If yon are enthusiastic ever the titomobile 70a are an torn d; if an enthusiast, an antomauiao; if 70a own or desire to own a motor carriage, a victim of antomania. These are the latest addition! to the English lan guage. The Htnte of Kansas now ha 100 cities and towns with over 1,000 in habitants each. Kansas City loads with a popnlotton af 40,210, and To jieka comes next with 35,305, Wichita is third, with 22,020, and Leavenworth fourth with 20,893. No othor exceeds 17,000. The discovery in Alaska 1y a scien tific party of a lot of new hays and glaciers and nncatalogued plants and birds shows t hat a-many interesting and possibly useful things a man inny overlook when he is in a hnrry to reach the gold fields and has no eye for scenery. John Bull is slow to follow a good examplo, but the showing niadt) by our gunners in the late war hits stim ulated the British admiralty to double the target practice on all English men-of-war. This will greatly improve British gunnery, but it is doubtful if it will ever equal the American, as in the Revolution and the war of 181 J jt was clearly proved in many sea fights that our gunners were the superiors, t 5 ! ' Chief of police Johnston of James town, N. H., said the other day that he could think of no case where a tramp had been a troublesome prisoner that they are usnnlly too indolent to care about making a dis turbance. The real danger from them, he said, lies in their taking possession of barns or nnocenpied houses in the country whore, by the careless use of their pipes, "which they keep working in some wonderful manner," they Bomotimos contrive to start a fire which destroys the building. Lady Oeorgina Vernon, daughter of the tenth Earl of Haddington, is well known as an authority on dairying as an occupation for women. She spent some time iu Normandy studying into French methods in cheese-making. She strongly urges the practicability of dairying for women as a self-supporting industry, but says that cheese would be the most profitable brauch of the work. Most of the bad butter, she claims, comet, from small dairies with only two or three cows. It is to be hoped, remarks Harper's Bazar, that many womou of this country may be induced to follow some of her sug gestions, going into the manufacture of some of the more delicate cheeses. During the Pnris Exposition there will be over a hundred congresses of allsorts.kinds.toiigues and conditions, comprehending everything from a bacillus to the nuiverxe itself. There fill be a great hall, two-thirds on land aild one-third on water, with vast galleries and such arra'.igemouts that thousands cuu be. meeting at once. For instance, the 7000 members of the Congress of Medicine will be dividod into 23 sectious, and not only will each be taken care of, but the members will all be entertained and will have special opportunities for visiting the Faris schools and hospi tals, This illustrates the whole pro position. It shows that Faris is doing everything to get the world to visit her, and that she will exhibit all her varied interests to the millions thut attend her end-of-the-century show-. The attendance promises to be enor mous, Unexpected success has followed the opening in Philadelphia of a children's branch of the public library. It is the first library of the kind in the city, and the children have availed themselves eagerly of the opportuni ties it offers. Although it has been in existence only three months, there re about 2,400 names registered on its books as regular readers. "With clean hands and a clean face" is the only rule of the plaoe, besides that of orderly silence. During the whole time of its existence no ohjld has had to be sent out of the library ' for misoonduot. Even on rainy days, when the' plaoe is crowded, order and ailenoe always prevail. The little folk come in and are allowed to go straight to the shelves in search of reading matter. Eaou child is allowed to take out two books at a time, oue of them fiction and the other instructive. Ou the average, the child readers are boat 14 years old, anjl the boya out number the girls nearly four to one. History is the favorite literature for the boys, while the girls revel iu fic tion. It is said by the library people, to the ored it of the ohildreu and tho shame