St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 22, Number 14, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 October 1896 — Page 2

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■IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE. •tmtistics Show Increased Quantities of Goods Shipped Abroad. The September statement of the principal articles of domestic export’issued by ths Bureau of Statistics shows as foll»W«i Breadstuffs, $17,054,222, against sll,100,547 last year; for the nine months inded Sept. 30, 1896, $115,424,088, Malnst $85,325,340; cotton exported. $16,m 0,103, against $4,925,015; mineral oils ■•sported, $5,491,190, against $4,677,572; •Tor the last nine months the gain in the •sports of mineral oils was about $7,180.000. The exports of provisions durM the last month amounted to $13,298,®B. as compared with $11,319,135; for •ice months, $120,987,647. nga'inst $112,460,923. The export of domestic merchandise amounted to $83,734,332, against $57,063,808; for nine months, $650,931,318. against $516,424,359. The Imports of merchandise amounted to $50,825,705, <■>• w: ich $20,884,028 was free of duty. The dutiable merchandise imported amoun d to $34,736,757, and that free ®f duty, $30,568,006; during the last nine^monti s, the imports of dutiable Bscrchaudfse was about $32,42(1,000 less than ihi.amount for the same period last year. .yire 'gold exports were $61,050, com^9*re<i with $17,424,065; for nine months, $55,570,421. against $73,190,282. Tho imports of gold aggregated $34,159,130, against $749,456; for nine months. $64,388,856, against $25.839,939 during ^he same period in 1895. Tho exports of silver amounted to $5,534.110. which is practically the same as was exported during September, 18'95; the exports for the nine months were*546,441,0-11. and for the corresponding months last year. $38,664,610. The imports of silver during September amounted to $741.G78, and for September, 1895, $1,781,193; for the nine months the imports aggregated $6,454,1537. as compared with $7,980,684. RISE IN WHEAT. Price Has Climbed front 54 to 72 Cents Within Six Weeks. Only one thing in Chicago is of more interest that. pcli:. s, and that one thing b wheat. At closing Thursday December wheat was quoted at 70’j. At the spelling Friday, and without waiting for s standing start at the previous day's figures, tb.e price was anywhere from 71^j -to 71’ b . It closed above 72. There is a big, broad, tirm market condition, old traders believe, that warrants the advance to figures that would have seemed impossible three months ago. “Dollar wheat before Christmas,” is the cry of the street. Certainly there is every indication of a heavy and substantial advance. Chief Minong the reasons for the bull feeling on the market is the fact- undoubted and unquesuoned-that American wheat is wanted abroad. Last year there was an almost total failure of the wheat crop in Australia. Almost ever since the occupancy of that region by the English. Australia has been a wheat exporting country. From those fields Western Europe has been to some extent fed every year for the last half-century. And last year Australia and all the neighboring provinces bought wheat. That demand did not seem to make a jreat deal of difference, because there was India, always with more wheat than »he know< what to do with—literally with wheat to burn. And there was the Argentine Republic in South America, whose broad wheat fields have been filling the ships of half a dozen seas and sending breadstuffs into half the European markets of the world. Both countries were glad of a chance to trade with a new customer, and many of the dealers in either country managed to square some acrounts with the shrewd traders of the Jouth seas, who had competed with them In past years. That made a difference, but it was not felt in America. When the crop in Argentina, however, was reported short, this year, dealers in Chicago and all over the country began to be interested. The reports were confirmed. Indeed, they were found to be but half the truth. The wheat crop of 1896 in the Argentine Republic was not simply short. It was a failure. Chicago traders began to profit by the intelligence. English traders at Liverpool refused to be influenced by the •tatement. But presently the news ol the failure of the crop* in India reached round the world, and then the price oi wheat weakened. That was along toward the end of Au gust—just two months ago. Wheat wai then 54 cents a bushel. The America! farmers were very blue. But late li August, just when the wheat had all beet L harvested, even to the crop of the Dako tea, when the thrashing machines ha<

