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q tidy and most graceful appearance.
Very few young ladies wear the
front hair in a curIed bang, and the
back either waved over the shoulders
or braided loosely with a bow Of rib
bon just below the crown of the head
and another at the end.
The mode of the season, just out, is
the couture artistic, which promises to
become a favorite. It's arrangement is
somewhat similar to the couture so
much worn during the winter, but has
some pleasing variations which are in
every way acceptable. For evening
wear, the Couture artistic" may be
Ornamented with an aigrette, with
flowers Of fancy pins. For home and
street it is dressed smaller, and finished
with simple shell pins. Ladies viii
find the subjOined directions Of serv-
ice
Wave the hair at the temples and
back of the ears to the neck with small
curling tOngs; twist or tie all the hair
three inches below the crown. Place
pointed bang dressed very light and
fluffy on the forehead, extending back
to crown, as indicated in illustration.
Arrange the ends of the back hair IN
two OF three loose rolls on the crown to
meet the front curls. The lower pare
of the couture is composed Of three
Wavy tresses curled at the ends, and
interIaced In the upper hair so as to
appear natural. Ornament with shell
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Following the growth and power Of the
great factors whose aggregation OF cap
ital made possible the tremendous pace
of the settlement of our national domain,
the building Of our great cities, and the
opening OF the lines OF communication
which have unified our country and Gre
ated our resources have come national
and State legisIational and supervision.
In this legislation, and the hands to
which it is delegated, rests the great dan
ger to which our liberties and our pros
perity, our national existence IS exposed.
It is the people who, by their own acts,
delegate these legislative pOWers-to
Whom2
It may be safely assumed in this nine
teenth century that the value Of prom1-
nent citizen, whose prominence is derived
from his political activity, Is gagged by
his conduct toward and treatment Of
those with whom, in the course of his
chosen avOcatiOn, he is brought IN con-
tact. 1t will also be granted that the or
binary rules which govern mankind are
equally applicable to the class which we
are accustomed to regard as politicians.
1t follows, If these propositions be
true, that those who most nearly approach
the rules OF intercourse which the e1pe-
rience of ages has shown to be the best
adapted to humanity in its relations to
its component parts, should be the most
successful as politicians.
But is this true?
It needs but a glance at the political
arena of to-day to establish the fact,
most apparent. that sincere regard for
the laws which society has established
for its own protection is by no means
necessary to insure political success. 1t
therefore becomes a proper subject Of
inquiry and action upon the part of all
whose earnest efforts are directed to the
task of improving our systems OF part1-
san politics. And in these inquiries it is
we'll to ascertain what is meant by sue
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secure In his hold upon the public's
throat, cooIly tipped back in his easy
chair and said: What are you going to
do about it?"
There is not a section Of this country
free from an actual or aSPirant Tweed,
that high priest of , eculatlOn, the more
boldly does the ImitatOr ask the same
question, and it is time for the public to
look ahead and ask, What are we going
to do about it?"
Ambition and honorable strife for pub
lie position are cOmmendable, but this
ambition should extend beyond the desire
for public plumber and seIf-aggrandize-
ment. and the struggle should be con-
Quoted in a manner becoming reputable,
respectable citizens of a free country,
orklng for the best interests of the
whole people. Politics is a necessary
factor IN free government, and public
discussions are eminently proper and de-
sirable, but the American people are
not fulfilling the highest duties of
citizens when they permit positions
of public trust and honor to be barteFed
away for gold. Political machinery is
also necessary, but not of ths expensive
order and vote destroying or vOte-d upli-
eating construction used throughout this
country during the past twenty years,
and more particularly during the last i've
years.
The fault is not only of men but also
Of methods, and unless resort is had at
once to honest and decent methods, and
measures taken to secure intelligent,
capable. honest men for public positions,
no matter what their preferences may be
for men to be elected to high places of
honor and trust, the days of this Repub-
lie are numbered.
This is no Fourth of July grafton ac-
cording to rule. 1t may, on that account,
attract the reader; he would be q dull
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studied, and now your brain is tired
out.
"That's not bad plan" said Dud-
ley, after thinking over it a bit, "and
I'll try it next term. But what Will
the teachers say 2"
Teachers are acute enough to tell
the difference between a dull boy and
a quiet. reserved pupil. Then it makes
beginning. Like in the boat race,
they know that the race is not to the
swift so much as to the steady, and
that it is always won on the home
stretch. - Golden DdQS.
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cess. In its broad sense, the word may
be taken to mean continuous promotion
until the aspirant reaches the front rank,
and IS universally acknowledged as
leader. Ability must necessarily be pre-
requisite of such contamination in It's
ordinary acceptatiOn, 1t means the power,
by any methods, to reach q medium
height, where recognition comes IN the
shape of & certain fixed remuneration. To
d 10 this ability, except of a certain low
order is not necessary; and it is here that
may look for and find the cause of so
general a neglect of the ordinary rules of
social intercourse and actual honesty
among those who are termed politicians,
those to whom the public delegate their
authority, and those who, in fact, select
and elect our officials from the highest
to the most humble.
The field of politics has become a field
Of battle, and in the turmoil and strife
attendant upon any action where man is
pitted against man, there is neither
time nor inclination to pay atten-
ton to any OF the nlcetles which OIL
the wheels of social prOgressj but
in almost every other department
of social life We find men regulating
their conduct toward each other with
more regard for the decencies OF life and
the demands of honor. In politics alone
do we find cruelty, faisehOOd, meanness
the rule rather than the exception. In
the gladiatOrial contests of ancient Rome
the successful combatant spared his
/ PROSTATE antagonist until the inverted
thumbs indicated the desire Of the spec
tators for the finishing stroke. In mod
ern warfare the striking Of the flag or the
/ waving of a flag of truce is the signal for
/ an instantaneous cessation Of hOsUlitles,
/ In the prize-ring a blow delivered after
/ a fall gives the nominal victory to the
/ vanquished. A commander who fires
into the ranks Of his opponents after
they have given the tokens of submission
is murderer. In the grade of political
warfare with which the average American
is most familiar-which begins IN the
ward caucus, is carried into the bear
garden of Congress, and does not end even
I at the White HOuse-he who spares his
defeated opponent, even after he has
crushed him, is held as little better than
a fool, Is branded a traitor. not to honor
or to country, but TO party. In the Other
battles Of life the Juvenile rule Of fau
play, take one of your own size, is gen
orally regarded. In politics, no antagO-
mist is too small or too insignificant K
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OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Hunting Eggs


