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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-18

mine. She is leading lady famous for
her beauty. and considered by many the
best-dressed woman on the American stage
today. But she will wear low-cut gowns,
and she has the thinnest neck in the
United States. Her head is very pretty
and well poised on her shoulders. aud she
is so well aware OF this fact that she in
sists upon exposing her neck in order that
the graceful line of her throat may not be
hidden II she only knew how those bones
distract ones attention from her mignonne
face she would consent to giving up decol-
iete, but so far I have been unsuccessful
in persuading her TO do so.
Society women are even more obstinate.
They are called diplomatic and clever. and
are certainly adopts ut hiding unlovely
traits of character They don't advertise
bad tempers or selishneSs or insincerity
by openly confessing these faults. and
would be deeply offended If any one limited
that they were not beautiful and charming
in every respect, but they call society's at
teEtiOn to the fact that their collar bones
show, and that their arms are shapeless.
Now. isn't that Inconsistent
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MIS-. ALExANDER's PLUCK.
She Continues Writing. Though Old,
Crlppled. and Sick.

LONDON. Feb. 4-One of the pluckiest
of women lives here in London on Nadia
Hill. Her pen name is known all over
the United States. but few there would
recognize an old friend under the name
of Mrs. Annie Hector. which is the proper
appeliation of the lady who has written
some thirty odd novels under the name
of Mrs. Alexander.
The author OF THE wocing OF" is at
this moment engaged in writing another
novel. She is writing 1t by handsome
thing not so often done in these days OF
secretaries. stenographers typewriters. and
phonographs-and she is doing it with as
much interest and animation and good
spirits as if, in the first place, she were
not seyenty-six years old. and as IT, in the
second place. she had not been an almost
helpless invalid for several years.
Mrs. Alexander chuckles when she says
she is seventysix. as If it were a sort of
a joke on Father Time, and perhaps it is,
for the old gentleman with the hour glass
has been unable to make her look n day
over sixty; and her talk is as bright and
CHEEKY as that of woman in the prime of
life. Yet rheumatism has pursued her like
a fend, and for four or five years she has
been able TO leave her chair only with the
great deal TO her for she was vastly fond
of getting about among her friends and of
going to the theatre, yet she has never
grumbled and has written OF almost with
out interruption, sitting all day as cheer
fully as you please behind a big flat-topped
desk. with all sorts of literary materials
close at hand and a stout cane within
reach. She prefers that cane to bell.
She wanted TO have book brought in from
another room the day / called last week.
and pounded on the floor with her cane.
Il can call spirits from the Vastly deep"
she said, with a twinkle in her eye. land
what is more, they come when l call
them. See IL they don't"
And the maid came in as she spoke.
Mrs. Hector is an Irishwoman, and has
all the mother wit that is called for by
traditions of her race. She must have
been beauty when she was a girl. She
married well-to-do Scotchman, and
never took seriously to writing until her
husband died leaving an estate in such
condition that an extra income was most
desirable.
Mrs. Alexander always wanted TO write
for the stage, and although one of her
books was dramatized, Fate always
stepped in just as it was about to be
produced.
The novel to which Mrs. Alexander is
now giving the finishing touches Will take
her readers into new territory, for the
hero and the villain both find themselves
hunting big game in the south of Africa,
and having some adventures in whose
liveliness Mrs. Alexander perhaps finds
here compensation for the painfully en-
forced quietaess of her OWN life.
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THE HIGHER FILTRATION.
1t Il Pintouic in Character and Ex-
tremely Interesting.


