Ihe Perfect Figur By M. PAQUIN, Noted Parisian Dressmaker. jjjr beautiful is that which esthetically pleases vvith- H out consideration of utility. Utility, as some philos ophers defined it, is the satisfaction of human wants. 1 The beautiful may, therefore, be quite useless, and we will consider it from its esthetic standpoint only, > 'irawwia although, as always in the truly beautiful in nature,. .K the beauty of the perfect figure carries health and utility for human purposes along with it. The chief components of true beauty in the female form divine are order and proportion, unity and variety. Beauty demands the coexistence of these attributes, the former for the satisfaction of sensi bility, the latter for the satisfaction of intelligence. There is one thing for which we dressmakers seek more than all else in the perfect figure for a woman, and that is line. A woman may have a perfect bust, a perfect waist, perhaps hips, and the right length of figure, and yet be imperfect if these several perfections do rot agree with one another. Let me make myself clear. Suppose broad shoulders and a well, though not too well, developed bust, and a slim waist above esthetic hips. Ihe waist per se may be a thing of beauty, but it may be, and often is, too small and out of all proportion to the bust, the shoulders rnd the hips, and strikes uncomfortably as an ensemble on our con sciousness, because the line is wrong, as wrong as are the pothooks of a child at his first writing lesson. In fashion, as in all else, proportion and the line are the two prime factors, and if I am to state my own opinion as to what is per fection in a woman's figure, I will, without hesitation, vote for a woman, neither tall nor short, a woman perfectly proportioned, not tall enough to be considered tall, not short enough to be considered small. It is a popular mistake that a well-made corset necessitates eithet padding or tight lacing; that is to say, that its only object is to cor rect mistakes in the development and fullness or want of fullness in the bust and waist. I hat is bv no means so. The corset, which is the Gordian knot of each successful dress, should so be cut, and is so cut by every artist, as to set right what mistake there may be in t'- length of the figure as well as, or, I may say, even more than, in its development, and in nine cases out of ten a well-made dress is quite dependent on a well-made corset. Should Officers Fire Into Mobs ? By REV. DR. ROBERT S. MacARTHUR, New York. A mob is a wild beast. A mob has no brains to think, no breast to feci and no reason to judge be / _ - \ tween right and wrong. When democracy becomes .( * \ mobocracy the days of the republic will be numbered. [ \ i W e must insist that sheriffs and other officers of *' le aw Earless in the defense of their prisoners, even though they be guilty of the most awful crimes. In order to do so they may have to shoot to kill. No man who knows my spirit will charge me with cruelty in feeling or action. Public officials are guilty of wrong to a mob when they shoot into the air. Mob law is one of the greatest dangers in a republican form of gov ernment. It is anarchy pure and simple. It is vastly more dangerous in a republic than in a monarchy. It resolves society into savagery. It brutalizes and demoralizes all who participate in it. It puts brute force in the place of law and vengeance in the place of justice. It is treason to the republic and a dishonor to humanity. Ours is the only country on the globe that roasts at the stake men uncondt inned and untried. There isn't a spot to-day in darkest Africa or in any other pagan land where such atrocities are committed. The Trust Father o 112 the Mob By CHIEF JUSTICE LORE, Of the Delaware Supreme Court. j LAWLESSNESS pervades the land, unrest and discontent Ly brood over apparent prosperity. We have become the a money center of the world, but this has bred a feverish ap petite for gold with all its vulgar accompaniments. Coro nets and coats-of-arms are eagerly sought by the sons and Law has degenerated into lawlessness, jv I We would call a halt upon our captains of industry who have brought our country to its present height of fren zied speculation. Plants worth only thousands of dollars are by the magic of watered stock and glittering advertisements swollen into millions. Gigantic frauds are palmed upon the people as success ful business enterprises. Our greatest financiers arc racking their brains to circumvent the law and the people, and by lawlessness achieve wealth, being careful only to keep outside of actual violence and the common jail. When their cunning evasions of the law are crowned