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nfe Ws IA 1- 1 1 Vr-. a 1 DAVENPORT REPUBLICAN WEDNESDAY. JULY 2, 1902. L-; GENERA NEWS THE STATE WEW DEMOCRATIC PAPER TO BE ESTABLISHED AT THE STATE CAFITAIil OTHER NEWS OF THE STATE. Items of General Interest Culled and Prepared for Digestion by Busy Readers.

Des Moines, July new Democratic morning daily newspaper is to be published in Des Moines. This is the announcement authorized by the pro- moters of the scheme, Henry lUegelman, H. M. Belvel and others. The' psper is to be launched with the opening of the political campaign in the fall, and it is claimed will have' sufficient lioancial backing to carry it through to permanency.

Henry Riegelman authorized the announcement of his plans concerning the establishment of a new morning paper to eater to the Democrats since the. Leader nas gone out of ihe field. According to the present plans there are half a dozen stockholders, most of whohi' are' keeping in the background until the plans are well under Henry Riegelman as the principal backer. H. M.

Bel vol. ai present editor of the Des Moines the Veekly organ of the party In Polk county, is shited for business manager. No editor has yet been secured. the petition of the men had been granted and Jieraftor the saw mill will run ten, instead of 11. hours.

For 50 years Musoaiine saw mills have run from in the morning till (J in the with an hour for dinner. Yesterday morning the change took effect. It cairte bad feeling, though 'the men sent iu a peition to the two big mills, the Musser and the Kaiser. The men disclaimed any intention of striking. The pay remains the same.

i girls working in thepaeking department of the Great "Western Cereal company received an increase of 12Vi per cent Saturday night. There was a strike in this department recently, but new srirls were secured. noss stand between two and three days and the examination was very severe and thorough, but she made a nood witness and her testimony was not shaken. The jurors, part them at least, didn't, believe her story, and a compromise verdict of! $2.500 way returned. The verdict was not satisfactory to plaintiff, and a motion for a new trial lias ben pending for some time.

THE PRESIDENT'S YACHT I IN ALL POINTMENTS. ITS AP- Meservey May Succeed Roberts. Fort Dodge, July T. Meservey may succeed George E. Roberts as director of the mint if the latter hands in his resignation during the summer, as it is rumored he will.

Meservey is and has been a shrewd and prominent Republican politician, lie has ably managed the political campaigns of Hon. J. P. Dolliver and Hon. E.

Roberts. He has for a long time been chairman of the Republican central committee of Webster county, i When President Roosevelt spoke in Fort Dodge he entertained at the Mesei'vey home. It is also hinted that if Meservey is not a candidate for this position he will be a candidate for the Fort Dodge post- office. Mrs. C.

C. Carpenter, wife of the late ex-governor of Iowa, has served four years and given satisfaction. friends are urging her to ask for another term. Brakeman's fcuddeu Death. Des Moines, July l.TMJames Garland, a brakeman on the Milwaukee, went out on his regular run Saturday morning at 1 o'clock.

A few miles north he became seriously ill and decided to return to Des Monies. Arriving hero he called on a physician, who examined him and told him lie was suffering from appendicitis, telling him to go to the Methodist hospital. This he ilia, but arriving there he was only able to tell the attendants that his parents lived at Angus, sinking immediately into a comatose condition and dying at about 1 o'clock. The hospital officials telegraphed to liis parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Garland, at Angus and they came down Sunday morning. He was a nephew of Eel Gray of this city, but the young man did not inform the hospital people of this fact or that he had any other relatives in Des Moines, and they knew nothing of his death until Sunday. Mr. Garland was 27 years of age.

The Mayflower Wow Lies in the Brooklyn Navy Yard Ready for Sea--Has Been Befitted and Altered at a- Cost of Fifty Thousand Dollars--liate of Sailing 3STot Yet Settled. HE USED AN AX IN HIS SLEEP. Indiana Boy Dying- of Wounds In- flicted by His Own Brother- State Pharmacists to Meet. Dublin, IncL, July is the cause of a horrible tragedy near Beck's Grove, in Brown county. rover Snyder, aged IS, was attacked with an New York, July Mayflower, the official yacht of the United States and ocean home of President Roosevelt, lies in the Brooklyn navy yard.

