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bone is discussed relative to the require ments of the figure. There are different thicknesses of bone for different shaped figures Then the corset maker studies carefully the lines of the woman's figure. Whatever she needs to perfect her shape the make-to-order corset supplies. It is fitted as many times as a made-to-order gown.
 French coutilie still holds its own as the favorite material for the everyday corset. However, batiste is much used and silk and linen fabric in dainty col- ors and attractive designs. Corsets of brocaded silk are in demand as always for dress occasions. Satin and brocaded corsets frequently have gold clasps and a gold front steel. and for wedding trous- seaux gold clasps with jewelled centers are considered the correct thing
 There is no sensible woman living who does not appreciate that the most neces- sary article of her dress is her corset.
 The corset which Is guaranteed never to stretch appeals to her most strongly. It is one of the favorite corset models of the year. And not only does 1t give the new shape. but it keeps 1t. It does not stretch. nor does it have to be broken in.
 This special model of corset its makers claim, will fit in the end just as well as it does in the beginning.
 This is good news for the stout woman as well a her slender sister, for 1t means to both that they need not hesitate to as 1t does not change its shape.
 That the much neglected stout woman has not been forgotten by the corBet mak- CTS this year 1t requires but a glance at the newest corset models of the autumn to prove
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
Kzme- Edya,a Has IAy0at 7yow6ls

other warts if it is pricked into the skin. Some scientists say that this is perfectly true, while others deny it absolutely.
 The usual treatment for papillomata, wherever they occur, is to extirpate them either by use of the knife, the forceps or the cautery. The growths are very sel- dom malignant, but it sometimes hap pens that most startling changes in their characteristics occur and that a benign growth becomes violently malignant and may develop into cancer.
 Unless there should be a radical change for the better in the Kings condition it will soon be necessary for him to under go rather serious operation. The real purpose of His Majesty's visit to the continent was so that he might quietly consult some of the noted German. French and Austrian laryngologists.
 Modern science has proved that can cer is due to an oversrowth of certain cells that have escaped from their proper places in tho human body. It is now taught that cancer is caused by the pro- Iteration of epithelial cells in the wrong place and under wrong conditions. Un- der healthy conditions the offending celIs would be compelled to stop in their proper places. but weakened and abnor- mai conditions of the tissues allow them to crowd through into places in which they have no business, and there they set up the condition of overgrowth and destruction which physicians know as cancer.
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Visit to the Battle
 field in Montana %

management recently employed Indians to do laborers' work in the building of a new branch road. but after trying 1t for a time the Indians resigned in a body, declaring that they considered digging the white mans business.
 l reached Pine Ridge on ration day. and the government agent was distribut- ing meat The only interesting subjects Tor the camera could find were some squaws seated by the roadside with all their camping equipments. They had se- rious objections to having their pictures taken, but dime will often make them change their minds. I was fortunate in securing a snap shot at a group of In- dian women at the we'll
 In my wanderings across the continent l had many opportunities to catch gilmpses of representatives of many tribes on the various reservations, in- cluding the Utes of fCoiorado; t he Navajos, who are famous for their blankets; the Mo1aves of the desert; the Apaches and the various tribes of Pueblo Indians They represented every grade in the h. dian social scale. from the more wealthy tribes, owning large herds of cattle, to the Digger Indians. who simply exist.
 There was every kind of a residence from an adobe mudhouse to a tent or to a structure elevated on posts that the owner might be safe from rattlesnakes. At the railroad stations Indians oft ten congregated with wares to sell, some, with arms full of melons raised on their own farms. There were others who had vases and earthen bowls or jars for sale.
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does not press on the bust or abdomen. It holds the figure back and throws the shoulders in a straight line It does not compress the ribs. It allowes the muscles of the stomach every ease of movement.
 And yet these are some of the points guaranteed by the makers of a new cor set for stout women. It is an erect form model, which means that it is built on natural lines. It is purposeiy made for stout women, and has shaped seams run ming around the body from the armpit to the bottom of the front steel. Though it is a very low cut corset. yet it sup ports the bust.
 So much of an art has corset making become that there are not only corsets now for every type of figure and corsets to correct all defects of figure. but there is an entirely new way or buying cor sets.
 Many fashionable women nowadays buy their corsets as they do their gowns.
 They first select the material, which Is shown them in the piece. and then the trimmings. After this the questen of
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
POPE LEo's LONG TERM.

