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t' ir AFTER MANY DAYS. were burneil with Autumn's tan, ween -them slow tbe river ran. Tie were purpled haze; blank the line of hills, aud sere, locked lie you are here, Now, after uiany days. Tlicj fields where once tlie furrows lay Hfiv.e -learned the toiieh of vesterday Along their cruiulillni; ways; you sliull nnd them white with snow, JJrojvfl though they were In long Nqw, after duys. The thickets where the rat-bird called, meadows by green hedges walled, Alia stretch of briery maze.

Have pnssiHl and vunlsliril, lied and gone, Helled like starlight Into dawn, after many Uuys. many a sign ami snnsp of change tThai reasons bring of new anil strange Vffll coaie to meet yunr mize; JBloiik where once the violet sjirung. branches where the robin saug, Now, after many days." i jButjstenufnst as the Northern star, AVhatever changes be or are, Ilitwe'er the season SWU.VB, You! know ihe love that rules my heart Is.jVJonrs. though oar bauds apart, Now. after ninny ilavs.

MeGaffey In the Woman's Homi Companion. JTHE LACK OF SYMPATHY. Tjie other night, at a great concert. the music thrilled and pulsated on evening uir like an angel's voice, and Beeiiied to ill all the jilaee with a divine fl.orr, the attention of everyone in the vicinity was attracted to a young couple occupied prominent seats. Thev were fashionably dressed, and belong to what we (iitll the best society, and the girl was extremely pretty, but it was not her beauty.that drew all eyes to her, but the fact! that all tliruiigh the music she kept up incessant chatter of "1 suids" and saids." The young man had a re- fineu face, and by his brief answers one irueijscd how gladly he would have si- Iwici'd his companion, if lie could.

"l)o you suppose he will marry her?" linked a woman curiously, observing the little drama. "Jjleaveu replied a man dist sru-sfe'dly, if I. WHS nnirried to a -woman who would talk through this music, II would get a divorce from her." the little incident set one thinking that there is no other boon lite tan (offer so precious as sympathy, or auy misfortune deep and hitter as to lie linked by indissoluble ties to une who has tto of your needs and mooiJs: who never knows when to jqicnk Hiidj to be Ktletit: wlio JIBS no comprehension of the times when to the iip- lifteil soul word is a desecration, or of the hours when, worn with the care and tfretlpf life, a complaint or a reproach is Jike a blow from (lie liaud we trusted. Ill: olden times the greatest cruelty that ingenuity could devise was bind a dead body to a living pulsing hca'rt ngaiust the lumpish clay, the breathing Jijis jieaifiNt the icy inouth.fhe warm hands, palm against palm with the pulseless corpse, the seeing eyes gazing in horror into sightless 'and soilless orbs. AVe shudder only to recall such agony, yet how often Uo we see its prototype in life, where two (with no thought in common, no com, prehension or sympathy of other's are bound together.

it is a retined and sensitive woman tied nlbrute of a husband, who tramples upon everything that is sacred and holy to iier. i Sometimes it is a sordid souled worn- nn, whom her husband's fine sense Hioiiqr. is liniekiness, his aspirations are dreams, his interests are hobbies. Often this llaek of between parents mid and it is the real reason the family bonds' are so quickly broken. In spite of all that is said to the contrary, the tie of blood is the weakest tie in the world, and those who have no sympathy in common turn to those with whom they kinship of mind and heart as inevitably ns the needle seeks the pole.

This craving for sympathy, tin's desire for is a universal need of the human heart. The king in his palace without it is as lonely, though surrounded by sycophantic horde, ns the solitary fiheplmrd feeding his flocks on some mouu- miles away from the sound of another voice. We do not always find it, flnd is part of the pathos of life that We go our way. searching every face. If licrciiaiice uinj find in it what we seek.

of us immt be always disappointed search, and then we know that no matter what else fate has given us. that "She looks like a dear little girl, aud I want to hear her talk." "Oh, she's nice enough looking when she's clean. But you can't judge of her in that spoiled dress. I think you must run out. Nettie, yon make mamma feel so ashamed.

I declare, I don't know when I've felt BO provoked with myself. Now, if you'd only come yesterday you wouldn't have caught ns looking like beggars." And so she ran on, apparently unable to turn her thoughts to anything else. In vain did we try to change the conversation. Mrs. invariably harped back to the subject of her own and Nettie's appearance, and assured us at least a dozen times that she was "mortified to death." Wearied and disgusted with her unnecessary apologies, we cut the call short, and my friend remarked as we walked away that -would never care to call on Mrs.

again. Wheu we rang the bell at the next house on our visiting list the door was opened by Mrs. herself, with whom we had no acquaintance, having been requested by a mutual friend to call uiran her. She wore a dark morning dress, and a large, plain white apron, and my friend and I glanced at each other, fully expecting another deluge of apologies. Hut nothing of the sort.

