THE COURIER. V I bare felt to be a great honor. Many people talk to me from their lips, but very few from their hearts, and your confidence is sacred. He bowed, sat Rob down from his shoulder where he had been riding in royal state, and opened the gate for me. I sat by my window long that night and wondered. Here was this man, simply thrown by the waves out upon the desert beach of time, stripped of everything save the doubtful gift of life itself. How could he endure it? How did he, all through the white unbroken winter? Perhaps hi& heart froze, too. Still he must know that in ever quicken ing time, when the leaves break forth, his old sorrow would wake and cry. I sent my troubled, aching sympathy out into the night, up to the great white stars which never, in all the long years, have answered that wailing, anguished cry of humanity, "Why?"' I just possibly may go home next week and open the house for the rest of the family. Papa and I may go to gether. If so, I may not write again from here. You are not doing especially well in the letter line. I suppose you are hav ing too gay a time. I really do not believe I will ever come to the mountains again. They seem to draw close and closer, hem me in with the stony intention of falling on me, if they happen to take a notion to. Fancy the sun dropping out of sight at four or so in the afternoon! Considering the height they look to and never reach, and the snadowB they live in, it is little wonder mountain peo ple are big and Bad. Yours, Penelope. Its Usual Effect. Jones I've just been doing something that always makes me feel cheap. Smith What is that? Jones Comparing my salary with what I think it ought to be. Town and Country. V. Reduced Rates and Special Train to Na tional Encampment. G. A. R. The Great Bock Island Route will sell tickets to Cleveland. O., and return, for the Grand Army meeting, at greatly re duced rates. Tickets will be on sale at ypoints west of the Missouri River Sept. 7th to 10th, inclusive, except Oklahoma and Indian Territory, where selling dales will be 7th and 8th. Return limit Sept. lath, except that extension limit to leave Cleveland, up to and including Oct 8, 1001, may be arranged by depositing tickets with Joint Agent at Cleveland, ana payment of small fee. Comrades of the "Rank and File" have selected the Great Rock Island Route and Lake Shore & Michigan Southern R'y for a special through train to Cleveland, which will leave Kansas and Oklahoma Sunday, Sept. 8th. Passengers on this special train will be given the privilege of going and returning via Toledo on boat or all rail as they may elect. Pas sengers making return journey by boat will have a delightful stop of three hours at the celebrated lake reBort Put-in-Bay. Any Rock Island Agent or the undersigned will give full details and ar range for Bleeping car reservations. E. W. Thompson, A. G. P. A., Topeka. FA3HKDN LETTER. From the SumUy Papers. I In all the range of human error none is more fatal than the assumption that what is sanctioned by the world of fash ion is suitable for all. The principles of art in utility and utility in art alike de mand that everything useful shall be adapted to the purpose for which it was designed, and nowhere should this prin ciple be more strongly insisted on than in dress, which is, or should be, a combi nation of the UBeful and the artistic. There are many points to consider when one wishes to dress fashionably, yet has an abundance of neither time nor money; and when viewed from this standpoint perhaps it is not surprising that so many young women fail misor ably in the attempt. The Baddest part of it all is that those who make tho most egregious failures often appear most complacent over their fancied success, declares an eastern corrospondent. The street cars furnish the most as tounding examples of this fact. A few days ago a woman, young and pretty, entered a Broadway car dressed in a manner that made her "the observed of all observers." Her costume was a compendium of fashion magazine infor mation, inaccurately applied. She had read, undoubtedly, that short sleeves were to be worn this summer, and she wore them! They stopped half way be tween shoulder and elbow. She had seen or heard that ornate low Bhoes with large buckles would be "fash ionable," and she wore Louis Quinze slippers with huge rhinestone ornaments that must have cost half her week's sal ary. She had ascertained that the stockings must match the gown, bo above the slip pers were revealed white "plaited Block ings,'' worn because her gown was of white organdie selected because all fashion writers had assured her that "this is to be a white summer." Having read that feathers are in high favor, especially white ostrich plumes, that misguided girl bad on her hat two long, thin, dejected looking feathers, not greatly inferior to those found in good feather dusters. The sight was actually saddening. She had expended on the shoddiest of outtits a sum sufficient to have given her a pretty and appropriate costume, simply because she lacked that fine taste in se lection that alone makes suitable dress possible even when one has not sufficient means to consult an "artist" in clothes. "This will be emphatically a velvet winter," writes Miss de Forest in her Paris letter to the September Ladies' Home