Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — Page 3

ATTIRE FOE SUMMER.

NEW THINGS THAT ATTRACTTHE LADIES* ATTENTION. Bodice that Seems on the Point of Falling Off—Skirts and Bodices May Harmonize or they May Present a Decided Contrast. New York correspondence:

ANCY a woman outdoors in summcr whose bodice MkKJAI impresses the observer with the r 1 idea that it is goL 1 ing to fall off! ffefak I et th* l4 13 i ust J the suggestion given by a glance ’ SWv at some of tbe ffijßLvm newest and most s-gs jj stylish bodices. These are garffnt/a ments with very '■'wk®? eep y°k e3 » w *th I Waßw sleeve tops to uSmHA match, and rufA' n P hides the joining of yoke and the rest. It MStxgß. is this tumble of ruffles that gives 'VfO* th e suggestion that something is

slipping, though a second glance shows that there is no chance of disaster. Gowns of this order are of any of the stylish summer materials, and the yokes are usually of twisted cord mesh lined frequently with, faint pink. In depth they often ex-

FROM THE NEW CROP OF WASH DRESSES.

ceed that of extremely low cut-outs to evening gowns. In this specification the gown sketched here was not immoderate. It was a green and white striped organdie, with yoke of wash renaissance. Its trick of carrying the top ruffles of the bodice under the arm was a elever one. It is always a difficult matter to fit ti summer gown well under the arms, b<al cause it will not do to have it cut t< . closely. Where the figure spreads upward ni &D urally and gracefully a becoming empl sis may be given to the fact in the 1 sition of the flat trimmings so popu, now. The second of these pictui, dresses will point this. It was founding pique of white ground and blue rais dots, and was trimmed with bands of e broldered lawn. The collar revers lawn embroidered in blue to match bands, showed a dicky of tucked wh J ,

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lawn. Such gowns of dotted pique ▼ery pretty and useful, and are made'yg. as carefully and as elaborately as silk.,. This year’s fashions give general r lve strong indorsement for the gown comr: SR ed of a skirt ami bodice definitely harm’ 1 . ising. The princess and polonaise t>. if prevail, so that a costume with contre ing bodice is not a wise selection. T<r re> rare, women wear pique skirts and <>ids treating shirt waists, or a crash or de „ skirt and short waists that do match, I* ** it is just as well to have a bodice mtr n u to go with the skirt that you Intend* Blt wear with shirt waists. Nor is there' f slightest need in such planning of be. confined to absolute severity. The r' t c gown of those shown here suggests v_ g possibilities in this direction. Its goods was white duck, the scrollings of black cord on the skirt corresponding with that on the bodice. The waistcoat front of white muslin was stitched in all-over scrolls with black, the sleeves matching. The yoke extended to a pofrrt at the waist aad was white lawn with tucks stitched

dewn with black. This same skirt will be excellent wear with a shirt waist, yet the gown as shown is quite as dressy as anything one could treasonably expect from its materials. Crash is almost ideal wear for summer, and in common with other inexpensive weaves is this year made up elaborately. Last year’s fancy for trimming one sort of wash goods with another still holds, and crash benefits by the practice. The most fashionable trimming for it is white pique, which is seen nowadays even on cloth, where it does not seem out of place as one might think. The crash dress in this picture was the last of the three. Both bodice and skirt had overlapping bands of the pique, and with the inevitable yoke of white —tiny frills of mull, this time—the specifications are complete. The round waist is very pretty, and women have learned to dip the belt, to narrow the bodice fullness and to dip the back so that the round of the waist appears tiny and the torso is much lengthened. All this, when height is restored by a train, is good, but it needs a handsome figure. The average woman looks better in a gown that allows a straight line from the bust to below the waist, and jackets cut round and short at the back, with fronts extended in a pair of pointed tabs, are very becoming because they meet this requirement. Then so many of the other sorts of suits are worn—many of them by women to whom they are not well suited —that sin* a jacket is sure to distinguish its wearer ? The suit of this order that the artist shows in the next illustration was in electric blue poplin. The trimming of its skirt suggested the polonaise lines at the sides, while at the back the severity .of the hip fit was modified by the application of further flat bands. White ribbon slipped under black net was used for the banding. The inside of such jacket tabs are preferably trimmed to cor-

respond with the outside. The front of white mull was set on a flat yoke of white silk. A gown of this sort is suitable for the street in town or at any seaside resort, will be all right for an afternoon at a country club and is entirely suitable for driving, though the woman who handles the reins would better have something-

