Worn When Away. Tim selection of traveling gowns is frequently found to be a difficult mat ter, for they must l> > becoming, ami above all tilings practical and useful. One worthy of attention was carried out in n soda green cloth, its dominant note in ail particulars being simplic ity. The neat littie coat was cut doubh-breasted and prettily strapped and embellished with a touch ol tine ilver embroidery This, when worn open displayed a daintily incite I lawn shirt with linen collar and dark green 'elver tie. both being feminine in ■ tyle. yet of irreproachable neatness. The si.irt was gracefully plaited and cut walking length, and designed to wear with this costume was a warm green cloth wrap and a pretty felt hat trimmed with ivy leaves and berries. White Linen and Lace. downs of coarse white linen, much trimmed with heavy laces, are to be worn even more than during the last hot season. Some of these are fashioned on quite elaborate models, as, for in stance. one which lias a llirectoire •oat entirely of ueavy white lace, with small hip panels of the linen overlap ping the lace. The skirt is long and sweepingiy graceful, for this ts in tended for a dressy gown, and hands of tin' lace are run up anti down it. The new buttonhole embroideries and the button laces, whereon dangle countless little crocheted balls, arc extremely effective on these coarse white linens. Fashionable Loose Coat. Loose coats make ideally com I or - able wraps ami are In the height ot style This one can be made with the smart little shoulder capes or without and can be buttoned over or rolled back to form rovers. The model is made of tan colored brord t loth, the revets of satin in the same color edged with fVisian braid, but all ■loaki tg matc'dals are appropriate. 4436 Woman's Coat, 32 to 40 buvt. The triple capes 111 snugly and give tin. drooping line without fulness and the sleeves are wide and ample allow ing of wearing the puffed ones be neath. without danger of rumpling. To make the coat for a woman ot medium size will lie required I'a \ ai ds 117. 2% yards 4 4 or ~>2 inches wide. A May Manton pattern. No. 4436, sizes 22 to 40. will be mailed to any address on receipt of ten cents. Her bridal Outfit. Sill, muslin, crepe with trimmings of red. The cur tain was thrown over the brass rod in such a way as to form a deep lambre quin at tile top. The burlap was lined throughout with red. Red felt was used for the border. The top and hot tom was feather stitched to the bur lap with red worsted in clusters of si.\ quite long stitches, the middle one longest, and the others graduated toward each end. The dusters of stitches were about an inch apart. Bedroom Hangings. Nothing is prettier or more dainty lor bedroom decorations than th * up holstery dimities in the old English style. They can lie got in may put lerus and launder beautifully, so atv more durable than a flimsy fabric. They may he used in the entire deco ration of the room for bedspread, can opy. window hangings and dressing tnhle covers. At the windows it Is prettiest to hung the curtains straight down each side with a full vallance across the top. Cushions for the chairs and coit> tier seats can lie made to match, too. For Afternoon Teas. I ea table cups on a m w plan are °flared for sale in the large shops tliis month. In serving any beverage in lormally in the drawing room the cup ;tnd saucer combination are often found to lie an awkward one to manip ulate. These new cups are supplied with a metal holder and no saucer is turnished The metal holder consists °t two hings of silver which pass, re spectively, around the upper and lower portion ot the cup and terminate in a handle. Fringe of Ermine. The alliance of lace and fur is an old story, though perhaps the connec tion iias never been more originally devised than in the ease of an evening dress recently noted, where flounces of cream Alencon lace were finished by a fringe of ermine tails. A scheme of quaintly attractive character, this was carried throughout the corsage, which was furthermore enhanced by bows, bretelles and sash ends of black velvet, passed through buckles of old paste. Extravagant Garter Buckles. Some of the new garter buckles are extravagant in setting and design. One seen recently was of Roman gold set with a fletir de lis design of dia monds. Another Roman gold garter buckle had a china medallion set in the frame, on which tie' monogram or favorite flower of Hit* ow ner could be painted. These buckles also come in sterling silver at