Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1902 — Page 7

LATEST FASHION HINTS

This is undoubtedly a winter for fora A neckpiece of sable costs twice as much now as it did earlier in the season. Fur jackets of all kinds are the mode, sable, broadtail and’ chln- ■ chilla carrying off the palm. Chic boleros of fur are much in favor. Frequently two furs are combined; for example, sable and white broadtail. Fur is also much used for trimmings, especially narrow bands on lace, and the fur itself cut into bows is introduced on the fronts of jackets. Fur is trimmed with lace, which in turn, has fur applique upon it Evening gowns of white satin are embellished with Arabesque patterns worked in fur mingled with guipure, the flowers being padded and thrown up in relief, fur being used as the heart of the flowers. Pretty Sofa Pillow. For the woman whose pennies are few there is a novel sofa pillow. It is made of common blue and white ticking, the narrower the stripe the better. On the stripe sew that bright tinsel cord which sells for two or three c?nts. This comes in silver, gilt and copper, and all three colors may be used. Between the stripes make a catchstitch of some gayly colored silk floss. Any number of colors may be used and the ruffle may be made of sateen to match the blue in the ticking. Tailor-Made Salt. A neat tailor-made suit of dark Oxford melton is made with a plain flare skirt, stitched at the seams and gathered into an inverted pleat at the back. The coat is of the Prince Albert shape and is made with the long dip to the waist In front. The lining and facing

In Dark Oxford and Melton.

on the lapels are of black satin. The present styles all require quantities of all varieties of silk. While there are many excellent makes, those of the Corticelli manufacture seem to be the

SILK, CLOTH AND VELVET GOWN.

In dark green. The velvet io used for the coat, with revers and cuffs of the cloth embroidered in gold. The vest is of yellow lace, and the wide girdle is of gilt warp-printed elastic. The skirt is of silk, with graduated bands of the cloth.

Best French Lingerie.

The 1902 importations of French lingerie show many beautiful matched sets of underwear, most of them intended as trousseau garments, entirely hand made, for the ultra fashionable women of to-day are demanding more and more that the best of their underwear shall show no machine stitching, says the Chicago News. These sets are most beautifully hand embroidered on the sheerest and finest of materials and trimmed with real lace. They are rather more plHnly made than the ma-

most popular with the leading dres» makers. Dinner Gown of Black and White. For house wear, veilings, etamlnes, fine cashmeres and crepe de chine are much worn. All sorts of silks, laces,

A Beautiful Dinner Gown.

chiffons and tissues are fashionable for evening gowns. Irish crochet lace is liked extremely for dinner or recep : tion costumes. A beautiful dinner gown is of black net over white taffeta. The skirt is laid in tucks ahd bordered by an accordion-pleated flounce of the net, finished with three rows of quilling. At the head of the flounce is an applique of white lace. The low-cut bodice has elbow sleeves of the tucked net, slashed open on the outside of the arm and fastened across with strips of velvet ribbon and tiny rhinestone buckles. A little of the white- lace mingles with choux of the net and ruffles of velvetbordered chiffon on the corsage. Cortlcelli silk was used throughout in making this costume.

Latest Fashion Notes. Jewels are more popular than ever, especially with evening dress. White evening gloves fasten with small turquoises surrounded by white enamel. Pearls are also used to fasten these gloves. Automobile red and black will be worn so much together that one is safe in buying and in making up a spring gown in these shades. Loose, short sacks of black velvet are “chic” made a little longer in the back than in front, in a manner to show the colored lining. Brown tulle, with chenille dots to match, are worn with toques trimmed with mink or sable fur, and also when wraps or sets of the same fur are worn.

jority of underwear shown, but the fineness and quality of the material, combined with the embroidery, make them the most exquisite of garments and proportionally high in price. Large applique roses in velvet, outlined with brilliants, form trimming alike on the bodices and skirts of evening gowns. The ruffles to the sleeves are embroidered with coral or pearls. She likes to be truly loved and to be told so.

