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Some Passing Fashions,

Blue canvas gowns of open mesh, with green silk Things, are decidedly smart.
 Though the tip-tilted hat is said to be going out, it certainly retains it's hold on feminine favors long while.
 The cloakings for next season will show in about equal numbers smooth and rough-faced effects. Fancy boucles in novel patterns have been in demand for the early fall cloaks, but there is a likelihood that smooth goods will pre- dominate in the more elegant garments made up for later sale.
 A pretty garment to be worn with T dark skirt for street wear in the early fall is the Russian blouse. An exceed. lngly smart one is made of cieriout red cloth. It fastens at the side with three or four large and handsome buttons belted garment is becoming to all unusually stout figures and much popu. larity is predicted for the Russian blouse.-Chicago Record.
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new knickerts have cuffs or extensions of the same material, instead of box cloth, as they were last year. The change gives a better effect. Scottish golf hose are worn rolled down far enough to show three buttons on the cuffs. The coat has patch pockets. The entire suit is made of fancy chew iot or tweed, the waistcoat being of the same material, single breasted, or fancy plaid or Tattersall, either single or douhle-breasted. With this go a soft Hamburg hat, turned down in front, low russet shoes-have lem big and heavy--a colored shirt, either of Madras or flannel, and a Madras hunt ing stock instead of collar and tie. Most men can make the same suit an- swer for golf and general country wear.
 For business men, sacks, single and double-breasted, will be worn All the new coats will be cut to make the wearers look broad-shouldered, and tailors will try to do this without much padding. A man who is slim and has a neck and shoulders like champagne bottle will have to blame nature for his failure to look fashionable. Neither overcoats nor underceats will be cut tight. Theywill appear rather largeand comfortable, the idea being to make man look athletic and rugged. So when you order a sack coat have your tailor give you good square shoulders, a loose back and front fitting nicely, but not too tight. Trousers little on the pegtop order-say averaging IS inches at the knee and 10 at the bot tom go with the suit.
 Formal dress for day wear will in- elude q double-breasted, three-bnt- toned frocl1 of vieuna or undressed worsted, with lapels faced to the but ton holes. It should fall about to the knees. Waistcoat the same or fancy Trousers striped, pegtop shape; high hat, patent leather shoes; high stand ing, lap-front collar; Ascot tie"
 And then for evening wear2"
 Well, the average man will be happy to know that evening dress changes very little. The coat is fine twilled worsted, 37 10 38 inches in length for the average man; the IapeIs are peaked, the collar larger than last years, the skirts five inches wide at the bottom, the edges blind-stitched. The waistcoat has four buttons and y-shaped opening; the trousers are
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WILLING TO WAIT.
singular Exhibition of PoIiteness
 Witnessed in a Dentists Office.

singular Exhibition of PoIfteness
 Witnessed in a Dentists Office.
 It was in the dentists office. Three women, two girls and a man were in the waiting-room, with uneasy express sions on their faces. One of the girls held her hand to her face, and was com forted by a companion. The man sat grim as a sphinx. The women were si- lently mournful. In the front room the dentist was working on q patient. Yowls of more or less subdued char aeter issued at intervals from the spot where he was plying his jimmy and lice tongs' and the women shiyered and looked toward the door. The girl with the swollen jaw said to her companion: "Oh, l do wish he would hurry up.e
 One of the women said to another of her fellow-sufferers: Isn't it strange that a person has to wait so long in a dentists offiee?" The answer was: Its perfectly terrible, ain't it?7
 Suddenly there was louder howl from the front room than usual. Just then the office door opened and young fellow came in with his hand to his jaw He took seat among the mourners and waited. In few seconds the dentist came out in the waiting-room and said with a baleful smile: "Who is next?'
 The man pointed to the women with heroic politeness. The women indi- cated the girl with the swollen jaw Just then the author of the heartrend- ing yowls from the front room made her appearance. She was red-eyed and touzly as to hair. She had been weeping. The waiting girl with the swelled jaw turned to the young fellow who had just come in and said:
 ''I guess you may take my turn for g little"
 The young man arose, and, with 6 gesture betokening the courage of de. spair, entered the lions den.-Chicago Chronicle.
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the same cloth, the cut inciining toward the peg topy with evening dress avoid the embroidered shirt, ornaments of all kinds and iewelry. A plain white shirt with three small gold studs and with link collar, and lawn tie, tied by the wearer are correct. The tie should fit the collar. Ties are now made in diff ferent lengths. Tell your haberdasher the size of collar you wear. A 141a collar calls for a tie about 29 inches long.
 In overcoats the Chesterfield will be the most popular of the season. twill reach just below the bend of the knee and be made of cheyiot, worsted or lambs wool-browns, blues and grays. The center seam in the back will be vented. 1t will have the square-shoul- dered, full-baclzed look.
 ''The negligee overcoat will be the covert, just long enough to hide a sack coat. Under no circumstances should this be worn with any but sack suit. It is made of covert cloth, in various shades, of which tan is most popular. with vented side seams, fly front, all seams strapped, heavily-stitched edges, and cut rather loose. In fact, it will have the appearance of hanging straight from the shoulders.
 "Another popular coat will be the double-breasted box coat made of Ker- sey or smooth-faced beaver, falling two or three inches below the knee and fur nished with velvet collar. H has large-peaked lapels and laps over the pockets, the seams lapped, the edges double-stitched.
 For driving. full box coat of Ker- sey is appropriate"
 What will the man wear who is in love with his own shape?"
 Probably a paletot, which is that tight-ftting froek overeoat, very hard
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II z1f q lf-4IsI q "That was Mrs. Billtops.
Truths in n Few Words.

