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, 1897-04-28

One man escapes tbs diseases iesh 10
heir to, and gets killed on the railroad. |
Another escapes with only q scratch, !
md dies with whoopinR couch. One man |
stands OF his creditors and takes q sum-
mer trip, while another stays at home
and pays his debts.
Yes, 1t IL q strange world, and az
~ strange. Today we rejoice;
we are in tears, Today we
revel in riches; tomorrow we are for
saken and penniless. Today We walk
In the pride of our strength: tomorrow
are helpless on the bed Of sickenss.
or death. To obviate. in a measure,
the evils incident to life. this order. the
18th anniversary of which we celebrate
deceived the hopes of its most sanEuine
Why should it. since its
chief cornerstone Is that charity which
never faileth.
As an illustration Of this principle he
the familiar poem by Leigh
Hunt, ".Abou Ben Adhem." He said
that there was a great deal OF this prin-
ciple OF charity among men which failed
of its end because OF a lack of Judgment
in the application. MANY had not learn
ed how to do the right thing at the right
time and in the right way.
1t is said that Lord Cairnes engrafted
in his daily prayers this pitition, Lord,
I might have done, or have failed to do
1t in the kindest manner, forgive me, and
help me to do better in the future" This,
he said, reminded him OF an old dea-
con who was ~tirelees In his labors for the
poor and needy He was really q man of
tender sympathies, whose tears often
washed his vision clear from the dust
Of worldliness. But he was unpopular.
One Of the elders, INTERCEPTED as to the
cause, replied: He o~verdoes. He does
a good thing until It gets to be an irri-
tant. For instance, II you would tell him
that there was a gnat on Elder Cables
nose, and to please get 1t of for the good
OF the church, he would not get a feath-
er, but a bludgeon, and knock the whole
front of of his face" Odd Fellowship
teaches us to be more c~onsiderate, and
brush the gnat from our brothers nose
with a feather.
But, the doctor said, the committee
desired him to tell them what Odd Fol-
lows ought to do and let other speakers
explain the principles Of the order.
There were two things which he Thought
every active Odd Fellow should do.
Take some good paper or magazine pub
lished in the interest of the order. II
any should say, Times are hard how
can l do this?" he would give them two
recipes. either Of which would solve the
problem. First, take q dollar bill and
fold 1t several times each way. Then
unfold 1t and you will find 1t i~n-creases.
Keep the increase, but send the bill to
the publisher, who will put you onto
the scheme. Second, II you are q young
man-an odd-fellow indeed-take a sill
yer dollar, drop 1t on the counter and
notice the ring 1t makes. Send the ring
to your best girl and the dollar to the
printer, and o will all be happy.
The next, and in many respects the
most important. thing the active Odd
Fellow should do. ia to take a policy in
some Odd Fellows insurance
As an Odd Fellow Won, ara entitled tn the
regular weekly Denent' when SICK ano
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Furnished Housekeeping rooms for
'sot. sayer Hansen. 1G1 eth street.
, 1897-04-28

DR.. SAGE'S ADDRESS.
We live In \ strange world. One man
b saving money to build . house. and
another 10 trying to sell his for les than
It cost to build II. One MAI u Spending
IN he can malke In taking . GIRL to the
tAeatsr. and sending towsrs, while p
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Immediately devoured, made the sur
vivors more determined and aggressive.
The dari; and lonesome pineries re-
sounded with unearthly howls, and the
wolves marshaled for an attack, closing
in on the little tent and it's solitary oc-
cupant like besieging army investing
q fortified city. The crescent of few
moments ago had disappeared. In it's
place was complete circle of fiery eyes.
The wolves came apparently from every
direction, creeping out of the tall grass,
springing from the shadow of the giant
trees, and rushing from the very heart
of the woods.
Tomplins went in the tent, and, fast
ening the flap, lighted candle and re-
loaded his pistol. Then he seated him
self on a cracker box and tried to look
the situation square in the face. He
was alone in a small tent in the woods,
with pack of perhaps 40 wolves howl
ing around him, with the evident deter
mination of picking his bones! His only
weapon of defense was siX-shooter. 1t
was only question of few hours until
the wolves would make their way in
side. His predicament was not only
hazardous, but every minute added to
his danger. Feeling that inaction at
such time was almost crime, he
grasped his revolver in one hand and the
candle in the other and sailed forth.
