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LEADVILLE, THE CATLESS TOWN.
Though without Feline Guardians, 1t Has
Few Rats and Mice.

DENVER, March johannes H. Nally, a
salesman for a New York shoe house, had
trouble about sleeping at the Brow Hotel
the other night. In the morning he sought
the chief clerk, C. H. Churchill, and reg
istered a complaint.
"a cat in the alley across the street kept
me awake, J." said Mr.. Nally. you'll either
have to guarantee that the oats will be
kept out of that alley tonight or change
my room. l must have sleep or I cannot
work"
Clerk Churchill smiled.
That's the first complaint Of it's kind
I've ever lAd here" he said. There are
comparatively few cats in Denver, but II
you wour live absolutely without any
chance Of being wakened by cats you should
move up to Leadville."
-Leadville? Why asked Nally.
has no cats. They cannot live there. Too
much altitude, as we say around here .
And such is the case. Leadville probably
hasn't a single cat. Cats have been taken
there mareg times, but they have invariablh
succumbed to the effects Of the high al
titude. leadville is IL 900 feet above the
sea level.
The cats that have been taken to Lead
vile have all died OF a form of pneumonia.
At first they enjoy the air, or seem to, but
tuSy gradually DcCOlle Wehk anu lIudlIy
| catch cold. It's nine lives then avail the cat
nothing. All the lives 60 out at once.
About a year ago the family Of Henry
Blaine moved from Denver to Leadville,
taking along a cat and three kittens. The
old cat died within month after II reached
the mining town, but the kittens lived until
they were six months old, and then went
the way of their mother.
! The little Blaines took the loss Of their
kittens 30 much to heart that their father
brought two more from Denver for them.
These kittens lived less than three months.
The Blaines then gave up trying to have
cats as pets.
Although Ieadville has no cats, 1t has
few mice and rats. Only the most hardy of
rodents can live there, and then they must
live under the ground most Of the time
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CARRIAGE
Ceremony OF Getting Into a vIctOria-Cali.
inB In an Auto.

