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A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Com mot ta n nil C'rlticlattin linaed Upon
the WiippciiltiRn of th Day II I tori'
cat and New Note.
Religion Ik never worn out by every
Any tiHP.
Two oflen ceiiM) to ho company lifter
(liny are liutUe one.
No mnn Iiiih (he heart to nay "No"
when ii girl asks If lie rea.lly arid truly
loves her.
Canada wnnls lo buy Greenland. AH
right, If hIio will put her torrid little
(tWnpor on cold storage there.
HoKto-n Ik pleased (o nolo Unit the
porlod of. Intense frlgerntlon has punn
ed. In other words, Ihe beans have
thawed. ,
A Philadelphia sklographer Iiiih tl 1k
cOvored that the X-ray will bleach the
blackest negro. Farewell, then, to the
color Hue.
Poet Laureate Austin continues to
rto'ihotiAtxato 'that ah author with hiiNI
clont Inlluouoo run manage to got on
.without inspiration.
Thin yenr'a cotton crop Ik reported
,to bo worth $700,000,000. Mow la It.
that JVIr. Rockefeller htiHti't taken over
the cotton business?
Why we smile. Tho ruln-maklng
hoax, which hits run Its course In this
country, la being worked extensively
by "drought-busters" In Australia.
Perhaps after rending about the Iro
, quota theater horror the Chicago ear
'barn murderers may fool that they
were bopuloHH ania tours.
Emperor W'llllarn'H voice Ik as good
uh now again, llo baa, however, dem
onstrated bis ability (o run things Just
about as well without as with the use
of It.
A Now York man committed suicide
rather than undergo an operation for
appendlolllH. Ho must havo been afraid
the doetora would do something worse
than kill him.
The skeleton of a man eleven feet
high Is Mil Id lo have been found In
Kovada recently. Uo must havo gone
there in an early day and grown up
considerably beyond tho country.
Tho Pope has promulgated tho some
what caustic comment that there 1h too
nnjeb. operatic singing In tho churches
and too llttlo real worship. No sinner
may climb to heaven on the chromatic
BCIllc.
A scientist has figured It out that
f,000,000,000 years hence tho days will
bo 'flfty-llve houra long, but tho labor
ing men who are now clamoring for
an eight-hour day should not allow this
io worry them.
..Tho personal tax list for 10O1 was
lsauod tn Now York not long ago. It
uhows that .T. Plorpont .Morgan will
pay on a valuation of SyMO.OOO thin
year as against $000,000 in lOOlt. Not
withstanding tho bump .Mr. .Morgan
'appears to havo a tidy sum loft.
A mail Isn't necessarily a preacher
bocauso he wears a sanotluionlnus faco
and Iiiih an ubnormal appetite for fried
chicken. The most ministerial-looking
1 infill' Wo over" saw swore till he scorched
all tho'paliK off one. side, of a freight
car Just p. cause his train was late.
Tho habit of swearing Is not as com
inpn as it used to bo In this country.
Gentlemen no longer use the lauguago
with tho 'unvarnished freedom of the
days of Sheridan, when a gentleman
was accustomed to consign himself, col
iloctlvoly and In sections, to the low
Jest depths of perdition In the presence
iof ladles while paying tribute to their
Ichanns. Undoubtedly many youths
!who wore not brought up to swear do
swear now and then under provocation,
jhut there Is, all things considered, an
iiucreaslng respect for tho English language.
. Plainsmen on Western cattle ranches
luivo called attention to a new Illus
tration of tho adaptability of animal hi:
stlnct to emergencies. The cattlo of
former days were of tho long-hornod
kind. When the herd was threatened
iwltli an attack by wolws the calves
were placed In the middle of the
bunch, and the older animals formed
themselves Into a solid phalanx about
them, all facing outward. The. cattle
of to-day are largely hornless. If, as
occasionally hnppuns still, the herd Is
attacked by wolves, the calves are
guarded as before, but the herd faces
In Instead of out. Their hoofs, not
thcir horns, are now their weapons.
Her advance is somewhat duo to tho
work of those few leaders who moko
new paths, nnd encourage moro timid
souls to follow them, But for tho moat
part It can bo traced to tho steady,
slow Improvement all along the lino
nn Improvement traceable directly to
tho average woman herself. She makes
holler bread and better soup than she
used to make; she reads more books
and bettor ones; she has a tinner hand
and a more understanding heart m 1th
children; she gives more dlscrlmlnal
Ingly In charity; her household, small
or largo, Is better ordered; her love has
more purity iiiid more fire; her religion
Is nine 1'lirMllk" In It wldom and
Its compaction.
