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LIBERTY, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1891.
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CARDS-PROFESSIONAL. Etc
GEO F.WEBB,
Attorney at Law,
, Office in the Butler Building, Liberty,
W VWHUlJf, M l.VJ. il-W-W
D. C BRAMLETT,
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WOODVILLE, MISS.
Will practice in all the Courts of
Amite and adjoining counties, and in the
eupreme court at Jackson. 1-91.
theo. Mcknight, jr.,
Attorney at Law,
l tlBERTY.'MISS. "
$111 practice In all the Court ol
Amite and adjoining counties, and in the
Supreme and Federal Courts at.lackson.
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E. H. RATCLIFF,
Attorney at Law,
, GLOSTER, MISS.
Will practice in all the Courts nl
Amito and adjoining counties and in the
bupreme Court at Jackson. 12-90,
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H GTEL
And Livery Stable,
LIBERTY, MISS,
Th undersigned beg to announoe
at he 1 now prepared to reoeir
i orders and entertain the traveling
ublic Fare the best the market af
rd. He Is also prepared to meet the
ant of the ptiblio in the way of feed
r, etabling and grooming Mock which
ay be entiustwl to hi care. Charge
iisonable. Uive me a trial
THOMAS WAM5U.
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WHAT HE FOUND TO SAY.
John Hood on aigfet mil to hif lt:
I b'Meve 1'U try a' wrtle up mj ai;
'TwoulJ be quite iaterestii
Some ot thea Um taat I b'ea through.'
Writ ap jrer Ute," the food wile uid,
" Whj la, a-aie. tos t kt juur hefci."
But he tat dowa wiU pea and uk,
Aad tKratched and hemmed aad tried to
think.
" John Hood was bora Ortober eight,
la what la called ther Nutmnt nate;
la eighteen hundred aad twenty-nine;
An' pootj mjh ther Vork ttate line.
" So far no food: I ar, mi dear,
Don't u; joon think 1 hint all here,
I've ntarted well, but arter all
Not one event kin 1 recall."
Thus on he rocked and ncratrhrd his heao.
But all thone 'tune.', ol his had Bed.
" That peaky nhow I helped ta town
Am t hardly wulh a jottin' down;
" Then I feU o( that loal ot hay.
But aieh thinfra happen every day.
Then thar'a the time that I oeuld vote.
But thet warn't much," as tbea he wrotet
"John Hood wua wed to Mary Lea
March sixteen. In forty tbrre."
And this was all the good man could
Think to wnte in his "Lite ot Hood."
" It's jest ther way," the farmer said,
" You're bora, married, and thea you're dead.
That makes the Ute uv common men.
But doesn't show what might have been."
Joe Cone, in Cambridge Press.
MR. . AND MRS. 150WSER
The 8brvant-Girl Problem Invades
Their Home.
Mr. II. Grapples It with Both Hands
How Ha Interviewed Several Appli
cants His Discomfiture acid Hub
sequent Jgmonilnlous Itetreat.
0 YOU know of
an intelligence
office in this
neighborhood'.'"
asked Mrs.
ISowser, as her
liege lord came
home to dinner
tho other day.
"Why?"' he
cautiously que
ried in reply.
"Oh, nothing.
I thought if you
did I'd run out this ereningand and "
"Mrs. ltowser, has the cook left?" ho
hoarsely demanded.
"She she has. You see, she was so
obstinate and lmpu "
"Then you have deliberately driven
that poor girl out of the house, have
you? he sternly Interrupted.
"I told her to go."
"Then you may do without another
for 10,000,000 years! Drove her right
out of the house, perhaps to a suicide's
grave, and all because she couldn't be
ground to dust! Mrs. liowser, if you
were the last woman on tho face of
this earth X wouldn't work in your
kitchen!
"io you know the facts in this ease?
sho asked, with considerable spirit
"I do. I haven't the least doubt that
you went out Into the kitchen with the
air of a duchess and tried to make her
feel that she was only mud."