From the Independent.
 Leo XIII will before long begin the twenty-fifth year of his pontificate, and a committee has already been formed in Rome, under the presidency of the cardinal-vicar, to make preparations for the event. There is to be grand pilgrimage. Catholics from all parts of the world are invited to visit the tomb of the apostles in April, 1902.
 A conference of the representatives of the different Italian protestant churches was held in Rome recently, in which the Waldensians, Baptists, Methodists and others participated. and a full agreement was reached in what for Italian Professionalism is it's chief object, the work of evangeliza- tion among the Catholic population. In this full modus vivendi was estab- lished, the whole propaganda to be controlled and guided by a special committee, consisting of representa- ttves of the various Protestant de- nominations engaged in gospel work in that country. The members of this comitato erdenominazionale, which is really the executive committee, will have their headquarters in Rome. The full details of the scheme are still subject for future deliberation.
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It has hip extension pieces. too, which keep down the flesh of the hips, prevent ing also any ridge of fat where the corset ends. This corset is known as the self reducing, and though designed purposely to meet the needs of the stout woman, 1t is an excellent corset for the athletic girl, who must be reduced If fashionable she is to be-
 A corset which laces at the sides is an- other good model for the young woman whose abdomen is not as fiat as the fash ionable shape demands. From the waist line up it is made loose and comfortable, while from the waist line uown 1t is a satisfactory abdominal supporter. The lower part of the corset is soft and laces at each side. The abdomen is reduced by tightening the iaces. Much care must be taken in putting on this corset if the desired result is to be obtained.
 In adjusting it the corset lacings at the sides must be left perfec.ly loose until the corset is not only well pulled down to the waist line, but laced at the back. Then, after this is done. lace the sides When ,..e corset is new this must .e done every time 1t is put on if the proper curve at the waist line Is to be produced, as we'll as the abdomen reduced A1ler .ne corset has been worn some time the sides will need to be laced only three or four times a week.
 So carefully are the corsets for stout women constructed that the long-waged war between the physician and the corset is nearing its close.
 The corset manufactures now makes q study of anatomy. ana the new corsets are built on the lines of nature.
 Imagine the following statements being true facts about fashionable corset: It
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Happened In Cincinnati.

