Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1893 — Page 5

DUE TO REPUBLICANS

HARRISON, NOT CLEVELAND, IS RESPONSIBLE. rhe Country la M«w Baaplnf the Bitter Fruit of the Policy Adopted by the Late Republican Administration —No Fixed Ratio Possible. Where the Blame Lies. The country Is now reaping the bitter fruit of the policy adopted by the Bepublican administration, as there has been no legislation or session of Congress since the inauguration of President Cleveland. The present depression in business is the legitimate result of the Sherman bill, the McKinley bill and the wasteful policy of the Harrison administration. Tne Sherman bill (which was expected to make money plenty) is now acknowledged to be such a failure, and so bad, so full of clanger to a sound financial condition, that nobody defends it. It is repudiated even by its father, who admits it ought to be repealed. The McKinley biu, with the rest of the Republican measures, inaugurated an era of wild speculation. High protection was to give success to any business venture. Men rushed into all sorts of schemes to get rich at a bound. Trusts were formed and multiplied, to sell watered stock, and to increase prices. Banks were started by men who wanted to borrow and not to lend. The tide of speculation was raised so high that prosperous men like McKinley and Ex-secretary Foster were swept into the current and ruined. The inevitable result of this wild craze is collapse and failures. The weak visionary concerns go to the wall and wind up. The strong find the market overstocked. Banks that made their loans to the speculators are compelled to stop. Excessive protection, inspiring the hope of excessive profits, always has, and always will, cause such a rush into protected business as to result in overproduction. The McKinley bill has a share with Sherman bill in bringing about the present disturbed condition of business in the country. It is not Cleveland that is responsible for this, but Harrison and the Republican administration. We can now see how much the country has lost by the election of President Harrison instead of Cleveland. With nerve enough to veto the McKinley bill and the Sherman bill, and any other mischievous measures, Cleveland would have saved the country from the disasters that a mistaken policy has brought upon it. We repeat, it is Harrison, not Cleveland, who is responsible.—New Age.

McKinley on the Sherman Act. The Sherman silver-purchase bill was passed by Congress In 1890. Soon after its passage Major McKinley came to Grand Rapids and addressed an immense Republican meeting in Hartman’s Hall. In the course of his speech he eulogized the action of the Republican majority in Congress. One of the reasons which he urged as the occasion for eulogy was the passage of the Sherman law. He did not claim that it was a compromise or anything of the kind. He made no apologies for it. He gloried in it as a great and noble act of a Republican Congress. He said:

What have we done? We have passed the silver bill—the best silver bill that wae ever pat upon our statute books. What does It do? It utilises every ounoe, every pennyweight of the silver produot of the United States. The Government buys 4,500,000 ounces every thirty days, and issues its Treasury notes lor that sum, and makes them redeemable In gold or silver, and makes them reoeelvable for debts, public and private, absolutely a legal tender that puts in circulation a little more than two millions every thirty days, and In addition to what is pnt In circulation under the old law, the two millions of coinage a month. Then we have made this silver as good as gold, and silver to-day Is nearer on an equality with gold than it has been for eighteen years; and why shouldn't they be aide by side in the business of this great country? Grover Cleveland's administration discounted silver from the moment of Its Inauguration to the conclusion of his term; aye, he commenced discounting It before he was Inaugurated and wrote a letter to several Representatives In Congress demanding a suspension of the coinage of two millions of money, and said If It was not done It would produce financial disaster. It was not done, and we bad no financial disaster. We said In onr platform of 1888 that gold and silver mnst be used as money. We made that pledge good, for gold and silver are together, side by Bide, self-reliant, each distinct in Individuality, bnt like onto each other as those who love. The extract is given without comment. It needs no comments. It is the expression of the views of the great Republican leader on one of the national questions of greatest import today.

Big Pension Leak. Every candid mind must approve and applaud the work that Commissioner Lochren is doing in revising and, purging the pension rolls. He is granting every new pension for which a just oialm is made out. He is suspending no pension allowable under the law. He is simply stopping the payment of millions of Government money to men who are not entitled under the law to receive it. The suspensions include two classes of cases—viz., those in which the allowance has b3en secured by direct fraud, and those in which, without fraud on the pensioner’s part, the allowance has been made contrary to law. There were 250 cases discovered in Virginia, 250 in lowa, and about 1,000 in New Mexico in which pensions had been secured by plain fraud and false swearing, for men who had never been in the service at all. To strike these from the rolls was as manifestly a duty as to stop any other form of stealing. But the other class of cases is much the larger. Investigation shows that about one hundred thousand pensions were improperly granted under Raum’s extraordinary order No. 164, which flagrantly perverted the plain intent of the law;. These pensions take about $11,500,000 a year out of the Treasury. The Commissioner is as much bound to suspend such pensions as he would be to stop the payment of salaries in his office of persons not employed there.

