Ligonier Banner., Volume 39, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 September 1904 — Page 2

NAVAL MANEUVERS - ASHORE By VALERIE HOPE

HE beach at Pasay is cne of the T ‘prettiest places to say good-night to the sun that.one can find in the orient. It is just outside the city of Manila, ani but a few mikutes frem the luneta, the fashionable drive where society takes its daily outing, from six until séven o'clock. i :

The band had just finished playing the Star Spangled Banner—the omega of all the concerts—and Lieut. Burton had replaced his cap after holding it over his heart during the rendition of the piece, as is the custom. * “Have we time to go to the beach before dinner?” said he to Miss Keadall.

“What time is it?” she asked. *Just seven.”” : “Yes, I think so—for a few moments. We don’t have dinner until eight.” Miss Kendall smiled sweetly and looked coquettishly at her companion as she consented to continue the drive. Lieut. Burton had just returned from Korea-on the warship K——, and she had not séen him until that evening. Now the luneta is a delightful place to spend an hour, but it is not a place for people who want to be alone. There -are too many distractions—this and that one to bow to; Mrs. So and So in the next carriage trying to tell some bit of news; Capt., Mr., Lieut. *or perhaps Gen. So and So stops. at the carriage to pay his compliments, and, well, taken altogether, the luneta {s only an overture for young people playing the little game of love.

So these two drove away, and in a few moments were anchored on the beach, watching the flickering lights at Cavite- and along the Manila shore. It was low tide and the coachman drove near the water, that lapped with a soft murmur, almost to the wheels of the victoria.

“Isn’t it glorious!” said Miss Kendall, looking pensively at the gorgeous vista across the bay. - ] “Yes, beautiful.” said the'ligutenam, mechanically, ‘“but tell me, what have you been doing since ] have been away ?” “Oh; nothing much—the same old thing—dinners, drives, receptions and

that’s about all. Manila has been very gay; there have been so many guests from the states, and this is such a very hospitable place. Do you know, I really think Manila is the best natured city in the world.” _ : ,

* “It certainly has been good to me,” said the lieutenant; ‘‘that is, certaixl portions of it have.” ' ~- The personal imeport of this remark was appropriated immediately. Nevertheless, the lieutenant sighed—just a little bit of a sigh—but Miss Kendall noticed it.

“What beautiful broadcloth that is {n your cape,” she remarked, enthusiastically, by way of saying somethfng cheerful.

“Yes; I bought it in Japan. One can get such beautiful material there for almost nothing. But tell me about yourself. Youare the subject I am interested in; don’t get so far away from it. I want to hear all about you: what you have been doing, and, ah, well,” said he, looking away from her and talking almost in a soliloquy. I might have known you would not be interested. That- is .the misfortune of a naval officer’s life. He is in port just long enough to make a few friends, and then he goes away—never: forgetting them, thinking of them always—and they? They ga right along having a good time, and forget all about him, just as if he had never existed.”. Miss Kendall watched him closely and ‘eritically during this delivery. - “What a dapper looking chap you are!” she thought. - Then, looking straight into his handsome face, she said, enthusiastically: = “Forget you? How could I be so pleased to see you back if I had forgotten you? What if T have had a gay time? That signifies nothing. Do you think lam so frivolous that I forget my friends as soon as they are out of my sight? But then,” she added, looking pensively toward the sunset, “what is the use of mourning over a naval officer after he has gone away? - Don’t you know the old saying that he has a sweetheart in every port? Tell me now, honestly, how many girls have you fallen in love with since you left me three months ago?”

“Not cne! " I haven’t met . any that has interested-me half as much as you do. I can tell you honestly, that no one has taken your place for a moment.” “Really ?” “Really.” :

“I thought you would forget me! But now that you haven’t, I am going to tell you that I am perfectly delighted to see you back! I have thought of you so many times since you have been away, and wondered if you ever thought of me.

GCOT AHEAD OF THE BIRDS Almond Farmer Turned Pilfering Yellowhammers Into Nut , " Harvesters. The stranger in the hotel lobby wore a gray frock coat, gray trousers a grdy slouch hat and a gray mustach and chin tuft a la Buffalo Bill, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.® :

“I am a western almond farmer,” he said to the reporter. “I grow almonds, son, the same as your folks grow potatoes and corn.

“Is it a good business? Well, I wouldn’t be in it if it wasn’t. It is a fine business. I never have no trouble at all. : :

“Queer things happen sometimes? Oh, yes, sometimes, I guess. Let mesee, now. Let me see.” :

Puffing slowly on his cigar, the western almond grower tried to think of jsometh_ing queer to tell the reporter, Finally he sald: “The yellowhammers bothered me last harvest time. They came by thousands to my almond orchard, and, carrying off my nuts in their beaks, they stored them in the hollow limb of an oak, “That wouldn’t do, you know.