treme1y Interesting.
Many girls will fail to comprehend the
higher filtration. and proceed in the same
old way, and men will ignorautly marry
the piquant face and viVacious manner.
But to the marriage of true minds i'm
pediments have been removed. The free
dom OF our education develops platonic
Irritation to its noblest uses. IL American
men make the best husbands, the reason
is related to the training they have in
meeting on terms OF equality with many
women.
1t is stupid in men or women to lack the
instinct OF Irritation. but this instinct. like
so many others. can be turned to the deep
est or the emptiest uses. No sharp line
can be drawn between investigation and
pretence. To make yourself attractive.
cOmprehending and sympathetic is the way
to draw out another nature and obt1in full
knowledge and to condemn all coluctry Is
like recommending swimming and forbid
ding water. Sentimental people fear inti-
macies which do not end seriously but the
increase of knowledge and security Is
worth some hearts broken before marriage
instead OF after. Few objects are more
readily mended. and few improve so much
through injury and repair. PlatOnic fir
tatiOn is one of the safeguards of the human
race As one after another OF my friends
have passed through this gate TO the al
tar | have been TEMPTED to declare that
NEST plstonic friendships end in matri-
mcny. but a calmer memory recalls num-
berless escapes. through this probation,
from impending wedlock.-Atlantic Month
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TO realize this because of the curious and
ominous human ailments that are the out
growth of overtaKing the system CT shop
ping.
For example, there is hardly n week
goes by that | am not called In to look
after a well-defined case OF dressmaker's
Mysteries directly due to great mental aud
muscular exhaustion over a gown that the
constituencies seamstress fails TO send
home in time for the date. and occasion for
which it has been planned. These at
tscks are invariably aggravated by the hus-
band. who jokes or jeers at the very mo-
ment when every soothing influence is
needed for the sufferer l have known dis
tinctly serious cases of nervous prostration
following too much fitting and matching
succeeded by too frequent disappoint-
ments.
Now, my dear young friend" she an
swered gently, don't drop into the COM
mon masculine error of believing that wo-
men dress for vanity's sake and suffer such
hardships merely to crafty lust for
clothes. The American woman is the best
dressed OF her sex in the world; gives TO
her toilets her time, her brains. nay al
most her very lifeblood. Why? Chiefly
because the American man Is the most ex-
acting husband in the world as regards
the splendor OF his wife's appearance. She
may not be a good housekeeper. accom-
plished or even beautiful but she must
dress well. Her fine gowns appeal to his
sense OF beauty. signify TO the world his
generosity and business cleverness. and
furthermore ana not least important they
prove the prosperity of the country. Wo-
men shop TO make the wheels OF com
merce go round and as soon as our patient.
long suffering, much enduring American
women quit shopping and throw off the
tyranny OF tailor. milliner and dressmaker.
just as soon will all Fridays be black and
all Mondays blue and the foundations OF
finance crumble."
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MY LADY BAREBoNFs.

She Has Implicit Faith in Her
Scrawny Charms.
It is impossible to go through a social
season without arriving at convincing
ideas concerning thin neeks. Here is
what one woman-a dressmaksr-has to
say about it in the Commercial Adver-
tiser:"
Actresses are not popularity supposed to
glory in looking ugly, but there are half
dozen women on the stage today who
would do we'll to wear high-necked gowns
always. One OF them is customer OF
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Suspicions Aroused.

smith-whats wrong. oil man? You
look worried.
Jones-I am. You know | had my life
insured last week.
with 1t?
Jones-well the very next day my wife
bought a new cook book. Possibly it's all
right. but it certainly looks supieious.-
Chicago News.
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MISS LOUISE LEASE.
She Intends to DO Famous Things
Some Dny.

