Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1895 — Page 2

FOR THE FAIR SEX. THOSE USEFUL WRAPS FOR COOL EVENINGS. Elaborate Capes and Collarettes Tan, Gray and Colors Are Allowable in Some Styles. A light wrap of some sort is a necessary addition to a summer outfit. | and as yet nothing so convenient and i altogether so useful as the little cape has been invented. It is capable of | great variety in material and decora- ! tion. if not in shape, and the prettiest of airy trifles is simply a yoke ■ of silk covered witu jet, to which are attached deep frills of point d esprit lace and gracefully arranged loops and bows of ribbon. Around the neck is the ruche of ribbon and lace which is part of every dressy cape. All capes, if they’ are fashionable are very short and siiow the waist line below, unless they are made in a , later style, which is fitted down to I the waist at the back and front with long stole ends reaching to the knee. Some of the nattiest little capes are full baek and front and open over the j sleeves, with only a fall of lace or some loops of ribbon to coverthem. ' but the most general shape is 1 cut circular to fall in full godet j o’ /T plaits on the edge. Other little collarettes which reach only a little below the shoulder have long stole ends in front. A simple but showy cape is made of black satin in a short circular which is shimmered with moonlight sequins and finished on the edge with a ruche of black chiffon. This, with satin rosettes, forms the neck ruche, and on the shoulders are bows of black satin ribbon embroidered with spangles Another pretty trimming for this style of cape is jet vandykes from the neck well down toward the edge, where it is finished with a tiny ruche of black lace, which is also used to finish the neck. Collars and revers of cream white openwork embroidered batiste over white satin are a novel and showy trimmingforblacksatin capes. Some of tiie latest importations show a tendency' toward longer mantles and a fancy for colors. They are made of shot glace silks in shades of green or violet, and plaited full in the baek. where they are fitted down to the waist and bloused a little in front with stole ends hanging below. The sleeve arrangement is a full short cape and the trimming an elaboration of lace. /l w The latest thing in a cloth cape tomes in light gray, tan and dark blue, and is trimmed with inch wide bands of the cloth, stitched on in rows of varying lengths from the neck down, and lined with bright and very large plaid silk, which forms double bias frills down the front. : made wide at the top and graduated to nothing at the edge. Transparent black crepon is used for wraps and is usually lined with a color and trimmed with black satin ribbon. Children’s gowns do not admit of such variety in style and decoration as those for their elders, but any little change is an acceptable hint for mothers who cannot buy the little ' dresses ready made. Challies. in both dark and light colors, make 1 1 very sensible and pretty dresses for , '' girls of all ages, and they are 1 made simply with box plaited blouse 1

waists and satin ribbon collar and belt, or in a fashion more dressy, like the model, with a pointed yoke and epaulets of lace over a plain color and trimmed with bands of inch wide satin ribbon of the color which predominates in the flowering. FASHION NOTES. Some young women are wearing their watches set like a large button on the lap 1 of their jackets. Light kid gloves are still worn, and white, maize and lavender, stitched with black, are the prevail ing tints. Black and white is again decidedly fashionable in checks, stripes, small patterns, fancy silks and satins. Some of the new corsages are of the round-waisted Recamier variety, the sleeves one immense puff from shoulder to elbow. some new prineesse gowns open in the baek, are cut half low and sleeveless to admit of the French guimpe or a change of various sleeves and yokes. Dark-blue crepon is just the thing for present wear. It is light and smart in appearance, yet not too light either in color or weight for this fitful season. All black hats, bonnets and toques with color introduced in the trimming, preferably in lovely French half wreaths and aigrettes, stili retain their vogue for dressy wear. Both Felix and I’aquin greatly favor the fitted blouse-waist with slightly drooping front. Silks striped with fine lines and scattered with tiny spots are quite as fashionable as the chine and pompadour effects which seem to grow prettier all the time. One of the novelties in fans is shaped exactly like half a handkerchief and has square corners instead of round ones. It comes in every shade of gauze spangled in