‘1 studied a bit, and then I cut off the hollow oak bough, and substituted for it a long wooden funnel, made to look as much like a bough as possible. Beneath this funnel I put a basket. Then, chucklin’ to myself, I returned to the office.

Wasn'’t it lovely of Admiral Evans to anchor you all here in the bay?” “Yes, it was very nice of him.” This remark was occasioned by the fact that Admiral Evans, then in command. of the fleet, had ordered all of the war vessels at Cavite to anchor just outside the breakwater at Manila so that all of the fleet could be within easy reach of the city for a day or two. The order was appreciated ashore as well as aboard the vessels. “It must be almost dinner time,” said Miss Kendall, at this point. “We must be.going home.” e ! . “If you say so. But, then, I am‘willing to leave you for a little while, now that I believe you are honestly glad to see me back.” She looked up into his eyes, and he looked down into hers. “What a shame,” she thought, “that he is a blonde? He is such a handscmefelJow, and my hair is so awfully light! But then, I don’t know that it matters much.” ! The Next Night. = . - He certainly was handsome. Everyone spoke of it. And the beautifu] part was that he didn’t know it at all. He was such a bluff straight-out-from-the-. shoulder sort of chap, and thén, his uniform was most becoming. The white dusk and brass buttons, with shoulder straps of blue and gold, the navy uniform of the orient, is becoming to most officers.

The coachman drove to the same spot at which he had stopped the evening before, twisted the reins around the whip, stepped down from the box, and strolled away to smoke a cigarette. He knew from his previous experience that his servicés would not be needed for at least half an hour. As for the rest, cigarette smoking is so common among the native servants of the Philippines, that neither occupant of the victoria thought anything of it. They were too in@ésted in themselves; were. glad he wak gone, as he obstructed the view, and, besides, unconventionality is in the oriental air.

“So this is your last night ashore!” said Miss Kendall, looking sadly into the lieutenant’s eyes. “I haven’t seen you at all!”’ “Well, it wasn’t my fault.” “Nor mine.” ;

“You shouldn’t be sopopular, and then you wotild have time for your old friends when they come to Manila.”

‘“‘Don’t be cruel. You know I would rather be with you than with any one else. Tell me, when di_q%you receive your orders to leave?” ! “This afternoon. We sail to-morrow at sunrise.” :

“Isn’t is dreadful! I had no idea you were going so soon,” said she, looking serious. “But lam so glad to have seen you at all! It is worth waiting months for, isn’t it?—" she hesitated. . “Phil,” he said for her.

- “Yes, that’s what I wanted to say. It doesn’t seem right tosay ‘Mr.’ to you.” The lieutenant took one of her hands in his, and she did not take it away. He was such a big, noble fellow, and he looked down into her eyes so trustingly that she couldn’t have deceived him, even if the impulse to do so had crossed her mind. His faith in her appealed to the best there was in her. That, more than anything else, drew her close to him. Miss Kendall was essentially frivolous, but this handsome, big fellow with his quiet ways seemed to control her as nobody else had ever done. Sometimes, like the present, when he looked at her so piercingly, she felt guilty of something—she did not know just what—her frivolity, maybe—and at such moments she tried to break the spell by taking his mind away from herself. That is what she felt at this moment, and to do so, she said, lifting a locket that hung from a long chain around her neck: ‘““Didl show you this pretty thing? One of my Christmas presents.” *“No. What is it?” said he.

‘““‘Oh, it’s just a sort of locket, only made of openwork gold, and is meaxt to hold a perfumed tablet.”

. The officer, curious as men always are with such trinkets, opened it, and the tablet fell out on the sand.

“Never mind, don’t pick it up,” she said. “I know what I'd a great deal rather have to put in there, if you’ll give it to me. Will you” The lieutenant laughed. He was a prosy chap. . But when a prosy chap consents to bend down and let a girl slowly saw off a curl from his own head with a little pair of dull scissors from his own packet knife, it means something significant.

That is what this big, handsome naval officer did. e ;

“Now I shall wear it in the locket. It is much sweeter than the perfume.” she said, glancing shyly at him. “But what will you say if some one opens the locket? People are always doing that, you know.”

“Oh, I'll just say—say—well, what shall I say, Phil? You aré the only man I care anything about that has black curly hair.”

Yes, the curl was black. Not that the lieutenant’s hair had changed color over night—oh, no! only anothey officer was fn the victoria the night before.—Detroit Free Press.