Of all the exhibits of the early year
none Is more Imposing nor of wider In
terest than that of the life Insurance
organisations. Those annual showings
of what life Insurance really Is, what It
moans, how It stands and what It Is
doing are the source of attention and
pride to hundreds of thousands of fam
ilies directly Interested In the state
ments in question, f J rout arrays of
figures, remarkable lists of responsi
ble managerial names and high olliclal
Indorsements of tho grand total foot
Ingn characlorl.o the tubulated state
ments, while sound logic and good,
vigorous English are features of those
which have assertions or arguments to
present. They toll of a remarkable
yearly story of protection to the fam
ily; of vast sums disbursed Just at tho
time when the heart Is heaviest, and
tho brain most distraught; of tho alle
viation of distress to bereaved homes
and of comfort to advancing age. They,
show how mighty are the sums yet to
be distributed and the certainty of
tle lr distribution as soon as duo.
Whatever else happens In the realm of
business and llnanco, It seems to be
certain that men are determined to In
sure their lives. This Is something
they are doing In and out of season
and, though their fellows are of course
dying day by day, the growth of tho
companies continues and tho new In
surants are ever greater In number
than those who muss from tho scene.
Congress virtually decides each year
what, the salaries of tho government
otllcerB shall be. Few matters require
more care than tho adjustment of
those salaries In the appropriation
bills. If they are made so low that no
man without Independent menus can
afford to take a public position, only
the rich will bo oltlcelioldors. Mem
bers of the Urlllsh Parliament serve
without pay, but to apply that system
In this country would necessarily do
prlve Congress of much of its best ma
terial. On tho other hand, salaries
which are too large becomo prizes for
persons looking only at the pecuniary
Inducement. Uncle Ram has accord
ingly adopted a compromise policy. IIo
underpays tho occupants of his more
responsible positions; he overpays the
lower grades. The supervising archi
tect's salary would be small return for
an architect of the same rank In New
York or Chicago. Tho routine clerical
work In his olllco is bettor rewarded
than similar service in private estab
lishments. Although the public prop
erly objects to large salaries, it has
never adopted the principle laid down
by a woman who wrote an open letter
U tho newspnpors at the time a bill
for raising the (governor's salary was
under discussion In tho Legislature of
a certain State. She asked If the State
had found dllllculty In getting men to
tnke the place at the existing compen
sation. Until there was some trouble
on this score she saw no occasion for
a change. In prlvato life wo rarely
hire tho cheapest person we can get,
whether It bo to. whitewash a fence
or to sot a broken log. There are some
curious anomalies In government sal
aries. The Kubtreasui't r at New York
has a larger salary than the treasurer
In Washington; collectors of customs
In the great cities receive more than
the Secretary of the Treasury; Import
ant consuls more than the Secretary of
Stat., who usually selects them. Such
facts as Uiese emphasize the fact that
tho government otllcer Is the servant
not of his Immediate superior, but of
the whole people.
1 "Tho average woman" does not
pound like a phrase of high compll
jncnt. Yot tho average woman Is
doubtless tho most needed woman in
inodern civilisation. It Is Interesting
pud inspiring to see that she has made
imarked progress during the centuries.
is 'much-more capable and -more
man
Arulilu Sobool Trouhlos.
There Is a large school at Pechiktat?h
to which are sent Arab pupils from
Yemen, Iledju., Syria, and other Aral)
place. .Inst lately there had boon a
hii'rti' number of new arrival and con
siderable discontent had bum noticed
among them. After lighting aiming
themselves they made an attempt to
lay their grievances before tho Sultan
by proceeding to the palace In a body,
but were stopped by soldiers and con
Itued to the college after some rather
i -tgh treatment. An inquiry was
u . ;.ed, and It turned out that all thcbo
students In their own country have
different social positions, according to
their family, tribal and caste positions,
nid these are observed very minutely.
At tho college they found that their
position depended entirely on their ed
ucational abilities, so that a prince in
Arabia might come after the lowest of
his own retainers. They failed to un
derstand this reversal of tho proper po
sition of things, and trled'tb light it
out.
tjpi.i.'. 'r.j.if;
C. .r. KIIIMM WllI'IT.
lingular Men Which In IMndtnjt Be
llevurn In linulnnd.
Can man ilvo for 500 yoarn7 Thcro
In a large number of people who be
lieve that they are going to live that
length of time.
Their leader 1b one
of London's well
known editors, 10.
