Bowers Walcan
Bellefonte, Pa., Oct. 18, 1895.
BOIL IT DOWN.
When you’ve got a thing to say,
Say it! Den't take half a day.
When your yarn’s got littie in it
Crowd the whole thing in a minute.
Life is short—a fleeting vapor—
Don’t you ‘fill an eight-page paper
With a tale which, at a pinch, -
Could be cornered in an inch.
Boil her down until she simmers ;
Polish her until she glimmers.
When yoit’ve got a thing to say,
Say it 1 Pon’t take half a day.
—Hot Springs Thomas Cat.
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‘CAMP CHARITY.
“I frequent finds myse’f takin a no-
tion ag’in a word,” said the old cattle-
man as he lighted a cigar, “same as T
do agin some people. There's the
word ‘charity’ as shorely wearies me a’
heap. Not but what I believe in giv-
in, and ae fast as I rune up with a hu-,
man bein in a bole I most likely lays’
off a day an pulls him out. But I
don’t like this here word ‘charity’
none whatever. It seems like it puts
you on & hoss and leaves. the other
man afoot. It sets you way up an the
man who takes it way down yander.
“What you alls calls ‘charity’ in|
the east is nuthin but plain everyday |
business on the range, and you sees it |
round your camp as common as Cac-
tug, an 80 you ain't applaudin or
aboosin or speculatin on it none what-
ever.
“You see, son, it occurs numerous
in the west that many a good man
rolls outer his blanket in the morning
to find his luck done stampeded in the
night. This yere existence of ours is
just the same as a cow pony. We
throws on our saddles an draws the
front cinch ‘tight and the rare one
loose, aceordin to our notion: we
swings on, sticks in our spurs an away
we all goes- But this yere week or
next, some time or other, we finds
we've cinched the hull on to some
high, half broke bronco of a situation,
an it stays with it all we knows, an
spite of curb, quirt, buckin straps and
spurs we discovers ourselves bucked
plumb out an oft, afoot an alone in the
wilderness of some disaster.
“Such a catasterfy shouldn’t be
counted ag’in no one. The best rider
as ever see spurs will frequent find his
pony saying ‘adios’ most ridic’'lus an
onexpected. I've struck grass head
fust an mighty involuntary a whole
lot myse’f an looks tofind it in my
face plenty often yet before I ceases to
whirl my rope.
“This yere teaches me a lot, an
you'll be plenty jestified in takin odds
that as frequent as a squar man gits
shot too hard to hold his gun an me
gee it, I backs his play with mine.
He don’t slip from his saddle none
while I can hold him thar; go gamble
on it. I never seed no more churches
than calabooses, no more preachers
than police, but I saveys when to he’p
a pard withouten no teachin.
“Speakin of preachers an police, .do
you know I allers allows ‘they must
-somehow belong to the same outfit;
‘cause wharever you crosses the trail
of one you'll shorely find the hoof
prints of the other. “They seems to
come west together, they do. ‘Well, I
s'pose they're workin the same round
up, an it's all right an proper too.
The preachers are ridin the ridges an
mesas an the p'lice the valleys an
dark sinful canyons of human life.
But they're both a-brandin with the
same runin iron for decency an law.
“I've gone on yere a heap about
doin of benevolences, an I recalls a lit-
tle missionary play it comes.our way
to. make down in Wolfville, A: T.,
some years back on the trail. The
victim in this yere charitable cloud-
burst was & woman.
“Thar ain’t nuthin as will rouse up
an consoome a western man as the
spectacle of a female of his species a-'
gittin the woret of the deal. He'll
froth an paw round frightfal at the
mere idee.
“This yere episode I hereby relates
was this.avay. It was just about the’
fourth drinktime—as you alls say, 8 a. |
m.—an a band of us was standin an!
stampin round the bar of the Red
Light a:fixin of the hour in our own
‘minds, when up comes the stage from
Tucson. Old Monte was a lookin
‘mighty dignified, an a-poppin his whip
like the crack of a 45, whereby he’
was makin camp with his outfit on the
dead gallop, an to us a-lookin on these
yere signs was plenty plain he bad a
squaw inside.