Greeting us cordially. Mrs. M. led us into tlie parlor, and Kitting down talked to us without the slightest embarrassment. Aud from the beginning to the end of our stay no reference whatever was made to either the apron or the fact that she had herself ojiened the door.

We could but contrast her favorably with poor Mrs. who had annoyed and embarrassed us so innch. I chanced to spend the following day with my friend Mrs. and in the afternoon she received a call from a lady whose aciiuaiutauce she had made the summer In the mountains, and who was now visiting a married sister in the city, who accompanied her. Mrs.

's house is a large one. and that its size impressed Mrs. and her sister was soon made -painfully evident when Mrs. spoke of returning the call in a day or two. "My sister lives in a very small house don't know what you will think of it," said Mrs.

deprecatingly. "A small house is taken'care of so much more easily than a large one," said Mrs. "I find this a great responsibility, hut our family is so large we can't get along with less room." "Well, 1 must say I like a large house," was the rejoinder. "I told sister when we came in that I'd be almost ashamed to have you come to see me, her house will loolf so cramped to you after living in Mrs. was perceptibly embarrassed.

She eould not think what reply to make to this remark, and a very awkward silence ensued, which was broken by Airs. who said that "allowances must lie made, for her brother-in-law had ju.st started in business for himself, and had to look at Jus money before he spent it. It was a relief to Mrs. when the visitors departed, but she was forced to listen to a repetition when she returned the call a few days later. Half the apologizing done in the world is not only unnecessary, but out of taste, aud fails utterly of the result intended.

fered to shout at the tops of their voices or to interrupt conversation. A well-bred child wiil bring its toys and be neither a trouble nor a torment hi the drawing room where his mother and her friends are talking. About children's questions. As a rule, they should be answered as fully and clearly as possible, bnt children should not be encouraged in the mere asking of a long string" of questions simply for the sake of putting themselves in evidence. One needs to exercise discretion in answering the question that is asked because the child really wishes to know, and to decide what answer to give when the child is simply determined to be in thi foreground.

It is sometimes best to very plainly and candidly to a child. "I cannot explain this to ynu now; I shall do so when you are older." English children are kept in the nursery to an extent almost unknown among us. They see their parents less frequently than do American children. Mamma is to them a sweet presiding genius, something very like a queen, who comes in now and then, to whom complaints are referred, who is the real sovereign, but is not always at their beck and call. The soft pillowy bosom of nurse, usually a middle-aged and comfortable sort of personage, receives their little heads in their childish trials aud troubles.

The nursp takes the children to walk: attends to their meals; manages all their affairs. The plan has something to be said its favor, for certainly a mild-mannered and equable nurse is better for a child than a wearied and half-hysterical mother. a swing-back to its original Graphic. A -VOUNQ MAN'S, PERSONAL LETTERS. "A young man in business is wisest who sees to it that his personal letters do not come to his business writes Edward Bok in the Ladies' Home Journal.

"Aside from the technical point that be has no right to his employee's address social and that it- is not the place for such letters, it means a freedom from distraction which is valuable to him. The receipt of social letters at business places often means their answer there, and so one evil multiplies' into another. A young man's business hours should be devoted to business, anrf He. cannot be too strict in the observance of that rule. Nor should our girls in any respect to lead our young men to give laxity to that rule.

The best kind of a self-respecting girl, on the other hand, is she who helps a young man to keep inviolate a rnle so obviously for bis own best interests, present and future. A girl cannot too rigidly let a young man alone during business hours. That is the rule of wisdom, and I wish that every girl would learn it and adhere to it." AUTUMN HOUSE PARTIES. Saturday to Monday house parties are the autumn plan for entertaining with people who are staying late at their country houses to enjoy the wondrous beauty of the fall foliage and at the same t'me "tone up" for the winter gave ties by unlimited exercise in the exhilarating air. About ten guests are invited, the selection being made with the utmost care that they may be perfectly congenial spirits.

and they an- exacted to arrive before luncheon on Saturday and remain until after Inncheon on Monday. Saturday is devoted to riding, tennis, golf, if there be links in the vicinity, and other games. In the evening a dinner party, to which some of the neighbors are invited. Then follows a dance, which ends promptly at midnight. Sunday morning church and walking parties.

