Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1897, Page 25

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897-28 PAGES. PARIS FASHIONS ‘Some Novelties in Millinery and Spring Gowns. BONNETS 70 HAVE STRINGS AGAIN doose Sacque Coats Are Now ee High in Favor. -_——— SMART SUITS FOR CYCLISTS. -_ Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, March HE LOOSE SACQU E ~~. 7 < | roat is as much in favor as any of the spring wraps that have appeared so far upon the prome- nades. It is made quite short and with tight sleeves, often of a light color and finished with gold or silver braid. It is an extremely simple garment, but capable q of looking smarter tl «. almost anything else worn. A coat of a very pale silvery blue smeoth cloth that I noticed this morning cut per- fectiy straight in front and behind. Mined throughcut with dark blue silk and turned back at the throat in a flat collar and odd truncated revers. it had small square pockets and plain sleeves, and was edged with feur or five rows of narrow sil- ver galoon. White coats, cream-colored ‘s, green coats and bright red coats are o:ly a few of the tints that give the city streets the look of spring. Many of the more dre: Tied women are made loose also. One of the most successful models {s built upon a dep yoke of passementerie, square in front and behind, from which hi straight lengths of silk or satin, laid in deep box or side pleats and richly embroidered at the bottom. One of the famous houses of Paris finished a garment of this order last wraps for mar- French Cy ing Costume. week for the Empress of Russia. It was of gray silk shot with wavering of brown and biue, such as one sees on the breast of a pigeon. The yoke was an exquisite lace pattern sewn with jet. T anding collar was laid in pleats, quite low in front, but rising to a con- Siderable height at the back of the neck, aud was lined with Point de Venice lace, heavy ruches of which finished the sleeves. The wrap was quite short and was orna- mented at the bottom with a rich em- broidery in black silk, following a wonder- fuily delicate and intricate lace pattern, and costing weeks of labor. The sleeves were pointed at the wrists and em- breidered. The wrap was lined with red silk shot with black, and was accompanied by a bonnet of black lace with trimmings of pi almond blossoms. ing bonnets have strings to tie under I think I wrote a month or more the earliest models prepared for Riviera showed this innovation. The m promises to persist, at least for season. This is saying nothing more that a larger proportion than usual of i bonnets will be real bonnets in the nse of the word. A pretty model ¥ a milliner whose word 1s law to is of women has a half wreath of pink and purple anemones framing face. Behind this on either side {s a rfly arrangement of black quills ting from the flowers, and behind again more anemones. The strings of narrow pink velvet ribbon. Another enet from the same house has a garland of pink and white almond flowers about the face set In knots of pink ribbon. Be- hird rises a mass of iridescent cocks’ plumes, drooping on efther side. A Hat for Spring. inty hat that nodded yesterday after- from a carriage in the Bois de Bou- w+ had a flat brim broad in front, but inishing to nothing behind. It was of straw with a close wreath of small ow primroses set on the edge of the brim and ending in a thick rosette on either side at the back. The full crown, some- what of the Tam O'Shanter order, had a high fan arrangement of black ribbons in front, from the folds of which and behind Which rose stalks of the yellow and white rarcissus, mingled with primroses. Walking dresses tremble on the giddy verge of the double skirt. Sometimes they fail over, oftener they refrain. The best todels, that are the newest, have sleeves that are almost skin tight, with little epau- lets or jockeys, or, maybe, round, almost riached puffs at the shoulders. " Waists show comparatively few changes. Some of the new bolero jackets open on one side the chi ago th: the Aé For a Spring-Time Stroll. end fit almost as closely as a tatlor bodice. ‘The blouse is as popular as !t was last eum- mer and is made in en even greater variety of materials. A pratty model much in favor is shirred over the shoulders and then left full to the waist line. When I asked a modiste this morning to ow me some of the new Ideas most cer- 4zin to be recetyed this summer with smiles, the first costume to be brought forward Was a pinkish fawn-colored cloth dress for ircet wear. It bad a long, gracefully cut all the fuliness of which was drawn to the back and arranged tn pleats. It was trimmed with five rows of brown silk cord, e:renged to simulate an overskirt hanging long in front and short upon the sides. Neerer the waist were other five rows d's- posed fn the same manner and suggesting @ second overdress, though to that muiti- Pilcation of draperies we are not likely, for e time at least, to attain. The bodice was a blouse of white mousseline de rote, laid in knife pleats, but almost hidden un- der a long and close fitting bolero opened on the left side under a lace cascade, The bolero wae edged with cord like that upon the skirt and had a round standing collar, not of too great height, similarly trimmed. The tight sleeves had small puffs on the shoulders and were ornamented with rows of cord set on at intervals. There was a It was | broad belt of brown ribbon fastening with a silver buckle. With this costume there belonged a small hat of heavy straw, trimmed with Ittle pink-tipped daisies. For a