She Intends to DO FAMOUS 'hi"Ss
Some Dny.
Nrs Mar Ellen Lease has a daughter
with aspirations. Here is what she says.
according to the Chicago Chronicle.
81 shall work for municipal reform j
am in favor of municipal ownership OF
pubIic franchises. l shall always raise my
voice for purity OF life for men and wo-
men. men as well as woman. l believe IN
woman suffrage. Of course. although don't
think all women are ready for suffrage 1
would have women vote. but ] would re-
strict the ballot. There should be an edn-
cational qualification for the franchise.
think. / believe that capital punishment
should be abolished and | would like to
see our reformatory institutions really re-
formatory instead of breeding places of
crime I-please don't think What an anti
climaxi'-I would like to convert the
world TO yegetarianism."
Miss Lease is nineteen years old, and has
written verses and an amateur drama OF
two She has delivered several lectures
on reform topics. Once she addressed 200
inmates of the boys reform school at
Topeka and held their respectful attention
while she told them TO be good boys, and
why.
She is a skillful debater. When chosen
TO represent the negative Of the question,
Resolved, Thst the rich help the world
as much by giving large and costly en-
tertainments gs by making requests 10
charitable institutions" she carried off the
honors by a touching picture OF poverty
ard a spirited plea for its instant relief.
When bat nine years old she made a
suffrage speech at n peoples party meeting
in st. Louis In ringing tones she said:
"You men must keep your promises and
give us suffrage plank. You all have
been used to say The hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world but say to you.
gentlemen, IL you do not keep your prom
Use there will be no cradles TO rock and no
babies to put in them.
Miss Lease blushingly depreca;es this
childish speech now She is girl of ten
der sensibilities. when she was twelve
years old she visited the stock yards in
Chicago. The scenes she saw made a yese-
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tartan of her. 1T was because I could
never forget the look OF agony in the eyes
OF the dying animals that | could never
eat meat again. she said. Besides.
met Hindu soon afterward, who con-
WINGED me that life is sacred
The young woman wants to go upon the
lecture platform. but her plan contemplates
some intermediate stages. After she Is
graduated from the normal school with her
b. a. next year she will teach for year
or two. write for the newspapers and ma
gaines, and so grow gradually into the
stature of lecturer on the reform topics.
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A Brilliant Touch.

Unusually brilliant was the touch OF COL
or introduced into one OF the big weddings
recently The page who carried the brides
train was dressed in scarlet satin worked
with silver. finished with deep collar and
cuffs Of lace. The bridesmaids. however.
were all in white. save for their hats.
which were royal blue. velvet trimmed.
with shaded blue feathers.
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Woman. Lovely Woman.

Mrs. Newed-Joha, want a new hat.
Mr.. Newed-weil, really. Marie. can't
afford IL.
Mrs. n. (sternly)-I have been looking
through your notebook. John. and II you
can afford to buy your typewriter new rib
bons you can afford to buy me new hat.
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin
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Needed Mourning.

Il suppose you want piece OF pie?'
said the young housekeeper
mo. lady; ! don't" replied the tramp;
''but I'd be thankful fur a ole suit o black
clo'es, IL yer got 'em. DE poor Teller wot
yer gave q piece O. pie ter yestidy wuS
brudder of mine. Catholic Standard ana
Times.
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A Literary DiIem ma.

Charles. you didn't seem TO get on well
with those ladies next you at dinner"
mo. Amelia; ! couldn't remember, 10
save me. which enc you said had written n
booi, indianapolis Journal.
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Jinks--I wonder how all these mother-ln-
law jokes started
Enthusiastically with a wedding
Pittsburs Dispatch.
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The siantinx wni.tIine.

One gres. advantage that accrues to the
Fashionable slanting waist line is that II
.ohiiges one 10 stand correctly.
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Antiane. Mnos.

Frarnkfort-on-tke.M Correspond enee of the Chicago Record: There is & very interesting collection of old pianos in the Roman museum at Hide sheim, Germany. Dating all the way from the end of the seventeenth cen tury, the collection exhibits in a very ! instructive way the primitive origin of piano manufacture, and gives one an idea of the simple instruments used by our greatest music composers. Tho oldest instrument on exhibition is small clayichord of the seventeenth century, possessing thirty-four tones @ith twenty-eight two-chora1 bound strings. Another of equal antiquarian value has four full octaves-a one chord Italian spinet, built at an angle and possessing rich and beautiful tone for singing aecompaniments. The strings are rifted with pointed crow quills Both instruments date from the time of Handel Bach and Gluck, One instrument was made in tha first half of the eighteenth century. and is a bound clavichord of four and one. half octayes, fifty-eight tones and forty strings. There is also an instrument from the second half of the last cen tury which possesses five and one. fourth octaves. The last two are sup piled with strings tipped with brass, and their immediate followers were the hammer pianos of 1760. used at the time by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. and even by Mendelssohn, Bartholdy, Chopin. and Franz Liszt during their youth.
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WHITE SLAVES.
Efforts Making to Stop the Cursed
 Ira ffic in Russia.