with success all men are tempted to lawlessness. Captains of industry, how much of the unrest, the mob violence, and the labor troubles of the time have been bred and fostered by vour methods? We ask for an answer. Religion in the Public Schools By HON. W. T. HARRIS, United States Commissioner of Education. f JJT principle 0 f religious instruction is authority; that I or V % I of secular instruction is demonstration and verifica- H a tion. It is obvious that these two principles should jj \ not be brought into the same school, but separated as ■HSpppjSSfl widely as possible. In view of these differences be twccn r( '''k' if) us instruction and secular instruction, and in view of the contrast between the spirit of the school and the spirit of the church, it is clear that the school cannot successfully undertake religious instruction; in fact, experience goes to show that the school fails to achieve instruction, and it is certain that the church becomes less efficient w hen it abates in any way the im prcssiveness of its ceremonial in its art and music and in its use of the language of the Bible in its ritual. The prerogative of religious instruction is in the church, and it must remain in the church, and in the nature of things it cannot be farmed out to the secular school without degenerating into mere deism without a living Providence, or else changing the school into a parochial school and destroying the efficiency of secular instruction. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1903. HON. JAMES A. HEMENWAY, M. C. Congressman Hemenwaj* of Indiana, who will be chairman of the house appro priations committee in th»- next congress, according to oilkial announcemetn, ha 3 been a member of that committee for some time In knowledge of the government's expenditures he ranked in the ki>t congress next to ('or igre; sinan Cannon and Senator Allison. His career may be summed up as a 43-year struggle upward In Boonville, Ind., from newsboy and work« r in a tobacco factory. He has been a con grossman since 1894. winning and holding what used tu be a democratic district. He is very popular at home and in Washington. DOG ON A LONG JOURNEY. Traveler Moralise* on Canine Crated l|» for Shipment Aero** the Continent. •'Passing along a city street the other day," said a town traveler, according to the New York Sun, "I saw, tied on at the end of a loaded express wagon stand ing in front of an express office, a crate containing a dog, a dog that was be ing shipped somewhere by express. "Curiosity prompted m<? to look at the shipping tag on the crate. The dog was going to a city on the Pacific coast, a long journey, but 1 didn't doubt it would get there safely. "The crate was big enough for its comfort, and it seemed to me that the dog was one likely to stand the journey well, to make friends with all the ex pressmen and messengers it met on the way, and to get the best possible treat ment. "I'm no judge of dogs, and I may be away off on this one, but this didn't seem to me to be a valuable dog. It was short-haired, brindle in color, of HOUSE IN WHICH POPE PIUS WAS BORN. i!i& : ' ■ ■ ... The humble cottage in which J'ius X , the new pope, was born, still stands !n Rkse, near Venice, and! is ocrupb •! by membt rs of the Sarto family. The pope's parents were peasants, who could read and write only with difficulty, and their dwell in.tr was one- of the must modist in the village. They would have been unable to educate the future pope if it had not been for the assistance of the parish priest. Thr«- • of the pope's sisters are spinsters, another is married to a very poor man, and ail support themselves by dressmaking. One of his brothers is the village post man, a position that pays ju.st per year. medium size and rather lanky build, j and with a rather stubby head. But it j had an intelligent and friendly face, j which was just now rather wistful. "As I put my hand across the top of j the crate to turn the tag so that I could | read the address, the dog reached Its , head over toward me inside, glad to ; meet with somebody, even if the some-j body was a stranger. "It was, in fact, a gentle, kindly and whether a valuable dog or not, I'll bet it is one beloved by whomever it is going to m<"Pt over on the other coast, and I'll bet that it makes friends with and gets the best of treatment from every man who has the handling of it on the way across." RtportN of flutter. Argentina exports more than 3,000,- ' 000 pounds of butter annuaJly, nearly j all of it to Great Britain It brings j 1(> cents a pound at the creameries) j and the exporter gets an average of j 21 cents a pound. Butter from no oth- j <*r country except Denmark brings as j good a price. The cows are princi- I pally Durham crosses. A Sure Cure, lint— A Kansas man could noL eat because he had dyspepsia, so he fasted in order i to relieve himself of the disease. The ] treatment was a success, remarks the Chicago Tribune, but the patient d!