IMf jpsHSri. iiiilßHin *• *r Old Frock* for New. Dress designing is becoming quite an intellectual pursuit. I heard the other day that one of the great Paris ian dress designers has been traveling in the east to get fresh inspiration; while It Is well known that the picture galleries of Paris are haunted by the model-making fraternity, and old books with prints and plates of the eigh teenth century are quite at a premi um in the old bookshops and the book stalls of Paris.—London Gentlewoman. New Deftigrm In Jewelry. One of the prettiest of the newest designs In jewelry which Is now in vogue in London is a chatelaine watch hanging from a chain of brilliants. Tile watch has a large dial and a " rim like a cable. It is suspended from double chins with bow knot pins. Half way down a crosspiece of bril- L Hants separates the chains about an If* inch and a half aprt, but they swing --mic nt the bow knot and Ting of the watch. A necklet consisting of trefoils of peon. , ~l'iiuiHg at intervals from a gold braidlike chain, is finished with two pendants in the form of diamond drops. Dnl't'y Bit of Neckwear. A certain pretty girl has made for herself one of the prettiest stock col lars! And it is one which any girl who is at all clever with her needle might easily copy. The material used is white Liberty satin, the cut (that should go without saying) is perfec tion. Around the top are two rows of French dots in black. Then comes a row of ribbon, a dainty pink baby rib bon, edged with black, just below this I ale two rows OL tho black dots, then \ another row of ribbon, and another r double row of the dots, that is three double rows of dots and two of rib bon. The whole comes little below the middle of the stock. It is suffi ciently dressy, but better yet it is dainty, and that is the great quality in neckwear. Once one has achieved both daintiness and becomingness, the problem is solved. Neck Ornament*. Neck ornaments are particularly pretty. The Hat plaited white and col ored mousscline boas more resemble shoulder fichus, being invariably bor dered with mousselino roses or velvet rose leaves applique at the edge of the luousseline kilting. Ends of black rib bon velvet or strands of jet beads finish the fronts. Others of tulle, forming ruches turning down from the iliair, are embellished by long pompa- M dour silk stole ends trinimed with I large steel buttons. Effective etcet eras are always an Important item on a Parisian toilet, and some of the lat est cravats and boas aro particularly attractive this season. Spotted kilted white mousselino trimmed with lace, pompadour ribbon latticed on net, col ored bebe ribbon velvet gathered up Into rosettes in front of neckbauds and embroidered lawn and linon soie collarettes are among the most popu lar accessories. laterpretliiE Habr'i VTall*. Poor baby lias only one method of making her wants known—namely, by her cry, and it takes some little prac tice to between the cry that merely says, "Pleaae, I'm so hun gry!" the temper cry of pain or ill ness. Till baby is four or five months old \ h doesn't shed tears, so when her I little temper is very much upset she \ cries furiously and in an unreasoning sort of way. When she is merely hungry, the cry is still passionate, but somewhat hoarse, too, and accompanied by sun dry grants. If baby is sleepy, the cry sounds as if she were on the verge of the land of dreams, whereas u she has a stomach ache, she generally draws her poor little knees up and screams violently, refusing for some time to be pacified. Crying Is always disheartening to those who hear it, but if baby does not cry at ail It is a very bad sign in deed, though, on the other hand, many babies aro allowed to cry unneces sarily, and instead of at the first wail cramming a comfort into baby's mouth or violently jogging him, listen to the cry and discover by tho character thereof If It's a pin that's offending, / if baby Is 111 or uncomfortable or Imn gry and then remedy the cause. Snrpota to the Sniitlff. To sensitive natures certain per fumes act like poison upon the emo- Itions and health. The ancients recog nised the medical virtues of perfumes, and one Latin writer has put on record almost a hundred perfume remedies for various diseases. Among these remedies violets figure more frequent ly than any other flower, so possibly the ever-present furore for violet per fume has benefited the nerves of the sex. Lavender is also remarkably soothing to the nerves, and the laven der-scented sheets of our grandmoth ers were not only deliciously fragrant, but were excellent sleep promoters. A victim whose supersensitive na | ture is affected by perfumes is Kube | A ilk, the violinist. One who knows him well said recently that "the perfume of violets makes him gay, and he takes down Ills violin and plays lively airs. If heliotrope is in the room he unconsciously becomes romantic, and under Its Influence reads and com poses poetry, and falls into raptures over antique jewels and vestments. Love is then a pet theme of his. If ho wears a tube rose he Immediately becomes sad and melancholy, and searches for tragic books and plays, dons dark clothes and performs sad music on his violin." A famous judge remarked to an interviewer his ab horrence of the mingling of scents women in court use on their handker chiefs, and declared that they sent him home at night after a "fashion able" case a prey to the very worst of headaches.