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i 118 The new raglans cover a great many last winter's dresses. Great Britain says that the Monroe doctrine is all right. What else could it say and be safe? Dr. Depew is looking forward to an exceptionally merry Christmas. He expects to be married Dec. 25. The Bulgarian brigands are disposed to put Miss Stone on the bargain coun ter in order to hurry the cash. It Is suspected that the leonids are keeping out of the way of J. Plerpont Morgan. Some men never find out how much their ' wives affections are actually worth until they have been alienated. Eastward the star of American en terprise points the way. Sleeping cars made in this country are going In sea tions to Russia ' Ruddy Kipling must have had his Fezlets, the sultan of Turkey, in mind when he wrote "The Absent-Minded Beggar," with the refrain of "Pay, pay, pay!" .A Chicago judge has decided that spanking does no good after a child has reached the age of 10 years. The av erage kid thinks it does no good at any time. ' It cott an Indiana man $1,000 'to re fuse to marry a widow. In her evi dence she Bays he sat on her tap. fre quently, and hugged and kissed her repeatedly. . He got oft too cheap. The United States will build the !n- ter-oceanlc waterway, control ami pro tect It, and it will not be ppen to our enemies in time of war. So far, so good. '- It is complained that "child labor slavery" is being encouraged by the Inspectors In the glass factories of New. Jersey. It ought not to be dU.icult for the courts to see through th'.ci. Gold-bricking Wall street with forg ed commercial paper was of eoiirso, a criminal act, but it is difficult, not to admire thc.'nerveqf a -man who tries to skin the professional skinners. Far the most appalling feature of the fact that 312,000 arrests for drunk enness were.'made In the 129 largest cities of the' United States last year, is the' knowledge that Wo 312,000 repre sent only about one Jag in twenty. " ' The report that drinks havo beer, ad vanced in price by the Washington saloon keepers because of the reassem bling of congress was a libel on the town, as- well as on many men who never buy a drink. So the mail from Australia is hence forth coming via the Pacific route and not by way of the Suez canal. It will make its transit five days sooner than "by the old route. "Time Is money" more than ever these days. The New Jersey supreme court has made a ruling which practically fixes $1,000 as the maximum amount of dam ages parents may claim for the killing of a child. Haven't the learned justices any children of their own? The way things are going Chicago Is a pretty good place for laboring iwm to stay away from. Where strikes are on In certain lines men who want to Work are assaulted by former employes. After all this Is not a free country. ' The upper house of tho New Zealand legislature has affirmed the principle 'that either party to au Industrial dis , pute may go past ' the conciliation boards direct to the arbitration court. They know how to do things in New Zealand. Canada has been invited to send an other contingent to Africa, with a view to bringing the irregular warfare in South Africa to a speedy termination. But she does not seem to be so respon sive as she once was. There is loss glory in It. The Merchants' Association of Hazle ton, Pennsylvania, has followed the ex ample of several business men's organ izations and of individuals bin other places by making a rule against poster, program, circular and other miscel laneous forms of advertising. As a re sult they 'resolved that hereafter their advertising shall to confined to news Wer. u -m RESH FALtt Paris letter. Everybody Is- togged out in serious wintry array now. The demi-season creations floated on with the transient Indian summer days and belong to past days. Furs are the or der of the day now. Furs and all en veloping fur trimmed wraps. Activity in the shopping districts keeps up. Froni 10 quite on past noon the rue de la Paix Is lined with smart broughams three deep. The excited flittings of shoppers has not abated a whit since the fall shopping season be gan. Not until the Christmas' holidays are past do the shopkeepers anticipate their dull season. New models, hats, coats, wraps and gowns are -turned out at a wonderful rate and are claimed as fast ' as they make their appearance. And the strange part of it is that every body seems newly coated, gowned ;aud hatted for the winter. ,' A touch of fur creeps in among all combinations. Nothing' escapes . it. Not even the flowing house gowns. can affort to vaunt their independence of Its softening influences. The "Piece de resistance" In one fo the swell rue de la Paix windows ' is a wondrous tea gown of heavy cream guipure over a princess slip of turquois blue gros giain. A band of amethyst velvet pass es over the shoulders and continues down the front of the gown broadening into a wide border as it finishes at tho bottom. It is covered with a network of narroy amethyst velvet ribbons caught with tiny turquois clasps. A broad 'band of sable borders