"I didu't do anything of the kind!
No one could be more pleasant than I
was.
"Mrs. Bowser, I know your wav!
They have driven fifty different girls
out of our house before this one. The
fact is, and I feci that I must say it,
you don't know how to manage kitchen
help. You have neither tact nor pol
icy."
"You have, I suppose!"
"Certainly; every husband has, more
or less. Those traits were born in him.
Mrs. liowser, did you ever inquire if
that girl read her llible?"
"No, sir!"
,1'Didn't ask after her family, or ever
express any concern as to her wel
fare?"
"No."
"Never sat down with her and sought
her confidence and let her bee that you
was her friend?"
"Of course not!"
"I see how it is, Mrs. Bowser, and
the wonder is that the girl stayed two
"1 WILL HIRE THE JTEXT SERVANT GIRL."
hours. Well, it's no us e to get another
not under your style of manajre-
tnent"
Perhaps your style would turn out
differently!" she retorted.
"Mrs. Bowser, no wife should talk
back to her husband. As you have
been pleased to doubt the success of
my management I will prove to you
that I know more about servant girl
nature in three minutes than you, ever
will if you live to be thousand years
old!" - '
How?"
How? I will hire the .next servant
girl, and start her on the way to stay
ing with us for the next twenty years.
I will send an ad. down to come out
in the morning paper, and I'll stay
home to-morrow till we get a girt"
He sent off his ad. and the subject
was dropped until the next morning.
Breakfast was hardly over when the
bell rang and an applicant was an
nounced She Was ushed into the par
lor, and Mr. Bowser arose and shook
hands with her and said:
"You have eome to see about the
place. My ' wife, you know, doesn't
understand how to run the kitchen,
ad go I"
if
J jLa
"I'll have no hen-hussy of a man tuk
ing around any kitchen I work in!'' in
terrupted the girl, as she rose up.
"But, you see, my wife is"
"If your wife can't run the house
you'd better shut itup!' she said, as
walked out "Tho idea of making me
a journey of three miles to find a maa
who wants to go poking hi nose into
kitchen affair and telling a girl how
to hang up her dishcloth! Why, sir, I
wouldn't work for yon for thirty dollar
a mouth, nor for forty:
"Who was it?" innocently asked Mrs.
Bowser, thongh she had been listening
at the door all the time.
' A woman selling tickets for some
church festival, he calmly answered.
When tho second applicant came
Mr. Bowser also shook hands with
her and hoped all her folka were well.
and added:
"If you take the place I shall do my
best to make you feel that you are in
your own home. Not a word will ever
be aa Id to make yon feel that you are
not as good aa anyone.
"Hip! I'd like to know why I'm not!"
she exclaimed. "Are you a widower?"
"Well, no; but my wife, you sec, haa
no tact about her, and
"And that settles me!" interrupted
the girl, as she rose up to go.
thought there was something behind
ail that soft talk of yours!"
"Was that another woman selling
church festival tickets?" asked Mrs.
Bowser, as the girl left
"Mrs, Bowser, I think I'm capable of
running this business!" he frigidly re
plied. "Only two girls have ye railed
and I instantly discovered that neither
was such a person as I should like to
take under my roof in any wipacity,
You would have undoubtedly hired the
first comer, but 1
The third applicant here appeared
and Mr. Bowser had to break off to re
ceire her. He shook hands aa before,
and after asking a few questions re
marked:
"I run my house somewhat different
ly from the average, k'or instance, you
will be regarded here more as 4 com'
pun ion Ulan a servant"
"Will 1? It doe me more good to
hear you say that, sir! I'm a great
hand to sit in the parlor when I have a
chance!
"You will be given opportunity to
cultivate your mind.
"Will I? That's beautiful! That's
what I wanted to do at my last place,
but when they found I was reading
"YES! AXD Mr BROTHER WILL BEE YOl'!
In bed they turned the gas out on me.
