Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Page 5

CALAMITY HOWLING.

DETESTABLE TACTICS OF THE REPUBLICAN PRESS. Bewrto to Bald-Headed I.ylng that the Party of McKinleyism May Reap a Little Temporary Advantage—Half the Stories Told Are Untrue. Vulgar Calamity Lying. A certain element of the Republican press, in its efforts to create a more serious scare than is at all necessary, that the Republican party may reap a little temporary advantage, is making itself ridiculous. According to the Des Moines Leader, half the stories of mills closed down and men out of employment are the sheerest lies. The Republican party left the nation in bad shape. The effect of evil legislation was felt and is being felt. But the beneficent influence of the confidence of the business world in the Democracy has prevented much of the injury to business which would otherwise have been felt. If the partisan papers had been fair in their comments on the situation half the actual failures would not have occurred. These papers destroy confidence through vulgar and inexcusable lying. Some of them are overstepping themselves. At this time of the year it is customary for many mills to shut down for short periods, sometimes for. the purpose of making repairs and renovations, and sometimes because the fall trade has not assumed definite proportions. Ordinarily these temporary shut downs are not noticed. This year they are all heralded and the magnitude of each •enterprise exaggerated. Correspondents are anxious ,to earn money, and knowing that partisan newspapers are looking for calamity news, they furnish it to order.

Tba Chicago Inter Ocean was recently compelled to publish a retraction of its slanderous statements concerning the New Albany (Ind.) woolen mills. The mills placed a mortgage, for temporary relief only, on some finished goods. The Inter Ocean correspondent magnified it into-a failure. The manager wrote to the Inter Ocean as follows: We have run every day and night this year np to last week, and run every day last week and expect at present to run every day this year. Onr business is prosperous and we are making money, and expect to soon be able to cancel the mortgage that was placed, and will cancel it not later than November. Your paper simply trlghtened some of our creditors, who have no reason to be frightened, and in order to set the matter right, we believe yon should publish this letter in full in laerge size type, pToperly headed, in order to set right the wrong which you have done us. The hail la are wide open, running full blast every day, and we are billing goods as though nothing had happened. But this sort of injurious calamity lying is not peculiar to Chicago papers. A favorite theme with the Republican journals of the West is that the grain buyers cannot handle the new crop for lack of money. An lowa Falls grain dealer writes to the Leader: “I have noticed of late the Republican papers throughout the State have been howling about no money to buy grain with. To show you that this is absolutely false, I inclose a circular from the largest commission house in Chicago, soliciting business and offering to pay all drafts on grain. Never in the history of the grain trade has so liberal a grain circular been issued. The men who cannot get drafts paid must have very poor credit and standing in Chicago." The -circular inclosed is from a firm whose standing is first class, and reads: Notwithstanding the prevailing stringency in the money market, we are prepared at all times to pay drafts, with bills lading attached, to a reasonable amount against all shipments of grain or seeds. Shippers may rest assured that their property consigned to us will have the same careful attention that has characterized the management of our business during its existence, now nearly a quarter of a century.

McKinley Will Not Be Forgotten. The Fifty-third Congress was elected for the purpose of repealing the odious and burdensome tariff laws of the eountry. There were other issues joined between the parties, and in the East there was a notable effort before the election, as there now is after It, to belittle the question of the tariff. But it failed. Mr. Cleveland was an experiment as President up to the date of his famous reform message to Congress. Before that he was regarded as an untried leader of the Democratic party; after that he became a force in the economic battle being waged by the Morrisons, the Carlisles and the Millses against plutocracy and class legislation. The warfare was a long and memorable one and the people finally triumphed. They learned what they wanted and they asked for it at the ballot-box. It was not a victory of the outs against the ins. It was not a contest for the spoils of office. It was a triumph of the oppressed over their oppressors. It was a contest of the people against the subsidista. The average voter is not going to forget tariffs on account of a money stringency. He lias been so long familiar with a case of chronic stringency in his own case that the word uoes not frighten him. He expects a cheaper breakfast table and a cheaper coat under thfe new regime, and if he do not get it he will know the reason why. Congress will be expected to do all in its power to relieve the financial situation, but its chief duty is a revision of the tariff laws, and its work must begin immediately after the extra session convenes. Nobody understands this better than the Democratic members themselves. The unwise financial laws to which the President’s proclamation alludes include the McKinley law. —St. Louis Republic.

