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e THE REALM
Cnminrmlril In the Tnll, Thin SItirhom1
No matorinl Is nt once more snfti
lustrous nnd dnrnbln tlmn gcnnine
Liberty silk. Tlio (till wnlst shown
in this illustration by May Matitou is
IiADIKS WAIST,
nil in soft cream white without figures
of nny sort. But nil plain colors, ns
well as flowered designs, unci the
whole range of thin silks, muslins
ami organdies, are equally well suited
to the style, which is especially to lie
commended to the tnll, thin sister
hood to whom folds and frills nro
both welcome and becoming.
The foundation is a fitted lining
which closes nt the centre front. On
it are mounted the full bnck and
frouts which are pulled to yoke
depth and which close nt the left
shoulder and side beneath the full
scurf. The lntter is simply strnight
And full. The two sections nre seamed
to the arm's-eyes and nre brought
GHILS" BLOUSE IiEEFElt.
down to the waist line, where they
cross' and are pnssod round to the
back, at the centre of whiuh they are
. - caught in a knot. The sleeves are
fall and arranged in three groups of
narrow puff's, with a full soft puff at
each shoulder, over which full the
frills which form epaulettes. At the
neck is a soft draped collar of the
ilk, which terminates iu a rosette na
iler the chin.
To cut this waist for lady of me
dium size four and one-half yards of
" material twenty-two inches wide will
be required.
Girls' Mouse Iter for.
The combination of reefer collar and
blouse jacket shown iu the large illus
tration doiu novel anil styusn. as
here given the material is covert cloth
banded with braid, and the garment is
designed for general wear with any
gown, but all suiting materials, as
well as-cloth of various torts, can be
treated in a similar manner.
The seamless baok nud pouched
fronts, are joined by shoulder and un-der-arm
seams, the basque portion
being separate and seamed to the
jacket at the waist line. The right
front laps well over the left, where the
closing i effected by means of buttons
nd buttonholes, an additional row of
buttons being added to give the
double I reacted effect. The neok is
lightly open at the front and is fin
ished with a deep collar that is square
t fka K.nW anil im flniul....! -
of braid. The sleeves are two-seamed
and fit snugly. The garment in lined
throughout with changeable taffeta
blue and green.
, To make this blouse for a girl of
eignt years oi age one and a naif yards
of material fifty-four inches wide will
be required, - .
A Pretty Scarf.
The Roman selrf. with plain 07
fringed ends, especially the patriotio
variety, when tne bars are redy.v1.ite
"' ' and blue, with slight predominance
" of the red, is very nwioh in vogue.
Besides its old use,-'! an article of
neckwear, it is used a. i sash, a belt,
- a hat band andjavbat trimming.
Patriotio girls tieths rrow one to
' parasol tips, walking sticks, bicyole
bandies, baby carriages and the bar
Ma of family horses.. The brilliancy
OF FASHION.
of their coloring innkes them very ap
propriate in the summer.
Nnllnnnt Color I. lulu Worn.
It is not clenr whnt hns or will bo
come of the red, white nud blue ni t
iclos of feiuinino clothing mid orna
ments shown so lavishly in tlio stores,
lielts, lint bnnds, neckties and pocket
books nre conspicuously displayed for
pule, lint so rnrcly nre they worn now
thut proiiieimders feel privileged to
right-nhout-fnee nnd stnre frnnkly nt n
wonino who hns chosen one or nnother
of them ns essential to her costume.
Illrrrle ronvetili'tiift For Wliirlwninrn,
The cycling wouinu who does not
enre to enrry bundles nnd lings on her
wheel hns up-to-date hnndlcs. They
nre mnde for bnrs olio inch in diame
ter nnd outwardly are indistinguish
able from ordinary cork nnd celluloid
handles; on unscrewing the ends one
discovers a litllo transparent celluloid
oiler in oue, nnd in the other n com
plete tire repairing out tit. Thus
equipped the wheclwoninn can be as
independent as she pleases.
flippers For the IteiUMe.
Lenther bedside slippers enn very
ensily be mnde nt home. The leather
is of nny color that is desired, nnd it
is often a very gay one, nnd is mount
ed over the too of n lamb's wool in
sole. A bit of fur finishes tlio edge,
nnd thus is evolved n comfortable toe
slipper. A comparatively small piece
of the skin makes two or three pairs,
ninl the expense of both money nud
effort is very trilling. ,
A VVomnn 1 liyslHim In Cltlnn.
