Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 23, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 December 1897 — Page 3

PURPLE IS POPULAR.

Of ALL SHADES FROM PALE LILAC JO DARK HELITROPEVU

gome Stylish Bloo«ec—A Glance at Kelt Spring's Style*—Th« Ci|ot S!e«r« Will •till Be Worn—Attlve For tb« House.

Sensible Apron.

{Special Correspondence.]

NEW YORK, NOV. 29.—Very few peo pie believed that purple could remain to favor another season, but it is now con ceded that it is "in" for the most popu lar color of this whole winter. When I say purple, I naturally mean to cover all its shades, and they are many, ranging from pale lilac, parma violet, mauve

ATTIRE FOR HOUSEHOLD DUTIES.

and light heliotrope to the deep petunia, dark heliotrope, royal purple, plum and aubergine. The list of different shades is still longer and still further varied according to the material. Silk, wool, cotton and velvet, even when of the exact shade, will look very different when brought together. The velvet will look darker than the satin or silk, and wool will appear darker than silk in most lights. Therefore a silken garment may safely be trimmed with velvet of the same shude, and a velvet garment may be slashed and the slashes filled in with silk or satin with excellent effect.

Anof b«r very stylish blouse was of smoke gray reps. The short basque portion and tho .simulated revers wero bound with gray fox. It opened over a blouse vest of white china crape and fastened with small silver clasp across the front. Short, square revers and a tudor collar, faced with gray velvet, finished tho front. Tho back was made very differently. All tho upper part was laid in flat folda This was then cut out and two lines of fur extended clear to the belt on both hides. A novel blouso was of tan cashmere, with straps mado of two rows of black satin ribbon, feather stitched together with black silk. Back and front, collar and sleeves and belt were all trimmed with the same ar raugement of ribbon.

This is not anything like a beginning to tell of all tho wonderful arrange ments in tho blouses. The most striking of them are of cloth in dark blue, red, green or purple, braided richly and trimmed with fur. They are such a rage now that they Hill soon weary the wearers and beholders alike.

In a large cloakhouse where they manufacture thousands upon thousands of garments every year I saw some of the things which aro to bo offered next •priiig. There wore endless numbers of newmarkcts, redingotesand ulsters with acarccly any difference from those of ten years ago, save that tho gigot sleeve is put in all of these, not nearly so large as they wore, but mado to stand ont well. Tho material is cloth, cheviot and covert, and the colors for tho most part fawn, tan, biscuit and very dark slate gruv and some black. Some, and those are the lumdsomost, have fly fronts and no visib^bnttous the others htive immense horn or suioko pearl buttons on tint waist.

Lot us turn from them to somo neat and seasonable garments which oue finds qui to as necessary to one's comfort and happiness as tho lauded outdoor things. Tea gowns of delicate gray cash mere lined with pink or crimson silk an) lovely nud are made much like theater mantles in shape, as far as the deep yoke and full rests of it are concerned. There are loug hanging sleeves. The tea gown is very cozy and rioh and warm when nil edj^s aro bordered with fur. The pineIced frpossom makes the softest and most delicate of such bordering,

STYLISH BLOCSB8.

dangers.!** contact OUVK HAJUPE*.

having point* of beauty beyond swan's down. Tea jacket® ar© made very ornamental and are of soft silks, cashmere, veiling aud china crape, and all aw lavish)/ trhnnuil with lace. Tbeae we to handling is hammered into a small cube.

wear over pretty skirts and are very drtxssy. Dtwsiug and morning sucks are made of striped flannels and flannelettes also of «idt«r down. Yokes and loose waists predominate. Plain, neat moratog gowns aw of dark blue, gray or brown, with the fronts loose and belted in. For the young housekeeper

HOW TO ASSAY GOLD.

An Interesting Process Fully and Simply Explained. 4g [Special Correspondence.]

SAN FBASCISCO, Nov. 24,—If there is subject of more importance to the en gineer than the gold mine itself, it is the determination of the value of an ore in dollars and cents for the purpose of inviting or discouraging further investment.

Technically, this test is known as •'an assay." The rules which govern it are easily acquired and are within the understanding of any one, regardless of a knowledge of chemistry or other science. *, f?

The subject is best treated under the head of two divisions: First, the securing and preparing of an average simple second, the assay proper—that is, the valuation of this sample. Of the two the importance of securing a truly representative sample is the greater. Excepting for the purposes of the sharper it would serve little to know the value of any one selected and particularly rich sample. This is the point that has caused many an inexperienced enthusiast a fortune.

