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IX<i IN ('HINA.
A Look nt Canton, With Its AIill
Ivn* of People, in Plague
Time s—Chinese Su¬
perstition.
A LL China an 1 tin far East are
much exc .-d oy.r a b rnble
pnmue wnich has recently
broken out m the southern
provinces of this empire wr-tea 1 - rank
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It cm ini' oritr uftliv from tin* interior,
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K»iic, ..... 1 th. ere day. a,-in* ,.t 11m
rate of hmidr. ds per The dis
ease is practically an unknown one to
the physician* of to-day, but it is said
to be tlx-same it that which devastat
ed Europe during the middle ages
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and which was so awful ju its ravage*
that it got the title of “the black
death.” It ran over Enron" -wain
and again from the sixth to "the
eighteenth centuries, and it is said to
have caused more deaths than any of
the great ipid.-mics which human
flesh has been heir to. (t is tho pest
which Daniel Defoe describes in his
story of the great plague of London of
1 fifia and lflfifi, and it has done t r
table damage in Arabia and Persia
within the past generation, Jt came
a few years ago from China to South¬
ern Uussia, and tho C/.xr stationed
troops about the infected districts and
in this way kept it from the rest of
Europe. The plague that ravaged
Europe in the fourteenth century
came from Chinn, and it Inis been
known to have existed for some year*
past in one of the Chinese px-oviuces
above the Burmese frontier.
The black death broke out in Can¬
ton during the last week in February,
and for a time tho average of those
who dn-d from it was about two hun¬
dred per day. This average steadily
increased, until iu March and April it
was live hundred per day. It is said
that tho Pearl Kiver, which flows past
tho city, and upon which hundreds of
thoitHaudsof people live, contains many
floating corpses, and that the under
takers are unable to make coffins
enough to supply the demand. In or
dinary times t he Chinese spend large
sums upon their funerals, and they
are more particular as to the styles of
their burial caskets limn they are as
to those of their wedding beds. Cof
tins cost all the way from a few dollars
up to thousands of dollars, and it is
not an uncommon thing for a man to
bu y a coffin and keep it in his house
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for years, so as to have a first-class
article on hand when ho dies. Chil
drou often make their parents presents
of coffins, and they have their mutual
coffin supply association, somewhat
like our building and loan association,
or like our mutual life insurance socie
tics. Every member of such au asso
ciation gets a coffin and burial clothe#
when he dies, and the not having
is considered a greater calamity than
deadi itself, io-day the dead in Can
ton are carted out and disposed of in
ai sorts of ways, and tho greatest
trouble is found in getting rni of them.
t ften the pall-hearers who are paid to
carry the coffins to the grave are
stricken with the dread disease on the
way, and of the tour who start out
with the body only one or two return.
1 here are not coffins enough for the
grown persons, and the children are
being buried in baskets or wrapped
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pi ax es tho babies are not buried 1 at all
aud tlm baby towers are full. those
>a n towers you find all over China,
limy arc little buildings, with windows ;
high up near the roof. Die babies j
arc lanl on the windows and are pushed
msnle to decompose as they will. I
saw, near Shanghai, the bodies of
babies thrown out upon the roadside, i
and such corpses arc often loft by the j
poor for the dogs to eat. Lo-xlay many j
of t lo dead at Canton havo not a bur- i
ml plot and their coffins are left on j
the top of the ground. This, in the
case xit such an infectious disease as
tho flack plague, cannot but be of
great xlanger to the rest of tlm people. !
and the plague is said to be steadily i
spreading over the surrounding conn
try. Some of the coffins are hermeti
call} sealed by varnishing them again
and again with a sort cf Lacquer var
urn i, am a* t ho wood is often four in- !
t os hick, m ordinary times they do ;
not cause much trouble from their of
lensne smell. Kow, however, the
haste with which the xleaxl are xlis
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posed of does not admit of such treat- )
ment and the very air about Canton !
