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E1rab En Favor,

Drab is one of tho seasons favored eolors The French call it winter sky, , but this is too poetic titlo for its un- compromising dull, metallic tone. It is not like soft nuns gray, swallow gray, silver. dove, fawn or anything as deli cato and dainty. Drab isnot becoming color on its own merits. We associate it with the coats and gowns of the Quakers. when far strioter ill sectarian and dress matters than they are now, and with tho old Puritan drivers of the defunct stageooaoh, with their many eaped, long, drab coats. But a French modiste can easily make a gown of beauty out of even drab cloth. She com pines it with lack and Danish or Span- ish or British red so artistically and deftly that the dowdy dress of drab be- comes in the hands of this sartorial pres tidigitator triumphant success. Set it against for example, one of the brick red gowns of cloth, with q black and white vest and brick red velvet toque en suite. and rivalry there is none be- tween the two. The one is vulgar and provokingly aggressive, the other suffi- oiently smart and eminently attractive, but quiet withal Another fancy of the Frenohwoman combines the drab ma- terial, with cream cloth accessories braided in gold CT striped with tho mar fowest lines of red and gold braid laid side by side. New York Post.
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New York. The place is tastefulIy and comfortably furnished with tables. chairs, bookcases and some gymnastic apparatus. There are water color pie lures on the walls, handsome rugs on the floors and eozy corners fitted up with diVans and cushions. The older boys though all arc under 16 years of age are daily adding other comforts and at fractions and spare no efforts to keep the smaller lads off the street as far as pos sible.
 Numbers of boys who do not belong to this club have become deeply inter- ested ia it's methods and have begun the formation of similar clubs elsewhere. Their pIan is to create q series of them throughout tho tenement district in which tho idea originated. theso various societies to be associated somewhat after the manner of the chapters of a college fraternity.
 Each club must be strictly solf sup porting but as tho members are not overburdened with cash care will be taken to keep the dues down to very low figure.
 David Willard, the president of the Eldridge street club, says: Every boy who works for his living is anxious to elevate himself if opportunity Is afford ed him. Many poor boys, reared in crowded tenements amid all the sordid surroundings of the slums, have had their natural inspirations toward better things suppressed by brutal or ignorant parents. To these the elnb idea appeals strongly, and they enter with eagerness into all plans for rational amusement and recreation. This kind of association will serve to develop their minds, ele- vate their morals and strengthen their characters and will do much to fit them for useful citizenship .
 Certainly this is an experiment. the development and outcome of which phi lanthropists must watch with keen in terest.
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Women an.l IselleIous Work.

The Protestant aeaeoness institutions in Germany have paved tho way for an independent position and suitable work for unmarried women The black dress with the white cape gives her @ safe en- try into all houses, and we cannot but regret that the number of ladies is not larger who seek this useful occupation. But it has also given q general impulse to the work of women in all the branches of home missions
 This brings IS to another point-the position of women in religious work. Women pastors and preachers arc roeog. nized in America as an order already existing. In Germany wo are only in the beginning, but this beginning is made. The speaking of women in public was formerly rendered quite impossible. At first it WAS allowed in smaller circles of women. Now lady, Mrs. Guauek, who is ono of tho German representa- tiyes of the rights of women, was re- quested te give an address at the evan geiical social congress at Erfurt last year, and she met with universal ap- plause. We begin to hear now that women may mako public addresses without losing that truo delieacy which we should not care to miss. In our prayer meetings women begin to take an active part Wo even flnd that these meetings only become moro lively and interesting when women join in the exercises. --Count Bernstorf in Exam iYon
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FOR LITTLE FOLKS.
CLUBS FOR BOYS
How some Of the Youths of New yo-,. .,,,,o Work Intena to Innrn,.o .r.l. "

