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tljc ^Democrat.
BROHSOH ft CASE, Publishers.
MANCHESTER, IOWA.
The newly discovered Eros Is a little
lore of a planet
Should the evil of a use of money
ever be healed In politics It won't hap
pen through the ordinary heeler.
A doctor admits that he kills incur
able patients. He's a wise doctor If
that is the only ltiud he ever kills.
The candy trust may be good thing
for the confectioners, but It will be
rough on the doctors and dentists.
The census of Cuba will necessitate
considerable more work than It would
had Weyler remained In charge of the
Island,
Why should remark be made about
Mark Twain residing In New Jersey?
He'd be a funny man if ho didn't live
somewhere.
Many of those who 'talk of boycott
would like to see the French Exposi
tion, but they can't shut their eyes to
the Dreyfus case.
It Is estimated that New York bur
glars secured booty worth $3,500,000
last year. They are not paying any
taxes on it either.
In our view of life It Is well to re
member that the Man With the Hoe
Isn't always the most miserable. It's
often the man who hires him.
•V
Occasionally we find a case where
man's friends:sugort him for office
because It's easier,"Slid cheaper than
supporting him In sora'c otUer way.
Comment is made that the dancing
masters have ordained that the waltz
shall be danced differently. Why
shouldn't they take stepB to uiodify
fashlons also?
The government^ Is to manufacture
Its own smokeless powder hereafter,
and of course It Is to be expected that
It will be more smokeless than that
Df any other nation on earth.
William Waldorf Astor Is reported to
have rejected a poem written for his
magazine by Rudyard Kipling. Mr.
Astor must have reasons for believing
that Kipling Is not to be made a lord
after all.
A common practical joke Is to pull a
chair away from a person who Is about
to sit down "Practical murder" Is
the more accurate phrase, for death
ir lifelong spinal disease may follow
the' cruel act
The world's production of gold last
year amounted In value to nearly
1295,000,000. That Is an enormous
sum, yet It Is a mere trifle In compari
son with the value of other products
tar less glittering. Thc'output of the
wheat fields makes that of the gold
mines seem poor Indeed.
It Is said that there Is no range long
enough to test the new British guns.
At this rate of progress it won't be
long before the nations can make war
in each other without going out of
their respective domains—It only re
mains now to perfect a projectile that
will go round a corner.
"Automobile" Is Indeed a mongrel
word, half Greek, half Latin, but hav
ing come Into general use, it has gain
ed nine points of the law, and may be
looked upon as a.fixture In the lan
guage. The disposition to shorten it
to "auto" Is nearly as vulgar as the
legradation of bicycle to "bike/'
Tennessee, Arkansas and all other
Bouthern States have developed natu
ral resources for the manufacture of
a. great variety of commodities for
which they are dependent on Northern
States. "More business, less politics,"
will tend to the abolition of all such
needless and costly Independence.
The waste of atmosphere Is the sub
|eet of an article by George J. Varney
In the Chautauquan. It Is to be hoped,
he says,, that all unnecessary pollution
Df the atmosphere and consuu^tlon of
Its life-giving principle will soon be
avoided and that the forests, which
conserve our water power and restore
oxygen to the atmospliere, will receive
that careful protection and nurture
which their Importance demands.
A Frenchman once classified Ameri
cans In Europe as "millionaires, snobs
snd tourists. The millionaires spent
their money freely and sometimes sac
rificed their daughters for titles. The
snobs were ashamed of their cnvn
country, and eager to be known as the
conpanlons of princes, dukes and earls.
The tourists were a mob of alght-seers,
out of whom money was to be made at
every turn." A satirical grouping,
based upon sufficient truth to some
what disturb national pride.
Life holds no greater pleasure than
Is the expenditure of energy in that
productive work the doing of which
Is a delight, to which one gives self
wholly that carries with It no sense
of weariness until Its ending to which
one goes with joy, and from Which one
goes with reluctance. Earth holds no
happier man or woman than one who
•o works, and no man or woman ever
(eels this pleasure or works thus de
lightedly who Is not doing the thing
tor which nature has best endowed
him or her with capacity. When task
and talent are In tune life's sweetest
chords are touched when not in tunc
they give out only jarring, rasping dis
cord. There Is a sublimation In such
work that leaves below It all that Is
sordid. Fortune or fame may follow,
but only as the Incident, not the end
for thought of compensation or of
men's applause is dwarfed by the
mere gratification of doing that which
one is conscious Is the best one can do.
The Salt Lake City judge who as
sessed a confessed poiygamist a $100
tine, which, by the way, was promptly
paid, was probably within the law
when be ranked the act of polygumy
as a misdemeanor only. It would be
pertinent to inquire, however, how long
It would take to rid the new State of
Utah of polygamy, root and branch,
.when those who break the statute are
let off with fines. Most of the Mor
nioji.s who are wealthy enough to take
an additional wife would not feel the
tax of a moderately heavy fine. There
Is something wroug when the laws
which were enacted before Utah could
be admitted as a State are thus prac
tically nullified.
