The Popular Woman. Who fa the popular woman of today ? ays the New York War. .She is the oite who wears well-fitting . .Al , 1 clothe and never minds te lliuir Him name of Iter dressmaker. She U the one ho tees the possibili ties of a bashful young man and cul tiv4te him w hen everybody counts him a bore. fe is the one who may believe in Christian science or mind cure, or a tx-eial way to remove freckles, or the Turkish bath, or in not wearing cor sets, but who doesn't give dissertations u these subjects and insist on convert ing you. She is the one who never makes you Conscious of the amount of money she kas or her lack of it She is the one w ho, when you are a j fliiAar in liaar liftiiiui tiiul-iMi uj-.i, ' n ' ..-.. , ,ii a jiu i wiaL he has simply been waiting for this opiiortuuity to be happy, and that you are Uie honored guest. Slie is the one w hose hair doesn't come down, or whose frock doesn't tear when she is some place where it is not easy to fix it. .She is the one whose children are aeeu but not heard. She is the one who doesi.' tell ieo ple unpleasant things, and if she has a bad opinion of any body sums it all by haying: "I do not like her" and gives no further explanation. She is the one who js loyal to her friends, ignores her enemies, and loves her husband and children. She is the best type of the American woman Walking With it Lady. It is a generally conceived opinion that a gentleman walking with a lady hould walk on the outer side of the sidewalk. This idea docs very well for a country town, but in a great city whe.e thousands upon thousands of people, all in more or less of a hirry, are continually passing, it is a very oor rule to follow. One writer on the aubject says: "The duty of a gentle man is to protect the hwly he is walk ing with; to take all the hard knocks, jostles, and possible umbrella tips to himself, shielding the weaker vessel from many disagreeables, and to do this she must invariably be on the gen tleman's right side, where she can promenade at her ease guarded by lift manly form, and not being obliged one half of the time to take all the buffs and rebuffs constantly recurring in a crowded thoroughfare." .uw, if some of the social leaden of this city were to take the establishment of this custom into their hands it would not be long before Jloston could boast of a fad that wotdd be a great benefit to the ladle of the community, and one that J hope to see a recognized custom in the course of not a great number of jears. Boston Traveler. Buttermilk a a Medicine. With the rapid growth of recon structive medicines comes opportunely the reintroduction of old and well known domestic remedies, among which buttermilk demands a resectable place. A young lady patient of the writer's (Dr. Landry in Popular Science Xews) was suffering from a severe con sumptive couglu None of the usual anti-spasmodics, expectorants, etc, seemed to do any good, simply because her stomach was too weak to bear enough medicine to effect the purpose, finally 1 suggested to her mother the Biseof buttermilk. It was adopted at unce. Her first night's expirience was one of comparative freedom from cough and pain, and a pleasant slumber for several hours. It was continued for a long time with an unvarying relief of &11 her distressing symptoms and as almost perfect freedom from cough for several hours after each draught of the hot buttermilk. Lingering at one lime for weeks from an attack of congestive fever, dosed with calomel and quinine almost beyond endurance, the writer began to desire buttermilk to drink. The physician "didn't be lieve in humoring this whims of pa tients," as ne expressed it; besides, ho contended that a sinzle drink of the obnoxious Huhl r.ilt,'ht produce death, as adds ami calomel weie incompatible dwellers in the same stomach. But I was a good persuader, and my mother was a susceptible subject. The buttermilk,"fresh from thfccliun,, ' v,as procured and drank. No evil re- y wl; instead canto a perspiration mid speedy recovery. Many years after ward I had missed my usual noon meal. t was about 2 or Z p. m., dinner, of course, was over w hen I reached a farmhouse, weak, tired, hungry, and "all out of condition" for active work. Dinner was suggested by the house wife. "So, indeed!" said I, "not this lime; I am nearly homo. But if you have any buttermilk, I will take a :rink of that to stay my stomach." A good, kind-hearted woman, she soon brought up a pitcher of buttermilk rom the cool spring house while I ex amined my patients and prescriljcd for dictn. Perhaps a pint was drunk dur ing the stay of nearly an hour. For months Indigestion Ic'il held L un friendly grasp on my stomach. From (nat notable day forward his reign was broken; my stomach was healed, and I yould ride all day, if Pjeccssary, without testing to woe begone from the lack of food as before drinking of the butter milk. Titers are people, however, who ' cannot we nilk of any kind, nor but ler; toot to others it proves to Ije oth 5n4 aad BMdMue. A Bird That Kill 1 tat Hern. Kiding in California one day my companion called alteiitiou to a bird in the road ahead of uie. It was some- thing Lke a prairie chicken, but much more slender anl graceful in build. It was