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THE WAY TO FEY.
The ordinary process cf frying is
rarely understood. Food is made
greasy and often indigestible because
the fat is not as hot as it should be
and the pan not deep enough. The fat
must be smoking hot—about 400 de-
grees Fahrenheit. Experience will
soon teach a cook that the required
temperature is reached when a bit o:
bread browns in a few seconds if
placed in the kettle. A thin coating
is thus made on oysters, croquettes, or
whatever is being fried, and all the
juices and flavors are kept within, ths
fat outside not being able to penetrate
if. —St. Louis Star-Sayings.
HOW TO CLEAN UTENSILS.
The European way of cleaning cool
ing utensils is one of the practices
Americans could import without danger
to their institutions. The tins and
pans are boiled in strong soda and
water, then scoured with solution of
oxalic acid and fine sand, and finally
rinsed with clear water. The result is
a delicious cleanliness and a shining
exterior.
To clean cane-bottomed chairs, turn
them upside down and wash the cane
work with hot water and a sponge,
using soap if it is very dirty. Let
them: dry in the open air or in a
draught, and the cane will become as
tight and firm as when new.
To clean enamelled wear used finely
powdered pumice stone.
To remove grease spots from the
range, rub with a soft rag and a little
paraffine. :
Clean sinks with boiling water and
strong soda.
Never scrub oileloth, but wash it
with a soft rag. Use neither hot nor
very cold, but lukewarm water, and
no soap.
Powdered charcoal is the best
cleanser and purifer of glass bottles in
which milk or food has been carried.
To clean papier mache articles, wash
them with a sponge and cold water
without soap, dredge with flour while
damp and polish with a flannel.
FRUIT SYRUPS.
A store of fruit syrups is a delight-
fal addition to the preserve closet,
and surplus fruit can be used in no
better way.
Remove the hull from strawberries
and pick over, without washing, if
the berries are free from sand or grit,
half a dozen quarts of ripe berries.
Put them into a double boiler or a
large stone jar, stood within a pan of
boiling water, add half their bulk of
sugar, that is, one pint for each quart,
and heat slowly for an hour or longer
until the berries are soft. Put into a
jelly bag and leave them for two hours
or more until the juice has completely
drained out. They must not be
squeezed. Put this juice into a sauce-
pan, heat it to 200 degrees Fahrenheit
and keep it at this temperature for one
hour. It is best touse a thermometer,
but if this is not at hand heat the juice
until it steams, but do not allow it to
boil, as this destroys the flavor. It can
then be bottled and sealed for future
use, and will keep indefinitely. It is
important that it should remain at
the above temperature for an hour, in
order to complete the process of steril-
ization.
Grape syrup may be made in the
same manner, and furnishes a most
healthful and acceptable drink for
well and sick. ;
Currants will require three-fourths
of the bulk of sugar. Raspberries,
blackberries, peaches and apricot sy-
~ rup are all made inthesame way as the
strawberry syrup.
To use, dilute the juice with cold
water, or soda water, in the propor-
tion of one-half juice to one of water,
although these proportions may be
varied.—American Agriculturist.
WARM WEATHER DISHES FOR LUNCHE DN.
Galantine of Breast of Vegl—Bone a
breast of young veal, spread out flat
over a board; trim the meat at the
ends for an inch or two, so that the
skin will hang over; take the scraps
of meat, a quarter of a pound of veal
cutlet, and a slice of unsmoked fat
pork, chop fine and season with salt,
pepper, a little minced thyme and pars-
ley, with a dash of spice. Mix with
half a pint of chopped beef tongue
{cold boiled), and half a dozen olives.
Form this dressing in a mass, roll the
veal around it and sew it together:
. wrap ina cloth and tie with tape to
keep in shape. Put in a braising pan,
pour in a quart o stock, and cook six
hours. Take up, let cool: vnwrap and
slice thin. Garnish with olives and
square off as pie jelly.
Eggs a la Creole—Take a dozen fresh
eggs and cook in buttered molds.
