Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Page 5

NEW TARIFF BILL.

ITS PRINCIPAL FEATURES ARE EXCELLENT. •Mica to cJm ■—r -tto am ta—l* B» h«iM niM|k The Ways ud Mtoni tariff bin, which will probably be known m the WUeon bill, la, on the whole, a satisfactory response to the demends of the country. The Democratic administration and the Democratic majorities In the two houses of Congress were ohoeen to give relief from the high taxation imposed by the McKinley act, and this Mil is the response to the country's desire. The first, because the moat universal, demand was that the necessaries of life should be made cheaper to the people by the abolition of taxes on the materials used by American manufacturers and on ths tools of agriculture and trade. The Mil la fully satisfactory in this respect. In making the additions to the free list the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee have risen above selfish considerations. They have refuted to heed the protests ana outcries of protected interests In their own distrfote. This is especially true of the Chairman of the committee, whose district contains many coal and iron mines, and whose constituents clamored loudly against the abolition of the tariff taxes on ooal and cm iron ore. But the duties on ooal and on iron ore are an annual tax on manufacturers of more than •1,750,000. and have closed up many furnaces and iron and steel mills in New England. Cheap ore and pig iron lie at the basis of our industries, and Mr. Wilson and his associates have sought the good ff the whole. With the taxes removed from these articles,,there is every reason to believe. from the present state of the metal market, that Amerioan iron masters will soon control the Iron and steel trade of the world. In the not remote future the West Virginians, Pennsylvanians, and Alabamians themselves will find free ore and ooal beneficial.

The remainder of the free list additions are directly for the relief of the people who are bearing the more serious burdens of the present tariff. Not only are wools made free, but the tax on wearing apparel is also repealed. Clothes are to be oheaper. Fuel, lumber, stone and structural iron that go Into houses, the tools of the mechanic, the machinery and Implements of the fanner are to be made oheaper. The monopolies that were fostered by the taxes on ootton ties and binding twine are to have their hold on their victims loosened. Sham reciprocity, whioh, untaxing foreigners only, has raised the price of ooffee and extended the area of protection under the pretense of granting relief to oommeroe, is to be abandoned. The bounty on sugar is to be withdrawn gradually, and the tax on refined sugar is to be reduced. The most disappointing feature of the new bill is the sugar schedule. Moet Democrats will say that the bounty ought to have been taken away at once, for such a tax is directly hostile to American institutions and espeolally to Democratic principles. Many difficulties, however, stood m the way of radical treatment. The sugar growers of the country protested against being suddenly left stripped of all protection. They argued that this would be discrimination against them; that while other protected interests were to have their favors withdrawn gradually it was proposed to out off tne sugar bounty at onoe and after the growers had arranged their business witn reference to it In order to satisfy these people and their representatives in Congress, who were for the bill otherwise, the plan of gradual withdrawal of the bounty was adopted. It is a compromise oonoernlng whioh something can be said on both sides. The reduction of the rate on refined sugars will be a blow at the trust, but not a serious one. The bill generally is excellent. It has been prepared with great oare and entire conscientiousness. It goes very far, perhaps as tar as it is possible to go at onoe, toward a complete fulfillment of Democratic pledges. When it passes and becomes a law, a new and brighter era will begin for American oommeroe.—Now York World. ImauStato Tariff IWdaetioa. The following quotations are from A. Augustus Mealy’s article, in the December Forum, entitled, "Necessity for Immediate Tariff Reduction:** ‘The present time is moet opportune for changing the tariff. The financial panic through which wc have passed, with its attendant disaster and suffering, has furnished a golden opportunity for putting a new tariff into effect with the least possible displacement and loss. "The great majority of manufacturers are not at all afraid of a lower tariff. It will in reality be a great boon to them. But they arc extremely impatient to know what it is to be in all its details. "The new tariff should be put into effect as soon as possible, in order that it may have time to vindicate itself and establish itself in the favor of the people before the Congressional elections of 1864. The permanency of the reform may be involved in having this done. "I have every confidence that a wise tariff law, suoh as we may reasonably expect at the hands of the present Ways and Means Committee, if put into operation by the Ist of January, 1894, will find great favor in the eyes of the people before the Congressional elections of next year, and will continue to give universal satisfaction, until, with general oonsent, the business of the country shall be prepared for a further reduction of duties; thus repeating the history of the low Walker tariff of 1846, which, having brought prosperity to the country during a period of ten years, was further reduced in 1857. Mr. Blaine tells us in his ‘History’ tha‘t ‘this act {the tariff of 1857) was well received by the people, and, indeed, waa concurred in by a considerable proportion of the Republican party.’ "It seems clear to me that to postpone the revision of the tariff is to postpone the revival of prosperity by Introducing uncertainty, as a constant element, in a large class of industries. On the other hand, the prompt passage of a new tariff bill would clear up all doubt; business would at once adapt itself to new conditions; our merchants and manufacturers would have courage and oonfidence to undertake new and large enterprises, and with a more liberal commercial policy, it is probable that we should at once enter upon a long oourse of business prosperity. “The people of the United States are inclined to favor that party which is able to accomplish results. They desire prompt action on the part of their representatives in%arrying into effect needed legislation." One Rational Ropnhlican Opinion. While the free-listing of these and ether articles reduces the revenues