WHO. wants to hunt eggs9" shouted Charlie the
VINO wants to go climb on the hayq"
'Ch, = Yes, and I }" clamOred Fannie and
@And me, tOoF pleaded three-year-o1d May.
So they rushed to the barn. helter-skelter. and
Were driving about with a zest,
In the corners and rafters. the managers and hay,
To see who could ind the first nest.
And who gets the most eggs shall beg grandma
A cake We can share all around
So Fannie suggested; the boys cried @HuErahi
Wen have every egg can be 1OundF
Ninble Charlie went cIambering around like
Ana soon counted zone, two. three, 5ourF
And then with the pearly-white eggs in his hat,
Sid carefully down TO the dOOr.
There's nestT' Fannie cried, from far up in
Right here in the hayl One, two, threeF'
and IN her white apron she gathered them mp ,
As happy and glad as could be.
'Old !speokkIe's on miner" shouted win. but
With cacIIe away the hen few,
- Dear mel said poor WILL II was sure
And here have only got two"
where's May2', they all questioned; sob.
where has she gomez
''Here, here is fOun' q nas'r
And her curly brown head from the manger
Just under tie nose OF Black Bess.
oh oh, sit STILL May, or the horsey may bite ."
But she counted one two, three, four, fiveV'
And they rushed to her rescue with laugh and
she's got the most, sure as you Hver'
But there she was sitting in sweetest content,
And down in her snug little lap
Five soft little kittens lay rolled into balls,
ContenUediy taking nap,
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varied as the faces they crown and
adorn. To some the high couture is
particularly becoming, and by these it
viii continue to be worn, with such
changes as may be introduced from
time to time. But the low couture
seems to have achieved the happy
medium of meeting the requirements
of the majority of ladies, and is by far
the most fashionable. In fact one sees
ten heads dressed in the latter to one
in the former style. It is also more
comfortable, and is adapted to both
day and evening wear. The low Golf
fure consists of braids and twists ar
ranged to fall low enough to just es-
escape the collar, and is then brought
to the crown of the head, and presents
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A Lesson Tor Louie.


