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LOVING COUNSEL. Waste n ■ time in sad repining For a i i. >t now dead and gone. Long not In your blind impatience For sonic hour that Is to come; Ratio .- use the present, better, Dol. z i' II *he good you may. Then will <• ne no vain repentance For i wasted yesterday. “Count your blessings" and be happ? Every heart must bear its cross, Every iife has its own sorrow, Thos w'>o lovt must suffer loss; Waste no day in idle grieving O’er fe" of pain, For ot l< , lug Father careth And o prayer is made in vain. Walk l y faith; work in the present What your hands may find to do, Stn ng h for every day is given As Ut 's journey wo pursu'd Waste no t ars o’er future trials. Simp trusting, do your best, Courag ■ ci :ne for each occasion— Do your part. God does the rest. —Margaret Scott Hall, in Atlanta consti tution. I The Epoch of the Legs. I T By ROBERT J. Bl RDETTE. 4 If •" . - • • • • . • . ■■ Sisters, the pallor in the east tells tts that the herald—daily edition—of the dawn is speeding tin the slopes of the orient; a little while find the rosy fingered hours will paint the dav red. Emancipation is on its way l y Adam and Eve’s express. Vea, it is even now here, with l oth feet. How do I km tv this’.’ How does the cautions prophet become dead certain of anything'? By keeping his eyes open, taking both papers, and wait ing patiently until the event has prophesied itself. That’s how. A day nr two since I was trying to bring order out of the eternal chaos which over rules in the jungle which I call my den, debating within my self whether to go on with the regu lar order or go out and set fire to the house, the shorter and sometimes more profitable, and certainly under any circumstance, least expensive method of cleaning house. A hasty but hurried investigation revealed the depressing fact that my fire in surance had lapsed some twain years erst. 1 sighed and went on with th task of restoring a semblance of or-i der inside. The . o.ncn folk sighed twice to my once, s < I was also out sighed. Signed copies of this 'till hi sent on application. A ten cent stamp must accompany each request, not necessarily for publication, but to make a littio noise with When* there is absolutely no sense, there should be some sound. Well, emptying a box containing much antique literature, a large as sortment of fleet-footed spiders with sinister countenance, and the chit dwellings of a colony of irascible mud wasps, there tumbled out nn old bound volume of (iodev’s Lady s Book. Dear old Godev There was the old familiar colored fashion plate folded at th" beginning of each num ber. ,A lady with a head the size of a hazel nut, and a cloud compelling botrnet as large as a clothing ham per. with a whole conservatory of fabulous and highly colored flowers, nil in full bloom, swarming over and under and around it. Ihe lady had a mouth not quite so wide* as her nose. A long and gracefully curved neck trailed its sinuous length from her head until it gradually tapered into a pair of shoulders which sloped downward until they lost themselves in what was left of the body aft *i the nook and shoulders had been formed. From a waist not so large hi circum ference as the thinnest part of tin* neck, swelled a vast, wide-cirejing skirt. Legs, or semblance or sug gestion of legs the lady hand none. Barely visible at the front of the skirt a wee, tiny point like the ver tex of a triangle peeped timidly on. into sight and faintly suggested that the rest of a foot was concealed somewhere behind it. There is never any suggestion of more than one foot. I looked at the picture, and naturally thought of Sir John Suck ling’s "ballad Fpou a Wedding"— "Her feet beneath her petticoat. Like little mice stole in anr l out. As if they feared the light." Although I want you distinctly ,o understand that nothing so coarse or vulgar as a petticoat went with that sort of n fashion plate. No. sir-ee ma’am. We didn’t wear such things in those modest days. Not a mother’s son of ns. Well, lifting mine eyes from tha fashion plate of long ago, and look ing out of my window upon “Anno Domini liiOl” automobiling, and gal loping, and striding, and driving, am! tally-hoing past, the prophetic visioi came upon me. I heard the deep, rotund chest