Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 27 April 1896 — Page 4

jsevere Fighting Near the Town of Buluwayo.

toANY KILLED ON BOTH SIDES.

An Attempt Made to Prevent the Matabeles From Surrounding the Town, but I It Proved Very Disastrous to the Attacking Party—Outside Communication Still

Open, but 31 ay lie Cv«fc Off at Any Time. Cape Town, April 27.—The Matabe-

les are displaying great boldness and energy and the pursuit of their purpose is to surround the town completely and cut off all communication with the outside world. Saturday it was found that the hostile forces of natives had surrounded the town 011 the northeast and west, their ranks being much too close to the town to allow of any freedom of action by those within. Their lines were being energetically extended in both directions and threatened to close in on the south and cut off communication with Mangwe and Mafeking, along which the expected reinforcements and supplies of provisions are coming. Tho pickets of the enemy were fouud to be in no case beyond four miles distant from the Buluwayo lines and they were giving lively evidence of their improved knowledge of military strategy over that displayed in the war of Lobengula by the way in which they were throwing up rude fortifications and earthwork protections, beyond which the native warriors could resist the charge of the whites. They threatened thus to work an approach to the town, which was speedily putting the place in jeopardy. Immediate steps were perceived to be necessary to dislodge the lines of the enemy and drive them back.

A column for attack was hastily formed consisting of 100 whites. 100 "Cape boys" and 100 natives. They Were supplied with one Maxim and one Hotchkiss rapid fire guns and were placed in command of Captain McFarlane. They were speedily ready for an offensive movement and thus commanded and equipped they sallied forth from the Buluwayo defenses. They took a direction northeasterly from the town in the direction of the Umguza river. They had proceeded only about five miles on this course, advancing cautiously with scouts in advance and outriders on each side, when the enemy opened the attack. The Matabele force numbered not less than 8,000 and their attack was eager and well directed.

The column from Buluwayo was just crossing a small stream, a tributary of thp Umguza, when the attack opened. The overwhelming odds, 10 to one, hurled upon the little column, drove it "back by more weight of numbers and the advance parties were glad to retreat in haste across the stream. This retrograde movement was, however, effected in good order and filing as they went, thus drawing the enemy across the river. The Matabeles advanced upon the little barul of warriors in formidable array their line extended in a crescent formation, the horns of the crescent adTanced to the front, creeping and writhing like a treacherous serpent seeking to enclose its prey and surround it in its deadly coils.

The long straggling line extended ©vera distance of three miles with wide intervals between the men in line, except in the parts where they closed in expectation of a hand-to-hand conflict. Many came on, brandishing their assegaias and shields and giving forth fierce yells' in true savage fashion. As the howling savages closed in on the column they afforded an excellent target for the sweeping discharge of the rapid fire guns. The engagement which encued was a hot and desperate one, and dark, leaping bodies seemed to spring up ais fast as they were mowed down.

The Buluwayo force kept the river in their immediate front. The firearms did heavy execution among the hostile natives as they rushed up to the opposite bank. This only partly checked their fierce onslaught and many gained the side on which the whites stood. These were charged by the troopers and cut down or driven back into the stream.

When the Matabele in front were finally driven back they were seen to have sustained a heavy loss. The little river was dyed a dark crimson with the Wood of the victims of the Maxim. One observer counted 40 dead lying in a small circuit close to the column.

The whites had been hotly engaged in front and when they succeeded in repulsing the attack there, they found more work still waiting for them. The advanced ends of the enemy's line had got under the flanks and they found squads of howling black men in their rear when they turned their attention in that direction. This came near proving a greater peril than the onslaught from the front, but it was luckily deferred until the first attack had been repulsed, and the forces of the Matabeles weakened there.

But for the open nature of the ground toward Buluwayo, the encircling tactics of the enemy would certainly have succeeded against the small force opposed to the in. As it was, it was possible to perceive their movements and move accordingly, and the, open ground gave free play l'or the Maxim, which was employed also in that direction '^vith deadly effect.