The present scarcity of servant ginls,
which Is the subject of frequent and
somewhat exaggerated comment in the
newspapers, must Impress the thought
fill itudest of bousotiQld (WflMmto
with two facts: First, housekeeping as
a science Is fin- behind the Industrial
procession second, there is something
radically wrong In the relations exist
Ing between housekeepers and domes'
tic servants. As a matter of fact,
housekeeping Is the one business that
Is not fully abreast of modern econom
ical progress. It is In many of Its de
partments crude and unscientific. In
vention has furnished a few labor-sav
ing appliances, It Is true, but house
keeping has not yet been divested of
Its drudgery. It clings to traditions
and old-fashioned notions. The sci
ence of cookery has advauced, but of
what value arc the new culinary Ideas
and discoveries If no one can be em
ployed to put them Into practical use
in a home? Why does a girl leave the
domestic service of a comfortable home
at good wages to work In a store or a
factory for wages thut are scarcely
sufficient to pay her board? For two
reasons: Because In the store or fac
tory she Is not called a "servant," and
because Bhe works only ten hours a
day and six days out of the week,
which means to her "Industrial Inde
pendence." It Is very clear to anyone
who views housekeeping from the
standpoint of a cold business proposi
tion that the solution of the domestic
service problem lies in a readjustment
of the relations between the head of
the domestic establishment and the
housemaid. A f. more years of de
privation and hardship may be neces
sary to convince housekeepers of this
fact. It is believed by many that the
time Is coming when the housemaid
will be. employed on the same baBls
that girls and metr are employed In the
stores that they will report for work
at a certain hour In the morning and
quit at a certain hour In the evening,
sustaining to the household only the
relations of an employe and forming
no part of the domestic circle. The
employe •will no longer be called a
"servant"—a name that should be obso
lete In free America—but will be on a
social equality with all other classes
of wage-earners, resting under no stig
ma of servitude. Whether It Is com
ing to this or not it cannot be denied
that no progress toward a solution of
the problem can be made that does not
start with a correct ascertainment of
the reasons that impel a girl to leave
domestic service to accept employment
In other lines of Industry.
''jj
CIGARS FROIM THE PHILIPPINES.
Cheap Grades Are Being Brought Here
by Returning Soldiers.
Time was, before the dusky little
Cubans began their tost efforts to
throw off the Spanish yoke, that a Ha
vana cigar with a Manila wrapper was
one of the choicest weeds that an ex
quisite could place between his lips In
the way of a smoker. As Havana fill
ers became scarce, owing to the Insur
rection, other tobacco was substituted
for your "15-centers" and the Manila
wrappers also went to the boards to a
large extent.
Then Gen. Charles King came back
from Manila with a private stock of
Manila-made cigars, pure and undefil
ed. They were done up each In its
suit of shining tin foil to preserve the
moisture. Gen. King extolled their
virtues, and passed them around
among his friends. They did not like
the flavor at the start, but the cigars
had a faculty of growing Into favor,
even after Gen. King had given out
lie Information that they were "2-cent
ers" away over there In Manila. Now
the Information comes from Dresden
that the German smokers are getting
up next to the pUre Manilas, and that
they are Bold In that city for 0 pfen
nigs, or'about 1% cents each.
When Gen. King's attention was call
ed to the price at which the Manila ci
gars were selling In Dresden he. ex
pressed no surprise. "I wrote a letter
to the Sentinel in which I stated that
good cigars in Manila sold at 1 cent
each," said Gen. King. "I can con
ceive how they can be sold at Dresden
for 1V4 cents each, notwithstanding
the cost of transportation and the fact
that the manufacturer has to make his
profit. For*2V4 cents 1 obtained as
good a cigar as 1 care to smoke as
good, in my opinion, as the 15-cent ci
gar here In Milwaukee. You may not
be able to detect the delicate flavor of
the Vuelta Avajo of Cuba In It, but
you are' getting an honest, well-made
and unadulterated weed.
"The army officers at first did not
take kindly to the Manila cigars, but
they soon grew to like them. The only
reason we see so little of the Manila
cigars In this country is that it costs
just r.s much to import a cheap Ma
nila cigar as It does to import the more
expensive Havands, the customs du
ties being levied by the pounds and
not by the cost price of the article.
In this way a 2-cent Manila becomes
a 15-cent cigar when it reaches New
York or Chicago or Milwaukee and
people will probably prefer a good Key
West for some time to come."—Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Intricacies of the Ijflnguagc.
"Zee Amerlcaine language ees one zat
ees aslly comprebendez, I don't zlnk,"
said the French boarder to the young
man who never eats veal.
"You seem Inclined to kick about It."
"Oul. I am notations making of zq
leetle oddities zat I encounter In ze
vat -you call orthography."
