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That we are oa the eve of a coze
pleterevolution in the matter of trans
portation, electricity supplanting
steam as a direct motive power, is
evidenced on every hand. And in
this matter of transportation the
trolley system must be taken into ac
count as essentially modifying exist
ing methods.
One idea in connection with old-aga
pensions that does not seem to have
occurred abroad is that while the tide
of emigration of the younger workers
to the United States and other coun
tries will continue, the old-age pen
sions may check emigration of the
aged, keeping them in the country,
while the younger blood is seeking its
fortune in the new world.
Queensland joins the procession of
colonies voting for the United States
of Australia by a majority smaller than
those of some others, but ample for
the purpose. We may now reckon
the new nation an established fact, a
new triumph for American ideas in
government, and a new and friendly
neighbor of ours, byway of our own
new holdings in the Asian, though
not Australasian, seas.
Mrs. Hearst's gift of between $7,-
000,00b and 38,000,000 for buildings
of the University of California is per
haps the largest ever given for such a
purpose by an individual. It sug
gests the sudden realization of high
educatioual ideals made possible to
day by great wealth, in contrast to
the slow growth of the past. There
is one thing, however, that a gift like
this cannot do. A university, like a
cathedral, is built by its associations
as well as from the plans of archi
tects. Nothing can ever deprive the
older universities of the educational
influence due to their history. From
the broader point of view, both the
old and the new supplement each
other for the good of higher educa
tion.
There is no longer outcry of any
moment touching abandonment of
farms in New England, says the Lewis
ton (Me.) Journal. There are fewer
idle farms than a year ago. The trol
ley will eventually make the idle farm
a busy land for some purpose or other
as our prosperity advances. Some Of
these farms have been bought for
summer resorts and .vacation homes.
Some prosperous farmers are enlarg
ing their borders—seeing that graz
ing and dairy and beef products sup
ply profits. The advance in the price
of" timTieF is worth many millions to
the State of Maine. What the full
effect is to be in the farming industry
of New England has yet to appear,
but some of the results are already
discernible. The energy and enter
prise of the shop is coming to the
farm to make it a really successful
business enterurise.
BREAKING DOWN CUSTOM.
onpnncHO Family's Fondness for Huff
and Its Results.
"When I was a young boy the cus
tom of eating beef began to spread.
As blood was regarded as unclean and
also as Japan has been a strong agri
cultural country, there was a deep
rooted disinclination to eat beef," says
a Japanese writer in the Popular Sci
ence Monthly. "In this, of course, one
has to recoguize the influence of the
vegetarian principle of Buddhism, but
to anybody who had ever tasted beef
It was so delicious that he could hardly
control his natural appetite by his re
ligious scruple. My father was one of
those who knew its taste, so now and
then we used to treat ourselves to
beef. But where did we eat it? Wo
did not eat it inside the bouse. We
cooked and ate It in the open air, and
In cooking and eating It we did not uso
the ordinary utensils, but used the
special ones kepi for the purpose.
Why all these things? Because beef
was unclean and we did not like to
spread Its unclcanllness into our
house wherein the 'god shelf' Is kept
and Into our ordinary utensils which
might be used in making offerings to
the gods. The day when we ate beef
my father did not offer lights to the
gods nor say evening prayers to them,
as he did usually, for he knew he was
unclean and could not approach the
gods."
I LIFE ABOARD THE OLYMPIA, i
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S| The jßoutirve on J\dmiral DeWey's Flagship From the
j| Bugle's JTeVeille to JPipedoWn. U&
g JACK AT WORK AND AT PLAY. 11
| New Yoiik City (Special).—The
! life of the sailors aboard Admiral
| Dewey's flagship, the cruiser Olympia,
j is a duplicate of the routine peculiar
Ito every other boat in the United
States Navy. The discipline has not
been relaxed because the jack tars ac
quitted themselves so well at Manila.