tone of woman-—none of your weak, piping, masculine falsetto —calling out of to-day into the depths of to-morrow, that woman is free— free—fer-rcel Emancipated all the way. Ay, from the ground up. Tha* is where she has begun. At the ground. With her understanding. It is the epoch of legs The ballet girl may put on her longest dress with the most sweeping train. She is no good. She is in evidence —and very expensively—nn hour or two everv evening in the season, maybe. But the beginning of the century woman cavorts all day long, am! it doesn’t cost a cent to sec her take her pedals out for an airing. "Her feet beneath her petticoat, Like little mice stole S:i and out”— Oh, they did, did they? Well, back in tlic bleak, desolate days, when she was the sul-lave of the tyrant man, maybe they did. But they don’t steal out now. Steal in and out, hey? They come charging out like a p*ir of reciprocal cuirassiers, clad in good stout leather, with soles as thick aa a Philadelphia pie, and they leave a track in the dust like a suowshoe. “As if they feared the light.” Fear nothing! Light? Bless your simple •oul, son, when she puts on her ilatr bc'.torced shoes and bestr'T s het spinning wheel after dark ■ -e lights a lantern and hangs it on the wheel that she may sec and he seen. Fear the light, quotha! Ay, marry come up. Torn the calcium on me please. Why. this era of th* legs will lon 6 he remembered in history. Du s my lady care to waltz? Not particularly She has learned that man is not a necessity in a ballroom. She can do the skirt dance or wriggle through ihe bewildering mazes of flu- serpen tine much better without a partner. The little girls on the street who dance to tin* lascivious pluming of the tinkling street piano kick their way to and fro, from wall to curb, in many a far.tasiu and far reaching caper. The dancing master can giv* the patient but sudden imiie points in the zebra-legged one’s own special ty. And if the dancing master of to day could drop into a minuet of your grandmother's time he would produce much the same effect which a misan thropic hornet does when he volun tarily takes part in the closing exer cises of a camp mcctimr Docs my lady sit down for a little light conversation? She languidly sinks, with most sinuous D>*lsurtcan rrace, upon a sofa carrying a d**ek load of cushions, and displays straightway u expanse of slippered foot, clocked ankle and ad in* nt anat omy that makes a bashful man so nervous lu* instinctively hides his own feet under his chair and forgets what he was going to say. She rides to the hounds -or is it “nwHer the hums?”—with a display of legs that makes tlie long-limbed dog take sec ond place, although he had two to her one to begin with, and you would naturally suppose she started out heavily handicapped. And a* though leg was the soul of the animate uni verse, last summer the equestrian woman had a fad of having her sad dler's legs clipped; just his legs; which, contrasting sharply in color with his silky body, gave the poor brute the aspect of having his trousers rolled up, like a wading boy Legs? They are what the cause of emancipated woman stands upon. W hen the short walking dress censed to be a novelty, she put on the di vided skirt and rode straddle. You can sec her. here and there, in the land, ambling along the avenue like a heavily draped clothspin, while that noble animal, the horse, which she bestrides, plainly intimates to the spectators that it isn't his fault, and that ho greatly regrets having left his blinders at home on the coach harness. The divided skirt was fairly knocked out by the golf costume, which was easily shortened for basket ball, until at last she laid hards upon the knlckt rboekers. which had been the monopoly of masculine youth, put them on and straddled her hike like a little man. And out in Chicago she put side pockets in them, were them to school, and taught the young idea how to shoot and walk, until the school board, so sensitive and con servative arc tlu* men of tin* wild anil woolly west, sternly bade her put on her ulster or take off her knicker bockers. She put on the ulster. But what's the use of talking? Brother man, we may as well submit gracefully. \Vc have lost the distin guishing garment of our sex. But it is our own fault For centuries, our