INDIANA STATE NEWS

The Wabash Times has been sold by Nelson B. Hunter to Charles Lovelace of the Huntington News-Democrat. John Foley, living near Eckerty, attempted suicide when the doctor told him of the birth of his second pair of twins, raising the number of Foley children to thirteen. Foley cut his throat with a razor, but missed the juglar vein. At Hartford City, Charles Dewerpe, fourteen years old, received a shock of 2,000 volts of electricity from an electric light street lamp and was not hurt in the least. * Every department of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern shops at Washington, except the roundhouse, has been closed down indefinitely by order of General Superintendent Rawn, who has been there trying to effect a settlement of the strike. Letcher Brothers, proprietors of the Lafayette Home Journal, and John F. Judy purchased the Lafayette Evening Call. Frederick R. Letcher will be managing editor. The two independent telephone companies operating in North Manchester and the surrounding country have locked horns over patronage, and it is understood that a policy of extermination is to be adopted by both, and that the rates, already low, will be greatly cut . .. Lewis Mobley, seventy-two years old, whose death occurred at Columbus was the founder of Hartsville College, a member of the executive committee of the State Sunday-school Association and editor of the Bartholomew County Guide, the county Sunday school organ.

A medal has been awarded to Prof.. W. D. Pence of Lafayette by the Western Society of Engineers for his investigations regarding the co-efflcient of expansion of concrete. A new railroad town is established in Delaware county. It is called Stockport, six miles northwest of Muncie on the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern railroad.

The First National Bank of Spencer county has been organized at Rockport with a capital stock of $35,000, and business will begin April 1. John and James Munro and Will Shepley, a trio of thirteen-year-old boys, and members of well knpwn families, have been placed under bonds at Washington, charged with a number of robberies.

F. M. Wickhiner of Argos is organizing a protective association to be known as the Brotherhood of Indiana Harvesters, the object being to establish a uniform scale of wages and improve the condition of harvesters, similar to the organization in Illinois. Some one threw blue vitrol into the public well at Winstcn, from which many families draw supplies, but its presence was discovered by Dr. David De Tar and ill effects were prevented. It is said that President Henry Crawford of the Chicago &* Southeastern railway, that now runs from Muncie to Brazil, has laid plans, backed by Eastern capital, to extend the road through eastern Indiana and western Ohio to either Sandusky of Toledo, in order to obtain the great lakes’ outlet for Indiana and Ohio freight. J. O. Lambert is now sole owner of the Middletown News. His retiring partner, Mr. Unger, has purchased the Herald of Eaton and assumed control. Capt. J. A. Palmer of Washington has Issued a call to veterans of the Civil War to join him in the organization of a company to go to Washington to bring about the passage of a general service pension bill that will give each enlisted man a pension of $8.33 a month after he has passed the age of sixty years.

Frank Bingham, deputy prosecuting attorney, was attacked by Grant Ratcliff, a saloon keeper of Kingman, and severely injured. Negotiations are almost completed for the purchase of the Mead electric light plant by the Marion Light and Heating company. Smallpox is reported in Coolspring township, and schools have been temporarily closed. Six mild cases of smallpox are reported in Princeton. W. F. Ranke, captain of Battery B, of Fort Wayne, and C. M. Davis, captain of Company B, Third Regiment, of Rochester, have been retired. William Butler, who has large glass factories at Gas City and Redkey, is said to be making arrangements to move his glass factories to Indianapolis as soon as the supply of gas is exhausted. Little Elizabeth Harrison s share of the late President’s estate is valued at 161,500, yielding an income of *2,000 a year. Willard Miley of Yorktown, who recently attempted suicide with a rifle, has been adjudged insane, the result of excessive cigarette smoking. Mrs. William Gadberry, wife of a well known Washington farmer, is demanding a divorce because her husband reviles her church and ridicules her religious beliefs. The malleaole iron casting works of North Anderson suffered several thousand dollars loss by fire. The Peru Steel Castings Company is arranging to double its producing capacity. Battle Creek, Mich., capitalists have purchased the Acme brass works of Elkhart and the plant will be moved to Battle Creek.

