Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Page 5

FOR THE FAIR SEX.

SEASONABLE HINTS AND MAT. TERS OF MOMENT. Long Watch Chains--Compliments for In tall actual Woman--Dry Hair MadaGlossy--Ona Dollar Par Waak Fashion Notas--Etc., Etc. FASHION NOTES. Veils are remarkably becoming this season. With many black parasols the lining is in a bright color, Veils are made for the most part shaped so that they set well over the small hat. Dutch bonnets are to be worn all the season. Most of them are small and close.' The latest thing in gloves are those that are embroidered with garlands of flowers in their natural colors. The new fichus, bows and neckties are exceedingly pretty, and quantities of ribbon are used, also tiny flowers. The silver buckles with ribbons for collar bands are furnished even to the hooks and eyes for fastening in the back. The use of dental floss has brought out many pretty designs. The same holders may be used for embroidering silks. It is principally black gloves, which were for a long time cast aside for white ones, and which are now coming into, favor again, that are ornamented. Lace lappets form some of the prettiest bows for evening wear, and tiny ones in cream lace start from small colored rosettes, set a few inches apart on a velvet bandeau. Toques are greater favorites with the Parisiennes than ever, but they also are larger and sit down more Closely on the head. The prettiest are entirely covered with flowers. Fancy pencils for the watch chain seem from their frequency to be much sought after. Some of them are very ingenious, the pencil running through pigs, dogs, monkeys and other animals. Jewellers of romantic fancy provide deep petaled flowers which enclose little white ring boxes for the presentation of jewels. These floral emblems are chiefly used over the footlights. Something new is the plain black Hindoo cloth, which takes the place of plain black lawn. Hindoo cloth much resembles black lawn, is of perfectly fast color and has a very soft finish.

HOUSE GOWN WITH ETON JACKET.

Vines, sprays, dots, flowers stripes and geometrical figures are the best selling designs in white and tinted lawns. The natural linen shade, with neat colored designs, are also in great demand. Pretty five o’clock tea cloths are embroidered hnd trimmed with laces. To match these are small doylies of the same pattern; also large scarfs, twenty by fifty inches and twenty by seventy-two inches. Satin ribbon, three inches wide, folded to the width of the ordinary collar and fastened at the side in a saucy butterfly bow, is a change from the shirred velvet collar that has received the approval of Mme. la Mode. There are more ebony parasol handles than fancy handles this season, but odd heads of silver or gold, filigree or solid, porcelain or various kinds of wood are also seen, and among the heads of animals a very malicious grinning monkey. Wide ribbon is having a remarkable sale, as not only is it in demand for the huge bow at the throat, but the sash has come in with a rush and an evident intention to stay. It is made in silk, satin or moire, can be tied in front, at the side, or at the back, and the ends must be long, almost reaching the arm of the gown. A way of using the ribbon is to have an immense butterfly bow in the exact centre of the waist and spreading out like the wings of the American eagle. Sometimes it has ends, and then again it ignores the very existence of such a thing and satisfies itself with appearing as huge as the widest ribbon will allow it to appear. The girl who prides herself upon style seldom wears any but dark or subdued colors in the street. If she has a bit of brightness on her hat it is apt to be tucked away under the brim. But for house wear even the stylish young woman may revel in bright hues and thereby make herself a pleasing object to those about her. For summer wear nothing looks prettier than a neat dimity dress. These dimities come this season mostly in tinted grounds, although white grounds will be extensively worn. Satin baby ribbon, narrow velvet ribbon and ruffles of fine tinted linen lawn, edged with narrow Valenciennes lace, are some of the materials employed as trimmings. A new brocade has a beautiful design of brilliant butterflies flying in all directions. Heliotrope and petunia shades are already giving way to blues of every hue, to delicate greens, and dainty pinky fawns. Blues merging into green, and green into