In her new function, after undergoing alterations that rose $50,000, she is ready for sea as one of the most luxuriously appointed vessels aft'oat She was commissioned Saturday, but the date her sailing from the navy yard has not yet been settled. In the four weeks just passed the Mayflower has been refitted and refurnished completely from stem to stern. The president's quarters are situated aft on the main deck and include six state rooms for the exclusive use of himself. Mrs, Roosevelt and their children. The two larger of these state rooms have been very lavishly furnished.

Special attention has been given to the decoration of the bulkheads and the paneling, which are covered with expensive silk in many colors. The smoking room occupies the after portion of the spar deck and is finished in teak, with a iloor of fancy inlaid in mosaic and waxed. Many-cane chairs and sofas add to the comfort to be had in this room. Behind the officers' quarters below WORLD'S FAIR CONSTRUCTION WAS A REMARKABLE FEAT. Lack of Steel Delays Some of the Work--Comparatively Little Steel to Be Used; The Power of Organization Shown in Railway Construction Work.

World's Fair Grounds; St. Louis. July l. Tho -wonderfully prosperous Mediapolis, July i Four hundred and forty men working nine hours THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREAT DEVELOPMENT IK NEWS GATHERING METHODS. condition of the iron ana market, in a driving rain moved both rails of and.

tho consoqyent difficulty of getting orders iillod is to some extent the work on' the World's Fair. Tnis trouble -has -all- foreseen by tin? exposition officials. the Burlington and Western road on 125 miles of track Sunday an(l thus broke all records in converting a narrow, into a broad track. The event was witnesed by thousands of over, and In the designs for buildings who stood at every depot holding umbrellas to protect themselves from drenching downpour. Twenty-eight crews of sixteen men each, working on an average of four miles each, accomplished the feat without the abandonment of any regular Sunday train and without any serious delays.

The work involved the drawing and driving of 200,000 spikes. 'Each rail was moved 10 1-4 inches to a row of spikes previously drawn, all those on the outside being undisturbed, and over these the rails were lifted to their broader gauge. The work was carried on simultaneously on the line from Mediapolis to Washington, and from Winfielcl to Oskaloosa. Trains loaded with gangs of men left Mediapolis, Washington and Oskaloosa on the narrow gauge and dropped -the gangs four miles apart. Following narrow gauge trains specials ou the 'new broad' gauge picked up th gangs and conveyed them to the starting point.

All sidings were broadened at the same time. One of the interesting features of the work was the feeding of the men. who were provided with 5.000 sandwiches, 500 dozen hard boiled eggs and 180 gal- they have eliminated the use of steel so far as possible. Wood trusses and uprights are being used in all temporary buildings, but heavy steel rods are necessary to tic the trusses together and brace, the buildings at many points. Hundreds of tons of steel will be thus used.

Even now parts of tho work on some of the buildings is being delayed. The roof trusses of the great Varied Industries building and the textiles building are ready to hoistinto place as soon as delivery is made of steel orders placed months ago. While the delay is not considered serious it shows what might have been had steel construction been adopted for the buildings generally. Ohio's World's Pair Commission. Gov.

Nash of Ohio will appoint Stacy B. Rankiu. former representative in the Legislature, from Clark county, executive commissioner of the World's. Fair. There are applicants for the seven other positions on the commission.

The executive commissioner will receive a salary of per year. 'Report of Census Bureau, on Printing and Publishing' Shows Immense Amount of. Capital Invested and Devotes a Chapter to Description of Work of News Gathering Associations. Farmer Would Be Governor. La Pone, July Joers, a TM i--' i 1 ax by his brother OHhvagocl 15.

and is main 1S tlie I 11 j-1 rv w-fc 1 rt fl I.V-VT- I JLL tJ-X lUlo 11 Iowa at Washington. Washington, D. July H. Shother has been appointed postmaster at Martelle. Jones county, vice T.

