Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Page 4

®l)t ScmocroticScntind RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN. - - - Pltxishep.

A wall-paper trust will stick at nothing. Death has nothing terrible in it but what life has made so. If we are good, example is the best luster of virtue; if we are bad, shame is the best step to amendment. A hew postofflce in Nebraska has been named Tonic. The Postmaster pertaining thereto declares it pleasant to take. Italy is now tasting all the bitterness of financial distress Disarmament or bankruptcy constitute the two horns of the dilemma which King Humbert must face. Ferdinand Ward was reckless as a financier, but he is a very discreet released convict. He avoids all notoriety and will submit to no interviews. Mr. Ward learned wisdom at Sing Sing. A man in Barry. 111., who fired six shots at his wife with a revolver was fined $G by the indignant Justice of the Peace before whom his case was tried. It is lucky for him that his gun was not a seven-shooter His fine would have been $7. The regions of California not irrigated by artificial means are already suffering from the drought and crops are greatly injured. This side qf the Rockies would have willingly spared them seven or eight inches of water and not missed it. “The glorious climate” has its drawbacks. ~

/ The remarkable intelligence is sent from Cincinnati that a base-ball game was stopped because of the fact that the rays of the setting sun got in the eyes of the batsmen and pitchers. When the relative positions of these two functionaries are considered it becomes clear either that the sun is very eratic in the vicinity of Cincinnati or else that the players are afflicted with a very extraordinary and aggravated forms of strabismus. v‘Ail England is agitated over the poisoning of the Duke of Westminster's racer, “Orme,” on the eve of the races. The incident seems like a chapter out of an antiquated sporting novel, and will appear in the pages of scores of new ones. It illustrates how wide-spread is the English interest in racing and it illustrates also the fact that some of the most thorough blackgards imaginable were interested in Orme's not running.

New York has a guest just arrived from Rome and acknowledges that he is “a fugitive from Rome,” and has doubtless left there for Rome's good. He candidly tells a reporter of the Recorder: “I am here to make propaganda for my cause. My principle is the abolition of private property, of capitalism, and government, which are all one—namely, the enemy of true civilization.” He should be shipped home by the first boat with a notice to stay there.

The question of “good common roads” is beginning to take prominence in all the wide-awake States. There is no question in which all classes of people are more directly inThe ordinary methods of road making and road "repairing are only “playing at road making.” “The iron horse” has soiid road-beds, beautifully ballasted and bridged—but the faithful four-legged horse goes onmiring and wearing out his life in pulling the farmer's wealth to market. The times are ripe for a reform in country road building.

Downright trickery has been often j resorted to for the purpose of extend-1 ing the life of a valuable patent. It! seems to have been repeated by the owners of the Bell telephone patents, and it is now claimed that by a combination of patents for certain immaterial devices joined with the Berliner rights the company will be enabled to extend its monopoly for another seventeen years. But the public need not be alarmed at the suggestion. Long before the expiration of that time there will be discovered substantial relief from this monopoly. • Western colleges bent upon getting the best have formed the disagreeable habit of offering the right man for President a higher salary than Eastern colleges are disposed to pay. Now of course your really ideal President ought to be above sordid considerations. He ought to love learning for learning's sake, and supervise a college for supervision’s sake. But most of them have families dependent upon them for support, and are obliged to think of dollars and cents. Hence other things being equal—the college which pays the most gets the best President. Swinburne’s essay in the dramatic arena will excite much interest among the poet’s admirers. Coming so soon after the production of Tennyson’s play, “The Sisters” will attract additional attention. The poet laureate has not proved himself a master of dramatic situations and effects, but be has produced a play which is a great treat for all lovers of good literature. If Swinburne has the dramatic instinct more highly developed than Tennyson he has not jret given evidence of it in his writings. He is, however, a superb master <rf English, a consummate lyrist, awl M poet of exquisite taste. We tfnii probably base no exciting mseam in his new play, possibly no •taerWof plot, but we are sure of ;'v -a' v-? - x ~ * (ray

melodious lines and delightful songs. And, after all, we shall find much refreshment in an occasional change from the tank drama, “Annie Rooney,” and “The Bogie Man.” If the manuscript of John Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” is still in existence, and can be produced at the World’s Fair, it will be, certainly, a matter of no little interest. Mrs. J. W. Patton, of Springfield, 111., believes the manuscript to be now in possession of a family named Bates, living in Southern Illinois. It is said to have descended, as an heirloom in the family, from Bunyan’s widow, to whom after his death the manuscript had been returned by the printers of the book. The unearthing of relics for exhibition at the World’s Fair will probably become quite common: in some instances, no doubt — and wo could wish it might be so in the present case—with supporting testimony that may be trusted.