about twenty-two million*, h is better, the revenue question apart, that some of them should be dutyfree. This le the eaee with wool, tor reasons whioh this paper has stated repeetodly. The rewrm of the duty on lumber will be followed by lacreeaed importations front Canada, but the destruction of the Amerioan forests, whioh has boon progressing so rapidly, will bo oheoked. The tariff protection of those forests has contributed to their untimely destruction. That free iron ore will injure the iron-ore men of the United States may well be questioned. What the effect of the removal of the duty on ooal will be time will show. —Chicago Tribune. Tease AwwOm to Valna It Is plain that the ad valorem or "aooording to value" style of duty is much more equitable than the fixed or specific style of duty. Rich people naturally like the specific style oi duty more than they like the other, as under it they are not required to pay their proper share of taxation. It is to the great advantage of the power olasaee to have ad valorem duties on everything, as then they are not required to pay their own share of taxation and a considerable slice of the rioh men’s share as welL The inferior qualities of goods whioh poor people buy are not any longer to be taxed two, three or four times as highly as the fine qualities of goods in the same line whioh millionaires buy.—New Orleans Times-Democrat George A. Macbeth, a lamp chimney manufacturer of Pittsburg, talks like a man of courage, enterprise and Amerioan spirit of tne new tariff MIL "There has been too muoh tariff," he says, "on glassware. If it were taken off altogether it would be a good thing, which other manufacturers oannot see now. but will later. Without a tariff on tne finished product the market* of the world would be open to us. We oare nothing in our business for foreign competition. Labor-saving ms shlnery, skilled workmen and all the natural benefits we possess give the Amerloans an advantage in manufacturing which no other oountry possesses." That is the American spirit which wins and conquers.

Tex ths Inornate*. There are no sound reasons advanced sufficient to justify the defeat of thi* species of taxation.—Nashville Amerioan. It is just, will keep down disoontent among people on whom taxation is a burden and will make the rich more secure in their property holdings.— Washington (Ga.) Chronlole. The income tax is opposed by many of the "goldbugs" upon the ground that it is inquisitorial, but as all taxes are inquisitorial and burdensome this argument should not prevent the lawmakers from placing it upon the statute books.—Bangor Commercial. OCR Consul at Chemnitz finds that the income tax in Saxony has worked very successfully, and that in the main it has yielded safe and certain results, with little loss and less oomplainL It would be our own fault if we were not to make our income tax popular.—St. Louis Poet-Dispatch.

We need the income tax to make good the deficiency in the Treasury now existing and likely to continue, and we need it because it tends to equalize taxation. Under the present system taxes are so unequally distributed that the wealthy bondholder may escape while his poor neighbor pays more than his just part.—Atlanta Constitution. Hurry the mil Through. Let the tariff bill become a law before Mr. Cleveland’s first year in office expires.—St Louis Republic. The Wilson bill ought to pass both branches of Congress without material modification or unneoassary delay.— Kansas City Star. Since the tariff must be changed, the one Imperative duty is to perfect the ohange as promptly as possible. Some business must be done in the meantime, but no large engagements can be entered into nntil all these questions are settled. —Philadelphia Times. The Wilson bill, whioh is destined to supersede the iniquitous McKinley measure, is now ready for the action of Congress. Rush it through with a whirl, gentlemen, and if there is any attempt at blockading in the Senate, just send for David B. Hill.—Chicago Times. The tariff bill is ready for Congress, and the people are ready for the tariff bill. Time Is precious. The quioker we get the bill passed the quioker shall we rid our industries of that uncertainty which, aside from bad tariff legislation itself, is the greatest souroe of harm in tariff legislation.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Another Great Ship Canal.