In the evening an impromptu sacred concert is always in order. Mtmdny morning outdoor games and jolly good-fellowship, then luncheon, and goodbys arc said, and the flying visit becomes a pleasant memory. There is a delightful informality about these affairs that makes them irresistibly charming. if that nud have missed; finding one heart that answered to every need and throb of ours. understood our umittered thought, whose sympathy was a divination of every passing mood, we have missed the flower and perfume of iHerald.

i EXCUSES THAT ARE SUPERFLU- OUS. Apologies for one's dress or appearance seldom in good taste, and freyuently embarrass and the person whom they I are offered, F. B. Ilallnwell in Good Housekeeping. The writer was struck with the force of this when mnJi- ang calls one day with a friend.

At 1 the first house at whk-h we nent, two-story cottage in the suburbs of the found the lady on whom bad come to call busy in the garden vith her little 3-year-old daughter, setting out plants. Instead of taking it for 'granted that we not her, iwhile engaged at such work, to be attired, in her best, she began at once to snake the most jirofuse apologies. "If declare, it is bad you should caught me looking like this! I'm mortified to death. I was going in right away to change my dress! I had a feeling Someone would come. Ten minutes you wouldn't-have seen me such a But I was so anxious to get these plants set out, and there didn't seem- any done 'of getting a man to do the job." Her dress was a neat blue gingham.

THE DOTING MOTHER. Youth is not naturally self-denying. Human nature is strongly selfish, and when girls are young they have had little chance to oppose the strength of this inherent quality, says Mrs. Humphrey. Some girls, however, are much less selfish than others, while some are utterly spoiled.

A doting mother is nothing more nor less than a selfish mother, who. to please herself, allows her daughter's faults to grow up unchecked. She fears to be firm, lest phe should lose some of the affection she prizes. Could she only know that child at a very early age is distinctly aware of this weakness and rlespisrs it. she would plainly see the awful mistake she is making.

Children love betrt the mothers who are both firm and gentle. By a sort of instil ct the young ones seem to be aware of the true selfishness that actuates thi' parent who battles with their early faults. It is not the foolishly indulgent mothers who win the warmest love from their girls. It is those who can temper justlve witn love. Girls soon know whether the mother is swayed by selfishness or actuated by principles, and.

with very few exceptions, they follow in her steps. Could some of the happy lovers and happy husbands look back through the years at the long and patient training, the loving care, that has resulted in the complete realization of their brigbest dreams they would find in them a guarantee for (Jirls who have not been spoiled by over-indulgence, and wno have been taught to take a sane, calm, rational view of all life's circumstances, are the best helpmeets that man can have. Such a one is delightful companion, with her cultivated mind and her ready sym pathies. She can enter into his outside troubles in the battle of life, and then, is a fiber of strength in her on which he may safely lean in the day of disaster should it come. LITTLE ATTENTIONS.

If husbands only realized what the little attentions menu the wives there would be many happier unions, wiys the New York Ledger. It is nut the cost of a gift that makes it precious to the recipient. A tinj" bunch of brought home at night the thought given to her even while business occupies his attention; the most trilling souvenir of a "wedding or birthday anniversary becomes a sentiment underlying its proffering. Women may be foolish, they may be all heart and very little reason; but the man who understands their nature and caters to it is the one who stands higher in their estii ation than the SECRET OF FRIENDSHIP. It has wisely been said that the seret of gaining friends lies not in an elegance of attire or in ability to bestow what money will buy.

A gracious presence counts for more than these, according to the Delineator. If one has not personal magnetism, she will not be generally loved, however many she is able to bid to her feasts. She who has grown almost morbid over fancied or real neglect, who faces the fact that she receives only half-hearted welcome wherever she gees, 'will be mentally healthier if she endeavors to determine the cause of all this. It may be that she is not friendly enough or is too friendly, either of which would be fatal to graciousness. To be hail-fellow-well-met may he democratic, but it never produces true charm, while a stiff, defensive mannerism is equally disastrous.

Above all charms is that of' cheerfulness aud sunniness. The world laves a happy woman, and she who makes happiness and jollity out of small things is the cheerful friend to whom everybody is attracted. As a sex we are not given to humor, but a good laugh may be cultivated, and one who has acquired this happy faculty wears ils bright stamp upon her face. Who has not known the woman who seldom smiles, whose laugh is inconceivable and who without any particular sorrow never seems to have a happy demeanor? She it is who rails against the world and its lack of appreciation. Nature -may have been sparing of her charms, but if a face is lighted by the sunshine of a happy heart there is never a lack of admirers.

Giggling is not cheerfulness, but nervous hysteria, and bears no kin to his grace. Humor. The giggling girl is of all things impossible, and her one mission in life is to jwiut a warning to those who pass her by. Cheerfulness and the ability to see the bright side, of life, to turn to the world a smiling face, is a gift not to be despised; and it may be acquired by any one. One may at least seem light-hearted, for Mrs.