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Car* of Finger Null*. Nothing betrays the careless woman sooner than her nails, and nothirg shows refinement better than the same possessions. Hands with beautiful nails always please, and the eye dwells on them with a peculiar satisfaction, for in a sense, nails are veritable jew els which decorate the lingers even while performing the nail's great of fice—that of protection. They may be classed as gems, in deed, because they have the formation of jewels, being composed of flint, silica, lime and similar mineral stuffs. The cunning mineral work at out finger ends is all welded together and made, in a measure, elastic by the power of gelatin. Those who desire good, firm, bright nails, gleaming and polished, at the finger tips should sea to it that the food they eat contains abundance of the nailmaking sub stances. Oatmeal is one of the best of these foods good for nailmaking and hair forming alike. The nails become impoverished, chalky, liable to break, through de ficiency of gelatin and excess of lime deposits. Anything that interferes with the health of the whole body will interfere with the shining appearance of the nails at once. Nails are really a kind of skin. They are skin formations, being merely an altered kind of cuticle. Small bait moons show at the ends of the nails where the skin proper leaves off and the horny protection begins. These white curves are by some called new nails. They are, in fact, the earliest portion of nail growth, being the skin in its changed form, where the cells mass together in a new way, multi plying rapidly and beginning to se crete much mineral matter from the blood that circulates within their sub stance. From the edge of the nail new growth pushes onward until the whole finger end is duly protected. The dainty nail is laid on a very sensitive skin bed, which also gives it additions. The growth is nearly twice as rapid in summer as it is in winter in all peo ple. It is very easy to keep the nails in good trim. Less than five minutes allowed them regularly each day will be all that is required. They need weekly cutting with a pair of proper nail scissors, and the cutting should exactly follow the outline of the fin ger ends. A piece of lemon used once or twice a week is nearly a necessity if nails are to be kept artght. The acid acts on the nail substance with a wonder ful effect of polishing, and it softens the shin marvelously that is apt to drag itself forward over the shining nail surface. Any dirt about the nail, any stain of ink or fruit, the lemon will dispose of at once, dissolving and decomposing the annoying marks as nothing else will. A little oil rubbed over each nail after the lemon treatment continues the polishing process, nourishes the nail and skin, eradicates the last lin gering atom of suspicious marks. A little wad of soft, flannel is used when applying the oil. After the oil the hands are laved in sqft water, wiped and the nail polishing continued with a tiny bit of chamois leather. Violet powder or fine chalk on the chamois is an aid to great success. Brushing rather roughens the nails and should be avoided. —Washington Star. fFo S/Jfe Pointed girdles are gaining more favor as the season advances. The. revival of big sleeves has ren dered capes a necessity. Narrow chain bracelets set with dif ferent color stones are good style. Charming evening bodices suitable for young girls are of tucked white chiffon with real Maltese collars. The handsomest of the new combs of tortoise-shell and amber are embel lished with small pearls and diamonds. The tendency of new models is to make women look as broad as possible across the shoulders and very small at the waist. I-'or trimming linen lawn dresses, Parisian modistes and tailors are ef fectively employed linen passe menterie in soft ecru shades. One inch in the back graduating to three quarters of an inch in the front, is a good, width for a belt; or one and a half inches in the back to one inch in the front. The lace trimmings of some of the more beautiful and elaborate of the new cloaks are often made up over cloth of gold. Occasionally an ap plique of lace flowers constltues the trimming. Pretty things in the way of fine lawn stole stocks have the stock of the plain lawn, with the hemstitched top turned over after the fashion of a top collar. The two stole ends fastened to the lower edge of the collar are of fine embroidery and are plaited. In the centre of each are three little lace buttons. The turnover edge has a very narrow hem or one a quarter of an inch wide. OUTLA W TRACY'S CAREER MOST REMARKABLE MAN HUNT IN THE ANNALS OF CRIME. A Elfe and Death Chase Across Country \Vlleh Lasted Fifty-eight Days and Ex tended Over Two States A Powerful Alan Though of Very Slight IJuild. The death of outlaw Tracy by his own hands ends perhaps the most re markable man hunt in the annals of crime, and closes a life and death chase which lasted witiiout cessation for 58 days and extended over the greater part of two states. S'ince June 9 last