'|PE!f- ,j®Vc^KIND or Ice-Bine Foulard. An odd model for a foulard gown Is of ice-blue, ringed with white and ilack. The collar, cuffs and flounce have rows of black bebe ribbon velvet, Joined by diamonds of yellow lace, and the vest and sleevelets are of lace to match, the front held in with two crossed braces of black velvet ribbon. To he worn with this costume is' a Jaunty little hat of blue straw, trimmed with tea roses and black velvet Slilrt Wal.tr. Six shirt waists should meet the requirements of most careful girls. To have a sufficient stock of blouses to be able to ring the changes In rou tine lengthens the life of each one considerably. Therefore, two of ging ham, two of plain silk for afternoon wear and one or two of smarter na ture for parties would not ba too many, while, needless to say, the more the better. And when these are man ufactured at home, their cost is real ly so very slight that one is justified sin the extravagance. Dainty Veiling* for Summer Wear. Veilings of every shade and variety, ■often of the faintest blue or gray, but by preference of white, are far and •away the daintiest things for dressy summer wear this year. The simplest way to make them very smart is to put them over a Pompadour silk overskirt The fabrics are so thin and sheer that the flowers just show through with a suggestlveness of col or and slhlmmer that is irresistible. If your dressmaker is equal to it have one summer gown made with a prin cesse slip of Pompadour silk All its elegance than will come from lines, and a few dainty shirrings or ruffles, these last tucked, at the bottom of the skirt, and some similar trimming on the bodice.—The Ladies' Home Journal. Train the Hoys Early. The hoy at five or ten years of age Ss marvelously Impressionable—far more so than he ever will be again. Mothers get their strongest hold on the hoys at tills period, but fathers are apt to "wait until the boys become older." But then puberty influences the young mind, previously stored with a great variety of Impressions or ex periences, the early formative period is practically concluded, and while it S3 yet possible to mold the character, the nascent stage of development is past, never to return. Science and experience agree In proving that this nascent period of childhood is most important. The greatest church or ganization the world has ever seen is based on a realization of this fact. Education is being modified according to this principle. Parents and espe cially fathers, need to recognize It. —Good Housekeeping. Bloat Extravagant Woman In Illatory. The Empress Josephine was allowed at the beginning of her reign $72,000 a year for her toilet, and later this was increased to $90,000. But there was never a year during the time that she did not far overreach her allowance and oblige the Emperor to come to her belief. According to tile estimate Mason has made, Josephine spent on an av erage of $220,000 yearly on her toilet during her reign. It is only by going over her wardrobe article by article and noting the cost and number of ■each piece that one can realize how a -woman could spend this amount. Take the simple item of her hose—which were almost always white silk, often richly embroidered or in open work. She kept 150 or more pairs on hand, and they cost from $4 to $8 a pair. She employed two hairdressers— one for every day, at SI2OO a year; the other for great occasions, at S2OOO a year; and she paid them each from SIOOO to S2OOO a year for fur nishings. It was th e same for all the smaller items of her toilet. —Cincin- nati Enquirer. Enclioli Working Girl*' Club*. At the exhibition held by the Eng lish working girls' clubs in the People's Palace, in London, recently, great in terest was shown in the departments of needlework and cookery. In the for mer branch the girls have found a new incentive to ambition in their de sire to make extra clothing for them selves to take away on their summer outings. This is a marked step in ad vance of their custom cf a few years ago, when a pocket handkerchief con tained their entire outfit. They are now actually saving money with which to buy small trunks. In cookery, a prize was offered for the best Sunday dinner for a man, wife ar.d four children, at a cost of not more than 50 cents. It was found nccssary to divide the honors between one young woman who supplied a meal of meat pie, mashed potatoes and rice, with stewed rhubarb, and another pro viding pea soup, with fried bread and dry mint, stewed beef and carrots, cabbages, potatoes and a plain pudding. Twenty-two clut>3 were represented at the exhibition, comprising in ail some 2000 members from the poorest classes cf London. Iln"k'p nn'l Putton*. Buttons and buckles—what an in cessant chorus these adjuncts make! On behalf of the former a good deal of applique work Is employed, this tak ing the form of a delicate