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\1 L Plo|ti« la Society. aus women can be attractive, often very attractive to a certain ylmen of men. You can be frivolous and have bright eyes, Just as you can be wicked, heartless, greedy, stupid, and yet be blessed with an adorable ;.<Mae, an exquisite complexion, a be­ witching mouth, remarks an observant masculine critic. But frivolous women, whether attractive or not, are either In tie beginning or in the end baneful to those who come under their influ­ ence or who are much in their society; for they abhor the truth of life, cher­ ish lies, make of selfishness a religion and of pleasure a cult, says the Phila­ delphia Times. I suppose we all num­ ber among our acquaintances some of these frivolous women. As a rule, they preserve, nnder all circumstances that are public, at least an appearance of gayety; they would chatter beside an open grave, discuss gowns and toon- nets if a person were dying In thd next room, laugh in a cathedral at twilight and look at themselves in a mirror rather than at the view Irom the cita­ del of Cairo or at the panorama which is visible from the hills above Paler­ mo), I have heard them cackling through "Tristan and Isolde," and tit­ tering during high mass in St. Mark's at Venice. Nothing seems really to Impress them except the powder puff. K they could they would rouge the cheejfc Of Mother Nature and stencil the eye of the sun; for their worship of the artificial is a mania, and their tor the false an ides fltat. KAINY DAY-SUI*^;!.. (U:« Of gray double-faced cloth. Thfe Rus­ sian blouse jacket has three box-pleats feack and front, which are edged with folds of plaid cloth. The skirt is gored . Sjad iiares about the feet On Trlendahlpe. Ia all ages friendship has been re- «Wded as one of the highest gifts given ta man, and after love, it has been garlanded with more blossoms of toesy and fancy than any other attri­ bute of humanity. Considering it from •rery point of view, it is a precious boon, and yet how many times in our tires do we allow sweet friendships to •Up beyond our grasp, just from a lack of the scanty nutriment the tender plant requires to keep It alive? An oocasional call, a letter one* la a while, a remembrance of dates and anniversaries, a tender word or two to show that the heart has not grown away from its once proud position of ^nearness--these are all that a real •friendship requires to make it blossom with benefits, says the Pittsburg Press. Love, the burning, consuming emo­ tion, we pursue with avidity, never al­ lowing It to rest, until with many of tos it is consumed* itself in the chase, but calm and tender friendship, always ready to repay the smalelst care from the outstretched band, most of us neg­ lect until a true mutual friendship and true*' Is rare. . A DAINTY GOWN Of gray crepe de chine, with small white silk dot The pleated waist has wide lapels of blue silk, lace and gold braid. The collar is gold cloth, edged with lace. The undersleeves and vest are of white chiffon. The sleeves have three rows of the gold cloth, edged with lace, running up and down. The folded belt of blue silk, with gold braid in the folds, ties on the right aide of the back. %.. f • Iaor« Mad* In Germany. Elopements are never heard of in Germany, and yet there is no such thing as getting married there without the consent of the parents. Certain prescribed forms must be gone through or the marriage is null and void. When a girl has arrived at what is considered a marriageable age, her parents make |a point of inviting young men to the house, and usually two or three are I invited at the same time, so that the 'attention may not seem too pointed, ^says the Philadelphia Times. . No young man, however, is ever in­ vited to the house until after he has ^called at least once, and thus signified his wish to have social intercourse with the family. If he takes to call­ ing on several occasions in rather close succession it is taken for granted that he has "intentions," and he may be questioned concerning them. In Germany the man must ba at least 18 years old before he can make a proposal, and when It is made and accepted the proposal ll speedily fol­ lowed by a betrothal. This generally takes place privately, shortly after which the father of the bride, as she is then called, gives a dinner or supper to the most intimate friends on both sides, when the fact is declared, and, naturally, afterward becomes a matter of public knowledge. And Bring* Ton Nothing bat » urn. Friend--What is hope? POet--It's something that wakes you up at 4 o'clock in the morning when the postman doesn't come around till 10.--Syracuse Herald. CHARMING COSTUMES PROM PARIS. %'?.