Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — Page 5

VOICE OF THE VOTERS

NEW-YORKERS DENOUNCE SENATE TRAITORS. Bi« H*m Meeting Demand! that the Declarations of the Chicago Platform Shall Be Carried Oat—Let There Be Mo Star Chamber Proceedings. > The People Are Aronsed. A monster mass meeting, called by the Manhattan Single Tax Club, was recently held in New York City, to express indignation at the “treachery of the Democratic Senators who are thwarting the demand for a radical reduction in the tariff.” The speakers were Alfred Bishop Mason, Henry George, Franklin Pierce, James P. Archibald and Thomas G. Shearman. All handled the Senate and its “conservatives” without gloves. Mr. Mason began by saying “Judai lives again in Washington. Benedict Arnold sits _in the Senate.” Mr. George spoke with great force and fire. He said: If ihe Democratic party cannot give us a better bill than the McKinley bill let the McKinley bill stand, be exclaimed, and tboae who heard agreed. Let the party go back again to the people. I make no personal complaint in this •natter. I believe that these traitors In the Democratic party, these men who are selling It out, are doing more for the cause of free trade than the best bill that could be offered. 1 speak of the Democratic party. There are in that party honest men, who believe In the platform upon which they went before the people, who want to carry out Its precepts. But so long as traitors are not cast forth; so long as honest Democrats must trade and dicker, not with Republican protectionists, but with men in their own party who made demands upon them, then

the Democratic party must take the responsibility of the acts of these men Let It drive the traitors out. Let it declare that no man who does not stand upon Its platform has auy business in that party, and will not he recognized there. When the acclaim that greeted this had died away Mr. George said that the very success of the Democratic party at the last election came from the condition of the country, for even then the clear, plain symptoms of the hard times were to be seen, and the necessity for haste appreciated. Then he went on: Sloth and Weakness. No Situation Is so bad for the Industrial and mercantile Interests as wnen a high tariff Is threatened with a quick reduction, and the wise and safe thing Is to act quickly. But months passed away and nothing was dona Before the extra session months elapsed, while Mr. Cleveland was parceling out offices. Then came the extra session, and nothing was dona Finally the House began work, not to do away with the evil, but upon a bill with the McKinley bill us a inodeL At every turn monopolies and trusts asserted their power. Finally that weak thing, the Wilson bill, did pass the House. It was chock full of concessions to trusts and monopolies, chock full of protection. Then It passed Into what has become the American House of Lords You know the rest. Never has bargaining been so clear. Never has corruption been so open. The Democratic party has been In power in the Senate, and it has been paralyzed by efforts to placate protectionists or agents of protected rings in Its own members. Even such a man as Senator Mills Mr, George pronounced the name so indistinctly that many of his hearers tnought he said Senator Hill, and hisses mingled with the cheers. When it was understood whom Mr. George meant there were only cheers. He went on: Jfiven Mills Has to Trade. Even such a man as Senator Mills, an honest and able free-trader In every &en«e except that in which we single-taxers use the word, who showed one of those spectacles which are said to be dear 10 the gods, and which should be dear to men, one stalwart man, faithful among the faithless, standing up to say no, yet we find him voting for a tariff on iron Why? There is only one explanation. He bad to pay to get some other Democrat’s vote for a re- ' form which be considered more important We are here to-night to say, as far as our voices shall reach, that it Is time to call a halt It Is more Important that the Democratic party Bhould stand clear upon the record than that it should succeed. Bring the fight Into the open. Let the people know who It Is who stands to the pledges and who It ls.wbo deny and repudiate them. Senators Speculate, People Starve. Consider what to-day Is going on! Dickering, bartering, this making of fortunes out of legislation, while the great mass of the people are suffering In their misery, waiting for the Senate to do something to help them. Each day little Items appear la the newspapers, are read and forgotten, which recite the most horrible tragedies Our cities and our roads are filled with men asking the first of human rights, the privilege of earning their living. And what Is Congress doing? Nothing. It Is trading. trading on the very life-blood of men and women and little children, while rings and trusts and monopolies are cared for. Our so-called representatives are selling labor to trusts and rings. I say that the party and men who promised to do something for labor by remitting taxes have done nothing. Remission would, so: a time at least, increase the production and set to work thousands who are now idle and trying with all their might to find work. Tnese Coxey armies are not vagrants, or if they are they are not vagrants from choice. No matter how ridiculous are their demands, they are not so ridiculous as the demands of the protectionists’ lobbies

