Ligonier Banner., Volume 38, Number 49, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 March 1904 — Page 7

| _ - The ‘Decrges and Predictions of Dame Fashion * Gossip of Season}:ble Modes and a Glimpse at Those . ~ the Spring and Summer Will Bring.

OON it will be time to think of the Easter hat, and the milliners are showing many pretty modes for the occa- \» 4 sion. Flowers, gold and a tendency toward ribbon are the leading characteristics of trimmings for hats. In flowers, crushed roses and the smaller varieties of pompadour roses will be much’used. . Wreaths promise well: . i s

The style idea regarding flowers will be the combination of two colors and iwo kinds of blossoms. This new idea will be a serious rival to that of the

shaded effects in fiowers. The new * French wreaths show this shaded ei‘ect. ‘Red roses shade from- bright -herry to dark cardinal, pink roses from white to pale pink, and so through ihe gamut of shades and colors. The prospects for ribbons as a mil{{pery trimming are more.encouraging han they have been for some seasons. 3o far, it is always a flat-ribbon trimming; which is generally used in conjunction with flowers. Soft ribbons and ielicate soft colors are the chief ideasshaded ribbons are used to some extent,

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One material laid on another by way of trimming is a marked feature of the fashion of the day. Cloth bands or applique designs of cloth on velvet gowns, or the precise reverse, velvet cut out in points or patterns laid upon cloth] or ~ilk used for edging cloth, or bands of cloth, looking a little out of place in themselves. but indubitably up to dafe, w 1 silk skirts—liere is a fancy of the moiment which is likely tol maintain its Jopularity. Such (’:ecorauon is seen on the capes or collars or pelerines of the bodices, as well as in the shape of bands round or down the skirfs. In the last mentioned situation, too, scallops of the material of the gown, bound round witl the: trimming fabrie, as, for instance, cloth edged. with sitk, are adopted. Ribbon makesTgood strappings or bands, and can be had in such variety that there is no difficulty in meetin% the requirements in the way of color or relief of the dress material. B

The .average woman . will certainly want a blue serge for the morning, and a black cloth frock of some sort for the afternoons at this time of year. Brown, of course, is some women's color, and -ihen it may well take the place of black: but a dress of dark hue is anegreésity, at ‘any rate for those who live in London. ~1t,i% good news to the woman who has 1o make the question of-utility her firs. consideration, that Parisiars will be wearing a great deal -of black. and touches of black on almosi everything. : Latgr on, I would suggest various in:xpénsive materials in the form of ac-

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cordion-plaited, and even now, if you Lhave bought some remnants of softgray. or black stuff, why not have them ac-cordion-plaitéd in preparation for house . frocks for early Spring? Such a gown may be ever so simple, with a soft band swathed - found the waist, finished perhaps with fringed sash ends. This frock _is so comparatively inexpensive that it | js Worthy of consideration. _The same idea has been carried out in white cloths for afternoon wear on the ‘Riviera, relieved with a touch of soft, plack satin, oriental for preference, ' We cannot all have blouses tO-match our skirts, as Dame Fashion says we ghould, but we can at least make unavoldable contrasts pleasing, and heore the bolero, which is coming into fashicn again, is of great assistance tous. It is really a charming garment and can bg composed of anything you like. o This little bolero, which in some cases ‘lB almaost sleeveless, is one of the best

ways I know of utilizing odd lengths of chiffon. jet, embroideries, etc. Some gre cut rather like the old-fashioned zouave, and are extremely becoming with the wide kid bands which we all love, owing to the fact that they make the waist look ‘quite two or tkree inches smaller.

Then there is the question of using lace. The lace coatee is-permissible on ever sO many occasions, but with salz remnants it iz a question of cutting your coat according to your cloth. Therefore, according to the amount of lace at your disposal, you can have a ghort coatee,a three-quarter length coat, and, for evening wear, a long overcoat of lace and chiffon, fully as long as the train of vour f{rock. The latter will probably not be made out of a sale remnant.

Net is a good substitute for lace, butit requires a chiffon lining. Then thereare pretty ‘grc—nadine)s‘which always seem 10 be offered at such extremely moderate prices, These are charming for the loose empire teagown which is aiways in vogue, with its wide knotted sash of oriental satin or crepe de chiine, or girdle of gold or silver. . :

~ One of the illustrations is of a simple frock for early spring to be made in dark green Pirle-finished cloth, these Pirlefinished cloths will not spot or cockle with the rain. - The bodice is finely stitched and made with sloping shoul--ders, while the skirt is perfectly plain. The nicest: waist belt you can possibly have will be one in soft green suede, matching exactly the color of the cloth, and finished in front with a large square buckle of dull gold. :

A Parisian friend sends me the follow-ing-points from that gay fashioen center: The short bolero continues to" gain favor.” Corduroys. and very narrow striped velveteens are worn, the skirts made a trottoir, and braids and buttons being the only permissible trimmings on the charmingly becoming little boleros.>: io.

