Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1912 — Page 3

SEEK THE PICTURESQUE PRONOUNCED FEATURE OF THE SUMMER MILLINERY. With Choice of Materials and Trim* mings Practically Unlimited, Styles May Cover as Wide a Range as Desired. It is in midsummer that the designer of millinery can best afford to let ~ her fancy stray in the direction ot the picturesque. There is no limit to her choice of materials or trimmings, and nothing is too unusual or extreme for the summer girl, therefore, she may embody her dreams, with nothing to hinder from turning them into ' substantial dollars. Two models are pictured here of liats-of this description. A big, wide*

brimmed chip with flange of white •ilk piped with black. 18 an exquisite piece' of work. The crown ts covered with an extravangant piece of bird of paradise plumage in the natural colors, mounted almost precisely in front. A Napoleon in pure white hemp is faced with black velvet and overbraid at the edge with white shadow lace. Two very long French plumes, in white, are mounted in the most daring

manner, but with altogether artistic result This is a sparkling hat and leaves no room for question as to its picturesque beauty.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.

SUGGESTION FOR STRAW HAT

Effective Trimming That Might Well Be Copied for Home-Designed Millinery. > ■ A most attractive trimming worn upon a hat of burnt straw by a lady whose good taste is undisputed was fashioned in this manner: : A pattern for a large petal was cut and used as a guide to fashion petals from tan-colored corded silk. Two thicknesses of silk were used for each petal; these were stitched together by the machine, turned and stitched again, a Quarter inch from the extreme edge. Twelve of these were sewn to a small disc of buckram to form a flower. In the center of this was a chou of narrow silk fringe of tan. The center of the fringe was formed by a disc of gold cord adorned by two small tassels. This makes an altogether smart hat. A yard of silk, five » yards of fringe and two yards of gold cord are xequlred.

Sheer Guimpes.

The collarless neck is the favorite this summer. Those who prefer a slight covering of some sort can use the sheerest of cream or flesh colored net or Illusion—indeed, so near the color of, the skip is it that at a little distance it defies the eyesight The gulmpes should fit perfectly; as a rule they are made with armholes and are held in position with several tapes. Once adjusted, there is nc danger of their losing their po- ■ > ■*,*-*' TT-*■£*—r— — union. ? ' "■x , .. .'

Fashion's Fabcues

JUNIOR FANCIES IN FAVOR

Remarkably Effective, Though Simple, Are the Season’s Styles for the Little Folks. Party and play frocks alike of the younger generation show the fads and fabrics that have found favor with the grown-ups. The simple little tailored frocks for her ftee small ladyship are made of lovely white “ piques striped with green, lavender, blue and red. Heavy. embroideries and fine hemstitched frills are the much-liked trimmings for such models. Crash in natural color makes natty little dresses and suits, which are worn with bright patent leather belts of red, black or blue as fancy may dictate. Puffings alternate with equal width lace insertion in dainty yoke effects. Of course, the party dresses are of sheerest batiste ..and fine mull with trimmings of Valenciennes or baby Irish lace. The play dresses are of linen in, plain striped designs and are simply' trimmed with bands or pipings of color. Summer coats are made of linen, pongee, pique and polo cloth. The pongee coats are of white or soft cream and frequently lined with soft shades of blue or rose, French corded silk in color being Introduced as collar and cuff trimming.

Lunch Card Sentiments.

The following sentiment! are just the thing to write upon the place cards to be used at a luncheon or dinner given in honor of a woman or girl who is going away. After all are seated the guests may be asked to read the line upon her card. In this way a very pretty tribute will be paid the honored guest: None knew thee but to love thee. Blessings be about you, dear, wherever you may go. Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman. Mistress of herself, though China fans,. s . She moves a goddess and she looks a queen. She was a phantom of delight. Show us how divine a thing a woman may be made. She is pretty to walk with and witty to talk with. Gentle and true, simple and kind was she, noble of mien, with gracious speech to all.

