TIIE SASH POPULAR. The sash is much in evidence with thin gowns, and It may be bordered in the Louis Quiuze style or made of soft ribbon and wound twice around the waist and tied in a short bow with long-tasselled ends. Pompadour ribbon sasbes are picturesque when worn with a simple white muslin dress, while white ribbon illuminated with wreaths of tiny roses would be fascinating with n pale green organdy or mull, says The Delineator. lace & a genuine coffee color is effective on white gowns, the rich shade of the lace softening and beautifying tbe pure white. Irregular judged insertions, medallions and edg ings are procurable In every variety of lace shown, and there are also all-overs to match. A PRETTY HOUBE GOWN. Speaking of houae gowns reminds pne that very pretty ones may be made of the dainty challies displayed so temptingly on the shop counters. A pretty oue Is of blue and white stripe. The skirt, aside from having a few j tucks in front, is perfectly plain and lias a small train, while the waist, hav ing a yoke effect, J plain, too. The sleeve is a new one and is banded with a lace insertion, a frill of the lace fln ishiug the cuff. Rows of palo panne velvet adorn the cuffs, and the girdle Is of the same material. Another house gown is for a young girl. The ground ris of pale pink and the pattern is in Wvine color, black and white. Tho skirt is pleated in such manner as to give n whole plain pluk front, save where the llounces border tha foot, says' the Pittsburg Dispatch. The waist Is treated in like maimer, and there is no trimming whatever on tha gown, save a black velvet ribbon, which threads a little white collar. A NEW FA6IIIOX FAD. One of the latest discoveries is the •hoe-string belt. That a smart touch could be evolved out of just an ordi nary shoe-string sounds almost Incredi ble, doesn't it? But tha shoe-string belt, nevertheless, has all the airs airil graces of an Imparted novelty, and in addition to this it Ats the figure to per fection, and there is no end to its wear ing qualities. Black and white linen eljoe-strlngs ure generally used for this ntoV'l belt. The shoe-strings are braid ed, Olid the number chosen depends upon the width of the belt you desire, and Incidentally on tha number of itrands you know how to braJd. At the ends of the belt tbe shoe-strings are tied In hard little knots, tbeu left long enough to be fringed so that tliey look tike tassels. Tbe linen ahoe-atringa When braided make a very pliable belt —one which fits the waiet Hue prettily. In addition to the blaek-and-whlte belts there are others In brown and tan, brown and white, as well as in black-aud-wlilte plaid. Baby ribbon In two or more colors braided in tbe same way as the shoe-strings also makes an effective shirt waist belt—Woman's Home Companion. MILADY'S NEW NOTE PAPER. fliere is noticeable an Increased use of small sizes iu writing papers. Ml mady's note is now a vej-y tiny, delicato feffair, possibly away she has of excus ing herself for writing brief letters. "My paper Is all used," aha scribbles, and signs herself, "yours devotedly," with a thankful sigh there is room to .write no more. Pure white Is the fn-vorlte color, though we see no end of all .manner of hues hi stationery; hut white Is the vogue, and, though fade in stationery come and go, this always has a sure following. Linen, lawn and cambric are also still the popular papers. In the matter of engraving the Ber lin block still seems to lead. There is something so distingue about It, and as there is too difficult handiwork about it for it ever to become cheapened it is likely to remain Jong in fashion's favor. A point noticed about the season's cards is the centreing of the address under the name and nlso the placing of the reception days in the centre in , stead of the lower corner as formerly. \ Shaded old English divides houors 'with the Berlin block. This style of engraving is a great 'avorlte, for It has a oertain individuality that appeals to many. For misses' cards the black old English Is used, and the card is much smaller, about two inches square. —Washington Star. A PERILOUS PASTIME. Mme. Brassard, a Freneh woman Who keeps a small corner shop at Lyons, lays claim to being the most noted Alpinist of the fair sex la Eu rope. This poor woman, who gains her ltvlng by following the French Alpine troops during their maneuvers !u the Alps in order to sell her cocoa, 3 as accomplished during these marches ome remarkable Alpine feats. f This year she joined tbe Ninety-ninth Battalion, and marched with them in to Savoy, after which site exchanged to the Ninety-seventh, which she fol . lowed in all its mnrehes. In a space of a few days this extraordinary woman climbed the Mont Jovet (2500 metres), crossed tbe Col dc la Vanoise .Which was covered with two feet of snow at the time, ascended Mont Frold (2800 metres), one of the most danger out mountains in the French Alps; ac companied the soldiers to the summit of Mont Cenis (2200 metres), and Anal ly reached the top of the Frejus (2700 metres), where sho ''lifted the Ninety seventh Regiments <j join the grand maneuvers in Savoy During her trav els Mme. Brassard constantly carried a basket containing nearly thirty pounds of cocoa and her provisions, wore ordinary shoes without nails, and was armed with an ordinary walk ing-stick. Many soldiers "foil out" with fatigue during these difficult marches; not so Mme. Brassard, who Anished up by walking among the sol diers another hour or two in order to sell her cocoa. A paltry 150 francs represented the proAt at the end of the maneuvers.