-;d of exhaustion. Cfin't JJlatiil" 11*111. A German actor has been sent to jail i for getting off stage jol<es about the em- ! peror. If they were anything like the American stage jokes, s.iys the Chicago I Record-Herald, v.e can't blrune the em- i peroi lot sbuumg him up THE HIGHBALL IN WAR. Potency of ll.e American Thirst Hem. i-ily Illustrated In a I'niiaiutt Revolution. Our esteemed neighbor, Panama, places the world under emphatic obiiga | tions by producing something novel in the way of revolutions. The government al convulsion the other day was due, not to a general uprising or disaffection in the army, but to the untamed thirst of Gen. Varquez Cobos, relates the Phila j delphia North American. The gallant man was led by some light | hearted person to tamper with the Amer ican highball. Possessing a tempera ment attuned to the innocuous beverages of France and Spain, he made a fatal er ror in attempting to harmonize with it, the seductive drink offered by "el Americano," and the resulting discord was frightful. After the first one the general was more impressed with the dignity and power of his position than he had ever ! been before in his career. After the sec ; ond he decided that he was the savior ol I | his country, or ought to be. The thin i j brought to him visions of an oppressec j Panama, and the fourth and fifth firec j his martial heart to deeds of patriotic valor. Straightway h» assembled the army | i overthrew the government, chased tin governor to th'i woods—and fell asleep | When he awoke he was under arrest, ant 1 [ Is still in seclusion trying to find out p-what happened. IJOIIKEMT HUHCIIJI 11 Throw. The longest distance a man has evei j thrown a baseball is a little more that I 381 feet. The record for women was j held, until recently, by a Vassar cham- ' pion, who threw a ball 181 feet. Then < has now arisen in Tacoma, Wash., a ; young woman who beat that record b) I 24 feet. Analomists have frequently ex j j plained that the formation of a woman': | shoulder-blades prevents her frou. ; j throwing straight and far; but theTa-! j coma record, 205 feet, is just about th<! | distance from the deep outfield to the j j home plate. Evolution seems to be al work producing shoulder-blades that j will enable the American girl to shars I the delights of the national game. Iliivarla'a Ileer. ! The Bavarians are well aware thai I they make the best beer in the world Their exports last year amounted tc : 2,005,801 hectoliters, while the imports j were only 1,075,026 hectoliters, mosilj i from Austria. Arctic Divorces. In the Arctic region a man who want: ! j a divorce leaves luroe in anger MII ' j does not return for several days. Ths j I wile taken th» hint and departs. DISASTERS AT SEA. A Terrific, (iali* Causes Great Loss of Lite. I'iftt-cii Drowned Ni-iir Dumariscstta, Mf. Milliner ncilraua ■•'<> undent OH' riiiriilu roaiit, llany of Her Crew Lout-five Jleu liuM at Delaware. Damnris«*'»l la. Me., Sept. I*>. J-'if teen men IDS! (heir lives in tin* vio lent g-ale wliich raged oft' the coast during Wednesday niglit. The (ilou eester mackerel seining schooner George F. Kilmnnds, in command of CM |J t . Willard (i. I'oole. the owner, Hi ruck on t lie eastern side of I'omn qtlid I'oinl and was smashed to piaf-es. Fourteen of the crew of lij men per ished in the breakers. The schooner Sadie and Lillian, Capt. Hardy, of Prospect, bound from "rospeet llay to Boston, struck on the western side of I'cmaipiid Point and had her bottom knocked out on the rocks, ('apt. !lardy was drowned. Norfolk, Ya.. Sept. is. The British steamship Iloxby, which arrived here Thursday had on board Domin go Ueynrberuy, a survivor of the crew of H men on the British steam ship Mcxicana, which foundered with all 011 board off the Florida coast Tuesday night. Jteyarber:>y eausjlit a piece of wreckage and mamiged to keep lip until he was seen by the Box by and rescued. The Spaniard, through an interpre ter, told of the Mcxicana's sinning. The steamer was hound from Tnmpi eo for Vera Cruz with a cargo of pe troleum when the full force of the hurricane broke upon her. Moun tainous seas broke constantly over the ship and finally one gigantic wave crashed through her decks. The fire was flooded and the Mexi can a became helpless. For a few mo ments she wallowed in the trough of the seas and then plunged to the bottom. New York, Sept. IS.