thrice the price of the pseudo gold. A Suggestive Stole. \ stole which is full of suggestions is made of plain Brussels net. with flowers or leaves cut out of cloth and sewed oil to the net foundation. Tinted flowers would lie pretty for the woman with time and teste, and velvet could he used instead of the cloth An en tire gown of such work would not tie too great an undertaking, and would he very handsome. Things That 'Help. I'se soapy water when makii star h. It will make the clothes more glossy and easily ironed. l ine black silk underskirts with flannel to insure warmth. Dusty or rusty looking jet trim mings can be made quite new looking if soaked for about ten minutes in equal parts vinegar and water. Dry in a cool place. Fruit a Complexion Beautifier. There is no better cosmetic for (he skin and no better complexion beauti fier titan a large, juicy apple eaten at night. Some will find perhaps that the skin ol the apple gives them indi gestion. so it is better to peel it. Next to the apple as a blood purifier is the cranberry; it is most wholesome. Oranges eaten in the morning are very beneficial. The Necessary Trunk Cover. A trunk cover is a necessity for the woman who •'lives in her trunk." A green denint cover was attractive with its edge buttonholed in white long and short stitch. The monogram of the owner was worked in the center. A steamer trunk covered in this fashion, when piled with gay colored pillows, makes an excellent window or cozy corner seat. Novel Bonbonnieres. One of the most charming bonbon ni' res of the season is of bisque or china, in Japanese style. It repre sents a little almOml-eyed maiden car rying in either hand a basket or pan nier. Both ot these receptacles are tilled with bonbons. The trinket can lie very appropriately applied for table trim tiling. Novel Ideas. The more unusual tin- trimming on costumes this season the better, and anything you like is fashionable. Sec ond hand shops are the resort of many a fair maiden these days. Antique buttons of metallic orn tm-nls. queer braidings and quaint meadollions are used as coat trimmings and to trim fur stoles. Readers of Ibis paper can secure any May Man ton pattern illusl luted above by filling out all blanks In coupon, and mailiLg. with loceuta, toK. E. Harrison4 Co..65Plymouth Place,Chi* eago. Pattern will be mailed promptly. Name .. Town .. State . . Pattern Xo. . Waist Measure it for skirt) . Bust Measure (if for waist'.... ' Age (if child's or mlts s pattern! . 1’ J Write plainly. Kill out all blanks. Enclose 10c. Mail to E. E. Harrison A Co.. 00 Plymouth Place. Chicago NEWS IN NEBRASKA THE STATE IN A NUTSHELL. The depot building at {'i * v was de stroyed liy fire. Dr. A. Offerntan. Auburn's first physician, died last week. Organization of a commercial club has been perfected at Beatrice. A series of revival meetings have been inaugurated in Columbus. Steps are being taken to provide a new court house for Burt county. Mrs. Paul Schmieke of Nebraska City was seriously bin tied by a gas explosion. Revival services have commenced in Table Rock and will lie continued lor some time. At Beatrice .John .Taeknbofsky, a Po lander, was sentenced to thirty days in tile county jail for beating his wife. Charles llagedorn of Papillion lost one of his large stallions, the animal dying cf a lung trouble, its value was ?_>,500. Mrs. Prof. (Iraham of Papillion com pletely severed a tendon in her wrist ' by falling upon a piece of broken ! china. The injury is severe Marcl; 1 the free rural delivery sys tem of Adams county will he extended by the installation of seven new routes from t lie follow ing centers: Two from Juniata, two front Kenesaw. one each from Roseland, A>. and Hol stein. Antone Sacks, an 8-year-old boy. re siding at 505 North Twelfth street, Omaha, was run over by a rig driven by Frank C. Egan anil received in juries which resulted in his death. Egan was arrested on a charge of as sault. Blare Treasurer Mori on sen has tin- , dor advisement an offer from tin* county board of Burt county to pur chase $8u,0(in in bonds issued for the building of a court house, lie is la\ orably impressed with the offer anil will probably purchase the bonds. The interest rate is -I per cent. Mrs. Julia Smith, shot hy a. man named Sigler at St. Louts, was lor merly a resident of Lincoln, in that city she lived with her husband near Twentieth and N streets. She created a sensation by digging the sum ol J1.48U up front the cellar floor, de claring that her husband was cruel