—Chicago Chronicle. BQUDQIR^ There .'ire now in Ireland more than 700 women graduates of universities. Mrs. L. Goodman, aged ninety, is the oldest living woman artist. She has pointed over 1200 portraits. A Massachusetts woman bas made a success of market gardening and ad vises others to go into the business. In England the women employed In libraries receive from $250 to SOOO a year. In the United States women In libraries receive from SSOO to S3OOO. Mrs. Hugh Reed Griffin has just been re-elected President of the Society of American Women in London. The ob ject of tbo society is to create a social centre for Americans in Loudon. Two young women of Rhode Island, college graduates, liuvo gone iuto busi ness to supply Newport with spring laiub, young goose, hothouse grapes, etc., getting fancy prices and making large profits. Mi's. Houghton is considered one of the best oil experts in the country. She was in the oil business in Penn sylvania for twenty-five years, and is now interested in the new oil wells of the Gulf State. The marriage of Russian peasant girls is purely a business arrangement. If they abhor their bridegrooms or husbands, as they oftou havo good rea son to do, and run away, they aro al most invariably cupluiod and cruelly beaten in public. The first woman lawyer to appear in a Hwlsa law court Is Mile. Mackeu roth, who recently acted for the de fendant in a ease at the Assise Court at Zurioli. Her eloquent defense on bo half of her client surprised oven tho judges, and the jury, without -retiring, found for the defendant. A young woman namod Ella Kellogg is seeking to be appointed a game war den in Colorado, and if she succeeds in her quest will probably be tho only game warden in tho country. She has quite a hunting record, having rid den on the back of a wild elk which treed her, and on which sho dropped with easy grace. After putting the somewhat excitable aiUnuU through his paces, she leaned over and cut its throat with her faithful pooketknife* Opaline ribbons are among the new est soft weaves. Many of the long evening gloves are inset with lace Insertion. To be correct this season every part of a woman's costume must match. Buttons form a prominent and fash ionable feature of many garments. Openwork braids iu Mexican drawn work designs are among the newest trimmings. A walking skirt of mohair in sun burst pleats is R. novelty, but It is not likely to become popular. Tailor gowns of voile, etamine or any open-weave stuff will far outshine those of broadcloth this spring. A coarse net, embroidered In straw sad appllquod with strawberries and leaves. Is used for hat crowns. Fainted balls to match the top, nat ural wood or largo crystal balls are among the most desirable parasol handles. A modish way to use the popular wide cluuy insertion Is to insert it in squares surrounded by a double row of heavy French knots. Koine of tha new dotted silk mous sellne veils have gaily embroidored bor ders, two or three Inches deep, In the popular strawberry design. Colored lacea are having great vogue, not only the laees dyed to match gowns, hut coarse Klet darned in pat terns In blue, reds or browns. The bats will bear fruits ib and out of season. One supports a spray of small oranges, another Is a strawberry bed, a third Is lusetous with cliOrrlos. Handkerchiefs exactly matching the frock in color are a present fad and seme women go to the length of having 'kerchiefs died to match each of their gowns. For the woman who k>voa the weird there are the new snake girdles and chains of white metal. These suakea are wonderfully and fearfully Aoxiblo and their jeweled oyes gleam ef fectively. White roses and purple lilacs, tied in little alternating sprays on a length of narrow light blue velvet ribbon, make R graceful chain to'wear with a decol lete bodice. A longer chain to match is festooned about tbe skirt of the frock. |oJ^NDVsTi\l^r| Cockroaches in South Africa, where they exist tn such numbers as to he a serious public Inconvenience, have been held In chock by tbe Inroads of a para sitic fungus. Captive roaches are in oculated with tho fungus and then lib erated. The spread of the disease among their colonies in this manner has boon found to be the