fathers before ns, and we after them, have made bitter and sarcastic sport woman’s gear, no matter bow often or how she radically changed it. She has never yet been able to please capricious man. Man, who wears a sheet-iron collar, cast-steel cuffs, nn inflexible breastplate on his shirt, and a stovepipe hat as graceful end com fortable its a section of a pump log. and,then makes fun of woman’s most ill-considered and uncomfortable dress. We proved again ; -id again, by her very dress, her m t-,!al and physical inferiority to man. and her utter in capacity for doing man’s work in the world. Again and again, not for one or two years, but for generations, we urged her to adopt the very dress sh< is now beginning to wear. And now (hat she puts it on we kick harder than ever. Brethren, it does no good. For now, behold you, she can kick back. That is the gall of it. We have foolishly let the genius out of her bottle, and she isn’t all smoke, after all. She is “onto us." It is not de nied that she smokes cigarettes. Not under the rose, but whenever and wherever sh-* sees fit. It is whispered, in large, clear print, that -she tipples more than her grandmother did. It : s in evidence that when the governor >f New York fainted on decoration 'ey. in alt the crowd of both sexes >n the reviewing stands, the govern -.’s of neither of the Carolina* being present, the only pocket pistol to be • ound was in the pocket of a younv lady, ami it was loaded to the muzzle with good old brandy of the “drinker down" And it wasn’t in one of the hidden pockets which last year’s woman carried concealed on her person, either. Because it was found inside of half an hour. It came out as promptly ns the flask of a candidate. Yea, more promptly, for there were candidates on that stand for every office in the United States, from president down, and not a flask among ’em, save in the pockt f of tins woman. Here, sister; take the trousers. By years, yes, generations of brave endurance and patient per sistence you have won 'em nobly; wear ’em with honor. Put ’em on! Oh good Saint Centipede, not that way! You can't put ’em on over your head I Such is the strength of habit. You see, you have some “manny" ways yet to learn before you acquire them. Farewell, oh fellow man. a long fare well to all our bifurcated and distin guished greatness! Who steals my purse—and many a time while we have slept Hath she done this-steal* trash 'TI something, tho' oftener Nothing. Especially after she .-#■ through iL Twa? ours, when It had anything in it: ns nern. Now that bis empty as a last year's bird’s nest. But she that filches from us our good pantaloons— Not to trade off for plaster parls gods to some wandering Dagoes, But to bedeck h r lithe, emancipated walking things— Robs us of that which not enriches her. So far ns grace of figure and celestial bearing is concerned, But makes us poor indeed, tho while the biting wind Bighs bleakly round our bare and shrunken shanks. BISHOP CREIGHTON. Stories Illustrative of the Quiet Wit for Which the KnplUli Churchman Was Noted. Pome years ago, when the late bishop of London was bishop of T’e tershorough, he got into conversation on a train with a passenger who mis took him for a curate, end who soon became surprised at tbs* omniscience of his companion, who -bilked of noth ing ant he did not adorn. By and by the passenger discovered that the curate was going to travel on a route on which he wished *r, send hi. own luggage, he himscl.* journeying on another to meet it later. He asked the curate if he would mind looking after it, and then, on ids consenting, he thought it wisest to know whom it was that he was about to i*i *rus( bis portmanteau, says the \e*v York Tribune. So he said: “By ti e by, it never occurred to me to ask you, sir, but where are you a curate"" “Well, as a matter of fact. I am nr t a curate.” “Oh,” said the man. “you are a vicar or a rector?” “No," he said, “tlu* fact is ! am not. I have not a benefice.” Ijv this time the in. j quirer was becoming somewhat nerv ous about bis portmanteau, and so j with some degrc ot point he said: “Well. sir. but what are you?” Upon which he answered; “Well, the f. **t is 1 am a bishop.” "And wlmt bishop?" “The bishop of Peterbor ough.” During a confirmation tour in the diocese