A Beautiful Neck.
To All out holows in the neck inhale
deep breaths of fresh air and then very
slowly expel them till all the air is ex
hausted from the lungs. Do this eight
or ten times several times a day. Re
member that this exercise must be
practiced with the throat bare if you
• .are to get the most possible good from
It, and it is useless to expect to see an
improvement for some weeks.
Stocks and Belts To Match.
A very new idea for a stock and belt
is to have both fashioned of white
cloth, with an appliqued design in
white suede leather applied in medal
lions, which are then outlined with
email paid beads. Transparent collars
are still as popular as ever. A stun
ning one has the usual pint in front,
high at the sides and hack sloping into
a comfortable curve at the throat. It
is media of filet net as a foundation; on
this is sewed appliques of pale blue
embroidery spangled with turqoutse
beads. The entire collar is boned top
and bottom. The smartest belts are
the snakeskin ones with a gilt harness
buckle. Good all round stocks, very
neat and pretty to wear with themorn
ing sulrtwalst, are the black peau de
sole and four-in-hands made up in the
shops to sell for a dollar. A linen
s turnover completes the trim appear-
Y ance.
• Women Use Stub Pens.
It was the young man's first day in
the department store, and when ho
sorted out the pens to be distributed
among the public writing desks he se
lected fine and medium nibs. The old
hand, who superintended the job, told
him to put them all back in tho box and
to pick out stubs instead. "Depart
ment store letter writers are mostly
women," he said, "and nine out of ten
women use a stub pen these days. It
is almost impossible to get them to
write with any other kind. Every once
in a while a new man comes along to
do the work you are doing this morn
ing, and he, not being up to the tricks
of shoppers, staters an assortment of
fine-pointed per.s over the writing
. tables. The women writers raise no
p*pnd of a row over a mistake of that
' kind and insist upon being supplied
with the favorite stubs." —New York
Times.
Reappearance of the Topaz.
Fashionable women who could not
possess a pearl or two In their jewel
boxes only recently felt that ail the
world stood awry. Every woman they
knew wore pearls set in some form or
other, and during the craze diamonds
for a time lost their prestige.
Just now jewelers are polishing up
and setting their supply of topazes,
for the time seems ripe for a reappear
ance of the golden stone. A topaz
must be set with diamonds and sap
phires to give the good, efieets of con
trast. Sapphires, more particularly,
will he favored, so nearly does the blue
match tho glowing purple of the corn
k flower.
y The jewelers' windows Bhow topazes
wonderfully set in ornaments of dain
tily carved tortoise shell, combs, fret
ted out as fine as lace work, and sprin
kled everywhere with topaz in every
shade from pale straw color to deep
est yellow.
Tortoise shell is the chosen setting
for the new favorite, and besides the
fancy combs wonderful bracelets arc
being made of the richly colored shell.
Scarcely bracelets or bangles are these
new ornaments, but old fashioned arm
lets, that clasp the white member above
the elbows. —New York Herald.
The Craze for Beadwork.
The beadwork of the Indian woman
is steadily growing in favor, and we
are using her artistic and beautiful
handiwork for almost every purpose
In both the world of fashion and In the
1 household. Moreover, we are becom
ing very expert in the making of at-
tractive designs ourselves, and pretty
i soon the paleface and the squaw will
be brought into sharp competition. But
we shall be handicapped, as the Indian
girl's knowledge of this bead painting
ie second nature to her. For U3e in the
household nothing is better to bright
en up a dark niche than a string of
glass beauties. They adorn chandeliers
and hang over picture frames. Lovely
are the new candle shades. Covered
first with silk, they are dotted with
beads, and a fringe of the same finishes
the bottom of the candle drapery. Bat
tle axes having headed handles are
good for decorative purposes, and the
tomahawk and pie combination is also
adorned with beads. It seems we are
to wear hands of beads on our sum
t mer hats as well as on the belts of our
' thin dresses. Purses, slippers and all
' sorts of fancy baskets we have seen
from time Immemorial, but the vlow
upon the once despised objects as
point has changed, and we now look
'things of beauty, and if the enthusiasm
keeps up they will prove joys forever,-
as the durability of Indian work is pro
verblal.-r-Washlngton Star.
Three Ages of Women.
"Woman's life may be divided.broad
ly into throe very distinct periods, the
whispering age, the giggling age and
the storming and' tearful age," said an
observant man, "and if men were
shrewd they could easily make a good
guess as to a woman's age up to a cer
tain time. There is a time when a
woman's age is a matter of much mys
tery, and a man, or a woman, for that
matter, can't tell anything about It.
