Wight thero appeared a British fleet com- I tho cylinder, could not lie twisted. The sel was informed, through the speaking posed of fifteen of the finest ironclads, ; enormous chains they held could not be tube, that if he would give his parole to with several gunboats and cruisers, and severed by the greatest pressure, and if keep out of this fight, he would be a number of torpedo boats. both crabs backed at onA they would allowed to proceed to his ancBorage in It was a noble sight, for betides the I probably do no moro than tow the Lian- j Portsmouth harbor. The parole was She does not hear the bird of melody war ships there was another fleet hang­ garon stern foremost. There was, more­ given, and the dynamite gunboat, after Thatsweetly sings within a gold case shut; And several brand new novels round her lie. ing upon the outskirts of the first, and over, no time to waste in experiments. I reporting to the flag ship, steamed away composed of craft, large and small, and for other rams would be coming on, and I to Portsmouth. Unopened and uncut. from both sides of the channel, filled there were not crabs enough to attend to ' The situation now became one which But now a smile flits o’er her features free: All suddenly her dream’s with pleasure with those who were anxious to witness them all. was unparalleled in the history of naval from afar the sea fight which was to take filled; No time was wasted. Q signaled to R warfare. On the side of the British seven Her soft brown eyes dilate excitedly— place under such novel conditions. Many war ships were disabled and drifting She’s with rare rapture thrilled. of these observers wero reporters and and It back again, and instantly the two slowly to the southeast. For half an She sees above the morning paper, bowed. special correspondents for great news­ crabs, each still grasping a chain of the hour no advance had been made by the The nurse; and then the convalescent pale papers. On some of the vessels which cylinder, began to sink. On board the British fleet, for whenever one of the Asks her if she will kindly read alond camo up from the French coast were Llangaron an order was shouted to let large vessels had steamed ahead, such The latest bargain sale. •-Puck. men with marine glasses of extraordi­ out the cylinder chains, but as these vessel (hail become tho victim of a crab, nary power, whose business it was to chains had only been made long enough and the vice admiral commanding the Mer Beautiful Handl. send an early and accurate report of the to allow the top of tho cylinder to hang fleet had signaled not to advance until God’» rones are sweet and liis lilies are fair affair to the office of the war syndicate at, or a little below, the surface of the further orders. As they bend 'neath the dews from above; wrier, a foot or two of length was all They are splendid and fair—but they cannot in New York. The crabs were also lying to, each to compare As soon as the British ships came in that could be gained. the windward of and not far from one With the beautiful bands of my love. sight, the four crabs cast off from Repel­ The davits from which the cylinder of the British ships. They had ceased to No jewels adorn them—no glittering bands - They are just as God made them, these sweet, ler No. 11. Then with the other two hung were thick and strong, and the make any attacks, and were resting they prepared for action, moving con­ iron windlasses to which the chains were quietly under protection of the enemy. sweet hands! siderably in advance of the repeller, attached were large and ponderous, but This, with the fact that the repeller still And not for earth’s gents, or its bright dia­ which now steamed forward very slowly. these were not strong enough to with­ lay four miles away without any apparent dems. Or the pearls from the depths of the sea. The wind was strong from the north­ stand the weight of two crabs with steel intention of taking part in the battle, Or the queens of the lands with their beautiful west, and the sea high, the shining tops armored roofs, enormous engines and gave the situation its p eculiar character. hands of the crabs frequently disappearing iron hull. In less than a minute one The British vice admiral did not in­ Should these dear bands Ite taken from me. davit snapped like a pipe stem under the tend to remain in this quiescent condi­ What exquisite blisses await their commands! under the waves. 'i'ney were made for my kisses, these dear, The British fleet came steadily on, tremendous strain, and immediately tion. It was, of course, useless to order sweet hands. headed by the great Llangaron. This afterward the windlass to which the forth his ironclads, simply to see them —Frank L. Stanton. vessel was very much in advance of the chain was attached was torn from its disabled and set adrift. There was an­ others, for knowing that when she was bolts and went crashing overlxiard, tear­ other arm of the service which evidently' really in action and the great cylinder ing a way a ;>on ion of the stern rail in could be used with l etter effect upon which formed her stern guard was lower­ its descent. this peculiar foe than could the great ed into the water her speed would be much Crab Q instantly released the chain it battle ships. retarded, she had put on all steam, and had held, and in a moment the great But before doing anything else, he By FRANK R. STOCKTON. being the swiftest war ship of her class, cylinder hung almost perpendicularly must provide for the safety of those of she had distanced all her consorts. It from one chain. But only for a mo­ his vessels which had been rendered Author ot “Rudder Grunge.’’ "Amo. Kll- was liiglily important that she should ment. The nippers of Crab R still firmly helpless by the crabs, and some of which brtght,” “Thu Bee Man ot Orn,” ‘’Thu begin tho fight and engage the attention held the chain, and the tremendous lev­ were now drifting dangerously near to Christmas Wreck.’’ "The I-ady or the of as many crabs as possible while cer­ erage exerted by the falling of one end of each other. Dispatches had been sent to Tiger," "Tile Late Mrs. Null,” "The tain of the other ships attacked the re­ the cylinder wrenched it from the rigidly Portsmouth for tugs, for it would not do peller with their rams. Although it was held end of its chain; and in a flash, the to wait until these arrived, and a suffi­ lundnM »sou," "The Casting Away now generally believed that motor enormous stern guard of the I.langeron cient number of ironclads were detailed of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshina," "The bombs from a repeller might destroy a sunk, end foremost, to the bottom of the to tow their injured consorts into port. tlusantes,” etc. man-of-war, it was also considered prob­ channel. AVhen this order had been given, the In ten minutes afterward the Llanga­ vice admiral immediately prepared to (Copyrighted by P. F. CoUiex, ot Collier's Once able that the accurate calculations which a Week, and published by speetnt arrangement appeared to be necessary to precision of ron, rudderless, and with the blades of renew the fight, and this time his efforts with him through the American Pre« Associa­ aim could not lie made when the object her propellers shivered and crushed, was were to be directed entirely against the tion. AU rights reserved 1 slowly turning her starboard to the wind repeller. It would be useless to devote of the aim was in rapid motion. Whether or not these strokes would But whether or not one or more motor and the sea and beginning to roll like a any further attention to the crabs, espe­ have been quick enough or hard enough bombs did strike the mark, or whether log of 8,000 tons. cially in their present positions. But if to turn back an armada might be a ques­ or not ono or more vessels were blown Besides the Llangaron three ironclads tion, but there could be no question of into fino particles, there were a dozen were now drifting broadside to the sea. the chief vessel of the syndicate's fleet, the suicidal policy of sending seven ships ironclads in that fleet, each of whose But there was no time to succor disabled with its spring armor, and its terrible and two caanon to conquer England. It commanders and officers were deter­ vessels, for the rest of the fleet was com­ earthquake bombs, could be destroyed, seemed as if the success of the syndicate mined to run into that repeller and crush ing on and there was great work for the it was quite possible that those sea para­ sites, the crabs, could also be disposed of. had so puffed up its members with pride her, if so be they held together long crabs. Every torpedo boat was now ordered and confidence in their powers that they enough to reach her. Against these enemies, swift of motion to the front, and in a long line, almost had come to believe that they had only The commanders of the torpedo boats and sudden in action, the torpedo boats abreast of each other, these swift vessels to show themselves to conquer, whatever had orders to direct their swift messen- found it almost impossible to ojierate, for —the light infantry of the sea—advanced might be the conditions of the contest. gersof destruction first against the crabs, the British ships and the crabs were so The destruction of the syndicate’s fleet for t hese vessels were far in advance of rapidly nearing each other that a torpedo upon the solitary and distant foe. If would now be a heavy blow to the the repeller, and coming on with a ra- sent out against an enemy was more than one torpedo could but reach her hull, the United States. It would produce an utter ' piditv which showed that they were de­ likely to run against the hull of a friend. vice admiral, in spite of seven disabled want of confidence in the councils and termined upon mischief. If a torpedo, Each crab sped at the top of its speed for ironclads and a captured gunboat, might judgments of tho syndicate, which could shot from, a torpedo boat, and speeding a ship, not only to attack, but also to pro­ yet gaze proudly at his floating flag, even if his own ship should be drifting not be counteracted by tho strongest swiftly by its own powers beneath the tect itself. broadside to the sea. faith in the