—The steamer Yidur arrived last night from Caibar ien, having on board six of the crew of the British steamer Mexicana, which foundered during a gale on Se, 'ember 10. They were rescued from a hutch to which they had clung for several hours. Lewes, Del., Sept. IS. ( apt. Kbe Chandler and Mate Nelson, of the sunken tug Spartan, were landed here Thursday by the steam pilot boat Philadelphia. The tug in the height, of the gale let goof the three barges Trevorton, Preston and Hammond, which she had in tow. At the same time Ileav\ setts washed from her decks all moveable materials, includ ing a large hawser which caught, in the wheel of the tug, maKlng her un manageable. She filled with water and sank. The crew were washed overboard and all clung to such ob jects as could be caught. Capt. Chandler secured a piece of scantling. He drifted out to sea and was picked up by the tug Lykens after clinging to the frail board 13 hours. Mate Nelson caught hold of the tug's small boat iind held onto the bottom until picked up by the steamer Kinsman at about th<' same time. They were both put on the l'hiladelpma ami landed here. Kleven of the crew were pick up off Anglesea, X. J., and two are mining and supposed to be lost. Atlantic City, X. Sept. 18. —Two fishing boats, the Bed Dragon and Altberta, with pleasure parties and crews aboard, are reported missing since Wednesday's storm. New York, Sept. IS. —Following Wednesday's hurricane came another severe storm yesterday. In New- York City the gale blew at the rate of (i 7 miles an hour. Fishing schoon ers that arrived brought tales of dis asters from all along the coast. At least half a do/en men were drowned from these boats and it Is feared that many more men met similar fate, as several schooners are missing. Delaware Breakwater. Sept. 17. The southern storm which had been coming up the Atlantic coast for sev eral days, struck the Delaware capes early Wednesday morning with al most cyclonic force and as a result at least five lives were lost. The storm lasted from 3 a. m. until 7 a. m. The wind reached a maximum velocity of so miles an hour and the rain fell in torrents. The most serious accident reported was that which befell the schooner Hat tie A. Marsh, whose captain— ,l. B. Mehaffy— and four members oT the crew were drowned. The Marsh hailed from New London, Conn. GAMBLE CONFESSES. A Deputy I nltcd States Wurvlial Telia a Sensational Story. San Francisco, Sept. 17. —Deputy T'nited States Marshal Gamble has made a complete confess! ui to Dis trict Attorney Woodworth of his connection with the substitution of old and decrepit Chinese for young rhinaineti under sentence of deporta tion. For his connection with the plot for the liberation of the men who were ordered transported Gam ble was arrested on Monday and re leased under a bond of $2,000. I'nder the rigid scrutiny and questioning of Mr. Woodworth he has confessed, im plicating several well known Chinese and several whites, some of whom are in the employ of the government, and one deputy sheriff. Gamble's confession completely up sets the stories of several of the sus pected persons. Several more arrests will probably be made as a result of Gamble's con fession. Nucd (Tiilon* Tor llaniage>. New York, Sept. 10. The Morse Iron Works and Dry Dock Co., of South Brooklyn, and the Burlee Dry Dock Co., of Port Biehmond, Staten Island, have instituted two suits foi sting- aggregating $10,(>(!('• in the su preme court of Brooklyn against lo cal branches of the Inlc.-nalional \s sociation of Machinists for damages alleged to have been caused by re cent strikes, the plaintiffs alleging that strikes were called at their works and thai their employes wert stopped from going to work, with consequent loss to tlwir business. CHAMBERLAIN STEPS DOWN, \ l iinioiix I'ollti« laii and TiVo of III* Aftftoclatcft Cabinet. | London, Sept Is.—The official an ! nouncement of the resignations of i Mr. Chamberlain and two other incut j tiers of the cabinet was made late last nighl in the following eomnnini j cation: • "1 he following ministers have ten ! d'red then resignations, which have | hern accepted by the king: Wight i 1'• •i• Joseph Chamberlain. secretary for the colonies; Light Hon. ('. T. liitchie, chancellor of the exchequer, and Lord (leorge Hamilton, secretary i for Indit. "The accompliliving correspondence passed between the premier, Light Hon. A. J. lialfour, and Mr. ( ham. ! bcrlain." Then follows Mr. Chamberlain's let. ter (ialeil liiriningham, September !