Dr. E. P. Banning of Fort Wayne has filed a petition in bankruptcy. He owes $17,d00, chiefly to local creditors, and his assets are scheduled at only SSOO. The new faculty board at Notre Dame ratified forty-two candidates for the track and baseball teams, about two-thirds of the total number of men now trying for the two 'varsity teams. One man was found ineligible under the conference rules. This man is J. B. Myers, who has been regarded as Notre Dame’s strongest candidate in the weight events. The Southern Indiana Powder Company, capital $20,000, has been formed and will establish a plant near Petersburg. Burr Williams of Marion, son of County Commissioner John Williams, who was thrown from his horse, several days ago, is dead. While William Conroy was preparing a blast at Jessup, there was a premature explosion which tore off his arms and legs, killing him Instantly. The main building of the Concordia Lutheran College at Fort Wayne will be rebuilt at an estimated cost of SIOO,OOO.

While services were being held over the body of the late Mrs. Edward Conner, at Goshen, the floor gave way and a number of people narrowly escaped tumbling into the cellar. Ellsworth Geiton, who drove into an excavation near Servia, receiving injuries which made him deaf and blind, has brought suit against the county commissioners for SB,OOO. Enos T. Taylor, president of the Citizens’ Bank of Huntington, cashed a note for C. W. Sparks calling for $135, signed by John W. and Albert Sale of Markle. The signatures are said to be forgeries. Suit has been brought to enjoin the townships of Burlington and Democrat from building thirty-two miles of free gravel roads. Noah Bixler, a 17-year-old boy, of Berne, has conducted a wireless telegraph system, which he has operated successfully over short distances. Alexandria expects to have as many good streets and sidewalks as any town of its size in the state when present plans are carried out. The Chicago and Cincinnati railroad was incorporated at Indianapolis with $50,000 capital stock. It is proposed to construct a line from a connection with the Cincinnati, Richmond and Muncie railroad, in North Judson, to Hammond, and on to Chicago. The road will be fifty miles long and will pass through Starke, Laporte, Porter and Lake counties. The heaviest shareholder is W. A. Bradford, Jr., of Boston, and among the incorporators are: H. A. Christy of Chicago, J. A. Gans, H. C. Starr, Ed H. Gates, Samuel Dickinson and R. A. Jackson of Richmond.

Indianapolis Lodge 56, K. of P„ has been selected to represent Indiana in the tri-State contest in ritualistic work in Chicago Feb. 19. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Francis E. Baker of Indiana to be United States circuit judge for the 7th judicial circuit Evansville is rebelling against a new schedule which is about to be promulgated, and the Western Union has sent a man there from Chicago to explain why the deficiencies in Are protection make the key rate so high. The loss ratio in Evansville has been excessive.

Elmer Hover, 5 years old, son of Henry Hover, who conducts a country store six miles north of Pierceton, was attempting to climb on the counter in his father’s store and fell, striking his chin on the edge of the counter, breaking his neck. Mayor F. M. Harbit has appointed a committee to select and purchase a site for the new Carnegie library building at Elwood. P. A. Amen, for ten years manager and editor of the Bluffton Banner, has sold his Interest to George L. Saunders of Portland. Frank Shultz of Peru refused to lend his clothes to Daniel McCarty and McCarty bit a hole in his face and gnawed his index finger until the bone was broken. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Bond of lowa Falls, lowa, who were married in Indiana in 1835, recently Celebrated the sixty-seventh anniversary of their wedding. William Berkeblle of Anderson was struck and severely injured by a railway velocipede while walking along the Big Four tracks. The first ten companies to report Indiana premiums and losses to the insurance department show a loss ratio of 50 per cent. Indianapolis fire companies all report a profitable year with a loss ratio of less than 50 per cent. The county commissioners have decided to ask for bids for a bridge across Eagle creek in Pike township. George W. Warren, famous as a bandmaster and musical writer, died at Evansville, aged 75 years. The Trades and Labor Council of Elwood will hold a carnival and street fair, June 30 to July 5. The Richmond Traction and Interurban company has been granted a franchise to enter Dublin, for which right the Indianapolis, Greonfleld and Eastern Interurban Traction company was contesting.