Ir. Ida M. Stevenson, n Methodist
missionary physician in Tientsin,
China, sometimes hns 250 patients to
trent in a single day. The strain on
the strength, tin sympathies nud the
skill cf n medical missionary,
brought into contact day by day with
dreadful cases of poverty, sull'eriug,
vice and degradation, cannot be
imagined.
' Wrnu For IV pe Folks.
No wrap for wee folks' wear is more,
popular or more becoming than the
long coat made with u yoke. The
mould given is of bengaliue, in a de
liciout shade of pink, and is trimmed
with ruohes aud bands of ribbon, but
the pattern is equally well suited to
light weight wools aud to both pique
aud linen crash. The foundation is a
short body lining to which the yoke is
faced, and to which the pleated skirt
is attached. The fanciful colturjis cut
in squares, and adds greatly to the
effect, at the same time that it con
reals the joining of skirt and yoke.
The sleeves are two-seamed and iu
oontBhape. At the neck is a rollover
collar. As illustrated the skirt is lined
with India silk, but in the case of
washable materials should be simply
hemmed. Tho closing is efl'eoted in
visibly at the centre-frout by means
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CHILD a COAT.
of buttons and buttonholes worked in
a fly.
To out this coat for a child tour years
old, four yards of material, twenty
seven iaohea wide, will be required..
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Tie a sun is the eye of thought.
Character is a polyglot linguist.
IliHtory is embalmed humanity.
Let sin live, nnd it will kill you.
Two nothings should never marry.
A good inn ii must be good ns well as
do good.
Reformation is the spriiig-timo of
thought.
' Only ngoud man ran see good things
iu others.
Loose thinking nnd loose mornls
go together.
A litllo tombstone mny cast n very
long shadow.
The hard places in life nre never
umdo nny better by growling,
Host flowers reiiilre attention to be
liimlu to grow. So dons gossip.
Beauty may only be skin deep, but
the pride of it reaches into the heart.
Those w ho w efor tlio service of sin,
must be sntislled with tlio migus of
sin.
Tribulation nnd sorrow nro tlio only
blenching agents that will whiten the
robes of (lull's people.
Have you learned the sweet lesson
that you can get much out of every
little you receive with 11 thankful
heart?
Thut thing is the most itreful which
is best ndn ted to thn purpose, (lod
can make more use of 1111 illiterate
man nmotig a certain class, than of n
cultured one. Ham's Horn.
INCENIOUS INSURCENTS.
Novel fun of rtui(itlittrti In Hik Fli-lns
of Ciitmti I'liiiilHtloim.
Professor Marshall, who is head in
structor of chemistry nt the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, in the course of
a recent lecture on the action of phos
phorus, read some extracts from a
letter ho had received from Oil 11,
which told of n novel use tlio insur
gents had made of this chemical. In
the summer of lM'.HI the writer of the
letter hail lived in n province where
the raising of sugar was the principal
industry. The crop was just ready
for harvesting, when the Spanish sol
diers took possession of the district
nnd proclaimed martini law, The
fields throughout the distriit were
covered with ripe sugar-en no, which is
very itilln nmable.
Despite the presoneo of the soldiers
the insurgents managed to fire several
fields. The force of sent l ies was
doiiblod, but although no insurgents
were seen the fires became more fre
quent. It was concluded that the
firing was being done by strategy, and
ull suspicious cliiiiacteit were there
after forced to give an account of them
selves. An old furiuer curry in 4 a
largo basket, who was iu the habit of
passing the lines regularly, w as Mopped
several times, but nothing moro sus
picious than rolls of butter were found
upon him. It wus noticed, however,
that the fjres always followed iu the
wake of this farmer, and a spy was
detailed to follow him one day. Un
aware of his surveillance, the sus
pect stopped at a sugar field and threw
several of his lolls of b.itter uinoiig
the cane, lie was at once arrested
and confessed to the burning of the
fields. It seems that each of those
rolls of butter contained a quantity of
phosphorus, w hich, ns is well known,
iguites spontaneously when exposed
to the air. The heat of the sun would
melt t'.)0 butter nnd expose tlio phos
phorus. The longthof timo it took to
melt tlio butter allowedthe incendiary
to get out of the neighborhood before
tlio flames broke out. Philadelphia
Record.
BliiteriitU for n Hkyncrnper,
An idea of the amount of material
required in the construction of a mod
ern ofllce building can be gotten from
the following figures furnished by Mr.
McCaul, who has charge of tho con
struction of a sixteen-story skyscraper
in l'hiladelphin.
