SUI.TJVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIII. The English admiralty say that tho total abolitioa of masts and sails in all future fighting ships has become abso lutely necessary. In tho retirement ot Bismarck, tho American hog may not bo vindicated, observes tho Indinnnpolis Jjur/ml, but it is at least avenged. China for several years lias been in creasing her military force in the prov inces adjoining tho Amoor and stout forts have been erected at points most likely to bo threatened by Russian in vasion. Horseback riding is constantly grow ing in favor in New York and other large cities. Lirge sums of money are being put into "riding-schools," and tho investments aro proving profitable. Good saddle horses were never in better demand than now. Vital statistics show that out of every 100,000 of population in cities only 285 persons die of consumption, while out of every 100,000 of population in rural districts, only 160 persous die of con sumption. In disease? of the nervous system the figures aro respectively 255 for tho city, and 150 for the country. The Washington Stir says: "An open lamp in a coal mino is like a match in a powder magazino. The two sets of things have so much feeling for each other they cannot exist apart when brought nearly in contact. Pennsyl vania coal mine honors show that this principle of natural law is not fully appreciated in tho Keystono state." The United States navy is now large ly made up of aliens. Admiral Portor states that 2) foreigners enlist in tho navy to ono Amcricm, and ho points out the danger to tho servics liable to arise from this predominance;. "It is very clear," comments the New York News, "that if a majority of men in the navy aro foreigners wo could not rely upon them in case of ■war." It is stated that in the 49 ' cities in this country containing more than 5,000 in habitants, there aro 15,000 policemen, whose salaries amount to $15,000,000 a year, and that they make 50 arrests each, annually. If these statistics aro correct, remarks The Twentieth, Century, it will be seen that the average labor of a policeman is one arrest a week, for which tho working pjoplo of tho coun try pay S2O. In his annual message to the Legis lature for 189 ) Governor Francis E. Warren of Wyoming Territory recom mended the passage of a bill absolu'cly forbidding the killing of buffalo within the Territory. We are gla I to learn, announces the Forest anil Stream , that this recommendation has been acted on, and that the Legislature, just ad journed, has p:used a bi.l prohibiting the k liing of any buffalo in the Terri tory for ten yearj. Tnis is a matter in which all the inhabitants of Wyoming ought to tako an interest, for scarcely anywhere in the Uuited States, excopt within her borders, are any wild buffalo to ba found. Hypnotism in England, if the quota tions sent by cable from the London Lancet are to be believed, has attained to startling perfection as an exact and practical science. A certaiu Dr. Bram well appears to possess the power of exercising the hypnotic influence, not merely by presence and contact, but by letter or telegraph. A patient received a note with the following directions: "Goto sloop by order of Dr. Bram well," and forthwith the accommodat ing patient went to sleop. The sugges tion is a startling one. For there can be nothing about the lotter or the des patch to indicate, before it is opocid, that it is hypnotizod. Bays tho Salt L ike Eaning Timet: ••There was never a city in tho Union that has changed, as has Salt Lake, from a sleepy overgrown village to a metropolitan city, in so short a time. Whore but a few years ago tho common one-story adobes or tho dingy frame dwellings were the only structures that greeted the eye, today large business blocks, elegantly constructed, are seen. Tho dirt paths along the streot are sup planted by wide walks, and tho patient horso which, a decide ago, with diffi culty hauled a little dingy onmibus from place to place now contentedly munches oats whilj the clcc'ric motor dashes r,cross tho city with its loads of humanity." My Le^aon. "You have only two?" the lady said, A i she glanced at my babes at play, And I answered her, "Only two on earth." And then I wept to say, As my grief came surging back again, My grief so deep, so wild, "Alas it was only a month ago, I lost a little child." A dear little girl with bright, black eyes Unlike the other two, The one with eyes of hazel brown, The other with heaven's blue; A dear little girl with a laughing face, And sunshine in her hair, Whose lisping voice and pattering feet Made music everywhere. And I grieve when 1 miss a single note From the music of baby feet, And I weep for the tangle of sunny hair That is lost from my cluster sweet; For the prattling lips, the clinging touch, The hand upon my knee, When the chord was full, and tho group complete, And my children numbered