The first statement, in which the divi
sion of periods is made, is probably a
little awkward, for the whispering pe
riod belongs to the child age rather
than to the age of the woman, and
the giggling l period gets a little closer
to the border line of womanhood. Still
all these periods belong to the life of
the sex, and hence, they may be prop
erly considered in the connection I
have in mind.
"Note the difference between the girl
and the boy of, say between J.O and 12
years of ago. The boy, as a rule, is
loud, boisterous, speaks in big, com
manding tones, and lives in all ro
spects the life intense. But here the
girl enters upon her whispering ca
reer. She begins to say things softly
to her companions. She whispers ev
erything. She does not use her low
tones simply to peddle the little gossip
of the schoolyard, to say shy things
of Jodie, and Richard, and Thomas,
and Henry, but she will whisper the
most ordinary things in the world,
mere commonplaces about which there
is no sort of need of secrecy. Now as
she buds into her teens she enters
upon a period of apparently foolish,
often silly, giggling. She will Biggie
at the most trifling things In the
world, giggle at nothing and often she
will giggle when tears would be more
becoming. Of course, she doesn't mean
to he harsh in thi3. She is probably
further from harshness at this age than
at any other time In her career.
"It Is the age when poetic and re
ligious Impulses are strongest In the
nature of woman, when the heart Is
tenderest and when the subtle essences
of that indefinable thing, the soul, are
more plastic and more responsive than
at any other period. So she giggles,
and giggles, until after she lias round
ed her way Into the 20s. Thus we
come by degrees to the last period
when the lines of life have dropped
into their natural grooves, when tim
idity Is replaced by the self-assertive
spirit, when life continually alternates
between the sunshine and the shadow,
passing quickly from laughter to tears,
from song to sigh, from love's gentler,
lisping to the rasping speech of petu
lance, and so on until the firee burn
low on the hearth and the calm of age
falls softly as heaven's benediction."—
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Fashion Notes.
Feathers will be extremely fashion
able this season.
Some of the newest skirts are
trimmed with either graduated rows of
velvet or a fancy velvet and braid gal
loon.
White velveteen of an inexpensive
quality, and said to be washable, is
much favored for morning wear in
the house, with white cloth or serge
skirts.
A prominent feature of the spring
costumes will be the cufTs. Even the
plainest walking gowns will be distin
guished for conspicuous cuffs, usually
of the gauntlet type.
A milliner has intraflced a new hat
pin, the head of which is made of a
neat little pompon of chenille. Worn
with a felt hat it looks as if it was
part of the trimming.
The most attractive form in which
the separate fancy waist has made its
appearance this season is in ivory vel
vet, arranged in large plaits, decorated
with small gold buttons.
Cloth of two colors and types will be
used on one frock, cloth strappings
will decorate velvet and vice versa,
and lace motifs will be tinted to match
the gown they embellish.
A charming spring model in milli
nery is of white moire silk, draped
with tulle, gauged and tucked so as to
resemble fur, with two long ostrich
feathers curling around the brim.
Braided skirts are decidedly the
vogue acording to foreign advices;
sometimes the braid is just put on
plainly in rows on either side of the
plastron or it takes some Grecian or
severe conventional design. With the
closely plaited skirts the plastron may
bo braided and another favored spring
trimming for cloth dresses is decoupe
velvet and lace incrustations.
Trimmings promise to constitute the
chief charm of the spring costumes.
The tailor-made gowns will be elabor
ately trimmed with bands of velvet
and braid artistically combined. But
tons of all sizes and all sorts will be
used as a trimming. The demand for
silk cords and tassels will bo increased
rather than diminished, and lace and
silk embroideries will be introduced
wherever there is a possible excuse
for them.
OIL FUEL IN LOCOMOTIVES.
Western Railroad Men Say It's as Safe
as Coal, Maybe Safer.
Some people have thought that crude
oil should be prohibited in its use as
fuel on locomotives because of the
danger of explosion and easy ignition
in case of collision or other serious
mishap. The recent cycle of accidents
throughout the country, particularly
in the West, where everybody is quite
familiar with petroleum, has seemed
to accentuate the feeling against oil
burning locomotives. In one or itwo
instances serious damage from lire has
resulted, and reports have made it ap
pear that, immediately after the crash,
burning oil was quickly hurled over
the wreck and fiendish flames soon
wrought complete destruction.
