Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — Page 5

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIKE. Queer Facta and Thrilling Adventures Which Show That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. A wrecking gang on the Delaware division of the Erie Railway were clearing up a wreck at Nobody’s Block, not far from Cochecton, N. Y., when their attention was called to a curious, shrill, cooing sound which came at short and regular intervals from a cornfield directly across the Delaware River, in Wayne County, Pa. They made an investigation, and found that the sound emanated from the childrcn of a German farmer, who had been stationed around his cornfield to scare away the crows from pulling up the young and tender shoots of corn. The farmer had been unusually well blessed with progeny, his wife having borne him no less than twelve children, including four pairs of twins. He had been yearly bothered with crows in corn-planting time. He had adopted all the scarecrow devices in common usage among farmers, such as placing stuffed straw men in the fields, stringing twine over poles with bits of white rags flattering in the wind, etc.,but the crows had become used to these things, and, crow-like, would post their sentinels on lofty tree-tops to give warning of daDger while their companions were at work uncovering the hills. A beppy thought struck the farmer by which he could protect his com and utilize his several offspring. Arming two of them with old tinpans each day, he placed them in the field at four o’clock in the morning and told them to call out “Coo! coo 1” and pound their pans whenever they saw any crows flying near. When the children became tired the father replaced them with two others, and thus by successive relays the crows were kept away. This process was repeated each day until the corn was of a size sufficient to proteot itself. It was this strange noise, kept up all day long, from early morn till eve, that made the Erie wreckers marvel. It is said that this is the second year in which the Wayne county farmer has protected his cornfields with living scarecrows. I witnessed a strange duel in Argentine, writes a correspondent Two ranchers were enamored of the same dark-eyed senorita. Now, when your South American is hit by the blind archer, he is hit hard. He is not satisfied to visit his charmer one evening in the week and give up the rest of the time to his rivals. If he catches another admirer hanging about the house of his inamorata, there is apt to be trouble. The two sighing swains in question had agreed to settle by a duel with the lasso which should wed the damsel. A hundred piratical-looking cow punchers assembled to witness the fray. The rivals appeared on two nettlesome mustangs, each with a long powerful lariat of tough bull-hide. They were both experts with the lasso, and their horsemanship was a marvel. They approached to within forty or fifty yards of each other, then began to manoeuvre for a deciding cast. After several feints the lariat of the younger of the rivals went whizzing through the air so swiftly that the eye could scarcely follow it. The his spurs into his mustang. The animal shot forward just in time to save his master from the deadly noose, and as he did so, the second lasso rose into the air and settled round the shoulders of the man who missed, pinning his arms to his side as in a vise. He was jerked headlong out of his saddle. His successful rival drew him along, hand over hand, half-lifted him from the ground by the tenacious thong, and put a bullet squarely between his eyes. He then turned and rode directly to the hacienda, where lived the cause of this barbaric scene. She mounted behind him, and he came galloping back, swinging his sombrero. Lightning played a queer trick the other day out in Montana. A bolt fell on ■ a farmer working in a field on his ranch near Augusta and besides killing him played havoc with the metal that he carried in Ms clothes. The current struck his silver watch, burned a hole through the edge near the case spring, ana passed on entirely through the watch between the outer and inner cases, and made its exit near the stem. A match could be inserted in the hole. When the body was found the watch had stopped, but when it was taken from the pocket it started .ticking again, and has been keeping excellent time since. The blades of the dead man’s knife were welded together, and the brass ends were melted. Among the strange things that strike the eye in Vancouver city is a boat-col-ony. It occupies a strip of beach back of the town on the salt-water u arm’’ or fjord, and consists of twenty or thirty little floats, few of them over forty feet long, that are built over and supplied with beds and cooking utensils. Some of them are occupied by laborers, but the best-appearing ones, that are put together with a good deal of art and are really handsome pieces of wood-working, are the homes of Japanese artisans. The scows float at high tide, but are moored to the shore. The strangeness of the scene is heightened by the tents of dirty Indians on a bluff just above the water. One of the strangest superstitions of Chinamen is the awe with which they regard the cockroach. John holds the ugly black pest as sbmething sacred, claiming that it is specially favored by the gods and a particular favorite of the great Joss. The most unfortunate mishap that can befall a Chinaman is to step on a cockroach. Instantly visions of terrible disasters and calamities arise before him. In some instances the superstition has been known to so prey on the minds of the Celestials as to drive them insane. As a result of this state of affairs, a Chinamau would as soon think of killing himself as of killing one of the insects. Nebo, I. T., wails because Boyd’s oil spring ceased to flow five weeks ago and still remains dry. The spring was about sixty miles northeast of Gainesville, Tex. It has been a resort for invalids since the first settlement of the country. The stream of water feeding the spring was not very trong, and at intervals of but a few minutes, a drop of oil would rise and float on the surface. During a period of twenty-four hours the surface of the water would become covered with oil. It was taken internally and applied externally for “all the ills that flesh is heir to." A most remarkable discovery was made by some laborers employed on the farm of County Surveyor W. S. Gholson near Paducah, Ky. A poplar tree five feet in diameter was sawed down, and in the -hollow of it, the remains of a human skeleton were found, in a perfect State of preservation. The tree, to all appearances, was perfectly sound, except about seven feet above the ground was a notch, as if the tree had once been chopped into, but the cavity had