•&* • f&,:' A" V .. ) (, _ fc* i ' WM-- coat with applications lrhits doth, and a maw *•* Paris, wYth spiral decoration of purple taffeta. A ̂-- is worn with this strBclnc^nm. being satin with" ̂ &MM Chlng* That Show I-- IBMU|«»M There are a good many ants of dif­ ferent varieties on the lot at my coun­ try place near Covington, and last year I began to make a systematic study of their habits. I found it a most fascin­ ating pursuit and have resumed it with much enthusiasm during several visits this year. A little investigation will convince almost anybody, I think, that the ant approaches nearer to a wi»n in point of intelligence than any of the lower animals. Some erf the things I have seen are so marvelous that I 'would hesitate to speak of them If similar wonders had not been fully re­ corded, by trained scientists. Near one of my flower beds is a colony of small red ants that are extremely in­ dustrious in collecting food, and they frequently perform the most astonish­ ing engineering feats in transporting heavy burdens to their homes. Not long ago I watched a party of about a dozen that had found the body of a small spider, and were dragging it toward the nest The spider had hairy legs, which struck out in every 'direction and caught on obstacles, greatly retarding progress. For sev­ eral minutes the ants rolled away with their awkward booty, and then stopped and seemed to hold a council. A min­ ute fragment of dry leaf was lying on the ground; presently they all laid hold and pulled the spider on top of it They then seized the edges and slid it along without difficulty. On an­ other occasion I saw a large body of these same ants start out for a raid on another colony. They marched like an army, with scouts thrown out at the sides, and, when several feet distant from the nest, divided into two parties. One kept straight on and was soon engaged in fierce combat with the oth­ er tribe, while the second detachment made a detour and fell upon the hill from the rear. The Yesult was a great victory for the invaders. Anybody that feels interested in the subject and that will put in a little time at close study, will be certain to witness ex­ ploits fully as astonishing as those 1 haye described.--Tlmes-DemoqrflkL ^EUROPE TO AMERlCjj# I Itarweftaa Making the Trip la a Thtrir* Foot Boat. Many adventurous sailors haw crossed the Atlantic froip this country to England in small boats, but never until now has there been a man daring enough to start from the other side and try to reach America in a skiff. A Norwegian is trying this journey. Captain Johansen has sailed from Gib­ raltar in a thirty foot boat with the Intention of making the coast of Flor­ ida. He Is a naturalized British sub­ ject and his boat flies the Union Jack. He did not try the northern passage, It will be observed, but Intends to keep well to the south of the track of the fall cyclones. The name of his boat is the Lotta, and she Is provisioned for fifteen days. She has outside bal­ last and was built under the captain's supervision at Yokohama. He brought her to England and then took her down to Gibraltar, where he has taken his "potyt of departure" for the new world. The Lotta is sloop-rigged, with forestaysail and jib and a gaff topsail. Captain Johansen has along with him a spinnaker which he intends to use when he gets into the trade winds, which he expects to strike be­ tween Madeira and the Canary Islands. His first port on this side, if every­ thing goes well, will be some port in the West Indies, and from there he will strike up along through the Baha­ mas and so arrive on the Florida coast With the captain is sailing hi* liitls son, 12 years old. . ^ PletarM of Tannel Wi Wherever excavations are being made for the underground rapid tran­ sit road a lot of spectators may be found watching the workmen as in­ tently as if they expected to see an en­ gine come out of the hole. The photo­ graphers who are busy around each of these excavations are the targets for all sorts of questions. The photo- graphsers who are busy around each of these excavations are the targets for all sorts of questions. The photographs are to play an important part in the records of the underground. When the set Is completed they- will give practically a biograph history of the construction of the road. Each sec­ tion of the street and the adjoining buildings are photographed before the work Is begun. When the excavations have been made frequent photographs are taken showing the progress of the work. These will prove valuable rec­ ords for the contractors if any damage suits should be brought against them. It has been suggested that when the rapid transit road is completed copies of this big set of photographs be mounted in one large album and pre­ served as part of the city records. It Will be the most complete pictorial his­ tory of a big woric ever made.