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depends on who is elected. A NOVEL marriage agreement which will he decided on the result of the rational election, has been made in the town of Seabrook, Mass. The parties interested in the agreement are Miss Lillie Jackman, Ellis Goodman and Frank Bardine. The two men are friends and also suitors Tor the hand and heart of the young Woman who figures in the novel arrangement. The three young people have been playmates since early youth, and at every husking party attend'd by them would always be found together. The fathers of the young men •were of different political faith. Goodman’s parent was a stanch believer in the Republican party, while Bardine’s was as ardent in the principles of Democracy. The young men appeared to have inherited the political faith of I their fathers, and held many a wordy j debate, always with the friendliest feel [ tng in the presence of the young lady. ) The young men knew each other’s love for Miss Jackman and knowing that one of them would have to be rejected. They met at the house of the young Sady and Goodman made the novel i proposition, which was readily agreed to by Bardine and Miss Jackman. There is to be a wedding in Seabrook next November and Miss Jackman will be the bride. If McKinley is elected Goodman will be the bridegroom, and Bardine’s hopes are depending upon the fortunes of William Jennings Bryan. A New Collar. Prom Paris comes a new coilaf,; which is a combination of the ribbon stock and high linen collar. Its novelty has made it an Immediate success. The collar is of linen, about as high as the ordinary collar, and is cut clerical fashion, not opening at all in front. Technically it is called a Roman collar. It fastens at the back with two collar studs. A series of holes about an inch apart are cut in the collar and form a j line entirely around it. In and out THE NEW COLLAR. through these holes ribbons are run which tie in the back in a large bow. The ribbons are so folded that they are narrow when drawn through the holes. । but spread out to their full width when i they form the bow. This collar looks ■ particularly well when worn with the I summer shirt waist, though it was not j designed for thiq purpose alone. It adds much to the effect of any waist j for' everyday wear. Bridesmaids and Their Duties. In olden days the bridesmaids were j supposed to look after the bride’s peen- I niary interest. 'Thus, at the church ' porch, when the bridegroom produced • the ring and other articles relating to his marriage, the chief bridesmaid took charge of the "dow purse,” which was publicly given to the bride as an installment of her pin money. Horace i Walpole, writing to Miss Berry, in the year 1791, speaks of the dow purse as i a thing of the past, and writes as fol- ( lows: “Our wedding is over very properly. , ( • though with little ceremony, and nothing of ancient fashion, but two brides- : maids. The endowing purse. I believe. 1 has been left off since the broad pieces [ 1 were called in anil melted down.” It has been pointed out. however, that a survival of this usage is revived in Cumberland. Tim bridegroom provides himself with gold ami crown pieces, and when the service reacbi's the point, “with all my worldly goods I thee endow,” he takes the money, hands the clergyman his fee, and pours the rest into a handkerchief which the bridesmaid holds for the bride. In Scotian 1 the bridesmaid is popularly known as the "best maid.” and one of her principal duties was to convey the bride s presents on the wedding to the future home. The first article generally taken into the house was a vessel of salt, a portion of which was sprinkled over the floor, as a protection against the “evil eye.” She also attended the bride when she called on her 1 riends, and gave a personal invitation to her wedding. Dress Costins; Too Much. The other day half a dozen women were talking together, not one of whom had money in her own or her husband's right. All were the wives of men on salaries —high salaries. Said one of them: “It is dreadful how our ideas grow without our Lank accounts growing in proportion. Now, we have just as much, and no more, than we had to live on ten y<sars ago, and yet, where