grown over. The placing of the skeleton in the tree is supposed to hare been the work of Indians. A curious operation has been reported to the French Societe d'Ophthalmolgie. A boy of thirteen, after an injury to his eyelid, had it so severely contracted that he could no longer close his eye. Accordingly an incision was made in the eyelid by M. Gillet de Grandmont, and tiny fragments of frogskin were inserted in a kind of checker work. It adhered perfectly, and the wound was completely Healed over. After about five months the eyelid recovered its power of movement. A tiny transverse line across the lid is the only sign visible of the fragments borrowed from the frog. “Rattlesnake Pete,” of Oil City, Penn., as his name would indicate, is a man of somewhat grewsomc tastes. He is now proudly wearing a double-breasted sack coat and a pair of trousers made of rattlesnake skins so arranged that the yellow and black stripes form a pleasing effect; that is, Pete thinks they do. It took him four years to gather the skins for this suit, and he had to kill 125 snakes to do it. The buttons of his coat are rattlesnake heads mounted with gold. The phenomenon of double consciousness, so skillfully used in “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” is by no means uncommon. Many mysterious disappearances are by it accounted for in a manner wholly consistent with the innocence of the missing one, and even with his apparent sanity. A very singular recent case was that of a Western judge who went away from home while deranged from overwork and beoame a day laborer under another name. A remarkable character of Bernardston, Mass., is Arnold Scott, a blind letter carrier, sixty-seven years old, whose eyesight was lost forty-six years ago. He has a long route, which he traverses twice a day, and rarely makes a mistake in the delivery of letters. He walks confidently in summer, but the snow troubles him somewhat in winter. Mr. Scott's knowledge of the neighborhood is said to be perfect, and he has never been known to get lost. • Tom Roe, a truck farmer, of Waco, Tex.,is not a prize fighter,but if he should run afoul of some of the supposed fighters they would not get off very easy. Several days ago his horse, that had been grazing in the field, became crazy and made a rush for Tom with open mouth, and would probably have seriously injured him had he not leaped aside and struck the horse on the neck with his fist, killing him instantly.

It is said that an unmarried woman’s chanoes of matrimony at from 15 to 20 years of age is. 141 per cent.; from 20 to 25, 52 per cent.; from 25 to 30, 18 per cent.; from 30 to 35, 15i per cent.; from 35 to 40, 3f per cent.; frem 40 to 45, per cent.; from 45 to 50, | per cent., and from 50 to 55, i per cent. A widow’s chances at any age are far better than those of a spinster. Mbs. Mercy Jordan of Greene. R. 1., has celebrated her ninety-third birthday by a family re-union, at which there were present her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great, great graudchildren to the number of more than one hundred. She is the mother of thirteen children, of whom six survive, the oldest being seventy-three years old. Live rattlesnakes are sold for $1 a snake by peddlers in the streets of southern California towns. Buyers are found among persons who want to tan the hides for various uses, and each buyer can kill his snake 3 in the manner that he regards most conducive to tho preservation of the skins' colors. A certain Mile. Zelie, in the course of a tour around the world, gave a concert in the Society Islands. When she came to reckon up her share of the proceeds, this is what she found: Three pigs, twenty-three turkeys, forty-four chickens, 5,000 cocoanuts, besides considerable quantities of bananas, lemons and oranges. Patrick Brennan of Crawfordsville, Ind., received a fifty-cent shin plaster in payment of a debt of ten cents. He neglected to return the change. Recently he hunted up his old creditor and gave him forty cents, saying that the matter had so preyed upon his mind that he could stand it no longer.