--New York Sun. - QUMN Language a Paradox. Paradoxical though it may sound, "We are strictly within the limits of accuracy when we say that Chinese Is, at the same time, the simplest and jmost difficult language in the world; Sflost simple from the absence of those grammatical rules and Inflectional forms which vex the student of Eu­ ropean languages, most difficult be­ cause of the combination of different languages, and all known as Chinese. The "book" Chinese Is never spoken, while the colloquial in written form would merit the supreme contempt of the average Chinese student and supercilious scholar. --- Lippincott's Magasine. > .> , %' • •r '|"" f '"«* """j1 1 V " * Humfftatea ifenti'ter's • An untold amount of real humilia­ tion and suffering is inflicted upon men and women striving to serve God in the church, by a lack of apprecia­ tion of their point of view. Put your­ self in their places. Would not you resent being an object of disapproval, or, when the case is bettered, an ob­ ject of charity? Would you enjoy feel­ ing that your h%t your coat your dress and your children's clothes were QAtters of comment and that the par­ ish felt that the money paid your hus­ band must be spent to please It and not yourself*--"A Minister's Wife," In th» October Ladles' Hoste Journal. AfiOLDIER IN THE ARCHIPELAGO • * WRITES HOME, -j : < -- •ow stab ton Spend TUne--P*j CkMW Qnleklr aad Little Ubertyla Attowod --Foo4 Plentiful--Incident* a»- la a "Letter to Mother." Charles A. Hope, a sergeant of vol­ unteers, now serving in the Philip­ pines, has written a letter home to his mother, telling of the manner in which soldiers pass their time In the Philip­ pines, says the Chicago Daily News. After having served nine months in the Spanish-American war, Sergeant Hope enlisted August 1, 1899, and ar­ rived In the islands October 1. Up to last January he was orderly to General Young. He had seen five battles with the Insurgents, and had received two promotions. The letter In part is as follows: "We get paid every two months, and the men generally lose or spend their money in the fifBt two weeks, and the rest of the time they play dice for but­ tons, matches or cigarettes (they are twenty-nine for 2 cents); When these are gone they read or sleep all day long, the latter the most It is Very tiresome here, as we are not allowed to go to the natives' shacks, or even SERGEANT HOPE. to tile market, which only lasts three hours in the morning and two hours in the evening, as there is smallpox here. A number of the colored men have it, and one man in my squad has it, too, but not bad, as he will be all right for duty pretty soon. We are to stay in the quarters, as they expect an attack at any time, but we have been still closer to the natives, and there seemed to be no danger. We have not had any rain for ten or twelve days, but there is a typhoon blowing which keeps us busy .along the line. "A few men started from a town thirty miles north of here to go thirty- eight miles farther north in a boat, but they were glad to land five miles south of here, being blown thirty-five miles in the wrong direction. I must stop now, as I am on guard and the rain is coming through the roof. It rains about twenty minutes and stops for fifteen minutes, and so on for a few days, then stops for ten days, then rains for fifteen days. The rain has not started yet, but will soon, and last for ten or twenty days, and that will be all. Up in the mountains it rains about all the time. It makes the rivers very bad to cross. Out of one wagon train two soldiers, one driver and one mule were lost. Three nearly got out; if it had not been for the daring wagon master things would have been worse. He almost lost his own life. "The people live on what the water and trees give. Nothing grows to full size here. The natives grow rice and a little corn and cane to make sugar and a few sweet potatoes. Rice is their inain food. Their meals consist of boiled rice, boiled fish, not cleaned, and boiled leaves. When a caribou (or horse) or cow dies they cut it'up. The men get 20 cents, Mexican, or 10 cents a day for their work, and they will give 3 pesos, or $1.50, for the hide, head, feet and entrails of a cow. They pick wild cotton to make .their clothes. When they wash them they sit down in a stream of water and lay . the clothes on a rock and beat them with "That order about some of us gdtng to China is countermanded. The Third cavalry is expected tir go on a three months' campaign with General Young soon. We are under a volunteer colonel of a negro regiment now. Our cap­ tain's name is Johnson and lieuten­ ant's name Is Barton. I will try and get Aguinaldo's march for you. "There is not much fruit such as we get in the states here. There are dif­ ferent kinds of fruits, but they ill have funny tastes." PRIMITIVE AGRICULTURE. Cave-Dweilen in MM Hill* of China. Although the vast mobs which infest Pekln and the larger cities of China