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the bolero was tied with a brown
fringe ends The smart little hat of
the Breton shape was tilted over the
eyes and was made entirely of two
shades of brown straw, with clusters
of green leaves and bows of straw at
the back | need not add that tha
smartest brown boots and suede gloves
of the same tone completed this ex-
tremely neat toilette.
Quite delightful are the oldfash-
toned embroideries which are used on
queer taffeta trimmings in pastel
shades. A very smart cloth frock IN
palest pastel pink, arranged with full
plated skirt, had panel of old-fash-
toned trimming up the center Of the
skirt and bodice, which also formed a
yoke-piece over the shoulders. This
embroidery was carried out in soft
pastel pinks and blues, and was fur
Their decorated with some quaint braid
ings and shaded pink roses in raised
design. The neck and inner sleeves
were finished with rows of Valen.
ciennes lace on finely plated cream
batiste.
This particular toilette struck me as
being an excellent example of the pastel
cloth frOck confined to subdued color
ings. 1t is a mistake, which even we'll
dressed women are apt to make, when
adopting subdued tones, not to keep
to them throughout the toilette. 1 dis
like even the contrast of the generally
becoming black hat.
The best trimmings, except those of
oriental make, used on the harsher
stuffs, are of faint old-world, subdued
and neutral tones. Some of them re-
semble the work seen in old samplers,
but these, of course, are expensive and
are only used on beautiful cloths or
fabrics of silken texture.
The blouse of the moment suggests
difficulties to the economically minded.
The best are undoubtedly dear, for
they show so much hand embroidery
and stitchery. Even the simplest fan
mel ones mostly have some coarse en-
broidery thereon which is hand done.
Sleeves, too, are voluminous and take
a goodly amount of stuff.
One of the features OF the late spring
will be the embroidered blouse in war;
GUS fabrics, from very coarse linen TO
finest batiste Theater blouses are in
exquisite laces, nets, finest crepe de
chine, ETC., with entredeux of old en-
broidery or lace, and showing a great
deal of lovely workmanship.
ETTENr
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In the winter time the bazaar Is
really a sight; everything is frozen
stiff. The huge long sturgeon from
the interior stand in rows on their very
sharp-pointed noses; baskets full of lit.
tie fishes are piled together like chips
of ice; frozen birds hang down in long
festoons, and the municipality is
spared one trouble-it never has tc
make away with food gone bad" The
bazaar is almost entirely IN the hands
of the Chinese, the tall, dark, rough
Chinese Of the north, who live wrapped
up in wadded cotton clothes, until they
look like bundles of bedding. With.
out the Chinese and the japanese,
Vladivostok would find it hard to exist.
They do all the work of the town; the
Russians garrison and misgovern it.;
the Chinese, the Germans, the Japan
csc, and the other nations trade in it,
and the ticket-of-leave men from Sag
halien drive the droskies These last
are not political exiles, but criminals
together in a settlement about two
miles outside the town, under strict po-
lice supervision.
The great sport of Vladivostok in
the winter is safeguarding, and when
once the harbor is frozen over proper
course is marked off. and everyone
who owns a horse takes part A Rus
sian horse is superb brute; he stands
as high and looks as strong as an
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vent it; and every day people are
taken up frozen from the cutters, the
spirit which is in them only fastening
the freezing, so that the carts which
are always sent round to pick up the
sailors when the crews of the men-of.
war are ashore have to do their work
quickly. In the summertime, when
there is not the same need for hurry,
the men often lie about in cutters
until the afternoon. The word gut
tiers" is used simply to designate a
certain part of the roadway; cutters.
as such, do not exist. The drunken
ness among all classes of Russians is
simply appalling; officers think moth
ing of taking a tumblerful of raw
whisky as a modest "bitters" before
dinner.
When the wind is not blowing the
cold is endurable though five fur-lined
overcoats are not at all an extraordi-
nary amount of winter wrap. You
wear. of course, fur boots. fur gloves,
fur caps. Women have their skirts
and bodices lined with fur; wild cat.
being both soft and very warm. is
often used for this purpose. 1t is
quite astonishing the Partially for
such things as oily sardines that one
develops.
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The News Condensed.