The wolves, which were pressing close
ly around on every side, fell back at the
sight of the light, and their backward
movement gave Tompkins an idea. He
noticed dead pine tree near the tent.
1t had once been forest monarch, but
it's massive trunk and limbs now lay in
splinters on the ground, where stroke
of lightning had thrown it. He gath
cred handful of the broken limbs and
ignited them with the candle; then he
got an AK from the tent and cut the
larger limbs and made circle around
! the tent, the wolves meanwhile watch
ing him, and ever and anon swapping at
his very heels. But he kept on with his
work, and when the wolves came dan
gerously near he kept them back with
brand from the fire he had already
started. When the circle was finished
he set it on fire, and in little while it
was burning brightly, and the wolves
skunk back into the deeper recesses of
the woods. Tompkins says he kept up
the fire until daylight, while the wolves
howled in the shadow of the pines. With
the coming of the day they disappeared.
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Iengthwise. 1t was "stylish," but not
particularly pretty.
But there was gown both stylish and
pretty, and dressy altogether. 1t was in
tended for afternoon wear "for company"
The gown was of corded silk of a deep
indigo blue. The skirt was plain all
around and opened in front over putting
of white tulle over pale blue foundation
of taffeta. This putting was crossed back
and forth with black velvet ribbon, and
down each side was row of the heavy
new medallion lace in ecru. The narrow
half belt was covered with it. The waist
was of the pale blue taffeta gathered very
full both in front and back. There was a
Swiss girdle of the dark silk, edged with
lace and crossed both front and back by
the velvet ribbon and edged with the lace.
There were bretelles in front, and these
ended on the shoulders. The sleeves and
the stock carried out the design of the
trimming and made 1t perfect In the
back of the stock there were velvet ribbon
loops and lace rosettes. No hounces were
needed on this dress. A pretty plaid Irish
poplin for a young lady in her teens was
complete also without the 1ounces. The
skirt and sleeves were of the plaid. The
blouse basque was of pale pink silk mus
lin, gathered extremely full and belted in
30 that there showed a rutfle below the
belt. This belt, by the way, was of rush
green and white louisine ribbon. 1t was
wide and gathered and tied in large bow
in the back. There was another doubled
bow without ends at the left side in front
of the waist. The pierrot collar was of
the pink silk null. The sleeves had little
draperies down the outside of the arm
five of them, each held by white linen
button. There were two rows of very
narrow black velvet ribbon sewed across
the front and back in zigzag lines. This
was very effective and the whole costume
was girlish and dainty. MATE LEROY,
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FASHIONS OF new YORK.
Mate Leroy Describes the New
Jubilee Styles.
TRIMMINGS FOR SUMMER GOWNS.

An Attractive Costume For an Up to Date
Grandmother - Lace Gowns and Trim
mipgs Some Salient Features of the
Seasons Styles.
iCopyright, 1897, by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
At the present moment there Is quite
movement in favor of what are called ju-
bilee styles. They consist mainly in low,
square shouldered gowns for evening, with
lace overwaists which are made high in
the neck, forming V shaped openings in
front. 1t must be admitted that white
shoulders look whittier still under the out
lines of the lace. Then there are wide
bretelles, narrowing to point at the
waist line, where a narrow belt, with a
fancy gold buckle, finishes the costume
The skirts to these special gowns are
founced all the way up, or have three
skirts, and are made TO set out as widely
as possible without the aid of hoops.