" once I should not have thought of spending more than sl7 or $lB for my little girls’ winter coats, now I would not dream of starting ou* to buy one without at least S4O to pay for it.” Trap Shooting us a Fad. Among Eastern society women with a bent for athletics trap shooting is just now the reigning fad, Mrs. Jack Astor being one of tiie most ardent disciples. SI ■ i- an expert in this healthful pastime. as she is in revolver practice, enjoying special distinction in that particular sporting ecstasy known as "wing shooting.” In essaying the role of Diana, Mrs. Astor sustains her enviable reputation of being the best and most appropriately gowned woman in M| w ■limP F MRS. ASTOR 15 mffiHLXG GARfI. any assemblage. Her favorite costume when on gunning bent is supplemented by leggings of like material. Style and । comfort are combined in the loose-tit- ' ting Norfolk jacket, coming down well over the hips, and fashioned upon the same plan as that worn by men. Vnder this she dons a silk negligee shirt, of contrasting hue or in varying tones of delicate tints. Alpine Is the preferred hat, and her shoes are square toed and broad soled, harmonizing in color with the charming shooting frock. Trap shooting trains the eye, ami is regarp* j i'd as a superior nerve tonic. Fee is said to develop the nerves b : ier ■ s."i :' ■ ■ 1 1 - ■ >! <lu s i ■ - \\ Mi woman’s eye Ims attained -m :: >WW dr ■■ m si "ad I ;i" i i.a ' sh" - "Ay of her "bird” regardless of the trap or the angle from which it is sprung, she is ready for wing shooting -or a burg lar. Process of Making Hairpin*. For ages the English and French eon trolled the manufacture of hairpins, and it is only within the last twenty years Hiat the goods have been pro doced in other countries to any extent. The machinery used is of a delicate au I intricate' character, as the pri* nt which the pins are sold uecess tale the cheapest ami most rapid progress, which can only be procured by automatic machines. The wire is made expressly for the purpose ami nut up in large coils, which are placed in a Hamp and so carried to the machine whib* being straightened. This machine cuts, bends and by a delicate and instantaneous process sharpens the points Run ning at full speed, it will turn out 120 hairpins every minute. To economize, it is necessary to keep the engines going day and night. The difficult part of the work is in the enameling, which is done by dipping the plus in a preparation and baking in an oven. It is here that the most constant and careful attention is required, as the pins must be absolutely smooth and the enamel have a perfee: polish. Ilie slightest particle of dust causes imperfections and roughness. The American Girl Won. A recent prize contest in London for the most prettily costumed lady cyclist fell to Madeline Kilpatrick, the acconfI MADELINE KILPATRICK. plished trick performer. Aside from i being an American girl, her mount was ; of American make; costume the same, j the latter being made by herself. The j contest was one in which American 1 ideas were prominent. The average woman’s idea of comfort is to run around the house in a draggely wrapper, with her hair down her back. . ! —New York Press. *

FOLDING OF THE TENTS. Circuses Hunt Winter Quarters While Showmen Ihink the Old Thoughts. Art is getting a move on herself. Yesterday upon a circus banner shone the cheering legend: "Sole chastely artistic musical contortionists now before the public.” About unoccupied corners and contested acres of estates in Chicago hang noisily the' flopping tents of the itinerant Itl-eentcireus, an industry overlooked by amusement chroniclers but suddenly grown into a threat to the colossa 1 threc-ring menagerie-hippdromes occupying the attention of pleasure seekers and enterprise watchers. Strolling bands of disqualiued or unfortunate players opened up these paths for tent shows and from stragglers of uncertain license and certain rascality the little company of clowns and half-trained gymnasts showed the wary circus faker away to pick up business and profit by a harmless humbug almost welcome. 1 happened to be in Crown Point, Ind., yesterday, and the pretty village was aflame with warnings of the presence of Wallace’s Gigantic Circus. Instantly 1 hied myself hither and there it was tiie sam<‘ "gniiiil entry," lady performer in the air rings, trapeze, slack wire, chariot races, trained animals, strong peoph* lifting glittering generalities in cast iron and young ladies twisting themselves up in knots of spangled intricacy; there were the Jugglers. the dashing party who throws knives at a stripped lady In impressive scowls and dodging attitude, again the "principal bareback equestrienne’ of my tumultuous Infant circus days, the double hautecole-menage act and" the hesitating somersault rider; besides