finished their work in the southern sections and were working north, nnd proving everywhere that the quality of the wheat was excellent, nnd tho quantity more abundant than it had ever been .before right along then the price began ' to rise. Tho advance was very light at first. It would manage to get up a cent or two— ; though that was regarded os a startling thing, after tho years of Inaction, and * then it would slump, and the farmer ! would feel just ns the trader did that “it is the same old thing over again.” But • the conditions that were under it all, nnd 1 that not even the best in! 'lined can al I ways rightly gauge, very favorable for a steady nnd a big advance Ami it came, j Liverpool, the final arbiter of markets, I showed a eonfidom e in the r real, and the ' ' price went on climbing climbing till It 1 had left tho beggarly 5 1 cents of late August, ami had ] -c l the GO cent mark. I Sixty cent wheat! That vtas something li like to the farmer. w< nt to 65 i ! cents, nnd it did i t ■ .p there. Little ! ! traders all ov<r 1.'.0 v it in iittio 1 towns, nt the e: s-ing stores tall, d bet- • I ter times, better pi ■ < s 6 r whea - Tho > j buyers ot er d n: re T ■ fiirmcrs de j I mnuded more. And the lane wond h"'k t ! cd to America for wlo ;'.:. The extent of the sh> -tago . f the In . I dian crop is not y<; (• .'y km 'n. 11 may. ..unhappily, am.'■ 4to a famine {• may . ; equal the shortage in Argentina, nnd be ' less than half the er.>p of Australia <•? . course, nil that wmild bo very p; inble , and the American farmer would be v ry . to know that aux m" was hungry for . bread. But the Ameiman farmer would . have so ready a pre-, option f, r ti.o J malady that he would regard the com!; , tion with more or h--- pl, i ■- phy. after all. He would simply tomb the curative powers of good white wheat, firm in the confidence that it would relieve tho strongest case s-f fam.ne in tho world, , and bis fee would be but the ruling price of the grain In Liverpool. VENEZUELAN QUESTION. Administration Hopes to Soon Make an Advance in the Xryutiations. There Is every indieabon that the ad ministration hopes to be able by the time Congress meets again to report a sei sible ■advance in the mgotia.ions concerning the Venezuelan que-tl n. th ugh It searce- ■ iy can be said that then' is an expeeta- ' tion of a final settlemen’ of the dispute ' ; by that date. It was understood when the British am- ‘ i bassador went home o i leave of aLir e . it was the purpose of the British prem .-r 1 ; to make use of the opp u-tiinity to fir ■ with. Sir Julian, and it was presumed that i when Lord Salisbury 1 amo aequao i : with tho real siLiim-r.t of the people in i the I’nited States and tho fact that in : this matter there was little hope of a i change in the attitude of the Government ’ whatever the outcome of’the pending elections, he might be disposed to go fur- i ; ther toward meeting Secretary Olney than . at first seemed likely. Since Sir Julian has been in Ixmdon word has come of several conferences between himself and I.ord Salisbury, and it is finally expected that when he returns to Washington he will be charged with authority to offer compromise proposals which may in tho end prove to be the i basis for a final settlement of the trouble I (some boundary dispute. It^is expected, I too, that the Venezuelan boundary commission will have agreed upon its report before Congress meets and \he Conclusion reached may properly be used with great ’ weight by Secretary Olney to sustain his ’ position. As to the other question, relating to s the negotiation of a general arbitration , treaty, it is believed that not so much progress will be made as in the settlement of the boundary question, for the differa cnees disclosed to exist between the two ~ Governments appear to be of larger magnitude than the issues involved in the t boundary question, which after all are largely matters of fact. r FIRST IRRIGATION FAIR, e y All Kinds of Products Are Growing e on the Grounds. The first irrigation fair in tho history a of the world was formally opened Mont day in North Platte, Neb. Extraordinary ,t preparations had been made. Fields of e alfalfa, corn and all kinds of farm prodif nets are growing on the grounds, all d under irrigation ditches. In a park in one if part of the grounds can be seen grazing twenty head of buffalo, oik, deer and othi- er animals of the plains. On^another side .» can be seen a beautiful lake7 with pleasn ure boats of all kinds gliding gracefully n over its surface. Thia lake is fed by n one of the largest irrigatlofi ditches In the > world, Its length being forty miles, d breadth 100 feet

