Whether the Philippines vill be I
governed by civil service rules or not,
it is safe to assume that the Merritt j
system will prevail generally.
According to Harper's Weekly, the
immense increase in the population oi
Egypt has obliged the British Gov
ernment to look ahead as to extension
of land under cultivation, necessary to
provide (or an expanding community,
which will shortly he cheeked unless
new resources are provided.
Life in camp at this stage of the
proceedings has other good and im
portant results besides hardening the
men and perfecting them in the mattei
of drill. It enables them to get well
acquainted with one another; to take
one another's measure; to shake down
together in good comradeship before
the shock of battle puts them all ujjoii
their mettle.
There must he something about
American made locomotives that it
superior to those built elsewhere,
otherwise such large orders for then:
would not be received from time t(
time. The latest order is for thirty
eight from two railroads in Japar
which formerly purchased their loco
motives from England. All of whicl
speaks well for American mechanical
skill and labor.
No glory will be taken from Lieu
tenant Hobson if clue appreciation be
given to that one of his seven compan
ions who was fortunate enough tc
evolve just before starting on the des
perate voyage a phrase that deserve!
to live and will. It was Osborn Deig
nan, of lowa, a boy of twenty-one,
who managed to immortalize himseli
without any help from Spanish can
non. When asked if he expected to
get back alive, he answered, careless
ly, "Oh, I guess we stand a fair
chance of getting out," and then, with
emphasis, "but they can't stop us go
ing in!" That's they way they all
felt, and they acted on the feeling.
Deignan put it into words within the
hearing of appreciative ears.
As a mere party leader, Mr. Glad
stone was inferior to both Falmerston
and Beaconsfield, refleats the New
York Observer. From his entrance
into political life his crowning desire
was to benefit not England alone, but
mankind at large. Indeed, there were
times when he believed that England
should be disciplined, and when lit
seemed to regard himself as the cho
sen instrument of her chastisement.
Not until convinced that a policy was
good for humanity would he give it
hearty support. slr. Gladstone's po
litical career was, moreover, marked
by an impulsiveness which rendered
his political action always more or
less incalculable. His changes oi
conviction took him through the whole
gamut of political creeds, from intense
conservatism to an equally intense
faith in democracy. And it was often
a difficult matter for his supporters to
understand the reasons which induced
these changes—why, for example, in
stead of cleaving to the moderate
liberalism in English politics of Pal
merston, he suddenly abandoned con
servatism, and rivalled Disraeli in
advocacy of democracy. No doubt,
however, his conservatism was al
ways that of taste rather than of con
viction. But such impulsiveness in
evitably made him a bad party man
ager.
And now it appears that Charles H.
Cramp gave out only a small part ol
his budget of good news when lie
came back from Russia last month.
The Cramps—that is, an American
firm of ship-builders—have borne
away over all competitors, British,
French and German, not only the
Russian order for two battle-ships,
but also the Russian order for ten fast
gunboats of a new type that will com
bine the best qualities of the gunboat,
the torpedo-boat and the torpedo
catcher—in all an order of the value
of $15,000,000. Anil there is talk ol
Russia engaging the Cramps to lo
cate a branch of their ship-yards in
Russia, probably at Port Arthur, as
Russia's European and Siberian coasts
are ice-locked a great part of the year.
This is a good business for the
Cramps, comments the New York
World. But more, far more, it is an
evidence of a fact of American progress
in which every American will rejoice.
A few years ago—the youngest of oui
grown people can remember it—Europe
knew nothing and cared less about us.
To-day, as with the stroke of an en
chanter's wand, we have topped the
tallest of the old nations. Our mer
chants, our manufacturers are teach
ing the world. Our ship-builders are
leading in that most wonderful of all
the scientific arts, pushing to the real
even the master builders of the Clyde,
And all the nations of the world arc
idfscussing eagerly and anxiously our
Political nolicies.
A BALLADE OF FIGHTING MEN.
Hopkins, BalnhriJffe, nnd John Paul Jones, Preble and Stevart and tho youngster
Here's to the kings of the seal Deo Ice,
Confusion to cowards and death to Some flag struck, when they sailed the
drones. sea.
But a health to the bold and free; Doeatur's namo made tho pirates quake
A cheer for tho men of our own country When ho silenced their guns off Tripoli;
Who fought for tho llag or day or Tho Barbary corsairs were taught to flee
night, When Ilarrou's frigate hovo In sight,
Captains courageous whoever they be— And our flag in the East held sovereignty—
They were the men who lived to light. They wero tho men who lived to fight.