About 8000 ruble yards of excava
tions, 4000 yards of concrete and
stone masonry, 4,371,055 pounds of
steel, i)00,000 pounds of ornamental
iron, 311,0)0 pounds of ornamental
bronze,, 10,000 cubic feet of granite,
weighing 1)00 tons; 200,000 square
feet of tire-proofing, weighing about
8000 tons; 1360 tons of patent mortar
used iu plastering, to cover 42,000
square yards of plastering; about tho
same amount of cement mortar used in
brick aud stone masonry; 40,000
square foet of Pevonizza, Numidinu
and Italian marble; 13,000 pounds of
nails, 10,000 cubic feet of terra-cotta,
weighing about 200 tons; 325,000
face brick, 1,500,000 common brick,
24,000 square feot of glass, weighing
about 73,600 pounds; about thirty
miles of electric piping to encase tho
electric wiring throughout the build
ing, and about ten miles of plumber
and steam fitters' piping. There were
on an average 200 men working on
this structure from the start until the
finish. -Philadelphia Inquirer,
A Lesson in Bharuihootlne;.
A Texas military company was out
on the range receutly practicing at
rifle shooting. -The lieutonautiu com
mand suddenly became exasperated at
the poor shooting, aud, seiziug a gun
from oue of the privates, oried sharply :
"I'll show you fellows how to shoot I"
Taking a long aim, aud a strong aim,
and au aim all together, he tired and
missed. Coolly turning to the private
who owned the gun, he said, "That's
the way you shoot I" He again loaded
the weupon and missed. Turning to
the seoond man in the rank, he re
marked, "That's the way you shoot !"
In this way be missed about a dozen
times, illustrating to each soldier bis
personal inoapaoity, and finally be ac
cidentally hit the target. "And that,"
he ejaculated, handing the gun baok,
"is the way I shoot. "-'Los Angeles
Times. -
SANTIAGO
Features of the City
The town of Knutingo de Cuba is situ
ated at one side of the harbor nud
about six miles from its entrance nnd
overlooks it nt the widest part. The
entrance to the harbor is very narrow,
not more than about 1511 feet wide, and
the channel is winding until it roaches
l'nntn Oordn, nfter which it widens in
to n beautiful linrbor. At 0110 sido of
the entrance is Morro Castle, n very
old fort. "Morro" is n typical name
given to all these coast fortresses. On
THE FAMOIS 8ANTIAOO KLAimitTF.lt
WEHE H1IOT IIY
the opposite sido of the linrbor is So
capn. The town of Santiago is low, but
rises as the ground slopes np from the
coost towasds some ranges of hills. It
wns quite a business town before the
wnr, and there nro three companies
there that have handled ngrent deal of
ore, one of them as much as a thousand
tons a day.
The houses are mostly one story
high on account of tho liability toearth
quakes, but thero nre some of two
stories. Tho dwelling-houses nre sur
rounded by spacious verandas, which
look 011 beautif rfl gardens filled with a
wealth of gorgeous tropical flowors.
The poinsettin, with its heads of bril
liant scarlet leaves which people in the
North cherish iu little (lower-pots nnd
in greenhouses, is thore a large tree,
nnd other trees with their clusters of
gaudy fragrunt llowecs innke those gar
dens a fuiry scene.
Thore ore various insects among tho
flowers und mosquitoes innumerable,
but none of the insects nre poisonous.
Thero is n largo spider about the size
of 0110's list, whose bite produces a
swelling and a slight fever, and a scor
pion w hoso bite causes some irritation,
but is not deadly. There are no veno
mous reptiles in tho island. There is
one enormous variety of boa, called the
Maja, of immense strength. It is per
fectly bluok, as thick as ono's arm, and
callable of swelling itself out to nearly
five times its natural sizo, nnd has n
blood-red mouth all of which sounds
vory alarming until you find out that
lie is a Inzy fellow and does not trou
ble himself about human beings, being
satisfied with pigs nnd gonts nud even
small game. There is a smnll snake
called the jubo, aud somo other varie
ties, but they ure not venomous.
Tho repose of the streets is not
disturbod by the rush of cnblo or
trolley cars. Tho usual conveyance,
STREET SCENE IS SANTIAGO,
the volnnte, is a long-bodied vehicle
on two wheels.
The town of Santiago is the see of
the Archbishop, and contains the
largest cathedral in the island the
Cathedral of Nuestra Senora de la
Caridad del Cobre. Here is also the
Theological Seminary of San Jiasilio.
