Freeland Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BV THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Umited OFFICE: MAIN STBEET ABOVE CKXTBE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Myilth-i W Four Months Two Months 20 The .late which the subscription is paid to is on tne address label ot each paper, tho change ot which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt tor remlttauce. Keep the figures in advance ot the present date. Re port promptly to this oftlee whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription Is discontinued. Make all men. y orders, checks, etc.,payable to the Tribune Printinj Company. Limited. Nicaragua's willingness to cede ter ritory for a canal shows that that • country has no difficulty in recogniz ing a real estate boon when it is pointed her way. The appearance of tho trolley car in Havana will cause many Spanish re grets over circumstances which pre vent their claiming victories with ter rible slaughter of tho enemy. Never before in the history of this country was prosperity so great or so general as it was during 1898, and this in spite of a foreign war that might naturally have been paralyzing to industry and commerce. Further than this, never, with a single excep tion in favor of England in one year, did any country sell so much to other countries as we sold abroad in the year just passed. The British manufacturer of bath tubs says that not a quarter as many portable baths are made now as form erly, and another recently referred to the fact of orders for two hundred shower baths having been taken by a traveler in one journey at some past period, while he supposed that "at tho present time a manufacturer did not sell three shower baths in a year. From this it would seem that the shower bath is becoming obsolete in England. The era of small ships is rapidly passing away as the enormous bulk of the world's commerce is increasing and the necessity of speed aud econ omy is realized. Large twelve-knot steamers with triple-expansion en gines are cheaper than sailing vessels, Dot only because ot the vast increase of single cargoes, but because the steamer cau mako three voyages to the sailing vessel's one, the saving in interest aud operating expenses more than offsetting the added expense ol fuel. _____________ Baron Iveagh, in giving $1,250,000 to the Jenner Institute to promote original and profound research in bac teriology and other forms of biology, in order to determine the'causes, na ture aud prevention of disease, has in troduced a novelty in private munifi cence for the public benefit. It con cerns the welfare of all mankind and touches their deepest desire, or the preservation of health and the increase of the span of life. The man who can enable his fellows to resist the causes of disease or furnish to them greater immunity from its assaults, will rank chief among human benefactors, for the preservation and prolongation of life, after all, overtops in the estima tion of mankind everv other earthly good. The year 1898 marked a docided return of prosjierity, says the New York Independent. The agricultural wealth of the country has increased, high prices havo been obtained for our abundant wheat crop, and the in debtedness on Western farms has been much reduced. Our exports have vastly oxceedcd our imports, and money has been abundant. The war docs not seem to have af fected business very seriously in cither way. It has been a 3 ear of prosperity in the pursuits of peace and of marvelous success in war. The country is now a world l'ower, and will be called to do its part in settling the problems of both continents. This is what is giving both concern and courage to our people. Lady Cruzon's State Elephants. Forty elephants of state are in the equipment of the Viceroy of India. The elephant on which La.dy Curz n ■will ride when she accompanies her lord to meet the various native prin ces is made ready by being* first vig orously scrubbed with soap, water and brickbats, after which a profess:onal elephant painter decorates his f ire lioad with fanciful frets and scrolls. Then the animal is almost covered with scarlet cloth heavily embroidered with prold. a head cap to match, and after the howdah is adjusted the ele phant of state is ready for my Lady Curzon. Mrs. Russell Sage pave to a reporter who recently interviewed her a copy of her speech on men's clubs. It was mounted on vellum with decorated borders. THE COMING OF LAFAYETTE. Yonder Liberty wept in bor mountain nest, Aud feeble of wing was she, When gallantly into the stormy west Ilor knight sailed over the sea. For the flower of chivalry, deathless yet, Had felt love's opening spell Arol bloomed America's Lafayette On the bunks of the blue Moselle. There was sorrow that year on shore and surf, There were clouds In our country's heaven, There was red death-dew on the summer turf, Of seventeen