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lack Broadcloth.
Black is as popular if not more so
(haa it was earlier in the season. A
'. " fcodel recently turned out by a lead--
"" lag dressmaker in black broadcloth
:'. has a tight-fitting coat and an almost
plain skirt that just clears the ground.
I -The coat tits tightly in the back by
.means of curved seams, and a piece
-ef the cloth about five inches wide
and pointed at the lower end extends
..from the neck down the center of the
back to a little below the waist line
" and Is stitched twice at the edges.
." On each side of the coat skirts on
" bcth sides of the center seam similar
- rotated sections of the cloth appear.
.The sleeves are almost tight-fitting.
Another attractive cloth model in
.'. steel gray has a plain skirt cut ankle
' , length and is untrimmed. The coat
is a tailor-made affair, partly loose
ftting and partly tight-fitting, single-
Lreasted and reaches to the knees.
' - with a velvet turnover collar and
deep velvet turnover cuffs. A strap
" runs across the center of the back to
..told it in close to the waist line.
Crrectolre Coats.
There is a decided liking shown for
the well fitting dircctoire coat, with
sleeves that set to the shape of the
arm. though fancifully puckered and
gathered and gauged very often, and
with the outline of the figure carefully
preserved.
Smart Silk "At Home" Oress.
This is designed for afternoon wear.
but would be suitable for a home din-
r.ei frock too. It is of light taffetas.
trimmed with frills cf narrow black
and white lace and medallions of the
iMi:e lace; black velvet bows as a
"ladder."
Jellied Cranges.
Cat off a small portion of the ends
of oiangos. rcoop out the pulp and
juice. Fill with orange jelly before it
is thoroughly hard, anil let the or
anges stand on ice. When set. cut in
quarters and serve on green leaes.
To make orange jelly, pit juice of or
anges into agrtc saucepan, with 1 cup
sugar. 1 pint or hot water and 1 tea- i
spoon orange extract. When sugar
is dissolved add box powdered gela
tine. When col fill oranges.
1 Fichus Again in Vogue.
' A most universally becoming fash
ion has been brought again into popu
lar favor by the revival of the Marie
Antoinette modes. The fichu returns
In many varieties and is frequently
used for the neck of the evening
gown, although its grace and simplici
ty recommend it for any dress fash
ioned of soft, clinging materials after
the fashion of the French custom dur
ing the time of Marie Antoinette.
Chiffon is the most successful ma
terial that can be found for the fichu.
lut net and lace may be used with
effect. The fichu should be draped
around the shoulders very loosely.
that it may fall in graceful folds, and
listened in front in a soft knot.
It is interesting to find that the
flat-irdn turban still is to remain one
of the leading styles in hats this
spring, for its convenience in battling
against the March winds is appreciat
ed by its feminine admirers. A num
ber are being shown of shirred taf
feta, with the top crown of horsehair
braid, and chiffon, shirred and tucked.
is also used in covering the turban.
In spite of the acknowledged utility
Of the "trotteuse" skirt for practical
purposes, English tailors are making
the smart frocks with long skirts.
They do not trail the ground, but are
not allowed to show much boot. The
plaited skirts, however, must always
"be short, close-fitting about the hips
and very full at the bottom.
Sunderland Pudding.
Half cup sugar. cup of butter. Vz
fiat of milk. 1 cup of sifted flour and
S eggs. Heat the milk hot: stir in the
, butter and let it cool before the oth
er ingredients are added to it; then
tir in the sugar, flour and beaten
- .Jolks of 3 and whites of 2 eggs. Fla
""Tbx with a little grated lemon rind
and" beat the mixture well. Bake to
. well buttered cups half filled with the
better for about half an hour. Serve
with, any 'sweet sauce, and the white
ef-1 egg beaten with 1 spoonful of
CBgar dropped on each pudding Is
small drops.
' The Morning Costume.
The skirts of morning costumes
ill continue to be cut short, and they
tt ill fit closely about the hips, but
tt-ey must flare a little below the
"line of the knee. With the long coats
are worn the round skirts, either
touching or just freeing the ground.
These skirts are more becoming than
the very short ones unless a woman
has a pretty foot, and they are the only
eaes that can be worn with the redin-
' totes. The very light weight broad-
.doth will be worn well into the sum
mer, and tweeds, serges and coarse
caavases will come in for their share
of sopalarity.
lemtftf Styles.
