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A We'll Known Journalist Writes.

Hon. George Baber, 1122 Sixteenth street, N. w.. Washington, D. O., has been for number of years well known in Kentucky as a journalist, having been the editor of the Bowling Green Democrat, and afterwards the proprie- tor and editor of the Louisville Even ing News, and of the Kentucky Law Journal. lie writes the following:
 T have given Peruna sufficient test to justify me in freely recommend ing it as an invigorating tonic. It is a prompt appetizer, and has also proved
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Letter of Coincidence.

washington. June 2.-Leslie Combes. United States minister to Guatemala. has transmitted to the state department a letter of condolence from Juan Barrios. Guatemalan minister of foreign affairs, on the recent disasters at Topeka and Gainesville.
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FATHER AND SON ARE SHOT.
Fatal Affair Grows Out of the Posses
 sion of Dog.

Albany Ga.. June 27.-Set Bryant and AL Bryant, father and son. were fatally shot this morning in Worth county near here, by J. s. Barfield.
 The Bryants are saw mill operators and Barfield is a prominent farmer.
 It is said that today's misunderstand- ing grew out of the disputed possession of dog. tI Is understood that ill-feeling has existed between the two families for a considerable time. Barfield has not been taken into custody.
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Canal Discussion opened.

Washington, June 27.-The state depart ment has received dispatch from Min ister Beaupre at Bogota saying that the canal discussion had been opened in the Colombian house by a representative op- posed to the canal treaty who began by calling for documents relating to the treaty. The government objected on the ground that 1t was not ready to present the treaty to the house. but would do so later. The governments position was sus- tained by a vote of 3S to 5.
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LIvery Ruslness Sold.

Athens. June 7.-(special.)-rhe large livery business of Tilman Bros. Phillips has changed hands. having been sold by the retiring firm to H. Carl Cartwright. one of the progressive and enterprisng young business men of this county.
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Mrs. Edelen,s Remains.

The remains of Mrs. B. J. Edelen who died at Copeland & Berry's inhrmary on Friday will be taken to Springfield, lllp for burial They will be accompanied by the husband of the deceased, B. J. Edelen and also her daughter and her niece.
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

The friends and acquaintances of Mir. and Mrs, E J. Thornton are invited to attend the funeral of their daughter, Eloise Thornton. from the family resi- denee. 2S25 Sixth avenue. this afternoon at o'clock. Interment in Oak Hill ceme- tery.
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John B. RureIn.

John R. Burch. aged "A years, died yes terday afternoon at his residence, 2lSl Avenue I. The remains were sent to New Haven. Ky. yesterday.
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Mrs. Danford Resting We'll.

Mrs. G. c. Danford. who has recently undergone two operations at St. vincents hospital. Is reported to be resting well. and her condition is very favorable
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One Hundred Persons Hurt In Wreck.

Madrid, June 27.--A train on the Bilboa- Saragosa railroad was thrown from the5 track and overturned at Netarilla river this afternoon. and one hundred persons were injured.
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METHODIST sERVICES.-Th Rev. J. D. Simpson. presiding elder of the Bir- Eleventh Avenue Methodist church, cor ner of Eleventh avenue and Twelfth street. South, at Il a. m. today, and the Rev. W. E. Morris will preach at p. m.
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PETITION IN BANKRUPTCY Edwin c. Inge of Birmingham filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday. his total liabilities being sSS 10 and his assets s6.
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HumOrS

They take possession of tho body. and are Lords of Misrule.
 They are attended by pimples, boils, the itching letter, salt rheum, and other cu- taneous eruptions; by feelings of weakness languor, general debility and what not.
 They cause more suffering than anything else.
 Health, Strength, Peace and Pleasure lively effected, According to thousands of grateful testimonials, by Hoods JarsdParilia them out and builds up the whole systsm.
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DIR. DAVIDSON WILL PREACH The Rev. pr. A. c. Davidson, pastor of the Southside Baptist church, has recovered from his recent illness and will fill his pulpit today.
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Jones Case coes to Jurv.