soventy-sevon; But vain were peril or death to damp The soul of the high-born boy. Who left his king for a foreign camp In his brave, unselfish joy. The night-mists hung over Winyaw Buy, No watcher stood on the shore, No friendly listener hailed the way Of the stranger's landward oar. No guide—till a lonely window-light Sbowetf, glimering far and thin, To the champion of a people's right A star to beckon him in. Make haste! to Liberty's bleeding host His generous speed must bo; And away, for the cause he loved the most, Ho rode from tho Great Pedeo. By tho cotton-flolds of the Carolines *Th6 black slaves watched him go; I A DISCIPLE OF MESMER. § jirfjj. r DO NOT know if Ip' ear f r ' em L Pis! will pardon me for making use of a story which lips some few & it M(l weeks ago. But then I have to plead as an excuse that he ought not to be so indiscreet as to eoufide iu a struggling journalist who is ever on the lookout for interesting "copy." Au introduction is necessary. Suf fice it to say that Conyers, who is au artist, had entered my diggings on the day in question after having been absent on a sketching tour in the south of Ireland for a little more than fifteen mouths. He came with the announcement that he was going to be married to an Irish girl—Kathleen O'Xeil by name. I became interested. My eager questioning elicited the fol lowing facts: He had first come across Miss O'Neil in the vicinity of Lismore, it appears. Curiously enough, the cause of his original interest in her was an expression of haunting sadness which was ever on her face; nor had he known her long before lie experi enced an enthusiastic desire to have a hand in clearing the sadness away. But how could he learn the cause? By good fortune he was permitted to hear the story from her own lips, al though she had spoken to no man be fore about it. "My father," she said, "is insane." "Good heavens!" lie had never entertained that pos sibility. No wonder tho poor girl was sorrow ful. But how had it happened? "We lived until a year ago in Dub lin," she answered. "My father was a merchant there. ne had had a hard struggle, but at last success came. Not that his balance at the bank was sulficiont of itself; but if he could sell his premises and connection he could retiro, which was what he de sired, for he was growing old. For tuuately, a purchaser was soon pro cured in an Irish baronet, Sir Patrick O'Conuell by name, who wanted it for tho purpose of establishing his younger sons in business. Ah agree ment was signed. Sir Patrick could not pay cash down, liis money was tied up; but he would have sulficiont free in six months' time. He, how ever, promised to lodge with my father as security in tho meantime the family diamonds, you must understand, had an honor able name. The pity of what followed. It was nt the place of business, on a certain afternoon, that the jewels were handed over, and father, for one night only, locked them in liis eschitoire, intend ing next day to take them to the bank. Alas! the self-same night the premises wero burnt to tho ground—nothing was rescued. The sudden shock turned my father's brain. As for mother and I, after we had paid to the baronet money equiv alent to the value of tho diamonds (which tho insurance, banking ac count, etc., enabled us to do), wo had just sufficient left to live in sim plicity. So we came down to this quiet place. We ure allowed to keep father, because the form of his disease comes under tho heading of melan cholia. Ho is not dangerous, but be does not know even mother and me." Such is a brief outline of the sad story. Well, this life, they say, is made up of curious chunces. As Conyers was Hearing his 4 'diggings" afterward, who should he run up against but his old chum, Charley Manton, who is confi dential agent in tho employment of Gray & llelmsley, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. 4 'Hallo! What arc you doing down this way, Charley?" shouted Conyers. "Searching for a needle in a hay stack, my boy. I want Daniel O'Neil, supposed to he residing in this quar ter, formerly a merchant trading in Dublin. I say, though, what makes you look so excited?" Conyers took his arm and led himto his "diggings," which were conven iently near. "Now, I know where to find Mr. Daniel O'Neil," he said. "But, first, what do you want him for?" "Well, that's cool. Supposing you make a start by telling me why you're BO mightily interested in him?" There are times when you can gain Thro'the woods of feathery turpentines He felt the spice winds blow: By all the rivers our hill have fed Tho print of freedom was set When over Potomac rang the tread Of the horse of Lafayette. Give thanks for the day that found him fit, And the hour of our country's joy When Washington's stately soul was knit To the soul of tho ardent boy; Remember the years of sore mischance Wher our arms wore weak to win If, strong to kindle tho heart of France, No