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r" V""1 THE REPUBLIC: SUNDAY, 'JUNE 1, 1902c I r It I !.' I I ft I ki P - HATS WRITTEN FOR THD SUNDAY REPUBLIC. little girls' hats are alwajs the prettiest creations of the milliner. Such fanciful combinations of colors, twisting of ribbons and turns of brim, such exquisite knots and bows can only be worn over a fair young face, which responds readily to the reflection of the romantic stylo above it. The flats of Tuscan straw, with their moderately high crowns and full wide brims, are the favorites for general wear. They are not all expensive and can bo made in every artistic form at moderate Price. It Is here again that our democratic form of fashion and buying and selling gives one of moderate means and good taste as good an opportunity to be stylish as the wealthy. Materials may be different, but the effect is nearly always the same. WILD BILL'S ENCOUNTER WITH THE McCANDLAS BOYS. An Episode of Border Warfare That the Old Cattleman Declares Was a Notable Exhibition of "Clean Pluck, WRITTEN FOR THE SUJvTJAY UErUBLlC. "Tell you-all a tale of blood!" The Old Cattleman's tones rang with a note of peevishness. "It shore Irritates me a heap, son, when you Eastern cents looks allers to the West for stories red an' drlppln' with murder. Which mighty likely now. the West Is plenty peaceful compared with this yere East Itself. Thar's one thing you can put in your memorandum book for footure refrence, an' that Is, for all them years I inhabits Arizona an' Texas an' sim'lar Im pulsive an' energetic localities, I never trembles for my life an' goes about plumb furtive, er ectln' every moment is goln' to be my net that a-waj ontll I finds mve' camped on the sunrise of the Alleghenles. I regyards the East as a mighty onsafe region an' so I tells vou." Having thus defended the West from Eastern aspersion and oroperly established its status as a theater of peace and lamb's wool gentleness, my talkative friend ap peared relieved. The red flush left his fur rowed forehead and he was composed again with his usual genial air. "Nacherally, I admits." he went on. "thar has bten "a modicum of blood shed West of t tne .Mississippi an some suni snare uiuiui. can be charged to Arizona. No. I can't say I deplores these kllln's none. Every gent has got to die. For one. I'm mighty glad the game's rigged that a-way. I'd shore hesitate a lot to be born, onlcss I was as sured I'd un an' some day cash In. IJve foreverT No, son; don't confer on me no scch gloomy outlook. If a angel was to appear In our midst, an' show a commis sion from Omnipotence, an' then saw off on me the news that I was to go on an' on as I be now, livln forever like that Wan derln' Jew vou reads of in the book, the Information would stop my clock right thar. That's straight: I'd drop dead In my moc casins. "It .don't make much difference, when vou gives yoursc'f to a cool, ca'm consld'nt'nti of the question as to when you dies or how you dies. The Important thing Is to die is becomes a gent of spcrit who has nothln' to regret. Every one soon or late comes to hl trail's end. TJfc is iike a faro game. One sport has J10, another 100, another a J1.C00, and still others has rolls that wnn'd pack a mule. But whether a gent is weak or strong, pore or rich. It's written In ad vance that he's doomed to go broke final. He's doomed to die. Tharfore. when tint's settled, of what moment is it whether he goes broke In a hour or pikes along for a week dies to-day or postpones his fnnerat for years, an' mebby decades? None at all. The matter of when you die Is of some concern as a fear mebby, but you can put down a bet It's of no Importance as a 'act: an' 100 years from now If somebody aks you the question you'll reply as I Jo new. "Holdln to these ycre views, you can see without my tcllln' that a klllin', once It be over, ain't ilkely to harass me much. Like all the rest of folks, I've been trailin' out after my grave ever since I was foaled on a hunt for my sepalcher. you may say an' It ought not to pecooliarly