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roo MUCH PLOT.

WIZ - Many DFaRatisea Novels
Have Been Complete FailuRes.
Several recent failures, or narrow es-
capes, OF promising new plays teach
again the old lesson that 20 few dramat-
lists learn. I'm every case-too much
plot, says tho New York World.
The dramatist too often forRets that
he 10 not , novelist, and tries to please
the people BY giving them entangle-
ments and mysteries. And the people
are puzzled. irritated and wearied. The
plot set down In outline seems simple.
enough. But when the actors try to
put it into pamtomime it becomes te-
dious or incomprehensible.
A moments thought will make it
clear that plot ID q very small considera-
ton in the construction of play. The
simpler It II the better. 90 little does it.
amount to that the pleasure got from
seeing . play 10 not aeaseoed by know
ing the plot in advance.
The dramatist wants situation. The
less plot he has to use to carry them
and make them probable the better his
chances Of success.
This 10 the reason why failure lies in
wait for dramati1ed novels. The very
element that makes the novel popular
makes the play dreary bore.
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"p; ", Watlington, A. H. Rahm and
,nd "eiSon !. kimball, your heirs, devisees
.;,nsa lou are hereby notified that the under
in iIiu i.Sa mas expended 500, in the year 1895.
'i ana improvements upon the
=, MEXICAN
or e panlag inning claim in Warm Springs Creek
id.Snu Suiaer, mining district, Blaine county
Der Eth tb. m nroriI order to hold said premises un.
N,,n,ssp s provisions of section 1924. Revised
smouH, OF the United States. being the
Ydns And ios required to hold the same during
Within M ,or ri said calendar year 1895. and IL
ths hI,n nnhn ninety days after the expiration Of
pub|i.haSs |iuhDalsatlon Of this notice which will be-
iuse TO- eoni ior ninety days, you fail or re.
lions ~ 81 ffontrlbute your respective propor.
aecord;ns saeh expenditure as co-owners.
nid cIa 70 your respective interests in
sixt..n.shim .im viz: b. w. Watlineton one.
te,nth tehAa' n aSe.4; A. II. Rahm' one.six-
eighth sSs 10 D and Nelson +. KimbaiI. one
sIIl h. sizoo, y9ur interests in said claim
srty Of T tSr forfeited to and become the pron.
,us Of Il ,,;s ,is undersigned, under and by viz.
llrst publication, Feb Is ixss
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LACK ORIGINALITY.


A ErenehRan C1nAnA0 That All ARere
lean WeAsA- Dress Alike.
A Frenchman of sharp perception
who was recently IN this country sai6
in speaking Of American women that
they were the most beautiful women he
had ever seenin any country, far. far
more handsome.as type than his own
countrywomen, says L'Art de y Mode.
But for their teilets. "bah,r he said,
contemptuously. ANY considerable
number Of American women together
look as il they had come out Of an
orphan asylum for adults, where the
inmates were all dressed alike with
few variations thrown In, thanks to
the gifts of sympathixing outsiders
who presented some elegant garments,
none of which, however. reached the
women to whom they were suited"
Allowing for the exaggeration of this
remark, there Is yet % much Of we'll
founded excuse for it 1t behooves
American dressmakers to sift ont the
grains Of truth from the chan Of BIZ
ased opinions and profit by these grains.
Dressmakers are not to blame for the
rphan-asylumappearance produced by
the Wholesale use Of ready made dresses,
but they are responsible for their short
sighted adherence to the fictitious
value of shapes and their lack OF COM
of the value of variety in
dress goods, the obligation upon all the
artistic dressmakers to suit styles of
making to the goods in hand. and OF
the values of colors and
their possible and desirable combina-
tons for given wearer and occasion.
Dressmakers in this country have
made wonderful strides, but a good
many of them have not fully got their
bearings yet. When they do get them !
they will be second to NO dressmakers
n the world.
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signs ra, MARION BYskE, her heirs or a.
Pended I1e ne hereby notified that have er.
lars in laha .he sum Of one hundred (1Ool dol. M
" 'A'or and improvements UPON I the the
lod. WELLINGTON
.sos thRas th1rss niss sIsi'n situated on Bear such
County Idahlnve hlver mining district Blaine
Revised iSs,aao, S,a, as required by section ss asan
Ing the amas ,a.utes of the United States -~i he'
for the AMOUNT yso required to hold | the same ms
that Your year ending December 81 % Isa5
fon the hue .a hat and if within % ninety dsv: ~:
you a ys after this notice by nubl;catIon Tb
acudine' % such such expenditure As !oorpcp yoos pro-
Isaa intss,.ss,g is ssgsl costs OF this publicstion
eopsrty ~ IN N said claim viii bscoms -:
Fa'aioa.o % q .nS s.;a assnsder.igned. Under ths t
26ss, 2,as Ida Idaho, y.nus.1lyA s1As =. GiaAlRrY. ialR
publication. Jsa Il isoe
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NEW FAD FOR RICH woME n