Experts have been discussing the
danger of oil on locomotives lately,
and their conclusions are ito the ef
fect that such fuel is not only not more
dangerous than coal, but often much
less 30.
Said a prominent Southern Pacific
official of the operating department
recently: "I ana not talking to be
quoted in 'the ppbltc prints, because
the subject is somelvnat technical and
a trifle out of my line., but I do tuft
hesitate for a moment in saying that
the danger from oil as fuel on our loco
motives is at a minimum, and that coal
is no safer. In fact, when emergency
arises, the engineer or fireman can
quickly turn a valve and instantly
put out the roaring flames in tne fire
box; whereas in the case of coal, there
is always a bed of red-hot coals ready
to make any accident a dreadful holo
caust. Of course, the same thing might
happen with oil under the proper con
ditions, if the flow were ncit stopped
and the flames could be fed from a
bursted tank.
"Even then It might more often hap
pen that the cold petrdleum would ex
tinguish the fire. Crude oil itself is not
an explosive; when vaporized it will
burn, but to vaporize iit in the open is
a difficult matter. Pour crude oil over
a lighted torch, and the effect will be
the same af if water had been used;
plunge a lighted torch into a tank of
crude oil, and the flame will go out in
stantly; no explosion will ensue; the
flame goes out because the oil is of
such consistency that it is with diffi
culty vaporized, while it can burn on
ly in that condition.
"Before the Southern Pacific, decided
to abandon coal on Its engines, some
interesting experiments were made in
Los Angeles at the istance of General
Manager Kruttschnltt, who at first
seemed fearful of imminent danger
from the use of oil. These experiments,
however, convinced him that the new
fuel was in no way an extra hazard to
life or property.
"Of course, in a head-on oollislon,
when two mammoth engines plunge
into each other at terrific speed, they
are quickly demolished, together with
their tenders and everything else,
while necessarily oil would be hurled
in every direction —but seldom burning
oil — and, if Are broket out, the oil
would very easily burn along with the
inflamahle debris. But there is the pos
sibility of killing tire flame in the fire
box that does not exist when coal is
burned."
At this juncture It Is interesting to
know that an Arizona mechanic i 3 re
ported to be in Los Angeles at the
present time working on a device de
signed to stop the flow of oil in an en
gine automatically upon the least dis
turbance indicating serious complica
tions. Such an invention is greatly de
sired by both railroads and travelling
public.—Lcs Angeles Times.
Britisher Shrinking In Size.
The London Express fears that the
physical standard of tho Britishers is
on tho decline. It says: Out of every
five men who offer themselves for the
army only two become effective sol
diers.
As the medicinal rejections for the
army are an Indication of tho general
physical condition of the would-bo ro
cruits these figures show an alarming
deterioration of the national physlqbo.
In a single year 23,000 men were re
jected at sight, and another thousand
were discharged with only a few
weeks' service, while up to ono, two,
and throe years' service the discharges
for reasons of unfitness were numer
ous.
One of the causes for this state of
things is the crowding of men in the
towns, and another is the want of
nutriment and attention in childhood
among the lower classes.
From observations taken at military
hospitals Sir Frederick Maurice be
lieves that the scanty and improper
feeding of infants induces heart and
lung trouble and Inferior physique,
and that early marriages and mater
nal neglect are fruitful causes of flat
feet, bowed legs and similiar physi
cal defects.
The Loss of Life in 1902.
The loss of human life in 1902 apart
from the ordinary ravages of disease,
was greater than it has been in any
year for a considerable period. It is
estimated that tho deaths caused by
the volcanic eruptions in the West In
dies numbered about 50,000, and thou
sands more deaths resulted from a
like cause in other parts of the world.
War added something like 25,000 to
26,000 to the list of the fatalities, tho
greatest losses of this character being
tho Transvaal, China, Africa and Ven
ezuela. Deaths from epidemics aggre
gated about 385,000, which is estimat
ed as nearly 45,000 more than in the
preceding year, while shipwrecks ac
count for 4200 of the accidenlal deaths,
or nearly double those from that cause
In 1901. Suicide figures a grand total
of 8231. The number of deaths caused
by murder and accidents of various
kinds will foot up a large aggregate,
which cannot be approximately esti
mated. —Nashville Banner.
PEARLS OF THOU-MT.
Haste trips up its own heeH, fetters
and stops itself. —Seneca.