most effective way of controlling their spread and multiplication. The same fungus also served a similar purpose with the Afri can locust. The common earthworm lias held the attention of scientists ever since Dar win pointed out the wonderful part it plays in the formation of soil. The chemical role of the earthworm bas l>cn the subject of the latest investi gation. In some wonderful manner tiie soil in passing through the short length of the worm becomes totally changed In character, and much better fitted tor the nourishment of plant life. Such soil undergoes nitrification more lap idly than soil ordinarily does, and the solubility of the phosphoric acid is in creased, while the percentage of car bonate of lima becomes larger. The skeletons of sixty mastodons have been found In the State of New York distributed nlong certain well marked belts, as follows: Thirty-four tn Eastern Now York from Albany south through Nowhuvg; thirteen from Rochester south through Livingston County; two near Chautauqua Lake and two near Ithaca. Outside of these belts the State is barren. It would ap pear. therefore, that the mastodons had distinct feeding grounds, and the remains Indicate that the beasts were living in a time not very remote. Their skoletons arc now usually found rest lug on the boulders of old streams in a comparatively thin layer of peat. No specimen of the mammoth has yet been found In the State. A French investigator has been ex perimenting with the elcetrie current tn produce nnasatbeala. After dnly fortifying himself with a numbor of experiments upon animals he extended his researches to the human body, ex perimenting at first upon himself. He finds by applying a current, the exact character of which Is not stated, to the body, through moistened electrodes, placed one on the forehead nnd the other over the small of the back, that with a roltnge of fifty complete Inhibi tion takes place. The faculty of speech ha first lost, followod finally by the in hibition of the functions of the other motor senses. It is nsserted that its only disagreeable feature is that which accompanlos tho gradual loss of the faculties, resulting in, a sensation of a nightmare. The heart is said to be un affected. hut tho breathing is some what obstructed. The current strength is gradually applied, abont five minutes being occupied tn reaching the maxi mum. When the current is switched off the subject awakens at once, and with a "feeling of invigoratlon." Plants may be poisoned just as well AO animal organisms. A lack of oxy gen will result In nsphyxiatlon just as surely as It does in man. The effect may not be so quickly attained, but it is none the less sure. An experimenter at the Imperial Agricultural University of Tokyo has recently been studying the poisonous effects of caffein nnd nn tlpyrin in high dilutions on plants. Onion and celery plants were the sub jects of the investigation. It was found that the former plants remained alive for "nearly four weeks in a solu tion containing one part of caffein in 1000 of the nutrient solution." In other experiments oil celery plants these same alkaloids proved fatal In about two weeks, the death of the plant being heralded by the wilting of the leaves. It is quite remarkable that the tea plant, which contains a comparatively large nmount of caffein in the leaves, should also he susceptible to poisoning from caffein when fed to the plant along with nutrients. It is surmised that the caffein found in the tea leaves is so surrounded as to protect the cells from injury. l>aajrr Tfefir th© Gronnd. At present the Street Cleaning De partment of New York Is Investigating the air in the city streets, with a view of showing: the influence of clean gut ters upon the health. Gelatine plates hare been exposed in certain districts to collect bacilli, and these are being examined in order that scientific proof may be had that certain disease germs flourish in dirty surroundings, and that whatever the citizen may be taxed to keep hla thoroughfares clean he will finally save in his doctor's bills. The microbe colonies developed on plates exposed in a nelghborhod of light traffic, wide streets and asphalt pave ments average five, while those taken im a region of heavy traffic down-town averaged over 7000, nnd those in the tenement district on the East Side over WOO.— Woman's Home Companion. ITw the Cabinet Officer* Sit. The order in which the members of President Roosevelt's Cabinet sit around the Cabinet table, says a Wash ington correspondent, is simply tiie crystallization of a practice which has been followed so long that nobody ven tures to question it. The Cabinet table is arranged thus: President, Sec. of State. Sec. of Treasury. Sec. of War. Attorney Gen. Postmaster Gen. Sec. of Nary. I See. of Interior. I Sec. of Agriculture | Sec. of Commerce and Labor. LATEST LEV/."YORK, FASHIONS New York City.