“Well, my scheme buncoed the yellowhammers. It buncoed them. The poor birds couldn’t tell the funnel from the bough. Every day, thinking they ‘were laying up a fine store of nuts, they dropped almond after almond into the funnel. Every night I collected a big basketful of nuts that had been harvested for me by the birds.” | Beet Leaves for Cigars. From Salt Lake comes a story of an agent of a Philadelphia syndicate of capitalists who has been investigating the beet supply of Utah and Idaho, with a view to the utilization of the leaves of the beet as a substitute for tobacco in' the cheaper grades of cigars and stogies. /The intention of the pro- ‘ moters is, it is said, to use a small quantity of genuine tobaceo in each cigar, but to make the bulk of -it of beet leaves which have been “doctored” in a nicotine solution.

From Bombay pregidency a native petition has been forwardedto the government of India praying that the sale of feathered caps, ete., throughout British India may be prohibited by law, on account of the cruelty involved.

'l:he Russians are experimenting with a “water-clad” battleship, which has an uppeér deck of eork and a second deck of armor. The space between the two can be filled with water; then the ship floats a foot under the sea’s surface.

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| THE WIRELESS IN WAR. IHaving Its First Real Test in the | War Between Japan and ‘ : Russia. - Wireless telegraphy as a means ot communication between the ships of a scattered fleet during war maneuvers is having its first real test in the present struggle in the far east, and in at least one case it has done what was predicted of it—notified one fleet of the présence of an enemy, says an eastern exchange. : Although there have Peen attempts to maintain secrecy in dispatches by use of differently ‘“‘tuned’” instruments, the Japanese instruments have been affected by the Russian dispatches. On the night of February 8, after Rear Admiral Togo had divided his fleet and sent Rear Admiral Uriu with a small squadron and two divisions of torpedo boats to Chemulpo, and had gone with the rest to head off the main Russian fleet at Port Arthur, Admiral Togo’s chief anxiety was lest the Russians should leave Port Arthur before his torpedo-boat divisions reached it, and should have joined the Koreetz and Variag at Chemulpo, in which case the squadron of Rear Admiral Uriu would probably be annihilated. . The first reassurance he had came during the early evening, while he was still out of sight of land, 30 or 40 miles from Port Arthur. The wireless instrument on the flagship suddenly began working, picking up a mysterious message from the air. Most of it was unintelligible to the “Japs,” probably on account of ecipher, but one word was plain—Askold. The Askold was one of the Russian cruisers, and the dispatch was evidently from one of the Russian fleet. The ship which sent it could not have been far below the horizon, certainly nowhere near Chemulpo, and the Japanese were at once encouraged to believe that the enemy were still directly ahead - of them in Port Arthur. That proved to be the case.

It is evident, from the work already accomplished, that had- the wireless telegraph been working at the time of our Spanish- war there never would have been a disagreement as to the command of the fleet at Santiago. Admiral Togo has been able to keep in touch with scattered vessels which are often far out of sight of his ship, and has maneuvered his unseen fleet with the utmost ease and precision. & The reports from the little torpedo boats and from the cruisers and battleships have come to him across the air in the most severe weather without delay or confusion, and through shore stations he has reported to the emperog of Japan the movements of his fleet, and received advice as to those of the enemy. .

THE BILL LOOKED RIGHT. ’; And While It Looked That Way the' ‘Owner Quickly Got Rid of It. There are curious phases in human nature. Sometimes it occurs that apparently the most honest man in the community will not hesitate to smuggle a few luxuries across the boundary line between Canada and the United States, or evem by steamer from Europe. His loyalty to Uncle Sam is sometimes a trifie shaken. Bank people inform me that occasionally a man who has always had a thoroughly upright reputation will hesitate about having a counterfeit, bill which has been passed upon him stamped as counterfeit, so the loss shall fall upon him. In a few men the tendency is developed to let some other man make the loss on the counterfeit bill, which, of course, is just as dishonest as to steal five dollars from any source. ' A queer instance was related to the Boston Budget Saunterer duzing his stay in a country town, where¢ a miserly old chap was customer to the only bank in the town. One day thisold fellow came in, and in rather a shamefaced mgner approached the cashier with a fiVe-dollar bank ' note, which showed evidence- of being long in use. “Mr. Cashier, what do you say about that bank note? How does it look to you?” : A very casual examination convinced the cashier that it was a counterfeit. Hence he told his miserly friend his convietions in the matter, passing the money back, whereupon the owner of the counterfeit note very carefully folded it up, and placed it in his vest pocket. About a month afterwards this same Individual was in the bank, and the cashier says to him: “What did you do with that five-dollar bank note?”

