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!. WOIffl WOBLL. 1 ? CC-SSS^if A PRACTICAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. tlow thj* Uiclicst Woman in the World Kezards u Bu*inc:>?? Training. When I fay that all women should ; have a business training, I mean wo:n- ; eu ?.f all classed poor, middling rich and well-to-do. The assertion does uolf . ply merely to those whose eir ^J^cauces sec-iu to indicate that they ae (lay !? ; ooiupeiicn to mime ^Wr own way iu the world. Every cla-s of girl will make a better and , happier woman if she Las a business , education, whether her womanhood j sees her a maid, wife, mother or widow. I have heard it stated that! Tor a woman to get a business training ( is to crush all tin; poetry out of her life. This is sheer nonsense. A woman with a knowledge 6f business IJ appreciates music, painting and the ' other liner things of life just as much as the woman who is ignorant of all business matters; and the former has lie decided advautage, in that she is d>l? to turn her knowledge of business into securing more opportunities >1 M*eing and appreciating these line i .hings. She ean get more tickets to * -- -"-I -frollflriou will I "lllict"' 13 UU1I Ull-pHlit/i.v. ..... , lave noro money to become the possessor of metre beautiful things than a ' vouian without business training, auu ; i woman with a sure income before aer feels a great deal more like study- , ug poetry than a woman who is com- j pelted to worry about her future bread . and butter. 1 have been a business ( woman for fifty years, aud am just as fond of pictures and music as any one of iny age. A lmsiuess training is; but one more accomplishment added . to tne list which the youug woman of , ^ to-day is expected to acquire, and it is absurd to say that its possession will interfere with the proper enjoyment of any ;f tho other accomplishments. ; Then every housekeeper is a business vonittu, the degree of her excellence as a housekeeper heing the degree of the business training she was pro- i rided with before she entered upon her doraostic duties. The successful and economical management of the house calls for the same kind of ability j ind judgment that is uecessary to the j successful management of a commev- ' cinl enterprise. Hetty Green, in the Woman's Home Companion. Th* Rejuvenated Bmllco. While it is impossible to make last I year's skirt look like a creation of1 I boo with pleats all the way round i and from waist to knee, it is an easy matter to brighten up or remodel an old bodice and give it the air of a 1 very new and attractive garment. The i . " corselet belt ana tue cravat are uvo ui th^bost aids toward such a change.' i Tlf-- former may be a plait), well-titted cuirass of velvet, and fastened uii to the left of the front with odd and j pretty buttons. Ii' preferred a full swathing of satin autiquc or paune is pretty: it should be boned to give it lirtuness, and adorned by long sash streamers or short sash cuds. These euds look well finished with wide fringe, and if crystal or jet is mingled with the silk or chenille it i helps to weight the satin and make it hang well. These corselets cover a multitude of faults if any catastrophe j jus happened to a bodice at the hands , >f c bungling dressmaker, with ! M-ooked seams and an ill-behaved I i >asquo as a result. The bodice that has seeu service I ami worn shabby beneath the arms i iud at the elbows may be restored by I means of a bolero. There are so many versions of these smart little coats that the utmost license may be allowed the fancy when choosing a desigu. Very serviceable bolero3 are of velveteen or velvet with scalloped ! 3o'ses turned back with embroidery ippliqae or lace. A hard lino should be avoided when the bolero is in ques-1 tion. Good dressmakers usually min gle lace with the velvet, allowing the soft edges of the lace to overlap the j velvet, which they can easily be made ' to do if mounted on satin. The bolero 1 is prettier with a transparent lace col- j lur than with one of velvet, and a vest! match is always effective. ? Th e >'ccktet. The necklet is having a great vogue. It varies from seasoa to season, but now is almost universally worn with a frock cut out at the throat. It is more appropriate to young girls than gold or jewels, which should be preserved for dress occasions. Any cclor of velvet is worn as a necklet, although black is always preferred by the womau of certain age. Tie the necklet ribbon in a neat, tittle bow directly under the chin, and let the ends be no longer than the .square little loops forming the bows. - ? - kA<1nn/lfl Inn rrk It 75Din Uii iuu :cuuiiviauv tvu^ku* Fashion's l'aili) anil Fancies. WTbc latest traveling hat is the fedora tffijtis encircled with a soft silk scarf. Ir turns down slightly over the eyes. An attractive collar buckle of gold is set with three opals. In the spaces intervening are set pearls, alternating in size. Silver monogram ringer purses in sea), walrus, alligator, elephant and other serviceable leathers are decidedly convenient aud useful. vy*r*7/ Black velvet dresses are being made with two bodice? one for day ami one for eveniug by the very best houses. They have short trains. A pretty glove fastener of gold iset with serai-precious stones. The hook is disclosed by turning the handle. It can be suspended from the chatelaine. Bewildering, fascinating and altogether indescribable arc the soft shades of color shown in the nn dressed learners useu um iu.uu.