and starting a divorce suit. Bite was allowed to retain the money and soon after left the city. Mrs Henry Schneider, ag'd forty tv; . vears. wife of a farmer I'vim Washington county a mile and a half from Kontanelle, died, following an accident which made necessary the amputation of an arm. Site was working near a feed grinder when the limb was caught between two cog wheels. breaking the bones twice above and twice below the elbow. Blood poisoning and death resulted. Attorney (leneral Front lias gone to Washington, where be will defend the right of Nebraska to Island precinct, a piece of territory isolated from Ne maha county by the Missouri river. The commissioners appointed by the court completed their labors in De cember and the attorney general claims the evidence in the ease is fav , orable to Nebraska and against the content ions of the Missouri attorneys. The case will be beard in the 1 nited States supreme court. Butte is looking forward to a large growth this year. Thirty business houses ami residences will be built the coming summer, and the town is now recognized as the largest in North west Nebraska and the business cen ter for a large territory, drawing ter ritory from Holt, (iregiry and Keya Paha counties. The large (louring mill and electric plant, operated by C. A. Johnson and Pickier, is running both day and niglit. It also furnishes the electric lights for Butte. A court house will be built early in the spring. Andy Mann, a business man of Hast ings, came home from .Vitiden with the bone of his leg fractured just above the ankle joint, which lie re ceived by a fall. The Argo starch factory at Nebras ka City lias commenced operations and will begin grinding corn. The full force will be employed by March and a steady run is expected. William Uearingor, who had been in the asylum at Lincoln about three months, returned to Orchard vlasi week, and attempted suicide by chok ing himself with a belt. Hi* will bo returned to Lincoln. Conductor Ratclllfe of the Ord branch passenger train bad an expert enee tHe other evening while bring ing his train down from Valley county which caused the passengers iit tin* first coach to think that possibly the Russian navy was in the vicinity. The fuses and torpedoes on hand in tin* baggage coach suddenly began to dis charge without just cause or provoca tion and it was necessary to stop the train and apply all the crew toward putting out the fire. The (lames were extinguished ami no serious damage was done. At its session recently the county hoard of Hall county by unanimous vote adopted a resolution calling for a snerlal election on the proposition of authorizing the board to sell the old court house property, donated to the county by tin* Union Pacific in early days, for court house purposes. In any sum not less than $ in,Olio, Edward Himes, a corporal in th<> Twenty second infantry, tried at the fall term of the district court ot Sarpy county for criminal assault upon Miss Hammond of Port Crook, and found guilty, was given a second trial wilts he was again found guilty. NECRASXA AT EXPOSITION. Cotnmiss cn Rer.dy to Be;jin Installing tbe State's Exhibit. The Nebraska commission to tlie Louisiana Purchase exposition held its final session in Omaha Much btisi ness was transacted, mostly of a de lail nature and preparatory for the removal to St, Louis, where they wil! be maintained until after the expos! lion. Secretary Sliedd has departed for St. Louis. The three ear loads of exhibitIotematerial collected nt the commission's store house in Omaha from every quarter of ihe state will bo shipped a; once to St. Louis. Aside from the agricultural exhibits the educational exhibits will lie of a notable character Most of these have already been assembled at Lin coln. under care of the superintendent of the educational exhibit for the state, and these will he shipped to St Louis as soon as practicable. Ev ery city in the state is represented in these school exhibition and some of ihe finest and most artistic of them come front the district schools throughout the slate, and the city schools will certainly have to look to tlieir laurels. The school exhibits are by far the best ever undertaken by the stale schools and Nebraska need have no cause to fear but that it will occupy its usual front rank at the exposition in this' respect. The horticultural exhibits promise to surpass anything ever undertaken by Nebraska in previous expositions. Over Ittn barrels of Nebraska fruit are now in the cold storage plant