Garden Party, For afternoon wear or for a garden party, if it be not too early to suggest such fes- tivities to Americans, was a dress of sil- very blue glace silk dotted with forget-me- nots. The plain skirt was rather scant than full. The bodice turned back from the throat in full draped revers folding across the bosom like kerchief ends and disap- pearing under the belt of blue ribbon. A white lace chemisette filled in the opening An Afternoon at Home. and came up about the throat in a stand- irg collar tied with ribbons. The tight sleeves had shoulder puffs and lace epau- lets. A white straw hat went with this t and was trimmed with wreaths of ‘orget-me-nots twisted with pink and blue ribbons. The bicycle suits of Frenchwomen are the freshest and nattiest in the world. Bloomers are not so nearly universal as they were a year or two ago, but they aré still in a great majority. Bicycle stockings re used instead of the long gaiters com mon in England and America, and very trim slippers or low bicycle shoes. Smail flat hats, like sailors, are the usual ‘head- gear. Two suits that I saw on the dri way at Cannes a few days ago struck me as particularly good. They were worn by two young girls who have been making a rcle trip through the Riviera quite by mselves. One was of a pretty shade of green cloth cut with quite full bloomers, laid in knife pleats amd gathered with an de at the kne The waist, of heavy rite pique, turned over at the throat in a round, standing collar, with a black cra- tie, and was worn ‘under a jacket of the same material as the bloomers and cut almost after the Eton pattern, short and square-cornered at the waist. It had a flat rs edged with black brald , braid-trimmed and puffed It had a broad sash of wearer had long black ul black straw hat with green ribbons and black and white quills. he other suit t of the bloomer order. It was of brownish red cloth with a short kilted skirt a breasted jack- et with smoked pc and big rev- ers. It was worn with black stoc ana a little black hat and a great bunch of spring violets. There is nothing newer than the prince: dress for dinner er recaption wear. tume finished yes low si with sq s A cos- erday is of primrose e neck barred across in front with old lace, and with standing col- lar behind of yellow velvet, lined with white The close-fitting waist is embroi- dered with gold along the side darts, and the skirt is slashed upon one side to show a lace panel. There are elbow sleeves of the silk with lace undersiecve: ELLEN OSBOR: ——— ACHING HIM ORDER. One Clever Mother Has Learned How to Persuade Her Boy to Be Nent. From the Philodelpbia Press, An observ’ng 1ittle woman who has been visiting a friend tells of this mother’s method of training. This mother has learned that scolding does not improve her boy's memory. Con- stantly reminding him of his faults was going far toward spoiling his temper—and her own—and did ro good. Last year she tried a new way. It was not easy at first, but it has worked so well that she is happy over the change. . Jack would not black his shoes; he always “forgot.” Sc she gave him a complete blacking outfit, a handsome cherry wood box, with firm solid legs, good brushes and ‘a box of good blackinx. This she put in his own rocm, and on the wall above it hung a pretty calendar, tell- ing Jack she should mark the days when his shoes were not polished. The first calendar was awful! Jack does not like to thirk of it; but his pride ts aroused. This calendar’ is three months old, and has bu~ seven crosses on it, and he says he is bound there shall not’ be a single cross for the rest of the year. Blacking his shoes so much soils his hands sadly. On Christmas morning his mother gave him two or three nice nail and hand brushes (she could not w ford a complete manicure set), with excellent soap, an ordinary file and a of scissors, and his hands are really im- proving. Clearing up his room was always a trial; his bureau drawers especially, till she hit on the plan of placing in them pretty boxes marked “cuffs,” “collars,” “scarf: “handkerchiefs,” “buttons and jewelr; and once a week of putting into each draw- er which she finds in perfect order a 5- cent plece, while into each one in disorder goes a little slip of paper with “Mother is sorry” written on it. Jack fairly hates the “‘sorries” and really tries to make hfs mother glad by being more neat. If the “nickels” are an extra inducement, why not? He does not like to get up in the morn- ing, and he used to come down to his breakfast with an ugly scowl on his face, till his mother set a hand mirror at his place, as if it were part of the table fur- nishirg, and kept it there through one dreadful month of breakfasts. Now he smiles all over his face for very Joy that it 1s not there. I might tell you more of the ways this mother takes to cure her boy's bad habits ard foster the good ones. How she has grown more patient and loving in dealing with him in this manner. Perhaps some one says. “She is bribing her boy to be good.” But isn’t it money well spent if it wins him to be neat, orderly and gentle? Are not the pretty things which find their way into his room, thouga her own may be bare of them—the ccmfortable lounge, the table with its brightly burning lamp and the latest number of his own loved magazine, and boy's paper—ministers of good if they help him to love his ttle room s0 that he will not leave it for the street and its attractions? +o +—____— It matters little what it 1s that you want — whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. The Return of