The Campaign Is Over. There is evident* y a misapprehension of the political and economic situation in this country in the minds of Republican politicians. From the retired Harrison to the qgpiring McKinley, from the amiable Depew to the arrogant Reed, they aro talking as though the reform of the tariff were still an open question. You mistake, gentlemen. The tariff campaign is over for three years at least. Try and get that fact into your heads. We met you upon the issue of McKinley ism in 1890,and you received the worst beating that any party in power evey experienced. We met you again, upon an appeal from judgment, last year. You were again overwhelmed. A President and Congress pledged to a reform of your worse-than-war tariff were elected. The Democratic party will execute its commission from the people as soon as the more immediately imperative duty, which likewise grew out of your legislation, is performed. Do not imagine that you can now work the “tariff scare” to defeat the will of the people. That fight is over.—New York World. Concerning Annexation. On the subject of annexation the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) has this to say: “We are not here to show the world how big a fabric of government may be built up, but how sound. Of great empires the world has had enough. It is ours to perpetuate a great nation founded on no paltry territorial ambitions, but instinct throughout with the animating principle of the greatest good to the greetoet number

without violence to the rights of any. Advocates of Hawaiian and Canadian annexation would spare themselves much wear and tear of spirit by bearing this in mind. How Labor Is Protected. An interesting revelation of the way the protected manufacturers of Pennsylvania try to benefit the condition of tbe American workingman is made by so unimpeachable an authority as the Philadelphia Press. This journal prints an interview with Mr. John J. Quinlan, the chief contract-labor inspector at Ellis Island in New York harbor, who says that during July his force examined at least 2,000 people who were suspected of being contract laborers, and barred out some 300, of whom 200 have already been returned to the countries from which they came. “We have found in a great many cases,” he said, “that the contract men were coming here to work in the iron industries, principally in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana,” at wages as low as 90 cents a day, against $1.50 and $1.75 paid the American workman. Mr. Quinlan proceeded as follows: Here is an instance that I can show yon from my papers of a skilled Hungarian going to the Carnegie Works at Homestead—if he had not been prevented—at $1 25 a day, when the regular wages are $1.75. The usual procedure in such Instances is, if the imported man gets through all right, they ask him at the works, having found that he is a skilled man. “You have quite a number of friends working on the other side in the village yon came from, haven’t you?” “Oh, yes," is the reply. “How much do they get per day?" “Well. 40 or 50 cents."- “We'll give them $1.25. Write to them and ask them to come out." And that is the way it goes, said Mr. Qninlan. The theory on which the owners of the Carnegie Works are granted the protection of high-tariff duties is that they may pay high wages to American workingmen, and' thus in turn protect these workingmen from the competition of the “pauper labor” of Europe.— American Industries.

The Unemployed. Nothing can be more dishonestly partisan than the attempt of the protection organs to make it appear that fear of the tariff reform which the people have twice decreed is responsible for the large number of workingmen . out of employment.' It is obviously a false claim for these reasons: 1. By far the greater number of the unemployed have not been engaged in the protected industries. The decrease of activity is caused, as all candid business men agree, by a monetary distrust, due to fear of the lapsing oi the currency to a silver standard. It affects ' the railroads, the building trades, domestic service, silver mining, and a hundred other industries and occupations having no connection with the tariff. 2. The reforms proposed in the tariff will stimulate rather than depress ini dustries. Can anybody but an idiot, or a ! protection editor, conceive that a propj osition to untax their raw materials or j machinery will stop cotton or woolen i mills, iron manufacturers and the conj sumers of tin-plate? j 3. The American people are not fools | or children to be frightened at the I prospect of having their own twioe- | repeated demand fulfilled a year hence. 5. Every organized body of business i men that has spoken on the subject has attributed the present trouble to another cause. Gov. McKinley's Prayer* and Breeches. It is very touching to hear Gov. McKinley “pray God that the free traders will for once live up to their promises." If Gov. McKinley’s breeches are as full of /shoddy as those of many of his fel-low-citizens who have been put under the McKinley law he will have to moderate his praying or gqt the knees patched.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The effort to utilize the financial depression as a life-preserver for the McKinley law is doomed to failure.

Artificial Ice.