"My wife has an idea that a cook hoe
no griefs or sorrows, but "
"But she has, sir. I've got over forty
of em at this very moment
"Some ladies insist on keeping their
help at a distance, but I don't believe-
"That's quite true, sir. At my last
place the lady was forty miles distant
from inc. at her mother's moRt of the
time. Yon don't believe in it? Neither
do I. Are we to fro to the theater to
gether?"
"How Ehl What?" queried Mr.
Bowser.
"And if the old lady makes a kick,
fire Jier out, I say!"
"Are you speaking about my wife?"
he asked in an uncertain way.
"Of course. You'll come down into
the kitchen and read poetry to me as I
thump the dishes about, and then I'll
come up to the parlor and play and
sing for yon, and, if the old lady gets
her back up, lire her out!
"I I don't think you'd quite fill the
place," stammered Mr. Bowser, as he
rose.
"You don't? Then I'd like to know
what in Tophet you mean by giving
me all that soft talk! What sort of a
game is this you are playing?"
"My dear girl," began Mr. Bowser,
in reply, "I'll think over the matter
and drop yon a line."
"You will, eh? And I'll think over
the matter and send my brother here
to see you!"
She had scarcely banged the door
when Mr. Bowser bounced into the
back parlor with his face on fire and
exclaimed:
"Well. I hope you are satisfied now!"
"What have I done?" asked Mrs.
Bowser.
"Done! done! You've caused me to
be insulted and belittled in my own
house!"
"Didn't I tell you that"
"Never! Never told me anything,
and now you may go without a cook
until you are starved to death and I
won't raise my finger to get one. I'm
a patient man, Mrs. Bowser, and I'm a
long-suffering man, but there is a lim
it You've reached It The worm now
turns, and if I don't come up to lunch
eon nor dinner"
But he returned at the usual hour,
and vhen he espied a new girl passing
through the hall he hadn't a single in
quiry to make. M. Quad, in N. Y.
World.
"The Roman emperor Domitian,"
read the teacher, "was so cruel that
when he wasn't engaged in the bloody
work of listening to the yells of the
human victims in the arena, ho used to
catch and kill flies in his bed-chamber.
Now what did this show?" she con
tinued, wishing to point a moral.
"I'lease, ma'am, he wanted to listen to
the yells of tho fliei," replied little
BiUv Hathed,, I'liiladelphiu Tunc.
RELIGIOUS ANO EDUCATIONAL.
Prof. Roehrif, of Palo Alto univer
sity, speaks thirty languages.
A proposed law la Spain prohibits
Sunday work by person under eigh
teen. The Russian government has decid
ed to build a second Russian church in
Paris.
There are 553 Protestant ministers,
evangelists and teacher towing Uospel
seed in Italy.
The Free Church of Italy haa do
tided upon the name of the Krangeli
cal Church of Italy, a Ha official title
in the future,
There is nothing' more precious
within the reach of man than God's
promises. Ram's Horn.
It is said that nearly every town In
Kansas haa a park, and nearly every
park has preaching Sunday evening.
Mr. Spurgeon' work have been
translated into the Norse language. At
Christiana colporteurs have circulated
upward of 87,000 copies of his sermons
alone. His British Colportage associa
tion reports that there are V0 colpor
teurs now engaged Last year they
sold S50.000 worth of literature, and
took part in 10,246 services or meetings.
The first number of the first relig
ious newspaper published in Boston in
the Italian language bears date of June
25, 1891. Its editor is John U. May, su
perintendent of the Italian mission in
llaymarket Square. It is stated that,
though several Italian paper are pub
lished in New York, Philadelphia and
Chicago, none of them are of a religious
character. Congregationalist
The ripened harvest belongs in the
garner, and one should not grieve when
it is gathered In. For the disappointed
hopes crushed by premature death
there may be special tears, but for
those who enter Heaven in a ripe old
age we should rejoice. We can not re
gret the timely harvest, even if we do
for a moment wish the pleasant aunt'
mer bock again.
