Republican News Item
B. M. VANDYKE, Editor.
LAPORTE PA'.
NEWS STORIES
IN MINIATURE
Minor Mention of a Week's
important Events.
A HISTORY OF SEVEN DAYS
Paragraphs Which Briefly Chronicle
the Event# of Interest as Bull®*
tlned by Wire, Wireless and
Cable Foreign News.
WASHINGTON.
Senators Gronna and Thornton
spoke against the reciprocity bill.
Attorney-General Wlckersham re
newed his fight to dissociate railroads
from coal-mine ownership.
A treaty abolishing pelagic sealing
was signed in Washington by the rep
resentatives of the United States,
Great Britain, Russia and Japan.
A board of naval experts in explo
sives is being selected by the Navy
department to study the hull of the
]Vin«"o i n the cofferdam in Havana
harbor
t a.ung John Hays Hammond as me
text. Congressman Henry of Texas,
delivered a philippic against "great
millionaires shining in splendor at for
eign courts.
The Senate listened to a remarka
ble defence of Christian Science by
Senator Works of California, and to
an attack on reciprocity by Senator
Gronna of North Dakota.
The Apostolic Delegate sent to
President Taft a copy of an autograph
letter from Pope Pius X. warmly ap
plauding the lead taken by the United
States for international peace.
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nounced at Washington an increase
in the salaries of rural free delivery
carriers, to compensate them for the
extra burden in caee Congress ap
proves his recommendations for a
parcels post system.
PERSONAL.
J. R. Keene arrived in London in a
serious condition. He cannot concen
trate his mind on any subject.
The German Kaiser sailed away on
the imperial yacht Hahenzoilern for a
trip to Norway.
Miss Amelia Barr, the aged author,
cut her face severely in a fall at her
home, Cherry Croft on the Hudson. \
King George and Queen Mary, with
the Prince of Wales and Princess
Mary, were heartily cheered on their
arrival at Kingstown, Ireland.
Maria Pia, widow of King Luis of
Portugal, mother of King Carlos,
fjrandmother of ex-King Manuel and
aunt ci the present King of Italy, died
near Turin.
Ethel Barrymore, the actress, was
reported in Los Angeles to have taken
steps to sue for divorce from Russel
Colt, naming a New York society
■woman.
Miss Nora Davis, sister of Richard
Harding Davis, was married to Rev.
F. Percival Farrar, rector of Sand
ringham and domestic chaplain to the
king, at St. Andrews, Kensington.
John D. Rockefeller, at Cleveland,
spent his birthday—the 72d —in his
usual way—golf in the morning and a
drive in the afternoon. It may even
be a rather lonesome day. Rocke
feller ia in as good health now as ho
has been in several years.
GENERAL.
Prices for corn soared in Chicago
on reports of heat and drouth follow
ing the holiday.
Verona Lake, N- J-> was drained to
find the body of Alexander McLoud,
seventeen years old, of Paterson.
There was a falling off of nearly
$7,000,000 in customs receipts at the
port of Boston, for the fiscal year
which ended June 30.
By the death of Smith Ely, ex-Mayor
of New York, the Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian church loses the SIOO,OOO do
nation which Mr. Ely offered.
The defence in the McNamara al
leged dynamite conspiracy case
sprung a surprise on the prosecution
in Los Angeles when it asserted that
the court had no jurisdiction in th<;
nineteen charges of murder, as the
brothers had been extradited for al
leged dynamiting.
Mrs. Mane henfield, divorced wife
of Frank Penlield, the Cleveland oil
millionaire, has gone to Cleveland to
fight l'or trust funds she says have
been withheld from her and her
daughter. Friends declare she is in'
financial stress.
Karl von Metz Meyer, the banker's
eon who admitted having committed
nearly a score of burglaries, waived
examination in Brooklyn and was sent
to jail. Many letters and photographs
from women were found in his rooms.
An action to separate the business
of coal mining from railroading was
begun, says a dispatch from Washing
ton, by the Attorney General against
the Lehigh Valley rallied.
Six thousand drivers in the Street
Cleaning department, New York,
threatened a strike against the new
i«n of removing garbage at night.
jHHL _ i kl
Twenty-one parsons died from the
affects of the heat tn Philadelphia.