"Yes?"
"Oul. You spell s-h-o-e?"
"We do."
"And blue, b-l-u-e?"
"Exactly."
"And shoeing s-h-o-e-i-n-g?"
"Well, what of It?"
"And bluing, b-l-u-l-n-g?"
"Well, haven't we a right to?"
"Oui. But why are you so economi
cal as to smuggle out de leetle In blu
ing and make him so conspicuous In
shoeing? Ah! Zat Is where I has got
you!"
An Arctic Bill ot* Pare.
The Arctic region Is no place for epi
cures. The men who explored Franz
Josef Laud under the command of F.
G. Jacksoh were by no means dainty In
their tastes, but their leader tells us,
in his diary, that during the long win
ters, when the birds had" migrated to
the south, monotonous was not the
word to describe the bill of fare.
We arc none of us In love with wal
rus meat. It Is very tough, coarse and
dark in color, and has a distinct flavor
of iodine. Every day I am having all
the blood of the animals killed kept
and frozen. Every day a pound or so
of the frozen blood Is chipped out with
an axe and added to our soup. The fat
of the walrus we find peculiarly un
pleasant.
I should like to place either walrus
or bear, cooked a l'Arctlc, before a
Loudon club man, and be privileged to
watch his expression and hear bis re
marks.
Whistle on
Ekb
Cooker.
A new English invention for boiling
eggs consists of a little canister which
cau be placed In a pan, which is fitted
with a basket to hold half a dozen eggs
at a time. As soon as the eggs are
properly cooked the apparatus whistles
loudly and continues to whistle until
token out ot the pun.
PROFIT AND LOSS.
When the administration gets ready
to make a report to the people as to the
profit and loss of the policy of imperial
ism, how will the account stand? Cer
tainly not in favor of a policy which
burdens the nation with taxes and
gives no adequate return.
In 1890 the national receipts were
$403,080,982 and the expenditures $318,
040,710, and the army and navy cost
the Government $60,589,044. How docs
the account stand for the present fiscal
year? The receipts were $515,960,620
and the expenditures $605,072,179, of
which $293,785,359 went for the army
and navy.
While McKlnley's administration has
increased taxes and raised the revenue
In every possible way, the deficit this
year amounts to $89,111,559. Taxes
have been Increased 27 per cent, by the
Ke|-llilU-au administration, and the
expenditure has doubled since 1890.
Not only this, but the interest-bearing
debt of the Government has grown
from $600,000,000 to $1,182,149,050.
Now, what has McKinley to show for
this enormous Increase in debt and
taxes?
The war with Spain ended more than
a year ago. Tills nation Is supposed to
be at peace wlt]i all other nations, yet
war expenses go on at an Increased
Wt»v»
What the FluMeans.
President McKlnley says the flag
will not mean one thing In the Philip
pines and another thing in the United
States. Well, that sounds all right,
but what does the flag mean In Hn
wailV It means that slavery flourishes
under the stars and stripes. The
sugar barons have Instituted a feudal
imperialism in Hawaii and the laws
they have made are upheld by the Su
preme Court.
Rabbi M. S. Levi, of San Francisco,
who has just returned from Hawaii,
confirms this statement as follows:
"Slavery and Involuntary servitude of
the most degrading type exist In the
Hawaiian Islands to-day as a means
for the enforcement of contracts
made by laborers to work on the sugar
and coffee plantations. Thirty-six Ga
llclans, subjects of the Austrian Em
pire, are now confined in Oaliu prison,
Honolulu, because, they refused to
longer comply with the onerous condi
tions Imposed on them by their own
ers. They were convicted of 'desert
ing contract service,' and were sen
tenced- to Indefinite Imprisonment.
They can gain release only by buying
their way out of prison or going back
to the cane fields."
What does the flag mean In the Phil
ippines? It means government with
out the consent of the governed, taxa
tion without representation nnd a war
of Imperialistic conquest. What does
the flag mean In the Sulu Islands? It
means that slaves there can secure
their freedom by paying $20 to their
masters. Lacking tills, the slaves re
main subject to the tyranny which
ended In the United States when Lin
coln Issued his emancipation procla
mation.
Truly, President McKinley was more
poctlc than truthful when he gave
that rhetorical recital as to what the
flag. means.—Exchange.
Hope Only in the Democracy*
Never before since the dawn of the
republic have greater dangers beset its
integrity. Moneyed greed, combined
and entrenched under the protection of
the Republican party, Is fast marching
toward the overthrow of the commer
cial and political freedom of the
masses. An oligarchy of wealth Is lay
ing siege to the underlying principles
of government by the people. Militar
ism is raising its mailed band to strike
down the basic enunciations of the dec
laration of Independence, that all men
are born free and equal, and that the
power to govern resides In the consent
of the governed. The Republican party
Is in league with the allied enemies to
sacred principles and traditions that
have successfully withstood foreign
wars and domestic shocks for more
than a century. To the Democratic
party the nation looks for emancipa
tion from the evils which threaten its
perpetuity, and for continuance In the
faith and practices of the fathers. Vlie
Democratic party must rise to Its op
portunity. It must show a united and
unbroken front to its foes and the foes
of the country. Let It throw away feud
and selfishness, and with harmony and
unity on Its banners courageously
march to the rescue of the American
people from the perils that threaten.—
St. Louis Republic.