are worked up to°a state of frenzy and fanaticism, the great Chinese popula­ tion proper is agricultural, and natur­ ally extremely peaceful. Agriculture, however, is most primitive, and the wonder is how such an immense popu­ lation can be supported from the soil until the great economy practiced In all things is understood. ' On the great plain of China every available foot of land is utilized for growing something and every particle of fertility returned to the soil. Waters are used for Irri­ gation, and in many cases laboriously distributed over the fields. The great plain Is about 700 miles In length, and varies from 200 to 400 miles in width, occupying the northeastern part of the empire, and containing over 200,000 square miles of wonderfully fertile soil. It supports a population of not less than 177,000,000 human beings, making it the most densely settled of any part of the world of the same size, its inhabitants amounting, to nearly two-thirds of the entire population erf Europe. A wonderful feature of the physical geography of China is the ex­ istence of a vast region of loess in this portion of the empire. Loess Is a very solid but friable earth, brownish yellow in color, and is fouijd in many places from 600 to 1,000 feet deep. The loess hills rise In terraces from twen­ ty to several hundred feet in height The loess region of China is perhaps the most broken country in the world, with Its sheer cliffs and upright walls, terraces and deep-cut ravines. Owing to the ease with Which It can be work­ ed, caves made at the bases of straight cliffs afford homes to millions of peo­ ple in the densely populated northern provinces. Whole villages cluster to­ gether in carved-out chambers, some of which extend back more than 200 feet The capabilities of defense in a country such as this, while an invad­ ing army must necessarily become lost and absolutely bewildered in the tan­ gle of interlacing ways, and where the defenders may always remain conceal­ ed or have Innumerable means of es­ cape, is peculiarly significant of this time, when consideration is being giv­ en to a conquest of China. To Mwt Color-Scheme* for gpoia After deciding what shall be the predominating color in the room, and what shades or colors you desire to use with it, arrange the colors togeth­ er, and study the effect carefully. It will be found that some combinations bring out all the good and pleasing qualities of the different colors, while other combinations are discordant There are many things to take into consideration: the exposure of the room, the amount of light, and the stylo of the house, whether in city or country. Soft finishes either in walls or draperies, blend more readily than does the smooth or glaoe flnlsb.T^Qc- tober Ladles' Home Journal. Ananal Production of Rubber. It has been estimated that the ap­ proximate total production of rubber annually is 57,600f tons. Of* this amount 21,000 tons are taken by the United States and Canada; 21,000 by the United Kingdom, and 15,500 by the rest of Europe.. Th© Amazon district produces 26,000 tons and East and West Africa 24,000 tons; parts of South America other than the Amazon district, 3,500 tons. HON. JOHN ALLEN. • , « - > : l(| : AM SON session of Con­ gress will Private John Allen of Mis­ sissippi, entertain his colleagues with eloak-room stories. The man who has crashed more jokes in the house than any other statesman living or dead has tired of public life and refused to ac­ cept another nomination. Allen Is a Mlsslasipplan by birth,and la ft years old. He left school at the eg* of 14 to beaoene a private in the Confederate army* and ha served la tfee ranks nntil the war closed. Then ha atadled law and at tfae age of 2S to practice JM» profession in Tupelo, Miss. He ssrved a tania« dis­ trict attorney before being elected to congress In 1884. During the eight terms that he has served In the house of representatives he established more friendships, probably, than any other man in public life. His wit was his most prominent characteristic. In his first speech Allen told funny stories and his colleagues cam® to look for something amusing when he took the floor. Allen says MR humorous tales were detrimental to his reputation as a statesman. No otto would take him • .WW,, BEET SUGAR FAVOR The tfi«?