The Massachusetts State Board of Health having been directed by the Legislature to examine the system by which artificial ice is made in that State, reports as follows: “1. Artificial processes of freezing concentrate the impurities of the water in the inner core, or the portion last frozen. 2. The impurities are reduced to their lowest terms by distilled water (condensed steam) for the manufacture of ice. 3. The number of bacteria in artificial ice is insignificant under the prevailing methods of manufacture. 4. The amount of zinc found in the samples of melted artificial ice under the observation is insufficient to injure the health of persons using Three companies in the State make artificial ice by the ammonia system of freezing. Galvanized iron tanks, holding from 200 to 250 pounds of distilled water, are immersed in lime, which is eooled below the freezing point of water by pipes which convey the gaseous ammonia. The freezing goes on slowly from the sides of the tanks, and it generally requires about two days to form a solid cake of ice. The distilled water is generally condensed steam from the engine, which is filtered through various media, such as sand, coke, and charcoal, to free it from oil, grease, and other suspended matters, and is subsequently boiled to expel ttir. The water in all three plants is obtained from wells sunk on the premises, and all contain considerable mineral matter in solution; but when the water is converted into steam and only the condensed water is used for ice-making, the original composition of the water is of comparatively little consequence.

Queer Verdict of Scotchmen.

The literary forgery case which recently occupied the attention of a judge and jury in Edinburgh is interesting, not only for the nature of the crime, but for the peculiar recommendation of the jury. Alexander Howland Smith was convicted of fabricating munuscripts and letters and disposing of them as genuine. There were letters purporting to be those of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and other famous men, which the defendant said he obtained among the waste paper of a lawyer’s office. High authorities in literary affairs declared the documents to he spurious. The jury found the defendant guilty, accompanying the verdict with the statement that they, by a a majority vote, “recommend the prisoner to mercy on the ground that his was an unusual crime and because of the easy facility of disposing of the spurious documents afforded him.” Apparently if he had committed any ordinary crime and had been successful only by great efforts in obtaining money for the letters, he might have received a much longer term of imprisonment than one year, which he will be compelled to undergo. Some persons of weak understanding are so sensible of that weakness as to be able to make good use of it.—RochefoucaabL

THE JOKERS’ BUDGET.

JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF TIIE PRESS. Just What’s the Matter—The Tw Great Divisions—Undoubtedly—The Fall of Silver, etc., etc. . JUST what’s the matter. She—l only wish to break the engagement because I fear your inability to love one devotedly. He—Love one devotedly! Why, I could love a dozen devotedly.—[Life. THE TWO GREAT DIVISIONS. “Did you have a heavy rainfall yesterday?” “No; only wet the just.” “What about the unjust?" “Oh, they had borrowed all the umbrellas. "—[Judge. UNDOUBTEDLY. “I’m afraid you won’t be able to get your French ludia-rubber man into the country.” “Why not?” “Couldn't he be classed as a contractlaborer?"—[Truth. THE FALL OP SILVER. Teachei—lf potatoes were 50 cents a bushel how many bushels could I buy with this nice shiny dollar I have in my hand? Tommy (who has heard his father discuss finance) —One.—[Chicago Record. A NATURAL INFERENCE. “What city has the largest floating population,” inquired the teacher. “Cork,” answered the bright little boy at the foot of the class.—[Chicago Herald. BEGAN WRONG. “We had a terrible time with the Convention of Physicians in our city the other day.” “What about?” ‘They found a disease, and then couldn’t discover a microbe for it.”— [Vogue. A HASTY TOILET. Little Dick—What are you tryin’ to do, anyhow? Little Dot—Mamma has sent for the doctor to come and see me. and I is scrubbin’ my tongue so it’ll be fit to look at—[Good News.

PERFECTLY RIGHT. Miss Candour—l hear your engagement with Mr. Flightie is broken. Miss Mugg—Yes; I have cast himoff. Miss Candour—Perfectly right. A mau who spends all his time with other girls, and doesn’t call to see his affianced wife once in six months, ought to be cast off.—[New York Weekly. A PHILANTHROPIST. Whitegoods —Now, Mr. Redink/ they’re talking about this income tax; ar.d, as it may affect your income, I thought it best to reduce your salary from two thousand to fifteen hundred. I don’t think they’ll tax any income as low as fifteen hundred. Redink —But, Mr. Whitegoods—Now, not a word! You know I never can bear to hear myself thanked. —[Puck. A DANGEROUS SUMMER GIRL.