On the contrary, an extra effort is
made by the crew to hold by good be
havior in peace the laurels they won
in time of war. The men-o'-war's men
of the Olympia are feted and petted
while ashore, but once under the Ad
miral's eye they return to the stern
realities of life on the ocean wave,
i It is not a very fasoiuating or wildly
hilarious life that of the man forward
on board a modern warship. There is
a monotony and sameness of things
that eat into the heart at times, and it
is only the excitement caused by a
wreck or a storm or a series of battles
like that recently experienced that
lends a welcome air of diversion to the
naval day. Torise at 5.30 to the harsh
notes of a bugle and drum is the or
der, except during the few winter
mouths, when a half hour's grace Jis
permitted. The "musics," as the
marine drummers and buglars are
called, are summoned teu minutes be
fore time by the corporal of the guard.
The two lads, rubbing the sleep from
their eyes, take their Btand near the
forward hatch, and, at the word from
the officer of the deck, break into the
stillness of the early morning with an
infernal hubbub technically known as
"reveille." The hideous uproar speed
ily brings a chorus of grunts and
WRITING! HOME.
(On bonrd the flagship Olympia.)
yawns, not unmixed with something
stronger, from the occupants of the
hammock-crowded berth deck, and
presently the ladder leading above is
thronged with half-clad figures mount
ing upward in a ghoßtly procession.
Each figure carries upon his shoulder
his individual hammock, carefully
lashed and fettered. This he de
posits in the receptacles prepared for
the purpose and then hies himself to
his mess, where he finds steaming cof
fee without milk and barely sweetened,
but extremely welcome as an eye
opener.
The spotlessly clean decks of naval
vessels are proverbial. This cleanli
ness, which seemed novel even to royal
eyes, is the result of hours of hard,
oonstant work every morning on board
every ship in the service. It is to the
executive officer that all praise or
blame in reference to the condition of
a ship belongs, and directly after the
crew has had its early coffee he is on
deck personally superintending the
holystoning and scrubbing and per
haps painting. He relieves the officer
of the deck, who goes below for a light
lunch, and then sees that the boat
swain's mates and the captains of the
different parts of the ship distribute
their meq to the best advantage. If it
be wash day the crew is allowed to at
tend to its laundry work before the
scrubbing begins, for.be it understood,
there are no "Hop Lees" or colored
women in the naval service.
It is seldom that the ship's cook,
who has the exclusive privilege to
make and dried apple pies at
twenty-five cents a pie, and the ship's
barber, who pursues his tonsorial art
at the rate of $1 each quarter for every
man on his books, scrub their own
clothing. They are rich enough to
hire a needy landsman or coal passer
to do it for them.
As the sailor's outfit consists solely
of cloth or white duck trousers, flan-
THE FENCING DRILL.
nel inside and outside shirts and the
ordinary cotton hose, the operation of
washing does not call for skill or prep
aration. For instance, if the article
to be renovated is the flannel shirt,
Jack selects a clear nart of the deck,
sprinkles a little water upon the spot,
then spreads his shirt, previously
soaked, upon the deck. Then with
salt water soap and a scrubbing brush
he sets to work. A subsequent rinsing
completes the task and the garment
is fastened with bits of twine to the
clothesline stretched from mast to
mast.
Holystoning decks and scrubbing
AT MESS ON BOARD THE OLYMPIA.
ladders and gratings with sand and
canvas continues until ten minntes of
8 o'clock, when the oall to "spread
mess gear" is sounded by the boat
swain's mate on watch. This is also
the signal to clean up, and each jaokie
grabs a deck bucket, gets his share of
fresh water from the captain of his
part of the ship, and makes his toilet,
which, if not elaborate, amply suffices
for his needs.
After the washing, the sailor's
toilet consists of a vigorous rubbing
with a coarse towel—his own private
property—and a hair brushing with
the aid of an ancient brush and a small
woodeu-framod glass generally carried
iu the little chest, or ditty box, which
is the officially approved trunk of each
jackie.
At the stroke of eight bells, 8
o'clock, the call to breakfast is given.
Salty air and an open, free life pro
duce excellent appetites, aud there is
no dawdling in the race for the mess
tables on the berth deck.