—John Northern Hilliard, in Collier's Weekly.
I THE RED FLAG. 1
m. p
Dy STEWART MITCHELL.
AST spring there
Ejjf if were two thiugs
f rtbfj that almost
I J eVery k°''^'* n
j | - i-i great strike of
' ' °' y C r *
| ; workers —three
vj ' & thousand of
.ir'j.j ijf.' 4 - them; and the
I i ■' If' j other, the sud-
T V ( 3 en a PP eavanee
little hand of dangerous aunrchiats.
The cloth-workers—for the most
part they were Bussians and Poles—
were peaceable and industrious work
ers, at ordinary times. Even now, in
the excitement of the strike, with no
work and no wages, and nothing to do
but congregate in the streets and dis
cuss their grievances, they had created
no public disturbance, but they wore
complaining bitterly and loudly of their
employers, and some of them were be
ginning to make threats of violence.
The anarchists—at least, they were
believed to be such by the police—
were, as it happened, also Bussians.
They were evidently bent on some
mischief and were consulting with
some of the strikers, and though the
authorities had, as yet, no ground for
arresting them, they were kept under
close wateh.
Every day the papers had accounts
of the troubles of the cloth-workers,
their mass meetings, the conferences
of committees, and the liery speeches
of the leaders. Some papers de
voted whole pages to descriptions of
the people themselves; their life be
fore they came to the Western world;
their jourueyings across a continent!
and an ocean to find freedom; their
homes here, such as they were, in
dark, crowded tenements on the East
Side; the daily and nightly gather
ings on tho streets of their men and
women.
Every day, too, the same papers
had much to say of the mysterious
anarchists and gave portraits which
represented them as particularly ugly
and vicious fellows.
Somehow, for no particular reason
at first, and then because everbody
suggested it to everybody else, the
publfo came to think of the two things
together, and all sorts of rumors
gained currency. It was said that
the cloth-workers had brought the
anarchists hore to intimidate their em
ployers; that tho cloth-workers them
selves were half anarchists, and finally,
that there was a plot to set the city on
fire.
The public mind was much dis
turbed, and the papers began to hint
at dynamite stored in the tenements,
and of the hateful red flag of anarchy,
hidden away as yet, to be unfurled at
any moment as the signal for fire and
death.
Beneath all there was also aii un
easy fear that some of these strikers
hail, perhaps, much to complain of—
beggarly wages, excessive hours of
labors, wretched homes; and that they
were smarting under a sense of injus
tice, and were very ignorant, and
might bo led away, in a moment of ex
citement, by the conspirators, who
hated all forms of government and all
authority, and preached the doctrine
that ruin would give opportunity to
re-create a better social order.
At last, in tho second week of the
strike, the cloth-workers determined
to make a public demonstration—a
perfectly peaceable one, they said—
and applied for leave to parade the
streets on a Friday evening.
The officials hesitated. To grant
the permit might lead to a serious dis
turbance. To refuse it would cer
tainly increase ill will and make the
striuers feel themselves to be martyrs.
But after some delay, it was decided
to grant the request.
A large force of police was detailed
to precede and follow the procession,
and to guard the line of march. The
men were to gather at various points
andjoin forces at the corner of Centre
and Grand streets, at half-past six,
aud were to march through Broome
street, the Bowery, lliviugton street,
and other east side thoroughfares, and
finally to pass through to Chatham
Square and there disband aud go at
once to their homes.
This determination served only to
increase the general uneasiness in the
city. To hring so large a body of the
disaffected foreigners together, and
to enable them to display their griev
ances in public and excite sympathy
among tens of thousands of the look
ers-on, seemed to many the height of
folly. The talk of dynamite and the
red llag was renewed, and to add
to the confusion, an evening paper an
nounced that it had discovered the
existence of an extraordinary plot.
It had been found that there were
certain women among the strikers, so
the account ran, who were thorough
going anarchists and exceedingly vin
dictive and daring; and it had been
determined that while the procession
was on its march, and many of the
police were withdrawn from their
usual beats, these women Bhouldcarry
1 out their plan of shattering with dyna
mite the building of one of the most
unpopular employers. This method,
it was thought, would divert suspi
cion from the men, while no one would
dream of connecting a woman with
such a deed. Even this wild rumor
received serious attention, and the
guards about nil the buildings where
the strikers had worked were in
creased.