efficiency of their engines of wares, should strike the submerged hull Once only did the crabs give the tor­ The line of torpedo boats, slightly curv­ war, and it wa3 feared that it might be­ of a crab, there would bo one crab the pedo boats a chance. A mile or two ing inward, had advanced about a mile come necessary, even at this critical less in the English channel. north of the scene of action a large cruiser when Repeller No. 11 awoke from her juncture, to annul the contract with the As has been said, the Llangaron came was making her way rapidly toward the Syndicate, and to depend upon the i ; rushing on, distancing everything, even repeller, which was still lying, almost seeming sleep, and began to act. The American navy for the defense of the i tho torpedo lioats. If, before she wps motionless, four miles to the westward. two great guns at her bow were trained upward, so that a bomb discharged from American coast. ■ obliged to lower her cylinder, she could As it was highly probable that this vessel Even among the men on board the syn­ get near enough to the almost stationary carried dynamite guns, Crab Q, which them would fall into tho sea a mile and dicate's fleet there were'signs of doubt repeller to take part in the attack on her, was the fastest of her class, was signaled a half ahead. Slowly turning her bow and apprehensions of evil. It had all she would then be content to slacken to go after her. She had scarcely begun from side to side, so that tho guns would cover a range of nearly half a circle, the been very well so far, but fighting one speed and let the crabs nibble awhile at her course across the open space of sea instantaneous motor bombs of tho re­ before a torpedo boat was in pursuit. ship at □ time was a very different thing her stern. peller wore discharged, ono every half Two of the latest constructed and Fast as was the latter, the crab was minute. from steaming into the midst of a hun­ faster, and quite as easily managed. She dred ships. On lmard the repeller there largest crabs, Q and R, headed at full One of the most appalling character­ was now an additional reason for fears speed to meet the Llangaron. who,as she was in a position of great danger, and istics of the motor bombs was the silence and misgivings. The unlucky character came on, opened the ball by sending a her only safety lay in keeping herself on which accompanied their discharge and of the vessel when it had l>een the Talla­ “rattler” in theshapeof a.IIKl-jxiund shot a line between the torpedo boat and the action. No noise was heard, except the poosa was known, and not a few of the into the ribs of the repeller, then at least gunboat, and to shorten as quickly as flash of sound occasioned by the removal men imagined that it must now be time four miles distant, and imniedatcly after possible the distance lietween herself and of the particles of tho object aimed at, for some new disaster to this ill starred began firing her dynamite guns, which that vessel. and the subsequent roar of wind or fall craft, and if her evil genius had desired were of limited range, nt the roofs of the of water. fresh disaster for her, it was certainly advancing crabs. As each'motor bomb dropped into the sending her into a good place to look ! There were some on board the repeller channel, a dense cloud appeared high in who, atthe moment the great shot struck for it. the air, above a roaring, seething cal­ But the syndicate neither doubted nor her, with a ringing and clangor of steel dron, hollowed out of tho waters and out springs, such as never was heard liefore, hesitated, nor paid any attention to the of the very bottom of the channel. Into doubts and condemnations which they wished that in her former state of ex­ this chasm the cloud quickly camo down, heard from every quarter. Four days istence she had been some other vessel condensed into a vast body cf water, after the news of the destruction of the than the Tallapoosa. which fell, with tho roar of a cyclone, But every spring : prang back to its Craglevin had been telegraphed from into the dreadful abyss from which it Canada to London, the syndicate's fleet place asthc great mass of iron glanced off had been torn, before tho hissing walls entered the English channel. Owing to into the sea. The dynamite bombs flew of the great hollow had half filled it with the power and speed of the crabs, Repel­ over the tops of the crabs, whose rapid their sweeping surges. The piled up ler No. 11 had made a passage of the At­ motions and slightly exposed surfaces mass of tho redundant water was still lantic which in her old naval career gave little chance for accurate aim, and sending its maddened billows tossing and would liare been considered miraculous. in a short time they were too close to the writhing in every direction toward their Craft of various kinds were now Llangaron for this class of gun to he used normal level, when another Ixmib was CAEBDAFF BEFORE THE BOMB ARDMENT. passed, but none of them carried ffie upon them. discharged; another surging abyss ap­ If the torpedo boat shot to ono side in peared, another roar