blue, those doubtful shades which puzzle the uninitiated, will certainly be worn for the summer. The latest whim is to wear a black moire ribbon about an inch wide round the neck, about a yard and a quarter long, to which a watch or jewel is suspended. It is fastened round the throat with a little gold or jeweled slide. It will be much worn with light colored dresses; the jewelers are busy inventing some trinkets to wear in this way in which the favorite perfume can be placed. LONG WATCH CHAINS. The fancy of wearing jewelry is growing apace, and long watch chains are becoming popular again. If the lovely jeweled ones are beyorid the limit of price, then the old-fashioned gold ones which have been in oblivion for years may be brought out for duty. It is not at all necessary that there should be a watch at the end of the chain, for the utility element is a minor consideration. A brooch fastens it at the neck, and it may be festooned lower down and lose itself, in the trimming of the dress, suggesting a dainty little watch tucked away in the folds. —[Detroit Free Press. COMPLIMENTS FOR INTELLECTUAL WOMEN. The intellectual woman of society is better dressed, because more quietly and less extravagantly, than the non-intellectual woman. She appears to more advantage in the drawing room and on the promenade; she is sounder, fuller, more methodical and exact. Her evolution is loftier and more complete. When she is rather plain than pretty, she is often thought very pretty, because her manners are so fine and her understanding is so clear that she neglects no one, and is considerate to all. She is almost always elegant in appearance and bearing, for her mind animates her whole body and embraces the smallest details. She has the latter half of the nineteenth century spirit, which is too broad and sympathetic to permit her to reserve her faculties for her own benefit.— [New York Advertiser. DRY HAIR MADE GLOSSY. The use of oils on the hair has gone out of fashion, but there are many persons to whom something of the sort is almost a necessity. The hair becomes so dry that its beauty is gone, and in addition it is so badly nourished that it loses its strength and luster. In such cases a little fine oil is the proper remedy. Those who have very dry and rough hair, especially if subject to pain and feverishness in the head, will do well to try some softening application, at least as an experiment. One ounce of glycerine to a pint of rose water, with two or three grains of quinine, thoroughly shaken together, makes an excellent hair tonic. The trifle of glycerine gives it softness and moisture and a very pretty gloss. Care must be taken, however, to keep the head away from dust as much as possible, for the glycerine will hold it and soon make the most beautiful braid dull and grimy looking.

ONE DOLLAR PER WEEK. An investigation of ten of the best paying trades in which women are engaged in nine principal cities of the United States shows that the cost of living for working women in their own families is nine per cent higher in New York than in any other city save Brooklyn. The cost of board for working women in New York ranges from $8 per month to $7 per week in private boarding houses. Few, however, seek the latter. The majority live in furnished rooms, cooking their food over gas and oil, and getting their meals haphazard, as time and money permit. Some live in so-called homes, where board is furnished from $2.25 to $6 per week, occupying rooms with four and six others. Many women who live in furnished rooms do not see meat more than once a week; this is particularly true of those past middle life. , Case after case is known of women who, aside from rent, subsist upon $1 per week.—[New York Journal. SOUVENIR COIN SENT TO MADRID. A beautiful silver case, bearing the Spanish coat of arms, rested on Mrs. Potter Palmer’s desk in Masonic Temple the other morning. Within it, on a bed of plush, nestled one of the silver souvenir quarters struck by order of congress at the request of the board of lady managers of the world’s fair. The case and-coin were a gift from Mrs. Palmer to the Queen Regent of Spain. These souvenir quarters were the first coins bearing the vignette of a foreign ruler that were ever struck in an American mint. The Queen was not insensible to the honor and deference shown in stamping the likeness of the gracious Castillian on the souvenirs, and she having expressed a desire to possess one of the coins, Mrs. Palmer had a silver case made and yesterday forwarded it to Madrid. The Isabella coins are already becoming very scarce. Only 40,000 of them were minted, and collectors in all parts of the country have been writing for them. They have lately been in great demand in New York and San Francisco, and at the present rate all will soon be sold. Mrs. Palmer receives a stack of letters everyday making inquiry about the souvenirs. One of her clerks is kept busy sending out coins and replying to letters from persons desiring to get them.—[Chicago Herald. ELECTRICAL HAIR BLEACHING. Noting the novel uses to which electricity has been recently applied, the Electrical Review says: Another enterprising individual, this time a dyer of human hair, has projected the following method; advices, however, do not state that he has been entirely successful. The process is ingenious, and for this reason alone it is worthy of mention. The sub-' ject, who is generally of the weaker, and shall we add vainer, sex, seats herself in the operating chair, which is somewhat similar to a dentist’s