>uiv bags and purses. Animals of gold uovi- frequently serve as Leads of hatpins. Two whirl seem to l>e greatly favored represent a hear aud a lion couehaut. Emeralds and rubies serve as eyes. A violet toque has u huge rose ot shaded mauve, with soft, ragged petals. The flower is so lovely in color aud texture that the fact of its being unlike anything that overgrows does not matter. SlPavis tailors have set their approving seal upon broad shoulders as an accompaniment to the fashionable narrow waist aud hips, no breadth of hips being noticeable in the new outline of the spring tailor frock. Some of the wool shirt waists that have a more comfortable appearance at this time of the year are made of alternate stitoiied box plaits of plaid and plain material, with a tie of the plain material edged with the plaid. Yokes and fronts of white or lignred material contrasting with the. body are noticed in some of the new shirt waists. These nave not, however. the air of daintiness suggesteu ny waists of solid full fronts with possibly a trimming of white lace or embroidery. (ieiteral Harrison'* "Authority." At the little hamlet of Riehlaud, near Kushville, lives the Rev. Nathan McDill. jin interesting old Presbyterian minister, who was pastor of the I". I*. ( hurch there for forty years. He loves to tell jokes of his college lays, and is fond of relating the following,which happened when General Harrison and he were at Miami: The occasion was a joint meeting at the literary societies of Miami and a female souiiuary nearby. Harrison 1 - * * road an essay 111 wuicu no im?cuie>ouslv used the expression, '-We pitcli iu." At the close of the programme, the president of the college arose. After wakiug several remarks, he offered a few good-natured criticisms, among which was one directed to Harrison. "It is customary.said he, with a sidelong glance at the youth, "wheu usiug any classic quotation, U givo our authority for the same.'' Harrisou. as quick as a flash, arose, pointed to his roommate, McNntt, a whiteheaded, boyish-looking fellow nearby, and, with all seriousness, said "There's my authority!" The narrator of this does not tell its what then happened, but we nw) imagine that the i>rcsideut of Miami, being unable to say more, took lib seat and waited for the laughter U subside. lndiauapolis Press. Cooling ' ?* Sou. The importance of the question o coaling at sea increases directly as tin increase of sea-power, and with th< probability of ligutiug naval wars fa: from home shores the ratio rises euor raonsly. England's lirst line of dp fense is said to be the enemies coast She is well supplied with coaliu; stations all around the world. But were she blockading foreign port: how large a portion of the biockadiu; tleet would be worse than ineffective because itself subject Jto possible at tack by superior force, while steauiiu? between blockade and eoaliug sta tions. The greater the distance to tin coal the greater ihe number of ves sels continuously off station, and with (riiantanamo only forty-five mile: nwfiv. only three-fourths of ihe Awer V 7 - V icuu ships could he kept actually 01 blockade service. Germany fully ap preeiates the necessity of ud appai atus for eonling at sea, as indicate! by the statement of Kcar-Admira Pluddemun. who said recently: "I ; will be absolutely necessary in futon ! to take coal from a collier at sea. | Engineering Magazine. Cause of u Kite In Stuck*, 1 A curious souvenir is preserved ii j the Bank of England, iu the shape o i a note for ?1000, with which Admira | Lord Cochrane, the grandfather o : the plucky present Earl of Dundou ; aid, paid his tine when he was false!; I accused of spreading, with an in ft rumor that Bona j IClCOtvvi WJ VWJ j parte was dead, in 1811, so as ti , cause a rise in the price of stocks i The sum mentioned was raised, ii ' subscriptions of a penn}-, by his West i minster constituents. The note is in | dorsed with the name of the intrepid but ill-used salt, aud 1ms inscribed oi j it a sentence in which he expresse ( the hope that one day ho will prov : his iunocence and triumph over hi accusers. That consummation wa not effected until eighteen year later, when lie was reinstated b William IV. London Telegraph. War'* Million* of Victim*. An army officer estimates that i the century jnst closing no fewer tha 30,000,000 men have been killed i war in ciyilized countries. % j ARE IN THE DARK , British Know But Little About Situa* i ,tion o j Tlteir Armies, O. METHUE.YS PROGRESS SLOW. Tlic British Movements are Slow and Cautious, and the People Have Contidence in thrir Judgment. i..:n<icn. By C..i)lo. .