Spring. Have I passed through Death's unconscious birth, In a dream the midnight bare? I look on another and fairer Earth; I breathe a wondrous air! A spirit of beauty walks the hills, Avepizit of love the plal ‘The shadows are bright, and the sunshine fills The air with a diamond rain! Before my viston the glories swim, To the dance of a tune unheard: Is an angel singing where woods are dim, Or fg it an amorous bird? Is it a spike of azure flowers, ‘Deep in the meadows scen, Or ia it the peacock’s neck, ‘that towers Out of the spangled green? Js 2 white dove glancing across the blue, Or an opal taking wing? For my soul ts dazzled through and through, With the spletdor of the spring. Is It she that shines, as never before, ‘The tremulous hills above— Or the heart within me, awake once more ‘To the day it of love if ners —BAYARD TAYLOR. Bryant and Wordsworth. Henry D. Sedgwick, jr., in the April Atlantic, Bryant’s poems inevitably bring Words- worth to our minds, yet it seems unfair to Bryant's talents to measure their increase by comparison with the fruits of Words- worth’s genius. Bryant's lot took him to the city, to newspapers and daily cares, while Wordsworth sauntered contempla- tiye over Helvellyn and along the margin of Windermere. Great poetry has never been written by a man who was not able to give to It his concentrated thought and his whole heart. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spencer, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, By- ron, all the great poets of England, have given undivided allegiance to poetry. Bry- ant could not do so, and his poems bear the marks of hfs involuntary loyalty. COOL AND BECOMING| Shirt Waists for Spring and Summer Wear. NEW STYLES OF SLEEVES Hints as to What is Proper in the Way of Materials. OLLARS AND CUFFS ——_+—_— From Harper's Bazar. The vast number of shirt waists now ex- hibited in the shops would scem to prove conclusively that there was no truth in the rumor that they had gone entirely out of style. It is undeniably true that they are no longer considered smart for street wear for elderly women, unless worn under a jacket, but as there is no garment so cool and comfortable, and to slight figures so becoming, even the disapproval of a few people is not sufficient to destroy its popu- larity. ‘There are several new points this year in shirt waists, and, of course, a marked change in the sleeves. A small leg-o'- mutton, a bishop sleeve very much nar- rower than last season’s, and in exagger- ated patterns, a sleeve like the one on men’s shirts, are the three oftenest seen. The last 1s not pretty nor becoming, but ts the best to wear under an Eton jacket or blazer, for there 1s only enough fullness to be com- fortable under the coat sleeves, and what fullness there is is gathered on the top into the armhole. The sleeves are fin- ished at the wrist by 4 being gathered intoa band, to which cuffs can be attached, or else have a turned- over cuff of the same material as the shirt. Where economy is considered the de- tachable cuffs are chosen, and it 1s quite out of date to have white cuffs fastened to the sleeve. White linen cuffs often require to be boiled before they can be made quite white, but the dainty colors of the shirt itself would soon fade if it too had to go through such a proic style of treatment. There are two styles of cuffs—the plain, to be worn with the link sleeve buttons, and the broad turned-over ones, like those so fashionable last season. The first men- tioned are the smarter, and Infinitely b: for many ri They launder ter and slip on under coat sleeves much more mfortably. As is always the case, there many vagaries of fashion, such as hem- stitching, narrow bias folds of colored nen, and ribbons worn instead of sleeve links, but all these elaborate fads do not accord well with the simple and plain ef- fect that the regular tallor-made shirts, which are in the best style, possess. have reached a point of excellence the last year or two that is remarkable, and the majority of wo- men find no diffi; culty in buying vaists that fit well, giving the measure of collar band and bust as a guide. In the made- only to-order shirts there are, it must be mitted, some a tages—not perhaps to make up for the difference in cost, but there is more fullness in the fronts, more fitting of the side seams and yoke, and better ma- terials are used—points which appeal strongly to the fastidious woman. Linen batiste waists are exhibited in great variety this year, and exceedingly pretty some of them are. The favorite pat- tern is the body of the waist made of the embroidered and the sleeves of the plain, finished with cuffs also of the plain, and the band of the neck made so that either a lnen collar or ribbon stock can be worn. Plain white _ embrofdered batiste 1s not quite mart as the ba- embroidered in several colors. There re waists of flower- ered organdie and lawn, deliclously thin and cool, but hardly so serviceable as the madras and dimity. A new idea this season is the under waist or corset cover carefully fitted, and of some color that looks well underneath the shirt waist. Most of the thin materials are made with a pointed yoke in the back, or two yokes, and the front is laid in tucks, which in themselves form a yoke, and be- low the yoke the fullness is drawn in at the waist and fastened down with a stitch- ed band. In madras these tucked yokes are very much liked, and they certainly relleve the plain look of the waist, although there are conservative people who atill cling to the shirring on the