Skirts are to be fuller tham ever
asset the feet every conceivable
trick that wi.l get a few more inches
fm . th wMtn wfll be enoloyed: bat
out the hips they will fit smoothly.
Lace will be everywhere, principal
. Irish crochet sad Valencietnes; a
se. which Is as beautiful as it
daring, betas the ccmbiain? th
"two. And lace will be used in every
possible way. from allovers and strips
and edgings to wonderful motifs which
contain a host of suggestions In them
selves for unusual, original uses.
Even embroideries will be used to
trim these dresses, but embroideries
this year have lifted themselves high
above anything we've ever known be
fore, and come in a new dignity that
fits them for any use.
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When cooking sausages let them
heat very gradually and the skins will
tot burst.
To keep milk sweet for several days
add a teaspoonful of fine salt to every
quar. of milk.
Stand pancake batter lor two hours
beiore frying- Beat it up again just
before using.
Bones and bacon rind should never
1) thrown away, but added to the
stock pot when making soup.
To brighten eyeglasses rub up the
glasses with a piece of tissue paper.
There is nothing better for the pur
pose. When making sauces dissolve the
butter in the stewpan, add the flour,
stir well, and then gradually add the
liquor.
To make varnish dissolve a pound
and a half of shellac in a gallon of
naphtha. Add a small quantity of
dragon's blood to give it a good color.
In Royal Purple Cloth.
Somewhat conspicuous, but very
stylish, is a costume of royal purple
cloth. The round skirt is laid in wide
plaits. The coat has plaits an inch
v ide running down to and through
the sleeves below the elbows. These
piaits run crosswise and taper down
tt. points where they end near the
elbow. The sleeve from the elbow
down is tight fitting.
Novelty Silks.
In the new goods there are so many
novelty silks that one hesitates to
sti.rt upon the task of naming them,
krowing it to he absolutely hopeless.
The chiffon taffeta is one of the best
of taffetas. It is very light in weight
jet strong. And there is a taffeta
glace which is lovely and of the non
wrinkle order. Taffeta by the way
has been marvelously improved the
last season and it now wears very
well indeed.
No eye can turn away from the pop
lins and their cousins the mohairs and
the brilliantines and sicilliennes with
out a sigh.
Velvet Walking Costume.
An attractive short walking cos
tume of black velvet has a skirt gored
to fit the fieure and in the back are
two underlying plaits, and scanter
ones in the center fronts are pressed
in and secured invisibly, while down
each side are rows of small old sil
vei buttons. The blouse closes with
double rows of buttons to match the
skirt and the sleeves are plaited and
IkM in place by the buttons. The
blouse is collarless and trimmed with
several rows of silk braid.
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Confidences
Both plaited and circular skirts will
be worn.
Suppleness and luster are charac
teristics of the fashionable silks.
Skirts will only be trimmed at or
near the bottom.
The long unbroken line is the thing
fo: this season.
Amethysts are promised consider
able vogue this season and will be
worn alone and combined with pearls
and diamonds.
For summer wear are even the
daintiest of while tulle and lace
RECEPTION GOWNS FROM PARIS.
The gown on the seated figure is
of violet faille. A fancy border cut
fiom velvet of a little deeper shade
finishes the skirt at the bottom.
The bodice is draped, forming a
fort of bolero covered with a large
shoulder collar of venise lace. The
reverse are of velvet, the collar of
green satin embroidered in gold.
Pendants of gold hang from the points
of the revers over the draped corslet
of the material. The chemisette is of
white mousseline de soie. with jabot
of lace. The short sleeve puffs are fin-
ished with puffs and frills of the
venise lace.
The ntt gown is of soft white
sctin. The skirt is gathered at the
top and trimmed at the bottom with
a ianc uoraei or cream-colored
guipure insertion.
The bodice is draped and fastened
little on one with blue velvet but-
l tons und ornamented with a jabot of
toques and small chip hats, green,
brown and biscuit color.
A coarse embroidered white or
light-colored linen, resembling a
stamped leather effect. Is a pretty
material, and will be used as a note
of originality in the way of vests, col
lars and cuffs on many of the light
cloth and cashmere toileU this com
ing spring.
Spinach in Molds.