hot using its wings, but it moved very rapidly, and we had to keep 'the horse in a pretty good trot to keep up to it My friend told me that it was a "road runner," a bird that was noted there fur its pedestrain accomplish ments, and a peculiar habit they have i to walk always in the center of the road. When one of tla-se birds meets a rattlesnake it behaves in such a coy manlier that ;t leads tht snake to think it w ill become the victim of its charm, and while it is keeping the. snake in doubt as to its intention it runs about with its ' :i, dropping them in a circle around the snake until it has him com pletely surrounded by cactus thorns. Then it llits to some elevation and sits there to watch the snake Btick himself to death on the thorns trying to get out of the ring. J- S. Xo.-mile in St Louis Ololje-Democrat. A XejrlecU'tf Branch. We are taught in school to read and write but how many of us are ever taught how to talk '( And if we wished to learn where should we seek a suit able teacher? And yet among all the accomplishments which men and women possess there is not one that can give so much pleasure as an ability to talk pleasantly and entertainingly. Think how many things go to make up good talk a good voice, well disci plined, "soft and low," one that rests rather than tires, a voice with music in it. Next, a well stored mind. Next, possession of the art of putting things, for it is uite as important that you sav a thins rieht as that you say the right thing. Then to communicate information in such a way as to make it appear that you assume the superi ority. Wendell I'hiilips, who was per haps as delightful and charming a con versationalist ns Boston ever had, would alwas put it; "Von remember that the Socrate3 Raid " It was harmless fiction and a pleasant one. Boston Budget A Favorite Legend. There is a favorite legend in (!er maiiyofa certain luck-llower, which aduiits its fortunate tinder into the re cesses of a mountain or castle, where untold richei invito his grasp. Dazzled by so much wealth, with which he Oils his pockets and hat, the favored mor tal leaves lehind him the llower to which he owes his fortune; and as he leaves the enchanted ground the words "Forget not the best of all," reproach him for his ingratitude, and the sud denly closing door either descends on one of his heels and iames him for life or else imprisons him forever. If Grimm i3 right this is the origin of the word forget-me-n'-t, and not the last words of the lover drowning in the Danube, as he threw to his lady love the llower she craved of him. The tra dition, however, that the luck flower, or key Jlower, was blue is consistent with the fact that the primrose in theSchlus-sel-blume (key-flower). However this may be, there exists in Germany many subterranean passages, under hillsides, dating from heathen times, and asso ciated with legends of former treas ures there: and it certainly seems more likely that the flower was simply adapted to the legend as readily occur ring to the story maker's mind, than tint it really signifies the lightening which opens the cloud, that "primal wealth of the pastoral Aryans, the rain that refreshes the thirsty earth, and the sun that comes after the tem pest." Comhill. A Tricky Tailor. Nearly every man judges the quality of clothing above a certain- grade by the price, and a certain tailor in this town, knowing this fact, takes advan tage of his customers in this way. He hits tables, in which a.o drawers con taining his samples. These drawers extend across tiie tables and can he pulled out from either side. When a customer comes in a line of samples are taken out and s.iown h:m. He will probably say ho wants some thing "better," and then the shrewd tailor goes around to tho other side of the table, pulls out tho same drawer Slid takes out the same samples; but this time he adds say 60 per cent to the price, and the customer, who judges by price, finds a piece, that suits him, gives his order and goes his way, little thinking that he could have obtained a suit of the same material at much less cost. St. Louis Globe Democrat. ."AltCAnTIU. Texas Sittings: "Now, my friend, what will you do with that money?" said an old gentleman to a tramp to whom he had given a nickel. Tramp (gazing at the coin): "Well, I guess I'll go to the races and bet some of It. If 1 lose I reckon I'll spend the summer nt Ashbury park instead of going to Saratoga." KrrrrlMtdr Had Mior. Philadelphia Times: "I like the girl's disposition," said Scadley as a maiden passed down to the bench in particular ly abbreviated bathing robes. "Know her ?" asked llathbono. "No, but 1 can see she's disposed so far as she can to give everybody a show." Authority in the Home. There's another thing, a rock on which the happiness of unselfish mothers is often wrecked, and which you must never lose sight of, for the sake of your children as well as your self. Always keep your rightful place as the bead of the household, says a writer in Harper's Bazar. Young America is strong-willed and pro gressive. Jt is very apt, entirely witn out malice, to push aside the mother whose cares have worn unon her, whe lets herself get old fashioned or behind the times so that while not exactly1 