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Fashion is looking np, and the in fluence of clothes is being realized. There is no doubt that clothes to a very great extent make the woman, and that man is more easily allured by the grace of the gown than the grace of the mind, although, of course, he would have you think otherwise, and will hold forth with considerable emphasis on the text that no man ever knows what costume a woman has on, nor is he at all concerned with the shape of her hat, or the way she does her hair! Any woman realizes more ac curately" the real masculine attitude towards the feminine fashions. And what are the feminine fashions just at the moment? Well,* they are making conclusively for the diaphan ous fabric, the feathered hat and the lace insertion. The new model Irish lace dresses are quite delightful, specially those j which have loose lace coats and j skirts which fit tightly round the hips and flow outward at the feet. I pre fer the loose coat and the thin blouse which is entirely made of lace, and more especially would I recommend this to the stout woman, for there is much reticence in the full loose coat, which at once conceals the outlines and disguises its attempt. Lace is not as transparent in its method as in its outward seeming. I Still, under any circumstances the Irish lace dress, whether from Paris or from the Emerald isle, is not with in the reach of most of us. We con tent ourselves, and well content our selves, too, with dresses of fine lace, dresses of lawn, dresses of muslin. Never were the muslins prettier, es pecially as some one remarked with more wit than wisdom, “when they are cotton voiles.” Cotton voiles grow in number, and improve in quality every day, while they remain pleas antly within the grasp of the most limited income, and disport them selves gayly with stripes and checks and spots and flowered patterns, the stripes being most prominently in favor in every color and size. I advise those who choose a black and white stripe to be careful to se lect the narrowest, for in wide stripes lurks ever the suggestion of Brother BOnes in his Sunday best. The nar row black stripe is altogether de lightful when supplied with the appro priate vest of net or lace, and per haps a touch of pale blue ribbon to Iform a tie or the edge of the collar band. Muslin and net ribbon-trimmed hats are asserting their right to considera tion, and the manufacturers have de vised many novelties in hats of linen, but these being destined to take the place of the panama, and assum ing equally nondescript shapes, shapes which lend themselves to individual influence, and will appear smiling and even becoming when the crown Is bunched into a hollow, and the brim irregularly convulsed. The linen hats with stitched brims and stitched crowns are trimmed with scarfs of NEW YORK CITY'S BIG DEBT. Metropolis of the Nation Is Decidedly Extravagant. New York city is the master bill contractor in the world, and the In dividual citizen owes more as a citi zen of New York than he does as a citizen of the United States. Next to New York the 25 larger cities of the Vnited States, in the order of their population, are as follows: Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Balti more, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francis co, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Or leans, Detroit, Milwaukee, Washing ton, Newark, Jersey City, Lduisville, Minneapolis, Providence, |pdianapotis, Kansas City, St Paul, Rochester, Denver and Toledo. Their population, according to the census of 1900, was about 9,600,000, against 3,437,000 for Greater New York. It is not likely that this proportion has changed much. Now, the total bonded indebt edness of these 36 cities is about 1417,000,000, almost $100,000,000 Jess Vision that' of tte “ ‘'' """ means that the per capita debt of the citizens of New York is $145.35, against $43.45 for those of the other large cities. Boston with $116 and Cincinnati with $114 come the nearer to approaching New York's, record, while Chicago and San Francisco, ow ing only $12 per capita each, make the £est showings.—Broadway Magazine. Was the Best Man. In Eldorado a bridegroom gave his best man an envelope containing a twenty-dollar bill to be given to the clergyman after the ceremony. The best man is found to have given the preacher an enVte3ope containing a one-dollar bill.—Kansas City Star. Two of Them. “Yes,' indeed.” suid Miss Upplsch, “my great grandmother on my moth er’s Hide was noted for her proud and imperious bearing.” “How strange!” exclaimed Miss Knox; “mu* servant girl’s ths Uggj|i HT"*’8 " '' crepe de chine or soft silk, the ends being embroidered and fringed. The newest belt is made of leather of one color, and striped with leath er of another color, and this looks its best with a white foundation and striped in black. But elastic belts continue popular, to doubt, by reason of .their adaptability, and belts of ribbon either buckled or held with embroidered buttons or hooks,' are particularly becoming in the small waist. Much favor is still being shown to the riblion belt, which is made in one with over-sleeves and braces of ribbon, ~hese braces being either frilled or plain, made of the ribbon' treated simply, or made of piece silk adorned with a trellis of silk, the best effect being gained by some dark ribbon which matches the Original Design for an Afternoon Dress. Black taffeta, trimmed with black silk insertion. The skirt Is