three. And then I noticed the room was still, That thechildren stopped their play. That they looked at each other, and then at me, Tn a wondering, sorrowful way. Then the oldest one, with the hazel eyes, Came to my side in tears, She was only five, with a tender heart, And thoughtful beyond her years. "What is the matter with mama's child?" This was the answer given: "You said that you losed a little child, I iought she was gone to heaven? And why don't you look for her every day, Until you find her again? And not sleep a wink 'till you bring her home Out of the cold and rain?" Then I hushed my grief for the little child, Lying under the sod; I had learned a lesson from baby lips; "Not lost, but gone to God." —lda J. Hall, in Atlanta Constitution. The Mother of Marius "And thero's an end of it! ' said Marius Gray, letting his hand fall de spairingly on the tabic. Ho had just returned from his weary day's work, which had stretched itself far into tho right—ho was ongagod on a newspaper, and was beginning to earn good wages as assistant foreman in one of tho departments —and had perused a letter which ha 1 laid oa the tablo at his lodgings. "An end of what?" asked Harold Morse, his room-mato and companion. '•Of my threo years' work," Gray answered—"of all that Iv'o been toiling and striving for so long." "You don't mean," said Morse, that you would let this make any differ ence with your plan??'' •'lt must make a difference. Hall." "In the name of common sense, what difference?'' "I)oa't you sec? Now that my good old grandfather is deid, I'vo got to make a homo for my mother. I've got to support her and sco that lifo is made easy for her in her old age." "Oh, I seel'said Morso, shrugging his shoulders. "Alice won't relish the idea of a mother-in-law—is that it? * "1 shall not ask her, Hal. My first duty is to my mothor." "But the little house you've bought, and the furniture you've been selocting piece by piece, and the carpet that you've laid up for yard by yard, and the very mossrosc-bush by the door stone—" "I hope my mother will enjoy them, Hal," said Gray, with something liko a quiver on his lip. "But I once heard Alice make some laughing jest about the terrors of a mother-in-law. It wasn't much. I don't think she at tached any particular importance to it, but still it has stuck to my memory. In the recollection of that, I can't ask her to sharo any divided ompiro in my home." "Oh, hang it!" cried Morse, flinging his paper on the table. "What do women want to be so cranky for? Why can't they bunk in togothor as com fortably a* man do? 111 go bail Alice Ardley would go through fire and water for her own mother. Why should she feci differently toward the mother of the man alio lov.'S?" "There's all the difference in the world," said Gray, sally. And so ho went to bed to ponder over this new complication of events; and when he fell asleep ho dreamed that he had just brought a bride homo to the little cottage whero the white muslin curtains rustled in the wind, and the mossrose-bush was in fu'.l blossom, and somehow Alico Ardley's blooming face was frilled around with cap bordors and decorated with an immense pair of sil ver spectacles. "O. course, Gray will do as he I pleases," said Morse; but if I wers he LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1890. I'd see this old lady further bofore I allowed her to upsot all my life-calcula tions in this sort of ■way. Why can't ho got her boarded out somowhore? or admitted into a respectable •Homo' or •Refuge,' or something of the sort?'' "I supposo," said tho man who worked next him in the wall- paper de signing factory, "because she is his mother P "Hang sentimontl" was Morso's re piy- To Marius Gray's credit bo it spoken that ho never for an instant hesitated as to what decision to make. lie wroto an affcctionato lottor to his mother, telling lior of tho little homo which was now at her disposal, and offering to come to Montreal and bring her thither at any time which she should fix. And this letter safely dropped into tho nearest mail box, ho next began to consider the forthcoming explanation with Alice Ardley. Ho went to see lior that very evening. She was a music teacher, and lived in one of those genteol, cohifortless board ing-houses which afford so poor a sub stitute for real home l , and slie came down into tho parlor, whore tho gas was economically lowered, and the scent of the vegotab'.o soup that had boon served for dinner sfill lingered. "Oh, Marius!" she said, with a little gurgle in her voice, "I've been wanting to see you so much." "Ilavo you, Alice?" lie stood holding both her hands in his own. •'l've got such a favor to ask of you, Marius—aud oh, I don't know how to do it, nfter all tho liatoful things I've said about mother- in-laws, and that sort of tliingl" faltered she. 110 stood still listening, and after a short pause, Alice went hurriedly on: '•lt's my Aunt Alothea. I've got to take her homo and take caro of her, for the cousin who has supported her all these years can't do it any more; and oh, M. .us, we can't bo married unlo>„ —unless you will bo very good and kind and let old Aunt Alcthca como and live with ui. I'm sure sho can't bo a great deal J of trouble and I'll keep on with my music lessons to furnish her with clothes. She's a very nice, quiet old lady, and—but if you'd rather not, Mariu«, say so at onco, and of course tho engagement will bo at an end." Marius Grny's face lighted up. •'Alice, forgivo me!" ho said. "You have shown g eater confidence in me than I havo dono in you. As far as I am cancsrncd your aunt will bo most welcome in any homo that you and 1 are to share together. But, Alice, I had como here to ask you to reloase me from our engagement." Alice gave a little start. '•Marius!" she cried. "Oh, Marius, you don't mean it? - ' "For tho reason," he went on, "that it is now incumbont on mo to support my mother, who has heretofore livod with her father. Idldn'tliko to ask you, dear, knowing your opinion on tho subject of—well, of mothers-in law, to share your home kingdom with any one clso; and thero was no other homo to bring my mother to. But now—" "Mnrius," cried A'ico, "it's quite true what you say. You havo put no confience in mo. If I could trust you to be good to my poor old aunt, could you not have been sure that I would lovo your mother?" "I am ouro of it now, Alcie," said the young man, still holding her hand tenderly in his. "And I won't release you from your engagement," declarod Alice, disguis ing her emotion under a very effectivo pretence of gay badinago. "l'va baen taking lessons at a cooking school an 1 making up household linon, and I moan to show your mother and my Aunt Alethea what a capital houiekeoper 1 can be. And oh, how proud I shall be when they eat the first dinnor I cook in my own house!' "Alice, you aro an angel!" asserted Gray. "No, lam not," said Alice. "I'm only a silly, chattering girl, who says lots of things that sho is sorry for afterwards. But 1 know how good and forgiving you aro, and you shall see how dearly 1 will love your mother for your sake until I have learned to appreciate her for her own." So Alice Ardley and Marius Gray were quietly married, and on ibeir wed ding ir.p thoy went to Montreal to bring the old mother home. Mrs. Gray, Sonior, was a trim, erect little woman, dressed in black serge, with her rosy old face surrounded by the neatest of caps. Slio came back to the cottago with them. "I shall bo glad to see how my chil dren live," said she. And sho took a great fancy to Aunt Alethea, who was waiting on tho door step to receive thom—a meek, soft voiced old Quakeress, who moved noisolessly about and looked liko a human dove in gray plumage. "I wondor," sho said, "how Friend Alethea—for she wou't let ono call her •Miss Ardlcy'—would liko a situation as companion and reader? She reads aloud charmingly. That bit of the daily paper she read us yesterday, Alice, I declare 1 thought I could sec with my own eyes everything that happened!' "I think sho would bo delighted, mother," said Alice. "It's a dreadful trial for her to be dependent on any ono for a living; but there are no such nice places to be found." "I know of ono, " said Mrs. Ar-llcy. "Where?" asked Alico. "In Montreal." •'But I couldn't trust Aunt Alethea with any one but a very kind lady." •'Well, this lady is kind. At least sho'll try to be. For sho is myself, daughter Alice. "You, mother? But I thought you were going to live with us!" exclaimed Alice. "My son Marius and you seem to take that for granted," said tho old lady, with a twinkle of her bright, block eyes. "But you aro wrong, nevertheless. No, lam not going to livo with you. I'm very glad to have caught a glimgse of you in your happy little homo, my dear; but I'va an idea that young married people are bettor by themselves —for a year or two at least. And my father left mo some real estate in Montreal which has increased very much iu value, and I can live as I plcaso now. Some day it will nil bo yours; but in tho meantime I shall tako Friend Alethoa back with mo, andi we'll be company for each other. Onco in awhilo we'll como anl visit you, aud mind you both tako excellent care of each other." So vanished Mrs. Gray and quiet lit tlo Aunt Alethea from tho scene. "And here we are, just wbcro wo originally planned to be," said Marius, as ho and Alico stood at the door, whero the mossroio was in bloom, watching tho wheels of tho hack that boro tuo two old ladies away. ' Y-ost' faltered Alico with a tear in her eye; but I never thought I could bo so sorry to see a mother-in-law go out of tho house." Wedding Kings. Tho latost thiug iu wedding rings comes from England, and is a narrow but thick circlet of 22-carat fino gold. This has como in fashion in America in the course of the