There are many sleeves made with puff
or double or even triple cap at tho top,
and these are short The rest of the sleeve
is Of lace, gathered all the length of the
arm. Sometimes tulle Is used, and silk
null also' SOne nave Batnereu DlaCh law
the whole length of the arm and fitting 1t
closely, and aro finished at the wrist with
frills of black or white lace Down the
outer and inner seam and down the center
from top to bottom one finds narrow shir-
rings or ruchiDgs of black silk null, not
much over half an inch wide. Some,
again, have three rows Of very narrow
looped bows of black velvet ribbon from
top to bottom, with larger bows like ro-
settes set over the wrists. There is a great
liking for narrow black velvet ribbon as
trimming, and it is applied as fat bands,
loops, rosettes, and particularly is 1t liked
in lattioed work over puffings of crepe lisse
or other thin and fine white stuff. 1t Is
also put over pale pink, blue, green or
lemon, and is effective everywhere. Bre-
telles are made of puffed tulle or other
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THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE OF THE PAST.
and fiction and is generally accepted as
the true one, but as a matter Of fact
there is really a great deal less Of nom
sense and frivolity about her than she is
generally credited with. Probably it
used to be so. There must have been
some foundation in fact on which to es-
tablish the romantic notions that we
cling to so tenaciously.
But just consider. The young woman
whom we see only as q rosy vision has
an A. b. or an A. M. tackled to her name
now. She has wrestled with logarithms
and calculus and the dead languages for
four long years. She has struggled for
the higher education, and she has cap
tured it. Under those soft masses of
hair which crown her shapely head
there are plans--deep, serious plans-for
the future. True, they will probably be
lost sight of at the first sparkle of an
engagement ring, but for the present
they are there.
This is where the girl graduate of to-
day differs from her prototype of a
score of years ago. In days gone by the
heroine of commencement day was a
creature of frills and fancies. She knew
a little table French, little music and
bad a nodding acquaintance with the
classics. A few other elements went to
make up the finish" which the semi
naries of that day gave their graduates.
Her ambition was to "shine" in society
and to marry after her second season.
She was frail and spirituelle. A surplus
of confectionery and pastry had ruined
her digestion, and lack of exercise had
made matters worse. 1t was not so
much brain fag as indigestion which
made years rest necessary for her to
recuperate. No wonder she had roman
tic notions and was called sweet in a
half sarcastic way.
The average girl graduate of today
deserves better adjective. She has few
frills and fewer fancies Not only does
she possess a better mental development
than her sister of 90 years ago, but she
has muscles that the other never dream
ed of. She has biCeps and triceps. They
are part Of the higher education. 1t is
likely that the girl who stood highest
In political economy was the same who
pulled stroke oar in the senior boat crew.
Last year the best running high jump
at Vassar field day was won by one Of
the honor girls. She cleared 46 inches.
What would the graduate Of 1877
have said had she known then that her
daughter would take a lively part in
a football game in 1897 and throw a
dozen handsprings when her team WONT
In most seminaries and colleges for
young women the physical training is
no longer an elective but a compulsory
feature of the curriculum. 1t is also one
Of the most popular. The time which
the mothers of the college girls of to-
day spent in eating chocolate creams
and reading forbidden French novels
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won her degree as bachelor of arts is
quite as apt to fear that she will look
like fright" when the time comes for
her to take part in the closing exercises
as the sweet girl graduate of old did
At least, heard one of them make this
confession.
But now that we have reverently con-
sidered the girl graduate as she is we
can take the liberty of wondering what
she will be. As a rule, forecasts of any
kind, no matter whether they are made
on the stock market, on horse race or
on the weather conditions, are apt to be
wrong. But 1t is a most fascinating
game to speculate on the paths which
the graduates will take in the future
We may safely guess that the young
woman who calmly dissects modern fic-
tion and gives us some new views on
literature has ambition to do something
herself in the field of letters, but wheth-
er or not she will change her mind aft
er reading a few dozen returned with
thanks" missives who can tell?
The essay which she reads when leav-
ing college may be fair indication Of
her hopes and sentiments ut that time,
but even abundant precedent can furnish
us no clew to the future. remember
some girl graduates of ten years ago
whom l knew very well and most Of
whom l have kept track of since. There
was the literary one. Her friends all ex-
pected her to become famous at once.
But she didn't. She ran away from home
and married her music teacher, and now
they live by giving music and dancing
lessons, for her parents disinherited
her.
There was the sensible, matter of fact
girl who read an essay in which she
claimed for her sex fair chance in the
business world. She married we'll to
do manufacturer and is now something
of social leader.
The only girl whose essay indicated
that she thought woman's sphere was
in the home, who commended to her
companions the domestic virtues and
advised them to become good house
keepers, is, alas, an old maid school
teacher, and, although her case is not al
together hopeless, there is little pros
pect of her ever having home of her
own.