He—So* we are engaged. Isn’t it lovely? She—Perfectly. He —I wonder if anybody saw me when I kissed you last night? She—l hope so. He—What! She —I hope so. He—Why? She —I mean business, and want witnesses.—[Detroit Free Press. WHY HE didn’t REMIT. Tailor (meeting friend on the street) — I thought you said you’d mail the $5 bill you owe me? Creditor—l did mean to, but when I went to the post office to mail it I found that placard on the walls: “Post no bills.” AN IDEA. Little Beth tin the country)—Grandpa, you must have to keep an awful lot of policemen out here. Grandpa—Why, Beth? Beth—Oh, there’s such a lot of grass tokeep off of.—|Tid-Bits. WHAT WOULD PAPA SAY? Teacher —Now, Tommy, suppose you had 25 cents, and you wanted seven cents for candy, five for apples and five for lemonade, how many cents would you have left? Tommy—Twenty-five. “How could that be?” “I’d have them charged to papa.”— [Chicago Tribune. ANNOYING FASHION. Laura (at the seaside) -rll#w annoying. Flora—What, dear? Laura—l have been looking through this field-glass at Chollie Chapps and Maud Everfly down there on the beach and they are dressed so much alike that I can't tell whether he has his arm her or she has her arm around him —- [lndianapolis Journal.

NO MANNoUS. Mother—Why don’t you get acquainted with that nice little girl across the sweet? Little Dot—’Cause she isn’t used to s’ciety. “You are surely mistaken.” “No’m. She hasn’t any manners.” “Why, what has she done?" “W’en I grinned at her she didn't grin back.’’ —[Street & Smith’s. MIXED HIS DATES. Hungry Higgins —W’en did Columbus come to this country? Weary Watkins -’Bout 400 years ago. Hungry Higgins—Gee! No wonder a feller give me the horse laugh when I told him I was Chris’s second cousin.— [lndianapolis Journal. BOUND TO CCT niM OCT SOME WAY. “ Mamma, the little boy next door has got on a new suit. Can I have one, too?” “ Not now, Willie.” “Then I guess I’ll go out and pick a fight with him.”—[Life. NOT RESPONSIBLE. Summer Boarder—l saw a snake seven feet long as I came across the fields this afternoon. I thought you told me you never had any snakes? Uncle Ezra—Wal, I don’t. I been a member of the temp'rance lodge for nigh twenty years.—[lndianapolis Journal. HOW THEY GROW. First Year— The biggest trout I ever caught was a toot and a half long, and he had big a fish-hook to his stomach.

Tenth Year —Did I ever tell yau about the trout I once caught? It was over a yard long, and had an anchor in his stomach. —[New York Weekly. THE PERVERSITY OF HORUOWERS. Tom —You want to borrow money? Why, you refused the loan 1 offered you yesterday! Cholles—Well, yesterday I was merely hard up for a few necessaries. To-day I need it for some luxuries I’ve just learned of.—[Chicago Record. ODDS AND ENDS. The eloquent young orator at Bridgton Academy who choae “ Farming, the Best of Arts,” as his graduating theme, has genuine blisters on his hands. He got them playing tenni9 and boating.— [Lewiston Journal. If there is a man in the world brave enough to say, “I can’t atfoid it” when in the presence of a woman not his wife, trot him out.—[Atchison Globe. “It is a pity that you are not more sociable,” remarked the cyclone to the earthquake. “Instead of taking peoplo out and blowing them off, as I do, you give everyone the shake.”—[lndianapolis Journal. ’Tis now the learned doctor To well-earned rest inclines, And rakes up stacks of dollars While mild hav fever shines. [Chioago Inter-Ocean. “There is not much similarity between our ways of earning a livelihood,” said the dentist to the paint manufacturer. “No,” admitted the manufacturer, “there is not. I grind colora, while you cull grinders." —[Indianapolis Journal. The physicians of “twenty years’ standing” should have a chance to sit down and rest awhile. —[Texas Siftings. “Who says there is nothing new under the sun?” defiantly asked the small boy with the new shoes.—[Washington Star. The girl with a hammock understand* the meaning of net profits even if she never learned the multiplication table.— [Chicago Inter-Ocean.

POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.