Wilson, N C.. June 2T>-F. s. Sprufl closed the argument in the Jones' murder case here today in a three hours speech. The case went to the jury at o'clock.
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CITY ITEMS.

DIR. sAMPEY TO PREACH.-Dr. John R. Sampey of the Southern Baptist Theo- logical seminary, Louisville, will preach at the Woodlawn Baptist church at Il o'clock today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12

of Washington is the old Corcoran man.
sion. The late Senator Calvin s. Brice
of Ohio purchased it and had it re-
modelled into one of the famous artistic
homes of America. Senator Chauncey
Depew lives in it now. The remodeling
and decoration. furnishing even, were
intrusted to Miss Tillinghast.
In connection with Miss Tillinghast's
work on the Corcoran mansion one of
her friends nara ties a story illustrating
the slight, slender woman's indomitabe
grit and will power. She did not tell
the story, you may be sure. When she
received the order for the work she was
in bed. a cripple She had been injured
by a trolley car so badly that she was
unable to walk for six months But
she pulled herself together, had herself
taken to Washington and elevated upon
a platform thirty feet from the ground.
Up there this woman of unconquera bic
soul actually lay upon her back and
painted the wall adornments for the
Brice house.
What else? She made the tapestries
in the Cornelius Vanderbilt home. Mr.
Vanderbilt paid $4,000 for them Ar
chitecture. mural painting and all in
terror adornment, stained glass window
making, tapestry and mosaic work.
decorating in leather and portrait
painting, are all done with equal ski
by Miss Mary Tillinghast. and the work
shea slight delicate woman-has ac-
complished in her life is fairly stun
ming. 1t shows the magnificent tri-
umph of mind over matter. 1t likewise
shows what one 'itt'e woman can do
MARILLA WEAVER
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NEW FABRICS.

Among the new weaves from East
Indian looms is tussah louisine. a
charming silk fabric in such combina-
tons as tan and gray, blue and white.
gray and white, etc. The durability
Of both tussah and surah silk is pro-
verbal, and if there is anything in this
combination of names the textures will
resist hard usage. For shirt waists it
is just the thing.
An importer has brought over from
England some of the famous punting
observation-disclosures brilliant outing hand
kerchiefs which were worn by the punt
ers on the Thames. These kerchiefs
are made of fine foulards and have
hemstitched borders two inches wide.
They are 26 by &c and come in golf
green, crimson, navy and black, with
field peoples or crab apples in yellow.
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A list of them would read like an
art catalogue In glass her chief
field is church windows. but there is
nothing in glass picture making that
is out of her line, whether for hospital
restaurant. ballroom, library, art gall
lery or concert hall. A recent work
much admired is a window in honor of
Helen Gould presented to the New York
Home of the Friendless by Mrs. Russell
Sage. Three glorious Tillinghast win
dOws make beautiful ST. Vincents hos
pital, New York. In Cincinnati is a
rarely artistic adornment of the same
kind in the Laura Memorial chapel at
tached to the Mcdonald Hospital For
Self Supporting Women. At the Chi
cago fair Miss Tillinghast received the
gold medal for stained glass work.
A number of noted edifices she has
planned and had built under her direc-
ton from the foundation up, being ar
chitect as well as decorator. At Pitts
field is the Gordon Mckay mausoleum,
one of the most impressive and beauti-
full memorial structures in this coun-
try. It was planned wholly by Miss
Tillinghast and built under her super
intendence. One of the historic houses
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education. They are only the tools to
help woman to think for herself
In matters of opinion. in science or
sociology, nothing is fixed. absolutely
nothing. 1t is quite probable that the
most sacred traditions of the scientific
thought of today viii be ridiculed fifty
years hence. The real truth in any
thing can only be arrived at by patient,
sincere personal investigation.
Everybody says So is full often the
be rejected. Everybody else does So
is many time the very reason why an
opposite course should be pursued
Everybody" means merely the COM
mon mind that accepts things ready
made and does not trouble to invest-
gate. Everybody was sure the sun
moved around the earth till a daring.
crazy crank declared exactly the oppo-
site. Everybody believed in witch
craft even in our own country at one
time Which proves everybody to be
extremely ignorant and foolish Don't
follow everybody S you value your
power of logical. original reasoning.
King Solomon the poet Goethe the
seer Tennyson. the great composer
Wagner. each had his ideal of the
noble. splendid. perfect woman. She
viii walk the earth only when woman
puts aside alike her intellectual depend
ence on authorities and her emotional
sentimentalism and thinks for herself.
clean cut and strong, without fear.
without prejudice. and acts unerringlv
on her own highest conviction.
ANNA A. BROWNE.
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waist will match the skirt even in the
white combinations. For instance it
will be no longer considered smart to
wear thin white waist with a pique
skirt Both waist and skirt must be OF
the same material. and for this purpose
nothing is prettier than the white linen
embroidered in heavy white linen
thread. The picture shows one of these
smart little suits. The waist has its
collar embroidered and a panel of en-
broidery down the front This panel is
carried down on the skirt, which is laid
in plaits so that it will flare at the
bottom
Sometimes the embroidery is in color,
and then the ribbon belt matches, but
for my part prefer the all white. 1t
is better to buy these suits ready made
than to bother with them, but before
they are altered have them laundered,
for the washing makes a surprising
amount of difference
There is nothing more ungainly than
a pique or linen skirt withsan inverted
back plait. l ought to know because I
had some last summer. The laundry
people never iron the plat in just right
and it is always sticking out or other
wise misbehaving itself. The best pos
sible pattern for such a skirt is the
plated one without a yoke and with a
loose fitting hs bit back
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Psychological Formula
Of Female Mentality. "