The losses sustained by the whites were: H. G. Whirehou.se, C. Gordon and B. Parsons killed and several wounded, the exact number not being Stated. The rapid lire gun is thought to have saved the day for the whites beyond question. The loss they susiained, in view of the forces of the attacking party, and the fact that they were actually outflanked, is considered small, and tho whites are considered lucky to have come off so well. They retired upon the conclusion of the fight, hut they were in possession of the field -when they did so.

Although the attacking party came off without any heavy losses they did 1 not drive the Matabeles, but simply rejralsedtheir attack. The hostile lines jure practically as near to,Buluwayo as jBtiSt, and it is certain that only apart git' this' Matabeles who are beleaguting

JBuluwayo were engaged in the fight. It is not clear that the sortie has been effectual in preventing the advance of tht Matabeles to the south of Buluwayo, -which is the outcome most feared. toe uneasiness here regarding the situation in the hard-pressed settlement ia ^abajj^d and about the only agreeable

factor is that telegraphic communication with Buluwayo is still open. The administrator there announces that the town stillbas provision for 20 days. TJhe supplies o& their way from Mafeking a?3 expected to arrive before that period expires. But their arrival at all depends upon many contingencies. It is very much feared that the relief column may be attacked. If the supplies were not captured in such a case, they would certainly be delayed. The same thing would happen if the line of communication were cut and some point on it strongly held. The best speed the relief column can make without hostile obstruction will not bring it to Buluwayo until it is urgently needed.

The administrator in Buluwayo is doing all in his power to increase his stock and to provide against the contingency of delay of the relief from Mafeking. He has ordered that all passenger service be stopped in order to enable the coaches from the south to be used for bringing in the available supply of meal. It is said also that an arrangement has been made with a friendly chief for further supplies, and these, it is hoped, will tide over the needs of the community until they are better provided for.

An official dispatch forwarded here from Mafeking reports that up to the present time all is well with the relief column.

WINDING UP THEIR WORK.

Both the Senate and House Preparing For Adjournment. WASHINGTON, April 27.—The senate

program for this week so far as determined upon includes only the consideration of appropriation bills, beginning with the naval bill and following that closely with either the river and harbor or the District of Columbia bjLl, probably the former. There may be spasmodic efforts to get up other measures, but the probabilities are that nothing else of any general importance will receive attention. Certainly nothing will be taken up which will lead to general debate if the committee on appropriations can control the order of business. It is expected there will be an effort on the part of Senator Gorman and other senators to amend the naval bill so as to provide for the construction of only two battleships instead of four, as the bill provides. There is also an element in the senate favorable to increasing the number to six. It is therefore expected that this bill will develop considerable debate.

The river and harbor bill will undoubtedly be made the subject of severe attack by Senator White and others who stand with him on the southern California deep water harbor question unless there is a change of the present decision of the committee which is in favor of Santa Monica.

A large majority of the senators, almost all of them in fact, now regard early adjournment as quite definitely determined upon. If the Democrats and Populists ever had any idea of attempting to prolong the session beyond the national conventions they appear to have given it up and few of them now fix the date beyond the 1st of June.

Senator George, who is the especial champion of the voluntary bankruptcy bill, says that he has received no encouragement in his efforts to get up that measure and that he has no hope of doing so.

Senator Mitchell of Oregon says that, contrary to reports, he is anxious to secure a vote upon the resolution to seat Mr. Dupont as senator from Delaware, and that he is willing to take the chances on the result.

Senator Peffer will not for the present press his bond resolution in antagonism to the appropriation bills.

The senators are taking the possibility of a veto of the river and harbor bill into account in their calculations on adjournment. Such a fate for the bill has been considered among the probabilities ever since its passage by the house, and recent expressions on the part of those near the president have increased the apprehensions of the friends of the bill on this score. Hence there will be an effort to so arrange the business of the session as to hold congress in session during the 10 days which he is allowed to consider a bill, in order to secure an opportunity for passing the bill over the president's objections in case of his disapproval.

House Program

WASHINGTON, April 27.—The house having disposed of all the appropriation bills will devote the remainder of the session, except such portions as are consumed by conference reports to clearing up such matters as opportunity affords. This week promises action on several measures. The Pickler general pension bill, which was under debate last week for three days, will be voted on early in the week if the clamor for more time for debate is not too importunate in which case the debate may be allowed to run on for several days. The measure will probably receive every Republican and quite a number of Democratic votes.