The pannier is softly growing in favor, and looks best when the medium employed is soft and pliable, as chiffon or tulle. The magpie effect is popular in footwear, the mixture of black and white extending even to the shoe laces. Pumps, of green and other colored leathers are to be had in the shops, together with wonderful silken hosiery of every hue.

Wish the revival of shot taffetas, embroidered muslins, china sash ribbons, and other quaint old world fabrics, it was only natural to expect that lace should return to favor, since, to take only one example of many, nothing makes a more suitable and becoming finish to one of the newly resuscitated early Victorian gowns than a demurely draped fichu, made either entirely in real lace or in soft muslin bordered with a real lace frill.

One of the most recent inventions of Paris will appeal to the women who likes to dress conspicuously rather than suitably. It is nothing more or less than a large red velvet hat. The red may be of any shade preferred, and the shapes for this new eccentricity are said to be artistic. A trifle heavy they look, with their warm, rich tones, from certain points of View, though at times they resemble gigantic poppies shimmering in the sunshine. One kind of trimming used on them, a plaited flounce at the edge, helps to carry out the poppy illusion. They are seen, too, entirely without ornament Whan the hats do not match some detail of costume they make a happy contrast with a neutral tint, like fawn or tan.

Three Dress Hints.

Lace arid Chiffon.

LATEST PICTURE HAT

Red Velvet Hats.

Has Been Grinding 82 Years

THU road dips down a steep hill just before you reach Indian Creek and shuts from sight the big stone house that cost |4»000, the last southern outpost of Kansas City that is sprawling out and engulfing all this rolling prairie. You look for the old bee tree and there is a catch in your throat when you miss it—but no—that clump of walnut trees hit it for a moment. The ax of the real estate speculator has not come quite that far yet. Those bees flitting far up among the dead brances against a background of gray sky are the oldest settlers of this county. The colony was there in that same tree long years before a white man set foot in Missouri. There are men living who knew that tree and its wild bees sixty years ago. Turn to the right after you cross In-' dian Creek and go about two hundred yards to where the stream pours in a broad white waterfall over a low ledge of rock and drifts lazily in a wide pool with a streak of silver bubbles down its center. The banks here are rock, with hollows gouged in them and overhanging shelves that cast black shadows upon the gtream. Watts's mill squats low upon the opposite bank. The weathered gray of Its sides and roof is the exact shade of the limestone beneath and all around It and the old mill seems to merge with it and is a part of ft You look In vain for any line of cleavage botween mill and rock. The years have blendedthem into one somber gray. An Atmosphere of Gray. The naturalists tell of birds and lesser creatures of the wood who take on the color of the bark or the grasses upon which they live. You think of this as you see the miller in the doorway. His clothing, even to his cloth slippers, his long beard, his soft felt hat, sprinkled with flbur, are a uniform gray, the gray of rocks and mill. Stubbins Watts, great-great-grand-son of Daniel Boone, is 75 years old. But the old water mill is older than he. It was built in 1830 and for eightytwo years has been grinding corn and wheat within ten miles of Kansas City. The hands that' hewed its walnut beams and fashioned the hickory pins that keep its weathered boarding in place moldered into dust a half century ago, but the old mill grinds on just as patiently, as fatlhfully, as unmindful of passing time and generations as it did long years before this city was dreamed of. You pass your hand over the surface of a walnut beam, hewed out by the ax of John Fitzhugh, eighty-two years ago, and lay your fingers in a gaping notch just as his ax blade left It,- and think of the changes that have come to Western Missouri since then. Westport Landing grew out along the old wood road until it bridged with paved streets the miles between ft and Westport and overflowed southward and yet the old mill wheel turned and the corn was ground to meal between the homemade stones of rock quarried on the bank of Indian Creek. Since this mill was built the commerce of the Santa Fe Trail came, flourished for a time and died; and then the rush of forty-niners to California flowed past it, and after them the railroads came and passed on to the Pacific, and with them the legions of pioneers like the clouds of locusts overspreading all the land beyond to the westward. The Mormons of Independence, who brought their grist to this mill, departed to found a new empire beside the dead sea in the unknown desert. Past this old mill, just two hundred yards to the east, where the big elm leans out over the creek, armies of the Civil War hurried, splashing wildly through the ford, the Southern amy in flight from the defeat at Westport, thfe rforthern forces hot in pursuit. Indian Creek Has Never Hurried. A great city of tall buildings and all things modern has made the country to the north like “a teeming ant hill, where all is hurry, hurry, hurry, but Indian Creek has never hurried; Its stream has flowed placidly, basking ingthe sun, pausing in the shadows of its trees; and lust as placidly the old mill wheels have turned, their slow creakings attuned to the liquid murmuring! of the waterfall. Placidly has Stubbins Watts gone in and out among the turning shafts for sixty-two years, barring those four years of strife when he fought in the Southern army. In those years he was aroused and filled with a fervor that got him honorable mention more than once for deeds on the battle front. But when it was over he returned to Indian Creek and the old mill and the gurgling of the water as it ran under the floor soothed him into a calm philosophy and he talks but little. “Yes,” he says, “it’s pretty here;