these inevitables behold the pompotts cracker of the ring whip, the fulldress. snappy person to whom the august stars how low and nt whom the sulphttrously silly Joey courageously hurls puns too weighty for the Samsons of brawn to lift out of obscurity. Just the same, It seemed to me quite j its good as any circus I had soon in | w aTs. Ringlings' st'mmsl the greatest • show over produced and ten years back । so did the Barptim Ballvy cnisb es these .same at i fact ions, and nofc It o<" curs Io lm> that a week or so ago I took live small boy> into a weathi r-stained tefll pQehe<l mi the corner of Loomis and Congross streets, paid It l cents ad mission ami that was absolutely the best of them all The only difference in the big shows and little ones infesting \merica is not in the variety but the art, the finish, the talent of the performers, the number of them employed ami the numlHTof rings employed by them. \\ ilhice winters near I'eru. Ind., and. 1 :ke evecj otb^ * ^us grower, the most j fiction The Oftqtnat ,w is never back tn a tale about a the Klingon empire tmrsivs (by w hi'-h (*ody nTfidr L er-’-d nsatlon here i i sp’ ngi h has 100 little Shetland ponies at the farm which rat their head* off and bray at each other all year, bn never travel for their health ■c . i". ■ ;■ L I . la ‘ mis ever do anything mi haul. Ipj at Baraboo eoiisidernbly the same con- | ditioiis exist Amerii-an showmen d> , not make nse of tiie novel attrai'lion* t at their command. The Rmglmgs are .superli athlet<"s. gymnasts and tumblers. but instantly they besiirrtsl i themselves to management the saw , dust was something < redibiy Impossi i tde and they sit about growing fat ’ w hili' inferior performers do work they I might with physical atu! tluam al nil i.-intage keep up. (’ol ('odv is an actor j of Infallible ri'liab lity in his own show: ' Ue is the prime attraction and in the i fifteen or more years m which he has i served the public <’o ( |y has missed jus! I three performances one when his lit- i tie daughter died, one w hen his daugh- | ter Artea was \ ery ill and one other' when the I niusl States Governmeut i requested his sci \. e^ if,. really a : greater showman than any floating : history pictures him. What has been • sensational or in a pose for tm- public ! has quite obscured the larger <1 -posi- ; tion and genius of W. I'. Cody. 1 was in Cody’s tent one day when a boy ixime in aglow with importance at the distinction of being allowi>d to -I'm I ii" bey 'i w : ? mivM h :: Vs. sj .d t!m ob je<-: of 'Ww ididat ry. with a kindly smile, as he Wpught to \i,-w a pigeon hole package captaining it b-nst fifty epistles. Which one of 'hose did yon write?" Not less than fifty a day and some- I times more than fifty childish billets , reach Buffalo Bill. ;md they are sw h rare literary contributions that to publish them would be to round up the poets and warriors in embryo all over tiie country. Nearly all Cody's letters come from boys and young ladiwl that i glamour intoxicating to blithe and adventurous infancy still hangs about Cody, and not a little of his unclmllengwl popularity is wrapped in this pleasant knowledge of the barbaric element in all youth and its easily won worship. Tiie thing is not to be exalted or better than all others, but to be different and Joshua could not stop the eternal plod of the circus sun in its orbit of conventionality. -Amy Leslie, in Chicago News. Electric Sounding. It is said by the engineers who conducted the laying of the Amazon river cable to Mananos that the difficulties of their enterprise would have been almost insuperable if the ordinary methods of sounding had had to be relied upon. There were no charts to go by, the river bottom was constantly shifting, and the softness of the soil, mostly alluvial clay, would allow the lead to sink into for several feet. An electric device, fitly named a submarine sentinel, was suspended from the