Carriage etiquette is rigid and precise.
Take the matter Of getting into a victoria
for example.
The footman stands on the sidewalk. He
may nave the lap robe over his arm, or it
may be oysS the front of the carriage.
The lady steps into the victoria without
noticing GS respectful way in which he
touches his cockaded hat. She settles her
self comfortably down in the cushions.
Then her part is lone and his part begins.
1t is his task to tuck the lap robe abou
you, and then pass back of the carriage
and see that it is properly adjusted on the
other side. All this must be done with the
greatest elaboration.
The footman finally finishes his work
and places himself on the sidewalk by the
victoria to receive his mistress's orders.
Ii ia then that his mistress for the first time
says where she is going. To be really
elegant, the lady must show no signs of
hurry.
Slowly and deliberately she turns to the
footman and mentions the destination to
which she will be driven. 1t is regarded
as a shade more elegant for the lady 10
look directly in front Of her and, not noticing
the waiting footman at all, to speak her
wishes as If she were addressing the wind,
and as il it ought to be glad to obey her.
In calling the lady does not leave her
CafriaBe Until the lootHlan mas runR the
door bell and learned il the lady OF the
house is at home. If she Is out, he leaves
the card and returns to the vehicle for
orders.
The same thing Is required Of the ohauf-
feur> of a private motor. The arrival Of q
private motor in front OF a house has indeed
come TO be an occasion of ceremony.
The vehicle hurdles up. The chauffeur
slights. opens the door and receives the
card.
He goes up the steps and rings the bell.
The lady is at home. He hands in the card
and returns to the motor.
Its occupant then alights. II there is a
ring the bell again if necessary. In any
Gags, he must extricate the occupant Of the
vehicle from her rugs before he allows
~ y slight from the motor,
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wear white shoes you must nave short
skirts, else why wear white ones? You
might just az we'll wear black or none at
all, an argument which is convincing, IN
answerable.
Miss Natty swirls her short skirt, which
is made of washable silk, and IL she takes
her blue hat of and puts it under her skirt
and covers her white shoes with newspaper
wrappings she need not fear getting caught
in the rain. All this the audience lea n
while she is promenading back and forth,
casting practice glances at one of the wax
shapes
Like her predecessors. she is etylishly
coiffured and not a stray hair is out of place.
From the tip OF her shapely head to the toe
of her boot she is neatness, grace and ar
tistic seeming. The women sigh and wish
they could be ever one-half so chic as Miss
Natty.
One young woman leans forward, her
hat on awry and her face furrowed with
the lines Of honest endeavor.
I've been making dresses for other
women for ten years" she says in an ag-
grieved tone, and I've never had time to
make a decent one for myself yet"
I'm tired to death telling women day
after day how to be beautiful and not get
ting time to attend to my own looks" cries
another.
If fashion didn't change every three
months, " said ole of the iconociasts among
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way at the compliments. 1t turned out,
though. that she was unable TO supply the
information sought there and so asked
the reporter to call at her office.
The color scheme of the office was the
reverse of that OF her home. 1t was in green
and gold, Even the door was opened by
a green boy.
The reporter sat down on a green chair
that stood on a green rug and took a look
at the gold things that stood promiscuously
around. Before the old fashioned Colonial
mantel there stood an old Colonial gold
table on which was a triple mirror In gold.
Before the mirror were two tall golden
candlesticks with electric bulbs in lieu Of
candles. Upon a green table there was
what looked like a Colonial kerosene lamp,
but wasn't. 1t had a round green shade
and stood upon a tall and glistening crystal
pedestal.
Upon the wall paper appeared great green
parrots with here and there, on wings n
breast, a touch OF crimson The reporter,
looking anxiously about to find some other
touch of crimson to match, found it in a
little red rose in the ~buttonhole Of the green
boy.
Then the bell rang and the office boy was
suddenly replaced by the secretary. 1t
was wonderful the way he went on getting
ready for the business woman's entrance.
1t was as il he were stage manager and the
green room the stage.
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The failure Of every husband, son and
sweetheart in sight almost
Just then the voice Of Miss White is heard
uttering the bloodthirsty statement that
follows.
"Put the large medallions ON the baby
and sew them to it just as tight as you can.
You can use all sizes Of these and cover the
surface Of the baby completely"
There is a dark-eyed woman there, who
has a small baby at home, and her face be-
comes white at the remark.
"The babyl" she falters.
"Yes," says Mrs. White sharply, 4the
Irish baby
The dark eyed woman looks relieved.
Her baby does not answer that description.
1t must be some one else's. But to help
that other mother she falters again.
"The Irish baby?"
Certainly and the smooth voice goes
on explaining, "There is nc lace this
season that we shall use more Of for guimpes
and other things than the Irish baby
There is 40 further faltering but the young
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Mis- white explains this seeming discrSps
ancy. (
Tho trailing SKIRT 10 worn; IL 10 tTuetP
says she, "by Partisan women more fro
qucntly than by American, and It To- Quit9
usual for people coming back from thera VI
say that the French woman does not WeaE
any other kind; and this 10 emphasigadhR'
the fact that nearly all the models cent ovoR
are Of that variety. But the reason fer thtN
is because the Partisan can and does drive
wherever she goes. to call, to the theatras
TO shop, and consequently she can wear .
long skirt without soiling it or finding u IN
the way. The American woman of the eatne
class has to take a car or walk.
1T may be taken as a hard and fast rule
that the Partisan woman never weara g.
long skirt when she has to walk any distance.
She calculates exactly the conditions Of the
function and garbs herself accordingly, and
that is one reason why she Is the best dressed
woman in the world. r1f
Il will give an example. I wa invited
to a Q O'Clock dinner, and though I knsw 10
was out of town I went in q long dress. tor
dinner meant to my American ideas O full
dress function.
II had been told that after We left tha
carriage there was q short ride on q ferry
boat to the inn, but that statement, made no
impression on me at all. The French lady
who accompanied me appeared In Q nattp
suit with short walking skirt, such a. aha
might have worn to a tea here In New York;
where abe went in the cable car or subway. II
Sure enough when we took the ii On
the boat I found my dress In the way. I
stumbled over it and vas generally awks
ward, while the woman at my side was
perfectly at home, and when We reached
the rest of the party we found them dressed
as she was, and all because there was thaA
five minute ferry ride. II we had drives
all the way, they would lave worn trains.
THE distin gushing mark OF the Parisienno
is found in the fact that abe always weasa
an appropriate costume, and the reaSo1
why we Americans always see them tnlona
dresses is because we only go, when wears
over there, to the places where tho long
dresses can be and should be worn. To
dress correctly. that is, with regard to tho
occasion, Ia Of as great importance 70 q
woman as to dress we'll, n b two aea
quite different things. Many an Americas
woman has been criticised over ther0 Tor
wearing a beautiful gown at the wronA
.moment; it Is a sartorial solecism.s /
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Women Study the Art of Dress
Pretty Models, Fine Costumes and Good Advice at
Miss Whites Convention