shock me plumb to a showdown jest because some pard tracks up ag'lnst his last restln' plac?, spTeads his ultimate blankets an' goes into final camp a trifle before It come my turn. An' with the last word, that's all thar Is to the business of dyln'. t AyTtfvA ffs WV ., vw.,'W.s FOR Wi - . -v - W v ArAv Mr: - tfJbif i . Will 2) fy""r ty SiTEPHERDESS HAT. ' gfZZ'v, J ,4 SF"S CUBAN HAT WITH QUILLS "TTT-Crt 7 i p-Ji "il Tai verr effective -rcxl'I for a miss of 10 or 12 It is of Ugho-n i (S&t-tiJs- M iPt1Afi VV fj 1 Th s is the dressy Sundiv bit It iv -nide of goo.i burr straw withdnprres ' i ' , i ' Jf t. Zr ' i d f Ts I stratr. trimmed eiiDarauIy with 'rtiit and Sowers ana finished with printed lib- X Vv r-xTv I f r sS (lC I ,oft r'bDon """ an n-i'V- th- bn-n Vi'dms the i II in E'acefal and ' "" -i .s?V kW Ui "--"" rV7 V7 N j I TtyiU-tre-.ner.- I i OOs.VI PLfall Y "' kno The fnmc 1 ,iOi i . fall,- ie back or the hat very umqjc Vvj ""X S'-tX Ty . j tKVs-i' OV W 1(V""'' and Etvej a iery pret-y ard an-t . ouch :' as a novel and graceful finish. V . -T JrW '. ' . I1 il -i I'ossrbly the best evidence of our compara tively prosperous position for all classes is the universality of good stjle In Amer ica among children. It is no uncommon thing to Fee little boys and girls of even the poorer districts astonishingly well dressed and alwajs well booted Slipper Innovations That Are, Comforrable and Practical. Our little girls are going to wear many slippers this summer There are many In novations little Cleopatra affairs, which, like the Colonial, with the strop underneath the tongue, will gie a new air to our al ready wonderful children's shoes Then there are Roman sandals, with their straps, and some other fanciful as well as prac tical stjles which will command much at tention. "But, speakln' of killin's, the most on iisual I ever hears of is when Wild B"l HlfKox cleans up the Jake McCandlas gang I don't witness this carnage none mjse'f. but I receives the story from Bill's own llp, an- my notion Is, that on the broad lines, he don't ovcrplaj- the facts for one white chip. This Bill I knows Intlrmtc; he's not so locoed as his name 'Wild n:T might lead a gent to concloode. The truth Is, he's a mighty craftj. careiul form of sport; an' he never pulled a gun onlll 'ie knew what for an' never otihonked it ont'I he knew what at. An' speakln' of the lat terthe onhookln' part that Wild Bill never missed That's his one gift, li-' born to make a center shot whenever his nix shooter expressed ltse'f. "This McCandlas time Is doorln them border troubles between Missouri an' Kan sas Just prior thorunto Bill gets the ill will of the Missouri outfit bv some cun nliv he makes at Independence, then the eastern end of the old Santa Fe trail What IJI'l accomplishes at Independence Is a heap ar tlstlc an' effectual an' docs him credit, l'ut It don't endear him none to the Missouri heart Moreover, it starts a parcel of re sentful zealots to looltin' for BUI a heap f'rocious, an' so he pulls his freight for pastures new. "It's mebby six months later when Bill is hoIJin' down a stage station some'errs over In Kansas-it's about a daj's ride at a road-gait from Independence for Ben Hcl-lii'aj-'s overland line. Thar's the widow of a compadre of Bill who has a wlckej-up about a mile away, an' one day Bill gets on h!s hoss. Black Neil, an' goes squat-Win' over to see how the widow's gettln' on. This Black Nell hoss of Bill's is some cali brated. Black Nell Is tame as a kitten an' savejs morc'n a hired man. She'd climb a pa'r of steps an' come sa'nterln' Into n dance hall or a hurdy gurdj If BUI calls to her, an' I makes no doubt he'd a-took off her own saddle an bridle an' gone to b1 With a pa'r blankets same as folks If Bill had said it was the proper antic for a ponj-. "It's afternoon when Bill rides up to pow wow with this relict of his pard. As he comes Into the one room for said wlckevur. ain't palatial, an' consists of one big room that-a-way an' a Jim-crow lean-to Bill says: " 'Howdy.iJuIer like that. "Howdy, Bill,' says