John is pouting. Deep down beneath the impenetrable mask of the stolid Asiatic peasant is a pride of race which has been deeply wounded. It is dimly dawning upon John that the Caucasian whom he inwardly despises has told him to “get ojtt.” As he seeks the reason for this—pouting meantime most tremendously—he discovers that lie is not wanted because he comes here to get and carry away.- and not to contribute anything to the general wealth. He is neither useful as a citizen, nor as an investor of moneys, nor as anything save a laborer. Alien and pagan, he is marked “X. G. Return to China.” He sees k. And we shall now hear him clamowng for citizenship. and abjuring his false gods and vile habits. —-

Pirates seem to have sprung up in the Mediterranean again. A .Spanish sailing vessel was recently looted by them off the Morocco coast, and within hailing distance of the ocean lane on which steamships are plying night and day from the Mediterranean ports to New York. Is the old freebooting which so flourished at thebeginning of this century to be revived? If so, the United States, which cleaned the Barbary pirates out of their nests and swept the coast of the Trlpolitaine with the besom of destruction, must call out new Decaturs, Peebles and Bainbridges and do the good work over again. But is it just possible that the cry about pirates is raised by John Bull, who is anxious for a chance to interfere in Morbcco? ~ - t . 'r • One of the most famous institutions of the Presbyterian Church in the West, “Lane Seminary,” Cincinnati. once presided over by Lyman Beecher, Professor Stone, and men of national fame, is in a turmoil. The peculiar views of Dr. Briggs have created wide discussion', and it is now stated that Professor Smith, of the institution, has boldly come out as an advocate of the Doctor's doctrine in a pamphlet entitled “Biblical Scholarship and Inspiration.” The pamphlet has caused a genuine sensation. A storm of opposition to Dr. Smith’s utterances was soon aroused, but he remained firm, and now it is announced that Trustees Alexander McDonald. S. J. Broadwell, and Peter Rudolph Neff, all prominent men and millionaires, have resigned, leaving the board, as a whole, in sympathy with Professor Smith. The next Gcp, j eral Assembv, which meets at Portj land. Maine, will likely tackle the I subject, and will find it knotty?

-C.v-' A portion of Dmmque seems to be situated over a vast subterranean lake. Such a state of affairs has long been suspected, and the sudden disappearance a short time ago of half an acre of ground is strong proof of the theory. Fortunately no houses were situated on the ill-fated half acre. Had tin* phenomenon occurred in a crowded portion of the city, it would have occasioned one of the.greatest catastrophes of history. Some such misfortune has been frequently predicted as on the programme for Chicago. Engineers have shown, or attempted to show, the possibility that her heavy buildings might sink out of sight, and one wild-eyed negro preacher lias had a vision in which the waters of Lake Michigan were holding a riotous dance far above the city’s housetops. According to his theory, Chicago is to be sunk by the weight of her own wickedness. None of these prophe cies have as yet come true. On the contrary, Chicago real estate is going up all the time. Even a slight slump is improbable, and as for the bottom’s dropping out, as it did in the case of that half acre in Dubuque, the thing is impossible.

Queer Bank.

A man in Milbridge, Me., was building a small schooner, and was about to cut down a tree for the stempiece when he was approached by an elderly Frencli-Canadian, who asked: “You cut down that tree?” “Yes,” the shipbuilder replied. “Well, he my safe—l keep my money in there,” the Acadian responded. Pulling out a carefully concealed plug at the base, he brought forth a tin box filled with coins.

Forgetful.

In 1871 a, man in Auburn, Maine, deposited 82,200 in a savings bank, and, as he was growing old, forgot all about it. One of his relatives learned of the deposit lately, and the forgetful old man was agreeably surprised to find that his $2,200 had increased to $5,000. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. For one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation which he thinks hi lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehensions of punishment.

