Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — Page 5

IT MOST BE DEFEATED

SENATE S OUTRAGEOUS SUGAR SCHEDULE. Let the Member* of the Hmue See that It Doe* Not Become a Law—No Beet Trom Tariff Keri*lon Vntll Tariff Is Reformed Out of Existence. The House Must Defeat It. The McKinley bill is filled with schedules that speak of bargain and sale, of surrender to greedy trusts, of shame and disgrace: but it contains no schedule comparab'e in occult meanness with the sugar schedule as it passed the Sena'e on June 5, The only hope for the Democratic party lies in the prospect that the House will undo this outrageous piece of work. If it does not lift the stigma that the Senate has left upon their party the Democrats may prepare for a funeral procession next fall The disgrace attached to this schedule and the unpopularity of the sugar tax will more than overcome the po r ularity of the income tax. Each feature of the sugar schedule is worse than the others; all will rise up to curse the p>arty that put them there.

L The 40 per cent, duty on allsugars was put ca at the instigation of the trust. Though Senator Gorman said in his speech that “the refiners derive no benefit whatever from this 40 per cent, duty,” yet it is certain that it yields a protection of between 20 and 40 cents per 100 pounds to the trust. The average difference between the price of foreign refined sugar and the price which the trust pays for raws is about leant per pound; 40 per cent, of this difference (after allowing for the loss in clear protection to the trust. With raws at 3 and foreign refined sugar at 4 cents, the protection is about 33 cents on 100 pounds of refined sugar. ' 2. The specific duties of 4 of a cent per pound on all refined and of 1-10 of a cent additional on all sugars impdrt■ed from countries which pay export duties are robbery, pure and simple. They will not put a penny of revenue into the treasury, but will add from $8,000,000 to 810,000,000 a year to the unjust dividends of the trust. 3. The provi don to admit raw sugar free from the Hawaiian Islands makes a present of $4,030,000 or $5,000,000 a year to the trust, which has a five-year contract with the planters. 4. The provision to continue to pay the sugar bounty until Jan. 1, 1895, besides being unconstitutional and coninary to the Democratic platform, will be a drain upon the treasury when it most needs every dollar it can obtain. 5. But most outrageous of all is the provision to postpone, until Jan. 1, 1895, the enforcement of the sugar duties. The New York Times says: “How much revenue the sugar tax would yield if it was levied on and after July 1 cannot be exactly computed. It would depend on the amount imported and the range of prices, but $40,000,000 a year is a very moderate estimate. Now to postpone the tax for six months is obviously to deprive the treasury of $20,000,000, ana as the trust has the certainty of the tax after Jan. 1 to rely on, and the McKinley tax to protect it meanwhile, what the treasury is deprived of is given to the trust. But that is not all, nor is it the worst. During these six months the trust will be able to bring into the country free of duty all the raw sugar it can buy in any of the markets of the world. The only check on its purchases will be the enhancement of the price by the full amount of the duty imposed in the bill. Until that limit is reached it will be profitable for it to buy, and on every pound thus bought the treasury loses the revenue. The stock thus provided for cannot be less than six months’ supply. It may easily be more. The adoption of the Senate provision in this matter, therefore, will deprive the treasury of at least $40,000,000 in revenue, ana may easily cost it $50,000,(00 or $60,00J,000." The effect of the whole schedule will be to raise the price of refined sugar about one cent per pound to the people. The tax on the people from the beginning of 1895 will be about $00,000,000 a year. At least one-half and perhaps 90 per cent, of the tax for 1895 will go into the coffers of the trust. After that about two-thirds will go to the treasury. Well may the Philadelphia Record say: “In every light in which the sugar schedule of the Senate bill may be viewed it serves one sole interest —that of the trust. The interests of the consumers, of planters in Louisiana, and beet raisers in Nebraska, of independent refiners and of the government itself, are all subordinated to the claims of monopoly. As the character of this measure becomes thoroughly understood U is inconceivable that it should be enacted into law. — Byron W. Holt.