chair, and rests the back of her neck on a metal plate, which is the negative terminal of a rather strong battery, the current from which Ik sufficient to exert a moderate decomposing action on solutions of salt containing a bleaching agent such as chlorine. The waving tresses are allowed to fall back of the chair, and are dampened with a solution of what the inventor terms his secret. A brush composed of metallic bristles, which have been gilded or platinized, and which are electrically connected to the source of current, thus forming the positive pole of the battery, is slowly and steadily drawn through the air. A slight decomposition of the salt held in solution takes place, the bleaching agent is liberated and the coloring matter in the hair is lightened. The discoverer declares that the color given to the darkest hair may be varied at pleasure, and may also be carefully regulated; furthermore, he states that the color does not resemble that of ordinary “bleached” hair, but is more natural and in every way able to deceive the most expert in snch matters. While the idea is one which is attractive from an experimental standpoint, the object attained, if his statements are true, is one which should be pushed into obscurity by a minimum amount of praise.

Rhinoceros Shooting.

A hunter in Africa tells how he shot his first rhinos near KilimaNjaro. He crawled along the grass till within fifty yards of the big beast. “Then,” he says, “I raised my head, saw that some twenty yards further on there was a tuft of slightly longer grass, and determined to get up to this before firing. However, just before we reached it some halfdozen birds came from the direction of the other two rhinoceros and settled on our cow’s back, but we eventually succeeded in reaching the tuft. The difficulty now was to get into a sitting position and ready to shoot without being seen by the birds. To do this I worked my legs towards the rhino as I lay on my side, and gradually raised myself into a sitting position ; but at that instant the birds saw me, and flew up with their usual cry of alarm. At the same moment the rhino raised herself on her forelegs like a huge pig, and I then realized that I was nearer than I intended to get, only about twenty yards separating us, but she did not appear to see me. As she remained sitting in this position, without moving my body, which I know might attract attention, I stretched out my arm behind me for the 4-bore, but did not feel it at first, and thought that for once my faithful Ramazan had received rather a shock to his nerves on finding himself at such close quarters. However, he put it into my hand at last, after a delay of perhaps two seconds, which appeared to me much longer, and I quickly planted a bullet on the point of her left shoulder, which knocked her over. Reloading before I moved, I saw she was still down, but making desperate efforts to get up; but, as she was lying on her left side, with her broken shoulder under her, she was unable to do so, and I ran up and despatched her with a shot in the neck.”—[New York Sun.

Farming by Electricity.

There would seem hardly a limit to the possibilities of electricity in the near future. It has been already applied in directions undreamed of fifty years ago, and it would seem that the next fifty years will witness a complete revolution in the modes and ways of living, due primarily to its application in ordinary, every-day affairs. Electricity has already largely displaced horses and steam in the city, and an experiment of its application to farm work was recently made in Scotland. Of course, this use of electricity is still experimental, as the questions of cost and convenience must first be settled before it can come into general use for agricultural purposes. On this Scotch farm the electricity is generated by a turbine wheel in a neighboring watercourse, and there is no doubt that it will soon be possible to generate electricity thus at a great reduction from its present cost. From the point of generation the electricity is conveyed by wires in the usual way to the house and other parts of the farm where it is to be used. The house is lighted by electricity, and electricity drives all stationary farm machinery. Thrashers, hay balers and everything of that kind to the farm grindstone and churn, can be operated easily by electric power, and an electric pump is kept in constant operation. The motor used is sixteen-horse power, which is ample for running the entire farm. With such a motor in full working order, all that would be necessary in order to start everything on the farm, from the churn to the thresher, would be to press a button. Such a release from drudgery would go further than anything else to solve the problem whether life is worth living. We fear, however, that some people are born so lazy that the mere effort of pressing the button would be too much for them.

Tears as a Medicine.

The Persians are the only people in the world that still adhere to the o.ld custom of bottling tears. In that country it constitutes an important part in the funeral ceremonies performed over the dead. Each of the mourners are presented with a sponge with which to mop the face and eyes, and after the burial these are taken by a priest who squeezes the tears into bottles. Mourners’ tears are believed to be the most efficacious remedy that can be applied in several forms of Persian diseases. The custom of bottling tears is mentioned in the Bible. See Psalm LVI, 8.

A Great Lake State.