Only Contempt for Poverty. The agents of the steel ring, the sugar trust and the whole horde of them go to Washington In private cars, and are received by Democrats with the most distinguished consideration But the men who go there on foot, feeling want, the pressure of awful suffering and misery, are received by the standing army of Congress—for that la what It Is—with clubs and punished for treading on the grass. It is time that the people were aroused. It Is time that the Democratic principle was asserted, the principle of "equal rights to all, and special privileges to none.” For the Democratic party I care little; for Democratic principles I care everything. I don’t care what Mr. Cleveland does; to him belongs the credit of starting this principle In the Demoe- ntic party. •,Ie never wrote it in the world," shouted s me one far back in the hall. “I don’t know,” said Mr. George In reply. “What care I who wrote It? He fathered It.” And then there was shouting and clapping of hands. The resolutions were adopted with a great shout, just four votes being cast in the negative. It is probable that these four votes were not cast against the income tax cla.ise in the resolutions. Certain it is that the income tax is as popular with the masse s in the East as it is in the West. A part of the resolutions read as follows: lliat we call on the honest Democrats of the House to accept no Senate amendments that adds an iota to the protective features of the Wilson bill, even at tho risk of leaving the McKinley act In force and remitting tjie whole question to the people. 'J hat a Republican, trust-made McKinley bill is bettor than a Democratic Gorman surrender bill, which to Injury a Ids Insult, and is smeared with still more shameless bargain and sale. That after the open manipulation of the stock market by the secret work of Democratic Senators and the charges that Sugar Trust money was contributed to the Democrat c campaign fund, both party policy aud political decency forbid the imposition by Democratic votes of any duty whatever on sugar. That a 9 citizens of New York we repudiate the Idea that wy prefer tariff taxes to an income tax, and declare that any tax on what men have is better and more democratic than any tax oh what men need, and, while not commending the income tax In Itself, we believe that Its substitution for all tariff taxes would greatly lessen the burden upon the masse l , remove a perennial source of national corruption

and ' make vastly easier the problem ox justly and wisely obtaining a Federal revenue. Tbe Same Old Disease. Censure is justly imposed by the entire country on the group of pretended Democratic Senators who are obstructing the way of tariff reform. , The Republican masses are justified in denouncing these men for their attitude, because it is not assumed on the principle of protection, which they repudiate, but mere’y for the gratification of indiv.dual pecuniary interest The Democratic masses, north and south, east and west, hold these men in open contempt, and if they ever have an opportunity to give effectual expression to their abhorrence of treachery which disgraces the party that expression will be unqualified and explicit But let us speak the truth about the attitude of this group of traitorous obstructives. Who are they but Repub.icans in conduct and in purpose, although denying themselves to be Republicans in principle? What is their dominating motive but the motive that has dominated the entire Republican party since its formation? Each of these men proposes to protect his individual interests at the cost of fidelity to his party and of dishonor to himself as a Democrat. But this selfishness, restricted to a few Senators professionally Democrats, is the creed i of ajl the Senators who are not Democrats. Subordination of the Deraccratic ; frith to the pockets of a few individuals is inconsequential when compared with the deliberate and organized robbery which the Republican party and | its code of political economy has inflicted on the entire country, with varying degrees of oppression and inI justice, during every period in which it baa been in power at Washington. I Democratic obstruction in the Senate is simply the Republican science of I pretended government carried outside i its own party lines into a little patch ;of the Democratic party. As soon as I opportunity comes the Democracy will ; purge itself of the sin of these few culi prits. But the Republican party proi poses to persist in the same sin and to I inflict its consequences indefinitely upon a nation.—Chicago Herald.