THE SHODDY INDUSTRY.

WOOL TARIFFS BRING IT GREAT PROSPERITY. Free Wool Would Be Its Certain DeathSome Tin Plate Fact* and Fancies —McKinley’s Account Continued—New England Farmers Driven Out by the Tariffs. More Shoddy than Wool. There can be little doubt that the American people wear raore shoddy than do the people of any other country on the face of the globe. Here are a few of the proofs of this statement. 1. According to the census statistics of 1880, the total amount of raw material consumed in the manufacture of woolen goods was 404,000,000 pounds. After reducing wool to a scoured basis, we find that only 118,000,000 pounds of pure wool were consumed. This shows that the composition of woolen goods made in 1880 was 108 parts of adulterants and 118 parts of pure wool. The census of 1800 show’s that the number of pounds of pure wool used had increased to 124,000,000, and of shoddy, cotton, and other adulterants from 106,000,000 pounds in 1880 to 154,000,000 pounds in 1890, thus giving a ratio of 45 parts of pure wool to 55 parts of adulterants. 2. Since the McKinley bill went into effect the shoddy business has enjoyed an era of unusual prosperity. As an indication of this, we quote the following under the heading, “Ilags, Shoddies, Wastes, and Extracts,” from the American Wool and Cotton Reporter of May 19, 1692:

“New Clips. —There has been a steady current of business during the past week, and results have been altogether satisfactory. Merchant taiiors’ clips, darks and black, ore picked up as fast as made. The pronounced demand for darks and black worsted, noted last week, continues. There is more or less Inquiry for all the various grades of new woolen rags. “Woolen Rags. —Some dealers aver that they have sold in the two wmeks of May, 1892, within a few hundred dollars of all last May’s (i86l) sales. In the sale during the past week of rod, blue, gray knit there has been no let up. White linseys have moved well, so has hood stock generally. Dark and light merinos are selling fast. Red and blue flannels are selling to some extent. Skirted seams and soft black carpets have been sold; delaines continue in good demand; some orders have been received for dark cut cloths. “Shoddies. —Business for the first half of May (Monday, 16) has favorably compared with last year’s record in the same period. There is unmistakably an increased demand for finer stock. “Extracts.— Manufacturers in general are having all they can do to fill orders. “ Wool Waste. — Thero has been no falling off this month in this trade. During the past week a good deal of high grade waste has been sold. "Blocks. —Business in this line for the month thus far has been quite satisfactory. ’’ This same page of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter contains over twenty advertisements of shoddy mauu-faelufl-rs. “ - •«---

3. No other country has a duty on wools that will average 60 or 70 per cent.—thus depriving us of the purer wool and compelling us to use all kinds of adulterants —rugs, hair, cotton, etc. That our tariff is a godsend to the shoddy manufacturers is testified to by the fact that in 1888, when tho Mills biil proposed to give us»free wool, seventeen rag and shoddy dealers signed a circular, used by the Republican National Committee, in which they denounced the Mills bill as a free-trade measure, and said that free wool would ruin their business. Further testimony comes from tho petition of the Kensington Reform Club of Philadelphia (which contains about 250 wool workexs), presented to Congress April 6, 1892. After asking for free wool to help the woolen business, and incidentally to provide steadier employment for more labor at higher wages, and to givo cheaper clothing to the consumer, they say that the materials of manufacture are deteriorating and the manufacturers “dare not put their workingmen on the stand to testify under oath, for then there w’ould be a full corroboration of the statement made to your honorable Committee of Ways aud Means by the committee of the Wool Consumers’ Association, that the McKinley law has largely promotod the adulteration of wool manufacturers."

Tin Plate Facts and Fancies.

