The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, April 29, 1898 Page: 2 of 8
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THE PEOPLE S VOICE.
WORM AN
OKLAHOMA
t>KI.%HOM\ \N1> INDIAN II RKI/OKY
There is 110 Mimllpox in Aril more,
reports that there is, notwithstanding.
• The government will take the proper
Ktepto hold the Indians down since the
withdrawal of the troops.
Oklahoma farmers who have be
following loiters lead in wheat should
understand that Letter lias ulmut elos-
out his whole* stock.
Major Woodson expects to come hark
and resume his place as Indian a^fent
after the war is over. It is plain to be
Men that the major doesn't expect to b€
shot.
Trouble was caused in an Oklahoma
church ou Kaster Sunday by the or
l^anist. who, in a fit of mental abstrac-
tion, began to play "Where Did You
liet That Hat?"*
The Indian Territory Tress associa-
tion will hold its next annual meeting
at Wagoner July 8th, after which the
members will take au excursion to the
Omaha exposition.
Thieves broke into a freight ear at
Ihincau one night last week and stole
a case of cutlery valued at f', 50 belong-
ing to a St. Louis firm. The thieves
have not been captured.
' The Strip pays for the new Normal
at Alva and old Oklahoma, which has
all tne other territorial institutions,
has no righteous kick coming, accord-
ing to the tiutnrie Capital.
The closing days of the Oklahoma
City schools will be an educational ex-
hibit of the school work of the pupils
of the different departments. Much
interest is being manifested in the pre-
parations.
^ The sheriff of Noble county is search-
ing over Oklahoma for Pat Dailey. a
w farmer residing near IVrry. Dailey s
mind is deranged and lie has wandered
*" from home, leaving his stock and ef-
t fects without care.
Clarence Threldkeld, of Met lee. was
bound over in the sum of $200 in the
commissioner^ court at Pauls Valley
jne day last week for killing a horse
Flic animal was balking and he killed
it in a tit of rage.
The Demorcst gold medal contest of
oratory will take place at White
Shield. Cheyenne country, July 4 and
5, taking in any children under 14
years of age. in counties of Roger
Mills, Custer and Washita.
The Indian baseball club that was
organized by F. <i. Walker and station-
ed at Wyandotte. I. T. leaves next week
pn a tour of the north. Several of the
fcnembers of the club are from Tahle-
quah. This is said to be a strong base-
Oklahoma will be expected to fur-
only sixty volunteers.
Merchants of Ardmore will close
their stores at 7 o'clock after May 7,
Two bay horses were stolen last
week frou
gate.
. looking much better since the
to have a telephone
SEKIOFS KIT \ minim;
THE GENERAL REVItW OF RIP
LEY S RAILWAY Al TICLE.
Iln* I nlnl of I >|ir« Ul I ill rn«l %% III eli !•
I ilr or<hiiMr« Mini %titii tug I* tlltru
m l.lttle hjm-i-UI % ii cnl Ioii I'hi
Tluia.
I have now |>ansed through Presi-
dent Ripley's third article, noticing
< >at*
rain.
Norman is s<
exchange.
It is said that no rain has fallen in
farmer living near Coal- the Cilass mountains since last fall.
i A big majnrity of children in Okla*
I he corn crop throughout Oklahoma Uarna towns art* having a siege of the
is looking tine ami the ground is in i. easles.
good shape. Th*re are two county seat fights on
Company K of Enid has been recruit- 'n Oklahoma but the war has drowned
ed to fifty-one men and there are oth- them out.
crs wanting in. The lumber companies in Oklahoma most of his points briefly; but, a few of
Much of the outs that was reported J h*ve ®s much litigation as the railroad them will t esr a little retouching
badly damaged is coming out all right companies. I There is one point of especial interes
since the last rains. All the ticks found on western Okla- n"hicli th. writer's position is soex-
The grand jury at Ardmore has re- homa cattle so far are common doj
turned 1#4 indictments at the te-iu of l>4'ks, not fever ticks.
court now in session there. The El Reno houses are preparing to
On April 17th Oklahoma was visited s*art branch houses in the new town of
Deary, in Itlainc county.