The distribution of foreign mission
aries in the chief missionary fields is re
ported to be as follows: China has one
ordained missionary to each 733,000 ot
population; Siam, one to each 800,000;
Corea, one to each 500,000; India, one
to each 850,000: Africa, one to each
800,000; Japan, one to each 215,000
Burmah, one to each 200,000. In Cen
tral Africa and the Soudan there is only
one missionary to each 5,000,000.
According to Prof. A. S. Bickmore
the Ainos or aborigines of Japan do
not belong to the Mongol race but to
ourownlndo European or Caucasian
family, and are more nearly allied to
us than the Aryans of India A gram
mar and vocabulary on this hitherto
totally unknown language has been
prepared by Kev. John Bachelor, of the
Church Missionary Society of India
who has alto finished a translation of
the (iospel of Matthew, published by
tlio llritlsh and foreign Bible Society.
The question of Introducing the
study of living Oriental language into
the commercial schools is being dis
cussed It Is believed that the ignor
ance of such languages is one of the
principal reasons why Russian traders
can not successfully compete with Eng
lish and German traders in the mar
kets of Persia, China and Japan. It is
thought that If Russian manufacturers
and exporters will have in the Asiatic
countries agents like those of their
English and German competitors, well
versed in the languages and manners
of the Orientals they will soon take the
lead there.
WIT AND WISDOM.
People who think low are sure to
live low. Ram's Horn.
Age Is a matter of feeling, not of
years. George W. Curtis.
Many live ns If they were a snail
and the world their shell. -Texas Sift
ing. No act, however long, is safe that
does not match a thought that is still
longer. Parkhurst
It Is by presence of mind In untried
emergencies that the native metal of a
man is tested. LowelL
My dog Is well trained, you bet
When I say Waldo, come here or not,
he immediately come here or not
Every man ha an axe to grind, and
looks upon every other man with an
eye to Inducing him to turn the handle.
Atchison Globe.
Margaret gangster encourages the
production of sunshine by saying:
"The longer I live the more I am in
clined to set the highest valuation on
pleasant people."
It is a great thing to have a sense
of humor. To go through life with no
sense of the humorous and ridiculous is
like riding in a wagon without springs.
Henry Ward Beecher.
There is no culture out of work.
The world has not great places enough
Tor all its great people-l speak as
man but it has places for every great
soul to do the greatest work. Anon,
The man who gives his life for
principle has done more for his kind
than he who discovers a new metal or
names a new gas, for the great motors
of the race are moral, not intellectual
Lowell on Dante.
The first wealth Is health; sickness
is poor spirited; it must husband its re
sources to live. But health answers its
own ends, and has to spare; runs over
and inundates the creeks and meadow
lands of other men's necessity. Emer
son. .'
It is said that death called on a
very busy man one night and wanted
him to take a trip. "No," the busy
nan said, "I can't do it; I can't get
away. 1 am the only living man that
can manage my affairs." But death
persuaded the man to go during the
night, and it turned out that the man's
affairs were managed all right Atchi
son Globe.
We should conceive of poetry
worthily and more highly than has
been the custom to conceive of it We
should conceive of it as capable of
higher uses and called to higher desti
nies than those which in general men
have assigned to it hitherto. More and
more mankind will discover that we
have to turn to poetry to Interpret life
for us, to console us, to sustain, us,
iiftttkew Arnold.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
A durable table center is made of
plain white linen powdered over with
any small flower, such aa the daisy, for
get-me-not or violet worked in wash
ing silk. N. Y. World.
To render linen or cloth water
proof, take of boiled oil twenty-five
parts; borax, two parts; litharge, two
parts; lamp-black (or any other desired
color), two parts, M ix, and use at dis
cretion.
China silks and printed cottons rep
resent very dsinty and appropriate ma
terial for the draperies in country
homes, especially for summer use.
Denim is more durable and suited to
portieres.
Soft Frosting for Cake. Take one
cup of augar, five tablespoons of sweet
milk, boil four or five minutes, then
stir until cold, and put on a cool rake.