the widow. Set down an' rest your bat while I roam 'round soms an" rustle a lay-out of chuck.' This widow has the right Ideo; folks on the plilns It al lers hungry. "While Bill Is camped down on a stool waitin' for the promised carne an' Cap Jacks or whatever may be the grub his hostess is almln' to onloose he casts a glance outen the window. He's Interested at once. Off across the plains he discerns the killer, McCandlas on' his band p'tntln' straight for the widows. They're from Mis souri; thor's 'leven of 'em: an all 'bad." "As they can see his mare, Black Neil, standln' In front of the widow's, BUI ar gues jestiy that the McCandlas outfit knows he's thar; an' from the speed they're makin' In their approach, he likewise dedoo;es that thejrc a heap eager for his company. "BUI don't have to study none to tell that thar's somebody goln' to get action. It's Ilkely to be mighty onequal, but thar's no he'p; an' so Bill pulls his gun-belt tighter - jg s ZixafV- VOUNG GIRLS. Remember mat our shoes are the best In the world, and we make such beautiful things that all the fashionables of Europe buy their shoes from America when they cm bo fitted on our lasts Especially the. shoes of the little ones are much prettier on this side of the water than they are In either Trance or England. They fit well and are made just like grown people's, with evtn the flat forms and bull-dog toes, and are alwajs made with a perfection of finish not seen elsewhere on the globe. Our little g.rl i daintllv dressed and well con sidered in evtr.v thing she wears from head to foot. She does not wear last j ear's hat with this year's dress. It is all new jnd alwa;s with a view to complete harmony Mademoiselle, the little girl, has all the arious forms of attire that her elders tjs tiallj rosscss They are not just children's clothe1. an' organizes to go as far as he can He has with him onlv one sK-phooter; tint's a seven oversight. Now. if lie was p tckln" two. the approachln' encounter would have carried snie fearhers of comfort. But he's gt a nine-Inch bovvl an' that's a clement of rel ef When his -K-.-hoot r's emptj ho can fall lack on the knife, die hard, an' leave his mark "As Bill rolls the rv Under of h's pistol to see that she's w-orkin free, an' loosens the bowie so's to avoid deiajs. his eve falls on a eight-spar' HawklnK rifle hangin' above the dour. " 'Is It loaded Jule" ask Bill. " 'I.oided to gj-ards sas the widow. " 'An' that ain't no fool of a piece of news neither,' snvs Bill, as he reaches down the rifle. 'Now. Jule. you-all better stampede into the cellar a whole lot ontll furthet orderx Thar's goln' to be some heated times "round jerc an' you'd run the rck of gettln' sCorched without bein' of nnj" use.' " 'I'd oonrr stnv an' se it out. Bill ' saj-s the widow Widows Is brave, that a-w oy " 'An' I'd shore say "staj." Jule.' says Bill. 'If ou could turn a trick. But jou sees yourse'f. you couldn't. An' you'd be In the was- Th cellar is the place, an" I'd shore make for It abrupt ' "Thar's a big burrow out In thp yard; what Kana. people c'eenomlnntcs as a cj clone cellar It's like i cave, everv rc'f-re-spectln' Kansas fim'iv has on". The nnv not ovn no baak account, hut J'ou can gamble they've got a cj clone cave. "Shore, it ain't for ornament, nor jet for otcntitlon Thar's allers a breeze blow in' plenty stiff across the plain. Common ly, it's strenuous enough to pick up a empty flour lmr'l an' hold It ag'inst the side of a bulldln' twenty foot from the ground an' rever dron It for n week. Secli Is the usual zephjr. Folks don't heed them none But thar hippens along now nn' then one of these jcre cv clones, vvh.ch Jumps a gent's camp, an' thpn it's time to make for cover. Thar's notn'.n" n he said back to a cj-clone. It'll tnk? the water outen a well, or the hVr off j-our head; it'll get away with everything about ou. lncioodln jour address. Vour one ch-ince is a cyclone cellar; an' even that refooge ain't no shore-thing, for I knowed a cyclone or.ee that simply feels down an' rulls n badger outen