Boil the spinach, press out every
drop of water and chop fine. Cook
together in a saucepan a tablespoon
ful of butter and two of flour. Add
the spinach with pepper and salt to
taste; cook for five minutes. Butter
the insides of muffin-tins or pate-pans
and press the spinach hard into these.
Set in the oven to keep hot while you
make a white sauce. Carefully turn
out the forms of spinach on a hot
platter, lay a slice of hard-boiled egg
on the top of each form and pour the
white sauce aiound it.
Pork Cake.
One pound salt pork chopped fine. 1
round of raisins, 1 pound of currants,
pound of citron. 1 quart flour. 1
pint of brown sugar, 1 pint cf boiling
water, pint of molasses. 2 teaspoon
fuls each of cloves and cinnamon,
grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 tablespoon
ful of soda dissolved in hot water;
pour the water on the perk, stir until
melted, then pass through the colan
der; add the sugar, molasses, spice
and half of the flour; rub the fruit In
1 gill of the flour, then add it to the
soda and the rest of the flour; bake
in well buttered tins in a hot, steady
oven.
Black velvet with
white cloth vest.
embroidered
Bits of Lace.
A bit of real lace will often con
tribute greatly to the style of a frock.
and it is an excellent plan to rip from
the garments before they are thrown
aside any lace trimmings.
No matter how badly soiled, every
scrap of lace is worth saving.
And this applies to the imitations
as well as to the real, for if there is
only sufficient to trim a stock collar
it may be used for that purpose very
conveniently and effectively on some
iuture occasion, and as lace does not
occupy a great deal of space and is
not so popular with most as are many
other materials it may easily be pre
served. New Cretonnes Are Lovely.
Cretonne will be more popular than
ever this summer for furniture cover
ings, cushions and for drapery. The
latest ones include very dainty stripes,
natural flower designs, verdure effects.
Louis XV. Louis XVI and 1'art nou
veau. with grounds in moire and jas
per, with cafe au lait given special
prominence as being very new.
lace. It is finished around the low
neck with a bertha of satin, bordered
with guipure, over which is a ruffle
of white lace, headed by a band of
blue velvet.
The short sleeves forming double
puffs are finished with bands of the
satin, trimmed with guipure insertion.
The third gown is of delicate laven
der taffeta. The full skirt forms a
shirred corslet, and is trimmed at the
bottom with three ruches of the silk,
the two upper ones arranged in fes
toons. The bolero is shirred along
the shoulders and at the bottom,
where It is finished with a stitched
band f the silk.
The waistcoat is of guipure, with
edges and knots of pink panne. The
elbow sleeves are puffed at th ton
men fitted to the arms, where tby
are stirred end draped, forming little
headings or frills. They are finished
with narrow ruffles of the material
end of guipure.
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MUKDEN ALWAYS BATTLE POINT
Wars Have Raged Around
Than Three
Mukden, the ancient city, now pass
ed into the control of the Japanese,
vas described last August in this
manner by an American war corre-
puadent:
"Most cities of China proper have
7.212 distinct smells. Mukden has
but 6,214; it has been Russianized
and whenever possible the Russian
has introduced clean streets, some
kind of a sewerage system, orderly
houses; hence Mukden is now known
as the cleanest town of the many
where the filthy Chinese have pre
dominated in the past."
Mukden belongs to the province of
Shingklng and on the line of railway
running north it is about half way
between Nluchwang and Kuangchang-
tsu. which belongs to the province of
Kirin.
Now aside from the fact that Muk
den holds the sacred tombs of the
ancient Manchu or "pure" dynasty it
has other interest in that it has been
one of the world's central battle
points since 1,100 years or more be
fore Christ.
' Where Russian and Japan have
been contesting longer than a year,
race after race, and nation after na
tion, have hurled themselves against
each other for certainly 3,000 years.
The soil about Mukden, the ranges of
the Long White Mountain, the great
stretches of gray plains have been
soaked with the blood of tens of thou
sands of warriors.
It is a Golgotha a place of bones
and the wraiths of men who have
gone to their final judgment in con
quest or plunder.
Peopled Long Before Christ.
Dates in Chinese or Mongolian his
tory are much mixed, but so far as
accuracy can be depended upon Muk
den was a settlement long before
Christ was born. The Prince of
Pohai had some possessions there
about 710 B. C, and at one time Chi
nese allegiance was thrown off en
tirely and a centralized government
RUSSIAN WORKMEN
Half a Rcom Tor a Workingman's
Curtain Eeiongs to Another Family.
established with five royal residences,
one of which rote at Mukdm.