How some Of the Youths Of New Yorl, Who
 Work Intend to Improve Themselves.
 A unique boys club has been started ln the elums of New York. CIpbe for the benefit of poor boys arc not new Many such have been established bv churches and charitable societies de. signed to eounteract tho dangerous in. huences of the street by offering resorts at ehee attractive and refining, and suob efforts are worthy of all oommendation But the new boys club is different If Is not dependent on charity. public or private, for it's maintenance. 1t is rnn by the boys themselves.
 This club is composed of a number of ambitious working boys who desire pleasant and eleyating surroundings for thoir leisure hours They have made their moral requirements just as hiph as those which obtain at the St. Nicholas and the Kniokerboeker, and their mem bership list is already full.
 Their rooms are located in the base. ment of 200 Eldridge street, in one of the most crowded quarters of tho citv of
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Chelr nome picturesque spot on the heights at Quoenston overlooking the Niagara river. Here Miss Wood s child. hood was spent, and no doubt the splef- did natural environment among which she was reared played no small part in forming the future writer. Her eduea- tion was received at the St. Gatharines Collegiate institute, Q school which in it's 60 years of existence has trained scores of those who are now Canada s best known men and women.
 To write was Miss Woods ambition from her earliest years, and very thor ough has been her preparation for her chosen work-so thorough that 1t was only after much study and hard reading that she thought ef giving her writings to the public. For q long timo they were shown only 10 her elder brother who had been her constant critic In fact, it is to him that Miss Wood asoribes her subsequent success, for in spite of his severity with her literary faults it is to him that she owes all her stimulus and inspiration. But life, even more than books, she has studied in q most systematic way.
 Frequent trips to Europe have formed part of her training, while each winter she takes up her residence in some cen ter of social or literary life. Sometimes she has chosen New York, oftener Bos- ton, and this winter Philadelphia is her temporary home. Her literary work and study arc varied by numbers of social duties, for Miss Wood has hosts of friends. Last winter she did no writing, but threw herself heartily into the so- cial life of that gayest of cities, Paris, chiefly for the purpose of bringing her self more in touch with French Htera- ture through Q better knowledge of the people In London, too, she had every opportunity of seeing the best of English life, while tho purpose of Ter last visit to Scotland was to collect material for story of the mining district.
 Miss Wood has always been strong opponent of tha tradition that writing women must bo dowdy and severe look ing. Gle frankly confesses a fondness for smart gowns, dainty surroundings and all feminine frivolities Though she has advanced most unconventional the ories in her writings, yet she is by no means a new woman in any of the pop ular acoeptationa of the term. She has no desire to vote, is not an upholder of the rational dress movement and has even declared that she will never ride bicycle.
 As disciple of the realistic school Miss Wood has no sympathy with tho rightoousness that condemns the erring while putting forth DO hand to help Writers, above all others, she holds, must bo tolerant and charitable. Illib- eral consciousness should be TO part of those who must live near to humanity before they can interpret it aright.- Honora s. Howard in Buffalo Express.
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Two WorIIInen.

The following story from Wide Awake is not new, but its truth is vouched for, and it's lesson is so clearly taught and so important that it is worth repeating:
 Two men once stood at the same tablo in large factory in Philadelphia. Hay ing an hour for their incoming every day, each undertook to use it in accomplish ing definite purpose; each persevered for about the same number of months, and each won success at last.
 One used his daily leisure hour ill working out tho invention of machine for saving a block of wood into almost any desired shape. When his invention was complete, he sold the patent for a fortune.
 The other man, what did he do? Well, he spent m hour each day during most of the year in the very difficult task of teaching little dog to stand on it's hind feet and dance jig. To be sure he succeeded, but what then? At Inst accounts he was working ten hours q day at the same trade and at his old wages, blaming his luck for the hard fate that kept him poor, while his fel- low workman had become rich.
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Two Pretty Visiting Costumes.