Republicans Indorse It. Senator Teller'S declaration in the debate that he wa* opposed to factious delay on the tariff bill by his Republican colleagues, because he considered the “bill ample for the protection of American industries,” and a “better bill than I had an idea would come to us from the Democratic party after its declaration at Chicago," shows how thoroughly Gorman and Brice and McPherson and Smith have done their work. Mr. Teller’s indorsement Shows up those 1 ariff-reform enemies in their true light. Nobody has an adequate comprehension yet of the extent to. which they have made the bill a protective measure. Every examination reveals fresh abominations, and unless the House Democrats insist in conference on striking out most of these, the bill will be very little different from the McKinley law. Why Republicans should oppose it in its present form is explainable only on the ground that they do not care so much for protection as they do for the partisan advantage which would flow from the continued unsettled condition of the business interests of the country which a failure to pass a bill of any kind would secure.—New York Post. Spare the Woolen Schedule. The woolen manufacturers, following the example of the sugar trust, are now making demands upon the Senate. They ask that the McKinley tariff remain untouched till Jan. 1, 1895, when a reduction of 10 per cent may he made, followed annually by a similar reduction until absolute free trade conditions are reached. This sounds better than it is. In 1870 the manufacturers of woolens were ready to accept more than double the reduction they now suggest. If their present proposition is accepted it will be followed by demands for concessions to the wool-growers. But free wool is about all that is left of real tariff reform in the pending bill It would be as well to maintain the McKinley act on the statute hooks as to strike out free wool. The woolen schedule, from top to bottom, should stand as it is. There is no reason why the manufacturers’ proposition should be accepted, and every reason why nothing should be done to imperil free wool. —New York World

Even Mills Makes Bargains. Senator Mills’ vote against free iron ore will ba regretted by many of his friends who do not understand his situation. Mr. Mills was on the subcommittee when this particular concession was made to the “Conservatives,” and he agreed to a duty on ore in return for free wool and other benefits to the consumer. He was keeping his pledge in voting as he did, just as he is keeping another pledge in voting against the more recent and more flagrant concessions to the “Conservatives.” Moreover, a good many sincere tariff reformers lost interest in free coal and free Iron ore when many Massachusetts Democrats, under the lead of ex-Gov. William E. Russell, signed a circu’ar urging protection for the sugar trust. Free coal and iron ore were to be boons for New England, but if New England Democrats were to be in favor of trusts, why make a struggle in their behalf?—New York World. The Sole Exception. The only trust not represented in the new tariff bill is that which the people formerly reposed in the Democratic Senators. —Indianapolis Sentinel. Hurry Up Tariff Reform. The fact that it took ten months to pass the McKinley law is not a logical excuse for delaying the new tariff bill. —Washington Post. Now, ip the Senate could adopt a rule to force its members to do something the public would feel a great sense of relief.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The Senate must pass that tariff hill before the Fourth of July. They would thu3 give our annual glorification day, tho present year, unu ual significance—Boston Globe. IT is certainly the part of wisdom for Republican leaders to avoid all filibustering in the consideration of the tariff. The country wants the question settled. —Philadelphia Time 3. Obviously it is the party policy as well as the patriotic policy of the Democrats to throw musty Senatorial tradition and courtesy to the dogs and put an end to business uncertainty, so far as legislation can do it, without more ado.—Chicago Herald. No Star Chamber! * No GOOD purpose can be served by conducting a star-chamber inquiry into these allegations. It should be conducted with open doors. Turn on the light.—Boston Kerald. There is an earnest protest irum all quarters against the decision to cobduct the investigation of the relations of the sugar trust to the tariff bill with closed doors.—Philadelphia Press. The complimentary things which the Senators will have to say of one another during investigation will no doubt be numerous. Modesty compels them to close the doors.—Washington Star.

SOMEWHAT STRANGE.

ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. QaMr Facts and Thrilling Advanturas Which Show that Truth is Strangar Than Fiction. Two subjects for Miss Mary Wilkins live at Peterboro, N. H., says the Providence Journal, Elvira and Elmira Fife, who probably are the oldest twins living. Next August they will be 88. At the age of 14 they entered the employ of a local manufacturing company, and for sixty years they remained on its pay roll, the maximum wages earned being 99 cents per day, and the minigium J 1 cents for three days’ labor. Th%y have never ridden on a railway train, although the Boston and Maine road runs its cars within ten rods of their door. They have never been separated more than seventy hours at any one time in their lives, and cannot endure the thought that death will summon them singly. Although living in the same house and eating from the same table, they have always lived separately: that is, each has cooked her own meal. If one had a boiled dinner the other had a boiled dinner, and it was not cooked in the same pot either. If one had a turkey the other would have a little larger one, and so in everything they vied with each other to see who would live the best. Mrs. Clandia Herrera died in San Francisco recently at the remarkable age of 120 years. She w r as a Mexican, and for some time had made her home with her friend, Mrs. Petro R. I. Richeri. Mrs. Herrera was born in 1774 at Rial de Jesus Maria, Mexico. When Mrs. Herrera came to San Francisco at the time of the gold excitement she was even then a woman of 75 years old. She had no means, and her husband being dead, she had her own way to make in the world. But with the spirit of a young girl she set about the task; she never w r avered, but all through the long years that followed she earned her living by doing day’s work about the city, especially among the Spanish, for she could speak English but poorly. She continued to work to within twenty days of her death —washing, ironing and carring buckets of water with ease. Mrs. Herrera talked very little of her early life to her friends, but she occasionally spoke of incidents that happened 100 years ago. She knew Santa Ana when he was a boy and afterwards when ho was President of Mexico.

Physiognomists will do well to study an article in Blackwood’s Magazine. The compressed lip so loved and so often misinterpreted by novelists, says the writer, is a sign of weakness rather than of strength. It tells of perpetual conflicts in which the reserves are called into the fray. The strong will is not agitated into strenuous action by the small worries of the hour, and the great occasions which call for its whole forces are too few to produce a permanent impress of this kind upon the features. The commanding officer, assured of his men’s obedience, does not habitually keep his lip muscles in a state of tension. Look at the sea captain, the most absolute monarch on earth. He carries authority and power in his face, but it resides in his eye and the confident assurance of his easily set mouth. Whoever saw a man commanding a man-of-war or driving a locomotive with the contentious lip of a school usher. The absent-minded man is at it again. He had been reading the egg story and decided to try the trick. The first thing to <do was to boil the egg. How many minutes? he asked himself, and going to the stove with an egg in one hand and his watch in the other, he dropped the latter in the hot water. Then placing the egg on the table, he sat down to read till the time was up. At the end of five or six minutes he was surprised to find the egg lying there before him, but supposing that he had himself taken it from the kettle and cooled it, he proceeded to crack and peel it. The consequence may be imagined. Finally he missed his watch. The house was searched high and low, and it was not till the following morning that the cook found it in the kettle, where it had been boiling for hours.

“I have a horse ;at home,” said a North Dakota farmer, “that has developed a great fondness for eggs, and who loses no opportunity to gratify Jus appetite in this direction. During the winter he has a comfortable stall in the barn all to himself, and, by his kind treatment of the hens, is often enabled to secure for himself a freshly laid egg. To begin with he makes a cosey-look-ing place in the hay with his nose, and when a hen comes near he lifts his head out of her way, stands very still and by his quiet behavior invites her to come into his manger and lay her eggs. If she accepts his invitation he is always sure to get the egg, and it is immensely funny to see the look of extreme satisfaction in his faee when he has eaten the egg. “Indians do not take scalps through cruelty,” said Col. E. K. Grimshaw, a retired army officer, to aSt Louis reporter, “but just as civilized soldiers fight for and preserve the captured battle-flags of the enemy as trophies and proofs of prowess in war. During the years I spent on the frontier I was forced to witness many such sickening scenes. The scalp is taken by making a rough circle of slashes around the skull, and then tearing off the broad patch of skin and hair by main force. It is a dreadful operation, and one never to be forgotten by those who have once seen it. The scalp is supposed to contain many magical powers, and is cured with the greatest care by him who takes it.” Some extraordinary but well authenticated stories of the Bank of Prance are related. One day a sheep ate up a hundred-franc note belonging to a butcher. The butcher ran into the house of a friend, seized a gun and shot the sheep. He had no sooner done so than the owner of the gun rushed up. “That was an expensive shot of yours for me,” he said. “What do you mean 2” asked the butcher. “Well " said