Take from the fire and let cool; slice
off the whites at one end of each when
perfectly cold ; take outthe yolkscare-
fully so as to preserve the shape. Mia
with a tablespoonful of chopped truf-
flies; a little pepper and salt, end put
back in the whites. Dip the eggs in
aspec jelly, set om ice until cooled,
and dip again. Set in a dish on a bed
of fresh lettuce leaves; drop a tea-
gpoonful of thin Mayonnaise on =sach
egg. Set on ice until very cold.
Olive Sandwiches—Stone a dozen
olives; chop them fine; add an ounce
of butter and a little cayenne; mixand
spread on slices of buttered bread;
trim neatly and arrange on a dish, and
garnish with lemon,
Chicken Fingers—Cut thin slices
from the breast of a cold roast chicken;
cut each slice in narrow strips; dip in
Mayonnaise sauce; arrange four strips
on each slice of buttered bread; cover
with top slices and cut in four narrow
strips, lengthwise; fold each slice in
wax paper; pile on a napkin and
serve.—Courier-Journal.
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Europe has 66,320,000 farmers; the
Upited States, 9,000,000,
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS !
THE STATE FINANCES. |
CIE TREASURY WAS NEVER IN A MORE FLOUR
ISHING COX DITION. i
Harrisevrnc.—The State Treasury of
Pennsylvania has never been in a more
flourishing condition than at present,
Large payments have been made the past
two months to meet the demands of the
school districts of the State, which are en-
titled to $5,000,000 a year, and for the pay-
ment of the quarterly salary of the judges
of the courts, and yei the amount in the
zeneral fund aggregates $8,133,747.69. The
moneys in this fund are deposited in 45
banks.
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TRIPLE KILLING.
O1L City—A. Beebe and wife were in-
stantly killed at Panama, N. Y., by the
Western, New York and Pennsylvania |
passenger train which leaves here for Buffa:
lo shortly after 1 0'c'ock. They had been
with a son atthe depot and were driving
over-a crossing when caught. Mrs. Ella |
Gallagher. 81 years of age was struck by the
same train at New Castle and fatally injur-
ed. She was carrying a dinner pail to her
son-in-law, and saw the train coming. bul
thought she could cross ahead of it.
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GAGGED AND ROBBED IN HIS OWN HOME.
Hou~ntnepoN—Three masked robbers en.
tered the dwelling of Chalmers Bubbs in
Saltillo the other night, bound, gagged and
beat the host and then stole every penny he
hadin the house, $387.01. This amount
was the saving of a life time. The robbers
escaped tc the mountains, but are being
pursued.
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STATE BREEDING FISH POISONED.
Erie. — Corry is greatly agitated by the
total destruction, at the State tish hatchery,
of the breeding fish, including the lake
trout. When the keeper went to the ponds
on Tuesday he found the fish on the water
dead. Poisoning is suspected, and an inves-
tigation is being made.
DEATH FROM A RAT BITE.
ArrrNrown.—Mamie Keating, aged 17
years, until a few weeks ago a domestic in
the family of Dr. Blank, of this city, died
from the result of a rat bite inflicted about
eight weeks ago, One nighta rat entered
her room and bit her on the little finger of
the right hand.
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BABY BURNED TO DEATH.
WiLkespARRE,—The house of Samuel
Vanderburg, in Ransom, was burned and
an infant perished in the flames, Mrs,
Vanderburg rescued two of her children,
aged 4 and 6 years, but was unable to reach
the bady.
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LIGHTNING, it seems, does strike ia the
same place :1 ore than once. A house in
Ebensburg has been hit three times. Twenty
years ago it killeda man named Davis. The
second time it did not do much damage.The
third time was last week when it severely
shocked a Mrs. Higgins and damagad the
house.
A Rexova cow has not been giving any
milk for three months. when one day it
came upon a bro:en keg of beer that had
fallen from a wagon. The cow drank all
the beer and since then has been giving 20
quarts a day—of milk, of course.
Tar committee appointed by Colonel S.