St. Petersburg Cor. New York Times: In view of the International Congl gss to be held in London at the end of the present month fol the dis eussion of the best measure t0 be taken for the prevention of the white slave" ffaf.se, the Noyosti has lately been st .Aeg detailed accounts of the nzat1er n which this business is ear rikd on in Russia. The trade has de- ve.Cred to great extent in the past few years throughout Western Europe, but the town Of Jassy is it's center. The women are bought, parelcularly at Leipsic, during the great annual fair, put 1t is the capital of Moldayia, which ls the central point of the traffic, just as Khartoum was formerly the mar ket place for the human merchandise imported from Abyssinia and Central Africa. From Jassy the merchandise IS directed to Russia and Turkey. Next 10 Jassy, Brussels has become the most important center for this business. fhe white slaves destined for Russia are generally sent 10 Riga or to Wilma. where the wholesale merchants from St. Petersburg and Moscow meet to make their selections. These they transfer at once to the principal eities of the empire and to the remote proys inces Of Siberia. There was recently arrested in Odessa an agent of the principal Russian white slave" mer- chants, and at his residence a yoiumi- nous correspondence. with sub-ageRts at=Jassy, Brussels, Riga and elsewhere, was found. Thanks to this edifying correspondence, the Russian police as certained that white slave agencies ex- tst throughout Russia, in rural dis .triets as well as in the principal cities an6 towns. In some of these letters the sub-agents mentioned that they had exceptionally fine merchandise at relatively low price, five parcels (sicl in all. Then there followed deta1ted description of the goods. The Odessa agent in question has been exiled to Siberia, where he will spend the next ten years. From what hear, the Rus sian government considers the white slave traffic as an international curse. which can only be successfully eradi- cated by the united efforts of all civil ized nations. It is well known that ths ezaeina is herself deeply interested in this matter.
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Costly Flsll

The most beautiful and costly fishes h the world come from China. anl the rarest and most expensive of all is the brush tail gold fish. Specimens of these have been sold as high as s700 each, and in Europe the prices range from s25o to $500. The brusa tail gold fish is so small that five. shilling piece will cover it. and prob ably there is no living thing of it's size and weight that is worth so much money.
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Sea ,oning Wood tn Electricity.

In France a method o3 seasoning wood through the agency of electricity ls credited with much success. It is called the -Bretonneau process. The timber is nearly immersed in a tank of water containing ten per cent of borax, five of resin and little car bonate of soda, and rests on lead plate connected with the positive pole of a dynamo Another similar plate, lying on the exposed surface of the timber, is connected with the negative pole Thus a current of electricity can be passed through the wood, from which all the sap appears to be re- moved, while the borax and resin takes it's place in the pores. In few hours the timber is taken out and dried, and the seasoning is said to be con naplete.
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rv,--s- .-ss.ovvry,

Philadelphia Inquirer: It was about the witching hour,' said the suburbanite. T had left the station some distance behind me, and was on my way up the road toward home. l had got comfortably cool by that time, and .he charming influence of the star- lit night possessed me and made me feel at peace with all the world. Nor did the fact that and my new suit had made a hst with the friends I had been visiting detract from the fullness of my se1f-satisfaction. All went well until I came to a street crossing my road. At the corner was a street lamp, which from some cause was not lit; and from this lamp fGttered what seemed to be a handkerchief. You know, am llt- tie bit near-sighted. I reached over to take it :: hut it was touched by the wind and waved just beyond my grasp. l reached over further, leaning full against the lamp-post. This time I was successful; and I found that the sup" posed handkerchief was piece of paper on which was written, in bold and dashing letters, the legend, Fresh Paint
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Nervous N eakness or palpitation of the heart indicates disorder in the stomach and digestion. Prickly Ash Bitters is a wonderful remedy in such cases. It cleanses, strength ems and regulates the stomach. liver and bowels, removes the cause of the heart symptoms and builds up q strong and vigorous body, Sold by Walker Drug Go.
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RHEUMATISM cATARRH ARE BLooD
 nIsEASES-.FREE!