"A handsome costume l saw recently, worn by a visitor who was calling at the house of Q friend, was of mixed brown and white cheviot. The skirt was quite plain. The bodice showed a short Eton jacket of the eheyiot, square and fitted in the back as well as ill the front J writes Isabel 4. Mallon in The Lodics' Home Journal The vest had full front of white chiffon and about the waist was a broad, fitted belt of green velvet. the belt fastened in front under large cut steel buttons. The sleeves were fitted ones of the cheyiot, with two far ing caps of green velvet above each at the shoulder. A white satin stock was the neck finish. The hat had brlm of pli- able brown felt, q puffed crown of green velvet and cluster of brown feathers was caught at one side under steel or uament. Tho gloves were light tan dressed kid, and the huff was of mink lined with dark green satin. The cape was of mink. It had square back, 8 high medici collar and long, square ends.
 AlOLnCf AauUS04ho f1oApAHeo NSHs
 showed faring skirt of black moire. with brocaded globes upon 1t of the same hue. Tho bodice was really a mar ouise coat of black velvet, with a waist coat of striped black and white silk. soft and full, showing between the far iug fronts. The sleeves of the velvet were somewhat full at the top then they dropped and shaped into the arm, fitting closely at the wrists, faring over the hands sufficiently to permit the sleeve to be turned back, and faced in cuff fashion with the black and white striped silk. The collar was folded one of white chiffon with three overlapping points of black velvet, each caught with ! tiny jet ornament. To wear with iE
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Bernhardt,s lofty Aim.

In recent issue of Le Figaro Sarah Bernhardt says: ''I have been exposing to the public the vibrations of my soul, the throbbings of my heart, the tears of my eyes I have willed, have willed ardently, to reach the highest point in art. l have not yet attained it. I have less time Go live than I have already lived, but what matters thRt? Every step brings mo closer to my ideal. Tho hours that have swept by, taking with them my youth, have left me my cour- age and my cheerfulness, for my aim remains tho same and toward it I am tending.
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She Can Have the Place.

The first car run on the new electric line recently opened in Santa Barbara, Cal, was operated by woman, Miss Hattie K. Muller She was so success ful that she tried it again and again and finally said to the president of the road that if people did not stare so she would rather be motorman than any thing else in tho world The president replied that the place was open to her whenever she wanted to adopt that pro- fession.
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W0MAN'S WORLD.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ONE POPULAR
 LITERARY WOMAN.

Pretty Visiting COstumeo The Buaalo
 scribblers woman's Emancipation.
 Trimming Mothers uat-They Mean
 Business-A Dobutante's Reception.
 Lack of nationality in her work and in her personal characteristics inelines us to place Joanna E. Wood among tho oosmopolites. Of Scottish birth, Cana dian education and American literary training, she is q person of such wide sympathies that no other classification would readily suggest itself.
 While she was yet an infant her par ents came to this country and chose for
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A Costly Luxury.

The latest extravaganza of the Amer ican woman is to trim the skirt of her ball gown with natural flowers. This means not only that my lady's husband must expend $40 or $50 in flowers for ono evening, but that tho gown will be ruined after being worn three or four times by tho damp leaves and petals of it's expensive decorations.
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 Organized by Women.

Eight prominent society ladies of Spokane, Wash, have incorporated the Woman's 8 Northwest Mining and Invest ment company, capitalized at $2.000,- 000, and will engage in the mining business. They have obtained the serv- ices of an expert 10 report on the prop critics of the company. Branch offices will be established in many large cities
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there was 2 short ripple cape of black astralshan and q huff to match, whilo the olose fitting bonnet was of black vel vet, with bunch of white tips on one side and two or throo astrakhan heads and an elaborate jet ornament on the other. Heavy white gloves, closing with two buttons, were worn. "
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4 Simple Tailor Costume.

A simple tailor costume easily coplea has n skirt of russet brown cloth with sleeves and bolero of brown silk velvet. The back of tho jacket is closely ltted' and in front turns back, with largo re- vers of ecru cloth, trimmed on tho edges with 2 narrow roll of dark mink. The seven eored skirt is finished with three narrow bias bands of tho brown eloth' showing q mere limo of velvet at the edges The vest is of ooru cloth fastened with small gold and bronze buttons anu trinmed with machine stitched straps
 Another similar model for more vopthful yearer has O middy vest of the eeru cloth. with rows of brown gimp as tho lower edge, and five rows around the neck under the straight cloth collar. This vest has no opening on the IfonO and is hooked up the back. A thlra cos, tume of tan colored cloth IS trlmmou with hands of white cloth strapped oVef with rows of gilt and brown braid ID gronns of three and finished on the trons with small gold buttons. A very costly and eleeapt costume of dark russian eraea cloth has bolero of sealskin, with 2 wide collar of the fur at the back. 4 larga s.grannie' huff and q cloth ana fnr tonue arc en suite. --New s'r1 .--'
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23
The Late William Crawford,

