THE REALM A Dress "leave. Tbe prevailing style, .writes Ma Manton, calls for sleeves fairly snug Httfng to s point well above tbe elbow, bnt for slight fulness at the shoul dors. XBAT DnP.Sf hLREVE. The designs shown are one single nnil the other two-seamed, and so provide for all needs. No, 1 is made of woolen goods, woven in a small check. The fulness at the shoulders may bo ar LADIES H0MT5 OOW.V. ranged either in flat bos pleats or whirred, and the wrists are faced with plain goods in contrasting color and rolled over to form small caffs. No. 2 is two-seamed. The fulness at the arm's-eye is also laid in flat box pleats, bnt the wrists aro loft plain, either pointed or round, and are finished with bands of passementerie. To make these sleeves for a woman of medium size will require one and one-half yards for No. 1 and one yard for No, 2 of forty-four-inch material. TMtotal Home Gown, No woman of refinement, aocording to May Manton, oau afford to be with out a comfortable and tasteful home gown. The model given combines all essentials and is equally suited to wool staffs for the present season and to washable fabrics for summor wear. Aa illustrated, the material takes a inediam place and is China silk iu a ' soft shade of blue with trimmings of cream-colored laoe. The full fronts are arranged over a fitted lining with single in plaoe of double bust-darts, and which reaches a point slightly be Jow the waist The yoke of laoe is faced onto the baok, but made separate at the front as the left side is hooked over invisibly into place. The gown proper consists of a full back and front joined by aide-beck gores; the fitting being accomplished by shoulder wuuoa and nnder-arm gores. Tho book, whioh is arranged in a Wutteau like plait at centre of yoke, falls in graceful folds to the floor. The ful jtees of the fronts is collected in gathers and stitched to the lower edge of the yoke, the dosing being effected at the left side beneath a jabot-like fall of laoe whioh completes the frill that finishos the lower edge of the square yoke. The sleeves ore snug fitting to the elbow but mousquotaire above and are finished by small puffs at the shoulders which support the epaulettes formed by eooond frills of laoe plaoed beneath those that edge the yoke. A collar of ribbon finishes tie neck and a sash, somewhat wider t't of the same sort, passes front the ; ' e at the centre-back under the sl is bowed at the left aide, . r ue this gown for lady in the i c!rt will require six and three JT cf f.'.'y-fatur inch out at OF FASHION. terial, or twelve and one-fotirih yards of twenty-two-inoh goods. Spring nnil Snrnmnr Mlltlnerr. Iu Purls flower-trimmod list and bonnets are alrendy seen, and it is predicted thnt flowers will have a great season in tho spring nud sum mer. Large, fully open roses, mado of both velvet and satin, ore already much in demand, and are shown in sneh artificial colors ns lavender, several shades of green, dnrk bine, all shades of yellow, beige and castor. Felt hats and toques are trimmed with them, and they are arranged in half coronets or wreaths withont foli age. A large violet, fanciful in sixe. and shape, is at pvesout popular iu Faris. The flower is as large, as nu overgrown pausy, and two of the petals are long and pointed and hang down over the stem. Velvet of all shades is used in the making, and a gleam of white is seen at the end of each petal. It is developed in various shades of yellow, violet and mauve. Long Coal For I.ltlli. (Ilrl. No other coat affords quite the pro tection against severe weather that does the long one which completely covers the gown. The model shown is of dark green diagonal cloth trimmed with bands of narrow black lirniil nnd larire smoked uenrl button.1 The back is seamless aud is joined to side-backs, the two being laid in un derlying plaits below the waist line. Tho fronts arehalf -fitting and tho right laps well over the loft, whore the closing is effected. Hiuooth-flttiug nnder-arm gores conuoct the back with the fronts and render the fitting easy of accomplishment. The sleeves are two-Beamod, the fulness at the shoulders being laid in plaits aud sup port oblong epaulettes, whioh add greatly to the effect of tho coat. At the neck is a high roll-over collar. Tho garment, as illustrated, is silk lined, but may be made with facings and sleeve linings only, if preferred. To mako this . coot for a girl of ton GIRL LONG COAT. years will require two aud one-fourth yards of fifty -four-inou material. Advauce Novelties. Bilk nets for sashes' and fiohus and oross-striped ribbons for pleatings are advanoe novelties in spring garnitures. It is reported that a scholarship of fSOOO has been given to Mount Holvoke CoUe by Kiss Helen Gould. TO