Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1913 — Page 3

Oddities in the Fancy Feathers

IF we knew where all the oddities In feathers come from we would be amazed at the resourcefulness of leather manufacturers. They take the plumage of all our barnyard Inhabitants and manipulate It into new and atrange and beautiful forms. They dye and trim and paste and bleach until we cannot even guess the origin of the feathers which charm us with Itheir queer shapes and markings. This is the day of triumph for fancy ►feathers, and no wonder. They deserve their popularity. Two lovely hats pictured here show how effectively these odd, new ornaments in feathers trim the pretty, •demi-dress hats which make up the most useful of our millinery belongings. The first model, with soft crown of velvet and small rolling brim, is a draped affair in taupe color. The crown is managed so that two points or loops of velvet are a part of it. It is a clever bit of draping, too, managing to convert the small, plain turban shape into a little Rembrandt hat of excellent style. Along one side, and extending into the back, small, ragged chrysanthemums of grayish pink shadings outline the upward lift of the velvet. Springing from the back five sprightly feathers complete an elegant conception in millinery. These dashing feathers come from the guinea hen or perhaps from the woodduck. At any rate they are all in the natural colors, gray, with white dots laid on, in the incomparable beauty which nature accomplishes. But they have

CIVET FUR TO BE FEATURE OF COMING SEASON

CIVET cat gives us the very dark fur with striking markings in white which is so much in demand for the coming season. The markings are managed by the furriers with remarkable resourcefulness, for it seems one hardly sees two pieces that are alike. A muff and scarf are shown here 'that are more ample than the average ;sets of this fur. In fact such striking fur is better used in smaller quan-

'title* and aa a trimming for other furs, or for neck pieces and muff made of velvet or other fabrics. This scarf and neck piece show the size and shape of many similar sets In other furs. The scarf is plain and 'the muff rather large and flat It Is curved on the lower edges at the corners. The handsomest and the most expensive furs are -made up along their lines. >' There Is a great vogue of small neck pieces of fur to be worn with hats and muffs made of velvet or other fabrics, trimmed with fur like that in the neck pidce. For Instance, a neck piece ft moleskin is worn with

been retrimmed and reshaped by the artist in fancy feathers. A small “eye” in irridescent plumage, with a marking of white, has been pasted on. These add a sparkle to the otherwise grave coloring. From the pheasant, probably, the beautiful, mottled feathers shown in the other hat, were taken. The standing quills are not changed, except that they are shortened. The band about the crown is of small feathers sewed to a foundation.

Often long, soft quill takes the place of a' feather band, and is laid about the brim in the same way as a band. Among the shapes which turn up at the side or back the mounting of these quills and bands is accomplished by making a slit in the brim and thrusting the quill through this. Nothing else is needed on a soft, velour or velvet or beaver hat for trimming, although ribbon in the color of the hat is often used with, the feather band. With a world of lovely fancy feathers to choose from, there is no good reason to lament one’s Inability to buy more expensive but not more beautiful trimmings. And all those feathers which involve the practice of cruelty to obtain them, or those which threaten the extinction of species of beautiful birds, cannot possibly be in good taste on the heads of women. Ffir they bespeak an indifference which is unkind, and therefore unwomanly. The responsibility rests upon women.

JULIA BOTTOM LEY.

a soft little hat made of brocaded crepe and chiffon in mole color, and a muff of the same fabrics having narrow bands of moleskin. A touch of lace on the hat and muff is often added. A single bright flower in silk or velvet or cloth of gold finishes the hat most effectively. These neck pieces, with hat and muff made to be worn with them, make up a set that is quite as expensive as the better fur sets, unless they can be made at home. Muffs are not difficult to make, and the simpler, hats can be teuccessfuly managed by the amateurs.