Once a year you may see PROFESSIONS Of
badly dressed women with eager faces
unoving from Long Island and New Jersey
suburbs and Manhattan flats toward the
hall in which Miss White holds her annual
convention Of dressmakers and tolls women
generally how to dress. These badly
dressed women never seem to learn how
10 be well dressed; but the conventions are
nevertheless interesting.
The feminine models are extremely
pretty. There is one with dark hair which
looks like the inside OF a blackberry pie
IN summer after you have been out sailing
''or on the golf links. She has lips that
wou d furnish a poet with material for a
sonnet or a cosmetic house with q living
advertisement
She Is tall and supple and straight fronted
and all the things she should be to play her
game right. Her hair is marcelled until it
looks like Oyster Bay when the tide Is COM
ing in, and better than all she is gowned
in a creation that even the people who
have for seven years been attending these
conventions pronounce a wonder.
The gown Is the tint of Italian coral and
Is made of one of the new varieties of sum-
mer silks that are 30 adapted to vacation
needs that a girl could become engaged
seven times in the same season and the
wrinkles would not stay in the waist line.
Miss White Of course does not speak Of
anything so matter of fact and near at hand.
Her comparisons are furnished by Auteuil
and Longchamps, pronounced with a
school Of languages accent.
There is another Of those duchess like
figures whose owner lives in a hall bedroom
In Harlem, belongs to a progressive euchre
club in Haokenstraw and looks as If she
had stepped out of the pages of a Gibson
girl calendar. When she gracefully glides
the models never walk-onto the stage
the gasping ones sit up and take notice.
This model is swathed-no mere clothing
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FEEDING ORANGE TREES,
Growers Able by o Proper Dict % MAINE
the Fruit Improve on Nature.

The biggest and best oranges are not
grown on good soil. Fruit growers are dnda
ing out that they can improve on nature
when It comes to feeding up a tree. d
II they want to get the finest fruit they
no longer pick out the rich, alluvial soils.
Very fertile land produces citrus trees Of
rank growth which often bear enormous
crops; but the finest and highest priced
fruit grows on nearly sterile soil. q +
This strange state Of affairs Is thus era
planned: In fertile soils plant food is seldom
properly balanced. Neither is it present In
just the right condition for producing the
best fruit. S.
For some reason, too, 1t isn't possible to
influence fruit through the medium Of a
rich, fertile soil. 1t doesn't seem to be a good
medium for chemical fertilizers, whereas
a soil which Is almost sterile makes the
right base upon which to build up ideal con-
ditions. Trees may be started in it and then
fed with Just such chemicals as will produce
the finest quality of fruit.
Old fashioned fertilizing with muck and
barn manure is being abandoned in favor Of
modern chemical fertilizers. The old method
produced coarse, thick skinned oranges
and often caused disease in the trees. The
Department Of Agriculture, in strongly
advising the use Of chemicals, gives the tols
lowing definite rules;
To obtain a fruit with thin rind. use nitrogen
from inorganic sources In moderate quant-
ties. with considerable potash and lime. To
sweeten the fruit, use suIphate Of ammonia In
considerable abundance, decreasing the
amount of potash. To render the fruit more
acid. increase the amount Of potash and use
nitrogen from organic sources. = /.
II 1t Is desired to increase the siSe Of the
fruit apply a comparatively heavy dressing Of
nitrogen in some organic form and slightly
decrease the other elements. '
Die back. a serious malady. Is In all probe-
bility the result Of overlooking with nitro
genous manures from organic sources. These
manures If used at all should be applied with
great caution. Foot rot. although not pri.
marlly due to improper methods OF fertillEs.
ton. lie no doubt considerably Influenced by
this cause. Insect diseases are also appars
emily influenced by the use Of fertilizers,
organic manures rendering the trees more
liable 70 injury from this source than chemi~
eal fertilizera.
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He hurriedly brought out from hidden
recesses pieces Of tapestry which he flung
over screens. There were some bright green
birds of paradise on the tapestries. He
appeared with armfuls of brocade and flung
it about with delicate promiscuousness.
He laid specimens Of silks here and there.
He flung rugs OF the floor, though there
appeared to be quite enough already.
He stood two Cupid panels straight. He
arranged the ferns. He adjusted the cur
tains Then he stood perfectly motionless,
finger to lip, listening.
The bell
With a few %judicious, swift and nimble
springs he turned on the electric bulbs Of
candle and lamp and opened the door. The
usiness woman entered. She was dressed
In a shade Of green completely harmonizing
with the fittings Of the room.
Then she gave the reporter the informa-
ton desired.
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A BUSINESS WOMAN.
First . Study In Pin and White, Then n
symphony In Green and Gold.