“Old Monte «was mighty soft on a
woman, an his. notion of gainin their
love an confidence was to clamber on
to his stage, tie-his reins to the brake,
take his whip in.one paw an six shoot-
er in t'other, bang away with each al-
ternate, an eend sis six horses a-stam-
peding down 112 .miles of mountain
trail, -a-6wingin reund corners an a-
peerin over precipices scandalous, an
all enough for to make a graven image
spraddle right out and baw with fear,
I've know'd females as aged ten years
jest goin over the divide once with
Monte. The pore, -¢imid creatures
would. regard him with reluctance an
horror .gver after like he was some
nightmare, and yet that .old sot, up to
the d y ‘be disputes for place with
some card sharp’s bullet ever in Tuc-
son, an went a-shoutin home to heav-
en, swung an rattled withi{he notion
that all this .yere. I relates was the
straight, plain trial to a woman's
heart.
“Well, the stage stops, an as soon as
the door is open out capers as nice a
little girl as ever pulled a dress 6a over
her head. She was put up in black an
looked some pale an tired, as she
shorely has call to, a-ridin with such a
locoed inebriate 40 miles as Old Monte,
an the minute she's out she goes into
the stage office.
“That young famale,’ says Doe
Peets—an you can bet your moceasins
Doc Peets knowed his business every
trip—‘is undoubted a heap elegant, but
whatever she’s meditatin when she
stack too many for me. Whatever do
you think yourself, Enright?’
“<I shorely has to passa hand like
that, says Enright. ‘At the same
time I deplores a pore rank stranger
like this yere young woman strikin
camp an ne one to meet an spread a
blanket for ther. Now yere's Nellie,”
Enright continues, turnin at Fargo
Nell, who's gettin her nese paint with
the rest an stands lookin on,’an it
strikes me as & good safe play for Nell
to go hold & powwow with her; Nell
‘bein a person of tact an ‘likewise a fe-
male, all similar to the-other. Mean-
while we -stands our hands ’till Nell
comes scoutin round torue ag'in.’
“Me go talk to her?’ says Nell.
“Well, T'llijest fool you-up a whole lot.
You hear me! Idod’ go near her.
Not as I’m none too good,’ continues
Nell, a shovin of her big sombrero
back kinder oneasy, ‘but if you alls
bad as much savey as some prairie
dogs you'd know mighty well this yere
lady wouldn't talk to no such cattle as
me.’
“Just then this yere strange girl
comes to the stage station door an
looks out.
“(She’s-sendin up a signal smoke
now,’ says Doc Peets, “an I'm allowin
Ill p'nt up that away an see whatever
{is up'anyhow.’ So Pec threw his belt
and gun behind the bar, an up he goes,
jest ag placid as a sod house.
all watchin him, an the bow he makes
when he throws his rope for her
makes us feel proud, ’cause we sees the
camp wasn’t goin to get the worst of
it.
“Well, people, says Cherokee
Hall, ‘we're iif some nervous and
stampeded, 80 8’pose we absorb some
beverage pendin Doc's return?
“We gets our whiskey and sets
round, not thinkin much, an bimeby
in half an hour Doc comes in.
“ ‘Gents,’ he says, ‘tt devolves on
this yere camp to make a mighty del-
icate play. This yere maiden, who
this day hops into our midst, is broke
—clean busted ; nary a single centous
in her warbags. A brother of hers,
she says, with no brands or y’ear
marks, strays on to this range two
years back. She says his mame was
Good—Jim Good—an they tells her in
Tucson he's over yere. { recalls this
maverick myse'f as a man who gets
downed over in Red Dog fast summer
grabbin of a bet in a fare game. Of
course I'm plenty cunnin and don’t di-
vulge none about this shorthorn’s
‘death. but puts it up guileful as how
he’s gone som’ers else. I allows he
has plenty of dust an is rollin poco
high when he makes his last camp
with ue.