E. Ormsby, resigned. Orlando M. Norton was commissioned postmaster at St. Charles.

The postmaster general has accepted the proposal of L. M. Hopkins to lease premises for the postoffice at Guthrie Center from Oct. 3. Ernest 0.

Patterson of Des Moines has been appointed a clerk in the treas- I ury department. The comptroller of the currency has approved" ihc application of the following persons to organize the First National Bank of Klenime, a i a E. C. Abbey of Gardner, C. S.

Tfr willinger, Isaac Sweigard, M. B. Cooper and A. Kelley. It extends the of the ship or and Ollh- Snyder are sons of Greenn is "trnished in white and gold, Sioux City, Julv annual! now yi fr blood Poisoning.

Grov- meeiing of the Iowa State Pharmacou- I aac Sn I uer aiv ny ot Gnien ouis rt i i buydcr, a farmer. I father was ijC lb tical association will be held in this city and 10. The South Dakota state board of pharmacy commissioners will meet the Iowa board here during the convention, while the latter hoard will hold examinations for applicants for pharmacists' licenses during the meeting. It is expected that 1.000 druggists will a tho meeting, and big preparations are being made. absent from the home last night and Running aft is the companion way Narrow Escape at Kensett.

Mason City. July passengers and the a i crew on a Great "Western freight had a narrow escape from destruction just north of Kensett. The Shell Rock river bridge gave way just after the engine and six cars passed over it. The rest of the train except the caboose and one freight car plunged into the river. Engineer Notleton's wife was on the engine with him at the time of the accident.

Iowa Pensions. Washington, D. J. The following pensions have ben granted to residents of Iowa: Original. Walter Burgess.

Onawa. Sti; i i a H. A a Smithland, John A Woliman, Gideons National Convention. MarshaUtown, July i annual national convention of the Gideons i be held at Cedar Rapids. July 4 7 5 and (J, Five Gideons arc to be in attendance.

One hundred and twenty-five traveling men i i i a charge of the services of the various churches at 10:30 a. Sunday the 6th. An invitation is extended to a lire interested in Christian work to attend any and all services. the two boys wen? left alone i their mother. As a precaution against intruders, Mrs.

Snyder placed an ax m-ar the cloor. Some time after the boys had retired for the night the mother aroused by cries of distress. She hastened into rover's bedroom. A sickening sight met her at the thresh- hokl. Ollie Snyder had left his bed, the ax and was hacking awa to the president's reception room.

Some meetings in evry county in the lit- is an i i a friend of ex-Con- r- gressman Jerry Simpson, from whom I I PATIENT A I A of the panels alone: the companion way are made ot Valenciennes lace, painted fc ha encouragement to over with a silver paint, to represent make canva lh nomination. Shooting 1 Scrap at jSToclaway. Villisca. July Nodaway. Sam McKown fired three shots at Charles Todd, a a i Saturday, one of which took effect.

The wound is not serious. The shooting was the outcome of TOOQ'S persistent attention to McKown's daughter against his wishes and commands and contrary to his warnings and threats. Mclxown was arrested and bound over to the grand jury under bonds, which he furnished. steel. In the sitting 1 room the white and gold is still carried out Leading down to the berth deck aft is a magnificent mahogany stairway that gives entrance to the president's private suite.

There are two large at his brotner. The mother could not state rooms. On the port side just out- arouse her son Ollie. He seemed in side, the president's room is his private a dazed condition. November 30, 1S94, bath.

The tub is cut from a solid block John Snyder, the boy's brother, was! of fine marble. murd'Teil near Champaign, 111. The Besides the arrangements made for murder weighed heavily on the mind tho president and his a i extensive of tne lad. During his sleep Ollie preparations were made to give him imagined some one was attempting to kill him. He would start in his sleep and often arouse the entire household by his strange actions.