FARMERS CORNER

An Ideal Brood Coop. Here is a plan of a good brood coop, one that is a protection to the little chicks from the weather, cats, rats, hawks and other vermin. It can be made of boxes, one with the top and bottom off for the yard, and the other with the bottom in and a roof over it It should set on inch pieces to keep out the water in case it should happen to be set in a low place. The yard should have wire netting across it to keep out the older fowls and keep the hen in, in case she is let out in the run. Move the coop a little each day so as to have fresh grass and ground, and cover the

IDEAL BROOD COOP.

top with an old piece of carpet if more shade is wanted—Ohio Farmer. A f praying Outfit. Some farmers Imagine a spraying outfit is expensive, when in fact all that need be bought is a force punqp with half-inch hose to reach up into the tree, and a Vermorel or other spray nozzle. Place the pump in a barrel of the mixture, load it into a wagon and begin to spray.. For reaching tall trees, rallse the hose by a piece of bamboo pole fastened on near the nozzle. More work can be done with two lines of hose with a man to handle each line. High trees can be better sprayed if a four-foot platform is placed in the wagon. A fine mist is better than a coarse spray. Try to reach the underside of the leaves. The tree must be wet all over, not soaked, but every part reached in a careful manner. Spray in fair weather. Fairly good work on a small scale can be done with the small garden pump with'long hose. This is the cheapest outfit, costing only about $5. Several good pumps especially for spraying are made and advertised. Either outfit with extra long hose Is good for spraying potatoes. Use parts green in the same mixture if beetles are present. For early blight, spray when vines are two-thirds grown and repeat In two weeks. For late blight, spray in middle of Tune, in middle of July and in middle of August.—Orange Judd Farmer. Cutting Strawberry Runner-. For several years the process of clipping the strawberry runners was considered the most tedious and tiresome

CUTTER FOR STRAWBERRY RUNNERS.

in the whole routine of strawberry culture. Having tried fully a half dozen different plans, none of which was at all satisfactory, a Rural New Yorker correspondent concluded that a large, keen edged, rolling disk would be the simplest and most effective solution of the problem. At a scrap Iron dealers’ he found a fine, large 13-inch disk and frame, or fork, all complete and bought it for 25 cents. That is the entire cost in money of the strawberry runner cutter shown In the illustration, the handles being worked out and put on in the home workshop. TeachinK Cotta to Eat Oats. Wherever it is necessary, as it often is, to work the mare while the colt is unweaned it is usual to shut up the colt in a box stall and without food or drink. This is unnecessary cruelty. If a little clover hay is placed where the colt can nibble at It, he will soon learn to eat hay, and if there is a box with a few oats in it he Wilf learn to eat those also. This is the more important because if the mare becomes heated while working, the milk may become injurious to the colt. The clover and oats cannot do him any harm. When a colt has learned to eat oats he can be weaned from the dam without any check to his growth. It is best in most cases that the liking for oats should be taught before the colt is weaned. Trees Near Dwellings. A high tree a short distance from a dwelling house often acts as an efficient protector from lightning. The tree Is full of sap and this makes a better conductor than the dry walls of a house. It is very rarely the case that live trees are rent by lightning strokes. The rending usually is some dead porgon of the tree that the electricity can-

not readily pass through. Hence the high tree may have saved the house from being struck by lightning without leaving any mark by which the feat could be suspected. Molasses Cake for Cattle Feed. At a late session of the French National Agricultural Society, Paris, a molasses cake was exhibited which, it is said, had been used for cattle feed with excellent effect. The cake is made by a Parisian, Mr. A. Vaury, the wellknown maker of bread for the army. Its manufacture consists in the boiling of molasses and working it briskly with mixture of corn flour and bran, when it is pressed into the ordinary form of a cake and packed in bags for sale. The proportions used are one-third molasses, one-third flour, one-third bran. The suburban dairymen claimed that in the use of this molasses cake there are extra yield of milk and an increase in proportion of butter fat. The proper quantity in feeding should be six to ten pounds daily, which is not intended as a basis of food, but as a condiment, and to assist digestion.— National Provisioner. Size of Apple Barrels. This question was troubling fruitgrowers thirty years ago. At the winter meeting of the Western New York Society in 1867, a resolution was passed—“ That the present law regulating the size of fruit barrels is jeasonable and just, and ought not to be repealed; that the legal barrel will hold as many pounds of wheat as the flour barrel does of flour; that fruit keeps better and is handled easier than in large-sized barrels and ought to be satisfactory to all concerned; that our senators and representatives in the Legislature be requested to oppose any repeal of the present law, which establishes 100 quarts as a legal barrel.”

