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churches in Lincoln. The wolf dogs
each one of them. The trustees are
constantly obliged to devise new
schemes of begging, new methods of
church extortion. There is a great
loss of energy in running so many
furnaces, for instance. One large
united church under the charge -of a
minister with an organized staff of
assistants could plat this place out
into fields of effort and convert to
righteousness twenty to one under
the present system. The Standard
Oil company is a good example to the
churches of Lincoln, but I doubt if
we are not still too devoted to meth
odism, Congregationalism or some
other form of human arrangement of
religion to follow this good example.
Under the new combination hun
dreds of people would come to church
who have not attended for years.
The best preaching, the best music, a
-crowd, a broad faith, a creed of broth
erly love would attract them.
A Martial Training School.
Colonel William F. Cody has found
ed, in the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming,
41 Military College for martial train
ing, rough riding, sharpshooting,
practical instruction in the ordinary
educational branches, and everything
necessary to make a boy a man and a
man a soldier. There is no age limit;
the ability to mount a horse and
shoulder a rifle are the only qualifica
tions required, and the fees, which
include transportation and full equip
ment, are only 8550 a year. Good boys
will cry to be sent to such a college;
butfor children of a larger growth,
who are studying at other colleges,
there is a summer or vacation course
of three months, during which health
worthless, that it was because their
likenesses were reproduced with ex
actness that his stories were valuable.
Charles Dickens had the same experi
ence. Models are inclined to think
the virtue is in them and not in the
author or artist who can see beauty
and charactenwberc the unillumined
visinn sees ouly commonplace and in
significant features. Authors and
artists know by the throes of creation
that their work is their own. The
brass pot, the turnips and the cab
bages which Mr. Chase groups for a
still life study might as well claim a
share of the price he sells the com
pleted picture for.
Miss Lizzie L. Clark, a professional
model, has brought suit for $4,290
against Charles H. Miller, an artist,
for poses furnished. Miss Clark de
clares that she posed in the nude and
asserts that she will not be satisfied
with a cent less than the amount set
forth in her claims. Her feelings are
also hurt by what she deems Mr. Mil
ler's ingratitude, for she thinks she
is largely responsible for his success.
She believes it was largely her good
points that enabled him to win fame
in his more ambitious studies. Miss
Clark says her figure is the central
one in many famous paintings, one of
which is "The Whirlwind of Fate,"
regarded as a masterpiece. She says
further that at art exhibitions the
pictures in which she appears are
greatlj admired, and that her grace
is a potent factor in the success of
these paintings.
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The Beauty-Doctor.
There is a woman in Denver who
claims that she lectures to fashion
able New York for five hundred dol-
mayfce regained and fishing, hunting J9 a lecture- Sue chares tlie DeQ-
and camp life enjoyed under the com
mand of General Sumner, U. S. A.
Incorrigible boys whose parents
threaten them with exile to severe
military schools, will welcome a term
in Col. Cody's school. A course in
cowboy riding, instruction in roping
and branding cattle, lessons on shoot
ing a pistol while riding a broncho!
Examinations in jackrabbit hunting!
Applications for admission to Colonel
Cody's school, if the American boy
should be given his choice of schools,
would clog the mails. Such a cur
riculum, where it is his duty to rope
steers, shoot rabbits, prairie chicken
and wolves, to ride bronchos and to
learn to follow a trail like ac Indian
scout, where his class standing de
pends not on his knowledge of his
tory, mathematics and science but
upon his skill in accomplishing the
foregoing feats, has tired the Ameri
can boy's beart with a desire for at
least a summer term in the Cody
ver women only five-dollars apiece for
her course of lectures. At first the
Denver women ignored Madame
Charlotte de Goilere Davenport, but
when she explained to them, nay
even demonstrated to them that she
could smooth out the wrinkles of fifty
years and replace a coarse hirsute
complexion with a damask bloom,
they flocked to her. Even the teach
ers of the public schools, who have
given up most of the vanities, attend
her lectures and follow her advice.