tracery in gilt, sliver or aluminum on ground works of smoked pearl, mother of pearl and Imitation colored stones ot every sort, kind and description. Amethysts are wonderfully imitated and have become a great vogue. Ame thysts and topazes have alike been out of favor and fashion for their allotted ■span, and the time is Just ripe for theiT return. Before the shrine of the turquoise all continue to bow in adoring worship, but this pretty blue stone has become a trifle tco familiar to the sight to be altogether pleasant. Many are doing their best to take coral seriously. Coi at LP '.tons, appli qued with dull silver are especially decorative. Brobdingnagian buttons are not nearly so much in vogue as they were. Of course, they are to be found here and there when some par ticular period of stylo commands their presence. But decidedly of more pro nounced popularity is the small but ton arranged in detached groups— two, three and four, as the fancy dic tates. As to buckles, their story is a long and bewildering one. Scarcely in millinery can a buckle go wrong, and in this department do they seem to grow longer and longer and nar rower and narrower every day. And it is buckles that create a decorative item in one's chic visiting toilet. Art Color* in New Linen*. The now lines in art colorings are delightfully cool and very smart for summer wear, and are usually made without lining, being of a sufficiently firm texture to set well without further support. Nine to ten yards of linen will make a full gown and allow a deep hem to the skirt, but even less may lie allowed for a bolero and skirt, and this is a very popular fashion for duck and linen. Frills, flounces and anything of. the full or fussy type must be avoided for linen, but flat band 3 of Russian galon or coarse lace of point d'Arabe type are most effective, and grouped lines of machine stitching and large pearl but tons are Invariably an attractive com. bination. Some of the new galons or coarse lace are filled in with shaded or chintz colorings, and these are charm ing on red, blue and biscuit linen. Very little of this trimming Is re quired, and it must be laid quite flat and not put on full, as lace usually is. Foulard gowns are always in evi dence at this time of year, and many of the new foulards are wonderfully pretty, both in color and design, es pecially those who exhibit a light, graceful pattern in some delicate tint on a white ground, mauve and pale green being among the most effective, like all other light fabrics, foulards require to be very daintily made, the skirts trimmed with frills or flounces, tucks and insertion, and the bodices prettily trimmed. A nice design repre sents a dress of mauve and white fou lard, the trained skirt bordered with three rather wide tucks, a newer style than the little frills or shaped flounces, of which ono so soon tires. Above are two bands of ivory Irish lace insertion, through which the mauve lining of the skirt is seen with good effect. The bodice is quite sim ply made, with tucked chemisette of white lawn with openwork insertion, through which Is run black bebe rib bon, giving a very smart and pretty finish. There Is a kind of half yolk cf the Irish lace, and insertions of the same lace, while the picturesque sleeves have bands and cqffs to match the chemisette, and full puffs of fine lawn. This model could be made very in expensively, in one of the nice "fou lardines," or mercerized sateens In foulard patterns, or it is equally suit able for making up in one cf the thick er muslins, especially those which ex hibit a pretty haircord stripe. The hat with it is of black tucked tulle, with paste ornaments and cluster of mauve poppies.—The Lady. fF© The latest models in shirtwaists fasten down the back with pearl, gilt or silver buttons. The linen batiste collar with lace applications is much favored by Par isian dress designers. Heavy Ivory white and ecru lace comes in sailor collar and cuff sets as accompaniments to shirtwaists. White silk roses with black velvet leaves make an effective trimming for a white straw hat faced with black. Parasols of mircir silk with inch wide fan tucks around the edge are very attractive, with carved handles of ivory. Stockings made entirely of lace j are among the novelties and silk mous selino stockings, handsomely embroid ered, are also on the season's hosiery ! list. Some of the newest sunshades are decorated with cretonne applique and vailed in chiffon. Gold and silver ■ spangles are seen on a few of the , black lace parasols. Among expensive novelties are belts of rattlesnake skin, tanned so that all l the markings are preserved and the J scales returned to their places. Self covered or silver gilt buckles are used as fasteners. Deep hyacinth blue Is one of the ] shades that Is seen In bordered voile, a new fabric. The borders are some times of a darker