A Russian physician has been making some curious experiments to find out how far uuimals can count, lie declares that the crow can count up to ten and is hereby superior in arithmetic to certain Polynesian tribes of men, who eanuot get beyond five or six. Microscopic Screws. —The smallest screw in the world Is that used in the movement of a watch. Some of these are so minute that a box of them appears to the casual observer to be filled with fine black sand. With a strong glass, however, they are seen to be perfect in every part, though only 4-1000 of an inch in diameter. A thimble will hold over 100,000 of them. They are not counted, but sold by weight. The Size of the Sea. —One gallon of water weighs ten pounds, so the number of gallouß in the Pacific is over 200,000,000,000,000, an amount which would lake more than a million years to puss over the Falls of Niagara. Yet, put into a sphere, the whole of the Pacific would only measure 720 miles across. The Atlantic could he contained bodily in the Pacific nearly three times. The number of cubic feet is 117 followed by seven tcenoiphers; a number that would Ire ticked off by ftur million clocks in 370,000 years. Its weight is 323,000,000,000 tons, and the number of gallons in it 73,000,000,000,000. A sphere to hold the Atlantic wosild have to be 533£ miles in diameter. If it were made to fill a circular pipe reaching from the earth to the sun—a distance of 93,000,000 miles—the diameter of the pipe would be 1,837 yards, or rather over a mile; while a pipe of similar length to contain the Pacific would be over a mile and three-quarters across. Yet the distance to the sun is so great that., ns has been pointed out, if a child were born with an arm long enough to reach the sun it would not live long enough to know that it had touched it, for sensation passes along our nerves at the rate of 100 feet a second, and to travel from the sun to the earth at that rate would take a century aDd a half, and such an abnormal infant is an unlikely centenarian.—[Longman’s.

A New Way to Preserve Pictures. —A recent invention of W. 8. Simpson, which promises to do away with the dangers which all pictures, and especially water-color drawings,have hitherto undergone from the disastrous effect of light on pigments. Mr. Simpson has, by an exceedingly simple device, made it possible to frame all pictures, large or small, under this dcsiruble condition. The canvas or painting is placed in a chamber or box, either copper or aluminum, according to the siza and weight of the picture. The front of this chamber is of achromatic glasa, and by tbe use of an airpump all air behind the glass is exhausted and a vacuum created. The picture is then replaced in the original frame, the only difference being that the colors appear considerably brighter and every detail is more distinot, owjng to the absence of the air formerly imprisoned between the glass and the painting, and the substitution of achromatic for ordinary glass. Under these conditions the most delicate Turner water-color muy be exposed to the full light of the sun without any danger of fuding. A picture once inclosed in a vacuum needs no further cleaning or dusting.

Vastness of the Sea.

A writer in “Longman’s” (Mr. Schooling) has been measuring and weighing the sea. According to his calculations the number of gallons in the whole sea is 373 trillions (million million million), which, if it could be poured away at the rate of 1,000 gallons a second, would take nearly 12,000 million years to get rid of. If we could sell it even at so low a price as one shilling for 10,000 gallons. the bill would come to 1,800 billion pounds. Supposing the sea to be formed into a round column reaebingto the sun, the diameter would be nearly 2-J miles. The Pacific would form 53 million miles of its total length of 93 million, aud the Atlantic 18 million. If it were a column of ice, and the entire heat of the sun could be concentrated upon it, it would all be melted in one second, and converted into steam in eight seconds; which illustrates the heat of the suij rather than the size of the sea. The weight of the sea is 1 trillion and 065 billion^,665,000,000,000,000,000) tons, and if a contractor took the job to move it at even so moderate a price as 1,000 tons for u peuny, he would require to be psid the amount of the national debt ten thousand timto over in rewatd for his labors [London Neve.

WORN BY THE WOMEN

SOME OF THE VERY LATEST IDEAS IN DRESS. Not Necessary to Hove on Unlimited Number of Striking New Gowns—The l.ess Pronounced of the Older Styles Have Not Yet Gone Out. Sothtm Fashion Gossip. New York correspondence:

VEN if your iudgLm ment is excellent, M you may think that ■ unless you are supplied with a large number of striking gowns you might tint just as well stay at Hjr heme down cellar 8 instead of going v away and having a St lovely time this suidm er. Put !“Vi don’t you believe |\ it. The real truth \\ is that the new V\ vogue came in so m\ suddenly and so m violently that the JflSMSkless pronounced of TSs-y? the older styles did not have a chance to be really

out, and that now they do not look as queer as do the most pronounced of the new style. The great run of people are dressing pretty much as they always have, with a variation here and there in favor of late ideas. Skirts are undoubtedly wider, but they are not all balloon, nor are they nearly all ?;ored and cut with wonderful back ailing folds, while many are merely full on the band. Sleeves are all more or less big, but they have been, you know, since the pretty sheath skirt of a year or so ago. Bodices are seldom made plain and the basque, dear to the hearts of us all but a little while ago, is no more. Round waists are pretty generally adopted, and there ii likely to be a tendency towards frillltiveness on the best regulated gowns. The ultra things will always be but the medium, whether happy or not, we have always with us. So, if you are one of that Kind, don’t you go down cellar; just stay up stairs and have a good time and De as happy a “medium" as you can. A promenade costume which is very stylish'and yet avoids the extremes of the present rules is to be seen in the initial illustration. It is composed of

A NEW SORT OF SKIRT ORNAMENTATION.

green foulard and garnished with lhce and ribbon. The skirt is gathered in back, but it will not be very full, as all the seams must ba biased. Around the bottom are two ruffles of lace trimmed with rosette bows of green ribbon. The bodice comes over the skirt and is hooked to the latter to prevent it from slipping. Its lining fastens in the middle, but the foulard at the left side. The yoke is pointed in front and back, made of pleated foulard and is sewed on separately, thus constituting only a trimming, and is edged with a lace ruffle as shown. Commencing under the arms at the sides is another pleated arrangement of foulard corresponding to the yoke, the right piece lapping over, the same as the yoke, and each finished with a tiny rosette. The epaulettes over the sleeves are of wider lace than that edging the yoke. The sleeve 4 have a full puff and a long tight cuff. With the dress is wornadre sy little toque, of ecru lace, trimmed with green faille ribbon having gilt picots. A lace bow, with an aigrette, shows in front. The tie strings are green ribbon. The second toilette sketched is in pale blue mousseline de laine figured with dark blue and trimmed with dark blue surah. The skirt is garn'shed with a folded strip of surah put on zigzag and the points held in place by small butterfly bows of ribbon; this constituting one of the new variath n i of the general round-and-round skirt trimming. The bodice has a shirred piece inserted in lack and front, finished by two bands of surah pointed at the waist in back and front, with a third piece down the center. In addition the bodice is garnished with bietelles of the figured mousseline. The collar and folded belt are of surah. The present summer girl borrows indiscriminately from the cradle and the

ANOTHER.

club, the latter being, of course, the man’s club. She wears neckties, visor caps, frock coats, shirt waists. English gloves and all the rest of it from the club, and from the cradle she takes baby gimps for her wash muslin gowns, baby caps tied under her chin with fine lace pleated all around tie face, baby hats with great rosettes at either cheek, and even baby frocks. The only real trouble about it is that too often the wrong girl goes for the baby things, and the effect is awful. Nothing is more distressful than the girl wife tfco

wrong kind of a face, framed in a round baby bonnet with two or three curls pulled out either side on the wrong kind of cheek. But the right girl in the same thing is just too sweet for anything. The fabric of the next model presented is black silk, and it is set off with narrow jet passementerie and white lace. The moderately wide bell skirt is garnished with a festooned gathered ruffle, headed by jet passementerie, which is repeated twice further up. The bodice is alike back and front, and has a plastron of white lace over white silk. The inserted piece below the plastron is trimmed with pointed rows of jet. The elbow sleeves are finished with a black silk frill and a band of jet passementerie. The three pretty dresses shown in the twp remaining pictures are for outing wear, but before coming to consideration of them in detail a pointer in bathing suits mav not be amiss. Let the other girls taite to new fashions in bath suits, don’t you give up the sailor style that allows a low turn-away sailor collar and a vest set in to simulate a shirt

TWO VACATION DRESSES.