Our Most Remarkable Plant.

The most remarkable plant found growing in the United States is that fragile and paradoxioal wonder, tho “ snow plant ” of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It is known to the botanist as saroodes sanguines, meaning “ bloody or blooded flesh.” Nothing in the giant line was ever more exquisitely beautiful than this rosy, snow - tinted botanical oddity, which has been likened to a crowned hyacinth. It grows to a height of from eight-to twenty inches, each separate bract, sepal and mi nature bell being frosted as delicately as though done by the ice king himself. Although the whole translucent spike is flushed with rose and carmine, the petals are the richest and most brilliant parts of the flower, which is five-parted, each open bell plainly disclosing the little frosted stamens and pistils. Floriculturists of the Pacific slope have made many unsuccessful attempts to cultivate the new plant, the bulbs being too brittle to stand transplanting and the seeds refusing to grow. Botanists once gave it as their opinion that the plant would not survive below the line of perpetual snow, but this idea has lately been proven erroneous. One thing is certain, however, it makes its early growth while covered with many feet of snow, blooming as soon as the icy covering is penetrated.—[Troy Press.

The Haidah Indians.

At Victoria, British Columbia, there are many Haidah Indians from the Queen Charlotte Islands who came down the Gulf of Georgia in canoes hewn from single cedar trees and oapable of holding a hundred persons. The Haidah women, like the women of Alaska, wear pieces of bone or pearl stuck through their ■ lower lips. They are clever workers, making ornaments of chased silver and baskets of birch fibre, woven closely enough to hold water. The Haidahs also carve polished columns of coal slate, soft when first cut, but hardening- on exposure to the air. Tho figures are bears, crows, frogs, and lizards. They have a curious mythical bird called the thunder bird, which, when he flaps his wings, makes thunder, and when he winks his eye, lightning. They are great gamblers, using round polished sticks of yew, sometimes inlaid with bits of pearl. The sticks are shuffled under a covering of cedar bark, the gamblers crooning a low chant the while. They will gamble away all they possess and become so much absorbed that they sit through a whole day and night without food. Aa warm clothing they wear blankets woven of dog's hair. —[San Francisco Chronicle.

SWEEP THEM ASIDE.

“PROTECTIVE" TARIFFS, BOUNTIES, AND SUBSIDIES. Object LeMon Furnished by the “Protected” Plate Glass Factories at Irwin. Fa. —Finance and Tariff Changes the Objects of the Administration. Stop Government Paternalism. Every honest, self-supporting man, like every honest, self-supporting industry, is a blessing to any community or country. No one will dispute thii statement. But few also will dispute the alternative statement that every pauper industry is a curse to a community, to a country and to mankind. Before our country got started in business on its own account, several of the Federal States, imitating the policy of the mother country, attempted to introduce and foster certain industries —mostly manufacturing ones—by levying duties on certain imports. Thus Pennsylvania in 1785 pasted an act entitled “An act to encourage and protect manufactures of this State, by laying additional duties on the importation of certain manufactures which interfere with them. ” This system of protection worked to poorly and was such a nuisance to trade between the States that all were glad to abolish it with the adoption of the Constitution in 1787. Immediately thereafter the manufacturers began to ask for national help for their struggling industries. Some attention was paid to their appeals, and the first tariff act g;ave slight protection to certain industries. Instead of making them self-reliant,this charity only made them clamorous for more assistance. Duties became higher and higher as the industries grew older, until the non-pro-tected industries were forced to defend themselves from the hungry and ungrateful pauper industries. The noisy infants were weaned and were thriving on solid food when our civil war made it necessary to again put them on the bottle while they were being bled to provide a war revenue. The bleeding Erocess lasted but a few years and the ottle should have been discarded long ago, but the sucklings—now mostly centenarians—not only refused to let go, but have demanded and obtained Digger bottles. Through their cries and screams they are informing U 3 that they are incapable of existing on even the high tariff of 25 or 30 per cent., and they lay claim to permanent support on the ground that we, having so long fed them on pap and brought them to their present helpless state, must not now desert them. The woolen and glass manufacturers actually have the audacity to tell us that the assistance which we have given them has made them indigent, careless, and slovenly, so that they cannot exist on the same Government rations a 3 might suffice a few years ago, thus confessing that they lied to us when asking for temporary help to make them stronger. The effect of granting aid by means of Government bounties or subsidies is almost as great a curse as “protection.” Our shipping industry never declined so rapidly as when we were trying to aid. it by means of gratuities and to shield it from the severe competition of Europe’s unassisted lines by prohibiting the importation of foreign-built ships. continued use of both of theee methods fails to wean back any considerable portion of the carrying trade, of the world which was once ours, when our ships asked no aid from any quarter. The bounties we are now giving to sugar producers are having the same weakening effect. It is for this reason that Governor Hogg, on behalf of the State of Texas, spurned the bounty to which Texas was entitled as a sugar produoer. He knew the evils industrially and politically sure to flow from governmental “encouragement” to industries properly the subjects of private enterprise. Paternalism as applied to the silverproducing industry is also beginning to manifest the same evils. The shameful contract which, for political purposes, the last administration made with the mine-owners, to take their silver at prices which are now twice the actual worth of this metal in all other markets, may have stimulated this industry for a long time and added a few' more to our already long list of bounty-fed millionaires, but it will soon be clear that it has hurt the industry of extracting silver from our ores and that it has rendered almost helpless and homeless thousands of miners whom it has draw’n from farms and shops.