During the debate on the McKinley bill we heard many promises made by McKinley and others in regard to the marvelous effect the increased duty on tinplate would have in building up this industry here. We have heard how sorry McKinley has been since he made such rash promises and will not ask him to face his record. Since the passage of the act the tin plate liar has been abroad and has has kept the newspaper reports busy looking for phantom tin plate factories. At last there is some evidence that minute quantities of tin plate are being made in this country, and we can begin to detect a grain of truthfulness in the statements of political tin plate manufacturers. The following is from the New York Daily Commercial Bulletin of May 13, 1832: “Early in January the Tin Plate Manufacturers’ Association issued a circular giving the weekly product of each establishment in the association. It will be interesting to compare the statements then made with actual facts as determined by Col. Ayer. The following is a comparison of the capacity as given in the manufacturers’ circular with the actual production as given by Col. Ayer, in the ease of the six concerns which make their own black plates: Weekly production boxes of 138 pounds. Concern?. Manfrs. Col. Ayer. Bros 6,000 64.6 Ht. Louis Stamping Company.. .3,000 333.3 P. H. I.aufman * Co 1,000 121.8 L'. S. Iron and Tin-plate Co 3,000 86.2 Wallace, Bonfleld ,V Co 1,000 3T.6 Apollo Rolling Mill 157.7

Another evidence that tin plate is being produced in this country is contained in the Iron Age of May 12, 1892. This journal devotes six pages to illustrations ! and descriptions of the St. Louis Stamp- ! ing Company. This usually conserva- 5 tive journal allows itself in its ardor for this new industry to say that “tin plate j produced by this company, from the 1 process bac k to mine and forest, will | give employment to 600 person at a j daily expenditure of from $1,500 to SI,BOO j for labor and traiftportation.” Putting! this statement alongside that of Col. Ayers we observe that this com-* pany is producing 533 boxes of tin plate per week, in which the total cost is about SIO,OOO, that is, 1 nearly S2O per box. As imported tin plate is selling for between $5 and $6 per box, it is safe to say eithei that this tin plate company is not established up- i on a sound economic bais or that the i era of tin plate exaggeration is not yet past. That the duty on tin plate is a tax is | certified to by every number of the Iron ' Age; e. g., on page 940, of May 12, « find IC coke tin, 14x20, quoted at $5.30. On the opposite page we find this same grade quoted in London at $2.94, leav- j ing a difference of $2.36 in favor of foreign consumers—just about the amount of the McKinley duty. As we consume . about 7,000,000 boxes a year we are tax- ■ ing ourselves at the rate of about SSO j

per day to provide work for a few hundred laborers, many of whom have been imported for work in this new industry. This is what our protectionist statesmen call a good Investment and noint to with pride.

Agriculture and the Tariff.

“Our civilization rests upon agriculture. To it every strong state must [ look, not only for bread, but in large measure for men who are to uphold its society. We have won and maintained our institutions in peace and war by the aid of the sturdy citizens who were born and bred upon farms; therefore it is the first duty of our legislators to take care that the laws do not endanger the pros- ; perlty of those who till the soil. “The present condition of agriculture in New England shows clearly that the ! protective tariff is harmful to the Interests of the farmer. Thirty years ago this part of the United States contained thousands of small farms which are now abandoned. In every neighborhood we see these abandoned homesteads falling in ruins and their fields returning to forests. The traveler in these districts feels that some great plague has fallen upon the people. Thus in the towns of Tisbury and Chilmark, in Dukes County, Massachusetts, more than three-fifths of the district farmsteads, only eight remain, and the greater part of tho fields has grown up in brushwood. Several of tho New England States have been led to the extraordinary measure of making a census of their abandoned farms, with the hope that foreigners might be induced to buy them. Altnough these lists are imperfect, in that they take account only of thoso places where the houses and fields are still fit for use, the results are startling. They show that the small farmer Is rapidly being driven from the land which for centuries has maintained his forefathers in prosperity. The census of 1890 shows a loss of population in 930 towns. In New England. One reason why the small farmers have been driven to abandon their fields is found in the fact that the protective tariff greatly increases the expenses of their housesholds. In a family of five persons engaged in farming, and living with strict economy, at least three hundred and fifty dollars lias to _£>e spent for clothing, household utensils, farming tools and the materials which are used in repail ing buildings and fences. On the average more than fifty dollars of this 'sum is due to the protective tariff. This tax is great enough to make a life-and-death difference in the struggle of a man who has to depend for his success on his own strength and the natural resources of a small tract of ordinary New England land. With that amount of money on the right side of his account ho can subsist his family and put by something for his old age. Without it he must full. When the system of the protective tariff was begun,-the farmers were promised that the manufactories which it would induce would afford them a high-priced market for tho products of their fields. This theory has proved to be utterly in error; except in,the case of tho market gardens near the great cities, which are owned by men*of capital and tilled by hired labor, no part of our agriculture has had any considerable advantage from the establishment of factories in New England. It Is now made clear by experience, as it is evident from reason, that the price of our soil products is determined by the market rates of European countries where our surplus is sold. The notion of the advantages of a homo market is shown by the facts to be fallacious. Instead of being a blessing to the small farmer, the tariff is a curse which stealthily works for his ruin.—Prof. N. S. Shaler, member of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture.