It has been agreed that the bill to empower the president to retire John M. Quackenbush as a commander in the navy shall be taken up on Tuesday. Commander Quaekenbush was courtmartialed and dismissed from the navy in ISi on charges of excessive intoxication. He has now readied the ago when, had he not. been so dismissed, he would be retired.

The house lias also agreed to take up the bankruptcy bill this week and devote three days to its consideration.

Should those three measures be 'disposed of before the end of the week, there are several contested election cases pending. Of course everything will have to give way if conference reports on appropriation bills are presented.

BIsui and Wife Perish Together.

NEWHUKO, N. Y., April 27.—Mr. and Mrs. Cullen were burned to death at their home near Chester, Orange county, yesterday. They perished together in the sitting room, where Cullen had dragged his wife from their bed in his effort to save her. Moms Cullen, a son, fractured a leg in jumping from a second story window. George Thompson, an adopted son, sustained a bad scalp wound by being cut with glass when he was being dragged through an upper window. The origin of the fire is a mystery.

Garcia Commanderjof the Insurgent!. MADRID, April 27.—Havana advices

state that Calixto Garcia, has been appointed commander-in-chief of the insugents by Maximo Gomez, who, in future will promote the rebel cause in another capacity.

AN INDIANA TRAGEDY

Alfred Egbert Kills Five Persons and Then Himself.

THE DEED OF AN INSANE MAN.

Residents of Rockville Startled by the Greatest Crime in Its History—The Victims: Mrs. Herman Haschke and Her

Two Children, Sheriff W. I). Mull and William Sweem, His Deputy. ROCKVILLE, Ind., April 27.—Alfred

Egbert killed five persons, and, when pursued by a mob, shot and killed himself. He is supposed to have been insane. His victims are: Sheriff W. D. Mull. William Sweem, his deputy Mrs. Herman Haschke, Aggie Haschke, her 10-year-old daughter, and Herman Haschke, her 8-year-old son.

Egbert wras 21 years old and unmarried. He lived with his parents, just across the alley from Herman Haschke. Soon after 7 o'clock Saturday morning Egbert shouldered a double-barreled breechloading shotgun, and walked over to the Haschke home. A moment later a shot set the windows of the house rattling, and little Agnes Haschke fell dead in an inner room, pierced by shot. Her younger brother, Herman, ran out to the porch, aiid Morton Kent, who was passing the house, saw Egbert run out and shoot the little fellow down. Both children died instantly.

Egbert walked back into the alley, where Mrs. Haschke was milking a cow. He fired at her, but missed. She leaped up terror-stricken, and tried to flee, but before she had taken a dozen steps, Egbert overtook her. Swinging the gun above his head, he brought the stock down on her uncovered head. She reeled, and again he struck her. Blow on blow from the steel-shod butt of the weapon beat her to earth. Her skull cracked like an egg-shell under the cruel blows, and she fell, bathed in her own blood. She died two hours later.

Egbert turned from the horrid sight without a tremor, and slipping two more shells into the breach, brought the hammers to full cock, threw the weapon into the hollow of his arm and, covering the bloody stock with his hand, walked out into the street. He met Kent, who had witnessed the killing. Nodding to him, he wished him good-morning with a smile, and went leisurely up town.

Kent hurried to the jail and notified Sheriff Mull, who, with William Sweem, set out at once to arrest the murderer. Egbert saw them coming. He stopped in front of the National bank building and waited till they came within sound of his voice. "Don't come nearer," he cried "I'll kill you." Sheriff Mull, who was unarmed, darted into a stairway, presumably to get a weapon. As he ascended the stairs Egbert shot him in the back, and as the corpse pitched down the stairs, turned and emptied the other barrel into Sweem, who stood on the sidewalk. Mull lived a few minutes and Sweem died instantly. kv.The scattered people in the public square looked on in terror and made no attempt to stop Egbert, who loaded his gun and sauntered to the northwestern part of the city to the fair grounds.