In this region is the highest land in
Cuba. A mountain range called the
Montanos de Maestrn or Cobre ex
tends from the Punta do Maisi on the
eastern extremity to Cape Cruz on the
opposite side. Pico de Turquino, the
highest elevation, rises' 7670 feet above
the ocean. These mountains are very
rich in ore, and the Cobre copper
ii
THE MAflKET PLACE IN BAN'TIAGO.
mines, some twelve miles distant from
the city, have yielded fifty tons a day,
the higher grades being shipped to
Europe, and the inferior grades
smelted at the mines. All this work
has stopped since the war beoame
serious. These mines were worked
as early as the seventeenth century,
and were then, abandoned for more
hn - knil.tuil . Turn tm -1
found there, and gold and silver have
DE CUBA.
and the Province.
i adri t&trif&C hSbrtn 49xin
been taken out, but not in sufficient
quantities to make it profitable. How
ever, none of these mines hnve yet been
fully developod. llititmlnouH coal is
found which gives out n high degree
of hent nnd leaves scarcely nny nshes
or cinders. Near the const it is often
found in semi liquid masses resembling
petroleum or naphtha. There nre
some very extensive enves in these
mountains, which hnve never beon
thoroughly explored.
HOUSE WIIEItE THE VllUUNfUH CHEW
THE Hl'ANlAIIDH.
There nre forests of mnhognny,
Cubnn ebony, cedar, nnd other hard
woods in this provirre, among them
one cnllod the quebi-n liacha or axe
breaker, aud the jucero, which does
not even decny nfter long submersion.
The mnrqiieteria work in the room
occupied by Philip II. of Spain, in the
Kscurinl, was made from these woods,
of which tho Spaniards l:now the value,
nud they are exported from the island
iu large quantities.
There are no wild nnimnls, properly
speaking, except wild dogs, which
play hnvoo in the poultry yards. A
small animal called jutin that resem
bles a coon and probably belongs to
the same family is found iu great
JAItAYO JlI,0(.'KnOl:HF., ONE OF
AOO'SJ DEFENSES,
numbers, nud has furnished mnny a
good menl to the hungry Cuban sol
diers, who trap it by the dozen.
When eaten with a relish of garlio
nud onion it is delicious to those who
like garlio.
The city of Bayamo, in the western
part of the province, was very impor
tant a century or more ago, and a
great stronghold of the insurgents
for there have always been insurgents
in Cuba. lint of lute years business
hns moved to Santiago and other
const cities, nnd Santiago now has
about 45,000 inhabitants, while Bay
amo hns only 10,000. It was a law
yer of Bayamo, Charles M. de Ces
pedes, who, in 1808, at the head of
128 wretchedly armed men, rose in re
bellion at Yarn, and in a few weeks
was at the head of 15,000 resolnte
though-badly armed fighters. The
Hymuo de Bayamo, the revolutionary
hymn of the Cuban patriots, origin
ated in Bayamo. This was the Mar
seillaise to whioh music Maceo
marched. Santiago de Cuba was the
birthplace of the brothers Maceo.
On the opposite side of the prov
ince from the town of Santiago is the
Bay of Nipe. The Bay of Cienfuegos
is said to be one of the most magnifi
cent harbors in ths world, both for
area and depth of water; but it is sur
passed by the harbor of Nipe, which
embraces sixty-five miles of deep
water.
A New Bsnaa-Flndiir.
An Italian artist in London is said
to have just perfected a new range
finder, whioh, it ia claimed, will be of
immense service both in peace nud
war. It is said to be a great improve
ment on all range-finders now in use.
The distanoe of any object can be as
certained by a mere glanoe throng
the instrument, it being shown on a
little dial the moment the objeot is
focused.
True love is not so common as to
swell locksmiths up with the idea that
they are funny men. Puok,
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
It takes eight times tho strength to?
go upstairs that it requires to accom
plish the snuie distance on a level.
When tho sparrow hawk is swoop
ing down on its prey, it cleaves space
at the speed of 150 miles an hour.
The sound of a bell which can be
hoard 45,000 feet through the water
rati he heard through the air ouly 45(1
feot.
The elephant has no fewer than
forty thousand muscles in his trunk
nlone, while a mnu hns ouly C77 in his
entire body. ,
It is announced that Italian experi
ments on vegetable life with lfoentgen
rnys hnve shown Hint the effect is iden
tical with that of sunlight.
The voice of a woman is audible in
a balloon at the height of about two
miles, while that of a man never
reaches higher than a mile.