Every one seems so glad that the bolero is again revived, and there can be no doubt that the average Parisian figure looks much better when the waistis defined, with a pouched effect above it, especially with the short skirt and the plain Breton sailor hat, worn well over the face, softened with the draped lace Veil. e Most of -the new short skirts are, {rimmed with graduated bands of satin, j

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~ Itis cdifficult at this time of year tolay down any hard and fast rule regarding millinery, for it generally happens that csome celebrated mondaine appears ata casino in an {entirely new shape, which ‘immediately becomes the-rage. : ELLEN OSMONDE. - Beauty and Utikity. . Wife—How thoughtful ' you are! And so you really bought 'ti)i_s ‘beautiful antique rug forme? = ! Husband—Yes, my dear. “How lovely of you! Where ghall I put it?"” . : , “Put it in front of your dressing case.” ~ “It will certainly look very pretty.” . “Yes. It's a good, strong rug'and will keep you from wearing out the carpét there.”—N. Y. Weekly.. ) ; Quite True, ! “Woodby declares his grandfather destended from one of the greatest houses in England.” Shne e “Ah! yes, I did hear a story abeut the old man falling off a roof he was repairing once for Lord Somebody or other.” —Philadelphia Press. : ‘ Consolation, ~ “Bah Jove! He called me a jibbering idiot!’. . - “Oh, well,; that's nothimg. All idicts jibber.”~Town Topies. - =

POPE NOT A LINGUIST. The Present Pontiff Depends for Translations Upon His Polyglot Secretary ‘of State. & I met recently at a “five o’clock” an English-speaking monsignor, well posted in vatican affairs, giving some details of the pope’s life to a group of pious and inquisitive old - maids, writes a Rome correspondent of the Paris Daily Messenger. ‘‘The holy fathexr,” he said, with a sigh while comfortably sipping his tea, ‘‘the haly father is leading a dull life in the apostolic palace. In lieu of ‘the epen-air exercise and long walks on the Lido which he enjoyed so much at Venice, he is now limited to a daily constitutional up and down the close, gloomy vatican corridors, and he sorely misses the company and affectionate tending of his sisters, who always lived with him when he was bishop and patriarch at Treviso, Mantua and Venice.”

He has now installed them in the first floor of a palace close to the vatican, but they can only cdme to him once or twice a week, on thesly like contraband goods. There they overhaifl‘his‘linen. and when possible stay to dinner, a great solace to the poor, solitary man. Papal etiquette requiries that the Vicar of Christ should dine alone, no one, not even sqvereigns, can be allowed at his table, but when the sisters are smuggled upstairs to the apartments formerly beionging to Cardinal Rampolla, now reserved for the private use of his holiness, Mgr. Bressan, his secretary and old friend, and Sili, his valet, a cidevant peasant from Riesi, close the coors, and the vatican is stipposed not to know that ‘“‘Sua Santita” is entertaiging laidies. Megr. Bressan reports that it is a pleasure to see the three old dames with oldfashioneéd spectacles, stitching, hemming, -and darning, or superyising Sili in the kitchen, while the smiling brother is rattling away in Venetian about old days. s - Pius gets very nervous when Le is to -receive foreign bishops or layme'n of distinction who cannot speak lialian. His knowledge of French ‘s limited, so limited that it was one of the three reasons which made him hesitate to accept the tiara. At the conclave when his: name came up with the canonical twothirds majority of votes, and the antagonists of Rampolla—Agliardi, Satolli and Ferrari--were urging him to accept, ‘Cardinal Sarto said the burden was too heavy for him. “I am only able to govern small bishopries. I cannot speax French, and I cannot live locked up in the vatican;’ and. addressing Ferrari with tears in his eyes, he added: “Your eminence will return to your archdiocese of Milan, but I shall never see my beloved Venice again!” i

