TELEGRAPHIC SIMMY.
Ab Epitome of the Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest
Small-pox and yellow fever nrc rag
nig in Havana.
Three men were killed and four
badly hurt at a St.. Louis fire.
f defeated by fully 50,000 majority in
Texas.
Isitac Colby and his wife were found
murdered in their home near .Lock
Haven, Pa.
Nine persona wero killed and thir
teen injured by a railroad accident at
Albany, Ga.
Millbrookc, Graham County, Kan
sas, was almost destroyed by a cy
clone. Several persons wore killed.
The Ute Indians have gone on the
warpath in Colorado, and several en
gagements have been had with govern
ment troops.
Medical returns show that 70,000
persons died from cholera in the north
west provinces of Germany, during
June and July.
The tumor in the throat of the
Crown Prince of Gerimtny is reappear
ing and may prove fatal this time.
..Three British men-of-war have been
placed on the Halifax fishing grounds
to keep American hshermen outside
tile forbidden waters.
The Farmers' Alliance, of Floyd
County, Indiana, have passed roaolu
lions requesting Cleveland to resign
the othco of President.
M. Naquet, a Fronch editor, has
been sent to prison for two months
and been fined $-10 for unfairly wound
,ing Menviello in a duel at Paris.
Eleven men undertook to cross the
Ohio river in a skiff at Cincinnati. A
parsing steamer swamped the skill'
and threetof the men were drowned.
The Tobacco Trade National Asso
ciation has petitioned Pro3ident Clove
land to remove (he statistical! for
making a false report about the crop
Three persons were killed, several
fatally hurt, and many less seriously
injured by an accident in launching
the steamer Wm. II. Wolf, at Mil
waukee.
A collisiwn occurred between some
whito boys and negroes at Nacugodes,
Texas, in which one white and four
negroes wero killed and several
wounded.
The Eastorn cities are steadily filling
up with Chinese. Their quarters in
Now York now resemble Chinatown in
Sim Francisco. There are 10,000 in
New York.
One thousand houses and two
churches were destroyed at Scutori,
Turkey, and two women and a child
were burned to death. Thousands of
persons are homeless.
Hiram Schoonover is under arrest
at Brownsville, Nebraska, for killing
liis mother-in-law, whom he shot in
his corn field at night. He says he
mistook her for a skunk.
A premature explosion in the Bob
tail mine, near Blackhuwk, Colo., re
sulted in the death of Andrew II. Hahn
and Charles Schuline, and the fcerious
wounding of Russell Crosby.
J. T. Prager, book-kocper in the
large stationery house- of Beucheinen
fc Co., at Montreal, raised a $25 check
to $25,000 on Jacques Cartier's bank,
had it cashed and absconded.
Alfred Krupp bequeathed .$250,000
for the benefit of his employes. His
son Frederick has added $125,000 to
the amount for the people at Essen.
The town council of Essen has voted
$15,000 for a statue of Krupp.
At Juneau, Alaska, times are vory
brisk, and the mines aro booming.
The Treadwell mill shipped by last
eteamer $118,000, the product of a
twenty-seven days' run, and they are
now adding 120 stamps more to the
mill, and will have it completed in a
few months, and when finished it will
bo the largest mill in the world.
The burning of the steamer City of
Montreal, of the- Tnman line, occurred
five days after she left New York. A
boat containing six passengers and
5ovcn members of the crew is missing.
The ill-fated steamer had -120 pas
sengers on board, who wore ret-cued by
the steamer York City. The lost
vessel wasjoaded with cotton and oil,
and valued.at $500,000.
The captain and two sailors of tho
sloop Sara, wrecked in tho Gulf of Cal
ifornia, wero picked up after drifting
abut for eight days on tho bottom of
tho vessel. They sustained lifo by
sucking tho blood of turtles which they
caught. Tho captain's wife and chil
dren wero devoured by sharks before
his eyes. All the balance of the crow
and passengers woro drowned.
At Sitka, Alaska, tho harbor is full
of schooners and steamers seized by
the cutter Itush in Bohring Sea tho
American schooners Challenge and
Lily L., tho British schooner W. P.