/Florida is one of the greatest of lake States if the number of its lakes entitles it to be so classed. It has a half-score of considerable lakes, including Okeechobee, more than 600 square miles in area, and many scores of small lakes and ponds.—[ftew York Post.

WORSE THAN NOTHING

AN EMINENT TARIFF REFORMER ON THE GORMAN BILL. Its Pretended Redaction* of Duties in Some Schedule* Are me Prohibitory se McKlnleyUm Itself-Wsfes nnd the Tariff—An Honest Democrat. The Tariff Jo((lery. The new Gorman bill is worse than nothing, exoept pos-ibly in the woolen schedule. Its pretended reductions of duties in the metal, cotton, flax, and sila schedules leave most of them as prohibitory as tho McKinley tariff itself. Some duties a e actually increased, and always in favor of some manufacturing c imbination. Sometimes this increase of taxation for private gain is open, as in the case of the Lithographic Trust, which is given specific rates, o ,ual to about thiee times the McKinley rates, and such as it never was able to obtain from Reed and McKinley. But in most cases it is done by means of a trick, in the way of new classification, such as none but the initiated can understand. Some of these tricks have already been exposed, but there are many more. The metal schedule is full of them, especially in cutlery, files, and saws. Tne monopoly secured to the steel-rail and steel-beam combinations is so glaring that it cannot be ca led a trick. It is open and almost avowed robbery. The demands of the minority have grown with every submission of tho nonest majority. We have made a mi-take in urging the of any bill, without reference to what that bill might be. Of course, it was always implied that the bill should be one affording some substantial relief; but our submission has oncouraged the minority to insist upon a bill which gives no relief. If this is ail that a Democratic Senate can do, let the Republican tariff stand. We can then reorganize the Democratic party, renew the struggle for genuine tariff reform, go into a minority for a short time and emorge with victory and honor. If we pass this bill we shall not only be defeated, but disgraced. The Republican party passed a bill which was written by the agents of men who had paid millions for the privilege; but that money was paid into the party treasury and impartially distributed among the workers ana electors, An immense price has been paid for the privilege of writing this bill: but it has not been and will not be distributed outside of Washington. We did not enter into the long and successful campaign for tariff reform with the expectation of making vast fortunes for the Washington lobby. The cause of tariff reform will take care of itself. A few more years oi McKinleyism will give it new strength. The longer the final victory is delayed the more sweeping it will be. The Mills bill was more radical than the Morrison bill: tho Wilson bill was m< re radical than the Mills bill; and when we have, as we soon shall have, a really Dem cratic Congress, it will pass a tariff bill by the side of which the Wilson bill will seem tame indeed. Let us watt until 11)01, if necessary; but let us not aocept any such abomination as this. If any doubt whether this result will oome about, let them observe that the McKinley tariff has already broken down, of its own weight, and must inevitably break down still more. It cannot produce the necessary revenue, especially with the rapidly increasing sugar Bounties to provide for. Let honest Democrats refuse to permit any addition to the revenue from the tariff without genuine tariff reform, and their demands will simply have to be granted. But if they tamely submit to any dictation from protectionists, within or without their ranks, they will never accomplish anything. It is perhaps useless to indulge in reminiscences; but all that is now happenning was substantially foretold in the Evening Post in November, 1892, when you called upon President Cleveland to summon Congress at once, and to settle the tariff question before distributing the offices. He preferred the advice of those who insisted that offices must be attended to before tariffs. The statesmen of the Senate, having got all the offices which they expect from him, are now doing their best to destroy him, his tariff, and his party. Thomas G. Shearman.