Wearing DianAonds On the FiDge1
Nails IL Now the Thtng.
Millionaire women have q new &C.
ccntricity which they are quite sure
they can reserve for their own exclu-
sive use, says the Detroit Free Press.
The initiating multitudes will be de-
barred from the sincereat form of fat
terry by their lack of ducats. They will,
therefore, be compelled to remain in
the background to covet and admire.
The new millionaire fad is to wear
diamonds on the finger nails. This is
SO very simply accomplished that one
wonders why millionaires have never
thought of it before. When one con-
siders how very easy matter 1t Is
to attach diamonds to the ends of ones
fingers, it becomes matter Of painful
regret that finger nails have remained
unornamented 30 many thousand years.
The new fashion, which has all the
glory and prestige Of an invention
along more scientific lines, DEGREES that
the women with bank accounts long
enough to permit of this costly tritiing
shall have tiny gold cap made for
each of their fingers. From the cap il
suspended on the outer side big dia-
mond drop. which sparkles most salts
factorily, there being one large sparkle
for each finger nail. OF course, the
sparkles are not so conspicuous as they
would be If large number of rings
were not worn at the same time, but
society is hardly yet ready for the great
sacrifice which the laying on of rings
would entail. Some day, perhaps, the
finger nail adornments may be allowed
to ahine in undiminished glory.
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form, and it, head and jaws are pretty
nearly = quarter Of its length, the jaws
tapering almost to . point. It is ha-
Bile when captured to do injury in the
net either to the tip Of the long jaws or
to some part Of it, slender body. It 10
accustomed to swimming near the sur
facs, in wsll-aerated water. Silver gar
taken in Gravesend bay, though handled
with the greatest Of care, have died BE-
fore they could be got to the aquarium
in this city. The silver gar is very diff
ferent from the hardy, bony gar, Of
which there are several specimens now
at the aquarium.-N. Y. Sun.
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At A CHINESE FUNERAL.
Elaborate Feast On the Grave fer th>
Spirits Nou1Ashnent.

Spirits NouTAshnent.
The musical instruments are OF such
whimsical form as nearly to defy de-
scripkion, though they resemble in OUT
line our flute and violin; and the sound
which they produce being an almost un-
heard-of sound to us, we have no Eng
lish term that will adequately express
it, says Eppincott's. Chinese music has
a sort Of softness and melancholy in its
tones that someAimes pleases. but it II
so intolerably monotonous that II pro-
longed it becomes exceedingly irritat-'
ing to the nerves. They have no semi
tones; indeed, they seem only to blow
into the instrument or twang strings at
random from the inspiration of the mo-
ment. However, it appears they have
notes, though their compositions are
not Of much ecientifc value. You some
times hear something like simple mel
ody. not unlike that which runs through
the chants of sayages.
The closing scenes may be said to con-
sist of four acts; that of the mouYners
taking separate leave of their friend,
each apparently trying to outdo the
other in loud lamentations; that Of
gathering together all the ailk and china
and packing away the musical instru-
ments; that Of the undertaken and the
SON Of Erin still further removing the
traces, until only mound marks the
scene: and that of the feast spreadoser
the grave. And it would be an elaborate
menu that would include the substan-
tials and delfcacies calculated to nour-
ish the spirit while it fingers about the
body awaiting resurrection.
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ONLY woMAN.s THEATER.