It la better than frosting with eggs.
1 arm and Home.
'The best way to dry apples at horn
Is to place them upon clean, sweet
straw upon a wire tray, and put straw
over them. Then put them Into the
oven all night, after which gently wipe
them off and press thena flat with the
hand Detroit Free Press.
A very good waterproof blacking Is
composed of the following ingredients:
two ounces of beeswax, two ounces of
tallow, two ounces of spermaceti, one
tablespoonful of lampblack. Mix all
well together and stir weU. Apply
warm with a brush and when cold pol
ish like ordinary blacking. Broken
ends of candles will do dor the sper
maceti. N. Y. Tribune.
common Ulngerbread. Hair a
pound of butter, half a teacupful of
ginger, one pint of molasses, two
pounds of Hour, one tablespoonful of
saleratus. Rub the flour and butter to
gether and add the other Ingredients
Knead the dough. Roll it out, cut it in
cakes, wash them over with molasses
and water, and bake them in a moder
ate oven. Boston Budget
Rose Bowl Dollies. Exquisite doll
ies for cut-glass rose bowls are made of
the fine silk bolting-cloth. A square, bor
dered by clover leaves, worked in white
filoselle, and edged with gold thread, is
exceedingly pretty. Or, if one prefers
color, the clover-leaves may be worked
In two shades of clover-leaf green, and
edged with Japanese gold thread The
edge of the mat should then be trim
med off In the shape of the embroidered
leaves These have a delicate, trans
parent look, which sets off the bril
liancy of the glass, as no heavier mater
ial can do. Ladies Home Journal.
A famous doctor 6ays: "Eat a good
bowl of mush and milk for your break
fast, and you will not need any medi
cine. Indian corn contains a large
amount of nitrogen, has qualities anti
constipating, and is easily assimilated.
It is cheap and has great nutritive prop
erties. A coarse of Indian meal in the
shape of Johnny-cake, hoe-cake, corn
or pone bread and mush, relieved by
copious draughts of pure cow's milk, to
which, if inclined to dyspepsia, a little
lime, water may be added, will make a
life, now a burden, well worth the liv
ing, and you nocd no other treatment
to correct your nervousness, brighten
your vision and give you a sweet and
peaceful sleep.
THE SEA LIONT
Commercial Value of the Animal After
Death.
The ordinary Individual looks upon a
sea lion as a very remarkable curiosity,
but never for a moment suspects that it
has any other value. Not so with
the Aleuts, Kamschatkans and Kurile
islanders, who consider it a most valu
able animal. They utilize its tough
hide in covering their canoes and fish
ing boats, and the flesh, fat, and sinews
play a very important part in the do
mestic economy of these people. The
liver is counted a great delicacy, being
eatan raw, the palms of the flippers are
used as soles for their boots, of which
the gullets or throats form the top; and
the stomach, after being dried, is filled
with oil rendered from the fat of the
fur-seal and sea-lion. The small intes
tines are stretched and thoroughly
dried, after which they are cut and
pressed out into broad bands of parch
ment, which are cut up and made into
waterproof garment called a "Kam
lulka." As a matter of course, they also eat
the meat of the animal, using the hams
and loins, which ari considered the
choicest portions, when on the killing
grounds, but later in the season utilis
ing the entire carcassy
According to Mr. II. W. Elliott, who
spent several years among the native
of St. Paul and St George Islands and
in Alaska, the flesh of an old sea-lion is
not very palatable, being tasteless and
dry, but that of a yearling cub greatly
resembles veal. He speaks in very
complimentary terms of the juicy ribs
of the young sca-lion, and says that the
most fastidious palate can not fail tc
relish this morsel when properly
cooked.
After killing a sca-lion its carcass is
first stripped of its hide and disem
boweled, after which it is hung up by
its hind flippers over a wooden frame,
where, together with several oilier
bodies of the same kind and also those
of fur seals similarly treated, they
serve as the meat houses of the Aleuts.