A child's respect for it's parent is not secured by over-leniency any more than by over-severity.
 A daughter should never seek nor be allowed to "outdress" her mother. In every family the mother should be the best-dressed member.
 The discarded fnery of a daughter should never constitute a mothers wardrobe. No one feels especially dig clothes she is wearing, and mother should at all times preserve her dignity before her children. The mother who never loses her queenliness will never lose her crown.
 Preventable misfortunes consist chiefly of manifold things, little to do, but immense things to have done.
 The man who earns one dollar and spends two, and the man who earns two dollars and spends one, stand on either side of the hair line between needless ness and discretion, between ruin and safety.
 Parents generally receive that meas ure of filial respect they deserve not always, perhaps, but very generally.
 When a mother allows her daughter to appropriate her wraps, gloves. veils, or other articles of personal attire. sha begins policy of familiarity which, sooner or later, breeds contempt. re- spect for one's belongings engenders a respect for their possessor. Ladies Home Journal.
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l for the average man to wear. It must be made to order and fit like glove. Unless you can have it made to order and stand in the posture of a soldier, better leave it alone. It is especially coat for well-shaped, well set up men. It has a velvet collar, peaked lapels, and is double-breasted or fly front. Material, worsted, cheviot or Venetians.
 Storm coats or ulsters will be made about on the old lines-massive gar ments, down to the ankles, double breasted, with big lapels and 8 great collar.
 ''The Inverness is g. stylish garment for evening wear, made long, with cape of cheyiot or lambs wool. Fur collars on overcoats are not to be as common this year as they have been. Nice coat for man to wear if he can afford it and wants to, but men of wealth don't usually care to use their clothing as t means of advea-tis- ing their bank accounts. Such a coat would be long half box sack, the back center seam with long vent, the collar cut shawl fashion and faced with fur Persian lamb or Kersey is about the best com mbination.
 Fancy waistcoats will be worn with either formal or business and outing suits. For formal wear, either light Marseilles, double-breasted, or black silk self-fgured and double breasted, for business, fancy worsted or Tat tersalls, double-breasted; for golf the same materials in louder patterns.
 For day and negligee use the fancy shirt will stay. The best pattern is a stripe, either running up and down or crosswise. Cuffs of same, collar white. The most popular collar for day use is & solid front, high-banded turn-down; for fonmal wear, a straight standing lap front.
 For neckwear the Scottish plaids will be used very extensiyely-the butt terhy bow, the two-inch four-in-hand and the three-imch. Ascot are the shapes. Nearly every man is supposed to be able to tie his own neclwear, but the haberdasher is always ready to fit out the man who can't.
 Hats Un, 1neTt s I10 hurry aeyr1TITbt- hats The summer season lasts longer and longer every year anyhow. The fall shapes will differ somewhat. of course, but general principles remain the same. OWEN LANGDoN.
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HIS HIS WIFE MAKES HIM WORK.
Good Luck Dates from His Marriage
 to a Muscular Woman