Lafayette had been! Love him who fled from a royal court, And carried a face of smiles When, landed astray at Georgetown's port, Ho rode nine hundred miles. For ho rode with tho cheer of a mighty faith To our ragged battle-line, And earned his badge in the ranks of death With tho scar of Brandywine. And patriot youth who know their debt To Washington still shall learn Of his friend, the gallant Lafayette, The young peer of Auvergno, How into the baflling clouds of fate, With rescue in his hand, He rode for tho life of a struggling state, For the weal of an infant land. —Theron Brown. a great deal by reposing confidence in a man. Conyers felt that this was one. Therefore he told all he knew. "In an experience extending over ten years," said Manton, "this is the most extraordinary affair I have ever come across." Taking his brown brief bag, he opened it and extracted a flat, oblong leather case. Raising the lid he dis played to Conyers's astonished eyes a collection of gems of the finest water. Really, he confounded the latter when he remarked that they were tho iden tical stones concerning which the story had first been told. "But wherever in the world have you got them from?" cried Conyers. "Kindly give me your attention and I will briefly relate to you an interest ing episode. News to you is the fact that when O'Neil and Sir Patrick were in the former's office arranging about the transfer of the stones their conversation was overheard by the cashier, one Jonathan Clark, who hap pened to be behind an exceedingly thin partition. That night, by a cun ning device, he managed to be left last in the office. What concerns us most is that ho also managed to ex tract this case from the escritoire. A train ran at midnight to Liverpool this lie took. Now, don't you see, the building took fire (as in many cases, from some cause unknown) after the valuables had been stolen. Of course, Clark, knowing nothing of this, but imagining justice to bo hot on his heels, got on a boat bound for Africa without dolay. Hearken how retribu tion awaited him. He was stricken down with a fever. He was told that there was no hope of recovery. There fore lie sought to purchase peace in his dying moments by restoring his ill-gotten wealth to its owner. He had got rather friendly with a sailor during the passage, to him he intrust ed the case, together with a confes sion of his crime, bidding the fellow swear by tho most solemn oaths that lips could utter that he would deliver them up to Gray & Ilelmsley, O'NeiPs solicitors. The fellow proved faithful —that is why I am hero to-dav." 44 What ahull you do?" asked COll - eagerly. 44 1 don't know. If, as you say, Mr. O'Neil is a lunatic, what will be the good of giving liim tlie jewels? He certainly will not recognize them. Can't you suggest something?" 44 They do say that when a man has been robbed of reason by a sudden shock, a sudden shock will also re store it. Come, let us test the truth of that theory." Manson assented eagerly, so to gether they proceeded to O'Neill's abode. They wore courteously re ceived by Mrs. O'Neil and her daugh ter. Man ton told his story. Tho ladies were amazed, electrified. "You inspire a hopo undreamed of," cried Mrs. O'Neil. Without another word she darted upstairs to her husband, and was fol lowed no less quickly by tho others. O'Neil was found sitting in an arm chair gazing into space. When, how ever, Manton offered him tho jewel case lie took it readily enough. He turned it over gravely, opened it, and then, alas! looked at the jewels with lack-luster eyes. They might liavo been pebbles. Mrs. O'Neil sank into a chair with a piteous moan. Had this momentary brightness come to make her more miserable than ever? But her daugh ter had approached Conyers, and was putting her hand upon his arm. It gave him joy to think that in the time of crisis she turned to him. "Can you do anything, Mr. Con yers," she asked, earnestly. "Yes. I have a plan. I will mes merize your father, if you will let* me," he said, quietly. For all his endeavor he could not prevent a tremor from creeping into his voice. Mrs. O'Neil sprang from her chair aghast; Manton stared at him with his mouth open. Conyers had not time to think of them. "It is a great risk," ho continued; but is not this a desperate case which demands such?" "But how cau you do what you say?" asked Mrs. O'Neil. "I studied it iu Faris along with art. I was very successful with ex periments which I tried upon my fellow-students." "You certainly can't be successful with Mr. O'Neil," protested Manton. "His mind is deranged." "All the better," explained Conyerz, "his resisting power will be absent. It is impossible to mesmerize a man against his will. Mr. O'Neil's state will be of considerable assistance to me. The activity of the ganglion cells of the brain, with whioh the functions of consciousness are believed to be specially associated, are almost