-'neti.er Wilkinson. rewiewng the -r:i:a?ion at rite se:C of war for tho As.- -.dated l r;s:s say-: ! 1 wo points cf acute interest here just now arc 'Alafekir.* ar. l the Boer coii:m:i trcakking north frcoi Smithfie'd and Rcuxvilie. along the Easu'.o border. About Ala'eking we are in the dark, Colonel Plumer has out a handful of men and is not strong enough to attack Commandant Snyman and raise the siege. Commandant Snymati. therefore, has attacked him and Colonel Plumer lias prudently retired. "\prrting no doubt, to return after Com-: mar.dant Snyman whenever the latter sroos hack. > Lord Roberts never forgets small things while attending to greit tilings. It may be taken a> certain that lie kncw.s how and when he ihall have .Mtfeking relieved, supposing rho garrison ran hold out. but h? does not disclose his plans in a lvan.-e. General Methiien has been nearly a week near Fourteen Streams, probably waiting for nocp- enough. The Boer general, who Is hoping to get past Gem eral French up to Kroonstadt. may ite caught and made to fight, but with a few thousand mounted men he ought lu tier ujir, ?t#> moj.-uo to elude the Btitieh. If he stands to fight he may he detained for some time. Lord Roberts lias now been more than ten days at. Bloemfontein. lit scent- to wish to settle the country be'hind him before going on. Probably tco. he has extensive preparations ;< ecnipletc. His next campaign will gi into the dry reason, when the nights are often very raid and the veld: is dr> and bare. He will want his men equipped for 'this season and his transpor! service qualified to-be as near iadepen't dent as possible of grass and water The design no doubt is that General Buller, in the next advance, will move simultaneously with I.ord Roberts. General Puller, perhaps, is not vet : ready. Lord Roberts will shortly have the Eighth Divi-icn and may al-ofsrm of the trocps new available a new Tenth Division. He will then have in ' his own hands Tu.000 men and Genera' Puller will have 40.000. The lormei nr-.-fl nni ne.-f'ssarilv he moving all on one line, for it would lv as easy to form a third column to cro-s :h? f Vaal river at Kimberlev and turn any 3 Borr defense on that river. In view of these figures and the known power of Lord Roberts as a leader. 1 ntta. it little importance to the Boe; declaration-: that they will make a big fight. f they stand before they arc ' driven ir.to Pretoria. 1 expect, thry will be enveloped. They may defend 1 Pretoria, but that can help them but little. It will be a question of weeks. J card Roberts may he looked for north ? of the Vaal at the end of April and before Pretoria, if the Boers fail back '0 that pla.-e in the first half of May. e Bank Statement. '. New York. Special. The hank stale l >n: shows the following changes: i Surplus reserve increased $.1.130,875; Joans decreased $12,r>k0.700; specie de crease $1 OA0.7IJ7: legal tenders increase 1 $t>70,000; deposits decreased $13,-060,? AIVA1 OAA Tt. _ 1 :'.00; circulaton jnsrcxseu ?.?;w..>uv. i itt banks now hold $5,817,300 in exces- <>f a the legal requirements. Brevities. The tobacco growers of Virginia have made a start by the organization t of Mecklenburg county to co-oprrate j. with the North Carolina association. ,1 Over 9.000.000 pounds of leaf lof bacco have been sold at Kinstoti. N. . for the year 1899-1900, exceeding ail v expectations. The warehouses at that place will close for the season the -ad of this month o To Blow Up Fr; n'<fort. 11 -? Frankfort. Ky.. Spe.-ial. 1 aere much excitement in Democratic quart, s over a reporv that the guards in s charge cf the State arsenal I12J laid a e ruiDe in front of the State arsenal, con. 8 neeted wivh the inside by a wire, so 8 that it could be touched off in case of an attack. 7 e excitement was 'nv creased when another report was circulated that one of biie officers had purchased 100 feet cf fuac from a local u hardware merchant and it was repo t, n | e-d that ths fuse was to be attached to u I the mine alleged to be at the arsenal. THROUGHOIT THE COUNTRY. | ? The South. The United States government I., i how sending out it-; regular distribution of seeds, good sized packages of the seed of the Florida velvet bean whose wonderful qualities for restoring worn out land hive been exploited extensively in the press of the country in the last two years. The I'art Gibson compress, in which was stored 2.000 bales of cotton. wa.