Uncle Jack came in one cold morn
ing looking for all the world like a bear,
Louie thought, in his big, shaggy over
coat. He caught Louie up and gave
her real bear hug, too.
Hello, DIopsey! where's POpsey ?"
he asked
POpsey was Louie's baby-sister, two
years old, and her name wasn't POpsev
any more than LOuie's was MOpsey.
But uncle Jack was all the time calling
folks funny names, Louie thought
Hers gone to sleep, said she.
Then Uncle Jack put his hand in his
pocket and made a great rustling with
paper Tor minute, before he pulled
out two sticks of red-and-White candy
and gave them to Louie.
Too bad POpsey's asleep" said he.
But I'm afraid Louie was rather glad
Of it. She took her little rocking-chair
and sat down by the window to eat her
candy.
Aren't you going to save one stick
for Oracle ?" asked mamma. POpsev's
real name was Oracle.
Il guess 1 won't, " Louie said, speak
ing low. Ct don't blieve candy's good
for little mites O. bits o girls Sides I
want it myself"
just as she swallowed the last bit
there was a little call from the bed
room Mamma p
"Hello," said Uncle Jack, "Popsey's
awake! !" And in minute out she come
IN mammals arms, rosy and smiling and
dimpIed
Then there was another great rust
ling in Uncle Jacks pocket, and pretty
soon
Here's for Popsey! % said Uncle Jack.
She took the two sticks of candy in
her dimpled hands and looked at them
q secOnd-dear little Popsey. And
then she held out the one that was
little longer than the other to Louie.
"Dis for 'Ou, -" she cOoed; "and dis for
me-"
Poor Louie! the tears rushed into
her eyes. She hung her head and
blUshed. Somehow she didn't want
to look at Uncle Jack or mamma. Can
you guess why?
obs for on, repeated POpsey, cheer
fully, pushing the candy into her hand.
Take it, Louie, said mamma.
And Louie took it. But little while
afterward mamma overheard her tell
ing POpsey:
Il won't never be such a pig any
more, POpsey Baker. And I'm always
going to vide with you, all the time,
after this, longs I live"
And mamma said amen. Youths
EOuDn17iO7l
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Companion.
The Home-suetch.

"I just hate to go to school nova
days" said Dudley Green, fretfully, as
he sIung his sacheI over his back, and
began to walk. very slowly, toward the
schoOl-house.
do yOu?" said Howard Beck, pleas
zntly. "Why nowadays more than any
other days? 2"
well, it's this way" replied Dud-
ley, cOmplainingIy. 81 don't mind 90
ing to school in the fall and winter and
IN the spring up to April, but after
that 1 get FESTIVE. There are so many
clear, warm days in May and June,
and so much to be seen out Of doors,
that it seems a shame to keep a fellow
eOOped up in a dark and musty school
room"
chats one way Of looking at it, "
said Howard.
well, what's your way of looking at
Sc 2" asked Dudley, with a sniff.
Gas something that must be done,
and something that's not very hard if
you go the right way about it.
@NOt hard !"
"NOt very; six hours a day for five
days in the week. If you ever get a
situation, Dudley, where you don't
have to put IN more time than that,
you'll be a lucky fellow"
@But when a fellow works he is earn
ing his living"
"And when you go to school you are
earning an education. Now, you ought
to go to school and study as if you
were pulling in a boat race"
"a boat raoeI What's that got to do
with it ?"
"I11 tell you. When you start In the
race you pay strict attention to bust
ness, bat you don't exert yourself too
much. As the race progresses, you
gradually increase your stroke, and on
/ the hOme-stretch you make an extra
squirt and pull for all you are worth
At least, that Is the way all winning
crews work.
"And in school 2"
"In school you ought to begin quietly
and study diligently without ezerting
/ yourself. About the middle of the
/ term put on more steam, and toward
/ the end study as hard as you can. The
/ trouble with you is that you have over,
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His Yane Failed Him.