of the kind the real sailor men wear. The kind meant has stripeH across and mo collar, giving a straight line across the chest, just bolow the rise of the neck. That is, stick to this if you havu a head that sets finely and a well*developtd neck. The costume itself may not be classic, but it will give your classic lines a chance. If the bath season is not long enough, then lot other girls have soft shirt waists in their outing and yachting rigs. Stick, you, to the sailorman’s shirt. If the weather is real warm you are sure to stick to it, but what of that, if the lines get a chance? Coming to the couple shown in the fourth picture, the costume at the left is made of white woolen suiting, with the plaid in different shades of rod. The round waist 1 has double brotellos that form a collar in back and full glgot sleeves. The costume is finished by a shirt wa-st and black silk four-in-hand. The belt is red striped ribbon, fastening with a buckle and leather straps. The other dress is composed of pale mode-colored gingham trimmed with embroidery. The skirt is unlined and is garnished with two ruffles of embroidery, each put on with two rows of gathering and showing a small head. It fits snugy over the hips ami the fullness is gathered in back. Tha blouse waist has a tight lining, over which the embroidery is draped with a slight fullness in back and front, but plain under the arms. The embroidery is pleated Into tho collar and waistband. The lining hooks' in front, but the embroidery comes over to tho left shoulder and under the arm. The sleeves haye a deep cuff of embroidery and a full puff of the plain gingham. The belt of pale blue satin ribbon ties at the side, and the standing collar is also made of a band of this ribbon with a bow in batik. The very dainty toilet of the last picture is made of striped foulard, trimmed with changeable taffota silk. The skirt is rather wide around tha

A THIRD.

bottom, and the front lias a panel of three lace ruffles put on plain and edged with two bands of taffeta with pointed ends, as shown, The round waist has a deep decollete filled in with laco in front, but the buck is high at the neck. Revers and folded belt are of silk. The puffed sleeves have large double epaulettes of lice and a lace cuff. Here is a grist of whims: Cut glass buttons are the things for evening tailor-made white gowns. A watch in one sleeve-button and a perpetual calendar in the other makes a pair for a business woman. Collars and cuffs are again seen with tailor gowns. Gold and silver tips are put on evening shoes. A diamond hangs by a slender chain from the ring on Miladi Satin Palm's hand. Gold-tippad shoe lacings will do for a little offe ing at Miss Richgirl’s shrine. Real lace and lacings with gold tips increase the expense of the swellest corsets. Now he gives her an ivory and gold-mounted calendar, with the engagements she has given him marked thereon that she may not forget. She has her own special orchid now and the favo.ed swain may wear it. It isn't always smelling salts; sometimes it's whisky in that little bottle a-swinging from her bqjt. She writes her notes in French now. and there is a handy little bcok with all sorts of French notes ready made. Her manicure seissdrs have silver handles. In her boudoir there is a cut-glass and silver-mounted cordial tei. Creme de menthe and yellow chartreuse are the cordials. Her lorgnette has a crystal handle. Everything is made of crystal or cut glass that can be. No matter whether your cheeks are rosy or not, you are all right if your lips and the tips of your ears are. You must not use your coat-of-arm9, it is shoddy in this country; but if you have one you mu3t be sure to say that you don’t use It. Her bonbon box is of crystal, and, banging as it does from her bolt, its transparency attests her admirer's constant generosity. No matter if her shirt-waist is only plain cambrio. her studs, collar-button and sleeve links are all right. CtaprtfcM. MB-

BONES.