The natives ean thns keep their meat
almost any length of time in winter,
and like some of their epicurean civiliz
ed brothers, seem to prefer it tainted,
claiming that it is tenderer and more
palatable in that condition.
Sea-lions are provided with tough,
elastic mustache bristle, which are in
great demand among the Chinese, who
prize them very highly for a very pecu
liar use in several of the mystic cere
monies observed in the joss-houses
The Aluets, recognizing the commer-
ial value of these appendages, carefully
pluck them out and ship them to San
Francisco, where they find a ready Sale
at the valuo of a cent a piece. - They
are likewise utilized, like the whiskers
af the hair-seal, as tooth-picks, being
mounted in silver or gold in bunches of
three. The celestials also use tho teeth
5f both ta making ring and other or
laments, and prepare a mysterious
nedici from. tMrgalls. -3 Detroit Fre
Pre
WOMAN'S EASY LIFE.
Bow Ions lBvntis Have Laaes4 Bat
Domestic Labor.
Now that the electrical dish-washer,
by which child can do ten thousand
plates and cups In a day, has been in
vented, that washing and Ironing and
the scrubbing of floors and windows
may be accomplished by electricity,
and that ingenious man has Invented
machine for the sewing on of buttons
and the incubator for the rearing of in
fants, doubtless the noble institution of
marriage will be once mors revived
among even the advaneed thinkers,
who wait now only for the conception
and perfection of the elecvrU-M spanker
and the automatic arrester, which, at
the appropriate time, will propel the
husband home from bis club in sufetr,
deposit, him on his own stoop, instead
of his neighbor's, and control the va
garies of the keyhole while he lets him
self in.
The phonograph will be an Important
feature of the marriage ot the future,
for when a wife Is detained at her club
past the dinner hour, or ia occupied
with her duties at the seat of civil gov
ernment, the phonograph's button can
be touched by the waitress when she
brings in the soup, and the husband
can hear all about the cook's imperti
nence and Johnny's running away from
school, that the coal is out and the
water pipes have burst, that her bonnet
isn't fit for a Christian woman to wear
even to sleep in, that the doctor's bill
is due, that her mother is coming, and
the woman across the way has a new
gown nicer than any his wife ever had
in her life, and all the other little pleav
antriet wherewith 'a fond wife makes
the dinner honr a perpetual festival ot
hilarity to her tired spouse. Cincin
nati Gazette.
Kew Usee for Blue-Jeans.
Many articles made now under the
head of "fancy-work," are often placed
beyond the reach of "the general wom
an" because the materials used are so
expensive. Among these are plush,
silk, velvet and linen than which,
common blue-jeans, at twelve and a
half or fifteen cents a yard, will bear
nore constant and rougher usage. Dust
can easily be banished by a good brush
ing, and washing does not hurt It in
the least Jeans worked in oak or
maple leaf, or any bold conventional
designs now popular, with rope linen
or coarse embroidery silk, make an ar
tistic piece of work. The pretty effects
it produces can not be Imagined until
tried. Foot-cushions, sitting-room and
library table covers, sewing-machine
covers, covers for worn-out chairs uud
stools for bed-room use are all pleasing,
made of this material A unique crumb-
cloth is made ef it, with an eighteen
inch border of blue and white striped
bed ticking. 1 Portieres made of blue-
jeans, outlined in white rope-linen, and
finished with long corded tassels across
the top, are charming in effect for bed
room doors, and nsed to conceal closets
always useful, but often offending ir
appearance. Ladles' Home Journal.
