Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — Page 5

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OP EVERYDAY LIFE. Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures 'which Show That Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. It is alleged of a gauger, not long ago dismissed from the revenue service, that he lost his place because of a tin breastplate. This chest protector followed in shape the contour of his form, fitted on beneath his vest. It was hollow and held about a fluid gallon. Its frequent filling at the expense of wholesale liquor dealers led to his downfall. Wesley Everett ofMullan, Idaho, while hunting cinnamon bear, wounded a fullfrown animal, which closed in on him. he bear knocked the gun from his hand, crushed the right leg above the knee, lacerated the right arm in a frightful manner, but expired just at the moment when his teeth had closed on Everett’s throat. The latter will recover. The latest development of the insurance business is interesting. You can buy suspenders which entitle your next of kin to SSOO if you are killed while weariftg them, and there are also hats whioh entitle your heirs to a similar amount if you are found dead with one on your head. If the hat is found by ▼our side both it and the insurance are “off."

The oldest twins in Connecticut are Mrs. Eunice Pierce of New Haven and Mrs. Louviey Williams of Meriden. They are eighty-seven, and as bright, smart, spry, healthy, industrious, and cheerful bodies as any in the State. Mrs. Pierce has just been paying her annual visit to her sister in Meriden, and the twins had a happy time of it for a week or so. They are members of a family of nine children, all of whom are dead except themselves and a brother in Kansas.

George Jamison, of Crolty’s is one of the most expert and experienced hunters in Northern Pennsylvania. A few days ago he consented to take his friend Michael Nelson along with him gunning, but under protest, as Nelson knew nothing about handling firearms. Jamison kept a watchful eye on him as they went through the woods. “It is as much as a man’s life is worth,” he said to Nelson, “to go into the woods witf/a greenhorn who has a gun, so you must look out, Mike, and be very careful or yoii may shoot me.” The words were hardly out of Jamison’s mouth when he stubbed his toe and fell. His gun was discharged. The full charge entered Nelson’s breast, killing him instantly.

High upon a snow-clad slope of the Rockies a hunter from the East came upon a curious and tragic record. Far as the eye could reach there stretched the trail of a jack rabbit. The creature had evidently been stretched to the utmost in mad flight, for his footprints were much further apart than they would have been had his gait been of ordinary speed. A few yards before the trail ended each print of the rabbit’s feet was accompanied by the clear outline upon the snow of an eagle’s outstretched wings. This was repeated again and again. Then came evidences of a struggle. The snow was stained with blood, and there were tufts of fur lying about. Then the trail. ended. The most curious of all objeots in New Zealand is that which the Maoris cal} “aweto.” One is uncertain whether to call it an animal or a plant. In the first stages of its existence it is simply a caterpillar about three or four inches in length, and always found in connection with the rata tree, a kind of flowering myrtle. It appears that when it reaches full growth it buries itself two or three inches under ground, where, instead of undergoing the ordinary chrysalis process, it becomes gradually transformed into a plant, which exactly fills the body and shoots up at the neck to a height of eight or ten inches. This plant resembles in appearance a diminutive bullrush, and the two, animal and plant, are always found inseparable.

Several hundred acres in Humbolt county that last summer raised the biggest hay crop in lowa, are burning. The soil itself is being consumed by fire and in places eaten away to a depth of fifteen feet. Two years ago the land was seveiffl feet under water and was known as Owl Lake. It was purchased by George R. Pearsons and drained by a big ditch. It dried up, leaving a very rich soil. The earth was peatty In character, and a few days ago, when a prairie fire swept over it, the soil itself took fire, burning like turf. All efforts to quench it are unavailing, and unless rain oomes the whole bed of the lake will be burned away. The fire eats down to a hard clay, that will be of no use for farming purposes. Any number of fossil remains are exposed to view where the fire has burned out. Several acres have already been burned over. A veil of smoke hides the ravages of the fire.