All of these evils are the result of attempting what is impossible. Protection cannot become universal. When all industries are “protected” the benefit to each is more than annulled by the assessments necessary to aid all of the others. Protection may for a time stimulate a few industries, but it is always at the expense of the self-sup-porting industries. All industries cannot become paupers any more than all men can become paupers or pensioners. They must have others upon which to lean or they will be in the impossible position of leaning upon themselves.— Byron W. Holt. Tariff Raised; Wages Lowered. The Pennsylvania Plate Glass Company, at Irwin, Pa., made the generous proposition to their employes during the latter part of last week, that if they would accept a 10 per cent, reduction in wages the factory would not shut down but continue in operation the year round. A meeting of the employes was called at the works at which it was decided not to accept a reduction under any consideration. This, we think, was a proper move, as the plate worker is now the poorest paid of skilled mechanics in the country, and to ask a reduction in wages is simply adding insult to injury. The conceding of a reduction at Irwin would mean a reduction at all the other plate works, and would be placing the wages of the plate glass worker on a par with common labor. Any fair-minded man will admit that the wages paid the average plate glass worker to-day is not above actual living expenses, and a reduction eould not be conceded without reducing him to want. It is rumored that this company is becoming dissatisfied with the central selling agency and may withdraw from that concern in the near future. If this straw at Irwin is any indication of how the plate glass trust intends to make the wind blow after a two months’ shut down, the plate glass workers of the United States had better all {jet together and resist, firmly and unitedly such contemplated reduction. There is neither sense, reason nor justice in any proposition to reduce the wages in this industry. The tariff was increased on certain small sizes in 1890, and since 1864 (or for 30 years past) there has not been a single reduction of the tariff, which has been uniformly kept at 141 per cent, on sizes of 24x60'and above. This protection has has been kept at this enormous figure ostensibly to protect the American plate glass worker against the cheap product of European labor. If added to the present pauper wages paid the American worker is to receive

now the “protection” of a further 10 per cent, reduction, the 12,000 toilers from whose labor the colossal plate glass works have been built, and millions in dividends have been squeezed, had better make up their minds to tako a hand in practical politics themselves. —Natic al Glass Budget, July 1. Must Be Studied by AU. I wish to go over all the ground upon which protective tariffs are advocated or defended, to consider what effect the opposite policy of free trade would have, and to stop not until conclusions are reached of which we may feel absolutely sure. To some it may seem too much to think that this can be done. For a century no question of public policy has beon so widely and persistently debated as that of Protection vs. Free Trade. Yet it seems to-day as far as ever from settlement—so far, indeed, that many have come to deem it a question as to which no certain conclusions can be reached, and many more to regard it as too complex and abstruse to be understood by those w'ho have not equipped themselves by long study. This is, indeed, a hopeless view. We may safely leave many branches of know ledge to such as can devote themselves to special pursuits. We may safely accept what chemists tell us of chemistry,or astronomers of astronomy, or philologists of the development of language, or anatomists of our internal structure, for not only are there in such investigations no pecuniary temptations to warp the judgment; but the ordinary duties of men and citizens do not call for such special knowledge, and the great body of a people may entertain the crudest notions as to such things and yet lead happy and useful lives. Far different, however, is it with matters which relate to the production and distribution of wealth, and which thus directly affect the comfort and livelihood of men. The intelligence which can alone .safely guide in those matters must be tho intelligence of the masses, for as to such things it is the common opinion, and not the opinion of the learned few, that finds expression in legislation. If the knowledge required for the proper ordering of public affairs be like tho knowledge required for the prediction of an eclipse, the making of a chemical analysis, or the decipherment of a cuneiform inscription, or even like the knowledge required in any branch of art or handicraft, then the shortness of human life and the necessities of human existence must forever condemn tho masses of men to ignorance of matters which directly affect their means of subsistence. If this bo so, then popular government is hopeless, and, confronted on one side by the fact, to which all experience testifies, that a peoplo can never safely trust to any portion of their number the making of regulations which affect their earnings, and on the other by the fact that the masses can never see for themselves the effect of such regular tions, the only prospect before mankind is that the many must always be ruled and robbed by the few.—Henry George, in Protection or Free Trado.