Mark's Kn*y Game.
Of course Senator Hnnna does not
expect to explain why, under the Mc
Ktnleyadniiul»w»tlwii truvt* Jwve btw
permitted to become tremendously ag
gressive and why no effort at all has
been made to enforce the Federal law
against them. Senator Hanna Is satis
fied to luanuever merely. He does not
seem to think sincerity a fnctor of any
Importance. The public, he assumes,
will be entirely satisfied 'with platform
promises, and while denunciation In
choice English will be made against
trusts in
id combines, the party can look
with confidence to contributions Of a
money kind from the aggregations thus
denounced.—Chicago Chronicle.
Too Vnch for Kcetl.
"Whatever may happen," significant
ly says ex-Speaker Reed In his letter,
printed tills morning, to Ills old con
stituency. "I am'sure the First Maine
District will always be ti'ue to the prin
ciples vf liberty, self-government and
the rights of man." This, read between
the lines, is an effective "side-winder"
for the McKlnley administration,
which, iu its Philippine dcbauch, has
shamelessly betrayed all three of these
fundamental principles of American
government. Taken In connection with
Mr. Reed's late utterances on the Phil
ippine situation, reported "In the New
York Tribune (Imperialist), these
words of the Maine statesman are
doubly significant. But they are by
no means the only high significant
ENQAQEHENT FOR ONE NIUHT ONLY!
Hnnna mid McKinley (on the inside)—You ian't holler down our rniu' barrel.
•-Columbus PS-ess-PoBt
scale. It will be difficult for McKlnley
to make "his profit and loss account bal
ance. The'people of the United States
are patriotic', but they are not Imperial
ists, and tliey will not long approve of
a policy which costs much more than
it comes to.—Chicago Democrat.
words contained In the latter. "Of
fice/' continues Mr. Reed, "merely as
'a "ribbon to stick in* your coat,' is
worth nobody's consideration but of
fice, as opportunity, is worth all con.
slderatlon." Mr. Reed, being opposed
to the McKlnley Philippine policy of
subjugation, laid down his high office
as Speaker and retired from Congress
—it was said at the time for 'the puiv
pose of money-making, but as gener
ally believed, chiefly because the Re
-publlcan administration had committed
Itself to a policy' which he held to be
opposed to "the principles of liberty,
self-governmeu nnd the rights of
man."—Grand Rapids Democrat
Advanced, Even for Jingo.
The copperhead of the present day
Is under the delusion that the princi
ples of the declaration of independence
apply to savages and half-civilized
men, and therefore apply to the Fili
pinos, who are utterly Incapable of
self-government. When Jefferson wrote
the declaration of independence he
was writing about civilized men capa
ble of self-government. He had no
thought of slaves or savages. The
best way to civilize savages Is to sub
jugate them. That was God's way In
the days of Joshua, and it is the only
sensible way at the present time.—
Braddock (Pa.) Herald.
Publicity for the "rint*.
As the trust corporations are the crea
tures of the State, it is the right and
duty of the State to compel them to
publish the condition of their finances
and business. The knowledge concern
lug the financial condition of many an
overcapitalized trust to be obtained:
from compulsory publicity would cause
its collapse without the necessity of
other legislation ou the part of the
State or the general government What
Is wanted Is light to reveal the secrets
of trade conspiracies against the .pub
llc.—Philadelphia Record.
Alger a Patlictlc Spectacle.
Alger allowed himself to be crowded
out of the Cabinet on account of his
Senatorial ambitions. Now he has
quit the Senatorial raoe. It would be
a hard-hearted person who would not'
feel pity for, this man, who went Into
office little more than two yenrs ago
with magnificent opportunities nnd
bright prospects, who Is now out of
politics with all his ambitions shatter
ed. Whether be is a victim of his own
lust for power or of the Intrigues of
the Washington bureaucrats does not
matter. He presents a pathetic specta
cle.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
CllnsinK to O'd Doctrine.
At the risk of being charged with
lack of "patriotism" a large number of
people continue to assert that the doc
trine of the consent of the governed
lies at the bottom of the government,
which Is democratic In spirit. In a des
potism, or In any government resting
on force alone, consent Is not nsked.
But when, until the present, has doc
trine of consent been challenged In
America?—Des Moines Leader.
!n1y a tarter."