WALK ACROSS THE ATLANTIC Captain William C. tllilrleve Will Make the Attempt Kext .Inly. Captain William C. Oldrieve, of Boston, has planned to walk across the Atlantic Ocean next July. He will be gin his journey July 4, and will be ac companied by Captain William A. An drews, famous by reason of his voy ages across the Atlantio iu a small boat. The seagoing shoes of Mr. Oldrieve CArTAIN OLT)MF.VE AND aro the most wonderful part of tho whole affair. They are really a pair of cedar boxes five feet long, with fins on the bottom and sides. They are very light aud capable of sustain ing 140 pounds, but as Oldrieve weighs only 130 they are as good to him as a steamer's deck. Iuto each of these wooden shoes the water walker's foet are thrust deep down aud a rubber gaitcr-like affair is fastcnodto his leg, thus effectually keeping out tho water. Rubber boots reaching to tbe thigh are also worn. Wheu thus equipped Oldrieve is able to walk many miles and to travel over choppy seas, and even the heavy swell of the ocean. His theory of midocean walking is to slide down the side of a big swell and wait for the next one to lift him up. In this way ho says it really re quires less exertion to walk on water far out at sea thau it doos iu a shel tered bay. The hardest work of all, ho says, is to go in choppy water,as he did in the F.ast Kivcr at New York. He thinks he will be able to walk from COO to lOOOmilosof tho way across the Altantio in a period of forty to ninety days. As tbe course taken will be iu the path of steamships, ho expects to speak many passing vessels and send back letters written while walk ing in midocean to his frioudH in Bos ton. OLDEST BABY CRADLE IN AMERICA. Was Ilawn Out of It'll nud Ilss Keen In l ie lOO Venn. - Valparaiso, Ind., has a cradle yet in actual use in tho home of the liov. John L. Brandt which is 106 years old. In this interesting nursery fixture more than forty babies have been rocked to sleep. '' In it waB rocked in his infancy Mor decai Hardesty, the first white child born in Indianapolis. The cradle came from Virginia, and was handed down to the Brandt family by the grand mother of Mrs. John L. Braudt, wife ;f the pastor of tbe Christian Tuber- raaele of Valparaiso. Mrs. Oeorge Marquis is Mrs. Brandt's grandmother. She had four teen children, who were rocked to sleep in this cradle. Mrs. Bra'ndt's A (3BADLC FOBTr BABIES WEBR UO.IKEU IN. father was one of the fourteen. He is now eighty-six years of age. It ia quaint bid relio of tbe primi tive days when cradles were hewn from a log. It was out from one solid piece, except that tbe two rockers were mor tised ia and pegged on with wooden The head-puwe, M shown in tbe picture, was intended as a head rest for the occupant, and for the spread to rest on. The cradle is five feet threenohoa in length. By reason of its continuous service it has been worn very smooth, and it fine polish causes it to resemble ebony rather than fine-grained black hickory wood. At the time of the World's Fair there was an effort on the part of the In diana Commission to secure the cradle for an exhibit in the Indiana building, bnt Mrs. Brandt would not consent to J1IH H15A-001SU 8HOEH. part with it, fearing that by some acci dent it might be damaged or lost. An effort will be made to got permission to send it to the Paris Exposition of 1000, along with other American curi osities, " . Prettiest Girl In Jspsu. Whilo wo are all willing to acknowl edge the Japanese as the most thor oughly artistic of all Oriontals, few Westerners believe in the beauty of Japanese women. "To bo beautiful both in reality and A JAl'ANF.HB FMZB BEAUTS-. iu pictures, the woman must be some what of palo complexion, with thin, oval face, prominent nose, small oval eyes and a small mouth. Tho body must be slender and the movement graceful. Although the Japanese women do not disfigure thoir feet as the Chiuese do, yet they must be na turally small and turned inward iu walking. "Csijig the native figures of- speeoh, the body must be slender and grace ful, 'like a weeping willow branch.' " The fircut Canals and Their Cost. The Sues Canal ia about 100 miles in length, and cost one million dollars per mile for its construction. The Corinth Canal is four miles iu length, and cost completed, with its ap proaches, one million per mile. ' The proposed Nicaragua Caaa! will cost per mile, with its terminals and ap proaches, certainly not less, aud pro bably more than the sum named. The canals of Suez and Corinth are real maritime canals, built without looks, npon the sea-level. Tbe one, that of Coriuth, is situated in the temperate gone, where tbe rainfall is thirty seven or forty inches, per annum, The other, that of Hues, is located in region without