A Memphis lawyer has a peculiar habit of putting both his hands in his hip pock- cts when engaged in conversation, and on every occasion when he is stopped on the streets his hands invariably seek the pockets. Several days ago he took a trip to Cincinnati, and now he Is in doubt whether his pocket habit or the fame of Memphis in peculiar way saved him from trouble.
 Soon after he arrived in the pork town. and while walking on a street near the railway station he was accosted by a stranger. The latter said:
 You don't live here do you?'
 'No, sir" responded the Memphian.
 Well. Pm a drummer and I-you're a merchant ain't your"
 "No. sir" and his hands sought his f1ip pockets as he wondered what the drum mer wanted. You see. I'm from Mem phis, and--'
 But the other had fled. The motion toward his hip pocket, with the magic word "Memphis' was too much for his feeble nerves. Thus does a city gain a reputation
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Elegance Is the keynote. so say all the arbiters of taste.
 And what of the big athletic girl7
 It is a condition not theory that con- fronts her on her return to town.
 Fashion has set the mode. She must conform herself to 1t.
 Imagine the dismay with which she must view her big. strong athletic figure with its swelling muscles and vigorous torso. All very charming of course. yet little too robust She is haunted by two pictures-Herself as she Is and as she should be from the fashion viewpoint.
 But the progressive corset makers of America have been kindly providence to her distress.
 They have looked ahead. They have watched her athletic feats this summer and have foreseen her needs.
 Their latest models will both correct and relieve.
 The new figure still calls for the straight front but not the extreme straight front which was required year ago.
 bust so low that it has the effect of spill ing over the waist line.
 The fashionable figure means a nat abdomen, only the slightest suggestion of a hip, and a waist which is long and gracefully tapering.
 The new corsets provide these require ments. They are all made very long from the waist-line down, a feature in their construction absolutely new and novel
 Is the athletic young woman's chief cause for sorrow the too generous curve of her hip? If so. she can stop grieving at once. There are corsets in the market made specially for her. They will reduce her hips much or little. just as she hap pens to need.
 Is her abdomen too prominent, and is that causing her to feel that her figure is impossible from the standpoint of fash ion?
 Away with such ideas! Corsets to re- duce the abdomen are among the clever est corset models of the year.
 Does her waist measure twenty-six inches, when she would have 1t measure twenty-three? That is easily reduced.
 And all this does not mean encasing her fine, strong figure in a vise-like corset.
 Not bit of it. The new corsets for the stout, well-developed young woman are anything but of the old-time straight jacket sort
 They are comfortable. They make cor rect breathing a matter of eace.
 They do not restrict the figure on un- hygienically restrain. They assist rather than prevent the athletic girl from stand ing as she should.
 And with all their corrective features they yet give her the figure that fashion has decrecd she must have.
 Now for the corsets themselves.
 There is one. a patented corset, which has more than its share of good features 1t is a straight front model which re- duces the abdomen in an entirely original way. It does so by q really clever ar rangement of pleats and straps which arc so adjusted that they not only reduce the abdomen. but support it and aid in carry ing its weight.
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WMeve Sen. Custer 3eM.

to charge and then to retreat The war riors saw his weakness and swarmed to the scene Reno's men retreated in con- fusion, forded the river and made for a ravine, losing twenty-seyen enlisted men, three officers and seven wounded. There they entrenched themselves as best they could.
 The first news they had of the annihl- lation of Custer and his five troops came when General Terry. with Fe-enforce- ments, came upon the scene. Curley, one of Clusters Indian scouts, had carried him the news of the conflict
 Custer expected to find not more than 15OO Indians, and stumbled on to 5000 He threw out a skirmsh line. dismounted two troops, who fought their way along in course parallel to that of their com mander, who followed the ravine The Indians swarmed about him, and his ranks were rapidly depleted Seeing this the separate command made a valiant ef- fort to join him, but were themselves lost
 Two hundred and sixty men rode with Custer Into that valley of death, and 200 lay dead when the last shot was fired. The government has made this battlefield national cemetery, and little white marble slab marks the spot where each trooper fell, and a large cross the spot where the commander yielded up his life
 1a here June 18th. 1876. ".is the simple epitaph each marker bears.
 A desire to see the Sioux Indians of to- day attracted me to their home on the reservation in South Dakota. and my plans were changed to include a visit to the Pine Ridge agency. It will be re- membered that not many years ago this agency was the center of an Indian upris- ing that for a time looked to be A very serious matter.
 To reach my destination I put myself to some inconvenience travelling on a branch road through northern Nebraska 10 town called Nashville, reaching my destination at a. m., and the next day taking a fifty mile ride in an open car riage across the prairie in the broilinR sun.
 Generally speaking, from a tourists standpoint. the only interesting time to Yisit one Of these reservations is on July 1, when the Indian has his sports and pastimes, and revives old ceremonies. On other days we find the Indians logged out in verp unromantic blue oyeraIls and blue shirts with bright-colored handker- chiefs about their necks and wearing black felt hats that have seen service for years.
 On the way to Pine Ridge I passed a crude log cabin, which my driver pointed out as a school house for the white chiI- dren. I confess was astonished unon reaching Pine Ridge to find there A school for the Indians that was as fine an Institution architecuraiiy as the best or our metropolitan high schools. and nave no doubt the schooling is quite on A par with the building. As another illus tration of the reversal of conditions I understand that the Burlington railroad
The age-herald., 1901-10-13
SaAes trOm SCtMam 5cwN