Sayward, and tho British steamer
Annie Beck, Dolphin and Grace. It
is reported that there aro about fifteen
more on tho way from Behring Sea,
which will arrive in Sitka in a few
days. Tho United States Marshal
turned all tho Indians out of tho ves
sels on tho beach, without food or
money, in a very severe rainstorm.
All tho citizens of Silty got so indig
nant about it, and raised euch a cry
for humanity that ho was forced to
put them back on their vessols again,
where they have comfortable quarters
with plenty to eat. Somo of tho In
dians put on tho beach by tho marshal
hold gold medals presented to them by
tho President of tho United States for
their bravery and humanity in raving
American seamen off tho coast of Van
couver Island from wrecked American
ships.
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and Stockmen.
Knrin IiiliorcrM.
The owners of farms and those who
are compelled to employ labor by the
month or tjio day have in many cases
occasion to leel tnat their lot is cast in
unpleasant places. In many of the
more rural places it is coming to be a
matter to get satisfactory help at any
price. Even if they can bo obtained,
they aro likelv to bo so independent
and insolent that the employer is
brought to feel that ho is poorly master
of the situation. It is coming to bo so
that those who aro more especially dav
laborers upon farms are acl.it of poor,
miserable beings, whose only care is to
get a living and what poor wlnskv thev
want. When engaged at work they are
ready, for no cause whatever, to drop
their tools and leave the field. We have
a due regard for tho protection of the
rights of deserving poor people, and es
pecially the,poor laboring man ; but it
does seem as though the present legis
lation for the laboring class is throwing
too strong a shield around a class
whoso only care is to secure a hveh
hood by any means, no matter how
dishonorable. Kmnors, merchants and
all who have any dealings with them
arc compelled to sutler for their simple
act of indulgence.
There aro able-bodied men who might
earn a good living who, if they can,
will got trusted for groceries with the
intent to defraud, if possible, and when
such a one works for a farmer ho cal
culates to get more in wages or provis
ions than he expects to pay for. The
lime will come when tho prosperity of
this country will require that there bo
legislation for the protection of tho
producers.
Jo idea has done more to repress
fanning progress than tho idea that a
farm laborer need not be skilled
that brute strength is the main
requisite This never was true and is
less so now than ever before sinco im
proved machinery has to bo handled.
But oven in handling such old
fashioned implements as tho ax and
tho hoe efficiency depends as much
upon skill us upon muscle. It is by no
means tho largest or strongest hired
man who will do most work in a day.
And when help is hired that is entirely
unused to our methods of farming Us
inexperience greatly dotracts from its
value. The truth is that fanning is a
trade that has to be learned if tho work
ers at it would be effective. It requires
knowledge and skill in a far larger
numborof things than most other kinds
of business. In fact, it is never fullv
learned. The oldest and most success
ful farmer is generally the most ready
to learn something new about his busi
ness, and it is usually tins habit which
ho has kept up through his life that has
given him his success. That farmer
shows onlv his limited idea of business
who thinks that ho knows so much
about it that ho cannot learn anything
more. And, though skill in farm help
is desirable, it is sometimes better in
rough work to havo a green hand will
ing to do as ho is told, and to learn,
than one self-conceited with tho idea
that ho knows everything already.
Much depend upon employers. Some
aro themtelves so conceited that few
hired men aro willing to try to learn
from them.
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IMiint a 4nrlcn.
Every farmer ought to have a gar
den, and a good one. But it is a fact
that not all farmers do. Why? Well,
because most of them have got tho
idea into their heads that " it doesn't
pay."
"It isn't worth while to bother with
'om," they tell you.
Now, I know it does pay. If you
havo n good garden, and that is tho
only kind you ought to have, there is
no part of tho farm that pays better.
You may not raiso much to sell from
it, but you can raise a largo share of
tho family living from it, and no farm
er's family should go without tho lux
uries of fresh vegetables in variety.
! arming that brings in tho most
money is not always tho kind that
pays best. Tho health and enjoyment
of tho family is, or should bo, tho first
consideration, always. But, I am
sorry to say that a great many ignore
this in practice if not m theory.
We aro naturally fond of a variety
of food. Our health demands this. A
well-stocked garden enables us to
gratify our appetites, and our natural
appetite for good things we ought
never to be ashamed of, for thoy wore
created in us.