>, eoiiiiiiencing "Mv Dear Ilalfour," in which he sets forth his reasons for his resignation. An extremely inter esting feature of the letter' is the following statement, concerning a preferential tariff: "For the present, at any rate, a preferential agreement with our colonies involving any new duty, however small, on articles of food hitherto untaxed, even if ac companied by a reduction of tax ation on other articles of food equally universal in their con sumption, would be unacceptable to the majority of the constituten cies. However much we may regret the decision, however mistaken we may think it, no good government in a democratic cointry can ignore it. I feci, therefore, that as an immediate practical policy the question of pref erence to the colonics cannot be pressed with any hope of success at the present time. "I think that with absolute loyalty to your government Iran best pro mote the cause I have at heart from the outside. Accordingly 1 would sug gest that you limit the present policy of the government to an assertion of our freedom in the case of all com mercial relations with foreign coun tries. and that you should agree to my tendering my resignation of my present office to his majesty and de voting myself to the work of explain ing these principles of imperial union which experience lias ec*ivinced me are essential to our future welfare and prosperity." DRIVEN FROM TOWN. i\ tl»l> l.vlct* tin- t'litiiene Kcfcideiit* otTouopiili, Nev. Tonopah, Xev., Sept. 18. —A mob of 12 to 15 men invaded Chinatown on Wednesday and at the points of guns compelled a number of Chinamen to leave town at once. Several who would not comply were badly beaten dragged to the outskirts of town nttd told to take the road to Sodaville. Later on all but one returned to town and notified the officers. They stated that l'ing Ling, a 73-year-old man and the proprietor of a wash house, had perished on the road. Searching parties were sent out yes terday morning and they found his horribly mutilated body three miles west of town. The Chinamen were also robbed of several hundred dollars before being run out of town. Eighteen men, mostly cooks »n4 waiters, have been arrested and are now in jail. Among the number is F. M. Arandall, presi dent of a labor union. A meeting of the citizens of Tono pah was held yesterday at which 1,- 000 or more persons were present and resolutions denunciatory of the ac tion of the mob were adopted. Soulier*' .Monument He United. Sharpsburg, Md., Sept. IS.—The magnificent monument erected on the historic battlefield of Antietam by the state of Xew Jersey to its men who fell in the great engagement, was dedicated Thursday. The occa sion was rendered particularly not able by the participation in the cere monies of the president of the United States and of (iov. Murphy, the chief executive of the state which was hon oring its heroes. The monument is in the form of an ornate corintliian column of granite 40 feet high, sur mounted by a heroic figure in bronze of an officer with upraised sword leading his men in a charge. t ailed I lie tiaine, Peoria, 111., Sept. IS.—President Sexton, of the Western Baseball league, gave out an official announce ment yesterday declaring the season of the Western league officially closed. The announcement came as a surprise, inasmuch as the schedule was so nearly finished, but President Sexton believes the move to be a wise one, as the weather gave no promise of brightening up. ■ lax Sold Two of I lie Shamrock*. Chicago, Sept. IS.—Shamrock I and 11, the first two boats brought across the water by Sir Thomas Lipton in his attempts to lift the America's cup, are practically sold, according to a statement made by John West wood, secretary to Sir Thomas. "The bar onet is loath to part with his newest boat," said Mr. West wood, "and will not dispose of Shamrock III." Tlio Deadly Auto Score* Axain. St. Johnsbury, Vt., Sept. is.—An automobile speeding at the rate of 50 miles an hour at the Caledonia county fair grounds yesterday dashed over an embankment 15 feet high, causing the death of Herbert Lamphere. Dr. John M. Allen, who was operating the machine, was severely injured and another man, Fred (larriek, was hurt. lee 1 ream wax i'oisoiietl. Rochester, X. Sept. IS.-—Forty two men, women and children were poisoned from eating ice cream at> a carnival given Wednesday evening at the Methodist church in llellena, On tario county. The persons who atu the cream were thrown into violent attacks of nausea, cramp.'. and pros trations. Local physicians were un able to care i'or the sufferers and as sistance from Geneva and I'cnn Van was summoned. Pliysh inns state they were - offering from poisoning, probably produced by the action u| the germs in the milk. 3
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