New York, October 12.-Harry Rollins the banker and partner of the late Fer. nando Yznaga, has been in London dur. ing the past two months, and I am glad to say that he went to the rescue of Fer nando's nephew, the young Duke of Man. chester. Manchester, as everybody knows has been burdened with debts, and hia creditors, who love dukes well, but money more. forced him Into the bankruptcy courts. For some time 1t was said that Father-ln-law Zimmerman was going to prove his devotion to his daughter by clearing up the weeds that choked the strawberry leaves in the ducal garden. and by so doing allow the young man to take his seat in the House of Lords. 1t seems. however, that. to borrow a phrase from the vocabulary of the pavement, father-in-law failed to materialize."
 When Fernando Yznaga, the brother of Consuelo, dowager Duchess of Manches- ter, died, he left his fortune of upwards of two millions between his three sisters and his mother. Mrs. Ymaga. Harry Rollins was made an executor. The es- tate was quickly divided and the dow ager duchess at once set to work to com promise the claims against her son. She enlisted MT. Rollins No abIer financier is to be found in the city, and he soon ar ranged with the young dukes creditors for the sum of thirty-five thousand dol lars. The amount was paid, and the next thing will be his discharge and rein statement as a peer in good standing.
 ss This Is New
 Phase of Life.
 I have been observing for some time a new phase of life in the commercial world of this great city. I refer to that industrious class of workers, the type writers. Who has forgotten the quilps and jokes of humorists and writers in dailies and weeklies about the r-haired, blue-eyed typewriters7 They were pie tured as the wreckers of homes and the breakers of hearthstones. The gay old banker and the merry young stock broker was portrayed turning from the cares of his office to firt with the mistress of the alphabetic keys. Every young woman seeking a living as "stenographer and typewriter was called siren, and wives looked doubtful when a young female was added to the husbands office force. The popular voice seemed to indicate a laxity of female virtue and to impeach masculine morality. It seemed at that time, some twenty years ago, that the prejudice would exclude young women from office work, but that 1t has not is borne out by tine enormous development of the employment of the little machine and its operator. But the phase partic- ularly desire to speak of does not con-
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Buttons % Pay Pxomsnemt Payt sm the FaH Foshsoms

Buttons are feature of the new au- tumn gowns and coats. They are one of the prettiest dress accessories of the sea- son. Some are 50 costly that but two or four are used on gown, and thea again the less expensive ones are sold in sets, three different sizes oftsn being used on one costume
 Sets of imitation jewel buttons are en- tremely attractive and they come in . bewildering variety of designs.
 Stylish buttons are in imitation of tur- uuoise matrix. and are used in the shape of a nugget Flat buttons, studded with bits of turquoise and framed in q rim of gray finish silver, are quite the proper button for velvet coat or gown.
 Velvet buttons. studded with tiny cut
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Castor Be0m Baue Ioy Me Mosqustoesp