—Shix't waists inado with wide box pleats at the centre and with tucks running from the shoulders make notable features of the latest WOMAN'S SIIIHT WAIST. styles and are exceedingly becoming, tho very attractive May Manton model shown Is made of pongee stitched with eorticelli silk hi self color, and worn with stock and cuffs of ecru lace bound with brown velvet, but the design suits all the season's silks, wools, linen and FASHIONABLE BLOUSE WAX ST AND THKEE-PIECE SKIIiT cotton fabrics equally well. Plain col lar and cuffs can be substituted for tlio lace when the material requires such treatment and the lining can be used or omitted at will. The arrangement of tucks Is pecullarlly satisfactory, as the shorter groups provide fulness and soft folds over the bust. The plain back Is seen In the greater number of now models and always Is becoming. The fitted lining extends to the waist lino only and is closed at the centre front, but separately from the outside. The waist Itself consists of the back and fronts, both of which are arranged In gathers at the waist line. The back Is drawn down smoothly, but the fronts blouse slightly over the belt. At the centre Is the regulation box pleat through which the closing Is made, The sleeves are In bishop style with straight cuffs. The stock is novel and attrac tive. The quantity of material required for medium size Is three and three-quarter yards twenty-one Inches wide, throe yards thirty-two Inches wide or two yards forty-four Inches wide, with one half yard of all-over for stock and cuffs. New Finery For Mir FBIT. There never was a time when so many evening dresses suitable for res taurant feasting and resort wear were to be seen, and even bought ready made. White broadcloth is so far the smartest thing, though velvet, lace and more or less spangled fabrics have played a conspicuous part. From this on canvas, etamine, voile, barege, nun's veiling, grenadine and lace will be more in evidence. And lace and hand work will be most favored as trim mings. Tiny tucks, ajour stitehiugs and any amount of embroidery, all these go to make the success of these lovely dresses. Add to lliese lace, any amount of it, and there you are. Such dresses are high at the neck, with or without a stock, though the sleeves and yoke are often transparent. Fringe has neither become a craze nor dropped out of sight, as is usually the case. Fine deep chenille fringe outlining a very shallow shaped yoke is becoming to very good figures. Simple looking, but far from cheap or easy to make, is a gown copied from one Lady Sybil Primrose wore at tho eomlng-of-age ball Lord ltosebery re cently gave his son. It is of cream wlilte accordloned chiffon, the skirt in sun-ray effect, bordered with ruche-like Hillings and falling from a perfectly fitting yoke of the loveliest duchesse lace. Over the finely-pleated blouse Is a bolero of the lace, which comes down to the skirt yoke at the centre front. It covers the front of the low, square-cut bodice entirely. The snug elbow sleeves are also of the lace, ending In a small flare at the elbow. A largo chou of white silk ribbon Is at the hack of a gracefully draped girdle. Frencli Waists. White cloth gowns are very smart, and for the moment what is known as champagne-colored cloth, somewhat darker than ivory white. Is the favorite color, trimmed with lace and embroid ery of the same color or with a touch of pale blue to make it more becoming. There is also a return to the fad for black, and there are dozens of smnrt black gowns with a round or pointed laee yoke and high stock collar all in one. and with elbow sleeves of the black finished with big puffed uuder sloeves of lace. The separate waist, that most useful and practical garment which is so often prophesied to be going out of fashion, and which each succeeding season takes a new lease of life, appears in aD endless variety of designs. It is once again the most noticeable of all the new styles. Quite apparent is the shirt waist luHuence upon the waists. These, while quite too elaborate to be rightly called shirt waists, are like them in being made without lining or bones, and with a certain simplicity of pat tern. All white materials are fash ionable again, and especially the wash materials that even now are to he had In such fascinating patterns with open work and embroidery, lines of lace in sertion, or lace medallions all woven with the fabric. These are more ex pensive, and consequently thought smarter, with the lace or embroidery of the tiuest hand work. As a rule, the new waists are made to fasten in the hack, all the more elaborate ones being finished in that style. The bice is In bands across the chests or in long lines. The sleeves are charming, with the ful ness well below the elbow, but gath- PLICATED SHIRT WAIST, ered into a band of lace or embroidery at the wrist, and large enough to allow | of a little fulness at the top of the I sleeve.