It was while in this frame of i that he attempted to kill his brother. Charged With. Forgery. Santa July carpenter named Henry McKinney, who has been employed on the Potter hotel under the name of McAdam. is iu jail here charged with forgery committed Police Have Great Difficulty" in Getting Big Westerner to Hospital.

Chicago, July Policemen Doyle and i i a i detailed on the am- at the Harrison street police Washington, July census bureau today issued report of the printing and publishing business in the United States lor the census year of 1900, showing a capital of $292,517,072 invested in 22,312 establishments reporting for the industry. of the report is an extended account of the operations of the Associated Press, showing the great development ol news-gathering methods during the past two decades. Almost an entire chapter on news-gathering organizations is devoted to the history and detailed description of the work of the Associated Press, which, the report says, was a leading organization in 1880 and, now "is far in the lead of news- gathering organizations, in the United States." The report says the "Associated Press now has about 700 members, more, than half of which arc afternoon dailies, and serves about 2,500 daily and weekly papers in addition. Most of the papers served are in the United States, "but there are 50.or more in Canada, Mexi- oo, and Porto Rico. In its news servioo the Associated Press how uses miles of leased wire by--day and 20.407 miles by night The annual- revenues derived from assessments levied on newspapers served exceed 900.000; the number of words daily, received arid transmitted at each of the more important offices, now over 50,000, are equivalent to 3.

columns of an av- erage newspaper. The Associated Press has; coniract relations with various foreign ncnvs agencies with which it exchanges news. tho benefit of the most improved nil- inarv and sanitarv contrivances. There A i- a P-, i fc -j i at Bloomington. 111.

The Bloomington station, went to the In-and Ontral rail- sheriff has been notified of McKinney's wa Cation to remove a a i tlvy arrest. and replied that ho will leave 1 Wf re with a i i i prolj- for Santa Barbara at once. loni Th( werc greeted by two men. was 6 feet. tall.

Beside him suoou' a man. 8 feet 2 inches in i THE BIG BAND LEADER. Freight Adjustment. Chicago, a i live stock and dressed meat products i a' large refrigerating plant in the i between Chicago and the Missouri rivsr i today put these nvo classes of freight --the a i The policemen, both ovon o- fi most. i''--t in height, appeared small i ru OI ,7 I I cl 1.11 DELAYS MAY BE DANGEROUS.

Increase, "Restoration. Reissue, Etc. E. Jenkins, Council Bluffs. $10; H.

Mettlin. Soldiers 1 homo. Marshall S10: Mow. Story City, Oamul W. Schaible, Laporto William Harmon.

Shemuvlnah William Scott, Albia. Huron Franklin. North Liberty, Zachariah A i Janesville. $10; S. Georgp.

Winterset. $12; Goorgo Day, Ash Grove. SIT: John Eporr. Chariton. John Michael, Grcoley, SI Joseph Isaac.

Walker, SS. Original Etc Susannah Nor- dkye. Pleasant Plain, Eliza A. Pierce, Dc-s Moines, Susan J. Bonwell.

Randolph. SS; Mary Rollors. Conway, SS: Dorris i a i a a G. GoofHiall, Drake.sville, SS; minor of David H. Morrn.

Keosauqua Mary E. Fauuec. White Elm, 85.000 for a.Buggy Bide. Centervilie. Jiilv.

for damages has fyeeii brought in the district court by. Toney Grenko against Toney Blazevich. John i'vanovich and. Tony Buboru Tho parties TO the case live at a bun and all are a Ijianovicb amV Bubon. last Easter nay In- a i a little at Grenko's expense, and now Grenko wants them ro pay the fiddler." It was on i day that the dcK-mlants.

so the petition state's, i tho i i was in a peaceful pursuit of bis own affairs, did "wullfully. maliciously, feloniously and i wnnton negligence," "by force, duress, compulsion and violence." assault The plaintiff, 'the latter all the time resisting," and carry ana place birr, in a buggy to which fractious horses were attached and thereupon the horses became unman- Probable Fatal Stabbing Affray. Fair field, Mori en of this city almost stabbed to death at a late hour last Saturday i near his home, had bopn in company with Rmbon Bnbe.ork and Al Mills, the throe had been drinking and near Morion's homo a became involved in a i i resulted in Morion being stubbed in several about his body. One cut, which the physicians i may yet prove fatal, is the one right over his heart. Babcock unu Mills are now confined in iho a i while Motion is confined to his bed, being unable to be removed.

