A Stunning: rarasol. A very stunning parasol is made of turquoise blue taffeta made to imitate the effect of the turquoise matrix, while the handle of ivory is decorated with turquoise. Slurry l'iqtie. A little star is woven into the sur face of the dark navy blue piques. A white star studs the surface of such a pique, and a self-colored pique has the star outlined with a corded edge. For a child the white star is prefer able. For girls and women the col ored star is a good choice. The new line of piques brought forward for 1901 shows double fold piques, instead of the old single width. Double width materials cut to advantage, as every good needle-woman knows. Seven Enterprising Women* The woman with the hoe is with us. At Roslyn, L. 1., Mrs. I. P. Taber- Willets is conducting one of the mod el dairy farms of this country. Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith of Cambridge, Ind., was recentily selected for the ex periment of maintaining an agricul tural school for girls, on similar lines to the agricultural colleges for boys. Mrs. Mary Gould Woodcock of Ripley, Me., is raising trotting horses. In Missouri, Miss Minnie Kulick runs a large poultry farm. Miss Nellie Hawks is doing the same kind of work at Friend, Neb. From a wheat farm of CIO acres in Lucca, N. D., Miss Mary R. Vance derives an annual profit of 50 percent. The Duke farm f near Summerville, N. J., now being |t laid out in parks and fishing lakes, and on which 350 men are employed, is managed by Miss Maggie Smith. Heportmont In tlio Sick Room. The duties of the trained nurse, no matter how nearly to perfection she has reached in her calling, are light when compared to the Bervice of the loving person who is nearest to the sick one. who must stand ready al ways to upbear and bring back the self to its old place. • Love and rea son must work in perfect harmony in the awful struggle to conquer the forces that threaten to capture the citadel of life. But love should not be allowed to gain the mastery over reason, for if love rules alone, the nat ural anxiety of the watcher is bound to be expressed, and this will not be without its evif effect on the condition of the sick one. At all times must the person on guard to fight off the advances of death be in absolute con trol of herself or himself. She must | not yield to the fear that may be ly r lng heavily upon her heart —at any rate, not before the one she watches. To conceal the anxiety natural to the situation is not easy; it requires much strength of purpose and at times the exercise of all the skill and tact the watcher may possess.—Mary R. Bald win, in the Woman's Home Com panion. Simple flown* for Girl*. Mercerized cotton makes charming frocks for young girls, and the materi al looks like a fine and Improved sat een. Such cotton stuffs are quite in expensive, and come in nil fashionable shades. Then, too, a foulard silk gown is a good investment for a young girl. Of course the design with which it is patterned should be appropriately youthful and dainty. Many of last year's foulards are now sold at lower #ost than the weaves this year, and often they will bo found charming and dainty for the gown of the grow | ing girl. The rod frocks—the plain ' red and red and white—are especially fashionable just now for young girls, and can be found in almost all the ma terials that are in vogue this year. These frocks should be made up in all red; if possible, but if not, relieved with white. Black should not be put on such gowns, but should be left for the trimming of the gowns of older women. In these days when thero is no particular difference in the materi als worn by young and old, there must needs be come difference in the trim ming, otherwise the effect of youth is lost entirely, and the gown has the ap pearance of being done over. Trimmings of pleated chiffon, gowns of chiffon, and also net gowns, are in favor, made up with less elab oration than is shown in the gowns cf older women. Accordion-pleated skirts, when they are becoming, are 1 pleasing for slender figures, but they | must be carefully made and well M- draped over the hips, and the tucked skirts or the pleated skirts with the pleats cut down underneath or sitchrd through are, as a rule, more becoming than the accordion-pleated ones.—Har per's Bazaar. Jewel* on tlm Forehead. News comes from Paris to the effect that the fervoniere is undoubtedly coming back to favor. Forty years ago no one would have needed to be told what a fervoniere was, and many of the ornaments are in the posesssion of women lucky enough to have inher ited jewels. The old-fashioned fervoniere was a forehead jewel, usually a large uncut gem set in heavy gold work. It was worn in the centre of the forehead attached to a gold fillet, or more often, a band of black velvet which passed around the head. The ornament was marvellously be -4 coming to a certain classical type of fece, but lamentably disfiguring to ♦he ordinary woman. The Empress Josephine was particularly fond of the fervonlere, which became her air though her face was far