jet, steel and gold. A very elegant and attractive bonnet has a frame of heavy silk covered wire, on which leaves and flower petals are sewed. A cluster of spring blossoms falls back over the hair, a tall and handsome cluster of aigrets is at one side, and over the front are fans of lace, wired so as to stand up stiffly, and on either side of these are large bunches of fine flowers. A fancy waist of figured taffeta has the front and back gathered into a narrow yoke Down the front is a wide and flat band of the material, on which jetted ornaments are set quite close together. The high turned over collar and cuffs are trimmed with jet gimp. A soft belt of the material has a very large bow and ends The parasol of the season has little new to recommend it. It is well made, conservative, handsome and plain, in some instances plain to severity. Straight bodied, double breasted coats, with enormous sleeves, velvet collar and plain-stitched lapels, are liked for ordinary spring wear. Some very elegant satin and brocaded satin skirts open in front in Directoire style over a gored skirt, or a simulated one, of plain or striped satin. Other new skirts are kilted on the sides with one plain front Dreadth. In the back are two large box-plaits that match the front breadth in material, the kilted portions being of a similar color, but of different pattern. A novelty to wear with an Eton suit of black satin trimmed with jet bands is a shirt-waist of pink or yellow taffeta, belted in at the waist, the wide box-plait in front and the collar covered with a jetted lace insertion.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. The precautions that are now taken against infectious diseases have already saved many thousands of lives. According to Dr. Cornet, of Berlin, in the years 1883 to 1893 there were > 70,00'J fewer deaths from consumption in Prussia than the average of ’ previous years would have led him , to expect. Only ten of the States of the Union have given Presidents to the United States in the last 105 years, and as many as thirty-four of them have failed to give us a President. The States most favored in this respect have been Virginia, which has given us five, and New York, which has given us four. The Albany (N. Y.) Evening Jourj nal thinks that “years do not im--1 pair a man’s usefulness.” Indeed, however, they do, for if he is not 25 he cannot be a Congressman : if he is not 30 he cannot be a Governor or a Lieutenant Governor, and if he is not 35 lie cannot be a President or Vice i President. The New Y'ork World publishes an article containing statements made by millionaires Carnegie, Rockefeller, 1 Pullman, .'age. Mackay, Governor Morton and others, to the effect that wealth does not bring happiness, but none of the gentlemen named have manifested any disposition to trade their millions tor the happiness that is supposed to travel in company with poverty. The growth of the street car mail service in this country has been rapid. There are now more than eighty lines in successful operation. In Brooklyn and Boston there are regular mail cars, and Philadelphia and Chicago wili soon follow suit. In Boston the mail cars are fitted up much after the fashion of the steam

railway mall car, Postoffice clerks accompany each car, and the work of sorting and distributing is carried on en route. The postoffice in India not only collects and delivers letters, parcels and other articles, but acts to a certain extent as a banker to the general public, sells quinine and salt, pays military pensions, and collects the revenue accruing to the Government . from land and other sources. But to the fertile brain of one of the oldest officers in the department is due the latest development in the work of the postoffice. The Punjab postoffice has come forward as an elementary teacher. It not only collects letters and delivers them, but teaches boys in elementary schools how to write them and address the covers. Prof. Maxwell Somerville, of the University of Pennsylvania, has brought from India a complete Buddliisi temple which he will set up in Philadelphia. It is equipped with a gigantic statue of Buddha and a great number of smaller statues. There are also, the Professor says, several “praying machines,” bells, sacred towels and more than fifty kapetnonos, or lesser gods. There is a great altar about which is a brazen lotos in brass, from which peep gods of various degrees. Altogether the Professor has six tons of the temple and its accouterments. It has been shipped in bond and will be sent directly to Philadelphia, where it will occupy the unique position of being the only Buddhist temple in the United States An interesting article was published in a