B. Dick to examinethe bank of J. R. Dick
& Co,, Meadville reports the assets as being
£669,350 23 and the liabilities as being $412.-
075 50." A dividend of 10 per cent will be
paid August 7,
Jonx RirriE and Mollie Grove, of John-
stown, were married and immediately went
out for a buggy ride. Inside of an hour
the horse ran away and both were badly
injured.
Purp M1LBAUGH, aged 6), a merchant of
Valley furnace, near Sharon, was killed by
the Jamestown accommodation on the Erie
and Pittsburg railway while trying to save
his cow.
A prracuEr at Warren surprised his con-
gregation last Sunday by telling them that
a number of them were giving more money
to church work than they could afford to.
TraDE in the bituminous coal regions is
decidedly better, and daring the past week
the output from the Clearfield and Beech
Creek regions was over 100,000 tons.
Lewis NicewoNGgEr, of George's station,
Westmoreland county, has a stalk of corn
15 feet high, which grew from a seed
planted 50 days ago,
CuarrEs Dusss, a laborer at Huntingdon,
as he emerged from his house, was tied to
his porch bv burglars, who then robbed the
house of $500.
Cras. Troms, a brakeman, was killed near
Waynesburg. the brake he was setting
snapping and throwing him between the
wheels.
Tre exodus of foreigners from the coke
regions continnes and the other day 100
Huns left Connellsville for their native
land.
Mary Jouxsoy, a Greensburg domestic,
fell on a red hot cook stove, receiving injur-
ies which may prove fatal.
Purrapzrruia is flooded with counterfeit
pennies.
DRY WEATHER
Has Not Improved the Condition of the
Crops.
The weekly crop statement of the weath-
er bureau at Washington says: The weather
during the past week has probably resulted
it a general improvement of crops in the
east gulf and south Atlantic states.
Pennsylvania—Drouth affecting all
crops, corn and tobacco need soaking rain;
special reports on tobacco give less acreage
than usual; pastures short and some farm-
ers feeding hay to cattle.
Maryland—So far corn and tobacco but
slightly injured by drouth; large peach
yield reported from. some sections, small
from others. ge
Indiana—Corn and potatoes generally in
bad condition; potato bugs doing much
damage. ;
West Virginia—Corn needing rains. Oats
cured and put away.
Ohio—Corn, tobacco, potatoes and past:
ures suffering from drouth and worms;
shock wheat threshed; oat harvest nearing
completicn, hay secured.
Four Killed at a Concert.
By a balcony giving way at a concert mm
the Chelsea Yacht Club house, Boston,
Mass., J. P. Warren, W. L.Pemberton, Mrs.
Augusta P. Shuman and Mrs. A. A. Put:
nam, all of Chelsea, were killed and about
15 persons badly injured.
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—THE much dreaded army worm has been
at work in the grain fields in Polk, Kibbon
and Marshall counties. Minn,, during the
past 10 days and hundreds of acres of the
crops are said to be ruined.
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__A spring of carbonic acid gas has oeen
discovered on the farm of Henry Wilcox.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Paper is made from corn husks.
The oldest existing statue is one of
* wood.
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The first American ship waslaunached
ot New York in 1616.
In Norway persons who have noy
been vaccinated are not allowed to
vote at any election.
The new postmaster at Dundee,
Mich., among his other qualifications
has a mustache 32} inches from tip to
tip.
The first magazine gun was made by
John Cuckson, London, 1586. Aspeci-
men isin the Hartford Museum of A.
E. Brooks.
In Middle Smithfield, Penn., therc
is a chestnut tree the trunk of which
measures nineteen feet in circum-
ference, breast high.
In some parts of France where the
soil is poor, many acres are given up
to lilac bushes and their blossoms are
sent to Paris by the cartload.
A radish, about a foot in length and
with 2 complete knot tied in the cen-
tre, is a vegetable monstrosity, it is
claimed, grown on the farm of Spen-
cer Williams, near Pawnee, Kan.
A perfect face should be divided in-
to three equal parts—from the roots
of the hair to the root of the nose,
thence to the tip and from the tip of
of the nose to the tip of the chin.