Carl E. Hintrager of Oshkosh, while
seeking for vegetables in a barrel,
seized a dead rat and in the excite
ment became insane. Shortly after his
wife found him hanging in the garnet,
his neck broken.
TWenty-four indictments were re-
turned by the Milwaukee Doodle grand
jury in two days. Seven of the &C
cused men are charged with city graft.
Congress has made the following ap-
preparations for public buildings in
Wisconsin: Fond du Lac, $4,000;
Green Bay, $4,000; Superior, $4,000;
Wausau, $4,000.
In Eau Claire Mrs. Burns, a widow
70 years old, was attacked by her in
sane son with Ratchet as she lay in
! bed, sustaining a fractured skull.
| Lawrence ole, aged AZ, one of the
most prominent hotel men of the state
died suddenly in Racine of kidney trou-
BILE.
A mortage of 100000 on the Racine
Knitting company's property, held by
E. w. Radcliffe, of Chicago, was declared
invalid by Charles Lee, referee in bank
ruptcy, at Racine.
The body of George Bohman, aged 70,
a widower. was found in partly decom-
posed condition behind lumber pile
in Marshfield. He had evidently wan
dered away about two months ago and
frozen to death.
A. d. Bethel, just elected assessor Of
South Milwaukee, was found dead in his
bed at his home, death having resulted
indirectly from a stroke Of apopleXy
which he suffered more than year ago.
James Austin, division engineer OF
the Northern division Of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy, died suddenly
in La Crosse, Wis, aged AZ. He had
been connected with the Burlington
since 1888.
The annual convention of the South
ern Wisconsin Teachers association
was held in Madison with an attend
ance Of $50.
Shipments of lumber for the coming
season are estimated at $50 100000 feet,
a falling off of As, 600, 900 feet from last
season. There are now about 50,00O,O0O
feet of lumber on the docks at Ash
land
James Shedore and W. M. James, pris-
oners, escaped at Rhinelander by tun-
melting under the wall of the Jail.
Mrs. James Van Derlinden, OF APP
pleton, has located her mother in
Schuylkill Haven, Pa, after search
of SO years. She was found through
an aunt residing at Newport. Wash.
Mrs. Van Derlinden's parents separated
in Jefferson county when she was three
years old.
1t is stated that considerable por-
ton of the tobacco area will be planted
to sugar beets this year, especially in
Dane and Rock counties, where sugar
factories are promised.
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cards. and threw them into the fire,
and exhorted them to return to God.
She then went to Embury's house and
told him he must begin holding relig-
ious services, saying: "You must
preach to us, or we shall all go to hell
together, and God will require our
blood at your hands" Embury began
preaching at once, his first congrega-
ton consisting of five persons. A
Methodist society was formed and in
October, 1868, the first Methodist
church in America-John Street church
was dedicated.
About the time that Embury began
preaching in New York city, another
Irish Methodist local preacher-Robert
Straw bridge-arrived in America, and
settled in Frederick county, Maryland,
where he began preaching, and soon
built a log chapel at Sans creek.
One day in the spring OF 1857 the
small company of Methodists in New
York city were surprised to see a
British officer walk into their midst.
He was blind in one eye and presented
a forbidding appearance. They did not
know but he had come to arrest them
for some fancied offense. He was
Capt Thomas Webb of the royal army.
He had been converted under Wesley's
ministry at Bristol, England, in 1863,
spd was a staunch Methodist and To-
cal preacher The little band found
in him firm friend. His preaching
drew great crowds, and they were soon
obliged to secure larger quarters, first
going to rigging loft, and later to
John street church, toward which he
contributed large sum. Capt. Webb
formed the first Methodist society in
Philadelphia (while preaching in a sail
loft and in other places.
Mr.. Wesley was informed of the rap
id growth of Methodism in America
begun and continued in this unofficial
manner, and was urged to send men
who could devote their whole time to
the work. In 1869 he sent Richard
Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor, and
two years later Francis Asbury and
Richard Wright. Asbury afterward
became the great leader. Many of the
preachers were so strong in their SYM
pathies with the king that when the
war of the revolution broke out, they
returned to England, leaving their
fiocks shepherdless. 1t became evident
that as result of the war an indie
pendent Methodist church must be or
ganized By authority of Wesley a
conference of all the preachers was
held at Baltimore, Md, December "A,
1884. This is known as the Christ
mas Conference" By it was organ
lied the Methodist Episcopal church,
and Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
we're elected superintendent of bish-
ops. The technical title Of Methodist
bishops is still general superintend-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-04-14
TheN1ethodist Episcopal
Church in America
Opening of the General Conference at Los Angeles
Will Mark One Hundred and
Twentieth Anniversary