Capes and Mantles,
French capes of all the shapes in
vogue for cloth or lace are made of
English crape for those wearing deep
mourning. Jet cabochons set on as
border, and of very dull surface, are the
only trimming. Henrietta cloth capes
are widely bordered with crape. Elder
ly ladies wear mantles with short back
and long slender front made of Henri
etta cloth, and trimmed with broad
orape folds. Traveling cloaks for sum
mer use are of lustreless black surah,
made in close graceful shape long
enough to cover the dress entirely, and
on them is mounted a deep cape cover
ing the back and sides, but disclosing
the double-breasted front of the cloak,
with double row of large black pearl
buttons. Tailor-made jackets of black
Cheviot and of Bedford cord are worn
with various mourning dresses. Many
rows of braid or of stitching are the
trimming. For second mourning are
gray cloth jackets of graceful ahapo,
with black silk braiding done in a bor
der and in lengthwise rows ending in
bow-knots, White cloth or French
flannel jackets are much worn with
black dresses Harper's Bazar.
Jelly From Frnlt ftklns.
Many good housekeepers do not know
that the most delicious jelly can be
made of fruit skins and cores, such as
are usually thrown away. There is
more gelatinous matter around the core
and skin of all fruit than in any other
part The skin of peaches with a few
pitts added, boiled in aa little water as
possible, strained and made ap with
sugar, pint for pound, yields a most de
licious red jelly. A delightful ' jelly
may even be made of apple skins and
cores, though it is Improved in flavor
and jellies more easily if a small quan
tity of the cores and skins -of quinces
are sdded to it A very excellent jelly
is made of grape skins and quince skins
in about equal quantities. Pear skins
contain less gelatinous matter than any
other fruits, but If used in connection
with quince skins will make a fair
jelly.-N. Y. Tribune.
Hats of Pretty shapes.
The very low-crowned sailor hat,
with wide brim, is so universally popu
lar that milliners both here and abroad
are using these simple shapes tor dress
models in net, chiffon and tulle. Thus,
golden-brown tulle is shirred on brown
silk wires, and trimmed with a close,
low cluster of bright yellow field daisies
with brown hearts White point
d'esprit net I made up in like manner
and trimmed with a standing chou of
point d'esprit laco with a scalloped
edge. Yellow tulle hats are dotted
with black cabochons and trimmed with
black velvet and black lace butterflies.
There are also lovely hats made of
cream-white crepe shirred on gold wire,
and trimmed with cream crepe rosettes
with a gold aigrette in the center. Chi
cago Post
Kl(ht Across the Way.
"You get a fine view from this flat.
Burro wes," said Hicks, visiting Bur-
rowes in his top-floor suite.
"Yes; lt' pretty fine."-
"By the way, were you able to see
from here whether Maweon go Into
HYn, when he died?" Judge),
IN THE ELECTRICAL V.: '-r,
A new telephone Lne ! n 1
erected between lxmd m . 1 i v
The charge for use is 4s, a nun tile
Aa sgreement is said U have l-ca
recorded whereby the l.ait ,j.re Jfc
Ohio Railroad Co. a.rvees to all
telegraph lines to the Wcttem l't'.a
Telegraph Co. for $:s(.XM.
It is suL-ouiK'rd en what i c'.ai tn I
to be good authority that Sir. A,i. r, :
inventor of the "ider" te".erh r,a, 1 ,
now constructed a flying Oi.i. a . i,
what is vastly more, has mtuUt f , 1 o
three hundred or four hundred yards t,t
a height of sixty-six feet. The mat Sun
is operated by eleenricity.-
Lightning played a serious tr.. k
upon Geo. Rood, a resident ot Jewr'.t,
CU A thunderbolt struck hitu, caus
ing severe but not dangerous burns.
Since the accident his body seems full
of electricity. When he pine lu
hands together they adhere, and ..-u
his feet touch U is ditticuU to srpanr.e
them.
A Frenchman ia said Ut hare in
vented a thermal batWry coasustmg of
a stove of cylindrical form, around the
central flue of which are grouped sev
eral hundred thermo-electrie elements.
A small stove thus equipped is said to
be able to produce, with the usual con
sumption of fuel, enough electricity, if
stored, to run twenty-five one hundred
candle-power- lamp.