rain, Neither of these is threatened in its course by streams liable to suddon aud perilous floods, so common in the tropioal region of Central America. These two great works afford no real parallel to tbe Nicaragua project, either as to oost or feasibility. Tbe one work parallel to this undertaking ia very near, very like it, both iu plaoe aud oiroum stanoe; it is that of the Panama canal aeross the Isthmus of Darieu, Harper's Magaaine. , '- Krai sun im mm A BIG CAVH. Woairfal Formstloat lsa la a raasyt vaala Osvtra Bear BUdiienbarg A big- cave on the Detiich farm, near Madlsonburfr was partially explored for the first time by B. F. Miller, Mad Isonburg; John Long, Pittsburg; Ber tram Miller, and others. They descen ded SO feel found a cave three-quarters of a mile lone;, with numerous windings and chambers. There are streams, wa terfalls, wonderful domes, monster pil lars, pits and lakes, and stalactites and stalagmites said to equal the Mam moth cave. The following pensions were granted last week: WUilam H. Thomas, Beaver Springs, SB; Logan Mains. McKeeeport, tO; Daniel KelnVln. dead, Appollo. M. Robert Boak, BurgettMown, 18; John D. Resley. Elton, $0; Joseph W. Wry snt, Osterburg, II to $8; Warren Chaf fee. Hatch Hollow, $6 to IS; Catherine McOce, Pittsburg. $8; minor of Benja min Barnes, Plttaburg, 110; Henry Young I'nlontown, 18; Samuel D. Tar ranee, Soldiers' and Bailors' Home, Brie, 16; Wilson Kennedy, Renfrew, 10; George B. Lindsay, Pittsburg, $12; Benjamin P. Crawford, North East, $6; John J. Glass, Altoona, 16; Mnry Ann Porter, VanderbllU Fayette, $8) Mary Reer, Burtvllle, Potter, $10; John Hart sell, (Tnlnntown, $: Joseph H. Sparks, Clearfield. 124 to 1.10: Margaret I. Gil bert. Pittsburg, $8; Modes R. Taggart, Wllklnsburg, $8; William C. Iudei bark (dead), New Ragle, Washington, $12; Thomas M. Oeorge, Port Perry, $6; William MeOonnaughy, Altch, Huntingdon, $11; John F. Berkerlmer, Barnes, Warren, $6; Oeorge Roe, El liott, $8; Warren Cooper, Washington, $8; Logan M. Truxnl, DuBots, $8; James H. Carson, Mellefonte, $4 to $; Samuel M. McMurtle. Bellefonte. $8 to $10; Barbara Shafter, Shliieysburg, Huntingdon, $8. State Librarian William H. Egle, In his report for 1897 stats there are 1.14, 35 volume In the State library, Includ ing duplicates of State documents. Dr. Egle suggests that the next Legislature Introduce the system of "traveling II srarles" Into the State library work. Hn tales that 12 libraries, some with branches, have been established under the literary act of June 28, 189R. - Mr. fcgle claims that portraits of Oeorge Washington, Thomas Wharton and Benjamin Franklin, owned by the State have disappeared, and that they ought 10 be returned. The doctor also thinks n effort should be made to recover the Drat American flag unfurled In British waters during the revolutionary war, and he states that the stars and stripes raised on the eltidel of Mexico upon its rapture has mysteriously disappeared from the State building. Michael Hart, aged 29, whom the au thorities of Clearfield county have been after for two years on the charge of murder, was arrested the other night whilo riding on a freight train. The murdered man was named Laskl, an Italian builder of Dubois. Hart and two other men, named Curry and Kel ley, were accused of having waylaid, killed and robbed him. Curry and Kel ley are serving long terms In prison for the crime. Charles Davis, a Pittsburg & Krle brakeman, was riding a cor over a hlnh trestle at the steel ndll at New Castle. This trestle waa immediately over the place where red-hot cinders aro thrown and as tho cor passed over water was thrown on the cinders to cool them. The steam blinded Davis, and he fell down from the ear right Into the hot cinders. He was terribly burned, and his knee cup was broken. Ilia injuries may end fatally. Thomas F. Shlngledecker, Frank A. Hover and J. W. Foulkman of New Castle have Just returned from a trip to Florida, where they secured an op tion on 40,000 acres of land lying in the northern part of tho state along the Louisville and Nashville railroad. It Is the intention to organise a land com pany and raise sugar cane nnd cotton, build a town, and have a sugar refin ery and a big cotton mill. An explosion occurred a few days ako at Lilly, blowing the end off a house occupied by an Italian named Verbal II and 23 boarders, all foreign ers. A blast put off by contractors working on the railroad caused the tlumago. No one was Injured, but a number of the foreigners were so badly frightened that they started back to Italy. Oeorge McClellan Byers, of Beaver, a hoe' dealer, who has been suffering from a bad cold, was taken with a fit of coughing un. fell to the. flour a few lays ago. He was picked up and died