Tue war nas cost all told about
§150,000,000, b it it i 3 worth it many
tii es over, thinks the Ne.v York
l'ress.
A certain Episcopal clergyman is in
favor of compelling all clergymen of
tho church to say tho morning and
evouiug service daily, because it
would improve the vocal utterances of
the ministers.
The Siberian railroad is offering
great inducements t travelers. It
provides not merely parlor aud sleep
ing cars, but one fitted with a gymna
sium and Russian bathi, a dark room
for photographers aid a stationary
bicycle, ou which oua may make cen
tury runs without leaving the train.
It h not supposed that political exiles
will travel iu such cars. But then
their number is growing less and that
of free travelers iu that land of vast
e'(pauses uud vast possibilities is
growing rapidly larger.
The loss on the Loiter wheat deal
keeps growing. It is estimated now
nf §10,000,000, a sum that will come
near to cleaning out the fortune ac
cumulated by so many laborious years
in the dry goads trade. While the
house of Letter is thus bowel low in
humiliation and financial distro s by
the son who was its pride, it is sud
denly flooded with glory by the as
cent of its daughter to the viceregal
throne of India. Jhe Loiter family is
oue for which Dr. Schenk's ilea
would have no charms, says the New
York Journal.
Tho details of the journey of tho
Monterey and the collier Brutus, now
sately at Manila, will unquestionably
prove of great interest to American I
and European shipbuilders. While
the Monterey took her time to get to
Mauila, that she got there is a tri
umph lor the American navy, as she
is not intended cither for service or a
journey on tho high seas. Leaving
Han Diego 011 June 11, the Monterey
arrive! at Honolulu June 21, and left
f>r Manila June 3 \ Arriving there !
Augistd, she thus took just about
live weeks to cover the 503 ) and more j
nautical miles fro 11 Hawaii.
As a result of tho recent conviction
of a sailor for stealing tiie sigualling
book of a British warship a most em
phatically worded note oil the subject
has been issued by the admiralty to
the commander of e very English man
of-war The stolen bonk was one of
a series which are never supposed to
be even seen by any one but the corn
niauder and the officer next in rank,
and as a consequence each command
er is informed in the note just issued
that he will be held personally re
sponsible for the perservatiou of the
secrecy of such volumes. The utoleu
bock happened to be out of date, but
the admiralty officials evidently re
gard the incident as .1 matter of seri
ous moment.
Spain is the only European country
whose manufacturing industries are
known to be declining. The manu
factures, moreover, arc very few aud
unimportant, and the entire number
of operatives in the kingdom is not
larger than that of u half-dozen of the
principal manufacturing cities iu New
England. Spain imports twice the
cotton goods and four times the silk
goods that she exports, and these ex
ports are made ehielly to tho Spanish
colonies, in which ths market has
greatly fallen off. Spain is rich in
iron, lead, zinc copper and quicksil
ver, aud with her .dmirable commer
cial location might supply the Medit
erranean countries with manufactures
nud have little com2>etition.
Ever since the Russian admiralty de
cided to re-establish, the naval head
quarters of the Bla 'k Sea squadron at
Nicolaieff, instead of Sebastopol,great
excitement has prevailed in the Jew
ish quarter at the former port. Ac
cording to Iluss au law, no Jew muy
reside at a first-class naval port,unless
be can show that he has been previ
ously domiciled in tho same place for
thirty years. About a year and a half
ago formal permission was given to
the Jews at Nicolaieff to buy and bold
landed property. Since then, owing
to the rapid commercial and industrial
development of the town, the Jews
have been engaged in extensive spec
ulation in all kinds of immovable
property. It is now stated ou good
authority that on the impending re
turn of the naval headquarters the
law previously referred to is to be put
into active operation. The result will
be that at least one-third of the twelve
or thirteen thousand Jews now resi
dent at Nicolaieff will be expelled. In
such cases, of course, there is no con
fiscation of property, but enormous
losses will bo liinde inevitable by com
pulsory sales.