William Crawford, who died at his
home on West Second street, on We'd
nesday morning, was buried from ST.
Francis church to-day at clock pm.
The funeral was largely attended by
the citizens of the East End, par
ticularly the old settlers, the deceased
having been one Of our oldest and most
respected cltizeus, coming to Superior
in 1854. He leaves wife and adopted
daughter.
Speaking of Mr.. Craw ford, Col. Hiram
Hayes said to an Evening Telegram
reporter:
You inquire about William Craw-
ford, who died yesterday "wednesday
morning in this city, aged four score
years and more. Well, he came from
ireland when Young man, and cruis
ing up the lakes made his home at
Superior sometime in the fifties He
was of good, sound stock and tough fibre
From that day to this, and every hour
OF the time, he has chung to the town
without days absence. So far as |
know, this characterzes the man. Put
him IN any place which lie could fill,
and as sure as his name was Crawford,
so sure was he stay where stationed,
and do the duty entrusted to him with
out falteriny or shadow Of turning. Had
he been at Waterloo and posted at a
point of duty, nothing would have
moved him but the command Of the
duke and the superior weight of the
enemy. But there are more fields in
this world than Waterloo, and he fell on
one of them with his face to the foe. as
l,,l h.. I Z II
supreme conflict for mastery Of the
world y
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23
Notice-..Important.

The Annual Meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Library Association has been de-
terred from January 2S and %, 1897, to
Monday and Tuesday, February % and
%, 1897.
This meeting will be of interest to
librarians, library trustees, teachers,
business men, members Of women s
clubs and to all friends of education.
One session will be devoted to TRAY
cling Libraries" another to Trustees
and Libraries," third to a Round
Table Conference on every day prob
lens in the library, a fourth to the "Re-
lation of the Free Public Schools to the
Free Public Libraries"
All communities and societies in Wis
consin that are anxious to found or i'm
prove a Free Public Library should be
represented at this meeting. The COM
plete programs will be issued February
l, 1897. If you wish copies sent to
yourself or your friends please notify
the officers of the Association.
F. A. UUTCHINS, Chairman,
Baraboo. Wis.
L. E. STEARNS, Secretary,
Public Library, Milwaukee, Wis.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23
\ Correction.

The report which was generally pub
lished a few days ago, announcing a
shooting accident while two boys were
out hunting has been proven untrue,
the Leader receiving the following let
ter which they published Thursday,
glad indeed to find that there was no
truth in the first story:
McGregor, MINI, Jan. IS, 1897.
Superior DayIv Leader.
Deer Sirs: | see o your Paper rumor
that an AcsideDt should have Taken
Place her near Tamarack wher Sam
Borg should have Accidentally shot a
vung man and efter words Declared
that he would browne him self There is
nothing In it whatever Sam Borg is Ny
brother and he is HON To day all well.
Their is no shooting acsident of any one
else Gather That has happened here
yours Truly
j. L. Borg
Please send me a Copy of your paper
if youprint the correctness of this state
ment. J. l.. Borg.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23