the other, “I had seventy franc* in bills hidden in the barrel of that gun!” The sheep’s carcass was pretty thoroughly searched, and enough of the pieces of the notes recovered so that the bank redeemed them all. A Portland (Me.) woman boasts of a cat with a propensity for playing in the water, and tells how it bothers her when she is washing dishes, by trying to get into the pan. The other day, after repeatedly driving the animal from the sink, it climbed up and baianced itself on the two faucets, close together, and amused itself by patting with its paw the rapidly issuing stream. It frequently drinks direct from the faucet, plunging its nose into the current regardless of Sts force, and has often plunged into the bathtub when it was half full of water. So far from fearing the contact of water, as cats usually do, this unique Portland pussy fairly revels in it. London Tid-Bits publishes a wonderful story of the achievements of a boy at the old German town of Zeltz. This boy owns a dog which he taught to pronounce thirty-one words, twen-ty-four German and seven French. The words are spoken one at a time, and only at the dictation of the young teacher. The “talking dog of Zeltz” is the wonder of Europe, and nothing similar has ever been known, except the dog which was exhibited in Holland in 1718. This old-time canine wonder could pronounce all the letters of the alphabet, except “1,” “m” and “n.” Miss Sophia Behrens, a young lady well connected in Minneapolis, has been adjudged insane and taken to the asylum at Independence. Her mania was that she was engaged to several young men of the city, whom she threatened with suits for breach of promise unless they came to time. Her letters became so frequent that it was decided to bring her before the Commissioners of Insanity. It Is a peculiar case. She even went so far as to have her wedding trousseau made.

Near Yankton, N. D., is the most remarkable family on this continent, perhaps in the world. It consists of father, mother and twentyfour children, and the mother of the brood is not yet 80 years old. She is a Norwegian woman and her husband is a Hoosier. The children were born triplets and the oldest of the lot is under 12 years of age. All of them are boys but three, one set of triplets being girls. Peter Gruber, of Oil City, who calls himself the greatest snake catcher in the State of Pennsylvania, had twelve live rattlers in a paper bag and was carrying them home, when they burst from the bag. One of them got around his neck, but in trying to strike at the man bit its own body and died. Gruber saved eleven of the reptiles. One of the quaint remembrances of Robert Louis Stevenson’s South Sea life is that of his Honolulu mouse. A small shelf hung over the couch whereon he used to lie when ill and trying to forget his pain in playing on the flageolet. On this shelf the little mouse would venture, and soon became so tame as to delight in the novelist’s caresses. London has a feminine drum and fife corps. It is made up of charming girls who meet at one another’s houses and practice under the guidance of a drum major from a Guards Regiment. What with these fair drummers and Miss Ethel Stoke’s women volunteers, there seems to be no lack of martial spirit in the English woman.

A Grand Haven (Mich.) man says that in 1875 he marked tbe backs of three turtles, cut off their heads and set them free. He asserts that a few days ago he caught one of the same creatures which had a fully developed head and only showed the result of the decapitation in an abnormal ridge around the throat. While Arnold LandgraJ was shooting at turtles in a pond near Rome, Jefferson County, Wis., one of his bullets glanced from the back of one intended victim and put out the eye of a little girl who was standing near. The shooting was regarded as an unavoidable accident, and Landgraf was not arrested. The life of 5-year-old Mary Gusenberry was saved by a dog. She had fallen into a pond, when a Newfoundland belonging to a neighbor jumped in and pulled her out. Now hex mamma forgives the child for stealing tidbits from the kitchen to feed Fido, whose friendship is at a premium in that family. Henry Martin, of Bonham, Tex., is said to own a horse that has an immoderate fondness for live chickens, catching them for himself and enjoying them as ordinary horses enjoy oats. He has destroyed the reputar tions of all the colofed people in tbe neighborhood. Policeman Steel, of Manchester, N. H., weighs 150 pounds. During a recent fire he carried down five flights of stairs a sick man who tipped the scales at 800. He was loudly cheered by the crowd. William A. Hall, of Worth, Ga. has a team of mules that are 27 years old. He has been driving them for twenty years, and they can be worked as hard as ever.

Disconcerted the Fakir.