from classic. The uncovered foreheads of recent seasons opened the way for a revival of this old fashion, and the jewelled stars and crescents which were worn low against the forehead with the parted fringe of hair hinted at the fervonlere; but now a number of Pa risian beauties have taken up the old mode in earnest and have appeared with splendid jewels gleaming upon their white foreheads just above their brow. The velvet band and fillet have not appeared, the modern fervonlere be ing, as nearly as possible, devoid of visible setting and held in its place by the finest thread of gold or a string of small pearls. The fashion is, of course, extreme, but it has appealed to-the Parisians' love of novelty and the French jewelers have innumer able orders for the new ornament, while old fervon'eres are being taken from jewel cases and reset according to the modern taste. —New York Sun. Outdoor Sport*. Games ought to be a part of every girl's every-day life, and parents and educators have only in the last few years sanctioned it. It is only of late that women have been heard of in con nection with outdoor sports, though there have probably always been girls who were good at games and who had played them. In golf this is particu larly noticeable. There are no doubt numbers of girls playing quietly on country links who have played for years and would without doubt gain many public honors if they competed for them. in close touch with golf scientific croquet may be classed. Scientific cro quet requires the utmost nicety of strength and aim and the utmost judg ment in making plans for victory and in foreseeing those of the opponent- To be a good player you must not only be able to get through very narrow hoops which do little more than allow the balls to pass under and through, but you must be able to maneuver the balls so that you may be able to make many hops in succession. Good play ers after long practice can go the en tire round at one play. For delicate girls croquet is an ideal game, as it keeps them out of doors and does not call for any appreciable amount of physical strength as do almost all the other outdoor games. Archery is another pastime which is coming to the fore. It has always been able to command the enthusiasm of its own world even when outsiders thought it a bygone amusement, and many archery clubs are now being formed. It is an exercise which does more to make its devotee beautiful than almost any other. It makes the figure straight and supple and the eye and nerve steady, and since it is al ways practised in the open air it gives to lovers of the sport who otherwise lead sedentary lives the opportunity to breathe out of doors —something that no other sport will tempt them to en joy. Tennis, as a violent exercise, holds a fond place in the hearts of the admir ers of this sport, and it is certainly an interesting game to the players. It is scarcely necessary to remark how great a hold hockey has obtained in the af fection of girls in the last few years; as a school game it is unrivaled, though it is played little outside, for good hockey grounds are no easy mat ter to find. Cricket, basket-ball, bicycling, swimming, and in winter toboganning and fancy skating about exhaust the pastimes to which girls are allowed to enter. Cricket and basket-ball are played at a great many of the girls' schools and colleges and by a few pri vate club 3, while the other sports are indulged in whenever and wherever opportunity presents itself.—American Queen. Flowers carefully wired are made into bow effects for the side and back of hats. Nun's veilings with shiny colored silk borders are among the new mate rials. Muslin well covered with velvet flow ers is predicted as one of the favorite dress materials. Tulle which is patterned in the form of fish scales over a shimmering foun dation of gold tissue is one of the mil linery novelties. Black, white and blue make or.e of the most fashionable combinations. Thus, white muslins spotted with black are trimmed with blue embroidery. A very stunning parasol is made of turquoise blue taffeta made to imitate the effect of the turquoise matrix, while the handle is ivory decorated with turquoise. The latest evening coiffure shows a sort of puff around the face, broken by a few little curls at one side and loose knots arranged low at the nape of the neck. One large rose is worn at one side of the front. One must bo blessed with a fine dis crimination in these days in order to choose the latest and most fashionable tint of white, which is called cham pagne, or wine white, as you prefer, and is especially attractive because of its warm tinge. Enamelled flower hatpins have come in for a fresh share of attention now that flowers dominate the millinery de partment, and then there are the in sect pins, with jewelled beetles and spiders attached to a spring, which gives them a very realistic appear ance. I A COIN EXPERTS TRIALS BOTHEREO BY PERSONS WHO THINK THEY HAVE VALUABLE PIECES. A Collector in Horn, ?