Paris paper recently regarding the weight which a hair from the human head can support. ‘•Hairs.” says the author, “have a force of resistance hard to believe unless one has convinced himself by the experiments. Bichat does not fear to say that nothing else, not even excepting a fibrous tissue, can support so large a weight in proportion to its volume. Grellier, who shares this opinion, has estimated that a single hair can carry a weight of 1,034 decigrams (more than a hundredgratns). According to Richter a blond hair can bear more than six ounces, and a black one still more. One can thus appreciate the great strength of the ropes which the Carthaginians made of their hair.” It is now almost certain that a new and mighty federation will soon take its place among nations. It will be the United States of South Africa. Great Britain now controls a country stretching from the Cape of Good Hope to Lake Tanganyika. It is a space as large as all Europe. Beside the valuable gold mines there coal and iron have also been found in large quantities. Civilization is advancing in that region as rapidlj- as it did in California after the gold discoveries. If the British colonies form a federation, England will have there a greater colonial possession than even Australia. This is carrying the grogress war of England into the heart of Africa without a vengeance. Civilization in this country has taken lands away from the American Indian, all the way from Rhode Island to Dakota. It will be strange if it does not rob the African in Africa of all lie possesses. Probably the most confirmed misogynist who ever lived was a wealthyold bachelor who has just died in Vienna. After his death a bundle of documents was discovered among his belongings labeled : “Attempts made by my family to put me under the yoke of matrimony.” In this packet were sixty-two letters, the dates ranging from 1845 to 1893, a sufficient proof of the tenacity of his relations So afraid was this strange man of even sitting near a woman that whenever he went to the theater he booked three seats, in order that he might have one on either side of him empty. When traveling in a railway carriage he was always careful to smoke a large, foul smelling pipe, to keep away intruders of the female sex. In his will he said : ‘‘l beg that my executors will see that I am buried where there is no woman interred either to the right or left of me Should this not be practicable in the ordinary' course of things, I direct that they purchase three graves, and bury me in the middle of the three, leaving the two others nnocupied.” From a statement that has just been compiled by the geographical survey, giving the total amount and value of coal produced in the United States during the year 1894, it is shown that there has been a large decrease both in the outputand value of this article. The total product from all mines during last year was 170,853,085 short tons with a value of $1'8,154,604, and in 1893 the total produce was 182,352,774, representing a value of $208,438,696. These figures show a decrease in the mining of coal of 11.499,659 tons, or a little more than 6 per cent., with a decrease in value of $22 284,002, or more than 10 per cent. There was a general iecline in the price of bituminous coal from 96 cents per ton in 1893 to 91 cents last year, while anthracite dropped from $1.59 to $1.51 per ton. At present there are indications of further trouble in Ohio, similar to that which started the great strike of 1894, the wage scale again being the cause of disagreement. In the Pocahontas Fiat Top region a strike is also in progress Ail these facts are interestingin view of the big deal that has just been made by the Vanderbilts in the Reading and coal transportation lines. A certain Peruvian heiress once paid the late M. Worth $24,000 for a costume which contained nearly $22,000 worth or lace.

DEVIL AND THE SEA. I MENACE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON EITHER SIDE. G. O. P. Disciples Endeavor to Disguise Internicine Strife Why the Public Has to Pay High Freight Rates-Tacks in Tariff’s Coffin. Embarrassed Candidates. Republicans who are suffering from internecine strife thinly disguised profess to find Democracy rent and torn by the currency question. Let the gentlemen who are candidates for the Re- | publican nomination next year look to their own fences. Where is Benjamin Harrison upon the silver question: He will talk loosely, of course, about both metals anil al! that, but be signed the rejected sop to silverites offered by the ■ Sherman bill and was doubtless as eager as Mr. Sherman himself to re peal that same bill. Where does he , stand on the currency question? Thomas