The Mission of the Democracy, If the bill should really become law it would arouse a storm of indignation among all Democrats, who would see in this bungling performance a shameful departure from the tariff platform. That tariff agitation subside even for a while is therefore not to be expected, although this would have positively happened if the present Congress had given even a half way satisfactory solution of the problem. We cannot see, therefore, why under the circumstances such a bundling performance should be shouldered: and we believe that honest Democrats will not submit to it, but will much rather allow the bill to perish. We are pretty well persuaded that the “conservative” Denjocr us would not take the responsibility of j, failure, but would much rather s pport the will of the their Colleagues if the latter wKuld agree upon a bill which would lie between the Wilson bill and the Voorhees bill. Then at any rate we could count upon the uniScation of the Democratic party and upon a stop to tariff revision for a time.* That we expect no permanent rest we frankly and freely confess. The end of all revision must be the giving up o f the protection idea the conversion to an entirely revenue tariff. If any thing were needed to show us that a protective tariff is not suitable for our political system, the present action on the tariff certainly points it out plainly Finally, we believe a tariff tax will not always be retained as a source of revenue. With a reform of the tariff will come a general and fundamental reform of all taxation, both federal and local. Our entire tax system is outgrown and fundamentally wrong. Something has been gained toward the understanding of the tariff question, through the miserable inefficiency of the present Congress. The action of the monopolist has never before been so plainly seen by the people in its utter shamelessness. The working people have had destroyed the last remnant of that illusion that their interests were in the least degree regarded by the beneficiary of the protective tariff. All the evils of concentrated production must, under the protective tax system, be intensified to the worker.

This point must be plain to every thoughtful workman. On the one side the protective tariff increases the concentrative tendency of production and possession, the absorbing of the small by the greater; on the other hand, it destroys the weapons which the workman, through organization a rainat the unscrupulous grain of the employer, until now has been able to fashion. The entire people, indeed, through the protective tariff, fall more and more under the power of the great industries, which make law-makers their puppets, and which must do so, if they are to continue their system of plunder. This must be clear to the dullest understanding, when we see see the antics which the puppets of the monopolists in Congress are now performing. The loosening of the chains in which the people are bound on every side is still, alas, in the distance, and through such a bill as Gorman will give us nothing can be done. Yet the release must come: and so long as it is not reached the Democracy have not fulfilled their peculiar mission, and should not give up striving to fulfill it.—New Yorker Staats IWtung.

Brooklyn’s Mag* Meeting. Brooklyn's business men held a big mass meeting in the Star Theater, to protest against the passage of the Gorman surrender bill. The resolutions, which were adopted with enthusiastic applause, were similar to those adopted by the Cooper Union Mass Meeting, in New York City, two weeks previously. After reciting the promises of the Democratic platforms in 1890 and 1892 and declaring that the House had passed a bill “which, to some extent, embodied the reform demanded by the people, “it declared that the Senate bill, if passed, “would be a heartless denial and a derisive mockery of the repeated popular demands for lower taxes, more equal opportunities and freer exchanges. ”