The Chinese government has lodged
at Washington a dignified but very
earnest protest against Gen. Otis' order
extending the Chinese exclusion a$t to
the Philippines. This is a mere sug
gestion of the International entangle
ments Into which the policy of benevo
lent assimilation by bullets and mili
tary orderB Is likely to bring this hith
erto untroubled country of ours.—New
York World.
Don't get the Idea Into your head that
matrimony and poker are affgrawted
evlli,
MONEY IN KEEPING GOATS.
They live on Next to Nothing nnd
Are a Fource of Good Profit,
Uncle Samuel's Department of AgrU
culture. In seeking out new fields of
husbandry for the,American farmer,
has completed a curious and Interest
ing Investigation into the possibilities
of an Industry highly profitable abroad,
but Ignored In this country—that of
goat raising for skins, fleece, milk,
cheese and by-products. In a report
the Department offers this slighted in
dustry as a means by which the farm
er can increase his prosperity and In
cidentally enrich his soil without cost.
The department says that the condi
tions of climate, land and labor In
most of the States of the Union afford
almost unlimited natural facilities for
young MALe
Goats
months Fieeet
the successful prosecution of this In
dustry.
We use In o&r manufactures a con-,
stantly Increasing amount of goat
skins, but we produce comparatively
none ourselves. Last year over 32,000
tons, or 65,000,000 pounds, of goat skins
was brought in, chiefly at New York,
and the average price In New York
was 40 cents a pound, or a total valu
of $26,000,000. At four pounds to the
skin, the average weight of dry skins,
It requires the slaughter of 16,226,700
goats and kids to yield the skins Im
ported last year. This represents live
flocks of foreign goats aggregating
from 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 for our
present supply of marketable goat
skins alone. If all the goats In this
country were kept solely to supply
skins for market they would fall to
supply even an Insignificant fraction
of the present demand.
The total number of goats In the
United States Is only about 500,000,
and one-lialf of these are In Texas.
One-half of tlie total number alBO are
of Angora fleece-bearing stock, con
fined chiefly to Texas, Oregon, New
Mexico, California, Colorado and Ne
vada. Few, If any, goats In the Unit
ed States are raised for their skins.
The cost of keeping goats is less than
for any other animal. They graze up
on coarse herbs that are not eaten by
any other stock, such as lronweed,
dock, mullein, briars, buds and broken
sprouts. The ease with which all
breeds of goats can be kept fits them*
for many mountainous portions of our
country where sheep cannot be sus
tained to advantage, while their ability
FeMALe GOATS 5 KONTHwTJSce
and disposition to defend themselves
against dogs give to them another
great advantage over sheep. They are
free from all diseases to which sheep
are liable, are hardy and prolific, nnd
experience has proven that they are
adaptable to all parts of the United
States. The feed of one cow will keep
twelve goats. Cows must have certain
food or they will not thrive. Goats
will eat anything, almost, and still do
well, and they have this great advan
tage a!$o that their milk is not in any
way affected by their diet.
The goat, is a reliable and lifelong
botanical scavenger, and can be de
pended upon to destroy the many un
desirable products of cultivated and.
fallow lands—the abundant and per
sistent weedy vegetation which so In
cessantly besets the cultivated crops.
Over 42 per cent of the land in farms
In the United States Is unimproved,
amounting to over 205,000,000 acres,
against 375,000,000 acres Improved.
Thus Is presented a vast field for se
lection of favored localities In every
part of the country, nnd much of the
field especially Invites the primitive
occupation of herding, which precedes
and prepares the way for agriculture,
with'Inestimable benefit to the soil. In
the aggregate, millions of acres of
land, at present poor, rough, rocky and
busby, distributed through nearly all
the States, call for subjugation and en
richment through nnlmal occupation,
preferably of the goat. They will fur
nish In abundance such forage as la
suitable and preferable for goats. And
under such conditions whatever profit
can be derived from herding goats will
come near being a total profit. Wher
ever foul land Is regularly pastured by
goal# for a few years It becomes clean,
weedless and busbless, and being even
ly fertilized by them also, It usually
runs naturally Into nutritious grasses.
Gone Into Retirement.
Within the last forty or fifty years
novels have undergone an extraordi
nary change, partlcularlyln their hero
ines. This change In novels and their
heroines is due, in a great measure, to
the change in women themselves.
These have ceased to be the romantic,
sentimental, artificial beings they
were even thirty years ago, and their
reflex In fiction has been discontinued,
The heroine of the period Is not satis
fled to look pretty and obey the fixed
rules of etiquette nor Is the actual
woman so satisfied, cither. The act
ual woman wants to be somebody, to
do something, to take some part In life
and she Is and does, even If surround
ed by luxury and bulwarked by Influ
ential friends. Many of the novels of
the old type were weakening, if not
demoralizing. Not so with the later
novels, those of the present especially.
The better kind are Intellectual, en
couraging, 'stimulating, In a good
sense, and teach vnluable lessors of
life.
'L' Quaint Epitaph In Wales.