Still, things do not always go by con-
traries, and the girl graduate whom you
may chance to observe as she makes her
bow to the world this June may turn
out just as you expect. Anyway, it will
be most interesting to wait and see tc
what account she turns the brain anG
muscle of her higher education.
CYRUS SYLVESTER
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the latter employ in playing basket
ball, in doing 100 yard dashes or prac-
ticing the giant swing on the horizontal
bar.
Her mother made fancy work" and
plastered the furniture in her room with
tides. The daughter adorns the walls
of her "den" with trophies of hard won
victories on tho tennis court or the grid
iron. Her mother took an occasional
carriage ride or desultory walk She
thinks nothing Of taking 30 mile spin
on her bicycle. Her mother wore silks
and linen, and every draft of chilly air
meant a cold. she wears sweater ana
stout boots, and the cold, wet days Of
spring have no terrors for her.
had heard much about the athletic
college girl, but had rather suspected
that she merely played at being mus
oular. You see, the girl graduates that
/ had known were of the old type. But
one visit to field day carnival held at
a prominent woman's college swept
away all my pIejudioed doubtings
There was no mere pretense about the
young woman who made the 100 yard
dash in l516 seconds.
There was no doubt, either, about the
muscularity Of the young women who
pulled the oars in the college shells and
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maze the long, narrow boats shoot
through the water at amazing speed.
The girls who took part in the hurdle
racing, in the jumping and in the basket
ball contest evidently were not the
kind who would think it fashionable tc
appear perfectly helpless in society.
But still had to have a suspicion Of
some kind, so asked of an undergrad.
uate.
"Do these athletic championspf yours
ever amount to much in the classroom"
She looked at me over her glasses in
a superior sort of way and then proceed
ed to crush me:
"That depends on your point Of view.
You saw the girl who just won the bas-
ket ball eventp"
eyes She made splendid throw
over 90 feet wasn't itp''
"It was 90 feet inches. She is also
entered in the 220 yard run. Well, she
stands No. in languages, with 118 be-
low her, and she took one of the honors
in Greek"
can exception, perhaps" family
suggested.
"Out of the nine girls in the senior
boat crew five are honor girls in various
departments of study. That girl who
came in second in the hurdle race has
captured one of the fellowships and is
going to take an advanced course in
comparative biology. The young lady
who won the pole vaulting is one of the
best astronomers in her class, and the
one who was third in the broad stand
ing jump will probably stay here as in
structor of mathematics. Oh, no,
they're not all ounces.
If any more suspicious had occurred
to my mind, l should have hidden them
deep. but was too thoroughly squelch-
cd to have any further doubts concern
ing the absolute perfection of one of
those college girls.
Yet they are not masculine, these
college girls. When their sweaters,
their short skirts and their bloomers are
hung up, they appear in costumes
which are delightfully."- feminine. There
is quite as much anxious planning done
over the commencement day dress al
there used to be, although the dress it.
self seems to have much more simplioi
ty about it. The young woman who hai
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A NIGHT WITH WOLVES.
Land Buyers Adventure in the
Pineries of Louisiana.
Surrounded by n Pack of Forty Hum
cry Brutes, He spends n Night
which He VIII Probably
Never Forget.

Adna Tompkins, while looking for
land for Hovey & McCracken, the big
lumber dealers of Muskegon, Mich,
had startling encounter with wolves.
Mr.. Tompkins was in Calcasieu parish,
La., southwest of Hamburg, Ark, and
one night recently encamped in the
pineries, which are vast in area and
the very embodiment of solitude. The
man who was with him had gone to
Lake Charles, leaving Tompkins en-
tirely alone. Having had hard days
work, Tompkins cooked his supper, set
the little tent in order, and retired after
sundown.
Before he could close his eyes, how
ever, he became conscious that there
was some living thing outside the tent.