The resolutions also declared that the delay in the passage of a tariff bill, and the obnoxious modifications made in the Wilson bill, at the bidding of trusts, “prolong and intensify the distress now afflicting our people, invite distrust and contempt of the Senate and jeopardize the prosperity of the whole country;” and that “Earnestly as we desire the speedy termination of the present uncertainty, we will not be content to accept from Congress any tariff bill founded upon a compromise with injustice, upon the trading of political influence, and upon the granting of special privileges, all of which are embraced in the Gorman Surrender bill now under consideration by the Senate, and that if, in effect, the McKinley tariff is to be perpetuated, it were preferably done by authority of the Republican party than by that of the Democratic party. “That we call upon those Democratic Senators who seek to be guided by principle, and who recrgnlze their responsibility to the people, to manfully rebuke the attitude of certain of their party associates who are bartering their honor and betraying their country for personal advantage. We en. treat them to arrest the suicidal course to which these self-seeking politicians would commit their party, and to insist, without compromise, upon the passage of a tariff bill which will place all crude raw materials on the free list, and impose such moderate ad valorem duties upon manufactured products as will provide revenue, without becoming oppressive, to the same intent, in spirit and in substance, as stipulated by the Wilson bilk" These resolutions are strong, but they only half express the feelings of thousands of honest Democrats who worked hard to place their party in power—to give a few traitors the opportunity to barter away their own and their party’s honor. As was the case in New York City, speeches in favor of an income, as against a tariff, tax. were received with great favor by the audience. The Income Tax Not Sectional* When the parrots were ridiculed out of their screeches to the effect that the income tax is “monarchical” and “inquisitorial” they took up the concerted cry that it is sectional. It is evident, however, that, parrot-like, they have no accurate idea of the meaning of the word they have been taught to repeat. Yesterday, for instance, they showed clearly that the tax is not sectional at all. They printed dispatcher against it from all sections, and one of them remarked: “They come from all parts of the country, showing that hatred to class legislation is not confined to any one section.” The dispatches referred to come from bankers, merchants and capitalists. They show that the opposition is not geographical, but comprises those in all parts of the country who will pay the tax when it is imposed. It is not the South and West against the East, as has been pretended. It is simply the desire to escape the payment of any tax that can be avoided. And this desire is confined to no section and knows no class. —New York World. The Pauper-Mummy Industry. The purchase of two mummies by Mr. Andrew Carnegie for scientific purposes, the history attached to which is supposed to indicate their roval lineage, has served to elicit the startling statement from an official of the Philadelphia Custom House that imports of this character are not subject to any duty—thus revealing a most extraordinary oversight in the framing of the McKinley tariff, the result of which will be to expo.e the home market (consisting mainly of museums) to the unbounded competition of ancient Egypt, with its pitch-preserved dynasties as far back as the days of Menes. — Philadelphia Record. I The Unyielding Democracy. If anybody, Republican, Populist or half-baked Democtat, thinks that the rank and file of the Democratic party is weakening on tariff reform, he is wofully mistaken. Their backs are stiffer than ever, and the only effect of a traitorous surrender by a few Senatorial accidents is only making them madder and more earnest. —St. Pau) Globe. Told tn a Cut.

“SIMPLY DRIFTING." — N. Y. World

MECHANICAL FREAKS.

QUEER INVENTIONS SENT TO THE PATENT OFFICE. Contrivances for Carraling Boasts and Bugs.--Odd Musical Instru-ments--Paper Put to Many Uses. American invention has given birth to no end of freaks, which have been embalmed at the patent office, in Washington, in order that they may not perish. Some of the queerest of them are devices for entrapping beasts, bugs, fishes and even human beings. What, for example, could be funnier than the notion of using imitation flowers with poisoned honey to attact noxious insects? The artificial blossoms, each containing a small quantity of sugary liquid properly prepared, are to be fastened to twigs. Moths of destructive species sip the deadly nectar and die. A more elaborate device of a similar description is intended for the protection of apple trees. It is a tin can covered as to its upper half with luminous paint. On the outside of the lower half apple blossoms are represented with the same sort of paint. Inside of the receptacle is a small quantity of cider. The can is to be hung on a branch of .an apple tree at night. Insects attracted by the pictured flowers light upon the can. The smell of the cider induces them to enter through holes provided for that purpose; they drop into the cider and are drowned.