Then eame Khiian fiom Hulan and
he established the Liao dynasty and
Mukden, not yet a very notable place,
but already battle-tossed, passed into
other hands. Aftcrwaul the Jurchin
had their try and they etabl:shed
the Kin or golden dynasty and made
Mukden a great trading post on the
central highways.
These highways extended up to the
boundaries of the savage tribes on
the north into He-lung-kiang and
far along the Amur River extended
south to modern Peking, to Hankow,
to Canton and even into India.
Princes of the royal blood left Muk
den in those days of the beginnings,
and made two and three year pil
grimages to India to learn strange
tilings from wise men and to trade in
jewels and fabrics.
Fifteen hundred j-ears after Christ
was born Nurhachu had his chief seat
of government in the south of the
Long White mountain, about 100
miles east of Mukden. Mukden itself
had then risen to be one of the most
important trading points of the
North. It has been stated that its
annual volume of business rose into
the millions, and that the wealth and
fashion of the North congregated
there to bargain, play politics, love
and hate.
Army Was Slaughtered.
In 1616 Mukden saw a wonderful
army for those days before its gates.
Nurhachu had taken to himself the
title of "heaven-decreed," and de
clared war on China. An army of
200,000 was sent against him. but, as
the chroniclers related afterward:
"He slaughtered all; none returned
to say of how their end came."
Mukden was captured by him in
Artillery Solar Ray Fire.
Attention was drawn some time ago
by the Army and Navy Gazette to a
method of representing artillery fire
by deflecting light upon the object
aimed at, which was tried in France
last year. A similar system is be
ing experimented with in Austria, the
solar rays being reflected upon the
object. These rays are visible to the
troops and to their leaders, as well as
to the umpires, whose decisions are
said thus to be facilitated. The ap
paratus is used from about 2,000 to
3,000 yards.
He Figures Wrong.
"The demands of society are so ex
acting and the rules of dress so inex
orable that the area of cuticle avail
able for vaccination purposes is con
stantly becoming smaller," wrote the
health officer in his annual report.
Between party gowns and bathing
suits there is not much opportunity
left."
"You are wrong, doctor, there are
at leas two months between party
gowns and bathing suits. You must
figure time, and not inches."
Maclaren's Sensible Idea.
Lecturing the other night at Liver
pool, the Rev. Ian Maclaren said:
"No man Is justified in marrying who
cannot obtain a first-class life certi
ficate from a really good insurance
company."
Chief Buddhist Sovereign.
The king of Slam is the only inde
pendent Bndahist sovereign in the
world, and is, therefore, looked upon
as the chief supporter of the religion
of Buddha.
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the "City off Tombs" for More
Thousand Years
1C21 after terrific fighting and a
slaughter, if we may believe the stat
isticians, that far exceeds what has re
cently occurred there. All prisoners
taken were promptly beheaded.
Lisoyang was captured and made the
capital, and seventy other cities
promptly surrendered.
In 1644 the Mancbus, risen to great
power, marched into China and placed
one of their own on the throne of that
government, and a Manchu has ruled
there ever since. In the eighteenth
century Mukden rose to great com
mercial and political importance, but
by the time of the opening of the
nineteenth century, through causes
largely due to the decay of the Man
chu dynasty, the city declined in im
portance, and when the Russians be
gan their active control of the com
munity, after the Chinese-Japanese
war of 1894. they found it a plaoe of
squalor, filth and disease.
Sacred Tombs Preserved.
The sacred tombs has been pre
served, but the city was almost iso
lated from the world; its people indo
lent, careless, out of touch with the
world. The Russians made it a base
of commercial and military supplies,
introduced some modern methods of
sanitation and proposed to make it
the half-way station between Port Ar
thur and Harbin.
Now the Japanese have it. To
them it may be their northern ter
minal in the new land they will domi
nate, although in all probability, when
it comes to making the final treaty,
they will dominate far to the Kuang-chang-tsu
district. Aside from the
Russian population 90 per cent of the
inhabitants of Mukden are Chinese.