ents" Their Episcopal jurisdiction
is not limited to diocese, as is that
of bishops of other churches, but ex-
tends over the whole world.
The Methodist church has always
been distinguished for patriotism. 1t
was the first religious body of the
country to recognize in its organic law
the new republic, and the first to pay
homage, in the persons of its chief
representatives-its first bishops-to
the chief magistracy. receiving in re-
ply the thanks of Washington.
Referring to the early Methodist
preachers President Roosevelt in an
address at New York, February &c, 1908,
said: Since the days of the revolu-
ton not only has the Methodist church
increased greatly in the old communi-
ties of the original 13 states, but it
has played peculiar and important
part in the pioneer growth of our coun-
try and has in consequence assumed
position of immense Importance
throughout the vast region west of the
Alleghenies, which has been added to
our nation since the days when the
Continental congress first met.
In the hard and cruel life of the bor-
der, with its grim struggle against the
forbidding forces of wild nature and
wilder men, there was much to pull
the frontiersman down. If left to him
self, without moral teaching and moral
guidance, without any of the influences
that tend toward the uplifting of man
and the subduing of the brute within
him, sad would have been his, and
therefore our, fate. From this fate we
have been largely rescued by the fact
that together with the rest of the pio-
neers went the pioneer preacher, ana
all honor be given to the Methodists
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say that canvas, hopsacks and rather
hard makes of alpaca will be used.
These harsh materials form a direct
contrast TO the clinging crepon de
sole, and crepe de chene which are
more than ever to the fore for recep-
ton frocks and afternoon toilettes.
Coarse alpacas and rough canvasses
are excellent for hard wear, and wolfe,
too, OF a substantial make will be used
for the new kind of plating, killing,
etc.
Canvasses bid fair to take the place
of the regulation serges, and they
really are admirable for the bolero and
skirts for every day wear. l think they
are better when made up into the full,
plated skirts than when used plain,
for here they show directly any pulling
or rubbing. But closely killed or
plated with bolero style of coat %
match, and worn with neat shirt, the
canvas toilette becomes a feature OF
the spring.
We must not forget the smartest of
all the tailor CONNECTIONS are mostly in
ivory, and champagne colored cloths.
and gray-a rather dark, slate-gray-
has it's usual. share of popularity for
the Lenten season.
Bright shades of electric and peri
kinkle blue are giving place to the
more subdued navy-always the best
tone for the orthodox coat and skirt.
Brown, navy blue and scarlet form the
three shades for the Viennese tailor
made, which is quite simply fashioned,
and not worn with violently contrast
ing colors, white being the only per-
MISSILE mixture, with touch of gold
and silver.
l will endeavor to describe a really
smart brown tailor built costume, in
rough surfaced cloth. The skirt was
arranged in big plaits, about two inch
es below the waist, and just cleared
the ground all round. The little bo-
lero coat ended above the waist, show
ing a blouse of finely plated
crepe de chine in little brighter shade
of brown, and a belt of kid to match
This smart little bolero was edged with
a fiat brown silk braid with a few
killings of taffeta, with faint tracery
of gold thread.
The high collar of the shirt was fin
shed with a hem-stitched cravat, and
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A. HERBAGE EDWARDS
Costly Meal.