If you would know, and not be
known, live in a city. —Colton.
No man was ever discontented with
the world if he did his duty in it. —
Sou they.
There Is no genius in life like the
genius of energy and industry- —D. G.
Mitchell.
Character and personal force are the
only Investments that are worth any
thing.—Whitman.
Our first Impulses are good, generous,
heroical; reflection weakens and kills
them. —L. A. Martin.
He that was never acquainted with
adversity has seen the world but one
side, and Is ignorant of half the Bceues
of Nature.—Seneca.
Saeriflce brings its reward by con
verting simple duty into positive hap
piness. We have attained our end in
the liberty to work freely with God. —
John James Taylor.
Human help in our need, human for
giveness of our wrong-doing, human
love In our loneliness,—these are the
sacraments through which, at their
sweetest and purest, we feel a divine
help and forgiveness and love flowing
into our souls. —G. S. Merriam.
In our higher and happier moods, 1
think we all have visions of the truth
that we never are nor. can be paid for
our best, save only in the doing of It.
Our finest devotion is never recom
pensed in terms of the market. It never
can be. Wo give ourselves, and find in
return our larger life —Frederick L.
Hosmer.
WESTERN CATTLE RANGES.
How They Yet May Be Restored to
Their Old Fertility.
The number of cattle In the United
States is increasing, though it' does
not keep pace with the population. But
the business is more and more forced
on to high priced land, rendering beel
production costlier than it need be.
According to figures laid before the
bouse committee on public lands,
April IC, 1902, the number of range cat
tle sent to market diminished 81 per
cent between 1895 and 1901.
With due care the range can be made
to reoorer Ks old fertility. It might
easily be put in ooadltlon to fatten
four head of stock to each head now
grazing upon it. To effect this, regu
lation Is needed. Some authority must
bo asserted over the pastures to pro
vent their abuse, to make It for the
Interest of occupants not to kill the
goose which lays the golden egg. An
end must be put to the blighting com
petition now kept up.
# Regulation being established, pas
tures can be used in rotation, a period
of rest being given each, during which
the grazing and trampling of herds
may cease, and grosses have opi>ortun
ity to scatter and fructify their seeds.
Barren places can bo artificially re
seeded and induced to yield herbage
as of old. In localities better grasses
than over grew there can be sown and
grown.
Such a recuperative process has been
set going in other countries, and in
parts of our own. Australia has suf
fered the pinch through which we are
now passing. Her great Uve stock in
dustry was dythg out; her exports of
frozen and preserved moats dwindling.
Ranges were depleted or destroyed,
as new with us. Cattle "duffing," out
lawry, range jumping and quarrels
were general. The man of that country
faced the problem and solved It A
system of leasee was devised, giving
each grazier, for a term of twenty
eight years, exclusive rango rights up
on his land. It became profitable for
him to improve his holding instead of
promoting its deterioration. The lessee
cuts his domain in two, pasturing
each part one year and resting it ths
next In this way the whole pasture
gradually Improves In quality. Cattle
multiply and thrivo as additional grass
grows to feed them.
Mexico and Canada have hod a sim
ilar experience, and so In our own
country, have Texas and other states
The excellent control of cattle afforded
by the Canadian system accounts for
the present heglra of American cattle
people across our northern border. —E.
Benjamin Andrews, in tho American
Monthly Review of Reviews.
Affectionate Elephants.
A pathetic story of Intelligence and
affectionate solicitude of an elephant
comes from the Midnapur district In
Bengal.
A wild tusker and a young animal
had done great damage to crops, and
the head man of the district, Babu
Ganjan Lai Malla, attempted to kill
them. He shot the large animal in the
leg, disabling it, but not sufficiently
for anyone to approach It.
For a month, says the Ixmdon Ex
press, the animals lingered in the dis
strlct, the small one ministering to
the wants of iits wounded comrade, and
by furious charges kept the villagers
at a safe distance.
Twinging its trunk about that of the
stricken brute, it uttered the most
mournful cries, fanned the wound, and
gave every evidence of acute distress.
When the wounded elephant died its
companion disappeared and has not
been seen since.
Thousand Lines on a Post Card.
A German farmer named Heinrich
Rundshagen, living a,t Schiphorst., near
lauonberg, has been clever enough to
write a thoushand lines ,011 an ordinary
post-card. First he wrote Schiller's
"Song of the Bell" in German and
latin characters, together 853 lines and
then 148 lines of German poems. The
card is to be shown to the Kaiser, and
then to be exhibited at next year's ex
hibition in St. Louis.