It is not always easy to distinguish between a crank idea and a useful’ discovery. The poisoned counterfeits of flowers above described are said to work very well. Many years ago a man got a patent for a method of killing bugs on trees by inclosing the whole tree in a sort of balloon of canvas, into which an asphyxiating gas was to be poured for the purpose of suffocating the insects. Everybody thought he was a lunatic. But now that his patent has run out, the merits of the plan have suddenly obtained appreciation, and its adoption is alleged to have saved the orangegrowing industry in California. Several kinds of luminous baits for fish have been patented. One of these is a minnow of hollow glass coated on the inside partly with a solution of gold or silver and partly with luminous paint. The result is a very brilliant object in the water, calculated to attract any predacious creature with fins. Another interesting contrivance is for making frogbait more seductive. The jerking of the line equipped with this device causes the frog's legs to move as if he were swimming. Much ingenuity has been expended in rat traps. Some of them are so elaborate that no full-witted rodent would go near them. One requires Mr. Rat to come in through a door, which drops behind him and makes him a prisoner. Seeing a bright light above he ascends a flight of little steps and trots across a small plank that is so nicely adjusted as to balance that his weight causes it to tip and throw him into a tank of water. Another contrivance consists of a double chamber. One chamber has a glass end, through which Mr. Rat sees two or three imitation rats having a nice time with a bit of cheese. Wishing to join them, he runs around the box, gets into the other chamber and is caught. Sparrow traps are of many different kinds. Host of them invite the birds to walk in through a door, which drops behind them, making them prisoners. When next seen in the restaurants they are reedbirds on toasts. Of greater interest are contrivances for catching thieves. One of them is designed to discourage bank srAaks. The sneak put his hand in through the teller’s window and unintentionally actuates a mechanism which causes a slide with spikes to close suddenly upon his paw and impales it. A trap of somewhat similar character is a steel shutter for a house window so disguised with covering and fringe as to look like an ordinary curtain. If a burglar tries to enter at night it shuts down upon him, the spikes hidden by the fringe helping to hold him fast. American inventors have been fruitful of queer ideas in musical instruments. Patents have been sought for violins made of metal, of earthenware, of glass, of leather, and even of glue. Plain wood, however, maintains its place as the accepted material for this purpose. How many people have even heard of the “doorophone I” It consists of a frame and sounding board with tuned wires and little metal balls suspended. The contrivance is hung upon a door. When the latter is opened the balls swing back and forth and strike harmonious chords.

There is a patented device for playing the banjo by electricity. It requires no skill, the instrument being operated by a sheet of paper with perforations, which control the making and breaking of a circuit. Mechanical fingers thus actuated pick the strings and depress them at the frets. Another instrument is so arranged that one may play the banjo by manipulating the keys of a keyboard like that of a piano on a small scale. The same idea is varied by a combination of piano and violin, the strings of the latter being fingered by the use of the piano-like keyboard. Of course, that is the difficult part of violin playing, the handling of the bow being simple enough. The bow is held in the right hand while the fingers of the left hand strike the keys. Patents have been granted for making innumerable queer things out of paper, such as carpets, electric conduits, lead-pencils, roofing material, car wheels, boats, pails, coffins, brushes and combs. Mattresses are manufactured out of paper pulp and ordinary sponge, springs being imbedded in the composition. A cloth paper for banknotes has been invented, the notion being to render such money less perishable and more difficult to counterfeit. Paper is used nowadays for architectural decorations, interior and exterior. Cornices, panels and friezes are molded out of the pulp. Paper collars, which used to be produced in such enormous numbers, seem to have gone out of fashion. Medals are made out of paper and colored to imitate silver or bronze. Cigarboxes are manufactured from the same material, flavored with ce-

dar oil to give them the customary smell. Hollow telegraph poles of paper pulp are a new invention. They are coated with silicate of potash to preserve them.

Many strange materials are utilized for making paper. One of these is peanut shells. Tobacco stems are reduced into pulp and made into paper that is stained with tobacco juice. This paper is employed for cigarette wrappers and for wrappers and fillers of cheap cigars. One of the oddest inventions recorded at the patent office is a sort of gun intended to be fixed upon the head of a steer that is to be slaughtered. The stroke of a hammer on a pin fires a cartridge and discharges a bullet into the brain of the animal. It is almost noiseless, and death is instantaneous. There are several ideas for death alarms, to give notice in case a person comes to life after being buried.—[Detroit Free Press.

CAPTAIN AND MIDDIES.