J. Klbblowhlto, a
in a n ordinarily
credited with wis
dom and common
sense
The people who
have not been con
verted to the new
theory and hope of
longevity are stand
ing aside and pooh-poohing the whole
Idea. The biologists and chemists all
K'lentlllc men. In fact are advising
the umWf ikers to get collln tneasuro
tnetits h,r these people at once, for
Miey are dabbling with dangerous
drugs and doing other things that are
called ttnulso If not perilous.
Hut Klbblew hite and his friends ex
pect lo lie here when the millennium
begins. They are enthusiastic. Thoy
declare the doctors, tiie preachers, and
Ihe grave diggers are facing sorry
Umos. These men have not been stam
peded up to date.
Tho people who hope and believe
thoy will live as long as they want to
have been studying the habits of the
whale. I lie pike, frogs, and lizards.
Tho whale lives .'100 years. The pike
often lives to be 250 years old If some
hidden hook does not, draw him from
his favorite stream. Frogs live nn in
rlollnlte period. Thoy are found sealed
In rocks that must have been centuries
In forming. Lizards, likewise, have an
ulinost, eternal lease on life.
Why not man? That's the question
the llvo-for-ever theorists are asking.
Tho secret of long life Ilea in the lib
ural application to the skin of glacial
noetic acid, according to the unscien
lillc Britishers. Persons who have dab
bled in chemistry are aware of tho
fact, that acetic acid has an effect upon
the epidermis. Acetic add baths re
store tho hardened and wrinkled skin
of octogenarians lo the freshness and
softness of a child's skin, say the be
lievers. It routs death and all the signs
of approaching death. In short, It
makes a man over. It is a revised idea
of the fiction for which Ponce do Leon
sought in vain.
Kibblewhlte claims to have cured va
rious cases of disease which were pro
nounced "incurable" by doctors nnd
really believes that glacial acetic acid
Is capable ol prolonging life.
THESE BOYS WORK.
Hnlne 5-10 Acren of Corn, for Which
Thcr Kccclve $1, lu-1.52.
By industriously tending a patch of
corn all List summer three .Missouri
boys earned not only the handsome
Bum of $4,1.1 ,r2, but sulllclent distinc
tion to have the fruit of their industry
selected to be one of the features of
Missouri's exhibit at the World's Fair,
and to cause the commission to placo
their photographs In a place of honor
hi the .Missouri building.
Tho boys are John, George ami
Joseph Christian, aged IS, 1(5, and 12
years respectively. They are the sona
C. A. Christian, and their home i.s In
Tnikio, Atchison county. The work
was all done between May 1 and Nov.
1, and the boys are now in school.
The Christian boys accepted an offer
from Davis Utinkin of Atchison county,
Missouri, who Is the most extensive,
cnttle feeder in the world. Mr. Uankin
has .'50,000 acres of hind In Atchison
county, and each year he raises corn
on from 15,000 to 20.000 acres.
When the Christian boys applied for
a tract of laud on which to raise corn
Mr. Hankln promptly turned over a
tract of filo acres aniL agreed to pay
the boys 12 cents for every bushel of
corn they would raise.
Hitching six .Missouri inujcs to a
lister the boys wont to work. This
machine plows, harrows, and fseods all
at one operation. They wor.ked like
Trojans and soon the 510 acres wera
all planted. Then the boys had a
breath spell- When the corn began to
grow another task appeared t'or them,
and three limes the growing corn had
to be cultivated. Again was a requisi
tion made on tho Missouri mule, and
six were attached to each of three two
row cultivators. Tho weeds were kept
down, tho soil loosened, and the corn
grew. This corn was gone over throe
times. Meanwhile the grain grow and
ripeind, and when November rolled
around the harvest was begun.
Up to this time tho work of making
the crop had been done altogether by
the tlu-ee boys. Extra help was em
ployed In the harvest, however, and
when tho com was gathered and
measured Into Mr. Rankin's great com
bins It was found that the boys luid
grown .'1.021 bushels of the grain. At
12 cents per bushel this netted the sum
of 94.ini.n2, ami Mr. Rankin gave
them a oheek for that amount. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
When a woman Imposes on her bus
nnnd with kin, how the peoplo roarl
But the woman never knows It; they
lire very careful to do their talking be
hind her back.
MARCH BRINGS MUCH STUDY
OVER SPRING COSTUMES.
Many Late Winter Gowtn Are Ad-
rauced Tentatively an Forerunner
of Lnter Modes Their Hecootlon
Will Settle Their Vnte,
Now York correspondence:
ARCH brings much
study over shirt
waists and of the
pretty salts named
for tho waists, but
considering h o w
large an item these
garments and suits
nro in summer ward
robes, there is
mighty little in the
new ones that is
outright new. No
lack of popularity
for them is hinted,
yet there are few
changes of fashion
in Iliein, no change
that i.s at all radical.