of wind and water As tho crabs came nearer, tho Llan­ British flag. In the expectation of the arrival of the enemy, British merchant­ garon lowered the great steel cylinder order to get the crab out of line, the crab, was heard, and another mountain of men and fifhing vessels hail Iteen ad­ which hung across her stern, until it lay its back sometimes hidden by the tossing furious billows uplifted itself in a storm vised to keep in the liackgrounil until tho almost entirely under water, and abaft waves, sped also to the same side. When of spray and foam, raging that it had British navy had concluded its business of her rudder and propeller blades. the torpedo boat could aim a gun at the found its place usurped. with the vessels of the American syndi­ She now moved slowly through the crab and not at the gunboat, a deadly Slowly turning, the repeller discharged cate. water, and her men greeted the advanc­ torpedo flew into the sea, but a tossing bomb after bomb, building up out of the As has been said liefore, the British ing cralts with yells of defiance, and a sea and a shifting target were unfavor­ very sea itself a barrier against its ene­ able to the gunner's aim. It was not mies. Under these thundering cata­ admiralty hail adopted a new method of shower of shot from machineguns. defense for llio rudders and screw pro­ Tim character of the new defense long, however, before the crab had run racts, born in an instant, and coming pellers of naval vessels against the at­ which had been fitted to the Llangaron the chase which might so readily have down all at once in a plunging storm; tacks of submerged craft. The work of was known to the syndicate, and the been fatal to it, and was so near the gun­ into these abysses, with walls of water constructing the new appliances had been directors of the two new crabs under­ boat that no more torpedoes could be and floors of cleft and shivered rocks; pushed forward as fast as possible, but stood tho heavy piece of work which fired at it. through this wide belt of raging turmoil, Of course the officers and crew of the thrown into new frenzy after the dis­ so far only one of these had been finished lay before them. But their plans of ac­ gunboat had watched with most anxious and attached to a man-of-war. tion had been well conside. <1, and they charge of every bomb—no vessel, no tor­ The Llangaron was a recently built made straight for the stem of the British interest the chase of the crab. The vessel pedo, could pass. was one which had been fitted out for ironclad of the same size and class as ship. The air driven off in every direction the Adamant; and to her had been at­ It was, of course, impossible to en­ service with dynamite guns, of which by tremendous and successive concus­ tached the new stern defense. This was deavor to grasp that great cylinder with she carried some of very long range for sions came rushing back in shrieking an immense steel cylinder, entirely its rounded ends; their forceps would this class of artillery, and she had lieen gales, which tore up the waves into closed, and rounded at the ends. It was slip from any portion of its smooth sur­ ordered to get astern of the repeller and blinding foanj. For miles in every di­ about ten feet in diameter, and strongly face on which they should endeavor to to do her best to put a few dynamite rection the sea swelled and upheaved braced inside. It was suspended by lay hold, anil no such attempt was made. bombs on board of her. into great peaked waves, the repeller The dynamite gunboat, therefore, had rising upon these almost high enough to chains from two davits which projected Keeping near the cylinder, one at each over the stern of tho vessel. When sail­ end of it, the two moved slowly after the kept ahead at full speed, determined to look down into the awful chasms which carry out her instructions if she should her bombs were making. A torpedo ing this cylinder was hoisted up to the Llangaron, apparently discouraged. davits, but when the ship was prepared In a short time, however, it was per­ be allowed to do so, but her speed was boat, caught in ono of the returning for action it was lowered until it lay, ceived by those on board the ship, that a not as great as that of a crab, and when nearly submerged, abaft of tho rudder. chango had taken place in the appear­ the torpedo boat had given up the chase, gales, was hurled forward almost on her In this position its ends projected about ance of the crabs: the visible portion of and the dreaded crab was drawing beam ends until sho was under the edge fifteen feet on either side of the propeller their backs was growing larger and swiftly near, the captain thought it time of one of the vast masses of descending blades. larger; they were rising in the water. for bravery to give place to prudence. water. The flood which, from even the It was believed that this cylinder would Their mailed roofs liecame visible from With the large amount of explosive ma­ outer limits of this falling sea, poured effectually prevent a crab from getting end to end, and tho crowd of observers terial of the most