“This yere, continues Peets,
‘pleases her. She says she got a
whole outfit of relatives iu Frisco and
figgers he’s gone there and says she'll
go to as soon as she done earns the
dinero to take her. There's how the
deal stands, and I wants your action.
I wants to say in closin that when I
sees the joy a-gleamin in her eye when
I lets go the lie about her brother, I
makes up my mind immediate to for-
mulate and tell her some more.’
“It's onfortunate, says Enright,
‘at a crisis like this that the simple
life of Wolfville don’t afford a multi-
tood of trails by which a young
woman of repoot an rectitood may
travel safe to wealth. I shorely re-
grets it, but I'm constrained to sa
this yere camp is no place for this fe-
male, an she’s quittin winner to leave.
It appears farther by the report of
Doc Peets she needs money, an I hope-
fully calls on you to suggest a way to
round it up.”
‘ ‘Let's all throw in round.” says
Dan Boggs, ‘an make a pot for her.
Travelin ain't high, an three or four
stacks of blues would take her any-
whar.’ .
“ ‘That won't do,’ says Peets, ‘I
makes a little bluff all similar on my
.own hand, an she gets hostile at the
‘bare mention. We can’t give her no
‘money, none whatever, We've jest
got to rig a deadfall an trap her into
takin it.’
“I'll go ten blind,’ says Enright,
“that what Peets states is right. Fe-
males is mighty funny that away
about takin money from strange men,
an it has come to my notice—the deal
bein resemblesome to this—as how
they seem to regard every bill a rattle-
snake. Now yeré’s how we fixes it.
Peets brings this female to the New
York store, we meanwhile adjournin
similar. The Red Light's all right,
only it ain’t no place for the caucus
we contemplates,’
“ ‘Now this yere is how we'll do,’
says Enright. We'll stampede over to
the store, as I remanks, an then when
we're located Doe Peets’ll bring in the
girl. Then Peets up an says, whoso-
ever is yere unk you're tellin me of in
Frisco 2’ jest like that. An the girl
replies mebby ‘It’s Jim .Jones.” Now
Joes where I gets my carde. I
aughs all easy an sociable an says :
‘Jim Jones? Not old Jim .Jones of
Frisco? Why, me an Jim was old
runnin mates way back ia the fifties.’
Thea, sorter backin the play, as all
proper a discoverin the child of an old
friend, I ups and kisses her. Then we
sets round and powwows, an final’ I
recolleete owin Jim $455.50, closin
out a claim over in Nevahda in 1859—
bein an interest Jim forgets about—an
I urges her, bein she's headed that
way, to take Jim’s dust to him.
‘*At thie p'nt we overturns her rea-
son still more by Peets eayin he'll cash
a draft on to that Red Dog brother for
$100, to take ber through to Frisco, I
objectin, of course, mighty guileful,
agin using any of her Uncle Jim’s
dust, onless it's forced play som’ers
along the trail. As to said sum I
owes her Uncle Jim, why. we makes
it up by chippin in, as was suggested
by Dan Boggs.’
“ ‘We takes another round of drinks
on this, barkeep,’ says Boggs. ‘You
can gamble old mau Enright gets her
straight every time.’
“So we all drinks in admiration of
Enright, an then Cherokee Hall, who
deals faro in the Red Light, gets his
stack in.
comes ropin at a camp like thisis 8
“ «Mr. Enright and gents,’ says he
We was,
‘I don’t aim to seem romantic, but I'm |
in favor of sparin the feelings of this
yere female. At the same tinve we
lines ther out for her Uncle Jim, as
suggested. Now, what I says is this :
"Stead of givin this female the money
e'pose we makes five or six poker
games out of ‘this yere assembly—say
$200 table stdke—an rakes on tene or
better showed, this yere person in dis.
tressto take the rake. By pursooin
of this course’ we encourages trade,
proyides the money, an the girl ain't
under obligations to nobody nor
nothin.’
“‘I'm in on this yere poker game,’
says ‘Faro Nell, ‘ain’t I, Cherokee ?’