Debit These to McKinley.

It will be remembered that the McKinley bill was to boom business, raise wages, kill trusts, etc. The following few of the more than one hundred items on the debit side of the McKinley account for another week show how the bill is getting in its work: May 15. To the report that all the tanners of the United States have signed an agreement to curtail production 50 per cent, for tho next four months by shutting down all tanneries for two months. May 17. To the report that Carnegie, Phipps & Go., Carnegie Bros. & Co, and the Keystone Bridge Co. will consolidate July 1 under tho name of “The Carnegie Steel Company.” The combined capital will be $10,700,00(1. It will be the chief of the great iron and-steel concerns and will make it easy for all to sustain present high prices and exorbitant profits. ■ _ ilay 19. To a report, in the Iron Age, that an attempt is being made at Pittsburg to form a new trust of all the plate-glass factories in America. May 19. To notices in the Journal of the Knights of Labor advising laborers to stay away from Pineville, Ky., because the miners there are on a lockout against a reduction of wages; from LaCrosse, Wis., because a serious lockout in the sawmills lias thrown hundreds out of employment; from Wardner, Idaho, because of the strike at the Cocur d’Alene silver and lead mines against a reduction of wages; from Tarkio, Mo., because wages have been greatly reduced; from Little Rock aud Argenta, Ark., because the cotton mills are shutting d(nvn and the railroads are laying off men. Sixteen other similar jijtices appear in this same journal. 21. To the report from Detroit, Mich., that 150 girls employed in the pearl buttpn factory there are on strike against a reduction in wages. The factory was started soon after the passage of the McKinley bill, and was visited by Governor MoKinley at the time of the Michigan Club banquet on Feb. 22 last. The girls who were making $3.50 a week will now be able to make only $3. Instead of striking, these poor girls should petition Congress to raise the 400 per cent, duty on pearl buttons to above 1,000 per cent, to enable the manufacturers to pay good wages, you know.

The Sugar Trust.

There is much food for thought in Representative Scott’s recent motion to place all sugars on the free list, and there are thousands who agree with him that the sugar trust “has succeeded in completely stifling and destroying competition by its unholy, unjust, and cruel exactions.” This is a bold statement, but the Representative backs it up by showing that the trust has lately added $25,000,000 to its capital stock and has thus absorbed'all outstanding competitive refiners of sugar. The trust would receive a crushing blow if all sugars were placed on the free list; and since the interests of legitimate competition can be served thereby, we sincerely hope that they will be placed on the free list. Where an article of food is concerned no trust should be allowed to control the price and defy competition. —National Provisioned May 14, 1892.

The Iron Age of May 19 says; “The export trade in cotton goods is practically at a standstill. The demand from China is dead. Trade with South America is very quiet, and there is but little doing with Africa.” Hasn’t the Iron Age heard of reciprocity, that friend of the farmer whicli was to open up new markets for his products in these tea, coffee, sugar and hide producing regions of the earth? Is it possible that. this “new comer stone of protection” is misbehaving so extensively and betraying the trust of its ardent supporters?

GAY AND GIDDY GIRLS.

WHAT THEY WILL WEAR DURING SUMMER. The Summer Girl Is Now Right In It. and She Will Be More Attractive This Season than Ever—Styles Peculiar to Her. New York Letter.