of their elders, that the pro portion of instructive books tuken out by the little ones is far in advauoe of 41iose perused by older card holders. . HER TRIUMPH. Bhe was not the 'brightest maiden In her elass; Ever? other always stood above her there. And they wondered how she ever came to pass, Not remembering, perhaps, that she was fair. Hers wss not th finest essay that was read; Hhe had borrowed her ldoaa here and there, But thny cheered unto the echo what she said Boo had precious little wit, but shs was lair. Thoy described tho dainty costume that she wore, Nor mentioned what tho othors had to wear. Hhe was dull, as has been mentioned here- tofoiB Hut what ot that, ns long as she was fair? Chicago Tlmus-Ilornld. A LOCALJARAGRAPH. E ST KDOAS T. HELD. "The time has come for the Ameri can peoplo to act. Shall fifty million patriots sit supinely by and lot con scienceless rascals tear the stars of glory from the flag thoy love and trample its proud folds of crimson and white into the mire of national dis honor? Not while the deeds of '78 still shine through the mists of years in unexampled splendor. Not while" Joel Snively, editor of the Meloogic Monitor, laid down his pen with a sigh. Outside the dusty little window the green waters of the bay were spark ling in the snnshine. A keen north breeze was driving great huddling masses of white-shonldered clouds over a field of dazzling aznre, and only a man who loved the sport with the whole-souled earnestness that tilled his entire being could know how the fish must be biting on such a morn tag! Oh, to be out ou that gleaming expanse, armed, with rod and line, with only the sun and clouds for com pany and a thousand pounds or so of gamy finned vertebrates playing about within reach of his cunning hook. But also, it was Friday morning. On Saturday some two hundred im patient subscribers would expect the weekly dish of personal, political and intellectual pabulum which his facile pen had long served up to them on that day, with more or less punctual ity, according to the season. His duty clearly held him to his post at such a time, however much his inclinations might have led hira elsewhere. So, with another lingering glance nt the scene without, Mr. Snively took p his pen and resumed the stirring appeal which, was to awaken fifty million patriots to art ion and inciden tally convince the fieemcn of Meloogio that it was their duty to vote for Joe Gridley for ponudmaster. So engrossed did the editor become in this ploasing task that he did not hear a Htep upon the creaking stair a little later. If he had he would have known at once that it was a woman and a lady who was approaching, for long and often painful experience had enabled Mr. Snively to determine with unerring accuracy w hat sort of person was climbing the somewhat perilous ascent to the editorial sanctum almost as soon as his foot touched the first stop. But for once the editor did not hear the soft footfall on the stair, so he was very much surprised and not a little disconcerted when a fresh, sweet voice, almost at his elbow said "Good morning Mr. Snively," and looking np he beheld his neighbor, Mrs. Tracy, her plump figure tightly buttoned into the trimmest of blue serge yachting suits, hor smiling face shaded by a wide-brimmed hat and in her baud a fish pole, jointed, brass-tipped, ele gantthe very perfection of dainty uselessness. Without wating for a response to her greeting she briefly made known her errand. Hhe was anxious for a day's fishing and had been told of on Elysian spot, where the fish wero so plentiful they were actually to be had for the asking. Unluckily, however, her own boat had not come, so she ventured to ask if, in case he was not nsing it, Mr. Snively would be so kind as to lend hor his yawl, it being impossible to hire one in the village. Mr. Snively was delighted. Mrs. Tracy was a pretty widow of uncer tain age but no uuoertain oh arm, who had taken the cottage next to the editor's own some six months before. In the course of a rather desultory ac quaint mee the genial bachelor, whose ideas of the fair sex were those com mon to blnjkiud.had discovered that his fair neighbor was a cheery little body of sound political views and excellent tastes (from the first she had been a prompt