Too often tho farmer's tablo is so
acking in variety that there is but lit
tle relish for tho food provided. Day
after day tho same things are cooked
and eaten until thoy become tiresome.
Now, if a good variety of vegetables is
grown, there may be such a chango in
tne bill of faro as to mako it always at
tractive. The woman of tho house will
ceo to this if you place the means at
her disposal.
Most men say they don t hko to
putter in tho garden. There is no
need of " puttering " if you go to work
right. With a hand-cultivator and a
8eod-6ower, the work is greatly reduced.
Give tho land a thorough plowing to
begin with. Sow your vegotables in
rows to facilitate tho use of tho culti
vator between them. Thero will be
very little hand-weeding to bo done, as
is necessary when tho old system of
planting in "beds" is adhered to. An
hour's work, three times a week, will
keep quite a garden in good condition
f labor-saving appliances aro used.
On a small pieco of ground veg
etables enough can bo grown to supply
a family all through tho treason and
nst through tho winter. Havo you
thought what a variety of food suoh a
Harden will afford? Lettuce, poas, to
matoes, cucumbers, lansa beats,
parsnips, cabbages, salsify, onion, as
paragus, squashes, sweet-corn why,
inst think it over once, and ask your
self if vou can afford to go without
these things when they may bo had for
so little cxicnso and labor.
The fanner and his family ought to
live better than any other class of peo
ple, except those who havo money to
gratify every want. Ho has tho means
to do so at hand if he will make use of
them. Try it.
IM'cp I" I owl lie.
In farming, as well as in dairying or
grazing, everything depends on the
condition of tho soil. Hero i the
foundation, and unless this is in proper
condition the substructure is bound to
fall. A great deal has been said and
written as to tho proper depth to plow,
and thero is such a difference of opin
ion among farmers in regard to it that
the question is still as far from being
settled as ever. Wo think, however,
that the leading cause for such differ
ence of opinion may be found in tholaml
itself, lhat good crops aro and can bo
grown on shallow-plowed land that is
good no one will deny, provided tho
season bo neither too wet nor too drv
that is, with moderate rains the
whole season. In such a season any
ono can grow good crops. But such
seasons are rare, and, in fact, every
season is likelv to be attended with
either a long drought or a long wet
spell. Now, what tho farmer wants
is to guard against both, and tho only
way to do it is to break up his land as
deeply as posiible say not less than
from seven to ton inches. But how is
this to mend tho matter? Wo answer.
Voryoasily. Incase of a heavy rain
a largo portion of tho water, instead of
running off, will be absorbed by tho
ducply disintegrated land, where it is
held as if by a sponge for the use
of tho plants, and if a drought should
intervene, thoro is a supply of water
just where tho plants want it, and
when exhausted, its place is at once
supplied by capilliary attraction from
below. It will thus bo seen that by
deep plowing tho farmer provides
against drouth by having a supply of
water in reserve or a place readv to re
ceive and hold it whenever it comes.
Tho better to insuro this, however, as
well as to facilitato tho escape of too
much water, it is better to use a subsoil
plow and an additional team, running
tho same immediately after the break
ing plow, and ripping up tho subsoil
tho desired depth. This need not bo
done for every crop raised on the land,
but only once in every three or four
years.
It has been well said that it is bettor
to havo two acres of good land, one on
top of tho other, than as many acres
alongeide of each other, as it costs only
half as much to tend them. The way
to do this is by deep plowing, and thus
double the depths of the soil us well as
the crops grown thereon.
KflVrtN or Out.
Oats are said by a scientist who has
brought his battery to bear on a horse
to have an exciting iwwer. Tho effect
on tho nerves and muscles was tested
after eating oats and compared with
their excitability before eating. Old
horsomen know that oats will make a
horse more lively or activo than any
other grain. They contain norvo and
muscle mod, or tho elements to supply
tho wear and waste of these parts, and
no doubt they stimulate thorn also.
I hey contain, according to this author
ity, a mtrogonized substance peculiar
to themselves. All oats contain this
peculiar proierly, but tho black oats
contain tho most. When oats are
ground the exciting offect is reduced in
strength and duration, but its effects
iro moro active. This peculiar sub-
stanco is called avenine. The soil
whore oats aro grown makes a differ
ence in tho amount of avonino pro
duced. Further investigation must bo
made to determine tho kind of soil best
adapted to produco tho nerve powor of
tho oats. This is getting farming down
to a fine point. Hero is an opening
for tho jockeys. If thoy had tho secret
and could select their oats, how they
might Bkip by tho other fellow- who
thought ono oat was as good as another.