A good storyis told of the great Uni
tartan clergyman, DR.. Claiming, of
Boston. The Doctor In his latter days
was rather fraiI in body and very an
tagonistic to going out in an east wind.
At one period when the weather had
been exceptionally good for three
weeks a friend called to see why he had
not been out on these fine days.
Why" exclaimed the good man, @ths
weather vane on Park Street Church
has been pointing an east wind for
nearly q month. When the friend ex-
planned that the indicator was rusty
and the wind had really been from the
northwest, the reverend gentlemRn's
ire was unbOunded to think he had
been wrongly directed by an orthodox
Vang
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BETTER Sill.

a mother with triplets IN a baby
carriage left them in the vestibule of
a Woodward avenue dry-gOods store
while she went In to make purchase.
On coming out, she found a cardboard
sign in the carriage, reading. Take
one free" She looked all around to
identify the author, but seeing no one
who carried guilty look, she threw
the sign into the street, with the OBJ
servatiOn:
"Humph! I wish someone would
take the whole three Of 'em. Detroit
Free Press.
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student who could not profit by the PLAIN
truths Of even this hOmely lesson.
A True Gentleman.

A Chinaman entered a Sixth avenue
elevated car the other afternoon, fol
lowed by a trio of his American prog
eny. The car being nearly filed, all
scurried into separate seats The ten
yeaE-OId boy and the eight-year-OId
girl had the facial angles and the tusk-
like teeth of their C0nfucian ancestry.
The youngest, a fye-year-old tot, had
chubby, though cream-cOlOred feat
ures, and a smile wherein the Caucas-
sian element predOmInated. All had
little black eyes that twinkled and
cleaned like those Of mice.
A passenger left the second seat from
theIChinese paterfamIlias and got out
at a station. The little tot sided
across the aisle and stood by the vacant
seat, looking wistfgIly at her father
and twisting her fingers. The gentle
man sitting next to the Chinaman-
gentleman, though IN blue denim over
ais and a hickory jumper, with a tin
dinner pail beneath his feet, took in the
situation and changed to the next seat.
The child few to her fathers side and
nestled there. She beamed her glee
across the car to her brother and sis
ter, and they grinned back. Half the
carfUl Of people felt the cOntagiOn Of
gOod-fellOwships and smiled or grinned
according to their respective natures.
A lady, tall and gracious, passing
/ out with her escort, bIushing brightly,
paused near the Chinaman, stopped
and patted the little ones cream-col-
ored cheek and spoke some cooling
words Of praise to the delighted father.
/ The Chinaman tipped his hat as the
! lady passed out. Then he began to
! chuckle all to himself. He chuckled
all down the line.
When I got out at Park place he was
/ still chuckling.
Moral-Pick it ont Tor yourself
/ NelU York Herald.
He wbo cannot hold his peace till the
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HE fullest and
most coquettish of
bangs, gra C eful
coils and twists and
glossy plaits are
taking the place of
the careless back
knot and simple
fringe which once
S u lie e d for all
women.
And the styles are
becoming almost as
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or fancy pins. If the hair is not long
enough to dress the upper part of the
coiffure, a light switch of the required
length should be added.
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He who cannot hold his peace till the
true time comes for acting and speak
ing, Is no right man.
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THE ''COIFFURE ARTISTIC. s.

The Latest Mode Of Dressing the Hair
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BEFORE TEE FOURTH
BY JESSIE ETHEL.

EN- little pennies In the
TO- 10 ~ t.
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ill do away with most of the dis