THIS is the one time of the whole year more interesting thdn all others to women in the matter of dress, writes our ( \ New York corre- , spondeut. The spring styles are \\ \ just being put off, A I and the summer V I Styles are just p I about to be put / on. That moms J a deal of anxiety I A to the wearer of Jr-AY fashionable garV-' ments, no matter M whether she be \W rich enough to b->y whatever she fan- * cies, or whether '■ she be poor

enough to count all the cents she spends. To the woman who has simply to go, and order her clothes, and to the one who has to make her own apparel, June is alike the most important month of the twelve. The depiction of summer raiment in this article, by means of drawings and text, and that which is to follow from week to week, may be depended upon as the freshest illustrated news in fashions. It is one thing to give the styles ns planned by foreign designers, but which may never come into American wear at all, and quite another to set forth with pen and pencil the garments actually made up to order for the most modish women in New York. The latter method is the one here adopted, and so the representations of toilets for June, July and August are not conjectural, but absolutely trustworthy. The first two pictures are of June women in town, anil the other three are of women as they will be at the summer resorts. Don’t fancy the summer girl is a thing of the past because you have not heard of her of late. She is in training, that is all, and she is going to be more fetching and taking and all-arounding than ever. Maybe you think this new fad of long skirts, with a drag behind, is going to interfere with the general fitness of her for the country. Not a bit of it! She is going to wear bewildering petticoats, not of silk—not she—but of scarlet, navy blue or striped all, colors, and the skirts will have rows of braid and they will be a bit shorter thnn the dresses used to be. Meanwhile her train will be still longer than the aver-

LACE AND CLOTH MANTELET.

age girl's, long enough to bo picked up and slung over her arm, and—a newte - witchment—long enough to be drawn through her belt, thereby leaving her arms tree. Her dress skirt, you see, won’t be fastened down to a lining. It will hang soft and loose over this petticoat, and it will gather into all sorts of piquant folds when it is drawn up over the arm or through the belt. No, she won’t be a tub; the summer girl never i? like a tub, no matter what she does or wears.

Thus does fashion add to the possibilities of the summer gill, as have all fa-hions since the summer girl first evolved. She has a new notion for iho shirt waist. Say what you will, the shirt waist was a little inclined to bulge forth, even when the nicest pocket was worn, and the Gordon sash was not all it should have been. Now the summer girl will have a broad knit striped belt—so broad it will come up to just below the breast line. The lower edge of the belt will be securely sewed to the shirt band, all neat and shipshape. It will go on with the shirt and fasten with it. Sometimes it will lace at the side; then the shirt opens there and laces down, too, to jus.t over the hip. The shirt waist is made very close in. the back, so as to have no “bag” over the edge of this bodice girdle, and in the front it is drawn under the trim, close-fitting girdle, and is 10. se only above, where it looks as it should. The arms are all free. Even the coat can be dispensed with, and the girl is trim and ready for anything, which two charms are difficult to accomplish at one and tfife same time.

STYLISH INDOOR GOWN.

All this for the rowing, tramping, yachting girl. The "hammock, garden party, piazza-by-moonlight girl is going to be a dream. The new gowns are just in her line exactly, ant streamers will float from her in all directions, and she will be harder to get away from than ever, for at every turn of the wind those streamers will entwine you, and it is so hard to get untangled, aud—w. U, it is the same

old story. Everything helps the summer girl, and every chance Is removed from the happy summer man to make the escape he does not want to make. There is another thing that the summer girl will do. The styles in bangs have changed so often that she finds herself with her hair all lengths. Now, even if it curls, and particularly if it doesn’t, it will be in a tousy frouse when the wind blows. Desides, she is training now for the classic act, and she wants her front hair to grow so that sho can next winter part it in the middle. Instead of despairing or submitting to a tousle she will tie down her pretty hair with a bright-colored scarf. The bang will just show under its edge around her forehead, and all tlio rest will be kept close. The scarf will knot just where it is most enslaving to the beholder, and over it all will go the never-to-be-given-up visor yachting cap; and behold that same cap which, when she first stole it from her brother, seemed just the climax of fascination, now puts forth new shoots of deiiciousness, and you might ns well give up at once to the summer girl. This same scarf she can wear under any hat; and if it is very tocoming she will turn it into a permanent head-dress, knotting it just above the best curl in her bang and letting two cocky little ends stick up, and there sheis! This best curl is being much cultivated. I know a clever girl who paints hers; yes, just that. She has put her hair back from her forehead, and she does not want to cut it m ain, so down in the middle of her brow'she paints a