No Fixed Ratio Possible. The Sherman act should be repealed unconditionally and without delay. It is time to abandon the experiment of legislating against the laws of nature. The attempt to maintain a fixed ratio between the values of gold and silver by act of Congress is merely a new edition of the Pope’s bull against the comet. The national faith is virtually pledged to redeem all varieties of paper currency in gold, and the apprehension arising from the possibility of any other course is sufficient of itself to arrest the operations of finance throughout the country. This apprehension can be removed only by an explicit and frank adoption of the single gold standard. If the present gold reserve is inadequate for that purpose, a sufficient addition should be made by the sale of gold bond s. Better increase the national debt than wipe out enormous values and destroy business from Maine to California.—Harry Pratt Judeon, Professor in the Chicago University, in Review of Reviews. Garfield on Pensions. As Gen. Garfield pointed out twenty years ago, the number of pensioners ought to diminish as the war grew more remote, and the expenditures on

this Recount 'steadily decrease, unless our legislation should be unwarrantably extravagant.” This is what actually happens where any pension system is economically administered. The State of Georgia some years ago began paying moderate allowances to crippled ex-Confederates and to the needy widows of men who served in the Southern Army. Ten years ago there were 1,000 men who drew SIOO a year for the loss of a limb or for total disability. Now there are only 773 pensioners under this head, li our pension legislation had not been so unwarrantably extravagant, the number of Union soldiers on the roll would be now much smaller than in Garfield’s day, instead of larger by hundreds of thousands—New York Evening Post. The President Wields His Club.

less Longa, More Brain. This is a good time for the “friends of silver" to give their lungs a vacation and to place the fray matter of their brains on duty. Their gray matter will observe that it is not the “gold bugs” or the “bloated bondholders" of Wall street who are petitioning Congress to repeal the Sherman act and to return to a sound currency. In fact, these rich speculators are enjoying immensely the prospect of cheap silver They hope their allies, the silverites, may be successful in preventing the repeal of the Sherman law for many months, and that business will fluctuate from hot to cold several times during each month Of tampering with our currency. They have the capital, and can buy low and sell high, by taking advantage of the husiness necessities of the country. After one or two years of this work, or when all of the available easn is squeezed out of. industry, they will be willing to desist for awhile to allow the -country to recuperate. They would then pray for another cheap money scare. While industry is suffering and business houses and banks are tumbling, because of the money stringency, big fortunes are being doubled in Wall street. But little has been learned as yet of what has -occurred. It has, however, leaked out that Mr. Addison Cammack has made $1,500,000 during the past three months, and that the profits of A. J. Weil & Co. since June 11 aggregate $2,000,000. Bigger speculators are probably making bigger "profits.'" The present fear of cheap money will cost honest industry and labor hundreds of millions of dollars. It will be extracted by aid for the rich speculators. Mere charities and almshouses for the poor, more steam yachts and foreign -castles for the rich. “To him that hath it shall be given, and from him that hath not it shall be taken away, even that which he hath;” but never more rapidly than when our currency system Is -being juggled with in the interest of silver-mine owners, who use the mortgaged farmer and the poor laborer as their tools. When these same farmers and laborers awaken and realize what they have done they will feel like kicking themselves into the great big sea. —B. W. Holt.