A novel story of the late Sir Richard Owen is just going the rounds. A snake-charmer at Cairo, reckoning without his host, appeared before Sir Richard to go through a deadly performance with a cerastes—the horned asp. The reptile was placed on the ground. Owen looked at it a moment then stepped forward and picked it up. Before the luckless performer could interpose the savant plucked from its head its projecting horns, which, on closer inspection, proved t<j be fish bones. The fakir was somewhat disconcerted at the rapid unveiling of an actually harmless animal, and the entertainment was withdrawn. —[London Figaro. Georgia sends out every year about 1.000,000 bales o' cotton.

GOWNS AND GOWNING.

WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY VEAR. Brief Glen ore at Fancies Feminine, Frlrolona. Mayhap, and Yet Offered la the Hope that the Reading May Prove Beetful to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gay Gotham.

AY brought no lessening in the width of sleeves, and there are no indications at present of an immediate or approaching decrease in their size. The sleeves which are at pressent most fashionable give to the waist an appearance of slenderness, a result produced by the highly exaggerated shoulder width. A feature which makes the sleeves seem even larger than ever before is the fact that they not droop over the elbow, but are

often stiffened to stick out from it. Height, of course, is not permissible, and the more the fullness can be made to spread out from the arm, the more fashionable they appear. To attain this result lining fabrics are used which will stiffen them sufficiently to keep them distended, but care must be taken that no appearance of blockiness results. With so much attention given to the one consideration of size. there have been few new sorts of sleeves offered. A stylish sleeve is in Queen Anne shapj and a bow of six long loops being arranged in groups of three, separate! by a small ribbon strap run through a fancy buckle. These loops fall over the i leevo and lend the desired shoulder slope and tho equally necessary volume at the same time. This device is applicable to sleeves which are somewhat out of data. As has been indicated, there has been little encouragement for designers of novelttes in sleeve shapes, but one which has just beon put forward is sketched in the initial picture. Those sleeves are of the full width, though their size is somewhat concealed by their being draped at the top to attain an epaulette effect, and by their being again caught in tho center a little below the epaulette. That results in a drooping sleeve, beneath which there is a tight sleevo to a little above the elbow, which is finished at the wrist with b band of embroidery. Striped modo colored doth is combined in this toilet with black silk. The underskirt is of plain silk and panels of pleated silk are let in at both sides. The drapery is piped with blaok and opens to show the panels. The bodice is draped over a fitted lining, and is alike both back and front. It should be ap-

OF PLAID DUCK.

parent that this model 1b only suitable for an extremely slender figure. Last season saw a few dresses of striped duck While women were inclined to dislike the looks of these gowns, they must have on the whole made a favorable impression, tor> this summer finds them plentiful, and even plaids are attempted. The writer beard two young women comparing the latter sorts, and they decided to accept a large plaid, “so that it would not look like the jumper of our ash-oart man.” The dress of the second picture is made of duck in about the largest plaid whicb is yet offered. Its skirt is moderately wide and quite plain. The jacket is lined with he ivy white pique, both sides turning back in big revers. and beneath there is a double-breasted belt of pique finished by a narrow black belt fastening with a jet buckle. A bow of white silk mull is worn at the throat, and a jaunty sailor hat, trimmed with a bow of white ribbon at the left side, and with its edge of fancy straw, accompanies the get-up. The parasol is of white silk, with a deep ruffle falling from its edge. The coaching parasol of last year which is a little faded may this year be freshened up by covering it all over with little lawn ruffles of figured goods showing a color to match or harm - nize with the color of the parasol. From a scarlet parasol a delightful one may be made by having the ruffles of lawn figured with scarlet carnations,

A COMPROMISE.

sach little ruffle edged with several rows of narrow ribbon, one row scarlet, sne row pale green like the foliage in the figure and the third row brown for the stems. Chiffon covered parasols that have been kept over from season to season may bo stripped of the messy