Referring to the language question, every one here says that the linguistic ceficiencies of the new portiff lifted from comparative obscurity Mgr. Merry del Val, an ascetic-looking prelate,. still young, half Irish and half Spanish, learned, remarkably wideawake, and a perfect polyglet. He speaks English, French, Spanisk and Italian to perfeetion, just the man to help a “monoglot” pontiff in distress. So Del Val is now secretary of state and a cardinal, and may reasonzi:bl,\' aspire to mount the last round of the hierarchical ladder—the papacy. . , JAPANESE AND RUSSIA. Comparative Facts Concerning the ) ‘Great Rival Powers Now at Variance. Comparisons, or contx'asts.' between Japan and Russia are striking in more than one respect, says the New'Yox'lg Tribune. Thus Japan has about 47 - 000,000 people and Russia perhaps 130,000,000. Again, Japan’s land area is scarcely 163,000 square miles, while Russia's is nearly 8,700,000. So Russia has nearly three times as mdny people and more than 50 times as much land as Japan. (Wherefore, we might think, Russia might well afford to be a little less land hungry at Japan’'s expense.) On the other hand, Japan, with her so much smaller population, has more pupils in her schools than Russia. According to the latest available statistics, Japan has 4,302,623 children in elementary schools and Russia only 4,193,594, That is to say, 91 in every 1,000 Japanese and only 32 in every 1,000 Russians are in elemetnary schools. The disproportion of numbers in secondary schools and wuniversities is equally marked in favor of Japan.

Again, Japan has 4,832 post offices, or one to every 9,700 people, while Russia has-cnly 6,029, or one to every 21,500 people. Japan has, under sail and steam, a commercial marine of 734,413 tons, while Russia has only 633,822 tons. Japan’s purchases from the United States amount to about $21,000,0000 a year, and Russia’s to only $17,000,000. Of course, it is argued that Russia is still in an elementary stage of development. But Russia has been in full and direct intercourse with the civilized world since the time of Peter the Great, 200 vears ago, while Japan has been in a similar state scarcely 50 years. That is to say, Japan has made three times the progress Russia has, and in onefourth the time. In such circumstances, it is not at all strange that the admiration and sympathy of the world are given to Japan in a great measure. ; ’ - : --(hre ‘on the D;;c—t;r. : - Dr, Bird was once the giest of Capt. Burton, the explorer, and when Burton had been telling of an Arab attack which ended fatally for his assailant the doctor asked: “How do you feel, captain, when you kill a man?” ) Burton paused a moment and then replied, slowly: “I'don’t know, doctor; how do you?'i- : . l'ne“for an Old Shoe, A patch ¢ut from the top of a woman’s shoe is useful to put inside of iron holder, forming a noticeable protection against the heat. - : The Cut He Wanied. Clothier—You say ygq‘wa&t\a coatr? What cut, please? : : i Bargain-Seeking Customer—About 30 per cent.’ will do, I guess.—Baltimore News. = . Remarkable Statue. A " Only one marble statue of the human figure with eyelashes is known. It is the “Sleeping Ariadne,” one of the gems of the vatican, and it was found in 1503. " The Plano, Bartolommeo Cristofell, of Padna, Italy, invented the piano about 1711; the upright piano was introduced by Roller & Blanchet, a French firm. ;

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 1 Lesson in the International Series for March 6, 1904—Jesus | Calms the Storm. “ : s 1 THE LESSON TEXT, 3 ! - Mark 4:35-41." GOLDEN TEXT.—He maketh the storm =a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.—Ps. 107:20. OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. Raising of Widow’s 50n........Luke 7:11-17. John the Baptist's Message.... Matt. 11:2-19, John the Baptist's Message.... Luke 7:18-35. Jesus Anointed by a Wonian..Luke 7:26-50. ‘Secon@ Preachking T0ur..........Luke 8:1-3... Healing Blind and Dumb Man. Matt. 1272237, Scribes and Pharisees Warned........ ~ S s Sre Rt 1923845 Jesus' True Kindred........... Matt. 12:46-50. Jesus’ True Kindred............ Mark 3:31-35. Jesus' True Kindred............ Luke 8:19-21, Parables by the 5ea...........Matt, 13:1:8. Parables by the 5ea.............Mark 4:1-34. Parables by the 5ea.............Luke 8:4-18. Stilling of Tempe5t.............Matt. 8:23-27, Stilling of Tempe5t.............Mark 4:35-41. Stilling of Tempe5t..............Luke 8:22-25. TIME.—The tall ?t' A. D. 29 (part of *The Year of Public Favor’’), - PLACE.—The sea of Galilee, NOTES AND COMMENTS, (Mark 4:35, 36.) ‘‘On that day:” A day of (eaching on the lake shore, described in the ‘first part of this chapter. /It was the day on which He had spoken the parables of the sower, the lamp, the wheat and the tares, the leaven and other parables of the nature of the kingdom and how it should grow. “When even was come:” . It was at the close of a long, hard day. Jesus was too sensitive, tender-heart-ed and sympathetic to reach the close of such a day without being thoroughly tired; there was the speaking to the crowd—not altogether sympathetic—aad the listening to the stories of the poor and {riendless who always thronged to Him, the healing of many who were sick and the constant sight of degradation, sin and suffering. His life was not an easy one, even at the height of His popularity. ‘'‘Let us go over unto the other side:” To get away from the crowds; when He was with them He .could not rest and His human endurance had been taxed to the. utmost. He must have rest and quiet and time to think and pray in order to be ready for another day of service. ;