in hibited in his case. You must know that insanity is entirely due to the disordor of the brain. However, let us make preparations." Conyers' plan was very simple. Ob taining permission from Mrs. O'Neil, he went into the adjoining bedroom, and found there a writing desk con taining drawers—four in all. He placed the jewel case in the bottom drawer, closed it, then returned to his subject. He gazed straight iuto his eyes for a few moments, and then com menced making passes with his hands before his face, backward and forward. O'Neil watched him with a kind of grave curiosity for a little while, and then he put his hands up to his 'face aud rubbed his eyes. Suddenly he winced slightly and straightened him self in his chair. Ah! What was that? Gradually his eyes became intent on Conyers' until he had lost the power to draw them away. The pnpils be gan to dilate, then the eyeballs to pro trude, then the eyelids to droop. Ins piration and circulation became con siderably accelerated, until at length perspiration set in and complete stupor soon followed. While in this state of coma the more powerful will could do with him what it chose. Conyers threw his head back in exultancy. But he had reckoned with out his host. The tense feeling every faculty overstrained became al most unbearable. He would not be able to keep up long. He must be quick. Accordingly he commanded O'Neil to rise, who did so. Step by step he led liim to the writing desk. He had no need to speak—he had only to think, aud the subject obeyed. O'Neil dropped on his knees before the writ ing desk. He opened the first drawer, and then the second; all was still in that little room; all four were bending over him with eager, excited faces. And now he was opening the third drawer. His nostrils were quivering. Ho hastily closed it; then literaly dragged open the fourth drawer and captured the jewel case. And then Conyers waked him. It took many moments and all watched with? fearful anxiousness. What would happen? It was pleasant to seo what did hap pen. O'Neil snatched up the case, tore it open, laid hold of the jewels, and ran across the room to a far cor- | ner, clasping them to his breast and uttering little slirieks of joy. It was pitiful to behold! Not long, and Mrs. O'Neil aud Kathleen had darted to his side aud were holding his hands and murmuring soft words of comfort. Ho looked into their eyes and recog nized them, and great tears stood in his eyes. Then Conyers know thathe i had succeeded; but barely by the skin of his teeth. A mist rose before bis eyes; he tottered to a conoh; ho lost consciousness. He awoke to find Kathleen bending over him with a wonderful look in her eyes. She was holding his hand, and —Well, the sequel is to happen in six mouths' time. Tersely Told. There is a lady occupied in the in struction of the juvenile mind, who is quite willing to confess that the pu pils who attend her classes do not do all the learning. Some of the small folk under her tuition occasionally astonish her with their superior knowledge of the moderuly developed resources of the English language. A lecture on hygiene had been included for the day, and she had taken care to show the effects of alcohol and to bacco upon the system. She im pressed her teachings by means of anatomical charts, whioh gave espec ial lucidity to her remarks when she came to warning the little girls, years in advance of any practical need, of the danger of tight lacing. One of the little girls, whoso home surround ing are of the sort in which ense rather than elegance of expression is sought, listened with profound attention. "Now, Margnret," the teacher said, "you may see how well you remem ber wbat I have said about tight lac ing and tell us why it is injurious." There was no response. "I mean you, Maggie," the teacher added, and the girl jumped to her feet as she recognized the more familiar name. "Tight lacing, ma'am, is injurious, ma'aui " She hesitated and the teacher smiled encouragingly and said, "Go on." "Cos, ma'am, it's liable to twist yer slats."—Washington Star, The World's Potato Crop. The potato crop of the world aggre gates 4,000,000,000 bushels, the wheat crop, 2,500,000,000 bushels, and the corn crop, 2,600,000,000 bushels. The potato crop of the United States is re ported to be 250,000,000 bushels. We laugh about the Irish eating potatoes. They are good feeders on this veg etable. The inhabitants of the Emer -1 aid Isle consume individually 1467 pounds each per year, or four pounds daily. But Germany comes pretty ' close to the Irish record. She eats annually per inhabitant 1300 pounds; Holland eats 846 pounds; Norway aud i Sweden, 740; United States, 200. Italy stands at the foot of the list in consumption of the potato. Her peo i pie eat annually only forty-eight pounds each.