his hole. Still, sech as the last! I admits, is Infrequent. "The widow accepts Bill's odvlce -in' makes for the storm cave. This le-ivcs FM1 happy an' easy In his mind, for it give Mm plenty of room an' nothln' to think of but hlmse'f An' Bill dotes on a good fight "He don't have long to wait after th widow stampedes. Bill hears the sweep of the "leven McCandlas bosses os they comes chargln' up. No, he can't see; he ain't quite that weak minded as to be lookln' out of the window. As the band halts. Bill hears (McCandlas say: " 'Shore, gents; that's Wild Bill's hoss. We've got him treed, an' to-morrj" evenin' we'll put that long-ha'rcd skelp of h's on exhibition in Independence." Then McCand las gives a whoop, an' bluffs Bill to come out. "Come out yere Bill: we needs yon is decide a bet," yells McCandlas. 'Come out: thar's no good skuiklnV afea&--? &v3j&&jsJ&&Iz&ve - Tour fashlonamo mtie rutss has her after noon clothes, her evening clothes, auto moUHng clothes and yachting clothes, which must all be considered from their different standpoints. She generally has hjts, dresses anil stjlish sl.oes, as well as gloves to suit each and every different oc casion In winter she has her furs; but we are now talking of summer, and so the sum mer apparel is the Important question at present Now for the voung man the joung lord of creation for he usually is the head of the family v.er shortly after he makes n.s appearance In its midst. Sometimes ne weirs his importance vcrv. uncomfortabl to others, but. as a rule, there Is no more manl). well-brought-up joungster In the world thai the American bov Bright, en ergetic, quirk-minded, sterlirg in all other qualitUs, they astound all Old World deni " 'Saj-. Jake,- returts Bill; 'I'l! gimh'e four to oi.e jou an' jour murderers ain't grt the sartd to come after me. Come it nee If vu fonts, i despises delavs an bs'des Iv pot to be through with jou all an- !a. It to th- stage tat'on bv da-k " "'I'll pjt jo i vvh'te thar ain't n stae lite Bill long btfo-e dark." savs M; Ctnd'as An' w.th that he cnmt caperin tluojch the wlndi-vv-sash, gla-v. an' tl.c entire laj--out as blithe rs May daj an a gun 'n fath haiil "B'll cut" Inns the Hawkins at iUC tn I las is he'j anx'oui to get the big gun -iff b r hand" it si p.- MeCandlas. quar" in t e d or.' as thej sajs in monte; only .is I observes, it's the window. McCandlas 'alls dead outside - " 'Ai' I'm sorrj for that, too,' sajs Bill to Mms f 'I'm r rcennture some a1 o"t that shot. I eughtir let Jake com- In Tln-i I cot Id have cot his guns.' "When McCandla" sees" down the ten otbe's. eharses with a whocp Thev" com.-s siarln' thro gh everj wlnlov- thv l,r i'es In the t'ocr. th"-. e escends on Bill's f r ro"s like a 'pcurn on a pitrijge nf A:' thn cn-ios the busiest season vvVch inv gent of 'em ivcr butts n on. The air I' heavj with bullets an' thick with moke I cees the walls cf the room later, an' thej looks like a colander "It's a mighty fight, an Bill don't suffer ron In his repoote that Kansas nfternoon Fa-ter than jou ran cutint. h's gun barks; an enrh tlnrt th t-s a warrior le's One. two time, f ur. five. k'.. they plrt's o-t ..fter McCa-:t"lj, in' not h t'f R'- id tween 'tm as they starts. It was good lick an' fiool hcotin' In eomblnitlon. "it's the limit: six dend to on- Colt's! No gent ever approaches but once; nn" that's a locoed sharp named Metzcer in Baton He starts in with Bill Mculton. who's al calde, an' Ix-cfs live an' creases another; an' all to the same one gun The public, before he ran rsload. hangs Metzer to the ri'jn in fro-it o' the First Notional Bank, so he don't o-ijoy hlmse'f neither much nor long, revlewln" -aid feats. As I remarks, however. Mctzger's is the sole occasion vhn nnv gent ccmc the least bit near to Wild Bill's work on the diy when he Itcks horns with MrCandlas. Bifle an' sCv.