tucked to fit round the hips. Black hat with long white feather fastened with a buckle. skirt, while the blouse with which these are worn Is of fine white soft lawn. China silk is also much in request, mostly bearing a design on either bor der, while the groundwork is in variably white, and silver embroider ies glisten triumphantly from founda tion of straw-colored net Straw and buff are tones which hold their own, and may be found in net, chiffon and glace, and attractive cloth frocks also strike these notes, and they look well if allied skillfully to black and white stripes. Light col ored cloth and heavy guipure lace, 'and black and white stripes are a fa vorable union of fashion, and those whom fashion has Joined let no wom an set asunder until fashion has us convinced they do not agree. HOME OF THE PRESIDENT Prom stereograph, copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. T. Looking east from a window of the Navy department building showing White House with Executive office in the foreground. MAINE HAS A UTOPIA COMMUNITY OF TEMPERANCE ADVOCATES THRIVES. Vice Unheard of In Benedicta—Is Without Jail, Poorhouse, Free from Debt and Has Cash on Hand. Boston.—Benedicta, in Maine, is the Homan Catholic Utopia and the dream of the W. C. T. U. come true. It is tabioided Home Rule. Irish Catholics settled in it. Their descendants, sturdy Americans, run it. Only Cath olics live there now, and ' probably only Catholics will ever live there. It is crimeless, jailless, poorhouseless, free from debt and Ideally adminis tered. As a community Benedicta is more ideal than Moore’s “Utopia” or Ba con’s “New Atlantis.” Though 40 miles from any other town and 100 miles from a railroad, Benedicta has electric light service, a municipal water supply, several fine buildings, and all the conveniences of a thor oughly modern city. Benedicta is not only free from debt, but has a surplus in the treas ury. Moreover there is not a poor family in the place and there never has been any occasion for the estab lishment of any of the usual institu tions for the poverty stricken or peace breakers. When Fenwick started his colony he purchased more than 12,000 acres of fertile timber lands, comprising the .western half of a township in ArQOstook county. There he began to build up an ideal community of temperance residents. t Though many of the younger gener ation have gone to cities for work, leaving their elders on farms, the cen sus of 1900 showed that the colony numbered 350 persons. Benedicta got its charter as a town in 1874, the name being bestowed in honor of its founder. The nearest place where any liquor can be bought is Houlton, 44 miles away through the woods to the east, and the nearest point of railway con nection is Bangor, more than 100 miles to the south. NEW RECORD IN JUNE BRIDES. One Every Thirteen Minutes for the Month in Chicago. Chicago.—While you read these words, stop and think! Chicago has 3,300 June brides to-day! The love bug has been working overtime and has broken all records. Three thousand three hundred June brides! That means 110 brides a day or one every 13 minutes! Hymen, Cupid & Co. report the most prosperous month since the firm was established. Last year there were 3,103 June brides; in 1905, 2,907; 1904, the record was 2,758. Marriage License Clerk Salmonson, the man who has opened the door of wedded happiness to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans and others, preached a little lay ser mon the other day for June brides. These are the points on which he laid stress: 1. Love your husband always. 2. Be his companion, his friend, his chum. 3. Never, never ne suspicious or nagging. 4. Study his tastes and give him what he likes. 5. Get up and cook his breakfast for him. 6. Make his home as attractive for him as you can—as attractive as the club or the saloon. PIE WILL SOON BE A LUXURY. Pure Food Law Will Raltfe Price of Desert and Other Things. Washington.—The operations of the federal pure food law are plainly going to add still further to the cost of living in American homes, flow much the increase will be can only be esti mated thus far. The manufacturers whose products and methods uiill require to be changed in order to comply with new regulations can only guess at the ex pense of the changes. But speaking broadly, the use of preservatives and coloring matter has made it possible to sell many staple articles to the public for less money than they can be sold for when these are not used. Take the single list of canned fruits and vegetables, pickles, preserves, jams, jellies, catchups and the like. C9loring and preserving matters are used in these. Some manufacturers claim to produce them without pre servatives, but the housewife who wants to know how much is saved by the privilege of using these things will be able to learn by asking her grocer the difference in price between the goods that are guaranteed to be free from these seasonings and those which are not. She will learn that for the greater part the articles guaranteed to be free of such preservatives or coloring mat ter constitute the limited aristocracy of food articles, at prices which make them the luxuries of the comparative ly few. Pie at any rate is going up when ever sodium benzonate is denied to the makers of the insides. The slice which now sells at five cents will command ten, and the ten-cent por tion will go for not less than 15, ac cording to the dire predictions of the pie purveyors. Pie will become the luxury of the rich rather than the staple of the bourgeois dyspeptic. Two Oldest Editors. John W. Oliver, of the Yonkers Statesmen, is said to be the oldest ac tive editor in the United States. Mr. Oliver will be 92 on April 30, yet he is on duty at his desk six days a week. The next oldest editor is said to be Charles Holt of the Kankakee Gazette, of Kankakee, Ind., who is 90. Only One Service a Year. Story of a Curious Little Church on an English Hilltop. London.