4 (Well, now, you're shorely in it,
Nellie,” says Cherokee. ‘Your chair
sets next to mine. I never wants no
better people near me.’
“¢] indorses the remark of Mr,
Hall, says Doc Peets, ‘with my full
name. He's a sport and a gentleman,
Now you all canter over to the store,
like Emright says, while I rounds up
the girl’
“Well, that’s how we do it. We
works round the girl too easy. En.
right lies an Peets lies an Cherokee he
lies. Old man Enright kisses his old
pard’s niece, an Peets comes in simi-
lar, ’cause he knows her brother. It's
2 gay time, an you bet your pony it
takes a heap of woe off the girl.
“ ‘Say, Doc,” whispers Nell as we
goes over to the Red Light to open the
poker games, ‘tell-her to sleep in my
room tonight. I won’t have to need
it, ’cause this yere game we're in for's
goin to take till mawnin. But don’t
you never tell her whose it is, or, you
see, she'll go camp som’ers else.”
“Well, son, the rake on these yere
poker games was most $800, an we
makes her take the whole business,
claimin the extra was interest on the
$453.50 Enright owes unk.
‘The law makes him do it, miss,
says Peets, ‘an you're dead right to
take it. There's a heep of bad blood
in Wolfville.about this yere sharp En-
right a-owin your Uncle Jim so long,
an if he .don't get it equared this yere
trip I'm allowin the boys are liable
to lynch him some. You'd better
take it; it may save his life.’
“So the next day we starts her off,
first givin old Monte notice we'll down
him when he comes back onless he
drives slow. When she’s gone, we all
feel free and good—like a load off our
minds.
“We shoved the cut on her too
easy,’ says Faro Nell as she turns from
watchin the stage. ‘You all couldn't
run no brace game like that on me,
you bet ; could yon Cherokee? You
liars wouldn't etand no show with me.
I'd seen your smoke if I'd missed your
tracks, an done run up on them lies
about my Uncle Jim an what's owin
him the first camp you'd made. But
she’s a good lady, an I'm powerful
glad ehe's staked to take her through.”
—Dan Quinn ia San Francisco Ezamin-
er.
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Birch Bark Pretties.
Dainty Gifts for Birthdays aud Christmas May
be Easily Devised,
To appreciate tully the beauty of
birch bark, when used for decorative
purposes, it should be seen in its na.
tive fastnesses among the mountains of
New Hampshire, Maine or any lo-
cality where it abounds,
Even here it is useless for the sum-
mer tourist, with only his pocketknie
and his abounding ardor and untiring
energy, to attempt to possess himself
of any quantity of it, for the end will
be a broken knife, to say nothing of
scratched hands and torn garments.
He can, however, pick it up in tbe yi-
cinity of any lumber mill, or he can
buy it of the Indians who come over
the border in summer and do a thriy-
ing business by selling fancy straw and
birch bark novelties to the souvenir-
loving tourist.
Get the bark as you may, but be
sure to get plenty of it, for its uses are
many. The thick duter bark is not
ouly most beautifully tinted and
marked, but it is more or less covered
with the most exquisite mosses and
lichens of many varieties, in many
tones of gray, green and brown.
This bark makes the most artistic
frames, which are very appropriate for
etchings or photographs of mountain
scenery. Unless you are handy with
tools it will pay you to employ a
skilled workman. The foundation is
an ordinary mitred frame, not necessa-
rily even, of plain boards. on which
the bark is nailed with brads, or, if the
frame be a small oae, it is glued on so
that the joinings do not show. The
large frames have narrow strips of bark
glued on the edges, while the smaller
oues are edged with a sort of rope
made of twisted strands of “sweet
grass,” which is also sold by the In-
dians. The bark which assumes a cir-
cular shape when peeled from the tree,
must have boiling water poured over
it to make it flexible.
It makes a charming dado and frieze
for a den, which should be papered be-
tween with either a gray green or
warm red cartridge paper. This room
should have a fireplace of dull red
bricks, with great iron firedogs. The
bookcases should have the edges of
the shelves and the outer mouldings
covered with the mossy bark and all
pictures should be framed in like man-
Ber.