John E. Wilkie, of this city, chief of
the secret service, entered the office of
Assistant Secretary Armstrong in the
treasury department and said in dis
gusted tones: Il ate a beefsteak the
other day and it has just cost me
$11.25" Well" answered Armstrong
81 knew beef prices were rising, but |
didn't think" at was this way" in
terrupted the secret service man: 1.-The
beefsteak cost me $125 and the first
bite took out of it broke a tooth.
The dentist looked me over and said
there were so many improvements nee
essary in my jaw it would cost me $10.'
Mr.. Armstrong listened to this tale
with a severe expression. "Wilkie,"
he said, reproachfully, you should eat
more regularly. Then you will not at
tack your food so voraciously."
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Spencer No Linguist.

AS everyone know, Mr. Herbert
Spencer was no linguist His ill-health
partly associated in large measure
with eye strain-prevented him from
mastering German. He was similarly
ignorant of Greek, whilst his Latin was
of the scantiest. Nevertheless, his work
did not suffer 80 much as one might
expect from these disabilities. He was
so entirely pioneer-anticipate only
by the Ionian thinkers of 25 centuries
ago-that reading acquaintance with
German would have been of little use
to him. On the other hand, his works
have been widely translated. the Won
derful little pamphlet on education be-
ing obtainable in some Is languages.
including apanese.-London Chronicle.
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all this in a town in the same paral-
lei as Marseilles, France!
To those who have never expe-
rienced it, real Arctic cold is almost in
conceivable. They cannot grasp the
difference between 10 and so degrees
of frost; it remains to them merely
one of numbers. Indeed, when once
the winter has gone it is sometimes
difficult to remember really how cold
it was; but during the four severe
winter months themselves it is a very
solid and serious fact. Every night
you go to sleep remembering, if you
are new to such things, that failure
of the furnace which heats the house
means death; you might wake first to
know you were frozen or you might
not. In the poorer houses the inhabi-
tants sleep on the stoves, and the weak
ones often die. Drunkenness here is
often attended with swift retribu-
ton, which does not in the least pre-
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Will REQUIRE official Count.

Returns complete, or with but few
precincts lacking, from nearly every
county in the state, show that an official
count will be necessary to determine
whether L. X. Luse or j. G. Kerwin has
been elected supreme court justice. Re
turns show that Kerwin has received
64,924 votes and Luse 62,614, a majority
for Kerwin of 1910 votes. In these fig
ures, however, are included the Kerwin
claims for several counties from which
accurate figures have not been received.
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State Conventions.

The republican state convention will
be held in Madison on May IS. Candi-
dates for state offices and delegates at
large to the national convention will be
chosen. The total number of delegates
will be LOGS The democratic state CEN
trail committee selected Milwaukee as
the convention city and May II as the
date to select delegates at large to the
national convention. Oshkosh was de-
cided upon as the place for the conven-
ton for choosing state ticket. The
date for the Oshkosh convention was left
open and will be announced later.
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Nearly Finished.

The largest dam in the state will be
completed at Grand Rapids in a few
days, giving the water power and mill
industry of the Wisconsin river i'm
mense advancement. The dam is 1000
feet long and will furnish 5000 horse
power. New paper mill plans are nu-
merous. Work has already begun on
a $1,0OO,OOO paper mill at Merrill and
company has been organized to build
another paper mill of similar proper
tions.
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- HE meeting of the general
!: :: !: :: !:
eG6R conference which opens at
ESAk Los Angeles, Cal, May 4,
on II will mark the one hundred
SN1NY and twentieth anniversary
~ of the organization of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
The conference will be composed of
about 720 delegates from all parts of
the world, representing membership
of over three millions, and adherents
of about six millions more. The gen.
eral conference is the law-making
body of the church, and meets every
four years.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
the mother church of American Meth
odism, of which. there are now II
branches. These are united in doc
trine, the divisions all having been due
to differences on polity. Together they
number (not including their members
in foreign lands) about forty thousand
ministers, nearly forty-eight thousand
churches, and about six million two
hundred thousand members.
The Methodist church in America
was born in Ireland. During one of
John Wesley's visits to Ireland he
preached 10 some French refugees in
Limerick county. A number of these
were converted, and in 1850 several
families emigrated TO America, settling
in New York city. Among them were
a godly woman named Barbara Heck,
who became "the mother of American
Methodism,' and Philip Embury, To-
cal preacher. This small band was fol-
lowed in 1865 by another party of Irish
Methodists, who seem to have become
"backslidden." Soon after the arrival
of the second party, Barbara Heck en-
tered a room and found number of
them playing cards. She snatched the
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Crnn Condition.