-sii.vuer empty, seven dead an' done, an" four to talk It over with' That's the situation, by corral count, when Bill pulls his bowie an' starts In to finish up "It shore ain't no boj-'s plaj; th qua'tt who's still prancln' about the field is as bit ter a combination as you'd hear of In a long daj's ride. Their guns Is empty, too; an the)" like Bill, are down to the steel. An' thar's reason to believe that the fight from this p'int on Is even more interestin' tharuthe part that's gone before. Thar's no haltin' or har.gln back; thar ain't a bash ful gent In the herd. They goes to the cen ter like one man. "Bill, who's as quick an' strong as a mountain Hon, with forty times the heart an' fire, grips one McCandlas party by tha wrist- Thar's a twist an' a wrench an' Bill breaks his arm. "That's the last of the battle BUI r-mem-bers. AU is whirl an' smoke an" curse an" stagger an cut an' stab after that, with tables crashin an' a wreck an' Jingle of glass. "But the end comes. Whether the strus- - 'Kah& - i&u zens when nrst they meet them. Somi peo ple who do not understand the spirit of the' American joungster think he is too for ward, and the so-called conservative na tions regard him as offensive. His Views as to What Ho Wants. This Is all a mistake. He Is Independent and usually quite right in his discernment and Judgment, but In the question of clothes he is particularlj right. He won't wear the wrong thing at the wrong time, lie will not allow himself to be made a guy of by anjbodj. and he usually is clean and spick and span, and particular of h.s apparel, which is made to be taken care of He has many clothes and they are of thn rUht kind The cloth is not alwajs the best, but the cut finish and stjle is alwaj-s theie. and the prices are like all readj-- gle from the moment when It's got down to the bov.ies, lasts two minutes or twentj. Bill never can s-ij When It's over. Bill finds hlmse f still on his feet, an' he's pushin' the last McCandlas gent off his blade. The McCandlas pirtj. split through the heart, falls to the Poor In a dend bunch, 'an Bill's alone, blood to both shoulders. "Is BUI hurt? Son. It ain't much likely be's put leven tried flchtin' men into the misty liejond, the final four with a knife, an' him plumb scatheless! No: Bill's -la-died so he wouldn't hold shavin's; an' thar's more bullets in his frame than thar's falls to the floor In a dead bunch, an' who nrosneets Bill next day. allers al lowed that he recovers a full pound of lead from B '1 "When the battle Is over ah peace re--soofes Its swaj. Bills begins to stagger. An" he's prejed on by a ragln' thirst. Bill steadies hlmse'f along the wall; an' weak nn hnlf blind from the mists of fightln', he feels his way out o doors. Thar's a tub cf rain watclt onder the eaves; it's the only thin? Bill's Ihlnkln' of at the last. He bends dovn to drink, an" with that, falnt3 an falls with his head in the tub. "It's the widow who rci-ccos BUI; she emerges outen her cj clone cellar an" saves BUI from a death b- drowning. An" ho lives, too; lives to be downed jears after wards when up at Deadwoid a timid party who don't dare come 'round in front, drills Bills from behind. But what can jou look for? Folks who lives by the sword will pciish bj the sword, as the Scripters sets forth, an' I reckons them warnln'n likewise covers guns But It's shore a dandj- fight, that fight of Bill an' the McCandlas band; 'leven an' all warriors; an' Bill able at the close to crow an' count up his game." ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. CcrjriKht. 130i by R. H. Ruj-ell. Five Intellectual Feet. According to President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University, there is no good reason why tho normal human being should not have an intellectual training that would not onlj- meet the requirements of our ad vanced civilization, but be up to the highest standard as fixed by the learned president himself, for recently he said: "A library that will go on a shelf five feet long Is enough to give an intellectual training to any human being that ever came Into the w orld." Just think of it! You can hold the five feet of volumes between your extended palms, and all jou have Jo do Is to trans mute their contents Into memory cells