Postponement of the World's to 1904 May Affect Two Lives in an Important Way. forward part of the vessel, near the rtinins saloon. Nothing-has been left undone to raake the Mayflower a fit habitation for the ruler of a wealthy nation. Before the Spanish-American war The Mayflower was the property of Jlrs. 1 Ogclen Goelet.

It. had been built for her husband, on the Clyde, at a cost of SSOO.Ono. AVhen Mr. Goelet died, his widow at one.time contemplated se1! ins tbe yacht to the lung ot" the Bel- At the outbreak of the war the Lincoln's Remark to 300-Pound Musician. Gen.

I. C. A in Washing ton Post: On linh day of May, 1861, the First Michigan ihrco months' volunteer i a arrived in the city of Washington, ana on 22d it was reviewed by President Lincoln near tbe White House-, and at. o'clock in tho eld and staff, the i of- rogiment band. led by the colonel, O.

B. now major i States a.rmv.- beside bis a tower. For a the men regarded each other. Doyle! on equality. The a are hc i the piuiont Li i Winfield Scott cpnts from the river to i tho ambulance was only six feet at a department.

The band play- od "Hail to the and, after grasping the a of the old veteran, the Chicago. Getting- a Genuine Article from an Isthmian Maker. Detroit Free Press: "There was another just siifb Panama hat craxe about 15 years ago," said a MichisarulPr as lie removed his "gnuiinfi" and fanned x- t. -01 o-t: his heated brow, "and as was going B1 Pa-, The vessel is .21 feet over all. 2 lhe cine Railway coming from the on thP 1 i i f-rmined to The conversation drifted to the post-i When Governor Allen was sont to ians.

THE PANAMA HAT. World's Fair Grounds. St. Louis. July visitor to the publicity mcnt of the World's fair last week tolls! Mayflower was bought as a torpedo- a-somewhat amusing story of a boat destroyer at a cost of $450.000.1 traveler he met on the The tall man was able to stand, and matters wore- finally arranged by i i marr-lu-d over to the White ou the floor of the ambulant Housft hand playing "Arner- ponemont of the World's Fair to 1904.

Tne Westerner remarked. "To tell the stranger. I can't, say that it is i practical for the reason that of the; of Western roses has prom- i Dolphin, is under command of Lieuten- ised to marry me provided spenrl ant Commander Albert Cleaves, our honeymoon at the world's fair. All arrangements were perfected for tbe redding day. and now she positively rpfuse? to carry out the plan i 11)04.

There's a mighty fine fellow who also has his eye on her and as my business ket-ps me most of the i in Chicago--well you know, often delays are a sample of the real thing; I had a i in New York in and drawing his long Ifgs up beneath him. In this manner he was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, he will be a for an abscess of tbe brain. The a towr-r save his name as Louis He is 30 ypars old ami wpischs pounds, i lives in Indian i i his brothers. As he stood in railway station he presented a fine specimen of human development. His shoulders from his neck either way appeared as large as an i a man's.

His heai! is in proportion with of his body, and his hands twu-r ihe size fthose of the average sized man. ica." Therp the party was escorted to the East room. The president, soon came in, and nil were introduced. The president shook their hands heartily. After greeting tho members of the band, the president up to the leader, whose avoirdupois was about 300 pounds, and whose i was a 5 feet inches.

"Sir," said the president to him, "you arc biggest blower I ever This evoked a cheer, and the drum rest major ordered the band i position. 1 New Company Formed. Des Moines. L--Articles of incorporation of the National Crude Oil Burner company were filed with the recorder. The paid in capital is iJlo.OOO.

The incorporates arc J. C. Tate, clerk of the county courts, and II. and F. R.