B. Reed, a promising candidate, twisted and turned, wabbled and wor ried on the subject matter in the House | Will Mr. Reed define his position on the currency question? Mr. McKinley is so enchanted with McKinleyism and so pleased with himself that he seems to desire that there shall be no agitation of the currency question at all. In , his opinion he and his ism will be suf - flcient for the safety and triumph of.; the Republican party. Mr. Depew is now. as ever, merely the granger's friend. If being and as bow the granger wants silver or wants gold, why the I granger's friend is with the granger, but if being as how. as Bunsby puts , it. he isn’t, why, then, of course! Levi P. Morton never did say anything. and Is consistently preserving profound silence as to the use of the metals. True to a policy of trimming which has placed him on both sides of the tariff, and in his own State on both sides of prohibitory legislation regarding the liquor traffic, Allison is blowing hot and blowing cold on the silver question, assuring everybody that his position is perfectly well understood, the fact being that his position is not at all understood, save as it is meant to be one that will interpose no conviction of his own against being everybody's friend. Meantime there looms in Pennsylvania the unique figure of Cameron, and across the Mississippi, all and sing ular. the extraordinary body of Republican silver Senators from California. . Nevada. Idaho. Colorado and Washing ton. who bluntly inform the great body of Republicans, as the chairman of their national committee, Mr. Carter, has informed them, that refusal upon the part of the national Republican convention to declare unmistakably for free and unlimited coinage of silver will cost the Republican party its hope for victory in 1896. The Republican party has the devil on one side and the deep sea on the other. High Tariff and Freights. The farmer who complains of the freight rates he has to pay on his focal products and the goods he gets back in exchange for them, is beginning to ' find out that one of the chief causes of high freights is the great addition to the cost of building and maintaining railroads, resulting from the protective tariff. The steel rail trust, created and sustained by the high duty on all foreign rails, has cost the railroads hundreds of millions of dollars during the past thirty-five years. To earn dividends on all this additional capital, the railroads were forced to charge higher freight and passenger rates. Then the cost of rolling stock was greatly increased by the high duties on the iron, steel, lumber, glass and nearly everything else which went into loco- I motives and cars. And in the long run all this artificially increased cost was paid out of the charges of the roads. Had prices been allowed to reach their natural level the cost of constructing and equipping our railroads would have been very much less than it was; more roads would have been built, and the result would have been greater competition and lower charges. Protectionists try to meet these facts by saying that we export locomotives and ears, and that therefore we can make them as cheaply as in any other part of the world. It is true that we | export some of these things, but as a ; rule the prices for the surplus exported ■ are much lower than Is charged to the home purchaser. Besides, it is only re- i cently that we have been exporting rolling stock, and we ship practically no rails. As to the question of the tariff keeping up prices, it is only necessary to notice the vigor with which the steel ! and iron workers fought a .nJu the tariff, to prove that protection makes their products dearer. If the duty on steel rails was abolished, as proposed in the last Congress by Tom L. Johnson, one of the largest steel rail manufacturers in the country, the rail trust would collapse and the price of rails would drop fully 30 per cent Hundreds of railroads would improve their carrying capacity by equipments of new and heavier rails, and freight rates would steadily decline. No Free Trade in Fish. The high tariflites do well to figi;agaiust free trade in fish. An eminent American scientist. Prof. Mark Twain, of Hartford. Conn., has shown that a fish diet is highly beneficial to the brain, and he strongly advises that each protectionist should eat a whale, a good large-sized whale, or two medium-sized whales. But while this might help the protectionists, it would be a very bad thing for the rest of the country. Suppost that the paujier fish of Nova Scotia or British Columbia were allowed to compete with the herring of Ohio, the codfish of Colorado, or the mackerel of Missouri. What would be the result?