*ot >*atl© You Miut IlHve a Liking for Nuintftinutica to r.ecome a Successful Speculator in tho Gold and Silver Coin isiiHinuss. "Yes," said tho coin man, "there are from 20 to 60 people who come in here every day, some to ask questions concerning coins they have at home, some bringing coins with them to sell, and most of them expecting to realize something more or less and usua'ly more. That is the worst of it fot I don't believe there is one of the lot who comes in and brings coins who has not an exaggerated idea of their worth, and they never go away believ ing a word I havo told them. They never do. They always leave with a feeling that for some reason or an other I am trying to cheat them and don't want to give them the full value of the treasure they have. "There are two coins that give mo more trouble than any others and have caused more correspondence than probably all the rest put to gether. These are tho quarters of 1853 and the nickels of 1883. People have got into their heads that those two coins are valuable, and it is easier to get such ideas firmly planted than to remove them. There are two quar ters for 1853, the one with the arrow points on either side of the date and with the rays back of the eagle on the reverse. That is the one that is so often brought to me, but it is a very common coin and there are any num ber of them. There is another quar ter of that same year without the rays and without the arrow points which is valuable, but not extremely so. "Tho nickel of 1883 is worth no more than its face value. There were three different nickels made that year. The old type was made with the shield and the two others with heads, and one had the word "cents" on the reverse side below the "V," and tho other had not. It is that one without tho cents which people have an idea is valuable. But they are all common, and they always will be common. "Another fairy tale in which the people are interested is told concern ing the silver dollar of 1878. You may call that the tail of a coin, indeed, for the point about that dollar which in terests the people is to be found in the eagle. There is a very slight dif ference in the two coins; in one the tail of the eagle has seven feathers, and in the other eight. But both of those dollars are very common. "Tho fractional currency in bills, which people bring in sometimes, is worth something if the hills aro new and crisp, especially the earlier ones. Those with red backs are good, so are others with the autograph signatures, and especially the issues with perforat ed edges, where they were made in a sheet and torn off as the postage stamps are. "Of the people who come in to bring odds iJfld ends of coins the greater number are men, though I don't know but I buy quite as much of women. Everything has its value and I know where there is a market for all kinds. Tho collectors are chiefly men, though I have known women to collect, but they have not had tho most valuable collections. There was one woman in Chicago who had quite a collection, though she did not care to put too much money into it. "A collector is born anyway. They can't be made. A man must have a liking for it, and then if he is willing to study and spend some money you have a, good collector. Different people may collect a few odd things, but they are not genuine collectors. "One fine collection that has been dispersed now was worth $40,090, and I could put my hand on one or two men who have collections approaching that in value, but the greater number will have coirs worth S2OOO to SSOOO. These will be most of them United States coins. Those are the coins that bring in the best returns, though a good collector never looks at his col lection from a strictly commercial point of view. There may be a few who collect in that way, but men who love coins do not. "A man must not do much in the way of collecting until he knows what he is doing. Yes. he has to begin to collect in a small way, for if he does not collect he will not study, but wlmn he begins to study, then he knows something, and I warrant that in two years ho will have changed every coin he has in his collection. "The copper coins are relatively— considering their little intrinsic worth —the most valuable, and the rare cents are those of the years 1799, 1804, 1793, 1809, and 1811, and in that order. There were two coins made in 1799, one stamped regularly with that date and the other with the nine stamped over the eight. Both are rare, but the one stamped clearly with the nine is the best. The 1793 was the first issue, but the issue of 1799 seems to have been soft, and it is more difficult to find them in a state of good preserva tion. "There is a great deal of imitation of these as in all other valuable coins, but it is not difficult for any one who has had experience to detect the fraud. It is experience and nothing else that will really count. I am so familiar with the shape and date of those two nines that I can tell the difference as quickly as the ordinary person will tell Washington from La fayette. The coins havo been imitated by elecrrotyping end by altering the dates, hut