anu uoih.
The business woman's residence was a
study in pink and white. White outside
and pink and white within.
The woman reporter who called there to
get a certain piece of information was met
at the door by a maid with pink cheeks and
a short white apron. She was ushered up
some very white steps into a boudoir, where
the business woman reclined on a pink
couch in a pink and white neglige. Over
her had been thrown a slumber robe Of
delicate pink, the color of her cheeks, and
in her arms lay a little black dog, who wore
a pink ribbon.
Back Of a rose colored fender cleaned
a pink fire, whose Pickering light was re-
flected in the shining mirror of a pink and
white dressing table.
The reporter exclaimed over the beauty
Of this color scheme, while she wondered
inwardly why the little black dog, the only
thing of color in the room, hadn't been
painted a delicate pink and tied with a little
white ribbon.
The business woman smiled in a pleased
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Wells NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
They Come From Paris and Might Make
All Women Beautiful.

The man who said that there is nothing
new under the sun lived before the day of
the face veil. Most Of the little accessories
which go so far toward making the great
well dressed change with the seasons; not
so the face veil.
Styles in that change between times as
well. At present simultaneously with Paris,
so veil importers say, there is a great show
ing of novelties in wells and veilings. A
made veil known as the Irritation is having
a great run. =
The Irritation is three yards long and a
warm article. 1t is made of washable chit
fon of a flmy texture that would make
Peter Pan ashamed when he holds his lost
shadow up to the public eye. The ends are
hand painted in big flowers, and in some
cases a painted border extends down both
sides.
1t il generally worn loose over a oom-
pie xion veil and IL also employed az a head
covering for evening wear.
Many OF the new carriage and calling
wells have pin head dots very close to-
gether and a sparse sprinkling of large
velvet or chenille dots over these. Such
nave a border Of real lace or narrow velvet
ribbon and should be chosen TO match the
gown.
Never before have made wells and veil
ings by the yard been obtainable in color
SO wonderful and so becoming. Even the
p~lainest woman If she has a right sense Of
color, can find something in them TO hide
her defects and enhance her charms,
Smart automobile wells necessarily are
OF chiffon cloth, for it is both dust and
water proof, and their ends are embellished
and made strong with velvet dots.
A wise woman expends a good deal OF
thought on the wells and sticks to what suits
her best in spite OF ~alluring novelties,
Authorities say that the wash ACE veil will
come into it's own again this summer. Its
advent will be hailed with delight by those
cheap. durable, becoming and easily cleaned
aI hnma
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where are beautiful garlands Of Christmas
greens out Of season IL the gowns arc not
and her lips are half parted in a ~sartorial
smile that would have put dollars in an old
masters pocket il he could have seen it
when he was dreaming madonnas.
She is attired in a "guimpe princess
and you can't help wondering IL Ena who
is so soon to be a bride Of the royal house OF
Spain, is a guimpe Princess or just a plain
one.
And II you are not too utterly tired out
by the description Of all these beautiful
girls there is another one
She is of the natty type. Her short black
gown displays Chicago feet in snowy canvas
shoes. Miss White remarks that if you
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coaches. which started to 60 out OF fashion
at that period.
The funny artist Of to-day has the same
impression of the disappearance Of the
horse as had the oldtime o%artoonist, but
he makes the automobile the machine at
which the horse kicks. 1t is altogether
likely that the horse still will be in demand
commercially and otherwise long after
pictures representing him as a back num-
Der vanishing before the auto have &C.
quired value as curios.
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extinct creature found expression seventy
five years 6 through what probably was
the first cartoon On the subject. The
horses are somewhat weird looking, but
not 30 queer as the little locomotive and
the cars at which the slim, milk white steed
is kicking. The horse not only survived
tho locomotive but multiplied enormously,
The horses that are lamenting, as their
talk shows, are beasts that have seen SER
vice on the Liverpool road" drawing stage
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Archbishop Ryan's Wit.