tremendous and ter­ upon and into tho unlucky vessel nearly near enough to the propeller or the rud­ looking down from the ship were amazed rific character which he had on board, it swamped her, and when sho was swept would be the insanity of courage for him back by the rushing waves into less der to do any damage. It could not be to see what largo vessels they were. torn away as the etern jacket had been, Higher and higher the crabs arose, to allow his comparatively small vessel stormy waters, her officers and crew for tho rounded and smooth sides and their powerful air pumps working at to lie racked, shaken and partially shiv­ leaped into their boats and deserted her. ends of the massive cylinder would offer their greatest capacity, until their pon­ ered by the powerful jaws of the oncom­ By rare good fortune their boats were no hold to the forceps of the cralis; and, derous pincers becamo visible abovo the ing foe. As he could neither fly nor kept afloat in tho turbulent cea until approaching from any quarter, it would water. Thetf into the minds of the offi­ fight, lie hauled down his flag in token they reached the nearest torpedo vessel. Five minutes afterward a small but be impossible for these forceps to reach cers of the Llangaron flashed the true of surrender, tho first instance of the carefully aimed motor bomb struck the rudder or screw. object of this uprising, whiqh to the kind which had occurred in this war. When the director of Crab Q. through nearly swamped vessel, and with the The syndicate's little fleet arrived in crew had seemed an intention on tho British waters lato in the day; and early part of tho sea devils to clamber on his lookout glass, beheld this action on roar of all her own torpedoes she passed the part of the gunboat, he was a little into nothing. the next morning it appeared about board. twenty miles to the south of the Isle of If the cylinder were left in its present perplexed as to what ho should next do. The British vice admiral had carefully Wight, and headed to the northeast as if position the crab might seize the chains To accept the surrender of the British watched the repeller through his glass, it were making for Portsmouth. The by which it was suspended, whilo if it vessel and to assume control of her, it and he noticed that simultaneously with course of these vessels greatly surprised were raised it would cease to be a de­ was necessary to communicate with her. tho appearance of tho cloud in tho air, the English government and naval au­ fense. Notwithstanding this latter con­ The communications of the crabs were produced by tho action of the motor thorities. It was expected that an at­ tingency, the order was quickly given to made entirely by black smoke signals, bombs, there were two puffs of black tack would probably be made upon some raise the cylinder, but before the hoist­ and theso tho captain of tho gunboat smoke from tho repeller. These were comparatively unprotected spot on the ing engine had been set in motion Crab could not understand. The heavy hatches signals to tho crabs to notify them that British seaboard, and therefore on the Q thrust forward her forceps over the in the mailed roof, which could be put a motor gun had been discharged, and west coast of Ireland and in St. George's top’of the cylinder and held it down. 1 in use when tho crab was cruising, could thus to provide against accidents in case channel preparations of the most for­ Another thrust, and the iron jaws had j not be opened when she was at her fight- a bomb should fail to act. One puff sig­ midable character had ls-cn made to de­ grasped ono of tho two ponderous chains ¡ ing depth and in a tossing sea. nified that a bomb had been discharged A means was soon devised of com­ to the north; two, that it had gone east­ fend British ports against Repeller No. by which the cylinder was suspended. municating with the gunboat. A speak ­ 11 and her attendant crabs. Particularly Tho other end of the cylinder began to ward, and so on. If, therefore, a crab was this the case in Bristol channel, rise, but at this moment Crab R, appar­ ing tube was run up through one of the air should see a signal of this kind, and per­ where a large number of ironclads wero ently by a single effort, lifted herself a pipes of the crab, which pipe was then ceive no signs of the action of a bomb it stationed, and which was to have been foot higher otr of tho sea; her pincers elevated some distance above the sur­ would be careful not to approach tho re­ the destination of tho Llangaron if the flashed forward, and the other chain was face. Through this tho director hailed peller from the quarter indicated. It is syndicate's vessels had delayed their grasped. ' the other vessel, and as the air pipe was true that in case of tho failure of a bomb coming long enough to allow her to get Tho two crabs were now placed in tho near the stern of the crab, and therefore to act. another bomb would be dropped around there. That this little fleet should most extraordinary position. The over­ at a distance from the only visible por- upon the same spot, but the instructions