—Board of Trade Journal. Matrimony ujid Good Healtli. i According to statistics, out of 100,- - 000 men iu Scotland between thirty r and thirty-five years of age 1594 sin gle men die, while only 865 married 1 men drop off. This points to but one . conclusion—that marriage is a" "hy gienic precaution."—St. Louis, Post . Dispatch. [wirwoiri THE MOTHER. In the valley of the shadow she had reached a trembling hand To clasp one tiny blossom, the fairest in the land; She feared not though she journeyed where the heavy shadows lay, For the halo 'round the blossom drove the darkness all away; Before its dazzling splendor the shadows had no place And the walk within the valley loft a shin ing on her face, While the radiance lit the future that her feet might safely tread, And an angel swung a oenser filled with incense overhead. —Nelly Hart Woodworth, in Boston Jour nal. DAIRY PIN MONEY. A Splendid Farm Which Fill* the Parses of Two YoifWg Women. Neither of my ladies iB an actual dairy maid. There are two of them, you 9ee. They live at Belle Meade, in Middle Tennessee, whioh is the biggest, the most beautiful and the most famous stock farm in the world. Blood horses have made it famous for sevemty-flve years. The dairy is a new development. The young women, with their brother, are the joint heirs to the estate, which embraces nearly 6000 acres, inclosed with thirty-five miles of stone walls. Around the deer park, where 500 odd head of deer roam and browse under the for est primeval, the stone wall is sup plemented with a six-foot iron paling. The cows do not run with the deer. Thev hive richer pastures all their own, meadows kuee-deep in lush blue grass and white clover, lyirg either side of Bichlaud Creek. There are 150 of them, high-grade Jerseys or full-bloods of the most famous milk ing strains. The number in milk ranges from ninety to 130. The milk ing is a pretty sight indeed. The Meek, deer - eyed, full - uddered, creamy-skiunod creatures come in from the pastures and range them selves each in her appointed stall. The stalls fill three sides of a great square. An open shed covers it. Out side there ruus a trough for the dry feed, which serves as an appetizer for the abundant glass. In the middle, as well as abont the pastures, there are ironwork baskets, opou under neath, each with its lump of pure rook salt. Five stout and jolly black men do the milking. They are marvelously rapid, still more marvelously skillful. They use deep tin pails, and can make the milk streams play tunes upon the bottom of them—"Yankee Doodle" or "Dixie"—as the hearers incline to hear. They work in happy rivalry, as to who shall milk quickest and clean est. As soon as two cows are stripped clean they are sent away to pasture without waiting for the rest. The milking shed is a good way off the dairy proper, to which the milk is wheeled in deep tin cans, kept scru pulously clean. The dairy itself is a picturesque gray stone building, with ivy upon one wall and a climbing rose blossoming riotously over the door. It has a cemented floor and a separate circular chamber for the wise-looking mule which turns the big barrel churns. Only the cream is churned. The milk is set in open pans, gauze covered, within troughs fed with fresh spring water. It stands there twelve hours, then is skimmed and the cream kept twelve hours longer before churning. It would be an in sult to name butter-color in connec tion with the product. All the year round the pound prints, bearing the Belle Meade stamp, are as yellow as virgin gold. The windows have wire 'soreens; so nas the door. An intruding fly is never permitted. Everywhere the most speckless, the most scrupulous cleanliness reigns. The butter is sold by contract, and fetches in yearly some $19,00 U. "But I never see it," says General W. H. Jaoksou, the master of Belle Meade. "The dairy belongs to my daughters; they need what it brings in for pin money."— Chicago Kecord. Girls Are Crowing; Taller. If girls go on increasing the uvcrage stature of women, as they have done for the last decade, where will they stop? is another question often asked of late at the various olasses where a number of young girls are gathered together by their little mammas, who look strangely dwarfed and shrunken by the side of their tall young daugh ters. A question asked half proudly *nd half anxiously, for, although it gratifies their maternal pride that their gii-ls should bo like the daugh ters of the gods, "divinely tall," they have no wish to see them pass those celestial limits, as they are doing, and become Brobdinguagian dainßels, who bid fair to frighten away all their part ners, says a writer in the New York Tribune. For it is an incontroverti ble fact that the boys are not develop ing in ratio with the girls; their aver ago height has in nowise increased of late years, while it is really startling to see how that of their sistors and their friends is assuming really Ama zonian proportions. "A few years ago," said a society iroman recently, "my