Itis the deep-seated, obstinate eases 2 g of Catarrh and Rheumatism that D, D. B 1botanic blood balm) cures. It mat nat ters not what other treatments, ooe- tors. sprays, liniments, medicated alP T blood purifiers, have failed to do, D 1oi ni B. always promptly reaches the frea1 real cause and roots out and drives lfon the bones, joints, mucous mem Drane, e, and entire system the speeihc po1ison pia in the blood that causes rheumatlsm and catarrh. B. B. 5. is the only rem rem, edy strong to do this and cure so there l,e,s can never be return of the symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your qrugr 1T, < gist for B. B. B.-botanic blood balm or 3 bs.-Large bottles one dollar SIX bottles (full treatmenA five dollars, !, D, D. B. B. is an honest remedy. that maRes ftes real cures of all blood diseases aIIei everything else fails. We have aoso. 1,o. lute confidence in Botanic blood, palm; hence, so you may test it, We will send a trial bottle free on request. Personai medical advice free. Address.
 " BLOOD BALM CO,
 222 Micthell St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Got Her Doll,

A little English girl dropped her doD
 III a very deep hole not long ago and wrote to Queen Victoria that she thought it had dropped through the earth, and as she had heard the other side belonged to the queen3 she wished the queen would order it sent back. She did not get her oWn doll back, but she got another one, a great deal fner.
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What this town needs is few more factorles like the stave works. Ma1aGer Wurmbaeh informed us that his payroll for labor amounts to Ss00 and S900 per month Harris burg News.
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GAS SrORIA
 For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought s'sss:sts ssess se: ss &sHzzzzz.:

The shipment of spinach has begun in earnest at this point. the Well, = Fargo Express Company having for warded l20 crates from here yester- day-Van Buren Argus.
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Where can you invest money more profitably than bY buying bottle of Priekly Ash Bitters. yon get four for one. \ kidney medicine, liver tonic, stomach strengthen and bow el cleanser. Four medicines for one dollar. Sold by Walker Drug Co.
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The boie in the "a awmia of the E Ttemaine Lumber Company, of Jensen, Sebastian count, exploded. No damag was done except to the boiler.
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Gravett people are negotiating for the purchase of the canning facsory 1t Seligman, Mo. If tn deal is made the plant will be moved 10 GraYett.
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M0rrilton now has a board of trade, with E. E Mitche [ president; J. <. Moose, vice-pres dent; Wood Rain water, seere tary; N. c. Harris. treasurer.
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Tue higE school at DeQaeen has been suspended on account of small- poX.
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Jim Scanlon knocked ont Iak Gra= ham at Hot Springs in ten rounds.
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J. c. McNair proprietor of the Black Rock fruit farm, adyertises for 1000 men, women and children to. pick stra wbarries.
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The ex-@onfedera of Malvern gave an entertainment for the bene- fit of the Confederate monument fund iD Little k ,rk.
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Priekiy Ash Bitters cures diseases of the kidneys, cleanses and strength ens the liver, stomach and bowels. For sale Dy Walker Drug Co.
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TELECRAPHlC BRIEFS.

The Malvern high school has no graduating class this year.
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About $69, 900 have already ebeen subscribed toward the erection of cotton factory in Monticello. : is proposed to raise Sf00 000
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INDIGESTION, resulting from
 E weakness of the stomach, is relieved byIlood's Sarsaparilla, the great stom- ach tonic and cure for DYSPEPSIA.
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Jack Callahan was eonvtctea of manslau- hter .at Forrest City and sentenced te two and one-haH years in the penitentiary.