have sailed straight for England's great hang of their roofs prevented an attack 1 tion of the turtle back roof, his voice of the war syndicate provided that every naval stronghold was something that the on their hulls by the Llangaron, but seemed to come out of the depths of the | possible precaution should lie taken British admiralty could not understand. I their unmailed hulls were so grcatlv ex­ I ocean. against accidents. [TO BE OONTDtUED.] The fact was not appreciated that it was posed that a few shot from another ship The surrender was accepted, and the the object of tho syndicate to measure could easily hare destroyed them. But captain of the gunboat was ordered to “We are New Englanders and come its strength with the greatest strength as any ship firing at them would lie very stop his engines and prepareto be towed. here for the season only. Alice averages of the enemy. Anything less than this likely to hit tho Llangaron. their direc­ When this order had been given the crab from twenty to twenty-seven dollars a would not avail its purpose. tors felt safe on this point. moved round to the l>ow of the gunboat, week, I a little more. By taking this Notwithstanding that so many vessels Three of the foremost ironclads, less and grasping the cutwater with its room together we have a pleasant home, had been sent to different parts of the than two miles away, were heading di­ , forceps, reversed its engines and began i for which we pay eighteen per week; coast, there was still in Portsmouth har- rectly for them, and their rams might be to back rapidly toward the British fleet, otherwise we are quite economical. Of i>or a large number of war vessels of va­ used with but little danger to the Llan­ taking with it the captured vessel as a course we have not always been so pros­ rious classes, all in commission and garon. but, on the other hand, three protection against torpedoes while in perous; we had to come to it by degrees, ready for action. The greater part of swift crabs were heading directly for 1 transit. and I often feel sorry for the many that theso had received orders to cruise that these ironclads. The crab slowed up not far from one I come to the city hearing of what some It was unpoasiblo for Crabs Q and R of the foremost of the British ships, and few accomplish, hoping to do likewise, day in the channel. Consequently it was still early in the morning when to operate in the usual way. Their mas- coming round to the quarter of the gun­ but go down in the strife.” around the eastern end of tho Isle of . give forceps, lving flat against the top of boat. the astonished captain of that ves- J. H olland . In the Sickroom. Among the pillows propped in sweet repose She feels the heavy time elip slow away; She’s weary of the blushing crimson rose That seems no longer gay. The Great War Syndicate. ient mustache, or at least some coarse ' hairs on chin or cheek. One is made of COSTLY COSMETICS. I corrosive sublimate of mercury, another of the inspissated juice of the Indian ! “BLOOM OF YOUTH” COMES HIGH, . turnip, another of urate of ammonia BUT WE MUST HAVE IT. and quicklime, another of corrosive Confessions of a Cosmetic Manufacturer. What High Sounding Balms, Rouges and Powders Are Composed Of—Dangerous Hair Dyes—A Lesson in Economics. {Copyright, 1892. by American Press Associar lion.] potash, and one is a block of burgundy pitch and sealing wax. This last is to be melted, plastered on tho face hot, fanned till cool and pulled off, when the hairs come too. The others are pasted over the skin, and they eaithe hairs off, . and sometimes the skin too. These cost next to nothing and sell from one to ten dollars, according to the fears of punish­ I ment after death of the dealer. There are toothpastes, shampoo soaps and curlines, and a thousand other things'aside from the manicure sets and lotions, and not one of them costs a tenth of what they sell for. A nna D yne . THEY MAKE STRAW HATS. CASTOR IA for Infant« and Children. “Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.” II. A. A rcher , M. D., Ill So. Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. Castoria cure« Colic, Constipation. Sour Stomach, Viarrhcea. Eructauon. Kills Worms, gives sleep, and promotes di “ The use of ‘ Castoria' is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the intelligent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach.” C arlos M arttw . D.D., New York City. Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church. “ For several years I hare recommended your ‘ Castoria.' and shall always continue to do so as it has invariably produced beneficial results.” E dwin F. P ardii , M. D., ” Tho Winthrop, PXth Street and 7th Ave , New York City Without injurious medication. cheated in the value of them her right­ An Employment for Young Women That Is Pleasant and Remunerative. eous indignation would do more to stop Never was there a time when the hats the sale of those things than the clearest knowledge of the dangerous drugs they and bonnets of the fair sex were more T hk C rmtaur C ompamv , 7T M ur rat S tbmt , Naw Yoaa. contain and the peculiar Injury to beautiful or artistic than at the present day. Have you ever stopped to think health and beauty they inflict. The writer of this was at one time that the fair creatures are following the engaged in the preparation and sale Bible teachings in so adorning them­ of cosmetics. a:id therefore knows ex­ selves? In olden times the bonnet was actly what each and every one of conferred as a mark of honor, as in them costs to prepare and what the Exodus it says, “And for Aaron's sons women pay for them. And now prob­ thou shall make coats, and bonnets shall ably for the first time will the truth be be made for them, for glory and told regarding the ingredients used in beauty.” Again it speaks of “Goodly the most prominent of such articles and bonnets of fino linen,” and yet again, “And put bonnets on them as the Lord the danger attending the use of each. First come the various “blooms, commanded.” It speaks of the children balms and lotions,” each with its title of Egypt braiding straw. So there was and imaginary history and high sound­ evidently a straw hat later. After the ing recommendations. These are di­ linen bonnets of Bible fame were the vided into two classes—the bad and the English bonnets, made of cloth or silk, Cream Halm u not a liquid, tnuf or powder. Applied into the nnttrih it ie very bad. The first, an eight ounce bot­ according to the wearer's means. These quickly alitor bed. It cleaner» the .'jeaC, allay» inflammation, heal» _ — tle, will contain 2}.j ounces rosewater were superseded *by the hat in the Six­ tom. Sold bu drugoute or »ent by mail on receipt of price. and five of distilled water, and half an teenth century. In Scotland bonnets ounce of light oxide of zinc. This must were made of thick milled wool without bo shaken and applied to the face, and, seam or lining, and so exceeding dur­ while not immediately harmful, dries able that with reasonable care a single and shrivels the skin eventually, so that bonnet would last a lifetime. In early times the straw was braided one must keep on using it. This costs for bottle, wrapper, stopper, ribbon and in China and Italy, and in Italy today box eight cents, and for rosewater and the women braid the fine straw, ten zinc about the same, so that sixteen yards being a day's work, for which cents is the actual cost of what women they received five cents. willingly pay two dollars for. The very When the work first began in this bad are made in the same way, only country, it was mostly done by farmers’ with less rosewater and with common wives in Massachusetts in their own flake white, which is pure lead. This homes. The rye straw was used for the sells for the same price, two dollars, braid and the hats were sewed by hand. and costs less. A few drops of ammonia In those days our ancestors wore a bon­ will turn this black. The effect is that net a couple of years. But as time ad­ Boon Lots will be scarce and Command a Higher Price. it shrivels the skin soon, and is liable to vanced it was thought necessary to have bring an attack of lead palsy, or partial at least one a year, and finally one a paralysis of the muscles of the face and season; factories were formed, and IT o -V n T eyelids, as well as regular symptoms of finally machinery was used, until today lead poisoning of the whole body, and it has become a fine art, and is one of Price Ranges $50 up. For full particulars apply to death. our most profitable industries. . J. I. KNIGHT * CO., THE INVESTMENT CO.. As the demands of a fashionable Another “balm" has as foundation a 49 Stark St.. Portland, Or. white powder containing arsenic in so­ wardrobe require as many hats in a sea­ Beal Estate Agents, McMimiviUs. F. BA HNEKOFF & CO.. lution, which soon induces dropsical son as our grandmothers possessed in a McMinnville Flouring MUM. swelling and frequently death. This lifetime, the condition of those who costs twelve cents and sells for two dol­ make them has also improved. In a bright, sunny room on Hudson street, lars. The “creams” all without exception New York, was recently found about contain lead, zinc or bismuth as a 100 girls or young women busily engaged whitener, with lard and olive oil to hold in making straw hats; so bright and sun­ it to creainlike consistency, and they shiny was the room, so merry was the cost about ten cents per pot (pretty pots, laughter and happy the faces that with dainty ribbons) and sell from $1.25 greeted you on all sides, one could to $1.50 apiece. The lead and zinc are scarcely realize it to be a large factory most often used, as bismuth is a little where persons were toiling for daily dearer. It is also finer and more deli­ bread. The writer was surprised at the cate, but soon turns to a violet or ashen refinement and intelligence of the work­ color on the face if exposed to gas or ers, for during a lull of the buzz of ma­ chinery was heard the discussion of all smoke. Eyebrow pencils are made of mutton the most interesting topics of the day— tallow and lampblack, cost*one-half music, literature, fashion and even pol­ cent apiece and sell for twenty-five cents itics, and