Tracy, hunted by Indian trackers, bloodhounds, hun dreds of authorized officers of the law, the state troops of Washington, and unnumbered volunteer hands of vigi lantes, with a price on his head that amounted to a fortune, traveled over about fifteen hundred miles of wild country, and defied capture to the last. From the moment of his daring es cape from the Oregon state peniten tiary to his last stand in the swamps of Lincoln county, near the eastern border of Washington, he killed six officers of the law, slew his fellow fugitive, David, Merrill, in a duel fought while men and hounds were on his heels, wounded nearly a dozen other officers of pursuing par ties, and terrorized the people of two states. Living on the country he passed through, Tracy rode down stolen horses without number, robbed farm ers of food, clothing, and money need led for his flight; crossed and re crossed rivers, hiding when he could and lighting when too hard pressed. Bix times he shot his way through pursuing parties which surrounded him, and struggled on in his desperate race against death for liberty. The criminal exploits of Prank and Jesse James, the Younger Bros., Mur rell, and all the horde of desperate outlaws of the west pale beside the determined daring and reckless cour age of the Oregon convict. On the morning of June 9 Tracy, then serving a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for robbery and shoot ing a sheriff's officer who had attempt ed to arrest him, made his successful dash for freedom from the Salem pris on, aided by his fellow-criminal, David Merrill, who was serving a term of 13 years for complicity in the robbery of which Tracy was convicted. That there was aid for the two des perate men from the outside is cer tain, for on the morning of the day of their escape, two repeating rifles were left in the jail corridors, where Tracy and Merrill easily could reach them as they marched with the other pris oners from their cells to their day's work. Tracy believed all along that Mer rill, who first was arrested for the rob beries they both committed, at Port land in February, 1899, had betrayed him to the officers of the law, but nev ertheless he consented to plot with Merrill to break prison, and their plans were carefully made. As they passed the guns left for them each seized a weapon and made a rush for the walls around the peni tentiary. The guards attempted to stop them, and Tracy, a dead shot, killed. Guard F. B. Farrell and wound ed Frank Ingraham, a life convict who attempted to aid the guards. Then, in the face of a heavy Are from other guards, Tracy and Merrill raised a ladder and escaped over the wall, stopping long enough to return the fire directed at them, a third shot from Tracy's rifle killing Guard S. B. T. Jonee. Then the escaping des peradoes made a rush for the prison outer gate, where they encountered two other guards, whom they made prisoners, meaning to keep them as hostages should the other guards not cease firing. The latter, however, kept up the hail of bullets, and Tracy, who had compelled his captives to walk before him. shot dead B. F. Tiffany, while Merrill fired at the second captive, who dropped, and, pretending to have been hit, escaped. Then both escaped. Twenty guards from the prison were sent in pursuit, and from that begin ning grew the famous chase which closed with so dramatic a setting. Eluding their pursuers, the two out laws captured an involuntary host, J. \V. Stewart, whom they made ex change clothes with them, and also pressed into service an expressman whose attire they likewise appropriat ed. Both Stewart and the expressman were held captive until the next day, when after having spent a comfortable night and been well l'ed, the fugitives stole two horses from another Salem resident and started for the north. On the second day of the pursuit bloodhounds were pressed into service and the chase grew hot. Within a day there was set on the heads of the fugi tive pair a price of SBOOO. Neither of the bandits was heard of for some days, till, at a place called' Gervais they further altered their attire by robbing a man named Roberts of his clothing. A cordon of several hundred men were thrown around Gervais, but Tracy and his companion easily broke through after an interchange of shots. The fugitives next were heard of six days after the escape, on June 15. when they held up a boatman and compelled him to row them across the Columbia river. The impressed boat man landed the runaway convicts in Washington near Vancouver, formerly the home of Merrill, where they un doubtedly expected to find friends and shelter. Again bloodhounds were put on tha trail, but, as before, the outlaws threw the dogs off the scent by taking to the water of the swamps and doubling back on the trail. It was at this point in the man hunt that another victim fell, this time one of the pursuing party being shot by his own friends in mistake for one of the outlaws. While the pursuit still was making a dragnet search through the swamps, the fugitives, traveling with incredible swiftness, made their way 100 miles north to the line of the Northern Pa cific railroad, which connects Port land with Puget Sound. At this point in the flight Tracy and Merrill were known