EILEEN.
She Is the sweetest maiden
Aud loveliest, I ween:
She Is the sweetest maiden
Tlmt ever man has seen.
No skies are drear
When she is near.
When tender words of Jove I hear
From sweet Eileen.
ller pretty Jips are rosy,
The rosiest ever seen;
Iler pretty lips are rosy.
With gleaming pearls between.
There is no bliss
To equal this—
One long and clinging, loving kiss
From sweet Eileen.
llow tender are the glances
Aglow with Cnnld's sheen;
How tender are th • glances
That beam from eyes serene!
With sweet surprise
There sudden rise
Such melting glances from the eyes
Of sweet Eileen.
She Is the sweetest maiden,
And loveliest, I ween:
She is the sweetest maiden
That ever man has seen.
I'll ne'er resign
This maiden mine,
But worship ever at the shrine
Of sweet Eileen.
—St. Paul's.
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'l' the time Barney
Rollins was fifteen
yeiu ' B old to lost
every spear of his
(Exliair as the result of
|4gSjj®\ sickness; thereby he
became the laughing
stock of his own
family and of all the
|p? off jjHjV other families in his
He was quickly
. nicknamed "Baldy"
* by the boys of his
"gang." Mamie O'Konrke, whose
esteem Barney held above nil price,
and who had singled him out, before
his illness, for her smiles nud favors,
pitied where formerly she had ad
mired, aud was kind but condescend
ing.
Even the tiniest street urchin hooted
him,' as the childreu in the Bible story
hooted the prophet, Elisha. Though
they did not use the precise words of
those childreu, "Go up, thou bald
: head," they used words just ns nn
j pleasant to hear, and Barney, unlike
the Hebn.-v prophet, had no she-bears
at his cow ronnd. At fifteen a boy sets
great store by bis personal appearance ;
j and it must not be imagined that, be
| cause he lived at the end of a grimy,
1 cluttered, six-foot-wide alley, in u
rickety tenement on which the sun
shone not more than fifteen minutes a
day, Br.y.ey Bollins did not have as
much pride as boys of the same age
who are better boused.
On the contrary, Barney telt his
misfortune quite ns keenly as many a
j pampered little aristocrat would have
j done, forj he was a boy of an excep
tionally fine-grained nature, nud his
j very soul was embittered by this dis
figurement which a coarser-fibred boy
would not have minded.
Down town, one day, Barney saw,
in tho show-window of a theatrical
supply-shop, a fine array of wigs, aud
among them one that in color and tex
ture seemed so exact a copy of his own
departed hair that his heart was in
his mouth in an instant. The sight
thrilled him through and through.
Braving certain ridicule, he entered
the shop nudinqtiired the price. "Ten
. dollars!" For him, at that moment it
might as well have been ten thousand.
Never mind; he must aud would have
that wig!
Easy enough to resolve, but how to
achieve, with his slender rosources?
The place he had held before his ill
ness, as errand-boy for a large dry
; goods firm, bad been given back to
him, aud was worth three dollars and
; fifty cents a week. Bat every cent of
| this had to be given up for the sup
port of the family, aud Barney knew
j well enough it would bo no use to try
to divert any of it to himself. Ho was
not inclined to cheat his parents, and
had he been he could not by any
chance have done it; they were too
vigilant for that.
To get the wig be must earn more
money, aud to earn more money he
must liavo more work. The extra in
come from the extra work would be
all his own; for to this his parents—
so at least it seemed to Barney—could
hare no righteous claim.
As nothing better suggested itself,
Barney put bis resolution into effect
by returning to the early morning
boot cleaning and paper selling he
had been glad to give up when he bad
attained to tho dignity ufa position in
a dry goods house. He also found
chances to deliver goods for fish
markets and meat markets on Thurs
day and Saturday nights respectively.
Later on he bargained with one of
his boy friends, who was employed
daily from noon to midnight setting
up tenpins in tho bowling alley at an
athletic club, aud who wanted his
evenings free, to take the last five
hours of the work off his hands.