o the caster bean plant the bane II for mosquitoes. Prof Frederick J Starr of the University of Chicago - announces that 1t is, and in order to prove his theory 1t is proposed to plant the castor bean in the Chicago parks.
 The discovery was made by Professor Starr while pursuing anthropological in- vestigations in the tropics.
 "One night" said the professor. 'I was annoyed more than usual by the thou sands of humming insects. In desperation tore some branches from near by plant, with which to brush them away I soon found that I did not have to brush. The mosquitoes disappeared as if by magic and did not come back that night.
 ''The next morning I discovered that the plant from which I had torn the branch was the castor bean. I tried the same method again and again, with com plete success"
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steel dots and framed in steel or guN metal, are among the novelties shown to add to the beauty of the new fall gowns.
 An imported Zibeline gown Just from the custom house was Pompeiian red in color, heoked with soft gray dots. and gray corded velvet waastcot. fastened with buttons of the same shade of red velvet as the cloth. framed in steel and studded with tiny steel dots.
 Russian silver buttons are among the things which every woman wants. They have the effsot of many colored Jewels. and In . matter of color each Is an ar- tistic gem in itself. so cleverly are the bits of enamel clustered.
 Curiously odd buttons are seen on many Of the new gowns and coats Big bee ties, remarkably real to life. add to the distinction of a brown peau de gant cos tune. and horsesnoes of bronze. with gun metal nails, are also sold as buttona
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OR nine hundred years the ''as- sassin'' has been abroad in the land. Before this time life takers fiourished. of course. in

fact, if history be correct, there was a violent death in our first family. But before the eleventh century the man who killed was not known by the name of assassin" The word took shape when the Mohammedans. around the period of 1O9o. had their grand split up. This came, it seems, through the disagreement of the Sunnites, the orthodox party. and the Shiites, a branch which believed that the son-in-law of the reigning Prophet should inherit the throne. The latter were in the minority. however, and they had to, keep their sentiments to them- selves. But thy were busy in secret. They formed many side orders for the purpose of carrying out their creed, which ran something after this style:
 l. The rejection of all fixed rules. either of religion or morality.
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have made him living man. Of course he is hopeless cripple; still he is enabled to live and enjoy life. He is not the stur- dy, athletic Walter Duryea of old. but a quiet, observing young man who sees life from an invalid's chair.
 His father, Edgar Duryea, In drawing his will. bequeathed the bulk of his mill lions to his son Walter, provided he lived two years after his accident Ills sisters contested the will, making allegations against the character of the father, which will not be pleasant reading for grand children In years to come. Such is life, however; when there are dollars to be divided children do and say harsh things. The fight was bitterly conducted. but finally the sisters withdrew from the suit and the will was declared valid. And yet. in spite of broken neck and forced retirement Walter has had, 1t is said,
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"Hashssh' Flrst, ZAeu Me "Assasssu"

?. The belief that the Inmans of the line of Ismael were at present invisible, and that consequently it was the duty of true believers to yield implicit obe- dience to the vice regents on earth of these secret rulers.
 The aliegoricai Interpretation of the Koran, whereby any doctrine might be either defended or rejected
 The most active worker appears to have been one Hassan Ben Sabah, who was responsible for the killing of of many opponents of his sect. He exacted blind devotion of his followers, instructing the task of murder to the lowest and most ignorant. First he had them fed on hashish. and from this Oriental opiate comes the word assassin. The most de- lightful dreams resulted, and the hash ish eaters, out of gratitude to the man who was capable of. so transporting them, followed his commands in the most unquestioning manner.
 The sect was extinguished in 1272 by Turkeys Sultan.
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convenience as we'll as to alarm his med ical adviser.
 His Majesty Is suffering from a growth known as a papilioma, which is situated, it is understood, upon his left vocal cord The King has undergone more than one operation for the extirpation of this growth. but 1t has been in vain. The papilloma has always returned and the relief afforded by its removal has been only temporary.
 At present the King is believed to be in no great danger from the growth In his throat. A papiiioma is a hypertrophy. or enlargement of the papillae. If the papillae of the outer skin becomes suffi- ciently hypertrophied to produce Q papii- loma the growth is popuiariy known as wart Everyone who has had personal experience with these troublesome ex- crescences knows that they tend to spread and increase. Even when they are carefully removed they frequently re- cur and it is firmly believed by many that they are incprable-that is to say that the blood of a wart will propagate
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He Had To Tin

How did you enjoy the change from cottage life to being guest at the hotel last summer7''
 "Guestl wasn't even a patron, I was a victim"