it is always possible to de tect them. I believe experts today know every operation that lias been used In marking coins up to date. But It is necessary always to look out, for every imitation is done by a different hand, and there are none of them alike. "The highest priced silver coin is the dollar of 1838. That will bring— but no—don't say how much that will bring, or I shall be overrun with per sons who have 1838 dollars, or think they have. The 1804 dollar is the most valuable if one is to be found, but there is some doubt about such a coin having been coined. The gold coins are very interesting, and there are many rare coins among them. The half eagles, or $5 gold pieces of 1815 and 1822 are very valuable. Gold coins wear quickly and depreciate in value so easily that they are more difficult to obtain. "Perhaps it is this reason that the collection of gold coins seems to be a particular passion for the collector. It is quite aside from the intrinsic value of the gold, the commercial in terest does not enter into the feeling of the collector, though he will always make as good a bargain as possible. The coins of many collectors will show many interesting pieces in gold, and many collectors have the gold dol lar from the first one in 1849 to the last 'n ISR9. "The Octagonal dollars were the work of private enterprise. They were started in California, and were so suc cessful that they were made. I be lieve, in New York. But they became so popular as trinkets and bangles, that they became debased after a time, and finally so much alloy was put. into them that the government put a stop to them. Up to 1873 they are very good for the collectors."—New York Times. A NOVEL OUTINC TOUR. How it Deliglttfnl Outing BTnr lie Enjoyed by the Kxpenrilture of Little Money. ■ In the Woman's Homo Companion Walnut Laceting tells how a delightful summer vacation may be had in a novel and agreeable way: "We determined to travel for the most part mornings and evenings. From 8 o'clock to 9 or 10, with a keen scent for anything quaint or beautiful, wo glided along the shore-lines or the peaceful levels of the Inland towns, for the gratification of our own tastes if a waterside grove looked specially alluring. In derailing we first raised ' the car a few inches on four light jackscrews. On the sill had been fas- I ened, two on a side, hollow-rimmed : wheels. The low horses were then I placed en each side of the car, and ; two nine-font lengths of light old rails laid on tho horses, fitted with blocks to hold the rails in gauge. We then loosened the screws and had our car mounted to run sidewise. Then plac ing two more rails, abutting the first two, and resting at the outside end on two more horses, we rolled the car over, stopping it by trigs. Then our first set of rails and horses could be removed to clear the track. "A favorite halting reason was the nearness of a station to cross-roads, which usually have something better in the way of old walls and roadside shadows, old well-sweeps and quaint gambrel-roofed cottages than can be found on the main highways traversed by the trolley lines. Hebe, who liked nothing better than a cross-country stroll, would issue forth with sketch hook at about 4 o'clock, accompanied by Dominie and his camera. Nothing more would be seen of them until 6, when they would return, in transports of delight concerning the loveliest long shadows or cunningest calves and lambs that ever were seen. "We must not forget to tell you that a Paradise such as w'e have de scribed is one of tho coolest summer resorts imaginable. By closing the shutters on the sunny side and droop ing all tho windows we sat or slept in agreeable quarters. On wet days it afforded us perfect dryness and cosy comfort. The platform at one end was reserved for the kitchen In wet weatn er. It was covered in for tho time by a canvas on one of its sides and the rear. On fine days we invariably lived under the trees." Sultan or Ttirkay'a Gift. Among Queen Victoria's possessions was a desk given to her by the Sul tan of Turkey. It was a mass of com plicated machinery, and could only be opened by working the springs proper ly. Tho sultan confided it to the care of Sir Clare Ford, who took it with him to Englnnd, having first received careful instruction from the Turkish monarch as to opening it. Arriving at Windsor Sir Clare Ford thought he would make sure that he knew his les son before presenting himself with the the gift to the queen. To his horror he found that the secret had escaped him, and try as he would nothing could induce the thing to open. After working on it for nearly a day he sud denly touched the right spring and it opened. He hastened with it to tho queen and explained the method of the new toy. Long-El veil Flub. Professor Baird devoted a greai deal of time to the question as to the length of life of fish and he found that the ordinary carp, if not interferred with, would live 500 years. In his writ ings on tho subject he stated that there are now living in tho royal aquarium in Russia several carp that are known to bo COO years old, and he has ascertained in a. number of cases that whales live to be over 200 years old. A gentleman in Boston has a gold-fish that he has had i„. G3 years, and his fathc-r informed him wnen he gave it to him that he had purchased it 40 years before he gave it to his son. An Arim of Depression. Many ambitious persons' asptra tions are like the earth. They aro flattened at the polls.