Th* Latter Wara Contrite, But the Former Was Obdurate. Old sailors will remember Captain Percival, known in our navy before the war as “Mad Jack.” Captain Percival was a consummate sailor, and as inflexible as the laws of the Medes and Persians. Although noted for his eccentricity he was admireJ for his ability and determination. When Mad Jack commanded a sloop-of-war on the Honolulu station just before our civil war, a number of midshipmen and petty officers incurred his displeasure by some riotous conduct ashore.. Calling the delinquents before him, the captain administered a severe rebuke, and swore a mighty oath that not one of them should put foot on shore again during the cruise. The lads were rather inclined to laugh in their sleeves at getting off so cheaply, for the cruise was nearly up, and they were daily expecting “orders for home.” But the business became serious when, soon after, news arrived of a diplomatic row, or a case of oppression, somewheres (we won’t bo too particular in the details), and the vessel received orders to sail in that direction and prolong her cruise for several months. The sailed for her destination, touching at several fine ports, and affording frequent opportunities to the senior officers and crew to indulge themselves ashore; but the midshipmen, with daily lengthened visages were confined to the ship. Finally the dropped anchor in a port famed for its lively society, its lovely women, the beauty of its natural position, its walks, its drives, and the brilliancy of its places of amusement —in fact, the paradise of a naval officer. Here it was announced they were to remain some three months. All hands were rejoiced—except the midshipmen, who, as the days and weeks passed away and no permission reached them to go ashore, suffered all the horrors of Tantalus. The ship had been some two months in port when their sufferings reached the culminating point, and they held a meeting to discuss their condition. They argued that when their punishment was pronounced this prolongation of the voyage was not anticipated, and as they had already been sufficiently punished by confinement on board when in port for a long period, surely Mad Jack would, on proper representation of the facts, relax his iron discipline in their behalf and annul the sentence against them. So it was resolved that they should proceed in a body to the captain and ask permission to go ashore. A spokesman was chosen, and they advanced, cap in hand, a melancholy procession, to the captain’s cabin, and before that potentate they feelingly represented the hardships of their case, announced their deep contrition for past offenses, and wound up by a request to be allowed to go ashore.

“So, so! young gentlemen—want to go ashore, do you?” “Why yes, sir; we thought—” “Humph! Yes! Well, I expected an application of this sort; but I’m afraid you’ll misbehave yourselves.” “Oh, no, indeed, sir; we’ll be very circumspect.” “And you won’t get drunk?” “Oh, no, sir! we won’t drink a drop.” “And you won’t go to any dancehouses, or low theatres, or anything of that sort?” “Certainly not, sir; we’ll seek the very best society we can find.” “Yes, yes! Humph! It might improve your health, too, you are looking rather thin; but I trust I shall hear no bad report of your conduct.” “You will not, indeed, sir.” “And you will be on board the ship again at an early hour?” “Oh, yes, sir! we will be very punctual to- any hour that you may fix.” “Humph! Yes! Well, young gentle* men you can’t go !”

An Earthly Paradise.

A traveler writing from Fayal, in the Azores, comments on the methods of hotel life there. Board at the best hotel is 1,000 reis, or $1 of our money, a day. “Two men brought our trunks a distance of half a mile and up a pair of stairs for 250 reis, or 25 cents. One man carried my large trunk on one shoulder, and in the other hand my two bags; the other carried the steamer trunk, steamer chair and shawls, and the two thus burdened kept up a dog trot till our rooms were reached. The hotel keeps a plate of oranges in the room constantly, and I eat about a dozen a day. They are small, almost seedless, very juicy and delicious. We feast, too, on bananas, guavas, custard apples and dates. For one cent you may buy more plums than can be managed at one eating.”—[New York Times. Chicago has a federation of women’s clubs numbering twenty-two organizations. One of these is called the Olio Club, and is interested in almost everything under the sun. It has a peculiar rule to the effect that the President may address any member whose name she forgets as “ Mrs. HDDS.”

WORN BY THE WOMEN

SOME OF THE VERY LATEST IDEAS IN DRESS. Cine hmbroldertoa and Lacy Edglnx> Arc No* Freely V»ed on Styllah Street Dreaaea—The Dotted Veil I« Popular and with Moat Women Becoming. New York oorreapondencc