By Friday tho excitement had
reached fever heat. Along the streets
through which tho procession was to
pass, all the shopkeepers put up their
shutters aud closed their doors early
in the afternoou. By three o'clock
crowds had begun to gather, and the
police passed up aud down, forcing the
people to move ou.
At about this time two Bussians—a
man of middle age, with a loug, rough
beard, and a girl of perhaps sixteen—
turned the corner of the street where
one part of the procession wastoform.
"This is the street, Helena, my child,"
the man said, and they stopped to in
quire for a house the number of which
was written on a card tho girl held iu
her baud.
They carried large bundles in their
arms, wrapped in cloth, and were evi
dently strangers and not known to any
of their own countrymen crowding by
them. They were noticed by the
police as they passed on and entered
the dark doorway of No. 37, one of
tho tall tenements which frowned
down 011 the narrow way.
The afternoon wore on, and by live
o'clock the sidewalks were packed
with a solid mass of people. A little
later even the roadway was tilled, save
for a jmssage kept open for the pro
cession. By six tho strikers were as
sembling and ranging themselves in
order between the restless masses 011
either side. To show their good faith
and peaceable iutoutions, or as some
said, to cover their real designs, those
who were to go on before carried an
American flag. A few of tlreir num
ber, who made up a rude band, with
a drum or two and some wheezy wind
instruments, gathered about the flag.
The police escort took its place.
There was a strange feeling of ex
citement and expectancy in the poor
throng. Hunger revealed itself in
their faces; anger at real or fancied
wrong; dread of evils to come; hope,
too, that this gathering of awkward
and meanly clad men, as it marched
on, marched on, as if to a final battle
with its evil fortunes, might some
how bring victory to their cause.
A woman in the crowd held up her
child to see its father standing in the
front rank, nrd the child gave a cry of
delight. Then one of tho musicians
sounded a hoarse signal, the men
straightened themselves in their
places, and silence fell on the throng
in the darkening street.
All at once some one was seen to
raise his hand and point upward. All
eyes followed its direction. Leaning
far out from a high window they saw
a girl waving a red flag, lighted up
by the rays of the setting sun. An in
stant the silenco lasted; then a dull
roar like the sound of waves rose
from tho crowd below.
Half a dozen policemen made a rush
for the doorway of No. 37 aud passed
in. Other officers here and there
pounced suddenly on men aud boys
aud dragged them away. Others got
tho precession under way nud hurried
it on with all possible speed. The
people on the sidewalks were crowded
and pushed and driven along in the
same direction, aud a few moments
later a new throng of people, who had
seen nothing of the inoident, were
marching steadily through the street.
After all had passed, and the street
was quite deserted and darkness had
come on, the officers came quietly out
from the doorway of No. 37, bringing
with them the girl, Helena. For a mo
ment their footsteps echoed in the si
lent street as she was led away. Then
they turned a corner aud all was still.
Saturday and Sunday passed, and it
was Monday morning before thero was
a formal hearing for the prisoner in
court. It was Monday morning, too,
before her father, with few acquaint
ances and no knowledge of the city,
found to defend her a lawyer who satis
fied him.
In tlie meantime the assistant dis
trict attorney in charge of the case was
so well satisfied with his evidence that
he did not talk with the prisoner, and
no one else was allowed to see her.
This did not prevent some of the
papers from giving long stories about
her. She had, so they said, made a
full confession, and had told how she
had been trained from infancy to hate
tyrants, and to believe that all Govern
ment was tyranny; and had been
brought to New York by the group of
conspirators already there, to do this
very act and set the poor cloth-work
ers on fire with a spirit of revenge.
That morning, when she was brought
over to the court house, a great crowd
had again collected to see this strange
creature, this human monster. Be
tween rows of officers on either side to
guard her, she passed slowly front*the
street into the court.
As she moved on there was a cry of
surprise. Tall, straight, with erect
head and clear, honest eyes, she was
the last person to be suspected' as n
vicious enemy of society. She passed
in and the doors were closed.
After some delay over uther'matters,
her case was called. The judge spoke
with her through the court interpreter
to ask if she had counsel to represent
her. A lawyer sitting by her ad
dressed the court.