After the outer bark has been re-
moved there are other layers, some-
times half a dozen in number.
These are as thin as paper and of va.
rying shades of cream, silvery gray,
tan aad light pinkish terra cotta.
They can be used for postal card,
mouchoir, glove and necktie cases, and
lend themselves readily to decoration
with pen and pencil. Lined with
bright silks the contrast is very pleas-
ing and effective.
For workboxes and fancy boxes of
any kind, either the mossy, outer bark
alone is used, or the thinner layers are
glued or sewn to wooden or pasteboard
| foundations and the boxes are then
lined with eilk.
In a Cuban Dungeon. i
Frightful Privations Suffered by a Untied |
States Citizen. Not Even a Hearing.—And |
Only Released Through Consul General Wil-
liam's Efforts.—Gen. Gomez Headed Toward
Havana.
NEw York, Oct. 10.—Jose Maria
Aguirre, a Cuban patriot who was kept
in the dungeon of Morro Castle, Hava.
na, from eye 24 to September 6,
arrived in New York to-day on the
steamship Washington, accompanied
by his wife and little son.
Mr. Aguirre shows the effects of his
six months’ imprisonment. His features
are drawn and pinched and there is no
color in his cheeks. He was released
September 6 through the efforts of Con-
sul General Williams.
At first he was not allowed to leave
Havana, and he was shadowed night
and day. Even at the dinner table at
the hotel sat a spy listening to what he
said to his wife and friends. Persons
he spoke to on the street were insulted
by paid watchers and were liable to ar-
rest for holding conversations with a
suspaet.
He had committed no covert act
against Spain. When arrested he was
on the point of taking a train for his
plantation, intending to bring a nephew
to Havana to school. No trial was al-
lowed him, notwithstanding he was a
naturalized citizen of the United
States.
NOT ALLOWED TO TALK.
He was put in a cell on the door of
which was a sign warning other prison-
ers and the jailers not to hold conver-
sation with him.
The water given him to drink was
filthy and the bread had to be soaked in
it before he could eat it. No bed cloth-
ing was allowed, and it was not many
days before the exposed portions of the
body became covered with sores from
contact with the hard stone of the pris-
on. Loathsome vermin abounded.
Lizards ran up and down the walls and
crawled over him at night.
Occasionally he could hear the shuf-
fling feet of some unfortunate led to the
outer air. Then would follow the
muffled sound of rifle shots. He did not
know when his turn would come.
Every time he heard the footsteps of
his jailers he expected they were coming
to take him to be shot. His heavy iron
chains clanked whenever he moved,
while the iron bands chafed his wrists
and ankles.
When, finally, he was led out into
the warm sunshine and clasped the
hand of the representative of the United
States he staggered like a drunken man
and his eyes were blinded with the
glorious light of day.
GOMEZ THREATENS HAVANA.
Notwithstanding that he was closely
watched after being released he manag-
ed to communicate with friends.
Just before leaving Havana he learn-
ed that General Gomez, with 5,000
picked men headed toward Havana, and
that the people in the western provinces
would have risen long before but for the
lack of leaders, arms and ammunition.
Reports from Matanzas, Cardenas
Ciefuegos, Neuvitas and other cities
stated that the people were only await-
ing the arrival of an armed body to take
up arms aud capture the fortifications.
Thousands of rifles are concealed in the
homes of patriots waiting for the signal
to fight for liberty. :
Thousands of Cubans have fled to
neighboring places and only wait a
favorabie opportunity to join the revo-
lution.
The Autonomist party has been dis-
solved. Many of its leaders have been
imprisoned, others have joined the in-
surgents.
* The financial and commercial situa-
tson in the island is getting worse all
the time.
SN.
How They Differ
Man is & creature of cast iron habits ;
woman adapts berself to circumstances ;
this is the foundation of the moral dif-
ference between them.
A man does not attempt to drive a
nail unless he has a hammer ; a woman
does not hesitate to utilize anything,
from the heel of a boot to the back of a
brush.