TREET dressed f very dainty afwTF fairs, if not after tailor models, and I their texture and trimmings are oftentimes wonders of tasteful adornu ■L*l me nt. Even cham* A Vy hr ay s and ginghams are so finely y woven and figured so handsomely that \ when skil If ully ft made up they are X\ fl ts o r anything *si\ but very dressy AT X occasions. Fine L embroideries and '* lacy insertions and

edgings are freely used for trimming, but there is no lessening in the amount of lace itself. These must be haymaking days for lace manufacturers, and the makers of guipure especially should be well on the high road of fortune. This lace is uied to adorn the dress shown in the initial picture, and from it are the deep sleeve cuffs and the wide bodice revers. Cream-colored pongee brocaded with mauve is the dress stuff, the underskirt is covered half way up with a band of pongee, and the overskirt is draped at the left side with a rosette of tne same stuff. The bodice has a vest of eream-colored mousseline de sole and a double bow of the same is placed at the neck. A wide belt of cream-colored ribbon fastens with a gold buckle at the side. Though it would seem at first thought that the neck and shoulders should be left pretty much alone in the summer months, nevertheless they are made to display all sorts of ornamental devices by the current rules of adornment. It all began with the big bows lieneath the chin. These are still retained, but other and much more elaborate devices are rivalling them in favor. Pretty neck affairs are made of white silk and consist of a little pointed yoke front and back, having a ruffle all around, which widens at the shoulders and narrows as it comes to each point. The ruffle is of white silk also, and is finished at the edge with several rows of baby ribbon, each row being a different shade. Such an accessory can go with almost any kind or color of gown, and will prove a verv dressy addition. When it is desired to set off

WIRED FRILLS FOR SHOULDERS AND THROAT.

tha shoulders, as well as the throat, as much care and Ingenuity is frequently taken as will ordinarily construct a whole costume. For example, see the fichu of the second Illustration. Made of white mousseline chiffon and trimmed with black ohenilie, it has a yoke foundation and reaches in a point to the waist in back. The garniture consists of wired frills that stand out stiffly over the shoulders, the ruching around the neck and down the front being stiffened in a like manner. The dainty costume is completed by a big bow of the chiffon with ornamented ends. This model is a brand-new one and is commended to the summer girl who wants to look distractingly nugable and yet have a wire fence of stiffened ruffle a'l about her. Legitimate tricks of facial embellishment. of course, are few, but veils are permissible and stylish. All bizarre effects are utterly out of taste, hut the dotted veil will never go out because it is so becoming to the average complexion. The net must be fine, and the dots not too big. Some very delicate white nets are dotted in black, and where the plan of the costume is harmonious the et.fcct is good. Most veils are double width, and the most becoming to a woman with a beautitul skin is black illusion. It can be worn only once or twice and is expensive, but it is well to have one for special occasions. Brussels net comes in light weight, is almost as becoming, is durable, and, except with a very delicate or dressy hat, is suitable for all occasions. There is a fancv for passing the veil over the east and west effect of bows that flank the side fronts of many hats, thus emphasizing greatly the width of

A GARDEN PARTY BELLE.

the effect. When a large hat is worn, the veil is drawn entirely about the head, covering hair and all. This requires great care and taste in arrangement, because there must be no bunchiness anywhere and no untidy ends. In white veiling a very delicate wash blonde is becoming and veil and scarf are made in combination, the veil crossing in the back above the knot of hair, and being held in place by a jeweled pin. The ends of the veil 'are then brought to the front to eithee tie in a directoire bow,

or to bang from the shaulders to about the waist line. Real lace veils are in vogue for those who have them, but they do not lend themselves to tho drawing about the face that now seems correct, and they are not becoming hanging down straight as our grandmothers wore them. You see. the grandmothe r wore the veil to show it off. but her granddaughter wears the veil to show off the granddaughter. Five rows of jet spangles trim the blouse of the next pictured toilet, and will look to the wearer’s masculine admirer so like a barbed-wire armor that he will surely “Keep off the grass,” or, in other words, won't crush her big and carefully stiffened sleeves. Such a girl in such a garden-party gown surely needs some such defense. The fabric of this dress in rink mousseline de chine figured with black. The gored skirt is perfectly plain snd is lined with silk. The blouse has a long pointed ripple, and the tiny yoke and the standing collar are made of the figured goods, while the rest is black tulle over plain silk. The sleeves are finished with mousseline de sole frills. Shirt waists and blouses are seen in all forms and materials. In dimity the former are made with every simplicity, and are all daintiness and freshness. Gingham waists are very pretty, especially in some of the new plaids that seem just like the rich design in silk. Wash silk is used as much as ever, and for the more elaborate

BLOUSED TASTEFULLY.