Kitchener Brooked No Failure.
The gift of overcoming apparently
Insufficient difficulties which the sir
dar's officers possessed in such a
marked degree was very largely due to
the unbending severity with which he
treated all failures, whether high or
low were responsible for them. A
thing was ordered: it had to be done,
and consequently it was done; no ex
cuses prevailed for an instant. So
when an officer lo6t a Nile steamer
through the stupidity of a subordinate
he was a ruined man; when the wires
failed to connect K. with his base at a
critical moment the young officer in
charge lost all tie fruits of his -ong
and meritorious labors. If no chief
ever acknowledged more fully and gen
erously good work well done, no one
also was ever more unforgiving of fail
ure, to no matter what cause the fail
ure might be due. Once in the hot
test moment of a blazing Soudan sum
mer I incautiously reported that D. had
got sunstoke, and therefore could not
execute some order. "Sunstroke:" K.
replied: "what does he mean by hav
ing sunstroke; send him down to Cairo
at once." However, D. being a friend
of mine, I wired to warn him that he
was under a delusion and was quite
well, and the order was carried out,
and nothing more hoard of the matter,
while poor D. lived to get himself
handsomely killed before Mafeking.
Whetstones Made of Aluminium.
It is reported from Germany that an
experimenter there has found alumin
ium an excellent substitute for a whet
stone in giving a fine, keen edge to
blades. When examined with a mi
croscope, the edge of a knife that was
sharpened on the metal appeared much
straighter and smoother than one
sharpened on a stone. One peculiar
effect of the honing is that the surface
of the aluminium becomes coated with
a greasy substance with a great power
of adhesion to steel, and to this is at
tributed the fine edge produced.
Marconi System for Africa.
The African Trans-Continental Tel
egraph Company's line being complete
to Ujiji, the directors have, in view
of the great engineering difficulties to
the north of that district, suspended
operations for the present, and are
watching with a degree of interest the
develoument of the Marconi system of
wirelosß telegraphy with, a possible
view of its adoption.
Art Association, tells young women what to
do to avoid pain and suffering caused by
female troubles. J
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Plakhnm's Vegetable Compound to those of my sisters suffering with
female weakness and the troubles which so often befall women. I suf
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In my distress I was advised to use Lydla E. Pink hum's" Vegetable
Compound, and it was a rod letter day to mo whon I took the first dose,
for at that time my restoration began. In six weoks I was a changed
woman, perfectly well in every respect. I felt 60 elated and happy that
I want all women who suffer to get well as I did."— Miss GOII.A GANNON,
359 Jones St., Detroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art Association.
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Pinklinni's Vegetable Compound will certainly cure the sufferings
•f women; and when one considers that iYJiss Gannon's letter is
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New Five-cent Stamp.
Tho Postofflce Department has ap
proved the design for the new five
cent postage stamp. The design sym
bolizes the cemeting of the tie between
the North and South, and on that ac
count the stamp will be known gen
erally as the "Union" stamp. It will
show an engraved head of Lincoln,
centered in an oval, while on the either
side will be the figures of a woman,
one representing the North and the
other the South. Each supports a
palm and is draped in the American
Hag.
Collecting Dialects.
With the fund recently received from
the Carnegie Institute in Washington
the department of experimental psy
chology at Yale University will con
tinue experiments on the human voice,
which were begun more than a year
ago. Plans are being made for col
lecting dialects all over the United
States, by means of a car specially
equipped with voice-recording ma
chines. A feature of the collection
will be voice records of various tribes
of North American Indians. It has
been decided to send the car West this
summer.
Recommended by Commission.
An appropriation of $275,000 for a
New York State Electrical Laboratory
at Union College, Schenectady, is rec
ommended by a commission appointed
to determine the necessity for such an
institution. The laboratory is to sup
ply information on questions of elec
trical science, and an official standard
for electrical measuring instruments
and apparatus, together with standards
for electric wiring of buildings for the
protection of municipalities and the
general public. Germany has such an
institution.
Won Flag-Song Prize.
Mrs. Lee C. Harby, of Charleston, S.
C., has won the SIOO prize in a con
test ordered by the State of Texas for
an official flag song. Her poem set
to music will be sung on all patriotic
occasions.
Passports for Honduras.
Information was received at Mobile,
Ala., from Honduras to the effect that
because of revolutionary troubles all
persons coming into that country must
have passports.