A man considers a corkscrew abso-
lutely necessary to open a bottle ; a
woman attempts to extract the cork
with the scissors ; if she does not suc-
ceed readily, she pushes the cork into
bottle, since the essential thing is to get
at the fluid.
Shaving is the only use to which a
man puts a razor ; & woman employs it
for a chiropodist’s purposes.
When a man writes, everything must
be in apple-pie order ; pen, paper, and
ink must be just so, and a profound
silence must reign while he accom-
plishes this important function.” A
woman gets any sheet of paper, tears it
perhaps from a book or a portfolio,
sharpens a pencil with the scissors, puts
the paper on an old. atlas, crosses her
feet, balances herself on her chair, and
confides her thoughts to paper, chang-
ing from pencil to pen and vica versa
from time to time, nor does she care if
thechildren romp or the cook comes to
speak to her.
A man storms if the blotting-paper is
not conveniently near ; a woman dries
the ink by blowing on it, waving the
paper in the air, or holding it near a
amp or a fire.
A man drops a letter unhesitating]
in the box ; a woman rereads the ad-
dress, assares herself that the envelope
is sealed, the stamp secure, and throws
it violently into the box.
A man can cut a book only with a
paper-cutter ; a woman deftly inserts a
hairpin and the book is cut.
Fora man ¢good-by” signifies the
end of a conversation and the moment
of his departure ; for a women it is the
beginning of a new chapter, for it is
just when they are taking leave of each
other that women think of the most im-
portant topics of conversation.
A woman ransacks her brain trying
to mend a broken object ; 4 man puts i%
aside and forgets that for which there is
no remedy. .
Which is the superior ?— Minnie J.
Conrad.
——The Harbor Officers of Philadel-
phia were granted $7300 increase over
1893, That was a little drain on the
public treasury but little helps to make
the party in power more powerful.
General Miles,
The change in the command ought
to mean a good deal to the army. Gen-
eral Schofield was the last of the com-
manding generals whose early
was entirely under old traditions and
conditions. This is not equivalent to
saying that he was opposed to reform,
although it is. probably true that in
consequence of this he was not easily
convinced that a new suggestion was
really promotive of reform. However,
he has made an acceptable command.
ing general, as commanding generals
go, but it is be hoped that with the ac-
cession of General Miles to the leader-
ship of the army a new era will begin,
General Miles is one of the most ca-
pable soldiers that the United States
army hae ever developed. We say
that the army has developed him ad-
visedly. He did not enjoy the train-
ing of West Point, which, under ordi-
nary conditions, is the best training
that a military man can have, but he
was bred and taught in the school of
actual war. The responsibilities and
stimulation of command were his
when he was a very young man and
he has served long and well on the
frontier. He has been in command of
troops under modern conditions, and
knows by experience what may be and
ought to be done with {bem as soldiers
in time of peace, and if a state of af-
fairs in which the problems of the fut-
ure are likely to resemble very
closely the problems of the past
He knows what the American soldier
is, what he needs, what bis grievances
are, in what his usefulness may con-
sist. He has lived on the plains and
at frontier posts. He has led troops
in Indian wars, and he has encount-
ered strikers in the streets of Chicago.
He knows the evils of civilian com-
mand of the army, and the wrongs
that have been done to soldiers and to
the service by ‘the politicians. More-
over, he is the only man of all the liv-
ing officers who are likely to be the
head of the army who held high com:
mand at such an age that he was fit-
ted to assume its great responsibilities
properly. The commanding officers of
our generation who come after him
will be men who have passed most of
their lives in subordinate positions.
This is a ead outlook for the army,
but it is true.