blouses costly and perishable materials are chosen. Thus the pictured blouse is made from yellow satin merveilleux and furnished with a fitted lining fastening in the center. A yoke is simulated by three rows of gathers, and the full back and front are again gathered twice at the waist, the bottom finishing in a small basque. The sleeves are very full and are shirred four times, ending in a small frill The top is out long enough to permit the collar to be made fr< m tho yoke, and is also shirred and finished with a small ruching. The garment is alike back and front and closes at the side. While such elaborate blouses are worn, the very simple waist is equally stylish and has much to recommend it. It is made loose and in folds in front and Is drawn clo-e in tho back and at the sides. It disappears under a folded belt and has a high folded col’ar to match. Trim and pretty to look at and cool, too, it is not at all the untidy affair brought to mind when some one speaks of a loose shirt waist The girl who wants to make her own waists can risk it if she will use for foundation a lining planned after the fitted lining of some gown that really does fit. She will be safe if she will simply run the silk on at tho collar, along tno shoulder seams and around the armhole, being careful not to get too much overhanging bulk at the armhole. Treated front and back in this way, it need fit no more. A belt will shape the garment in at the waist line, an 1 the foundation will give lino to the general effect. Ono oven easier model to make has no opening in the silk either in front or back. The foundation bodice, of course, opens and the silk over it is full enough to let the wearer slip it on. The folded collar is fastened only on tho back and crosses over in front after the bodice is in place. These dressy garments are easily within tho reach of the woman who has a seamstress or

STILL ’IS SAID THEY’RE TO BE BIGGER.

who knows how to do it all herself, but meanwhile why should not the poor girl who doesn t know how to do it and who can neither have a seamstress nor buy ready-made have her cool shirt waists, too? She shall if she follows these directions, and no one need be a bit the wiser. If any assurance were needed beyond a sight of the sleeves shown in the pictures of this article which have already been described, a glance at the final illustration should persuade the hesitant one to have ’em made big. Having cut them this size, stiffen them and keep them out full size until fall, for dressmakers gravely state that their sleeves will be even bigger. A woman needs .to have blind faith in her dressmaker to believe this, however. This last toilet is made of a straw-col-ored faille, the full skirt being made of alternate faille and ecru guipure stripes. The blouse has a yoke of guipure insertion and a belt of black satin, while the huge sleeves are composed of the plain faille. A full ruching.of black Illusion is worn in place of a collar. a::d the tiny hat is also made of black tulle, a ccbrd ion-pleated, and is trimm. d with black aigrettes. Many of the best models of summer millinery show much simplicity in the trimming. A single plume, a spreading bow and a handsome buckle is enough, but each bit of trimming must be allowed its own individuality, and there must be no crowding. Summer theater hats are mere wreaths of flowers setting low on the head, with loops placed in wing fashion on either side. Sometimes there is a top of lace, and an aigrette or bunch of notched ends of ribbon to tand upright on one side. The essential point is to have them picturesque and becoming. Copyright, IBM. Those engaged in the production of quinine, whether from bark or chemically, suffer with a peculiar skin affection, caused by the inhalation of the vapor from hot solutions of the drug. Fever is an accompaniment of this malady.

UNDER THE JUDGE’S NOSE.