to have been to gether, but when Tracy next was heard of he was alone and in the close neigh borhood of Olpmpia. A few days later the dead body of Merrill was found further back on the trail with a bul let wound in his back. After this discovery, the facts of the killing of Merrill came ont in the boasting of Tracy, who said he had killed him as he had suspected Mer rill of having betrayed him at Port land. They had agreed, he said, to duel, the strange conditions of which showed in a striking manner the na ture of the outlaw. According to Tracy the quarrel arose over the fact that Merrill was rated as his equal in newspaper re ports of the escape and flight, and as he held Merrill to be the inferior, they had come to words and agreed to fight. They were to walk, back to back, a certain number of paces and then turn and fire, but Tracy, fearing treachery on Merrill's part, stopped short of the agreed number of steps, and, turning, deliberately shot the oth er in the back. At Olympia Tracy visited a fishing camp in the neighborhood and held up the camp, making five men prisoners and pressing into his service a naph tha launch which lay at anchor there, leaving two of his prisoners tied up on the shore while the others were compelled to man the launch and take him out toward Tacoraa. The launch crew gave the alarm as soon as he departed, and Tracy within a few hours was trailed to a clump of tim ber. The sheriff of the county, Edward Cndihee. a noted man-hunter, was ab sent, but his chief deputy. "Jack" Wil liams, took up the pursuit, and with & posse surrounded Tracy's retreat, only to have the outlaw slip through his fingers, after having added one more murder to the list by the kilting of Detective Frank Raymond and wounding Williams himself. When Tracy renewed his flight bloodhounds again were put on his track, but the crafty outlaw had pro vided himself with red pepper, and this he strewed over the ground as he passed, with the result, that the dogs had their noses filled with pep per and were thrown off the scent, until Tracy had. time to get to water, where he obliterated his trail effec tually. Cudihee took up the hunt when he learned of the disastrous defeat of his deputies, and promptly with the return of the Sheriff. Gov. Mcßride of Wash ington ordered out the Washington National Guard and set 200 soldiers on the chase in addition to the numer ous bands of county and state officers who already were hot on the murder er's heels. The story of the pursuit of the out law after this is a long and exciting one, only a few incidents can be giv en here. Tracy was run to earth on July 10 in a thicket near Covington on Green river, but when the pursuers were sure they had him he burst through the lines, and after two in terchanges of shots slipped away, leav ing one wounded deputy behind him. The trail then was lost for two days, and when picked up called for another outing for the bloodhounds and Indian trackers, but with the same results. Then Tracy was lost for four days, till an old-time criminal seeking a share in the reward in formed the sheriff's officers that Tracy had submitted to a surgical operation performed by one of his companions with a razor, but the nature of the wound that was so treated was not known. There was a long break in the hunt thereafter, and it was but a few days ago that he was heard from moving toward, the point in eastern Washington where he was run down. Tracy's real name, or at least the name of his father, is said to have been Garr. As a boy of 12 years in 1890 he was arrested in Dillon, Mon., where he spent his boyhood for steal ing a keg of beer, and his record ever since has been criminal. In 1897 he appeared in Cache county, Utah, in company with a robber named Dave Lant, and the two together commit ted many thefts, the burglary of a store in Cache county finally causing the arrest of both and their conviction and sentence to the Utah penitentiary for terms of eight years. Tracy escaped by taking a revolver away from a guard and marching the guard, out of the lines of the prison work before he released him. He next was connected with two notorious bands of young robbers in Colorado. In a fight between officers and the Robbers Roost gang, headed by George Curry. Tracy and a companion shot and killed a deputy sheriff named Valentine Day, but both were wounded and their capture followed. They were taken to Aspen. Cal., and. placed in jail, but in a few days overpowered the jailor and regained their freedom. That was in June, 1897. and for the next two years Tracy kept out of jail, though wanted in sev eral states. His conviction to the Salem peniten tiary was obtained in April.. 