Waloott Oregory was severely frost
bitten at Lenox, Mass. He was look
ed In a refrigerator.
Fire caused by a tailing skyrocket,
destroyed nearly the entire business
section of Kaylor, Pa., entailing a loss
of $116,000.
The temperature at Albany, N. Y.,
was 116, and at Junction City, Kan.,
113; at Newport, R. 1., the mercury
registered 78.
'She United States Government has
taken charge of the weather observa
tion bureau on top of the Arsenal in
Central Park, New York.
Enos Warner sixty-three years old,
of South Dayton, N. Y., is dead. He
was one of the party that escaped
through a tunnel from the Llbby pris
on.
Judge Bordwell handed down a de
?ision in the Los Angeles courts hold
ng that his court had jurisdiction to
:ry John j! McNamara on murder
charges.
Charles W. Gardner and' Lloyd
Harned, members of prominent fami
lies at Bayshore, L. 1., were arrested
on the charge of using the mails to
defraud.
Representative E. B. Vreeland of
New York, in an address before the
Ohio Bankers' association, at Cedar
Point, Ohio, indorsed ex Senator Aid
rich's plan for a central bank.
Attorney General Wickersham dis
cussed the Supreme court's recent de
:isions in the Standard Oil and Tobac'
so cases before the Michigan State
Bar association, at Battle Creek,
Mich.
Adolph Pricken, who, as bookkeep
er by Park & Tilford, robbed them of
perfumes worth nearly $30,000, was
sentenced by Judge Mulqueen to four
years and five months in state's
prison.
An official of the Standard Oil com
pany said it would be some time yet
before the company would be ready
to announce a plan of reorganization
in accordance with the Supreme
court's decision.
The New iork state department of
health announced that for the first
time in its history no cases of tetanus
had been reported from the Fourth of
July celebration. There were 16
cases last year.
Despite the passage of an ordinance,
limiting the length of hatpins for
women, Cleveland doctors are being
called upon to daily dress wounds re
ceived in elevators, crowded cars and
other public places.
The caddies at the Lenox, Mass.,
golf course, of which William D.
Sloane is president, are on strike.
Filch men end week-end guests carried
:heir own clubs. The strikers want a
raise from 20 to 25 cents a round.
Reginald Bolton, President of the
American Society for Heating and
Ventilating Engineers, informed that
body that animal heat in Greater New
York "equal to 438,000 tons of coal,"
raises the temperature of the city 04
degrees.
Charges of graft made in connec
tion with the New York's displays of
fireworks on July 4 will result, it was
announced, in thorough investigation
by the Comptroller, Commissioner of
Accounts Fosdick and the Board of
Aldermen.
Dr. F. N. Bingham, who has had
charge of the medical supplies for the
lighthouse service for thirty-five
years, died at New Brighton, Staten
Island. He was seventy-two years
old and on Tuesday had received no
tice of dismissal.
FOREIGN.
Insubordination on the part of Mad
srciist soldiers at Torren caused them
:o be fired into. Four men were
tilled.
King George issued a message o
thanks to his subjects for their "loy
ilty unstintedly expressed" during
the coronation period.
A Lisbon dispatch stated that th«
reports of conflicts between the Por
iuguese loyal troops and sympathizers
with the monarchists were untrue.
Vedrine led the nine contestants in
the Parls-Utrecht-London-Paris avia
tion race in the flight across the Brit
ish channel, from Dover' to Calais.
Jutige Gary was elected chairman ol
the committee appointed by the Inter
; national Steel conference t9 work out
a plan for a world-wide organization.
An international conference ol
steel-makers met in Brussels to organ
| ize the steel interests of the world.
France, Spain, Britain and Russia
agreed to Germany's proposition to
hold "conversations" about Morocco.
The-British warship Aeolus has ar
rived at Kingston, from Trinidad, with
orders to prevent Castro landing. In
the event of Castro being held in
West Indian waters he will be tried
for piracy.
The New York World's Brussels
correspondent learned on indisputable
authority that the International Steel
Congress at a secret session consid
ered a proposal by Judge Gary to
form a universal steel trust.