n LEARNED European professor
"A came to the United States to
study us and 10 make profit out
of us by getting notes for a book on
American traits. He was specially in
terested in the woman question. He
listened to argument, and he believed,
honest man, that he listened dispas-
sionately. He investigated the higher
education of woman and he believedsi
honest man. that he investigated dis
passionately After he went home he
filtered his notes through his own
mentality and gave them to the world.
The report he made shows him to
approach the woman question with
certain psychological formula" as he
called it. fixed in his brain pan firmly
as the rock of ages. 1t was this: In
the female mind the contents of con-
seriousness have the tendency to fuse
into a unity while they remain sepa-
rated in the mans mind" What he
specifically means by this is not quite
transparent, but an American professor
who perhaps knows by his intuition
what the psychological formula means
applies it to the college education of
women and says the foreign gentleman
thinks he sees among US the feminiza-
ton of American scholarship" proba-
bly, because college girls learn their
lessons so much better than college
boys do.
This said Termination supposedly
consists in the excess of the receptive,
uncritical attitude of mind above the
spirit of research and inquiry" Moth
ing like an American. after all, for put
ting things clear and direct.
Now one understands. In the matter
of straight college learning women are
beginning to prove themselves even
better scholars than men. The en-
envy is silenced on the point of the
incapacity of the female mind to COM
prehend the calculus. He thinks a
little, then returns with the charge that
women merely learn things by rote,
like a parrot; just believe what they
are told and never do any original
thinking.
| 1t is for women themselves now to re-
flute this last accuse ton of the enemy.
They must do it by thinking for them
selves, boldly and earnestly Whatever
dictum is pronounced by the mouth of
| self constituted authority. that is ex-
actly the thing for woman to question
and to mediate whether the dictum is
/ founded on reason and common sense.
1t is not enough to learn college lessons
or any other lessons by rote and be at
the head of ones class. At first wo-
man was so eXhilarated at finding she
could acquire Latin and mathematics
as easily as man could that she over
estimated the Importance of the Latin
and mathematics making them the end
instead of the mere means to a real
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The smart girl at this season of the
year forsakes her tailor made and APP
pears, even in town, wearing a cool
little frock of bingham or some other
wash material.
One of the prettiest costumes of this
sort l saw at a smart restaurant. 1t
was of green linen with insertions of
heavy lace and French knots of the
linen thread. With it was worn a
Jaunty little toque of navy blue straw
the Crown of which was entirely COM
posed of green leaves. The addition of
little white tulle bow under the chin
completed the jaunty cool effect.
BY the way, do you realize the fact
that the ultra large hats are not being
worn by the smart people? 1t is so I
suppose because they are becoming so
common, but anyway the best milliners
are reVerting to the small. perked up
shapes. To be smart this season hat
must have distinct, sharp and perky
outlines.
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ed in strands enough to make cincture
of the desired width. The ends of the
strings are to be tied in hard knots,
then fringed, the result being a series
of tassels. Some of the more festive
belts are of plaid shoe strings, and 9TH
ers have baby ribbon in one or more
colors braided into them.
Oriental buckles. large in size and of
dull wrought silver studded with coral
or turquoise, are a speciality. Whole
belts of antique silver jewel studded
and heavy as lead, will rouse any wo-
mans covetousness. Gold. silver, cop
per, gun metal. Jet and jewels all con-
tribute to the buckle display, and when
buckles do. not adorn the broad girdles
handsome buttons. do
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MARY ELIZABETH TILLINGHAST.
AN AMERICAN ARTIST