Barney's parents never questioned
his late hours, and were quite in
different to his goings and comings;
so he had no trouble in keeping from
them the fact of his new employment;
but he found it hard, indeed, being
still weak from his illness, to bolt his
supper and hurry away to night work
after eight hours of day work; aud it
was also hard to give up the evening
frolics in which he had been accus
tomed to joiuwith the boss.
For a bank he used the toe of an old
shoe, which he kept tucked under his
mattress. Every night he lodged
something therein, copper, nickel or
silver, and every night he counted and
recounted the contents. Finally, at
the end of almost three months, the
night came when ho was to round out
the needed sum with the last coin.
Trembling with excitement, he thrust
his hand under the mattress.
For a moment his heart beat so
wildly that he could feel the hot blood
surging to bis temples; then it seemed
to stop, and he felt cold and sick aud
fuint, for his exploring fingers failed
to discover the familiar and welcome
roughness of the rain-stiffened old
shoe. When he had pushed his arm
in to tho shoulder, aud had eveu
turned the bedding up and looked as
well as felt, be realized that further
efforts were vniu. The shoe was gone;
the fruit of three months' unremitting
labor stolon.
Barney dared not raiso an outcry ; to
do so would ouly mean to share bis
secret with tlie members of his family,
and thus thwart at the outset all his
plans. Toward morning, as he lay
tossing on his despoiled mattress, un
able to close his eye 3 for grief and
bitterness, ho heard his father's un
steady footsteps on the stairs. They
came nearer and nearer, until the for
bidding figure, with its dishevelled
hair aud rum-laden breath aud brutal
ized features, stood beside tho bed.
Instinctively the boy slid as far away
as the narrow limits of the cot per
mitted; but the movement betrayed
the faot that he was awake, and his
father, seizing him by the arm,
dragged him, with an oath, into tho
middle of the room.
"I'll teach ye to steal, you limb o'
sntanl" cried the drink-crazed man.
"O father; I didn't steal; don'tjjbeat
me!" protested Barney. "The money's
mine, I earned very cent of it working
nights. I did, honest, father."
"Earned it, did ye? an' hid it away
from your poor, hard-workin' parents!
You ungrateful whelp; I'll teach ye to
be livin' in aiso an' idleness, an' layin'
up money like a miser, an' kapiu' it
from yer betters, an' me sbweatin' me
life away carryiu' the hod up a ladder
all day!"
And then, with a heavy atrip of
board brought borne that day for kind
ling-wood, from the building where
he was at work, the half-drunken
father beat the boy until tho lad's
screams brought Mrs. F.ollins to the
point of determined interference.
From the shook of his great disap
pointment Barney rallied with cheer
ful courage aud determination. This
time he took his mothei into his con
fidence.
Mrs. Bollins, if not in all respects a
model mother, was at least a kind
hearted one, and she showed her good
will by aiding the boy in his endeavor
to keep the secret from the unreason
able father, and by giving him a nickel
or dime now nud then from her wages
as scrub-woman. They decided be
tween them that the surest way to out
wit the father was to take the money,
as fast as it was earned, to a neighbor
ing branch of the Stamp Savings So
ciety, and to leave the book of deposit
in the society's care.
In this way the saving went on
smoothly, aud success was again al
most within reach. Barney's heart
beat high with happiness and hope.
Bat on the day when the ten dollars
was ouco more complete, he came
home at midnight from his work in
the bowling-alley, to find the light
burning iu the tenement, and his
mother sittiug anxiously beside the
eot where his little five-year-old sister
Aggie lay tossing nud moaning. For
several days she had not seemed well,
aud since Bnruey had left her at sup
per-time she had grown rapidly worse.
Aggie was the one thing the boy
loved most of all iu the world. There
were other children between himself
and Aggie in age; there were others
younger than she, and Barney was far
from being indifferent to any nf them.
But Aggie was the very apple of his
eye.