and paying subscriber to The Monitor), but beyond that his imagina tion had not soared. Now, however, behold the pretty widow mvested with a wholly new interest. She was fond of fishiugl Eagerly Mr. Snively assnred his visitor ot his pleasure in putting his boat at her disposal and gave her ex haustive directions as to the menus of obtaining it. A delightful half-hour of conversation followed. As though it were a magician's wand the dainty fish pole had placed the editor and his guest at once on terms of the most charming intimacy and the former didn't remember ever to have enjoyed a conversation so much in his life, albeit the talk was wholly of reels and rods and spoon-hooks and other in struments of slaughter. All things, however, are bound to come to an end, especially in uu edi torial office, so it wasn't long before Mrs. Tracy took her leave, esoortad down the stuirwa by her delighted bosk At the door they were met by a aplcy Insets straight from the piue woods aoross the bty. Mr. Snively sighed. ' ' "Where Is this wonderful place you are going to?" he asked. "All, that's a secret," she replied, gsyly, "I promised I'd never, never tell." "Oh, well, then I suppose tl'a a crime to even guess." And once more the editor sighed as he glanced out at the sparkling waters. "But you have been so kind," ex. claimed tho widow, noting the sigh and immediately filled with continua tion. "It seems ungracious of me to keep it from yon who love so to fish." And then as she saw him give another wistful glance bayward she burst out impulsively: "Promise me not to be tray me and I'll tell yon it's l'atc hang lake!" "Patchang!" cried Mr. Snively in surprise. "Why, 1 never heard of a fish down there in my lifo." "That's the charm of it," she re joined, gleefully, "and the man who told me about it (such a dear, dirty, old fisherman he was) was fearfully afraid some one else would find it out; so don't betray me." And ohe hurried away with a parting smile that made the dusty oflice seem dullor than ever when he got back to it and reluctantly commenced setting np his editorial, for Mr. Snively constituted the whole working force of The Monitor. And his task seemed harder than ever after the interruption. Thoughts of his pretty visitor kept intruding themselves into the midst of his most impassioned appenls to the voters of Meloogio. How blue her eyes were and what bewitching little tings ot hair had blown np under the big hat. And then the fishing. The editor of The Monitor shook bin head. Could it be possible any man living could have a soul so lost to tumor as to piny a joke on a woman who looked like that? It seemed im possible, and yet Mr. Snively was as sure there wasn't a fish withiu a mile of Patchang as he was that there wasn't a free silver man in Meloogio. Perhaps even then Mrs. Tracy was sitting in that yawl vainly waiting for the bite he felt certain she wouldn't got if she sat there till the United States got an honest government. Aud he was actually staying ot home nud deliberately abandoning a friend to such a fate! As this agonizing thought occurred to Mr. Snivoly he dropped his type and started for the door. But once there he paused nud slowly returned to his form, only to find it more and more impossible to keep his mind ou his work. At last he gave up in despare. Taking a hasty survey of what he'd already accomplished he found his col umns tolerably full, with the excep tion of perhape a single paragraph ou the local page. By hard work the fol lowing morning he might hope to set up his pages and would trust to luck for the missing parngrnph. Like all fishermen, Mr. Snively was a firm believer in luck. He wns also a man of action when he chose, and within five minutes of this calculation he had locked up the editorial depart ment and was on his way to Patchang lake. When ho reached that shallow sheet of water a little lady in blue serge sat in a boat in the center thereof, with au expression of virtuous indignation ou her sunburnt features. "What luck?" called the editor from the shore. "Luckl" cried the fair sportswoman dolofully. "There's not enough water in this lake to catch cold in, much less a fish. All I've got for my trouble is a mighty poor opinion of fishermen iu general and one dirty one in par