T. S. Hill of Knoxville, lowa, is the proud owner of a porcine oddity that, to use a strictly original phrase, lays all the elephant pigs and other monstrosities of the swine family “completely in the shade.” To say that it is “strangely and wondrously made,” would be putting it too mild by several degrees. It is of average size, plump and fat, notwithstanding the fact that it never * ‘breathed the breath of life.” . The shoulders and neck arc well proportioned and resemble those of any other baby hog, but, aside from that and an enormous ear, there is nothing to distinguish the shoulders from the hams except the “set” of the feet. The beast hasn’t the least sign of eyes, snout, mouth or jaws. At about the center of the end which should have carried the head, probably directly over the place where the nostrils would be in the regulation pig, there are three excrescences, each provided with a small opening.—[Repu blic.

Probably there is not another man in New England who has had such surprises this week as Mr. William J. Brown, of Belfast, Me. Years ago he had two brothers, Jonathan M. and Levi, the home of the family being in Searsmont. Jonathan entered the nary and for thirty years had not been heard from, his family naturally supposing that he was dead. Levi, at the age of fifteen, sailed away in a Searsport ship commanded by a Capt Charles Nickels, bound for South America. For eighteen years he had been considered dead, as no tidiugs of him had ever reached home. Some weeks ago William was surprised b?>. getting a letter from South Africa from his brother Jonathan, saying that he was about to leave on a steamer to visit his old home in Waldo County. He also stated that he was a rancher and editor of a paper. Before the family bad got through talking over this news William, a fortnight later, received another letter, dated in Australia from his other supposed dead brother Levi.

This also stated that Levi was about to start for his native clime. “ One of the most remarkable cases in my experience,” said a well-known piano man the other day to a Minneapolis Journal reporter, in speaking dt wave sympathy and its effect in sometimes causing discords in the harmonious sounds of a piano through wave vibration with articles of furniture, loose doors, chandeliers and stoves in the room with the piano, “ occurred a short time ago when I was called upon to tone the piano of a prominent lady and a wellknown musician of this oity. After running the scale I found the discordant key, and immediately proceeded to act upon the wave theory in trying to find the loose articles of furniture from which the unsympathetic tone was produced. I had the lady in the meantime sounding this particular key, but after searching and listening all around the room 1 was unable to locate the cause of the discordant note. Finally, getting upon a chair, I sounded the ceiling, In one place the sound appeared to be more distinct than in any other spot. On sounding the wall I found that the paper had been stretched over a stovepipe hole and that there were some small pieces of loose plaster lying on the paper. I removed these pieces and immediately the discordant note became perfectly harmonious."

Gaft. Hurlburt of the British bark Bowman B. Law considers himself fortunate in coming out of a terrible typhoon in the China seas, not without a scratch, but without the loss of any of his crew, or even of a spar or sail. This is his experience as he related it: “We left Sourabaya, Java, the 20th of July, bound for the Columbia River. All went well for the first week. The men put in their time well about the ship, and one particular job that was attended to was painting the mizzen-topmast. This was wood, the other masts and topmasts being iron. I noticed that the paint on the spar blistered more or less under the tropical sun. One fine afternoon, under a clear sky, the storm came on us. There was hardly any warning. The typhoon shot out of the Gulf of Siam as though it came from a cannon. What in the distance was a ripple on the surface of the sea, as it approached us became a feathery foam-dashed mass of waves, and the next minute the Hurricane struck us. All sail was stowed away, and we tore ahead under bare poles at locomotive speed. When the fury of the typhoon abated, we found everything intaot. The mizzantopmast, however, was bare of paint. The wind had blown the blisters off and nothing remained but the uncoveredwood.—[From the Oregonian. A young business man of this place bought a furnace and had it set up Saturday, says a Moline (Ill.) correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Sunday he worked all day showing his wife how to work it, so she would not burn the house down, and that evening he took a sleeper for St. Louis. Near Fulton he had a vivid dream. He thought his house was afire and his family was locked up inside. With yells of desperation which fairly froze the blood of the other passengers in the sleeper he kicked in the door and found the floor burned away, his wife and everything in the house cremated, and he nimself landed in the cellar with a heavy thud. The blow awoke him, and picking himself up he found himself by the side of the railroad track. Glancing about him, expecting to see the train a wreck and the other passengers killed, he saw in the starlight bis train vanishing in the distanoe. He had actually kicked out the double window of his berth with his bare feet and thrown himself feet first through the window to the ground while the train was running twenty-five miles an hour, and was unhurt save three cuts on his left leg, caused by the broken glass. The passengers notified the conductor, and when the train was baoked they found the man walking to meet it. He was clad only in his night clothes. It was almost impossible to believe his story, but his condition and the deserted berth containing his clothes and the broken window confirmed it.