Gruudy well knows that if only the really happy were the merry ones, this world would be sadly lacking in moral sunshine. A-black day gown.nvitb a soft-front, ia made to-resemble a fichu by the embroidery- laid over the frills, having a necklace and waistband of black velvet The- bonnets for elderly women take tfie form of capotes, made of white or black gauze, edged with jet, while the mantles are after the dolman order, or full capes, embroidered with black lace. Curiously enough, the young women nowadays put themselves into rich materials, which have hitherto been relegated to older women, while they, in their turn, ore apt to adopt girlish fabrics. GENEROUS OF PRAISE. How much better the world would be if only people were a little more generous of praise! Let no one suppose we are speaking of flattery; we mean simply praise, or, as Webster gives it, "Honor rendered because of excellence of merit." How easy it is to find fault when everything does not run a thing is omitted which ought, to have been done! Why should it not be just as easy to give commendation for the right done? The day is drawing to a close, and the wife and with household for a moment waiting the sound of the home-coming feet.

The door opens quickly, and they have "How bright and cheery you look here! But you always make home look that!" and the husbands caress brings back the careless girlhood days, and the life looks suddenly bright again. GREAT MEN'S MOTHERS. "It is an interesting historical fact that nearly every man of great deeds who also possessed a great character had a mother of a strong. Gap nature, with whom in boyhood and early manhood he dwelt in close sypmathy even when at a distance from her." writes Frances B. Evans, in the Ladies' Home Journal.

"Probably disagreeable man socially of all celebrated men was poor Thomas Carlyle, whose disposition was nervous, melancholy and grumpy, but in the midst of his laborious life and severe mental industry he could always find time to n-rite affectionate letters to his mother, full of the respect, tenderness and consideration, he never seemed to feel for much greater personages. If a mother's hand holds the leading-strings of a man's life be will hold himself as securely as did Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zenda, with his motto, The King can do no COLLEGE GIRLS AND COLD BATHS. College girls are particular sticklers on cold baths. Some way or other a cold plunge seems, at college, to be associated with advanced thought, and warm baths are put aside with crochet work and wax flowers. A Washington girl entered one of the large colleges for women last year.

She was a nice girl and a clever girl, but she I eaencr Bed -with a few inches "ef sort, forest leaves preferable. At the praper time in the spring 1 the seedlings may be pricked out of the soil In the seed bed and transferred to the bed in which they are to Home Companion. FOR YOUNG MARRIED PEOPLE, Try to be satisfied to commence on a small scale. Try to avoid the too common: mistake ol making an effort to begin where "the parents "ended." Try not to look at richer homes and covet their costly furniture. Try" going a step further and visit the homes of the poor when secret dissatisfaction is liable to spring up.

Try buying all that is necessary to work with skillfully, while adorning the house at first nith simply what will tender it comfortable. Try being perfectly independent from the first and shun debt in all its Try to cultivate the moral courage that will resist the arrogance- of fashion; OLIVE OIL. Medical authorities are alt agreed as to the beneficial and remedial effects of olive oil, declaring it specially useful in any defects of tie excretory ducts, or any low state of the system when in need of tissue-building food. It has long been observed that those who use olive oil aa common article of food are- generally healthier and in better condition. rhan those w.ho do not.

It is said to be destructive to certain, forma of micro-of- ganic life, and for the eradication of such from the system it is frequently advised by physicians for internal use, THEY CMNOT A Hitch Regarding the Date of the Evacuation of from Havana. Havana, Oct. in the joint session thia morning of the United States and Spanish, military commissions, the Spaniards, according to a report, declared it was impossible to evacuate the island immediately, while American commissioners insist that their instructions called for an immediate evacuation. After two hours' conference on, the subject the joint commissions were unable to reach any definite "agreement. The American commissioners on their return to headquarters at the Trocha hotel.

Vcdado, were busily engaged in translating the stenographer's notes and in sending code messages to The distribution of rations from the Conuil, now at Matanzos, began, yesterday. Mrs. Sampson, the wife of Rear-Admiral Sampson, has engaged a'Spanish had never been exactly robust, and had been brought up after Southern ideas. The Cuban general, Pedro, Diaz, spent yesterday on the outskirts of the city of WOMEN AS BUSINESS ADVISERS It is said that the only two countries where women are the leaders and men in leading strings are France and the I'uited States. Frenchmen comment on the fact that English audAmerican women often are utterly ignorant as to whether their husbands are making or losing money, while the French woman, even in business, is her husband's adviser, and is made his confidante in regard to all his business transactions.