shoulders as being the prettiest and most becoming. White dimity shirts are extremely smart, but as yet the only pretty ones are made to order. Dimity is a most satisfac-ory material for con- stant laundering, and wears lke iron. These dimity shirts are mado very simply, with yoke in the back and the fullness at the shoul- ders; sleeves me- dium size, and be- tween a bishop and leg-of-mutton; turned-back cuffs of dimity, and a band at the throat. Eccentricities of fashion are bound to be set forward, and this year there ts a wild abandon as re- gards linen collars, which no one should yield to. A broad shelf of linen standing out around the neck is not becoming, and ig extremely conspicuous, and heavily starched linen ruffs should also be tabooed. A narrow line around the throat is always attractive, and there are plenty of smart styles to choose from in preference to those that are so pecullfar. The narrow turned-over collar will probably be more popular than the broad ones of last year, which were so uncomfortable. Lace frills and jabots are out of place on the wash materials, and should only be used with the silk waists, which will be as popuiar ag ever. Taffetas, Indias and the Persian patterns, made up quite elaborately, but on the thinnest possible lining, will be, as ever, fashionable and useful. ——<—-_ Blaine’s Choice of a Tune. Correspondence of the Chicago Times-Herald. On the first day of the nominating con- vention of 1876, which was held in Cincin- nati, I met Blaine at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York. He said that he had some business in Wall street, and proposed that we should walk down together and have a chat by the way. At his suggestion we followed the back streets which run parallel to Broadway, so that he could escape being stopped by acquaintances on his way down town. The newspapers had been full of the scandal of the Mulligan letters, the history of which I need not re- peat here, for it is well known to all of Blaine’s contemporaries. These letters, it will. be remembered, furnished the chief weapons successfully used against him by his opponents at Cincinnatl. As we crossed Houston street Mr. Blaine observed on the billboards of a variety theater a staring line, which announced that the “Mulligan Guards” was to be played in the program for that night. Blaine stopped, called my attention to the playbill, and said: “If I am nominated at Cincinnati I hope the eee will play that tune the very first thing. be “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. UNIVERSITY NOTES Catholic University. The school will close Friday, April 9, for the Easter recess, which will continue until Wednesday, April 21. Rev. Dr. Shahan. delivered the fourth of his Lenten ’sermons at the Cathedral, New York city, last Sunday. The Very Rev. Dr. Conaty was in Bal- timore last Tuesday and attended the lec- ture by Mr. Ferdinand Brunetierre of the French Academy, at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity. M. Brunetierre will be the guest of the cniversity tomorrow. On Tuesday evening Dr. Conaty spoke before the Cath- olic Club of Baltimore on the “Ideal American.” Cerdinal Gibbons was pres- ent. The Paulist Fathers are to add a wing to St. Thomas’ College that will accom- modate the wants of their community. The mid-year examinations in the law department took place this week, and sev- eral candidates were examined for de- grees. The illustrated lecture on the Ever- glades of Florida by Dr. D. 8. Day of the United States geological survey ast Thursday concluded the public lecture course of the year. A relay team is being organized by John ¥. Duane, manager of athletics, and will probably be coriposed of Collins, Cashman, Kennealy and McBayne. The team will probably make its first appearance on the track at the Georgetown field meet. Man- ager Duane is in correspondence with the intercollegiate association, and it is ex- pected that they will soon be admitted to membership in that organization. At the next meeting of the University Club several new members will be admit- ted. The committee on entertainment is arranging for a smoker to be held the last week in April. Howard University. Booker T. Weshington, president of ‘Tus- keegee Industrial School, Alabama, will address the students Tuesday morning. Rev. Dr. T. De Witt Talmage will de- liver an address in Andrew Rankin Chapel next Thursday afternoon. The Agassiz Association met yesterday afternoon and a paper on “Lobsters” was read by Miss Maggie Quanders. Arrange- ments have been made for field meetings of the class of natural history at least once each month. The debate of the Theological Literary Society Wednesday was on the question, “Resolved, That the Romans have done more for the advancement of civilization than the Egyptians.” G. W. West spoke on the affirmative and J, P. Washington on the negative. King of All Chapter, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, will meet in King Hall next Thursday. The officers of the chapter are Rev. William B. Tunnel, warden; F. Bennet, director, and J.’ B. Brown, tary. The Christian Endeavor Society held a largely attended consecration meeting last Saturday under the direction of Prof. War- der. A regular meeting will be held to- night. The mock congress (Alpha Phi) met last night and debated the bill providing for universal suffrage. Columbian University. Yesterday afternoon the Enosinian So- ciety discussed, “Resolved, That the Ding- ley tariff bill, in its present form, should be adopted.” Messrs. Hcover and Biscoe were the speakers on the affirmative and Messrs. Beatty and Jones on the negative. Miss Ross edjted the News for class 1 and Mr. Rogers for class 2. The Bee was edited by Mr. Stuart for class 1 and Mr. Beatty for class Friday evening, April 9, in the University Hall, Mrs. J.