In a few minutes. Doctors say he rup tured a blood vessel In the brain by liurd coughing. He was Kl years old ind a member of the Musonlc order and '.he Klks. Elmer J. Wulbridge, aged 8 years, obtained a verdict for $10,000 against the Schuylkill Electric Railway Company, 5f PottHvlllo, recently. Tho boy was run over by a trolley car In Pottsvllle jver two years ago and had both hands mit off. Thu lad is an Inmate of the House of the Merciful Saviour, Phila delphia. Arbitrators awarded $8,000. ind the company appealed it to Court. Kx-Oovernor Thomas A. Osborne, of Kansas, died suddenly at tho Comincr' clal hotel at Meadville. laot Friday of hemorrhage of thu stomach. Mr. On borne only arrived the day before from his Western home, having come to see Mrs. Margaret Richmond, his engage ment to whom was announced but re cently. The froxen body of an unknown man was found kneeling In a fence corner the other morning by Jacob Ouffy near Unlonvllle. In the man's pockets were a Bible, a pack of cards and a bottle of whUky, but nothing by which he could bo Identified. He is supposed to have been a tramp. The horseless carriage made Its Ini tial appearance In Central Pennsylva nia last week. Dr. S. M. Goldberg of New York City made a successful run In his oarrlasjo over the mountain road and through snowdrifts between Al toona and Hollldaysburg. ' Frank Forgan. who was on his way from Youngstown to Pittsburg, fell oft a train uuit week at New Castle Junc tion and had both legs crushed so bad ly that they will have to be amputated. He says he resides at PltUiburg, where he has a wife and two children, Hti was hunting work. David Steffe, aged 80, was burned to death at his own home three miles south of Oil City the other night. An 011 City sleighing party passing the house found it in flames, but were un able to rescue BtefTo, who lived alone. Nelson Mlnney, of Monongahola, was brought to Jail recently on a charge of assault and battery preferred by his wife. They had been married but three months and the other morning he struck her with a poker. Vordella Frick, aged $2, daughter of Ephralm Frick, a former, wandered from home at Reading the other day during a At of melancholy and waa next morning found frosen to death In a uubllo road near Boyertewn, CONGRESS. sate. Witehliiglon, D. C, Jan .11. To-aay'g session of the senate lasted sla hours, two of the general appropriation bills that for the army carrying $23,148,492, and that for the legislative, judicial and "xeciitlve departments carrying $1,58, 520 were passed, the latter consisting nf 121 pages, occupying the attention of the senate during the greater part of the session. After a brief executive session the senate adjourned. Jehn M. McLaurln was sworn In as a senator from South Carolina, to fill -the unex pired term of the late Senator Eerie, the term ending March 4. 1808. Washington, Feb. 1. The Senate spent most of the day in executive ses sion upon the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The friends of annexation are confident that they can now command the 60 votes necessary to ratify the treaty and accordingly they voted down a motion made by Senator Thurs ton to postpone consideration to March 1. Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, began the debate In favor of annexation. He charged that the sugar trust was op posed to annexation. There were cer tain parties, supposed to be Identified with the trust, who had a grievance against the present government of the Islands and were using all the means at their command to prevent the ac quisition of Hawaii by the United States, end money was being used to this end. He did not charge that there was any effort to corrupt Congress, he thought that some Interest had been unduly Influenced. He urged upon the Senate the Importance of not giving ear to the representations of the trust. Washington, Feb. 2 In the Senate Mr. Hawlt-y (Conn.) secured the adop tion of a resolution directing the secre tary nf the Interior to furnish the sen ate the total per capita cost of educat ing Indian chlldrel at certain Indian schools; the total cost of transporting pupils to and from the schools, includ ing the number transported; approxi mately what proportion of the children educated In the schools return to the blanket nnd camp condition, and what can be done to prevent such retrogres sion and continue the children In the lines of progress on which thoy have entered; and what Is thi iv!i.t;.e Influ ence of the educated youth at home and those educated away from home In favor of ending tribal reservation of the Indian, his becoming a cltl-n and entering the great mass of the popula tion as shown by the pupils going Into the employment of civilised life. Washington, Feb. 8. Senator Teller. Chairman of the Senate committee on claims, Introduced two bills In the Sen ate embodying the results of the com mittee's Investigation under the pro vision of the general deficiency act of last session. One of the bills refers nu merous claims to the court of claims. The other Is an omnibus measure pro viding appropriations under general heads as follows: Court of claims cases (mostly under the Bowman act), ti.840,963; French spoliation claims, $1. 