that can, at the will, be nut into action for tbo production of understanding. Only five feet! I have taken the trouble to put the rule on this and apply a little mathematics As books In the library av erage, five feet means thirty-seven volumes; which is not an array to frighten a reader. Again, an average shows that these thirty-seven books contain 30,000 pages, made up of 15.000,000 words. Not so very much material from which to lmblbo Intellectual training. - r ---i.'il: t A DrMflac nf oft PtM-inn .Sillr Stroamrs and FioWerS fcs Draperies of Scft Ribbon, Silk sare Trimmings Used on made American wear remarkably low for the quality and effect obtained. Our joung man of any particular age has his school clothes, his rousaln,? outfit, his drcssj- apparel, and, not to be forgotten, are his evening clothes, with white vest and Tuxedo coat, his full-dress' suit in case of necessitj-, his mannish shirts, with bosoms, little separate collars, special four-in-hand ties, even down to the S or 9 year size. Then ho has golf clothes, just bke any of the big bojs. Athletic apparel and the like, made in exact semblance of the best Ideas produced for his grown relatives. The spirit of Americanism i3 that the boy is a little man. consequently lis looks his best In little men's apparel, tut the pretti est and mo becoming Is his little military suit, whether of the soldier or sailor tj-pe. The sailor stjles, with their broad sailor V-J J j.are Trimmings Used on the Latest Models. Lf j SACRIFICES INSPIRED BY GRIEF. Vv RITTT-N TOR Tfin SUNDAT RErPUBUa When Richard Wagner died his wife wis so overcome with grief that she cut off her beautiful hair and deposited It in the coEn of her husband. Her biographer Is under the impression that this was the only ex ample in literary historj of such a sign of grief and sacrifice; but he Is mlstaken. Whcn the Due de Morny was old and not far from death, he still retained enough of his extraordinary fascination over women as to win the hand of a very beautiful and joung Russian lady. She after hl3 death became the Duchesse de Sesto, and was for many vears one of the most distinguished and beautiful of the ladies of Paris. She- - - LIO a - x&lsX3tiKtk- " jisv vflssH - ---3sft Ei-pJjrj&gBtfDg 2sss9ssBsF VK' I " T,sv VATR5&3W'''I.-i. 4tsiB MRS. ROBERT BURDEttTE, Wife of the noted "Bob" Burdette, and one of tho most promlaeat ehab -sromea-llt taXaC9 Angeles convtstlofi. Streamers and Flowers the Latest Moaels collars, blouses and bloomers, are especially comfortable, and give plenty of room to get around and play ball and give ease to every muscle, even at the waistline. Many of the boys who used to prefer th long trousers because they made them look grown up have tiven over that tasto for the bloomer and zouave styles which wa get from France, because they offer mor freedom of movement than tha tight trous er. All the bojs like plenty of room, so that they can play around, and any clothing that interferes with that part of their existence is at once voted a nuisai.ee. Of course, there are natty duck stilts, with, long trousers. In the sailor style, blous walsts, made In all colors, especially white, with the regulation naval trimming" thai make the young man look at his best alter he has been property tubbed and scrubbed, CopjTisht. 190, br the Economist Omen. had also cut off her hair and laid It In th coflin of her husband after his death. Dante Gabriel Rosetti. when the beautiful woman died who had been his lodestar and guide, was so overwhelmed with grief that he placed hi her coffin the manuscript o the volume of poems which she- had to spired. Rosetti was never the same maa again, and the days after her death wer but stations In the road to prematura death. It was, perhaps, tho solicitation of frlenda which Induced him ever to think of th wonderful poems again; he was Induced t get an order for exhumation from tho Horn. Secretary; the manuscript was recovered; and to-day English literature Is enriched by many verses wmen u. " " " s let die. ; Jyi i y v t .-ESr.V-1