—Harper's Bazar, Amounts oi r.cQ £n? trolled by the Companies. Probably very few people who live and work outside the money markets have ever paused to consider the tre mendous monotary force wielded by the insurance companies of the United States. The amount of money that theso concerns handle Is enormous. One may read that at present the 67 loading life insurance companies of the leading life insurance companies of the United States hold securities of all kinds that aggregate more than $1,50U,- 000,000. Imagination fails bo gTasp such figures. It is equivalent to say ing that there are 1.5U0 banks in the country, each of which has $1,000,000 which it must keop invested. Strik ing as these figures are, they do not Include the holdings of the lesser in surance companies, and they pay no heed to the money controlled by the multitude of largo and small fire insur ance companies. Of course the bulk of the money hold by an insurance company has to be invested; that is to say every dollar not needed for running expenses and for the prompt payment of claims. It is like a fairy tale of finance when ono reads what use is made of the millions on millions paid to insurance companies. During the year 1901, for example, the total of the incomes of the 67 leading life insur ance companies was something like $376,000,000. Of this money, about $175,000,000 was paid to policy holders or to their heirs. More than $77,000,- 000 was disbursed for operating ex penses. Still, more than $120,0000,000 was left. Some "economists" have figured that such facts show a "sur plus" in which policy holders do not participate. Big Price for Farm. George 11. Vanderbilt has just added to his estate at Asheville, N. C., a small tract of land for which he paid the owner, a negro named Joshua Moore, $2,250. The land would havo been dear at SSO, but the negro refused to sell at a less price than the amount ho finally received. Moore's wife was the real engineer of the deal with the multi-millionaire. The nine acres which the modern David coveted were deeded to her 20 years ago by Erwin Hardy, a white man, in whose employ she had been for many years. She had one child —o girl—before she mar ried Moore, and the land was to go to her children. This daughter has just become of ago and she wanted the money. Moore would no doubt have sold long ago i/ he could have made title. He said he got only a small portion of the money, hfa wife and her daughter getting the llon'e ahare. Great Bank's Small Start The Bank of England began opera tions on January 1, 1696. at Grocers hall, Poultry. In 1696 it stopped pay ment altogether for a tirue. In 1745 it had to pay claims in sixpences in onder to keep afloat. Weak? I " I suffered terribly and wr ex- 9 Itremoiy weak (or 12 years. Tbe 3 doctors sold my blood was all fl turning to water. At last I tried U Ayer's SarsaparilU, arid was soon n (soling ail right again." g Mrs. J. W. Halo. Hadlyme, Ct. \ No matter how leag you I have been ill, nor how | poorly you may be today, | Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the 8 best medicine you ean I take for purifying and en-1 riching the blood. ;j Don't doubt it, put your | J* whole trust in it, throw | | away everything else. § J , SI.CS a bottle. AH drusckite. M "s'k your doot'T wdiat hn" j S*r.iparlU.i. ll* k.uw..jvil about this jfrantl D R oitl iiuuiily HMwllctro. Follow his ad view uml tl m we will b* sAtknAod. ■'! y, J. C. ATM CO.. Lowell, Mass. 9 Besl i'oagk Syr**. T.uL Good. Use DROPSY^r^jr^i ; r,; BUM Oook of tMtWISIM % Mid 14# trr'Atm-m Fro*. Dr. B. B. (fcLSSM'S gQAtS. Ailsuts, Go- Y. N. U. 15, 'OB. r. >At'B Era Water Khartoum'® Paper. Khartoum is very shortly to possess Its own paper. The native journal, A1 Mokattam, has, by agreement with the Government of the Soudan, established the first printing oatabllßhment at Khartoum, where all official documents will be printed. Most of tho work will ho in Arabic and French. There is also to be, is connectioa with the undertaking, a new journal—the first in the Soudan. At ftrst it will be printed in Arabic, but later it is hoped to add an Eagllsk section. FlTßpem**ally aurod.N* Jlteer ivervooi* Hereafter f\Mt Say's im* f Dr. Kline's Ureal herretteeteier. kktrial kodkleeod treakworroe Dr. lkll. LW., t#lAr*kbrt.,:fhila. > Pfe After a bam is married he begins to lose hia conecit. Mr®. WlasUw's SoethUnfiyrop for children feehlaf,Beftaa ike tfuuts, reSaeeu Jatfaaiuia - lion,allay* p*j,*eree ceil*. 'Ac. a bottle The United Kiagdom *pada $4,400,000 a year on raisia*. 3am sure Pise's Cure for Conaamptlonsavad Piy life three year* ago.— Man. Tmouaa llob uixs.Maplo tot., Norwich, S. 1., Feb. 17,1900. The chronic borrower is usually out on a strike. Monoy refunded for each package of Putnam ITAnKLasB Dyes if unsatisfae tory. Ilard work is the best sort of physical eultuxe.
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