(Vs. 37, 38 “A. great storm |of wind:” Small lakes, especially if they are surrounded by high hills, are always subject to sudden squalls. The Sea of Galilee lay at the bottom of a very deep valley, 680 feet below the level of the Mediterranean sea. The rugged hills that rise abruptly on both sides of the little lake are broken by huge gorges through which the wind sweeps down in whirls and eddies upon the water. The tropical heat of the valley partly accounts for the suddenness and fury of these storms. ‘The waves beat into the boat:” It is harder for a boat to live in a sea of choppy, white-capped waves, on a little lake, than on the mountainous swells of the ocean. ‘““Was now filling:” Of course the boat was well handied, for many of the disciples were professional fishermen, and Knew every inch of the lake from years of life upon it, but the boat was'not large and was heavily loaded and could not afford to ship much water. “In the stern, asleep on #he cushion:” Mark does not say “on a cushion” ‘but ‘“on the cushion;” he is naming a part.of the ship—perhaps the small deck across the stern on which the steersman sat, but certainly no soft pillow. That Jesus could sleep in. such a place and under such circumstances shows how utterly weary He must have been. ‘‘They awake Him, and say unto Him.” etc.r They were fishermen and their home was on the sea, but they were helpless in such a storm as this and thoroughly frightened—and fishermen are not quick fo admit that they are frightened. *“Carest Thou not that we parish:” An appeal with a touch of reproach in it. . (Vs. 39-41.) Mark’s account of the stilling of the storm .is most impressive in its simplicity. “The wind ceaged, and there was a great calm:” What silence is there that can ¢ompare with the silence that follows thé. raging storm? The waves sink back Jike tired creatures grown drowsy after their madness—that meaning is in the word translated ceased; there is absolute st'illness on the water broken only by the distant mutterings of the flying storm. ‘“There:was a great calm:” This was the most impressive and aweinspiring moment in the -lives of the astounded -disciples. The words. that broke the silence they could never forget. “Why ate ye fearful:” As if He were surprised and disappointed that they had been afraid; He would not have wondered at a panic in some of the other boats, but these were His disciples, His closest friends. ‘“Have ve not yet faith:” “Not yet”—how long would it take—how much would they have to see of Him to learm to trust Him perfectly! Of course they did trust Him in a way and He knew that, but it hurt Him to see that the trust was not complete. “They feared exceedingly:” ‘They were awe-stricken; never before had men seen what they had just seen; and what did it mean? Who was this who was Master of tle elements themselves? They realized that they had not begun té fathom the myscery of His heing. “What did it all mean?” they asked themselves, and they probably never fully understood till after the resurrection.

ODDS AND ENDS OF FACT. Forty-five only of the crew of the liner Kaiser Wilhelm 11. are ordinary sailors, the remaining 555 being mechanics, etc. Alston' Gibson, on of Andrew Jackson’s favorite jockeys, is living quietly at Calera, Ald, having nearly reached the age of 116 years. He was born July 4, 1788, in Sputh Carvlina, and there is documentary evidence of his great age. The old'man still takes much interest in racing matters. ‘ : : The negro cooks of Hartford, Conn., decided some three months ago to givea grand ball, and their president, A. W. Gibson, .conceived the idea of making the occasion a brilliant one. He accordingly sent-letters of invitation to Pope Pius X., King Edward of England, President Roosevelt and. other dignitaries. In due course of time replies were received from these notables regretting their inability to be present, and wishing those present a pleasant evening. At the dance the replies, with the envelopes in which they came, were on exhibition %n a large glass-covered frame. They are written on official paper and bear every evidence of being genuine. LY

REPUBLICANS WILL SQUIRM There Will Be Something Doing When Their Old Reciprocity Bills ¢ Are Brought Up. : John Sharp Williams, thé democratie leader in the house of representattives, is about to execute a flank movement on the republicans which is likely to cause them on end of trouble. He will soon intreduce several reciprocity bills which will practically be duplicates of some of the Kasson treaties, negotiated in 1898 10.190Uswjth foreign-countries, but which ‘were -never ratified by the senate. The sad fate of these treaties, which were smothered to death in the senate pigeon holes, forms an interesting story. : When the Dingley bill was put through, in 1897, many duties were intentionally left considerably higher than was thought necessary, even by the leading protectionsts. It was expected by Dingley and other republicans that reciprocity treaties would soon be made with many foreign countries and duties were left very high so that we would have a large margin, or bargaining power. Then, after swapping tariffs with these countries, we would have ample protection left. Hon. John A. Kasson, of lowa, was made a special commissioner’ plenipotentiary and negotiated treaties with France, Argentina, Ecuador, and, through Denmark and the United Kingdom, with several West Indian islands and with British Guinea.