A Moral Panic. The key to the situation is obviously the Sherman silver law, the prompt repeal of which is urgently demanded by the logic of the situation. In previous financial disturbances in this country relief has always been obtainable from the borrowing of foreign capital, which was invariably ready to come over here on good security and good interest so long as there was no question as to what an American dollar meant or would mean for a twelvemonth. This time that resource is hardly available to any extent. The collateral we offer is good enough, and the rate of interest eminently satisfactory, but Europe shakes its head and deolines to be tempted by any rate of interest so long as there is any question as to whether we are going to be a gold dollar or a silver dollar country. This lack of confidence abroad very seriously aggravates the lack of confidence at home, hence the statement above that the silver bill is the key to the situation. Without discussing the merits of the silver controversy, tt is plain that our first duty and interest is to restore confidence abroad. This is a peculiarly “moral panic.” Ail our resources are intact, and there is neither plague nor famine within our borders. Confidence is all that is lacking, and the return of that means the return of prosperity. Repeal the silver bill without quibble or delay, and the upward movement toward normal conditions will begin on the instant. There should be no uncertain sound to the President's forthcoming message to Congress. After that is done, which alone can set us right in our own eyes and in those of the world, there will be opporportunity for careful deliberation upon any further financial legislation that may be needed.—Dry Goods Economist.

Gold Bugrs. “ ‘Gold-bugs’ may be bad enough,” remarks the Indianapolis News, “though we confess we never saw saw a gold-bug and do not know what a gold-Dug is, but patriotic men will be quite likely to prefer them to seces-' sionists and traitors, who would hang John Sherman, march through blood to a silver throne, and wreck the country which they profess to love, just to make a market for Western silver at double its actual value. If this convention may be taken as one of the first fruiti of free silver, it affords only one additional reason why the movement should not succeed. Gov. Waite is a very valuable ally of tho goldbugs.”—New York Post. Gov. McKinley is busily engaged in explaining why the wicked Democrats are to blame because his high tariff on wool and wheat has not kept up the price of these articles. A Professional Maxim for Lawyers.—Whatever you do, do it with your might. Many a member of the profession has made his fortune by working with a will. The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct.—Confucius.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Nicaragua, which Is attracting so much attention just now, has a population of about 300,000 and is one of the richest countries in the world in natural resources. Besides valuable mines of gold, silver, copper and quicksilver, it produces all kinds of tropical fruits, as well as cedar, indigo, coffee and sugar. Its sugar cane grows to enormous proportions and ofteu attains such size that the plantations resemble groves of trees. The Buffalo Courier says: “The florist who makes and pugilists and sun-dials out o. flowers does not cause any indifferent person to admire their beauty; rather he distracts attention from their delicacy of form and color to the effect of the mass. Flowers and foliage were never intended to be made into sun-dials and globes. Hundreds of other materials lend themselves more readily to such a purpose, while their position in the economy of nature is far different.” It is the testimony of those who have seen the great trees of California that much of the effect of astonishment is lost because the visitor approaches the trees through a forest of giants that gradually increase in size. Many pines ten feet in diameter are passed on the journey, and in this way the visitor slowly works up to trees that measure above thirty feet in diameter. If a horse be placed in front of a tree, with his side toward the approaching traveller, some notion of the euormous size of the giant is obtained.

Justice Blatchfoud was one of the few men who ever sat upon the Supreme Court bench who possessed great wealth, and be was not only tbe richest man who over sat upon an American bench, but was probably the richest who ever held appointive office in America. He might have spent the last twenty years of his life in delightful ease, but he used to declare to his friends who pleaded with him to retire that he was happier when at work, and that no recreation which he could command would begin to give him the pleasure which his duty as Justice afforded him. He inherited a fortune, and by private practice and real estate investment he became worth probably as much as $3,000,000. General Lew Wallace says that the Turkish cavalry is admitted to be the finest in all Europe. The soldiere of the Sultan’s Circassian body-guard, whom Bull Run Russell called “the most picturesque scoundrels in the world,” are, General Wallace says, “blood-thirsty and treacherous, recklessly brave and exceedingly beautiful. Even among the meanest of them you see noble, well-set heads of finest mould.” The Sultan himself is a man of kingly bearing, but with a thin face and colorless eyes, keen as a falcon’s. When he appears in publio on ceremonious occasions he rides a milk-white Arabian horse, whioh he manages very skilfully, and his manner is most gracious as he bows right and left to the people. This Commander of the Faithful, according to popular Turkish belief, has never signed a death warrant, and doubtless the reputation is deserved, for such matters may easily be attended to vicariously. General R. G. Dyuenforth, who is known as the “rainmaker,” from his experiments in producing rain by artificial methods, is an enthusiast on the subject of rainmaking. He believes that it is possible by the aid of scienoe to make rain even in the Desert of Sahara. “I do not know,” he said to a New York Press reporter, “whether the Secretary of Agriculture will continue the rainmaking experiments which were commenced under the last Administration. I am not interested a cent personally in the question, but as a matter of cold fact, based on my experiments, I believe that rain can be produced at will. The region in Texas where we conducted our experiments was a most arid one. The earth was parched and not a tree was in sight. We produced the first 'grass’ rain in eighteen months. I have no doubt that rainmaking will be carried on in portions of the country as a practical thing. It will be cheaper than building dams for irrigating purposes.”