"Your honor," he said, "I repre
sent this prisoner. I learned the
facts only this morning and have not
had opportunity to speak with the
district attorney, but I think I can
satisfy him "
"I insist," said the prosecuting at
torney, "that this hearing proceed in
the regular way. AVe have conclusive
evidence that this prisoner has com
mitted a most heinous crime against so
ciety, and should be held for trial."
"Very well," said the prisoner's
counsel. "We are ready. Proceed
with your evidence."
Very remarkable evidence it was
that was theii heard. Breathlessly
those in attendance heard the officers
tell the story, to the point where,
rushing into the bare and dingy
room where the child was, they found
her, frightened by the sight of thou
sands of upturned faces and the
hoarse roar from the street, crouch
ing in a corner, but still clasping the
red flag in her arms.
Hero the flag itself was produced—
a long, red scarf—and the attorney
waved it about and denounced it, and
being of a fiery disposition, finally
threw it on the floor and danced up
and down 011 it in rage.
When ho had finished with his wit
nesses, tho prisoner took the stand
and kissed the little Bible the clerk
handed her before she was sworn.
Then, speaking through the court in
terpreter, who translated her words,
sentence by sentence, she said:
"I lived in Bussia. I had heard
people tell of this free country. We
had a hard time there. We were
poor. My father and I worked hard,
but I had scarcely any books and
could not learn as much as I wanted
to. I persuaded him that we should
be better oil' here. So we worked
harder than ever, till we saved a little
money to come to America. AVe never
had very good food, but we even
saved a little from that, to get this
money. AA'henever I could, I found
out all about America.
"An agent of the steamships, who
came to our village to get us to buy
steerage tickets, gav me a picture of
your flag, anil toli me what the stars
and the stripes stooil for, and how it
is the flag of people who are free and
happy. So X loved the flag. And
while we were coming over in the
steerage, I had some pieces of cloth of
different colors, and I made an Ameri
can flag, because I loved it.
"When we came here, and I looked
out of our window and saw all the
people in tho street, and saw a flag
waving there, X wanted to wave mine,
too, but it was in our box, that had
not come yet, so I only had my scarf,
and I waved that. I never thought
about any red flag, or making any
trouble. lam sorry I have made
trouble."
"All nonsense," said tho fiery attor
ney, who nevertheless, had been some
what stirred by this recital. "AVhere's
that flag you made? Let's see that."
The child took from her father, who
handed it to her, a poor, pitiful touch
ing semblance of our Stars and Stripes.
The shades of the color were very
strange, and the stars were a little
crooked, and there were not enough
of them for all the States, but much
love for the flag and all it stands for
had been sewed into it by the little
traveler to a land of freedom.
As she spread it out, tho spring
breeze from the open window sent a
ripple over its surface. The crowd in
the court-room could not be restrained,
and applauded with deep enthusiasm.
"A great deal of dust flies in through
these windows," said the j>rosecutiug
attorney, blowing his nose and wiping
his'eyes. "And, your honor, lain in
clined to think that the public inter
ests do not demand any further pro
ceedings in this matter.
He picked up the vicious red flag,
and looked at it ruefully. "Tell her,"
he said to her counsel, "tell her I'll
see she has a better one, and a real
flag, too."
"Prisoner discharged," said the
judge.
And a day or two later, Helena, the
suspected anarchist, the little Russian,
the true American, had the Stars and
Stripes flying from her high window
at No. 37, to celebrate the success oi
the strike, in which her neighbors
were rejoicing.—Youth's Companion.
A Cat's Pathetic Sulclile.
While Superintendent Daubney, of
tho Western New York and Pennsyl
vania Railway, was on his tour of in
spection of the road in his private car,
near Nunda, N. Y., he heard screams
above the roaring of the train. The
superintendent signalled the train to
stop and made an investigation.
On one side of tho track lay one
half of a little black dog, and on the
other side of 'the track lay tho other
half. Sitting ou the bank near by, and
making the most pitiful wailing was a
large maltese cat. The cat gave every
sign of genuine grief, and showed an
inclination to fight when anyone dis
turbed the remains of the dog, so the
cat was left alone to its grief, and the
train departed.
Following the superintendent's
special was regular train No. 212, and
but ten minutes apart. The two trains
passed at a siding along the line and
on the pilot of the engine, resting on
the level portion of it was what was
the cat headless. Tho train was
stopped at the next station, where tho
engineer reported that a few miles
back tho cat deliberately walkod on
the track in front of tho train and threw
itself at the engine. The cat and dog
were playmates, and belonged to a
nearby farmhouse.—New York World.