at the exposition grounds. Si Louis, and ail are in the best condition. NEBRASKA FIGHTS FOR LAND Attorney General Prout Has Gone to Washington. Attorney General Prout lias gone to Washington to represent the state in the ease in the Pulled States supreme e.mrt wherein Nebraska and Missouri are each trying to own an island In the Missouri river along side of Ne maha county. The evidence was pre sented to a commission consisting of Alfred Ha/Jett and John W. Hallibur ton. who have now prepared their re port to tlie court. The findings of the commissioners are regarded as being favorable to Nebraska, since the two officers agree that the Missouri liver went on a rampage on July 5. ImIT. and withij one day cut across the neck of Nema ha county, leaving a new channel, while the old channel, which had meandered around several miles to the eastward, gradually dried tip. The Nebraska officials believe that this makes a clear case for this state, the theory of the law being thai land which is cut off by some sudden change in a stream remains within 1 lie original Jurisdiction, while if it had been cut off by a gradual shifting of the sands the jurisdiction would become that of the territory to which the new land attaches. Boy Killed Sliding Down Stairs. KRKMONT.—Vincent Sloggett. a •'•-year-old son of M. J. Sloggett. resid ing at 1302 Hast Sixth street, fell while sliding down the stair rail at his home and sustained injuries which re sulted in his deatli half an hour later. The hoy was playing in the front hall with his sister and said lie was going upstairs and sht'e down the rail. About half way down lie fell, the hack of his head striking the sharp front of a stair. Printers Must Wait. LINCOLN. Blanks and supplies nr.ist be printed for the state hoard of equalization, but I he printer must wait until the meeting of the next legislature for his money. The blanks, and supplies will cost front $2,600 to $3,000. Fled From Russian Spies. LINCOLN.- Believing that Russian spies were dodging his footsteps, Jul ius Sigsmun. employed at the Burling ton yards, fled from the city. He was working under an assumed name and had deserted from the Russian army Some fellow countrymen discovered his secret and wrote a letter saying that he would he taken to Siberia un less he re-enlisted at once. When lie read the missive Sigsmun started west along the Burlington tracks ami has not since been seen. Farmer Accidentally Kills Wife. CARI.KTON.— David Kockow, a farmer living three miles east of here instantly killed his wife by the arch denial discharge of his rifle while he was shooting at a target. He was standing in the doorway of his house when i lie accident occurred. The Hall entered his wife's head and died in stantly. In the conduct of life habit counts for more than maxim because habit is a living maxim and becomes flesii and instinct. Big Damage Against Railway. The jury in Judge Estelle's court at Omaha returned a verdict that tht plaintiff in the case of John Boesott against the Omaha Street Railroad company recover ihe sum of $4,650 for Injuries susiained by him in 1899 Plaintiff claimed to have been per manently injured and crippled in the leg i,wing to a defect in the trucks on one of the trail cars of the de fendant company, wnieh was the cause of throwing him to the pave ment The case was begun In 1900 and lias since been tried lour times. IMPORTS FROM THE LUZON. Only Small Part of Business Carried on Under American Flag. WASHINGTON The development of the Philippine* commercially and industrially lor the first nine months of l»ii.1 is the subject of a special bul letin by itie bureau nf insular affairs. It is shown that both in Imports ami exports there v. as an increase, com pared with a corresponding period in the preceding year. Heavy exports in hemp and copra offsetting heavy im ports of rice, explained the increase During the period named the im ports were $2G.l03.tiO|, against $21, 338,322 for 1902. The exports amount ed to $23.f»ti3,12S, an increase of near ly $4,300,000. The rice imports were the only ones that increased and there was a falling off in the general trade the United States losing in per cent and the United Kingdom lb per cent, while Spain has only two-thirds of the amount of its trade in 19'I2 United Stall's exports increased from $7,232,411 to $9.38ti.iCG an.! the trade with Spain was practically the same. But a small part of the Unite,' States business is carried under th* American flag and all but 3 per rent of the general trade