The alarm was soon given and a hundred men snatched up rifles, shotguns and pistols started in pursuit. Egbert heard them coming ana began to run. The posse followed hot behind him and as soon as.it caught Bight of him began to fire. Egbert fled in safety until, while crossing an open field, a shot from Elijah Howell took effect in his heel. This crippled him, and though he managed to scale the inclosure on the fair grounds, he was unable to run further, and crawled into a box stall in the fair grounds.

The pursuers surrounded the grounds and closed in on the murderer's hiding place. As they drew near, a muffled report was heard, followed by the sound of a falling body. Rushing into the stall they found Egbert dead, with his clothing ablaze. He had placed the gun against his stomach, and sent a charge of No. 1 shot through his abdomen, ranging upward to his head, dying instantly.

In the same hour that Egbert breathed his last, the news was carried to his sister, Florence Egbert, who was sick in bed with typhoid fever. She became frantic and died immediately from the shock.

Egbert was at one time confined in the insane asylum, but had been discharged as cured. He had acted queerly the last winter. There is a story^that he had insulted Mrs. Haschke, who threatened to inform her husband, and this is a possible explanation of his murderous initnia.

Egbert was the youngest son of Julius Egbert. He had been known as a quiet, studious young man.

Egbert was a great reader and paid much attention to Shakespeare. He freqently said that if he got into trouble he would follow Brutus' example, and he did.

Sheriff Mull was a member of Commander Wallace's staff of the G. A. R., and was colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Indiana during the war, besides being in tho Fourteenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth regiments. He was brave to a fault.

Sweem leaves a wife and six young children. He was a member of the Rockville light artillery.

Mrs. Haschlce's husband is a baker, and was away at work in an Illinois town. He was telegraphed for and returned Saturday afternoon. Only one child of liis family is left.

The coroner's inquest shows that the two children were shot nearly alike, with double shot, over 125 shot entering each body.

Horses Perish in a Burning Stable. COLUMBUS, O., April 27.—The mam­

moth stables of Edward Courtright, the well known stock dealer, who lives at Galloway, a village nine miles west of Columbus, were burned to the ground Saturday. In the stables were 55 horses, 39 of which perished. A number of buggies and wagons were burned. Of the 89 horses which perished six were valuable stallions. Mr. Courtright's loss is estimated at $20,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery.

Argentina Wants to Settle.

BUENOS ATRES, April 27.—The Argentine eabinet favors the suggested basis of the settlement of the frontier difficulty with Chili.

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SCOTT JACKSON'S TRIAL.

Hore Links Is the Chain of Cireumstan* tial Evidence Forged. CINCINNATI, April 27.—At the fifth

day's trial of Scott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan, 21 witnesses were examined. Some of the evidence produced was of no importance, while that of other witnesses was of a startling nature. The removal of the headless body from Fort Thomas to Newport was described by Undertaker Julius White. County Judge N. L. Bennett, having served five years in the army, testified as an expert on blood, and told of the amount he found on the spot where the body lay.

The next link in the chain of circumstances brought out by the prosecution was the introduction of a lock of hair which Mrs. A. S. Bryan said had been taken from her daughter Pearl's head about a year ago, and a photograph of the murdered girl. Mrs. Bryan was called to the stand for the third time that these two important articles could be introduced. They furnish the basis for all future comparisons.

William H. Newall, the first reporter that has been on the stand was interrogated regarding blood on the privet bush leaves. He had one of the leaves and it was submitted as evidence. On the same lines, Private P. M. Weaver, told of his visit to the spot after the body was moved, and of finding a small bunch of blonde hair, and two imitation tortoise shell hair pins. They were in or near the blood clots heretofore referred to, and® Weaver's testimony seemed to establish beyond doubt that the head had been cut off where the body was found. W. S. Boyce of Brent told of seeing these articles, and of finding three knife cuts through the dead leases and earth, and of finding where the blood had trickled under the leaves down to the foot of the slope.

The movements of Pearl and the two men between her arrival and disappearance was the subject upon which the next two witnesses were interrogated. W. D. Pinkard of Covington told of seeing them in College alley, back of the Atlantic Garden, on Friday. His identification of Jackson made even the prisoner smile, so deliberate was he. Mrs. Plymouth Weeks of Ninth street, Cincinnati, told of Pearl and Jackson coming to her for a sitting, and Druggist Foertmeyer of Bellevue described a visit all three paid his store on the morning of Thursday or Friday of the last week in January. Mrs. Katy Holmes and John Foster saw them oil the same occasion.