last year, replacing the old stylo ring, which is both heavy and wido, boing sometiimi half an inch | broad. Thoso latter have been in use as far back as I can remember. Tho Germans always buy two plain gold rings, tho lady giving one to her be trothed and ho ono to her. The "al liance" ring is sometimo called for, and often manufactured to order. It i3 mado of two circlets fitting into each other and coming apart somethiug like a puzzle, and is a revival of a very old style. The ordinary wedding ring costs from $7.50 to sls, although tho English ring is somewhat more expen sive. In engagement rings individual taste is tho only law, but set stones are great favoritos. A novelty is a ring of threo circlets, almost as narrow as wire, each set with a band of different stones, such as pearls, turquoises and conch-shells. — St. Louis Ghbs D mocrat. Splendid Horsemanship. Tho finest seated riders as a class aro the stockraom of Australia. Their horses, when yarding cattle or heading a fugitive bullock, gallop like race horses, and turn of thoir own accord ns short and ai suddenly as a sheep. <log. Three of theso horses will put 1500 wild fat bullocks into a yard with the rein loose on their necks and untouched tho wholu time. They watch and chase each fugitivo like a 9heep dog shases a str.iy sheep, tho stockmen merely sitting on their backs and using their twenty-foot stock whips. The sudden drops, step, and turn of one of theso horso* would uu— ••ca', and dau jernudy u isiat, tho best Uorsemen in aa ordinary huutiuig field. Terms—sl.2s in Advance ; $1.50 after Three Months. LADIES' DEPARTMENT: WOM AN'S 81UIERK. They talk about a woman's sphere As though it had a limit; There's not a place in earth or heaven There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, yes or no, There's not a life, or death, or birth That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it. —Kate l<'iehl'» Washington. QUEER SCENES IN A COURT. The Skowhegan correspondent of tho Fairfield (Me.) Jjunxal gives the fol lowing description of the homeliko ap pearance of the Maine Supreme Court room during a recent term of court: "Ladies in the gallery bring their nee dlework and sit out the long hours of the session. It is interesting to watch them threading needles, tying knots, basting, occasionally pausing to catch some portion of tho evidence and again to conlido in a noighbor something rela tive to somo newcomer, interspersed with tho slight click of the scissors, all of which tend to impress the lookers-on with the solemnity of the occasion, and add perceptibly to tho 'homelike' ap pcarauce of our judicial residence." THE RAGE FOK SIMPLICITY. Simple as tho present fashions are, they have not yet reached the limit of simplicity. For next winter the skirts of gowns will bo entirely plain from the waist to the hem, which may be finished with a handsome border of em broidery or applique. Tho bodice will also be plainer than at prcsont, with tho exception of the vest trimming and the sleeves. Tho ornamentation of tho sleeve will bo tho distinctive foaturo of gowns for a year to come. Where the rest of the gown will bo simplicity it self, the sleeve will be of a different stuff from the rest of the costume —as rich a stuff as possible—made fu I as now, thickly embroidered or braided, or dccoratod in some way from wrist to shoulder. What tho slcovo was to tho costume in tho time of Queen Elizabeth, it is to be to tho dress of the woman of today. Let the fashionable woman look well to her sleeve.— New York Sun. AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN QUEEN. Miss Edwards in a recent lecture on "Queen Ilatasu arid tho Women of Ancient Egypt," said Quceu Ilatasu was tho daughter of Thothmes I. of the Thebaulino. Very early in hor childhood sho married hor oldest brother, Thothmes 11. Such alliances were then common. She thus became possossed of the "double crown." After his death, in order to have retained this, she must have married hor brother Thothmei 111. This sho refused to do, and, after tho death of Thothmes 111, sho reigned alone aud gloriously. In tho monu ments of Egypt sho was always repre sented as a Pharoah, aud was referred to in documents as "Ilatasu Ilia Majesty." In some bas-relief sho is represented as a man, with a beard tied on. Slio was one of tho greatost builder sovereigns in Egypt. She erectod on the east side of the Nile a temple which has no parallel except in tho temples of Chaldea. On its walls wcro bas-reliefs depicting the great event of her reign—tho building and despatching of tho first exploring squadron in the world. BUTTONS THAT WILL STICK. "When 1 get a bright idea I always want to p:iss it aloug," said a lady, ns sho sat watching a you ig girl sewing; "do your buttons ever come oil, Lena!' "Ever? They're always doing it. Thoy are ironed off, washed off and pulled off untill I dispair. I seem to shed