Breakfast over, the men have until
9 to smoke, then all hands are turned
to and the ship is cleaned up for quar
ters. This latter ceremony is con
ducted daily, rain or shine. During
CJHAI LAIN BEANEY, OP THE OLYMPIA.
week days the morning hours are
generally devoted to drill. A settled
schedule is made out when the ship
goes into commission, and this is
strictly adhered to. Eaoh ship has
its general quarters, fire quarters,
collision drill, abandon ship, arm and
away boats, broadsword exercise, or
something of similar charaoter, and
from 9.80 until noon the decks are
alive with men under instruction.
Dinner is followed by a short rest,
and at 1 o'clock "turn to" is sounded
again. During the nfternoon five
days of the week the crew is kept at
work attending to the multifarious
duties of the ship. Saturday after
noon is considered a half holiday, the
smoking lamp is lighted, and if the
ship is in port the men are allowed to
see visitors and enjoy themselves ac
cording to their individual inclina
tions. With mess-gear in the early
evening, the working day ends. Sup
per is followed by a period of re
laxation until the mellow notes of the
bugle sound taps, and the boatswain's
mate's whistle eohoes through the
decks in the last call of the day—
"pipe down."
There are many other incidents
which go to make up the naval day.
At sea, when the ship's company 'is
divided into watches, the monotony is
greater than in port. It is during the
latter time, with the fleet at anchor ofl
some friendly city, or when the ship
is tied up to a dock in one of the home
navy yards, that Jack finds his hours
filled with variety and pleasures suffi
cient to satisfy even his desires. It
is then the liberty list—a potent term
in the navy—is made out. To dis
cover one's name on the liberty list
means shore with its fascinating at
tractions, and if there is anything on
this footstool the average sailor loves
it is to "hit the beach" with a few
dollars in his pocket.
Sunday is, as far as possible, kept
as a day of rest. After the morning
scrub and inspection comes service by
the chaplain. The old rhyme of
Six days shalt thou labor and do all that
thou art able;
On the seventh, holystone the decks and
scour the cable,
Is no longer appropriate, since all
labor, except what is absolutely neces
sary, is dispensed with.
To attend divine service, dressed in
THE DAUBER'S CHAIR ON THE OLTMPIA,
their best, is the one extra duty re
quired of the men, and the afternoon
is practically free until sundown.
Chaplain Iteaney, of the Olympia, is
one of the most popular men aboard,
and the men confide in him to an ex
tent that is remarkable.
Oyster Opening an Art.
It takes one hundred million oysters
a week to satisfy the requirements of
the New York market. This year the
supply promises to be prolific.
ANATOMY OF THE OYSTER.
The oyster openers are a class by
themselves, as distinct and clannish
as the 'longshoremen for ocean liners.
They receive $1 a thousand, and it
is a poor shucker that cannot earn $5
in a day's work of eight hours. Many
of them earn §8 and $9.
Thero are as many ways of opening
an oyster as there are of carving a
duck, and each shucker thinks that
nis way is the host. It depends upon
where a man has been brought up to
the business. Men who have been
brought up in New York use nothing
but the knife, but they use it in dif
ferent ways. Not one man iu a hun
dred is a good side knife opener.
Other men who use nothing but the
knife simply stab the oyster. Epicures
declare that this spoils it, but oyster- j
men say that for the general trade it
makes little difference. If a shucker
has been brought up in the South,
Baltimore or Norfolk, for instance, he
uses a hammer as well as a knife in
opening an oyster.
An Editor's Just Plaint.
"Send in your items of news when
they are fresh," says the Salisbury
(Mo.) Press. "We don't like to pub=
lish a birth after the child is weaned,
a marriage after the honeymoon is
over, a death after the widow is mar
ried again, nor the notioe of an enter
tainment after the job work is done
elsewhere and the editor is charged
for admission,"
ODORLESS WINDOW KITCHEN.
How One Woman l>oea Light Houmw*
keeping In One ltoom,
A neat little window kitchen is the
invention of an ingenious woman who
was compelled to do light housekeep
ing in one room in which there were
no modern improvements. After
s ' ru K6>'ihg for some months with a
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my j ill _if
FOR LIGHT HOUSEKEEPING.
small table and a gas stove, she dis
covered that, no matter how much care
was exercised, light housekeeping
would leave heavy odors. But she
finally hit upon a plan that makes
light housekeeping odorless, easy and
practical, even if the keeper has only
one small room.