chiffon and hesiartifmo by fresh frills of wash blondo edged with ribbon or with little ribbon frills. Of oourse, the duck suits are moetly tailor-made, and the unusual variety of the material is accounted for by the prevalence of the tailor-made girl Between the severity of the tailor cut and the great elaboration of the many overskirt styles there is a vast difference, and it sometimes happens that each fashion makes so strong an appeal to a young woman that she will endeavor to combine the two In ordinary hands this process will not result in anything at all attractive, but in this third picture is shown a costume furnished with the popular pointed apron overskirt, and at tne same time fitted with a jacket bodice and a doublebreasted vest. The whole is so nearly half wav between the two widely different modes that it is difficult to say of whioh it partakes the most. If, however, the carriage of the maid herself is taken into consideration, there can be no denying that there is in the squared shoulders and in the way that the head is held a strong likeness to the genuine tailor girl. The costume is made of a moss-green suiting, combined with mode-colored clotn and trimmed with green passementerie. The gored skirt is of the green suiting and the overskirt is trimmed with the passementerie. Tho vest is of the mode cloth, as are the sleeves. Two huge buttons ornament each front of the jacket, and the lace jabot is put at the throat. As an offset to so much that is entirely plain, there is often a high degree of fancifulness shown when elaboration is attempted. Isn’t the thought of a gown covered with quilled ribbon from foot to waist enough to thrill a

NO TRACE OF TAILOR HERN.

woman’s heart? Some of the imported street dresses are just that, and, for fear that some economic-minded damo may accomplish such a gown when ribbon is oheap, the gown must not be made of ribbon, but of a material that has all these little quilled frills in the weave. This is a good gown to select for description to the man of family. He will be glad the desoriber is such a sensible little thing and never spends her money so foolishly. Thon possibly he can be brought to consent to a rainbow chiffon garden cloak. This consists of a long round cloak that reaches in Fled Riding Hood shape well below the waist, ana is made of delioat j China silk. A series of frills cover it all over, and they are all of different shades of chiffon. Besides this there are a lot of little bows and ends of different colors, a bit of hood that is a lovely crumple of color and frills, and that, for all it seems so small, comes down about the face when the hood Is drawn. This hood gives a shade for every pet point of your lips, cheeks, hair, and eyes, and makes your face look like tho queen rose of a bouquet. If ever a lain should come up—but if you are going to Indulge in a rainbow chiffon cloak you want to be above thinking of rain. Of fanciful device is the young woman’s toilet next presented. Made of figured suiting, its draped skirt is looped up by a largo bow, from over a plain cloth underskirt. The bodice is made of silk and the lining hooks in the middle, while the odd plastron laps over and is apparently fastened to the small lace yoke by two fancy buttons. Over the bodice is worn a tiny jacket of dark silk which has large revers and turned down collar. The sleeves are made of the same material as the bodice and have lace epaulettes. They

THEATER SEATS NEED BE WIDE

are trimmed with full watered ribbon bows at the elbows. The time was not long ago when moire was not a stuff that bad any charms for any but the stately and queenly matron of at least middle age. Then it was a fabric of so rich a pattern and so great brilliance as to seemingly unfit it for youth. Now it has become a thing of the daintiest shades, and in the many new varieties put forth since Its use became so general there are found the most., delicate designs. Beauteous blossoms are scattered over its changeable ground, shot effects abound, it is dotted with satin, and flowered and striped sorts are without end. Its coloring are even more varied, and it has beon so transformed that it is now us suitable for the young as the old. Silk and woolen fabrics are very stylishly combined and gowns so made arc more acceptable than those solely of silk, unless the silk be of the very best. A particu'arly rich combination is a dress of crocodile crepon made up with watered silk sleeves, waiscoatana revers and supplied with a moire ribbon sash. In the theater toilet of the last illustration the black watered silk is used with rose pink cloth. Besides the sleeves there is a deep yoke of the silk to which the sitting is gathered with a small head. Over the shoulders are straps of gold and pink embroidery and a pointed belt finishes the bottom. The skirt is gored, the side gores being laid over the front breadth to imitate a panel, and is untrimmed. Copyright, 1894. Bosouit’s late' pamphlet, *Man of the Nineteenth Century, * says that only one man out of eaoh 209 attains a height of over six feat

HE MADE HIS CARFARE.