(FrOm the New York WOrldD

kT rom lHt New OEh NDtIul
The great Anglo American arbitration
treaty gives the phrasetwisters and
flaw pickers among the lawyers rare
chance for a conspicuous display OF their
"cuteness." The older and more wiley
of these sharp fellows wisely continc
themselves to glowing congratulations
and disquieting head shaklng5. The less
experienced are using the old method
of taking up a phrase here and there
and Analysing it without regard to the
context, and therefore without regard
to the real meaning.
These find two dreadful pitfalls-that
tiOnal honor to an etfete monarch and
republic hater, King Oscar OF Sweden
and that we agree to arbitrate the Mon
roe doctrine.
True, King Oscar is designated as an
umpire, and true, the first article of the
treaty does say, The high contracting
parties agree to submit all
questions IN difference between them, )"
&c, &c.
But either power can refuse to accept
King Oscar and can demand another
umpire, as article 10 sets forth with pc
culiar clearness.
And if the American members do not
agree with the British members about
any case such as, for example, might
arise l1nier the Monroe doctrine the
United States can make the award in
valid by merely protesting against it.
Then the only bar to hostilities the
treaty interposes is the provision that
measures until the mediation of one or
more friendly powers has been invited"
This perfect safeguarding against injus
tice is clearly set forth in article 6.
Any sensible man who reads the
treaty for a higher purpose than to put
stumbling blocks in the path OF progress
cannot fail to see that neither power
yields any vital national principle or
risks suffering any injustice. The treaty
is nothing more than legal provision
against the danger of gust of unreas-
oning passion whirlIng two great nations
into war. 1t abolishes the lingo industry,
or rather prevents the pursuit of that
industry from having serious conse-
quences. 1t compels the sober second
thought" And that is all there is in it.
But is that not great deal?
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23
" Which is Whose"

A mother and daughter in Chicago
both had girl babies come to them the
same day. The mothers had always
bore a striking resemblance to each
other, SO it is not strange that the babies
also should look alike. Both families
lived together as one, employing but
one nurse When the babies were
about 4 week old, the nurse undressed
them both at the same time for their
daily bath and when that operation
was over couldn't tell (which baby be
longed to who" The mothers when
told about it We're equally puzzled, and
now there are four people very much in
doubt whether they have their own
baby or that of some one else, and II
isn't the women who are making the
most fuss about it either. The doctor
has advised them to wait a year or two,
when individual traits may help them
to decide (which is whose"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23


bring you wealth. Write JOHN wEDDER-
BURN d co, Patent Attorneys, Washington,
ID. c.. for their 81 500 prize offer.
The school board held short meet
ing "Wednesday afternoon, Among
ton Of Vice President Chandler was
read and committee appointed to
draft appropriate resolutions, as Mr..
Chandler was a valued member of the
board and VIII be greatly missed. Supt.
Elson reported that some provision
should be made for the accommodation
of the large number of children who
are now. as the extremely cold weather
subsidies, attending school, crowding the
already over-crowded rooms beyond all
power of doing justice to the school
work 1t Is quite likely that in some
localities. where the ventilating system
is poor in the schools. that arrange
ments will be made to open up outside
buildings.
Mr.. Louis Pratt. accompanied by
Mr.. Link, West End groceryman left
Superior Tuesday for trip south, going
by the way of It. Paul and Chicago, Wis
lung New Orleans, and then over into
Texas. While away Mr.. Pratt will try
10 arrange with the producers to have
fruits of all kinds shipped direct to him,
thus doing away with the middleman's
fee Mr.. Pratt's patrons all hope he
will succeed, as the prices for fruits. and
not the best, either, seem extremely
high this season.
Mrs Sarah Anderson and son, Mr.
L. u. Newton. were happily surprised
last Friday evening by large delega-
ton OF relatives and old acquaintance.
The Newton, Hayes, and >tarkweather
families were represented, and the 0c
casion celebrated birthday and we'd
ding anniversaries for more than one
in the company. Refreshments were
served late in the evening and the
party broke up after one and all wish
ing that such little Publications We're
arranged oitener.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1897-01-23
Failures in 1896.

The commercial agencies are fgur-
ing up the total business failures for
1896 and place those in which the liza
billties exceed the assets at 115,l12-
which Is fifty-five per cent. more than
last year and GJ per cent. more than
1894, These figures do not include the
numerous failures OF the past few weeks
which will bring the amount nearly if
not quite to that of the panic year, '93.
The total liabilities for the year are
placed at S247 100000, Bradstreet is
responsible for the statement that the
commercial death rate was, in 1896,
40 per cent, by which is meant that
/ 40 per cent. of every 100 individuals,
firms and corporations in business last
year failed. This death rate was ex-
ceeded only by that in 1898, when it
was Isl per cent. In 1898 the com
merciai death rate was 1.23, and 1894,
1.2l per cent.-W Western Rural.