or lighter shade than the plain material and occasion ally of a contrasting tone. While the military heel and broad too have not lost favor, tne new low cut shoes show pointed toes and high j spool heel 3. The extensica sole Is still In evidence, but shoes are narrower and less mannish than last season. The manufacture of carbon for use in electric lighting, and for other purposes, has grown to be a great in dustry in the West Virginia gas belt. The processes require great heat. A train of steel freight cars carries twelve to twenty per cent, greater tonnage, uses less water, fourteen to sixty per cent, less coal and runs fast er than a train of wooden freight cars of the same size. Stokes calculates that a droplet of water a thousandth of an inch in diam eter cannot fall in still air at a much greater rate than an inch and a half per second. If it is of one-tenth that size, it will fall a hundred times slow er—not more than one inch per minute. The United States, with the consent of the Mexican Government, has es tablished a coaling station at the ex treme point of Lower California. About $25,000 has been expended for docks and coal storage bins, and 5000 tons of coal have been shipped from Baltimore. The station Is at Picbal inqui, on the west coast of the penin sula. Larger freight cars are to be used cn German railroads. Three-truck freight cars of twenty-five tons each will be tried In place of two-truck cars of fifteen tons each. An experiment was tried formerly with four-truck cars, but they were too heavy and could not be used ou all roads. The wear and tear on the truck Is also less with the large three-truck car. A Viennese Inventor has developed a new Incandescent lamp filament which possesses extraordinary light efficiency among other good qualities. The thread is made of the powder of an infusible metal, such as thorium, under great pressure. This is then superficially oxidized. On the pass age of the current the filament is said to become very compact, resembling graphite. The gas engine has been, for years, steadily growing in efficiency and favor, and now, according to Professor Thurston, of Cornell University, Is seriously competing with the steam engine in important commercial work on a large scale. He says that recent tests show the large gas engine to bo of substantially the same thermal ef ficiency as the best steam engine, while using a fuel considerably cheap er. Some two years ago a resident ot Boston, Mass., devised a new spinning machine, which he took with him to Bradford, the centre of the spinning Industry of Great Britain. There, aid ed by local engineers and experts, he improved his appliance, which Is now In active operation. It is capable of spinning a variety of materials, such as asbestos and peat moss, as easily and as readily as wool, and when completed It is difficult to determine the original nature of the fabric. The Arabs and the Telephone. M'o had a party of Arabs along with us, und took them all over a great newspaper office. Everything was wildly astonishing to them. They had Imagined that the Koran contained all the wisdom and knowledge of the world, yet here was the telegraph, the telephone, the electrotype, the printing press. The place was a veritable en chanter's castle to them. They would never have believed in the telephone if I had not called up their hotel and got one of their own party at that end of the wire. The dervish who had come along was hold as well as pious. When ho heard that his friend live miles away was talking through tho instrument he made a dash at it. He was greatly excited, and yelled In a megaphone voice. lie thought we were tricking him, but hero was his friend talking Arabic. He rolled his eyes at me In a despairing man ner, and then began a search for dev ils, being quite convinced that tho 'phone was an invention of Satan.— The Independent. The Scottish Regalia. Tt Is rumored In Edinburgh that the Scottish regalia, which has been kept In the castle for over two centuries, will be temporarily removed to Holy rood Palace when the King holds his court. The regalia, of which the chief is Bruce's crown (used at the corona tion of every subsequent monarch of Scotland), were locked up in a room In the castle just after tho union ID 1707, and brought to light again in ISI7, by order of the Prince Regent. During the civil wars some of them | were kept in Dunottar Castle, in Kin cardineshire, which was held by Ogil vy, of Barras, against Cromwell's troops. The wife of a minister was allowed to enter the fortress to see Ogilvy's wife, and she and her maid between them smuggled out the crown, sceptre and sword. When Dunottar surrendered and tho valua bles were missed Ogilvy was sent to prison in England.