So 1S P and SPt at ’ say ’ fivG fathoms, the “ S as were no si «nal from steam ’u the en " iuee r could moXnt h J ltll ° Ut fear: but tbG lower M Sh P gOt intO Wattn ' » hal ' soundei Ul tU * g,UIKC ,lxe<l upon, the reel o b. “ lann ’ and shnnlm- "T ? Ple takon ’ A somewhat hl i.* ,l r ce ' having tho saaie “»d bein- m mS b , eeU invonte d, the idea for tin. m Used ils a substitute es -i <• . lan<l <>ad as a ves sel approach-w-hon ° r sl,oal 111 darkness or fog, bearl G “ l)tain is doubtful of his o ... ^7. 11,0 apparatus consists <>f tich/ a > ' C c J’ lsu der, having a waterw J. chamber. Within the chamber “'Rs a piston, upon the outer edge "Inch is a heavy ball. When the I Paratus is swinging clear in the watoC th,, weight of this ball keeps open an electric circuit; but as soon as the sounder touches the bottom the circuit closed, and the current, conveyed )y Wlres running in the cable by which tm' sounder is attached to the ship, a bell in any department of the <The cost of the device is quite I ■’’ate, and its Inventor ciaims that « wmatlon is simple and sure. New T. i t’ Journal. Imogene Guiney and Stephen Crane are becoming known in France through recent translations. "The Sentimental Sex." by Gertrude Warden, is announced as a new novel of especial orginality. Georges Hugo, grandson of the great French author, recently made his debut in letters with a book entitled "Souvenirs of a Sailor." The Boston Aeronautical Society has offered s2.*>(i in cash prizes for the best designs for kites and the best monograph on their mechanical principles. ‘ Clergymen found a luminous article i in the July Homiletic Review' by I’ro- | fe-sor Blakie of the Fnlversity of Kdiidntrg on "The Essentials of Effective IxX|s sltory I‘rer.eh!ng.” M llliam Black, whose novel "Briseis" has recently appeared in book form, was once a leader wilier on the London News. He says his Journalistic < x perivm-e helped him but little as a novelist, though ho recommemis a re- j jmrter’s career as valuable for gaining ! *>xi>eripnce of life. Bliss Carm.in has returned from a bnMficKg trip to London and Faris by way <•( Amiens. Regarding Journalism hesaywhe likes the "strong, and healthy, t nd slow turning” British wavs best. Though he lias lived in New York, lie i Kiys the city gives him a feeling of tm rest and uneasiness. <♦ ; Max <> Rell has no use for the AngloSaxon new woman. In the North A mer lean Review he declares hey to be "the most ridiculous production of modern times, and destined to be the m>>st ghastly failure of the century." He I s;tjs she wants tn retain all the privI Heges of her sex and secure all those |of man besides. "She will fail to I .< eontc a man." Max kindly assures us. i "but she may sin ■ eed in ceasing to b# 4 woman." Wires Drawn t>y Lot. In some parts of Russia a queer game i । is still played at Christmas time w inch i has murb to do with the future lives of 1 the participants. Sonic prominent [< rI son in the 'Hinge announces that the rimual merrymaking will be held al j his house. <>n the appointed day the i joung men ami women hasten in huge ■ «.xeitement to the meeting place. There are songs and games and dances, but they are simply a prelude to I ’be more inqxiriant business of the i day. When the time comes the hostess . ads all the girls into one room, where i iiiey seat themselves on the benches. ■ Laughing and chattering, they are j each promptly mutlled in winding sheets by the hostess. The head and j Lair and tigure are completely covered. I and when this is doin' the girls resemi l ie mummiess. The young men draw lots, and on>' by one they enter the room where the matlled girls sit. Helpless so far as sight or touch goes, the puzzled lover t; os to find Ids favorite. Maylie she would help him if her eyes were not hidden, bitt she is as helpless as he. Idually he chooses one. and then lie ’-Gy unveil her. This is the crith al mo--1,1 mt. and disapp.chtmeui or rapture 11 be the result of seeing her face. the law of custom that the man ■ marry the girl he has picked out. ar“ if either backs out a heavy forfeit must bo paid. It is said that this matrii.’onial lottery is productive of many happy marriages. .Speedily ( hanged Her Mind. She was the college girl of lofty ideals ami superior attainments, such as college girls have in their early days. When .she left her family to rest in the mountains for a wane she said haughtily: "No; I’ll not take au evening gown. And please don’t put any of that papercovered literature in my trunk. I have some philosophy to read and I don’t intend to mix with the hotel people. Nature, my work and serge frocks are enough for me." Then she departed. At the end of four days her mother was startled by a telegram. It road: "Send two party frocks, a hammock and some reliable face powder at once.” Not Worrying. “Say, your horse reaches over the fence and ict ls the branches off our trees." “Oh, that’s all right. The boss can’t hurt hisself so long as you don’t throw no broken glass bottles over on our side.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Half of the praying that is done consist of back talk.

