Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — Page 7

THE LADIES.

Thereis nothing that looks much oooler than gray when the temperature is up among the nineties. Nor even white seems to hare such a desirable look. If the gray material happens to be a Chins silk, which skimmers slightly where it is gathered and folded, the effect is all the more pleasing.

GRAT SILK AND SILVER.

A gown of this sort is illustrated here. The skirt is plain in front and has a demi train laid in box plaits at the waist. The bodice has no darts, but the fullness is drawn in folds to the waist, where there is a deep corselet of gray velvet. The collar is cut in one piece with the bodice and flares away from the neck slightly. In the middle of the front fastening is a little cluster of gathers, formed by putting the silk at the arms loosely over the lining. The sleeves are very high and full. From the waist almost to the foot of the skirt are two long, narrow bands of gray velvet, embroidered with silver. The sleeves are trimmed with a straight band of this and the corselet is embroidered in silver.

A PRINCESS COWN

Another cool looking gown was made of reseda green cloth combined with brown. It was cut in princess shape and the front and sides were of the green. A narrow Vof brown silk with a ruche for a collar was inserted at the top of the bodice. The fastening was from the shoulder diagonally to the waist. From the waist to the foot of the skirt a jabot of ecru lace fell. In the back a plaiting of brown was inserted in the skirt. A thick ruche of the brown trimmed the foot of the skirt and the plain, green sleeves had a full over drapery of brown.

ANOTHER OOOI.ER LOOKING OOWN. Another gown which in color might have been designed for a dryad taking up the practices and garments of civilization, was of gray the color of mose lichens and moss green. The plain gray skirt was slightly trained and trimmed with a band of moss green silk. A pointed yoke of the gray, laid in fine plaits, was outlinod with a wide, flaring collar of the silk. The full sleeves were gathered into the a deep duff of the silk. The bodice was pointed both in the back and front and had deep basques on the sides, consisting of three rows of very slightly gathered gray.

♦wo Austrian ladies of high rank, the Princess Pauline Metternich ana the Countess of Kilmansegg recently had a quarrel of such seriousness over the arrangements of a coming exhibition that they settled the dispute by a duel. The contest was fought with rapiers. At the third round the Priaoess was slightly wounded on the nose and theCountea on the arm, when, acting upon the advice of their woman seconds, the two oombattants kissed and made up. The. Baroness Lubinska, a Polish woman who had studied medicine attended to their wounds. y; ‘ V,': ••} ", £ ’■ '■ j* ■ mh- Wjf The antipodean young man seems . l _ a _ a ; ; • . now triumphing in the possession of

—~ r - so many less ladies than men that the former are in -great demand and able to enjoy the feminine privilege of discrimination to their heart’s Content It is also quietly understood that thej eyes of the distinguished hostess are on the dancers, and that the young man remi» in his duties will be very apt to be missed at the next gathering. A still more summary proceeding has been instituted in Berlin by the Emperor, who has made it m a sense mandatory for the officers that crowd the court balls not only to dance but to dance well, by advising their superiors to have dancing lessons made a part of an officer’s military training. Having no such powerful allies among social leaders in this country, it might be well for our maidens to organize their forces after the fashion of the trades unions, and. sacrificing the pleasure of the few for the good of the many, heroically determine to stay at home until their value is raised to a less remote distance from par in the social market, and until the young men of the day learn what a privilege it is to take a turn with a pretty girl over a perfectly polished floor to the music of the best of orchestras.