°H. Gore of Stockholm will give an illustrated lecture under the aus- pices of the Columbian women. The last ledture in the free Saturday course, under the auspices of the Colum- bian Kindergarten Assoclation, was de- livered this morning at 11 o'clock, by Dr. William T. Harris, commissioner of edu- cation, who spoke on “How the Kinder- fees Prepares for the Elementary chool."” Justice Harlan wif deliver his Jecture on George Mason before the Law Schcol De- bating Society; by special request, tonight. The Law School Debating Saciety will dis- cuss “Resolved, That there 1s an absolute freedom df the will.” On the affirmative are F. W. Brandenburg, J. H. Bumden and H. A. White; on the negative, C. E. Rapollie, J. E. Jenks and A. A.’ Davis. April 10 the Nicaragua canal question is announced, and on the 17th the propriety of establishing a permanent tariff commis- sion will be discussed. Thursday afternoon Dr. Lester F. Ward lectured on the fundamental principles of sociology. Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes, the novelist, lectured to the students of ‘the Columbian Academy Thursday afternoon, her subject being “The Land of the Midnight Sun and the North Capes.” This afternoon Dr. Anita Newcomb Me- Gee will speak before the Women’s An- thropological Society on “The Koreshan Community.” On Tuesday aftérnoon Mr. Powell wilt read a paper on ‘Philosophy of Conscious- ness and Its Limitations by Material En- vironments” before the Society for Philo- sophical Inquiry. Prof. W. O. Partridge yesterday delivered his second lecture in the public art course on the “History of Sculpture,” and on Monday afternoon will speak on “Greek and Roman Art.” The relay team fs in active training, and will probably enter the field and track meet at Georgetown the last of this month. Georgetown University. The first debate between the Law School Debating Society and the New York Uni- versity Law School will take place in Gas- ton Hall Monday evening, April 19. The ques- tion selected is, “Resolved, That the United States should recognize the belligerent rights of Cuba.” Georgetown has the negative side of the question, which will be upheld by James A. Ryan of Tennessee, Charles E. Roach of North Dakota and J. Neal Power of California. Under the auspices of the Kohner Sci- entific Circle, Prof. Willis L. Mcore, chief of the weather bureau, last night lectured on “Storms and Some of the Wonderful Phenomena of the Year. Arrangements have been completed for @ concert by the Glee, Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Club, to be given in Philadelphia Thursday evening, April 29. It is probable that a concert will also be given in New York city on the Saturday following. The Philonomosian Society is arranging for the annual public debate, which is to be held about May 15. An entertainment will be given by the Comedy Club in the near future for the benefit of the second base ball team. M. Ferdinand Brunetierre, member of the French Academy and editor of the,Revue des Deux Mondes, has consented to deliver a lecture in Gaston Hall in the near future. During the first three days of holy week Rey. Father Richards will deliver a course of sermons on the “Holy Eucharist” at St. Aloysius Church, ‘This afternoon the. Georgetown base ball team meets the, University of Vermont nine, which is gaid.fo be one of the strong- est teams in qgilege base ball. This game will test the strength of the wearers of the blue and gray.,,'‘Big, Mike” Mahoney is still at the college coaching the team. Monday afternoon. the students have been given a half holiday, and will attend the game with the Senaters at National Park in a body. Manager .Coliins has appointed Will- jam’ W. Fleming to act as‘ assistant man- ager during the: temporary absence of Joe McColgan, who..waa:compelled to go home on account of iiiness. Three candidates \for the degree of Ph.D. have announced their treatises for the event, as follows: Henry F. Reilly, “Sense and Intellect,” Edward J. Tobin, “God, Di- vine Attribute; rovidence;” L. Louis Tracey, ‘“Generpl Ethics, with Law and Conscience.” + & Mr. Sylvester; D.) Judd is arranging to take the students of the biological depart- ment on country excursions, for the pur pose of studying the botany of the sur- rounding country. ——— Florida Tobacco Sale. From the Savannah (Ga.) News. The information in our dispatches to the effect that one tobacco-growing company in Florida will sell its crop of leaf at $1.50 a pound, flat, and that the transaction will amount in the aggregate approximately to $135,000, should stimulate interest in tobac- co culture in the peninsular state. There is a ready market for fine tobaccos, and buyers are anxious to secure desirable stock. It is practically certain that the de- mand will continue for some time to come, owing to the condition of affairs in Cuba. Florida growers may come into the market now, ‘and be abje to hold thetr own against. Possible competition in years to come. ~ THE LOST BEAVER He Has Been Found in a New Home | on Rock Creek. ESCAPED FROM THE 200 LAST FALL Cut Down Great Trees and Madea Strong Dam. SNUGLY ESTABLISHED see Written for The Evening Star. “The lost beaver is found! We haven't caught him exactly, but we know just where he i: A dozen Mt. Pleasant boys rushed home with this exciting piece