ILL-ASSORTED MARRIAGE. j Cornin’ Tlnion of Princess Helene and Crown Prince of Naples. An ill-assorted marriage will be that between Princess Helene of Montenegro and 1 the Crown Prince of Naples, heir to the throne of Italy. The Princess is a stalwart brunette, nearly six feet high, and one of the handsomest women in Europe, ‘ while the Prince is almost a dw-arf, being less than five feet in height, and so poor In health that his life has often been despaired of. There are other royal pairs who are disproportionate in size, the Princess of Wales being taller than her husband, but none so incongruous as this will be. Princess Helene is ambitious; 1 she tried to marry the young Czar of Rus- ’ sia, but was jilted by him. The Crown ’ Prince’s hand was rejected by every mar- 1 riageable princess in Europe, and so i» ’ «■ y I W f V W £X4(O viw 6IAXT PRINCESS AND HER DWARF FIANCE. this respect they are well matched. She Is handsome and poor; he is ugly and rich, and (hey are well content to strike a bargain. Her only fault is her poverty, the revenues from her father’s little kingdom being sufficient to support him and her in no better style than thousands of . Americans live. His subjects number) less thini his qg^ntry jg H^y, and I I his capital lown of Cettinje has only one | ( hotel, no bank or theater, Od no houses । except^ the shabby I old villa in n'hich he lives. The only vir- ; tue of the < ’rown Prince of Naples is that jhe pill some day be King of Italy. He > is bad-tempered, dissolute in habits, and fond >f gambling and drink. He is a hy- 1 pochondriac. and when rot really ill imag- 1 j ines that he is so. If his bride is a dutiful 1 | wife she will spend most of her time 1 nursing him. la Montenegro there is some I disapproval of the marriage, because the beautiful Print css Heiene is thought by the mountain' i rs to be worthy of a better fate. In Italy everyone is well content. 1 They expe 'cd that the Prince would never be able to find a bride. SMALL VOTE IN FLORIDA. Democrats Say They Will Win in Noveni tier, but OtherH Dispute Them. A general eh tion for State and county officials was held throughout Florida Tuesday. there were three tickets in the field for State otlicers. Democratic, Republican and Populist, and also for county officers in nearly all the counties. The gold Democrats siqqiorted the Democratic ticket, and there is no doubt of its suet •*s by a good majority. Several important amendments to the State Constitution oei’ voted on, the most important being one t»> abolish October elections. Domo< aic managers have claimed that they w uid elect their State ticket by a ; majority of 20.1HJ0 or more, while Republican leaders have a-sorted the Democratis majority would not exceed 15,000, and might fall below 12.1H10. The meager returns based on estimates received at the time this is written indicate that the Democratic th ket will not ; '"eive the majority Imped for by its sponsors. The vote siem-, to have been a light one and the D imx-rats are the piincipal losers by the falling off. In the storm-stricken counties, which have Heretofore given large'Democratic majorities, practically no interest was taken in the election, the people having no heart for politics with wrecked homos about them. There is a difference of opinion as to the bearing on the November result. Regular Democrats claim the State is safe for Bryan, but R 'publicans and gold Democrats assert that they believe Bryan will be beaten. KILLED FOR STEALING RIDES. New Haven Police Accuse Brakemen of XVholesale Trafrip Murders The police of New Haven, Conn., assert that brakemen of the Consolidated Railroad have been murdering tramps caught stealing rides on cars of that line. It is said that ten bodies, all mangled by being nun ..ver by trains have been found on the tracks of the Consolidated within the last six months. A man named Molony from Brooklyn was shot twice and thrown from a train by the train hands, but survived his injuries. He has given information to the authorities which has led to the arrest of a brakeman na-med Beau. The latter, according to the. .police, confessed that trainmen made it a practice to kill tramps found on their cars. Notes of Current Eventag Mrs. W. J. Myers was burned to death at Rochester. Ind. W. 11. Ellerbe. Democratic candidate fqr Governor of South Carolina, is one of thirteeu children, all living. Miss Mary Taylor, the heroine of the poem. “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” died ' recently at Somerville, Mass. The trial of Supervisors Hughes, King Benjamin. Dunker, Morganstein, Skull? ' and Waller, indicted for corruption . office, was commenced in Judge Sewe ■ department of the Superior Court at ’ Francisco. ■ The Third Brigade of the Egypt) - ) edition is now proceeding south^ the Nile to garrison Merowi, El and El Khaudak. Merowi is bet , and 200 miles up the river fron? . and is noarlv one-half the dista b^- by the river. County Treasurer George until now one of the most iin Troy/N. Y.. a man repir SIIOO,OOO, is in jail, eharg /jbozzlement of $250,000 ‘fiiip money belonging to tk , available at the pre ‘ ll 1 aboTt SIOO