Fighting was reported between sea
men in barracks at Lisbond. incited
by monarchists, and the populace;
cavalry and infantry were called out
to restore order.
Dr. J. A. Haldane and Dr. Gordon
Douglas of Oxford University are to
conduct experiments on Pike's Peak
to test the effect of high altitudes on
human blood.
Two motormen were killed and five
other persons injured in a charge by
the police on a mob near the street
ear barns at Indianilla, near Mexico
City
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For the Hostess
H =PI
A Porch Party Entertainment.
Every girl loves a pretty blouse,
ind I want to tell you of six good
>buma who meet once In two weeks
ind bring their needlework, which by
sommon consent Is to be a lingerie
Dlouse all to be made by hand. Each
>ne Is pledged to watch for new Ideas.
Light refreshments are served, and
occasionally the hostess has some
imusement not to last oyer 20 mln
ltes or half an hour. At a recent
meeting they had this "Romance of a
Shirtwaist" Years ago I put It In
Jie department, but It will be new
sow to many, and I hope will answer
:h« request for contests suitable for
porch parties and afternoon affairs
'Just for girls:"
Romance of a Shirtwaist —Her
over has persuaded her to be his, and
'.hey were about to slip into the matri
monial . One day he reproached
ier for her coldness to him, and she
replied, "I cannot wear my heart on
my always," and while her gol
len head rested on his manly he
lorgave her, and presented her with
i pretty for her dainty . Life
is not always what it , for after
Se became a golfer her was on the
most of the time, and she began
10 fear that she could never win him
—to his former devotion. Indeed,
she often felt she would like to
aim, but she decided to him in
stead. so she put on a bold and
told him she would break the .
He began to and haw, and In
vited her togo to a concert.
Then she knew that she could
him. Although there Is much red
about such matter, one Is apt to get
the cold Instead of two loving
arms about one's . They went to
the concert and came to the conclu
sion that their promises were still
waist, seems (Beams), links, back,
cuff, collar, front, tie, hem, band, but
tonhole, tape, shoulder, neck, binding,
wrong side, bound, band.
Iced drinks, sherbets and other fro
zen things are much in favor, served
with a variety of small cakes, wafers
: and crackers', or biscuit, as we are be
: ginning to call them, same aB they do
| in England.
A Musical Entertainment.
After the meeting of a musical dub
! the hostess had this little diversion: i
i Some played the melody of the follow- j
j lng songs, the titles being unan
i nounced:
"Star-Spangled Banner," "Marching
j Through Georgia," "Columbia, the
, Gem of the Ocean," "Battle Hymn ot
| the Republic." "Tramp, Tramp,
j Tramp," "Hall Columbia," "Home,
! Sweet Home," "Yankee Doodle."
I "When Johnnie Comes Marching
Home Again," "Auld Lang Syne."
j "America."
The guests wrote down the names
! opposite the numbers, the pianist say
ing as she played, "No. 1, No. 2," etc.
After each piece the hostess held up
an object which illustrated a term
used in music, for instance: "Time,"
was a small clock; "measure," a yard
stick; "key," a door key; "flats," two
flatlrons; "lines," a pair of nursery
For Little Folks
TUNIC suits seem to be the most
popular for little boys' first
manly garb. The one at the left
Is very plain and can be made of navy
blue serge, cloth or wash material.
The little trousers are ornamented at
the bottom with buttons, and larger
ones fasten the tunic at the right side.
The belt is worn low and the collar is
of white linen finished with a frill of
the same.
The other suit, at the right, is made
on the same lines, but is rather more
dressy and can be made of cream
cashmere or even of bengaline 6llk for
weddings, parties, etc. It la trimmed
lines; "sharps," a carving set; "tie,"
a gentleman's tie; . "bars," small
clothes-bars; "staff," a cane; "a whole
note," a dollar; "a half note," a half
dollar; "a quarter note," a silver quar
ter.
The ice cream was In shape of
musical instruments and the bonbons
were in small piano's, violins, man
dolins, etc.
A Progressive Needle Party.
This affair was the amusement of
fered by a hostess at a linen shower
given for a recent bride: There were
twelve guests and four tables. At each
table there was a bowl containing fifty
needles of all sizes, and thread; the
game was to see which couple could
thread the most needles In three min
utes, the contest beginning and end
ing with the tap of a bell. The two
having the largest score progressed
to the next table, each player having
a dainty pincushion In which pins
were stuck to mark the progressions.