—Boston Trans cript. In the Country. It seems to me I'd like to go Where bells don't ring, nor whistles blow, Nor clocks don't strike, nor gongs sound, And I'd have stillness all around. Not real stillness, but just the trees' Low whisperings, or the hum of bees. Or brooks' faint babbling over Btones In strangely, softly tangled tones. Or maybe a cricket or katydid, Or the songs of birds In the hedges hid, Or just some such sweet sounds as these To fill a tired heart with ease. If 'tweren't for sight and sound and smell, I'd like a city pretty well; But when It comes to getting rest, I like the country lots the best. Sometimes it seems to me I must Just quit the city's din and dust, And get out where the sky is blue; And say, now, how does it seem to you? —Eugene Field. Stanley's Punishment. Stanley gazed down at his petticoats with a grimace of pain. They actually hurt him. And every single one of the squares of gay patchwork seemed to burn down through them to his knees as if they were red-hot. "Oh, dear!" groaned Stanley, soft ly. "I'd rather be starved on bread and water. That wouldn't be anything to being a girl! An' making patch work —oh, my! An' pretty soon now some one will call out, 'Molly, is your patchwork done?' " Poor Stanley blushed with Bhame. All his little brown freckles swam in the sea of red. "Molly" and the petticoats went to gether. They were Stanley's prison stripes. It was only when he y.ad been naughty that he had anything to do with them. He took up a pink square and a yellow one and matched 1 them together slowly and clumsily, j But the needle unthreaded, and while It was being threaded again the pink and yellow patches dropped back | among the purple and red and blue ' ones. Then while Stan —I mean Mol- I ly—was selecting a new pair of patches the needles slid quietly off the thread and hid itself! It was very warm ln- J doors, but out-of-doors how cool and | beautiful It was! What a good time 1 the bees and humming-birds were hav ' lng In the red clover! And Glp was ' after another woodchuck! I "If I were only Stanley again, I guess I'd be out there like everything!" ihe whistled wistfully. "O Gippy, go for him —go!" I There was no law against his gwing 1 out-of-doors. Sunshine and bees and j Gip called to him. Nothing kept him I back but pride—and the petticoats. I For supposing some one saw him! It j would be such a dreadful disgrace! Glp's barks rose shriller and faster. 1 What if the woodchucks were coming j out! With a sudden gathering up of petticoats and patchwork, the boy I darted through the door and out Into j the sunshine. He could not bear it I any longer. I "Little girl!" a strange voice called I in his ear. Stanley gave one startled | look, and then the horror of it broke I upon liitn. Tho little brown freckles stood out, distinct and single file, on his white shocked face. To he called "Little girl!" He scrambled to his feet and fled to the house as fast as the terrible skirts would let him. That I was the end of this form of punish- I ment. The name and the little ging- I ham petticoats were put away to gether. | "Please lock them up and lose the i key, mamma," Stanley said, gravely. "I can bear some things, but I can't bear them. I'd rather be good al ways!"—A. 11. D., in Youth's Com panion. Wondor* of the Doop Ocean. We are very apt to think of the bot tom of the sea as hiding sunken ships, and much treasure, as well as the strange and weird belongings natural to the depths. Science digs into the secrets of the sea and wo are continu ally learning of its wonders. The German deep sea expedition on board the steamship Waldivia has been for two years exploring some of the great depths of the Indian and Atlantic oceans. It has brought some wonder ful and grotesque animal specimens, ] and plants, too, to light. They all [ hear a resemblance to those already known that are found nearer the top of the water, and the strange shapes are produced by the enormous press- j ure of the water. Tho life of the deep Bea is so constructed by nature that it may resist the awful weight of the tons of water. The strongest steel Ships are not more than pasteboard boxes, while every man-made thing j that sinks into tho great depths of the ocean Is crushed beyond recognition before It roaches the bottom. Those animals that swim about so swiftly 111 tho depths we have been rending of are changed into creeping and clinging i creatures in the great depths, while there nre many animals of the porcu pine variety and a curious collection of crabs. One specimen of sponge was found which they named the need'o sponge; it was of beautiful colors,with the stem or needle 20 feet long and very thin; It was found at a depth of ! 