WATT'S MILL

they say there’s no prettier bit of scenery in Missouri. I like to hang out the window here and watch the bubbles and the shadows, and listen to the water and the wheels, well I just couldn’t live without them.” The old man with the flour dusted clothing and beard has a distinguished anpestry, and in the family Bible are the documents to prove it. His grandfather, Samuel Watts, was a vounteer soldier in the army of General Lafayette which came from France and fought with Washington in the Revolutionary War. The records show that he was wounded seven times, that he was captured by the British in Charleston and that after the war he settled in Shelby County, Kentucky, and that he was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition that went up the Missouri River to the mouth of the Yellowston. He married Sallle Dodson, a great-granddaughter ot Daniel Boone, and settled in St. Charles County, Missouri. In 1850 Anthony B. Watts, his son, came to Indian Creek and bought the water mill. He brought his famfly with him. Stubbins was one of the children. To look at the old man, stooping at his blns and gathering a deposit of -white flour as a bee gathers pollen from the flowers into which it dips, one would not imagine he had been a fighting man, but, as he says: "The gurgle of the water through so many years sort of lulls you to sleep.” There is no modern machinery in this mill except the turbine wheel. Years ago the old wooden wheel was taken out and the turbine put in. All else is as it wks eighty-two years ago, even to the wooden pegs in the flooring, the wooden hinges on the doors and the wooden cogs in the wheels.

DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS

* Wholesale Degeneracy Threatens City, a Prominent Physician Asserts. Investigations following a recent succession of fatalities in the Quartier Latin have revealed that the drug habit has ’ gained on Parisians. In one store alone dope fiends buy no less than one hundred pints of cocaine and morphine every, week. So prevalent is the dope habit that a prominent physician declares he detects its victims by the score every time he takes a round of the cases. Ether is no longer fashionable, but especially in the artist quarters morphine is used recklessly. Even the uninitiated can detect those addicted to it in an evening’s stroll. Paris, in the opinion of this physician, is the most drug-cured city In the world, for while rich women of other capitals secretly indulge in various dangerous ways of stimulating their jaded forces, the dope habit in Paris has spread through every class until wholesale degeneracy is threatened. —Brooklyn Eagle.

Within two minutes after the cab stopped at the mission door the report spread up and down the street that a wedding was taking place inside. Within another two minutes the room was packed to the very doors. That sudden rush of the crowd to the sanctuary pleased the mission superintendent. “If I had money to spare,” he said, "I would pay a bonus to young couples for getting married in a mission. The moral effect of one wedding is worth a dozen sermons. To get the best effect the ceremony ought to be performed in the middle of the service. 'No Innovation that I have ever introduced has had such a sobering effect on the congregation. The example of a man once as far down maybe in the social scale as themselves having become sufficiently regenerated to assume the responsibilities of life stirs every bit at manhood there is in them. “The trouble is, I can persuade very few couples to be parried in a mission. The bridegrooms do not mind, but the brides want something more exclusive.*'

Ladd—There’s your old friend De Broke coming across the street. Dadd—Eh! That’s right Oh, yes, he sees me. I’ll run ahead and meet him. I want to borrow a dollar. Back in a moment . . ’ He hurries forward and greets the coming man. Presently he returns. . Ladd—Why should you ask De Broke for a dollar? Dadd—Because I knew he vgs g* Ing to ask me for ten.;.•

Mission Weddings.