some of the workers seemed to one dollar, according to the con­ as dainty as the creations upon which science of the dealer. Eyelid darkeners they were engaged. “Yes,” said my guide, “we have the have belladonna in them to enlarge the pupils, and they cost one dollar to buy, most intelligent and independent class perhaps one cent to make. The use of of women in our employ. One out of these is bound to destroy the sight in a twenty makes a successful straw sewer, but when they do they receive good short time. Rouge is made of carmine saucers, the pay. They make from sixteen to twen­ common of red ink and aniline red, and ty-seven and even thirty-three dollars costs about 4*4 cents in pretty bottles, per week while the season lasts, which and always brings $1 to $2 if a very high is from January to June. Many of them sounding name is added. Indelible come from Massachusetts, and go back rouge is made by soaking alkanet root in and become students during the rest of alcohol. An ounce bottle of this would the year. We have artists, musicians cost, all finished, about 4 cents. Sells and even literary women among them. for $1.50. Rouge does not seem to do They have pleasant homes and dress any constitutional injury, but does not well. Here in the workroom they wear plain dresses, but when they step into WRITE TO look refined on anybody. ■ Powder for the face is made of vari­ the street none would dream they were ous things, among them magnesia, pow­ toilers for daily bread, as we have a dered egg shells, rice flour, flake white, dressing room where they make their eo owell dry oxide of zinc, fuller’s earth, starch, street toilets before leaving. “The process is quite interesting," bismuth and a mixture of two or three of these same things combined. Mag­ said he, holding in his hand a bunch ot No. io Spruce Street, nesia and flake white are the two most braided straw. “This is first given to a injurious of these. Velontine is made of reeler, who winds it on a spool the same NEW YORK. rice flour and bismuth, with a little gly­ as cotton. It is then passed to the op­ cerine to make it sticky. All powders erator, or straw sewer, who fashions it sell well for from 25 cents to $1.50 a into a hat, according to a block, which is placed before her. It is then sent to box. The cost is nominal. There are several “face bleaches” on a steam or drying room, after which it tho market, every one dangerous. Some is placed on a block or mold. It is then of them are made of the corrosive subli­ put into a machine with a hydraulic mate of mercury, some of arsenical com­ pressure. When it is taken from this it Gate« & Henry, Prop*. pounds and one is made of the same fluid is dry and perfectly shaped; it next goes McMinnville, - Oregon. that embalmers use to blanch the faces into the hands of the varnisher, after of intelligence trence and qnick-wi quick-witted enough to of the dead. The cost of these is never which it is returned to the workroom know a “GOOD THING” at sight, but who has Lost the Most Precious Possession more, advertising included, than fifteen to be ticketed and lined. “Some of the fancy lace 6traws are on Earth, viz. GOOD HEALTH, WILL cents per bottle, and women willingly NOT require a SECOND TELLING to be pay two dollars a bottle. I have known sewed by hand. These sewers do not induced to become a purchaser of three cases of salivation and two of average more than ten dollars per week, Everything New blood poisoning and one of the burning while the ticketers and liners receive off of the whole skin of the face by the about four dollars and a half. They are then packed and sent to the retailers Belts ami Appliances. And Firstclass. use of these vile compounds. vou know why ? Because it is plain In whatever other way a woman may to be trimmed according to the fancy of to Do be seen that the TRUTH ONCE TOLD Special Accommodations for Commercial the fair purchasers. In former years we be econoipical, she is not in the buying is enough The Surprising Promptness Traveller« of cosmetics. She never haggles at the did not exceed more than a half dozen witli which all classes ot people rcs,H>n., »il B roadwà T. N« w Yoke, one dollar to five dollars, according to ceived by one of the occupants whose country with proruse acknowledgements burnnu for pwurlr.a In Amarlr. gown was of black silk and lace with a that so much comfort for $1 (the price)was ..eery paient tetón out by na la brñüyLt befor. the “style” of the store. ike buying Gold Dollars for ten cents till! public by • ruitioe .Iven free ot ebuge In U m bunch of roses in her corsage. “ Yes, ” Nail polishers are made of a little The Rugged Constitution ot Man when identifie ^medran balsam of tolu in a small bottle with a she said, “we are very comfortable and once broken, becomes pitiable in the ex happy here. We do not mind our work treme, from, which there is absolutely no tiny brush. With this the tolu is painted without assistance The Gregg Itererai circulation of any aelentlflr* p.per In th. on the finger nails and left to dry on. It through the day, because we come home escape Ek*ctric Belts i.n