—London News. Locomotive and float. A Swedish State railway engineer, Herr Magnell, has been commissioned by the Paraguay authorities to con struct a combined locomotive steamer for the traffic between Altos and Pagua. This amphibious vessel will be nearly twice as large as the Svanen —Swa—which at one time maintained the traffic by land nud sea between the Viskau and the Baltic In Central Swe den. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Endurance is noble, lethargy the reverse. Obligations menace friendship and destroy love. The mantle of silence generally has a few holes in it. To be honored socially is not to be seen everywhere. Argumentative victories always leave scars behind. Fault-finding has its root in dislike, criticism in kindness. Those who try too hard to be smart prove they are stupid. Fear Is a murderer at heart and envy the breeder of lies. Impulsive women dig pits,into which they finally fall headlong. Keeping ones woes to oneself is an excellent proof of wisdom. Mistaking possibility for probability has wrecked many a fortune. The desire to please is normal and the desire to supplant abnormal. Little tongues are more powerful than the ingenious might credit Silent reformation is far more poten tial than open confession of error. Never bemoann your few friends; you thereby save additional enemies. 'Tis better to have a dinner of herbs and harmony than a banquet and tears. Mean men and haggling women make the eyes weary and the ears ache. Young knowledge is a braggart- Aged wisdom says very little until asked. Never build upon a possibility. Thereby you will be saved much dis appointment. Diplomacy is never so valuable as in the marital relation; it bridges dif ferences otherwise fatal to peace. Envy none. Every heart has some secret chamber of horrors, and those who seem most gay have often the grimmest skeleton.—Philadelphia Rec ord. IMITATIVE ANIMALS. A Horse That Knew Live Wires and Ground Circuits. "The aptitude shown by animals of the lower order in acquiring human habits is marvelous," said a student who lives in the upper part of the city, "and the story that the old flea bitten mule had learned to unlock the crib door with a snagged tooth is not, in my judgment, altogether a legend. The chances are that, such things have happened. I have known of in stances where mules would pull gate pins with their teeth or shove a latch up with their tongues, in order to break into the corn field. There are but few farmers who have not had occasion to observe the same thing. But I have found that horses are more observant than mules. While horses are not as cunning, and not as skilled In the artifices of de ception and double dealing, I may say, they are naturally more sensi tive in temperament and no doubt reason with more delicacy and more accuracy. "I know of one horse, for instance, owned by one of the electricians of the city, that will not, under any cir cumstances, step on a steel railing or go near a swinging wire, because one of her ears was slightly brushed by a live wire several years ago while she had one of her feet on the railing of a car track. She was knocked down by the shock, but was not seri ously hurt. Since that time she has been extremely careful about where she puts hier feet, and keeps her gaze on the ground at all times. But I owned a little bay mare sev eral years ago that caused me con siderable trouble and for more than a month I was very much worried by an unaccountable waste of water on my place. It was before I mpved to New Orleans. The water rates of the town where I lived are fearful. I had a hydrant in the back yard. Every few nights the water would be turned on in some mysterious way and the yard would simply be flooded the next morning. Failing to discov er the cause of the trouble before the end of the month, when my water bill had doubled, I notified the police, be lieving that some malicious person was attempting to satisfy some grudge against me. The chief Ra tioned two men at my place to watch the hydrant. They concealed them selves and along about midnight thoy heard a squeaking sound at the hy drant, and a few minutes the wa ter was spluttering out at a fearful rate. They made a rush for the place, thinking to capture the cul prit. but when they got there they found my little bay mare, with her head stuck down In the flow from the hydrant. She was drinking and dab bling in the water, and seemel to be having a good time generally. They resorted the matter to me and I had no more trouble about my hydrant." —Now Orleans Times-Democrat. Well Coneettlpil. "What was the matter with Proud foot that he made such a fool of him self last night?" "Oh, somebody had offended him unwittingly and he was standing on his dignity." "Oh, was he? I wondered what had become of It." —Now York Commer cial Advertiser. Mr. Il.' Supposition. "Since SpifTins lost his teeth he can't speak distinctly nor eat proper food," remarked Mr. Bloomfleld. "I suppose he has to live on gum drops and speak gum Arabic, added Mr. Bellefield.