Shoulder slope i.s
aimed at, but that
is not now, and in
all tho simpler
waists there is no novelty about the ways
of suggesting it. In some shirt waists
of the fancy order there Ih a yoke, usual
ly reaching over the round of the shoul
der, hut there is nothing strikingly now
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and not nHceruve in the matter of coloi
matingB. As to colors in these mate
rials, while it is asserted positively that
all the current offerings will retain good
standing, and that there will he no espe
cial favorites among the many Bliades,
yet It should he noted that some of tha
now violet shadings are advanced per
sistently, and that grays arc likely to
renew to the full their recent favor.
Browns, too, although many do not lika
them for summer, as being too warm col
oring, are here and there In all manner
of material?. It would seem as If they
must count as newer than the violets and
the grays, and so win acceptance from
thoe to whom newness is the first con
sideration. Some of the fine calling nnd reception
dresf.es being worn now are, in efTW,
spring styles put on trial. Some oflCtfia
wearers of these fancies might beWSlg
nant If charged with being the subject
of experiment in this way, but more
would 1)0 flattered. And of course the
now reception or calling dress is entirely
suitable to Its purpose no matter how
much of advance fashlonahlencHs it may
foretell, buch get-ups aro of especial
Interest for this look ahead they fur
nish. Four gowns of the reception sort
are put in the first two of these pic
tures. The first was irridescent blue taf
feta, one of the new silk weaves, and
was finished with chantilly lace and hand
embroidery In while. Next comes a
gown of mauve Kngllsh satin, with gui
pure yoke and chantilly ruffles. Let it
be noted here that for spring and sum
mer two or more kinds of laco will often
he employed on tho one gown. The next
one of these dresses in tho pictures wa
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IN NEWLY. STY LIS! I FA RRICS AND TRIMMINGS.
.ibout this, and simpler cut i-- iiior..
faxored. The number and variet r i il
ris offered for waists and suit N .!
large as it was Inst season. Pr.idevllj
ail summer stuffs arc available, and t ho
hi"k of new features in the waists i't 111
elves ma result in some straining alter
aovi'lty in the material chosen. Sugges
live of this are waists of scrim, with no
:n tine of being anything else, but era
"woidered witli cross stitch ill colors.
Neglige attire is especially a timely
-oiisideratiou just now, and ranges all
.lie way from what should fairly bo
! ismi us wrappers to affairs hardly less
i:ie than owning dresses. Many tea
;iiviis are of the latter class, and arc the
niduct of very skillful makers. There
re simple tea gowns, too, and' no end
f simple jackets.
Among the new fabrics are some very
uci r ones, and others of remarkably
re w'uave. -Gauzes and veilings are
uei-hill filmy, and silk foundation for
n i tin absolute necessity. The shop-
i
a princess affair of pink silk, tho Bkirt
l"x-ph;ated, tho yoko tucked white chif-
ion, with bertha of embroidery. At thl-Jf
right of this is shown a cream white
-ilk, with shoulder caps of white lace
a ud "with much heavily beaded embroid
ery. Embroidery for the summer is much
marked by raised designs and by weight
generally, this even on materials of very
light, almost filmy nature. There is to
bo a deal of perforating, too, the edges
finished heavily and in ways that will
employ deft lingers for much time. Cross
stitching in color is to be a favored form
of handwork, and what is styled Bui- j
garian embroidery is to be very stylish. '
Embroidery will be as much favored as
over, but its winter use on velvets hardly
will be continued. Chiffon velvet, for
example, will escape this ornamentation.
It i.s so finely adapted for shirrings that
much of other embellishment is hardly
needed., An example of it set lor spring
copyists is at the right in the third of
SPRING FASHIONS OFFERED TENTATIVELY.
i r is confronted, too, by many fabrics
i b;.sket texture or of mesh apparently
ut little removed from eommou bur
l's, ami fuels thnt theso stuffs aro ad-.'iH-ti!
as now and at the prices usual
.iih unfamiliar fabrics. Softness and
'mbillty are noticeable in practically
;1 the new silks, and the range of color
ig is large, with little to furnish sur
risfs. . Figured silks that seem espo
iidly attractive after a winter's supply
these pictures. Here the clu'fon velvet
was phun colored, and the yoke wai
whilo nlk and passementerie. Tho con
tinued itjlishncss of voile is impressed
on the shopper everywhere. Hero nn
shown two hnndsomo dresses of it; q
gray, with cliiny lace and handings, and
a fuchsia, with embroidery of black cord
and r. idlings of black tulle. The newer
weave. xf this fabric are remarkable for
openness and looseness.
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