ashamed the children are not quiet proud of her. Avoid this danger at whatever cost of time and study. Let not the world slip away from you; dress at least as well as your daughter you ought to dress better- go out with her, help her entertain her friends. Fall into the new way of things, which s..e w ill be sharp to see and to point out laying a table, serving a luncheon, even pronouncing words. Do not think 1 recommend that the whole household ri ail be set to the tune of "My I'! fchter." I mean, simply, that you .nll make her life pleasant and busy, th.it you shall not attempt to drive her in any of the ways your wisdom decide to be right, that you shall not till her days with dis tasteful work, and by making her un comfortable induce l.cr to think of marriage as a release, and that you shall not mortify htr by antiquated ways. This critical age happily does not hist forever, and the one thing to hold on to, at whatever price, is your daughter's love for you, and her con fidence in your interest in her. If she develops a desire for an independent income of her own earning, this is a healthy impulse, and you must help her. Have her trained in the one thing she can do till it will bring in money. She will probably be content to work at it at home, and enjoy there the freedom it gives her, or even to practice it only for the pleasure of her friends. Whatever she feels Imperativa to her life, assist her in and give her the benefit (very sparingly) of your age and exK!rience. Of course, she will not take it; no one will learn by another's knowledge it is part of our life's dis cipline to acquire our own. The one way to keep your daughter yours in heart at this critical "storm and stress' period is to keep iier as near you as possible, to advise when she wants ad vice, to comfort under failure, to be her refuge and best friend always. This, O mother, is your holy and divinely appointed mission. By these means you will guide that tempest tossed bark through the whirlpool, past rocks, around the falls, and have the comfort of seeing it pursuing its calm and even way in the stiller waters beyond. A Cold-Blooded Groom. "Have you brought any witnesses?" asked the Hey. Mr. Wood of Bathgate of a middle-aged couple who had come to be married. "No, we ne'r thocht o' that. Is't necessary ?" "(), certainly," said the minister, "you should have a groomsman and bride maid as witnesses." "Wha can we get, Jean, dae ye think ?" The bride so addressed suggested a female cousin whom the bridegroom had not previously seen, and after con sultation a man was also thought of. "Step ye awa' alang .Jean, an' ask them, an I il walk auoot till ye come back." Jean set out as desired, and after some time returned with the two friends, the cousin being a blooming lass, some what younger than the bride. When parties had been properly arranged and the minister was about to proceed with the ceremony the bridegroom suddenly said: "Wad ye bide a wee, sir?" "What is it now ?" asked the minister. "Wheel, I was just gaun to say that if it wad lie the same to you, I wad raither hae that ane," pointing to the bridemaid. "A most extraordinary statement to make at this stage! I'm afraid it is too late to talk of such a thing now." "Is it?" iiid tbj bridegroom in a tone of ci liii resignation to the inevitable. "Woel, then, ye maun lust gang on." Newcastle (Eng ) Chronicle. Curiosities oi Chemicals. Certain substances which are deadly n there effects i:y"n man can betaken by anizials with impurity. Horses can take h'.rge quantities of antimonyi dogs of mercury, goats of tobacco, mice of hemlock and rabbits of bella donna without injury. On the other hand, dogs and cats are much more sus ceptible to the influence of chloroform than man end are much sooner killed by it. If this invaluable anesthetic had been tried lirst upon animals we should probably, have never enjoyed its blessing, as it would have been found to be so fatal that its discoverers would have been afraid to test its ef fects upon human beings. It is evi dent, then, that an experiment upon an animal can never be the means of any certain deductions so far as a man is concerned. No scientist can ever know when trying some new drug ot some new operation whether or n,ot when he comes to try it upon man the effect will be the same as that upon an animal, - . She Floored Him. There is a rush and a scramble oil the Brooklyn bridge. It is the Brook' rju work sday crowd going to Ne York. The seats are quickly filled an I tn a breath almost there is a big crow J of "standees." " A "dudeful" clerk with a most Ian guishing air arises and gushingly prof" fers his seat to a pretty girl of thi genus t w., otherwise known to faina as the independent typewritist The maid is very pietty, and Instine lively you look to see and share in th smile which she is sure to cast on th charming "clerket." Instead, to youl astonishment, there is a look of wither' ing scorn. .. "Don't trouble yourself, pray," sha says, and there are barbs and shary points in her speech. "Aw, no trouble, I assuah you," sayf the "clerket" "Fray sit down ant awblige me." The independent t. w. straightens uj and a look of ineffable scorn mantle her face. 