It may not be generally known by people in this vicinity, says the Lumpkin (Ga.) Independent, that there is a rocky region in Meriweather County, near the piue and oak mountain ridges, that seems to be a favorite haunt of snakes in that section, and the following terrible incident ocourred in that locality: It was about the middle of May, and Mrs. Richard Smith, the wife of a farmer, had gone to the field with her husband, who was replanting corn that had failed to come up regularly. While they were at work Mrs. Smith wandered off to one side of tho field where there wore a thicket of dewberry vines. While picking the berries she stood upon a pile of rocks that had been pickea up from the field and thrown in a heap and the vines had covered them. When she finally started to step down some of the stones were dislodged and rolled noisily down. Instantly the pile swarmed with furious serpents that hissed and writhed about the frightened woman like so many demons. The sight was so terrible that Mrs. Smith stood horrorstricken while the venomous creatures twisted and twined about her limbs and glided over her person, striking and biting her furiously. At last fear gave way and she screamed for help. The men soon came to her rescue and were nearly overcome by the sight. The wretched woman was now fighting with all her strength for life. She grappled the writhing things and attempted to tear them away. Acting on the directions of her friends she stumbled to the open field, where they could assist her, and in a few minutes seventeen copperheads and four rattlesnakes had been killed. Several of them had followed her from the stone pile, hissing and writhing in anger. As .soon as possible Mrs. Smith was taken to her home and assistance summoned, but there was not the slightest chance of saving her life. Her body became quickly swollen to an enormous extent, and the skin assumed hideous colors. She had been bitten a dozen times in the face, and her features became one mass of bloated green and black. Sight fled and speech left her. The pain soon drove her into delirium, and in the most horrible agony life passed away.

THE JHOTT DEMON.

The Death of a Blind Tiger who had a Monkey for a Guide. The great Jhoot demon described by Col. Downing in his narrative of adventures in India was a tiger whose ways were as mysterious as his ravages were terrible. He could never be bagged. He killed every shikari, native or EuroEean, who tried it. This truculent beast ad never even been seen, and as he never mangled a body, but only suoked the blood through an orifice made over the jugular vein, the terror the great Jhoot demon inspired is not surprising. He never forced a door, yet he got into house after house. Two subalterns went out for him. and the next day were found dead like the rest.

One with his last strength had man aged to scratch the words; “Look out foraL .” But no amount of conjecture could solve the riddle of these words. A famous shot, who once for a wager shot 100 tigers in twelve months, met the same fate. He, too, left a “creepy” and mysterious message the letters “A. M.” Then the Colonel goes. He built himself an ambush and watched. “Just as the full light of the moon fell upon the stream and illuminated the surroundings there was an almost inaudible rustle of leaves close behind me, and, turning on the instant, I saw a little gray-brown paw very cautiously putting aside the twigs of my shelter, and behind the paw I could discern two small green eyes attentively regarding me. “‘A lungoor,’ I said to myself, as it vanished from view—a monkey. ‘That’s what the lads and’Dick Culverton meant to tell us, and, by George 1 there’s mischief here. Moved by a sudden inspiration, for whioh I cannot to this day account, I hastened from the shelter and ascended the adjoining tree. I had scarcely time to seat myself comfortably upon one of the lower branches when I saw the lungoor returning, followed by the most repulsive looking monster my eyes have ever beheld. “You talk, Snapper, of your tiger being mangy; this one was absolutely naked, nude as a nut, bald as a bottle, not a hair anywhere—a huge, ghastly, glabrous monstrosity—a very Caliban of tigers, as big as a bison, and as long as a crooodile. *