“Well,” said he, “I had days when ‘that bill looked all right to me. Then again I ‘had days when it looked all wrong. But during one of the days when it looked all right I passed it off as genune” - ' Wanted to Keep It Secret. “Yes, Cameron says he is tired of soeiety. He’s going to build a shack up in the mountains and stay there.” “What mountains?” “Several of his creditors were standing abolut and he didn’t get a chance to tell me”—~Cleveland Plain Dealer.

CYCLISTS' SUPERSTITIONS. There Are Wheelmen Who Have . Queer Notions Which Control - Them in Their Journeys. Cycling superstition as a special and altogether distinct form of superstition is a recognized fact of the roha. - Naturally, says a London paper, there are many ridiculous beliefs with which men and women are afflicted that they cary into cycling with ‘them, such as the wearing of some lucky puecket piece or charm. One man, for instance, carries a Chinese coin and a withered horse.chestnut. If he omits transferring either to thHe pockets of his riding clothes he meets with an accident and he blames the omission. If it is the piece of money that he forgets it is a trivial mishap, he says, but if it is the 1888 horse chestnut he is liable td have a smash-up and get hurt himself.

Such notions are not, however, distinctive as cycling superstition. They were born in the mind of their victims before they ever rode a machine. There are some superstitions, those that are peculiar to cyclists. One of the most commom is that about turning round. The schooltaught rider always, and the average rider usually, prefers a-turn to the left. In their neophyte days most riders have met with a fall because of attempting to turn to the right, and this has led many into a fearful state of mind that; makes them prefer to dismount rather than risk turning that way.

The consequence is that the superstition about turning round is not only the most common, but also the most dangerous. There have been many mishaps on the road due to the inability of a rider to wheel right about, or his obstinacy in trying to wheel about left. i 3

There is a rider who will not pump his tires before going out, believing that if they have not remained hard it presages misfortune, and there are said to.be others who entertain similar sentiments concerning filling a lamp and oiling bearings. This class of rider thinks that if he has neglected to have his bicycle in perfect condition for an immediate mount he sheuld not venture forth. :

It is-a common notion which just about classes with a superstition that .the only way to start on a trip is =0 conceive the idea suddenly, grab one's machine, and mount it without exaigining any part.. So many pleasurakle times have been experienced following impromptu starts of this kind that hundreds believe any. other kind;;ot a start to be uniucky.. . A stout officer of an aristocratic London club knows that every time he wears a certain shirt he is bound to get a puncture, and some of his clubmates tell a story about his having migsed an important club run because this puncture-causing shirt was _the only one wearable. One man who assumes to be a philosopher, says that he is not superstitious, and especially innocent of the old country superstition about ecrossing a funeral, but he admits tfat he always waits until one passes, just out of respect- for the circumstances. Then he tells with grave earnestness a story that details how he rode along Blank street and encountered “a funeral cortege” that was crossing Dank street. He slowed down and questioned himself concerning whether or not he should cross it.

While he was deliberating two other cyclists traveling in opposite directions attempted to cross hetween the carriages. They collided and fell, and one was struck by the hoofs of a funeral coach horse and severely hurt. This happening he thinks justified by the deference that is not superstition.

Hamiltons Have a Peerage Trust. . The “handsome Hamiltons” have a kind of trust in the peerage business in Great Britain. They hold English, Scottish and Irish peerages, including two dukedoms, three baronies and a viscounty. Six Hamiltons are down in the list of expectant heirs to peerages. Altogether, including *“courtesy titles,” over 20 Hamiltons, all related to one another, are entitled to bear the title of “lord.”” And one of them has even succeeded in acquiring a French patent of nobility—that of Duke Chatelherault. Eight other Hamiltons are baronets or knights. Good Luck for Turtles at Last. The Chinese have a peculiar custom with regard to turtles, which they consider as very good joss. Almost any day one can see these creatures, some of them of huge size, being care ried on board the river steamers, rot to be taken to Canton for -culinary purposes, but to be dumped into the sea ‘and restored to liberty and freedom. Good luck is thought to follow, —Hong-Kong Press. In These Days, “Willie, why didn’t you get yows mother to sew your shirt before you leit home?” ; ““She was busy fixing her automabile ma’am.”—St. Louis Republic, '

THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL Lesson (in ,the International Series for \October 2,1904—“ Elisha : ucceeds Elijah.” ' (Prepared by the “Highway and Byway’’ Preacher.) ; I (Copyrigkt, 1904, by J. M. Edson.) a LESSON TEXT, (11. Kings 2:12-22; Memory verses, 12-14.) 12. And Elisha saw it, and he cried: My Father, my Father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more, and he tock hold of his own clothes,’ and rent them in two pieces, } 13. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan. 4 14. And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: Wkere is the Lord God of Elijah? And when he also Lad smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither; and Elisha went over.