Ready-made “beds” filled with down are to be had In several sizes and are not expensive. The velvet or brocade or other fabric is draped on the bed and a shirred lining of satin messaline provided, which should match the outside in color. In order to make a muff successfully it is best to examine one at the furrier’s and be guided by it Milliners usually are prepared to make the muffs to match hats and will help one who buys material of them, with suggestions. The value of these pretty pieces lies as much in the making as inf the good's. Among the furs available for trimming, none is better than civet. A small neck piece of civet with hat and muff of black velvet trimmed with narrow bands of the same fur and finished with a little good lace, leaves nothing to be desired. The white.of the civet fur is yellowish and goes unusually well with creamy laces.

Very satisfactory beds for muffs are easily made of wool batting. Two or three rolls of it will be enough for a muff. Such a bed keeps its shape well and is very warm. The bed should be covered with a thin muslin first, tacked on at the top and bottom. Two puffs of velvet and two bands of fur make the outside cover Ing, with a cascade of lace at the front. In place of lace, limp ruffles of crepe chiffon are often used. A muff is among the most graceful of dress accessories and comfortable beyond expression.

The possessor of a fur cape or coat that has become shabby may cut the good portions and make bands for trimming a set made of velvet. The small collar is lined with a thin wadding under soft, satin. The muff la made as already described. A turban shape with soft crown of velvet la finished with a band of fur. A little touch of color in flower or ornament is the last word in thia little poem of comfort. It ia in such combinations that civet fur shows to beat advaotags.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. IND.

PART OF PANAMA CANAL NOW NAVIGABLE

The picture shows the waters of Panama bay now bathing the lower walls of Mlraflores locks. After the obstruction was removed allowing the waters of the Pacific to flow in an 800 ton barge was sent cruising through that portion of the canal.

RELIGION OF CHINESE

Is Not Worship but Merely a System of Ethics. Islamism Is an Exception—Moslems In Republic Are Very Numerous and Devout —Faith in Their Belief Is Strong In Them. Peking, China. —The great majority of the Chinese are Confucianists. They follow the ethical teachings of Confucius, the great sage of China, who lived from 650 to 477 doctrine of Confucius' deals with man’s relations to man, and not with his relations or responsibilities to I God. It can therefore not be considered a religion, but a system of ethics. The true follovKrs of Confuslus can properly be said to be irreligious, using the vgprd in its best sense. Besides the doctrines of the' sage most Confucianists have religious notions, borrowed-either from the Buddhist or Taoist religions, or from both. These religious notions do not tend to become convictions Influencing the lives of the believers nor to bind them together in religious communities. Worship, with the great majority -of the Chinese, Is an Individual matter. Ofie does not see people gather together in the temples for ensemble worship. This condition of affairs accounts In part for the strange Indifference which the Chinese show toward their own religious systems. There are very few fervent Confuslanists, Taoists or Buddhists. The vast majority of the Chinese do not take religion seriously. j In this respect the Chinese Mohammedans present a striking contrast to the rest of their fellow countrymen. Excepting the Christians they seem to be the only Chinese who are conscious of having a religion and whose lives are shaped by religious convictions. Tftey stand more or less apart and aloof from the rest of the Chinese. Firm in their conviction that they alone know the true God they despise their Idol worshipers. Mapy Chlnese? especially those who have been educated, are ashamed to admit that they have any religious convictions. The Mohammedans, on the contrary, affirm with pride their adherence to the doctrines of the prophet An American professor In the Chinese government university tells of an incident which illustrates the frank and courageous way in which the Chinese Mohammedans profess their faith. The professor in question was conducting a recitation in western history.' The topic of the day was the rise and spread of Islam. The professor asked one of the students to state the leading features of the Mohammedann religion. The student made a good recitation and enumerated the elements of strength in the Islamic faith. The professor then asked the student to point out some of the faults and weaknesses of this religion. The student answered firmly but respectfully, “I know of none; I am a Mohammedan.” Needless to say the professor marked the recitation perfect. In the same class of fifty students the Mohammedan was the only one who was willing to admit that he had any religious convictions. . The fidelity of the Chinese Moslems to their religion and the proud and manly way In which they profess their faith are refreshing to any one familiar with the indifference and callousness which the average Chinese manifests towards all things spiritual. Mohammedanism tn China dates from the year 757 A. D., when the emperor Hsuan Tsung of the Tang dynasty invited 4,000 Arabs to come to his assistance in a war against the Turks. By the assistance cWthe Arabs the emperor was able to recover his two capitals, Sianfu and Honanfu, and to drive the enemy back to their home on the northwest frontier. The Arab troops, who had probably come from some garrison on the frontier of Turkestan, never returned home, but remainned in China, settling at Sianfu, where they married Chinese wives and thus became the nucleus of Mohammedanism In China. This Mohammedan colony not only maintained Itself, but grew rapidly and became the parent of other Mohammedan colonies in western China. These colonists were greatly inereased after the conquests of Jenghis Khan had opened up a highway between the east and the west. His successors Ogotal and Kublal Khan were Probably the most tolerant rulers of their age. During their reigns a flood