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1t is said that Archbishop Ryan has kept
Philadelphia In good humor for twenty
four years--the length of time he has been
at his post In that archdiocese and the story
below is typical Of the way he has done 4
McVeaeh. when he was counsel of the Penn
sylyania Railroad, "our president here, who
always travels With his counsel. will I'M
doubtedly get you passes over all the rail-
roads in the United States. IL II. return you
will rive him n pass to Paradise"
All" replied the archbishop. quietly,
81 would do go IL it were not for separating
him from his counsel"
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A suItan's big War Drum.

From the Wide World Mdgaxins.
An interesting and unique war curio re-
Gently arrived at Khartum in the shape OF
the late Sultan Iambio's great war drum.
II is cut from q solid block OF wood, and is
intended to represent a buffalo, though.
perhaps. the execution leaves something to
the. Imagination. The whole thing Is over
aud requires eight or ten men to carry it.
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slishtly heightened oOlor and an expression
Of relief In her faoe.
At the afternoon session Of tho convention
the pretty models drink hot water out OF
tea cups and play that they are Mrs. VAN
derbilt and Mrs. Aston. They rise, dip and
show the backs Of their clothes al though
to the manner born. Miss White herself,
as guest, is the image Of the visiting
Duchess.
Incidentally many words Of wisdom fall
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the women. Il might some time or other
catch up with it but l never shall under
its present conditions"
"A man might say" another said, ap-
parently quoting, for the remark did not
sound feminine, that there Is no sense in
fashion changing so often, and If women
had strength of mind enough to insist on
its being stable We should not be con-
fronted by these ideas which the annual
convention congeals into shape"
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Young Colorado Giant.

Wrdv correspondence Den rer Republican.
Wray has Just been visited by a young
giant. His name is Reuben Pratt, and while
out IA years OF age. he Is 0 feet 4 inches tall
and weighs over 200 pounds. Reuben's
nome is in the southwest corner of Yuma
S9unty. This H. the first time he has visited
"ray for several years.
The an cestry Of his family shows that
there were several giants, but none OF them
lived 10 be very old, One OF them, who died
al the age OF 10, was over seven feet tall.
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And the answer to this came from .
woman Of middle age, With the air Of one
accustomed TO commando
If the fashion did not change three
fourths OF the mercantile business Of the
world would stand still. Men are the
producers. women the consumers. Let the
put on a grass mat, and rags on her
feet, let her stop marcelling. massaging,
%coiffuring, changing the styles Of her shoes,
her gloves, her hats, what would happen2
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mother bends over her note book with q
from her lips. She discourses at length
and manages to hold the attention OF 400
tired women while she tells them how &c
decide the question which agitates many
to whom the Paris gown means the trailing
gown and who cannot understand why t if
that with Partisan models American womer
insist on wearing short skirts.
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Mirrors TO Help the Driver.

Drivers who are obliged to run thr oueh
heavy trafic to any extent find II Of con-
siderable advantage to atlx q small bit Of
mirror plate TO tho right .s%tanohion OF the
canopy just above, the, dash SO that the fol-
ing the head.
Such a device may be very simple and
driver OF considerable anxiety and twisting
about In his seat when working through
closely crowded streets,
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word could describe the process in a
shimmery, silken dream hat looks like the
morning mist along the Cape Cod shores in
June days. 1t follows the fog lines in it's