thinks, however, that any Englishman
will he astonished to learn that there
are "female accountants," and says
that not so long ago a woman applied
for admission to tlie instftute of char
tered accountants. She was denied ad
mittance, but the Royal Institute of
Architects welcomes women members.
He speaks of the many photographers,
landscape gardeners, compositors and
i hairdressers. It appears that liair
i dressing is a lucrative profession iu
England, women earning as much as
$7 and $8 a week. While he is proud
that women have made away for
| themselves in so many businesses, he
, is glad that some employment, such
I as working under ground In mines, is
forbidden by law. He does not men
, tion the comparative rates of men's
. and women's wages in Great Britain,
but it is probably like those of other
countries—women are driven by pov
, , erty to take what they can get, to the
I general detriment of tlie labor market.
Universal trades unions, which shall
i i include both men and women, is the
next step demanded by common sense.
[ iNo fixed rate of wages, nor hours of
I labor, will ever be arrived at until men
j and women work together for the good
I of all.-—Springfield Republican.
"fiovdoir
: OMT
1 j Miss May Hu. a young Chinese lady,
\ flora Foo-Cliow, attends the Simpson
, | College, nt Indianola, lowa.
. J Miss Margaret Abbott, of the Chi-
I engo Coif Club, won the Ladies' Cham
pionshlp match at Compcigno, France, 4
the other day.
Miss Emily Brown, a graduate of
Wellesley, has born appointed teacher
of literature in Milwaukee Downer
College, of Milwaukee, Wis.
Many Englishwomen are now pre
paring themselves to pass examina
tions as sanitary inspectors. In this
work the women already admitted
have proved excellent officers.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox regards It as a
significant coincidence that from her
early childhood her favorite gem lias
been a topaz, and she lias discovered
that that is also her Lirthstone.
Miss Adaline Hunt, of Syracuse,
holds the Iliram Gee fellowship from
the university there, which entitles
her to a prize of .SSOO. With this sum
Miss Hunt expects to study for a year
in Paris.
Miss Kathleen Purcell, the well A
known harpist, was born in a Moorish
castle in Algiers, but she is an English
woman and has inherited her talent
as well as her name from the great
composer, Purcell.
The memory of Miss Mary Kingsley,
the African teacher, is to be commem
orated by a Mary Kingsley hospital.
It will be erected in Liverpool, and
will be used for the treatment of dis
eases peculiar to the tropics.
The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, who,
by the way, shares this title with her
late husband's auut, is one of the rich
est women in the world. Her dowry
was $15,000,000. Besides this, she re
ceived an allowance of SIOO,OOO a year.
The women of Victoria, Australia,
have started a movement against
woman suffrage, similar, it is said, t
the American women's anti-suffrage
movement. Fifteen thousand women
have signed the petition against the
woman suffrage bill.
Girls who wish to enter the army of
bread winners might do worse than
consider baby photography as a profes
sion. Certainly babies are the most
paying patrons of the camera. Many
mothers have their infants photo
graphed at every phase of their career.
The Hon. Mrs. T. Talbot, of London,
was the founder of the Parochial Mis
sion Women's Association, which for
forty years has been conducted on a
successful basis. Its object is to pro
vide poor parishes with the services of
competent mission women, who be
friend the poor in every way.
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Stylish street gloves come iu heavy
leather, with one button ouly.
Velvet ami velvet ribbon are promi
nently seen on new frocks and waists.
The eagle is the favorite symbol in
the sonson's charms, buckles, clusps
ami ornaments from Paris.
Skirts continue to show the ripple
bottom, and among the latest separate
skirts sold in tile shops the adjustable
belt is noticeable.
Some of the blouses show the short
bolero effect, meeting across the bust,
with guimpe and soft undervest to
match of some second material.
Fine linen handkerchiefs are now
finished with a narrow hemstitched
border and with very dainty embroid
ered corners in contrast to the more
elaborate styles.
Box coats of otter or sealskin, with
revurs and collar of contrasting fur,
are shown among the luxurious dis
plays of winter wraps, particularly
adapted for youthful wearers.
Buttons of gun metal, studded with
tiny jewels or ornamented with de
signs in gold, are effective ornaments
for tlie trimmed waistcoat of white or '
color that accompanies the cloth gown
of newest model.
Among the forenoon sheer tissue
veils, worn walking or driving, the
new emerald green shade is the most
becoming. An all-white hat and gown
are made all the smarter by the addi
tion of such a veil.
The separate blouse will ho worn
and panne velvet in all-over Moorish
and Persian designs will be employed
to construct them, as will also white
satin, silk and cloth heavily embel
lished with embroidery.
Although we have become so accus
tomed to red garments and headwear
that they are not looked upon as an
evidence of "flashy" taste, as they
were iu times not long past, still much
depends upon the selection of this
color.
I.oug effects are aimed at by makers
of the modes. Waists are cut to give
the appearance of a low bust and long'lL
waist, if one has it not. Girdles are
pointed in the back and narrow in
front. Collars lit closely. The new
ties have long, narrow ends extending
to the waist.
A long empire coat ordered by a
woman of fashion is made of strips of
mink and Russian sable. These strips
are about three inches wide and are so
arranged that they form a point iu the
back. This coat lias a high standing
collar of snble. and it is lined through
out with ermine.
Tlie small fans which will be carried
with handsome gowns show the cut
out effect of so many other things.
There are white lace flowers on black
not, the net showing only on closest
examination and tlie flowers standing
off by themselves, conventionalized
tulips perhaps, or beautiful flenr de lis
with a few silver spangles to brighten
them set in black handles. Or the
black lace fans will have spangles of
gold and handles of gold and black.
Avnlon College, Missouri, has a farm
of IGOO acres, on widely students work
to pay their way through school.