of Mohammedans of all kinds, Arabs, Persians, Bokhariots and Turks took advantage of the hospitality of the Mongol rulers and settled in the leading cities of China. These Immigrants mixed with the Arab colonists of the eighth century and 1 thus formed a body of believers whose descendants today number some 10,000,000 souls.

SOCIETY GIRL LOVES HORSES

Miss Louise Rodewold, One of Newport’s Belles, on Her Favorite Mount New York.—Beautiful Miss Louise Rodewold, society belle of Newport and Tuxedo, is a neat lover of horses and is shown here as an exhibitor at

Miss Louise Rodewold.

the Newport seventeenth annual horse show, mounted on her prize winner “Patricia,” at Newport R. I. Miss Rodewold is noted as an outdoor sportswoman and is an expert with the reins.

Thief’s Clever Get-a-Way.

Pittsburgh.—A.rrested on a charge of being a suspicious person, B. F. Campbell asked permission to telephone friends from a booth in the North Side police station. While talking. Campbell picked the lock of the ’phone and took out $7.50. He then was arraigned, paid a nominal fine and left before the theft was discovered.

Leaves Shoestrings by Will.

Milwaukee. —By a document eight and one-half feet long. Miss Mathilda Tommet leaves to relatives a pair of old shoestrings, “my best bedspread,” chickens, chicken feed, vegetables, fruit, pickles and a pail of lard. Reality amounting to >2,500 was also distributed.

WINS BRIDE ON THE PACIFIC

Yonkers Man Marries Ohio Girt in China—Will Stay There Three Years. Xonkers, N. Y.—So completely did Miss Marion Luella Tnomas, of Dayton, Ohio, lose her heart to John Quincy Adams Johnson, Jr., of this city, during a voyage across the Pacific that she decided to marry him in China and exile herself from home for three years. News of the marriage, which occurred at Chin King, China, May 28, has just been received here, and indicates that the period of Mr. Johnson’s wooing coincided exactly with the time required by the steamship Korea to run from San Francisco to Yokohama. Mr. Johnson la a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Quincy Adams Johnson, of No. 87 High street, Yonkers. Mr. Johnson. Sr., is a lawyer, with offices at No. 38 Park row, Manhattan. The young man was on his way to accept a position with the Standard Oil company at Nanking, China. On board the Korea -he met Miss Thomas, who, with her mother, sister and brother, was staring on a t»ur at the Orient. Before the vessel reached Yokohama the couple had decided to continue life’s voyage together. The Thomases went for a trip through Japan, and Mr. Johnson began his duties, at Nanking. In May the Thomases went to China, and Mr. Johnson obtained Mrs. Thomas* con-

MOTH TRAIL A MYTH

Girl Sends Bureau of Entomology Experts on Foql Chase. Scientists of the Government Aim to Stop the Destruction of Country's * Pear Trees—Pest Sought to Eat Pest. Washington, D. C. —Her name is Mary. She wrote a nice litjle note from Haverford, Pa., to the bureau of entomology at the department of agriculture. “I enclose three funny moths I caught the other day,” wrote Mary. "Will, you kindly tell me what thfey are?” Whereupon the bureau of entomology rose from its several chairs and began to move in circles. Mary had found the brQWsi tail moth in Penq sylvania, wherrthe brown tail nevej had been heard of before. A browr, tail moth is as destructive to elm trees as a forest fire. No one knows how many millions of dollars have been spent in fighting It.