is at en with the pestilence. lhe
richer l lunese of the city have been
xlomg what they could to relieve the
distress- and there are a number of
charitable associations who are aiding
m io disposal of the deaxl. At one
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dispensary alone 2900 ^ coffins have been
i;i\en 8 \sa\, an 1 it is estimated that
up to this time 00,000 coffins have
been furnished by such associations,
The sanitary board of Hong Kong
visited the plague-stricken parts of j
Canton some weeks ago, aud made a
report on the disease aud its syuip
toms. It comes upon ouo without
warnmg in the sltapc* of a fever, which
raises the temperature of the patient
in a short time to 105 degrees and up j
ward. There is no chill and no other j
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the glands of the neck the armpits or
the groin begin to swell and they
I become as big as a hen s egg. Tht»e
swellings are hard and exceedingly
, tender, Imt they do not suppurate,
Iu some cases a vomiting of blood.oc
curs, and within a few hours the man
(dies. been attacked, Home *ew and recover if they after having keep
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themselves alive for more than six
, , ^aya a chance after for ^ them exposure The disease there seems is a
to be very infectious, and in those
quarters where it is raging it has more
.nan decimated the population. In
one small street the sanitary board ot
S Hon* Rod* fom .,1 thirty death*. .ml
in another out of 17(1 people only forty
have survived. At one of the gates of
Canton a man took a box the other
J time day and coffin dropped a carried cash into out. it every At I
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j o’clock the cash in and the found afternoon he had he 170 counted
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i The disease is very sudden in its nt
; tacks, ami the only safety from it
seems to bo to get out of its ran^e.
j For froin weeks Canton, the and people have been flying
a letter which I saw
te other day states that every house
seems to have its dead. A few days
ago a thief entered a house iu which
the whole family had died of the
plague, expecting to have an easy
| haul. He was stricken while in the
aet, of robliing the dead, and u day or
two later his body, with the booty up
on it, was found lying iu the house,
A curious thing about the plague is
that it affects some kinds of animals as
I " e11 aH mei ’’ ttml in Cttlltou i4 attacked
tho rtl ts of the city first. Dead rats
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such places almost as fast as the
human species. In every house where
dead rats were found it was seen that
the people had taken the black
plague, and the sign of a dead rat will
now cause a family to fly.
Tho Hong Kong doctors at first said
that the disease was not of a parasitic
nature and that it could not be car
ried to any great distance; but this is
thought by many to be a mistake, and
it is nrw said that its germs can be
transported in clothing and in other
ways, and the Japan Mail is advising
the most rigid sanitary precautions
against all of the Hong Kong steam
ers. In one editorial it asserts that
even a shotgun quarantine would he
justifiable against it, and when it is
remembered that every ten days a big
steamship from Hong Kong lands at
San Francisco and Vancouver it would
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seem advisable that the greatest care
betaken to keep it out of America. It
j iS thought hero that the disease cannot
g e t a firm hold of any quarter which
has good sanitary arrangements, aud
so far, I believe, only Asiatics have been
afflicted with it. It has attacked
Hong Kong. The Japanese papers
had reports that there were one or
two xleaths in different parts of Japan,
but these reported have since been
denied. The Japanese are much bet
ter prepared to suppress such a
plague, should it break out, than is
China. They are the cleanliest peo
pi e j u fj ie world in regard to their
persons, and their towns and houses
Hre models of neatness. China is the
filthiest and nastiest country on the
face of the globe, and outside of the
treaty ports there are no means of
e U f or ci U g sanitary measures. Thx^re
are drains in some of the cities, but
these are flushed only by the rains,
and it is said that one cause of the
rapid spread of the plague in Canton
was the prolonged drought which has
afflicted the city this spring.