RICH WOMAN STEALS TURKEYS. End of n Series of Queer Theft* nt Columbia, Tenn. Mary Moore, n white woman of Columbia, Tenn., worth SSO,OtX) and tho owner • of GOO acres of fine land,- has been convicted for stealing six turkeys from a neighbor, and sentenced to one year in tho penitentiary An appeal was tnk^n to the Supreme Court. This is tho finale i of a most remarkable career, unrivaled In the history of the criminal courts of the State. Tin yiars ago (he woman and her husband, calling themselves Stone, camo frern K< ntucky, nought land in a good neighbor!) •rd nnd lived a secreted ■ life. I mined.a3 y thef: s .be nme nmner- i ous, incendiary fires followed, rumors I spread abroad, the husband died, vigilance cemm.ttei s were formed, criminal ; suits insulate.!, but cnn.- to nothing. At last ’he m ghbors ra di i the farmhouse nnd foufid a young woman, daughter in-1 law if M: Mourv. :u ; ;.-oned in a room | nnd i u ed to tiie > '-st treatment. ( Indignation I" ame mt use, and, at the I stealing of the turlo ; s was a sure cate, It w as t -'•lifted to t ' g. t live Moore wannn I ,i,to • a pi ui'.i iitiary nnd break up her | BRING GOLD FROM ALASKA His Port* of Minera If each 8 from the Yukon Country. Ono hundred nnd fifty people came in at S> attic. Wa^b. , on the Lakme from Yukon. Alaska, nud with them $2i»,600 in placer g"’d. The hup st amount was' by L. La I .. mmc, who nas over SIO,(MW. Mary had m veral th nr and dollars em h, and very few had less than six ouuces, ‘ SI(W. A Harrington. < Circle City, had m irA Sif’.iMMt. Two of n e returned pros peet rs are Sisters of the Good Shopherd. They came down with the rest of ; the miners and handed over their dust nnd took the money. They did not tell , iiow they got the dust, but some of the i miners probably donated it. Two other । women w ere passengers. This is the first I large party of miners to come dow n after > i the season’s work. Among the pas.eng, rs on the steamer ! Bertha, arrive,! from Ai.ukn, were J. E Spurr, 11. B. G > Irich and F. C. Schrn der, of tae Vio‘‘’d s ues G< .logical Survey. They wi re sent by the department to A! i.ka la-t spring " make a report on i the prospi is of quartz mimng in that ' region, and spent the tntire summer in ■ pursuing their i.vestlgat ons nnd observations. They have sati-fied themselves, .they say. that the prospects of profitable ; ■ quartz mining in Alaska are very good, ' and will make a report to that effect. There Is a big ledge running northwest ( and southeast thre-a 'he country simi- , •ar to the mother lode ;n California, nml they expect to see big mines opened on , the ledge before many years have passed. At present pincer mining is the only process in Vvgue on the Yukon and its tributaries. They declare that qvartz । mining can only be "mhi ted at great expense. but they believe that plenty of ore can be found of sufficient richness to make quartz mining not only a paying but a profitable venture. The chief obstacles ' to be encountered are mosquitoes and cold winters. • TERRORS FROM TEXAS.., Gimit UeiltiiiE** on 1 Heir Way XOrtll Aionu the Xtisni si; pl Va 1.-yf I The wise housewife would do well just now to lay in a plentiful supply of the most effectual insect destroyer. Accounts from the Southwest announce that a new kind of bedbug is on its way North along the Mississippi Valley. Monstrous in size, Its ability to bite is fully commensurate with its vast physical proportions. The alarming creature is well known in Texas, where it is sometimes called the “cone-nose.” It has a flat body, a pointed head and a strong beak. In color it is dark-brown. Its “buggy” odor j s even more intense and offensive than that of the ordinary bedbug. It flie 3 nt night, being attracted into open windows” by lights. In daytime it is not apt to resort to its wings, but runs so swiftly as to be very hard to catch or kill. Being so big, they take a good deal of blood from the human victim, but this is not the worst of it. Their bites are apt to produce serious and even alarming results The piercing of tie skin is accompanied by the injection of poisonous liquid or venom, making a sore, itching woun d, with a burning pam and sometimes swellings extending over much of the body. Lnfortunately it seems out of the question to control the multiplication of these insects and so keep down their numbers They pass the winter under the bark of trees and in other protected places where they are securely hidden. Only l n ’ snringtlme, when the adults take to fiviL hv night,, do tliey attack Jiuman bein 23 At that period the only way to e Scape them Is