—There stands upon a hill in the village of Uphill, in the county of Somerset, a small and very old church, which4s surrounded by caves in which the bones of all kinds of ani mals have been discovered. This his toric place of worship, which looks down upon Uphill castle and the vil lage itself, was at one time the only place of worship for miles around. For Several years no Sunday serv ices have been held within its wnllB, and the only time that the public is allowed to worship there is one night in the year—on Christmas eve—when the vicar of Uphill or some other cler gyman officiates. ^There is a footpath leading up the hill to the church, but as the hill is a very, steep one and the distance great very, lew people visit the church. It is by order of the ec clesiastical commheloners that it is opened to the public ones * year. this interesting edifice, one of which is to the effect that the church was purposely built on the top of the hill so that the preacher could feel con vinced of the sincerity of those who accomplished the task of climbing to it. The church has been visited by people from all parts of the world. It is the only building in England—prob ably in the world—in which Divine service is conducted only once a year. 8and Artists to Combine. Atlantic City, N. J.—“Artists” who eke out a livelihood oi^ the b&ach here by modeling figured in the sand, have organized a sort of “trust,” to chase off the beach all would-be artists who they declare are spoiling*their bus iness. Headed by James J. Taylor, the original sand artists will apply to Mayor Stoy to set aside a day for an open contest and thus weed out the undesirable element. success should be more **>■» rftsmifg %'-iLMc3£&£, JEWS PLAN UNIQUE BANK. Profits to Be Given for Development of Palestine. * Tannersville, N. Y.—At the next session of the legislature of the state of New York the Zionists will have a bill presented authorizing the estab lishment of a bank in New York city, which will be unique in that it will be closed on Saturdays and the profits of which will be devoted to the devel opment of Palestine. A committee headed by Nathan Prensky, a merchant of Brooklyn; Henry Jackson, of Pittsburg, and Dr. B. L. Gordon, of Philadelphia, re ported at a session of the Zionists’ convention here that stock to the amount of $50,000 had already been subscribed for, with promises of a similar sum as soon as the bank is established. One of the features of this bank will be a steamship broker age department, which will serve to protect the poor and ignorant Jews of the East side of New York city from the frauds practiced on them by irre sponsible men. As soon as the bank in New York city has been established branches will be opened in Boston, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and Cincinnati and in other cities where there are large Jewish settlements. It is anticipated that the profits of this enterprise will be so large that many projects for development of the industrial and agricultural possibili ties of Palestine, which are now in abeyance, will be successfully carried out and the way opened for the set tling there of an enormous Jewish peasant population. to Save the coal supply. Crude Methods of Production Have Caused Immense Waste. Washington. — The government, through the United States geological survey, is planning with the producers of coal to place far in the distance the day when the country’s coal supply shall be exhausted. Crude methods of production, with more attention paid to cheap production than to sav ing and scientific methods of mining, have resulted in an astonishing waste of coal. This will never be recog nized, for it lies buried deeply in abandoned mines now filled in. Also, it is planned to prolong and regulate the supply of coal by new methods of mining, which will, no doubt, result in adding many years to the existence of the now available supply. The extravagance in the production of coal, amounting to almost criminal waste, has not had the effect of re ducing the cost to consumers. This, at least, is the opinion of Edward W. Parker, of the geological survey, was a member of President Roose velt’s coal strike commission, and pro bably is more familiar with coal con ditions than any man in the country. “One of the greatest problems to overcome in the production of coal,” said Mr. Parker, “is a reduction in the waste of mining. Only a few years ago only 40 per cent, of the coal in a mine was marketed. Sixty per cent, was lost. Cheap mining methods caused this waste. Under improved methods the waste has now been re duced *to from 30 to 40 per cent.” GIVES LOCATION OF THE SOUL. Man Who Hopes to Photograph It Says It Is in the Throat. New York.