A glimpse into the features of the London Alexandra Club of women would astonish ladies belonging to club life in America, and the dining room 6 and 8 o’clock p. nr., would shock some and surprise most of the prohibitionist supporters of the clubs here. To our women the club idea is a serious tbing. Our women organize their dubs for the purpose of mutually bearing the burdens and lessening the ills of for pure social enjoyment. According to Mrs. Livermore the club of the present is calculated to inspire a diviner ideal of national life than is presented by our splendid material civilization. At the club of the future “will question poverty, crime, disease, education, economics, religion, and all that pertains to society, with the aim of lessening the dreariness of life, enlarging its scope, and lifting its horizon.” A rather formidable undertaking to any one except the typical enthusiastic American woman. •

In an interesting list 01-cKsfes compiled by an English paper one reads of a man who was fined $7 and costs for stealing an old shirt, and 20 shillings for the third case of aggravated assault upon his wife ; of a man who was fined 20 shillings and costs for violent assault on a laborer’s wife, and of another who was fined $25 for stealing a pint and a Half of milk; of two men convicted of assault on a young girl flned $25 each, and of a> lad for throwing a cruet, which hit a porter at the workhouse on the nose, imprisoned for two months. All of which goes to show the admirable workings of legal machinery in Great Britain, and the comparative sanctity in the eyes of the law of a girl’s honor and a workhouse porter’s nose.

OSome of the married women of Berlin have formed themselves into a league for watching the morals of their husbands. A husband who may be discovered by one of the secret detectives in any marital delinquency is forthwith summoned before a feminine court. Should he fail to appear he is condemned with - out a hearing and sentence is pronounced. The penalties are of various kinds, pecuniary and otherwise, but the methods of their enforcement have not been made public. However, it would seem that the judges must suffer quite as much as their victims, for most good wives know that their peace of mind depends upon how much they can leave unknown of the best of husbands' failings, and that so undignified a system of espionage must involve more pain than satisfaction on both sides.

Philadelphia women physicians receive large incomes for their services, some averaging slo,oQQaye»r and others receiving $20,000 annually. Just at present there seems to be friction among them, and one of the most eminent women in the profession admitted that she would never think of calling in a woman doctor to aid her in a difficult case, for they would never agree in anything. Queen Victoria at Balmoral spends all the fresher hours of the morning on State business. A private telegraph wire connects Balmoral with Buckingham Palace, the work of whose operators is no sinecure. Every morning the 10 o’clock train conveys northward from Euston Square a Queen’s messenger with the accumulated correspondence of the morning post, who reaches the place of his destination lato at night. Early the next morning the Queen gets to work upon the papers, and at 2 o’clock the despatch box is repacked and the return messenger arrives at Euston sauare in time for' the next morning's delivery. Of course all princesses are beautiful, as all prinees are brave and handsome, by courtesy, but Princess Marie of Edinburg, the betrothed of Prince Ferdinand, is really a beautiful and clever girl, quite capable of holding her own, even in the troublesome little kingdom of Roumania, and already very much admired and beloved by the Queen of Roumanin, who so warmly espoused the cause of the English Princess's deposed rival. The Prince is tall and fair, and amiable in disposition, and very romantio. The delicate, Intellectual beauty of the talented Carmen Sylva has completely fascinated the young girl, and the wiseacres who predicted trouble between the impetuous Queen and her probable successor are disappointed. A t>ea water bath In our own homes has long been a common plaoe privilege, but now we are approaching a day when the Ingenuity of man will make possible that trinity of luxuries—the salt water, (he sea air, and the glorious sunburn after It, all within one’s own bathroom, for the new electric light bath browns the complexion of the bather while it invigorates bis system almost like

FARMS AND FARMERS.