Iho weight of tho most of the oat does
not make tho difference, as tho sub
stance is just underneath tho skin,
and not apparent without analysis.
A Canada farmer says that stewed
cabbage, turnip, etc., may bo so com
pletely deodorized and dejlavorised by
tho use of a little gum camphor thrown
into them while cooking, that thoy
will impart no odor or flavor to the
butter made from tho milk produced
fron them. Hero is a hint worth re
membering and trying. Tho best
timo for feeding all strong-llavored
food is just after milking. This gives
timo for tho odors to work olf through
tho cow's system.
Well conducted experiments at tho
Massachusetts Agricultural Society
show that medium-sized whole pota
toes gave largor yields than half pota
toes obtained from tubers of a corre
sponding size. In the above trials sul
phate of potash produced batter results
than the muriate of potash.
By stirring the soil aftor ovory rain
tho weeds. will bo moro easily destroyed
than at any other time. Never perm it
weeds to go to seed, especially in tho
garden.
As soon as flowers fado, cut away
tho unsightly remains unless soeds
aro wanted, when only tlio lew tnat
may bo needed should bo permitted to
ripon.
Pull tho collars away from tho shoul
ders while resting tho horses in tlip
field, so that the air can pass freely
under them.
Sorghum makes an excellent fodder,
either when fed green or cut and cured
ike common com and then fed out as
wanted.
COAST CULLINGS.
Devoted Principally to Washington
Territory and California,
Tho fieo delivery system has been
ordered at San Diego, Cal.
A new lodge of Odd Fellows is to bo
instituted at spangle, . T.
Louis Jacobs, of Snelling, Cal., was
drowned in tho Merced lliver.
Sailors are very scarce and wages
high in British Columbia ports.
The salmon pack of Columbia River
is placed at ''51,055 cases this year.
James A. Brown, a well-known sport,
committed suicide at Virginia City.
The live year old son of A. T. Beede
was drowned in a lake near Tacoma.
Prof. J. L. Powell, President of the
Seattle Territorial University, is dead.
Joseph D. Bethune, register of tho
land office at Los Angeles, Cal., has re
signed. The placer mines at Murray, Idaho,
aro turning out an averago of $51,000
a week.
Jacob Gable committed suicido at
Folsom, Cal., on account of domestic
troubles.
A lad of 1-1, named Thomas Wil
liams, was drowned at Samish, B. C,
while bathing.
Ex-Senator Aaron A. Sargent died
at his residence, KillO Folsom Street,
San Francisco.
John Morris, a stevedore ,was drowned
at Port Townsend, W. T., by tho up
setting of a boat.
Geo. Moorly and Frank Tibbotts
were drowned in tho American Kiver,
near Sacramento.
Tho property valuation of Seattle,
W. T.. is $11,S72,:J2S, an increase of
$5,000,000 over two years ago.
Mrs. Johnson, an elderly lady,
dropped dead in Sunday School in tho
Methodist Church at Kono, Nevada.
Tho new cannery recently built near
Seattle by Wvman fc Kirkwood was
totally dest royed by fire. Loss $'50,000.
About 50 men aro working on the
branch line from Nam pa to Boiee
City, which will bo completed by Sep
tember 1st.
Cattlo men in Northern Montana
complain that their cattlo are boing
run oil, and lay tho ollenso to tho Cana
dian mounted police.
H- Dool, a well-to-do farmor, living
at Bishop Mills, Arizona, was stabbed
to death by J no. Marcis, a neighbor,
in a dispute over a piece of land.
Z. C. Maddox, a merchant in Mel
rose, Montana, was killed bv a ranch
man named Clayton, near that place,
while in a quarrel over some land.
Joe Sanchez was shot and mortally
wounded by Antono Pais, a saloon
keeper, near New Idra, Cal. Tho quar
rel originated over a game of cards.
Seven hundred and thirty thousand
acres of Northern Pacific Kailioad
land in Yakima County, W. T.. have
been assessed for taxation at $950,000.