Charles B LaSalle recently took out notarial papers for the fifty-sixth time, the incident disclosing the fact that the aged barrister is the oldest notary in the state and possibly in the United States. He was admitted to practice law in Indiana in 1842. Burglars entered the postoffice at Newross and took >2OO worth of stamps. They blew the safe open with dynamite. J. G. Shepperd, a prominent citizen of Evansville, who was arrested recently for burglary, has been declared insane. The clerks of the stamp canceling department of the Indianapolis postoffice were startled by the explosion of a package of toy pistol paper caps as it passed into the canceling machinery. A few letters were badly scorched. Negotiations which have been pending for some time between Messrs. Talbert and Peckham, who have offices in the Monadnock building, Chicago, and the Hammond Board of Trade have been closed. The deal includes the purchase of the tract of land and buildings formerly occupied by the Corning steel plant, which was recently absorbed by the United States Steel Corporation. This property cost the Corning Company nearly >500,000. The buildings of the Corning steel plant will be used in the manufacture of railroad locomotives and freight cars. Another company, with Anderson and other Indiana men as principal stockholders, has been organized for the purpose of manufacturing coated board, or box board. The new organ!* zation is the Haverhill Box Board Company of Haverhill, Mass. The company is capitalized at >1,000,000. Among the stockholders are M. P. Williams and W. J. Alford of Anderson and Governor W. T. Durbin.

An order has been issued by Manager Goodloe of the Indianapolis board that the coinsurance clause shall apply on all mercantile and manufacturing risks having an insurable value of >25,000 or Auditor Hart says tho order is a violation of the intent If not the letter of the amendment of the law passed by the last legislature. A car on the interurban line between Terre Haute and Brazil was attacked by a number of miners in ambush near Seeleyville, and Guy Higgerman, a miner, was shot in the fight which followed. The miners opened fire from the darkness of the fields when the car stopped in a switch and broke a number of windows. The motorman, his assistant and the conductor returned the fire. About forty-five shots were exchanged. The trouble grew out of the strike conditions. A dramatic Incident marked the funeral of Alice Hutson at Kokomo. During her illness she prayed constantly that her brother, Dawson Castor, a soldier in the Philippines, might attend her funeral. As the body was about to be lowered into the grave a soldier horseman dashed into the cemetery. It was the brother, who completed an 8,000-mile journey at the open grave, ne did not know of his sister’s illness, nor was he expected home. Procuring a horse he rode at a breakneck speed, arriving at the grave In time to see the dead face and join in the prayer.

Charles Coffman, aged 19, and Daisy Huffman, sixteen years old, of Flora, quarreled on the date set for their wedding. Cuffman wished to postpone it a few months. Miss Huffman objected and they parted. The pirl took an overdose of morphine and slept for eight hours, but after a hard struggle was awakened and will recover. Ed Palmer, formerly with the Worthington Times, has purchased the Lyons Journal. Fremont Wells, a well known stock shipper residing near Stockwell, fell from his barn loft and broke several ribs. He U in a critical condition. The Tipton canning factory will pay ?7 a ton for tomatoes the coming season. Rev. J. A. Hagaman, pastor of the Church of God of Anderson, was dismissed from the church by the trustees of the southern Indiana elders. Two months ago Henry Moore, one of the deacons of the church, filed suit for divorce from his wife. Moore at first prepared a complaint in which he made the sensational charge that Mr. Hagaman had been kissing his wife. He said that in the night he would wake up and find the pastor, who lived in the house with him,in his room kissing his wife. The minister and Mrs. Moore did not deny the kissing, but claimed it was done to cure the wife of a nervous trouble. He claimed to be a magnetic doctor and that he healed by contact.