RECORD OF THE WEEK INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. Albert Bray's Insane Slaughter of His Wife and Two Children—Adopted Muncie Boy in Great Luck—Criminal Carelessness of Health Officials. Reduced Rates for Voters. After a short conference at Chicago the Centr.il Passenger Committee determined to make a rate of one fare for the round trip between all cities ard towns in their territory tor all persons who may desire to return to their homes for the purpose of voting. This rate, with thd exception of those made to Canton, which in some • uses arc hardly over one-half a cent a mile, is lower than any made by these this '-ear, the usual concession being one and one-third fares for the round trip. In order to prevent use of the tickets by scalpers it was decided that transportation for distances under 200 miles should be sold on Nov. » only. For distances over LOO miles, they w.U be sold Nov. 2 and ■>. Ibis will enable persons to travel from one cm! of the committee’s tervitory lo the other and be home in tinu* to vote. Returning, all persons holding these tickets must present them for passage before midnight of Nov. 4. The territory affected by the order is that in the Fnited Staff's north of the Oh’o River and between the meridians of Cnicago and Pittsburg. Ihe trunk lines’ committee, governing the territory lying east of the meridian ot Pittsburg and extending to the Atlantic coast, will undoubtedly take like action. Western roads have refused to make like concession, a proposition of the same character having been voted down. Passenger men of these lines declare more people will travel away from than toward home if low rates are made. Diphtheria in Indiana Towns. The Secretary of the State Board of Health has returned to Indianapolis from Red Key. wheru the diphtheria has been raging for four weeks. He was called there once before, and found that the town board had not appointed a health officer, us the statute provided, and since then the officer lias not had the support necessary to stjmp out rhe disea<o. Qut of forty tases fifteen have died. A town meeting was held, and steps were taken to ojxanize a sanitary society. Secretary Hurty said that there were several cases where funerals following death from diphtheria were held publicly without interference by the town board: the excuse in one case was tiiat the preacher objected to a private funeral. "The people of Geneva." said Dr. Hurty, “are playing with danger. There was a case of diphtheria in a hotel there, but as the proprietor did not want to frighten his guests away, the doctor returned the death certificate as Tnuco-tonsilitis.’ the funeral was public, and since then five more eas. s have broken out. The citizens deny indignantly that the disease is iliphtheria. saying it is only a serious case of sore throat. The disease is diphtheria. but the denial prevents the proper steps bemg taken to wipe out the disease." Finds His Father and a Fortune. John Shinn, the adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. George Shinn, of Muncie, is reported as having found a new name and fortune. A few months ago he accidentally overheard a conversation between Mr. and Mrs Shinn which ie-1 him to believe that they were not his parents, but that William H. Kirby, a real estate agent at M niphis. Tenn., was his father. The boy began an investigation that resulted in his meeting his father in Illinois. He confessed and stated that the boy’s mother and a twin brother resided in (’ovingtou. Ky.. and that he. the father, had left her several years ago. Later he had gone back with the object of stealing ’he twin boys, but only succeeded in getting one of them. The father then foa’i l the boy a home with the Shinn, family, and has never seen him sinceJ The i iiia ?’ also informe 1 the boy that x fortum' of Slc.iMMl awaits him by tb death of a relative in Cincinnati, and is snpuo-e,! to be there now. He also 1 a sister 'in re. and his brother Is in I ness in < 'wington. The young m-' an art’s', xnd was educated in Pittwhere th« Shinns came from. Entire Family Destroy’ Albert Bray, aged 3!L a r farmer, near Noblesville, cut of his- wife, of his 9-vear-ohl ' his 2-year-old daughter Edna self, between midnight and da., aiorniug. The wife au at once, but Bray, with f in his throat two inch’ inches iis length, livetl out regaining conseiov was done with a ras? an ax a .d crushed t tims sifter lie had them. Bray was ness in his fami embar ra ssmen t. All C ! A number e drilled near A Mrs. Jamr home in V/ A mad/ son of Ft Ephr? < Isgoo? train • forty lo r . n "Jl s . h : " l(l ‘‘nJ, w 1*,,, ■‘ixv/ “io /io hi