Every Eastern potentate of ancient
times was so accustomed to the idea of
being poisoned that the most impor-
tant functionary about the court was a
taster, who tasted every dish before it
was set before the King.
During a large part of the Sevén
Years’ War. Frederick the Great
carried an ounce of corrosive subli-
mate in his pocket to use in case of
hopeless disaster. On or two occasions
he came near swallowing it.
A. VW. Glover, of Windsor Locks,
Wis., claims to have discovered 1n the
foundations of an old foundry a stone
covered with hieroglyphies, supposed
to be of Indian origin, though no one
versed in Indian ore can decipher
them.
We havesixty divisions on the dials
of our clocks and watches because the
old Greek astronomer, Hipparchus,
who lived in the second century before
Christ, used the Babylonian system of
dividing time, and that system being
sexagesimal.
Therate schedule of one of the trans-
atlantic steamship companies sets forth
that the price of passage for dozs,
cats and monkeys is $10 each, and that
those animals ‘‘must be caged befo:
being brought on the steamer, and
will then be placed in charge of the
butcher.”
Outside of medical
terms the word ‘‘unexceptionablene
is, according to some lexicographers,
the longest English word. ‘Incom-
prehensibility” has the same. compie-
ment of letters, nineteen, but four of
them are ¢“1,” end it would occupy less
space in type than its sesquipedalian
brother.
Ce er —-
Solved the Polar Problem.
A few years ago there was in a law
school not a hundred miles from Bos-
ton a very aged and eccentric protes-
sor. ‘‘Geuneral information” was the
old man’s hobby; like General Gaz-
field, he held it to be incontrovertible
that if a young lawyer possessed a
large fund of miscellaneous knowledge,
combined with an cqual amount oi
‘‘horse sense’” he would be a success.
So every year the professor put on his
examination paper a question very far
removed from his subject of criminal
law. One year it was, “How many
kinds of trees are there in the college
yard?’ The next, “What is the makg-
up of the present Inglish cabinet?™
Finally the professor thought he had
invented the best question of his life.
It was, “Name twelve animals that in-
habit the polar regions?”
The professor chuckled as he wrote
this down. He was sure that he conld
“pluck” half the students on that
question. And it was beyond.a doubt
that that opprobrious young loafer,
Jones, 37, would fail.
But when the professor read the ex-
amination pavers, Jones, who had not
answered another question. was the
only man who had solved the polar
problem. This was Jones's answer :
“Six seals and six polar bears.”
Jones got his degree and distinction.
The professor said that the man who
could give such an answer would some
day cause the shades of Webster and
Choate to turn green with envi.—
Boston Budget.
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The American Woit Bisappeari:
Notwithstanding the fact that ever
since the settlement of America the
wolf has been pursued with guns, traps
and poison, it is certain that no blow
was ever dealt this race so severe as the
extinction of the buitalo. Their nat-
ural prey gone, the wolves turned their
attention to the herds of the stockmen,
and for years now their depredations
have resulted in very serious losses to
raisers of horses and cattle on the
Northern plains. They do not attack
the herds when they are alarmed and
closely bunched together, but prowl
about their outskirts, trying to cut oft
the young stock, which they can easily
puil down.
Sometimes a small band of wolves
will round-up a little bunch of cattle,
which stand in a close circle, their
heads outward, prepared for the at-
tack. After cireling about them for a
short time, two or three of the wolves
will dash at the bunch, and if they can
scatter the animals it is the work of
an instant only to pull down yeer-
ling or to kill two or three calves. We
have seen two wolves thus destroy a
yearling steer with no greater appax-
ent effort than a setter dog would use
wm killing a cat. E
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The world annually consumes about
near Saratoga, N. Y. It shoots up into the
air 80 fect.
650,000 tons of coffee,
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 13
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“Paul at Jerusalem.” Acts xxi, 27-39.
Golden Text: Pnil.i.,29. Commentary.