The critics think that the different positions occupied ingner in their estii ation than the one ons occupe who acts as though all he cared about A pa and English women are due was material comfort given with anv to education, boys and girls being 1 educated in the same schools in America. any sort of brusquerie. Of course, there are many mercenary and thousands who can marry fur a home and for rich raiment. These pooh-pooh the violets and value onl.v the but the average feminine heart, the sort which a man wants to beat beside his own, tho foundation of truest sympathy and love, is moved mure by the little attentions in which sentiment is involved than by the great offerings representing only a stupendous sum of money. uu llllr UA, kul; which didu plunges and ad- pinar del Rio wnere he wag ent husias- tie-ally welcomed by me population.

The well-known insurgent leader, Juan Gilberto Gomez, and Col. Garcia, a son of Gen. Calixto Garcia of the Cuban, army, accompanied by Maj. Finellos. have nr- rived here as a special commission charged ing point, puckered up her mouth, held i with the task of uniting the different Cu- her breath, stepped into a tub full of icy ban parties in favor of independence.

and said "O-o-h!" Then she Blanco today suspended the vauced thought. She made a favorable, impression, but when it became known that she didn't take cold plunges she lost caste. The girl couldn't bear up under the reproach. She resolved to do or die. She screwed her courage up to the stick- Water dressed and went down to breakfast in I order issued several days ago to disband triumph.

She had proved herself worthy the provisional battalion reinforcing the CURED or FflTHERJ CURED ITCHINGR1 I tept spreading nutfl it was an over ii could not sleep but taia compelled I awake and scratch an tho time. Myl and two brothers were afflicted vita thai thing, at the same ttma. Wa terribly for a year and a half, trying In meBntlino all the remedies conUt-findwl receivedno benefit, bought CimouuA SOAP and three boiesof (ointment) and they ftetdy. BICH'D ASDEBSOK, Ganeta, tram TCTAIMKIT ICE Tunnmu. YICE-APMIBAL President and Secretary of Na.v_ i Agree on Reward for Hera of Manila Bay.

New York, Oct special to Herald from Washington says: dent McKinley and Secretary of the vy Long have determined to to Congress the revival of the grade vice-admiral, to be filled by the promot of Bear-Admiral Dewey. President McKinley in his annaal i sage and Secretary Long in his' annual report intend to devote considerable to the achievements of the Asiatic gqnad" ron under the command of Rear-Admiratf Dewey and tho splendid judgment diplomatic tact thsif officer has dii in handling the ininy difficult qn which arose before the arrival of American troops and the capture of nil.i. under existing law Rear-Admii Dewey will reach the retiring: age ecmber. 1899, there is a strong prob bility that Secretary Long will atso that Congress pass law permitting: 1 retention of that officer upon the list for an additional ten years. A permitting such action in the case- of cers receiving the thanks of Congress gallant conduct in the Civil war is the statute books, but the anthqrit would be glad to see the law changed go 'hat officers of the recent and future similarly rewarded.

There is little doubt that Congress willingly adopt the recommendation 1 garding Rear-Admiral Dcwey'a ment. BADGER BREVITIES. of higher education. She took three cold plunges, and then she took pneumonia, and the family doctor when he heard regular troops. The reason, for this step is not knowu.

Charles W. Gould of New York, the about these baths said things which i special representative of the department and well we said with truth that she looked enough Jn. to see anyone. -is very kind of you to say so. I'm yS she replied, "bnt of I know you really think.

And Kertie; too, intending to change'her dress. She lay in the yard nil 'day, and I can't her to save her clothes. I'm always but It doesn't seem to do any Now, perhaps, yon won't credit it, that dress was dean this morning." JiaB not noticed the child's dress nn- was thus invited, children like to. dig in the dirt," "and looks the picture of BQjdlrty. Now, run out, 3Cet- v.rstt to look at Buei DARKEN THEIR OWN LIVES TO BRIGHTEN OTHERS.

"The consciousness of seeing her own charms retb-cted in a man's eyes is something which appeals to every woman," writes Edward W. Bok in the Ladies' Home Journal. "Nothing else ever makes her so proud and so happy in exactly the same way. But that consciousness is no! always for expression; sometimes it is a thing for one's inner self, to be enjoyed at the time and to be lived over in 'the years to come. No; do not wilfully turn away from their own happiness.

But they do sometimes darken their own lives to make brighter the lives of others who may be close or dependent them. Some higher and fundamental duty sometimes rails, loftier motives sometimes Quiet the deepest heart- longings, a God-given task sometimes points a woman in the opposite direction to her own instincts. There is such a known to the albeit years bring the a woman turning away from groat nappincss to insure the great comfort and happiness of others, choosing their comfort ns her lifework. Men do it now and then. Bnt women oftcner do it.

Memories take the place of realities, and in those memories, sweet and tender, many women are living today. They have never been brides. But they might have been. At one time in their lives the necessity of choice Came to them. Prayerfully and tearfully, and yet resolutely, they made the choice.