"Go!” said the centurions of the bureau. “Beat it to Pennsylvania and find out all about thio dreadful thing.”

A squad of entomologists appeared in Haverford next morning. Other bug connoisseurs heard the news and they went to Haverford. For a week young men stumbled through its streets, their eyes fixed on the tops of trees. The pockets of the young men bulged with butterfly nets and poison bottles. They hunted, but could find no moths. At last they looked up Mary. “Quick!” they gasped. “Tell us where you caught the brown tail months.” “Oh,” said Mary, “I brought them home with me from Maine.” .J / The bureau of entomology is adding to our stock of bug lore every day. Lately it discovered that the ultraviolet rays are powerless against the bacteria which inhabit milk. Every one knows that X-rays have a deadly effect upon the human body if they are applied too often. But the cigarette worm—which lives in made up tobacco —not only is impregnable to the X-rays, but it actually seems to flourish in proportion to the amount of X-rays it gets. Just to prove that the pear tree blight is caused by an animal organism. the scientists are raising this bacteria in bottles. By and by they will raise in the laboratory anothur pest to eat this pest up. They did that with the alfalfa weevil. They imported some sort of a bug which for lack of more intelligible name was called the alfalfa weevil-weevil. Anyhow, ft is a weevil which feeds on the weevil which feeds on alfalfa. It is saving this valuable crop in some parts of the west The oddity of the moment, however, is the sick nurse of the hairy vetch. Vetch is a valuable forage plant, but it isn’t a hustler. When it finds a soil that is deficient in nitrogen it just lies down and dies.

Whereupon the entomologists take a bottle of bugs out to the vetch field and turn them loose.—These bugs have just one idea in life, apparently. They hurry tb the roots of the vetch and begin to feed it the nitrogen it lacks. Conversation about frogs is not encouraged in the bureau of animal his-, tory. Not long ago one of its brightest young men became enthusiastic over batarachians. He wouldn’t talk about anything else. He slipped lively green frogs into the hands of those he liked and was invariably shocked and Irritated by the effect He spent his spare hours in catching frogs or studying frogs or talking about frogs. So they put him under the judicial bell glass. “This man isn’t crazy,” said the judge, after the frog connoisseur had concluded his defense. “He is a great scientist. But I think that some of his accusers are suffering from echoes in the garret”

sent to an immediate marriage, which was performed with typical Oriental splendor. The honeymoon was spent in trips about Nanking, and then the young couple settled down for a three years* stay in China. Mrs. Johnson is a daughter of the late Dr. Allen Thomas, of Dayton. By a curious coincidence, her twin sister married John Howard Johnson of Sacramenta, who, however, is no relation to the hero of this story. John Quincy Adams Johnson is a graduate of Yale, class of 1908, and Is twentysix years old.

Automatic Stokers Next Thing.

Pittsburgh. —Automatic stokers win displace firemen on the Pennsylvania railroad, according to D. B. Crawford, superintendent of motive power of the Pennsylvania lines west, who addressed delegates to the international association for the prevention of smoke here. The change will solve the smoke question, according to Crawford.

Woman of 70 Elopes.

Dover, N. H.—Mrs. Helen S. Abbott, seventy, and Velasco Richmond, fortytwo, who eloped from Eakt Rochester;' near here, were arrested upon their ■arrival here. Mrs. Abbott’s children said that their mother is of feeble mind and was enticed away. The elopers returned to their respective homes.