An Honmt Democrat. Representative Clifton R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, being unwilling to leave Washington to look after his political fences at home, has written an open letter to his constituents, explaining why he voted for the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act, and also his position on the tariff. He makes the following frank statements on the tariff question: “You know that lam a free trader, and do not believe in any protection. I further believe that absolute and immediate free trade would be a prompt and unspeakable blessing to our country. I know, however, tnat the country is not ready to go this far, and I do not refuse to win a great battle and conquer a province simply because the battle does not promise immediately to end the war and give me the whole earth. That there will be a liberal sDirit of agreement in conference between the Senate and the Hou-e is not to be doubted. I regret every proposed increase in the Senate, just as I regret that the bill could not go much further than it did as presented to the House and as passed by that body. “Unpalatable as the promised Senate amendments are, the bill, even with those amendments, will carry a larger measure of tariff reform than all the bills which have been passed by the House or have been proposed by the Ways and Means Committee since we took up this question ten years ago down to the present Coneress. This fact is indisputab e. and it is equally clear that unless we can come to some common ground which we are willing to defend, front and rear, we are in danger of being sadly impracticable. “1 regret every increase from the Wilson bill, and i will yield to none that I do not have to, just as I regret every protective duty that we had still to carry in that bill; but when we agreed to the best we could get, I fought for the bill, front and rear, and I think this is the way all our friends must do, especially in the Senate, where our majority is small and our dangers are great, or else unwillingness on the one hand will hardly be distinguishable from unwillingness upon the other, when both equally lead to the defeat of all reform. Afterward, with the aid of this bill and when the people send up some better Democrats in the place of our invalids, or enough really good ones to enable us to get along without their votes, we can go further than they will permit us to go at this time. * Democrats In Name Only. The manner in which the tariff bill has been mauled and bedeviled in the Senate is in ane sense a shame to the Democrats, but it is no credit to the Republicans, and the protection organs which are affecting to reprobate the inaction of the so-called majority are really firing into their own camp. The

Democrats of the Senate would hare lone ago passed the bill as it came from tne House had they not been hampered by a handful of assistant Republican spies and traitors witnin their ranks. These men call themselves Democrats, but they are no such thing. They are Republicans in everything but name. They train with the true Democrats of the Senate only to betray them, and their demands for “swag" in the form of larcenous duties are even more impudent and brazen those of the avowea Republicans. The McKinley organ- have no business charging the Democracy with the responsibility for this predatory gang. They belong on the Republican side, and the sooner they betake themselves thither —body, boots and breeches—the better the Democratic party will be pleased.—Chicago Herald. WtfM and Tariff. J. Schoenhof, the well-known tariff writer, has been following up a line of Inquiry upon which he entered some two years ago, with results which should be instructive to victims of the protectionist delusion. Taking the census returns of manufactures, he shows that the average of wages and the average increase in wages from 1880 to 1890 is much greater in the unprotected and exporting industries than in the highly protected industries. In neither olass does he include any Industries except such as are classed as manufacturing by the Census Bureau. Wages in seventeen unprotected and exporting industries in 1890 ranged from 8407 to $6lO per head, while In eight highly protected industries the range was from $614 to $367. The increase in wages over 1880 In the unprotected industries ranged from from $22 to $l2B per head, the average being S7B, while in the protected industries the increase ranged from S4O to $77, averaging s6l. From further examination of tho returns it appears that wages ] aid in the manufacture of artio'es made from raw materials carrying tho highest rate of protection averaged in 1890 $414 for males and $276 for females. In the manufacture of artic'os advanced from first stage to articles 11 nished for use tho average for males was $670 and for females $316. Mr. Schoenhof presents tables taken from the census showing tho number employed and tho wages I aid in occupations under those and other heads, all of which go to show very clearly that the tariff has nothing at all to do with making high wages in this country. Mr. Sohoonhof directs attention to the fact that sugar refining, which enjoys a protection equal to four times the entire labor cost of refining, pays an average of only $353 per head in wages, while moat packing, which is not protected at all and which exports largely and competes directly with foreign “pauper labor.” pays an average of $566, and wholesale slaughtering pays an average of $609. In the unprotected building trades the range is from $525 to $662, against an average of only $414 for males In the manufactures which are most favored by the tariff laws.—Chicago Herald.

MoKlnlejr Hill Did It AIL Misery loves company, and It is a mean consolation to know that the prevailing hard times seem to extond pretty nearly over all the world. This fact, of oourso, interferes with the theory of the McKinleyites that all our woes are due to the Wilson bill—which hasn’t been possod yet—but the MoKlnleyltes have as little regard for facte as they have for logic. However, if they would take the trouble to look at England, where the unemployed aro as numerous as they are here; or at Germany, where a beneflclent protective tariff has failed to protect, just as it did in this country —they might tune down their howls an ootave or two. Even in Spain the distress among the working people Is the most acute ever known, ana appropriately enough the town of Tarifa, from which we get the word “tariff," has been the scene of bloody and desperate bread riots. It is not likely that tho protectionists would see any significance in these facts, but they didn’t see the significance of the election of 1892. Tne logic of events has to be made plain to them, as a joke is communicated to the Scotch understanding—by means of a surgical operation.—Chicago Herald.