Gageol. all this city. The company is organized for tne manufacture of a device which generates gas from crude oil and supplies a flame capable of genrating gas that can bou sod for heating and culinary purposes, etc. I Apprehension in Southwest Iowa. Creston, July farmers are .1 much apprehension for in this port.

of; continued cold, its impression oa thr'eorn, which is now at a stand- Desperadoes Break Jail. Washington, July Herbert, ou trial for murder: Bill Vinconnes rapist, Eddy Lyons, a burglar, broke jail early this morning. The whole country is aroused and is in pursuit Edsoi; is the prosiner who narrowly escaped lynching recently at Vincennes. AN ALASKA -LIFE-SAVEB. i How Duncan SXcCabe's Wife Fell in Water and Made Tidal Wave.

Alaska Prospector: Sergeant Josef which ynu could roll np and put in your pocket. almost, and i i seem to woigh an ounce, I wasn't a i $50 for A i a i i a tions. I sailed wearing a felt lint, and, in due time, reached Panama and a ed out to buy a hat. I hat. stores and Panama hats in plenty, but ovory hat had a suspicious look.

That is, it WOMEN DBINK AND SWEAR. Eastern Editress Deplores Tendency of the Present Generation. tlLspau-h: Miss Floretta Viriing. editress of a syndicate of South Shore newspapers, printed a ne.dnorial hand smirk up "Yankee Doodle," a i any passed out and to quarters. ECCLESIASTICAL HEADGEAB.

Lord Rosebery's Unfavorable Opinion of the Bishop's Hat. London News: A story is being told of which Lord Rosebnry is thp allpgod Frodich had an exciting adventure last shipped down there, and I a a week, in which he played the role of a found out that such was the case. looked as if a in Connrctutut and 0 nnK the increase in the a i subject'. On one occasion lie went into lifesaver. No doubt he to save i a appealed to an American in the i i and swearing on tho pnrt of a arfffi Oxford street establishment to young women.

To a reporter Miss Yin- purchase a new hat and, while he stood AROUND THE HOUSE. Novelties Koted Here and There for Home Use and Decoration. 1 Philadelphia Times: Among the helps for housekeepers is a strawberry picker made of tin on the principle of the sugar tonugs. The berry is picked lives in Germany. This unfortunate event happened while Josef was out Jboatriding in company with Mrs.

Duncan McCahe, the i of Dane the best blacksmith on the bay. Mrs. Mcabe is not a light woman by any means, and during some i i movement lost her balance and upset tho boat, causing both of its occupants railroad office down there, and he replied: Til send you to a place where you can get the real thing. In fact, you can see tho braid woven and make sure you are not "It was a journey of five miles out in the said the searcher, fc but I went to the spot and found three or to be precipitated into the icy waters i four women finishing hats, and picked of the bay. Other boats were near, but out my fit, paid 25 cents for U.

and let. ing said her editorial was nor. upon theory, but upon observation. Miss Vining's editorial says in "I am simply paralyzed by wnnt know about the great use of intoxicat- up between the circular-shaped still and showing signs of failing vj- with one hand and the hull removed tality, and is full of wee-ds: The hay is with tbe other. A novelty of the sea- almost ready to cut, but it is impossible to get in the fields on account of the wet condition of the ground; Many fields-of oats have fallen down, so it will be hard work to harvest them, and signs of rust are developing.

One of the heaviest rains of the season visited this county Saturday night and continued all day Sunday. So much wa- ageahle and the plaintiff was thrown ter fell that it was impossible for the sewers to carry it all away and the streets resembled small rivers. The rain was a cold one, the thermometer dropping to within a few degrees of the freezing point, andovercoats for this time of the year is almost unprecedented and it is feared that the crops will bo materially damaged. "with great violence" to the ground, thereby permanetly injuring him in the legs, breaking his left, leg near the ankle joint. Col email Was Convicted.

Sioux City, i. Joseph Coleman, arged with murdering his brother, Edward, to secure $5,000 life insurance, was Saturday convicted at Faulkton. S. D. Imprisonment for life was the sentence imposed.