Ho had tended her in her cradle as
gently as a woman, aud had managed
always, by book or by crook, to keep
her in dolls and toys. Where Aggie
was concerned ho had never stopped
to count the cost of anything.
The dispensary physician, who was
called in, pronounced tho dread name
of typhoid fever. For several days he
came, and doubtless he did for the
child all that skill aud faithfulness
could do. But Barney aud his mother
shared largely in the prejudices of
their class ngaiust, dispensary treat
ment, and as the little ono constantly
grew worse, they became alarmed
about Uer, nud on the strength of the
tea dollars which Barney had saved,
sent for a physician of much local
repute.
Tho weeks that followed were
anxious aud wearisome ones for
Barney. Aggie went to the very
threshold of death, but she did not
cross it, and the loving brother bad
the infinite satisfaction of believing—
though more likely than not he was
wrong iu his belief—that the happy
issue was entirely due to the skill of
the physician his money had made
possible.
After the little sister had recovered
aud the doctor had been paid, Barney
began again to set aside tho dimes aud
nickels for the purpose which he still
kept in mind; but things are always
going at cross-purposes in the Bollins
household. There have been overdue
wood nnd coal bills, butchers' and
grocers' accounts to pay, and shoes to
buy for the children. There are many,
many imperative demands where a
family is large, tho father a drunkard
aud the income small.
Nearly two years have passed since
Barney Bollins began saving money
for a wig. His head is still jnst as
smooth and shiny; and his sensitive
ness just as keen as at the beginning.
The boys still call him "Baldy." Mamie
O'Bourke still treats him with a pity
ing condescension harder to bear than
downright abuse. He is working and
saving still, just as if nothing had hap
pened; always hopeful, sustained in
his disheartening efforts by the vision
of himself as he will appear, once the
coveted wig is in its place.
He earns more now, and the time is
sure to come, if he keeps on, when he
will be able to purchase something in
the w ay of head-gear far more suitable
1 the paltry ten-dollar "scratch
wig" he has set his heart on, beautiful
as that seems to him now.
In the meautime, though he does
not suspect it, Barney liollins's bald
head is a veritable crown of glory; and
to those of us who know his simple
history the light of the lamps in the
bowling-alley where he works, makes,
as it is reflected from that shining bald
head, a halo of which no saint need
be ashamed,—Youth's Companion,
WISE WORDS.
A useless life is only an early death.
—Goethe.
An ounce of plnck is worth a ton of
luck.—James A. Garfield.
A great mind will neither give an
affront nor bear it.—Home.
The flower of meekness grows on a
stem of grace.—Montgomery.
There is nothing half so sweet ia
life as love's young dream.—Moore.
The sure way to miss success is to
miss the opportunity.—P. Charles.
Recollection is the only paradise
from which we cannot be turned out.
—Richtcr.
There is not a string attuned to
to mirth but has its chord of melan
choly.—Hood.
After all, our worst misfortunes
never L-appon and most miseries lie in
anticipation.—Balzac.
Nothing is imposssiblo to the man
who can and will do; this is the only
law of success.—Mirabeau.
"When a man bas not a good reason
for doing a thing he has one good rea
son for letting it alone.—Walter
Scott.
To be always thinking about your
manners is uot the way to make them
good; the very perfection of manners
is not to think nbout yourself.—
V/hately.
Passinj- of Spanish ICute.
Spain held sway in the Americas
for 148,203 actual days before agreeing
to finally abandon ail that Columbus
gave her. That means 405 years,
nine mouths and seventeen days, al
lowing for the difference between tho
old and new style of reckoning.
The Spanish flag was first raised on
this continent by Columbus on San
Salvador—now British territory—on
Friday morning, October 12, 1492.
It disappeared from Guiana, which
finally went into the hands of the
English, Dutch and French, 1613.
Brazil and Uruguay went to Portu-,
gal, who claimed them under treaty
1634.
Jamaica taken by Great Britain,
1655.