The only language taught in the city
schools is Chinese. The Japanese
probably will introduce entirely mod
ern methods of education and com
merce. In 3.000 years there have been
fought in front of or about Mukden
some twenty-odd noted battles of the
HERDED LI KE CATTLE.
Home; the Cther Half Behind the
Orient, and it is conservatively esti
mated that within and about the city
j during that time more than 5,000.000
; men have been engaged in bloody
struggles for the control of territory
i and government.
Roused Artist from Inaction.
Phil May. the English artist, who
died not long ago. had fits of laziness
and when suffering from this ailment
found it very difficult to work. On
one occasion he had promised a coi
oied design for the Christmas number
of a weekly. The day fixed for its de
livery passed by. but no design was
forthcoming. The publisher went
hunting for him and found him at a
seaside hotel enjoying a time of abso
lute inaction. Without going to see
Mr. May, he hired six sandwich men
lo parade up and down before the ar
tist's window with boards bearing dif
teient legends. This was their tenor:
"What about our Christmas cover?"
"We are waiting for that cover." It
was a delightful reminder and in a
tew days the publishers received one
ot the most brilliant designs May had
ever executed.
New Idea for Inaugural Parade.
A North Carolina man who thought
that the inaugural parade was a good
deal like a circus procession, wrote to
the inaugural committee as follows:
"1 wud like to cum to Washington
and play the countryman in the pro
cession. I am the greatest rube you
ever seed, and am sure that I cud
act the part better than any man in
the country. I am a republican and
want to show these trifln democrats
what a man will do for his president.
I am sure I can please yu. I will
work for my grub and 50 cents a
day, includin' carfare."
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German Students.
xhis winter semester there are at
the several German universities 39.716
matriculated students, against 39,581
during the last summer semester, and
39.718 last winter. At the beginning
of the nineties there were in round
numbers 29,000 students, and in the
winter of 1894-95, 28.105; the third ten
thousand was not reached until the
winter of 1897-98, when the number
was 31.110, since which time there
has been a steady increase. The larg
est number this winter is at Beriin,
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Life of Country Physician.
The strenuousness of the life of the
country physician is illustrated in the
case of Dr. George H. Coombs, of
Waldboro, Me., who, during the recent
storm, found it impossible to run his
automobile or force his horses
through the mountain-high snowdrifts,
walked to West Waldboro and back,
a total distance of eight miles, to see
a patient. The incident illustrates
also the devotion of the conscientious
physician to his patients. Boston
Transcript.
Bankers to Donate Home.
Baiersdorf. Bavaria, it to have a
free home for children, which is to
be erected by the Seligman firm of
New York, In memory of David and
Fanny Seligman, parents of the Sel
igman brothers, who lived and died
in that place.
British Strikes Decrease.
Strikes were lew in Great iiniain
last year. Only one in every 100 of
the industrial population had any
trouble with an employer.
William T. Stead Greatly Impressed
by Its Force and Power.
The vast congregations were as so
berly sane, as orderly, and at least
is reverent as any congregation I ever
saw beneath the dome of St. Paul's.
But it waft aflame with a passionate
religious enthusiasm, the like of
which I have never seen in St. Paul's.
Tier above tier from the crowded
aisles to the loftiest gallery sat or
stood, as necessity dictated, eager
hundreds of serious men and thought
ful women, their eyes riveted upon
the platform or upon whatever other
part of the building was the storm
center of the meeting.
There was absolutely nothing wild,
violent, hysterical, unless it be hys
terical for the laboring breast to
heave with sobbing that cannot be re
pressed, and the throat to choke with
emotion as a sense of the awful hor
ror and shame of a wasted life sud
denly bursts upon the soul. On all
sides there was the solemn gladness
of men and women upon whose eyes
has dawned the splendor of a new
day, the foretaste of whose glories
they are enjoying in the quickened
sense of human fellowship and a keen
glad zest added to their own lives.