The Vengeunce to Come. To the Editor The income tax is about all that ia left of the Wilson bill. If Senator Hill and his satellites, voting with the Republicans in the Senate, Cjuld have that feature dropped the remainder would be Just what we have—McKinleyism. The humiliation of the Democratic party would be complete, and Congress could adjourn before the heated term sets in. If Democrats do not remember those two or throe Democratic (?) Senators who are standing obstinately in the way of the fulfillment of Democratic pledges and at the proper time consign them to the oblivion of private life, I have no just conception of the temper of Democrats. J. C. Watkins. Suspense Is Killing. Counseling the Republican Senators to confine their opposition to the tariff bill to reasonable the St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.) says: "Business can eventually adjust itself to whatever sort of a change is made in the tariff by the Wilson bill. It is the suspense which kills. If delay would defeat the bill, there would bo some excuse for it, but as the most sagacious Republicans and protectionist Democrats concede that the measure will probably be passed some time in this session, it were better that it bo passed a month or two hence than four or five months later.” Traitor* In the Party, Of the much-amended tariff bill the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.) says: “The result is just what was predicted would flow from the plan of dickering with Democratic traitors in committee. These men have been enabled to accomplish their un-Democratic ends without assuming responsibility for the work. They have shouldered the responsibility on the j arty. They have been able to reap the profits of a treacherous game which was played under cover. ” Surrender, Not Compromise. Compromise is not the word that properly describes what the Democratic majority in the Senate is now invited to do with the tariff bill. Surrender is the only* word that fits the situation. And no such abject surrender of a great party, backed by a popular majority of 1,300,(XX) in the nation, has ever been proposed or contemplated in any previous American Congress.—Baltimore Sun. Pointed Paragraphs. If the Democrats of the country had as much influence at Washington as the trusts which have contributed to campaign funds there would be no trouble about getting real reform and honest government. As hai* been remarked before, the Senate Tariff bill is reform with whisky and sugar gout in both feet It is worse than anything but delay in disposing of it Vote! | Senator Brice says he is not afraid of the Sugar Trust Nor is the Sugar Trust afraid of the copper-flipping statesman.

LAPSES OF IDENTITY.

PEOPLE WHO DISAPPEAR FOR LONG PERIODS. Whan They Reappear to Thalr Frlends It is With No Momory of Thoir Wanderings. A paper entitled “People Who Drop Out of Sight,” by Dr. A. E. Osborne, superintendent of a home for children at Olen Allen, Cal.,- was read a few nights ago at the meeting of the Medico-Legal Society at the Academy of Medicine. After speaking of mysterious disappearances in general, and the usual inability to account for them, the paper gave several instances which the author says happened to persons, and under circumstances well known to him. The first case was that of a man of middle age, “in rugged health, and free irom any inherited neuropathic taint.” He was a plumber by trade, and lived in a town near Philadelphia. He was prosperous, and was neither overworked nor the victim of business troubles; his life was harmonious, and he had no bad habits. The Sunday on which he disappeared he had been In the house all day, reading and playing with his children. About four o’clock he got up from the lounge on which he lay, changed his house jacket for an ordinary business coat, and told his wife he was going out for a walk. Jle stepped Into the street and suddenly disappeared, as if he had vanished into air.