The Bahamas taken by Great Brit
ain, 1680.
Hayti went to France and was
called St. Dominique, 1795.
Chili became independent, 1817.
Florida ceded to the United States,
1819.
Mexico became independent, 1821.
Colombia, New Grenada, Peru,
Paraguay, Ecuadoraud Bolivia, under
the leadership of Simon Bolivar,
threw off the Spanish yoke, 1824.
Argentina attained independence,
1842.
\ enczue'a attained independence,
1845.
Spain ngreed with the United
States to relinquish all claim of sov
ereignty over the Inst of her posses
sions on the Western Continent
August 9, 1838.—New York Herald.
11 ow lie Got Customer*.
A Western farmer who had been
selling his milk for two cents a quart
thought he would try for a part of the
trade of a small town near him when
the retail price was five cents. He
invited tho people to come out to his
farm upon a certain day, and he
showed them over the farm, exhibited
his stock and explained his system of
feeding and general management.
Then came the milking. The milk
men came out with clean shirts and
snow-white aprons, bringing pails of
hot aud cold water. They thoroughly
washed their hands, and then the ud
ders and teats of tho cows with warm
water and castile soap, rinsing them
carefully aud wiping dry. The ves
sels for holding the milk were bright
and clean, the stables and stalls
were clean. The milk was strained,
uerated, quickly cooled and placed in
a cool, clean cellar. All the details
were explained to the, visitors as the
work progressed, and they went home
satisfied that there they could obtain
clean and wholesome milk. The next
day he sought customers and found a
market for nil he could supply at six
cents a quart, or a cent above the mar
ket rate in the town, aud it was but
little more trouble to deliver it than
to have carried it to the railroad sta
tion and send it to Chicago for two
cents a quart.— American Cultivator.
Exportlnc House-Boats.
The house-boat and tender which
were built for La Conitesse de Beam
of Paris have arrived safely at their
destination after a voyago of three
weeks. The route taken after safely
crossing the Channel—which occupied
twelve hours from Gravesend—was via
Calais, aud the small rivers and canals
between there and Conflaus, where the
River Seine is entered, about forty
miles below Paris. Horses and tugs
were the means of locomotion. Con
siderable interest was shown all along
the route, these being not only the
first boats of this description to cross
the Channel, but the first ones ever
seen on French waters.—Birmiughar
Post.
Thro# Beautiful Women.
A famous artist whoso opinion was
asked as to whom he considered some
of the most beautiful women of the
(lay mentioned three in particular as
specially typical of their respective
countries—the Conitesse de Pourtales
in France, the Countess of Warwick
in England and the Chicago belle,
Miss Nannie Leiter, in the United
States.
Women In Ancient Britain.
In Britain the old Celtic and Teu
tonic customary laws left woman free.
History tells of Martia, the Queen of
London, 320 B. C., whose able statutes
outlived the Roman, Auglo-Saxon and
Norse invasions. These, the earliest
laws of Great Britain, now 2200 yeais
old, were made by a woman. By
Magna Chart a women had a vote in
the House of Lords. As a rule, those
women who had a title aud a place in
the peerage sent men, usually their
husbands, to represent them. In this
way they gradually lost what to about
a dozen women in England is really a
legal privilege.
A Pretty Gown For Slender Women.
An extremely pretty gown for a
slonder woman is of black dotted tulle
over white moire with applications of
black lace outlining the apron front.
The bodice is made in jacket form with
a short basque and wide rovers. The
jacket is encircled by the lace ap
pliques and the revers are of shirred
white moiißseliuo de soie. A vest of
pale amber-colored mousselino and a
big cravat bow at the throat is a soft
and pretty finishing touch. The hat
trimmed to be woru with this gown is
of whito straw turned back from the
face with loops of black velvet and
several yellow roses.
PettlcoAts.
It is a vary serious question what is
the best petticoat to wear with thin
gowns that have no stiffening in them.