of Peterborough he put up one evening at the old manor homse, and slept in n room supposed to be haunted. Next morning at breakfast the bishop was asked whether he had seen the ghosts. “Yes.” he, replied, with great solemnity, “but 1 k c laid the spirit: it will never trouble you again-.” Being further que- ’ioued upon tho subject, the bbhop sir’d; "The ghost instantly vanish,* 1 whi u f ask'd for a subscript ion toward 'he restoration of Peterborough cathe dral." “NEARER, IvTV GOD, TO THEE.” Hymn Written Pv nn EnglUli Girl Who Did Not Live* to Know the (■ lorv of It. Asa writer, ns a poet, there were few in the literary world of London tin the 40st vvho had not heard of Sarah Flower Vdams, the gifted woman to whom all Christendom to day pays homage in its love I'm her immortal hymn "Nearer. My God. to Thee," writes Clifford Howard in In dies’ Home Journal. It was written in IMi). and had subsequently been set to music by Fliza Flower, and in eluded in a collection of hymns writ t.*.n and composed by the two sisters Only within that year had their bock of “Hymns and Anthems" been p "b* lished, and the hymn that was des tined to inspire the world had been beard but once or twice, and within the walls of a sini.le church 'vn’ti Palace chapel, Loudon. It was not, however, until after 'he year 1860, when the present will known tune was composed 1 r it by Dr. Lowell Mason, of New A’ rk, that the hymn attained its w ; I.'spread popularity. Up to that time it had attracted but little notice. Through the spirit of Dr. Mason’s sympathetic music it was quickened into c!"''' l ’"" life and brought within the reach of every congregation and every Chris tian soul. But this was Ion;- after tl * author of the hymn had passed avvav. She died in IS-)**, without kio wi: of the triumph and the glory that await ed her work. Dix-f* Guile Enough. The young man had borrowed five pounds from the rich old man, pn .a ising to bring it back one wee’-, tmra date. The millionaire let hi, I aa it. and at the time the 1 •;■: ever brought it back. "Now. Mr. Billion,” said the yo-ug man, “I’ve been square with you :i tills matter, and I want to borrow fifty pounds for a fortnight The old p an shook his head. “Sorry,” said he, “ 1 >i: ■* 1 can't let you have it." “Why net?” and the young man wa* greatly astonished. “Became you have disappointed me, and I don't want to be disappointed again." The borrower was more surprised than ever. “What do you mean by being dis appointed?’’ he asked. “This,” explained the money man. “T let you have that five pounds, never expecting to ever get it back again, and I did. Now, if I let you have fifty pounds I should expect to get it again, and I never would. “No. sir,” he added conclusively, "one disap pointment is enough. Good-day,” and that ended it.—Hartford Democrat. Oood Share of the Whisky, In one of the earliest eases Daniel O’Connell, the famous Irish liberator, made a retort which attracted con siderable attention to him. He was cross-examining an awkward witness, who declared that he had drunk n* * h mg but his share of a pint of whisky, “On your oath, now," thundered the young counsel, “was not your share all but the pewter?"—Chicago Chron icle. SIGNALS THAT FAILED. Emlm rrns in it Situation of a Sian Who Had the fonimttfee Habit. . “I hnve long since quit serving on committees,” said a man from Arkan sas, who is now living in New Orleans, according to the Times-Democrat, “and under uo circumstances would T accept a place on any kind of a com mittee. I had the committee habit once, and I bad a thoroughly devel oped case of it. too. I was living in Little Uoik at the time, and no com mittee was complete with it my name. There was on one occasion a big function at the capital, and I was placed on an important commit tee. The Imll was jammed with spec tators and guest s. We had ever\ avail able hand in that section of the coun try, including ihe bands wh.h had been organized in private and public institutions. One of my duties was to look after the bands, so the music could he kept going. Another member of the committee had scattered the hands around the hall, and he had placed one hand up in the yallery portion of the hall. ‘I wish yon would signal the hand in the gallery to strike up.’ he said to me. and I made my way down the aisie until [ got to a point where the hand was placed in the gallery. 