In a churchyard In Flintshire an epi-.
taph In memory of Hugh Hughes, high
sheriff In 1743, says of that worthy
functionary that In private life "his
manner was constantly to attend the
public worship as by law established,
heartily to declare against the upstart
sect of the brainsick Calvtnistlc Meth
odist that would linvc taken men off
from It timely to compose differences
between neighbors ere they became
exasperated. By which behavior he
wad valued when living nnd when
•lead much lamented."
As soon ob a man saves up a few dol
•tirs, be begins to lie about 111 a ances
tor*,
TRICKS TRIMMING.
NEW ONES USED ON HOUSE
GOWNS.
Flat Trimming* Afford Excellent
Chance for Vnriety and They Are
Many Times Ke-cn forced by Elabor
ate Stitching.
New York correspondence:
RIGHT colors In
clotli nre ordered for
bouse gowns as a
change from the deli
cate shades that have
recently been the
rule. Red, a favorite
all summer and fall
for outing gowns, is
made up in cash
mere, camera hair
and light broadcloths
for home dresses, and
is very pretty. Sim
plicity. ot outline
reigns in all gowns
for the house, and the
simplicity of princess
line Is especially In
favor. Shown here
is a stylish house
dress of scarlet cash
mere dotted with black silk. The gown
was laid in pleats from the edge of the
short zouave bodice. Between the pleats
white silk was covered with black lace,
and white silk rovers to the zouave turn
ed back to show a crossway pleated front.
The zouave was of the cashmere. Every
thing about such a dress tends to empha
size height andslenderness.
Criticism of the present liking for flat
trimmings Is occasional, and usually
takes the form of declaring that it gives
no chance for variety. The facts are
quite the contrary. Flat trimmings afford
an excellent chiinco for individuality, aud
if a woman only chooses wisely her gown
will not be chargeable with sameness.
While fashion indorses a-plenty of sorta
of flat trimmings, it also provides a fine
re-enforcement for any of them in the
permission to use stitching freely. Stitch*
ing means much more than it used to,
and now includes many ornamental treat
ments. Among them is threading with
narrow ribbon, which is especially pretty
for simple hoiise dresses. Basket-weave
soft wool materials lend themselves
charmingly to such finish. In the next
illustration is a gown of apple green bas
ket cloth dotted with lavender and
threaded over-and-over stitch In rows,
narrow lavender velvet being used. A
belt of lavender ribbon gave the final
touch. The same Idea carried out in a
warm golden browu and bright green
threading would be pretty.
Skirts with a shaped piece or round
Blue silk showed through Irish lace In
yoke aud collar. The dress offered no
strikingly new feature, but no last year's
gown would sport so long a train, and no
gray of last season would have the soft
pinkish tinge of this one.
Directolre fashions keep pushing for
ward. Each season finds women delight
ed with some example of that period, yet
no season pledges fashionables to all its
characteristics. Now that long cloaks
are to be so popular the directolre cut
supplies a very handsome model, which
may be either cloth or silk, and In black,
gray, mode, brown or white. It is pic
tured here. The boxy high collar at the
back and the fluff of directolre frills in
front always please those women who
first look to throat finish, as so many
women do. Then such a stunning many
lapped shoulder cape squares off the
shoulders in a way that many admire. A
belted directolre coat In black taffeta
lined with some bright color and finished
RKV1VED FROM THE LAST CENTURY.
with frill, scarf and triple cape will be
a useful calling and carriage garment,
and in some cases will be made boned
like a bodice. For a slender figure the
sweeping uubelted cloak is more graceful.
Copyright, 1800.
Rubber In Getting Scarce. ...
The popularity of bicycling has cre
ated a great demand for rubber, and as
a consequence the commodity is be
coming scarce and the need of Economy
In its use is imperative. It may not
be generally known that the India rub
ber dolls, nnlmaU and other toys used
by children in many cases began their
commercial existence in the form of
bicycle tires. All our India rubber toys
come from Germany, and several en*
\w\
NEW TBIOK8 IN ORNAMENTING CLOTH GOWNS.
flounce set ou at the foot remain among
the graceful ones. They meet the de
mand for oversklrt outline and at the
same time accomplish the close fit to the
knees or below, with the designed foot
flare from there down.- The finest of new
model dresses are arranged in this way.
One of them is sketched here. It was
cloth In two shades of greeu. The rouud
foot-flounce of hunter's green cloth was
headed by a scrolled strap, the cloth of
the skirt above being stenciled in. oak
leaves to show apple green silk lining,
and the apple green silk yoke was lattic
ed over with hunter's green velvet rib
bon. Such a dress with a rough light
green felt knotted with dark green velvet
will make a charming fall calling gown,
and will serve later within doors.