Although a conspicuous figure in the town, ana although tho streets were crowded, ho was seen by nobody. His absence continuing the next day an exhaustive search was made for him. But nothing could be learned. There was absolutely no trace of him, either in the t6wn or In the surrounding country. In due course the business was disposed of and tho family moved to Chicago, giving up all hope of finding a clue to the missing man’s disappearance. One day, two years later, a number of men were working at their trado In a tin shop In one of the Southern States. Suddenly one of them dropped his work and clasped his hands to his head. “My God!” he cried, looking about dazedly, “whore am I? How did I get hero? This isn’tmyshopl—where am 1? What does It mean?” His companions were at first disposed to laugh; but when they saw the man’s changed expression, the beads of sweat on his brow, and his nervous twltchings, they knew he was not drunk, but under the Influence of some great emotion. They spoke to him, but ho insisted that tho name they called him by was not Ills. At last he mode his way to the boss of the shop, and tried to explain about his family and his business In the North. The boss was incredulous. He know the man as a wandering tinsmith who had drifted Into the town seoking work at his trade, and whom ho had employed. He had proved to be a trustworthy and skilled workman, and no further Inquiry had been made. “Under a fictitious name,” Dr. Osborne says In his paper, “the man had been known to his companions, arid had been paid. He remembered nothing of the past during his period of employment; but at last a dim recollection had come -over, him of that fateful Sunday—his rising to go out, his promise to return soon—and then ull was a blank. He had no money, although he had worked steadily tn this shop and had recelvod good wages. At she last accounts I had of him he was at Chicago, living his normal life. Somewhat mystified over his realization of the strange freak In which ho figured, although feeling well and apparently in mental balance, he realized that he had been the central figure In some overstrange mental phenomena quite mysterious enough to make him, at times, doubt his sanity.” Dr. Osborne's second case hs speaks of thus: “A similar cose occurred to a resident of another town near Philadelphia. This man, whom we shall designate os X., was a lawyer, a prominent politician—a former member of Congress, I believe—a man of fine oratorical powers and of brilliant attainments.

“One day he got up from his desk, leaving his law books open at the pages he had been consulting, and stepped outside for a few moments. He disappeared. In due course vigorous search was instituted, reservoirs and streams were dragged for his body on the presumption that he had committed suicide, and, in short, all the means that money and influence would put into operation were employed ; but in vain—not the slightest clue was obtained, His domestic affairs were well knowm to be most happy. He was abstemious in his habits, and more devoted to his profession than to society. The hue and cry of premeditated flight was dispelled by the disordered state of his unlocked desk, over which were scattered papers and a mass of unfinished work. His accounts were all right, and among his papers were found uncashed checks amounting to several thousand dollars. “After several months had passed word came through official channels that X. was in Australia, and had applied to a representative of our Government there tb establish his identity and procure means for his transportation home. It was some time before his family were satisfied of his existence in that far-off country under such startling circumstances—broken in health, penniless, and unable to give a definite account of how be got there. “X. finally established his identity. His passage money was forwarded, and in due season he arrived in this country. He went direct to his former home, and, after a short period for recuperation, took up the practice of his profession, and was, as he has continued to be up to the last information I have had of him, his former normal self. How he had disappeared he was unable to say. He knew nothing until ‘he came to himself' aboard a steamer nearing an Australian port."—[New York Sun. A briOge is now in course of erection across the Missouri River between East Omaha and Council Bluffs which will be remarkable when completed as possessing the longest swing span in the world—626 feet—being fifteen feet longer than the swing span over the Thames River in Connecticut.

BROTHER GARDNER EXPLAINS.

The Limekiln Club and Its Jegtff Celebrated Motto. “Sense de last mootin',” said Brother Gardner, as he arose with a letter in his hand, “I hev redfeived dls yere epistle from de State department of Alabama axin’ if dia Limekiln Club has a motto, an' It wasn’t ober two days ago dat one of our moas’ prominent members put de same queshun. Of co’se we her a motto! 'Way back in de dim past, when dis club numbered only seben pussons and a dawg, we invented an’ adopted a motto an’ hev stuck to it eber sense. We doan’ parade it befo' de public on ebery possible occashun, but it hangs up in de library, whar all members kin see it, an’ I must confess surprise dat an ole member like Sir Isaac Walpole should be in doubt about It. De keeper of de seal will bring in de motto an' display it from de platform.” Lord Cornwallis Johnson, who holds the office of keeper, retired to the library and presently returned with the banner, on which was emblazoned the motto as follows: “Dar am no doubt some among ye,” resumed the president, “who doan’ exactly understand the me&oin' of dem words, which ar’ mostly Latin. Ad vicum bonis has four meanin’s—one for each season of de y’ar. In de Spring It. moans, ‘Hunt fur roots an' put in some sulphur an’ make yo'self a tonic.’ In de Summer it means, ‘Doan’ swaller de seeds of a watermillyon wldout chawin.’ In de Fall it means, ‘Whar yo’ gwine to git yo’r meat?’ an’ in de Winter It means, ‘Nobody can be real happy widout chilblains.' My idea In adoptin' dat motto was to git sunthin’ to kiver de hull ground an’ be wuth de money, an’ up to de present time I hain’t heard do fault found wid it. I will tako advantage of dis occashun to say dat our mottoes fur 1894 am now printed an’ ready to nail up, an’ will be in place befo’ de next mootin'. 1 will read dein, as follows, an’ in a loud voice: “Honesty am de best policy, an' dawgs not allowed in de hall 'cept on extra cold nights. “Truth must prevail, but de liar seems to git along about as well aa anybody else. “In union dar am strength, an" roastin’ cheese on de stove am positively forbidden. "Seok to gain de respect of yo’r feller men but always charge at least 6 per cent, interest when yo’ lend money. “I)o not put off till to-morrow what yo’ kin do to-day, an’ in case of fire in Paradise hall let the president git out fust. “Respect ole alge, an’ any pusson breakin’ a pane of glasH In any of da windows will bo expected to promptly settle for de same wldin HO dayß. “Rather than speak ovil do not speak at all, an’ any money found oa de floor arter do meetin’ adjourn* should be handed to the treasurer for safe keepin.' “Kind words are like dewdrops onde thirsty meadow, but no member of dls club should agree to whitewash a kitchen ceilin’ fur less dan half * dollar.