Getting There First.

FINE RAILROAD DEPOTS

UNITED STATES HAS ITS SHARE OF THE WORLD'S BEST. Larges* In the World Is the Southern Station at Vienna, Austria, and That at New York City Ranks Next.

Mr. George A. Wade, in the Tlailway Magazine, discusses the question

the one with the most platforms and passengers? No single station is first in all these requirements. The New York city station —certainly now one of the grandest and most extensive railroad stations in the world—covers an area of 18 acres. After this comes the Gare St Lazare, in Paris, with an acreage of over 25 acres; then the Waverley station, Edinburgh, with 23 acres; followed by Waterloo, London, with acres; Euston, London, with 18 acres, and Liverpool street, London, with 16 acres. But there Is a railroad station Immensely bigger In extent than any of these, and there Is the Souht Railroad station, Vienna, the whole of which area Is close upon 100 acres! This makes It easily the largest station in the worjd, from the point of view of space covered. Much of the land included in this area is not employed, however, as railroads use all their land at English and American stations. The New York city station is the costliest ever built; 120,000,000 was expended upon it, and, Including ease elated work, the total cost of the scheme has exceeded >100,000,000. During the first year of working 10,000,000 passengers used It, 112,000 trains were worked In and out, 1,929,320 tickets were issued and 1,500,000 trunks, parcels, etc., were handled. Its magnificent facade Is one of the finest of Its kind in the world. ; When complete, the new Leipzig station will be far above the average in respect of size and beauty of German architecture In railway buildings. The magnificent central hall, with its six enormous bays, splendid ticket offices, and superb waiting rooms, will be just about the "last word” In each particular sphere. As regards the number of platforms at various railroad termini, the new Waterloo station of the London and South Western, stands at the top, with 19, which will shortly become 23, when the alterations now going on are finished. .Then we have Liverpool strfeet, London, and Waverley station, Edinburgh, with 18 platforms; Manchester (Victoria) 17; Euston, IB; New castle (Central), 15; Glasgow (Central), 13; Glasgow (St. Enoch), 12; Victoria, 9—lß. Probably next would come Washington station, in the, United States, which can boast of 337,920 square feet of platform accommodation, some of Its platforms being extremely long. Cologne follows with 14 platforms, and Canada is next, with its Canadian Pacific Windsor Street station in Montreal, possessing 12 platforms.

English Railroads Not Safer.

Julius Kruttschnitt contradicts the statement that British’railroad lines are operated more safely than railroads in this country. He says false conceptions to the contrary arise from the fact that British roads operate only 24,000 miles, while roads in this country operate 240,000 miles. In the last three years and ten months no pasqenger has been killed through collisions or derailments on the Southern Pacific, and during that time the road carried 150,400,000 passengers an average distance of 42 miles. In the last three years and four months but one passenger has been killed on the Union Pacific out of 27,900,000 carried by that line. In 1911 14 passengers were killed in collisions on railroads In the United Kingdom. The Harriman roads hflve nearly as many miles of track as those of the United Kingdom.—Wall Street Journal.

New Idea for Locomotive.

An obstacle to the use of the Internal combustion engine for hauling railroad trains has been the impossibility of accelerating the train from standstill with an engine of normal size and of maintaining any considerable overload at any speed. A petroleum-electric locomotive is now proposed, In which the prime mover is an internal combustion empine, using crude oil, kept continuously running to drive.Ah electric generator, which In turn delivers electrical energy to four 20-horse power polyphase motoru. - .

Good Work of Safety Appliances.