A decidedly new departure in postage stamps has just been made by Belgium. This novelty is a Sunday or non-Sunday stamp, with, a tag separated from the main part of the stamp by the usual perforations and announcing in two languages, French and Dutch, the fact that the letter bearing it is not to be delivered on Sunday. If the persons using these stamps have no religious scruples against their letters being delivered on Sunday all they have to do is to tenr off the tag containing the order and place the upper portion of the sta i p upon the envelope. It is the intention of the Belgian government to get out a full series of these Sunday stamps. There are nine varieties, of these values: —One, two, five, ten, twenty, twentyfive and fifty centimes, and one and two francs. The same design appears on all, but the colors are different. The profile on the stamp is that of King Leopold 11. The Sunday stamp idea, it is said, originated with T. Vandenpeeveboon, Minister of Railways, Telegraph, and Posts of Belgium. He is an extremely religious man, and while he cannot stop the collection and delivery of mails on Sunday he has adopted this postage stamp scheme hoping to educate the people up to his own ideas.

TnE work of keeping the channel of the Missouri for 1,649 miles above Sioux City, la., clear for navigation, is no light undertaking. Two Government snag boats, the steamer Gen. McPherson and the steel scow Mandan, are engaged all through the opeu season in pulling snags out of the river bed and clearing away the driftwood. The steamer is a curiosity In her way,being a stern wheeler equipped with compound engines placed on each side of the boat, like ordinary highpressure steamboat cylinders, and having a Scotch marine boiler, air pumps, and a full condensing apparatus. The exhaust from five auxiliary engines and even the waste of the capstan cylinder cocks are condensed and re-fed to the boiler. She has a complete “snagging outfit,” including a pressure pump for washing earth from the roots of snags and stumps. The steel scow is fitted with steel sheers, steam capstans, steam saw, and other implements for raising snags. Last season these boats removed 851 snags, including rocks, projecting trees, stumps, and channel boulders. Two wrecked steamers were also taken out of the channel. A great deai of miscellaneous work was also done, such as rescuing stock at high water, trimming trees on the banks, and sluioing out mouths of streams. As to the need of this work, it is diminishing fast, for it is said that during the past ten years the river traffic, owing to the building of railroads, has steadily decreased, until it is now almost entirely wiped out. Writrrs in the law periodicals are advocating all sorts of strange dootrines at present. One correspondent thinks that circumstantial evidence should have scarcely any weight. His argument is

that when direct.evidence Is given then is only the perjuryof the witness to be guarded against, while in circumstantial evidence there are both the possibility of perjury and the liability to a wrong inference from the circumstances. The strength of circumstantial evidence, according to most writers, however, is that there is little probability of perjury, as the circumstanoes frequently are alight in themselves and not likely to be distorted by the witnesses who do not know of their full effect. The New York Tribune regards it as probable that many more unjust convictions have taken place from perjured direct evidence than from mistaken inferences from circumstances. Ardemus Stewart, in the American Law Register, belittles the value -of expert evidence to an even greater extent than most previous writers. English lawyers, writing to the London papers, have advocated to some extent a strange plan for doing away with all oaths in legal proceedings, on the ground that perjury is so oommon that simple declarations to which the same penalties for incorrect statements might attach, would be just as valuable as testimony given under the present form. Another new theory which has found its advocate is that in criminal trials, except lor treason, the defense, as well as the prosecution, shall be conducted by public officials. This suggestion is rather more startling than any of the others, and is even more unlikely than they of adoption. It may be that in the* superabundance of law periodicals, writers find it easier to invent a theory than to make some valuable con* tributions to legal literature.

Lost Fortune and Courage.