A Fisherman’s Funny Experience cm the Potomac. Years ago Judge Bibb was one of Washington’s best known celebrities, and a “gentleman of the old schooL” He was a famous fisherman, and so much devoted to angling that he waa regarded by our juvenile fishermen as a perfect walking (or boating) edition of Izaak Walton. “On a fine spring morning about two years since, I started, in company with a party of friends, for the Little Falls of the Potomac. We were ' prospecting’ the chances of rockfish, better known in your latitude as * striped bass. ’ It was quite early in the season, but not too early for Judge Bibb. He had arrived long before us, and sat upon a ledge of rock, rod in hand—the very picture of sentinel patience unrelieved. Hailing him from a distance, I asked, with the natural instinct of a fisherman : “What luck, Judge?” “ ‘Luck, sir? worst luck in the world, sir; been fishing here for four hours, and haven't had a nibble 1” “ ‘What bait are you using?’ “ ‘Capital bait; live frog, sir.’ “I ventured to suggest, mildly, that perhaps ‘live frog’ waa not such very ‘capital bait,’ whereupon the judge burst forth: “‘Don’t tell me, sir! you can’t teach me anything, sir! Don’t 1 know? Best bait in the world, sir; only the luck; awful luck! four hours without a nibble!’ “By this time we had reached the judge’s position, and while preparing our tackle Mr. D , one of the party observed a frog sitting on the bank, within a few feet of the judge. Said he: “ ‘Judge, let me catch a fresh bait for you. I see a frog on the bank, close beside yotf? “ ‘Thank you, sir; I wish you wquld catch that frog, sir, It’s been staring me in the face all the morning. I believe it knows that I have one of its family on my hook. Ha! ha! ha I Catch it, sir; by all means, catch it.* “Mr. 1) shortened his rod, and, cautiously striking with the sharp end, pinned the frog through one at its hinder legs. Just then, as Mr. D was lifting aloft his prize, thejudge began winding up his reed, and uttered a joyous cry: “‘Hold still, sir! Keep quiet Y I’ve got a bite I” “Rapidly wound the reel, rapidly came In tho slackening Mne, till the last few yards of It floated upon the surface of the stream; and then,with a face that boded thunder, the judge turned to Mr. D . “ ‘Why, sir, you’ve caught mgr frog!’ “And so it was. The frog, with the Impulse of all amphibious animals when wounded, had made for the shore; and there it had crouched, for four hours, directly under tho judge’s nose, and holding his hook out of water.

ON TOP OF MT. ARARAT.

Nothing but Snow Covers tho Peak Where the Ark Was Moored. “Mount Ararat has two tops, a few hundred yards apart, sloping, on tho eastern and western extremities, intorather prominent abutments, and separated by a snow valley, or depression, from 50 to 100 feet in depth. Thus, in the Century, writes Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben, the two youngAmericans who made a bicycle tour round the world. “The eastern top, on which wo were standing, was quite extensive, and 80 to 40 feet lower than its western neighbor. Both tops are hummocks on the huge dome of Ararat, like the humps on the back of a camel, on neither one of which, is there a vestige of anything buU snow. “There remained just as little trace of the crosses left by Parrot and Chodzko, as of the ark itself. We remembered the pictures we had. seen in our nursery-books, which represented this mountain-top covered' with green grass, and Noah stepping out of the ark, in the bright, warm sunshine, before the receding waves; and now we looked around and sew this very spot covered with perpetual snow. Nor did we see any evidence■ whatever of a former existing crater,, except perhaps the snow-filled depression we have just mentioned. There was nothing about this perpetual snow-field, and the freezing atmosphere that was chilling us to* the bone, to remind us that we were on the top of an extinct volcano that once trembled with the convulsions of subterranean heat. "The view from this towering height was immeasurably extensive, and almost too grand. All detail was lost—all color, all outline; even the surrounding mountains seemed, to be but excrescent ridges of the plain. Then, too, we could catch only occasional glimpses, as the clouds shifted to and fro. At one; time they opened up beneath us, and revealed the Aras valley with its glittering ribbon of silver at tat abyssmal depth below. Now and then we could descry the black volcanic peaks of Ali Ghez forty miles away to the northwest, and on the southwest. the low mountains that obscured the town of Bayazid. Of the Caucasus, the mountains about Erzerum on the west, and Lake Van on the south, and even the Caspian Sea, all of which are said to be in Ararat's, horizon, we could see absolutely nothing.”

Lights by the Ten Thousand.

The new Broad Street Station ot the Pennsylvania Railroad at Philadelphia, when completed, will contain over a hundred miles of concealed electric wiring. About fifty-three miles of wire will be required for the electric lighting alone, which will be done by about 10,000 incandescent lights. Not a gas pipe can be found, in the great structure, the sole reliance being on the electric lights. In the waiting room alone there will be 2,500 lights, located prihcipally in the ceiling, where they will be arranged in rows about the large square panels. The office building will require about 6,000 lights, while the other 1,500 will be used ip the rooms on the ground floor, retiring dining rooms and restaurant.—* [Electrical Review.