Paris IL Dsllains the First ef Its
Kind An the Wo1l4.
Women Of every country hereafter
will be At liberty to defend their inter,
ests, assert their privileges and air their
grievances through the medium OF the
drama or the opera, for Paris il build
ing the first and only woman's theater
in the world. It is to be devoted solely
to the interests Of women, and has its
site next to the Women's club known as
the Cecle Pigalle, near Montmartre.
says the Detroit Free Press.
The only weak spot about the affair
is that the manager lisa mere man. This
is disappointing. So long, however, as
he is willing to do the drudgery and
let honor and glory go to the lot Of the
women it does not very much signify:
and, moreover, it is provided in the
agreement that he shall take his in
structions from the executive commit
tee Of the board Of directors, which is
composed Of five women. He must be
. wonderful man. At present he has
succeeded in pleasing the entire board.
Mime. Loevy, who will direct the for
eign department. is very confident as to
its future. Heretofore, she says, the
fact that play was written by q wom-
an has been sufficient in most instances
to condemn it; but this sort Of thing il
to end and women are to have prece-
dence over man in at least one theater.
Man, however, will be graciously lis
tened to in the event of his writing
plays or operas which bear on the SUBJ
ject Of woman's rights, and he is prom
ised fair and unprejudiced criticism.
Nationality is no bar.
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Fish Know Their own Kiaa.

Fish Knew Their own Kind.
It may be that fishes don't know one
another individually, but they know
their own kind. Six weeks ago there
was placed in the great pool at the
aquarium single herring weighing
about quarter Of q pound, an odd fish
that came in with some other stock. One
day recently another little herring was
placed in the pool. The great pool is
36 feet in diameter, but it was only
few minutes before the two little her
rings had found each other, and were
swimming around the pool in company
Half dozen crevalle were placed in tht
big pool one morning. recently, and IL
the afternoon Of the same day two or
three moro. Ten minutes later they
were all scooting around the pool to-
gother.-N. Y. Sun.
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PLATINUM IN RUSSIA
The Rare Metal Pound ChieAy In the
VPal MoNAtAlna.

The Rare Metal Found ChieAy In the
Ural Mountains.
The steady and rapid increase in the
demand for platinum has resulted in .
sharp advance in price, and consequent
ly in q somewhat corresponding in
crease in production, although the
metal is SO rare that the production by
no means keeps even pace with the
growing demand. At present the
price of crude platinum at the mines
in Russia is 900 marks-about E4s or
nearly $225-a klogram. q kilogram
being two and two-tenths pounds, says
the Philadelphia Press.
The Russian ministry Of finances has
recently issued report On the produc-
tion Of platinum in Russia. It has long
been known that Russia led all other
countries In the production of this
metal, although it was first discovered
in America, and the report shows that
Russia at present furnishes 40 times
that produced in all other countries
taken together. It is nota vast amonnt
either. In the year 1880 the quantity
produced in Russia amounted to e,O46
Kilograms; in 1895 It reached 4. ga lilo-
grams. This rare metal is found In
Russia only in the southern Ural, where
in mining for the metal the still rarer
metal iridium is found, but only In
small quantities. Last year the quan.
tity of iridium obtained did not
amount to more than four and one
tenth Kilograms, or about nine pounds.
Platinum is refractory metal, and the
methods OF working it are not known
in Russia, SO that the ore Is exported to
Germany and to England, end Russia
reimports SO much of the worked-up
platinum as it requires.
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NEVER HEARD FROM

ShlDs 1Aot Rave sailed froa Povl
Net - Return.
1t is some years now since the last
mysterious disappearance OF . great
ship. This was the Naronic, freight
steamer Of unusual size which sailed the
Atlantic and was lost in 1893. Pieces of
wreck1ge from his vessel have been
picked up, however. which has not
been the caee in all auch cases. Amonr
the mysterious disappearancea Of the
past were the steamships President, City
Of Glasgow, Pacific, Ocean Monarch
and City Of Boston, the ironelad Cap.
tain and Ahe Liberin and Barton.
Twenty-seven PEARS have passed away
since TIN City Of Boston was placed on
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woMAn.s PROGRESS IN JAPAN.