15, And when the sons of the prcphets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said: The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before hm | .

16. And they said unto him: Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek' thy master; lest peradventure the Spirit of the:-Lord hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said: Ye shall not send.

17. And when they urged him till he was ashamed, Le said: Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him neot. - v

18. And when they came again to him (for he tarried ‘at Jericho), he said unto them: Did I not say unto you: Go not? 19. And the men of the city said unto Elisha: Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city };s pleasant, as my lord seeth; but the water is naught, and the ground bars ren. ,

20. And he said: Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein, ' And they brought it to him.

21. And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said: Thus saith the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. 22. So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake, SCRIPTURAL SECTION.—The entire chapter, with a review of Elisha's call in I Kings 19:16, 19-2. : GOLDEN TEXT.—“Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.”’—ll. Kings 2:9. TlME.—lmmeédiately following the events of the lesson for September 11. The prophet’'s ministry extended through about fifty years, ; PLACE.—The scene of Elijah’s translation, and at Jericho, Beginning of a Great Mission. The Place of Enduement.—Elisha was destined to fill the place of a great prophet, and our lesson to-day introduces usito the initial events in his career, which are preparatory to and prophetic of the future success of his mission. If Elisha were to fill Elijah’s place he must be endued with Elijah’s spirit. The disciples to perform the Lord’s service must wait for enduement of power, for the descent of His Spirit (Acts Iy 8,2: 1-4). The servant of the Lord to-day must wait for the power and inspiration which will equip for service. What had brought Elisha here? The place of such enduement is always marked by (1) Watchfulness. Elisha watched. (2) Revelation. Elisha saw the presence and glory of God as Elijah was snatched ' from : earth to HeaEen, and it quickened his heart to a new consciousness of God and His power. The soul that watches eagerly and persistently will be rewarded with a revelation of God which; will thrill the whole being and call into life new capabilities and create new possibilithes. =

The Place of Testing.—The place of testing' always lies just beyond the place of enduement. Elisha in the wilderness beyond Jordan gazing up into tlie heavens, would never prove an efficient or worthy successor of Elijah. The too-long gazing up into Heaven needs Divine rebuke (Acts 1: 11). Elisha must return, and in the pathway of the return lay the broad. unfordable Jordan, the Place of Testing. All that he had was the bare word of the prophet and thé mantle of Elijah, which was the evidence of Elijah’s departure. The testing was for the double purpose of revealing to Elisha himself and to the sons of the prophets gazing from the hills of Jericho the fact that Elijah’s spirit had descended upon Elisha. “Elisha went over’—the place of enduement and the place of testing were just behind, but the place of discipline lay before him. The Place of Discipline.—For three days while the willful, unbelieving students of the college pursued their fruitless search, Elisha waited at Jericho. Those were days of diséipline. While the search was on for Elijah, Elisha must wait, and waiting is the most trying kind of discipline.

The Place of Service.—And now we come to the place of service. Endue‘ment, testing, discipline and at last service. The discipline ended, Elisha finds his position strengthened in the city. Doubtless during those three days there was much discussion in the eity of Elijah’s disappearance, whichk tended to advertise Elisha. People got to discussing the miraculous events of the past few days and as a result faith in Elisha increased. Then came the opportunity of service. The men of the city came making request that the noxious waters might be healed. Here was a call to service. But why salt to cure the brackish waters? ‘“Like cures like” has long been a familiar saying. The use of salt suggests God’s method of healing the world’s sin. The shedding of blood to cleanse the crimson stains of sin. Death to cure death. IVOGUE IN VESTMENTS. Big plaids appear in the silk shirtwalists. Many of the buttons are positive works ‘of art. '

Vests are set into the separate waists for fall. A new mixture of silk and wool is known as silesienne. Velvet ribbons in wonderful bronze and nasturtium tints are shown.

Foliage and flowers of velvet will be much u_sed on the winter hats. There are lots of exaggerated styles that the well-dressed woman is going to let alone. i

A three-quarter pongee coat lined with satin is a handsome and useful garment that can be worn nearly all the year round.. z

When a small swelling appears on one’s finger and there is evidence of a run-around or a small fester, a tiny poultice of soap and sugar will draw it to a head in a few hours, when it can be opened, the wound washed out care= fully and thoroughly and then done up in clean gauze,. i .

HOUSEHOLD . SUGGESTIONS.