As the ghastlv creature crept after the monkey he followed the slightest curve and deviation of his guide with the delicate alacrity of a needle under the influence of a magnet. The adroitness displayed by the tiger was suddenly converted into a subject ofj/horrified wonder, for as the brute approached the ambußh he turned his hideous face up to the moon, and I could see that his eyes were of a dull, dead white, without light, intelligence, or movement. Tho creature was stone blind. For all that, he evidently knew, or thought he knew, what lay before him, for the saliva of anticipation was clinging to his wrinkled jaws like a mnss of gleaming icicles. “ The monkey, when he had come within jumping distance, gave a low sinnal cry, made one vigorous spring into my late shelter, alighted upon my camp stool and sprang out again on the other side. He was instantly followed by the tiger, who fell like an avalanche upon the stool, crushing it to match wood, and at onoe began to feel about on all sides for his expected victim. “Now was my chanoe. Beneath me in the broad light of the full moon lay the demon of the Jhoot. I aimed steadily at a deep furrow between the shoulder blades and held my breath for the shot. At that moment the keen eyes of the monkey caught sight of me, and the little animal uttered a shrill note of warning; but it was too late; my finger was upon the trigger, and I fired both barrels Id quick succession.—[London Truth.

PALATIAL STABLES.

The most costly stables in Amerioa, and, with few exceptions, in the world, are situated at Newport. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont ha 9 just finished on the short street known as Lakeview avenue, near Bellevue avenue, a house for his horses and carriages which in its completed state has, made short work of SIOO,OOO. The barn is described by the New York Times as a gorgeous structure of light brown stone. It is three stories high, with a mansard roof. Because of the peouliar color of the stone used in the construction the stable has been facetiously called “the pasteboard barn,” although it is thoroughly fireproof. Each horse has an unusually large box stall, framed in oak and floored with ooncrete. In the rear of the stable is an arohway, under which the horses and carriages enter. The stable is not only a home for horses. Mr. Belmont has fitted up on the upper floor a luxurious suite of rooms. There are his bachelor apartments, where he entertains a few single-hearted club men. There are billiard and pool tables, and a larder that excites the longing of many a gourmet. There is also a bathing tank, which is filled with cool water in summer and hot water in winter. Ogden Goelet’s stable at Newport is a rambling affair in the Queen Anne style, and is nearly 300 feet long. The stable is of brick, with rich embellishments, and looks more like an old English lodge of large size than a house for Mr. Goclet’s norses. Ex-Governor George Peabody Wetmore has a palace for his horses. The stable is totally unlike Mr. Belmont’s but nearly as elegant, and in a tower of fifty feet height is an electric clock, controlled by wire from this city. Newporters set their watches by this clock. The stable is of brick, light stone and slate. W. Fitz Hugh Whitehouse goes ahead of Ex-Governor Wetmore by having in a clock tower over his stable a complete set of chimes which ring the notes of a gospel hymn or a simply, familiar lay at the hours and at the halt hours. On the first day of every spring, when, after an old-time custom at Newport, every bell in the city rings in the vernal equinox, the chimes in the clock tower over the Whitehoute stable keep the air in the neighborhood reverberant with the oftrepeated repertory of their tunes. William K. Vanderbilt’s stable is in marked contrast tc- his marble mansion. The stable is of wood and is immense in size, but inartistic in form and color.

Avenged by His Pets.

Meinrad, a famous Swiss saint, who flourished in the ninth century, led a hermit’s life in a cell at Einsiedein,where he was often visited for advice and help. The companions of his solitude were two tame ravens, to which he was much attached. In the year 861 the saint was murdered in his cell by some men inspired by greed of gold, which they supposed the poor man to possess. After the foul deed they fled toward Zurich, whither they were followed by the two ravens. There certain pilgrims identified the birds, and inquries having been made at once, the murderers were arrested and punished. The saint’s cell remained untenanted for nearly fifty years, but was rebuilt of stone about a century afterward, and some two hundred years later the great convent of Einsiedein, still the richest and most frequented in Switzerland, arose on the spot where the lonely preacher was slain.—[New York Journal. The debt of the United Kingdom is in round numbers $3,355,000,000. Comparisons are made with the debt as it was in 1689, just before the reign of William 111., when it was only $3,221, 000, and with the beginning of Victoria’s reign, when it had reached the enormous total of $4,251,000,000. Under Victoria this great total has been reduced some 21 per cent. Something over $33,000,000 was paid off in the year ending March 31 last.—[Free Press.

Conductor Cleveland —That fellow can’t ride free any longer* ma’am—he’s big enough to pay for himself! —Puck.

THE PARTY ON TRIAL.