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27. ‘‘And when the seven days were almost
ended the Jews which were of Asia, when
they saw him in the temple, stirred up all
the people and laid bands on him.” After
parting with the elders of Ephesus Paul and
his companions continued their voyage and
in due time landed at Tyre in Syria ; then on
to Ceesarea, where they tarried some days
with Philip and his daughters, after which
they continued on to Jerusalem and were
gladly received by the brethren. Then that
Paul might not seem to the zealous lawkeep-
ers to disregard any of the laws and so pre-
vent their anger he does a questionable
thing, which does not accomplish any good.
Both at Tyre and at Cessarea Paul was
warned by the Holy Spirit not to go to
Jerusalem (verses 4,11), but he would not be
persuaded (verse 14).
28. “Crying out, Men of Israel, help! This
is the man that teacheth all men everywhere
against the people, and the law, and this
place.” Not a word of truth in either of
these charges or in the one following. So
that Paul could truly say. “They laid to my
charge things that I knew not.”
29. “For they had seen before with him in
the city Trophimus and Ephesian whom they
supposed that Paul bad brought into the
temple,” Their last charge, therefore, was
grounded on mere supposition. In their
fancied zeal for God they were disobeying
the very commands of Gods, for it is written,
“Let none of you imagine evil against his
brother in your heart” (Zech. vii, 10; viii,
17). They knew nothing of the love which
thinketh no evil, is not easily provoked, re-
joiceth in the truth, hopeth all things (I Cor.
xiii., 5-7).
30. ‘‘And all the city was moved, and the
people ran together, and they took Paul and
drew him out of the temple, and forthwith
the doors were shut.” How much of the
devil there may be under the cloak religion
and apparent zeal for God! What righteous
indignation (?) and the whole city moved,
but it is all the work of the wicked one. Be
calm, Paul, for the unseen Almighty One
careth, and legions of angels are ready to do
His bidding. See II Kings vi, 16, 17: Ps.
xxxiv,, 7. Math. xxvi., 53.
31. ““And. as they went about to kill him
tidings came unto the chief captain of the
band that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.”
Death is the devil's last and worst that he
can do to a child of God, but even then he
is only a black servant to usher us into the
presence of our Lord, who has taught us not
to fear them which kill the body (Math. x.,
28). Hehas taught us not to be offended it
we are put out of the company of religious
people, and even if they kill us (John xvi.,
"32. “And when they saw the chief captain
and the soldiers they left beating of Paul.”
This was probably one of the three beatings
which he speaks of in Il Cor. xi., 25. His
back had many a sear ere this, but he took
pleasure in all distresses for Christ's sake if
only the power of Christ might rest upon
him (II Cor. xii., 9, 10). We do well always
to consider Him that endured such con-
tradietion of sinners against Himself lest we
be wearied and faint in our minds, for not
many of us have, like Paul, resisted unto
blood (Heb. xiii., 3. 4).
33. ‘““Then the chief captain came near and
took him and commanded him to he bound
with two chains and demanded who he was
and what he had done.” Of these bonds
also he had been torawarned (verse 11 and
chapter xx., 23), but these were neither hig
first nor his last chains for Jesus's sake
(chapter xxviii., 20 II Tim. i., 16). These
chains were but for a time and ior the glory
of God, but we read of everlasting chains for
lost spirits (Jude 6 II Pet. ii., 4). Not
resent suffering, but the eternal is to be
feared (Math. x, 28 xxv., 30, 41; Rev. xiv.,
10, 11; xx., 15 xxi., 8),
34. “And some cried one thing, some an.
other, among the multitude, and when he
could not know the certainty for the tumult
he commanded him to be carried into the
castle.” This is very suggestive of the tu-
mult of to-day among religious people. There
is such a erying of one thing and another by
higher and lower and no critics, by the dif-
ferent denominations and by the posts and
press that it would almost seem impossible to
know the certainty of anything, put those
who cling to the book may know and will
know if they only take God at His word (Isa.
vill, 20 R. V.).
35. "And wien he came upon the stairs so
it was that he was borne of the soldiers for
the violence of the people.” Violence and
strife in the city, sure enough (Ps. lv., 9).