Some strange things happen in mining camps. The number who have worked and delved ia following a prospect until their money or their patience became exhausted are many. And it not infrequently happens that such parties live to learn that they abandoned their claims when a few more days’ work, or possibly a few more strokes with the pick, would have revealed the lead which they had worked to find. A story was told to us by an old miner a few days ago of an Eastern college professor who came out here in early days and started to prospect on some of the quartz leads around Grass Valley. When he arrived here he had $70,000, and ho bought up quite a number of claims and spent his money freely in prospecting them. He worked with a buoyant heart, confident that hie labor and investments would be remunated. He had a charming wife and four bright children. One thousand after another of his money was sunk into the ground until final.y his last dollar was gone, and from outward appearance he was no nearer getting it back than he was when he started. He became despondent and while laboring under a fit of mental depression be prepared a draught of deadly poison, gave a drink to his wife and to each of his children, and then after waiting long enough to satisfy himself that they were past recovery he partook of the poison and laid him down to die with those he loved. Before their bodies were oold they were found by a man from one of his ipines who had come in to inform him that a large vein of rich rock had just been uncovered. He and his had passed beyond the cares of this world, and had no further use for earthly treasures, but the lead that was struck the day of his death turned out a rich one and yielded gold enough in subsequent years to have made him independently rich.—[Auburn (Cal.) Herald.

Our Nation's Capital.

If you were asked to name the differ eut capitals of our country, the order would be something like this : Philadelphia, Now York and Washington. This is all right as far as it goes, but the truth k, our country has had a good many snore capitals than those named. It may be said that during the revolution the British “kept things moving.” They would have been glad to lay hands on the “rebel” Congress; knowing which, that body took good care .to keep out of their way. Inasmuch as wherever Congress went it took the national capital with it, you can readily understand why the following named places bore that honor at the dates named: Philadelphia, from September 5, 1774, until December, 1776; Baltimore, from December 20, 1776, to March, 1777; Philadelphia, from March 4, 1777, to September, 1777; Lancaster, Pa., from September 27, 1777, to September 30, 1777; York, Pa., from September 80, 1777, to July, 1778; Philadelphia, from July 2, 1778, to June 80, 1788; Princeton, N. J., from June 80, 1788, to November 20, 1788; Annapolis, McL, from November, 1783,t0 November, 1784; Trenton, N. J., from November, 1784, to January, 1785; New York, from January 11, 178-5, to 1790, when the seat of government was changed to Philadelphia, where it remained until 1800, when it was finally removed to Washington. Thus it is that nine different cities and towns have figured as the oapital of our country.

Popular Songs.

One of the strongest productions arising from modern conditions is the popular song. Somebody, in a theater or concert hall, nowadays will sing a song that “catches,” and the first thing we know it is on the lips of thousands of ale and is heard from one end of the in to the other. In the last few years this musioal phenomenon has grown more and more marked and more remarkable. The singular part ot it al is the fact that, almost without excep tion, these songs wholly lack merit of either melody or sentiment. Once in a while, as in the case of “Annie Rooney,” the music will be good, but usually it is simply a catchy jingle with no worth ot real beauty at all. Think of the air of “McGinty.” Think of this ballad of “After the Ball." Any man who would hum the wretched and silly words of the thing would naturally strike the arrangement of notes by the writing of which Mr. Harrison has gained popularity such as no great poet ever knew in the history of the world. It is an inexplicable phenomenon. If the song touched any chord of genuine emotion, or awoke any response of tender feeling, we could understand the miracle. But, it is not so. The author catches the fag end of some trivial and commonplace phase of feeling. and then raves over it in bad meter and commonplace words, and the nation fairly howls with delight. There must be a good deal of truth in the old theory of the French cynic that the masses love the commonplace because the excellent is an insult to the r intelligence.—[Minneapolis Commercial.

How to Pronounce “Gerrymander.”

In Massachusetts the initial has been always hard, “gerrymander,” but the English pronounce the word “jerrymander.” So do the Canadians, as a rule. The Century Dictionary gives the “g” hard, and allows no choice in the marter.

HINTS TO THE GIRLS.