These treaties were negotiated under section 4 of the Dingley bill, which permitted a reduction of 20 per cent. in our duties if foreign cbuntrigés would make reciprocal reduction on our exports. Because the reciprocity proposed by this section might have accomplished some good, by lowering the prices of some articles to consumers, our protected trusts held these treaties up in the senate and did not permit them to pass. The result is that:

1. Our consumers are now paying duties higher than was planned, even by the protectionists. : | -2. The trusts are receiving more protection than many protectionists would have been the case had the reciprocity treaties been contemplated. 5 3. Our goods—wheat, corn, beef, pork, canned goods, etc.—are Kkept out of France and other countries by duties ten or 20 per cent. higher than would have been the case had the reciprocty clause been omitted from the Dingley law.

Thus, the failure of reciprocity has greatly injured the very classes that reciprocity was intended to benefit—our farmers and our pent-up manufacturers. The protected trusts just gobbled up and appropriated the higher duties of the Dingley bill and ‘told the simple trusting farmers and small exporting manufacturers to whistle for their reciprocity. It is to relieve this situation, brought upon the country intentionally or unintentionally by. the protection leaders in 1897 and.since, that Mr, Williams will introduce these reciprocitg; bills anew. If the republicans were sincere in their former professions, they will now join with the democrats in passing these bills. If not, they will again submit to the domination of ,the trusts and will let our unprotected farmers and manufacturers suffer in the future as in the past, under the extremely heavy burdens of the Dingley tariff law. Watch the republicans squirm and hem and haw when they again face their old reciprocity bills. 3

MUST LOOK TO DEMOCRATS " No Relief from Tariff Taxation Save Through the Party of the Peonle. Many republican newspapers are coming to their senses about the fallacy of protection. They now say that it was never intended to permanently adbpt the system save as'a means to an end. That end, according to the St. Paul Dispatch, “was the establishment of our manufacturers upon a basis that would make them secure against the assaults of foreign competition. When that was accomplished; when they would be able to meet that competition successfully, then protection had served its end, fulfilled .its mission and could and should be discarded.” Inspite of this newspaper evidence a large class of republican voters have become tired of paying tribute to trusts and protected monopolies, says the Incianapolis Sentinel, the republican leaders, including President Roosevelt, have determined to ‘‘stand pat” rather than abate a jot or tittle of protection. Thus we have the American Protective Tariff league, through its organ, the Americdn Economist, denouncing any republican who favors a revision of the most obnoxious schedule of the Dingley law or who even favors reciprocity to enlarge our trade with any nation that is willing to reciprocate. ' The re“sult of this republican league with monopoly is the great increase in the cost .of living and the decline of wages, so that nearly every oné is paying tribute: to the trusts and even the skilled labor ‘employed in the protected industries is obliged to accept a smaller income and pay higher prices for many necessities; Both these great classes of consumers—the workingmen and the farmers—are “being bled from every pore and are payIng a tax to beth the government and the combines, but much the greater tax to the favored monopolies. During the last campaign for the election of congress the revolt of republican voters in many districts was only stayed by promises of reforming the tariff in the manner the Dispatchjsuggests, but those republican congressmen who declared | for reform have found it impossible to override the decree of their leaders to ‘ “let well enough alone.” The emissarigs of the protective tariff league | ‘threaten political annihilation to ariy‘ republican congressman that even talks ‘ reform. Most of those who promised to curb the trusts by reducing the t‘a}itt 1 duties did not honestly intend to try to do so, relying on the normal republicah majority in their district and an ample campaign fund, provided by the trusts, to carry ‘them through in the coming election. It s evident that mo relief from trust exactions and tariff taxation can be expected from the dominant party. .

~——Senator Hoar was strongly opposed to the Panama theft, but in cagting his vote for the ratification of the treaty he has given the country another\éV’idence that few men can rige above their environment, especizlly in politics.—Chicago Chronicle,

INVESTIGATE 'THE ISSUES. A Sovereign Duty of Every Young Man When He Cag's His 8 30 First Ballot. : Young men, who will cast their first vole at the coming national election, should investigate the fundamental doctrines that divide the two great political parties and the issues upon which the campaign will be decided. In this way they can arrive at the proper way to perform the highest prerogative of an American citizen. The greatest right, in 8 Gemocratic-republic like ours, isthe ballot. The poor man or the rich one, the first voter or the most accomplished statesman in the land, are all equal before the law and are sovereign voters. Not only is the act of voting the highest political function, but it"nvolves the greatest regponsibility. A" few votes often turn the scale in close states and poiitical districts, so no voter must imagine that his ballot is not of consequence. as he may decide issues of transcendent importance and elect candicates for the highest offices who will have the executive power placed in their hands. After the election is over the voters have transferred their power to those whom they have elected to represent them and.the individual voter is powerless until the next election occurs. ; 2