Skirts need to haug right in order to
look well, and in order to accomplish
this it is necessary to have a well-fitted,
well-hung petticoat. This petticoat
must be made like n regular dress
skirt, fitted over the hips, with full
ness at the hack, and put on to a band
or yoko. About at tho knee is a deep
flounce, either a Spanish flounce or an
accordion-pleated one, trimmed with
many small ruffles. Where the flounce
joins the skirt may be a narrow feather
bone, and there should also be a feath
er bone run through the lowest ruffle.
These skirts must bo as long as the
dress skirt, otherwise an ugly gap
shows where tho petticoat ends. —
Harper's Bazar.
A Pretty Blouse.
Although blouses and skirts can bo
bought at such reasonable prices, yet
there are occasions when the übiquit
ous remnant appeals to us so forcibly
that we deem it worth the labor of
converting it into a bodice or skirt, ns
the case may be. For the former no
prettier model could be selected than
the following:
The front is tacked in sections, be
tween each of which is laid a row of
the new linen luce. The back has
tucks running obliquely from shoulder
to waist, where the rows of laee, laid
toward each other, meet and slightly
overlap. The belt ia of soft satin, fin
ishing with and fastening under a
smart made bow. Muslin or cambric
or even silk would look well for this
blouse, and it can be made also of
chine silk, with kilts of aerophane in
lien of lace.
The Coming Medallion*.
Oxidized silver medallions nro the
coming fad. They come in all sizes
frqui the heavy plaque, ten inches in
circumference, which is hnng against
a background of velvet or satin and
placed in the curio cabinet, to the tiny
bangle not bigger than a teu-cont
piece. The latter are often made with
uneven edges and look like old coins.
Some of these trifles are merely little
love tokens or pretty little presents,
and bear on one side a fanciful profile
of a man or maiden and on the reverse
a line or two from one of Shakes
peare's sonnets or Heine's love songs.
Others are patriotic and have on one
side a basso-reliovo head of Dewey or
Sampson, aud on the other the date of
the battle of Manila or Santiago and
the army aud navy flag. Hansen me
dallions bear a portrait of the explorer
and a little history of his achieve
ments, and the medals commemorat
ing the coronation of young Wil
lielmina of Holland, which promise to
be in great demand when they make
their appearance, are to show her de
termined majesty in the headdress of
the Dutch jicasant.—St. Louis Re
publio.
(lol.lp.
Of the 400,000 teachers in the United
States 268,000 are women.
Nearly one-fifth of the students at
Swißs universities are women.
Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind prodigy, rides a tandem.
It is said that 150,000 women are
making a living in the United States
as typewriters.
The number of women clerks in the
United States has quadrupled within
the past twenty-flve years.
Mrs. Edison, wife of the great in
ventor, is very active in church and
charitable work, and is also prominent
in the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
Mrs. J. M. Ball, wife of the pastor
? Methodist Episcopal Church at
arfehiugton, Minn., supplied the
pulpit on a recent Sunday iu the
absence of her husband.
Mrs. Marion Lei and, of New York,
lias developed a new iudustry by giv
ing readings of newspaper clippings of
Hobson's exploit and the cutting of
the cables at Cardenas.
Miss Georgia L. Chamberlain, of
Chicago, is Secretary of tho American
Institute of Sacred Literature, an
organization which provides facilities
for Bible study at home.
Miss Emily Means, who has been
elected principal of Abbot Academy,
Andover, Mass., was graduated from
Abbot Academy in 'G9, and was con
nected with the faculty as a teacher
from 1878 to 1892.
Apropos of Russia and its ideas of
women's rights, it is odd to learu that
the Russian police are strictly en
forcing the law that no female cyclist
shall ride through the streets of St.
Petersburg unless clad in bifurcated
garments.
Caroline Croft, formerly Caroline
Abigail Brewer, of Boston, has left
§IOO,OOO to two prominent physicians
of that city for investigations to find
some way of curing cancer, consump
tion aud other diseases now regarded
as incurable.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has just given
§25,000 to the University of Chicago.