There Is little likelihood of a return to
changeable silks and cloths, but there is
a strong current fancy for dotting with
color, or for goods of dull shade shot with
a brilliantly contrasting color. Scarlet
nnd other shades of red are most often
employed for the dash, though now nnd
then a bright scarlet or warm dark red
la shot with black, blue or brown. From
GRAY BUT PLAINLY NKW.
the use of this class of goods comes a
new fancy in trimming. It is illustrated
by the third dress of this picture, whose
material was golden browu cloth shot
with yellow silk. Bunds of burnt yellow
cloth trimmed it as indicated. Their dis
posal was not especially uow, but the
color scheme was an innovation and an
attractive one.
Bodices are often elaborately laid with
straps to simulate a short etoh or zouave,
and though the collar itself is then likely
to be perfectly plain nnd of choker va
riety some elaboration of scarf is usual.
The device pictured here is one easily re
produced. It was merely a black satin
handkerchief tied in sailor knot, the poiut
of tlie handkerchief hanging at the back.
The ends may fall to the waist in front
and a black handkerchief may be used
even when black does not appear else
where in the costume.
Gray cloth has survived the vogue of
early spring and of all summer and re
appears In delicate shades for reception,
cnlliug and church gowns. No color
seouis to lend itself 60 well to the sheath
fit, aud while none of the newest of these
dresses discloses radically new fashions,
there still nre sure ways of telling easily
the new gray gown from the old. Take
the one pictured here in the third sketch,
for instance. Its gray broadcloth was
laid in a series of folds about the bust
line, others outlining a cuirass bodice
passing about the hips, aud lower skirt
W4 tMtori tad tamoutoiH nlltf,
terprlslug English shippers have found
that the shipment of old, worn-out tires
to the German factories Is a very prof
itable business. During the past two
years tons of old rubber, that used for
merly to be thrown away or remade
Into cheap doormats, have been ship
ped to Germany, and sent back trans
formed Into elaborate and gaudy
squeaking dolls, elephants, and other
toys.
Though rubber Is, used for a wider
variety of articles than any other mate
rial, more rubber was used last year In
the manufacture of bicycle tires than
for any other purpose, and the demand
for rubber is now permanently in ex
cess of the supply. More than 800,000
pairs of tires were made in England
during the last season, and It is Impos
sible to make them of any but the very
best rubber.
••aved from Lois.
Some time ago a man having two
hundred and sixty dollars In fresh gov
ernment notes put the roll of money
Into the pocket of his nightshirt upon
going to bed. He went off the next
morning without thinking of what he
had done, and his wife sent the gar
ment that day, with other articles, to
a steam laundry.
Before the man realized It, his money
was being churned In the great wash
tng-macliine, nnd it had already been
soaked In soap-suds. The bills were
found reduced almost to pulp, and yet
the experts In the redemption division
of the Treasury at Washington, where
they were sent, could pick out enough
pieces, bit by bit, to be sure of their
number and denominations.
They then gave the man new bills In
place of those which had been so near
ly destroyed, for this Is one of the
duties of the redemption division.—
Youth's Companion.
The Size of the Ocean,
The Pacific covers 08,000,000 square
miles, the Atlantic 30,000,000, and the
Indian Ocean, Arctic and Antarctic
42,000,000. To stow away the contents
of the Pacific it would be necessary to
All a tank one mile long, one mile wide
and one mile deep every day for 440
years. Put In figures, the Pacific holds
in weight 084,000,000,000,000,000,000
tons. The Atlantic averages a depth
of not. quite tiliree miles. Its waters
weigh 325,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and
a taukto contain It would have each of
its sides 430 miles long. The figures of
tlie other oceans are In the same star
tling proportions.
Peculiar Lnwn Mower.
A gentleman living In a suburban
town brought a lawn mower home one
evening, anil the next morning was out
early testing It. His little 4-year-old
daughter hearing the noise ran to the
window to Investigate, and, after gaz
iug at It In astonishment for a moment,
exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, papa's tut
tln' ze gwass wlz your tarpet sweeper!"
Mr. Gladstone's price for a review
wns $1,000.
Ituskln's sixty-four books bring him
In $20,000 a year.
People are becoming very tired of
the men wbo ar« aottitu^ but patriotic
a
An Unanswerable Pamphlet,
In all the literature of the crime o4
1873, nothing is worth as much a
si
Branson C. Kecler's pamphlet, Qxln&i
as It does, the fact that a Unlteff
States Senator, John Sherman, In act
Ing as Rothschild's agent in perpe
trating the crime, used tactics sucb
as put him on a level with three-card
monte dealer. 'I have been trying to
gather physical strength enough and
to get time enough to point out that
pretended silver papers are telling us
that the tariff Is the mother of the
trusts! Why, then, did we not have
trusts before complete demonetization
and In the long life of tariffs that Is
behind us? Those papers want to keep
us from attacking the real enemy.