would begin to work, and what become of our great protective sysu n the envv of all other nations 'especia the Chinese., if onre the fanners and workingmen commence to - b ‘ uk agination recoils affrighted rv horrible prospect By all meanslet us keep the tariff destroying fish <>« or i the country. The New Tariff on Woolens. The attempt on the part of some pro- ' tectionist" journal’ to discredit the new ; tariff by alleging that under it the imi ports of woolen manufactured g'XR.s ' are heavier than they were under the i McKinley tariff is likely to prove a i boomerang. In the first place, the TreasuryjrtatmI tics have not yet fully shown what the ; imports of woolens under the new tar- ■ iff will be. There was naturally a marked Increase of such imports on January I i. when for the first time the new tariff I I on woolens went fully into effect I h ’’ restoration of confidence in the wintet i also tended to encourage freer importa- [ Rons. And. furthermore, the allega I tions of the “protectionist’’ journals is j by no means confirmed by the latest returns of the Bureau of Statistics. But what if the imports of woolens | I under the new tariff did exceed those ' under the McKinley law.* lor tbirtj j years and more the manufacturers of I ■ woolen goods in America have had ex- i I cessive “protection" given them by Re- | publican legislation, and the excessive | I duties levied on all foreign woolens , 1 gave the domestic manufacturers a vir- ] i tual monopoly on almost every kind | of woolen goods which the masses of . the people use or can afford to wear. Is it any wonder that when this monopoly was weakened by the Wilson law the people should take advantage of it? : It would be much to the credit of the l new tariff if imports of woolens should ’ have been very much larger than they I have been. The new tariff is itself ex i cessively high in its "protectionism,” ; and lays Inordinately heavy duties, es- ■ pecially on woolens, which the people will never tolerate when once they be- ; gin to realize what burdens they imi pose.—New York Herald. What Protectionists Are Thinking. "Trade among the nations should be : as free as the winds of heaven."— i Patrick Henry. "Pa. what is a robber?" | “A robber, my son. is one who takes ! property that belongs to others." "Well. pa. suppose he gets a law passI etl to tax others to pay him a bounty on i the sugar he raises, then is he a rob- ■ ber?” “Pa. what Is a Democrat?" “A Democrat, my son, is one who be- | lieves in equal rights and no favors." "Pa. were those Senators Democrats i who stuffed the Wilson bill full of pro : tection?" “No, my son. they were wolves In sheep's clothing." — Should Unload. McKinley's Presidential boom is so ! weighted with McKinleyism that it has no fair chance with the others. He should unload. Tacks in Tariff’s Coffin. “Protection is not a theory; It Is a swindle." True democracy Is based on equal rights for all, special privileges for none. It is the weak, the helpless and the monopolists that need “protection;” labor, the producer of all wealth, needs , no protection, all It wants is justice.— I Hon. Tom L. Johnson. Who filled Pennsylvania with the cheapest imported European laborers? The highly protected coal and iron monopolists. And yet they say they want a tax on iron and coal in order to “keep up American wages." California protectionists are pushing a movement having for its object the use in that state of only Pacific Slope goods. This is logical, for if protection is good for forty-four States. It ought i to be good for one. M hen was free trade ever un-Demo- : cratic.' When did a Democratic conj vention ever declare it anathema’ I M bat Democratic statesman but said I it was the ultimate end of the party's tariff policy ? \\ hat is there so awfully wicked in letting a man bur where I he can buy the cheapest, and sell where I he can get the best price? No free-traders? Why. bless your ■ soul, the woods are full of them 'The ■ women are all the stiffest kind of free- : traders Just go down to anv store whose advertiscaient In the morning papers announces a cut in the prices of some textile, and see the crowd of women actually struggling to get to that bargain counter.-Minnesota Dem ocrat The New York Sun Is the bitterest opponent of the proposition for a commercial union with Canada, and professes to believe that we would be |n. juren by allowing Canadian goods to come in free of duty. Yet the Sun is the most prominent advocate of the annexation of Canada to the United States. How is that free trade with Canada would be a good thing if that country was a part of ours, but bad wben ? it is under a separate govern Koant always thought he could write PWtry thaD that in his Thauatopsis." which was one of his earliest. During his later davs he, on several occasions, expressed £~n.iise at the preference shown by his admirers for this particular poem, -when I have done7o atlonVo/'h ” He WieVed th <- trans he ev r diJ° mer ** Kst Work