Siilced Baths.
The Arabian women take spice and
incense baths in tho same manner that
the American girl takes a vapor bath.
The spice is put under the chair and
the vapor opens and cleanses the pores
while the spice and perfume enter
them and give her flesh the fragrance
of a llower.
To Cyclists.
Ardent cyclists may be pleased
to know that, when they return stiff
and tired from a long country ride,
they will derive great benefit and re
lief from taking a warm bath into
which has been poured a good teaenp
ful of white vinegar. Ammonia used
liberally in the same way also has ex
cellent results. But it is only com
mon precaution to allow the body to
cool before taking this or any bath.
Now Hosiery.
Among the latest things displayed
in the hosiery line are small checks
about tho size of very large dice. They
came in blue, red, green, purple and
pink checked, with either black or
white.
There is a tan, combined with white,
for though tho sales-people
say the alternating checks should cor
respond with the shirt waist instead of
the shoo. And why not? Tho sum
mer girl has been a slave to the tan
hose long enough.
To Have a White Skin.
Eat no meat at all. Become a vege
tarian; they always have beautiful
skins. Once in six weeks or so eat a
meal of fresh meat. Drink as much
water as you can; tat little grease and
touch no tea or coffee. Your break
fast may be oatmeal and oranges;
your dinner fruit, nuts, fruittea—pre
ferably quince tea—brown bread,
muffins, cauliflower, croquettes, mar
malade, and dishes of stewed vegeta
bles. The diet is not so bad when
you become accustomed to it.
llatu For ISrlriesitialdß.
For a souvenir to each one of your
bridesmaids give the black net hat
trimmed with tips that they are to
wear at your wedding. Your milliner,
having to make so many, would, of
course, make a special reduction for
you. Indeed, if you went to a little
trouble, you might get a milliner to
come to the house who would work by
the day, and make your picture hats
at much less expense than it would
cost to give the order to a millinery
establishment.—Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
Homo Millinery.
AVith the variety of shapes and
colors of untrimmed hats on the coun
ter, and the remarkably cheap flowers
at a neighboring counter, there is
nothing to prevent every woman from
having a hat that will do her credit,
if she has any idea at all of trimming.
The rough straws in brown look well
with sprigs of wild, red roses, bunches
of tulle or veiling. Heliotrope and
purple ones are attractive when bedded
in violets. Grey ones are pretty with
wreaths of pansies. The average rough
straw turns up in the back and tilts
over the eyes. For the dress hats
there is no regulation shape, anything
is worn that is most becoming.
Vesta nml Ties.
Jackets are worn with a fancy vest
of colored silk or lawn, finely tucked
and striped with lace insertion or
sliirt waists; but it is the neckgear
which stamps the costume as modish,
quite as much as the cut. Htocks with
four-in-hand ties or sailor knots made
of the same material as the waist are
especially good style, while other fash
ionable stocks are of white pique with
a colored silk four-in-hand or narrow
tie, which forms a small bow. There
are black, white and colored silk ties
with kuotted fringe on the ends, and
soft ties of net chiffon and liberty
gauze will be very much worn with
the cotton and linen gowns. Added
to the long list of strictly feminine
neckgear which seems sufficient for
all needs is the entire assortment of
men's neckwear, so irresistibly fas
cinating to women that they are good
customers in this department.
The Rose l Queen.
In A'ieuna the rose has been de
clared the flower of the year and will
appear not only on the hats and bon
nets, or dinner tables, but also worn
in the hair, tucked into the bodice,
and even carried in the hand. In fact,
the queen of flowers is to have it all
her own way—it might be said as
usual, for, except in spring, when the
violet proves a formidable rival in
public favor, the rose yearly holds
undisputed sway in tho A r ieuuese world
of fashion. This is due in great
measure, to Kaiserin Elizabeth of
Austria's passion for roses, which is
so great that her apartments are filled
with them at all seasons. In the
grounds of the Achilleiou-Schloss in
Corfu a magnificent rose park was
laid out at her special command, while
at Scliloss Lainz, even the telegraph
nnd electrio light poles are rendered
things of beauty by trains of climb
ingroses. Thepaths are bordered with
roses, marble vases are filled with
them, and out of the velvety green
turf spring roses, not tortured into
stiff designs, but trained in exquisite
festoons and groups of color.—Ban
Francisco Chronicle.