Slxty-six shops of one of the most prominent eastern lines railroads employing fifty thousand men, have been equipped with safety appliances, and the result has been a decrease of accidents from an average of three hundred a month to about one hundred. Bulletins have been issued to the employes, showing how to avoid accidents, and these have had a helpful influence. - ...

as to which Is actually the biggest railroad station in the world. He points out that, first of all, one must settle what is meant by "big-" geet” Is it the one covering the largest area, the one which has the greatest traffic, or

BRAVE GIRL TO GET REWARD

Prompt Action That Averted Mos* Serious Railroad Wreck la to Have Recognition. iU ” 1 .. i.z./Miss Hester Ross,. daughter of W, . G. Ross of Ross Spur, a Mississippi flag station, will receive a Carnegie medal and a purse of money for her bravery in saving the lives of a dozen or more men on a freight train some few days ago. A telegraph operator and a young woman telephone operator each played an important part in the story. f- As No. 72, fast freight, pulled out of Noxapater, the depot operator st Louisville flashed to Dispatcher Stepp at New Albany the" following;: “Long cut cars broke loose here. Took main line.” Dispatcher Stepp, realizing that a crash between No. 72 and the runaway cars going in an opposite direction on the main line was almost inevitable, called Miss Mary Monday, long-distance operator of the Cumberland Telephone company, saying, "Get whoever you can on the wire at once and tell them to flag No. 72. There’s a chance in a hundred. Hurry.” . Not losing a moment, she called the Ross home at Ross Spur. It wa» then about la. m. At 1:10 the freight was due to pass the little town. No answer to her frantic rings was obtained for nearly five minutes.' Finally a drowsy voice answered at the Ross home. Learning of the terrible situation, and without waiting to arouse any others of the family, and. having but five minutes to reach the station, Miss Ross, In her night clothes and bare feet, armed herself with a lantern and dashed down to the depot. No. 72 whistled and was about half a mile down the track. The cut of runaway ears could be discerned coming in an opposite direction to the fast freight Standing in the middle of the tracks, Miss Ross swung the lantern desperately and jumped aside as the freight rolled by, coming to a* halt a few feet further on. The cut of runaway cars bumped into the engine, but did no damage. The ears had run away tor about five miles.— St; Louis Globe-Democrat.

DEVICE FOR UNLOADING CARS

Turntable Used In Germany, Capable of Being Swung Completely Around and Tipped. A car especially designed to elevate and dump cars loaded with coal, gravel and like materials, to being used in Germany. It comprises a flatcar of especially strong construction - on which Is mounted a turntable bearing rails. This turntable to capable of being swung completely around and can be tipped to an angle of 45 degrees. Normally It is inclined at an angle of 80 degrees, so as to form an unbroken line with the

A Car for Elevating and Unloading Gondola Care.

approaches on which the cars are drawn onto the turntable for unloading and are run from it after the operation. Cables, driven by a motor, draw a car at a time onto the turq* > table, the turntable Is given a quarter turn, its inclination is Increased from 30 to 45 degrees, and the load is allowed to discharge from the end of the car. Then the turntable is lowered again to the 30-degree inclination, turned another quarter-revo-lution, and the empty car run off the

A Car Inclined by the Elevator and Discharging Its Load.

table on a second set of approach rails. The operation of the turntable is executed by means of a second motor. The idea is to provide each long coal train with an unloading device. It will elevate and unload six to eight cars an hour with ease.—Popular Mechanics. : -Y ' “ ' '

Must Keep Watches In Order.

Watches are sensitive. There is in Cleveland a central office for the inspection of watches, which serves OT different railroads. Twice a month every railroad servant must take his watch to a local Inspector to be regulated, and once a year it must be. cleaned. Neglect of these rules may be followed by suspension or discharge; The officials of ibis inspection department have found that the watches at engine drivers with regular ran keep much better time than those of men who work in long stretches followed by a long rest And the watch resents even a change of pocket

Fast Electrifying Its Lines.

At present the New Haven railroad has 114 miles of tracks equipped ftr electrical operation. So extensive are. the increases which the company la Disking in its ©lsctricul ©QxiipnMMit ty the end of neat year no less than f.« 2 miles of the company's tracks was be electrically operated.