The iaethods for sampling are many and ingenious, consisting in cases of delicate and complex machinery. The one most used, though primitive and laborious, has for its recommendation both handiness and accuracy.

A pile, or heap, of ore is to be tested. In such cases where the ore is to be shipped or moved it is an easy matter to throw every tenth or twentieth shovelful on to a barrow, to be laid aside for separate and further treatment. Otherwise tho digging of two channels at right angles to each other and passing through the center of the heap makes it possible to select in the same manner as before an average sample, representing the value of the entire body of ore.

The sample is then mixed by shoveling and reshoveling it upon itself until finally it is piled up in around pointed heap, approximating the shape of a tjone. This is roughly quartered. Two opposite quarters are considered as representing the true average of the entire sample, of which, of course, there is now but half of the original quantity to deal with. This process of mixing and quartering is continued again and again until tho original sample has been cut down to a small one, weighing in the neighborhood of 10 or 12 pounds. This quantity is then put into an iron mortar and alternately ground and sieved until all of it has passed through a sieve of such fineness that there are 60 apertures to the inoh. Again the ore, now in the form of a powder, is heaped, mixed and quartered until tho operator arrives at a quantity so small that it can be read-

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ily handled. Five or six ouncos are considered plenty and are sufficient for a dozen verifications of the result fiy means of a balance several grams of the oro aro weighed.

The delicacy of the foregoing operation is worthy of speoial mention. It is not that theoretically the result of the sample approximates the value of the original heap, but practically it is the exact valuo of the main body of ore, though, depending on the size of the latter, the final sample under consideration is some millionth part of that which it represents.

Tho ore having been weighed, it is brushed into a small earthenware saucer about four inches in diameter and known as a scorifier and is capable of withstanding practically any heat. A furnace is readily masoued out of a few rocks and some clay. Small portable furnaces aro thoso generally employed. Coke or obarcoal is the fuel used.

Ordinary granulated lead is then poured over the contents of the scorifier and by means of a pair of tongs the vessel is introduced into the white heat of the furnace.

Gradually the lead on top of the scorifier's contents begins to melt under the tremendous heat of some 8,000 to 4,000 degrees. The lead melts faster and faster, until, being entirely in a fluid state and being heavy, it works its way through the ore toward the lowest point of the scorifier, carrying with it every particle of gold and leaving the melted refuse—now known as "slag"—robte and worthless, to float on top, a redhot fluid mass of a sirupy consistency.

Then the scorifier is taken out and oooled. By means of a hammer it is knocked apart In the bottom of what was the dish there is, surrounded by a brittle glanlike substance, what, from its appearance, is known as a "lead button. The remaining problem is a simple one. Since all of the gold formerly contained in the ore is now confined in the lump of lead, it but remains to get rid of the lead and retain the gold, when the latter, being weighed, is readily calculated per ton.

The lead button for convenience of

Another dish of about one inoh india meter and of the same height is next employed. It is known as a "cupel" and is made of compressed bone ash. It is porous and absorbs the lead after it has been melted, while it refuse® to absorb the gold. Into this "cupel' the lead

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there is an apron of bine linen trimmed posed to the heal of the furnace. with white, which covers the entire If much remains, the button

dress, and is also pretty. One may dress I the sice of a pinhead usually the exfa velvet and wear it safely when one trsma point of a pin is abetter com parithese charitable aprons covers it from mm. In either

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Defective Paper Miking.

Paper makers are discussing the peculiar fact that for many centuries there have been periodical investigations into the "deterioration of paper." Recently the Society of Arts in London appointed a special committee to make an investigation of this character. Old records show that fault has been found with the quality of paper in almost every age. and most of the famous museums and libraries in Europe havo specimens of pure rag paper which show decay due to flaws in the texture. Away back in 1386 Peter II of Spain issued a proclamation commanding the paper makers of Valencia and Xativa "to restore the paper to its old good quality, unless they wish to be found guilty of fraud and punished accordingly." About 1220 an emperor of Italy directed that all public documents on paper should be declared invalid. All records covering the previous two years were ordered to be transcribed on parchment in order that they might be preserved more securely.