Detective Witte told of the finding and search of the coat and vest taken from the sewer at Richmond and John, and of the loss of the leaves taken from the pockets. Detective Bulmer narrated the arrest of the prisoner. Night Chief Renkert undertook to tell of the statement made by Jackson to Colonel Deitsch the morning following his arrest, but, after along argument, during which the witness and jury were sent from the room, the court refused to allow him to relate it. He identified the trousers as those he found in Walling's locker, and the small handbag as the one he recovered from Fred Albion's washstand at Lawrence's barbershop, where he worked.

Operator Skidmore and Watchman Kinney of the Grand Central depot told of Pearl and Walling being in the lower waiting room of the depot two hours on the fatal Friday afternoon. Saloonist A1 Stegner testified the two men had been in his saloon almost nightly. Lieutenant Renkert was called to the stand a second time, and again he and the jury wore excluded from the room while a point was argued.

The day closed with brief examination of Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Franklin as to seeing the hat of Pearl Bryan the day the body was found. They described the location as the same where Mary Morgan had already testified to having picked it up.

COURT JUSTICE TOO~SLOW.

Two Men Taken From Jail and Hanged by a Mob. "NASHVILLE, April 27.—At midnight

Saturday night a mob of armed men of about 15 entered the jail at McMinnville, dragged the jailer from his bed and forced him to give up the cell keys. William and Victor Hillis were then taken from the jail, carried on horseback five miles from McMinnville and both were hanged. Before the mob succeed in removing their victims from the jail they had a hard fight with them but were overpowered.

The men came from Vanburen county where the lynched men lived. The prisoners murdered in 1894 in Vanburen county, Carroll Martin at his home, the purpose being robbery. Two trials in the lower courts and one in the supreme court have been held and the cases were set for trial next week again. The prisoners have been held in tho jail at McMinnville for safe keeping and no attempt at lynching expected.

BASE BALL.

Standing of the Different Clubs in the National League.

The following is the standing of the different clubs in the National League, up to and including Sunday's games:

Won. Lost. Per ct.

Philadelphia.. (5 1 .857 Pittsburg 5 2 .714 V»ra-shingio:i... 4 3 .571 Cleveland 4 3 .571 Chicago 5 4 •iliJO Cincinnati 5 4 .655 St. Louis 5 4 .555 Baltimore 4 4 .noo Boston 4 4 .51)0 Brooklyn 3 4 .429 New York 1 6 .143 Louisville 1 8 .111

Sunday's Games.

AT ST. LOL'IS— IS St. Louis 2 2100001 x— 6 81 Louisville 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0— 3 9 5

Batteries Parrott and McFarland Smith and Boyle. Umpire—Emslie. AT CINCINNATI— HE Cincinnati 5 030001 0 2—11 11 0 Chicago 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0— 3 12 6

Batteries—Dwyer and Vaughn Thornton, Griffith and Kittredge. Umpire— Sheridan.

SATURDAY'S GAMES— Chicago 6, Cincinnati 8 Cleveland 6, Pittsburg 3 St. Louis 8, Louisville 3 Philadelphia 9, Brooklyn 3 Boston 7, New York 4 Baltimore 10, Washington 2.

Indications.

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Increasing cloudiness, probably local rains by Monday night fresh to brisk easterly winds, shifting to southerly.

NEEDS OF THE NAVY.

EXPERTS DIFFER WIDELY AS TO WHAT IS DEMANDED.

Xnr Sine* the War Its Personnel Has Been Growing Top Heavy—Importance t, of

Competent Engineers—Sketch of Congressman Hanly.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, April 20.—Although the naval appropriation bill long ago went through the house with a hurrah and Is in the main accepted by the senate, there is still much discussion about the navy. Ever since the war the navy personnel has been growing more topheavy. What with entirely too many men in one grade and too few in another, the anxiety of tho young and middle aged to get ahead and the stolid resistance of tho old who don't

HON. J. FI'.AXK HANLY.