Items of Useful Information for the Head of the Domestic ; Domain. ‘

A little lemon juice added to the water for mixing pastry improves the flavor and helps to make it light. Insects, it is said, will never attack books which are dusted once a year with powdered alum and white pepper.

A cup of milk added to the water with which an oilcloth or oiled floor is to be washed gives it a luster like new.

It is better to keep baked pastry in a cupboard,| rather than a refrigerator, as it would be apt to get damp and heavy in the latter place. '

Some cooks soak salt ham over night in milk before broiling for breakfast. Salt mackerel is said to be improved by soaking in sour milk. .

A box filled with lime and placed on the shelf in a pantry and frequently renewed will absorb the damp and keep the air pure and dry. Fried potatoes will be tough if washed after being cut, and potatoes will be dark if fried in boiling fat, but light golden brown if cooked for five minutes in hot fat. ; Put a teaspoonful of ammonia in a quart of water, wash your brushes and combs in this, and all grease and dirt will disappear. Rinse, shake and dry in the sun or by the fire. Sprinkle a little lime occasionally on the shelves in the preserve closet to prevent mold forming in the jars. The lime loses its power after a time, and should be renewed at intervals.

Muffins and gems made without eggs, but with more milk and butter, the batter beaten with a wooden spoou till it is very light, are said to be indistinguishable from those made with eggs. . ;

A good floor polish is .made from meltivg old candle ends and adding &n equal amount of turpentine to tha grease. After cooling, this mixture will be found excellent for both floors and oilcloth.

Never allow meats, to boil while they are being cooked in water. Hard! boiling in salted water will toughen the tenderest piece of meat ever sold. Let the water simmer gently, keeping the pot on the back of the range.

Embroidered and lace-trimmed window blinds are generally placed in sit-ting-rooms now. Those trimmed with cluny and point d’arabe lace are very handsome, while still more elaborate are some embroidered duchesse blinds deeply flounced with lace. 4 Whenever a pickle or preserving jar is empty wash it well in ¢old water, dry it thoroughly and put it in a dry place. If you wash the jars in hot water it will crack their glazed surface and make them porous, which spoils them for use, as pickles and preserves require to have the air kept from them.

NEEDS ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

They Are Indispensable to the Gifl Who Wishes to Bs a Social Favorite. -

Not only has the girl who wi‘%hes to be a social favorite meed of accomplishments, but either she or her brother will find a business career promoted sometimes by their judicious assistance. Accomplishments may “soothe one's hours of ease,” and therefore alone they serve their purpose, says Harper’'s Bazar. But beyond this they help oné in mnovel ways; they are the means to an end, sometimes. ' No beginner in business can afford/to be called a butterfly; on the other hand, if one is remarkably proficient at dancing, in music, even at skating or beating or in most gamas of skill, such knowledge may win attention and notice that is of value. One might recommend (beyond exercise which health requires) more attention to whist than to any of these, having seen both young men and women “railroaded” by their elders into enviable positions, simply because they were not fitted for them —that would not have been sufficient —but, as well, because they played a fine game of whist. Nothing in the way of an accomplishment so attracts the admiration of men of weight. A Eknowledge of several languages fs part of one's education, scarcely an ‘‘extra,” and its ‘worth is recognized. But any capability that calls attention, without parade, to oneself is of value also. A Chicago millionaire once advised a young lawyer to join a certain golf club. The lawyer replied that he could not afford the necessary expense.

“You cannot afford to neglect the chance,” was the astute rejoinder. “Practice any economy rather than that. The friends you will make among the magnate members will payv all your “expenses many times over.” Why They Eat Them. : “And why,” we said, pausing befors the disguised Igorrote, ‘“did you take up the horrible and degrading practice of dog eating?” : “Mihzt! Bnuvg!” he exclaimed, firing up with passion. “Before weé left home we received tips that the beef and pork- packers’ strike would occur!” s

Seeing that he was in no mood to be trifled with, we left him, firmly convinced, however, that he was more to be pitied than censured.—lndianapolis Sentinel. .

To Remove Mildew. Mildew stains may be removed from articles by soaking in a solution of four quarts of cold water and one tablespoonful of chloride of lime. Wash well in clear water afterward and hang in sun to dry.—Household. Latest Bath Fad. A lemon bath is the latest fad. Several lemons are sliced into the water and allowed to lie for half an hour. A remarkable sense of freshness is given to the skin by the acidulated water.—Washington Star. Retort Sarcastic. Husband—l wish you wouldn’t make 80 many grammatical errors, my dear. Wife—What’s the matter with ’em? Ain’'t they as good as your mother used to make?—Chicago Daily News, y : :