The great canal between the North and Baltic seas is fast approaching completion, and the engineers say that it will be opened without fail next year. It has no locks or sluices along its course, but at each end there are gates regulating the water level in the canal. The average level will be the same as that in the Baltic. The bed of the canal is 27 feet below normal water level and it has a bottom width of 66 yards. The slope of the sides is either two to one or three to one, and the least depth of water is to be about 16 feet deep. The Baltic trading steamers generally draw less water than this minimum and are of suoh a beam that they can easily pass in the canaL The greatest amount of curvature la made with a radius of 3,000 feet, and 63 per cent, of the canal is straight. During the summer about 5,000 men have been at work on the great ditch, and up to the present time about 100,000,000 cubic yards of excavation have been completed at an expense of about $17,500,000. The entire cost of the canal is estimated at $39,000,000, of which sum Prussia contributes $12,500,000 and the German Empire the balance.

The Making of Fly Paper.

The substance used in the sticky paper employed to catch flies is a kind of bird lime. The regular bird lime is made from the banc of the holly by boiling it and condensing the product until it is about the consistency of molasses. It is the stickiest stuff known to the chemist A fly that touches the paper never gets away to tell the tale; a bird that lights on the twig that has been smeared with it finds escape an impossibility. The use of it on paper to destroy insects is an Indian invention. In Hindostan flies and mosquitoes make life a burden, and without the sheets of sticky paper hung everywhere about the roof ana on the walls, existence would be a misery.

An Income Like a Vanderbilt’s.

Dean Hoffman, of the General Theological Seminary, New York, has an Income as large as that of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He inherited most of his property, which is in the form of oity real estate. The Hoffman House, containing the oelebrated barroom, belongs principally to this worthy clergyman, and pays 25 per cent, on the Investment. He has given more than a million to the churon, and his brother. Dr. Charles P. Hoffman, built All Angels Church, endowed it and gave it to the eerlsK

WHAT WOMEN WEAR.

STYLES FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LOOK PRETTY. RvMcocm of th« Style* of lota XXEL App>« i taj h the iMkltasbb Tim line The ZnepreMtbte OimkM Is Coming— Until Growing in SUe. Kur New Modes. Hew Toifc oorreipondenoe:

APID are the changes of style* nowadays, and the .latest scanning of 'the firmament of modes discovers the fashions of Louis XHL on the horizon. This means an aooeesion of dignity and graoe. A few characteristics of the period to be reviewed are as follows: Bodices, with long point in front ana cut high on the hips; skirts of Ithe same material 3 as the bodice open in front over a oon-

trasting petticoat; shoulders are sloping, and sleeves puffed to great sixe emphasize the sloping effect. Suggestions of all this are already appearing. We may expect soon to see stiffenened collars of muslin and lace that extend smoothly from the throat away out over the shoulders, adding to their slope. Such collars are also worn with low-neok dresses, being set into the edge of the gown's neck. The richest needlework will be used on the accessories, and they will be fidished usually with Vandyke points. Cuffs likewise turn back from the wrists, being narrow at the hand and spreading over the sleeves half way to the elbow. Other cuffs give the effect of an undersleeve loosely turned back. Many delicate tints are put together In gowns, and stomachers richly jeweled will be worn. Already some are for sale In jet, gilt, and embroidery. Evening gowns will have long sleeves. Ribbons will trim everything, as in the days of Louis XIII. when every one was “ribbon mad." Skirts will be only moderately full and their spread wifi be muoh reduced. As has been said, these styles are only on the horizon, and whether they will rise to the zenith or sink out of sight for a long, long time like a Nor-

VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL TRIMMING.

Way winter sun is as yet not determined. Pretty gowns in the current styles like those in the first two pictures are for the present safer models. The first of these is a dress of brown diagonal cloth, with the skirt perfectly plain and very fulL The front and cuffs are of brown velvet with brocaded designs in buttercup gold. The draped belt is of surah and the front is set off by a jabot of cream lace. The other dress is designed as a visiting costume and is made from heliotrope doth trimmed with velvet in the same shade and jet passementerie. The skirt is three and a half yards wide, and snug at the hips. The trimming consists of three bias folds of velvet neavily embroidered with jet beads. The bodice has a fitted lining over whioh the stuff is draped, and the fronts may have the usual darts or the fullness can be pushed under the vertical bands of embroidery used for adornment. The belt is made of heliotrope velvet or satin taken bias and hemmed on both Bides, and the jacket is velvet and reaches to the top of the belt at the back and sides, while the fronts terminate in sharp points. It is lined with silk, and its revers are faced with cloth and garnished with jet embroidered velvet. The standing collar is hidden by a Henry 11. ruohing of white marabout feathers.