of news one night last week too late to visit the creek by daylight, but the next morning before breakfast they led the way, while their households drove to the spot with a tribe of boys following. All day people tramped down the road, crossed the Rock Creek bridge, turned down the lower road that runs close to the water, there to investi- gate the lost beaver’s astonishing work. About six months ago one of these queer little animals was missed from the Zoologi- cal Park, where quite a family of them live in a snug home of wire built on a little stream. There were five in the house- hold, contented and happy, but one day when the keeper was building them an The Beaver's Work. addition, they all ran away. The next morning all returned but one. Search for him has been made up and down Rock creek, in the Zoo and outside. He was given up for iost, and now the boys have found him and his work. He made his way up the creek os it runs through the Zoo, and first amused hiinself by cutting down a pretty clump of sap- lings, eating the young, tender bark, tak- ing the slim branches to the water, and floating them with the current. But he seemed to think this small fun, for he moved a few hundred yards to a more am- bitlous field. Tall, straight young trees, beautiful beeches and maples, he cut close to the ground, and sent them down with their branches. Later he cut down large trees, some six or eight close together, piled upen one agother, as the foundation for a dam. One of the most interestiag specimens of his work is shown in the reproduced photo- graph. A stump three feet in circumfer- ence gnawed regularly and _ beautifully, showing every mark of his sharp, broail, chisel-shaped teeth and the piles of white chips lying beside it. The tree must have fallen toward the water, been dragged over the bank, and as the creek was high frcm recent rains, it had been carried down the stream about one hundred yards. There it lodged, and Mr. Beaver has made many journeys with branches and twigs, small logs and slender saplings to add to this bridge. All along the banks of the creek are logs, bare of bark, where for months this busy old wood chopper has taken his meals. Many are partly cut, simply girdled, as a woodman would lay out his work, in exact lengths from three to six feet. Many short logs in the water are white and smooth as if the bark was planed off. He has eaten the water willows and young peplars, and stripped the birches bare and clean. One night the boys of the village deter- mined to find the rascal. Just below this beginning of a “beaver dam” stands an A Good Job. old hollow stump, where the water runs underneath, and close by is a large hole, in the sandy muddy bank. They believed this is little Mr. Beaver’s winter home. It was quite dark, and they crept near and nearer with as little noise as possible. They could hear him gnawing—gna iz steadily as a saw. Then he would stop and listen. Evidently he heard the steps, but his busy work would again go on. They got closer to the bank, and softly leaned toward the old stump. There was an instant’s silence; the boys hardly breathed. Then came a great splash! and they knew that their wood chopper was safely out of the way of boys. The keeper of the Zoo has no idea where the lost member of his beaver family lives. Every day visitors visit the place and enthusiastically examine the stumps and chips of trees, the curious teethmarks and wondrous work of this little runaway. A teacher, from the Penn school of Philadelphia was so interested that she carried back to the scholars pieces of the small logs and chips to be examined. They have sent to Washington bright “essays” on beavers and their work, and the story of the “Lost Beaver of the Zoo.” As the summer nights come again, it is thought that he may-slip home by way of Rock creek, and persuade some of his family to return with him to the freedom of the beautiful woods, its fragrant, de- lictous barks and young leaves, the lovely creek, where boys, quite as well as beav- ers, love to splash and butid dams. Se SHE ACTED PROMPTLY. What the Tornado Scare Caused One ‘Woman to Do. From the St. Louts Globe-Democrat. There is a clerk in one of the local rail- way offices who travels with a small arsenal concealed in his clothes. He is looking for a man—name unknown—who caused to be announced on last Monday the coming of another tornado. If the clerk ever catches up with the theatrical man who scattered those cards murder will be committed, and the murderer will have the sympathy of a considerable per cent of those St. Loulsans who sufferei in the big storm of May 27. This railway clerk lived in the cyclone path.. He was married and had been frugal. The fruits of his and his wife's frugality were found in the wake of ! the cyclone. From the effects of this dis- aster the pair gradually rec pred, and in the course of nearly a year had substi- tuted for their demolished domestic stock another almost as good. The trouble hap- pened when the heartless advertising man came along. Many of the cards carrying the tornado announ in the tornado-stricken district. One them fei into the hands of the wife of the clerk. The horrors of the night of May 27 were vividiy recalled. But she did noi jose her head. Instead she plunged desperately into the work of carrying all movables into the cellar, Even the carpets came up, and were dumped into the basement. What she herself could not move she left, and rushing 19 a near-by establishment, ‘sper $2.50 for tarpaulins with which to protect the heavy furniture after the roof