want to be shelved and, most of all, the rapid and tremendous changes in engineering, it has provoked lively discussion. For experts differ widely and running a war vessel now is a business demanding a peculiar combination of talents of the very highest order. Various subcommittees have hammered away at a reorganization for several years and the joint committee of the senate and house of the Fifty-third congress insist that they exhausted inquiry and had the right bill, but this houso has started de novo. The chairman of the present subcommittee is Representative Georgo W. Hulick, a fresh water mariner from the Sixth Ohio district. "lean soon tell you all I know," he said, with a laugh, "for I admit that I came to the subject no better posted than any other inlander. But experience with the law has shown me that a new man coming Into a case with a mind fresh and open to the truth can often see the facts in a olearer light than those who have beon In it long enough to be biased by conflict. Now the Hulick bill, so oalled, is but one of a dozen designed to relieve a strained situation, disposo of 100 or more surplus officers fairly and supply the deficiency In the lower grades. We havo to meet the fierce impatience of those who want everything done at once and the stolid indifference of those who are interested in letting things alone, and then many members are In favor of reorganization that don't know just what ought to be done. You must first of all remember that the interest in the navy is no longer an eastern or Atlantio coast affair. Mr. Hartman of Montana is as eager for more ships as Amos Cummings, and Mr. Hanly of Indiana made a splendid speech on the same side. Your old Indiana member who sneeringly remarked that six oanalboats would serve for a navy would now get the horse laugh anywhere. "It is, too, a factj not generally known that the teohnloal schools of the higher olass all over the country are educating men with a view to their possible entrance into the navy as engineers, and that of Itself creates a pressure for reorganization. Not that any school can fully fit a man for engineer on one of the battleships of today, but It can give him general principles, and the rest can be obtained by his service as an assistant. Pursuant to a law passed several years ago, the department detailed some of its best men, 25 in all, I believe, to serve as teachers in various colleges, at Cornell for one, and at Baltimore, I believe, for another. These engineers, with their experience in the navy and the enthusiasm natural to men who have had naval service, created an intense interest in their students, but all these are only a few of many reasons why there is just now a sort of national revival, without regard to locality, of pride in the navy we once had mingled with a little humiliation as to the one we lately had and an eager desire for a better one. I have heard it said that boys are reading the old stories about the navy, and that the old songs are sung with far more enthusiasm than a few years ago. It is to be hoped that all this is true. However, as to particulars read my bill and all the others and the report and testimony, and then you will see that the 'cankers of a long peace' havo mado reorganization a difficult job."

Representative J. Frank Hanly of the Ninth Indiana, whoso speech for six battleships instead of four has been highly praised,-said in reply to my questions: "I have made no specialty of tho enginoer branch of the navy and cannot reconcilo tho contradictory statements, but it requires no study to see that a vessel costing $4,00U,000 or so ought to be subjected to no risks, as an incompetent man might send tint whole tiling to Davy Jones'—I believe that's a naval term—by a simple twist of the wrist. In fact, Commodore George WslHaco Melville testified, I believe, that a trilling neglect in oiling some bearing led to damage that it co.st $30,000 to repair I am particularly gratified that my amendment for increasing tho number of battleships to si"c was supported by so many good western men, especially by tho Indiana men."

Mr. Hanly hasjiad an experience which might well make a man an enthusiast in army and navy affairs. His father was a veteran and ho was born in tho darkest period of tho ciVil war. Left an orphan at an early ago, ho learned to read with tho use of one of tho popular histories of tho war and imbibed a largo share of tho glowing sentiment in it. Beginning in extreme poverty, he struggled upas a teacher and lawyer and dovelopod at an unusually early ago. It is a.pity that tho redistrioting of Indiana throws him into the same district with Representative Hatch and probably leaves him out for this year, but in my judgment he will come again and often.

Concerning the navy, it looks as If I should have to end about where I began, with the statement that there is great need of reorganization and much talk about It, but I cannot soe that it Is any farther along than it was in the Fifty-third congress, even if it la as far.

J. H. BEADLB.

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A RUBBER BATHTUB.

The Latest Addition to the Lnxnrions Up to Pate Baby's Quarters.