ticular." "Come over here," said Snively. "I know a pond not 0 thousand miles away where the fish bite like mosqui toes. If you'll try it I think I can raise your opinion of fishermen be fore I'm a day older." "I can't," confessed the widow, blushing with anger and mortification. "I'm stuck in the mud." One moment the man of letters hesi tated on the bank aud then, with an inward prayer that he might at least be spared to get out that week's paper, he waded boldly into the ex pause of treacherous mud that rolled between him aud the beauty in dis tress. The next morning the editor walked into the Monitor oflice clad in his Sunday clothes. With his accustomed methodical ueatnesH he pulled nil' his coat, hung it behind the door, aud carefully drew ou his linen sleeves a pair of black alpaca ones. Then he lighted his pipe and took his place at the form. There, just as be had left it, was the vacant space at the end ot the local column still yawning for the missing paragraph. Mr. Suively regarded it for a few minutes reflectively then he took np his pen, as a smile gradually spread itself over his face until it reached his eyes. It still lingered there when a little later he finished and paused to glance over his work. What he read was this: "The editor of The Monitor, after many years ot bachelorhood, has bad the good fortune to incur the risks and responsibilities of rnutriinouy. He was married this morning to Mrs. Gertrude Tracy of Elm cottage and asks the congratulations and good wishes of his subscribers iu this the happtest hour of his life." Edgar Temple Field, The Number of Naval Ottteara, The United States navy now has oue admiral, 18 rear admirals, 70 captains, 112 commanders, 170 lieu tenant commanders, 300 lieutenants, 130 lieuteusuts, junior grade; 107 en signs, aud 1)2 cadets at sea. In the Marine corps are oue brigadier gener al oommaudaut, fire colonels, five lieutenant colonels, 10 majors, 41 cap tains, 40 first lieutenants and eight second lieutsu-sta, MEW YORK Designs For Costumes That Have Be come Popular in the Metropolis. ijsAenxMeAe7).nLn S 9 ? 1 bwue euo wii aMiiu New York Citt (Special). A su perb honso toilet or morning gown suitable for any time of the year is a successful creation of New York SIMPLE MORNIKO OOWff. (It Is made of white pique or duck, with uuuun 01 uini.'K or uitm piuo iiuou uuuk. From Harper's Bazar.) honso. The material is a brilliant iri descent Persian chiffon, of the softest, richest coloring. The whole dress is appliqned over with blnck-thtead lace in graceful conventionalized flower like figures, the lace iu turn being outlined with rucked baby velvet rib bon the shade of Parma violets. There is a V from the throat to the point of the bust of heavy cut white lace over satin, a white satin belt and very long mmmmm 1 iM.4&mm BOX REEFER FOR alightly shirred sleeves. As will be noted, the skirt trails all around and is very clinging, falling below the rich satin underslip on whioh it is mount ed. Boya lloa lieefor. The popular sohool coat for a boy is the box reefer of a style similar to the one shown in the large engraving. After twelve or thirteen years of age, boys more frequently wear trousers than knickerbockers, except, of course, when cycling. In England they give up the form earlier, or, at any rate, the knickers are worn with stacking. A boy of from eight to ten years of age, clad in short knickers and sooks, such as one continually sees here, would be the laughing stock of his comrades on the other side of the channel. A sailor costume with long trousers and Jersey may at pinch form part of the wardrobe of a boy from thir teen to fourteen years of age, espe cially in the country or at the seaside. But the dress jast described, short jaoket and knickers of drab or gray, are generally preferred here for boys tip to thirteen or fourteen. Way Tla the Bonnet Under the Chin. , Are strings to hats and bonnets really coming again? It seems like it, at any rate, for tulle strings are seen on all the new hats. They are beooming as a rule they are worn twisted round the throat and the ef fect is soft and pretty. Pretty Neckwear. The white or cream maliue neckties that have been fastened in a bow at the throat are now brought twice around the high, straight stook, fast ened half