She wishes the money to be used to
establish in the downtown district of
Chicago n branch institution for tho
highor education of teachers iu the
public schools.
Mrs. Catharine Parr Traill, the old
est living author iu Queen Victoria's
dominions, is now living in rather
straitened circumstauces at her home
iu Lakefield, Out. She is ninety-seven
years of age, and has maintained
literary activity for more than eighty
years.
Mrs. Grace Richards Woodward,
who sang by request of President
Dole the first American song iu
Hawaii, "Columbia, tho Gem of the
Ocean," after the news of annexation
reached the island, was graduated
from Drew Seminary for Young Wom
en, Carmel, N. Y., in Juno, 1890, and
received at the commencement exor
cises the prize for the greatest progress
made during the year in vocal music.
Seen In the Stores.
Dotted printed swiss.
Printed Liberty satin.
Colored lawn petticoats.
Blouse dimity shirt waists.
Ladies' tan cloth laced shoes.
Feather and mousseline boas.
Plain and jetted nets for waists.
Ready-mado boned dress linings.
Shirt waists of corded gingham.
Tncked skirts of linen and crash.
Taffeta waists with braided effects.
Link buttons of a ball and uniform
button.
Ribbon-trimmed foulard dresse3 for
little girls.
Liberty satin foulard in scroll aud
floral patterns.
Corded shirt waists very much
bloused in front.
Tan-colored gowns with rod velvet
belt and collar.
Heavy black taffeta with a satiny
gloss for odd skirts.
Light aud medium colored velvet
for belts and collars.
Black grenadine over colored silk
for elderly womej.
Japanese cotlon draperies with sil
ver and gilt printing.
Ecru cotton stuffs embroidered in
colors for bedspreads.
Unliued black satin coats with a
false front of lace, chiffon, etc.
Lovely green rush, wicker and
white enameled summer furniture.
Jacket suits of plain and mixed
serge, covert oloth, whipoord, etc.
Piece goods of satin braided with
gold thread and appliqued with net.
Printed silk muslin for gowns less
transparent than mousseline de soie.
Shirt waists of black and white
striped silk bayadere and lengthwise.
Evening waists of alternate rowa of
chiffon puffing and laco insertion used
lengthwise.—Dry Goods Economist.
A Pleasant Way to be Cureil.
A Transvaal doctor is credited with
tho discovery of a new curative treat
ment. He asserts that he con cure
persons of smallpox, fevers, diphtheria
and many other maladies by simply
wrapping them in milk sheets. The
patient is laid on n mattress covered
with blankets, and iB packed in a sheet
just large enough to envelop the body.
Tho sheet has been saturated iu a pint
and a half of warm milk, and is ap
plied to the body without wringing.
After lying still for an hour thus
swathed, the patient is sponged with
warm water, or put into a warm bath
for a few moments to remove the milk.
The treatment is based on the germ
absorbing power of milk, and the iden
of it is said to have been suggested by
the fact that milk absorbs poisonous
germs from a bucket in which it has
been standing.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
There are more than a dozen con
cerns manufacturing horseless car
riages in the United States.
DOMESTICATED WOLVES.
They Mate With Farmers' Dugs AiraylTp
in Minnesota.
Notwithstanding the fact that great
wolf hunts are held in Miuuesota every
year, when hundreds of the animals
are slaughtered, the number of the
brutes is apparently increasing. In
many instauces they are so devoid ol
fear that they mate freely with the
dogs owned by the farmers, and the
result is that dozens of creatures lialj
dog half wolf are making their appear"
ance in Anoka, Minn.
In this connection John Andersi n,
a farmer residing a few miles north ot
Anoka, tells au interesting story. For
mauy months he had occasionally seen
his handsome collie dog in company
with two female wolves, which made a
practice of coming to the farmhouse
every night, where the dog shared
with them his food.