SHOULD USE CARE IN SELECTING DRESS GOODS. Chiffon on Fluttvry Bowl Are Pretty, end look Nice in * Breeie, but They Will Get Entangled by Scarf Pina and llelt Bneklea. Olrla and Their Gown*. New fork correspondence:

Every one should use judgment in selecting from the materials the mad whirl of fashion \ casts us. Chiffon, i for instance, needs J to be considered 7 twioe. It is very \ lovely to look at Jo, and very muoh the jjlQl vogue, but the * M ► chiffon girl is not at all convenient to hug. She catches on to everything. In these sordid days that is a good sort of a girl to be, but not m3[ in the wav meant here. Chiton once tangled in a soars-

pin is hopeless; either the chiffon gets away with the pin, the pin gets away with the chiffon, or they won’t either get away, and there Jyou are with ma in sight. Nets and laces are nearly as bad, Dut chiffon catches by a thread, and the thread pulls or crinkles the goods all the way up or down, which constitutes a special objection. Flutterv bows are pretty and look nice in a breeze, but the loops have an awful way of getting caught at the buckle of the masculine belt now worn so muoh. That is bad enough if the belt is on yourself. Bows catohing in this way to a belt not on yourself have been known to help along a proposal and do all sorts of nice things. That is all very well if you have bo planned it, but consider the time when the bow takes to working on its own plan, when ma catches you, or George goes off with so mfich of you in tow that there is talk right off. You should

MORNING WEAR IN YELLOW AND BLACK.

think of these things when you get up your wardrobe. Ruffles on the shoulders are pretty and the rage, too; only don’t trim them with dangly things or beading. I have known a dangly thing to cateh right around George's ear and refuse to let go. No man likes to be led by the ear, so there was another affair that missed fire. The beading is very apt to print its pattern on your cheek under some circumstances, or on his cheek. A man can’t be expected to go around with a flat iron and clothes pins when he wants to hug a girl, nor does he like to have his cheek all dadoed either. These are hints, and it’s just as well for the girls to be careful.

A pretty model is that of the Initial. Its material is a light shade of mousseline de lalne, having: dark spots and garnished with faille in the same shade as the dots. The skirt is lined with silk, and trimmed about half way up with three bias folds of faille. The short, round waist hooks in the center, and the plastron of draped mousseline comes over and fastens beneath the bretelles. The back is the same as the front, but of course has no plastron. An exaulsite morning dress is the subject of the second sketch, and it is composed of yellow batiste crepe figurea with black and trimmed with black- lace and yellow ribbon. The skirt has three breadths and a draw string at the top. It is garnished with one flounce of lace and another of crepe with lace insertion, gathered to the skirt with a narrow head. The jacket is lined only in the waist, has a yoke of black lace alike in back and front and finished by a band of yellow ribbon forming bows on the shoulder and is confined at the waist by a ribbon belt. The fronts are gathered to the yoke, and the back is tight-fitting and

FASHIONABLE DECEPTION.

laid in a deop box pleat. The jacket hooks in the front, where it is garnished with a lace jabot; the same lace edging the yoke and crossing around the Dottom. The puffed sleeves have a lace frill. This is offered as a matronly mode, so, though freely lace-bodecked, its representation here is not flying in the face of the opening admonitions, those being intended to advise younger readers. The next toilet shown has a stylish display of shoulder width, which is nothing but display, for it really isn't there, and it is attained by covering the balloon sleeves with "baad work epaulettes. They are protty and quite modish, but the moral of the tale they'll tell has already been pointed

out in the opening paragraphs. The wearer pictured is of middle age and supposedly staid, but the girls need beware. For the rest of this costume, the skirt is very wide and is made of black silk. It is unlined and trimmed with a band of narrow black velvet ribbon forming a rosette at the side, as shown. The front* of the black velvet bodice overlap each other and the lining hooks in the center. The velvet is draped over the back, showing no seams and as little fullness at the waist as possible. Here is a way by whioh you can make as handsome a summer cloak as any one you have; it will not cost a great deal, and you oan slick to it that it came from Paris. A ruche of white

A DOUBLE CAPS IN THREE PARTS.