Under the action of sun, air and
water tho loftiest mountains are being
gradually worn down, it is said, aud
the whole varied landscape of hill and
valley is beiug reduced to a dead level.
Captain Perry speaks of the great
distance that sounds can be heard dur
ing intense cold. We often, he says,
in the Arctic regions heard people
converse in a common voice nt the dis
tance of a mile.
Tho efficiency of a modern crniser
is shown in n recent statement in an en
gineeringmngnzinethat it took seventy
shots nt close range from a (1.2-inch
gun on the JJritish crniser Edgor to
link a defenceless aud derelict tank
steamer.
To illustrate the rapidity of thought,
s distinguished scientist says that if
the skin be touched repeatedly with
light, blows from a small hammer, the
brain will distinguish the fact thai
the blows nre separate and not con
tinuous pressure, even when they fol
low one another as one thousand iu a
socond.
The air within the Mammoth Cave
of Kentucky has a uniform tempera
tnre summer and winter of 54 degrees
Fahrenheit. The rave may be said to
brouthe twice n yenr, inhaling during
the winter nnd exhaling during the
summer. This breathing of the enve,
and the purity of tho air aud its free
dom from germs, aro among tho most
interesting problems to be studied,
liy what process the nir in the cave
becomes sterilized remains to be de
termined. THE WORLD'S HEADSMEN.
OitrnclzfMl by Society flrtipiiotno f.'rnffii
men Intfriimrry anil Fralnrnlie.
The marriage of the son of M. Deb
lier, the public executioner of Prance,
took iduce recently before the itiAvor itf
I the Sixteenth Arrondisseineiit, Paris.
lhe ceremony was purely civil in char
acter, ouly thirteen witnesses being
present. M. Ileblior, or, as he is more
familiarly known, Monsieur de Paris,
not ouly the most aged official execu
tioner in the world, but likewise the
one person who had probably put
more human beings out of existence
than any other living man. There is
a sort of gruesome atmosphere of a
forbidding character which seems to
surround the public executioners of
Kurope. They are usually men of
flno self-culture and education, retir
ing in disposition nnd plainly respect
nblo bourgeois in their domestio rela
tions. Beiurg denied the privilege of
the society around them by the char- -ncter
of their profession, they have a
society of their own which is as ex
clusive as that of rovalties, for they
pvisit each other in reremonious fashion
and intermarry. Thus M. Deblier is
a second cousin by marriage of the
headsman of Prussia, and his wife was
the danghter of the executioner of
Algiers, a desoendant of the famous
Samson who guillotined Marie An
toinette and her royal spouse, Louis
XVI. But the son of the present
Monsieur de Paris, Joseph Francois
Deblier, has made, as it were, a mor
gauatio marriage by seeking his wife
Itosalie Roges outside the families of
the executioners. She was formerly a
cigarmaker in one of the government .
factories. She is twenty-one and her
husband is thirty-five. According to
the marringe settlement, M. Deblier
gives as a dowry to his wife the sum,
of 910,000. He will probably suc
ceed his father before long, for the
last ten years he has been the old
gentleman's assistant in all executions
of note.
Orowth of Telephone Business.
Twenty year ago the telephone was
practically nnknown to - mankind,
while today there are said to be about
1,500,000 telephone subscribers in the
world, of whom the larger part are in
the United States. Kecent figures
put the details of this total as follows:
The United States leads the list with
about 600,000; then roaies Germany
with 140,000; Orest Britsin with 75,
000; Switzerland, 50,000; France, 35,,.
000; Austria,. 20,000; Russia, 18,000;
Sweden and Norway 16,000; Bavaria,
15,000; Denmark, 15, 000; Italy.14,000;
Holland 12,000; Spain 12,000; Bel
gium, 11,000; Hungary.10,000; Wnrt
temberg, 7000; Finland 6000; Japan,
3500; Cuba, 2500; Luxembourg,2000;
Portugal, 2000; and Australia 2000.
The remainder are divided among the
muller countries, from Roumania with
100, down to Senegambia with 100,
The Manufacturer.
A PrehUtorle Mine.
. In the southeast corner of San Ber
nardino county, Cal., an expedition
from San Fraucisco has recently dis-
:overed a rich turquoise mine appar- 1
m y worked many centuries ago by
I rehistoi io people. The mine is 60
miles from Manville.in a mountainous
Muntry, and had been partially oblit
siated by volcanio disturbances. Stone
hsmmers and other implements wsra
found in numerous old pita.