either side of the plastron and is slipped under the velvet. Ermine lines the high Medici eolar of guipure. It fastens down the front with large rosettes and straps of amethyst velvet ribbon. Strange It is that the white tulle boa and the heavy fur coat marry so well. Heralded It sounded a bit incongruous, but the real thing has only to be seen to be applauded. Instead of the white tulle boas looking like a bit of forgot ten summer finery they look as though the frost king had been making gifts broadcast. There is nothing more fetch ing than one of these fluffy white tulle boas slipped in and filling up tho space left .in the flare of a high Medici collar. Quite an .original tour de cou worn by a woman in half-mourning was niade of black tulle, plaited full and high In broad box-plaits. Along Us edges it was ornamented with tiny white rosebuds of satin. Over the tulle ends were draped garlands of FASHION ONE OF THE NEW FUR TRIMMED EVENING WAISTS. Evening: corsage of white tulle posed 61 tulle puffs separated by nar white rosebuds strung on narrow black velvet ribbons. Tulle boas edged with Just the merest line ot fur have found much favor of late In feminine eyes. In the combina tion icontrasts are Bought. Dark fur is most effective in outlining white tulle and ermine tips most fetchlngly back tulle edges. The craze for applique ornamenta tion is at Its height here. Lace and guipure appliques on cloth; cloth ap pliques on velvet and silk! velvet ap pliques On Ciom; veivei uurui ueai'ia annllnued on lace: touches of Persian applique embroidery, all knowing in finite variations One of the new all enveloping driv ing coats has a most stiking applique ornamentation of yellow velvet roses eivlne it quite an air of elegance. It is built of dull finish cloth in a deep shdde of old ivory verging on to buff. At; intervals over the cloth there are appllqued enormous roses cut out of yellow velvet In several soft shades and appllqued so as to give the effect of shaded yellow roses... they re ciarnea with innumerable tiny gold threads. There Is a. round yoke of chinchilla with long stole ends reaching nearly to the bottom of the wrap. It Is topped by a high Medici collar faced with orange velvet and trimmed at the base with a wreath of shaded yellow velvet roses. Around the edges of the yoke there Is draped a scarf of burnt orange panne velvet caught at the front with an "art nouveau" buckle. The ends fall straight under the fur stoles and are finished at the bottom with a border of yellow velvet roses. A broad band of chinchilla finishes the flowing cloth sleeves. One of the most effective of nil tho applique trimming is the cut unborn Persian lamb that comes In rich bor ders or arabesque motifs. Sometimes it is treated to a darning process with silver, steel, gilt or bronze threads that enriches it greatly. The richer mid winter coats and gowns boast, this trimming and It is a prime favorite for ornamenting cloth toques. A charming mid-winter gown worn by an early morning shopper was built of stone blue camel s hair The habit back skirt had an inlet of white cloth at the lower part cut in points top and bottom. It was stitched In close lines and bordered at either edge with an applique trimming of unborn Persian lamb. Straps of black velvet ribbon were drawn across the white cloth from the scallops points and held with tiny steel buckles. The jacket was a double breasted blouse of cloth that fastened with heavy military frogs of black silk cord and fur. The unborn Persian lamb was ap pllqued on in the form of a high corslet and at the back It merged Into quite ex tensive swallow tails. The jacket was caught down loosely into a narrow stitched ceinture of white cloth. A large glossy black hat of the fur and an ample fur muff completed this toilette. The ffufner white evening corsages made of gauze tulle chiffon, etc, are rich beyond description with their dell- cate touches of dark fur. Hardly broader than pin lines are some of the bands o ffur that peep out from nmong puns ana eage gauzy mis. One dainty decollete cosnge made of white tulle over white satin has a sort of bolero effect This is composed of puffs of white tulle alternating with the narowest bands of seal. Under this the tulle of the blouse is laid in tiny tucks with a thread of silver fin ishing their edges. The full balloon elbow sleeves are composed or strips of fur with tulle puffs intervening. A long scarf of heavily spangled tulle falls over white satin. Bolero effeot oom row bands of seal. . . . . ,.. . from the shoulders stole fashion. It is trimmed with lines of the fur. It looks now very much as If we were going to extremes again in sleeves. A glance at the latest corsage prepares us for all sorts of startling surprises In that direction. Balloon sleeves of am ple dimensions have made their ap pearance again. , NINA GOODWIN. A MARVELOUS CLOCK. Description of the Product of Ger- man Watchmaker, . A poor German watchmaker has Just achieved a wonderful work ot Ingenuity and art, consisting of an astronomical and calendar clock.. Twenty-four years ago he was