had been carrie] rwa, Then she sat down to await the terrible disaster predicted in the ad- vertisement. Meanwhile one of the cards had fallen into the hands of her husband. He read it trembling The losses and narrowly escaped dangers of the eyclone rushed to his memory. He thought, as a dutiful hus- band should, principally of his wife. In his imagination he saw her crushed beneath brick walls, being hurled through the air and in all other horrible situations created by cyclones. Calming himself, he went to his superior in the office, and, as steadily as the state of dread apprehension in which he was allow absence for the afternoon. It was granted. He saw no particular indications of an ap- proaching storm, but, having seen the an- houncement of ‘atmospheric indications, cut no particular figure with him. When he got home he found the house right side up. Rushing breathlessiy into his home, he found his wife. She stood in the mid- die of the parlor, apparently resigned to the fate which she supposed was soon to overtake her. An hour later a neighbor explained the nature of the advertisement. The furniture was brought out of the ce lar and the clerk has been busy putting it in place. That is the reason he now goes heavily armed. —_—_-+e+_____ VANITY’S CATASTROPHE, One Actress Who Will Wear No More Diamond-Studded Teeth, From the Detroit Free Press. “The vanity that leads certain people to have diamonds set in the gold filling of their teeth led to a rather unusual eo: trophe on the part of one of the devotees of the new fad,” said a New York dentist. “Thore was an actress who courted noto- riety. So It was published in the papers that she had expensive diamonds set tn her pearly grinders. The diamonds, you know, are placed in the gold setting, and then the setting is placed in ‘the defective tooth. I know a western man who spent $1,000 on diamonds which were placed to such ig- noble us “One night the apartments of the actress in question were burglarized. The men helped themselves to all the jewels they could find, and then one of the masked mea said to the affrighted lady: ‘Now, madam, open your mouth.” he asked them what they wanted. The diamonds in your teeth. We read about ’em in the Breeze.’ “Oh, that was only a story on my man- 'S part.” they say anything you read in eze is So.’ “So she displayed her pearly teeth and there, sure enough, were the diamonds. Ore of the burglars coolly took out a little dental saw and sawed off three i t least that’s the story that is being told. T lidn't advertise the loss of the so chagrined and humiliated, it wouldn't do, you know, Pt the P learn that those pearly ornamerts had been mutilated and replaced with por- celain tops this time. If the fad continucs I look to see people held up regul their teeth.” = ee oe William II of Germany. From the London Spectator. Europe is suffering just now from the in- dividuality, rather than from the policy, of the German emperor. He fs displaying a character with which it is most difficult f6r diplomatists to deal, and avhich is not en- tirely consistent with his earlier carcer. The abit of ruling, and the suceess, or rather the absence of resistance, which in int nal affairs has so far distinguished his reign, have developed the emperor's pecu- Harities in a most marked degree. He had always a sufficient bellef in himself, us he showed in his dismissal of Prince Bismarck, but of late this belief has become exag ger..ted into a confidence scarcely to be He stiaguished from presumption. coms capable of thanking God for a great har- vest, and sending Him the Order of the Red Eagle in ackrowledgmen: Even his own subjects, who were at first Cisposed by tradition and habit of mind to welcome another “strorg” Hohenzollern, now shake their heads and lament that their kais: who is also their commander- in-chief, acts so completely under the im- pulse of his own will. They never know what he will do tomorrow ruling statesman now vis’ for the chancellor is old minister of accepts orders, the finance minis a highty intelligent, ¢ O gent, instrument of his majesty, and Isaron von Marschall, as recent trials proved, though very able and fairly trusted, has to centend against many adverse influences. The emperor is all in all, he is more deter- mined than ever to play the first role in the political drama, and as his claim is en- Urely acknowledged within his own domin- fons, where to speak lightly of his majesty now involves a sort of civil death, he ex- tends it to all Europe, and Indeed to all the world. It is to be lord of a “world-wide empire” that the emperor demands, or threatens to demand, from his parliament such vast additions to the navy. ———_ oe Employing Convicts Frm the New Yerk Post. The North Carolina penitentiary was self-supporting last year for the first time in its history of a quarter century. From 1583 to 1889 the appropriations for its maintenance averaged $100,000 a year. Then, under a change of policy, the annual expense dropped to $37,500, which was the figure until 1893, when a further reduction was made to $23,000 a year. The achieve- ment in 1896 was under the management of Augustus Leazer. He thinks it could be done again, “not probably every year, but certainly, if the present policy is main- tained, self-support should be attained or approximated every year.” This result, the convict labor demagogues may be grieved to learn, was accomplished by keeping the convicts profitably employed in farming. ‘They not only grow their own subsistence, but cultivate sufficient cotton to pay the expenses of management, their crop of cot- ton last year being 2,659 bales, valued at over 377,00, There would have been 400 more bales of cotton were it not for a dis- astrous flood on one of the convict farms, which also destroyed 100,000 bushels corn. As might be expected, this outdoor employment of the convicts has a good ef- fect on their physical condition. The pres- ent rate of mortality among them, the man- sger reports, barely exceeds that of some of the best regulated towns in the state, while the mortality rate among the colored convicts is much less than the rate among the negroes in the large towns. + e+ Mrs. McKinicy’s Mail, From Leslie's Weekly. The President’ wife duplicates in a small degree the experience of the Pres!