These pins had colored heads. A
daintily equipped sewing bag was the
head prize and a little work basket of
odd design was the second; embroid
ery scissors In a case made an ac
ceptable consolation prize. Every
one had the Jolliest kind of a time
and It was a most easy party to pre
pare.
A Unique Gingham Apron Shower.
A girl who had lived In her home
town all of her life and consequently
had many friends, was the recipient
of this acceptable and enjoyable
shower. The girls (six In number)
were asked to bring a gingham apron.
They consulted, so there would be no
two alike. Of the material each girl
made a necktie which was placed in
an envelope. The aprons were all
finished except the hems, which fur
nished needle work for an hour. At
six o'clock a man for each girl ap
peared, the envelopes were passed,
and the men found their supper part
ners by matching the neckties with
the aprons, each girl putting on one
and the boys wearing the tie that
matched. At the close of the repast
the aprons were all tied about the lit
tle bride-elect. It was a merry time
and twice as nice because the poor,
neglected bridegroom and ushers were
Included in the fun.
MADAME MERRI.
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Lace, combined with net, is much
used.
Everywhere we see a bit of black
satin.
Feathers are slowly coming back
to the coiffure.
"Natural" linens are In greater de
mand than colors.
Still veiled are the various parts
of milady's costume.
Many little evening frocks are
trimmed with cords of precious stones
or beads to imitate tbem. Coral on
black and white striped mousseline is
stunning.
Patent leather belts In black, blue,
red or white are to be a stylish finish
for linen frocks.
around the neck, down one side ot
the tunic and on the Bleeves and belt
with embroidery or braiding, as may
be preferred.
The pretty dress on the little girl
in the middle of the group is of pale
blue and white striped cotton voile.
The skirt Is plaited all round; the
blouse Is also plaited and ornamented
with black satin buttons and loops.
The collar and cuffs are of white
lawn trimmed with pale blue feather
stitching and edged with lace. The
little cravat Is of black satin, the ends
finished with balls of the same, and
the belt Is of patent leather.
Buying
Shoes'
As Jane and her mother were In a
hurry when they entered the crowded
shoe department they were relieved
to see a man respond to the call of
the floorwalker and come toward
them at oncti with an expectant smile.
His little black eyes peered at them
interestedly through his silver
trimmed spectacles and he adjusted
the garnet stickpin in his tie as if
anxious to create a good impression.
"Something I, can show you, mad
am?" he asked.
"Yes."
"Here," he said, Joyfully. "Be
seated."
Then he stood for a moment, sud
denly nervous and hesitating. The
floorwalker pointed with his pencil
to an empty stool. Reassured, the
young man dragged It over.
"What size do you wear, madam?"
"I don't know. Isn't the number in
the shoe?"
"Oh, yes," he said, quickly. "Oh,
yes, the number is in the shoe, but 1
was just wondering what size you
usually wear."
He looked around. The man who
was ministering to the customer on
the left of them handed him a meas
uring stick and he put it to use. Then
he stood with the stick In one hand
and the shoe in the other.
"Now —a —what kind of a shoe were
you wanting, madam?"
"I want a walking shoe —a good,
serviceable 6hoe, but not a heavy
601e."
"Yes. Now, what shaped toe? Did
you have anything special in mind?"
"Why, you might let me see a few
styles," she said rather briskly "1
don't just know."
Jane's mother is never in a good
humor when she has to buy shoes.
Customers around and about them
completed their transactions with sad
dening dispatch; new ones came and
went; the congestion of the morning
disappeared; still their clerk did not
come. Jane's mother watched the
hands of.the clock until she could
stand it no longer.
"We'll go!" she said.
"You can't," Jane chuckled. "He
has your shoe."
"Then you'll have togo and find
him."
"Sh! Here he is now!"
His hair was disordered and his
brow held the dew of labor, but he
smiled afresh. In his hands he bore
one pair of shoes.
"This is a very popular little shoe."
he said, holding one up and breathing
hard as he looked at It.