Journal. "This means that vel vet will add a luxurious touch to almost everything. There will be very little combining of colors in the body of the gowns, and bright notes will be given only by hints of color or in vests and such accessories. Gray will bo worn more than ever. A great novelty in the new styles is the "kimono" wrap. In Paris this picturesque Japanese model iB made in light cloth with richly embroid ered facings for opera wraps and in dark cloth, trimmed with fur and velvet, for an all-around winter coat. The bolero and the Eton jacket will be as popular as ever, and all the coats will be long. Collars, whether of lace or embroidery, are mounted now on a second sjlk-faced cloth collar. The latest thing in skirts this autumn is the one which Hares and forms of itself a flat ruffle. There will not be much fullness at the waist line in tho gowns for the autumn. The pret tiest things for 'between seasons' are certainly the Russian blouses of taffeta or cloth. They are tucked or side-plaited, and are generally lined with dainty colored Bilk. The full sleeves are gath ered either int a cuff four inches or sXsxa8WI) 1 "Old Sol "looks down 2 From his perch above And smiles on all the world. jg He don't care a cuss A About any of us. O Though so hot we can hardly breathe. g The hotter we get, i ne woaoer ne smucs, ljust laughing up his sleeve. E. II06 O Street, VfS)(g)gii)S)(OQStSW99t3& w (5) He has seen our Shower, And knows of its Power, Cleansing, Refreshing and Cool. So why shouldn't he smile, When he knows all the while 44 What fools these mortals be." THE FOUNTAIN SHOWER BATH BRUSH, For sale by JLlrxooln, Koto. I Descriptive Pamphlets Mailed Free. gs 'fe&5S This mountain is 1,100 feet high, and between Laramie and Eawlings, for 117 miles, it is constantly in sight. This is in the Medicine Bow Mountains, one of the historical ranges of the west, over which roamed at one time great herds of Elk. from which the mountain was named. Other famous landmarks are also seen all along this line. E. 15. SIvOSSON, Ac:. more in depth, or into a narrow wrist band. "A feature in the very newest gowns is the Russian Bleeve; and in the smart visiting dresses the sleeve is none the less linished by a wristband. Puffs may be let in at the elbows, and it may be varied in other ways." Separate waists of cashmere, albatrose, viyella and Scotch and French flannel will be worn this autumn. The colors most used will be bright and dark red, tan, the light, dark and French blues, gray, pink, and dark and reseda green. Buttons of steel, gilt and white and smoked pearl will be used on tho new waists, which are made with plain backB, long shoulder seamB and stitched or tucked front, with long waifcted and slightly bloused effect. The latest sleeve is a bishop shape with a trifle more fullness at the top than that of last year. The wristbands are made large enough to permit the hands to slip through. The necktie finish is now seen on almost all waists, particularly the more dressy ones. It's really a pity that more of us can not see ourselves as others see us after we have passed them on the street. There would be fewer sagging belts for one thing. Stocks would be pinned on more securely for a second thing, and petti coats would be decently mended and partially respectable about the hems for a third thing. What a trio of beautiful benefits would come from the use of double mirrors. We all know that petticoats wear out in no time, and that skirt facings will pull and part and tear. But we mu9t have Bilk petticoats so we think and in that event we mu6t keep ourselves de cently mended. Some of us argue that safety pins are better than buttons, be cause you don't alwayB have to keep them in the same place, but that's tho excuse of the girl who has to havo an in troduction to the sewing machine to know what it's used for. It is the manner of womankind to im agine that money spent for shoes is money thrown away. Womankind pre fers to spend her money for green snake bracelets or for belts that tarnish at sight of a cloud in the western sky. And the funny thing is that green bracelets and tin belts never give style or dress polish to a girl. Far from it. Half the women who are badly dressed are merely overdressed they pile on fripperies un til they look like the bargain counter in a 5 cent store! Shabby boots, heels that look like nut meg graters, raveled skirt facings oh, what a combination is this! Why will the dear girls spoil the effect of a pretty gown by wearing under it a befrazzled, bedraggled, miserable, ragged old petti coat? The woman who is born with a love for luxuries and the nice things of life would a deal rather spend money for lovely, nice, frilly, beautiful undergar ments than for feathery hats and gowns with Paris labels on the waist bands. An exchange remarks "that it is not much wonder that the human race finds it up-hil1 work to be decent and keep straight. The first man was a liar and a sneak; the first woman kept bad com pany and pried into things that did not concern her, and the first child born into the world killed his brother. Our first parents were a tough lot, and it is hard so get it out of the blood." i "V i' i il i M ii i ill IV it II T If fit; U4 itf; V ii f n X f Til i?tf P L. t V L'if 1 ji ,V' -. ' i zl .7 V ?! u .! ." V; S d I,;