daughter was invited to join a dancing class of girls who were not yet out. At hoqie we thought her quite tall, as she was an }nch taller than I, and I had always considered myself over the average. So I was considerably astonished to find that she looked decidedly under sized in comparison with the rest of the girls, who towered above her. Even then I wondered at the increased height of the coming woman, but what was my amazement and almost con sternation this year when I saw my second daughter with a younger set, who have taken the places pf their elder sisters, and find that my. tallest I girl is a mere pygmy among the ; others, and that the second crop o! girls will be much taller even than the first. Many of them measure six feet, and even more! I should say that this remarkable increase in the average height of woman is really phenomenal, and that scientists should give it their attention." Flrflt Step in Vocal-Culture. "Proper breathing is so essential in voice production that it must receive first attention, and the first require ment is to keep the month shut," Vrites Katharine E. Junkermann in the Woman's Home Companion in an article on "The Cultivation of the Speaking Voice." "Of course, no tone can be either strong or pure if the lungs are cramped so that the air cannot find room. In order to increase the size of the lung-cavity, raise the chest and keep the body well and strongly poised. "So much barm has been done to voices by allowing the mouth to be come the regular air-passage that the need of care cannot be too frequently emphasized. Besides the injury done by the unwarmed air entering the lungs the mucous membrane is hard ened by the saliva being dried up, and the musoles of the tongue and throat grow stiff and less responsive. It is comparatively easy to control one's breathing when awake, but whon asleep the harm goes on. To remedy this involves a slight discomfort, but one can endure it patiently, looking to the end. Cut court-plaster into little strips about one-fourth of an inch in width, and paste several across the lips, placing them up and down, with the lips held naturally. If one is tempted to give up rather than endure the discomfort this method involves, a walk through an ordinary day-coach, or a night made hideous by the pres ence of a snorer in a near berth, will cause a solemn vow to be taken never to do likewise." The Newest Capes. The new capes and cloaks which are worn with cloth costumes are very graceful, and now that the novelty of the style has worn off, seem very at tractive. They fit closely over the gboulders, are composed of no more material than is necessary, are circu lar in shape at the back, and in front are rounded up to the throat. They aro trimmod with a ruffle of the same material as the cloak, and are lined throughout with heavy satin of an en tirely different shade, and are trimmed on the outside with rows of machine stitohing of a lighter shade in silk. of these capes have no less than four clusters of stitching, three rows in each cluster. Tberelis always a high flaring collar faced with silk or satin the same color as the cloak. There is an interlining of wool wadding or of heavy felt that gives sufficient warmth, and the only fastening of the cloak is just at the throat, where there is a handsome buckle. This cloak is black, dark purple, or,in a dark green lined with blue, is particularly good. The old-fashioned circular cloak lined with {fur has returned to fashion and is constantly seen, both for morning and afternoon wear. It is not made of silk as formerly, but of a lightweight cloth of some attractive coloring in red, purple, green, or tan. The smartest way is to have the cloak match the street gown even when it is lined with fur.—Harper's Bazar. The Silk Petticoat Predominates. For a while it seemed as if the pres tige of the white petticoat was estab lished, and women do still wear them a great deal indoors, but the silken beauties are more predominant tliau ever before. The preference seems to be for the most glaring primary colors in the stillest taffeta, made up perfect ly straight, scant skirts, and the rigid ity further increased by a wide, deep ly accordeon-plaited foot flounce. Short comfort skirts, as they are called, for wear under a silk petticoat in the cold weather, are the prettiest little kitties that don't come down as far as the knee and are not more than a yard wide. They are wool, and many are knitted by hand of a Scotch yarn,with a bright silk thread worked in at in tervals. They are scalloped about the bottom, completed with a narrow silk fringe, and are hung on silk yokes that fit the hips snugly. Fail ami Fashion, Black crepons in pronounced blis tered effects are especially favored for separate, skirts. Plaid baok cboviots are ouo of the novelties of tlio season, the face being in solid colors or in a modest melange. For evening toilets are sold