The fact that the plague exists in
Canton makes its danger greater than
it would be had it broken out in anv
other citv of China. Canton is the
x ew York of the empire. It is the
biggest of the Chinese business cities,
and it contains something like 3,000,
000 of people. Its boat population is
said to number more than 300,000,
and as many people as you will find in
Washington, Cleveland, Buffalo or
Cincinnati are born, live and die upon
lts waters. Its people are the bright
est iu China, and they are the best
traders and the best workers among
the celestials. They will command
higher wages than the Chinese from
any other cities, and you find Canton
men engaged in business all over
C hiua. I met them in Hankow, I
found them on the busiest streets of
Chinklang and Nanking, and here in
Peking they own some of the best
property, and are engaged in all sorts
of undertakings. A great pari of our
imports come from Canton, and the
credit of the big Cantonese merchants
is as good as that of the most solid
Americans iu tbe banks of London. It
is a city of millionaires and paupers,
audit contains the richest and the
poorest of the Chinese. When I vis
ited it, not long ago, I was entertained
by the Jay Gould of China, a man
Qua, Who » said to he
™ rth hls tenR of millions, and in
riding np to Canton on the steamer I
saw a hungry-eyed boatman greedily
grab at a dead rat which was thrown
him from our ship, and which I donbt
not furnished the piece de resistance
for his family dinner. It is from the
Cantonese province that most of the
Chinese in America come, and its peo
pie are noted for their turbulence as
well as for their skilled hands and
their sharp business brains.
I have never seen anywhere such a
beehive of humanity as the city of
Canton, an 1 I can imagine no place
better for the dissemination of a
plague like this. The streets are so
narrow that the birr kde w.« -ci-lir.il
coolie* .nTyon^ almost tto walls ou
either side stand in the
middle of some'of the best business
tjuarters and touch the walls on both
sides by stretching out your hands,
The main streets fairly swarm with
Chinese men and women, and half of
these Celestial humans are loaded.
They crowd and push against each
other as they work their way through
the city, and the disease germs if pcs
sessed by one are easily communicated
to many. They pack themselves to
gether in the houses, and the popula¬
tiou of a small city is crowded into a
single block. The poorest of them
have only a few cents a dav for the
support of their families, and ten of
our cents is a good wage for a day’s
work. Agricultural laborers about
the city do not receive more than five
cents a day, and women are paid still
less. The average workingman who
can save$5 a year is doing very well,
and the question with the majority of
the people is one of existence,
The diet of the laboring classes con
sisfs of salt rT and rice,
if *bey can J-
or four times a year they deemthem
selves happy, It is not uncommon to
find 100 people living in a little nest
of a dozen one-story houses, and rents
per family ' range from $2 a year and
upward. Canton is the only city I
have visited where I have found cat
and dog restaurants, and it is the
only city where I have seen dried rats
exposed for sale in manv ,nuTrtv.*s. a
priced some of these rats and was
charged five cents for the one I bought,
It coxxld not have weighed more than
eight ounces, and I suppose I paid
double price for it. At one of the
dog restaurants I treated a lot of
coolies to a stew of black dog’s plate! flosh,
and the price of it was ten cents a
I could have gotten a stew of yell ow
dog for less, but when one gives a
treat, even in China, he ought to lmy the
best. Black dog’s meat is worth twice
price of that of the yellow canine.
It is cooked with a tuft of the hair
left on the end of the tail to show the
color of the dog, aud it looks, when
in the pot, much like the flesh of a
sucking pig. The dog is killed and
* be bn ’ r is taken off as we take the
bristles off of a pig, and when stewed
it is cut into small pieces. At this
same place I saw cat meat cooking,
and there were cats in cages awaiting
the orders of customers. Cat meat is
higher priced than dog or rat meat,
and the tabbies are killed only upon
order. The people whom I saw at such
restaurants, however, were those only
°f the poorer classes, and there are in
Canton as costly restaurants as you
will find anywhere in the world. I
places where you have to pay §5 a
plate for your bird’s nest soup, and
where tea is served which you can’t
get for less than $10 a pound,
The black plague, on account of the
poor diet of the people and their pov
erty, will last longer in Canton than it
would in an American city. There are
practically no facilities for taking care
°f tbe sick, and Chinese medicine is
worse than no mexlicine. The mis
sionary hospital will do much. It is
one of the best hospitals in the East,
and it does a great deal of good. The
chief Chinese charitable institutions of
Canton are a blind asylum, from which
blind beggars go out day after day
over the city ; a foundling asylum, sup
ported out of the salt tax, aud a leper
asylum. This last is in a banyan grove
two miles from the gate of the city,
It contains about five hundred inmates,
more horrible creatures do not
exist on the face of the earth. There
arc more lepers in Cauton than can be
aecommoxlated in the asj lum, and
there are leper boats filled with these
people, who scull or row their boats
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among the other craft on the river
begging.