S. F. Scott of Waukomis says brick
ami stone masons are in demand iu
Garfield county just now.
A recruiting station lias been open-
ed in Ardmore under the charge of
Captain Orin M. Rcdfield.
by another good rain. The wheat is
looking well and corn is doing nice-
ly.
The telephone line from Chandler.
Wellston and other places on the new
road will soon be completed into Choc-
taw City.
The summer semester announced by
the territorial university is said to be
something entirely new for a western
educational intitution.
At a ciphering match iu Pawne
•ounty. the local papers says the guest
off
feasted on the fat of the land and !
ripped the light fantastic toe.
It is said that twenty soldiers re-
ently deserted at Fort Keno. They I
vidently feel for the surplus volun- i
teers and arc getting out of their way.
'I housands of groves have been put
out in oklahoma this spring and in a
few years, if properly cared for, these
trees will make a magnificaiit show-
ing.
< . Roberts and Julius Craig, who
live in the Cimarron vallev near Coin,
traordinary ami amusing that it de-
serves fortlier attention.
When explaining why the death
rate, or carnage, is so much less on the
Knglisli roads thau on the American,
President Ripley says:
No American ever goes to Kurope
without coming home feeling bitterly
agriust the Kuropcan rail ways, with
their inferior accommodations and
their rigid—almost military—rules.
Supposing it were possible for Ameri-
unpany F at Shawnee has been | can railways to build the same kind of
roads as over there—with the sunken
tracks and embankments, the massive
walls and bridges, underground fool-
ways and eloborate stations, and spend
the money that the Kn^lish railways
do (which would mean an investment
of about 8,\000,000.000 in the state of
Kansas alone) the American people
would not tolerate tho restrictions for
a week. Kates, of course, would ha
to be increased to pay interest ou those
two billions of dollars, which at per
sent would be $100,000,000 a year for
the Kansas lines alone. Hut, apart
from the financial question, the Amer
ican is a liberty-loving person who will
not be kept locked in a waiting room
drilling and is now able to scare a
j Spaniard to death by a right wheel.
A (tilth rie grocery firm donated
twenty-five pounds of powder to com-
pany A to be used for target practice.
It has been suggested that the C.uth
rie tire department might use the coal
oil on sale in that city to put out the
, tire*.
i hor ii time the cars to earrv the
I troops from Ft. Keno did not arrive
j and the soldiers were wild with impa-
tience.
A farmer named Nelson, living near
Daugherty, while prospecting for as-
phaltum one day lust week, discovered
a rich vein of coal.
.... a child till he is allowed to go out
„ . i 1homas Dickson, the El Reno mail on the platform. He will not bo wall-
arc improving- their irrigating ditch, who ha* challenged Ingersoll to debate
which w hen completed will greatly without success, is now in Texas speak-
enhance their farming interests. 1 ing to big houses.
There are about 300.000 acres of wheat
in Kay county and the propeet are
better than they were last year, when
the county raised 1,000,000 bushels of
wheat.
bal team.
There are ,133 adult male Indians at
the Kiowa and Comanche agency. Out
of this number 300 have signed their
names to a document giving Major
I"rank 11. Italdwin, their agent, full
rigjit and title to expend S.MI.000 of
their money in purchasing cattle. The
same Indians have also signed a peti-
tion and sent it to the Secretary of the
Interior, praying that Major Italdwin
be retained as agent. The above goes
to show that the Indians have great
faith in their agent and are willing to
trust him to the fullest extent.
The inability of the 1'nited States
courts of the Indian territory to han-
dle misdemeanors is beginning to be
disagreeably manifest on all sides
I .earning that there is little prospect
of arrest and punishment the hoodlums
pf the several localities violate the
laws with impunity and carry things
with a high hand, especially in such
places as are removed a distance from
commissioner's court. • ■ambling, drun-
kenness. fighting, carrying concealed
weapons and many offenses uf
an annoying nature i:-e of such fre-
quent occurrence and are carried on so
extensively that the peace ai d quiet of
many respected citizens arc di turbed.
says the Muskogee Pheonix.