of the islands Is done in foreign bottoms. Russia to Present Her Protest. WASHINGTON At an important conference, scheduled for Wednesday at the Stale department between Sec retary Hay ami Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador. Russia's protest to the powers agHinst Japan’s alleged violation of International law will be communicated to the Washington gov ernment. WANT TO FIGHT FOR JAPAN. Former Rough Ridera Anxious tJ See ( Service. SIOIX FALLS, 8. I) Ever since It was announced in Washington dis patches lhat Colonel Melvin Grisly of this city, who lias been in Washing ton for some time, intended raising a batalion of rough riders for service, with the Japanese against the Rus-. sians, the office of Colonel Grigsby In this city lias been flooded with letters from applieants for places. Most of the letters are from former members. I of Grigsby's Rough Riders, a regiment, which was formed during the Spanish American war, who wish to see active service during (be war in the far east. Colonel Grigsby lias written here to the effect, that the report is unfound od. and has instructed his son. Sioux Grigsby, who is in charge of the Grigsby law office in this city during llte absence of the colonel in the na tional capital, to write such of the applicants a letter, stating that the report of tiis intended action is un founded; ttiat the laws of Japan for; hid the enlistment of foreigners in the Japanese army, and that no good citi zen will violate the neutrality laws of tile t'nited States. HERRICK TAKES UP SCEPTER Governor Is Hanna's Successor as Leader in Ohio. COLEMHl’S. ().—Now that it is claimed by the Hanna republicans of Ohio that Governor Herrick lias suc ceeded Senator Hanna as the domi nant power in Ohio republican politics the following statement made by the governor with reference to the selec tion of delegates to tlie national re publican convention is important: • "I can onlV quote from tlie last let ter that Senator Hanna wrote - the last with tlie exception of a pencil note to tlie president on January tlie day of tlie Gridiron banquet: '\V* must organize our full strength and choose tlie Roosevelt delegates from among our friends.’ ” Continuing. tli° governor said : "The opportunity now arises for all good re publicans to unite in the conduct of the party on broad lines In such a friendly spirit as to eliminate all dif ferences." SEVEN LOCOMOTIVES A DAY. Built in Philadelphia on a Rush Order from Japan. PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—In conse quences of a rush order from tlie Jap anese government for locomotives, a locomotive plant here lias established a new record by the construction ol seven locomotives in a day. The engines ordered by Japan are for tli*' military railroad that will con nect Pusan, on the southern coast of Korea, with Seoul, the capital The order, whTli called for twenty locomotives to be completed within thirty days, was received late in Jail nary. Eight of them have been shi| pod to Ptisan. The remaining twelve will lie shipped this week. A BATTLE AT SAN DOMINGO. Dominican Government Troops Com pletely Overthrow Insurgents. WASHINGTON—Late Sunday night the state department received a cable gram from .Minister Powell, dated San Domingo. February Hi, saying: "A decisive battle has been fought between the government forces and the insurgents. It extended over twr days and resulted in a victory for the government. The siege has been rais ed anti the insurgents are in retreat.’ Rush Order for Transports. NKW YORK Rush orders were re reived in this city Tuesday by the quartermaster's leparlnietit to have shifts of men work night and day It put the transports .McClellan and Sumner in readiness to put to sea Orders have been placed for coal anil both vessels will have their bunkers tilled within thirty-six hours. The commissary department has also been ordered to provision the transports for l.utm men. It is thought the trans isirts will be In readiness in that time. HA3 CLAIM TO FAME. Story of the Man Who Discovered th* First Beefsteak. Beefsteak, like most other good things, was discovered entirely by accident, says a writer in the Chicago Tribune. It appears that Lucius Pla nts, a Roman of rank, was ordered by :hc Emperor Trajan for some offense to act us one of the menial sacriftcers to Jupiter; he resisted, but was at length dragged to the attar. There the fragments of the victim were iaid upon the fire and the unfi rtunate sen ator was forcibly compelled to turn them. In