—“The soul of a man Is soft and gelatinous, small, practically shapeless, and situated beneath the first rib. Below the Adam’s apple in a man, and in a woman at the base of her throat, is a spot of little or no re sistance. It i3 from this place when the hour of death has come that the soul must be taken. It does not pass like a shadow. It is not a flight. The soul must be drawn out by an angel sent by God to perform this opera tion, and this seat of life is trans ferred, warm, palpitating, to a body the counterpart of the one it has left. It is substance, material, and could be as well caught by the camera as the human face.” It was thus that Henry /Price of Mount Vernon explained recently his theory of the soul’s passage and the possibility of obtaining a photographic reproduction thereof. “I do not think, by any mekns, that all men have souls. You may and may not have a soul, according as you have merited it.” 52 Gotham Murders In Month. New York.—Four hundred and ninety-eight deaths were reported to the coroner’s office in June. Accord ing to the monthly report of Chief Clerk Jacob E. Bausch, 236 were due to violence or accident, the remaining 262. being sudden deaths due to nat ural causes. Of the deaths by vio lence or accident 52 were homicides and 29 were suicides. Thirty-nine bodies were found floating in the rivers. Sixteen persons were killed by carriages or wagons, 15 by the street railways and three by automo biles. PAPER PROM CORNSTALKS, German Inventor Said to Have Solved the Pulp Problem. Berlin.—The problem of providing for the enormous consumption of pa per caused by the immense number of newspapers and books published in our time, which cannot possibly be supplied much longer with the ma terial manufactured from wood pulp, has practically been solved, it is de clared, by a German engineer named Drewsen, who has invented a process through which all kinds of paper can be made out of cornstalks. The new process provides for the removal of the outside covering and the making of the marrow into pulp, with which paper of the finest quality can be manufactured at a cost much lower than the wood pulp process at present in use. Owing to the large quantity of corn' raised in every country of the world, It Is predicted that the new process will provide the world with all the paper it needs If the supply of Wood dtouk^tecooie exhausted. To judge from the active plans which are under way for the great international exposition at Tokio in 1912, one would think that Japan was too busy to take seriously all the talk of war with the United States which is going the rounds of the press at the present time. Certainly, international shows and international conflict do not go together, and it is doubtful whether the busy little is land kingdom of the mikado will choose the destructive policy of war rather than the constructive one of stimulating her industries and commerce by a great world’s fair. TQiat Japan can fight she demon strated in the refcent conflict with Russia, and that she can enter as heartily into the commercial and industrial competition of the world she is demonstrating more clearly every year, and from now until 1912 she will be desperately busy prepar ing for what she hopes will be the biggest world exposition ever held. As a sort of prelude to that greater event of five years hence, there is now being held at Tokio an industrial exposition which, while in its inspira tion a purely municipal undertaking, is in reality national in its charac ter, and as such worthy the study of those interested in Japan’s industrial development. To the foreign sightseer there is much in the present show to warrant not only one visit but several, and gives him a faint hint of the large things which may be expected in 1912. The site of the exposition is Uyene, the largest public park in Japan. This park is situated on elevated ground in the northeastern part of Tokio and covers about 138 acres of ground. Like everything else found in Japan, Uyene park has a history linking it with the days of the old civilization, when the emperors were permitted to live in regal seclusion at Kyoto while the Shoguns ruled the land from Tokio, then Yeddo. The park is as sumed to have derived the name by which it is generally known from the fact that back in the days* of the old Tokugawa Shogunate, a feudal lord from Uyeno, in Iza province, had a residence on this site. In order to insure submission to the Shoguns the the feudal lords were compelled to live in Yeddo, where they could be kept conveniently under the watchful eyes of the real rulers. Later, one of the Tokugawa Shoguns spent a fortune in building here a temple, ri valing a famous one at the imperial capital. Like everything else con nected with the Shogunate, this was swept away in the great contest of 1868, which restored the imperial fam ily to actual power and ushered in the glorious era, the Meiji. The Japan of to-day reckons its time from that aus picious event, this year, A. D. 1907. he ing the fortieth year of the Meiji. Uyeno was the scene of the first great exposition of the new era, that of 1877. In 1879 the grand reception to General Grant was held there, and since then Uyeno has always been se lected for the big affairs at the na tional capital. It has been greatly beautified by the unrivaled skill of famous native landscape artists until to-day it is unquestionably one of the most beautiful spots on earth. This year’s exposition was con ceived as a means to the encourage ment of the post helium development of all branches of domestic Industry, to pave the way to the great exposi tion of 1912. The outlay for build ings has been something over 1,000, 000 yen. While most of these are temporary, some are of a semiper manent character and will be util ized in that greater