way between throat and belt with pretty pin, aud tied in a bow there. ' - Another pretty fanoy is to bring a satin ribbon twice around the stock, put its ends through small buokleof rhictitoaei or paste jewels, vbiob is FASHIONS. pushed close to the throat, leaving the ends of the ribbon to hang in two long scarflike.ends. Wide winged bows of white silk muslin edged with imltntion Mechlin lace are becoming to every oue and smarten np a very plain waist. A Maw Set of Color. Paris is inaugurating a new set of colors, and judging from the titles given the various shades considerable attention is being given the question by the experts. A deep cream is called "Cream of the Meadow," as its shade is exactly that of the wild flower of that name. "Eventide" describes a new gray, and really the color is deep, mysterious and misty. A shade ot pink is described as "poppy bud," as it gives one the idea of the silvery sheen soon on the poppy bud. fllack Dinner and Reception Oowni. For dinner aud reception gowna black velvet will assume the prece dence, over even the blaok spangled net affairs of the past season. Strings on Alt Headwear. Strings are anuearinir. both on bat and bonnets. 4 Lounging Itobe. The woman who likes a kimono, but who feels how impossible it is ont of her bed-room, can make something very similar, so far as comfort and coolness are concerned, aud yet have a gown she will not mind wearing about the house, in the morning, at auy rate. To fashion it, take two pieces of some pretty cotton material that is at least o yard wide (crape cloth is good), hav ing first cut thorn about ten. iuches longer thou the distance measured from your neck to the floor, and make a round bole four inches iu diameter in the middle of each piece about four inches from its end; this is to be the arm-hole. A gore as large as seems necessnry should then be added to each piece, aud the resulting diagonal edges stitched together to form the back seam, while the opposite or front edges are neatly closed up to near the waist-liue, aud A BCIIOOI, BOY. from there left open to the neck. The ueck itself should be gathered with, more fulness at back and front than at the shoulder, and then bouud, wide lace or embroidery being sewed in to form collar aud jabot. For the sleeves a shirt-waist sleeve is the bast guide as it has but one seam; they may be shaped precisoly like it at the top, bnt allowed to hang straight to the wrists instead of having the f uluess gathered into a cuff, and then faced and turned back, whioh gives a Japan ese look to the gown. Its owner ought to ask some one olse to turn lip the hem around the bottom while she stands properly belted, and it is com' plete. Worn'with the belt while she is visible, and without when she wishes to lounge in solitude, she will find this simple produotiou of her bands txossdingly satisfactory. . VYVM or LOUSOINO boo. THI MARK ITS. Pirrsnuno. ftreln. Finn and SeaA. WHEAT No. Ired 64 99 WHEAT No. 1 new .'. 67 48 CORN No 1 yellow, ear. 8 40 no. 1 jnnow, inoiiou ... bi Milan1 7 SI OATS No. 1 white 16 81 No. 8 white 25 16 tLOLll Winter patents.. ..... 8 70 8 89 40 S 50 64 6.1 00 1160 00 10 60 60 18 00 75 10 00 Si 14 60 fanny strnignt winter 8 Ifva Mn o . HAY-No. 1 timothy 11 Clnvor, No, 1 10 FEKD No. 1 white mid., ton.. 17 Drown middlings IS Hrafi hliMr 1A BTItAW Wheat. 6 09 6 25 "at S 75 6 Br.KJH Fanny Blue Qrass.... 1 25 iimoiny, prims 1 su lalrv Prodaete. BUTTER Elgin creamery..... 2919 18 unio creamery jjj us Faney enllntrr roll Irt IT CHF.EHE Ohio, new II 11 New l'ork. new 11 18 Traits and Vegetable. BEANS Oreen bn 60 75 1'O'IATOKH Fancy White bu 65 60 f A III! AH IT larl.....l I m 1 Q OMONtt per bo 40 60 Poultry, Eta. (Hlt'KKNS drossod. '," 13 14 j unntiH drmuM jj ja tuua 1's. and Ohio, frnib.... 16 JT BALTIMORE. FLOtlt S 8 75 4 oo . it i.n riu. s rvu.. tv CORN Mixed MA OATS 13 EGOS 17 UUXTEH Ohio creamery...... 81 PHILADELPHIA FLOUR 6 ( 881 wheat No. 1 red 70 CORN No. 1 mixed 67 UA1B No. 1 White 29 BUTTER Creamery, extra... 21 EG Ob Pennsylvania Urate.... 17 MEW TOHK. FLOUR Patents f 8 76 4 00 WHF.AT-No.8red 1 CORN No. 8 o OATH White Western 87 BUTTER Creamery. . 18 12 tOOB State od'enn 13 16 L1VK STOCK. Central Stork Tarda, Eaet Liberty, Pa. CATTLS. rrlme. ISOOto 1400 tts 6 6Q 6 70 Uood, to l.'WO lbs 5 80 6 60 4 xjuy, luuv lo lieu lite. OOU OIO Fair Unlit Meers. 