A few days ago Anderson had occa
sion to go to an old straw-stack some
distance from his barn. While at work
there he saw a wolf sneak out'of the
stack and hurriedly make off across
the field. Anderson at ouce made an
investigation, and was soon rewarded
by hearing the whimpering of baby
wolves in a nest in the interior of the
stack.
While digging them out, using a
heavy pitchfork, there was a sudden
snarl and a second female wolf came
out with a rush. Anderson struck at
her with the pitchfork and succeeded
in driving the tines through her body.
She made a desperate effort to reach
the man, but was soon despatched.
The farmer then began in earnest
the work of digging out the young
ones, of which he found eight, there
being two nests closo together. The
whelps were too young to make much
of a fight, and all but one were killed.
This one was placed on exhibition. It
is attracting much attention, and An
derson has already refused an offer ol
if2s for it. —New York World.
liullan Instrument*.
The only instruments known to
these tribes were the drum, the rattle,
aud a kind of flageolet.
The drum and rattlo were used in
accompanying the voice, to accentuate
the rhythm aud to assist in interpret
ing the emotive impulse of the song.
Shaking the rattle and beating the
drum with clear, sharp strokes served
not only to mark the time, but to se
cure the co-ordination and unity ot
movement of the numerous voices in
the choral, or to enforce precision of
motion in the dance. The tremolo of
the drum or rattle was to express the
awe aud trepidation felt when ap
proaching the supernatural, or when
invoking the aid of the occult powers.
The flageolet was a rather rude in
strument, having a range limited to
eight or tou notes in the treble clef.
Owing to the lack of mechanical ac
curacy in its manufacture, this range
varied with every instrument, as did
also the quality and value of the tone
relations. There seems to have beeu
only oue requirement of the maker—
namely, that when the fiagelet was
blown with all the six holes stopped
there should be strong vibrations in
the tone produced. This instrument
was used exclusively for solos by the
young men of the tribe, and, in spite
of the inaccuracies of pitch arising
from its imperfect construction, some
of the melodies composed for it are
not without hints of beauty.—Journal
of American Folk Lore.
A Very Big Boy.
A lady from the country, who re
cently had occasion to send to town
for a suit of boy's clothes, took the
measurements herself. She received
the following reply:
"Dear Madam: Y'onr favor received,
hut we regret to say that we have no
clothes Buch as you want, and ve
doubt if they can be found outside a
museum with a fat boy. Fifty-four
inches round the chest, twenty-four
round the neck aud sixty round the
waist is a little out of our line. Pos
sibly you might squeeze the hoy down
a little, but this would hardly be ad
visable, for, as you say, he is only
twelve, and the chances are that he
would grow with all you might do.
We would advise you to take the
youth to SGme wholesale tailoring
establishment. A boy with arms sixty
three inches long and legs just six feet
to an inch is a little beyond the capa
bilities of this establishment, though
we study to please."
The lady has since learned that she
nsed the wrong side of the tape
measure.—Pearson's Weekly.
Superiority of nrltl.h Dlrcli.
A woman applied to Mr. Dickinson
at the Thames Polico Court for advice
about her sou, a boy of thirteen, who
on several occasions had stolen money
from her.
Mr. Dickinson—"Have you a hus
band?"
Applicant—"Yes."
Mr. Dickinson—"Has he punished
him?"
Applicant—"Ho whacks him some
times."
Mr. Dickinson—"lt is no good beat
ing him with a cane or stick. Buy a
good birch rod. You can get one for
about threepence. Then get your
husband to give him twelve really
good strokes with it, and in all prob
ability he will never steal any more."
—London Daily News.
Regretted Limitations.
A rural editor, describing a village
banquet, probably felt that he had
done his duty iu the way of praise
when he wrote:
The banqnet that awaited the guests
iu the supper-room was oue of the fin
ebt ever seen iu this place. The table
fairly groaned under ite weight of good
things, and some of the guests prob
groaned after tliey left it, al
though the remark of each guest as he
or she left the table was, "I wish I
could hold more," and no one felt liia
limited capacity more keenly than ye
editor. —Youth's Companion,