The Work Banket'* Evolution.
My lady's work basket breathes no
longer of sweet domesticity. Tko
little fittings suggestive of housewife
ly care have gone the way of all things
simple. In their stead are "trifles"
fashioned of solid gold plate and
studded with jewels.
In a downtown shop the other day
I heard a woman ask for a goldthread
winder. A bit of pasteboard or an
emptied spool at one time did service
for what is now supplied at a cost of
from $0 to 810. She purchased one
at the latter figure. It was a flat, ob
long chunk of gold.
Later I ascertained that most fabu
lous sums are paid for the small things
which go to complete my lady's work
basket. Thimbles studded with dia
monds aud pearls are accompanied
by gold holders, which sometimes are
just as richly garnished.
There are little pencil-shaped bars
of gold, richly chased, and nt either
end a smooth oval bulb. These are
sold as glove darners. They are to be
had for from 812 to S2O.
The bright bits of color which were
wont to keep the emery ball always in
sight have been frowned down, and
now it is an oval lump of gold that
holds the powdered sand. Needle
cases come these days with mother of
peal sides, and the flannel is of the
delicately perfumed stripe which one
buys for 850 a yard.—New York
Herald.
The Cotton Slilrt Wnltt.
Shirt waists of the cotton persuasion
are growing very coquettish, indeed,
with their yokes of embroidery, aud
into the field of cotton blouses has
come a new white shirt waist made of
all-over embroidery. It is an exceed
ingly picturesque and soul-satisfying
garment on a white-hot summer day,
and under it must bo worn a cache
corset of white linen or colored silk.
In all respects this latest comer is
made quite like any gingham shirt,
minus the very prevalent tucking.
Some of them, it is true, show wide
sailor collars of embroidery, under
which, in front, knots a small bright
tie of soft silk. Stiff white linen col
lars and cuffs are made on to these
shirts, but the front buttons are white
woven bullets.
There is almost a sensation over the
cotton, silk and percale shirts, with
finished tails that the tailors are put
ting out as a bait to novelty seekers.
This is a direct inducement to wear
the short and hitherto concealed tail
outside the dress belt, and just how
the great feminine public will receive
the idea is not yet known. In scol
lops, points and wedge-shaped tabs,
or full ruffles, the tails are completed,
and slim-waisted women undeniably
profit by this pretty hip decoration.
No demur of the faintest sort has
been offered to the shirts of white
linen and naiusook having richly em
broidered bosoms. The bosoms are
soft aud full, and fretted with most
delicate needlework, usually in a
series of wreaths or vines. Not a
touch of color i 3 introduced in the fig
ures, jeweled buttons are worn in the
cuffs and bosom, and a bright taffeta
stock takes the place of a linen collar.
These expensive dainties of dress are
regarded as eminently appropriate for
any occasion, even for a wedding in
summer and in the country.—Phila
delphia Times.
FH*II!UII , M Fitiicieg.
Plaid leather belts.
Irish linen shirts, tnelied.
Silk-elastic black belting.
Many dark-bine jacket suits.
Embroidered batiste allovers.
Black plisses for dressy toilettes.
Chateluine bngs in tooled leather.
White moire for lining net gowns.
Narrow-trimmed sailors for misses.
Shot moreen for summer petticoats.
Window shades stamped with a flag.
Parasols of plaid and figured fou
lard.
Oriental cotton draperies in rug ef
fects.
Men's negligee shirts in brilliant
plaids.
Buck skirts with tucks and simulated
apron.
Embroidered Japanese satin table
covers.
Tiny leather necessaries for travel
ing bags.
Misses' bicycle suits of cheviot, serge
and crash.
Light-colored sailors having a broad
plaid band.
Taffeta silk having bayadere effects
in lace stripes.
White China crepe for handsome odd
summer waists.
Blnck and colored straw hats with a
white underbrim.
Bush, wicker and bamboo furniture
for summer homes.
White lawn waists having hem
stitched cross tucks.
Green and white cotton rugs for
summer furnishings.
Black brilliantine for elderly wom
en's traveling gowns.
White pique suits trimmed with
black soutache braiding.
Whistling is not permitted in ths
streets of Berlin.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
What we are.is much more tons than
what we do.—George Herbert.
He a whole man nt everything; whole
man at study, in work, in play.—Joseph
Gurney.
I have always been a quarter of an
hour before my time aud it has made 8
man of me.—Nelson.