—Pittsburg Chrouicle- Tclogrr.ph. FICIILFCIDD QUEER MATHEMAT, >i\UH7 UUU ICS USED j N SCHEMy Earn ings INGFOR PROFITS,A;A: Railroading, In its beginning i and throughout its exuberant youth, says Carl Hovey in Ainslee's Magazine, was a business which made use of nerve, a big head for planning and plotting and a constant slap-dash application, after which the returns were pretty sure. Nowadays it is all as sophisti cated as a cash register. A successful year indicates that some one has taken enormous pains to study the fig ures, and that the result of his dili gence has been a pretty accurate knowledge of the class of business that would pay. A railroad carries freight and passengers for a living. The managing head, in order to direct the business profitably, must know whet it costs him to provide the service for which the public pays. Common sense and the Instinct of self-preservation demand this course at once, but they are not so forward in suggesting what is to be done first. How can one come at such a knowledge? It costs so much annually to maintain the track and the terminals, so much to pay the sal aries of the train crews, yardmen, clerka, officials, and a law department, too. How much, then, will it cost to carry Blx carloads of potatoes 150 miles out on the main lino to Berryville? The problem looks like one by which cunning pedagogues advise little boys that It ts impracticable to add hens and geese together fn the same sum or useless to seek to know the cost of seven-eighths pounds of butter in a oatch question where you are told only the price of a pound of lard. The dif ference is that the railroad figures do show a glimmer of sense. But this proves to be a will-o'-the-wisp leading nowhere. Nothing can be done with them until you have slaughtered most of the items wholesalo and arbitrarily have selected a few promising ones with which to do business. "Let us say the line carried In the year 1889 50,000,000 tons of freight a distance of one mile; the work has been meas ured, with this result, which stands on the books as 50.000,000 'ton miles.' The pay for doing the work, measured also, The Enlarged I ber ** ana the Electoral CsOTLgVe*s*S:m I College 4-76 Probably the people of the country do not yet fully realize that the house of representatives which they will elect next year will be allotted on a new ratio, and will be much larger than any house ever chosen before. In the house of representatives which was elected last November, and which will meet next December, there are 357 members. In the house which will be elected in 1902 there will be 386 members. The ratio for representa tion in the house established just after the taking of the census of 1890, was one member for every 173,901 inhabi tants. The ratio established under the census of 1900, which will go into op eration in the election of November, 1902, is 194,182. The next house will bo 29 members larger than the pres ent one. Of course, the electoral col lege will be enlarged to the same ex tent The electoral vote in the can vass of 1900 was 447. The vote in the election of 1904 will be 476 through the recent addition to membership in the house, and there is a chance that it may be still further enlarged, be REINCARNATION OF MAN. 1 "There are In Tlieosophy two central doctrines —the doctrine of Reincarna tion, and the doctrine of Karma. The first is startling, the Becond soothing; both are so eminently rational that conviction almost certainly follows comprehension, says a writer in be half of the new theory of life. Both are rooted in the profound fact of evo lution (of which science has seen a part), the fact that all life expands and rises from poor and low to rich and high plateaux. "Stronger than woe ts will; that which was Good Doth pass to Better —Best." "The doctrine of reincarnation Is that each man dwells In the flesh not once, but often. His internal, inde structible self comes again and again into earth life, each time in a different race, family, condition, so that he is confronted successively with every form of test and experience, assimilat ing into that Self the essence of each incarnation, and at last emerging with an exhaustive knowledge of humanity and a perfected character. He is not' a thousand men compounded into one, but one man who has had a thousand lives. As a world-wide traveler learns the peculiarities of each region and people himself becoming mentally more sup ple and more vigorous r.s the result of travel; so the Ego learns humanity through having been identified for a time with each section of it, and be comes not a Chaldean, a Roman, or an American, but a man. And as the trav eler dwells, now in a tent, now in a palace, now in a hut, now in a hotel, ever imagining that his surroundings are other than transient and unessen