fired. to attempt the task by a study of the famous horological mon ument at Strasburg cathedral. He im mediately began to execute his design to excel ;ven this surprising piece of Ingenuity. For 19 years be devoted all his time to the project. At one time, his means being of the scantiest char acter, he had no alternative but to sell by degrees everything. he could spare, his wire, oeing extremely in dignant at this procedure, brought her complaints before the local magistrate. He promised her his help, being con vinced that a man s mind must be de ranged who thought he could make an astronomical calendar clock. even sur passing that of Strasburg. His mental activity and financial and domestic troubles told upon the patient work or, and at last his friends declared him insane. At the thought of parting from his clock he became more excited. He was forthwith put into a straight waist coat and sent to a lunatic asylum. At length he managed to regain his liberty on the understanding that he remained under police surveillance. He found that his home was no place for him, so he Journeyed to Carlsruhe, Baden, lak- Ing the clock and his tools with him. In this town he obtained, with the as sistance of a privy councilor, free board and lodgings at the permanent Indus trial exhibition. After a stay of 18 months he lost his place of refuge, and fled with his work by night to his son In Switzerland. In Carlsruhe he had been able to make some small savings, and a few friends gave him assistance, The German emperor, though his majesty thought his task hopeless, sent him a sum of money. At last the clock however, was finished, but the con structor had no funds for the case. On this occasion a parish priest came for ward with generous and unselfish help and the project was completed. It Is claimed that this clock is as wonderful for its artistic beauty and workmanship as for Its ingenious mechanical arrangements. It Is in closed within glass, so that its every movement can be seen. It consists of 2,200 parts, 112 of which are wheels, Every detail is the watchmaker's own i handiwork. The clock Indicates the annnnHn Tttlniitoa Virtura rintaa tho rlnva 0l tno ' k m0nth nd the SenSOns of , the year tne pictures of the signs ot the ,n(1in. thn mm moon anil Rtnrn nnd tne risIng and getting, as well as the exact Dosjtion of the celestial bodies, ' it shows, besides, the moon phases, all the eclipses of the sun and moon. Its calendar, It Is urged, will last forever, with minute accuracy. At the begin nlng of the year it fixes by itself the statements of tho astronomical practl tloners in explanation of the everlast ing calendar, as well as Easter, and the changeable festival days for the com ing year. A glass ball, representing the spherical globe exactly, shows the movements and positions of the planets Mercury, Venus, earth and moon, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. The work Is beautified by over 100 movable pictures and figures. Every quarter of an hour tho figure of guardian angel appears on the left side of the principal field. The strik Ing of the quarter is done by two angels, standing in the second recess on the left, while in the sixth recess two figures at a time, representing the four ages of men, are changing alternate ly. On the right side of the principal field the angel of death advances, point ing with his scythe to the dial plate, When the full hour strikes the center angel of the second recess appears holding an hourglass, while the angel on the right side above Is sounding a trumpet. Under the roof an allegorical figure represents symbolically the right season of the year, while above In the principal field the guiding star of the year appears. On the left side of the cabinet stands a cock, which, five min utes before noon beats Its wings, stoops its neck, opens its beak, and crows three times. ' When the picture shows "spring" there appears a cuckoo above: with the season "summer" a quail comes forth on. the left side, both calling seven times. When the picture "autumn" ap pears a bull lying at the feet of the evangelist St. Luke roars, and when "winter" Is Indicated a Hon, which lies close to St. Mark, raizes its voice. Ev ery time the clock strikes 12, Christ, bending his head, appeal's with, his 12 apostles, and a monk, standing in the portal below, rings his "ave." The work contains also a small chime, which plays five minutes after the striking of an "even" hour, the melodies changing and each lasting one minute. This work has 12 little bells, and on the roller there are 997 pins, which make the music. Now that the patient worker has fin ished his task, he has been unable to find anyone to buy it from him. The Chicago board of local improve ments has decided to use creosoted block for pavements in the city. Differ ent kinds of material for paving were looked into by the board, but the de cision was in favor of the wood. The first order for this kind of pavement will aggregate about 15 miles ot streets to be paved. ........ . . . . . ; NEWS OF MISSOURI ALL SORTS OF THINGS CAUGHT FROM THE WIRES. General Happenings Throughout the State Prepared for Perusal by Busy Readers. 1 j A fit. Louis sneeiai says! Coal and wood will be barred as fuel from the Loulnlana Purchase Exposition. Oil from Texas will be piped to the engine rooms of every pb.nt on the grounds and In this way smoke, dust, and aches will be avoided. The main power plant will bo one of the largest In the world, and. Instead of being housed l:i a remote part of the grounds, Will be made a cen tral attraction of the machinery exhib it. 'J tie central power house will supply energy for all the Illuminations, intra mural railways, exhibit machines, pumps, cascades, fire a".d water re plies. It will have a capacity of cr y J 5,000 kilowatts, or more than 31.0.1 horse power, a capacity that represent more than the combined powers cf all electric and motor establishments now In operation in St. Louis. Bids f jr tills plant will be taken for individual unit df 1,000 kilowatts and for the entire plant. Henry Rustin has opened t'i" electrical construction office ot the r.iir. Wreck Victim Was Wealthy. Kansas City, Mo.: George V. You- mans, killed in the Wahnsh wreck -at Seneca, Mich., was a well-known build ing and paving contractor, and a mem ber of the board of -public . worus ,o: Kansas City. He erected many of the large buildings In Kansas City and hi:? held heavy contracts throughout tho southwest. Mr. Youmans was the father of Frank E. Youmans, a well-known young broker, who was arrested re cently in Detroit on a charge of embezzlement.- Mr. Youmans was engage ! on a big contract in Texas at the time of his. son's arrest, and had arrived l:i Kansas City and shortly proceeded east.. He intended, he said, to persuade, hl,-i son to return to Missouri and face the charge. Mr. Youmans was 53 years old. He leaves a widow in Kansao City. Missouri in . Brief. At Kansas City: Sarah B. . Les ter, aged 5, daughter of a well known merchant, was burned to death recent ly while attending a birthday party at the residence of J. D. Riddell, lato general freight agent of the Memphis road. With other children she was playing with birthday -candles w!en her dress caught fire. Mrs. J. D Riddell ' was seriously burned while trying to extinguish the flames. John Hill, an engineer, mid A. D. Robinson of Joplln, were killed by the explosion of a boiler at the Ida zinc: mining plant, three miles northwest of that city. Robinson was visiting the plant. ' - ' Chief of Police Kiely of St. Louis re ceived a telegram from Rev. M. . (.. Coleman of Pana, 111., asking for in formation of the whereabouts of Thos. J. Smith, missing city clerk of Pana. A man who gave the name of Thomas F. Smith, a clerk from Pana. was found lying in the street last Thursday night in a semi-conscious condition. He was treated at the city dispensary and sent to the Four Courts, where he was held for the night. Next morning he was discharged. A fire destroyed a two-story brick building owned by Zarn & Wells of Platte City. A building owned by Wil liam Davis was also burned.. The loss es on buildings and stock is about $3, 000. Insurance $2,500. Wesley Gann, constable of Center township, and William Little had an exciting experience with chicken thieves about 3 o'clock Thursday morn ing, In South Park. -. Shots , wore ex changed and Contsaule Gann believes that he wounded one of the thieves. He himself was wounded by being tsrurk over the left eye with a shotgun. He received a serious wound. The thieves escaped. L. C. Williams, the negro editoriof the Kansas City Observer, is dead at a local hospital from the -effects of a stab wound received in a fight with an other negro. Williams' brains waa penetrated with a pair of shears. , At Duluth the Minnesota Log and Timber company has been formed with W. H. Cook, president; William O'Brien. Its capital is $100,000 and Its intents Us capital is $100,00 and its intents are are to do business along the line of the Duluth, Virginia & Rainy River road, now under construction to the northern region. The company expects to build mills, perhaps cue at Duluth and others along the road, and to manufacture timber owned and controlled by kin dred Interests. '' ' Unusual warmth has prevailed in the Arctic regions this year, and conse quently an enormous number of ice bergs has been set free and driven to tho middle of the Atlantic. The re ports of various transatlantic steamer captains state that their vessels have met witu dozens of icebergs, some over 100 feet high.' A Chinese martuserlpt' lately discov ered In the Paris library proves the startling fact that anaesthetics were used in China 1.700 years ago. A cer tain concoction, l states, was given by the doctors before performing an op eration, which rendered the patient unconscious. The anaesthetic was a simple preparation of hemp. - The Oermnn millionaire Jakob Plaut who" died in Nice last February, left thn greater part of $2,000,000 for char itable purposes and Institutions in Ber lin, Hamburg and Saxon pities. The Tageblatt names more than three doz en Institutions in Berlin alone which were remembered by him.