Before the Creek Indians left Al?.-
bama for the Indian Territory, many
years ago. a band of the tribe wander-
ed %way and failed to come north with
their kindred. Since then they have
traveled around, often half starved
The4V live now in Polk county, Texas,
where the band has dwindled to forty-
two persons. They heard recently
that the Indians who came north had
grown wealthy and had a government
of their own. .lolin Blunt and Hillv
Jackson were selected as delegates to
visit the Creek Indians in the Indian
territory. They arrived recently and
are consulting with Isparecher. It is
probable that the "lost tribe" will re-
join their relatives.
The fine residence of W. R. Hughes
of Arapahoe was burned down Sunday
afternoon.
The pasture lands of the Osage na-
tion arc leased from the Indians
through the Interior department in
fenced tracts of sometimes as high as
.'0,000 or 30,000 acres, and part of this
is generally subleased. Persons who
have leased in that country sav that
there has been a great rush fo.- pas-
ture lands this year, and that they hud
no trouble in subleasing what they diif
not want themselves
rhc Chandler News says: The first
company to be organized in Lincoln
county was formed nearly two months
ago near Fallis, in Tohee township,
and it lias been meeting regular for
drill ever since. John C. Davis, a rela-
tive of Jeff Davis, the Confederate
president, is commander and drill-
master of the company, which lias a
membership of about 30. The boys are
spoiling for a chance to get at Spain.
This is the first company in the terri-
tory to be organized outside of u town.
The Beaver Herald, published in
Beaver county, says: According to re-
ports. cattlemen in different parts of
the country are meeting with looses
rather more than usual this spring. A
prominent cattleman living in the
eastern end of tile county stated while
here last week that a comparativclv
large proportion of the cattle in that
section had been dying off. The trou-
ble with the cattle appears to have
i general weakness, due to lack of
good pasturage, but now since the
grass is beginning to advance again,
and the probability of cold weather is
past, it is likely that cattle will do
well again.
Word comes from Vinita that the
juaw men and those interested in dc-
A girl cowboy appeared at Hodgcn's
ranch in thcGlnss Mountains the other
day and wanted a job. She claimed to
; have been employed down on the Red
i river, but desiring to come further
north where it isn't ..o hot, she had
; quit. She was poorly clad and rode
her pony cowboy style. She wore a
j shirtwaist made of Hour sacks and a
skirt made out of a cheap blanket.
She could ride the highest bucking
pony in camp am? beat the boys shoot-
j '"<? "larks with licr little ivory-hand-
I led six-shooter Not being ableto pro-
cure a job at Hodgcn's earn p. she rode
j away in a northern direction as fast as
i her pony could gallop.
| The Dailv Okliilioman says: Okla-
, homa lias always been at a serious dis-
advantage in comparison with Ken-
tucky and some other states in the line
of titled citizenry. Colonels like llilly
(irimes, L. I'. Ross and others have al-
ways been outdone when stood up bv
the side of Kentuckians who had
fought, bled and died for their coun-
try. Soldiers from other slates will
featingall kinds of territor\ legisla- I'rovo themselves gentlemen by stand-
tion are not pleased over the rcnomina- 'hack until Oklatioinans have en-
tion of Congressman Curtis of Kansas, j themselves, this beta? their first
They have put up big money to defeat j ''hance.
the Curtis bill in congress, and it is j The Oklahoma Hoard of Health is to
understood that some of it has been I tackle the cigarette question. In New-
used to defeat the nomination of Cur- 1 ^ ork lately a leading physician read a
tis. That element has been close to paper in which he denied that the ti-
the situation in Kansas, and very soon I garette was injurious. Cigarettes have
after the Horton convention had made . been smoked in Oklahoma no long that
a renomination, the facts were known the accomplishment- acquired from
to them by a private telegram. They I the cow-punchers of knowing how to
roll a cigarette in a forty-mile wind
has ceased to be a distinction. The
Oklahoma Hoard of Health proposes to
revive interest in these matters, how-
ever. and has instructed its vice presi-
dent. Dr. Wilburs. Hamilton, of Nor-
man, to conduct an investigation, lie
will make personal diagnosis and gath-
er statistics compiled by different
state boards of health.