She had a little box kitchen built
outside of the lower part of her win
dow. In this there were two shelves,
the lower for a gas stove and the up
per for a variety of culinary utensils.
The window kitchen is a miniature ex
tension, and can be made out of a
strong pine packing box and attached
outside of almost any ordinary win
dow. It must be firmly screwed to
the woodwork on either side, and the
top slanted and covered tar paper. A
row of holes about an inch in diameter
should be bored through each parti
tion of the miniature kitchen, to as
sure good ventilation and to carry out
the steam and odors that come from
cooking. A hole must also be bored !
in the lower sash of the window, large |
enough for a gas tube to pass through j
and be connected with the nearest gas i
jet. This allows the window to be I
raised without interfering with the |
tube.
In warm weather the upper shelf of i
the window kitchen can be used as a
receptacle for food to complete the
kitchen arrangements. Inside the
room the inventor had a window seat
built and upholstered. The upholstery
and hanging could be removed while
the meal was being prepared and the
seat used as a table, while the draw
ers and compartments and cupboards
built underneath served as a recep
tacle for dishes and tabLe linen. She
hung a neat little pair of curtains from
the middle sash of the window, which
could be moved back and forth when
the stove was in operation.
After the dishes had been washed
and restored to their shelves and cup
boards the upholstered seat is put
back and the end of the couch piled
up with pillows. The curtains are
drawn, and no one would ever know
that a meal had been prepared.
A Relic of the Llglit Brigade'* Charge.
A soldier's mouldy hat lias just been
found under a huge stone in the
"Valley of Death" at Balaclava. Some
boys had shifted the bowlder, as bees
had built a nest beueath it,
youngsters wanted to get the honey.
From the design of the badge it is
evident that the headgear belonged to
a trooper of the Seventeenth Lancers,
a corps which was included in the im
mortal Light Brigade. London
Chronicle.
Uncle Ssin 1 . fsenutlfnl Girl Model.
A beautiful little New York girl has
the distinction of having her picture
on every 32 bill issued by the United
States in 1896. Her name is Rose.
Marston, and she is but sixteen years
of age. Little Miss Marston is said
to be the most shapely child known to |
the New York artists. She is par- |
ticularly remarkable for the beauty
and grace of her arms, hands and feet,
which closely resemble the old Greek
models. On the 1896 $2 bill there is
a group of five beautiful female fig
ures. The one which represents Roso
Marston is that of the girl kneeling
on the left of the group. The ac
companying illustration gives a fair
representation of the girl in one of
her poses. She has posed for leading
artists for over four years. The fig
ures of Steam, Electricity and Manu
factures on tho 1896 $2 bill were all
BOSO MARSTON.
sketched from her poses, and she was
one of the models for the beautiful
figure paintings that decorate the
walls of the Congressional library at
Washington. It is said that Miss
Marston earns SSO a week as a model.
I HEW YORK FASfflOHg. |
, fl Designs For Costumes That Have Be- i|
|| come Popular in the Metropolis.
New York Citjt (Special).—There
is more genuine novelty in the wraps
of oloth and fur designed for the pres
ent season's clothes market than in
THE NEW WINTER COAT.
either the gowns or hats that are al
ready casting their shadows before
them. None of the fashionable new
comers at the furriers or cloakmakers
is braided. The whole creed of dec
oration is. cloth stitched on cloth and
; fur on cloth. Not one of the new
I coats or capes make the slightest pre-
I tense of fitting the figure. What the
I English call box and what the French
volante shape wraps are being pushed
for popularity most vigorously by the
manufacturers, and the chances are
just even whether this style, so fre-1
quently and emphatically rejected and
despised by women, will now be ac
oepted.
Clumsily large capes of the Bame
type as were worn last winter are
eligible for use in the oomingsseason,
and the handsomest are made of thick
sleek-surfaced dark cloth with broad
borders of gray and brown fur and
finished by tall kaiser collars. An-
ATTRACTIVE NEW FLANNEL SHIRT WAISTS.
other mode shows a cape with long
kersey skirts to the hem of the dress
and then over this to the hip falls an
other cape of fur, and it is perfectly
patent that the long-haired pelts are
to be first in the hearts of our country
women this year.