Today they are not wives simply because they ore heroines. And who will say which is the greater?" NURSERY ETIQUETTE. The nursery is the. child's microcosm. Here he begins to practice those gifts and graces Which will stand him in stead at a later day, says the Philadelphia Press.

Let the children be taught to avoid the use of slang. It is as well that they shall have no-especial pet phrase, and that their speech shall be refined. They may as merrily as they bnt it is 1 wJLSfcat they shall not 1 tso rough, In.eoins about a house, children, are not'the gdn-, QUIET AMERICAN GIRLS. Curiously enough, as the spirit of individuality is growing in England among girls the American tendency is toward a greater retrenchment liberty. Apparently the old-fashioned charm of relined Knglish girls has not been lost on our Yankee cousins, who are Quick to observe and to profit by their observations.

American mothers of the present day are beginning to guard their daughters more carefully, to dress them more simply, and to make them lead a more child-like and healthy life, and in Paris to escort and accompany them as much as is the French demoiselle, who never stirs out without chaperon. The daughter of Mr. Astor. the millionaire, whose manners have been favorably commented on in London. When seen as a girl was always the most plainly-dressed of her contemporaries, while the best brought up of the American colony in Paris are scarcely to be distinguished from their French prototypes, except by their good looks and their general culture.

What does all this point to but the fact that the independence and bachelor fashions of American girls have not bees as successful as was anticipated, and tlilt the errors in education and the detestable habit of spoiling children are now fully recognized by their mothers. It will be a strange result if ns the English girl divests herself of the armor of reticence and modestv the Amer- icnn girl should clothe herself with it as CHILDREN AND MYTHS. It is a most excellent idea to familiarize tlie young with certain of the more important myths, stories and poems, just at the formative when the youthful mind is receptive, and knowledge is acquired more easily, and, when once obtained, remains with the young student. Subjects such as mythologv, cloud studv, botany, zoology, astronomy, ornithology, and poetry were formerly thought to belong to the more advanced school period, and children were fed upon such legends in their school readers as "See the ox. It is a large ox.

The ox is strong. The ox in the picture is a black ox," and eo on. instead of the beautiful Greek myths or something that would be of value to them when the full significance of their knowledge should come to them. DRESS FOR MIDDLE AGE. The fashion for white and black has been universally adopted, even by the middle-aged, and it goes especially well with white hair, which even those who have not attained the meridian of life seem anxious to obtain.

A certain amount of stateliness and grace comes with middle age, and the soil falling black stuffs are singularly elegant, and snit that period quite as well as the young women who wear them. Rich velvets in royal bine and soft gray crepe de chine both sujt the matron no longer young, bnt nothing is so rarely becoming as black, with fine old lace. Heliotrope and deep pink are -the two shades most likely to become that age. Fleur de velours, satin and plain poplins, nun's veiling, and cashmeres are suitable materials. The bodices are a difficulty, according to the figure of the wearer.

A tea jacket, for instance, made to fit at the back, the front of closely-plaited chiffon, and over this two side pieces coming below the waist and round it, bordered with frilh'ngs of white lace. Stop! Women, And Consider the All-Important Fact; That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham yon are confiding your private ills to a woman whose experience in treating woman's diseases ia greater than that of any living or female. Ton can talk freely to a woman when it is. revolting- to relate your, private troubles to a a man does not because he is a man.

Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, knowing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, bnt a natural modesty impels them to shrink from, exposing themselves to the questions and probably examinations of even their faniUy physician. It is essary. Without money or price yon can consult a woman, whose knowledge from actual experience is greater than- any local physician in the The.f61- lowing invitation is freely offered; accept it in tbe same spirit: MBS. PIKKHA1TS STANDIHG JHVITATJO1I. Women suffering from any form of female weakness axe invited to promptly communicate -with Mrs.

Pinkham, at Lynn, mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by -women only. A woman tairfreely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has estarJished thejCternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham. and the women of America which-haa Beyer 1 tieen broklen.

put bt the experience possible that shehas gained the very knowledge that asks BJiffi'pt jon jpoou'WiUf nyft Surely any-woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if 1 would pain the ears of a Guggenheimer. RING MINIATURES. Among other ancient fashions promised for next winter is that of the ring miniatures. These rings were once upon a time bestowed upon a maiden or a knight when he went forth to battle or when she was obliged to journey to foreign lands for the express purpose of forgetting him. Of course, it was understood between them that she never could forget him in any land, but to jog her memory the knight had his portrait painted on a bit of porcelain, no bigger than a fingernail.

Thia. the goldsmith ine-losed in a finely- chased case, and attached it to a dainty ring for the damsel's finger. The lady did the same for the knight, and probably the pauses of the minuet, or the breathing spell lietween two battles, they each took a fugitive peep at the painted faces in their rings. Some of these rings in the old French museums are marvels of delicate metal work, as well as rare examples of the art of miniature painting. TOO MUCH BRIC-A-BRAC.