The last bodice runs to perpendicular divisions, but there is a tendency just now which prompts woman to divide herself into any number of zones horizontally, giving each zone a different color. Her cape or collar will be one color and material, the rest of her bodice another, and the skirt will show two or more shades distributed horizontally, but you never see dresses made with one color and the other side a contrasting shade. Sleeves may be different in color and material from ail the rest of the gown, but they are al-. ways like each other. It is to be hoped that mention of these facts will not suggest another phase for fashion’s frenzy to follow. The little girl’s apron next shown runs to stripes, too, but in this case the up and down divisions are only the pattern of the batiste which comprises it.

ELEGANCE AND ASPIRATION TOWARD IT.

The garment is garnished with two bands of insertion embroidered with clover leaves. It has a square bib attached to a square yoke, alike back and front, and has two straps fastening to the band. The yoke and small pocket are trimmed with embroidery as shown. Her mother’s costume is an elaborate affair made of pale silver-gray cloth with a faint pink tinge vnth white ■mire antique tor plastron and rovers,

ooarse netting for the roohing around the skirt and tulle insertion embroidered with gold. The skirt has a slight train, is lined with silk, and garnished with bands of gold-embroidered tulle. It is finished with revere forming an upright ruohing on the shoulders, the oouar being cut in connection with the plastron, whioh is edged with a deep lace frill, and put on separately to fasten on the shoulder. The sleeve* have balloon puffs edged with a grey ruffle trimmed with a tulle ruening and long cuffs of gold of embroidered tulle. Overskirts have not yet interfered with the smooth fit about the hips. An especially pretty sort is out with a long point reselling to a little below the knees in front, and shortening at the sides to almost nothing at the back. About the hips in front and at the sides it la gored oloeely to the figure, while at the neck, where it is hardly more than a little frill, it stands out full. The whole overdress is edged with a deep flounoe of lace set on very fulL The laoe fans out prettily at the sides and back, and hangs almost to

A MODEL FOR THE ELDERLY.

the hem in front. The underskirt ha* three frills of narrow lace at the foot. Rioh and heavy black lace is used on the fourth costume sketched to cover the yellow satin bretelles, the whole being edged with a narrow jet fringe. The costume is designed for those past middle age, and is made from black satin duchesse striped with yellow. The bretelles form a round oollar in back and leave the top of the bodice open. The standing oollar is finished with a oloeely pleated frill or ruohing made of yellow orepe de chine. The sleeves have a large puff shirred near the elbow to form a puffing or ruohing tied with black satin ribbon having a yellow picot edge. The bottom of the bodice is finished with a flounoe or basque of yellow satin oovered with black laoe and edged with jet fringe. The bodice is Blightly pointed in front and back and the basque stops about four inches from the center on each side, thus leaving the front open for about eight inches. This full space is oovered with a narrow pointed belt of yellow and black ribbon held in plaoa by a yellow rosette on either Bide. The skirt is lined with yellow silk and trimmed on the inside with ablack laoe frill. Both sides of the skirt are appliqued panels of yellow satin covered with jet embroidered tulle and held In place by rosettes, one near the bottom, the other thirty Inches higher. Sleeves are many of them made with puffs spreading enormously at the elbow, and even though the puff Is narrower on the inside of the arm than on the outside, the woman who wears them must stand with her hand on her hips or crush her sleeves. As for getting on a coat! well, no armhole is made big enough for suoh puffs to get through either way. The elbow sleeves on the dress worn by the standing figure in the last illustration are of this order, and the wearer is shown with her Idle arm set akimbo. Suoh sleeves will make their presence felt and the woman wearing them will be pretty apt, when not herself on view, to take up an attitude which relieves her mind of them. This dress is made of lilac broche silk, with the panels, sleeves and revere of black velvet. The front is pale-veilow crepe de ohine embroidered witn velvet applique. The other gown of the same picture is In myrtle-green crepon, trimmed with velvet of the same shade. Oollar, crosswise band on the bodice, and the

WITH SLEEVES WHICH ARE A CARE.