yards of rucking made of crumpled chiffon, mousseline de soie, or net, bordered with chenille dots, baby ribbon in satin or velvet, or lines of colored silk lock stitching. Jetted nets, tulles, chiffons and gauzes, forming entire draperies over silk or satin, or used for fancy waists, sleeves, tunics, guimpes, and slightly drooping vest fronts, are as fashion able this season as ever. Sleeves seem to be still diminishing. Some of the new models are so close as to suggest the style of ten or twelve years ago. But they have a certain fulness at the top, which is interlined with canvas of light weight to a depth of three inches. Among fanoy weaves chenille effects have developed marked popularity. The extreme weaves are in chenillo dots of the same color as the ground tone of the material it is given to en rich. Chenille, however, is more com monly seen in traverse weaves on ma® terials with black or colored grounds. In silks, chenille dots on taffeta grounds are the extreme novelty. Stripes are the general favorites, and plaids, of necessity, are given a place in a wardrobe where variety is de- Bired. Printed-warp silks, recently restored to favor, are gaining much of their old-time prestige for waists and costumes. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR. LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOP LOVERS OF FUN. The Power of Canh—A Woman's Answer —A* Evidenced—The Latent Scheme— Had No Advice to Give— Ignorance i Bliss-Mttiiiuiii's Bad Boy. Etc., Etc. THEN. Miss Jessie Bessie Evaleena Brown Is the daintiest little maiden in the town* She is beautiful to see. Oh, she sweetly smiles on me, And her father has a million frigid dollars salted down. NOW. Miss Jessie Bessie Evaleena Brown Is by far the plainest girl in all the town;. They used to call her fair, But I dou't lcuow why, I swear— Her father once was wealthy, but at pres ent he is down. —Chicago News. A Woman's Answer. "Evelyn, would you rather be right or be popular?" "I would rather be good-looking and rich."—Chicago RecoriF. As Evidenced. She (approvingly)—" You won her hand, then?" He (rather glumly)- "Humph—l presume so. I'm under her thumb." -Tit-Bits. The Latest Scheme. "She's a wonderful advertiser." "What's her latest?" "Getting her agent to mail her a poisoned guindrop."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hud No Advice to Give. Watts—"Say, do you know anything good for a cold?" Potts—"No. I don't even know of anything good for the grip."—lndian apolis Journal. Ignorance is Bliss. Mrs. McLubbertv (in the cemetery) —"Dhere is a misspelled worrud on poor O'Hooley's tombstone." MoLubberty—"Phwot difference is nt? O'Hooley can't rade."—Judge. Mamma's Bad Boy. Mamma (impatiently) "Charlie, how many times have I told you to> Jteep away from the sideboard?" % Charlie—"I dou't know. I can only count to Teveu." —Cleveland Leader. War Phrases Illustrated, <£> <§> "A Rough Rider." —Life. A Dissenting Opinion. "She is so lively and volatile!" said one of her admirers. "I positively must dissent," said one who no longer admired, having be come passe, as it were. "Anything volatile quickly dries up."—lndian apolis Journal. An Encouraging Sign. Fair American—"How do you like our country ?" Literary Foreigner—"l am delight ed with it!" Fair American—"Then you are not going to write a booK about us?"— Chioago Tribune. As Good as His Word. He—"l always make it a point to profit by the mistakes of others." She—"l got weary of George Brix ton because he never seemed to kcrow when to go home." He then bade her good-iJglit.— Cleveland Leader. A Good Thing. Indeed. "Even in geography the beneficent planaot nature appear,"remarked Mr. Poindexter. "Do they?" asked Mr. Perkusie. "Well, consider for yourself the re sult if tho Canaries were near Cat Island." —Detroit Free Press. One lieagon Why. She—"Ma says she krows that when wo are married we won't live so like cats and dogs as she and pa do." He—"No, indeed! Your ma is right," She—"Yes; she says she is sure you'll be easier to managethan pa ia." —Tit-Bits. Very Neat Indeed. Halbert—"Was that you? wife I saw you with the other day?" Morion—"l don't know; didn't see you, I guess. Was she or I talking when you saw us?" Halbert—"The lady was talking, if I remember." Morion—"H'm! It couldn't have been my wife."—Boston Trausoript. The Cute Explained. "What will happen to you if you are good, little boy?" asked the kindly old lady. "I'll get a stick of candy for being good." "And what will happen to you if you are bad?" "I'll get two sticks of candy for promising to try to be good."—Chi cago Post. Of the Same Opinion. She—"When you asked me to be your wife you deliberately deceived me." He—"ln what way, Martha?" She—"You told me you were well off." He—"Well, I may have said it, Martha, but I didn't know how w ell off I was at that time."—Richmond DiepaUA,
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