“De above mottoes ar’ all we shall need fur de cornin’ ya'r,” said Brother Gardner as he laid them aside, “an' dey won’t be put up wid de ideah of doin’ any pertickler good. All I shall ask of yo’ is to remember de motto of de club. Dar was a tiro* when I believed in mottoee. I believed dat de cooper who hung up in his shop de motto, ‘lt ar' better to b» honored dan to be rich,’ orter to b* patronized above all odders. I give nim an order fur two cider bar’ls, an*' both leaked, an’ he lied about it. I believed dat de shoemaker who put. up de motto, ‘lf I cannot be rich. I’ll be honest,’ was de man to mak«< me a pa’r of butes. Ho made ’em* an’ I nebber had a pooror pa’r. He not only put in de cheapest leather, but he left out half de pegs when peg* war only five cents a quart. A good many y’ars ago, when a rag ca®» pet an' a set of cain chairs war considered good 'nuff for anybody’s parlor, an’ when sassafras tea and barley could be found qn de tables of dorich, mottoes war all right. Dey seemed to make de meat go furdec an’ de apples sass to taste better. But in dls day an’ aige, when eberybody goes around wid a chip on hi» shoulder an' a dollar in his pocket, mottoes doan’ count. Only yesterday I was in a house wid ‘God Bless Our Home' ober de doah, ‘Love One Another’ ober a second, an’ ‘ Keep Yo'r Heart Pure’ ober *a third. De husband had run away wid de hired gal, de wife had sot de house afire to git de Insurance on do furnichure, an' de chill’en war pulling hair an' torturin’ de fam’ly cat, Some of yo' wondered why I moved last Fall. It was bekase a fam’ly wid a motto moved in next doah. Dey put up do motto of “Love Thy Neighbor so Thyself,’ an’ it wasn’t a week beforo I missed half a cord of wood an’ fur of my fattest chickens. It was only a question of time, if dey stuck to dat motto, when dey would git de rest of de chickens an’ clean out my cellar, an' so I moved away an’ got alongside a man who hasn’t eben a Gospel hymn book in de house. Let us now ad vicum bonis to our homes.'* —[New York Recorder.

Defense of the Mongrel.

The cur has never been in fashion, but ho, nevertheless, like any other low-born creature, sometimes geta into the best society. There are curs and curs. The plantation “coon dog,” the mongrel hound that is really afraid of a good-sized possum, and the country sportsman’s “bird dog,” a cross-bred setter thafc points meadow larks and walks over coveys of quail, are not of much use in the world. But the goad cur, the good-natured, ugly old nondescript, that wins his way to your esteem in spite of his plebeian origin and simply through his good qualities is not to be despised. A great lover of dogs and one who has lived among them all his life was heard to make the confession the other day that in all his experience with dogs the noblest one he had ever known was a mongrel car.—[New York Journal. j Pennsylvania is more closely grid ironed with railroad tracks than GsrmanrFranoe or Holland. '!"•? •:* ' <■s ■: .‘Hsr - V- •’