The El Keno Supper Bell says: A
letter from Secretary Frazier, of the
are very much disgusted over the result
of the convention, tin the contrary,
the whites in the territory at greatly
elated.
Hie Choctaw. Oklahoma and Ciulf
railroad company has purchased 320
acres of land near the postoftico of
Geary, in Blaine county, Oklahoma,
which they are now surveying and
platting into a townsite. The town
will be named deary. Look on the
map and see where it is. It is about
thirty miles northwest of El Reno, in
the North Canadian valley. It is about
eight miles north of Bridgeport and
twenty miles south of Watonga. It is
in the center of a rich and well-devel-
oped country. The soil is most fertile
and well w atered. There have been
no crop failures since that country was
ed and fenced from a railway track;
j br.t prefers to eonie and go as he
pleases even if he takes his chance of
j bein^ killed.
N hen I first read that astounding
statement in the writer's proof sheet. I
thought there was some mistake about
it. I could not believe or imagine that
any sane man could seriously utter it.
So, giving the writer the benefit of a
charitable doubt, I have referred to
his statemeut as an opinion that an
additional investment of one hundred
million dollars in Kansas alone, would
be necessary to safe-guard our Kansas
roads equal to the roads in Kngland.
But hearing of no mention or correc-
tion of mistake, anil seeing the state-
ment repeated in the newspapers, 1
have quoted it as printed, and will dis-
cuss it as a most extraordinary finan-
cial 'exaggeration.
The statement is equal to saying
that it would require over two hun-
dred and twenty thousand dollars
(1222,222) per mile, to perfect and safe-
guard the nine thousand miles of rail-
ways in Kansas, as the English roads
are safe-guarded.
It is estimated that the capitalization
of the English roads is about 40 per
cent water, and the righ-of-way alone
has sometimes cost more than thirty
thousand dollars per tnilc; the esti-
mated average being twenty thousand
liollars per mile, merely for the riglit-
sf-way for the English roads. Yet,
ivith these enormous additions of wa-
ter, and the cost of the right-of-way,
there is not a railway in England, nor
in the world that reaches the figures
mentioned for this comparatively level
prairie state of Kansas.
The following figures are taken from
liadley's excellent work on railways,
page 2G0. They show the facts up to
1884.
Name of R'y mileage Cost per mile
country.
Germany
Great Britain
France
Russia
Austria
Italy
Spain
Sweden
Belgium
British India
U. States
22,300
18,BOO
18, .",00
15,700
12,800
.">,900
5,100
4,000
2,000
10,500
120,000
These figures represent the capitali-
zation of the roads, including the wa-
SI 0.1.000
204,000
128,000
80,000
105,000
08,000
78,000
30,000
132,000
06,000
01,000
Kansas. Oklahoma Central and South- j tered stocks, the wade fully and fraud-
western railway company, states that
the company has let the contract to
the Ohio construction company, of To-
ledo. Ohio, for the first fifty miles of
the road, reaching from Cotfevvllje,
Kan., to Pawnee. O. T.. via Pawhuska.
Work is to commence at once and the
In IS'.iT | cars to lie running by October 1. A.
urn and \ Spring is now at Coffeyvlile attend-
opened to settlement in 1802.
there was an immense wheat, i
cotton crop, and oats on this townsite
yielded 100 bushels to tile acre. The
town is on the upland, facing the
North Canadian valley and can be seen
from points up the North Canadian
river for a distance of twenty-five
miles. It is said to lie a very beautiful
site and one of the best laid-out
towns in Oklahoma.
Callahan has no vote in congress and
during the w ar scare all he can do is j bank full after
to sit around and look on and groan
with the galleries.