The Elwood Planing Mill Company has sold its interests to the Winters Lumber Company and will retire from business. Consideration, *20,000. W. F. Mitchell of Williams has found a ledge of lithographic stone which is believed to be of superior quality. It is said to equal the German stone.

Capt. Alexander A. Rice, a lawyer of Lafayette, is dead. During the Civil War he served with the Fifteenth and Seventy-second Indiana, closing his military career as assistant adjutantgeneral on the staff of Gen. Joe Reynolds.

WITH THE JOKERS

"Hello, Charley, I haven't seen you since I was married!” said a newly married man to a friend he chanced to meet down on Main street. “No,” replied the friend, “you have been so devoted to home of late that no one has seen you.” “Yes; I don’t hang around like I used to.” “You are just like 1 was,” said the other, .who had been married for some years, "just found the society of the wife enough, eh?” “Yes; we do not tire of each other." “Just like I was. 1 suppose you think it will never change, eh? Just always will be the same, I suppose?" “I don’t think I will change." "Just like 1 was. I suppose she has not asked you for a >SO suit when you only had >25 the day before pay day?" “No, of course not." "You just wait!" and he turned on his heel and walked oft dovzn the street.

How It Work*. “There," he said,’“you have your new hat at last.” "Yes,” she replied, "and now I want a new gown." "But it was when you got your last new gown that you began to insist upon a hat to go with it,” he protested. "True." she admitted, "but the gown has got shabby while I was waiting for the hat. You should have let me got them both together.” "What would have been the result?” he asked. Here she hesitated, for she was a truthful woman. "Well," she said, "I suppose they would both have been so shabby by this time that I would want a new hat and a new gown.” He gave a sigh of relief. “In that case,” he said, "I have lost nothing by falling to get them bbth together, and we will try the see-saw method awhile longer.”— Chicago Post. Katherine'* Query. Little Katherine, a Columbus tot, was presented with a very cunning pair of white wool mittens not long ago, which she delights to wear whenever she goes out in tho cold. Recently her father entertained a gentleman who had a very bald head. The guest made much over Katherine, and before he departed into the chilly night begged a kiss. As he lifted her up, she saw for the first time his expanse of bald head and asked, archly: "Why don't oo wear mittens on oor head?” Old Adage Proved True. “I got my start in life by picking up a pin. 1 had been refused employ-, ment by a merchant, and on my way out I saw a pin and " "I know; I’ve heard of that boy so often! The merchant was impressed with your carefulness and called you back and made you head of the firm!" "No. I saw the pin nnd picked it up, and sold It for >SOO. It was a diamond pin.” Cairte end Effect. Maude—l met young Borerr. this morning and he informed me that he had called on you a few evenings ago. Clara—Yes. What did he say about me? Maude—Oh, nothing In particular. 'He said you wore a nice girl, but lacked repose. Clara—Well, that Isn't my fault. If he’d go home earlier when he calls I’d get more repose. Thing* Ara Not Wliat. They Seem.

Jones (after having walked round the statue four times with considerable difficulty)—The villains! They’ve shut me, in here.

Not •• He Knew Else. "I say, is this here the novel you advised me to read?” said the cabman to the librarian. "Yes,” replied the librarian. "That’s the one.” "Weil,” said the cabman, “you can just take it back. There’s nine people in the first, four chapters who hired cabs, and each of ’em when he got out ‘flung his purse to the driver.’ Now. when 1 want that sort of literature I’ll go to Jules Verne and get it pure." Never to He Forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. Snob held an "at home” at their house on the occasion of their return from a winter tour on the continent. Tlyey were very proud of their trip, and Mrs. Snob was continually asking her husband about this, that, or the other glorious bit of scenery.