 Get me a wife was the strange re- uuest made of the agent of the North American Transportation and Trading company at Fort Cudahy one day last spring by an indolent miner named Mat Simpson.
 What kind of a wife do you want" asked the agent.
 Any one, so long as she's white, can speak English, and is not afraid to work, replied Simpson.
 Simpson had struck good claim but would only work it enough to keep him supplied with dust for drinking and gambling purposes. So long as he had an ounce of gold left he would spend his time in carousing, and when full of whisky was ugly and dangerous The agent at Fort Cudaby thought 1t would be a pity for any woman to get such a worthless chap for husband but he communicated Simpsons order to the purser of the next boat that came along, and was surprised to hear him say:
 q know the very woman for him. I'll bring her up on the back trip if he will advance the fare"
 Simpson put up the money, and on the return trip the purser escorted ashore stalwart woman of 40 years who had been working as cook in camp down the river. The eourtship was short. Simpson had good prospects and the woman knew it. They were married in | 5,,o fe,,,, o4,d xvaI.t fo lyeeDinO hp1ISe At once. For two days Mrs. Simpson did not interfere with her husbands com ings and goings, but on the third morn ing, when he gave signs of starting for the saloon, she put herself before the door and said:
 "Take your tools, Mat, and go to work in the shaft"
 Mat was foolish enough to say that he hadn't married woman to be bosseo by her. When he recovered his senses he had two black eyes. a bruised nose and big lump on his head. Without 2 word he shoaldered his tools and went straight to his claim, Mrs. Simpson fol lowing to see that he did not get off the road For three months he worked hard. and when he asked the agent tc take care of a little matter of ,00( l for him he said:
 That's fine woman you brought me for wife She's the best in the eoun try."-Chicago Tribune.
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FAMINE IN EUROPE.
Shortage in Crops Seems Likely to
 Produce Starvation Prices.
Dear Food Abundant, But Cheap Food scarce-That Means un- told Suffering Among the
 Poor.
TCopyright, 1897. l

The conviction has been growing on both sides of the Atlantic that Europe is face to face with something grinly and sternly resembling famine.
 There has been DO case of famine within the present century when there was not in the world plenty of food for all it's people, if only it were proper ly distributed. This was the case in Ireland. which was actually exporting wheat by the shipload' at the very time when it's people were dying like sheep because of the potato rot. In the pres ent famine in India, it is not the lack of grain so much as the hack of money 10 buy it, that is starving the natives, as is proved by the fact that the gov ernment, instead of distributing grains is instituting relief work to give the people money.
 The distinction doesn't mean a great deal to man who is starving. It doesn't make much difference to him whether he is starving in sight of plen- ty or within hail of only distress. There are indications that the poor of many European cities will taste of real suffering before the winter is over. and that their misery may have a potent influence on larger politics.
 All indications are that the poor will be pinched in their food supplies. It has been very wet season every where. Wet seasons are favorable to a large product of beef. cheese, and but ter, which are dear foods, and unfayora- pIe to the growth and maturing of corn. wheat, rye, and many of the yegeta- bles, which are cheap foods. Potatoes especially. are the staple cheap Vegeta.
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CLOTHES FOR THE MEN.
Styles That Will Be Worn This
 Autumn.
shirts and NecIvear in Profusion Swell Attire for Afternoon and Evening 4 Coat to
 show Of Shoulders.
Copyright, 1871


 Certainly. In the old days a man went into shop, said gimme @ black tie,' c1utched it and went. Nowadays, why, heavens and earthl haberdasher will fish out fancy ties and dump lem at him until he's tired, and then slap down 300 patterns of fancy shirts to choose from, instead of the steady-go- ing old white shirt. The safest thing for the average man is to trust him self entirely to an intelligent trades man. Vivid tones and Scotch fabrics will rule in the seasons goods. The peculiarity of the Scotch school is it's use of the most vivid colors. The art of dyeing yarn in Scotland is an old one. The dyes are made principally of ingredients found there and employed for hundreds of years. The old bright greens, reds, golds, and other mixtures, so popular. in the clan making not only our eravettings, but our suitings and waisteoatings as we'll.
 Tn neglige dress, which covers suits for outing and business purposes, q man can spend a small fortune, if he IS so inclined, with the wheel, golf, the saddle and country walks-in all of which costume plays an important part.
 For wheeling the average man will wear q single-breasted sack coat, with kniclkers of tbe same material The
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ent, corn is not tempted tc leave tha farm at all, but is fed where it s raised. This is true of the bulk of 4ba crop in any case. Probably about four-fifths of our corn has always been. fed on the farm. Sc we are not likelv to send Europe enough corn to fees, her. Last springs heavy exportations were made from last falls very laroa crop, and on low figures. Now the con. ditions are different.
 There are substitutes for grain-well what? In Holland and Denmark cheese; in Italy. chestnuts, olives, fin. occhi-all limited in quantity. There is rice, of course; and this Europe will certainly import. in increased euanti- ties, thus deepening India's distress and troubling far-away China and Japan. whose staple it is.
 Two or three years ago British India was one of the chief competitors of the American farmer. Not so in this fam inc year, when the crop is only eight. elevenths of normal, and the exports since April have actually been but about one-tenth of what they were last year, even as last year they were but ten per cent. of a normal average. Ten per cent. of ten per cent. is one per cent. India is sending to Europe one bushei of wheat where she sent ever hundred in 1891.
 What Australia and Argentina will produce in the coming season is purely conjecture. They are south of the equator, and this is their early spring, In two months we may know their acreage sown. and that is about all. The shortage of their last years crops. reaped, in our northern spring of 1897, contributed largely to the European shortage. Next spring they may re- lieve the situation by huge crop-and they may not.
 There are Russia and Hungary-the vast plains of central and eastern Eu- rope, which have been tine granaries of the western cities. Hungarian prices began to mount sharply before our own did so. Russia, with a short crop, mar forbid the export of wheat, and SC make the situation of Paris, Amster
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dam, London and Rome more acutely uncomfortable.
 If the mutiny on the Afghan frontier of British India should spread and war should interfere with the crops in the Panjab, the chief wheat region of In- dia, then the condition of Europe, like that of India, would become desperate indeed.
 The poor of our own cities will suffer from high prices, but they may at leasi profit by the abundance of work, which higher prices ought to bring. In for eign cities the very poor will not hays this advantage.
 It would not be strange if before spring the European governments were contemplating relief work so as to give their people employment and save them from starvation.
 In such an emergency Great Britain, with her splendid credit, could have no difficulty in providing all the work needed. France can raise money easily. but can hardly avoid the irrepressibl. conflict between the farmers, who will want the grain tariffs retained, andthe mill hands, who will want tAem rel moved.
 The blow of high prices will fall with peculiar force upon Belgium, with her dense population and low wages.
 In Germany times have of late been so prosperous that there is plenty of capital for industrial enterprises, butE the same difficulty will arise over the grain duties.
 In Italy, where the grain crops are reported very poor, where the govern. 5 ment's credit is very low. owing to herE jingo foreign policy, and where private capital is insignificant, the pressure oi poverty must be grim indeed
 In Russia most of the people are far Z enough toward the east to be able ts die without complaining.
 In all these countries there will h E much suffering which no government works or emergency appropriations can touch. A large part of Europe's poF ulation stands face to face with yerFN bitter want.
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ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION.
Points fo lie Remembered Whatever
 Method Is Used.