But the day will come when Jerusalem shall
be called a city of truth ; when her walls shall
be salvation and her gates praise ; when the
work of righteousness shall be peace, and the
effect of righteousness, quietness and assur:
ance forever (Zech. viil.,, 3, Isa. Ix., 18:
£xxil., 17).
36. -**For the muititude of the people fol.
lowed after, crying, Away with him!’ Sa
they cried oft concerning his Master (Luke
xxiii., 18 : Jobx xix., 19), and He taught us
that we must expect His treatment if faith-
ful unto Him (John xv., 20). How few of
us in these days seem to be counted worthy
of this honor! Isit because we are so little
like Him, so unfaithful to testimony, so
mixed up with the world, or is it because we
fear suffering for His sake?
37. “And as Paul was to be led into the
castle he said unto the chief captain, May 1
speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou
speak Greek?” During this uproar and
tumult Paul was doubtless communing with
his unseen ¥riend and Master His heart
would be saying ‘I am Thine, O Lord, for
Thy service. What wilt Thou have me to do?
(chapter xxvii., 23 ix., 6)? Captain and
soldiers and angry mob were nothing to him
as compared with his own Captain.
38. “Art not thou that Egyptian which be-
fore these days madest an uproar and led-
dest out into the wilderness 4000 men that
were murderers?” Here is a compliment for
a faithful follower of the meek and lowly
Jesus. A man who preached peace and
went about rescuing people from the hands
of the father of all liars and murderers
(John viii., 4%) to be accused of being the
leader of 4000 murderers—that is a feather
for your cap, Paul, more fellowship with
your Master. Blessed privilege to be mis-
understood and falsely accused if only for
His sake
39. “But Paul said, I am 2a man which am
a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of
no mean city, and I beseech thee suffer me
to speak unto the people.” Though sufter-
ing in body from the beating and the rough
handling, his heart longed to tell if possible
onee more the story of Jesus. The false ac
cusation was not worth noticing. but it was
worth while to get another opportunity to
speak of Jesus. Fellow believer we are citi-
zens of no mean city, Compare Phil. iii., 20,
with Rev. xxi., 2. Isyour heart so stirred by
this heavenly citizenship that you long
above all things to speak of Him?—Lesson
Helper.
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A Lmminous Tree.
A remarkable tree grows neay some
springs, about twelve miles north of
Tuscarora, Nevada. It is about six
pr seven feet high, with a trunk
which at its base is three times the
size of an ordihary man’s wrist. 1ts
truly wonderful characteristic is its
luminosisy, which is so great that on
the darkest night it can be plainly
teen a mile away. A person stand-
ing near could read the finest print
by its light. The luminous property
is due to a gummy substance, which
can be transferred to the hand by
rubbing, together with the phosphor-
escent licht, while that on the lea
disappears. This luminosity is
thought to bedue to a parasitic worm,
wd also in da
A ROMANTIC WEDDING.
Hattie Horner, the Kansas poectess,
was married the other day, and the
ceremony was as romantic as a poetfess
sould wish. It took place beneath the
ambrageous foliage oi the patriarchal
trees of the parental estate—the very
beeches under which Miss Hattie was
wont to meditate the muse, as Tityrus
did—and the bridal feast was spread
al fresco. The bride was dressed in
pure white, and looked, so the local
account says, ‘like a fair wood
nymph.” —3t. Louis Republic.
WOMEN FRIENDS DRESS ALIKE.
Fashionable women who are great
friends have a fad just now for dress-
ing alike, or at least in accord. Two
well-known society women wore at an
open air entertainment not long ago
black and white erepon bodices, made
very full and gathered into the neck,
with huge sleeves of the soft material.
Both were made on the same model,
the one in black crepon trimmed with
diagonal rows of white insertion, and
the other in white ecrepon trimmed in
exactly the same manner with black
insertion. —New York Tribune.
A HTROIC WOMAN.