“■Free Trade Incendiary Torch.” It might be supposed that protection manufacturers and. editors would some day learn that the people of this country can no longer be fooled by a pretended comparison of “protected” with unprotected countrios, which stops when it has mentioned Great Britain and tho United States. The Manufacturer (Philadelphia), of June 24, says: “The picture drawn by our correspondent in London of the great crowds of men assembling at Liverpool on the chance that they might be sent to Hull to get work on the docks there, at the time of the dockers’ strike, shows what it must be hero as soon as the free-trade incendiaries successfully apply to the fabric of our industries the torch of destruction which they have been brandishing.” Are there, then, no other countries on this big round earth? If there are, they must, of necessity, be protection or free trade countries. As a matter of fact there are a half dozen countries, all in Europe, which for age, degree of civilization and natural opportunities are far better adapted for comparison with each other than with any newer or bigger country. These countries are Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Each of these countries has at some period been master of Europe, and held the ascendency in commerce. Until near the middle of the present century it was not certain which of the first three countries would take the lead in manufactures, commerce, and trade. The free-trade incendiary torch was first applied to England's industries. Instead of destroying, it fired them with new life and energy. England chose freedom and light, and the growth of her industries is without parallel on the Eastern continent. She is supreme in commerce. She is overflowing with wealth, and loans capital to the rest of the world. She pays higher wages than is paid by any of her old country rivals, and yet undersells them all. She is the only country of the old world to which emigrants turn with a hope of bettering their financial conditions. The other countries mentioned chose restrictions of commerce, and are still wandering in darkness and misery. Italy and Spain, with most restrictions, have sunk almost out of sight in the commercial world. France and Germany are losing step with the march of progress, and must soon fall out of line if they do not imitate the example of Great Britain. The idleness in London is partly due to the congestion there of the miserable wretches who have been squeezed out of continental Europe by commercial bandages which decrease earnings and increase the cost of living.

The Platform Not Forgotten. If there are persons who believe the silly stories now going the round of the Republican press, charging that President Cleveland and the other Democratic leaders have abandoned all idea of making any radical changes in the tariff at the coming session of Congress, they had better begin to prepare themselves for a great disappointment. There has been no change in the program mapped out by the Democratic leaders before Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated, except that caused by the financial stringency throughout the country, which has given financial reform the first place on the program, but has by no means displaced tariff reform. Ever since President Cleveland’s election he has been discussing these two reforms with every man he met who might be supposed to have practical and valuable opinions upon either, and he has lost no opportunity to obtain suggestions from those whose practical experience or special studies have made them tariff experts. A perfect tariff bill has never been prepared and probably never will bo, Dut unless present indications are all wrong the tariff bill to be prepared this winter will be nearer perfection, from the standpoint of the Chicago platform, than any of its predecessors, and that it will be a radical change from the McKinley law is as certain as that Congress will meet. —Saturday Budget. Durable show for men are now of ylyalrii^

WORN BY THE WOMEN

SOME OF THE VERY LATEST IDEAS IN DRESS. A Black China Bilk down I* On* of tlie Moot Narvlooablv A Tasteful Buinmor Walking llnu-llmpli Attlro for the Mouse. Etc. Botham Fashion Uoaslp. (i'sw York oorroipondtnos:

✓"iAVE you ever considered that of IjJ all the gowns ever JLI made th o ono WJLI, from which you can got the most SLJjA wear for the longest while and for V the greatest numr ber of occasions s is a little black China silk. The silk must be of <l™ the very best TO quality. Such 1 M comes as wide as UiM wool, is of close texture, smooth, 1 M glossy surface, and washes like mUwM linen. The gown lilt lima must be made all |! Li'cßm * n cne ’ B * cirt bodice being to a good KL. wido belt. The

f/idth of the belt extends above the waist line, so that the general effect of the gown is short-waisted. Thebodice opens in front, so does the skirt, and what a comfort it is not to have to bother about a placket hole. Make the belt extra big around, and double so as to accommodate a drawing ribbon. The bodice is full and has a sort of surplice front; that is, the collar crosses over and fastens at the side, and carries some of the fullness of the bodice with it, making it double-breasted at the top, though not at the bolt line. In this way the bodice fast3ns secure-

FOR HOME AND JOURNEYING.

ly in a jiffy. The collar is a choker, snug and trim-looking. The sleeves are literally enormous. Just as many yards as you can snare and make stay in the armhole should be used to form great unstiffened bishop sleeves that go into a smooth tight cuff coming to the elbow. Of course, this fullness must be arranged with some plan, letting most of it come at the outside of the arm. The skirt clears the ground. There is no danger, you Bee, of its drooping in the back, of its showing the belt, or of doing any of those aggravating things that the usual round skirt does. It may have a deep ruffle of lace about the bottom, if you think it is not already as pretty as it can be, or, what is more practical, a deep ruffle of the silk, not too full, because the skirt is shirred. Such a gown seems to do for all times and places. It is cool and pretty. It may go on over anything. It may be worn with a hat outdoors. It will go into the tub, and come out almost as good as new. It will last forover. A stiff skirt undor it makes it flare and even if it does not flare it looks all right. The cost Is not great, its life is long, and as it is good as new each year it is very economical. Coming to the first mcdel set before you by the artist, that of the initial picture, there is seen a tasteful summer walking dross. It is made of pale blue and white striped crepon, and trimmed with white lace and pale blue satin ribbon. The skirt escapes the ground and is about three and a-half yards wide. . It is trimmed with three rows of crepon niching, is laid in a few

AMID THE BLOSSOMS.

pleats in front and gathered to the skirt band in the back. The waist fastens in the center. The front and back are taken rather loose, and in the front is a yoke of alternating rows of one and a half inch satin ribbon and lace insertion. This is finished with a frill of white lace nine inches wide, gathered to the yoke in the front and the ends then carried around under the arms up to the shoulder seams, making a kind of reversed Figaro jacket. The belt of satin ribbon ties with long bows and ends at the left side. The sleeve has a short puff and is finished at the wrist with a lace frill headed by a crepon ruching. The standing collar is covered with lace. The next sketch was taken as a hostess parted with her guest, and shows the former in a house gown of cheerful coloring and the latter garbed in serviceable and stylish traveling attire. The material used for the indoor dress is pink woolen crepe trimmed with let-tuce-green satin ribbon and lace. The gown is open all the wav down in front and is finished around tne bottom with a pink ruffle about six inches wide. The waist has silk lining. There is a square yoke of embroidered tulle with insertion of very floe laoe laid over

green ribbon. At tho waist it is shirred four times in groups of two rows each and ornamented with four ribbon bows. The cuffs of the sleeves are also covered with embroidered tulle and garnished with a laco frill and bows; at tho top is a large puff. The standing collar is green ribbon covered with lace. The gown hooks from top to bottom In the front. The second costume follows ourrent modes closely, and is moro elaborate than usual traveling dross. Its fabric is made colored rough diagonal, trimmed with cloth in the same shade. Tho skirt is composed of three parts, eaoh one finished with a band of cloth, over an alpaca lining. With the suit is worn a sleeveloss veil made of red and striped woolen

SIMPLE HOUSE DRESS.