An Impartial Revision or the Tariff Democracy's Only Salvation. The Democratic party is now on trial for its life. It has been commissioned by the people to make a tariff for revenue law and, in doing so, abolish the “fraud” protection. Twice have the people spoken with their mighty voioe. Once negatively, in 1890. to condemn McKinleyism; onoe positively, in 1892, to approve the Democratic program laid out at Chicago. Since 1892 there has been no national issue voted upon by the people and there is now but little reason to believe that the cool, deliberate judgment has changed on the tariff question; though if they had a chance to express themselves, they might raise a vigorous protest against the tardiness and timidity of the Democrats in beginning action against the tariff robber. If, however, the Ways and Means Committee reports a radical and reasonably just tariff bill, and the House and Senate pass it promptly, there is every reason to believe that the people will not withdraw the confidence they have placed in the Domocratic party. The result of tho reoent election, in so far as it had a national meaning, was intended only as a reprimand to the Democrats for their slowness in getting rid of the obnoxious and panic-producing silver law and as a warning against similar delay in dealing with the tariff. There is rough sailing ahead for the Democratic party if it not only does not turn out any tariff bill before next summer, but if that bill shall be, as the McKinley bill Is, a composite of selfish Interests. If every Tom. Dick and Harry who are interested in protected industries and who pretend to be Democrats, are to be allowed to dictate the next tarifl' and to defeat an honest, impartial and radical revision, Democratic representatives should make ready their life-preservers, for their ship will go down when it is struck by the next wave of popular indignation. If it were possible to please all of the people by giving sectional and selfish interests full play, then the McKinley bill should have been approved by all States; for if any State was slighted it was not McKinley’s fault. He gave to all who asked if they asked for any particular industry and locality, and not simply for that indefinite something—tne welfare of all in the country. The people at large, or at least a sufficient number to Bway elections, are quick to distinguish between an honest broad-guage tariff and a truckling miserable makeshift; and they have the patriotism to support such a measure even if the special interest of their own locality be denied further governmental aid. They realize the justice of impartiality and of leaving each industry to shift for itself. They have more oourage than some of the 60-called representatives in Congress who are afraid to say nay to the selfish clamor of a few of their wealthy constituents. Let a Congressman rise above sectionalism, vote for the good of tho whole country, have faith in the patriotism of his constituents, and he will not only benefit his party, but probably also himself. Patriotism is far more likely to bring success than demagogism. If the Democratic party at the critical time shrinks from action, or shirks its duty to fulfill its promises, it need not trouble itself about its future—it will have none. Quick, sharp, decisive action, which shall wipe out the last vestige of McKinleyism, give us free raw materials and lower the cost of living will receive the plaudits and votes of millions of people. Try them!—Bvron W. Holt. A Precedent. If it is seriously urged that the course of Congress in revising the tariff should be affected by the late vote of the North, we think it will be easily found that the high tariff men have furnished themselves a precedent which fully justifies tariff reformers in disregarding it. The McKinley tariff was passed under conditions when it was really condemned by the people in advance. In the first place, it was a fraud in the way the sense of the people was tested with regard to it in the campaign that elected President Harrison and gave it a majority in Congress. The impression generally prevailed all through the election of 1888 that duties were to be equalized, not raised. But accepting that as a verdict for raising them, and what followed? The McKinley tariff was not passed till 1890. In the meantime another election had been held, and in it the supporters of high protection had been routed all through the North. In New York, in Ohio, in lowa, and almost even in Massachusetts, all of which states had voted for Harrison, and {according to Republican claims) for high protection, thore had been revolutions at the polls which had given tariff reform great gains and reversed the verdict. What did the Republicans do in such a contingency? Accept the popular verdict as against them, as they are now asking tho Democrats to do? As far from it as possible. They went at once to work and passed the McKinley tariff in its most odious features, entirely ignoring the decision of the country, which had declared against McKinleyism, precisely as they would have the people believe it has declared against tariff reduction now. They thus set an example which they are the last men in the world who have a right to complain of the Democrats for following. What would be more inconsistent than for them to claim a different course on the part of their opponents?—Boston Herald. No Backward Step. The Democratic party cannot afford to purchase the “six votes of Louisiana,” as Congressman Bianohard puts it* by reimposing the tariff on sugar