+
The Emperor and tho B@Dsooo Both
Believers IN MoaeRn Iaees.
At last the women Of Japan are be-
ginning to get their inning. The en-
peror himself e interested in their ad-
vancemeut. He hopes IN time that they
will attain the same position enjoyed
by the women of Europe and America
The drst step he took toward this ad-
vancemsnt was to abolish stained teeth
and shaved eyebrows. Next. on the
twenty fifth anniversary Of his mar
riage he introduced the idea Of the cell
cbration Of q silver wedding into his
country. On this occasion he gave
. big feast and received countless pres
ents. His female subjects were delight
ed at this, and said that no empress had
ever been 70 honpred, says the New
York Sun.
The empress Of Japan. Fusaka, II
by no means kept In the background by
her husband. She shares his throne,
and is consulted ON matters Of national
Importance. More than this, she pre-
sides at his table, and this il an honor
accorded to none Of her predecessors.
The empress, from all accounts, il quite
an up-to-date woman. and has proven
herself worthy Of all her privileges. She
il an active patroness of the TOXIC
women's hospital, which is conducted
on the most modern scientific princi-
Piles. She IL also quite IN athlete, and
has model gymnasiun. erected solely
for her benefit, in the palace. SD prac-
tices there every day, and is also fond
of riding. Who knows but in time
she may take to the bicycle? The en-
peror has dedicated to her many Of his
most beautiful poemA which ahow that
the braveat deeds have been inspired
by feminine beauty. She il even more
interested in the advancement OF her
sex than he Is. .s,.....,.-.
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NO JAPANESE RECIPROCITY.

They Will Discover Our Secrets Bat
We Can't Theirs.
There il not word to be said against
a policy that affords educational facil-
ties to all, regardless of nationality,
-'eiigion Or race, says Arthur's Mag
zine. But the japanese enter our fac
ories and workshops, and when they
ave mastered the secrets return to
heir native shores and found factories
o compete with our own. All honor
and praise to those little Japs who will
.ontentedly bear exile and dissimn,ate
the Unborn contempt in which they hold
us, that they may contribute to the
prosperity of their beloved Dai Nippos..
But what would be said Of our mann.
facturers, who, while zealously guard
ing the secrets of their Inventions from
their competitors by patents, expose
these results of their ingenuity to spies
whom no sense OF honor or gratitude
will deter from using them to their own
advantage.
There is no reciprocity TO be had from
"A Japanese. Let any American, even
though armed with letters Of introduc-
ton from the secretary Of state. or
even from the chief executive himself,
proceed to Japan and attempt to dis
cover the secrets Of their lacquer or any
other industry peculiar to japan. He
would uniformly meet with decided
If courteous "dekimasen;" it can't bc
done. No, the Japanese are only and
perfectly willing to profit by our good
nature, which, in their eyes, is moth
ing but stupendous folly.
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OLD AND EwMvs,cAl sruo,E:


OAO ANU NEW WWO0s~Ae . uO0S8D
The MoAern Musician woulA Net
work Hard.
There in nothing in musical history
more remarkable than the difference
between the training of the old mas
tiers and that Of the generation which
succeeded them. Haydn worked 16
hours day with Fux' Gradus and the
sonatas of Emanuel Bach; Mozart, the
quickest of pupils, was taken by care
full and exacting teacher through the
most rigorous course of study that the
age permitted; Beethoven spent his
boyhood in almost overstrained labor,
and at an age when many men would
look upon their education as complete
set himself again to write themes for
Haydn and counterpart exercises for
.Albreohtsberger. But Beriioz. List,
WaSrer, can hardly be described as
educated musicians at all. No doubt
the, first Of them was technically at
the Paris Cons9rvatoire. but of his con-
nection with it the less said the better.
Liszt, as a young man. had little incli-
nation to exchange the triumphs of the
virtuoso for the drudgery of the stu
dent. Wagner was given up as inccr-
rigible by two masters. and by the third
sent out as q finished composer after six
months. And even the musicians of
this period who stand nearer to the
classical line-such as Schumann and
Chopin-are affected in some degree
by the want Of balance aud complete
ness in their musical training.
In their student days they were
brought up on Dach's "well-tempered
clsvier," but they knew little Of his
choral work, certainly not the passion
music or the B minor mass; they heard
some Mozart and Haydn, but little Of
Beethoven, and Of Schubert virtually
nothing; they were taught how to
write a fugue, but not how to write
sonata or symphony. No doubt Schu-
mann discovered for himself a great
deal more than he ever learned from
Kuntzsch; there is the famous story OF
his training his hand for chamber mu-
sic by shutting himself up with ali
Beethoven's quartets," but this is a very
different thing from studying the great
model at the proper time and under the
proper influences. And Chopin. few
years before his death. had never heard
Of the F minor-the "most beethoven
ish Of them all" as Mendelssohn called
it-and had to send round to . music
shop in order to procure a copy. I'M
agine a poet Of the present day who
should take his friends advice and or
der Leah" or Hamlet" from the cir
culating library.-Contemporary Re-
view.
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sociETY in The COW COUNTRY.