lace at the neck is sewed on a piece of white ribbon, the ends being left long enough to tie. From this ribbon falls white fish net to your feet as full as you oan sow it on. You may put throe or four rows of shirring if you like just below the ruche, so as to equalize the fall of the fullness. Put three rows or more of half-inch watered ribbon around the edge of the oloak just made. Remember that the garment must hang perfectly even, and that means infinite patience in trimming it around the foot. Measuring won’t do, because the shoulders take up so much, You must "try on” many times. But your cloak isn’t made; it’s just begun. A foundation of net is needed for a shoulder cape. More careful trying on and trimming, because this, too, must hang an even longth, front, back, and sides. The foundation is run on a yoke of chiffon, or is just full from the neck. It can be quite separate from the long cloak ana run on a piece of ribbon. This second little cajie should come to about the hips, and lie covored with ruffles of lace or chiffon. F.ach ruffle may be finished with a row of watered ribbon, or it will be pretty enough plain. If there is a yoke (and if your neck is short there had better be a yoke), the ruffles stop at the one that outlines the yoke, and that one is very big over tho shoulders. If there is no yoke the ruffles go round and round to the one at the neck. The short cloak is worn with the long one. The two look, thus, like one garment, and in white or black the effect is pronouncedly modish. Perhaps bluck is the better taste, with a great black lace hat and Slumes or a wilderness of lace. A little me, a lot of patience and lots of chiffon and net are alt you need to accomplish this “Paris” affair. The simple and jaunty affair of the fourth lllustratlea is o>mposed of two capes and Is about fifteen inches in length. The lcmger cape is in modecolored cloth in two parts, each having a pointed end whicn crosses over in front and fastens behind, after the style of a serpentine waist. Over, those is the second shorter cape of Russian-

PLAIN SKIRT AND ELABORATE BODICE.

green cloth, edged with tinsel passementerie. The collar is a piece of the green cloth pleated. The most noticeable feature of the last example sketched is its very dressy jacket front. It is made of heavy corded crepe, and the skirt is lined with lavender silk and trimmed with four bias folds of black velvet iu different widths as shown. The inside of the skirt is finished with a pinked ruffle of lavender silk. The tight-fit-ting bodice has an imerted plastron in the back and jacket fronts over tight fronts of the same silk. The front has also a plastron of puffed yellow crops de chine. Attached to the tight-fitting fronts are wide revers of black velvet, finished with lace epaulettes. A narrow velvet belt and standing collar are of velvet, and the jacket fronts are faced with yellow silk. The sleeves are trimmed with lace at the wrists. Copyright, 1883.

A Camel’s Suicide.

A few years ago it chanced that a valuable camel, working in an old mill in Africa, was severely beaten by its driver, who, perceiving that the camel had treasured up the injury, and was only waiting a tavorable opportunity for revenge, kept a strict watch upon the animal. Time passed away, the camel, perceiving that it was watched, was quiet and obedient, and the driver began to think that the beating was forgotten. One night, after a lapse of several months, the man, who slept on a raised platform in the mill, while, as is customary, the camql was stalled in a corner, happening to remain awake, observed by the bright moonlight that when all was quiet the animal looked cautiously around, rose softly, and stealing over toward a spot where a bundle of clothes and abernous, thrown carelessly on the ground, resembled a sleeping figure, cast itself with violence upon them, rolling with all its weight and tearing them most viciously with its teeth. Satisfied that its revenge was complete the camel was returning to it? corner when the driver sat up and spoke. At the sound of his voice, and perceiving the mistake it had made, the animal was so mortified at the failure and discovery of the scheme that it dashed its head against the wall and died on the spot.

HOW THEY MAKE MUSIC.

According the Cries of Insects by the System of Musical Notation. Everybody is familiar with the mosier of the katydid. Here again it is Iks male that has the voice. At the bane of each wing cover is a thin membraneous plate. He elevates the wing covers and rube the two plates together. If jam could rub your shoulder blades together you could imitate the operation very nicely. Certain grasshoppers make a sound when flying that is like a watchmen** rattle—clacketty-clack, very rapidly repeated. There are also some mod* end butterflies which have voices. The “death’s-head” moth makes a noise when frightened that strikingly resembles the crying of a young baby. Hew it is produced Is not known, though volumes have been written on the subject. The “mourning-cloak” butterfly —a dark species with a light border on, its wings—makes a cry of alarm by rubbing its wings together. The katydids, crickets, grasshopper* and other musical icseots are all eng?;erated in tho tropics, assuming giant orms. Thus their cries are proportionately louder. There is an East Indin oicada which makes a remarkably load noise. It is called by the natives “dandub,” which means drum. From thisname comes that of the genus, which in known as dundubia. This is one of thn few scientific terms derived from thn Sanscrit. The “death watch” is a popular name applied to certain beetles which bom into the walls and floors of old honma. They mako a ticking sound by standing on their hind legs and knocking their heads against the wood quickly aad forcibly. It is a sexual call. Masy superstitious have been entertained respecting the noise produced by those Insects, which is sometimes imagined fen bea warning of death. Entomologists have succeeded in recording the cries of many insects by thw ordinary system of musical notation. But this method does not show the eefeual pitch, which is usually several ontaves above the staff. It merely serves to express the musical intervals. It i* known with reasonable certainty that many insects have voices so highly pitched that thoy cannot be heard by tha human ear. Oue evidence of this fact ia that some people can distinguish cria# which are not audible toothers.— [Waal* Ington Star.