'See here, young man," she says, and she says it with the plainness of the bus! ness manager when he tells you thai there is not the faintest shadow of il chance of a raise of salary, "you may" keep your seat. I don't want it You permitted me to stand all the way from Fast New York on the crookedest road in Brooklyn, and I do not propose for a seven minutes' ride to give you tha privilege of staring m my face and taking whatever other liberties may enter into your feeble intellect." She said this in a low tone, but ond so keen of concentrated edge that il permeated the entire car. Then sh turned her back on him. The re mainder of the audience smiled audibly; and the act was ended. New Yoril Herald. Decoying Fish on Lake Erie. The fishermen along the shore ol Lake Frie are already looking to theti shanties preparatory to beginning do coy fishing through the ice, says a De troit correspondent of the X. Y. Sua As soon as the Ice is strong enough to bear, the little fishing shanties will he moved out to the iisiiing-grounds, and in favorite localities little villages ol miniature house, with the smoke curl ing up from their chimneys, will be es tablished on the frozen lake. Thi shanties are about four and a half fee! high, so that a man can sit comforta bly in them, and large enough to hold the man and a small but efTectiv stove. A hole is cut in the ice, usually at th4 side of some bank or edge of a chan nel, where the lish are apt to be run ning; then the house is moved over tht hole and the fire is started. The fish erman sits on a seat, under which is a box in which to hide his fish, as it ii important to keep his good luck 3 secret lest his neighbors surround him If the little village of fish-housei moves close around him his chancel are gone, not only because the sur rounding fishermen will intercept (hi fish, but because the noise of chopping and walking on the ice will certainly drive them away, for, although yoil can talk or sing as much as you pleasd in the fish-house, the least tap upoij the ice will frighten away the fish. The house not only makes a warnj shelter for the fisherman, where he can sit comfortably protected from thej 'wild blasts that sweep over the frozen lake, bat, as it has no windows and thd light is shut out above, he can sej clearly eight or ten feet down into the waters of the lake. It is a really beauti ful sight to watch the decoy darting hither and thither, and the came steal-! Ing silently up to the hole or rushind at it as if about to swallow it, tin fins' and all 1 The decoy is made of wood, colored1 to suit the fancy of the fishermen, and not much like anything in nature, is three or four inches long and 3 carved in the shape of a fish and heaviJ ly weighted with lead toward the head! It has four horizontal 2ns on its side and one fin on its back. To one of a small row of rings on its back one end of the string is hooked, and the othei end is attached to a stick about a foo long. With this stick tho fisherman plays the decoy, making it dart about in the water as nearly as possible in a triangle. Sometimes a school of pcrcli will gather about the hole, if they art large enough they are speared, if tod small for that they are caught witli hook and line. Or a school of herring take their place, and then the fisher man substitutes for hook and bait 4 white collar button on the end of i string, this the white fWh swallol eagerly, and the fisherman geni.!y lift! them out of the ice before they cad disgorge. Then there is a swish, and a ten) pound pike rushes in and scatters thi small fry In every direction. lie standi motionless watching the decoy, whicli the fisherman must play like lightning; for if the pike touch it he discover! and reeents tho deception, rushing awny faster thai he came. At the first opportunity the fisherman strikes hii spear into the fish's shoulder, or, if hd can't get ft fair stroke, and the water is shallow enough, he pins him to thi bottom until he drowns. This it ft favorite sport in Michigan and is tealously pursued, sometimes so late In the spring that trshantlei sail off la the lake on tha salting 1 FLAX CLEANERS AND TESTERS. Mill AND ELEVATOR MACHINERY, REPAIRS, Steam Outfit. 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($7er a Million Dollars went out of Nebraska ia 1839 for Life Insurance, that could have been secured at home for hart the money. It is a duty you owe your family to carry a Life Policy every policy adds a cash value to your estate. IW ltcliable and Wldaowake Agents Wanted. j5 For circulars acd jy.rorniation. write to Jil Xj. WIGTOBT, SOO. HAflTIXGS, NEBKASKa. A Picturesque Group. They come in late in the afternoon, all talking at once. "We want our tintypes taken." "Yes, all together." "In a group. "Any particular style you'd like?" "Oh, we want something picturesque." "Yes, we want it artistic an out door scene, you know." The photographer quickly wheels up mountain view for background, waltzes a wooden looking "rock" into the foreground, props up a rustic fence at one side and tlirows down a shaggy, grass suggesting mat before it. AVhile he is composing this medley from the inexhaustible beauties of nature the irls di scourse on the subject at hand. "lielle, you sit on the rock and