Mrs. W. A. Swift, of Columbas, Ga.,
a few days ago performed an act which
would have been heroic for a man but
was doubly so for a woman. Shesaved
two gentlemen from drowning at Tybee
under circumstances which required
courage, coolness and great physical
endurance. Doctor Arthur Walker
and Robert Pou, of Columbus, were
bathing in the surf and accidentally
got beyond their depth. Mrs. Swift,
who was in the surf at the time, saw
their distress. She is a superb swim-
mer, and, without hesitating a mo-
ment, went to the rescue. She reached
Mr. Pou first and quickly carried him
into shallow water. Then she made
her way as fast as she could to Doctor
Walker. He had gone down twice be-
fore Mrs. Swift reached him, but she
seized him firmly and in a few minutes
had carried him safely out. Doctor
Walker was completely exhausted a
must have drowned had Mrs. Swilt
hesitated a moment. She acted with
a quickness of decision and a quality
of pluck which saved two lives. If is
not necessary to add that Mrs. Swift is
the heroine of the hour at Tybee.—At-
lanta Journal.
DAINTY GOWNS OF WHITE SWISS.
Gowns of pin-dotted white Swiss
are in great favor. A charmingly
simple one has a white lawn petticoat
or toundation, and is finished with a
seven-inch flournce, cut straight, very
full, and half-inch hem and several
tucks. The full, high-necked waist is
finished around the bottom with a five-
inch frill to be worn either outside or
under the skirt, as desired. A five-
inch tucked ruffle goes over the shoul-
ders and crosses the back. The full
sleeves are finished with a similar
ruffle, and the neck-band and girdle
are of white ribbon. Another white
Swiss is cut with rive gores, flares
widely at the bottom, and is lined with
sheer lawn; it is trimmed with two
nine-inch flounces of the new Margot
lace, a coarse-meshed lace with bold,
showy patterns of a yellowish tint
known 1m the shops as butter-color.
One flounce is on the bottom of the
skirt and the other at the knees; they
are headed with narrow ruffles of the
Swiss. Five-inch lace trims the full
waist, forming bretelles with full epan-
lets. Yellow ribbons complete the
pretty gown, which will be charming
on a tall blond. —Demorest.
LINEN.
Linen fabries for summer costumes
wdve come into sash favor that ‘‘the
stylish linen-color”™ is an expression
used in the shops to demqte other ma-
terials with flax-colorew grounds in
light gray and tan shades. Among the
unbleached natural-tinted linens prob-
ably the most popular choice is smooth
duck woven in tiny basket squares like
hop-sacking. Next this is a twilled
linen or drilling of excellent body in
ecru tints, sold for thirty-five cents a
yard, and thought worthy of trim
mings of black moire or satin. The
glazed linen or holland, when of very
fine quality, makes excellent suits with
a long coat and skirt to be worn with
a stiff linen shirt front, or a soft shirt
waist of silk or cheviot. At very ex-
clusive houses importations of soft-
finished linen crash come not only in
scru shades, but in much darker hues,
as tan-color, chestnut brown, and mor-
dore. The so-called ‘‘art linens” made
in Donegal, and used formerly for
fancy-work, are now sold at $1 a yard
for dresses, not only in the stylish nat-
ural tints, but also in red, butcher’s
blue, green, and mustard-color. The
taney is to trim these bright linens
with duck bands, revers, coller, ete.,
Dark blue denim, wjth hair-line stripes,
is called into requisition as revers and
wide borders on holland or duck suits
in ecru and brown shades, and in the
clear white as well. Irish linen dresses,
so long popular with the Princess of
Wales and her daughters, are made
with shirt waist, large sleeves, and
sailor collar, the skirt slightly gored,
and the whole piped with butcher's
blue linen.—Harper’s Bazar.
FASHION NOTES.
The ring handkerchief
coming into vogue.
Skirts covered with ruffles from hem
to waist-line are much liked.
Lace flounces around the lower edges
of skirts are increasing in popularity.
Wide-brimmed hats of fine straw or
lace braid are worn by women of all
ages.
The latest fancy in the way of a
feminine shirt button is & diamond set
in platinum.