-> burned Sunday: lo-.s $10o.0ou; fully covered by insurance. Stove moulders were given a 1"> per cert, advance by the Stove Founders' .\a; lunui .i.vir..iiioii lucuuug in .Atlanta. Ga. . Snowstorm.- and frosts have been general throughout the South and it is feared fruit lias been damaged. Ex-Governor William J. Stone, nation. il committeeman front Missouri, said in an interview at St. Louis that a movement is on fool to eliminate free silver as a campaign issue. General Nelson A. Miles, commanding the 1'nited States army, who arrived at Charleston, S. C.. front Washington Sunday uight. en route to Savannah. inspected the harbor defenses there. The American National Bank of Macon. Oa., has decided to increase it.circulation under the new currency law from $45,000 to $130,000. Administration officials arc advising General Wheeler to wititold his resigtion in order that lie and General Lee mav be retired with the rank of briea dier general. A skeleton found on a high mountain near Cranberry, Texas, has been identified as that cf William Brown, who disappeared a year ago. Charles Humphreys, a negro who late Saturday night entered the room ot .Miss McCoy, daughter of a white farmliving jus: outside of Phoenix City. Ala., was lynched by a party of white men. The young woman tecognized Humphreys and a moo immediately started in pursuit. They came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed the attempt, and was shot to death. The North. Two soldiers. Arthur I.oudon ar. 1 Austin H. Milman. were fatally shot by Cicero H. Thompson, a saloonkeepi er. at Valentine. Neb., whom they ?t1 tacked in his bed room. Commander William Emory has been detached front the membership of the Inspection Board and ordered on temporary special duty at New York. A panic sticken crowd at the high school building in Kenc-.ha. Wis., was saved Friday night by Louis Ferry, a student, who coolly extinguished the lire that had stampeded the audience ir. the hull. i Andrew Bolter, one of the mo.-t noted entomologists i:i America, died Sunday. Pnr?'?n Ir j-> officially denied that the sieg" of Maleking has been raised or the town relieved. Considerable bodies of the Orange Free Staters a:? reported in Britis'ii i dispatches to be ready to surrender. The'Princess of Wales opened an Irish industrial exhibition in London. General Oris has been authorized to i permit Filipinos to enlist as members of the regimental hands in the Philipi pnes. The Kansas City. Pittsburg Sc Gulf Railroad, was sold at public auction at Jcplin. Mo., to satisfy a $2:1.000.000 i mortgage with one year's accrued interest, held by the State Trust Company, of New York. Silas W. Pet tit. | chief cottn-el of the Philadelphia reorganization committee, bid $12,500,000. the upsc: bid. Evans Weed, a wealthy farmer of Newfield. Conn., will petition the leg1 istature to change his name to Adam, after which he will transform liis largt farm into a duplication, as far as may i be. of the Garden of Eden. Then he | will advertise for pome woman named Eve to be his consort. The Grand Car.al. part of the vallej ! of Mexico drainage system. was inaug' urated Saturday with much ceremony I by President Diaz and his Cabinet. , A controlling interest in La Luclu. i the Havana newspaper, is likely to bI purchased by Michael .1. Daily, the Brooklyn politician, who i.- building sewers in Havana. ! Patent office work this year promis1 09 to beat the record. i Miscellaneous. i Capt. Carl Reiehmann, the i'nited States army officer detailed to observe i the conduct of the war from the Boo., side, has returned from the Modder i riviv. I The Sl7.000.000 dividend just an nounced by the Standard Oil Company called forth x resolution by Represcntaitve Fitzgerald, of Massachusetts. . demanding that the attorney* general : proceed against the company under the | Sherman antiturs: law. Admiral Dewey submitted the report j of ihls aid on the trial of the submarj ino lK>ac Holland. He expressed satlsj faction that the craft was not In Manila harbor to oppose him. ' , . ; ''''7. " v.; V " ' i '* CONGRESSIONAL j What Our Lawmakersare Doing from Day to Day. i SENATE. Seventy-sixth Day. Discussion or the Porto Rico government and tariff bill a.s resumed in the Senate. Mr. Morgan, of Alabama, presenting a speech dealing with some of the constitutional phases cf the measure, fie I maintained that as the treaty of Paris ! was the supreme law of the lanl, it was impossible for the 1'nited States to j abandon either Porto Rico or the Phil| ippines. Seventy-seventh Day. Upcn the <aujrhcrity of the governor of Alaska. Mr. i Turner of Washington, made the statement in the Senate that