torsade around the skirt are of the velvet and the basque is of crepon. Choker collars fastening in the back have a wing-like pieoe turned over at the top edge of the collar, and this edge stands out stiff and flat and is very stylish, uncomfortable and perishable. Collarettes of velvet are finished with this sort of throat-locket, the whole being lined with a silk contrasting in color, which shows at the turn-over piece. No protection is worn inside the edge of any collar or sleeve, and the idea seems to be that a gown will of course be worn so short a time that protection for the lining at the neck and sleeves is unnecessary. At the same time, the tailor-made girl can always wear collars and cuffß if she likes. Yes, verily, she has taken to herself the privilege till now monopolized by her brothers, and she means to wear the shirt front all winter. She, too, has discovered that its sum-mer-like appearance is appearance only, and having shared with her brothers the delights of roasting in a “boiled shirt” in the summer, she is now going to be comfortable in one in the winter. But it will look queer to see a shirt front peeping from the loosened seal-skin sacque. (Copyright, 1893.)

Some Long Days.

The longest day of the year at Spitsbergen is three and one-half months. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22 without Intermission. At Tornea, Finland, June 21 is twenty-two hours long, ana Christmas has less than three hours of daylight. At St. Petersburg the longest day is nineteen hours and the shortest is five hours.

Exit “After the Ball.”

“After the Ball” has about run its course, and, like all the old favorites, will soon be only a memory. It haa been succeeded In popular favor by “Daisy," a German tune set t> English words by a London oomposer. It has three verses, and is perhaps the first song that has the bicycle toe a here.

THE MATABELE KING.

LOBENGULA THE CORPCLANT SOUTH AFRICA RULER. Me la Possessed of Great Force of Character, But la aa Excessively Cruel Mobavolu Lobengula, the Matabele King, wkose trouble with the British troops Tn South Africa has called general attention to that part of the world, it the son of the dreaaed Msselikatze, the conqueror of the satires who had long held possession of the oonatry now known as Matabeleland and the Mashona country. After they bed been subdued he took up his residence at Inysti and formed a large military kraal now known as Isyatias, where Lobengula was born. Maselikatze, known also sa Umselekatze, ruled his people with a rod of iron and kept an army of 8,000 warriors, and oould bring more into the field if required. He was a king who knew how to rule his turbulent subjects; a splendid warrior himself, he took care that his troops should be so likewise. He died in 1869. and at his death, after some dispute about who should be his successor, Lobengula was proclaimed King with great rejoicings. Warriors to the number of 10,000 assembled to do homage to their new King. From that time up to the present he has held undisputed possession of the throne. He took up his residence at Buluwayo, situated some sixty miles south of Inyatlne, which he formed into a large military station, and where he has since resided. Lobengula is a man of great foroe of character; his will is law, and it would be death to any of his subjects to dispute his authority. It is by this iron will that he is able to rule his people. He is tall and well proportioned, bnt very oorpu-. lent. His royal wife died many years age, leaving Lobengula a widower, with some forty or fifty wives to console him for his loss. There are no children living by his royal wife, although he has several daughters by his others. Some years ago he married a sister of Umzela, the King of Gaziland, which adjoins the Mashona country. Previously to this marriage his sister Nina ruled his household, and was devoted to her brother. Hot unnaturally, perhaps, she became very jealous at her brother’s marriage, a fact which displeased him. To get rid of the annoyance, therefore, Lobengula had her smothered. His oruelty, indeed, knows no bounds. It is by his orders that the constant raide upon the Mashona people are made. Upon the slightest pretext he orders certain regiments to prooeed to a particular kraal, where several indunas and some 800 or 800 Mashonas are living in supposed security. The regiments attack them in the night, killing all the men and women ana the ohtlaren over a certain age and bringing the younger ones back with them, together with suon booty and cattle as they oau lay their hands on. The King divides out the cattle to the regiments who have acted on the occasion, reserving a certain number for himself. The children are distributed among his people. They soon forget their nationality and aa they grow up are incorporatedln the Matabele nation. Yet with all this ferocity in his nature, and a cruelty surpassing imagination, one would fanoy, to see him sitting on the box in front of his wagon indulging in his lunch of fried bullock liver out Into immense pieces, that he was a fat but inoffensive old man. There is a certain look in his eyes, however, that is an unmistakable sign of the man. Lobengula is exceedingly clever, yet full of duplicity. He can read a man's character after a few minutes’ conversation with him, and will detect instantly if a man is playing him false. I only know of one good quality possessed by him—he is fond of children. Lobengula himself took a burning piece of wood from the fire and destroyed the eyes and nose of one of his men because he threw a stone at a child and knocked out its front teeth; this was witnessed by one of the traders.