Her recipe for a good complexion is
original. And in order to be popular
and to attract followers, especially on
this particular subject, it is only
necessary to prescribe something en
tirely new. Every woman in Denver
who can afford to get her prescriptions
and have them filled, now sleeps with
a beefsteak mask. The beefsteak
thus applied is said to feed the skin
and restore that 'imperceptible down
which distiuguishes the cheek of
academy. Doubtless some of the most OULU irum u,e Jom Vl ae
important chairs are filled by Indians Madame Davenport advises a spring
and a cowboy with a freeman's scorn out of bed very early in the morning,
for a pen and books is the dean of the She P"51068 a drawing up of the
academic facultv. Colonel Codv him- muscles as of a tiger launching him
self will present graduates from the
school with diplomas conferring de
grees in cowpunching, shooting,
scouting and broncho-busting. They
will be new degrees, never before
used, but somebody invented B. A
Ii. L. D.t etc. Professor Buffalo Bill
might as well invent a degree and
confer It for the first time as the
musty Latin who used first the ancient yun&
entitlements.
A Model's Share.
After Sir Walter Scott's fame was
established, some of the country folk
who supposed they had unconsciously
self into the air to pull down a bul
lock ten feet away. In consequence
a number of early morning shocks
now startle the households of Denver.
The beauty doctor says it is no good
to get up gently; it must be done with
a lurching spring.
Madame Davenport says she is
seventy years old. She looks as
gay and fascinating as the
famous Ninon de L'Enclos. She
ascribes her beauty and grace to the
tiger spring, beefsteak mask, a tepid
oath in the morning after which she
reclines for twenty minutes and
thinks of the sea, and to the bare
foot habit. If she is as old as she
posed for his gillies, began to think it
only just that Sir Walter should di
vide the profits of his books with
them. They reasoned that without
them the books would have been
says she is and women are not given
to over-estimating their ages Ma
dame Davenport should have an enor
mous practice in Denver. To some
people Madame Davenport prescribes
large quantities of water in which
potatoes or greens have been boiled,
to be swallowed in copious draughts
throughout the day. Madame Daven
port says that an unmarried woman
is an atrocity, and that her single
state is a proof that she has been too
lazy to overcome her natal ugliness
of feature or form. She says that
personal magnetism is the hardest
characteristic to acquire, but that a
truly conscientious student can
acquire it. It cannot be put on with
a beef mask or a cucumber course,
but personal magnetism is more po
tent than a good complexion, spark
ling eyes, rubifoam teeth or a ravish
ing form. It is a 'subtle something,
an intangible, vague personality, and
yet it must be acquired or the other
fascinations count for nothing. Ma
dame Davenport's lectures crowd the
large ordinary at the Brown hotel
where they are delivered. In spite
of her ridiculous recipes, this woman
who says she is seventy years old has
succeeded in securing a large practice
among all the women of Denver who
are not entirely satisfied with their
appearance.
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Trees.
Some urban streets are still shaded
by trees, notably small cities in New
England and in the southern states.
But most communities feeling them
selves on the verge of metropolitan
ism consider the destruction of over
looked trees a first essential. Preach
ers of the gospel of trees of whom the
Hon. J. Sterling Morton is the most
distinguished and devoted, have
established a school whose exponents
are making converts to arboriculture
every season. Even the politician,
whose respect is small for all innova
tions not-immediately useful. to his
career, has begun to realize that trees
planted in certain localities are vote
catchers. Harper's Weekly offers
some excellent suggestions to those
lords of our environment, the mayor
and councilmen, in regard to trees:
1. A narrow tree-shaded street is
better than a bare wide one.
2. A walk under trees is more im
proving than a trolley ride under
telegraph and telephone poles.
3. The man who cuts down a tree,
except for the purpose of saving a
better ooe, is an enemy of the com
munity. 4. A city magnate who will not save
a beautiful tree when he can, is of
much less value to the community
than the tree which he destroys.