I will stand beside you; Grace can lean on the fence, and, May, you sit on the floor. We ought to have a book to be looking at. Ah, here's an album; that will ao. Dora, which side of my face would be be best to have taken?" "The outside," said Dora promptly. "I wish ve had a parasol," says Grace. "He quick as you can," interrupts the photographer, realizing how precious is every moment of the fast fading light. Dora bestows upon him a look which plainly sayf, "with intent to annihilate:" "We pay you by the job, not by the hour. Do not presume to hurry us." At hist they locate themselves accord ing to the dictates of their own sweet and wayward fancies. "Ah, my," exclaimed lielle from the rock, "what an awfully uncomfortable thing this is to sit on." " "Put your hand on my shoulder, Grace." Finally all seems in readiness, when just as the photographer is about to re move the cap to expose the plate May suddenly exclaims from the floor: "Hold on a minute. Grace, you ought not to be standing; you are too tall. Change places with me." Then ensues a general scrambling and rearranging, Belle improving the opportunity to try for a softer spot on the rock. "Am I looking at the right place?" May anxiously inquires of the photog rapher, as if the sun t.ould fail to do its desired work if her l ead Wiis not turned at just the most becoming angle. "Yes," replies the much harassed per sonage addressed, heroically choking back unholy utterances. "Sit perfectly Btillnow." He removes the cap and a brief and blessed silence ensues. When he re places the cap for a moment the chorus breaks out: "Oh, my goodness dear nic I never why, 1 was just" "Kevp just as you are," says the pho tographer authoritatively, unexpected v removing the cap again and thus ef fectively shutting off the deluge of re marks. "He poor light necessarily made the xnosure unusually long, nd when at st It is over a volley of deep and re , nff.ful groans comes from the girls the photographer disappears with his plate. Then their tongues are loosened. "My, I feel all tied up in a bow knot." "Goodness, but I'm tired standing so lone." "I never know any one to do so long taking a tintype." "Oh, 1 feel as if I had just had atooth pulled-so thankful it is over." "Oh, see this picture of some girls in boat. Why didn't he say he had a boat?" "I don't think he is very agreeable SUPPLIES, Belting, Pulleys, Shafting, etc YORK, NEB. anyway. All he thinks of is to It get over with." "Oh, here he comes with the pictures.' Xow they gather around the ma with the pictures, all talking excited! "Oh, oh, just look at me " "Just see the way my eyes look." "My head is held too high, and I asked you" "Oh, see how my dress looks, etc., till at last they relinquish the artistic treas ures long enough to have them put in envelopes. Then they pay fer them and go out leaving the long suffering photographer free to relieve his overwrought nerves in any form of speech he thinks will be most soothing to his feelings and ex pressive of his sentiments. Boston Globe. Woman Unhappy Without Iove. I am curious to know whether a woman into whose life love has never entered can ever have been what I should call happy. 1 do not think so. She may have found the quiet garden of which content keeps the key, says Louise Chandler Moulton in the Ladies' Home Journal She may be reconciled to her fate; and console herself by thinking how much letter off she is than if she were unhappily married; but such dull resignation is not even first cousin to the rapture of joy. I anj old-fashioned, perhaps, in my ideas; but I honestly think that real happiness comes to a woman only hand in hand with love. AVhen she begins to feel that, with one man in it, the room is full, and empty when he is gone no matter how many others may remain, she begins to be tremulously, delieiously, deliriously hannv Ihit that is onlv the becrin- ning; and if love holds happiness by the hand, fear stands at the other elbow. A word too many or too few a smile that does not go her way and the girl suffers as much as she has just enjoyed. Her very soul hungers with in her for some dear certainty. And w hen that comes when her troth is plighted is that her happiest moment? She doea not think so then; for she is looking forward to the bridal morn ing. The day of day comes, at last, and the new life begins. Is that, then, the happiest moment? Hardly, for the very most loving people who ever lived are not quite one, to begin with, and they must learn to live together. A year a year of mutual forbearance: of getting well acquainted a happy year; and now they look into each other's eyes fearleesly. They are one at last, and for all time! f urely that is the happiest momentl I had made up my mind to say so; but is it? Ah, I think, after all, the happiest moment is when love is a sweet, shy newcomer, and hope leada itbjtlM baud. Hut fTaatea. Detroit Free Press: "VTfiac mf help?" he asked of the grocer. "Well, I dunno. How many toui toes can you put into a quart measurer "I can put in five, but always msA four do." "1 guess I don't need you. Three limit here." b It Hot Km t Oire me day la frigid dim, Ktr wmr tram U hot tqaetor, ' Or alae as boor o( parfaet bUM, la batehtt's nMsmtor.