The monthly crop report of the
Washington weather bureau says for
Wisconsin: Fields generally free
from snow, but ground frozen except
in few localities in extreme southern
counties; winter wheat, rye, and
clover generally wintered in good con
dition; preparations for seeding in
progress; stock in good condition.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Is Not a Citizen.

While being examined for juror in
the circuit court at KenoSha it was dis
covered that William Evans, justice of
the peace from Salem, was not citi-
zen of the United States and he was
excused from the jury Evans has held
the Office of justice of Salem for more
than six years and during that time
has performed many marriage cere-
monies and decided suits brought be-
fore him, his eligibility never being
questioned. When Evans came to this
country from England he was % years
old, too old to become a citizen by the
act of his father taking out papers of
citizenship.
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the Louis XVI. period are visible III
color as well as in design and fabric,
and thus we see the vieuX-rose, the
strong blues and the pale yellows Of
that period.
Then again we have the silk gallon,
the braids and the trimmings of the
same date, the cutaway coats, the en-
broidered waistcoats, and beautiful old
enamel buckles and buttons, not to
speak of the directoire hat.
The favorite waistcoat of the mo-
ment is composed of white kid or white
suede, embroidered with beautiful
golden gallon, or worked with gold and
silver. with tabs and loops. This, OF
course. is worn with the Louis XVI.
cutaway coat, which may be of sxGz or
cloth. and plain skirt gathered on the
hips.
The waistcoat is brought into a
sharp point in front, and SO, indeed,
are many evening bodices.
A beautiful white and gold damask
brocade was worn at a big evening re-
ception here quite recently. The skirt
was laid in on the hips in big pleats,
but was almost plain in front, finished
with twisted cords to weight the skirt
at the feet. The corsage was cut la
Louis XVI, that is to say, it finished
plainly with a sharp point, swathed
across on inner waistcoat of d'Alencon
lace over cream accordion-plaited chif-
fon. One side of the corsage was Dor
dered with gold leaves, on the other
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Starved Herself.

Miss Lizzie Hattsheim. aged 10, died
at Appleton after fast of 40 days,
undertaken with the deliberate at
tempt, it is said, to end her life, from
which all pleasure had been banished
by continuous i'll health since her
birth.
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One More Unfortunate.

well, Smike,' said the blind man to
the beggar, ''how's the world using
you?"
Rotten" said Smike with a
brand-new hard-luck story, warranted
20 bring tears to the eyes of rhinoce-
ros, all l took in last week was 81
shares of United States Steel common,
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A Glorious Execution.

Nodd-The telephone is certainly
great thing. Think of it, A man can
talk to his wife so miles away.
Todd-Well, you're an exception. All
I've been able to do is to listen.-Town
ToDics
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starved' Herself to Death

Miss Lizzie Hattsheim, aged 16, died
at Appleton after fast of 40 days, un-
dertaken with the deliberate attempt,
it is said, to end her life, from which all
pleasure had been banished by continu-
Gus i'll health since her birth.
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ScandalouS.

did you attend the Williston OBJ
sequies?" asked Mrs Oldcastle.
Gracious, no. replied her hostess
Have they had some? Why, me and
Josiah was at the funeral of their
grandmother only last week."-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
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Population of Wisconsin Cities.

The census bulletin for 1903 gives the
following cities in Wisconsin with more
than 25 900 inhabitants: La Crosse, 80
OBS; Milwaukee, 312, 1916; Oshkosh, 29,-
919; Racine, 31,52S, Superior, 1884.
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the lace fell softly. The sleeves, as far
as the elbow, were rather small, but
were finished with voluminous frills
of the lace.
A great deal of black Chantilly lace
is worn over foundations of white,
held in at the waist with deep, point
ed band of satin.
ANNETTE GIvRY.