by screening windows and doors. They are often found In poultry houses and sometimes assail horses In barns. In dwellings they have been observed In the act of feeding upon ordinary bedbugs, especially specimens already full of blood. AJA .^s^ \ ; v- & j A • Th® Lieut, r. ary d i t. t get that forty-ton meteorite. I ' h? ■•".• 'tded in bringing back another heavy 1 sure. The Spar, h ;•’ i f nip gn in Cuba is very simple. In imtner the troops fight the i f \. ;b, fall they go j into winter quarters. If marriage is - r tire, that Oklahoma m. a w i . i • ; \ t):e same woman thr< e ti . । -< ■ a! 'e to get it I pennanently through I. • head. | A I'. ns| ■ r ; f. I dead In a j public park w ; t?i irm A-r n one hand 1 . and a m m • • •" •r; (!.■ police are ; undecided as to ■ I. w .i: :i was used. An Amct -n ! u I rt - i that It has S'o'l six of its ' .vitmg n> ichlnes to Gen. Weyler. Now we expect to hear of a briliiatit ■ • s fSpin sh victories. A man in I>• ;a ■ O i", tr<l to walk ’on a river the o' •;• / and was nearly drowned. It 1 ■ will try it ngain some time m \t win l ■ •ae ■ Aperiim iit probably j will be successful. I he basel'ill p .i-mn Las -b'' 1 nnd Inten st Ls n-vii i in the -h 1; haired gentlemen dressed in tia'tr-ss.s who will shortly go out u; m the tie' I and proceed to kick cm h ot'aor’s ribs m, to the great delight of the spectators. REPORTS OF THE WORLD'S FAIR. I’resident Fulmer and His Associates Meet to Complete Their Work. rrcsitb :it Fulmer, of the World’s Fair mission, nml 1 s ns>mites on the (■.■mmittee on final reports assembled in W .sbington Thursday for a session of several day-., daring which the reports to the Tn srimit an 1 to Congress will be perfeeted. These reports will present a compl' te review of the accomplishments of the exposition. The report of the board of awards w. 1 make about twenty-five ■•volumes of 8(>0 pages each; that of the Direct"!- General ti n volumes; that of the I’eisident and Secretary two volumes, while the extent of the report of tho i ladies’ board is not yet determined. These, it is intended, shall constitute a permam nt hist ory nml memorial of what the exposition did. Its publication will depend upon Congress. The reports also w ill wind up the finan dal affairs of the national commission, nnd will show a balance In favor of the Government of about $24,000. SUES FOR 24 YEARS PAY. Annie Weir, nn Ex-Slave, Puts Her Former Master for $3,744. At Louisville, Ky., the trial of an interesting suit was begun in the Law and Equity Court Monday. Annie YV'eir, an ex-slave, seeks to recover $3,744 from William Weir, a sheet iron works pro- ’ ngietor, for twenty-four years’ services. She was born in slavery and adopted her master’s name. She says that after her emancipation sho agreed with Weir to remain with him as his servant with.ths understanding she was to be clothed, fed, and lodged for the rest of her life. She says, she remained with him and reared his children, but that after his second marriage she was discharged. This occurred Nov. 14, 1895. She seeks to recover judgment against Weir now at the rate of $3 per week for twenty-four years. , The defendant pleads the statute of limitation and also filed an answer making a general denial. Public Hanging in Kentucky. Bufford Overton was executed at Harlan, Ky., Monday afternoon for the murder’ June 21, 1895, of Gustave and Julia Loeb, two Jewish peddlers. Great crowds • gathered to see the hanging, which was Fn public. An effort was made by the condemned man’s friends to prevent the execution, but to guard against trouble Sheriff Grant Smith hart a large number of deputies sworn in. Women Selling Whisky to Indiana. Qne hundred women are engaged in selling whisky to the Osage, Otoe, Tonca and Creek Indians on the border of Okla^ homa. Deputy marshals report it is daup gerous for an officer to appear In thal country alone.