/Amongst the great issues that will be decided at. the coming nationai eiecticn is one that should appeal to young voters with irresistible force. The question of the protective tariff and the control Jf the trusts affects the pocketbook of every voter and must be decided as interest dictates. Other issues may be settled upon patriotic or humanitarian grounds, but the indirect taxation of the tariff and its acknowledged fostering of trusts is fast breaking down that good old democratic doctrine of “equal rights .0 all and special privileges to none.”

If the young voter is the son of a trust nagnate or cne who has, through'some special privilege, become a monopolist, he may be expected to follow in his father’s footsteps and vote to continue a system that allows cneormous fortunes to be created at the expense of the great majority. :

But where there is one such .child of fortune, there are thousands who are children of the poor, and the young voter who has nothing, or but little, but his own exertions to provide a living for himself and those dependent upon him, must view with dismay trust prices and increased cost' of living. How much taore must it set him thinking it he finds the avenues of employment l!essening and the standard of wages decreasing in proporticn 'to ‘the increased cost of living. ;

Does any well informed yourg man doubt that the trust and monopoly breeding tariff is an issué that is of the utmost interest for him to investigate and see how it affecis his prospects in life? Does he see a fair share of the vast wealth of the country flowing to those who create it, or does he notice enormows prosperity to - corporations and the comparatively few indivicuais wto control them?

+ The position of the two great parties on economic questions.must be an issne and perhaps paramount, in the 2_1!);6;&(@7“ of war or other great events that so stir men’s souls that they forget their pockethooks. The young voter must, to vote with intelligence, investigate the evidence on both sides and decide who will represent him most effectually in-secur-inz ‘“equal rights” and prevent the fTavored few from obtaining or leeping “special privileges.” ’ Ther2 must be no objection to riches, or the rich man, if his riches have been obtained equitably. Neither must Dives be worshiped, and above all the young voter must keep at a safe distance the vote buyer. Your vote is as valuable as that of Rockefeller, it counts for as much, and no money value can be placed upon it; its. value is beyond computaticn. . \

SHARP PRESS COMMENTS. ——The republicans are placing Illinois in the doubtful column.—f/l‘ochester Herald. | ——Quite right is the Albany Argus in its forecast that if the democrats do the right thing theré are many voters who supported McKinley who won't support Roozevelt. And the right thing is just what the democratic party i$ going to do. There will be no campaign - of mistakes.—Buffalo Enquirer. .

It should be accepted as a flact that the democracy has done right as regards such policies as had been up for discussion before. But as regards the campaign this year it should not be based on the policies of the past, but on the ‘questions of living interest today. Deliver us from the body of our dead.—Knoxville (Tenn.) Sentinel.

——The New York Sun has scanned one day's descriptions of President Roosevelt. It finds that “on one and the same ‘day, and without any previows conference, Mr. Roosevelt was styled.a prince among Americans by 'Hon. Leslie- M. Shdw, described by Hon. Jacob A. Riis as a Lincoln, a Decatur and a Farragziat combined, compared by Hon. Joseph Very Quarles ‘¢ St. Paul before Agrippa. and by the esteemed German ambassador placed side by side with;'Emperor Willizam I 1.” Yet the modest Roosevelt, who is all ‘these in one, has lately pronourced Elihu Root the greatest man who has appeared in any nation in his time.— Elmira (N. Y.) Gazette. = : Hope Is in Democracy. - The advocates of centralization, imperialism and military aggression—the <late product of a strong govern-ment--resent the claim of ‘the vulgar populace and in disgust say, “D——n the people!” But there are millions of American citizens who repudiate the imsolent domination of this self-exalted and imperious minority and are now in‘a humor to wrench the federal government from them and their baleful rule. They contemplate with ‘alarm the mailed hand of an encroaching power. They view with fear the increasing strength of the combined forces of accumulated wealth. They feel' the oppression of evil legislation. They realize that there is but one hope for relief, and that is through the agency of an untrammeled and - uynpurchased - democracy. Democrats should know #heir duty and dare to do {t.—Nashville (Tenn.) News. T o

\idiofE.a EAABSICY (ORRTeS AL e 7 A A (L)) "/‘{,j % ,/fi' o},c\ “I!C pNG AN SIS EGS B s ' g J J& < % 0 7 \..:—/ 5 f{_ NEW HYDRAUPIC PRESS. Unigue Apparatus Used in England for Removing Screws from 1 Steamship Shafts. - . In English ‘machine ‘shops, a greater variety of hydraulic presses is used than in America. In.this country, perhaps the most notable service performed by ‘such- apparatus is the forming of armor, plates for battleships. A mass of sofwt_st,eel is forged thereby with almost the: facility displayed by a ‘cook in kneading dough for pie crust. One of the kinds of work done abroad by hydraulic power is setting wheels on axles and rembving them. - A duty which is somewhat akin to -this is loosening a screw propeller from the shaft of a steamship. if repairs of éither shaft or screw become desirable.