A man who had been visiting his sister's home thus descants in a daily paper on the bric-a-brac mania: "I don't know much about Sevres and Worcester ware or Beauvais tapestry, but I know that, whether they are priceless or not, they are a nuisai.ce in any but the most spacious rooms, and should even then be arranged in cases along the walls, and not left to be knocked down or swept off tables by careless servants or absent-minded guests. Too much bric- a-brac is an incentive to profanity and an encourager of nerves. It makes the most graceful of guests a laughing-stock to those who have once safely made the passage in and around the tables which fill the drawing room, but who are by no means safe until they find themselves at the front door." APPLE OF BEAUTY. The legend that Paris awarded the apple to Venus and declared her to be the most beautiful of the daughters of Olympus shows that the ancients knew what they were about when they made the alp- pie the emblem of beauty. It is certainly the greatest beautifier known to science.

A noted Paris specialist says that a woman who eats three or four apples a day cannot be ugly. The apple acts on the liver, gives a beautiful complexion, and is fattening. TALK IN A SICK ROOM. When two or three persons get together in a sick room, they forget that the conversation which is amusing to them may be anguish to the sufferer, too weak to bear the sound of continual talk, or the strain of trying to attend to it. Quiet means that the invalid should see only one person at long- intervals besides the nurse, and that some one who can be trusted not to introduce exciting topics, or in any way to overtax the attention or strength.

In no way are a doctor's orders so often disregarded as when he enjoins that a patient shall be kept quiet. of justice in the United States Cuban military commission, visited the- Supreme court today and obtained considerable: information iu reference to the administration of justice in Cuba. The plan is on the arrival of the first American troops here to take possession of Jlorro and Cabanas simultaneously and hoist the American flag over both. This is advised as making a prominent display of American sovereignty and also giving possession of the harbor entrance, thus obviating any possible submarine- treachery against warships. As soon as possible thereafter the Americans are to take control of the customs house and collect revenues, preserving Spanish rates tih sufficient warning of the change has been given to importers and merchants.

Then gradually American control is to be extended until it includes the whole municipal and provincial administration. WHEELEE AND SEM. T. E. Ryan of Waukesha opened; Democratic campaign at Green Bay.

Fire destroyed John KeUey's louses at Eau Claire. The loss is in the state: Mrs. L. son, aged 35, Marinette; Mrs. John.

ne, aged 01, Sheboygan. destroyed the Dougherty hotel at Ridgeway, Iowa county, and several other buildings. Chandler, one of pion bicycle riders of this state, at' Waupaca of typhoid fever. "Fighting Joe" Asserts that the Doctor's Alarming Prophecies Proved False. Washington, D.

Oct Wheeler resumed his testimony before the war investigating commission today'. -The examination on the line of the New York World changes was resumed. He said if there were any "camp horrors" on tho 27th of August as charged, the commander of the camp was for he had full power to furnish relief. There probably were individual cases of suffering, but as a rule be knew the. soldiers were well cared for.

There was certainly no lack of food. Gen. Wheeler also explained the circumstances concerning the death, of Private Hugh Parrett. "My inquiry," said he. "devloped the fact that Dr.

TaDor was a little gruff to tbe men, bnt it also developed the fact that he had proved so efficient in the field that they were devoted to bun and had petitioned for his retention hi the army." This, he thought, was one of those individual cases of neglect, and he thought it was to be explained by the fact that Dr. Tabor was ill He found this to be true in other cases, acd had remonstrated with physicians for being irritable with patients. The general took up a statement attributed to Dr. Senn concerning the sinks. He said the sinks were covered every hour with earth or lime.

He had. examined the ground and found that the soil was not porous. He also found that the other physicians did not agree with Dr. Senn as to the danger from typhoid. There was no outbreak of fever- such aa Dr.

Senn had predicted? hence, it was-a false TRUE SCALE FOR PIANO. AS HIS MOTHER USED TO DO. He criticised her puddings and he found fault with her cake; He wished she'd make such biscuit as his mother used to make; She didn't wash the dishes and she didn't "make a stew, even mend his stockings, as his mother used to do. His mother had six children, but by night her. work done; His wife seemed drudging always, yet she hail the His mother always was well dressed.

Ills wife would be so, too. If only she would manage as his mother used to do. An, welll She was 'not perfect, though she tried to do her best. Until at length she thought her had come to have a rest; So when one day be went the same old rigmarole all through. She turned -and boxed his ears, lost as his mother used to do.

Invention to Baise it to tie Cerel of the Violin. Cincinnati, Oct. has been allowed to Dr. 8. A.