Western cattlemen are preparing for i making a trip ov
a roundup. At a meeting held in
Cheyenne on March Hi. it was agreed
by the stockmen present to commence
work at the Panhandle line on the
Washita the morning of May 12. and
work both sides of the river down to
the trail crossing, where further ar-
rangements will be made in regard to
the work.
ing a meeting of the officers of the
company. El Reno is the objective
point of the road, and a movement is
now on foot looking to the building of
the line between this city and Guthrie.
The money is on hand for 100 miles of
construction, and it is thought that
work will soon be in progress at both
ends of the line.
Most of the Oklahoma streams wero
the hard rain on April
17th.
Mr. II. C. Speir. of Chicago, lias been
•astern Oklahoma
in municipal
vas formerly
e of
leal-
in vestments
relativ
securities. Mr. Spe
state superintendent of the -
Kansas and is one of the heavit
crs in Kansas secureties in the market
to-day. lie is quite well pleased with
the prosperous appearance of Oklaho-
ma and will increase his holdings of
Oklahoma paper.
ulently issued bonds, the cost of right-
of-way and all the incidentals, besides
the mere coat of building and equip
ping the roads.
In England, as already stated, the
fictitious element is reckoned at about
forty per cent of the entire amount; i
this country it is about 50 per cent or
over. This would bring the honest
cost of the English roads down to
about one hundred and twenty-two
thousand dollars (SI22,400) per mile;
the American thirty thousand. It is
thus seen that the English roads, in-
cluding their costly right-of-way, have
one hundred thousand dollars per mile
less than President Ripley's figures as
the cost of the same quality of roads
in Kansas. In other words, the wri-
ter's statement is ia effect this: It will
cost one hundred thousand dollars
more per mile to duplicate ihe English
roads in this level prairie state, than
it has cost to build them in rough and
rugged England anil Scotland, and
other parts of the British Islands!
That sounds like lunacy gone mad;
yet, the American people are expected
to swallow it with blind and eager
gusto, and to call it gospel truth!
The statement that the Americans
are averse to legal control and reason-1
able discipline, as if they were half
civilised savage., has uo fuumlatiau in
truth. There i. no mail on earth more
docile ami ottedirnt to all lawful aud
ueees-ary discipline thau the average
American. The alacrity with which
he volunteers to .nbinit himself to rig-
id military discipline in Jefense of hi.
country and his lawful rights, proves
tlii. slamier to *h< a base fabrication
made from whole cloth. Then take the
case of our American cities. I>o not
the Auicricau born citizen, submit as
readily to police regulations as do the
foreign born'.' Are Americans more
turbulent and hard to manage than
the foreigners? What ridiculous ex-
uses a railway king is sometimes com-
pelled to make for not investing his
money in safe-guards for the protec-
tion of human life on his road! And
yot he speaks of human life as being
so very ••precious!" Evidently, it is
considered less precious than corpora-
tion dollars.
President Ripley speaks slightingly
of the "traiup," who is killed as a
"tresspasser,'' when stealing a ride be-
neath the cars. He should notdo this.
The tramp is brother to the million
aire. The same class laws and the
same general causes produce them
both. They have precisely the same
origin and ancestry. They come and
go and stay together. The cojntry
full of palaces is, also, infested with
hovels and squallor. There were no
tramps in America until after the arri-
val of the millionaire. The robber
cainc before the people were robbed to
penury aud dropped into mendicity.
There are ninny ways of secret and
indirect theft that are difficult of de-
tection. But when the tramp arrives
in society we find that somebody has
been robbing the people. We turn to
the newly grown millionaire and find
iu his hands a mass of wealth which
lie has not earned. This proves the
stealing and identifies the thief, or,
his accessory. Where we find the rob-
bed we should expect to tind the rob-
ber. The millionaire and the tramp
are brothers, from the same parentage.
One sleeps iu the hay loft, the other in
a palace. But a man should not speak
disrespectfully of his own near kin-
dred.