18.350 feet. It ha„ been decided that : "sht of these creatures live by chance, or In other words, by what drifts into their mouths. Some of them are mora fortunate in being provided with their own light; for down where they live neither light nor heat afreets them. The largest waves do not cause a movement in the water, and some of the fish develop a curious whip-like projection above their heads, in the end of which grows a real lantern—a small ball producing a phosphorescent light. They have huge mouths, and as they go swimming slowly about other fish that have enormously devel oped eyes are lured right into the cav ernous mouths of the light bearers, to be digested at leisure. It sometimes happens that a deep-sea fish in the excitement of chasing its prey gets out of its depth and goes tumbling up ward; as the pressure Is relieved it swells rapidly and finally bursts, and scientists may find its mutilated body floating on the surface. A Living or n Life. W. E. Russell, formerly governor of Massachusetts, was one of the mo3t brilliant young men ever honored by I the leadership of a great Btate. Once in addressing a body of law graduates, he gave utterance to an idea which de serves the largest possible audience. "Remember, fellows," he said, "that there is an everlasting difference be* tween making a living and making l life." As a matter of fact we know that al most anybody can make a living. A pair of strong arms can wield the shovel or pickaxe even if there is not much intelligence back of the strength A shrewd brain can plan money-mak ing schemes which will be successful as such success goes, without any help from principle. But food and clothing and shelter, however elaborated on, are not enough for any human being. Every man owes it to himself, as well as to God, to do more than make a liv ing. • ... In making a life, the whole man must go to work. The hands cannot do it alone, nor the head, nor even th heart. All the powers must co-oper ate. All that is best and finest in us must be given a chance for expression. And the manhood which puts itself into making a life, Ss as much highet than that which expends itself in mak ing a living, as thought and love a rc higher than bread and meat or wool len cloth. The majority of our readers are still in the preparatory depart ment of life's school. You are getting ready to do a certain work by and by. But what is it that you are fitting yourselves for? It makes all the dif ference In the world —all the difference in the world to come as well as this, remember —whether you turn your am bition and your energy toward making I a living or making a life.—Young Peo | People's Weekly, i f. A Cieneral'fl Tomb. I The most impressive tomb ever de | signed for any great soldier is that J which overlooks the Hudson and be neath which sleeps Ulysses S. Grant. And that which makes it impressive beyond all others is that upon the : porphyry sarcophagus of the world's j greatest commander no sword is laid; I no flag is hung over his folded hands, j no musket is stacked beside his bier." I It was his hard fortune to be a sm j dier; it was his glory to be a man of j peace. It is, we say with all rever ; ence, simply the duty of God to be | just; it is the glory of God to forgive. And man glorifies God not when he mirrors his necessary hatred of sin j but when he reflects his divine love !of the sinner. And he who so glori -1 ties his Redeemer shall "enjoy Him ! forever."—The Interior. j Annoflotn of Llonionant Taylor. i Lieut. James D. Taylor, who is cred i ited with having given Gen. Funston the information which led to the cap l ture of Agninaldo, is a graduate of the ' Virginia Military institute. An old classmate says of Lieut. Taylor: "Had | he brought off one of those cock fights I for which he was celebrated while ha I was a cadet, and advertised it through ' out the Philippines, he would have caught 'Aggy' long ago. He had a bat tle every rainy afternoon when there was no drill, and was never caught up with. He bought up all the game cocks in Lexington and Rockbridge, and had them stored away near Lex ington, so that he could have his pas time." Plpn.o 1 \\ I 111 I nii.loti'. Promotion. Colonel Henry B. Freeman, late com mander of the Twenty-fourth infantry, retired under the age limit, says: "I am much pleased that Funston has been made a Brigadier General. He was in command of the department in which I served, and he was most courteous to me In every way never giving me an order and always send ing congratulations when anything was done by the regiment. I consider him a brave officer and a gentleman." Porto Rico NccrU Dry Dock. Necessity for a dry dock in Porto P.lcan waters is becoming daily more apparent, and the recent grounding of the Mayflower emphasises that neces sity. Fortunately no damage was done to the vessel by that mishap, but in order to ascertain that fact it was necessary to resort to the services of a diver. Man wants but little here below— with a little water on the side.