"And. O, the gorge at Andermatt!” she exclaimed. “You haven’t forgot that lovely gorge, have you, Harry?”

"The gorge at the Grand hotel?" drawled Henry, wearily. "By no means. I’ll remember that gorge to my dying day. Why, bless me. it was the only square meal I had in Switzerland.”

Her Mind Mede Cp. Salesman: So fortunate. lady! I here have been no less than twenty ladles in to-day asking for this hat. They saw it yesterday before you bought It. you know, and they are all of them just wild to get It. Lucky Customer: Come to think of it, I’ll take that hat home. I don’t know whether to keep it or not. I’ll think it over. Slightly Personal.

Slender Individual—Did I understand you to say, sir, that you get out at the next station? Stout Party—Yes, I did. sir—and what of it? Slender Individual (with great re-lief)—Ah-h-h! the train’ll be getting on faster after that.

No Engagement. Patience—Then you say they are not engaged, after all? Patrice—No, it was all a mistake. Yon see, he proposed while they were out horseback riding. "Yes, I heard that." "Well, he thought she was jumping at hls proposal, but she never can help jumping when she’s on a horse." Bringing Her Down. The Prospective Cook—What time do yez hov oreakfast? Mistress—We have tt at seven. No response. Mistress—Or half-past seven, or eight, or half-past eight. The Prospective Cook—Thot’s better. 01’11 give yez a wake’s thrlal.—Judge. Not Sentiment at All. "Miss Wallflower is much more sentimental than 1 thought. She keeps every letter that old lover of hers writes hoi.” “That isn’t sentimental, my dear; it Is good, hard, breach-of-promlse sense.” Helect«<l Wit. He—Don’t you think a month is too long for our wedding trip? She—Why. no. I’ll take care that you don't understand me by that time.—Brooklyn Life. "How ridiculous for you to fall in love with that artist! I don’t believe he ever sold a picture.” "But, papa, he says If he marries me he won’t have to.”—Life.

“Is a diplomat ever justified in using prevarication?” asked his friend. "Well,” said the diplomat, “he is certainly not justified in calling it by that name."—Puck. "Well, thank Heaven, you’ve never seen me run after people who have money.” “No; but I’ve seen people run after you because you didn't have money.”—Stray Stories. Clara—Clarence, what did Laura’s new Paris hat look like? ClarenceWell, it had one of these big black hearse things on each corner, and one In the middle.—Detroit Free Press. Stranger (In Kern county)—ls this county noted for anything besides its oil wells? Native—Lord, yes! Ever since we struck oil It's been noted for its "beautiful debutantes" and "queenly matrons.”—Puck. Mrs. Crawford—How did you come to ask your husband for an auto? Mrs. Crabshaw—While I knew he would refuse, I hoped he might compromise on an automobile coat. That was what I really wanted.—Judge. Mrs. Crabshaw—At New Year you’re ready enough to swear off what I ask you. but you never keep your promises. Crabshaw—That’s your fault, my dear. Why don't you furnish me resolutions that are warranted not to break?—Judge. "You’re a fraud, sir," cried the indignant patient. "You guaranteed your medicine to cure after everything else failed, and ” “Well, my dear sir.” replied the fake medicine man. "probably you haven't tried everything else.’’—Philadelphia Press. "Yes,” said the Fairy Prince, “you may have whatever you want for a Christmas present.” "I will choose,” said the Fortunate Person, "either a wife or an automobile." “How foolish!” exclaimed the Fairy Prince. ‘Why do you not select something that you can manage?”—Baltimore American. The country roads of the United States do not compare favorably with those of any nation in Europe. During the spring season in many districts of the Western States the roads are practically impassabla.