RECEPTIONIST COSTUME.

curl, and she paints it so well that in the evening or back under her hat brim and through her veil no one would suspect. She says she is going to use oil paint in the summer and then she can go in bathing and the curl will stay. Won’t the other girls just hate her, though! Speaking of bathing; no more corsets this coining season under the-bath suit, but instead a Jersey bodice, good anil double thick from waist to breast line. Above that to the low-neck top it is thinner, but firm. It laces all the way down. The figure is thus held firm and close, and the waist can even be drawn in a little. Except for this, bath suits will be as they were, only a little more so, or rather less, to be exact. Oh, don’t fret about this season. The summer girl will be all there. The initial illustration pictures a very stylish make-up for an outdoor costume in woolen material. The basques are sewed on to the waist and are made with pleats, but not gathered at the waist. They flare at the back and show the folds of the skirt. The corsage fronts cross as indicated. The corselet may be of surah, or bengaline, in a lighter shade. It is set off with a butterfly knot. The lace mantelet with beige cloth tabs shown in 4 second drawing is a showy but refined garment, original in make-up. The tabs and yoke are repeated at the back, the openings front and back being idled as indicated with long pearled fringe. The tabs are embroidered with jet and edged with pearl beads. A Yalois collar and bows of ribbon on the shoulders complete this handsome garment. The third illustration presents a pretty indoor gown, with a bell-shaped skirt. The Swiss belt may be embroidered either with black or gold braid. Its ends eroelfs at the back. The plastron is in colored embroidery, but a very pretty effect may.

OUTDOOR DRESSES.

be attained with pleated surah. The revers start from the shoulder seam. Illustration }vo. 4 pictures a charming reception dress in blue-gray, trimmed with lace and gold bead galloon, made up in princess style, and lined with merveilieux. The side hooks under the broad fiat Watteau pleat, which is attached to the dress only as far as the waist line, below which 'it falls freely It is hooked at the back and is lined with silk. The gathered laee collarette is sewed on reversed and fastened in front with fancy pins. The corsage front has no seam and is draped as indipated, the sleeves being draped in the same style and ornamented with a laee cascade and laee trills. The galloon starts from the Watteau pleats and is fastened to the skirt. Of the group portrayed in the last pi' tore the seated figure displays an out-door gown iu woolen check, the skirt which hocks to the waist being garnitured as shown with a rucho and two rows of lace. The corsage has but one dart and is gathered at the waist. There is a lace bertha and lace ruche for the collar. The princess gown of the standing figure is a gray serge, and has no seam in the middle. The gores are hidden by braid or galloon. An embroidered yoke and embroidered cuffs serve to set off this stylish gown. The dress worn by the little miss has a skirt gathered on the waist and ornamented with- passementerie and narrow velvet ribbon. The waist hooks at the back, and is ornamented with ribbon braces, and there is a velvet belt tied as indicated.

Since the death of the celebrated sur- ! geon, Dr. Haynes Agnew, the instances j of his humane kindness and charity are i fast multiplying. He made it a rule to i charge his patients strictly according to i their circumstances. Thos- of moderate means paid $2 for each visit, while a wealthy patient was often charged from sl,l*oo to $2,500, and the wife of an English nobleman once paid $20,000 for » , single operation. Polish is given, not by adding sorajthing, but by removing imperfections.

CHILDREN'S COLUMN.