They Ate Grasshoppers.

Salvador Chuugalognsh and Beaor» Marcelina Blaoktooth were among thn witnesses exutnined in tbe action begun by ex-Governor Downey to remove thn Indians from a portion of Warner's Ranch, says the San Diogan-San of California. Both are very old. Mm. Blackbooth could not give her exact age, was able to romember the tjmu when Captain Warner’s bouse was burned down, and that a big fight between thn Indians and white men occurred about that time. Shu nlso remomlHtrs that produce raised by the Indians was packed on burros to tbe old mission in tbe valley hero, which, it may be said, was long before tbe boom. Tho Indians then had bows and arrows and crooked sticks to fight with. The white ma*. had gnus. In answer to i line of queai ions froou Senator White, attorney for Governor Downey, Mrs. Blaoktooth 1 art her said, through an interpreter, that grasshoppers were one favorite article of diet with the ludlans in old times. To catch the ogil* hoppers in biU-of-fare quantities the Indians first dug holes in the ground; the* they set firo to the grass, and the hoppers, to escape the fire, fell into the holes, where they wore captured in large numbers. The grasshoppers were usually roasted before they were eaten. “Well, tbe Indians still catch and ease grasshoppers, do they not ?” asked Senator White. “Not much now,” was the stoical a*ewer. “Why not ?’’ asked tbe Senator. “Because there are not now many rasshoppers to eat," explaiaed the aged, witness. Rats also appeared to have bee* m\ favorite side dish with tbe Indians. T<*< facilitate tho capture of the rodent# tha grass wus usually burned off the ground In the summer and fall.

Recent “Ends of the World."

A dozen times in tbe present century has the “end of the world!’ scare bit—revived, and tbe interest still felt in tbnsubject may be conjectured from tbe excitement caused a few months age by tbe announcement that a telescopic comet, was about to cross tbe orbit or the earth. There are many persons now living wins remember “when the stars fell” To the early '3os and tbe excitement caused by that then unexplained phenomenon. Afc that time it was believed to be the beginning of the end. Tbe southern negroes were greatly alarmed and believed! that the judgment day had really come*, while their fright was shared in no ‘""t 1 ! degree by the whites. Wm. Miller, founder of the “MiUerites,” went so far as tm fix the date for the end of tbe world fas October, 1812, and when his prophecy wan not fulfilled, corrected bis making 1847, 1848 and 1857 the proper dates. Many persons prepared for tbrir ascension on some one of these dates*, and having made ready, were disappointed an the failure. But above <ll, tbe fact that a popular expectation is still entertained in spite of all previous failures,is proved by the presence in this country es a large and increasing denomination of Christian people, whose fundamental article of belief is that the end of the world is near at hand and that their special business to be ready for that event. —[GlobeDemocrat.

RELIABLE RECIPES.

Api’lb Dumpi.ino, Hard and Wunr Sauce.— Pare nice, tart apples (the greenings are best), core them, and fill the hole with sugar. Roil out some niew puff paste, cover the apples with it, and Duke in a hot oven. Serve with hard and wine sauce. Baked Salmon. —To one pound of cold, boiled salmon (free from skin and bones) put half a pound of bread crumbs, a teaspoonful of essence of anohovien, two tabicspoonfuls of cream, and four well beaten eggs; mix ail together, anti season with pepper and cayenne. Butter a dish, press the mixture down in it, score the top with a fork, and bake t»tf an hour in a quick oven. The toy should be nicely browned. Minced Veal and Eggs.— Take sooo remnants of roast or braised veal, trim off all browned parts and mince it very finely. Fry a finely chopped onion to o light brown in some butter; add a largo, pinch of floui, a little stock, and too minced veal, with chopped parsley, pepper, salt and nutmeg o taste. Mix weW and let the mince gradually get hot; lastly add a few drops of lemoo juice. Serve with sippets of bread fried in but. ter, and the poached eggs on tn«-