Th« Complaints of tk* H»m, The Country Ger.tiema i Beauty in nature is apparent only in the finer sense. The man who understands it is a born artist. And art is the true representation of the beauty of nature. It is only the essentially proper disposition of things that constitutes beauty. Nothing is beauty that offends the sense of the fitness of things. And as regards that noble animal, the friend and servant of man, the horse, its beauty depends upon its freedom from restraint and everything that can distort its graceful and noble carriage. The poets, from ancient times, have delighted to describe the arched neck, the proud carriage, the nerves strung to the highest tension, and the freedom to exercise-its strength untrammeled. The artists have merely OUT these descriptions into form and figure, and have depicted the animal as nature made it, with ail its muscles and limbs in free play and easy action. But modern fashion has changed all this, and has distorted the arched neck into that of a halffed ewe barely able to hold up its head. It puts on the check rain, it takes away all the lire and grace of the animal, ana makes it an object of pity under the strained and unnatural position of the head. There was a time when the soldier was treated in much the same way. He was made to hold up his head by means of a thing called a stock, a broad band of stiff leather buckled around his neck so tightly that he could only look one way, which was forward and upward. He could see neither right nor left on the ground in front of him. And the more like a stick he appeared the more he was thought to represent a soldier. This was fashion, and of the same kind as that by which we make our horses “upheadod.” But when it came to work it was found the man must throw away his galling stock and carry his head freely on a loose neck; and now the soldier's study is how ho may be dressed and accoutered with the greatest comfort and freedom. We are going through the same foolishness just now with our horse. We fix the head by a check strap that it is immovable, and necessarily this causes intolerable discomfort to the animal. The soldier’s Stock was in time denounced as un extreme of cruelty, and so it was, and humanity led mostly to its banishment, And now it appears in all its deserved ridiculousness. By and by it is to be hoped that common sense, if not simple humanity, will perceive this ungainly, hideous and tormenting check rein in the same light, and that it will bo discarded, nevermore to be resumed. But the appearance or the cruelty of it is not the main point. We keep horses for service and work, and work is interfered with when the motion of tho animal is interfered with in the least. Suppose a man were to tie up his head with a 3trap going from his chin over his head, and fastened tightly to a second strap around his shoulders, and tfcn be compelled to push a wheelbarroV or do any other kind of labor, hoe corn, weed potatoes, or milk a cow, for instance—he would then be able to estimate exactly the proportionate loss of energy and ability to perform work. And the same rule will apply to the horse as to tho man. It may be said that this applies to the road horso only, and that the farm horse is tree from any such cruelty. Is it ? Hast _ahoni the. collar in which the horse works these hot days ? when even tbe loose clothes of the driver gall the skin. How many thousands of horses are working with raw shouldetn ? How many of them carry shoe boils or sore withers, or bleeding raw spots on their backs, the results of badly fitting harness, or traces hard like iron for want of washing and a little softening oil ? How many are lamed by shoes that should be removed, and the hoofs softeued by contact with the soft, yielding and cooling soil ? Who thinks of the contracted and

pinched feet, bound in iron nailed on the sole, and wholly unyielding to the elastic cushion of the frog provided by nature for ease and freedom of motion ? The plowman removes his hard shoes and delights in the coolness of the soil. But the horse is neglected and works in pain in discomfort. How about the stable in which tho tired horse spends its resting (?) hours ? There the foul atmosphere, intensified in its unwholesomcncss by the stifling heat, murders sleep. The night long the horse tramps tho floor and vainly fights the sharp bites of the stable fly, called specifically “ calcilrans, ” because of the kicking it compels. The farmer takes care to keep the carriage away from the pestilent stable) because tho odor spoils tho varnish. But what of the tender membranes of the eyes and throat of the horse ? And this fly is attracted by the filthy odor of the neglected horse, brushed a little to remove apparent filth from the coat, but never washed or curried to cleauso the skin, which, as an excretory organ, doc* more work than tho kidneys and bowels combined. Is thorn arc any wonder that the natural life of tho horse is reduced one-half, and at fifteen years old ho is past work, when ho might live happily and profitably to his owner fully thirty years? Truly "the righteous roan is merciful to his beast,,' and “tbore is none righteous, uo sot one,'' so far as the common treatment of the noble, sagacious and serviceable horso is concerned. H. Stewart. Bow to IUMao WhMi In a lecture bofore the students of the Ohio State University T. B. Terrv said: Tbs average wheat crop of Ohio is not a paying one. From 13 to 15 bushels per sere does not give any profit above the cost of production. It did once but does not now. The conditions of growing are different and the cost is increased. From the best data it Is shown that the cost of tbs production of wheat Is the equivalent of 18 bushels per acre, AAlHktiDfr AVAPvihinir -m i “o vvwjiuing anu allowing