- dent with correspondents. Mrs, McKinley receives every day a great many letters, and one would think from them that we were a nation of beggars. One woman writes asking Mrs. McKinley’s influence for the writer’s husband, who is an appli- cant for office. Another says that she needs money and she is sure the Prest- dent’s wife can spare her a few dollars. Another wants a photograph; another an autograph; but by far the greatest number of the beggars want pieces of the dress Mrs. McKinley wore at the inauguration ball. Mrs. McKinley is not tearing up her dress for the benefit of souvenir hunters. Nor is she distributing her photographs or autographs among strangers. Mrs. McKinley's mail is handled like that of the President. It goes first to the White House clerks. They sort out the personal letters from those which are written by stran- gers, and the letters from strangers they open and read. Formal acknowledgments of these letters are sent, written and sign- ed by the clerks. Mrs. McKinley, seldom sees any of them. Personal letters Mrs. McKinley opens and reads. Her private correspondence she carries on as she has always done; but the White House clerks attend to what may be called her official mail. ———__-+e+ —_____ “Do you think the English have a right to boast of their superior blood?” “Well, thero certainly isn’t much humor in them.”—Detroit Journal. Profitably. ement were scattered | of} 1, asked for leave of | THE Por LAR IDEA But They Are Not AN Innocent Mes Who Go to Siberia, From Tid Bits. There {s a vopular idea that the wastes of Siberia are peopled with men who have been unjustly exiled from Russia, and that to find as of hay ta, the criminal 1s really as difficult the the traditional needle in bune Facts, however, do not substantiate this theory any more tha y do the large majority of popular impressions. A great sensation was created two or three rs ago by the finding of seven Russian exiles or pris; their escape from Sibe open boat in th to San Francis the 0 s of as well as the tex the Russian methods cal offenders. The Caltforn’ rs who had nr They were and were re they an taken ame be ~ with politi- ever re ns, ly with sympa- thy, gave them clothes and found work to do. It now appears tha i the interval that has elapsed becweer arrival in San Francisc and now have every « punished by the law J of the land. { the party has just. been se - years rison- m w > of com- short time rs Which he which have that every one of these men to Siberia for reasons whi 5 Kw for two ad Inv show tions be earned him a correspor ts of bh fr we per from th not absolut in any ot » har jeportation r part of the - A REMARK AL fel m th rld BOOK. on the Finest Vellum and ts Traced Instead of Printed. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat, The most curious book tn the world is neither written nor printed. Its pages are composed of the finest quality of vellum and the letters were with infinite 5 ins and trouble cut out of material with a sharp-pointed knife or a pair of delicate scissors. It is interlea with blue paper, and the letters can, therefore, be read as easily as any print. J: formerly belonged te the Prince de Ligne, and is now in the Library of a noble ch family, The tithe of the book is “Liber Passionis Domini Nul- eria Compositis;” in English, “Th the Passion ef Our Lord’ J t, in Characters, Without Mater sinpositio: The matier is a homily probably composed — by me. monas'ic preacher of the middle ages. A remark- » circumstance connec jis the fact that, although it bea royal arms of England, no mention can be found in any English writing. beok is believed to have been made time in the thirteenth or fourteenth tury. In 1640 the Emperor Rudolph offered for it 11,000 ducats, which in the money of our time would equal about $66,000, and the offer was refused. with this book the some 0+ ure of Ger The F From the April Forum. No one can prophesy the many; but so much, at st, that it will largely depend o pursued by the socialists s seem open to them definitely continue their p to the government, and th ak: future of Ger- They sent op; a they can or may be a source of w sorb the empire, tran) feudal e, fatal to libe fore, unstable; or they may, in urn for certain timely concessions, place thelr pow- erful organization at the service of the em- pire, and be its chief pillar of strength. This is the consummation that every frien of Germany and of humanit 5 voutly wish. It would bring both sides and put an end to 3 The empire would have to abandon its at- tempt to return to media al military potism, ard allow its subjects lary of thought, speech and actio socialists would have to aband: tion of the state as a mere hive, and accept it as the gre for raising man above needs into spiritual fr and culture. 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