pique and high at the neck. The front may be buttoned on as shown, In case a variety is wished, and the lemalndor is made of satin, euoh side having two pockets and hooking In the center beneath the plastron or vest of pique. The top of the satin lining near the neck is covered with brown silk and a brown silk tie is worn. The toilet is completed by a short jacket having revers and collar faced with oloth. The jacket is cut off at tho waist in the front and tho back and the points adorned with two buttons. The balloon sleeves are ornamented with two strips of oloth. At mention of gardening one's thoughts would moro naturally turn to some old dress and coarse protecting apron than to tho stylish gown of the third picture, but it, noverthele-s, is Intended for wear amid tho flower bods, In company with the trowel and watering pot. Its material Is sand-colored woolen suiting, trimmed with white or palest pink faille. Tho skirt is very wide around the bottom, but snug over tho hips. It Is gutliored In tho back, lined with satin, and lias a thirty-inch strip of muslin as stiffening, but no trimming whatever. The bodice has loose fronts faced with silk and a vest of falllo fastening beneath tho boxpleat adorned with gold buttons. Tho back 1h plain with pointed plastron of tho faille. In front is a bolt fastening with a bow of ribbon. Tho bodice is trimmed with full foHtoonod brotellos, nurrow in front and back, but wide over tho shoulders. Here is a coming now trick in veils which is worth mentioning, and which you can adopt safely If It seems attractive. Make your veil carefully to fit the hat. Both ends are linlsnod with rosettes which fasten at tho back of the hat. Prom the rosette to the right a long scarf of tho veil is attached. This either floats in tho breeze, winds about your throat, falls over your shoulder, or you can hold it in your hand. Use tho width of tho goods

A WELL-DRESSED CALLER.

for the width of the veil. The selvage of such goods is usually delicate and pretty. You can run very narrow real lace on the odgo or you may finish it with the tiniest little Dows of very narrow ribbon. The upper edge of the veil may be turned in a dainty handmade hem, and ribbon inserted, by which the fullness is arranged. The ribbon comes out in two ends at the middle point of the upper edge, there to tie and make the veil as tight as you like; or it can only pretend to tie there, and the little bow can be just a makebelieve. All this takes time and trouble, but the effoct is charming, and it caimot be bought as yet. The one I saw had not oven been worn, and it was an exclusive importation. Now is a chance for you to do among the very first to obtain this pretty device. The fourth picture presents a pretty and simple house dress in a moss green crepe strewn with a figuring of tiny black flowers. It is made princess, perfectly plain and is lined with satin. All the seams in the skirt are biased and the dress hooks in the back. Its sole trimming consists of a draped fichu collar arranged in folds and caught up here and there. The right end is short but the left hangs down for some distance, being held in place at the waist with fancy pins, The collar is arranged in pleat 3 fastened with jet straps having a long jet fringe. The material employed in the calling dress of the last illustration is black and red changeable silk, set off with black velvet and black lace. The bell skirt is lined with silk or satin and is stiffened throughout with muslin; around the bottom there is a very full ruffle of silk edged with velvet and attached to the skirt with two rows of gathers. At the back the fullness is arranged in two deep pleats. The round waist goes inside the skirt and has no seams save those under the arms, although the fronts may have darts if necessary. Each front must be cut considerably wider than the lining to allow for the yoke-like shirring at the neck; the stuff is then drawn to the waist line and laid in tiny pleats. The back is treated in the same way, save that there is no shirring. The sleeves are finished at the wrist with a band of velvet, and the belt and standing collar are of the same velvet. The waist is garnished with a full jabot of black lace. Copyright, 1893. The soundness of a beam or log can be accurately determined by the sense of hearing alone. The ear should be applied to one end of the beam, while the other is struck with a hammer. If the sound is clear, distinct, and sharp, the beam is sound in every part; if dull or muffled, decay has set in somewhere In the Interior.

POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

A Portablr Electric Fan.—Thoelectric fan has come to be such an indispensable element of comfort, if not of existence, during the summer months that new and Improved forms are constantly making their appearance. One of these adds the very decided recommendation of economy to that of efficiency. Its first cost, with battery complete, is small, and the cost of operating it afterward is nut at two and threequarter cents an hour. It is claimed that the battery will last ten weeks without, renewal at one hour’s work daily, or tew days at a steady operation of seven and ahalf hours per diem. It is designed tob« suitable for the parlor or dining table, being both ornamental and noiseless. It will not drop grease on tho tablecloth or carpets, for its bearings are self-oiling, and carry on their own lubrication without loss of the lubricant. The whole outfit packs up in a small box, and can. be carried without inconvenience. Electric Car Heating. —Said a lecturer in Chicago recently: The electric railway opened up the field for electric heating. Reports from roads operating in Northern Miohigan and in other portions of the United States and Canada, where the winters are unusually cold,, ■how that from 1,200 to 1,500 watts issufficient current to keep the average sixteen-foot car warm in all kinds of weather. It will be seen that, inasmuch, as the heaters require no attention whatever, and aro practicnlly a fixture of the car, the cost of maintaining and operating on the average electric road will be simply the cost of current. Coal stoves take from twenty to forty cents per day. to operate, if the least account is taken, of timo used to keep them in heating condition. The coal stove also' takos up room for one or more passengers while it remains in the car, which, on a road doing a good business, is a. very important item. Coal stoves, too; on cold days, when being heated unusually warm, become so hot that it is often im|K)Bsiblc to stand immediately in> front of tho stove without burning the clothing of the person stauding near:. The oleetric heatera, being plncod under the seats out of the way and furnishing a lower temperature, oannot be objected to on this score, and being entirely out of the way of passengers and taking up no space iu the car which can be utilised tobring in a dividend, often saves in a day more than the entire cost of the current furnished them for the day’s run. Thera aro many times in tho spring and falL whon the mornings and evenings arecool and the middle of the day warm, whon u heated car for a few hours each day would add greatly to the comfort of passengers. With coal stoves this is. often impossible, unless tho car can be taken out of service long enough to huva a lire rebuilt in tho stove. CURVATURE OK THIS EARTH'S SURFACE. —Generally speaking, we say that the curvature of tho earth amounts to aboutseven inches to the statute mile; it is exaotly tl.oo inches or 7.0(52 Inches for a geographical mile. The effect of the known eurvuturo of our globe may be illustrated in the following manner: Take down your globe, place a book,, pane of glass or even a ruler against it, either of the two objects first named being best adapted to such an experiment. You will observe instantly that the book,, pane or ruler only touches the miniature representation of tho earth at one point, tho globe's surface falling away in all directions from the point of contact. Now, suppose tho ocean’s surface was culm and fro/.en and a sheet of glass many miles square laid upon it. At one mile from the place of contact the glass would stand out nearly eight inches (this mcneurement upon the ocean, the utile is a nautical one)—in fact, will lack but 38-IOOtX' of an inch of being eight inches trom the pane; at three miles it will be six feet, and at nine miles fifty-four feet, and so on according to the regular ratio. In. order to get the whole matter iu a nutshell remember that the number of feet of depression is equal to two-thirds of tho square of the number of miles for any observable distance. There is, however, an error resulting from refraction which must be cancelled. The commonly used formula for correction is as follows: square the number of miles and take-four-soveuths of it for the correction in feet. Thus, if an object is visible at a distance of five miles we may know that its height is at least 14} feet. Or,, it the height of a visibio object is known - -suy 100 feet—take one-fourth of that number,or 25, multiply by seven and take the square root of the product and you will have the distance of the object, which ia iu this cuso a fraction over miles, A man swimming in the ocean, may see a tower 19 miles away, even, though it only be 200 feet high, but now elevate that man 100 ffeot above tho suriaco of the water and he could plainly see a tower only 100 feet high, even though it be 26 milea. away.

Fish in Boiling Water.

One of the most remarkable discoveriesin the shape of a peculiar species of fish ever made on this continent was that made in Virginia, Nev. r in 1870. At that time both the Hals & Norcross and the Savage mines were down to what is known as the 2200-foot level. When at that depth a subterranean lake of boiling water was tapped. The accident floodedboth mines to the depth of 400'feet. After the water had all been pumped outexcept that whicli had gathered in basins and in the inaccessible portions of the works, and when the water still had a< temperature of 128 degrees—nearly scalding hot—many queer-looking little blood-red fish were taken out. In appearance they resembled goldfish. They seemed lively and sportive enough when they were in their native element—boiling water —notwithstanding the fact that they did not even have rudimentary eyes. VVheu the fish weretaken out of the hot water and put into buckets of cold water for the purpose of being transported to the surface, they died as quickly ns a perch or bass woukb if plunged into a kettle of water that was scalding hot; not only this, but the skia peeled off exactly as if they had been, boiled.—[Evening Wisconsin.

It Rained Dollars.

A good many people have a vivid recollection of a cyclone which about seven., years ago tore through this country, entering this Btate from above Pendleton, passing Williamston and jumping overGreenville City. Soon after the passage of this unwelcome visitor somebody found in its track on the place of W. H. Merritt, Busby Creek Township, Anderson County, a Spanish silver “Rex" dollar of the reign of Chfi;ka-IV. The coin had evidently been dropped along with, other miscellaneous fragments and wreckage by the cyclone. A few- days ago another coin of the same kind 'was found, on the same place. Dri T. E..Jame* brought it to the city, ft is in good Condition, bright, sound* and c ear of rust, and is dated 1725, witb “Carolus lIU. Rex" on the mnrgjo,— [(HceuviUe C.) News.