her mind. A friend fixed in the window
a prism. which separated the sun rays
into the splendid colors of the solar
spectrum. Then he took yards and
yards of the most ethereal. sheeny,
shimmering. moonlight white silk he
could find and waved it 10 and fro in
the gorgeous prismatic light 1t ex-
pressed to the artists eye the color
vision that was in her mind.
What other preparation? A liberal
education and a broad knowledge of the
world, of all ranks of people, travel and
contact with the worlds best art Miss
Tillinghast herself spends all the time
she can spare in reading-Scriptural,
historical NEUROLOGICAL, artistic-every-
thing that can make her familiar with
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To leave the subject of clothes, the
instinct of self preservation is a great
thing, but I don't think as much of it
as 1 used to- It has cost me a fine.
large pot of heliotrope which was my
pride and my joy.
Hear the talel
The other evening 1 had my window
open from the bottom and unfortunate
ly live close to the ground. Well Just
before retiring l went to close it and
stuck out my head to get little view
of the outside world. I had hardly done
so when-whiz, bangi-an enormous
gray object flew from behind me
through the open window, hurting
against the side of my face and taking
in its flight the flower of my best gera-
mum which stood on the window sill.
To say I was frightened would be to
put it mildly. 1 had no idea what the
thing was unless it could be the evil one
himself come after me for my sins
Well. here is the point: Before l had
time to think. before the Gator of
course it was a cat-had had time to
touch the ground. my hand mechan-
ically shot out and grasped the first
object it found. and bang went that
object in the direction of the unknown
thing Now my mind didn't have time
to think The motion was purely me-
chanical-the instinct of self preserva-
ton, of self defense. But OH. alas, that
object which I seized was my darling
pot of heliotrope, and it smashed
against the railing into a thousand
piecesi
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And, speaking of cats-the warm
weather seems to favor the subject
have in mind another story told by
friend of mine. She also slumbered on
the ground floor and, as she was
brave girl she left the lower half of her
window Open In the middle of the
night she dreamed that a fearful ban
shee was weeping and waiting before
her. She awoke. In the embrasure of
the window framed by the rising moon
crouched an enormous tiger cat, its
evil green eyes glowering at her. Her
brain positively reeled for a moment.
then swift as a flash she hurled her
pillow at the cat with such good aim
that the inquisitive feline was blotted
out of sight. But the pillow? Oh Well
That fell into the street-it was in the
city, you know-and in the morning a
white faced policeman brought it to the
front door, inquiring whether a murder
had been committed in the house,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-12
? ESTERDAY I was walking in
the shopping district and stu
died the women.