PETER DONS CROWN. Coronation of King of Servia Occurs at Belgrade—No Hostile Deme 78 onstrations. ~ Belgrade, Servia, Sept. 22 —Peter Karageorgevitch was crowned king of Servia Wednesday. There were no hostile demonstrations and no attempt to carry out the' numascus threats against the new king's life. In the solemn ritual of the Greek church and in the elaborate state procession which. preceded 'and followed the coronation the tragedy of Servia’s previous ruler found no echo. Amid the thunder of the saluting guns from the royal palace and the garrison King Alexander’s mur- » } 5 e KING PETER OF SERVIA. der was at least outwardly forgotten. Here and in every garrison town of Servia the dawn of day was marked by a salute of 21 guns, and before the sun was well up King Peter, on horseback, rode out from the palace. The brilliant procession then started for the cathedral through the troop-lined streets. It was'nearly three hours before the service was coneluded and the ritual of the church complied with, King Peter afterwards signed the coronation document, which was witnessed by the metropolitan, the premier, the cabinet ministers and the other heads of state. Wearing the crown on his head and fully, robed, the king left the cathedral, remounted his horse and rode through the crowded streets to the = palace: There, in the grand festal hall, King Peter received the congratulations of the diplomatic corps and others, ascended the royal throne and once more took the scepter and orb in his hands. \

FAIRBANKS ON ISSUES.

Candidate, in His Letter of Acceptance, Dwells on His Party’s Record.: :

Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 22.—Senator Fairbanks’ letter of acceptance has been given to the-public through Hon. Elihu Root, chairman of the notification committee. In it the republican vice presidential nominee sticks closely to-a treatment of the various planks of the republican platform, and outlines the policies of the party in the future by what it has done in the past seven years. In commenting upon the work of the state department during that time, he refers to the conclusion of 30 different treaties, among whicn he mentions the = Hay-Pauncefote treaty, superseding the Clayton-Bui-wer convention; the- Panama canal treaty; the trade convention with China and Cuba, and the Alaskan boundary treaty. These treaties, e believes, point to the efficiency of republican diplomacy. e Senator Fairbanks .finds but one issue which the democrats have raised. That is the tariff. He does not believe the voters of the country, either the employing classes or -the employes; wish to cut the tariff schedules to sucn an extent as to bring foreign labor into competition with American labor. He says the republican party, as the inaugurators of the protective system under which America has- expanded industrially and commercially, is the only party to be entrusted with the regulation of this important subject. Other planks which he deals with at considerable length are those relating to the maintenance of the gold standard; the regulation of trusts and the enforcement of the Sherman anti-trust law, and the interstate commerce laws, charging the democratic. party - with having done nothing towards safeguarding legitimate interests in these directions. He refutes the charge of extravagance in government expenditures; applauds the president’s course in dealing with the insurrection in Panama, and in the government of the Philippines. . The complete letter is a document of some 4,000 words. ) ¢ :

Kills Himself in ILondasn. London; Sept. 24.—-George Davis, said to be the son ofa wealthy ranch owner of Kansas City, was found dead in bed at a leading London hotel Friday. An artery of his left arm had been cut with a razor, which was found beside the body. It is supposed that Davis, who was here on a visit, committed suicide. : Watson to Speak. : Joliet, 111., Sept. 22.—Thomas E. Watson, populist candidate for president. will open his campaign in Illinois October 10th, with a speech in Chicago. Enormous Losses. Portland, Ore., Sept. 23.—Timbermen who have visited Columbia coun.ty report that recent forest fires in that section have destroyed timber to the value of $8,000,000. Most of the timber destroyed was owned by eastern capitalists. » A

Post Office Robbed. s " Charleston, S. C., Sept. 23.-Expert safe-crackers entered the post office at Kingstree, 8. C., near this city, Wednesday night and after a short session with blacksmith tools, stolen from a nearby shop, extracted a package of $5,000. X A Valuable Cargo, ' New Orleans, Sept. 23.—~ThLe French steamer Admiral Fourichon arrived in port Thursday from Santos, via Rio de Janiero, with 91,597 bage of coffee valued at $1,000,000. This is the largest cargo ever brought to New Orleans. o . : : Schooner and Crew lost. Boston, Sept. 23.—A dispatch received. here reports the loss of the Harwich, Mass., schooner, Elvira J. French, off the Jersey coast in last week’s gale, together with seven members of her crew of nine, s e Eee