When a propeller is eriginally put on a shaft it is fastened with pins.running inward radially, or with keys wedged in between the shaft and the hub of the screw. Additional security is obtained sometimes by shrinking the hub on. The diameter of the hole through this Jatter is made a hairbreadth less than that of the shaft, but-is‘temporarily enlarged by heating. When the hub cools it shrinks, and thus takes a firm hold. The need of fastening a screw well is apparent when one remembers that it is expected to Totate with the shaft; and that this latter is often made- to turn by an engine of 10,000 or 15,000horse power. . L. In taking a screw off from the shaft, then, the first step-would be to put the vessel to which it belonged in a dry-

. ‘ : ) ) R . N _ \ rF ¢ o \\\\\“w ,/’”/////// ) ’ S A - S ‘ < Y ) AN ENGLISH INVENTION. dock and drain off the water so as to expose the hull completely. The next would be to pull out the pins or to drive out the keys from their seats. For this purpose mallets would probably suffice. Finally, it would be necessary to detach the hub of the screw from the-shaft by axerting pressure in such a way. as to make it slipvalong the latter. ‘lf this shaft had only a slight taper, of course only a little movement in the right digggggon"fv\'figl(} serve-the purposgé, but the forcé:requisite’te . start -the hub would be great:= =% [ - 2o

A passing allusion to the hydraulic apparatus for performing this service is made in Cassier’'s Magazine, which alse supplies the illustration hfre reproduced.. .Though no-explanation is supplied, one ean readily conjecture how the device isused. The bolts which connect the four segments of a circle should be relaxed and one of the joints opened sufficiently to allow the machine.to be slipped past the screw, so'ds to embrace the shaft at a point .just back of the propeller. By ‘a chain .and/ suitable tackle the whole nmechanism would be temporarily suspended af the stern of the ship from the deck while these operations are goi'ng on. . ‘The press once being loosely in. position right behind the hub of the screw. it should be tightened about the shaft by a.proper adjustment of the bolts at.the four joints. The thing will not work unless a perfect grip has been obtained. - - )

~To understand the final procedure one 'should_take it for granted that the four segments are. hollow. Water, having been forced into one of them, quickly distributes itself by the coiled pipes that connect it with the other three. Thu§ the pressure is equal in~all. The two light colored, bean-shaped areas on each segment represent plates which can be made to move away from the surface of the segment by pressure within.. These eight plates would bear against the hub of the screw with equal strength and slowly push the latter from its original position. : . : : NEW CURE I’QR LOCK]AW. Midway Men Inyent Electl‘bnometer Which They Hope 'Will - Do Much. . ~ Capillary electronometer is the name of a new instrument delicate enough to register the minute discharges of eleciricity 1n nerves and muscles. The jnvention will greatly aid the cure of-lock-jaw, they hope, and be of great use in nervous. diseases. It is a device conceived by the research workers in the physiologicai laboratory at the University of Chicago, its inventors being C. C. Guthrie, E. P. Lyon ‘and F. H. Rieske. . < ‘ s

A fine giass tube with a hoie in it no larger than a capillary gland on the back of a human hand is the mechanism of the instrument.. The tube at one end contains mercury, which penetrates the small extremity of the tube. The tube rests in a cup of acid, and the two are joined by piatinum wire.

All life action is chemical and electrical, the inventors believing, and by the action of the electrical discharge from 2 moving muscle on the meércury in the tube the amount of energy expended may be gauged. = ° 3o :

g Powerful KForee of hean’;. Anatomists, to separate the bones of a skull, frequently fill it with small beans and place the whole in a basin of water. The beans swell and slowly split the skull. The force -which the beans are capable of exerting under these conditions is equal to the average pressure in the boiler of a steam engine. : = : e . High Altitude Kills Germs, A Swiss scientist has bheen testing the presence of ba=¢eria in mountain air, and finds that not a single microbe exists beyond an altisude of 2,000 fee above the level of t{%lea. ELu