1899, for robberies committed in Portland in February of the same year. When he began his sentence of 20 years in Salem prison he was registered as 25 years of age. Tracy was a powerful man, though of ratlier slight build. il Hf |S5w sk4yLJBL A Pretty Iletl Cover. A very pretty bed cover may be made out of heavy butcher's linen, in white, of course, and neatly hem stitched into a two-inch hem, then em broidered in daisies at frrtervals. If time is an object or one is not expert in embroidering a rich effect may be hadi by using a sewing machine and outlining some pretty designs with one of the heavy white braids. Cleaning; Uinta. Mother of pearl may be cleaned by washing with whiting and cold water. Never use soap or soda. If door or window screens move with difficulty rub their edges well with hard soap. Insect specks may be removed from gilded picture frames by dipping a small camel's hair brush in alcohol and applying it to the spot. To remove tar put soft grease on the spot, rub it thoroughly with the hands and wash off both the grease and tar with warm salt water. A Cover for tbo Piano. Covers of Oriental weave come for the backs of upright pianos, but they are by no means inexpensive. An ex perimenting housekeeper who wished, but could not afford, one of these bought as a substitute and at much less cost one Japanese portiere. This was too long and too narrow, but a piece taken from the bottom was fitted at the side, andi a second piece was added at the top to go over the lid of the piano. A pattern in shades of gold in a striped effect was chosen which lent itself readily to the piec ing scheme, and the new cover is ex tremely effective.—New York Post. For Ironing Dnj*. Try making your ironholder this way it you don't want your hand" to got dry and heated on ironing day. Cut from the upper part ot an old boot a piece of leather the size you wish the holder to be. Cut a piece of brown paper and two pieces of flannel or cloth the same size, says Home Chat. Then cover the holder in the ordinary way, except that on the top two thick nesses of material should be put in stead of one. Sow all round the edge; then slit the top upper covering across the centre, and bind the edge of the slit. Tills forms a pocket on each side, into which one's thumb and fingers are Slipped. * To Hid. The original button was wholly a product of needlework, but was soon, improved by the use of a wooden mold, over which a cloth covering was sew ed. From this it was only a step to the brass button, which was introduced by a hardware manufacturer in Bir mingham in 1689. It took 200 years to improve on the method of sewing the cloth on the covered button; then an ingenious Dane invented the de vice of making the button in two parts and clamping them together with the cloth between. In 1750 one Caspar Wistar set up 'lie manufacture of brass buttons in Phil adelphia, and soon afterward lleinry Witeman began malting them in New York. The buttons of George Wash ington and most of the continental army were made in France. Connecti cut presently came to the front and began making buttons of pewter and tin at Waterbury, the present center of the button industry. Buttons are now made of almost ev erything fromseaweed. and cattle hoofs to mother-of-pearl and vegetable ivory. Excellent buttons are made from potatoes, which, treated chem ically, become as hard as ivory. I.arge buttons factories make their entire product from various mixtures of gutta percha, skim milk and blood; others from celluloid and horn. The patent office has issued 1355 patents for making buttons. The most important branch of the button industry in the United States is the making of pearl buttons, the material being obtained from shells gathered along the Mississippi river. The industry has practically grown up within the last ten years, and its introduction is due entirely to J. F. Boepple of Muscatine, lowa, a native of Germany, who had learned the trade abroad. He saw that millions of dollars were going to waste in the shells known as "niggerhead#," of which tons were piled up on the banks of the river. Thousands of people are now employed in turning these shells into buttons, the little plants being found all the way from Minne sota to Missouri. Muscatine is still the groat headquarters of the industry. It has forty factories. The value of the shells has risen from 50 cents to S3O a hundredweight. And yet Amer ican buttonmaking is in its infancy, 'tis said. —Relioboth Sunday Herald. Hone Willi a TaMo for News. A horse feeding complacently on a diet of old papers was a sight seen at Eleventh and Grand avenue. A stonecutter drove a horse up to the Star office and left it standing in front of one of the city's garbage cans. The horse had a well-groomed appearance. No ribs were visible or would its appearance have attracted the attention of the humane agint. The animal moved up to the garbage can and began nosing its contents. The can was filled to the top with papers. There were newspapers, wrapping paper and paper of various other kinds. The horse began nib bling on a piece of old gray wrapping paper. It appeared to be palatable. A bite followed the nibble and soou the horse wtiu eating the paper as voraciously as an Angora goat. A newspaper followed the wrapping pa per. The horse appeared to relish the different pieces of news. When the owner finally appeared the old roan was just pulling from the bottom of the can a luncheon paper with a pink string. The driver did not seem to mind or notice the purloined meal of the horse, for he drove down the street with the horse chewing the pa per. The horse appeared to relish the breeze.—Kansas City Star. Oiti'e Trim. It is we!! enough to take things as they come, but there are a good many of them that you might just as well pass on. —Puck,