AN OLD IMPOSITION.

that was taken off by the McKinley bill. Apart from the principle involved, the bargain would be a bad one, for It would cost the party in the next Congress at least thrice six votes from the West and North west. The placing of sugar on the free list was the greatest blunder the Protootionists have made in the lopg battle over the tariff. It Is carried into every household in the land demonstrative proof that the tariff is a tax; that our own people pay it; that it raises the price of the commodity on which it is Imposed, and that prices can be cheapened by taking it off. Every householder who learned that the sugar duty had been removed, and then found by experience that as a consequence ho could buy twenty pounds of sugar for a dollar where he had previously got only twelve pounds, had received an object-lesson that no argument could discredit. In the light of this practical experience the preposterous plea that cheapness is degrading—that “a cheap ooat makes a cheap man’’—was simply laughed at. The West and the Nortnweßt were won for tariff reform by the adroit use of this conclusive object-lession, and throughout the country cheapened sugar was pointed to as an indication of what a Democratic triumph would mean for the consumer. If the duty is reimposed and millions of voters are thus taught that tariff reform means a higher price for tho necessaries of life, the result cannot fail to be disastrous. The Democratic motto should be “Once on the free list always on the free list.” There must be no backward step.—New York World. Carlisle's Opportunity. The report of Robert J. Walker, Secretary ol the Treasury, which dealt with the revenue question and preceded the passage of the tariff act of 1846, was a state paper of such merit as to command the attention of the civilized world. It was a blow, at the right time, on the right side of a question which engaged the earnest attention of statesmen in Europe as well as in America, and it was Instrumental in bringing about a proper determination. Secretary Carlisle has the incentive and the opportunity for a state paper of like tenor with the Walker report. He is a great master of lucid statement. The oountry may expect from him an equally clear and candid exposition of Democratic doctrine on the subject of taxation that will compel the conviction of impartial minds.—Philadelphia Record.

Urgency of Tariff Reform. Let tariff reform go on as demanded by the best interests of the country.— Lynchburg (Va.) News. The necessity of tariff reform and reduction is as fully understood as ever before.—Buffalo Courier. There is danger in every step that leads us away from the platform, and safety in every effort that we make to carry it into effect.—Atlanta Constitution. Obstruction of the tariff bill, like opposition to the repeal of the Sherman act, will but delay the revival of business, which the oountry ardently desires. —Baltimore Sun The duty of the hour for the Democratic Congress is the revision of the tariff. It was this to which the party was pledged. Upon this pledge It was restored to power.—Kansas Gity Times. It is important that tariff reform be enacted as speedily as possible In order that the people may discover by experience that it is not the fearful tiling of their imaginings.—Elmira Gazette. Prompt, decisive action by Congress on the tariff question is imperatively demanded; not only for the best interests of the country, but for the good of the Democratic party.—Newport Herald. Tariff reform must be pushed with all possible expedition. Such a course is demanded alike by the interests of the country and by considerations of party expediency.—Louisville CourierJournal. Je behooves the Democratic majority to proceed with all possible expedition to put upon the statute books its policy of tariff reform, so that industry may know what to expect.—Springfield Republican. It is scarcely reasonable to suppose that President Cleveland will accept the vote of the 7th inst. as a revision of public judgment upon the questions of tariff reform and silver coinage.— Chicago Record. The Democrats should as speedily as possible give the country the law which it is their intention to enact, so that any element of doubt may be removed from tho situation.—Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette. Congress would be especially derelict if it failed in this [revision of the tariff], for no Congress ever was elected with clearer instructions, repeated after two years of deliberation and discussion.—Philadelphia Times. The lesson to the Democratic party of the election is that the pledges of the platform upon which it was intrusted with power must be kept, and that tariff revision must be effected as speedily as possible. Bridgeport Farmer. The extra session of Congress has cleared the way, by the repeal of the silver-purchase law, for the other and more important work of tariff reform. In regard to that reform, there must be no hesitation, no delay.—Grand Rapids Democrat. The people voted for tariff reform. They desire nothing radical or unreasonable. They do not wish manufacturers ruined or Western farmers driven to the woods. Reform, moderate, just to all, they are going to have.—Provtdance Telegram.