In the forest the beauty of a single
tree is obscured by the presence of
thousands of other straight-boled,
whispering sages. A spreading, green
tree in the city is a refreshment and
suggests mountains, valleys and
green, green glades. Philosophers
say that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder. If this be so the stunted
tree, whose roots and expanding girth
are checked by paving-stones and
whose leaves are covered with dust,
is more beautiful than the tree in a
glade fed by generous streams and
cultivated by the sun, which has
sucked up into itself the richness of
countless centuries of leaf-mold, and
dead forest life. For a million eyes
behold the stunted city tree, and not
one human eye has marked the grace
and symmetry of the forest tree.
Juvenile Animal Literature.
Children are usually meek. They
are in the habit of being instructed.
Every adult who asks a little boy his
name, or as the friend of the family
feels called upon to show an interest
in the youngsters, casts about for in
structive remarks. That is one reason
why children prefer companions of
their own age.They are ennuyee of he
improving conversation which by
the different tone and style of addr. ,s
when the visitor speaks to tl.-ir
parents, they can tell is all assum.
ed. Children understand the uses .f
imagination,and when making-beln e
carry out their roles consistent.-.
Grown people are so rigid, they are
forever lapsing Into their own unin
teresting personalities. The adult
imagination will carry its possessor a
short way into fairy-land, but just as
soon as the boundaries of reality are
out of sight the stupid, awkward
adults drop everything and run back.
No wonder children are disgusted
when older people propose to play
with them. They know beforehand
that they can't, carry out the make
believe consistently. Mr. Seton
Thompson's books stimulate the loe
of verisimilitude inherent in chil
dren. It may be that he is not making-believe.
At any rate he never
attempts to make speeches in front of
the curtain but stays in the play from
the beginning till bed time.
No more wholesome book's for chil
dren are written than the Junple
Book stories and Mr. Seton-Thonip-son's
wild animal stories. Of another
kind are the Black-Beauty series
which have started numerous stories
of or by animals written in the first
person. Bobtail Dixie, by Abbie X.
Smith is a boy's story of his life. It is
apparently the result of a sympa
thetic study of dogs, and as nearly a-.
an adult can judge likely to be of
great interest to children for whom it
is written. It is profusely illustrated
with pictures of dogs and children.
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A National Flower.
A vote is to be taken on the nation
al flora! emblem this summer at Buf
falo, dt isa-curious way to decide
such a point. The lily of-France, the
thistle of Scotland and the Shamrock
of Ireland were not elected to their
.place in the emblematic history of
France, Scotland and Ireland. A feu
dal lord chose the lily as emblematic
of his lady-love, displayed it on his
sleeve, then on his shield and collar
and afterwards a descendent became
stronger than the other lords, called
France a kingdom and hiraselt a kins,'
and the lily an emblem of France
The thistle was adopted by James ill
of Scotland, probably as an appro
priate illustration of the royal motto
"In defense," though the thistle
seems to be a floral expression of the
peculiar, shaggy whiskeriness of the
men, the ponies, the dogs and the
cows of Scotland. And it is said St.
Patrick chose the shamrock for Ire
land to illustrate theldoctrine of the
trinity. The sunflower, rose, colum
bine, dogwood, golden rod, arbutus
are each proposed as the national
flower of America and America a
broad means the United States, if the
speaker wishes to designate any other
part of this continent he says Canada,
Mexico or Central America. The
Springfield, (Massachusetts,) Republi
can says: ''The columbine has been
coming up to the fray in cohorts, as
it were, from New England's beauty,
the red and orange gypsy, to Colora
do's lavender and cream species, and
so the whole family, from Florida to
Maine and from the Rockies to the
Pacific slope, is marshaled under the
auspices of botanists and architects,
and symbolists, and sentimentalists,
and all sorts of folk. Among the
leaders of the columbine faction are
such men as Professor F. L. Sargent,
botanist of the University of Wiscon
sin, who has treacherously abandoned
maize to become the President of the
National Columbine association; Dr.
Rolfe, the Shaksperean student; Brad
ford Torrey, one of nature's most de-
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