The steamer Alki has arrived at
Juneau, Alaska, with an eighty-stamp
mill, to be put up on tho Alaska Union
Mill and Mining Company's proporty.
The rabbits aro eating out the
ranchers in Steptoo Valloy, Whito
Pine County, Nov. At night thoy
como in whole armies and devour the
growing crops.
Enough assessment returns of the
different counties aro in to give reason
for an estimate of not less than $75,
000,000 as the total assessable valuation
of Washington Territory.
Preparations aro being mado for the
erection of a new steel tramway to
transport tho wheat of tho Deadman
section, in Whitman County, W.T., to
Snake River at Wawawai.
Over 150 men aro employed on the
railroad grade between Burke and Wal
lace, I. T., and about 100 men aro en
gaged on similar work between Wal
lace and Mullen, says a Wardner
paper.
Four men named John Sullivan,
Robert Jones, J. Myore, and Henry
Schmidt wero killed by a cave in tho
Cascade tunnel on the Northern Pa
cific Railroad. Martin Hart was
seriously injured.
Henry Anderson, mato of tho
schooner Chalco, engaged in tho lum
ber trade between San Francisco and
Smith's River, was struck by a boom
when threo miles outside tho Heads,
and died from his injuries.
Intelligence of tho missing schooner
Seabird has boon found. Justubovo
Soymotir Narrows, B. C, Indians con
fessed that Oapt. Mooro and crow were
murdered and tho schooner iired, so as
to hide tho evidence of tho crime.
Tho Cumr d'Alono Steam Navigation
Company is having built an iron
steamer to bo used on Lake Cojlt
d'Alono in breaking tho ice in wintor
to enable tho company's steamers to
navigato tho lake during tho winter.
lien Woods, whilo wheeling sawdust
at Grovor's mill, near Soquol, Cal.,
missed his footing and fell headlong off
tho narrow plank walk into tho dump
of burning sawdust which was piled
very high. Ho was literally roasted to
death.
Joseph Stevens, fireman on tho
steamer Jamcn M. Donahue, was in
stantly killed at San Francisco while
oiling machinery. Tho unfortunate
manwas cnught between tho walking
beam and framo work, and waH horri
bly crushed.
Wm. Thorndyko, a Spokano milk
man, was foully murdered. Ho was
shot from lKdiind, and badly mutilated,
his head boing pounded so as to bo
hardly recognizable. A large club,
soino four feet in length, hud been
broken into several pieces. The blunt
end of a claw hammer, lying near, hud
been buried throe times in his skull
and onco in his faco.
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of Genoral Interest in a
Condensed Form.
Fred Shrcnebelas has boon appointed
acting postmaster at Lafayette.
A grizzly boar, weighing 1,100
pounds, was killed near Baker City.
Woodvillo people will soon dig a
ditch to supply them with water from
Evans Creek.
Crop reports from Umatilla show
a yield of from '10 to 50 bushels per
acre.
Lane County hop growers com
plain of a scarcity of help to pick the
crop.
A now quartz mill is to be erected
in tho Quartzburg mines, Grant
county.
Heppnor and vicinity havo raised
and shipped 1,500,000 pounds of wool
this season.
Ashland is to receive another per
manent attraction in the shape of a
normal school.
Mr. Westfall.of Independence, boasts
of having a child with twelve lingers
and twelve toes.
A 1-1 year old soil of W. M. Gregory
of Jacksonville, was drowned in Butto
Creek whilo bathing.
Several brick buildings and a $20,
000 Homing mill aro being constructed
in Heppnor this summer.
Win. Ray, who resides on tho Ap
plegate, Jackson County, had two val
uable horses killed by lightning.
A lot of oro from mines near Mo
hama was worked at Iho Portland re
duction works, and averaged $Si per
ton.
Work on tho breakwater at tho
mouth of the Coquillo is progressing
rapidly. The extension is now nearly
350 foot.
A largo acreage of tho crops of this
county that was intended for grain
was cut this year for hay, says tho
l'rinovillo News,
Tho Oregon editors havo formed
State association. Tho next meeting
will bo held in Albany on tho second
Friday in October.
Fish traps have nearly destroyed
Baker's Bay as a harbor, and a year or
two more will shoal it so steamers can
not land at Ilwaco.