Employers tell me that the quality
of the work the miners are putting in
has improved. Waste is less, men gb
to their daily toil with a new spirit of
gladness in their labor. In the long
dim galleries of the mine, where once
the hauliers swore at their ponies in
Welshifled English terms of blas
phemy, there is now but to be heard
the haunting melody of the revival mu
sic. The pit ponies, like the Ameri
can mules, have been driven by oaths
and curses since they first bore the
yoke, are being retrained to do their
work without the incentive of profan
ity. There is less drinking, less idle
ness, less gambling. Men record with
almost incredulous amazement, how
one football player after another has
foresworn cards and drink and the
gladiatorial games, and is living a so
ber and godly life, putting his energy
into the revival. More wonderful still,
and almost incredible to those who
know how journalism lives and
thrives upon gambling, and hoV Tory
ism is broad-based upon the drinking
habits of the people, the Tory daily
paper of South Wales has devoted its
columns day after day to reporting
and defending the movement which
declares war to the death against
both gambling and drink. From "The
Great Religious Revival in Wales." by
William T. Stead, in the American
Monthly Review of Reviews.
MAY FIND MURDER MOTIVE.
In Tales of "Graft" Police Expect to
Clear Up Stanford Mystery.
Miss Bertha Berner and Miss May
Hunt, secretary and maid, respective-
Miss Bertha Berner.
ly. to the late Mrs. Stantord. havt
been instructed by the police not tc
leave Honolulu. It is believed that
among the stories of household quar
rels and graft, a hint of the motive
for murder may be found.
Albert Beverly, the ex-butler, has,
it is said, made a statement to the
police to the effect that in all, by
means of "rake downs" and commis
sions he had "grafted" about $2,100.
He reiterates his story that he divid
ed his "rake down" with Miss Berner,
and that her share amounted to be
tween $1,000 and $1,100.
Flying Machines and Fighting.
Santos Dumont szys that the recent
generation will see a perfect flying
machine that will make war impos
sible. There may be a perfect flying
machine, but how that is going to
make war impossible is not so plain
to a man on the ground as it appears
to be to M. Dumont. He probably in
tends to carry explosives and drop
them onto the heads of the people, but
the other fellows will be able to do
the same thing, leaving, we should
say, war not only possible, but might
ily destructive. If affairs between bel
ligerent powers could be so adjusted
that only one of them could have re
course to flying machines, and when
the hostilities break out that one
should get into the machines and fly
away, then war might be said to nave
become impossible. Milwaukee Free
Press.
Dumb Man Speaks.
Fifteen months ago Thomas Witty,
a man employed in Armstrong's ship
yard, woke up one morning and found
that he had lost the faculty of speech.
Remaining dumb, he gave up his
employment. On Saturday he was
selling oranges, with his son shouting
for him, when somebody asked him
The price of the oranges, and much to
his own astonishment his long at
tempted utterance came, for he re
plied. "Four a penny." Since that mo
ment he has been able to speak as
well as ever. London Daily Mail.
Doctors' Race at a Fair.
An amusing feature of the closing
day of the north Georgia fair held at
Cbickamauga was a "doctors' race,"
The twelve physicians who took part
in the contest had their horses sta
bled near by and were themselvc-s
undressed and in bed. At the stroke
of the gong they had to dress, hitch
their horses to their vehicles and
drive one mile to a supposed patient.
The race was won by Dr. Rudesell. Dr.
Elder was second and Dr. Hunter
third.
Czar a Saddened Man.
The czar is said to have described
himself recently as "the saddest man
in Europe." The czarina is anxious
to spend the summer in England, but
she will not leave her husband to face
present difficulties alone.
Presence sf Mind.
A policeman of SoutI: Shields, Eng
lanu, ground up a. Iay pipe, adminis
tered the powder as an emetic to a
girl who had taken poison and ao
saved her life.
Veteran Soldier and Statesman Suc
cumbs to Pneumonia.
United States Senator William
Brimage Bate of Tennessee, twice
governor of his state, a veteran of
both the Mexican and civil wars, ris
ing from private to major general in
the latter and for eighteen years a
conspicuous member of the upper
house of congress, died at his hotel
apartments In Washington. March ?.
aged 78 years. Death was rue to
pBeumoala and defective heart. Sen
ator Bate attended the Inauguration
ceremonies on March 4 and his death
Is believed to be due primarily to ex
posture on that occasion. Senator
Bate took his seat In the senate in
1887 and was recently sworn in for
another term of six years. He was
the ranking minority member of the
committee on territories, military af
fairs and agriculture and forestry, al
so a member of several minor com
mittees and chairman of one of the
minority committees. Besides the
widow, two daughters. Mrs. Thomas
F. Masten of Tennessee and Mrs.
Childs of Los Angeles, survive the
senator. Both houses of the general
assembly of Tennessee took appro
priate action on the death of Senator
Bate.