World prices depend on the amount
of gold nnd silver coin In circulation,
Mr. Keeler has stated the question
«o clearly that I will not repent It I
will, however, as many times before,
quote Gouge, who Iu 1835 snld. In sub
stance, "Rculove the cause don't fight
effects." Trusts are not alone business
affairs they are a political conspiracy
for disfranchising the- farmer. The
manufacturer was one of the first and
greatest sufferers from demonetliar
tlon. He should and did naturally op
pose It. But the Rothschild ring said,
"Do as we do combine and rob." Now
this Is the situation The factory own
ers must get In a trust and "hold up"
the consumers, and vote the Repub
Ucan (un-Republlcan) ticket. The la
borers, by working for and voting with
the trusts, "get rid of their crown of
thorns and crucifixion. (Those thrown
out by consolidation get In the road,
tall from car trucks and are run over
or die of hunger And exposure.) Large
sales and wide distributions of trust
stocks bring In more voters from self
interest. The farmer must raise and
sell twice as much as before to pay the
high -prices, and the railroads charge
hi the same rates per hundred or ton,
and so we have "largely increased rall-
road earnings," sign of "prosperity."
As the German farmer on the Rhine,
who has a picture of the noble, the
soldier and all the other "six condi
tions" living on him, and says, "Now,
God, have mercy on me If I must sup
port thsso six," so may our farmers
say.* In Washington's farewell addre
he warned against party slavery, but
though common sense alone would
drive every farmer out of the nn-Re
publlean trust-making party, party
slavery will keep some of them in.
'iTusts will raise the prices of every
thing the farmer buys, and demonetl
zatlon lower the price of everything
he °"Ms. Every railroad employe, every
trust-factory employe, all the bank
slave merchants, all the trust-stock
owners will vote the un-Republlcan
ticket But the farmers could down
them all if they wonld unite. "Unite
or Die" our revolutionary fathers chose
for tlielr motto. The un-Republlcan
party in its platforms declares against
trusts. It is also in favor of remone
tiling sliver. McKlnley was elected
on the latter platform. Unanswerable
Mr. Keeler has only one vote.—George
Wilson.
"Value** Of Monejr.
The lawful debt paying valne of
coined money always has and always
will have a powerful effect intending
tp maintain the approximate equality^
but never can maintain the precise
equality In the exchangeable value of
money, made of gold or silver, when
put under the hammer test or In th*
melting pot
As an advocate for the restoration of
silver at the existing coinage ratio of
10 to 1,1 firmly hold to the opinion that
when we restore tlie full legal tender
power to our silver dollar, Its valne as
bullion will rise and gold will fall.
The existing commercial value of
these two metals Is now very far from
being a fair test of the proper coinage
ratio, while In 1792 It was a fair test
This is mainly on account of silver
having been so extensively outlawed
by so large a portion of the commercial
world for the past, twenty-five years.
Tlie assertion so frequently made that
silver has fallen .In exchangeable
value, when compnred with gold, on
account of the relative annual over
production of silver, Is false, as can be
readily seen by a reference to the- of
ficial aud universally accepted statis
tics of the relative production of these
metals In the world during the past 100
years.
Many of the commercial nation of the
world would, In all probability, soon fol
low our example, and the wide and mis
chievous chasms now separating the
two metals would be bridged by our
financial leadership. Some difference
will always exist as the history of
coinage has always shown, but It will
not be so mischievous as to cause a
disastrous fall in prices as our present
system has done.
it Is a mathematical question con
cerning which there can be no fair dis
pute. The comparatively great sta
bility in the relative exchangeable
value of our coined money from 1792
to 1874, was secured simply because
the United States permitted tbls legal
tender value to remain 'as a sacred and
potent regulator, given to us by our
forefathers, and happily we also had
the cooperation of almost the entire
commercial world, as our -mints, as
well as theirs, were open to the coin
age of both metals on equal terms.
When Congress commenced to tam
per with this full legal tender function
of stiver in 1873, by making the gold
dollnr alone "the unit of value" and
stopped the further coinage of full
legal tender silver, and on June 22,
1874, demonetized all of our existing
full-weight sliver coins as debt payers,
except to the exteut of $5, the mis
chief wns then commenced, and. has
never been entirely corrected.—John
A. Grler.
In General*
It guards against dampened conrage
to keep your powder dry.
Don't wait until the last minute and
try to enter heaven on the strength of
your epitaph.
The man who doesn't consider him-'
self a specialist nowadays mnst be
very modest.
Ellas Howe, the Inventor of the sew
ing machine, realized over $2,000,000
from bis Inventions.
There Is a tradition In many parts of.
Europe that when a serpent's sight
grows dim with age he eats fennel, and
thus regnlns his vision.
Harvcylzed steel armor has become
synonymous with the Inventor's name,
and It brlng& an annual Income of huge
proportions to its discoverer.
It Is continued temperance which sus
tains tlie body for the longest period
of time, and which most surely pre
«erve* It frw from slckneis.—W. Hun*
W«.