A TOBACCO HEART. Tho»»»n<l» Amerlcau. Can’t C. M Lite Insurance Becauae Tobae Ko y” Deatrayed the Heart Actio, Wrecked «be Nervous fc. .tea, * To-Bac Work, Many Miractca, * De’aiis- a. N. Y.. June 17 O. N. Bates stepped off engine No 4 - aiib ■ long oiler in one hand and , of blue aaste in the other. Not *i ,'auder there coaid help n tnar»i n . ;' youthful, healthy look, and active, dj? oils movements, and contras’mg nearaix 1 * with hi» condition ,4 . V Say. Colonel, how w ell you lisik 1 - • Y-’ I well; better than Ij, been fur years.” -What have you been doing'." ■ <H, not tnui b: No to-ba. of the tobacco habit and brai-eii 5, * tallr ami physically. In fact, x,,-, a new man in more wajs that. * bad no appetite; conldn t alevp; sleep like a baby and eat there t 35 ,, dav with a relish, for the fir - ; * years. My heart action is reg. ar . . ’ longer a bar to increased life : Yon know throttle pulling req . , tv steady nerve, and my nerves K now. One boa and a quarter < \ . lac cured me completely in te a ,: ars after using tobacco forty years \ .' ba. is sold by all druggis's I .; 'King No-to-bac' on nearly ev. t j gut's counter, and made by ti., '. Remedy Company, of New 1 -f ,“ . < You ought to ger . . .. little woka called ’Don't I and Smoke Your Life Away,' and rXyourself. They send them fr>. 10t one that writes. It cost me t 0 cured, and I spent three or four d. . ir L week for tobacco. If I had failed to nt cored I would have gotten mr tn c -v back, as the makers guarantee three botes to cure any ease. I have r.- n. ui (.,e ed the use of No-to-bac to 11 i;y * boys on the Hue, and every oae of then wlio got the genuine article, s . f ar n i know, has bren cured. Look out, ion’t let some of the imitations be p;. on you for No to-bae." The cab bell rang, the engineer 1 ! ;mW up quickly on the footboard, st- k ui« head out of the cab window, pulled thv throttle half an inch and the lug train rolled away. Where No Rain Ever Fall. According to Belzoni, the ottest trac; in the world is tnat betw-. ntlie first and second cataract of the Nile, owing to there being no rain w hat- er in that region. The natives a baiting the country do not credit ■ phenomenon of water falling from above. For that rea-on ail the mon neats thereabout’ are perfectly preserved regardless of their age. Bui k;ngbaH sou d the < ha!k marks of the b . ; -rs still perfect on the stoneso a-ti . t re left unfini hed 4.U00 years ago. Fine bronze powder, or gold and silver leaf, ground with a iittie bate of ]X>ta’b. and washed from the -a.'.u mixed with water aud a- ‘ cleat quantity of gum. The Nickel Plate road has conn •• i a list of country homes along thesout 'tuire of Lake Erie, willing toaeeoinnsoda’r dimmer Isvarders, and a copy will be mailed to any address by enclosing a stamp to snr agi-ni i.t ■ • n . kel Plate road or t«> B. F. Berner, General Passenger Agent. September 9. Admission day .’observed as a legal holiday in California. >lr<. AVin«low*« s .. thixg Stbcf f - -*• rstattrt* inflv _ vllayt. pAitt, cufm wind colic. rent* & b. : ■ JULY 24, Pioneerday, is a h 1 .3 Utah. How Is Your Blood? If t is js or and thin and lacking : ti.r number and quality of those red rvuscles. you are in danger of aickn -- tb® disease germs and the enervating 4of warm weather. Purify your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla The bloc*! purifier which has i roved it> merit by a record of cures unequaled x medical history. With pure, rich t»lood you will be well and strong. D-> not neglect tlds important matter, but take Hvod’s .Sa. *a par ilia now. Hood s Pilis Beecham’s pills are for biliousness, sick headache, dizziness, dyspepsia, bad t te in the mouth, heartburn, torpid liver, foul breath. -.. ’. "■«’ skin, coatfd tongue, pimples loss of appetite, etc., v. her. caused by constipation; and constipation is the most frequent cause of all of them. One of the most important things so» everybody to learn is that coustij ' « causes more than half the sickness in the world, especially of women; and it can all be prevented. Go by tue book,free at vour druggist's.orwnteß F.AllenCo..36skan»' St., New York. Pills,tog and 35c a box. Aa.oal Mie. more tb.n S.nOO OK box*.

®eeb ffl 4 REMEMBER I I t ,„., ✓» No< J 1 iJj s^MarM^* ECES, * , ' lf i } 6!rt. I 7o"S L 1 „.4:::..-J jFriends’Oats! all grocers sell i j