It is recalled that in 1875 the Academy of Sciences in Paris offered a prize for the best answer to this question, "Which are the real reasons for the general decline in the quality of paper and which are the best means to remedy the evil?" This prize was never awarded, for the reason that nobody undertook to compete for it Experts disagree as to which period in the history of paper making produced the most durable and the best quality of paper. Soon after the art of making paper was transplanted from Africa to Spain complaints w£re made and recorded that the Christian successors of the Moorish paper makers were making an inferior paper. At first the art was imperfectly copied.—New York Times.

The Ketlred Burglar.

"I don't think I was ever very mucli scared," said the retired burglar, "but I have been as much scared by slight, little things, that were of no real account, as by anything else. For instance, by the scratching of a rat, starting up suddenly and running around in the wall. I was never more disturbed than I was once by the absolute stillness of a room that I was in. It was dead and oppressive, and I couldn't account for it. "I swung my lamp arimnd and saw the usual things that you might expect to see in such a room—it was a dining room—including a clock on the mantel. It was a piendulum clock, one of the kind that has a little clear space in the lower part of the glass front, through which you can see the pendulum as it swings back and forth. The lamp simply swept across the face of the clock, as I swung it around, but an instant later I realized that I had seen no pendulum swinging back and forth behind that clear space. It wasn't swinging. The clock had stopped. "I set my lump on the shelf and opened the door of the clock and started up the pendulum, and then I heard the regular ticking of the clock. And that was all that was wanted. But what a relief it was to hear it! I could sort out the spoons now with It cheerful spirit." —New York Sun.

A New Year's Gift Heralded. The measureless popularity of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has been the growth of more than a third of a century. As In the p«st, tho coming new year will be ushered in by tho appearance of a fresh Almanac, clearly setting forth the nature, uses and operation of this medicine of world-wide fame. It is well worth perusal. Absolute accuracy In the astronomical calculations and calendar will, as before, be valuablo characteristics, while the reading matter will Include statistics, humor and general Information, accompanied by admirably executed Illustrations. The Almanac Is issued from the publishing department of The Hosteller Company at Pittsburgh, and will be

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on their presses in English. German, rench. Welsh, Norwegian, Swedish. Holland. Bohemian and Spanish. All druggists and country dealers furnish It without cost.

Rebecca Wilkinson, ofU ^-^wnsvalley, Iud.,says: "I have bcv... -m a distressed condition for three years from nervousness, weakness of the stomach, dyspepsia and indigestion until my health was gone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervine, which did me more good than any $50 worth of doctoring I ever did in my life. I would advise every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely medicine a few bottles of it has cured me completely. I consider it the grandest medicine in the world." Warranted the most wonderful stomach and nerve cure ever known. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

A Sermon With a Point to It.

A clergyman in the west country had two curates, one a comparatively old man, tho other very young. With the former ho had not been able to work agreeably, and on being invited to another living he accepted it and took the young curate with him. Naturally there was a farewell sermon, and we can imagine the feelings aft the curate who was to be left behind when he heard the text given out, "Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship."

Sterne once declared in regard to the widely respected maxim, "De mortuis nil nisi bonum." that there was nothing right about it but its Latin. This view was evidently shared by a certain Edinburgh minister who, being asked to preach the funeral sermon of a miserly brother cleric, chose as his text the words, "And the beggar died."—Chambers' Journal.

An Autobiography.

^1 w&s born Nov. 30, 1885. 1 continue to live just the same. Thus narrow, confined and trivial is the history of a common human life— that part of it, at least, which it is proper to thrust in the face of the public, and thus little and insignificant in print becomes this life of mine, which to me has always seemed so filled with vast personal events and tremendous consequences, I could easily have made it longer, but not without compromising myself.—Mark Twain.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING- MAIL, DECEMBER 4, lSSt.

Traps and Trapping.

The ways of trapping are as various is the ingenuity of savage or civilized nan can devise. I like best the traps hat one can make. They seem to give he animal a fairer show they develop rar own constructive faculties, and the learer we can get to the savage way she more fun it always is. Steel traps lave a place that wooden traps can nev!T fill, but give me something that I san make with my own hands, with the amplest tools, out of whatever mat-en-ds the spot affords where the animal ives.

Of all the animals in this country ihere is none that affords less harmful rport than the rabbit—more properly lare—of which there are several spedes. Its wonderful powers of increase triable it to hold its own, as iar too nany of our best and most valuable inimals do not Furthermore, rabbits ire very, easily trapped.