Time to Cut Timothy. The pollen from timothy blossoms is very irritating to horses when it is cut in this stage. Hence the grass is left until the seed has formed, by which time the stalk becomes dry and of little feeding value. The very best timothy hay for horses is made when this grass begins to send up its seed stalk. But it has not the weight or substance that a later cutting will give. This is one reason why timothy hay needs so much grain to be fed with it to make it good feed for horses. Yarding Cows at Night. The practice of bringing cows up at night is not a good one. It is far better to leave them in the pasture and milk them there, even though it makes more labor. In hot weather the cows, if allowed their freedom, will graze during the evening and early morning while dew is in the grass, and will then lie down to digest what they have eaten. If yarding of cows Is done at any time in summer it should be in the middle of the day.

Good Sheep Pasture. Clovers are excellent for sheep pastures and a mixture of the white, medium red, alsike clovers with some timothy can scarcely be ijnproved upon. Provide pure fresh water in the pasture and have some soiling crop, as rape, peas or oats on hand so that anj shortage of pasture may be bridged over. The Lard Press. Farmers who slaughter-four or more hogs each year should have a lard press. A considerable number do use them, but very many do not. A good press will last a lifetime or longer, and during this period it will greatly increase the lard product. In many cases the difference amounts to the lard product of a single hog.

. Dairy Wiadom.* Never churn in a cold room. Do not fill the churn more than onethird full. If the cream is not stirred frequently and thoroughly, it will not ripen evenly, consequently the churning cannot be thorough. ' Be sure the temperature of the cream is right, which should be from 65 to 7C degrees, according to the condition oi the cream. Test the skimmilk and buttermilk, not once, but frequently, and by close study conditions can be controlled that there will be no loss. A dairyman can suffer severe loss in this way—enough or more perhaps than to pay for the services of a Competent assistant in the business. In some conditions it might ripen more rapidly near the sides of the can or vat, in others near the middle, so it must be stirred several times a day. If you find that you are losing butter fat in the skimmilk or buttermilk, or both, then there is a big fault in the way you are handling your milk, and don’t rest until you find where it is.

Told of the King of Spain.

A writer in the London Telegraph tells the following story about the King of Spain as throwing light on that royal lad’s life: “One day, during his history lesson, the king asked his professor to tell him how Spain came to lose Chile, Mexico and other Spanish-American colonies. The story was narrated so thrilllngly and artistically that the royal boy listened spellbound and continued after it had ended to sit absorbed in meditation. “At last, a thought having struck him, he looked up to bis professor and inquired, ‘What must I-do in order to get back those countries for Spain? ‘The first and most important thing of all,’ replied the cautious and diplomatic pedagogue, ‘is that your majesty should—should—grow up to be a man. When you are a man ’ ‘H’ml’ muttered the lad, disenchanted, ‘when I’m a man it is not a history professor’s advice ttjpt I shall be asking. I shall have a prime minister to tell me then.”

PASSING OF THE POPS.

DECLINE OF A PARTY WHICH ONCE SHOWED STRENGTH. Prominent Western Men Are Abandoning Populism and Signs of the Party’s Early Demise Begin to Multiply—Democrats Find Issues Scarce Ex-Senator Peffer and Senator Harris of Kansas have signified their intention to return to the Republican party. In doing this they followed rather than led in a genera) exodus from the Populist party in the West. The New York Sun publishes letters from eight Western and Southern States regarding this decline of Populism. These letters contain authoritative statements from Populist and Democratic leaders. They show incidentally general agreement on the point that in no State, except Nebraska, will a fusion ticket be accepted by the Populists in 1900. Prominent Populists, in admitting that their party is not so strong as it w T as three years ago, argue that the decrease in strength comes from desertion of Democrats who were Populists only in name. The situation as stated by the correspondents of the Sun is in brief as follows: Arkansas—Populism as a name is unquestionably dying out. Populism as an idea, however, is strong with the Democrats as well as tile fusionists. The rank and file of the Populist party have returned to the Democratic fold and the Populists will probably not nominate a State ticket in 1900. In 1894 the Populist candidate for Governor received 24,541 votes. In 1897, H.

STILL STICKING TO THE CHICAGO PLATFORM.