013,117; under naval contracts, $792,600; on account of churches and schools. $:.'i,974; claims of States, $4,893,128; miscellaneous claims, $897; for adjust ment and settlement (In part), $130,359; totals, $9,705,223. Washington, Fob. 4. Senator White concluded his three days' speech In op position to the annexation of Hawaii In the executive session of the Senate, Ho declared again that the entire power behind the throne was the sug ar combination of Hawaii, whosn per sonal Interests had, he said, always been consulted regardless of the effect upon tho public, and ho criticised the action of President Dole In coming to Washington at such a time, and said he asked what would would have been thought of tho taste of the Prince of Wales had he come here at tho time that the treuty of arbitration was un der consideration for tho purpowe of In fluencing our action. Hcnie. Washington, Jan. 81. The Teller reso lution, which provided that all bond .an be paid for In silver at the option of treasury ollli'luls. wna defeated In the house by a vote of 182 to 132. Washington, Feb. l.In the house the District of Columbia appropriation bill wns tin n taken up, and the debate drifted Into politics. Mr. Simpson. Pop ulist. Kansas, nttempted to show from clippings from. Maine papers that there had been no returns of prosperity in the lumber industry in that State. He also attacked New Jersey as the home .if the trusts. Mr. Dlngley, Republican. Maine, replied that the Maine papers were full of evidences of the Improve ment In tho lumber Industry. The clip ping quoted waa the exception. It was. he said, another proof that gentlemen on tho other side could seo the speck on the barn door, but rould not see thu door. Washington. Feb. 2. Ex-Ppeaker (row, of Pennsylvania, asked the con sent of thu house to-day for the con sideration of a Joint resolution author ising the Issue of medals to 1:10 surviv ing members of the five companies of Pennsylvania troops which were . the first to reach the natlonul capltol for its defenso on the 18th of April. 1K61. Mr. Hul, nf Iowa, chairman of the committee on military affairs, objected, saying the committee had before it bills providing for the Issue of medals to about 22S.0OO soldiers, and he would In sist upon this resolution going with the rest. Other attempts to gain consider ation of private measures were futile. Washington, Feb. 3. The House spent to-day ostensibly considering the tortitlcationa appropriation bill. In re ality the major portion nf tho time was consumed in tho discussion of political topics. The existence or non-existence of prosperity in this country was again the main question of dispute. All at tempts to increase the appropriation In the fortifications appropriation bill, or to amend it in any respect, were voted down to-day. A bill was passed appro priating $10,000 for a survey und report on the practicability of securing a 36 foot channel In the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi river. Washington, Feb. 4. In the House to-day discussion of the approaching sale of the Kansas Pacific road, set for February 17, was precipitated by Mr. Fleming (Dem, Georgia), who, . with his Democratic colleagues, desir ed legislation to require the President tu bid the full amount of the debt, principal and Interest. The claim ot the Government, Mr. Fleming said, was over $13,000,000, and while It was claimed that the rood could be paral leled for $3,000.0(10 he said that the en gineer who built the road, Senator Harris, of Kansas, estimated Its value at from $25.000.000 to $30.0OQ.OOi). A Big Railroad's Bepalrs. ' Home idea of the attention that the Haiti more aud Ohio Railroad is now paying to lt passengor truffle may be gained from the fuct that duriug tue past olghteeu mouths nearly 800iuHseuger oars received, thorough and ordinary repairs, 890 being repuiuted. Nearly all of thu equipment is uow ltoyul Ulue, uud most of It is equipped with l'lutsoh gus, the l'lutsuh light being used oa local aa well us through trains. Spirits for bmukeleae Vowt:r. - Trout Teorla, 111., they are shipping thou sands of gultous of spirits to Japan dally to be used in the manufacture ol suofceksast powder. . . ...
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