The writer pomplains that tramps
steal lides by hiding in unusual places
and are thus accidentally killed or in-
jured: and, that this carnage is wrong-
fully charged up to the railway man-
agement, The statement is true in
part, but the charge is just. Let the
railway management provide third or
fourth class cars as is done in other
tramp countries, at tramp rates, as in
India, when the rate is a quarter of a
cent per mile, and the tramp nuisance
and dangers will be abated. If a man
can ride twenty miles lor a nickel,
even in a cattle car. he will beg the
nickel and buy the ride, rather thau
risk his life beneath the cattle cars.
^ cs, the change of the tramp carnage
against the railway management is
just The millionaire is both brother
and father to the tramp, and he should
provide for his wants and treat him
kindly. If we all had cars and rates
in proportion to our means of payment
more of us would ride, the roads would
make more money, and. fewer people
would be killed while stealing rides.
But wc have in this country, even a
worse fellow than either the tramp or
the millionaire. He is a -'person"—an
invention of man, created by neither
(,od nor the devil; found in neither
hell nor heaven—on this earth only.
Ex-Governor Larrabee, of Iowa, in his
Railroad Question, p. 450, describes
this dangerous fellow as follows;
"The corporation for pecuniary gain
has neither body nor soul. Its corpor-
eal existence is mythical and etlierieal.
It suffers neither from cold nor from
cold nor from hunger, has neither fear
of future punishment nor nope of fu.
ture reward. It takes no interest in
schools nor in churches. It knows
neither charity nor love, neither pity
nor sympathy, neither justice nor pa-
triotism. It is deaf and blind to human
woe and human happiness. Its only
aim is pecuniary gaid, to which it sub-
ordinates all else."
A corporation is a creation of law
and is a legal entity only. It is with-
out body, soul or sense of justice, be-
cause the law cannot create these
qualities; yet, a corporation for pecun-
'ar.Y gain has qualities growing out of
purposes of its existence, which the
law neither creates nor destroys.
When composed, for example, of
many persons, it lias many times the
financial acumen of a single person.
And, when normally organized it has
many times the usual capital of a sin-
gle individual However, it is said
that some corporations use gall and
brass so adroitly that they pass them
for cash and the people arc thus great-
ly wronged.
It is also said that some of these
great legal entities have the arms of
the Octopus, the ambition of Lucifer,
the wisdom of Satan, the conscience of
Beelzebub, and, a money hag instead
of a heart; and, that "their rapacity
and lust of power ia unapeasable!"
Reader, a whole brood of these "cor-
porations for pecuniary gain," have
taken possession of our "greatest high-
ways, and levy tribuute at will on all
vast industries!" And the impera-
tive question of today is this: What
are we going to do about it?
Very Respectfully.
JOHN DAVIS.
PALDENSIAN CHURCH IN ROME
r.w Faithful Survivor, of tho Par-
| .ecutlon of the Middle Agr*.
The small and heroic W&ldensian
church, the oldest evangelical commuu.
Jity In the world, has Just celebrated the
j fiftieth anniversary of the edict by
(which King Charles Albert, as he Is
trailed, cutireded to them complete civil
'and religion! freedom, even before pro-
mulgating the constitution which still
holds good throughout the peninsula,
says the Pall Mall Gazette. In review-
ing the history of this miniature church
one is struck by its sacrifices and its
astonishing resistance to persecution.
It was founded in 1160 by Pierre Valdez!