Hageman of this city on his invention which ia designed to correct the false intonation of the in which all pianos now play so as to make the piano render music in the true scale, raising that instrument to tbe. ievel of tbe violin and other stringed instruments in Dr. Hageman. is a half-brother to the late Rev. David Swing of Chicago.

The problem which his invention claims.to-nave solved is one that has puzzled the musical world ever since tbe piano baa been; in existence. BLAZE IN TOBACCO HOUSES. Nearly- Half a Million Damage at SOWING PANSY SEED. During- early October is a good time: for. seed for spring's supply of plants for bedding out.

The reason for fall sowing out of doors ia that the plants are not then subjected to the hot; drying influences of tbe home, which are- so likely to bring on red spider and other troubles. Prepare a bed of very rich, porous loam on a well-drained location. -Place, over it a frame to be- filled with forest as a protection to the little plants over whiter. After sowing the seed in, the ing of to ClarksvOle, Oct. IPfre bloke- out In -the Grange Tobacco occupied by Mill Turnley and storage of tobacco, burning aboi hogsheads of tobacco.

LOM ---and building is estimated at nearly half a million dollars, with insurance of S300.000. The fire spreading; 'burned Gracey coal and the Nashville depot, com on the track and eottagesv The fire covered a space of- ten acrea It ia now under control. Its on- gm a unknown. 1 TYPHOID FEVER EPI Fa Ea Crossed WSk, orthe thtteity seems far prfdemie of typhoid Wanpuc M. Amp and Miss were married at tharl Rev.

Father John Seubert ceremony. Corkery of Co. Wisconsin regiment, died at Ashland: i fever. Remains will be sent to his home at Cobgurg. Out.

Knmltson and Miss Hoyme, daughter of Bishop Hoyme, were nuutf ried at Eau Claire, the bride's father forming the ceremony. t' M. Ncwbnrg. who was kickerf by a stallion at Cataract, is dead. He was a well-known machine man, former- 1 connected with the Sparta Iron works.

fire in the village of Pulcifer, Sha- wano county, destroyed the store building, 4S warehouse and creamery of Assemblyman sjf O. A. Risum, entailing a loss of aboaC 53000. 5-year-old son of Ole Gnuper of Vt- roqua fell from a strawstack, striking'on a stake in such a manner as to knock his front teeth, causing hemorrhage from which he died. double wedding was celebrated at the home of Mrs.

Elizabeth Roderick; Si Monroe. Elizabeth Roderick married to Walter E. James of and Miss Nora Roderick became the wife; of Joshua Zwifel of Monroe. farmhouse of H. C.

Lale, five miles west of Monroe, was burned with; its Mr. Lake and his wife were at Brodhead at the time and only the children were at home. The property was insured. German family mimed Keiss, recently from the old country, who Uve on a small farm one mile from Big Bend, cooked and ate poisoned mushrooms. Their lives were saved by the prompt arrival of a physician.

Scofield of Stockbridge, who tempted to commit suicide, and who was found unconscious the shore of Lake 'Winnebago, where he had tain for four days, has been committed to the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Racine a 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sigwart was playing about a pile of ishes filled with live coals in his bare feet. A companion pushed, him into the ashes and his feet and legs were burned in a horrible manner.

Oneida Indians, Arehiguette and -Scanadoue, a team of were killed by a North-Western freight''train, near Depere. They tried to track in front of the The were mangled almost beyond. threshing on the farm of Jo Schoenrock, in tbe town of gan Falls, a hot journal on thet machine set fire to the straw'and" barns with all the grain and others tents were burned. The loss is- with an insurance of about $1000, team belonging to Frank. ran away at Abbotsford.

His 14 years old, who was in the out, and received injuries wf may prove fatal. The team a plate glass front and One horse was tmdly wounded. Hall, the West who is charged with having shot his ner, C. V. Thomas, "had hia- and was held for trial in was able to appear in epi told his story with an apparent to shield Hall as much aa Yule, son of John TK Kenosha, shot himself in the right inflicting a flesh wound from will recover.

He refuses to for this attempt on, hia? friends say that he has not health for some time. He is 23 age and was recently marriei Menasha W. P. Hewitt haTJ among the effects of the late 'Syme; a family relic which highly. It is a piece of needle nine inches wide and fourteen the handiwork of bis grandn was an Englishwoman.

The nearly 100 years old and was of about twenty-five years ago. New Chinese Seattle. Oct general agent of the Development company, with W. Barclay Parsons, chief 'of the company, for China, 'to i 'on one 1 of the greatest 'bunt in that country. headed by ex-Senator Calvmril obtained 'a concession 'war from Hankow to.Ci opposite Hone Kong; of.

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