The brothers went to Falke in the summer of 1901. hey bought a valuable ranch and pro- jbeod'ed to stock it Both brothers took policies for in the Nortti- Wstern Life, payable to each other. Joseph, Col em an. notified neighbors that his Edward, had shot himself. was quickly 'encased iaa rough board coffin and started for Winona, Minn.

'to this time ono of the Coleman brothers had died, and Joseph, his beneficiary in a amilar amount, bad been tinder suspicion. The company stopped the body at Molette, S. D. and the gunshot wound was found in the back. Work But Ten Hours Mnseatine, July -hundred the Muscatine Raw mills mde happy Saturday evening tfeelr employers aunouuced that Pickett Case Up Again.

Onawa, July motion for a new trial is-now-being argued before Hutchison in the celebrated $40.000 damage suit pf-Luella S. TJickett vs. the S. C. P.

railroad; whicli was tried In the Monoiia county district court and after a- week's trial received, a verdict of $2,500. George A. Oliver of Onawa and Healey Rros. of Fort Dodge appear for the plaintiff, and J. B.

Shoe- han of Ojnahk defendant. Miss Pic.kett'-ia an insurance agent, and in August last year bought ticket from Riyor Sioux to Monoawin over the S. C. P. railroad.

The night, was dark and cloudy and the platform at Mqnda- win was not well lighted, and Pickett missed the stops ami foil from the platform to the ground, receiving and claims to be unable to perform any duties since that time. She appeared in court under charge of a trained nurse and scmert to be nearly helpless. Miss Pickett waa ou the wit- son is a cream pitcher in the form of a mammoth strawberry, tho lip in tho shape of the leaf and the decorations in nature's colors. When burlap is used to cover the walls of a room a stenciled border frequently is chosen instead of the frieze formerly in favor. Holders for panies in rock crystal effects are dainty little affairs.

Gossewaro is the new English fad for country house use. Its surface has a rich tone of cream white and the decorations do not interfere with showing broad spaces of it, so that the effect is light, clear and cheery. English" glass for table use ranks among handsome and useful articles at tho jeweler's. Of dainty aspect is a "milk tumbler" of milky white porcelain with a gilt edge, or decorated with a graceful garland of gay little flowers. Among suggestions for country homes is lb- Darby and Joan chair, a low rocker for two on the one foundation.

These odd pieces are in different woods, such as oak walnut, ash and pine, and they come in wicker, rattan, old hickory and other materials. There-is a decided tendency in wall papers to imitate the effects of weaves. Cnrtridge papers have taken to themselves the sheen of suteen; others are crinkled and ribbed like Bedford cord; and still others with a print representing the threads of organdy, very much like the effects in the organdy stationery that has been so popular. Among the leather cushion tops one of the most popular designs is a lion rampant. Glass candlesticks in tho quaint colonial style are seen.

Glass tableware of the same period ifl in evidence alto. the parties wore so confused by the novoi sight that they did not know what to do. Josef, with great coolness and presence of mind, saved Mrs. Me- Cabe from a watery grave by grasping hor and taking her ashore. She did not look much the worse for her trying experience.

The fort's new wireless tele- feraphy system was brought into use and a message hastily sent to Dune for warm clothes. Our friend Josef had on his best $mt and it was utterly ruined. Mrs. Duncan McCabe, being a somewhat heavy woman, displayed a considerable amount of water as fell in the bay. At about the same tirm Sergeant McHugh.

our provo, was walking along the beach nearly a mile from the scene of the accident, in corn- puny i Sergeant Daggott Pie was nearly drowned by the tidal wave that suddenly appeared but as rescued by the timely action of his companion. The a a i was treated as a joke at tho fort, and Josef was unmercifully guyed by his comrades. It was a good thing that it as not a young lady or perhaps would haw been a wedding at the fort the near future. It is much by. tho members of Company that Sergeant McHugh was obliged to go on sick report after his experience.

my mule wear it l.iomo. on his bead. It was rougk, stiff and almost shapeless, and made of grass as tough as cat-tails. It was Panama because made in Panama, and for no other reason, and I could have got a better one at a country store for the money. I got home I called upon the hntter and asked if he had a good Panama for a reasonable figure, and he smiled and replied: 'Certainly I have.