show of five years hence. About one-third of the park is en closed in the three compounds within which are located the large buildings and the smaller ones of the different ! concessionaires. At the main en trance stands No. 1 building, U shaped and In the Roman renaissance style. The entrance is in imitation cf the ’Mumphal gate at Rome, the dome fifty feet in height In the left wing of No. 1 building are large exhibits of porcelain, earth enware of all kinds, gold and precious, stone work, lacquer ware, bamboo and wooden ware, furs, hides and leather, silks, chemicals, ivory and shell work, and many articles for personal adornment. The right wing of the building is given over to displays of the mineral resources of the empire and to educational and scientific dis plays. Back of this is No. 2 building, in German gothic style of architecture, wherein are agricultural, horticultu ral and forestry exbibits and aquatic products. « In No. 4 building, Swiss-gothic, Is lo cated the display of army and navy equipments of all kinds; here also are the government’s trophies, of the war with China and the war with Russia. No. 5 building, in Italian-gothic, is the only three-story structure in the compound. It contains many rare ex hibits of embroidery, clothing of all kinds, and a great variety of piece goods illustrating the output of the various spinning mills of Japan. Probably the Japanese reverence f jr the beautiful is responsible for the fact that the building given over to art does not have to suffer the indig nity of being merely designated by number, as these others are. This is the Fine Arts building and here have been gathered together the best works of modern Japanese artists, with some good examples of the old art as well. A public reception hall built in imi tation of an ancient palace is one of the unique features of the architec tural picture. This is for the recep tion of distinguished visitors. The Foreign Exhibits building, Ma chinery hall, Formosan building, and a number of quite large buildings con structed by private enterprise—such as that of the Mitsu Bissan Kaisha. the Gas company and others—are in the second compound, in another part of the park and some distance away. Of these the Formosan building, con structed in Imitation of a public hall in the island which Japan took from China, presents the most attractive appearance, as the other buildings are like exposition buildings the world over. This second compound is situated on the bank of the beautiful Shinobad zu-no-ike, which is described as a “lotus pond.” but which we would call a lake, since it is about a mile in cir cumference. Across this lake there has just been built a handsome cause way of stone; on its east bank stands the grim and gaunt skeleton of a “shoot-the-chutes.” This lake is the most attractive feature of the exposition grounds. Lining it are many little shops of all kinds, from the different prefectures or states. In the crowds surrounding these shops there is to be seen every phase of Japanese life. The war put a good deal of money into the hands pf the country people, and, thanks to cheap excursion rates, these have come in large numbers to Tokio. With the exception of the war trophy dis plays, these little native shops seem to be the greatest attractions to the crowds from the country, though the foreigner who wanders this way cer tainly divides interest with them for the time being. Many of these people have, apparently, never before looked upon one of the white faced “barba rians,” and as he wanders from shop to shop he is honored by the presence, at a respectful distance, of a large bodyguard, whose friendly curiosity in his bartering and his purchases adds a decided zest to the proceed ings. LOOKED SUSPICIOUS TO HIM. Youngster’s Reasoning Natural Under the Circumstances. Five-year-old Lewis had on several occasions successfully evaded his nurse, and paid surreptitious and de lightful visits to the workmen on an apartment house in process of build ing at the comer of his block. As the result of his observations there he un concernedly ' and without prejudice emitted a choice and varied assort ment of profanity at the luncheon table. His shocked mother tried to impress upon him that never, never again muBt he repeat such words. But Lewis either -lacked discrimina tion or his parent’s warning had not been sufficiently impressive, for a few days afterward he vented a notable addition to his vocabulary of exple tives. His mother this time waited not for speech, but promptly and ltnnly seised the young man , and washed his month out with soapsuds, which she had alr&dy demonstrated S» an effectual spiritual cleanser. A E-iraz few days afterward Lewis was watch ing the nurse give his six-weeks-old sister her bath, and when nurse care fully washed out the little mouth Lewis asked interestedly: “Nurse, has baby been saying naughty words?” Statistics of Great Industry. At the census of 1905 the number of sawmills reported was 18,277, and their combined capital was $391,621, 184. They furnished employment on the average to 223,674 wage earners paid $100,310,891 in wages, consumed materials costing $263,865,101, and manufactured products to the value of $491,524,662. In this induiitry Wis consin ranked first in value' of prod ucts, Washington second. Michigan third, Louisiana fourth and Pennsyl vania fifth. Scottish Way of 8ayin(| It His life extended from .1750, the year of his birth, till 1824, when he died.—The Scotsman. T'.H