A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. Something that Will Interest the Juvenile Members or Every Household Quaint Actions and Bright Sayings of Cute Children. Ax-Covered Grindstone. Though bright to my heart are some scenes In my lad time, Which fond recollection presents to my view, Jne thing I remember that brought me no glad time, But lent to my childhood an indigo hue. dow awful when sneaking away from my mother. As down to the creek with my tackle I fled, To hear father's voice, “One good turn needs another; Come,‘turn at the grindstone that hangs by the shed." The old crooked grindstone, The wobbling old grindstone. The old squeaking grindstone that hung by the shed. Mi! many's the hour I've turned it and grunted, For it was the mill stone that burdened me down; lYhile nuts were to gather and squirrels to * be hunted There was always an ax or scythe to be ground. it never was oiled and was hard in tho turning. “Only grease of the elbows it needs.” father said; ind the handle would often slip off without warning And instantly tumble me heels over head. The old dented griudstoue, That wornaway grindstone, ft gathered no moss as it hung by the shed. ‘This stone," father said, “like earth, turns on its axis, But comparison fails on the matter of force. ” t said,“Though the speed of the earth ne'er relaxes, I am sure it would scop 'neath those axes of ,yours.” Che nicks they were cUop in the ax or the hatchet. And father bore on till sweat dropped from his head. If I’d pause to put water on, then I would catch it; “Watch the crank and keep on with tho motion,” he said. Oh. that old shaky grindstone, That slow-grinding grindstone, That hard-running grindstope that hung by the shed! Yes, dear to my heart are some scenes of my childhood— Tho orchard, tlife cidor, tho neighbors’ peach trees, Tho school hours I pleasantly passed in the wildwood. And. the honey I stole unbeknownst to » the bees. But that circular horror, whose motion was rotary. To-day makes my anger all fly to my head. And I’m willing to go and make oath to tin; notary. That I was ground dull by that stone by the shed— That lopsided grindstone. That old hated grindstone. That confoundOd grindstone that hung by the shed. —A. W. Bellaw.

A Pretty Incident. A newsboy took the Sixth avenue elevated railroad cars at Park place, New York, and sliding into one of the cross seats fell asleep. At Grand street two young women got on and took seats opposite to the lad. His feet were bare, and his hat had fallen off. Presently the young girl leaned over and placed her muff under the little fellow’s dirty cheek. An old gentleman in the next seat smiled at the act, and, without saying anything, held out a quarter, with a nod toward the hoy. The girl hesitated a moment, and then reached for it. The next man just as silently offered a dime, a woman across the aisle held out some pennies, and, before she knew it, the girl with flaming cheeks had taken money from every passenger in that end of the car. She quietly slid the amount into the sleeping lad's pocket, removed her muff gently from under his without rousing him, and got off at Twenty-third street, including all the passengers in a pretty little inclination of the head that seemed full of thanks and a common secret. —The Parish News.

Fable of the Pansy. A pretty fable of the pansy is current among children. The flower has five petals and five sepals. In most pansies, especially of the earlier and less highly developed varieties, two of the petals are plain in color and three are gay. The two plain petals have a single petal, two of the gay petals have a sepal each, the third, which is the largest of all, has two sepals. The fable is that the pansy represents a family, consisting of husband, wife, and four daughters, two of the latter being stepchildren of the wife. The plain petals are the stepchildren, with only one chair; the two small gay petals are the daughters with a chair each, and the large gay petal is the wife, with two chairs. To And the father one must strip away the petals until the stamens and pistils are hare. They have a fanciful resemblance to an old man with a flannel wrap about his neck, his shoulders upraised, and his feet in a bathtub. The story is probably of French origin, because the French call the pansy the stepmother. The Worst “Bad Company.” The worst “had company” that a bad hoy or girl can he in is the company of a bad hook. Evil associates are harmful enough, but they do not' injure a young person as evil books do. There is a subtle, and at the same time imperative quality, in the influence of a printed page, which everybody feels. You read a statement, and unconsciously you believe it, and yield up your mind to it simply because it confronts you in the dignity of type. But let a person whom you know make the same statement orally, and you will think twice before you accept it. This is where the danger of a bad hook comes in, it gets a special hearing and exercises a peculiar influence which a bad person can not. Besides, it can say the same evil thing over and over again, in.the same fascinating words, as often as your curiosity prompts you to seek it. Therefore, if manly and honest—and we trust that all hoys and gMs are—the wise thing for them is to shun books that have a had name. And if you do not know whether a book is good or bad. ask the advice of your parents and teachers as to what you should read. Do not be enticed by a low curiosity to see what a bad book is like. Shun it as you would pitch or poison, or quicksand, or any other vile or dangerous thing. The world is full of good and charming hooks. Keep company with them.. They will make you nobler and better all your life. —Chicago Juvenile.