a rich merchant of Lyons, who. like Ar-
nold of Brescia and Savonarola, re-
nounced the good things of the world
to preach against the iuxury of the
church, the domination of the priest-
hood and the temporal powers of the
pope, hoping thereby to restore the
church to its original simplicity. The
•persecutions of the Waldensians. begun
in 1184 by the king of France,the prince
of Piedmont and the pope, continued
with more or less severity until the
middle of this century. The member*
Of this sect astonished the world, and
(even their enemies, by thejr resistance,
bo much so that Louis XII. exeiaimed:
"They are better Christians than our-
selves." i'nder Francis I. twenty-two
of their villages were destroyed, 4,000
people were killed and 800 Imprisoned,
but no human force could reach them
in their impenetrable Alpine recesses,'
whence they have now spread Into
Switzerland and Italy. In this latter
country alone they number 25,000, and
they now possess a theological school
at Florence. King Humbert, descend-
ant of those princes of Savoy who be-
gan the persecution of Emanuel Flli-
bert and Charles Emanuel II.. who
continued it, and of Victor Amadeo II
who almost annihilated the little com-
munity, received on the anniversary
of Carlo Alberto's edict Dr. Proehet,
ipastor of the Waldensian church in
Rome. The pastor is an enthusiast
about his church and flock. Speaking on
the subject, he said: "Vea. times are
changed for us. Before 1870, if I dared
to come to Rome, I should have been
arrested Immediately, merely for being
a Waldensian. Before that date only-
Germans were allowed to have a Prot-
estant chapel in Home and that was in
the Prussian legation. Even powerful
fcngland did not succeed ia gaining
permission to transfer her church in-
side the walls of the town. We began
our work in Rome in 1870, when lib-
erty of conscience was established. Af-
ler several changes, we opened in fSfc.1
the beautiful church now occupied by
^s in the Via Nazionale. It is in the
Roman style of the fourteenth century
and cost $60,000. A short time after It
was completed I had an anonvmous of-
fer of 1200,000 for it, and I have never
been able to discover the would-be pur-
chaser. Of course, I refused, because
of the moral effect of such a sale. The
church in Home now numbers about
200 members, only about ten of whom
are really Waldensians from the val-
ley. The others are almost all con-
verts."
If umillHtifiK.
"Why is it that the Uottrox girls al-
ways seem to be so nervous when their
father comes Into the parlor? " "Oh,
you see, they can't wean him from the
pabit of bragging about being a self-
taiade man."
Amttrla IImk No Colonle..
Austria is the only empire in the
world which has never had colonies,
or even transmarine possessions.
FOR EVENING WEAR.
A black evening gown included in a
trousseau was of black moire velours,
embroidered with moonlight sequins
and with sequin-spangled black net
torming the bodice and long transpar-
ent sleeves.
A charming pale maize satin veiled
with chiffon applique with yellow lace
had trailing across the front of the
bodice wreaths of blue forget-me-nots
to repeat the touch of blue in the
shaded turquoise velvet at the waist.
The newest opera cape is flowcr-Iike
in it3 loveliness, made of white satin,
veiled with quillings of crocus-yellow
chiffon and bordered with deep frills
of lace and chiffon. Equally fascinat-
ing was another cape in the new shape
of pink velours frise and flounced with
black lace and pink chiffon.
An evening gown of yellow and
white striped silk, with the skirt open-
ing up the front to show a petticoat of
soft yellow and white chiffon, much
frilled, the bodice being entirely made
of this chiffon, all tuckings and ruff-
lings, was fastened at one side with a
great bunch of yellow and orange
chrysanthemums.
An eau-de-nil satin ball gown lg
lovely veiled with white tulle, finished
with little frills at the foot sewed with
narrow white ribbon; above are rou-
leaux of Parma violet velvet, and the
bodice, a foam of ruffled frills of the
beribboned net over green, has a
bunch of Parma violets and a knot of
velvet on each side of the pointed
berthe of Irish guipure, which sparkles
with emeralds, diamonds and pearls.
A really poetic ball dress is of white
silk crape elaborately embroidered on
the skirt with large chrysanthemums
in delicate golden and tawny shades.
Fichu is draped about the shoulders
behind and hangs loose from the breast
In front in a long cascade drapery.
This fichu is edged with silver sequins
and it is finished off at the left side
with a single huge velvet pansy This
dress is hung over silvery-gray satin.
There is a silver belt and a small w hits
gauze fan embroidered in silver
Our little misfortunes would not
amount to much were it not for the
unnecessary comments of our friends
upon them.
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