buttons at every step." "Make use of those two hints when you are sowing them on, then, and see if they mako any differoace. When you begin, before you lay the button on the cloth put the thread through so that the knot will be on the right side, that leaves it under the button nnd prevents it from being ironed or worn away, and thus beginning the loosen ing process. "Tl;en, beforo you begin sowing, lay a large pin acrosi the button so that all your threads will go over the pin. Af ter you have finished tilling the hole» with thread draw out the pin and wind your thread round and round beneath tho button. That makes a compact stem to sustain the possible pulling and wear of tho buttonhole. It is no exag gciation to say that my buttons never i come off, and I'm sure yours won't, if NO. 34. you use my method of sowing."—• Chicago Timet. MILI.INEIIV ODDITIRS. Just now there is a rage for millinery oddities, tho quaintest of which is the butterfly bonnet, a Parisian novelty originally designed for some stage beauty. In the model the entire crown was formed of an exact reproduction of tho body and wings of a butterfly in ruby velvot, tho body being lined with jet of variegated tints. Along the brim falling on the hair was a dainty borJer ing of ruby featherings, surmounted by a twisted diadem of volvot. These butterfly bonnets are now brought out in black, white nnd colored net or tulle, tho gauzy wings being sprinkled with gold and crystal that glitters and shines in beauty under tho gaslight. Another fancy is a picco of wild gamo mounted on a wired rosett« of lace, and secured to the head by mean* of ribbon strings. These gulls, prairio chickens aud wild ducks como from abroad, cost as much as a small poultry yard, aud are considered very smart with a tailor made suit. Leather bonnets aro among tho luxuries indulged in by woman of means. Tiicso novelties are as hard in effect as the tarpaulin hat, but equally as serviceable, tho dampnoss of tho sea or the mist 3 on land making no impres sion on them. As now ordained tho votaries of fashion have tho privilege, if tho money, of selecting oozo loathor for shoes, gloves, bonnet, card-caso and pocketbook. — N. F. World. SOME REMODELED HOUSE GOWNS. Owners of last summer's gowns, made with a round skirt and bodice gathered at tho waist lino, may easily alter their appcaranco to accord with more ad vanced ideas. Put a border—abovo tho hem of the skirt—of Incc, embroid ery or velvet, out in shape, vandyko points upward. Ilavo a row around the waist, points up, as a girdle; on the wrists, and a row round the neck, with tho points down. If the form is rather thick-waisted omit the girdlo, and have a bolt of ribbon tied on ona side and pointed in front liko a girdle. If you have a dull black dress brighten it with full sleevos, collar and yoke of red or bluo tartan surah, cut on the bias. Short-waisted people should wear a tapering V-shaped vest, rather than any yoke trimming. Wear half-worn Bkirts, after putting them in order, with loose blouses or fancy jacket basques, which aro described oTsewhere. Afternoon dresses, of old-roso cashmere, are uni versally becoming, stylish and reason able, as pretty shades como as low as seventy-five cents a yard. The round skirt has three groat box plaits in the back, nnd the rost gathered, with throe rows of black velvet ribbon as a border. The leg-o'-mutton sleeves have three rows of tho ribbon for cuffs, and piece velvet is taken for a bolt ending in girdlo points in front, held by an elongated jet buckle. The bodice is without darts, tho fullness is laid in tiny plaits, and has a bluntly-pointed yoko of velvet, with a turn-over frill of old-mso silk, or white lace as neck finish. — Ladies' llome Journal FASHION NOTEB. Gold braid is put on gray dresses and silver on brown. For a walking costume soutane cloth of military blue is very stylish. The now steel and silver "art" jow elry is just now very fashionably worn. A black fan of turkey's foathars is considered chic with tho most dolicate evening toilet. Girls in bright red jackets of box cloth aro seen in the park every after noon, walking or driving. If you want to seem tall and com manding, carry a white parasol and wear a whito hat or white aigrette. Many of the spring wraps have van dyked yokes richly wrought in silk em broidery, to which cape-shaped man tles are applied. A fan made of human hair is dis played at a London store. Even what uppears to be beautiful lace fringing tho sticks is real hair. Orange velvet borders, cuff% collars and waistcoats applique, with gold cord iind thread embroideries, aro favorite trimmings on white clotb dinner and evening gowns. Bodices and baiquos, finished with a side effect, whother doublo-breasted or la Russe, suggest tho pretty rosette or bow of ribbon pinned on the shoulder or collar under the ear.
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