A abort time ago ha ordered a young Kaffir to be killed for pulling a atraw out of the thatch of one of hia buta. No one ia allowed to touoh tbeae on pain of death. There is no doubt about hla ordering the deatha of Captain Patterson, Mr. Sargeant (aon of Sir W. Sergeant), and young Mr. Thomas (ion of the Her. Mr. Thomas, of Shiloh), while on their way to the Victoria Palls. They were warned that foul play was intended, but they would not believe the report. When their death was reported to the King he said to some of the white traders, ‘'Now Captain Patterson is dead the agreement goes for nothing." They had previously entered into some agreement with the King, which he afterwards regretted, and he disposed of the matter in the way we have just mentioned. No documents were found on the bodies. On another occaaion, which will be last out of many more I could relate, a large impi went into the Maahona country, where they killed ull the old people, making some of the women and big girls carry the plunder to the boundary, where they made them put the things down on the ground and then killed them, that they might not run away if brought into Matabeleland. The children, who soon forgot the land they had left, were preserved.

LIKE A HEART IN HIS LEG.

An Interesting Operation on a St. Louis Patient. Dr. Marks, Superintendent of the City Hospital, out a heart out of a man’s leg the other day. Instead of being necessary to the patient’s existence, as hearts usually are, this organ was a very dangerous possession and was likely to end his life at any moment. The heart was almost as large as the one usually found inside a man’s riba, and beat in very much the same manner. It was situated upon the inside of the right leg, four or five inches above* the knee, and was more tender than the ball of the ownor’s eye. Charles Gentry, a laborer, was the owner of this very remarkable organ. To the surgeons the phenomenon is called a traumatic aneurism of the femoral artery. This artery is the big blood feeding pipe that run. from the heart down through the body and leg, famishing life to the different parts of the anatomy as it goes. About two months ago Gentry was struck upon the leg just over the artery by a shaft of a piece of machinery. The inner wall of the artery was burst, and the big pipe began to bulge out at this point. The outer wall, or coat of the artery, luckily stretched and held the blood, or Gantry would have bled to death *in no time. The artery kept on swelling with every pulsation of the patient's heart From the size of a hazelnut the bulge grew and grew until it was larger than a man’s fist. How the artery managed to stand it without banting was a matter for wonder even to the surgeons. Tho least touoh given to the akin over the awaiting caused Gentry horrible pain, and he was obliged to keep very still last any sudden movemm* or Matnot would break aad by the

hemorrhage bring op death. The aneurism oould be seen to beat to all in teats and purposes like any other heart If one brought his ear dose to it he uould hear a constantly repeated flowing or breathing sound coming from beneath the skin. This noise was caused by the vacant air space around the swollea artery where it had crowded the muscles aside. The ether day Or. Marks, decided to operate in order to save Gentry’s life. Tne aneurism was preceptibly growing, and was bound to burst soon. Tim patient was laid upon the operating table and placed under the influence of chloroform. A sharp knife laid the tissues aside and exposed the femoral artery with its apple-shaped bulb. The artery was then tied, or “ligated,” twenty-one inches above and two inches below the swelling, and the big bulb cut open.' Nearly a pint of blood gushed forth and then there was no heart left The slit artery was then sewed together with fine silk threads previously soaked in antiseptic solutions, and left to heal. The ligatures above and below were left to remain, however, until the artery is fully healed. Then they will be untied and the blood allowed to go down Gentry’s leg as usual. In the mean time the patient's limb will receive blood from the smaller arteries, and will in all probability keep from dying.— [St. Louis Globe Democrat

WASTE ABOARD BIG SHIPS.