A HOLE A MILE DEEP. Deepest Excavation on Earth Is at I Calumet, Mich. A hole in the ground a mile de ep s This, tho deepest hole that has ever ' been dug in the earth, is in the shaft < of the Red Jacket copper mine at Calu- 1 ( met, Mich. This hole, now nearing ' completion after seven years’ work, has j ■ great scientific interest, because It tells ■ us some things subterranean which we didn’t know. Ihe Red Jacket shaft deserves to rank as one of the wonders of the modern world. It is a brilliant bit of engineering. The Eiffel tower created a sensation because of its prodigious height, and yet this Calumet hole in the ground could hold five Eiffel towers dropped in one after another. It had all along been thought that such a depth as the bottom of the Red Jacket shaft would have had a temperature that would boil an egg. This has been found not to be the case, however. Careful tests at the bottom have proved that the normal temperature at a mile below the earth's surface Is only 87.6 degrees Fahrenheit, about a fair August average in New York. At a A-vth of 105 feet the temperature was but 59 degrees, n is believed that experiments now under way will prove what depth the earth could bo penetrated before tho heat would be unbearable to a human being. Another remarkable fact is that the water found at the bottom of the shaft is most corrosive to the human body. Tho workmen have been compelled to wear heavy rubber boots, rubber coats, and masks to protect themselves. Besides being the deepest hole that has ever been dug, the Red Jacket I shaft is a most interesting underground | city. The opening is 15(5x25 feet inside the timbers and is cut through an adamantine formation of rock that will endure for ages. Giant timbers secure the transit ways for men and minerals, for water, and for the electric wires which tlhnninate the shaft from surface to bottom. Inside the timbers are six compartments, equal to tho working capacity of a dozen mining shafts of ordinary size. In four of the compartments will slip up and down the ponderous cages, carrying ten-ton loads of rock, and moving nt tlie speed of express trains. Up and j down in these cages will also ride the I hundreds of men who wfll work in the mint'. In one of the compartments will । bo tho great iron pump pipes. Into the last will bo forced the steady current of compressed air which runs the drills , ii mile below the engine bouse. I Tho elecetric light plant Is large enough to supply light to a dozen small cities. A telephone system connects । every point of the shaft with a great ! central exchange above ground. A network of wires stretches into tho । headquarters of the fire department : mar the opening of tiie big hole. Thousands of dollars have been spent to bring every part of the shaft within easy communication of the surface In case of a fire. The buildings above the shaft loom up as big as those of some small cities, i while the machinery would be sufficient to run half the street railway systems of New York. New York Journal. He Walked Behind. A Japanese diplomat once said to an American, “When I marry I take a head servant; when you marry you become one.” A man who recently visited Japan quotes a remark in a somewhat similar vein made by a Japanese interpreter. “I sat one day,” he said, “at the door of a dining-room ir. a hotel in Tokio where all kinds of foreign- ■ ers wore staying, and I watched them as they came in. The Frenchman t camo in with madame on his arm. i Then the Englishman came in so Iml- [ taring a pompous, self-important per- ' sonagc). And his wife? Oh, she came , after him like this (dramatizing a meek and timid woman following). And the j American husband? Tho American I husband? Oh, he's not in it. Madam i sails in ahead of him, and he Just 1 walks behind wherever sue goes.” Happy as a King. In some cases, the covetousness of • bibliomaniacs Increase with their col- , | lections. Mr. Heber, brother of the , | bishop, bought all the books that came ' in his way by cartloads and shiploads and in whole libraries, on which in some cases he never cast his eyes. Another collector would buy a book though he had twenty copies of it. The famous Antonio Magaliabccchi is said to have lived on titles aid indexes, and whose very pillow was a foho. The old bibliomaniac lived in a kind of cave made of piles and masses of books, with hardly any rcom for his cooking or for the wooden cradle, . lined with pamphlets, which he slung , between his shelves for a bed. He died । in 1714, In his 82d year, dirty, ragged , and as happy as a king. I Lulled Him to Best Anyhow. 1 Not long ago a venerable couple from a far western town arrived at night at a seaside resort, and, being weary, went at once to bed. Just as the husband was falling asleep he murmured: “Listen to the surf, Matilda; It’s glorious, worth the journey. I haven’t heard it for forty years.” In the morning they saw no sea from windows or piazza. On inquiry, the husband discovered that a bowling alley had lulled him to rest. Railroad Speed in Germany. Germany has made some bold experiments at railroad speed on the line between Berlin ami Gorlitz. The best performance was sixty-five and threefourths miles, which was twelve miles better than the highest speed of the fastest German train, the Berlin-Ham-burg lightning express, which does 177 H miles in three and one-half hours. Ordinarily German express trains make forty-eight and one-half miles an hour.