Mr. John Piorce's barn, containing
fifteen tonsof timothy hay, was burned :
also about ono mile of fence, says tho
Kosoburg riainuealcr.
An additional (!() milo contract has
been let on tho Oregon Pacific Railroad
to Georgo W. Hunt. This will com
plete tho road to tho summit of tho
Cascades.
Chinese sheopherders do not provo
to bo a success, says tho Arlington
Times. Several liavo been tried this
year in tho mountains around here,
and thoy lose sheep badly.
Oliver Connott shot and killed Wm.
Tumor, on Vessey creek, in theOchoco
country. Both wero sheep-herders.
On preliminary examination, Connott
was acquitted on tho ground of self-
defonso.
Diphtheria is raging in Summer
villo to an alarming extent, says tho
Baker City Democrat. The disoaso at
tacks tho old as well as tho young. In
ono day thero occurred five deaths in
that town.
Tho O. it W. T. Company has leveled
ground at Helix for a depot. Tho O.
R. it N. surveyors havo located their
road from Helix to Adams, and aro
progressing through tho Cold Spring
country toward tho Columbia. Thoy
havo their camp at Helix.
According to tho Prinovillo News,
tho upper Deschuttes neighborhood
went in a body tho other day and told
a certain sheep linn not to drive
through any moro homesteads, pre
emption), or other claims, without first
asking pormsssion of tho owner. The
firm agreed.
A. D. Johnson and Dan Shaw dis
covered two men driving sovoral head
of their cattle across tho north fork of
tho John Day River. Shaw immedi
ately started for Alba and raised a
crowd, and they rounded up the thieves
in the mountains between tho North
Fork and Desolation and took them in
custody.
Wm. Viekers, an Oregon desperado,
was shot and instantly killed at Shiek's
ranch, in Guano Valloy, whilo resisting
arrest on a charge of murder by
Sheriff Georgo Dunning, of Owyhee
County, Idaho. A. boy 19 years of
ago, who fired on tho Sheriff in Vickor's
defonso, was also killed by tho Sheriff.
Tho Sheriff lodged threo bullets in
Vickor's brain, and blow tho top of tho
boy's head off at tho first fire.
Tho Portland World rolutcs tho fol
lowing: Congressman Herman and a
friend when traveling through Eastern
Oregon recently camoto a house about
night timo in tho Hamoy Valloy. Tho
friend boing snubbed by tho woman of
tho house, Bitigor was sent forward
with tho following result : "When
Mr. Herman reached the house tho
womarf oponed tho door just wido
enough to glance at him, and in his
usual polite manner took off his hat
and mado ono of his best 'bows, and
usked for food and lodgings. Tho
woman replied by informing him that
his partner had just been thoro and
she had sent him away becaiiHO alio
would not harbor tramps. But, said
Mr. H., we aro not tramps. I am Con
gressman for Oregon ; I am not a
trump, but havo money with which to
pay my way. Well, said tho woman,
you may bo a Congressman, but you
don't look enough liko ono to mako
mo boliovo it without stronger ovidonoo
than your own word for it. As it was
growing late, and appoarcd that thoy
would havo to movo on, Mr. Herman
donned his tile and repaired to tho
wagon."
THE MARCH OF FASHION.
Marvel In Continue nml MnterlnU for
tho Summer Semon.
Evorj season brings a "rago" for
some articles of dross, and tho favored
ono for this summer is a homo waist in
the form of a looso blouse. Garibaldi or
habit shirt, is cool and trim on a Blon
der figure, and admirable for home,
seaside, mountain, boating or tennis
wear. They havo already been pro
pared for exclusive persons in plain or
striped surah, having a belt of tho
same fastened with a handsome buckle.
Lawn tennis cottons, striped llanucl.
cheeked ginghams, plain, plaid or
striped silk, piece embroidery or lace,
Chinese silk or pongee are excellent,
fabrics to work up into blouses, and, if
a contrast is desired the shirred blouso
may be scloctrd and the second ma
terial used for shoulder patks, wrist
bands, belt and collar.
A short, pointed eashniero basqito
buttons on the left, Inn a short, velvet
rover on the right side, and the cen
ter cut out in V shape and filled in.
with plaiting of red moire. White, of
a ereainish tinge, moire is considered
very chic for a eheinisotto on dark
green, blm or black woolen or silk,
basques. The collar, cull's and rovers
aro usually of velvet.