Party.
Sometimes in the winter season so
ciety in the COW town would be enliv-
ened by ball. Such an occasion was
= singu,at and somewhat austere event,
and one which it would be difficult to
match to-day in al the land. The news
of the coming ball spread after the
mysterious fashion of the plains, so
that in some way it became known in a
short time far and wide across the
range. The cowboys so miles away
were sure to hear Of it and to be on
hand. coming horseback from their
ranches, each man clad in what he
thought was his best. The entire popu-
lace Of the cow town was there. the ball
room being the largest room to be
found in the town, wherever that might
chance to be. Refreshments were on
hand, sometimes actually cake, made
by the fair hands Of the girls from
Kansas. A fiddler was obtained from
some place, and this we,l-meaning, If
not always melodious, individual was
certain to have . hard nights work
ahead Of him.
OF course there was . great scarcity
Of lady partners, for the men outnum-
bered the women dozen to one. No
woman, whatever her personal descrip.
tion, needed to fear being slighted at
such ball. There were no wallfiowers
on the range.
Between dances the cowpuncher en-
tertained his fair one with the polite
small talk of the place: surmises that
the weekly mail had been delayed by
some mules getting "alkalied over on
the fats" talk o. the last ho,d-up of
the mail; statistics Of the number of
cattle shipped last year, and the prob
able number to be shipped this; details
OF the last killing" in the part Of the
country from which the cowpuncher
came, etc. 1t sometimes happened that
the lady was not averse to sharing with
her escort a bit of the liquid refresh
ments that were provided. The effects
of this, the stir of the dancing, the
music, the whirl and 60 of it all, 80
unusual in the experience of most of
the attendants, kept things moving in
q fashion that became more and more
lively as the hours passed by.-E-
Hough, in Chautauquan.
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the missing list, but some are now 0v.
ing who had friends and rel4&3ses on
board OF her.
The City OF Boston cleared at the port
Of New York on Tuesday, January IS.
1870. She sailed from Liverpool by the
way of Halifax, with IL cabin and
IS steerage passengers. Since she left
Halifax no vestige Of her has ever beer,
seen except q message saying that fhe
ship was sinking. Her exact fate viii
never be known, 6 eH
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A writer In the London Spectator mas
many interesting things to tell about
popular supsrstitions that survive in
Ireland. A friend Of his who lived in
Connemara states that the belief in
fairies and the mischievous "1ittle
people" Is still very strong in that
region. and the idea Of "fairy posses
sion" is also common. This latter super-
stition sometimes works disastronslx.
- when . sick person is entirely neg
lected by his or her friends. II anv
remon-trance is made, the answer ii:
"Shure, it's not him (er her, a. the
case may be) at all. It's only IN ould
fairy" Even medicine ordered BY the
doctor has net been given to the nm.
fortunate sufferer, on the ground that
1T nd do no good; it's not thin 10 in
IL"
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All IrasA.

Lord william Beresford, the husband
OF thedowager duchess of Marlborough,
is now so years of age, and like his
brother, Lord Charles Beresford. wears
the Victoria cross. He won it in the
Zulu war, by carrying to safety, with
the help Of Gergt. Osroole, another
wounded Irish sergeant under heavy
ire Of the enemy. Lord William refused
10 accept his cross till one had been
Riven TO Q-roole. All three Of the men
were IrisAmen and the horses they
rode wers Irish. too. 80 DetroN IRE
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A Carious superstitien.

Among the superstitions Of the Sem
eca Indians was one mostbeautiful one:
When . young maiden died they impris-
oned . young bird until Il first began
to try its powers Of song; and then load
ing it with caresses and messages they
loosed It's bonds over her grave. in the
belief that 1t would not fold its wing
nor close its eye until it had nown to
the Spirit Lan3apd delivered its precious
burden Of affection TO the loved and lost
one.--St. Nicholas.