but the above figures are ■counting cent. Interest cm the * day for man. team and tools. It is necessary to reduce the cost or increase the product, and every step in either direction, will be clear gain. The better plan is to grow larger and better crops. If we can grow 25 to 30 bushels per acre we can make 50 per cant, profit In farming Dlffloalt t« ritirSth* C«»t of Crop*. exactly, because they overlap, and one crop aids or injures another. When I began farming about 20 years ago, my land produced but eight bushels of wheat per acre, while now It averages 33, which nets 70 per cent on the cost of production. The land was run down by a tenant, but it has now been brought up by a prolonged effort and continual oare, with drainage aad olover. The foundation of success with wheat culture in Ohio i 3 drainage. A farmer now plants a crop and cannot tell whether he will receive sor 30 bushels. If it is an open winter the crop drowns out and sometimes' he is unable to reap anything, but if there is sufficient snow he may have 30 bushels per acre There is no need of this uncertainty. It is overcome by thorough drainage, and careful and thorough tillage. Besides, removing surplus money. Th« Vmrlotla* of Wheat to sow depend on kind of soil. In many places the Clawson and Fultz are considered best. New varieties should be tested. When the experiment stations announce them as promising, you may or may not want to grow them, according to your soil. Ido not take my seed from the bin, but from tbe best spots of the field, and keep it myself, threshing it apart from the "rest. Great care should be exercised in saving seed wheat, os it should be perfectly clean. The lay of the land is important.; Land sloping to the southeast is in"the best position, while that to the northwest is at some disadvantage. Tbe amount of seed to sow depends on: Ist, the time of sowing, 2nd, the kind of seed used, and 3rd, the fertility of the soil. If sown early less seed is needed than if sown late, and it can be kept from straw falling by sowing a less amount. I try to sow about the Bth or 10th of September. The appearance of the Hessian fly has something to do with the time of sowing. If sown later the fly is less apt to trouble it. Draining Deepen* tho Soil. The roots will not go down if the soil is not well drained. The next feature in raising the ideal wheat crop is to get enough available plant food to grow just as large a crop as the straw can stand up under. No farmer would work his horses without feed, but there are many men who put in crops without giving plant nourishment to the soil. How can we practioally get the plant food? It is not advisable to put fertilizers, though they have worked wonders on thin clay soils. Save ail the manure; put thin clay in the stable and a roof over the barnyard. On my farm I sometimes have too much fertility. It would not do to grow wheat on my clover sod. the crops must be potatoes. The next point to observe is the - Tools to bo t?*«4 are some smoothing harrow, and the roller, besides the plow. The disc harrow is also good. Harrow the ground, then sow if the ground is sufficiently prepared. The old eight bushel crop was put in with the <! A” harrow. I wanted to dig the ground up so I stirred the surface both ways with a sulky cultivator. It yielded ten bushels more per acre, and the next year, with drainage, the increase was 13 bushels more. This was ail with drainage, clover and tilage, but no manure. Much was due to thorough preparation. Thorough Preparation mt th» Soli. In tne East, careful preparation is noticeable, but west of Ohio it is neglected. The small kernels and little rootlets have no chance. The roots must be sent down until they find soil, but if they become frozen or broken they are gone. The careful, deep, even preparation of the soil is an important item. Then plant evenly and when the thawing and freezing of the winter oomes, tbe surface frill rise and fall together. Make the soil as fine and firm as it oan be made, but not hArd. But there is one trouble: If a heavy rain comes just after drilling the finely Sared soil will run together. The ulty can bo overcome by drilling after rather than just before a rain] (Use a barometer.) Then the wheat will go into the moist ground and start thriftily. jy

Tall Mountain Climbing.

A dispatch to the London Times from Calcutta says: "Conway’s mountaineering party, now in Hindoo Kooah, have climed a peak 23,000 feet high. This is 1,000 feet higher than any record climbing. At which the New York Sun explains: □ls the figures of the height of the the mountain given above are correct the statement that ik is the highest recorded climb is lb inaccurate. In 1888 Mr. W. W. Graham and Mr. Emil Boss reached the highest point above the sea that has been recorded by the mountain climbers up to this time. It took them three days to reach the top of Mount Kabru, in the Himalayas, 23,700 feet above the sea, and 2,500 feet above the summit of the Chimborazo, where Mr. Wbymper, four years earlier, won the highest honors attained up to that time in mountaineering. The lait 1,500 feet of Kabrtr were nothing but loe, covered several inches dsen with frozen snow, up whioh the climbers made their way by cutting steps.