Corded edges are appearing on
basques, again. The dress fabric is
used on woolen costumes, though silk
may bo oonled with velvet, Basquo
fronts may bo in one, two or threo
points or cut in a U shape. They aro
cut very short on the hips, and tho
backs arranged to suit any fancy in
jabot plaits, shortest in tho middkv
showing tho facing, two tabs and two
points, two narrow box plaits sepa
rated up the middle or slightly pointed,
with an inserted fan of trimming fab
ric. A drossy India silk basquo has a.
long,' slender point in front ami jabot
back; tho upper part buttons over on
the right nearly to tho bust, is then
cut out to leave a V from tho bust to
the point, which is filled with crepe in
narrow plaits; a rovers of velvet is on
tho right side of tho V; the collar,
"litis, jabot facing ami band from tho
point to tho back is of tho samo ma
terial. A plainer basque has an oval-shaped
piece cut out between the nock and
bust, filled in with plaited silk and
outlined with" rovers rounded in tho..
center to follow tho oval plastron.
Another pretty style is to button tho
fronts slightly on one side with threo
largo buttons and then to continue tho
fastening down the middle with small
buttons.
Shirt sleeves aro froquontly soon in
woolen or cotton basques, and always
on the blouso waists; tho cull may bo
live incluM duop or only an inch wido
hand. Pull's above a narrow velvet
wrist-band aro stylish; these aro Si)t
upon a narrow coat sloovo lining and
tho lower part of the sloovo either falla
over tho cuffs in points, or has a turn
over cuff of tho velvet. Tho puff is
two inches and a ha'f wido when done,
cut bias, and thickly gathered top and
bol loin.
Coral pink surah, eroam laco and
silver embroidery forms a ravishing;
ton gown. Ouo ot pale blue and pink
brocade, outlined with gold threads, on
a cream ground, opens in front over a
tablior of Brussels laeo over pink satin,
the oponed fronts showing a facing ot
blue satin. Tho Brussels laeo collar
was tied with pink and bluo ribbons'
that fell to tho waist, to bo netted thoro
again; tho sleeve rallies woro also
caught with ribbo fcr
Draperies must give an idea of be
ing totally unlike on both sides.
Small, bouffant panlers aro draped
over ono hip and tho other side orna
mented with long, pointed apron,
shawl point or fiat panel, something
long to contrast with tho short effoot
on tho other sido. Short, round
aprons aro plaitod into a narrow
spueo of tho bolt, showing tho skirt,
generally of a striped fabric, on both
sides of the belt.
Long wings aro worn in tho back
over n plain, full width, and must also
bo plaited into a small space, though
thoy aro bouffant over tho tournura
from tho catching up the middlo. A
plaited apron or scurf is laid in kilt
plaits, brought from tho loft hip to tho
right sido low on tho skirt, and bold
thoro by an immense rosette of tho
dress material.
Bunds of velvet, unutacho or passe
nionterio aro greatly fancied across tho
front and sides of ilrossos, New vio
let, fawn and green cloth drosses aro
embroidered in slk cord and silver
for visiting and church wedding toi
lets. Bouffant dra.iories and irregular
arrangomont aro tho especial foaturca
of trimmed skirts, anil shawl points aro
decidedly popular. N. V. Herald.
A Drummor Taken In.
"Will I havo tim to stop off and got
somo refreshments?" asked a drum
mer on a Texas railroad of tho con-duo'-or,
us tho train stoppod at a sta
tion. "You will havo plenty of time."
Tho drummer clepped off, and tho
train wont off without him. Tho next,
time tho drummor iiaw that conductor
ho took him to task severely for Ida
conduct, complaining that ho had to
lay over at that lonoly pluco savcu
hours.
"Well," ropliod th-5 conductor, "vou
asked mo if you would havo timo to
got somo rofroshnitnts, and If you.
couldn't got all you wanted hi sovon
hours, it scorns to nio you aro a hog."
Verdict for tho conductor, and no
papoal. Texas Biftinqs.
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It costs forty-seven thousand dol
lars a year to run tho Now Yolk Met
ropolitan museum. Forty-seven per
sons aro employed in tho institution