BULLET-PROOF CLOTH. Wonderful Things Related of am Italian Invention Which May - Revolutionize Warfare, ‘The world is at present intensely interested in a new Italian bulletproof cloth, and “since the Italian government is negotiating for its use it is of importance that we see just what the results are, although it is necessary to state that the invention remains a secret, ana this notwithstanding attempts to discover its detalls. Thus we shall have to deal with a general description apd with the resuits of experiments. ! e

~ The armoris a sort of felt, the stuff being capable of adaptation to any form whatever; for example, a breast plate with'a collar or a so:t of coat which completely envelops the wearer and absolutely guarantees him from gunshot wounds. The thickness of the protector varies from one-sikcteenth to seven-sixteenths of an inch, according to the arm .the effects. of which it is designed -to destroy. - Against the armor of seven-sixteenths ‘of an inch the regular ordnance revulver . witia Steel covered ball is powerless, and also the gun of the 1891 model charged with smokeless powder. In the numerous experiments which have Dbeen made—in firing at ‘a distance of* sev‘eral yards—the ball, whether it be of lead or steel, when it strikes the protector is arrested and “deformed, in some cases rebounding and -in others being almost reduced to a pulp. Thos there is not only an arrest of the ball, but - deformation as well, and in this deformation the force of the ball is converted. While there should be a high degree of temperature at the point touched by the ball, it seems that the ball alone feels the effects, for the protector does not seem (0 be burnt in the slightest. F

These results. are 'not limited (o ballistic effects, for in the recent experiments it was sought to pierce. the armor with a dagger' driven with ail possible force. The point of -the arn, however, could not penetrate the felt and was bent intp a shapeless mass. It is natural to suppose that the force of the ball would be communicated to the armor and that this would be driven violently backward, resulting in a disagreeablé shock and one which- at times would be dangerous to the wearer. To demonstrate the incorrectness of this view Signor Benedetti attached his protector to a horse and fifed upon the animal oniy six feet away with an.ordnance revolver, the ball falling at the feet of the. horse while, he; freed from . his halter, walked away as if nothing had happened. It is to be noted that with the same reyolver a piece of steel had been previously pierced. The same experiment was_made with a.- chicken coyvered with a breast piece of the felt, the cock, after being rid of his new shell, quietly pursuing the even tenor of his way.—Philadelphia Record.

NEW DAREDEVIL FEAT. Variation of l,oop-lhe-l,‘oup, Invented by Charles R, Culver, a New “" mngland Athlete, If a man really has the desire to make money in a hurry, le?.‘fifin’ffévise some new sensgation and spring it on the people, the more dangerous and bloodcurdling the better. irom the monetary point of view, as hundreds of people Wwill always flock ‘{o see some new scheme which seems to give promise of an accident soaner or later. Of course, the majority of these devices are neot reallv as dangerous as they lcok to be to the outside public,2as the performer has -the opportunity. o practice in seeret, with safety applidnces Which wiil prévent serious injury until hereaches the point where Le can go through his act without feelirg the need of taking precautionary measures. lLooping the loop on a bicycle is pro})abl_\' one of the

. = * : ' \\ ; fur By . L= A ;‘7\ i - SEEEIA\ S la’/’ Tl P - N UA VARIATION OF LOOP-THE-LOOP. “most dangerous feats ever performed, owing to-the difficuity of keeping the center of the track while in such swift motion, and to the necessity of stopping the wheel quickly after complet‘ing the loop. Inpthe apparatus here illustrated the trouble in stopping the wheels seems to have been eliminated, though possibly not to the completé satisfaction of the rider, who has to” dive head foremost into"a bag suspended just at the end of the short journey. But that is not the worst of it. He is compelled to enter the bag with his - head down and feet in the air and his wheel botiom side up above him, the latter portion of the irip being taken in- that position. As soon as the performer enters the bag it is released from the hangings®and swings outward on the suspencing rope, the counterbalancing. weight on the opposite end of the rope aiding in overcoming the momentum with- which the man shoots from the track into the bag.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

= Two Hundred Miles an Hour. .Some interesting experiments have been carried out with a new monorail system devised by a French engineer, M. Devic. The inventor has built a model upon the scale of onmetenth of what the actual train is to be, and with this train he has attained a speed of 13 miles an hour. The train is to be propelled by electric lpower, and in order that high speed may be attained the inventor relies upon two factors—diminution of weight and a more effective gripping of the drive wheels- upon the single track of the railroad. He <¢laims te ‘have designed a rail which will afford the wheels sufficient grip, irrespective of the weight which they are carrying. ‘Further experiments are to be carried lyc‘mt with a much larger model at 'Nemours to prove the utility and advantage of the system.’ M. Devie is sanguine of attaining a speed of 200 i'miles an hour. o b