Woman's Thoughtfuiness.

Henry (preparing for the country) —There ought to be room in one of toe trunks for my things. I have

TOLD BY A TAIL.

Pursuit of the enemy.

Change of front by the pursued.

*4 Maneuvers.

A skirmish.

The battle.

Wavering .* (ft, V V H»V4

Percipitate retreat.

The cause of it all

. ' -l: -Jaif. The Halt leanake’aHlftual. Most Americans who have heard the rattlesnake’s rattle will remember that it is like the sound which would be produced by the rattling of a number of peas in a paper bag. This represents the slightness of the sound. We are accustomed to pictorial representations In whiob the reptile is made to* look very angry and energetic, the tali erect in a manner to suggest a loud 1 alarm. Accordingly, when one hears It for the first time one is surprised tQ fipdJhUPoieeW slight. The sound, instead, of being a rattle, is rather a tinkle, and it, perhaps has a rather more metallic character than the notion of the shaking of peas in a paper bag would repesent. But, slight as the sound is, the person who has never met on# of these reptiles before, and who; without seeing the Snake, rooke or prairie grass,in delicate yet wonderfully distinct warning' j^ ow * instantly what his neigbThree 1 ■ the degree of Bachelor of Music al

CONDIMENTS.

the bureau of Clerk—Yes’m. What con T do for you? Miss Pussy—lt my bonnet on straight? ’Tie better to be tried by fire than to be fired after being triea.—Pranfciia Sews.-;; 7 ~ When a boy is smart, there if a question whether be gets it from her folks or his people. “What would you do if you TfSrl roe?” “I don’t know, I’m sure. I don't believe I’d bear it as well as you do. ” Love Ik blind, according, to the proverb, and according to the pictures ha dresses as if he thought other people were.—Somerville Journal . A AIL Around. —She—Do you think Penelope will suit him ? He—Yes, she'll nave to—and feed him ana shoe him, too. Judging by Sound.—“Phwats thot noise,Mis' Mullaly ?” “Mary Ann’s practisin’the scales. ’’ “Begorrah, she must weigh a ton." ' He Could not Help It.-Dimling— Why did you leave the lecture platform, Larkin ? Larkin—Well, I was egged on to take that step. Lucie—Ned made a ringing speech lost night, mommer. Mommer—Urn -um? Lucie—Yes. He asked me to be his wife. ‘ l Ye call that a beauty ? ” said Pat, “ faith I can see twisty handsomer women on Washington shtreet ivery day, wid me eyes shut ” Those who would read Natures open book in meadow and woods have an extra facility at present She is herself turning the leaves. Whipper—Every man if the architect of his own fortune. Snapper— And most of them are trying to build a million dollar structure on a fifty cent design. • : ! New the Joke about the sealskin saeqae, The one about the ulster, too. » Maud—Mamma, what is the People’s party that I read so much about? Mamma—Soma vulgar entertainment, I think. Nobody in our set is giving it.

Emily—l think the way young men and women carry on at summer resorts is disgraceful. Gladys—Never mind, dear. You were never implicated. Waiter—Er—it’s customary here for the guests, to remember the waiter, sir. Irate patron who has been poorly served-Weil, I should think it would be. , Miss Sears—What prompted you to propose, you good for nothing. Chapley—Well, I thought no one else would if I didn’t.

A Plan that Failed—How did you get scratched so? Little Daughter— I was putting dolly’s shoes and stockings on the kitty. “What for?" “So she couldn’t scwatch." Pittsburg Man—What would you folks do if a mob of rioters should come charging down on Broadway? New Yorker (busily—Start a po ■ liceman to shooting a dog. Unfashionable Mother—What •' Sweet child I How old is Bhe? Fashionable mother—Well, really, if you are going to ask that sort of questions I’d better send lor the nurse. Wee Son-Mamma, me want* pants. Mamma—My pet is too little yet. Wee Son*—Well, me finks me might have 6*p¥nderrtd my dwess anyhow.