000 to 1000 lbs 4 15 4 H5 Common, 700 to 800 Ihi 8 49 4 00 BOOS. Medlnm 4 60 4 95 Heavy 4 60 4 75 Boughs and stags 8 75 4 00 SBiir. rrlme. 5 to 105 lbs 4 flJ 4 75. Good, 86 to 90 Itis 4 6) 4 69 Fair, 70 to 80 lbs 8 75 4 15 Common ' 4 Oil 4 60 teal calves 0 09 7 25 LAMBS. Pprlnper, extra 6 809 l!5 HrluKr, good to choice 5 00 6 10 Common to lair 4 35 4 60 Extra yearlings, light 4 83 4 61 Good to choice ycarllass 4 00 4 85 Medium 8 0 4 09 Common. g 0J 8 DO TRADE REVIEW. The Volume ot Business Now In Progress Hat Never Been Rivaled. It. Q. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week: Uetter than all other news, the record of August commerce shows the relation ot United Btntes business to that of other I'ountrln. Kxiiorts were 120.- US:',875 larger tlinn ever btfore In August and exceeded Imports by :17,9i.6ill(, partly because exports of staples were Ji,:iiii;.!i78 larger thun last year, but also because exports of other products, mainly manufacturing, were 110,349,000 larger tlinn Inst year and larger than In any other month of any year. Fears that great mlvunce In prices might phut off exports of mamiructured pro ducts have not been unnatural, and it Is most gratifying to find that such ex-x ports still continue and expand. The excess of exports over Imports gives fair promise of as large a balance In foreign trade to the benefit of this country during the winter as has ever been seen. That manufactured ex ports do not fall off, but are larger than ever, Is both surprising and gratifying. The volume of business now In progress has never been rivaled. The grent movement of grain, In wheat and flour, a little larger than last year In August, and in two weeks of September 6,:'0,2"3 bushels, Hour In cluded, from Atlantic ports, against 6,4:13,076 last year and from Pacific 7&5, 65V bushels against 361,144 last year Is far more effective In preventing a decline In prices than any official or unolllclal estimate of yield. Govern ment reports Indicate a wheat crop of only 61i;.lKM1.000 bushels, but last year September report Indicated M5,000,000 bushels, and ufterwaids the official re turn made It 675.0M,Oi)0 bushels, and none would be surprised to see a like revision this year. J he price, in spi of good exports has fallen one-quart of a cent, for wemern leceluts na been I3,6fif.4r.r bushels In two weeks. against 14.W3.siir last year, and corn exports, 6,0X3,212 buxhels, against 4,351, 331. The feeling is not unreasonable that foreign needs are just now well Indicated by the corn movement. At this season cotton shipments are al ways small, and hopes or fears rule the market, but prices have declnled during tho week a sixteenth, with a lit tle less buying on foreign account. Extraordinary efforts to increase the iron output failed in August partly be cause stoppage of a f w largd furnaces for repairs more than balanced the ad dition of 13 small furnaces to the pro ducing force and partly because hot weather prevented full production. The reported output. 207,3 '0 tons, against 207,672 August 1. with decrease of 22. 847 tons In unsold stock Indicates a con sumption of 1.2K9.012 tons during tho month. Purchases of 60.000 tons besBemcr ond 20,000 tons other Iron are reported, with advance of beasemer to $23 2fi at nttsbtirg, but quotations are wild because of premiums paid for early delivery. Plates at the East and common bars at Pittsburg are $1 per ton higher, and wire nails have again been advanced 13 per ton. Orders for plates Include several for export and one for a vessel in the Delaware river, with one for Venezuela at Pittsburg, but many for all forma are refused be cause the works are unable to till them on time, and some orders of much Im portance have been withdrawn at the West on account of the delay unavoid able and the high prices charged. The heavy sales of woo), 12.058,900 pounds for the week and 21,282.100 for two weeks, against 98.028.400 In 1897, are largely due to heavy manufactur 1 1897. here woolen een 149 j r4 last ti last ( ing purchases In iioiton. Prices are stiff and the demand fur goods of all sorts Is strong. Failures for the week have been In the United States, against 174 year, and 32 in Canada against vr.