All this increaces the responsibilities
of General Miles, provided that he is
made the real commanding general of
the army, with power to carry out the
reforms that he knows are necessary
for the service. It is fortunate that he
comes to the command while Mr. La-
mont is Secretary of War, for no one
has occupied that position who has
been 80 acceptable to the officers of the
army as Mr. Lamont has been. His
popularity is not due to the practice of
arts calculated to win applause, but to
the fact that he has encouraged mili-
tary influence in the administration of
the affairs of the army, and has dis
couraged political “pulls.” With such
a Secretary, an officer of ideas and
energy like General Miles ought to be
able to impress himself upon the ser-
vice of which he is the head, and to
form its character for years to come.—
From Harper's Weekly.
Woods in Fashion.
There are always different ideas as
to what woods are fashionable. Just
now there is a rumor that polished
black walnut is once more to be in
style, and persons who have been try-
ing vainly to get rid of their black wal-
nut furniture and replace it with ma-
hogany may content themselves for a
while in the belief that soon their be-
longings will be eagerly looked for by
others. :
Table covers and sofa pillows allow
a wide field of coloring and design.
The tables in themselves are now so
handsome that it is rarely a long cover
, is seen, and a flat cloth or cover with
a braid finish is much preferred, par-
ticularly for a library table. The plac-
ing of a small table that will just hold
a lamp, a book or two, and an agh . re-
ceiver close by some comfortable chair
or sofa, is one of those little touches
that give a room a home-like air.
There are many auction rooms in
the city where odd pieces of furniture
can be fouud at very low prices. Often
great bargains are secured in this way.
In the large furniture establishments
there are often very pretty things to
be bought if one but takes the time and
trouble to hunt for them.
Another Slice of Public Funds.
In 1893 the Adjutant General got 8
salary of $6000, now he gets $8000.
The repairs to the State arsenal cost
$2000 in 1893, in 1895 they cost $3000.
The Adjutant General had a stenogra-
pher and typewriter at $1000 in 1893,
in 1895 there is & provision of $2000 for
this work. All of this makes an excess
of $6000 this year in thie department
over 1893. The Republican party cer-
tainly knows how to get rid of the peo-
ple’s money. Will the people put on
the brakes now and stop the leaks by
electing an able State Treasurer ? There-
fore, vote for Hon. Benjamin F.
Meyers.
Nothing Too Small For Them.
No department in the State machin-
ery is too small or insignificent to be
overlooked by the Republican State
Treasury banditti. Here's the!State Re-
porter’s office for example. The ex-
penses in 1893 were $12,000 now, under
the Republican rule, they reach $16,-
000, an excess of $4000. The present
administration takes everything in
sight and keeps a sharp look-out for
something new, whereby an honest dol-
lar of the people can be gathered in for
political use and prestige.
WHERE GIRLS ARE GIRLS.
I will sing you a song of a wonderful land,
Where the wheelwoman doesn't exist,
Where the girl that you love is as childish and
bland
As the girl that your graddfather kissed.
Where the bloomers don’t bloom, and the
skirts don’t divide,
And the maiden don't box or make bets ; .
Oh, the girls of the South, ws assure you with
pride
Don’t talk slang and smoke cigarettes.
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For and About Women .
A favorite design at present in fancy
work is what isknown as the delftware
pattern for doilies and “table centre
training | pieces. It is a convenient design, such
as those seen on the plates imitated and
done with embroidery silks of the exact
| shade of blue required. The imitation
of china patterns for table linen is not
new ; two years ago Dresden china’s
floral wreaths were first introduced for
the purpose on small doilies, and this
later idea follows quite as a natural se-
quence.
The 31st of August, 1896, is the date
fixed upon for the formal betrothal of
the young Queen of the Netherlands
to Prince Charles, the second son of the
Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark
Queen Wilhelmina will, on that day,
complete her 16th year of age. The
match meets with universal approval in
Holland, and the alliance is regarded
with satisfaction, inasmuch as it pre-
vents one with Germany, which would
awaken in the Germans aspirations for
the annexing of Holland to Ger-
many.
In one respect Fashion continues to
be most accommodating, for she allows
us to wear large sleeves in close-fitting
corsages, with skirts of serge cloth, crep-
on or mohair, or the skirt may be of
silk and the bodice a woolen fabric,
plaided, striped, checked, shot or plain.