Finley—-Is Smith in? Binley— No. Finley—Has be changed bis cents to his name when I saw him last. The Proof of her Claims—So she’s handsome? Handsome? Why, I’ve seen two policemen tumbling over each ether in their eagerness to jggt to her side to escort her across tie crossing. * V * The Boston girl never hollers * *hel-, lo” at the mouth of the telephone. She simply says as she puts the receiver to her ear: “I take the liberty of addressing yoa via a wire surcharged with electricity."

She—Sometimes you appear real manly and sometimes you are absolutely effeminate. How do you account for It? He—l suppose it is hereditary. Half my ances tors were males and the other half females. Cbolly I proposed to Miss Peachlow yesterday and was accepted. Chappie—Congratulations,deah boy. Cholly—But the engagement was brokeri off to-day. Chappie—Congratulations, deah boy.’’ Grandeur of the Middle Home— Happy the young woman nowadays who has a middle name with a sonorous sound., Susan C. Nipper looks commonplace,but Susan Cbolmondely Nipper is too fine for anything. “I don't believe in long engagenee t,” said a young man to a stranger with whom he had struck an acquaintance on the train. Well, I do* The longer the better soy me. Hofr do they affect you? I’m nconfeetkm er.—Harper’s Bazar. Mrs. Chicago—l was just telling Frankie the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mrs. Boston—Little Emerson heard the story of Jaok and the leguminous plant known as the Faba Vulgaris before he was pul in. to spectacles.

The Violets on Her Hat.

Kite Field'! Wechlofftoa Ohe of tha prettiest of the spring hats worn by a Washington girl was trimmed with a profusion of viola}* in such perfect Imitation of the real flower that the wearer was frequently asked where abe hod found such beauties. In reply she demurely Kvethe name of the milllnef Who d trimmed the hat, without further comment on the subject, JwnTO 1 the violets really came from. Among her admirers during the season was seat of candy. At Easter came an especially

PEOPLE.

1»6 -1/12K6 Ol II Colltpo§<tt w_ ■ « n» * m mix'wAiafajuH ihortljgo to England with tkeobfrom her Majesty. | President Huson, of Whittier College, at Salem, lowa, has resigned to take editorial charge ol the Mount Pleasant Journal. out as a platform orator. His-first lecture will be delivered in Bbston Oct. 17, uu “The Progress of Humanity.” ■ Garvin, at Wells ton, O. cyroom has passed the century mark. has accepted the chair of Greek m the University of Texas at nearly twice the salary he is now receiving. track’ has persistently^! lowed him,*.... has decided to sell all his race horses in training and retire fpomthe field. The late Gideoiyfells, the Kittle to the farmers of tbfst State in his long reign of busings, more than oring to raise SB,OOO to found schol - arships for Japanese women, who will return to Japan as teachers. Queen Victoria cannot read any documents or letters except from have first been looked over by the person in charge of the royal correspondence. library in at the world's fair after an iriglnal design, contributes work that to be paid for would cost $3,000. famous Norwegian writer, according to foreign writers, is soon to be married to the beautiful daughter of Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson, tor poet politician of Norway,, icaif Minister to England, has entered the lowa Wesleyan -U Diversity on his*career are all eulogize. It him as the greatest poet th#United States has ever produced. tre county, Pa., at the age of 117 ; ’ * evolent objects. The highest amount ; v ls from the presidency of Wells, Fa*| ■ j_ear3.. born setts General Hospital November 7, tou ttood the test which revolution. w “A TraS|Kpr * kFtlB ■ ' V< ’ •** ■ < the wa < r > of°lßl2, In which iMnperor YV4iuam nfta paa a r^uyrn , I*l. I M, Ltl 1 k *t *

Stgns of the Hypnotic State.