 Method Is Used.
 The theory of artificial respiration is that by restoring the respiratory move menfs immediately after they have ceased to be carried on naturally, the process of breathing may again be set up. and life preserved Experiments have shown that the vitality of the hu- man body may be preserved for period of three minutes after air has ceased to be inspired
 Airmay be introduced artifieially into the lungs in several ways by alternate iy compressing and releasing the walls of the chest and abdomen; by breath ing directly into the mouth; by com bination of both these methods; and by exciting the muscles of respiration with electricity. Whatever method is used, it is important to remember the following points:
 I. The bronchial passages should be cleared of all Instructions, solid or fiuid 1t is obvious that the chances of suc- cess are directly proportionate to the ease with which the air can be made to enter the lungs.
 ?. The body cannot be resting too quietly while the treatment is in prog ress. It is better that it should be kept in horizontal position, in order that tie heart be not embarrassed.
 B For the same reason any excessive motion in manipulation, or force in filling the lungs, is to be avoided. Every ounce of vitality is needed by the res piratory muscles.
 4. 1t is important that the air intro duced into the lungs should be as warm as possible If there is fire near at hand. the body should be brought as riase te it as possible. The ideal thing is a room with an even temperature throughout of 90 degrees
 ]. The quantity of air to be thrown into the lungs is a question of no small moment. While it might seem that even large amount of air forced into the lungs could not be harmful, it is desir- able in practieing artificial respiration to initiate the natural process as far as may be About 12 in minute is con sidered 10 be a sufficient number of in spirations to force upon the lungs.
 G. Efforts to induce natural respira- ton should not be given up. so long as the blood in the veins remains fluid or the muscles respond to electrical excita- tion
 Attempts at artificial respiration are subjects, or in those whose natural vitality or reserve force is good Youths Companion.
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Raw Potato Dump1ings.

Pare 12 medium-sized potatoes and soak them one-half hour in cold water Crate and at once squeeze out all the water possible by putting into a coarse bag; remove when well squeezed and pour a little boiling water over. Take two slices of bread, cut in diamonds
 and fry nice brown, after which stir them into the scalded potato, salt to taste, form into round ball, and boil or steam one-half hour.-Ladies' World
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Fainter na tn c.rnnea.

One of the oldest women teachers the public schools of Portland, Ore. h' the Klondike fever, and proposes goin north. The clerk of the board of educ' tion, California '49er, advises her take up a load of candies, cigars an nuts, rather than to try any other wa w. of making money or a living there. D recalls the visit of woman with sue a cargo to a California camp, and say that she cleared $1,O0O between sata' day and Monday.
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 Doubtless n Canard.

The rumor that Gen. Miles has De so much pleased with the methods q, practices of the Turkish army that has in view recommending the adop1' of the fez, baggy trowsers, and 2 or more wives for each of the officers the United States army, on his retul lacks confirmation. It is donbtless cruel canard intended to raise hog which cannot be realized. Military zette Chicago.