NORA AND BILL WERE WED. Bride Comments on the Lonely Lot of the Judge. “Bring In Nora Reeves and Bill Drake,” said Judge Berry of the Second division of the city court, and a look of solemnity settled upon the face of the young judicial officer as he prepared to perform his first marriage ceremony. “Your honor,” said Mr. D. R. Keith, one of the lawyers present, “I think this occasion should be made as brilliant as possible, and I hope your honor will appoint the attendants.” ‘‘You are right, Mr. Keith,” replied the judge, “and I think it would be nothing but proper for the sheriff to act as best man and for the clerk and Mr. Walker.to act as attendants.” These preliminary arrangements having been completed, the door was opened and Bill Drake, a simple-Koking negro, who wore drab-colored pants and a faded jacket of blue much too short for him, came snickering Into the room, followed by Nora Reeves, a great mountain of black flesh that loomed formidably above the little negro In front of her. 1111 'j been married?” asked the judge, turning to the man. “Yesser, I wuz married one time,” replied the negro. “Well, where’s your wife?” “She wuz daid. jedge, de las’ rime 1 heered sum her.” “And you haven't heard from her since?” “No, sah; nair word.” “Have you ever been married, Nora?” asked the judge, turning to the woman, She snickered, shook her head and laughed to herself. “Nora, take the arm of Bill," said the judge. “Oh, g’way, Jedge; I doan wan’ter tek de arm er dat ole nigger,” said the woman. There was much laughter at this throughout the court room, but Judge Berry repeated his command: “Take the arm of Bill.” “Have you got a license, Bill?” asked the judge, and Bill, from the inside pocket of his vest, pulled out a license. “Bill,” said Judge Berry, in his.most ministerial tone, “do yop recognize the wise dictates of Providence that it is not good for man to live alone, and also ■ that it is the duty of man to multiply and replenish the earth?” “Yasser, jedge,” said Bill, fervently. “Do you?” continued the judge, “take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to protect and cherish, to care for her in sickness and in health until death you doth part?” “Yasser, jedge.” “Nora,” said the Judge, turning to the woman, “do you agree to take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband for better or fdr worse, to^care for him In sickness and in health, to lovq, honor nnd obey until death you doth part?” The woman nodded her head, but her lips made no sound. “I now pronounce you man and wife,” said the judge, and some irreverent bystander said, in a low tone of voice: “And may the Lord have mercy on your souls.” The woman puckered up her mouth and poohed as she went out, and reaching the door, said: “I dunno why In do namer goodness dat jedge doan’ tak an git married hisses, das wat I dunno, an' him a talkin' ’bout de wise dictates er Providence.”—Atlanta Journal. Divorce and Insanity. Edgar#Saltus; a writer of novels who wants to be called a “generator,” and not a “degenerate,” has discovered that statistics compiled by the Germans show that insanity is ten times as frequent among divorced people of either sex, as among either those w’ho have remained in a state of single blessedness or have acquired the state of marital happiness.. From this, Mr. Saltus argues, that “divorces not only wreck the home, but sometimes wreck the intellect. Human affections are profoundly mysterious; the ties that association weaves are enigmatic realities; and when, through caprice, folly or sin, they are trampled on. it is nature that punishes and the killing of loye becomes the killing of reason.” Mr. Saltus' phrases sound pretty, but they are the veriest nonsense, written for the purpose of making copy. It is a deliberate putting of the cart before the horse. The German statistics only prove that it Is people who are not perfectly sound mentally who marry people they cannot live with happily ever afterward. Sane people have sense enough to marry a compatible companion, and grit enough to “grin and bear It” if they make a mistake. Unabash ed. When president of the court of appeal, Lord Esher, who used to keep up a running fire of “chaff” on learned co.unsel, sometimes got a Roland for his Oliver—as when a young barrister, in the course of argument, stated that no reasonable person could doubt one particular proposition. “But I doubt it very much,” said the judge. The youthful advocate, not one whit abashed, replied: “I said no reasonable person, my lord.” The Master of the Rolls could only gasp: “Proceed, sir, proceed.” Care of the Clothes at the Seaside. The woman who really succeeds in always looking trim and spruce and stylish at the shore is she who thinks it all carefully out beforehand. In her trunk will be>tucked away an iron and a small oil stove ready for use. 'Whenever the damp sea winds choose to ravage among her pretty things she Is a match for them. The arrangement of even the best of summer hotels is adverse to the keeping nice of the summer wardrobe. Every man is privately of ths opinion that his wife saves the bulk of her week’s housework to do on Sunday morning.