Knlvee, Dishes, Table Linen & China Thrown Overboard. A msn came overon the big Cunarder Campania last trip who, being of an inquiring turn of mind, used his eyes and ears to good advantage all the way, and he expressed to a reporter the most unqualified amusement of the constant wholesale waste of valuable material. “ I don't think so much of the stewards’ selling saloon faro to the steerage,” he said, “ because the food wonla be thrown overboard anyway, aud the stewards, or 'flunkies’ as the seamen call them, may well make something off it if they can. Their pay is small, so the transsotion results in substantial benefit to them. A great many persons oonie over in the steerage because they don’t care what their accommodations ore so long as they get good food, and they are pretty sure of being able to buy that from the stewards. Of course, it isn’t the square thing to do; but what I wondered the most at was tne utter disregard for the ship’s outfit, ‘‘For lnstanoe, a steward would take down to the steerage a dozen dishes and plates of choice food in a large bucket, carefully covered so the contents would not be seen. Of oourse the btfeket oonained sliver forks, spoons, knives and very often sliver vegetable afad dessert dishes and individual chocolate and coffee pots. When the food was eaten the china and sliver went back to the bucket and the whole business was quietly dropped into the refuse chute ana down into the sea I I've seen as many as ten buckets taken down by the same number of stewards three and four times a day throughout a trip, and in every case the crockery, silverware and bucket went overboard. You may take my word for it that anything a steward carries below never gets back; to its proper quarters again, not only beoause of the risk of detection but because of the trouble. ‘‘l doubt, though, if the risk is very great, for some of the oflloers are themselves exceedingly careless and destructive. I’ve seen large, brand new, handsome blankets taken into an officer’s room for him to use as a rug whilo taking a bath. When he finished the blankets were rolled up and quietly dropped down the chute. And that happened a number of times during the voyage, too. No, I can’t suggest a remedy, and the company wouldn't extend me a vote of thanks if I could, but it seems to me it would pay to have those things looked into a little and a responsible man plaoed in direct charge of affairs. A steward’s pay is very small, ranging from $5 to S3O a month, but never exceeding the latter sum. In many cases they get no pay at all, but, instead, not only work without a stipend but also pay the company for the privilege of serving it.—[St. Louis Post Dispatch.

The Cantonment in India.

The cantonment of an Indian town means the place where the English live. The native town is usually enclosed by high walls and accessible only by a saw gates; it is brimful of people who crowd its baxaars or shop streets. Quito outside the town and a mile or two away is the cantonment, an unwalled district, where each house standa in ita own incloaure or compound, and where the regiments, British or native, are quartered In "lines" or rows of huts. The oantonment usually has wide, well-kept roads, with a grassy margin and avenues of fine trees, giving it the appearance of a great park. The English visitor, if he stays with friends, might be a week without seeing the native town at all, unlesa his curiosity prompted an excursion in search of it. There is always in the cantonment a olub, with a ladies’ wing (unless the ladies have a gymkhana or club of their own), and besides the various parade grounds, a polo ground or tennis court, so that a visitor bent only on amusement has plenty of resources.— [Nineteenth Century.

Easy-Going Japanese Women.

“The secret, perhaps,’’says a traveler, “of the sweet expression and habitual serenity of the Japanese women can. be found in their freedom from small worries. The fashion of dress never varying saves the wear of mind on that subject. And the bareness of the bouses and simplicity of diet make housekeeping a mere bagatelle. “Everything is exquisitely clean and easily kept so. There is no paint, no drapery, no orown of little ornaments, no coming into the houses with the footgear worn in the dusty streets. And there is the peaceful feeling of living in rooms that can be turned into balconies and verandas at a moment’s notioe, of haring walls that slide away as freely as do the scenes on the stage and let in all out of doors, or change the suites to the shape and size that the whim of tho day or the hour requires. ”

A Maine Clock.

The cburfch at King’s Mills, Me., has four clock faces painted upon its tower, and the hands are painted, too, pointing to 10:30. This admonition as to the time of Sunday service ia helpful to any one except the incautious wayfarer who attempts to set his watch thereby.— Lewiston Journal

Little Greece bee a mercantile marine employing 31,100.

AN ENEMY TO THE OYSTER.

Great Destruction la the Delaware Bay Beds by the “ Borer.” The " borer,” e pest of about the tbm of a small strawberry. Is working groat havoc among the oyster beds in Deiawasn Bay and tributary streams. Cspt. Moses Veale, of the oyeiav schooner White Lily, eays thst the destructive powers of the “borer” have been known to oyetermen only a few years. He has followed oyster dredging nearly thirty-five years, and the firat “ borer " he aaw was about ten years age, but their ravage* in the oyster beds were comparatively unnoticed until leet year. Cspt. Veale said that “ last year the number of dead oysters with holes made by borers in the shell became so groat that oystermen were alarmed. The year ths work of tbe borers has become a grove matter, and if it continues many bays will be depopulated of oysters. From one bed we dredged on this trip we rot 1,800 baskets of oysters, but out of thero only 200 were good, ths dead oyster* having been killed by borers. A peculiar thing about the ravages of the ‘ borers ’ is their apparent selection of the best oyster-beds. We have found this to be true several times this season. We have found a bed of small oysters almost entirely free froae ‘borers.’ This bed will be separated from another bed of larger oysters, by 200 feet, bnt this latter bed will be so badly affected by the creatures thst it will hardly pay to work it. “ From what I can learn from oystermen the destruction wrought by borers fie much more severe in Delaware Bay thaa in other places. “The work of the borer this year makes a double misfortune, for the oyster bods were badly damaged by the Mg storms in August and September. Very few people who are not in the oysterdredging business know anything of the methods of the borer. When I first took notice of its work I secured several oysters just after the borer had fastened itself to the shell. When the borer fastens itself it holds on like a leech, and it in with difficulty that it can be removed with the fingers. " Sometimes the 1 borer’ fastens itself to the oyster shell near the edge, and then the oyster is not killed. Wbca the whole of the ‘borer’ is made near the centre of the shell the oyster is attacked in its vital parts and dies in three or four days after the hole is first made.” Some of the bed-owners nesr Mauriee River have lost large suma of money tide year on account of the “ borer." Thomas Munaoy, who has a number of large bedA it is said, will lose SIO,OOO. Several other men have lost nearly as roach through this unlooked-for calamity, and s number of men have lost in the neighborhood of $2,000 or $3,000. All antermon say there can be no way of taking away the “borer” without destroying the oyster-beds.—[Philadelphia Ledger.}