tial; so, too, tho Ego dwells In tempo rary homes of body, a craftsman, a slave, a student, each being an en casement for a single life, not one be ing any real part of tho Being which outlasts them all." "The great doctrine of Karma Is in itself exceedingly simple. It is the doc- averages four mills to a ton mite, so that the total revenue from the freight business for that year amounted to $200,000. The expense is to be meas ured by a unit which is called the 'train mile.' In this instance it is the freight train mile. The immediate cost of running a freight train a mile can be computed readily, and it in cludes: Cost of fuel for the locomo tive, and the wages of an engineer, a fireman, a conductor, a couple of brake men and a flagman. The number of cars may be anything you please so far as these expenses are concerned, for It will not affect them much. In the present case say that the average trainload was 400 tons, a large, but a sound figure. Therefore the number of train miles that had to be run to earn the $200,000 was 125,000. Train mile cost was reckened at 75 cents. Therefore we have: Expenses, $93,750; profit, $106,250. Not the actual profit, to be sure, but we get on better by keeping the geese separate from the hens, and the figures have thefr use. Take the company's report for the following year, 1900. The same work was done, let us say, 50,000,000 ton miles. The average trainload, how ever, was 500 tons. No wonder the road found itself with more money to divide than it had in the year 1899. For, by increasing the trainload the number of train miles was lessened, and train expenses were inevitably re duced to the tune of nearly $19,000. The gross revenue remained, of course, the same. The figures are disgrace fully rough, but they tell the truth. Tbey shout it through a megaphone. The way to make money is to Increase the trainload. A well-known technical writer in Wall Street calls this 'the touchstone of successful or economical railroading.' To save train miles Is to save money drop by drop, to save it with a sure promise of drops enough in all to make an ocean.—New York Press, It 19 estimated that one crow will destroy 700,000 insects every year. cause the admission of Oklahoma and perhaps one or two other territories to statehood between now and the next presidential campaign is decidedly probable. No state lost any members through the recent adjustment of representa tion in the house and in the electoral college. On the other hand, many states gained. Arkansas. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louis iana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Mis souri, North Carolina, North Dakota, Washington, West Virginia, and Wis consin will each have to choose one member more next year than they chose last year. Minnesota, New Jer sey and Pennsylvania will each gain two members. Illinois, New York and Texas will each gain three members. Substance Similar to Rubbeiv M. Col of Paris has discovered that a substance similar to rubber may be obtained from the Japanese spindle tree. The announcement was made to the Academic des Sciences. trine of perfect, inflexible justice. The word has two meanings. It means first, as defined by Col. Olcott, 'The law of ethical causation —Whatsoever a man soweth. that shall he also reap.' But it also expresses the balance sheet of merit and demerit in any individual character. Thus in the former sense, we say, 'The quality of incarnations is determined by Karma'; in the latter sense we say, 'A man's Karma is form ing during each day of life.' "The belief that every one of us re ceives with absolute precision his ex act deserts commends itself at once to reason and to justice."—Wilkes barre Letters on Thoosophy. Goldbeater* nt Worlc. It is interesting to watch goldbeaters at work in a gold leaf factory. These men, whose skins are sallow from the stains of gold, take up ingots first of the virgin metal, pass them between steel rollers, whence they come forth like pie crust, and pass them then through closer and closer rollers, un till they are but little thicker than pa per. The sheets of gold are next placed between pieces of leather that are colled goldbeaters' skins, and men beat them through the skins with mal lets until they are reduced to an un imaginable tenuity. It has often been proved that a skilled goldbeater can turn out gold leaves so thin that it would take 282,000 of them to make the thickness of an inch; so thin that, if formed in a book, 1,500 of them would only occupy the space of a sin gle leaf of paper. Unrtjlfirs Rlnq; Up Homo*. Burglars in New Rochelle, N. y„ have adopted the scheme of ringing up residence telephones to learn if any one is at homo before proceeding to loot the house. Four dwellings were robbed in one night by that means last week.
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