BOX OF DYNAMITE DRPDPPED ON STREET RAILWAY TRACK. Car Loaded with Passengers Strikes It and Is Blown Up with Terrible Loss of Life. . Melrose, Mass., Sept. 22.—An out-ward-bound- electric car, containing 32 persons, was blown to pieces in this city Wednesday night by striking a 50-pound box of dynamite that had fallen off an express wagon. Six persons were Killed outright three more died of their injuries within an hour, and 19 others on the car were taken to the two hospitals suffering from severe injuries. At least a score of persons in the immediate vicinity of the explosion were hurt by flying glass and splinters. So great was the force of the ' explosion that all but ten feet of the rear portion of the car was blown into small pieces, while windows within a radius of a quarter of a mile were shattered. The immediate vicinity of ‘the accident presented a fearful spectacle when those in the neighborhood reached the scene. The ground was strewn ‘with 'legs, arms and other portions of the bodies of those who had been killed, while shrieks and groans came from the writhing forms of the injured. 5 The police arrested Roy Fenton, driver of an express wagon. Fenton, it was learned, was carrying four 50pound boxes of dynamite on his wagon and did not notice, until he reached the express office, that one of the boxes had dropped off. He hurried back in the hope of picking it up; but the eleetric car reached the box first. The force of the explosion was terrifie, and the report was heard many miles. Directly opposite tpe scene was the Masonic building, every window -of which was shattered, and through one of the windows a human foot was blown. - A score of persons within 190 vards of the ecar were knocked dowa and renderad deaf by the concussion.

NEW YORK DEMOCRATS.

Comprdmise Is Reached and Herrick Is Nominated for - . i . Governor.

‘Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 22.—Qut of a situation which at_times seemed almost impossible of amicable solution, the leaders of the demccratic party on Wednesday found a way to unanimous action, and at 3:23 o’clock in the afterpoon the state convention adjourned without day after having nominated unanimously the following ticket: — For governor, D. Cady Herrick, of Albany, at present justice of the state supreme court, and for lieutenant governor Francis Burton Harrison, of New York, now a representative in congress from the Thirteenth district. °

The platform is chiefly devoted to state issues. It “‘arraigns before the bar of public judgment the one man power that to-day dominates the republican organization of New York state.” The democratic national platform and resolutions adopted at St. Louis in July last are indorsed, as complete expositions of democratic principles and policies, upon all the living issues of the present time. The platform also indorses -the democratic nominations for president and vice president of the United States.g ‘ ¢

SCAFFOLD FALLS.

Two Score Workmen Fall Fifty Feet —Three of Whom Are Killed ‘ —Many Injured.

Siloam Springs, Ark., Sept. 23.—A special to the Daily Republican from Grove, I. T., says: A fatal accident occurred Thursday three miles west of here, in which three men were killed outright, three fatally and five seriously injured by the falling of scaffold work on a bridge. The dead are: Henry Rucker, Thomas Browning and Ray Moore. Fatally injured: Rufus Bleving, back broken; Charles Watson, internally injured; Lee Cary, back broken and other injuries. Seriously injured: Henry Glenn, E. P. Hunelg, J. P. Jackson, James Perrin. J. J. Smith, foreman of the steel works here, had his leg broken and is badly cut. -

Forty men‘working on scaffolding surrounding an iron wagon bridge in course of construction aecross Grand river, were suddenly precipitated into the river below, a distance of over 5) feet, by the breaking of the scaffold work. Most of the workmen lived at Grove.

. Wife’s Fatal Errors Des Moines, la., Sept. 23.—A-special to the Register and Leader from Mount Ayr says: Mistaking him for a chicken “thief, Mrs. Peter Lewis, of Blockley, lla., fatally shot her husband early Thursday morning at their farm house. He died a few hours later. The Lewis farm had been repeatedly raided by chicken thieves and when Lewis returned unexpectedly from watching a sick neighbor Mrs. Lewis thought him a thief, opened a window and fired on him. ’ ~ Declined the Honor. Albion, Mich., Sept. 22.—The democrats of the Third district on Wednesday nominated William G. Howard, of Kalamazoo, for congressman. Mr. Howard declined the nomination and the district committee will select another can‘didate Friday. - 3 L

Closed with a Banquet. Indianapolis, Sept. 22.—The Society of the Army of the Cumberland closed its thirty-second annual reunion in this:city Wedresday night with a banquet, attended by more than 100 veterans and their ladies. e A e e % Elevator Burned. _ - St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 22.—The Rock Island elevator was destroyed by fire Wednesday. Loss on building, $25,000; on grain, $35,000. Insurance on building, $20,000; on grain, $40,000. Five box cars of the Rock Island Railroad company were burned. Loss, $6,000, = - Big Batch of Fried Eggs, Plymouth, Ind., Sept. 22.—Fire Wednesday in the cold storage plant of Swindell & Brothers destroyed the entire structure and 100,000 dozen of eggs. The loss on the building is estimated at $15,000. - - =