Long cloth coats that might easily
be called ulsters and made of broad
cloth, vicuna or Venetian cloth, are
out on the Chesterfield and Baglan
pattern, as those for men are modeled;
their pockets are ample and the one
feminine suggestion is the tall, up
rolled oollnr, often liued with mole's
fur that gives the tenderest, most
grateful touoh to the face possible,
and the smoked pear-gray color, which
forms a soft becoming background for
the face. The majority of these long
coats are made to fasten with the but
tons out of sight, or one or two very
ohoice cut steel disks hold the fronts
together and twinkle in the soft, deep
hair.
There is a pretty fashion coming in
of using bullet-shaped buttons of
brass as trimmings on sleeves and
yokes and the fronts of cloth suits.
These are copies of the buttons that
small boys in livery wear, and they
are not the first brass ornnments that
have crept into women's wardrobes.
Brass is evidently the successor to
much of the popularity accorded to
gun metal, and by treatiug it to a high
polish and overlaying it with a pe
culiar lacquer it neither loses its lus
ter nor conveys any ugly odor to the
hands.
Shirt Waißts Still Thing* of Beauty. !
Among the leally indispensable
things exhibited in the shops are the
new shirt waists. Notwithstanding
the fact that these comfortable gar
ments have been in vogue many years
and each season someone asserts that
! they are "going out," they are still in
! great demand.
Styles vary, and special designers
i in the large Bhops always are working
• out novelties. The new flannel and
silk waists merit going a long dis
tance to see, for they are beauties,
and not at all expensive. Of course,
the best are tailor-made, as they
should be to have the quiet style so
necessary in this garment; but "of all
things worn by woman the shirt waist
is, perhaps, the only article which can
be made at home and really look the
real thing. There are good patterns,
which fit, too, and if the maker is
careful about stitching well and press
ing correctly, she can turn out a really
good waist.
But silk ones are another story,
with their endless number of tiny
tucks; the delicate hemstitching; the
rolled edges, with narrow embroidery
slipped in, and all the perplexing de
tails. So muoh depends upon the set
at the back, the hang of the sleeve,
the way buttons are sewed, and, above
all, the cravat, that it is small wonder
that a woman prefers to be well
dressed in one expensive waist rather
than have several badly made or in
ferior in quality.
For silk waists, tucks and hem
stitching are the proper mode. The
tncks may run lengthwise in groups,
may be tiny or large, or stitclied in
squares. So long as tucks are used
one cannot fail to be in the fashion.
For flannel a combination of stripes
has the smartest effect. The exam
ples shown in the large engraving,
taken from the New York Press, are
both of flannel, and for style and com
fort no design can be found which
will surpass them.
Reducing the FaHhloimble Chain.
The fashionable chain is reduoing,
in some instances, both its dimension
and weight. It is neither so long nor
so heavy as heretofore. There seems
an approach to the delicate beauty of
the slender gold chaius which our
grandmothers wore reaching to the
j waistband into which the watch was
tucked. Some of the newest chains
are quite tine, and extend about half
way to the waist, supporting a small
watch or a fine pendant.
A Tailor-Made Pelerine.
There is uow a tailor-made pelerine.
It is very simple except at the neck,
where it is heaped with lace, silk mus
lin ruches, accordiou-plaitiugs, single,
double and triple, with broad-ribbon
bows or choux fastened here and there.
Gloves and Shoe* For Winter Wear.
Heavily stitched stout gloves are
the only kind allowable for the winter
season. Thick, round-toed sh(?es are
the proper footwear, and hats posi
tively must be devoid of gewgaws and
fussy trimmings.
A Now Kobe Design.
A modest design in a robe conceived
of cambric is here introduced. Half
inch tuckings form the yoke and the
trimming across the upp'er part of the
CAMBRIC KOBE.
sleeves. The wrist& are finished with
a soft, bell-shaped fall of lawn edged
with lace, and that also outlines the
fastening. #