"Try it on," said Jane's mother,
grimly, thrusting forth a foot.
As if to make up for lost time, the
hook flourished rapidly over each but
ton until Jane's mother protested.
"Too tight," she said, pressing her
lips together.
"Exactly. It's the buttons, madam.
Now, see," he said, smoothing the
vamp with the palm of his hand. "Oth
erwise It's a perfect fit. We can easily
change the buttons, and —" he leaned
forward confidently—"that—that's a
very popular little shoe."
"Indeed? It looks rather ordinary
to me. Suppose you let me see some
thing in patent leather. And if you
could hurry, please, I'd be very grate
ful."
"Well," he smiled, almost sadly,
"I don't believe we have any patent
leathers."
The time was passing. How long
would it take to have those buttons
changed?" demanded Jane's mother.
"About three minutes, madam."
"Then I suppose I'll have to take
these."
When he had marked the shoes he
set them gently at his side and, from
what seemed the very depths of his
heart, drew forth a new cash book.
Between the crisp pages of this book
he adjusted the tracing paper with ex
asperating precision and with still
greater pains he wrote in a small ver
tical hand.
"In just a moment now," he said,
and departed.
Jane and her mother are still won
dering through what culminating ex
perience he went during the ten min
utes that ensued, for when they saw
him again he was perspiring heavily
and mopped his forehead with a large !
handkerchief. He did not return to
them, however.
"I have togo to lunch," they heard j
him entreat the man who had given
him the measuring stick. "Will you at
tend to my customers?"
The other salesman came to the
mother and daughter a moment later.
"I have your parcel," he said, "and
your change."
"My shoe!" gasped Jane's mother
suddenly as he was about to go. "My
other shoe!"
"I beg your pardon," he said, inquir
ingly.
She placed her unshod foot on the
stool dramatically. "It's probably on
some counter among the bargains by
this time," she said, with bitterness.
The search was not so long as might
have been expected. The discarded
shoe had been found on an upper
shelf with a measuring stick.
"Yes." said the salesman of experi
ence. smiling discreetly as he put on
Jane's mother's shoe for her, "he just
tame this morning, and you know sell
ing shoes Isn't a thing you can learn
out of a book."
"True," said Jane's mother, vehe
mently, "jut whatever they learn it
out of, I notice the new ones all se
lect me for their victim."
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Bettled Them.
"I've a sight o' sons—thirteen alto
gether," remarked a prosperous old
farmer, "and all of 'em's done me
credit save the three eldest, who
sowed wild oats at a pretty rapid rate,
and then came home and saddled my
shoulders with the harvest.
"Well, I own I was glad to see 'em
j back, and I feasted 'em, and petted
] 'em, and set 'em on their legs again,
only to see 'em skedaddle off afresh
when things had slowed down, with
all the cash they could lay hands on.
"That thereabouts sickened me, so
I called the rest of 'em together and
said:
" "There's ten of you left, and if any
of you 'ud like to follow t'other tlfltee
I won't try to stop you. But, under
stand this, though there may be a few
more prodigal sons, there'll be no
more fatted calves. I've killed the last
of 'em!'
"And," continued the old man, tri
umphantly, "I've haa Lrouble wi' none
of 'em since!"
Her Father's Child.
The six-year-old daughter of a well
known evangelistic preacher was
playing on the sidewalk one day when
a shabbily dressed and downcast man
approached her father's house.
Halting at the foot of the steps, he
looked at her, and in a weary voice—
the voice of an unsuccessful book
agent—he asked if her father might
be found in his study.
"He isn't home," said the little girl,
drawing close to him, and gazing up
into the tired face, "but he'll be home
pretty soon. You go into the house,
you poor, perishing soul, and mother'll
look after you till he come6."—Youth'»
Companion.
Sensitive.
. "You don't like educated Indians!"
"Oh, yes, I like them well enough, but
I always feel a sense of shame when
I meet one. He knows that my an
cestors cheated his ancestors out of
their land, and he knows that I know
he knows it."
Extravagant.
Ada —Cholly Saphedde was in a
brown study the other day, and I of
fered him a penny for his thoughts.
Edith —You spendthrift! You never
did know the value of money!
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with cream or stewed
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Some people make
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of this combination.
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