A New York Broker’s Profitable Trip to Philedolphla. The ways of the New York broker are artful and his eyes are afwaysopen for an opportunity. When he has » chance to “make a good bargain" he doesn’t let the grass grow under b«e feet. The head of a steamship company recently said to a Wall street broker: “I wish I could get a certain pier privilege; it’s so and so." “Well, why don’t you go and get it?” asked the broker. “I can’t seem to get hold of it." “The pier business,” said the broker, “isn’t in my line; but how much would you give me for this privilege if I get it ?” “I’ll give you SI,OOO a month for a year.’’ The broker said that he would see what he could do. The pier was owned by a Philadelphia man and the next afternoon the man from Wall street walked into the office of thw pier owner in Philadelphia. “I want you to buy some bonds,” he said.

“I don’t want to buy anything," was the answer. I’m selling.” “But these are gilt-edged; yon never saw anything better.” ‘ Can’t buy anything. Haven’tany money. Got a lot of things on my hands that aren’t paying a cent. These are hard times, I tell you. I've got stores that I can’t rent. Dills thetI can’t collect. Why, there’s a pier over In your city that isn’t doing what it ought to do for me. A privilege there is just begging for some one to take it.” “Well,” said the broker, “I want to sell you some of these bonds. We might make a ’dicker’ on the pier. I guess I could get rid of it. Will yon take the bonds off my hands if I take the pier off yours?” “I don’t want bonds.” ‘ ‘Wouldn’t you take them to got rid of your pier?” “No; I am carrying all I want.” “Well, maybe I’ll take your pier anyway. How much do you want for it?'.' “Three thousand dollars a year.'* - The broker thought ho might a» well take the privilege, even if they couldn’t strike a bargain on bond*. Thu next morning he went to the New York steamship man. “I can get that pier for yea for a year,” he said. “At what terms?” “Your own figures year.” The privilege was relet right then and there, the contract signed* and the broker was just. $9,000 bettor oil. A short time after this the steamshipman met the broker again. ••Hay, X " he said, “tell me now, just for fun, what did you make out of that pier business?” “Carfare,” answered tho broker, unblushlngly. “Carfare?” ‘Yes, carfare—around the world.”’

RIGHT-HANDEDNESS.

Odd Faota About a Peculiarity off the Human Raoa. Professor 3. Mark Baldwin, of Princeton University, has been performing a series of experiments upon one of his children with a view to finding the origin of right-handedness. There is no apparent scientific reasonwhy u man should use one hand anymore than another, or why the muscles of one arm should be stronger than those of the other; A number of theories have been advanced to account for the phenomenon. One of the most plausible, according to the St. Louis- PostDispatch, is that people become right-handed from the manner in which they are held and carried when< small children. The mother carries; the child in such a way as to leave its right hand free, and from this early experience the habit is acquired which runs through its whole life. Ik is also a curious fact that the observation of animals fails toehow an uneven development of the muscles- or limbs on one side of the body amcompared with these- on the other. Monkeys especially are known to swing freely by both arms equally well, although this is a point thab Professor Garner might well have studied in the jungles of Africa. The experiments made by Professor Baldwin, of Princeton, extended over a period of many months, beginning: while the child was an infant. This, however, was only In regard to objectoplaced at some distance from the body of the child, and where It had to reach out for them. When objects wereplaced near the child it used both hands equally. More than 1,000 experiments of this kind were tried by Professor Baldwin, and when the objects reached for were near its body it vsed both hands about an equal number of times. In stretching out, however, it almost invariably used Its right hand. Prom this ho argued that the tendency is inherited. Left-handed children are, it is said, generally descended from left-handed mothers or fathers. Those that are right-handed learn to shake hands more easily than left-handed children, who have to stretch their arms across, their body in an awkward fashion to perform the act. Profeasor Baldwin thinks that the righthanded function has some connection with the power of speech. They both belong in the same lobe of the brain, and before a child learns to apeak it has been observed that It endeavors to express emotions with its hands. There are some people who are neither left nor right handed, but who can use both hands equally well, even in writing, the muscles on either arm being the same size.

More Celtic Girle Than Boys.

A curious and interesting fact given by the registrar general in his statistics of 1898 is that in the Celtic portions of the United Kingdom tha proportion of the female births is much higher than it is in the nonCeltic portions. The highest proportions are found in Cumberland, Cornwall and North Wales, while South Wales is only a little way down on the list, and has a proportion considerably above ti»e average for the whole country. The proportion of female births is higher in Ireland and Scotland than in. England. —fCardiff (Wales) Mail. 1