JOKE ON PARIS LAWYERS.
Members of the Bar Supposed
to
Work Only for Justice.
The wits of the Boulevards have
been furnished with a fruitful topic
by the civil court of Paris, which has
ordered a lawyer to return the greater
part of the fees he received in a cer
tain case.
It is not in the enforced-return of
the money, however, that the humor
lies, but in the ground on which the
court based its action. M. J. Comely,
who records the incident, says the
judge declared that members of the
bar there work for justice, not for
money, and have no legal claim to
one sou for services!
This, it appears, has been a hallow
ed fiction since the days of St. Iuis
and we can well believe that its re
crudescence at this time as a judicial
act nas caused a commotion among
the lawyers of Paris.
CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN.
Gorgeous Raiment a Necessity for
Those in Authority.
There is no power without clothes.
It is the power that governs the hu
man race. Strip its chiefs to the skin.
and no state could be governed; naked
officials could exercise no authority;
they would look (and be) like every
body else commonplace, inconsequen
tial. A policeman in plan clothes is
one man. in his uniform he is ten.
Clothes and titles are the most potent
thing, the most formidable intliience
in the earth. They move the human
race to willing and spontaneous re
spect for the judge, the general, the
admiral, the bishop, the ambassador,
the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the
sultan, the king, the emperor. No
great title is efficient without clothes
to support it. In naked tribes of sav
ages the kings wear some kind of
rag or decoration which they make
sacred to themselves and allow no one
else to wear. The king or the great
Fan tribe wears a bit of leopard skin
on his shoulder it is sacred to royal
ty; the rest of him is perfectly naked.
Without this bit of leopard skin to
awe and impress the people he would
not be able to keep his job. "Mark
Twain" in North American Review.
Photographed Wrong Man.
A Washington photographer want
ed the picture of the president's
friend Seth Bullock, the sheriff of
Dead wood, who was selected to lead
the cowboy bunch in the inaugural
procession. He sent an assistant out
to round up Bullock and bring him
to be photographed. Presently the
assistant came back with a gray-mus-tached
man in tow and announced
that this was the man wanted. The
man sat for several pictures. As he
was going out the clerk in the gal
lery said: "By the way. Mr. Bullock,
please give me your full name for the
pictures." "Bullock nothing!" said
the man. "I am not Bullock. I am
Morgan Bulkeley, senator-elect from
Connecticut."
A Curious Clock.
One of the most curious clocks In
the world Is. perhaps, that which tells
the times to the inhabitants of a little
cry, which is nothing but a face,
backwood town, and which was con
structed some time ago. The machin
hands. and lever, is connected with
a geyser, which shoots out an im
mense column of hot water every
thirty-eight seconds. This spouting
never varies to the tenth of a second.
Every time the water spouts up it
strikes the lever and moves the hands
forward thirty-eight seconds.
Fish With Two Kinds of Eyes.
The anableps. or stargazer. a 3sk
of the cyprodont family, found in riv
ers of Guiana. Surinam and Brazil,
has each of its eyes divided into an
Jpper and a lower portion by an
opaque horizontal line.
This gives it in effect two pupils in
each eye, one suited for seeing in the
air and the other for seeing is the
water. The fish is in the hahic of
swimming at the surface with its
head sometimes above, sometimes be
low the water line. Fishing Gazette.
Protestant Church for Panama.
Bishop Thomas B. Neely. of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is plan
ning for the erection of a Protestant
church In Panama. He has almost
completed negotiations for the pur
chase of the ruins of the church of
Santo Domingo.
Fifty-Three Sundays in 1905.
j. tcuiiat ct is mat oo ojia
on Sunday and wili end oa Sunday
and therefore has fifty-three Sunday, i
This will not occur asain ia 210 years, j
Once in History Has Citv
of
Mexico Repudiated Debt.
The City of Mexico has been doing'
business for about 380 years. There
is probably no capital in the civilized
world that during the same period baa
been the center of more wars of con
quest or revolution, and yet. through
all the troublesome days of these cen
turies, this city has maintained Its'
dnancial reputation free front blemish.