ronces| sions for gold mining in the bed of the sea near Cane Nome. Alaska, had been granted by the Secretary of War, and j upon that statement he ba-ed a resolu! tion of inquiry. Senator Turner said | if such a grant had been made it was j "a shame, a reproach, and a scandal." j The resolution was agreed to. In a j few minutes and without discussion the additional urgent deficiency bill . was passed with one or two other 1 measures of importance Seventy-eighth Day. Almost the en! tire session of the Senate was spent in ! the discussion of the conference report i upon the Puerto Rico appropriation I bill. The Democratic Senators manii fested a disposition to criticise the re; stcration of the house provision covering future collections of revenue, proj tossing to find in this action a desire to ; continue the Dingley tariff. | Seventy-ninth Day. The Senate adopted the conference report on the Porto Kican relief bill, by a vote of to \~i. practically a strict party expression No Democrat voted for the re peri, bu: Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, voted with tbo Republicans. The time of discission was consumed principally by Mr. Tillman. Democrat, of South : Carolina, who made a fierce attack upon the measure as agreed upon in conference and accused the Republican Senators and the Republican party of , indirection, hypocrisy and "dirty work." His speech was quite characteristic. and was listened to with interest by his colleagues on the floor aud , the people in the galleries. I Seventy-nteth Day. For a few minutes in the Senate, surprise bordering ; almost on consternation in some quarters. was created by a request of Mr. Foraker that the Porto Rican governj meat bill be recommitted to the Porto Rican committee. The request preci' pirated a Lively colloquy, but it finally 1 was developed that the bill Mr. For; akec wanted recommitted was the civil government measure, now on the cale ndar and not the unfinished bus:i nts=. During the elucidation of his ? request, however. Mr. Foraker plainly indicated that it was his purpose fo separate che bills and press the Porto Rican tariff bill to an early vote, his desire being to have the vote taken not ra.in next Thursday. i HOUSE. Sevent} -fifth Day. The House refused to concur in the Senate amendments to the Porto Rico relief bill. . The Democrats supported a motion to concur, on the ground that it would ' avoid further delay in extending relief to the inhabitants of the island, bin DnnnKlio'ine cfhohinrf iii<r u..o Chairman Cannon in his demand that tne House should in.-Ht upon its original provision to appropriate not only the money collected on Porto Rican i goods up to January 1. but all subsequent moneys collected or to be collected. The remainder of the day was de| voted to District of Columbia business. Tlie pension appropriation bill was ! sent to conference. Messrs. Barney. of Wisconsin: MeCleary. of Mlnnesoj ta, and Bell, of Colorado,, were appointed conferees. I i Seventy-sixth Day. The House cn| tered upon the consderaton of the Loud | bill to restrict the character of publications entitled to 1 percent, pound rates as second class mail matter. The bill has been before Congress for sev eral years. Mr. Loud defended the biJi | in a lengthy speech. The other speakj ers were H. C. Smith, of Michigan, in favor of the hill, and .Messrs. Little, of Arkansas; Bell, of Colorado; Henry, of j Mississippi; Stokes. of South Carolina, and Brown of Ohio, in opposition to it. Seventy-Seventh Day-Dnring the debate in the iIou.-e upon the Loud bill, j relating to second class mail matter. ' there was a sharp exchange between Mr. McPherson. Republican, of Iowa, ' and Mr. Lentz, Democrat of Ohio, over a charge made by the former that thai tllP J?b*l6F was int" amunir,) vi mc ?uu! by Which is fighting the bill, but otherwise the debate was without incident. Both sides believe the vote tomorrow will be close. Mr. Loud has agreed fo i accept two amendments, one to iu] cea^e the number of sample copies which newspapers can send out at second class rates from 500 to 2000, and the other to limit the provision requiring newspapers to separate theiv mail to those having an excess of 5.- / 000 circulation. Thr-e are all the concessions he will make. i j Seventy-eighrh Da*\ After a spirited discussion extending over three days the Loud hill relating to second class mail matter was recommitted by the House to the committee on postoffice. The majority in favor of the motion to recommit was so decisive | that it Is regarded as unlikely that the meausre will appear again during the * present Congress. Mr. Loud said after the vote was -announced that this was the third time and out, so far as he was concerned. The vote on the motion was 143 to 96. with 16 present and not voting r. ^