The canal on the left bank of the
Rhone at Geneva, Switzerland, is pro
vided with 20 turbines, working up to
4,400 horse power. During the past
year 216 motors, totaling 1,565 horse
power, have been driven from the
works The smallest ot one-third
horse power have been used to run
aewing machines, while the largest
835 horse power has driven theeiectrio
light Installation for the town.
A singular complaint comes from
the fire insurance companies. It re
lates to large losses in the farming dis
tricts on live stock, due, as reported by
the farmers, to lightning in connection
with the barbed-wire f cocoa Most of
the animals killed In this way were
near the wire' fence at the time, and
it is supposed the metal strands act as a
conductor of electricity in a degree suf
ficient to largely increase the risks of
such insurance. Insurance men be
lieve, however, that many cattle report
ed aa killed by lightning were in reality
killed by injuries received in coming
into violent contact 'with the barbed
wire. -
The character of the decision of
Judge Wallace In the ' incandescent
lamp suit, says the Electrical World, is
such as to csuse surprise even to tlm
always confident friends of the great
Edison Interests. . In general It is a
strong affirmation- -of Mr. Edison'
claims to the invention ef the practical
Incandescent lamp ot to-day. The tech
nical weakness alleged against the pat
ent the anticipation of high-resistence
lamps by Lane-Fox and Edison himself,
the frequent use of carbon in incandes
cent lamps, the well known availability
of platinum leading wires, the rejec
tion of claims identical with those of
Edison for lack of novelty and inven
tion all these are passed over almost
in silence, and the decision rests really
upon the patent influence of Edison's
work on the. art ot incandescent light
ing. ' ...
For some time past, says the Wor
cester Spy, there ha been considerable
talk among the stockholders of the
Uxbridge and Northbridge Elcctrio Co.
regarding the advisability of an elec
tric railroad between the various neigh
boring towns. The matter has been
given the most thorough attention by
some of the more thorough enterpris
ing stockholders, with the result that
an electric road between Manchaug
village and East Douglas is prsct'icaliy
assured. Already about SoO.OOO hits
been subscribed; .the plant for this
route to be situated at the village of
"Uilboa," in the town of Douglas. A
project which seems to the stockhold
ers as thoroughly practical i a line
from East Douglas to Whitinsviile,
there to connect with the system al
ready built for Lin wood; thenco
through Uxbridge to the village of
Hecla.
NEXT TO A . BABY.
He Eventually Derides to Offer HlsSeat
, to a Woman. ' I
She had a baby, evidently her -first
baby, and she made the mistake of
choosing the next seat to Joshi who
hate babies, and of course tried to be
rid of this one. Josh looked tbe infant
over curipusly. Then he addressed the
mother: ' ' ' ' ' .' ;
"Excuse me, madam, but is there any ,
danger of the child's exploding?." ..
"Sir?" '
"I mean drooling, or spitting, tir any
thing of that kind" 4 .
"I think not, sir." , , ,
"And you won't let it suck its finger
and then grabble them over my face, or
pull off my eyeglasses or snatch at my
hat?"
"I will not, slf." ' ' i '
"And the child's safe? I mem it
hasn't got measles or whonrdnir-eroif h.
or croup, or scarlatina, or chicken-pox?
Those diseases are light -for children, -but
serious for adults, madam."
"Sir, my child is quite healthy."
"Ah!" he said with a sigh Of relief,
"Thank you, madam. Only pray don't
let it splutter." ...
The car was crowded and a young
woman was standing near Josh His
victim sought to retaliate.
'There is a young lady standing
would it not be Well to give her your
seat?" '.-
"Madam, turn and turn is fair play.
When did you ever see a lady give a
young man her seat?"
But the baby took matters into its
own hands and began spluttering,
and Josh, hasily getting up, tendered
his seat most politely to the young Udy
and took another on which she had
been turning her back. Toledo B'adn.
Conclusive Evidence.
Miss Og-ontz I'm certain this plirna
must be bad.
Her Friend Ohl That French one.
Why? , '
Miss Ogontz Because I remmer it
w easily. Jury,