uleu tilt WOintil.
One unfortunate was wearing
a smart silk coat with an over
loaded hat and a heavy skirt with a
long train which she was painfully
holding up. In addition to this she car
ried a sunshade and a couple of small
parcels which kept slipping. The result
was that her face wore that worried,
strained look which used to be COM
mon only to bicycle scorchers, and
every now and then her poor, aching
arms would let something fall-oftener
than not the train of her skirt-which
was simply filthy around the bottom
from contact with the dusty floors and
peoples shoes.
Now. why will women dress that
way?
There is only one time when the
trained skirt is proper and suitable
namely, when the wearer is going
somewhere and takes the car there and
back. The very smartest women are
wearing short skirts on all occasions
one even sees them in church.
BY short skirt I don't mean that
ungainly length showing ugly feet
which we have been accustomed to
associate with the term short. 1 mean
a skirt which is made in front as long
as usual, but in the back is minus the
train and just clears the ground with
a fascinating little tilt. With a skirt
Of this length it is possible to wear any
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the fad of the moment. and the larger
and f1atter they are the more in favor
are they with the smart woman. Golden
monographs are the favorite adornment
of these big bags.
A new baby in a home SOON MAKES
the rest Of the furniture look shabby.
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LII NAA( 49, >A1@
5 Y s t e m a t j C
course of read
ing is one of the
essential branch
es of prepara-
ton she lays
down for the
would be decora-
tive artist.
The m a n y
works she has
produced are a
m onum emit t o
the indefa tigable
industry of this
slender. q u i e [
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sailors are also
very smart in a
black p a t e n t
leather finish.
The b u r n t
straw hats are
just the things
TO wear with
the p o n g e e
shirt waist cos
tunes w h / c h
are a feature of
the 5 u m m e + .
In fact there is
nothing coole T
or prettier than
a shirt waist
dress of DOug gee
with a stock of
needleWork o r
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hats are very smart and have a low.
fiat crown and a wide brim to conform
to the accepted tenets of the seasons
millinery.
The third shape is the little French
sal or with it's curved up brim and its
graduated crown encircled by a band of
black velvet ribbon. These French
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FOR WOMAN OLD AND NEW.

Wife, read this morning about a
man who was arrested twenty minutes
after his wedding and sent to prison
sor fifteen years. Isn't that awful?
Husband-Oh, don't know! The law
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rivals were the two former physicians.
whose salary was 5000 DR.. Williston
will draw $500.
1t will do no man any good to love a
woman unless he keeps on telling her
so.
Reticules of red or green morocco are
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ly widening market. The downy floss
of the head of the cattail is used for
filling high priced sofa pillow cushions
Shot silk stockings especially in
the darker shades, are very modish for
wear with low shoes
Men who are always telling you
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doesn't compel him to take his wife to
prison with him. does it?
Hundreds of barrels of cattails are
shipped. every year from this country
to England, where there is a constant
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agement of Daniel Frohman, playing in
comedies written FOR her by E. H. Soth-
ern and Justin Huntiy Mccarthy. her
former husband
Alma A Williston. NJ. D., has been
appointed municipal physician by the
town council of Phillipsburg. N. J. Her
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things for your own good mean well.
but they are awfulis tiresome.
Neat petticoats without any trimming
at all are far prettier than ragged and
torn lace trimmed ones.
Beginning with September. 1904. Miss
Cecilia LOTUS is to star under the man
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In the sketch you will see three hats
which are smart to wear with shirt
waists or simple morning gowns. The
first is a shape of rough white straw
tilted from the face and trimmed under
Shirt Whist HATS
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style of hat except an overloaded one,
and one need not be confined to the
severe tailor shape, which is so unbe-
coming to the average woman.
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White SHIRT w alst sum a ce and a
broad brimmed, simple hat shape
trimmed with a bunch of flowers or a
twist of ribbon.
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RELTs AND RuckLEs-

Shoe string belts are a recent discov-
cry They are made of black and white
and brown and white shoe strings braid
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As to shirt Waists.
Speaking of shirt waist costumes I
want to say that this year the shirt