He got up, and, taking his pistol in
hand, crept to the door, or flap of the
tent, and, raising it, peered out. Dark
ness had settled down over the earth
like pail, and in the gloom he was
startled to see three pairs of eyes gaz-
ing at him. He went outside and at once
the eyes disappeared. But the disap-
pearance was only temporary; for he
had just turned TO reenter the tent
when he noticed that there was around
him a crescent of eyes which glowed
like Goals in the gloom, and which
drew nearer and nearer. He guessed
that his visitors were wolves, which
animals are rather numerous in that
section of Louisiana. He was conscious
of a strange feeling; not of fear per-
haps, but of loneliness and dread. He
discharged his pistol three times in
rapid succession, aiming at a pair of
eyes each time, and as there was a Choir
us of yells and swapping of teeth, he
had the satisfaction of knowing that
his unwelcome visitors were minus ut
least two of the original number.
But the Staying of these two appeared
to render their companions frantic, and
the taste of blood, for, of course, the
bodies of the slain wolves were almost
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or very narrow gauGering o. black So
null. These lines reached from neck to
belt all around. Tho sleeves were of lace
over satin from top TO bottom, with the
lines of gauifering in the same style. A
double cap was made to the sleeves of ao-
Gordon plated silk null. The parasol was
of black satin, with white crepe lisse ruff
fles, and the hat was of black and white
straw, with black ostrich tips and white
peonies as trimming. 1t was called n
magpie costume, and It was very stylish
as well as handsome.
l must not forget TO mention another
new idea, and this was skirt half full of
flounces. The skirt was built up like 9th
ers, but on each side there were five wide
flounces, leaving the front breadth and
back one free and plain. Each flounce was
edged with narrow knife plating of
black taffeta. The gown itself was of fig
ured surah. It was very odd. Another
dress of figured india had five flounces of
black silk muslin, each three inches wide,
with narrow edge of fulled silk muslin.
These hounoes were brought down TO the
foot Of the front breadth seam in front and
up to the waist at the back, nearly cover
Ing the sides with diagonal tlouncing.
There was bertha at the waist with three
overlapping ruffles of the black silk null.
There was a sash belt of wide black moire
ribbon. Ruf1les Of all kinds and flounces
of all kinds are most decidedly in vogue
now, yet they are not at all obligatory,
witness some very handsome new designs
and importations for summer costumes.
There was one gown of white mohair
The skirt was cut smooth over the hips
and not so very wide at the bottom.
There was an embroidered design Of vines
in shaded greens all around the skirt near
the bottom and again at the top. There
was also a small, trailing pattern down
the sleeves and around the shoulders
On the shoulders and down the outer seam
there was doubled fall of white silk
muslin and hchu scarf, like that de-
scribed above edged with the new lace.
And there was a dainty visiting gown of
blue and white figured taffeta, the skirt
untrimmed and the waist draped to the
left side under a crushed ruffle bow of the
same. The only garniture was what was
achieved by several rows of fiat valen.
ciennes insertion on the neck and on the
left shoulder blade in the back, for the
back had diagonal drapery of the silk
from the top of the right shoulder to the
left side The resyof the back was of the
silk set on straight. with the lace laid
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Shake Into Your Shoes

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A MUSCULAR DIVINITY.
The Girl Gradu' te Of Today Not
Only Sweet, but Athletic.
SHE HAS FEW FRILLs AND FANcIBs

Points OF Difference Between the New
Type of College Girl and the old-Hun-
dred Yard Dashes and Football scrim-
images Part of the Higher Education.
In a fluffy white aureole and with the
scent of jack loses about her comes the
sweet girl graduate to add to glorious
jane crowning glory.
That is the way we outsiders view
her advent. At least those of us who
have the least bit of romance left-and
most of us have more than we suspect,
even in this mercenary era--look at it
thus. She is sweet scented chimera of
the new summer. She comes like the
meteor and fades out of our vision like
the rainbow.
This is the time honored and leg
eudary view Of the girl graduate. 1t is
supported by all the annals of poetry
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SWindled.

First Street Loafer-It's a shame,
Bill, to think that any one would swim
die a poor hard working man in tina
way.
Second Street Loafer-Why, what'
your trouble?
First Street Loafer-Here l worked
hard for half day painting up a spar
row into a redheaded Belgian canary,
and am blowed if the fellow ! sold il
to didn't give me bad half crown for
it.-London Spare Moments.