Every one knows its little trail, as road as one's hand, through the bushes yr broom sedge, or its footprints as it lops over the clear snow. Here, where the path goes under a fence rail, it has (topped to gnaw. The rabbit follows ihis path in season and out, though in he far north, where the snow keeps piling and piling up, its little road may thange with each successive snowfall. Crappers there put out a large number )f snares, sotting them right in the midlie of the paths.—Harper's Bound Ta-

Luther's Bones.

It is generally supposed that the bones of the great reformer were torn !rom their last resting place in the jhurch of the castle of Wittenberg during the Thirty Years' war and scattered the winds, like those of Wyclif. A.t all events, no trace of Luther's tomb has hitherto been discovered. One of the biographers of Luther, Herr Koestlin of Halle, has, however, raised no 'tittle sensation in religious circles in Grermany by a recent article in a theological magazine which throws over the accepted explanation of the disappearince of the reformer's tomb as mere fiction. He declares that two workmen engaged on tne restoration of the church

Wittenberg castle came across the soffln and body of Luther without let ring any of their comrades know of iheir find. It is alleged that they enterid the chapel by night and dug out the remains, seuetly reinterring them, in [ear of arrest. There ought to be no lifficulty in discovering whether there •s any truth in Herr Koestlin's state-nent.—-Westminster Gazette.

Petit Larceny Not Woman's Sin Alone.

The story comes from England of a aovel being found in the strong room of firm of publishers written entiroly upon the note paper of a London club. The thing is significant for two reasons: First, because the novelist was a man, and, second, because petty larceny has long been supposed to be the prerogative of womai. It is a fact that, in this oountry at least, it is women who pilfer the detachable privileges to be found in railway stations, the waiting room of department stores, hotels and like places. It has been found necessary to chttin Bibles themselves. It isn't so very long ago that when a woman aroBe to read her bulky extemporaneous, address at the meeting of a certain woman's olub, her listeners, upon the back of each sheet of manuscript, could descry the sign and seal of a well known hotel. This wasn't so bad, of course, as a whole book, but it was bad enough.— Philadelphia Times.

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A Star Attraction Lost

Barnes—People talk about Jonah as though ho were the unluckiest man the world ever saw.

J3bedd—And so he was. Think of the hard luck of a man who has passed through bis experience in not being an actor. With the notoriety that that little whale experience gave him Jonah could Ae played to full houses indefi-nitelylp-'Bostou Transcript IJ

If tlie eyes get tired and red from keeping late hours or from long travel, lay upoa the lids in the morning before dressiug a soft white linen cloth that bas been dipped in water as hot as you can bear it When the cloth cool«, dip it in the hot water again. In half an hour your eyes will be free from all distressing sensations. $100.

Dr. E. Detchon's Antl Diuretic May be jp»rth to you more than $100 if you have Irchild who spils bedding from incontenence of water miring sleep. Cures old and voung alike. It arrests the trou bleat once. #1. Sold by all druggists in Terre Haute, Ind.

There Is a Class of People

Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O. made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over as much. Children may drink It with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per packagc Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O,

Doa't Tobacco Spit and Scaoke Tow life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netlc. full of life, serve and vigor, take No-To-Bae, the wonder-worker, that makes weafe men strong. All druggists, 90c or ft. Cure guaranteed Booklet and sample free Address Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or New York.

Liver Ills

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Mrs. Pinkham Says When We Violate Nature's I*VI Our Punishment Is Fain—If We Contlnno to Neglect tho Warning- We Die.

Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die premature^.

Nervous exhaustion invites disease!' This statement is the positive truth. When every thing becomes a burden and you cannot walk a few blocks without excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspirations easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky at the least provocation, and you cannot bear to be crossed in anything, you are in danger your uerves have given out you need building up at once! To build up woman's nervous system and re

store woman's health, we know of no better or more inspiring medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Your ailment taken in time can be thrown off, if neglected it will run on into great suffering and pain.

Here is an illustration. MKS. LUCY GOODWIN, Holly, W. Va., says: I suffered with nervous prostration, faintness. all-gone feeling and palpitation of the heart. I could not stand but a few moments at a time without having that terrible bearing-down sensation.

"When I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound I only weighed 108 pounds, and could not sit up half a day before, however, I had used a whole bottle, I was able to be about. I took in all about three bottles of the Compound, and am entirely cured now I weigh 131 pounds and feel like a new woman, stronger and better than ever in my life."

So it transpires that because of the virtues of Mrs. Pinkham's wonderful Compound, even a very sick woman can be cured and live to a green old age.

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