Just got a consignment from last night Here they are--from $1.50 to $75, and all you've got to do is to find your fit, pay your cash, and go away Wanted to be on Safe Side. A sallow faced, fevered looking man of 35 ca lled at office of a Brooklyn hospital and asked to be accepted as a patient. "What is your occupation?" asked the doctor, after examining the patient. "1 am an "Immune $om what?" "From I am employed by a firm doftig business in Porto Rico. My an in no he took because djingftjteof getting It himself, ok im- because I am safo." "But ou are suffering from yollow fovvr.

my friend. know; 1 answered the fevered you call tho disease by some name? -My boss Is tho crank you ever raw, If he finds out the nature of my illness he'll discharge me. The Color Cure. London Globe: The part played by color in the m-atment of disease is just now atracting frosh attention. The of tho Italian doctors in their employment of red in the sick room has set some people talking about this subject as though it wore a modern discovery that color atlectod the nerves and through the nerves the general health of the body was rmide many years ago; know that Edward II, for instance, when he was Prince Edward, was cured of smallpox--if we arc to believe the court physician--sololy by the brilliant scarlets employed in.

the decoration of his bed.and-the TOOTH. in which the betl stood. But to say that color, per se.can cure a person of smallpox, or any other nialady, is to state what science must, a Nevertheless it cannot be too widely known thai, success in sick nursing may do ml in a greater or loss degree on the scheme of coloring that obtains in the patient's room. Whether scarlet or the other various shades of red is tho universal panacea wo know not, but it is qulto safe to say that anything in the shade of mournful and dyspeptic yellows and greons should not be i izer! in ministering to a mi ml diseased. Color, in this sense, after all is only another word for environment, and It quite certain that brightness and cheerfulness, whatever their tints are useful factors In the treatment of gick- nees.

ing liquors by young wovien, I snw a cafe and order whisky cocktails. They few days ago two young net yet IS. rome into a well-known hotel took a light lunch, and before they finished had two bottles of beer each. Young 1 women of good families, accompanied by young men, would spend their Sundays at Hull. "I must proclaim against what surrounds me at the hotel where live in winter.

Young men bring young women to dinner and That meal will cost, from $18 to $20, and these young; men are hardly over 21 years "Where they get the money to pay it is my comprehension. "Recently at a house party a-young society woman whom every one in Bos-' ton knows brought a quart bottle of whisky, and she and a man drank it lunch was announced. "Swearing now is common among women. Morals are too lose even among married women. I know men who have to take up the daily paper to know where their wives 1 to be fitted, a bishop entered on the same errand and mis- I took the Earl for one of the shop as- sisl.arits.

"Havo you a hat like this?" he asked, showing his own extraordinary headgear. Lord Rosebery took it from him and examined it critically before he answered. "No." he replied at length; "I haven't got a hat like that, and if I had I wouldn't wear 1 Was Not a Plyer. William Gillette, the great impersonator Sherlock Holmes, once hired a yacht. As he describes it, it was a craft without a rival in slow progression.

With a few friends he set sail and proceeded upon a cruise. They kept close to the shore, and a week or two after they had port were drifting lazily by a point, of land, at the end of which sat a solitary man fishing. In a few hours the boat had passed the point, and tho fisherman was seen himself from his contemplation of his rod. "Where ye from?" called genially. York," replied Gillette, -with a yachtman's pride.

"flow long?" "Sunday, Aug. 1 The fisherman returned to his fishing and the yacht kept on drifting. Some hours latter there came a drawling voice over the quiet water, and it asked': He Had Speciilated. Lucas--Did youse ever spekalate on Wall street? Timothy--Yes, I uster stand around the stock exchange.an' wonder where my next meal wus comln' State Journal. SECRETS At tho Price of Suffering.

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