it will do away with most of the dis
agreeable smell.
A small box filled with lime and placed
on shelf in the pantry or closet will
absorb dampness and keep the air in
the closet dry and sweet
For frying eggs, have plenty of fat,
and dip 1T up over them with q spoon
instead OF turning, also placing them in
the pan from saucer, one at time.
An old recommendation often given
young housekeeperS is to use tea leaves
in sweeping carpets, but their use on
delicate colors should be avoided, as
they will surely stain light carpets.
Water should only come to the boil
ing point for making tea or coffee, and
not be allowed to boil for even five
minutes. Ii you are doubter, try it,
and convince yourself of the difference
in flavor.
TO clean lace haste your lace nicely
on piece of muslin. Rub it freely with
cold starch until it forms paste on it.
Put it in the sun to dry, and thoroughly
clean, and need no ironing.
1t has been asserted that chewing
wooden tOOthpicks sometimes produces
small ulcers in the mouth, and that
even the stomach has been similarly af-
fected by the action of the small parti-
cles of wood detached by chewing.
A most excellent recipe for beef tea IS
10 take one pound of be eff, chopped;
pour over 1t pint of rich, fresh milk.
Boil in farina kettle for three hours:
strain and season with salt and pepper.
Taken hot 1t is more palatable than
cold.
An easy method of removing bits OF
foreign bodies from the eye is to place
a grain of fiaxseed under the lower lid
and close the lids. The seed becomes
surrounded by thick. adherent much
iage. which entraps the foreign body
and soon carries 1t from the angle Of
the eye.
Boys shirt waists always wear first at
the belt, where the trousers fasten. For
the next set we always make a double
belt OF strong jeans, which we place un.
der the percale or linen: when the but
tons are sewed firmly on, and the
threads fastened, it is hard for the boys
to get through with them.
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PORK PRICES.
The Way the Des MOines Register
Would Open Foreign Markets.


Prices of pork have paralleled beef
prices. How much influence the latter
have had on the former it is difficult to
tell. No doubt the hog has been affect
ed by the steers. Pork packers have
combination of which little is known
further than that 25 cents is paid to the
combine for every hog handled, and
packing houses are bought to be idle.
The facts will come out by and by, as
the packers put the screws on the pro-
ducerS. Meats are very dear abroad.
Germany refuses to admit our pork,
while we buy extensively from her of
such things as we can produce at home.
The landed Interests of that country
have more influence than the |abOring
people, as the land owners of Great
Britain have more than those who de-
sire our beef. We are surprised that
our government does not bring these
nations to account. Neither can pro-
duce plenty of cheap food for their peo-
pie. Both must import, and both do.
Some years ago steps. were taken in
congress to retaliate, but sentiment
prevailed. Producers here buy of those
countries and should have the privi-
lege of selling to them. Nothing Is
being done by either executive or legis-
lative departments of our government.
Meats of all kinds are very dear i'll
European countries. Power put in the
hands of the president to shut out the
goods of any country that discriminates
against this country. as Germany does
against our pork, would have effect.
Bismarck can scare half the ministers
of foreign countries with frown. Wish
we had Bismarck here little while
to favor our farmers as he does those OF
Germany rlUar6Q nf
fine cattle. that's still hurt by the exist
ence of lung plague at Baltimore and
New York. 1t is passing strange that
it is not stamped out. A few foul
stables and few sick cattle depress
every steer exported SIS head by re-
quiring them to be killed at the lairage
where they land. Wonder how much
kicking will be necessary to stir our
great big, needless, good-natured gov
eminent into action?
The establishment OF governmental
principles has occupied our first CEN
fury. We hope the next will see some
of them put into practice. j. w.
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cities Of the West is cooperative
slaughter. This Will, of itself, build
up factories for the utilization of the
waste. and if the Interstate commerce
law does its work in striking out the
abuses of refrigerator cars, the Chicag o
concerns cannot compete with these
local slaughtering establishments.
1t would be an immense advantage to
the farming interests If the butchers
could be led to see the wisdom of a
movement like this. The farmers in
their move against the combine have
been greatly hindered by the neglect of
the butchers to get their business on a
business basis. In fact, the fight against
the combine has been regarded by the
public largely as the fight of one set of
butchers against another, and that
either would fleece the meat-eating
public with equal satisfaction.
Consumers have welcomed the dressed
beef because it promised them better
beef at lower prices. 1t has not kept
the promise, it is true, but we do not
blame a consumer that can buy from
the butchers nothing but tough and
strlngy beef, at the price Of good, for
wanting change.
If the butchers wish to be anything
better than the agents OF the dressed
beef combine they must adopt the i'm
proved methods and get their business
on business basis. Let them build
retrigerators and give the old Noah'S-
ark cow chance to hang in the ice
house week or so. and it may be they
will become sufficiently tender for a
Christian to eat without being tempted
to internal profanity.