There are no more superstitious
people than the Chinese, and such an
occasion as this brings out all of the
sooth sayers. I hear that the
streets of Canton are now filled with
priests exorcising the imps of the
plague and that the people go through
the city in bands beating gongs and
drums to drive the demons away. At
the head of one band was a boy who
had on a hideous dragon mask, and
the dragon boats which are kept for
the annual dragon boat festival have
been brought out. All sorts of prar
ing goes ou before the different josses
and the ancestral tablet-, and every
one connected with the burial of the
dead is making money. A large class
of merchants sell nothin* else bnt
silver and gold paper, which is boncrhl
by the families of the dead and is
burned by them over the graves, with
the idea 'that this will snpulv them
' with funds for their travels'in the
next world. Paper and wooden cows
* and horses are manufactured to be
> burned in the same wav, and the dealers
; in white goods will be getting rich,
White is the color of mourning iu
Chinn, and the family ‘ when thev re
: pair to the cemetery wear clothes of
white tied on with coarse rope. They
j leave food at the graves an-.l generally
1 send an extra suit of paper clothes
along to keep the corpse * warm when
it becomes a ghost.
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A TONG AN VILLAGE.
Polynesia, are south of the equator,
and between Samoa, or the Navigator’s
Islands, and the Fiji group. The
ToDgans bear a strong resemblance to
the people of Samoa, and many of
their legends are the same, yet they
are not nearly so handsome a people.
The Tongaus have the art of mak¬
ing beautiful mats, which they value
as highly as the Persian princes do
their richest prayer mats, and with
these they adorn the floors and walls
of their circular houses. In the few
settlements where white men are to be
found, the native men and women
wear clothes of European style, though
even these are confined to a shirt and
trousers for the men, and a sort of
cotton Mother Hubbard dress fox
women. But away from the settle¬
ments they still adhere to the costume
of their forefathers, and most becom¬
ing it is.
The Tongans are very fond of orna¬
ments, iu which men, women and
children delight. One of tbe cheapest
and most effective is made from a
scarlet flowering creeper, which they
fasten with a most graceful effect
about the head, neck, arms and bust;
but the ornaments most valued are
earrings made from the ivory-like
substance of the whale’s teeth. These
teeth are from one to four inches m
length, and worn on strings like a
necklace.
Although there has not been a wax
in Tonga for many years, yet the men
make and carry arms, and all the
village^ palisades. are fortified by means of
Formerly, whenever an old man got
so sick in Tonga that he could not
move, it was the custom for his
relatives and friends to carry him off’
and bury him alive. The missionaries
and the English Government put au
end to this cruel practice ; but, strange
to say, the people who most lamented
the abolition of the custom were the
old men themselves.
Fruit and fish are so abundant in
Tonga that hunger may be said to be
unknown, and as there is now no war,
and it does not require much work to
sustain life, the people give their
spare time, of which the} r have au
abundance, to games, sports and semi¬
religious festivals.
"White Holland Turkeys.
White Holland turkeys rank next in
weight to the bronze. They arc high
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Iv esteemed, as they make a nice ap¬
pearance when dressed. They hare a
lighter colored skin, with a pinkish
tinge, which is very attractive. The
flesh is white and juicy.
White Hollands have clear white
plumage, though during summer, like
other white fowls, they become more
or less yellow. The bills and feet are
yellowish color. They are good lay
ers and excellent mothers, generally
mating quite early. They are not con¬
sidered so hardy as the bronze and
some other varieties, and not so com
mouly seen.