The Ultimate Destination of the Most Durable Parts of the Body. The bones are a composition of lime and phosphorus, and are the most durable part of the human system. Leave the body of a man or animal exposed to the air, in a few weeks it passes into the earth and atmosphere, leaving only the skeleton, which, after a considerable lapse of time, disappears also. This reabsorption of the body by the elements is comparatively rapid in the towers of the Parsees and in the case of those who perish in traversing the desert. The body of man cannot properly lie said toreturn to dust. Tlmt is an ancient prejudice. Even in the case of the bones the phosphate passes parti, into the earth or air in the form of oxygen or phosphorus, and the lime is mixed with the soil, embodied in rocks, or dissolved in water. In the process of cremation the tissues disappear in the form of vapor, and there remains a residue composed of pieces of bone of various sizes, which, if water is added and they are dried, become a coarse dust that can he hermetically sealed in an urn and preserved for au indefinite period. Even the process of embalming practised by the ancient Egyptians could not prevent the resolving of the body into its original elements. If fragments of tho tissues or if the bones remain it is because their character is entirely changed * by tho guins and other substances employed by the embalmors. As to em balmiug as practised in these days it. is of too recent origin to furnish any reliable data as to its efficacy as a preservative method. The Egyptians endeavored to preserve the entire body by smothering it in antiseptic substances, the Greeks, Romans, and other nations, ancient and modern, by enclosing it in solid coffins and monumental tombs. The success has never been commensurate with the effort. Isolated efforts have been made to preserve the whole or a part of the osseous structure as a decent tribute to humanity, as relics, or as a lugubrious reminder of man’s mortality. Great conquerors, like Tamerlane, did not take the trouble to bury those slaughtered in their battles, or in the populous cities they ravaged, but left along their line of march hundreds of thousands of blenohing skeletons collected years afterwards and piled in pyramids that were soon wasted away by the winds and storms. After the battle of Morgarten the Swiss made a aimilar pyramid of the bonos of the soldiers the Austrians left on tho battlefield. Considering tho millions that havo perished on fields of battle, especially in Europe, during tho last thousand years, it is nstonisldng that so few bones are turned iip by the plough or found in excavating tho soil. In those days human bonos found by chance are decently buried, ov if it is necessary to condemn an old cemetery the remains found in it are interred elsewhere. In Paris this process has been going on for a hundred yearn, that in, since the epoch of tho French revolution. The hones of those buried hastily after street riots, and those of the dead of tho disused cenieterles, havo been removed from time to time to the catacombs, until the number of skeletons more or less complete hero assembled amounts at present to six millions. In the cemetery of the Capueines at Rome human bones are arranged in fanciful designs whose artistic ingenuity relieve* considerably tho painful suggestions of mortality, tt is a theory of certain religious orders that, death should be kept continually in mind by actions or objects of a sepulchral nature. The comparative durability of tho bones ha* caused their extensive preservation os sacred relics. Tho list of these is too long to be given with any sort of completeness. Of all the anoient nations only the Egyptians have succeeded in preserving the remains of their sovereigns for a respectable length of time. Not a bone remains of the rulers of ancient Greece or Rome. Some hones of Charlemagne are preserved in the cathedral of Aix Itr Chapelle. Not one of any of his contemporaries i* known to bo in existence. The remains of the Plantagenet kings aud queens buried at Fontevrault Abbey were torn from their caskets and scattered to the four winds by the populace at the time of tho French revolution. Those of the French sovereigns shared the same fate; but of the latter, If their labels may lie believed, there are at the Louvre Museum, though not on oxhibition, a shoulder blade of Hugh Capet, a thigh bone of Charles V., a tibia each 'of Charles VI. and Francis 1., vertebra- of Charles VII., the ribs of Louis the Handsome and Louis XII., and tho lower jaw of Catherine de Medicis. There is at Westminster Abbey a very considerable collection of royal coffins containing what is left of tha English kings for some hundreds of years back, but the precise condition of the contents is unknown. In othercountries the remains of sovereigns that date back over 500 years is limited. The royal relics of this kind which can cluim an antiquity of BQO years would not. by the most liberal calculation, exceed a few score, the Egyptian mummies being excepted. Of the mortal parts of the forty thousand millions of the race born and passed away in the last thousand years there still exist perhaps the fragments of the skeletons of a thousand born before the year 1000,—[New York Sun.

Sound Photographed.

it is said that Professor Hermann has succeeded in obtaining a photograph of the vowel sounds. He first spoko them into a phonograph, which afterward slowly reproduced them into a delicate micro-telephone. To the vibrating drum of the telephone was fixed a small mirror, from which a single ray of light was reflected to a moving strip of sensitized paper. The vibrations of the drum were thus delicately and accurately pictured on the paper. Sound has thus been actually made to record itself legibly on paper, and it does not appenr to be beyoni the bounds of the possible that a machine may be ultimately invented into which the business man, or author, may speak his thoughts and have them returned to him in clear typewriter copy. Such a maohine is no more impossible than the telephone or phonograph.— (Detroit Free Press. ' • •

The Queen of the Antilles.

Jamaica has perhaps made greater strides in the way of progress than any of England’s smaller colonies during the past twenty-five years, and has some right now to call herself “tbe Queen of the Antilles.” Among the evidences of improvement may be cited the hotels which have sprung up in the island, for the building of one of which £24.000 was ox pended. Then the Americans are laying lines of railway through the best part of- the island, and the fruit cultivation is now ns productive as that of sugar, while the price of land has risen enormously. Carlyle’s shade would be astonished to hear that the oace thriftless blacks have managed to put by nsarly half a million pounds in their savings bamkc-—(London World.