Kings have come and gone, viceroy
has succeeded viceroy, emperors have
flourished for a brief regime and
rival factions have striven for the'
presidency. loans have been forced
by one general government to be re
pudiated by the next, bonds were is
sued during the French occupancy
that the republic would not assume,
but during all the strife the ancient
capital of the Aztecs cherished Its
financial integrity as its choicest Jew
el and to-day rejoices in the record
thst not once in all its long history
has a debt been repudiated. Modern
Mexico.
TO DIRECT CANAL CUTTING.
Chief Engineer Wallace Likely to Be
Supreme in Panama.
Chief Engineer John F. Wallace.
who will probably be the actual work--ing
head of the Panama Canal com-
mission under the proposed reorganl-'
zation of that body, and who is likely,
to be the real builder of the canal)
under the president's determination
to intnist that work to the ablest man
the country can produce, is one of tho,
best known civil engineers in this,
country, and so well known abroad
and so highly esteemed that he has
been elected to membership in many,
of the most scientific bodies of Eu
rope. For many years he was connect
ed with the Illinois Central railroad."
working up through all the grades to
the office of general manager, a post
he hid at the time he was selected
some months ago by the canal com
mission for the office of chief engi
neer. How We Catch Cold.
The rationale of the causation of
the ordinary cold" is pretty well un
derstood at the present .ay, and it is
generally conceded that when circu
latory disturbances or vital depres
sions are produced as the result of
localized or general chilling of the
body surface, newly entered or already
present pathogenic bacteria are en
abled to attack the body with very
good chances of success. At such
times it is said that the powers of
resistance are below par. and. conse
quently, the bacterid gain an easy
victory. This point was illustrated ill
telling fashion by Otirck. "..ho found
that rabbits infected with pneumococ
ci developed pneumonia if they wero
subjected to severe cold, whereas un
chilled control animals survived.
Medical Record.
Exclusive Religious Circles.
There is a good deal of comment
just now on the exclusive attitude of
certain New York churches. In siimo
it is impossible to purchase a pew or
even a sitting. The demand for pews
in Grace church is so great that
names have been on the waiting list
for years. In several other fashion
able houses of worship the condition
is the same. Some newcomers of
ureat wealth, eager to touch elbows
with the most orthodox of respectabil
ity, secure pews by sublease, but this
is a costly kind of enterprise. It is
not uncommon to hear of pews sell
ing for $1,500 or more. Indetd. with
in a week or two pew 40 of Graco
church sold for $1,550. In St. Thom
as' church single sittings sell for
$150.
The People's College.
The American boy dn-s not. as a
rule, take kindly to early specialisa
tion, says Walter I Hervey in the
Chautauquan. The general high
school course, whether classical or
scientific, attracts the vast majority
of students and is likely to do so for
many years to come. The typical
American high school is one whoe
chief aim is to provide Knral cul
ture and equipment for lif irrespec
tive of academic or vocational des
tination. This conception ot the high
school i-; reJU-cted in the name by
which it is often cal'ed "the peo
ples' college "
Benefited by American Education.
Ton? Shin Ye. just appointed Chi
nese ambassador to England, wax one
of the second delegation of thirty
youths sent to this country, in 1S72
to be educated. He was then 12 years
old. He and another lad were taken
in hand by E f Gardner of Spring
field. Mass. with whom they remain
ed for two year?. Then, having made
great progress in the study of En
glish, they went to school. Tons re
mained in the United States for six
years. He finished his educate jn
China.
A Botany Tea.
Dr. Peebles, assistant professor of
biology a: the Woman's roHt-ne. and
some of her students gae a trctqu
botany tea m ne of :ae s-ince
rooms. All the refreshments, which
were of a ege table compound v-c-pt
salt, were ata vrith fctMratry
instruments. The nrA conLt?it f
lettuce, tomato- 5. a?ara: ur.
olives, ninuer. frail salad sal vkc
cuits. The iva. was 5tir M :a
table ever laborat-jrj rfass? isli
mt.re Americas.
Great Chess Plaer Dd.
Rusia has hst i: best knoara
chess player by the data. a: thtr ae
of 54. of Emmanutl Schizers. He had
been for se.Tal Jr3 a victim oj
great deprt-Sidoa. hlrs prevtcted
him taking part in any contests.
Shecks Lon (toners.
London has discovered. Xo Its hor
ror. tti ue "W-nc tas m rae
fecade of the Maas!on noose, tit !erl
mayor's resilei:ce. were "iaaIe. ic
Germany."
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