1 made he sig nal. The members of the hand paid no attention to me whatever. I got excited and a hit angry, and my sig naling I more *iolet 1 went through a series of absurd arm movements and my face was hunting up with embarrassment. I felt a man pulling nt my coat tail, and when I turned around he said: Tvcn me, hut are yon waving at that hand in the gallery?’ ‘They are the biggest lot of blockheads I ever saw,” I aid in reply. ‘Kxettse me.’ he slid, softly, •that is the hand from the blind asy lum.' I have not served on a commit tee since that time, and I believe T am completely cured of the commit tee habit.” GOODNESS OF THE BAD MAN. \ Type of tin l West Whose Virtue* Were o Keen Kye, Quick llnnil mill (i Stout llenrt. The had man is not net arily had at all. lie is often a very good .Allow, Had is merely a synonym for daturer tis. The “had” man was formerly the “good” He is simply tin fron tiersman whose evolution lias kept pace with that of the firearm prod uct of ‘he border and the -'x-sliooter, say- I' erylt. ,y’s Mcga/im l\ e:t of •ye, quick of hand, a* I stpu r of w 11. lie has that supremacy wh'eh always comes to tlte man of cool a- dwlear hended personal valor everywhere, e.xeept in society's latest and most re fined development. The term was u-ed rather to erpte-s the feellntr tlta* he vas. in the vt macular of the in taler, “a had man to monkey with.” T.. Gov ern and control e urniinith in which vicious men were t t infrequent, \v here nd w ere re-t --a nd the ma t <v ity turbulent, the ordinary forms and servants of justice were inadequate. Law and order required ihe to-i - ..nee of officers who. though enlisted to keep the peace, did not hesitate to ip a law unto themselves. If civiliza tion was afraid to indorse their ac tions. it wa- at leas’ proud of tin re mits of the labors of the peace officer >f the border. II k..k, Tom Smith, Patrick Sliugriie. Michael Shugrne, William Tilghmann. Hector Tliomas, tnd a score of other men ns marshals, -heriffs and deputies enforced tlte !aw, tnnde life .safe and property secure, tnd brought order of chans In their ready courasre and good sense. \s Wild Hill H ekok v,a- the original, so was he the first of the elitss. HOW TO ENTER POLITICS. V Small lluiluet of suae Vilvlee from it liaiiMitft ITditor to \s|tiriii|; 'IIIIfMIHII, If you want to l <■ a politician, the first i lilac to do is to cet bito the push, or at least create flu impression that you are in. advises the Topeka Mail and Hree/e. Winn there is a conven tion, if you can’t work in us a delegate, you can at least get into the crowd iu the hotel lobby, ami if you carry yourself in shape you can make the stranger who is within tin gates ot the city believe you are not only a d< 1- egate, but one of the steering com mittee. Keep hll.-y. lak. at least eight or ten tm n olf to . ite > in theconrsi of the evening for private conversa tion There is quite a good deal in making people believe yon an putting a good many lemons, whether you are or not. It is a good idea to he seen {iff in a corner talking with ome prominent candidate You ran arrange this if you have the propi t amount of gall. You may not have any t liingto tell him. hut then you will be sn a in consulta tion, and you will make some parti, who don't know yon very well think that there must he a hen on. But, above all else, gultivale your gall. It you ean get some n porter to inter view you on t lie pidit len 1 sit nat ion, t hn t will be a good scheme. The newspapers can make a reputation for almost any -ort of a man. Iliissinn <ilrt SI mien*- Mn-I XIII rr> . Iu Utissia if a girl desire* to study at either of the universities etiquette re quires that she should he married, says a London newspaper. According ly she goes thrumT the civil form of marriage with one of tlie men stu dents, whom -he nitty have never seen before, and perhaps may never speak to again. These marriages an* per fectly legal, and if tlo contracting parties like each other they tire united for life, but otherwise their marriage •s dissolved when their university course is finished, and both are free to marry ngain. THE PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK.' R. G. OLP, Prop. Hanitowoc, V