GOWNS FOR INDOOES.

FIVE STYLISH COSTUMES FOR THE HOME. All the Dressea lictured Follow Closely the Ralee UH Down tor Stylish Dressing—The Wearer Appears Homelike and Vet Precisely Attired. * - Fashion’s Fancies. New York correspondence:

so. woman who to be well » f in her own L/B ' home and what woman does not— And in the accompany ing five pictures, and the EjSO' description of the costumes they portray, some suggestion for adaptation V\ to their own uses, f and practical aid 1 in carrying them I out. All the dress--1 es pictured are for J indoor wear, yet j none partakes of ———V the nature of a \ neglige, each foli . lowing closely the J_ rules laid down ■■SCI* I for stylish dross-

ing and making the wearer appearing at once homelike and yet precisely attired. The plainest of the lot comes first, and its sobriety is duo to the fact that it is offered as a model tor the middle-aged or older. Its material as sketched was iron-gray serge, though a great variety of materials would be equally tasteful. Its plain skirt has two deep pleats kept in place by three rows of Btitching. The boaice is trimmed with a soft broche silk in a shade matching the material. At the end of the grand basin at the Pair, oppose the Columbian fountain, stood of the Republic, and you cannotlio better than have your morning gown draped in the baok as Miss Republic wore her beautiful folds. If you saw her you will remomber; if you didn’t, these directions will make It clear. A full breadth of very wide and rich silken stuff must fall from your shoulders softly to the floor in the back. The material is gathered into many fine folds on each shoulder, and from this gathering two great flutes fall the full length, one from each shoulder. Between these flutes the

THIS LOOKS HOMELIKE.

(foods fall In a groat many horizontal small folds to about the waist. In other words, the goods are gathered perand wide, tho edges taking rich flutes as they fall. Of course, under this would be worn a short-walsted gown of white, with sleeves flowing to the wrist. The dress Miss Republic wore is, perhaps, a little classic for reproduction, but the drapery effects were beautiful and worth preserving. Salmon silk over white, eminence velvet over lilac crepe, or deep golden-brown over corn-yellow would be good combinations tor it. If, of these two dresses, one is too plain and the other too fanciful for your liking, it may be that the dress worn by a young matron shown in the second illustration will prove a happy medium. Cut from yellow woolen crepe showing a small design in black stars, the skirt consists oi a bell-shaped pendieularly and horizontally, too. The sleeves are apparently continuations of the perpendicular gatherings, and they are, as it were, another breadth, each caught up looee'y and flowing along to the back, mingling with the back. The fronts fall open upper and a circular lower half joined together with two rows of shirring and a small head. The circular portion is three yards wide and is garnished with a lace frill ten inches wide around the bottom and by a second frill of the stuff two and a half inches in width ten inches above. The .jpcket has a yoke, alike in back and front, to which the two front pieces and back are shirred, with a side front under each arm. The sleeves have a fitted lining and the puff is mado of a piece of material gathered to the cuff and held in place near the elbow by a two-inch band of black lace insertion. The cuffs are also garnished with lace insertion. The epaulettes come from accordionpleated lace eight inches deep. The yoke is made of stuff and laoe Insertion In the manner indicated and is finished by a gathered lace frill topped by an arrangement of ends and lood3 of black

CONTRASTED ELABORATION AND SIMPLICITY.

! watered ribbon. A belt of the same ties in a bow in the front. The little girl’s dress here has a zouave guimpe made of red and white-striped voile or pongee, and the jacket and skirt are from the bright-red cashmere. The , skirt is lined with stiff muslin and the j deep hem is topped by a white silk braid which also comes on the jacket. The guimpe hangs over the top of the skirt and is gathered to a neck-band and also at the waist with a drawstring. It buttons invisibly in front and has very full wide sleeves, finished with an elastic and a narrow ruffle at

the wrist. The jacket is cut away in front and the two points are held together by gold link buttons. Velvet is extensively used as a garniture this winter and bids fair to outdo everything else in the way of trimming. In the left-hand dress of picture the stuff used is terracotta and bluish-green mixed suiting trimmed with bluish-green velvet. The bodice is plain in back, but the fronts are six inches apart at the neck and two inches at the bottom, where they are gathered and fall in blouse fashion over the velvet belt. Each front is adorned with a band of velvet two inches wide ornamented with buttons spun with yellow silk. In the center a narrow folded strip of lemonoolored surah is visible, further ornamented with fancy herring-bone stitching in green silk. The revers collar ia made of double velvet and ends in points, something like jacket fronts, near the waist. The sleeves have a large puff tacked in the center and finished with silk ball fringe showing the colors of the material. The same