8. Morgan, Populist, received only 8,582 votes. Texas—The Populist party is a mere shadow of its former self. The plan of the middle-of- the-road Populists is to pursue vigorously the lines of action laid out at their first national convention at Omaha in 1892, to repudiate fusion, to oppose Bryan, and to make a straight fight for men like Barker and Donnelly. In 1894 the Populist vote for Governor was nearly 200,000. The Populists who are Democrats have returned to their old party, and it is estimated that the middle-of-the-road people, led by Milton Park, will notcast more than 50,000 votes. Outside of the middle-of-the-road faction there Isjw Populist party in Texas. lowa—PopqJlsgj has almost disappeared from the State exTPpt as it manifests Itself through the regular Democratic organization. Thousands of Republicans who voted for Bryan in 1896 have returned to the Republican party. The Populist party, which never polled more than 34,000 votes in lowa, lost its Identity in 1896 when it entered Into fusion with the Democrats. Nebraska—According to ex-Governor Populism in Nebraska is just about holding its own. The middle-of-the-road element, which is against fusion, has been growing in strength. The silver Republican element has practically disappeared. Minnesota—Fusion killed Populism in Minnesota. The campaign of the fusion candidate in 1898 demoralized the Populists instead of strengthening them. The present Governor is not a Populist and his success as a fusionlst promoted irritations in the Populist party. Missouri—The fusionists in the Populist party are going into the camp of the Union Reform party. The leaders of the middle-of-the-road faction, according to one of the most prominent Populists in the State, have no strength of themselves and no breadth of mind. He believes Populism in Missouri Is dead. Montana—The Populist party in Montana has ceased to be a potent factor in politics. The silver Republicans are returning to their party, and it is stated that Senator Lee Mantle will be found in the Republican ranks in tjbe next campaign. ’ South Dakota—The machinery of the Populist party in South Dakota has t>een captured by politicians, who formed an alliance with the Democrats. Even the fusionists are tired of Pettigrew, and the downfall of the fusionlst party and the retirement of Pettigrew are twa things looked forward to by both Populists and Republicans. Thus passes the party which, but

three short years ago, impressed ttin intelligent Democracy so deeply with the. idea of its enduring strength that the heritage of Jefferson and Jackson was sold to it for a mess of demio gogical issues and heterogeneous votes. —Chicago Inter Ocean. Still Hunting an Issue. After all their recent beating of drums about trusts the Democratic managers discover that they can claim no exclusive ground on that subject. The Republican party has deciared r against trusts in former national plat-' forms and has not changed its views. Democrats might use more words in writing a plank against oppressive business combinations, but all that is essential will be embodied in the Repub-1 lican national platform of next year, and people will understand that it means something in action, which is proverbially not the case with Democratic planks. Silver is still a necessity to the Democratic party. Bryan’s cross I of gold hah become a poor piece of stage property, but he would be a ridiculous candidate without the old ratio, which he has insisted was the keynote of prosperity. To drop silver at 16 to 1 would be to obliterate Bryan. Only his shadow would remain, a grotesque reminder of a huge and admitted blunder. Equally unpromising for Democratic uses is the situation in the Philippines. Democrats have grown shy of the word expansion. They prefer to speak of imperialism or militarism. No sentiment of the kind exists in the United States, but possibly a fog can be raised on the subject Some Democratic papers want no nonsense on this point The Brooklyn Eagle remarks that “As for opposition to expansion, events by

the fall of 1900 will quite probably ! make it so Quixotic and unpatriotic | that any political party espousing the I issue will likely feel that it would ba3 better had a millstone been hanged 1 around its neck and had it been cast J into the depths of the sea.” The Penn-1 sylvania Democratic State convention ! has just endorsed Bryan as “our match*gl less leader,” but is silent on the Chi- J cago platform, referring approvingly 1 instead to “the platforms of our sev- a era! national conventions.” Democrats a find issues distressingly scarce. Tbs 1 old are played out and the new after • | short trial prove to be worthless.— Louis Globe-Democrat The Greatest Value. * Thejs is nothing so valuable as to tel beyond price. The friendship of our British’cousins is to be highly and carefully cherished. It should not be lightly let go, but better it should go ‘j than that our present good times j should go. Valuable as It is, it Is not so | valuable as Is the prosperity of tte S American people. The proposition 1 therefore made by some British statest-1 men tbat the friendliness now eriatfng l between this country and Great Brit- a aln should be used as a lever with | which to do away with our protective!! tariff Is the most arrant nonsense. Theyfl might, with as much show of reason, ? ask. us to contribute to the expense*fl of the royal family. British Interests 1 would undoubtedly be subserved in J either of these two cases. But Amert* | can interests have first place, in our fl consideration yet, and American lnter»« ests demand the continuance of our 4 present prosperity-bringing policy of | protection. Loasea Are Not L«rgt. The doleful stories which the Aguln-fl aldo papers tell of the losses sustainadjl by our army in the Philippines are not ‘I verified by the official records. Fmwtfl the landing of our first troops, near.fll Cavite, June 30, 1898, until June s, fl| 1899, the date of General Otis’ last re* 11 port, 364 men have died of disease and fl other causes than battle. This loss la fl an army which, first and last, numbeE*fl; ed 40,000 men, is remarkably considering the circumstances. tween Feb. 4 and June 6, 226 men killed in battle and 69 died of woundfc|l| Thus the deaths from all causes tefl June 6 were 659. During the first of the late war for the Union a division lost more men by disease tMMB has the army in the Philippines. COfiW sidering the losses which are reported 1 by British armies In hotWmtete death roll of the PhiUpjdne gifay O surprisingly small. If