Yellow is a color that appears to be
growing more and more in favor,
especially in the domain of millinery.
Biack organdies have clusters of
cherries, unripe blackberriesand holly
berries tossed gracefully on theirsheez
black surfaces.
Square yolks, outlined with enor:
mously full ruffles of the dress material
or of lace are very popular among
dressy young women. :
Strings of flowers and foliage are
carried about the throat, tied in a
bow, and the ends*allowed to fall some
distance down the skirt.
Black lace mittens of great length
will be seen later on, and ecru and
white net, decorated with tassels on the
drawing strings at the top.
holder is
Small girls’ dresses have enormously
wide collars or shonlder ruffles that ex.
tend out over the full sleeves in such ¢
manner as to suggest wings.
Among the new French color com:
binations are pale blue and heliotrope,
maroon and sea green, and browns
with greens of various shades.
The waist trimming of a recently im:
ported dress exactly resembles the
wings of butterflies, as though one of
these creatures was perched on each
shoulder.
There is an attemnt to discard the
small jackets, and make the large
sleeves and shoulder capes fill a doubls
office. For midsummer this will proba
bly be practicable.
A novelty in hosiery to be worn
with low black shoes is of silk lisle or
cotton with a checker board pattern in
black and white. The effect of theses
stockings is most bizarre.
Low-necked linings, under high-
waisted corsages of diaphanous fabrics,
are seen at all fashionable summer re-
sorts. The sleeves, as a rule, are un-
lined, but made excessively full.
Some of the newest imported para-
sol and umbrella handles are arranged
to hold a smelling-salts bottle in the
top. They are made in royal Dres-
den, cut crystal, and gold or silver
filagree.
Storm serge is an admirable material
for bathing-suits, as being so prepared
to repel moisture, it clings less to the
body than ordinary serge when in the
water. Cardinal red is a favorite color
this season.
A hat, with medium-width brim,
made with handsome lace-straw braid,
faced with black velvet and with a
trimming of loops and bows of lace and
a quantity of fine aigrettes, has been
very much admired.
Plain Chambray and French zephy:
dresses for morning wear have seam:
less, shirred princess backs, with fronts
pointed and finished either as a corse
let with guimps or in surplice form
with folds coming from the shoulders.
The fashion of matching the hat or
bonnet with the gown, while still in
vogue, is not so obligatory #s formerly.
The head-covering should, however,
always be consistent with the costume
and the occasion, but every day gives
proof that it is not.
The new make of crepon differs from
the crinkled lines alternated with plain
stripes, which design has become fami-
liar enough to be common. The latest
crepons look like idealized crocodile
s kin in respect to design, and the dyes
a re more beautiful than ever. ?
A fancy straw eapote has a pretty
fluted brim lined with apuffed drapery
| of straw-colored tulle; the strings and
bows in front on the right side are of
deep straw-colored ribbon, and a spray
of shaded red roses is placed on the
left side; one rose rising higher than
the others in the center of the bonnet.
The long, the very long, silk mit-
while black is used in the same way on |
the natural-colored linen. Vesting of
heavier linen than that used for whole |
| of many ofthisseason’ssnmmer gowns.
suits comes in basket weaving in tea
green, ecru, or red with dashes, dots,
inens, or tiny square blocks of dark
brown or black. The Galatea twilled
rottons so long monopolized by chil-
iren for sailor suits are now made up
‘for ladies’ yachting and sea-side morn-
; suits in all the pretty bright stripes
, blue, or bright red with white,
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tens, with or without « ed tops,
will be worn this summer, and in the
greatest length shown will run quite
up to the top of the shortest sleeves,
while in a diminished length they will
reach the ruffle, coming below the el-
bow, which will ba worn onthe sleeves
ra
The lace dress is coming in again, it
flying colors, al-
though most of the lace is black. One
of the most elegant lace dresses of the
season has the skirt made of a lace cir-
cular. This circular is lined with silk,
the hem has three or four satin ruffles
over which the lace falls
; rows of satin
an
blue and brown. | piping trim the skirt round and round,
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