the process of roasting one of the slices fell off the coals and was caught by Placus in its fall. If. burned his fingers and he instinctively thrust them into Ills mouth. In that moment ho had made the grand dis covery that the taste of a slice, thus carbonadoed, was infinitely beyond all the sodden cook* ry of Rome. A new expedient to save liis dignity was suggested at the same time, and he at once evinced his obedience to the Emperor by seeming to go through the sacrifices with due regularity and his scorn of the employment by turn ing the whole ceremony into a matter of appetite. He sw allowed every slice, deluded Trajan, defrauded Jupiter and invented the beefsteak! A discovery of this magnitude could not long be roncealod; the sacrifice began to dis appear with a rapidity and satisfac tion to the parties too extraordinary to be noticed. The priests of Jupiter adopted the practice with delight, and the king of Olympus must have been soon starved if he depeuded on any share of the good things of Rome. Matched for $35,000. A well-known financier of this city wears a handsome ruby ring. It was admired by one t>f his friends the other day, who said: "You are not the only one that lias taken a fancy to it. The other day Mr. Ilartmau said he would like to have it.” The friend then said: “Well, if it had been Gates he would have matched you fo- if.” The financier replied: "Yes, so would Schwab,” ami Hien told a story of there being a difference between Mr. Gates and Mr. Schwab amounting to about $35. 000. They con’d not agree, and rather than enter into any litigation Schwab propped to match for the sum. It was done, and lie was the winner.— Philadelphia Press. Hadn't Detected It. Heinrich Conried was standing in tiie bad* of the Metropolitan opera house a few nights ago during the per formance of a German opera. As lie leaned <>n the rail behind the bark row of scats lie hoard the whispers of two men sitting almost in reach of his hand. One of them was apparently a na tive American; the other talked with a decided German dialect. "The acoustics of this house,” whis pered the American, "are very bad.” The German was heard to sniff au dibly once or twire. "Vot makes you say dat?” lie asked of ills American companion. ' I don't I smell aiiyt'ing.”— New York Times. New Graft in Missouri. “A new graft lias been discovered in Sedalia," sa vs one of the papers of that place. "Every night for some time past the men's waiting room at the Missouri Pacific station has been crowded with men sleeping In the seats. When asked their business there by station attendants, they in variably resurrected tickets to some near-by town and said that they were waiting for trains. A few days ago about fifty of those regular boarders applied at the ticket office to have the tickets redeemed. The agent then became aware of the fact that the tickets were purchased for the sole purpose of bunking in a warm room.'’ — New York Tribune. Took Ginger Ale. A good story is told of a rounder who found himself in a well-known cafe in New York. Four young blades were there Each ordered a pousse cafe. The Irishman watched the bar tender make the gayly colored drinks and thought lie would like one him self. "What will you have?” asked the bartender. "(live me one of them pussy cats.” said the Irishman. “One of them what?" asked the bar tender. Arrah,” said the Irishman, "give me a ginger ale. and this is tlie sec ond time I’ve asked you.” The Fire Babies. They are all mine I love them so. These little lots that come amt go; | In endless train they troop along. Knrapt with laughter and with song. From ev'ry shad'wy corner they Come dancing' In abandon gay. And o'er the polished door they glide Close to me and my fireside. They tell me tales no others tell: They quell the sobs no others quell. Ah!When their lingers reach to tne My lieatt of pain again is free. They swing upon the rings of smoke. These little tikes, these funny folk. Ah' faithful \ isitors of night They're dancing III the firelight. - H. S. 1<. in New York Press. Unique Wall Paper. A morose French eccentric papered his walls with the deep bordered in vitation cards received to the funerals of friends and acquaintances. Mercantile Marine Casualties. Idf.si year the British mercantile marine sustained 1,48;! casualties, of which ;!48 were complete wrecks. The loss t f life was 5,;>18. Inducement for Marriage. A woman in Russia, until the day of her death, if she remains unmarried is under the absolute sway of her par ents.