|tlon of the NWeftal Beet Sugar comj>any in.Ctoto«§mhas re­ sulted in the completion of three plants, one of which produces sugar from last season's crops. They are lo­ cated at Grand Junction, Rocky Ford, and Sugar City. -When all are well under way thousands of hands will be employed and the money thus put into circulation will go into the common coffers of the people. The world's pro­ duction and consumption. of: sugar is now about 8,250,000 tons per annum, two-thirds of which is produced from beets and *the other fraction from su­ gar cans. It is estimated that the normal consumptive demand is in­ creasing at the rate of 250,000 tons yearly. Statistics indicate that this country consumes more sugar than any other nation, or about one-third of the wtMrld'8 product The condi­ tions of soil, climate and other advan­ tages are quite as good in the United States, and especially in Colorado, for the development of the beet a its sugar extraction as in any ot the countries of Europe and Asia. It has been satisfactorily demonstrated that the cultivation of sugar beets in Colo­ rado may be a perfect success. A large plant has been built at Rocky Ford, Otero county, which cost, it is claim­ ed, 11,000,000 to build and equip. To supply It the farmers in the vicinity have contracted to grow 88,000 acres of beets a year for five years. From tests made, they claim their beets will yield 16 to 19 per cent sugar. It is proposed to have it ready for the crop the coming season. The factory, when running at its full capacity, consumes daily 1,000 tons of beets. This it con­ verts into about 100 tons of refined the highest parity, with aVV crystalline appearance. This ilf is nearly lOO pounds per minute per minute. The beets here reach perfect maturity, with a very high percentage. Beets seldom go belo* 15 per cant; per cent is taken as the basis of buy-'. ;-,J ing beets at the factory. ^ The beets are grown by the farmers.. under contract with the factory and ̂ paid for according to the1 saccharine content determined by ehen^ical tests made of samples taken from the wa- gons at the time of delivery. Besides ' that, the factory controls about 6,090 J acres of laid. Most of this land i be farmed by tenants, Jrat only a por-'-i- " tlon of each leasehold is devoted toil I beets each year. Beet raisers sell their - J beets based upon the sugar content. 5 The testa somewhat resemble the as- •-1 saying of ore from the mines. Selling * upon this basis encourages' better farming and the raising of batter * beets. It is the only fair way, both, to the raiser and the manufacturer. At Sugar City a farm of 12,000 acres has been opened for raising sugar beets, and a sugar factory has been built with a capacity of 600 tons every 24 hours. On the farm 1,000 men and wo­ men have been employed during the summer, and this season's crop will be converted into sugar which will be; sold in various big markets. The ea- tabllshment of the sugar factory at this point built the town, which a few years ago consisted of a hut or two ^ and thousands of prairie dogs, sum tot.al. Next year fully 4,000 acres of beets will be in cultivation. The out­ put wil be increased as rapidly as pos­ sible, and every day the demand for workmen is now increasing.--Denver Times. VI PUNCTUALITY A vrnftm Success foe Women is Attained Through the Practice of It, If there Is one virtue more than an­ other • womankind ought to cultivate It is punctuality. Not one woman in ten knows the value of promptness, and the sex suffers from it This femi­ nine fault has stood in the path of advancement in business. It has de­ prived more than one innocent woman of a bit of pleasure which men could and would give if they were not thor­ oughly out of patience with the man­ ner in which punctuality Is regarded. The mischief begins at home, when boys come to know the faults of the women of their family. After many trying experiences with mother and sisters, they learn to class all women in the careless set, and girls who may be exceptions suffer because they can­ not be allowed an opportunity to prove their virtues. Business women have made a stride in the direction of im­ provement They have been forced to It by the necessity of bread winning, They are not yet perfect in the knowl­ edge or practice of punctuality be­ cause they are often late to business, and more often are utterly oblivious to the importance of promptness in social engagements. Idle women are the worst sinners of the lot Note the fashionable church wedding, announc­ ed for high noon. Twelve o'clock finds the church filled and the sidewalk overflowing with unbidden guests, while the organist has to call upon his wits to keep everybody from realizing that the ceremony is behind time. Whose Is the fault? Not the groom's, for he arrived a whole hour before the church began to fill, and has passed an eternity of nervous waiting in the se­ clusion of the vestry room. The bride is the culprit She probably began dressing in ample time to meet the appointed hour, but dallied over the process without a thought for the Waiting guests. Does she look ner­ vous when she arrives from ten to thirty minutes behind the hour? Not at all. She has been late all her life, and sees no reason for changing her habits. The prospective groom has waited for her during the period of courtship, and in(all probability he will continue to do so