In fact, a dress made up of pretty rem-
nants is often the most successtul and
picturesque sort of a ‘‘creation.” This
fact is worthy of 2 little eloquence and
note, for we can thus easily vary the
appearance of dresses we have grown
tired of so that they may have all the
effect of novelty without being really
new and this change is now both easily
and inexpensive brought about, for the
shops are full of handsome ‘short
lengths’ that are sold for those pur-
poses.
_ For keeping the bonnet on the head
in high autumn or winter winds strings
! are superior to all other means of fast-
ening whatsoever. The women are be-
ginning to discover and adopt them,
particularly since fashion has sanctioned
their use once again. Velvet strings
are the most becoming and these may
be as wide or as narrow as one pleases,
straight ribbons or cut on the bias and
made up with a bow to be held with
pretty jeweled pins. Black velvet is
the most used, but the milliners show
toques and bonnets with strings made
variously of green, brilliant cherry,
magenta and many other colors on
models made of black or derk green vel-
vet.
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Skirts ure’ to stand out well at the
feet, and slender steels are introduced at
the hem to meet this want. The python
steel has been modeled on the a of
the Antartic whalebone ; two strips
united by an outer network, it is also
employed for evening bodices. Our old
friend crepon stands by us still, and
even velvet has been treated to resem-
ble it, the pile crushed into the sem-
blance of creping. This is used exten-
sively for sleeves and millinery in
petunia, green, magenta, black, purple
and some other bright tones.
The beautiful Cleopatra shades in
bronze, tawny brown, chestnut, golden,
olive, and Havana—a rich russet brown
—and all the deep reds and dahlia dyes,
are in highest favor this autumn season,
and French ateliers are adding to these
favored colors bright aniline mauves,
and a nes “Persian pink” that is merely
a much softened’ magenta, far more
generally becoming than the magenta
dyes of a year ago.
To CLEANSE A GowN.—One may do
wonders at bome with a supply of gaso-
line, without ripping the garment, and
without much work. It may be thor-
oughly washed, to look as good as new,
if enough gasoline is used and any care
at all taken with the process, It goes
without saying that there is some cau-
tion needed in the use of gasoline ; it
should not be brought close to a fire, for
several reasons, foremost among them
the odor coming from it, itis always
best to take the whole thing out into the
back yard and there proceed with the
ablutions.
A pretty fashion for this winter is the
bonnet or hat, with cape or muff to
match. The cape is a most jaunty little
creation, exceedingly becoming. The
material oftenest used is velvet of the
new shades. The smart little bonnet
and absurd little muff have a style all
their own. The “sets” gs they are call-
ed, are to be worn with any costume,
but look best over silk or some rich
material. Fine jet,chiffon.and lace are
all combined in the trimming. They
are to be had in several different shapes,
go that they are becoming alike to short
and long-waisted women. The
ones that will be worn during the
autumn, eays the New York Herald,
have ruches instead of capes, andj while
it cannot be urged with truth that they
have a great deal of warmth, they are
so intensely becoming that no one will
suffer, no matter how cold the weather
A bit of lace always did kee
a woman warm, and these have muc
more in them than merely a bit of lace,
as fur and velvet are the principal ma-
terials.
For those of the WATCHMAN’S wom-
en readers who intend visiting the At-
lanta Exposition or traveling in any
other direction I feel like advising you
just a little on the matter of traveling
gowns. I have lately seen several of
the newest which struck me as particu-
larly chic. They combined at once
comfort and elegance. Among the va-
rious kinds of light woolen materials in
-favor for such costumes the prettiest and
most serviceable is of course the old-
fashioned mohair alpaca, but the new
material is infinitely finer than the al-
paca worn by our mothers. Its tints
are beautifully soft and lightjcream and
crape au lait,afawn and ecru, with all
shades of bluish or russet gray, lavender
and pearl. These are often trimmed
with fancy plaids or checks in which
bright tints are considerably softened
by a good deal of whitz.. Many travel-
ing dresses have straps on the bodice,
the waistband, and small pouch at the
! side of leather.