CITY OF SANTANDER.

Santander, whose opera house wee the scene of the recent awful bomb-throw-ing outrage, is the capital of the yeevinco beating the same name, and is one of the leading seaports of Spain. It has alao the distinction of being the aeat of a biahroprio. Tbe present population ie between 40,000 and 60,000, having doubled during the last quarter of a century, and the commercial prosperity of the town has even surpassed this proportion. The city is situated on the inside of n rocky peninsula which separates it from the bay of Biscay, forming an excellent harbor for two or three miles wide and four mltea long. Tbe entrance Is at tbo eastern extremity of the promontory,and, though somewhat diffloult for sailing vessels In certain winds, has depths of water for the largest ships. Tbs exports consists chiefly of iron ore to Great Britain and wine and olive oil to France. Satander Is divided into two sections, an upper and a lower town. There am very few buildings of any prominence. Tbe cathedral was undoubtedly intended for an immense structure, the original design being Gothic, but it has been an* altered by later additions that but little of tbe old work remains. There ie alaoa theatre, formerly a convent, of aoana pretensions, and a hospital and JeenitaP church, which lay claim to architectural beauty. The city, taken aa a whole, is eaaentially modern, its chief interest lying in its strongly constructed residences, Sand numerous factories. In ndto the above Santander baa n gas work*, phosphorus, sulphurlo add and sail manufactories. Besides being a trading port of nw mean pretensions, Santander is a watering place of great reputation. Thn bathing establishment on tbe seaward side of the strip of land on which the town is built contains all tho latest improvement* and is ranked with the beet continental watering places. There is communication by rail with Madrid, which Is 316 miles distant, and bysteamer with Liverpool, London and Hamburg, as well as with Havana and! all the leading Spanish seaports. There is considerable historical interest centered in this town. The part was is 1763 given the privilege to trade with America and In 1755 was created a “Ciudad.” Charles V. landed in Santander in 1022, when he came to take possession of the Spanish orown, and from there departed. Charles L, at England, embarked on his return Iron his ili-f ated visit incognito in search of a wife. In 1808 the city was sacked by . the French under Soult.

How to Make a Rain Gauge.

Take an ordinary can of tomatoM or peaches, trad you will notice one end la smooth while the other is oorrugated. Be sure the can has no dents, as they will give false results. Open the corrugated end of the can, extract the contents, turn the can upside down on a hot stove, so as to unsolder the rest of that end. Carefully clean out any soldea that might be on the inside of the can. Clean the can out and turn it upeida down. You now have an excellent gauge. The next, question will be lie proper exposure. It should be clear of all modifying Influences, such as trees and and high enough to prevent chickens, etc., interfering. Select a fence poet with a clear “sweep of the sky,” Dttl a lath to the post, allow it to project about four inches above the post, plaoo the gauge noon the poet, and tie to the lath. The lath should not reaoh higher than the gauge, as then it would interfere with the falling rain. If the top of the post ia not already flat and level it should be made so with a saw. Next provide a measuring stick. If red cedar is obtainable it is the best. Walnut will come next. Whatever wood is upd the a tick should be made as thiu anrx narrow as compatible with its usefufaess, so as to cause the leu* displacement of water possible. Graduate they stick in inehes and fractional. If poss/ole the fractions should be in tenths./ All measurements in such » gaung/ are direct and should be recorded as measured.-*-{yens