V V V \\isconsmJ Prices Zshai are Pa'Vorahle/or H-Vying. From every department comes the announcement of excellent buvinj opportunities for summer. The stocks, once larjfe and complete, have dwindled down to some extent, hut then, they were massive and the remainder still offers you fair choice. If you are particular about the quality of £oods and £i\e your attention to price then, and then only will you he benefited by our quotation. Dry Goods. Hosiery. Kach summer has its exclusive patterns in dress goods. ane the latest novelties of this season are here. not in vast quan- Summirl titles, but in a lair assortment, such as you expect to find —-— I where prices are so low that the stock is turned frequently and rapidly. CVrsJ-fcCvTt a I'j JI \ IN- lawns jv !•<- fancy lawns / , Alexandra silks JO. - 1 • ' \ Itv lawns ji lacdimities m , In- -atin striped in, IVVX t... VL at lUI dimities at t WC Regular 15c hosiery n, All C‘sc hosiery IO All ;5, hosiery at VC at ICSC iOC Wrappers. Wrappers. -A recent purchase of wrappers from the factory at p u s wr\ favorable to us have brought to this store a newline of very line garments which we offer at these prices. -f-1 .4*5 wrappers £1 oo wrappers / n at VOC at OVC i~viMR fCfJWWor;* amm .wi *wn\nMK' wa.M'MiinniiH'iniimi —n >-pm>iiw< -nn~r a v tnvr. ■ Refrigerators. Ice Cream Freezers. I* sJßeroromiVEieieeeeewrv <iuiißMannninnßMMßMmHaiKt'aii aw ———,i I Refrigerators Some refrigerators are merely plain boxes only built to sell cheap. Oth ers, and of these we arc speaking, are built with walls of several thicknesses, are well lined and filled and not only consume less ice than the former kind, hut also keep the provision chambers at a lower temperature. '''l2 50 s;i ( ) 85 Si 1 69 The cost of ice cream is but little if you have a freezer in vour hoin You can use g<>od cream and the best flavoring extracts and make tiii- frozen daintx at about 1 5 V - perouart. ( M course you e;.n inc reuse t Ids cost and be t ter thi'd isse rt b the ad dllie n of limr erea m. Wo carry both Lightningand White Mountain freezers from 2 quarto ,o lu uarts. ‘2 quart Arctic freezer 6Sc ::, l'nnt White Monmaiti tre. /. r.-, S| ( 9 EKJMBtwfityMKWpfcfi. mui-St ■<—i 1 -m. twHw-vv Croquet Sets, j t Shoe Dressing, j n'nvnnMMmnw tx- if; - w I S Shoe Dressing— Liaek and Tan. It will not make an old shoe now. but it will keep a • new shoe new, preservi the leather and keep An outdoor amusement for the little folks it „ oft amJ .qiaPK-. h/, ~ perfect gloss to as well as the older ones. La rye well madi and faneily finished croquets suitable lor anv shoes id all kinds and all lawns. s *ST''.39c T ™r!.sBc ' Sac 10c ■■■■■■■—— mmwm\mmammtmmm , mwr—r muuaommmm Baby Carriages. Go Carts. ir.ww -duro Kmncmamn ana.awmn!Mnv.i — mtmm ——— i.ii.r Prices to close the line. 'To you who are particular about the construction, the model and material entering into the manufacture of a carriage this price announc -merit will flffla^hEk appeal to you because the carriages priced possess that {gracefulness and superior construction resulting only from \ SIS OR Si I 50 r a ' 512.50 $6.85 4 $2.25 Grani le Wa re. Tin \va re. To the users of fine granite ware a mention of prices is always interesting and of pe cuniary profit. Especially w hen these prices apply to a line of first class v are at a time w hen the annual preserving calls for dishes of all sorts. Fruit jar filler Filling ladle* ja Medium size preserving ket if . Large size preserving kettle -o , F.xtra, lar;. • pr< erving kettU g- , tie with cover .. low with cover. DoC with e ver oOC Groceries. Choice eatables, such rich. pure groceries as. you are ac customed to have on your table. Arhuckles and Lion Coffee jj P c ‘ lb NC Fine Sardine* jr . I*t can tic Lari v dune jh-uh in , - can HiL Job Work Neatly Done at This Office. Full Brook I’lnuiH o jM-r can OC 10c Ixjttle Blnjntf / , at ()C 10c package BonhaiuH cocoa- * not at OC Fancy quality < urn m „ {wr can IUC Root Beer in per twittlo IUC 1 He quality It>>asie<l Cuf:Vi (Z - per lb lOC Crockery. If it'-' I'rooktTv you want get the best. The best has the right a; pea ranee, right shape ami is made of best ma terial. Tableware that gives lasting satisfaction in wear. 100 i>it*e> Freneh t'liiim dinner set. ii'XuUr 1 vc.;ne eii , a Oil. 04