Economy is half the battle of life: it
is not so hard to earn money as to
spend it well.— Spurgeon.
It is as easy to call back a stone
thrown from the hand a3 to call back
the word that is spoken..—Emerson.
A closed heaven represents the
blackest misery that humanity is cap
able of suffering.—Eev. W. S. Cass
more.
It is the vain endeavor to make our
selves what we are not that has strewD
history with so many broken pur
poses aud lives left in the rough.—
Lowell.
Beware of stumbling over a pro
pensity which easily besets you from
not having your time fully employed.
Ho instantly whatever is to be done
and take the hours of recreation after
business, never before it.—Hir Walter
Seott.
The law of nature is that a certain
quantity of work is necessary to pro
duce a certain quantity of good of any
kind whatever. If you want knowl
edge, you mnst toil for it; if food, you
must toil for it; and if pleasure, you
must toil for it.—Buskin.
If a man has no regard for time of
ether men, why should he have their
money? What is the difference be
tween taking a man's hour and taking
his S5? There aro many men to whom
each hour of the business day is worth
more than 85. —Horace Greeley.
A Use For Insect*.
In several cases industry is indebted
to the insect world for unique sub
stances. For many years the co
chineal or cactus scale plant was used
as a basis of an impoitant red dye un
til practically superseded by the in
troduction of aniline dyes. A single
species of the lac insect produces
practically all the shellac stick and
button lac of commerce. In South
western Asia the cresote bushes are
the breeding ground of enormous
quantities of a lac insect, the com
mercial possibilities of which have not
yet been developed. A species of
scale insect in China yields a pure
white wax of great value aud rarity.
The Chinese wax is said to have ten
times the illuminating power of other
waxes. It is a beautiful substance,
resembling beeswax more than vege
table wax in its chemical composition,
and is clear white in color. Now a
discovery which promises to bo of
great economic value comes from Mesa
Grande, California.
The vegetation in this district is in
fested with an insect which, on being
removed from the twigs of oak on
which it thrives and compressed in
quantities by the hand, becomes a
more or less pliable lump, somewhat
resembling rubber, but not possessing
the same elasticity. Part of it has
been proved by chemical analysis to
be a true wax and part resembles
rubber in its physical properties. The
product is equally interesting from a
chemical and industrial point of view,
and the supply is well nigh inexhausti
ble. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Effect of Cold on Meat*.
For some time careful study has
been made in Australia ami other
British colonies to determine the
question as to the merits and demerits
of frozen meats in their food relations,
this study being carried on in view oi
the charge sometimes made that frozen
meat is sometimes diseased. The
fact, however, appears to bo that less
jfrozen meat is condemned as unfit for
food than freshly killed carcasses.
Dr. Brown, an expert connected with
the Victorian Agricultural Depait
ment, after making a series of experi
ments, reports that the carcass of a re
oently slaughtered animal, placed, un
der suitable conditions, in a cold
chamber, can be kept there indefinitely
without decomposition, so long as
sufficiently low temperature is con
stantly maintained. Although pro
ducing no chemical alteration, cold
induces a physical change in the meat.
After freezing aud then thawing, the
tissues soften. But cold renders it
tenderer and capable of easy digestion
and absorption. As to wholesomeness
the'expert pronounces it to be not less
so than meat not thus treated. The
chemical constitution of such meat is
not different from that of the fresh
article; it may contain less water, but
tlie water derived from ingested meat
has no greater food value than water
taken as such.—Now York Tribuue.
An Iron IMlne on Lonß Island.
One of the queerest iron mines in
the world is a long stretch of the
beach on the southern side of Long
Island, and it is now visited by stu
dents from the various women's col
leges of the Greater New York. Thi
snow-white sand which has been made
from the crushing of rock is mixed
with a black ore. Where the black
sand comes to the surface it sometimes
rusts a little, so that after a very high
tide the beach is snow white, mottled
with curious water marks in black and
red. At one point opposite West
Hampton there is an old mill, in
which magnets are set on woollen
rollers,over which the sand is shoveled
directly from the ground. The magt
aets pull out little pieces of ore* which
ire taken off and put in the barrels
ind sent far away.—New York Mail
lad Express.
% Stagger! njf Bulletin For Staggerer*.
A charitable society, recently organ
ized at Basle, Switzerland, announces
one of its objects as follows: "We
escort home the inebriates who are in
confliot with the perpendicular."