to the end of his wedded life. I presume that wo­ men have no real conception of the influence their tardy habits have upon the disposition of men. Promptness has been drilled into them from boy­ hood. Business is founded on it, and fuccessful enterprises are ^ carried through it. Patience is not a mascu­ line trait, and whatever passes for it in the male character will not stand a severe strain. j *f Memorial to 'RusKJn. >| A simple and beautiful memorial, which has been subscribed, for by friends and admirers of the late Mr. Ruskin, was unveiled on Saturday aft­ ernoon at Friars' Crag, Keswick. The monument consists of a simple mono­ lithic block of Borrowdale stone, rough and unhewn as it came from the quar­ ry. It is of .the type of the standing stones of Galloway, which are the earliest Christian monuments of the Celtic people now extant Upon one side is incised a simple Chi-Rh6 in­ closed In a circle after the fashion of these earliest crosses, with the fol­ lowing inscription beneath from "Deu­ calion," Lecture xil., par. 40: "The Spirit of God is aroung you in the air you breathe--His glory in the light you see, and in the fruitfulness of the earth and the joy of His creatures-* He has written for you day by da/ His revelation, as He has granted youf day by day yottr daily bread;" On the other side of the monolith, fac­ ing the lake and the scene which Ruskin once described "as one of three most beautiful scenes in Europe," is 'a medallion in bronze, the work of Signor Luccheei, representing Ruskin as he was in his prime, in the early 70s. Above the" portrait is the name "John Ruskin"; beneath &re his dates, MDCCCXIX to MDCCCC. Beneath these again is incised the inscription, "The first thing that I remember an ah event in life was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friars' Crag. Derwentwater."--London Times, Oct 12. ELDER GIRLS BULLDOZE. HM Are Bnilaved by the XJttl* Moth­ ers. 'Have you ever noticed how com­ pletely a ehild from 10 to 16 years old controls one of lesser years? asks the New York Press. It is amusing to see these little fathers and mothers buildoze and terrorize the children un­ der their charge. Every day in the downtown parks, out on the door­ steps of the houses on the East Side where the poor classes live, you will see scores of half-grown girlB and boys, each one in charge of a brood of little ones, and don't they behave? Well, rather. They sit as still as mice; they eat their grub and laugh at all big brother or big sister does, and never howl till their sloppy moth­ ers come back from the day's work with the growler it has taken sa long to fill. But once in charge of the mothers these American-born children of the foreigner do nothing but howl, kick and squall from morning until night No restraint is put upon these children by their mothers, and the only discipline they undergo is at the hands of the big brothers and sisters. This wonderful control of the larger child over the smaller not always is con­ fined to the poorer classes. The writer was returning to New York from At* lantic City by the Pennsylvania road. At East Burlington a young and prettj% Ctrl leading a little boy In kilts cdm# ̂ Into the car. She sat next the window. Of course the little one protested and asked to sit by the window. Turning to blip, the little play mother said: "Now you sit where you are, and keep still. Do not move and do not speak 4|lfad wtrd tt$ we get to New York; if you do I will put you in charge ol the conductor." Of course the child had no idea what a conductor was, but the awful Word proved the raw head and bloody bones which kept him still all the way to New York. Whan he waited anything he whispered, and every little while, in an awed whisper, he would ask: "Where is the conduc­ tor?" Now if this child's mother had been alongside of him doubtless he would have made every one uncom­ fortable in the car by, snapping the window catch, howling like a dervish, getting crumbs of cake and candy all over everything and misbehavii T aSe.' Power In Penon^ty. The strong bent of nature is seen Hi the proportion which this topic of per­ sonal relations usurps in the conversa­ tion of society. . . .What books in the circulating libraries circulate? How we glow over these novels of pas­ sion when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! . >. . All mankind love a lover. . .The pas- , sion makes the clown gentle and gives the coward heart Into the most piti­ ful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world. . . . He is a new man, with new percep­ tions, new and keener purposes, aad m religious solemnity of and aims.--Love. V> WdiM as as ft; I have noticed one thing, that the most popular persons In society ai« those who take the world as It Is, the least fault wad have no hobbles. They are always wanted to diuah-* . - V