TWO OF THE SLENDER TYPE.

fringe falls over the velvet fold arouiMk the bottom of the bell skirt. From the extreme plainness of the initial’s costume to this complex affair is a long stride; indeed, as far as this article is concerned, the last costume 1b the climax of elaboration, for the remaining toilets are all more simple. Take the other figure in the same pioture; equally stylish, it is quieter in every way and its fabrio is black sillt, trimmed with pink. The skirt is moderately wide and is garnished around tho bottom by three ruffles, and two more come thirty inches higher. The bodice has a yoko of pink silk covered with shirred black illusion and trimmed with jet passementerie. The silk ie gathered to the yoke in front and baok, the fullness kept in place by passementerie bands. The wide belt is made of two bands of jet passementerie divided by a silk stripe. The puffs of the sleeves are also trimmed with jet bands put over pink sllic and tho gathered epaulettes aro edgod with the tame. The wrists and standing collar are trimmed with a ruchlng of black silk covered with illusion. The model at the left in the fourth sketch is a youthful one, and one particularly suitable for slender figures. The material lised is a red, blue and yellow finely plaided cheviot, trimmed with yellow satin und black watered silk. The skirt must fit snugly over the hips and the remainder is slashed to give the boxpleats. At the top in front the pleats aro slit to permit m. band of watered silk to pass through, and end in a huge bow at the left side. The bodice has a round yoke and standing collar made of yellow satin. The seam joining bodice and yoke is hidden by a circular collar of mack watered sflk finished at the left side with a large bow of watered ribbon. The openings between the pleats are filled' in by pieces of ribbon to make it appear as if the collar were run through the same as the ribbon on the skirt. The puffed leg-o’-mutton sleeves have turned hack cuffs of yellow satin. The righthand dress is composed of sand-colored doth and garnished with velvet in a darker shade. The skirt has a bellshaped foundation which is covered with three deep ciroular flounces that are not hemmed at tho edges. Ilia fitted bodice books in front beneath the plastron of velvet, which is fastened at one side and hooks over to the other.

DRESSINESS AND COMPORT COMBINED.

The fronts turn back to form revers and are caught with two pearl buttons at the waist. The revers as well as tha turned collar are made of velvet. The bodice further has a triple garniture of circular ruffles that come »Ul the way around in back and end in points in front. None of these ruffles arehemmed or lined, and the space between each succeeding frill is one inch. The bodice also has a circular skirt that ia very wide around the bottom. While the young woman’s pose i» the final picture is of the lolling, semireclining sort, yet her dress is not of the neglige order which so often accompanies such posturing. It is a very pretty house dress, made from white and blue striped silk, trimmed with white guipure lace. The skirt is trimmed around the bottom with three narrow lace ruffles and is lined with silk. The bodice has a point in back and hooks in front. It is adorned with separate jacket fronts, round at the bottom and having small revers at the top that are hidden by the wide frill of lace commencing at the base of the revers, then continuing over the shoulders and meeting in a point in the center of the back. The center of the front is trimmed with a perpendicular band of lace that hides the hooks and eyes. Tho jacket fronts are faced with blue velvet and the belt is to match. SmalL yokes, pointed front and back, and lot into bodices, are covered with rows of braiding and gold. These yokes often come out for especial occasions. But the American woman has a deep-rooted objection to the trick gown that can be made to serve any occasion by taking in or out yokes, adding trains and removing sleeves. When she has a new dress she want* every one to know it’s new,’ and that, it isn’t the sange old one with the neck out or with a piece gone from th» train. Copyright, 1693. Mrs. Gayboy (after kissing her husband) —Oh, Charlie, have you been drinking? Mr. Gayboy Nothin stronger than a little brandy, my dear. Mrs. Gayboy (much relieved) —Oh, it’s all right, then—Troth.