AROUND THE CAMP FIRE

SOUNDED END OF CIVIL WAR Two Veterans, Living at Maryville! Mo., Blew Shrill Notes That Marked Close of Hostilities. The twQ buglers, whos.e shrill notes marked the close of the Civil war—one for the Union forces and the other for the Confederates—live in Maryville and for years have been good friends, with many a “fightlng-them-over” chat. The bugle that sounded that last charge for the Union forces at Appomattox, hangs in the office of Nathaniel Sisson, the man who sounded it to signal that last charge that was to be stopped suddenly by the appearance of the flag of truce was; a soiled towel atop a hickory pole. The bugle that gave forth the notes that marked the close of hostilities for the other side was cast aside by H. P. Childress, the man who for four years had blown it, and in a dozen bloody battles, through the retreat from Gettysburg and on to Richmond, Five Forks and Appomattox, as being a good riddance. For when that last call was sounded Mr. Childress, who had shared with his comrades for two years the belief that the next battle would be the last, decided that his work was done and “lit right out” for home, not even waiting for his parole. Nor did he stop until he got back to Lynchburg. Strange to relate, Mr. Childress’s call was not sounded for nearly two hours after the surrender of Lee to Grant, and in the meantime his command, Lomax’s cavalry under the command of General Penn, had been skirmishing away with the federate out several miles from Appomattox courthouse, in blissful ignorance that the war was over. Their first intimatlon/df the surrender came when a Union officer rode out with a white flag and advanced to General Penn with the news. Mr. Childress was standing near by and heard the officer say: “General Lee has surrendered to General Grant and you are ordered to hold your lines in their present positions.” Then General Fenn ordered Bugler Childress to ride along the skirmish lines with orders to the colonels to cease firing, and, when he returned, he was ordered to blow “assembly,” which was the call for the skirmishers to fall back to their regiments. This done, Mr. Childress wheeled his horse and started. t back to find the pike to He had been a soldier for four long, .years and was weary with war. He bad qoqnded bugle calls at Second Bull Run, Winchester, Fort Royal, Clear Creek, Fisher’s Hill, Mount Jackson, Fort Republic, Harper’s Ferry, Gettysburg, Brandy Station, Mine Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse, Cold Harbor* Petersburg, Richmond, Five Forks and this last assembly at Appomattox; And during all these four years he never had fired a shot So young Childress went home, disregarding the terms of war and other technicalities. On his solitary journey he ran into General Rosser’s command. “Hasn’t General Rosser surrendered?" he inquired. “Hell, no!” was the answer, “and doesn’t li> tend to.” It was several weeks after that Mr. Childress, now a civilian and busy with civilian pursuits, heard that he ought to go down to Fredericksburg and get his parole. He went in company with a number of neighbor boys and procured the paper which he guarded jealously for years and which finally was blown away in a cyclone that demolished the Childress home, near Maryville, in 1883. It was different with Mr. Sisson, but perhaps that is natural; considering who won. He stayed it out and marched with Custer down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington city in the grand review.

Mr. Steson was the brigade bugler in Custer’s division* and gave the signal for the charge, the regimental buglers catching it up and passing It on. Across the field charged the Union cavalry, with General Custer at the head. And while all this was going on the flag of truce fluttered from the Confederate lines. Aides spurted their horses forward and overtook the fiery Custer to tell him of the truce. He ordered a halt and proceeded to General Gordon’s headquarters. While he was there a Confederate squad dashed out and opened fire. The Union soldiers thought that maybe Custer had been decoyed into the hands of the enemy and that the charge had been ordered as soon as he was safely trapped. But General Gordon soon stopped the firing, sending his orders by a Union officer after he had looked in vain for one of his own aides.

Time to Get Out.

A new South Carolina regiment were behind breastworks guarding a bridge —its first time in action —when the Yanks swooped down upon them. The Yanks halted to fix bayonets, and one old “Secesh," having never seen bayonets before, watched them with wideeyed Interest fasten that Implement on the end of their gun. The old man, be- ' coming frightened, started to run. *T can stand for them t* shoot powder an’ lead at me, but when they go t* shoot butcher knives I ain’t goin’ t* fight**