The modern baby—that is, the silver spoon in the mouth type of the species —is the best groomed, most luxurious little animal extant today. Baby things come high, and the array set forth in an up to date nursery would quite appall us were we to count the cost of. the several articles, but we don't, for there is nothing too good for that little soft mite

of humanity, and so it happens that inventive genius has been pushed to tho limit and can seemingly go no farther in devising nursery and toilet articles dainty enough, soft enough and expensive enough with which his infantile highness may be suitably groomed. A late contrivance which has found its way into his bower of diaphanous laces, clouding pillows and billows of palest blue—baby's own color—is a new kind of bathtub, and when we behold it in its ideal perfection and simplicity we can only wonder that it had not been thought of years ago, for it promises to do more to insure luxurious comfort and lessen the probability of a "squall" on the perfumed waters of baby's bath than anything yet invented.

The accompanying cut will give an idea of its construction. It is simplicity itself, being, in fact, nothing more nor less than a hammock of pure white deodorized rubber cloth, swung between two racks of light bamboo sticks and having a faucet in the bottom to let out the water when baby has been taken out. It is attached to the racks by means of fancy large headed tacks, the heads being the color of the ribbon with which it is decorated—pale blue, pink or pale yellow being the most suitable colors. At either end falls a valance of the rubber cloth, with pinked out edges, on which are stitched ample pockets for holding the toilet articles and baby's shoes, stockings, etc., which have heretofore necessitated the basket, which, with this new tub, can be entirely dispensed with, since the tub is a combination towel rack, baby basket and bath.

This new soft rubber tub will instantly commend itself to every young mother who has felt the perspiration of agony stand out in cold beads all over her when attempting to steady baby with one hand to keep him from toppling over against the hard sides of the porcelain tub and bumping his precious head, while in fear and trembling she tries to administer the bath with the other, and will no doubt be more enjoyed by baby himself, and he will arise from its rubber depths as smiling and rosy as Aphrodite herself. —Luelle Furniss in Chioago Record.

It Has a Potent Charm.

That the life of the girl bachelor has a subtle charm of its own, even for those who are not urged to it by expediency, is shown by the fact that Miss Emilie Yznaga, the youilgest sister of the Duchess of Manchester, has, after several years spent in the highest and most interesting society of England and the continent, settled down to an independent life in a charming apartment in the Avenue Marceau, one of the wide, beautiful streets which radiate from the Arc de Triomphe like the spokes of a wheel. Miss Yznaga, to whom the more formal side of fashionable life never appealed, enjoys a simple life with her intimates, does a great deal of bicycling and spends much of her time in needlework, of which she is very fond. The duchess and her little daughter, Lady Alice Montagu, have been staying with her, as has also the well known beauty, Lady de Grey, formerly Lady Londale. The latter is certainly "divinely tall," being over feet in height.

The Fashionable Elbow Sleeve.

"Elbow sleeves are popular in Paris, and will be here among dressy people for evening and afternoon wear, with 16 button gloves,'' writes Emma M. Hooper in The Ladies' Home Journal. "Such sleeves an- finished with a twist of ribbon, band of trimming, small cuff or ruffle of luce or embroidery. Cross and Vandyke rows of insertion trim sleeve puffs of thin cotton dresses, with several rows then appearing at the wrist. A lace jabot down the center of the puff, with one on the waist front to accord, is another Frencliy garniture. Sleeves and vest in contrast with the remainder of the costume, or sleeves and skirt to match, with coat waist in contrast, are two well received fashions."

For Women Journalists.

London lias its Society of Women Journalists, as New York has a Woman's Press club. Both organizations, as well as the outside world of feminine newspaperdom, havo eauso for congratulation. Recently the head master of Harrow, Mr. Welldon, addressed the English body and discussed the field at length. The sentiment expressed in one sentence, however, is the milk in the cocoanut. "No press can rise to greatness that does not use the services of women, and use them freely as those of men,'' might well serve as a device for banner or pin.—Exchange.

The Effect of the Sun.

Everybody does not know that constant exposure to the summer sun will fade one's hair. A woman who noticed last summer that her hair on the left side of her head was gradually assuming an Appearance of having been washed to some chemical bleach, could not account for it until a friend suggested that it was owing to the fact that two of her hats were turned tip on the left side, thus exposing that particular spot to the sun's rays.

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