The white Holland is much larger
than the common white turkey, with
which it should not be confounded.
It traces its origin to the Nerther
lands and Belgium, and is sometimes
termed the Flemish. Its feathers are
Ter y valuable, as they possess the soft
ness of the down of geese.—New York
World.
Turkish Agricultural Progress.
Turkey has already * one superior
school of agriculture, two schools of
practical agriculture, seven model
farms, a veterinary school, and an ex- !
perimental silkworm nursery. ’__■ Ex
periment fields have also been estab
lished, anti new seeds are distributed,
while encouragement is given to the
improvement of live stock. There is
also a national bank of agriculture i
which lends monev to farmers at a low
rate of interest. Altogether it would
1 eem as though life”iu there were still con
sideralde the sick man of Eu
rope._New York World.
Europe pay* $50,000,000 taxes a
year on salt.
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NINI. AI 1 AIvEL.
The Hat of the Hour-New Parasols
and Their Odd Handles—An
Inexpensive But Pretty
Sofa Cushion.
tnpr 1 I ' HE English walking hat is the
I hat of the hour. This season’s
f- shapes are almost universally
becoming The vorv latest
English novelty ^has a broad brim
which curls but'slightlv ® at the sides.
Xhe rather i high • i crown show a deep
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1U 1oth coarse and fine . straw in shades
of brown, dark blue, black, white and
butter color. When trimmed simply
with a band of ribbon they sell for
$1.39.
Perhaps the walking hat which is
considered the most cliic at present is
in this shape, with the broad brim in
black and the crown of butter color.
This is trimmed with a wide baud on
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black moire ribbon and a bunch of
black feathers at the side. Hats of
blue straw with, a white crown are also
much the vogue
For the woman whose face does not
require a broaxl brimmed hat there are
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jaunty walking hats with narrow brims
which turn up lightly at the crown.
All the walking hats are much in
favor with the broad shouldered type
of tailor-made girl.
LOUIS XV. NECK RIBBON.
It has quite superseded the popular
little gold and silver chains that have
for many months been worn by smart
ly dressed women. London maids and
madames have adopted the Louis XV.
ribbon of black moire, and the fad is
being taken up on this side of the
water. The ribbon is about one and
a half inches wide and forty inches
long. It encircles the neck and holds
a scent bottle, an eyeglass, a tiny
purse or watch, such as Louis XV.
nobles wore.
SUNBONNETS REDIVIVUS.
There has been a quaint revival of
the old-fashioned sunbonnet this sum¬
mer. As, with most of these revivals,
it has been modified and much im¬
proved, having no “slats,” as of old,
being made with a pretty material as
to col or and fabric, and finished by a
little frill, edged with narrow lace,
about the face. These are only worn
by rather small children, hut are
usually very becoming to them.
FANCIES IN PARASOLS.
Any girl who has a penchant for odd
bits of bijoutrie can have it thorough¬
ly gratified by buying parasols by the
score. It seems as if the manufac
turers had determined to see how
funny they could make parasol handles.
They certainly succeeded to perfec¬
tion. Just imagine a young man
holding a parasol over the summer
girl while “rocking” w-ith a fieroe
looking parrot head staring at him
from the end of the handle! But what
is more to the point, a couple of love
making young folks may be carved on
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the handle. Queer Diesden shepherd
esses and hobgoblin figures are also
seen.
SOW TO MAKE AN INEXPENSIVE BUT HAND¬
SOME SOFA CUSHION. j
A sofa cushion can be made from
the attached design. First draft your
pattern. A long thin design looks j
best on an article of this kind, as it
IDreads ovi r the material, makinar it .
look elaborate. Draw the pattern on
paper and transfer it to you* goods
by rubbing charcoal on the otmosite
side of your drawing; by the . : n
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on the material to be used, pinning it
firmly to prevent slipping, the char¬
coal side of course be ng next to the
cloth. Trace the pattern with a sh ar i
lead pencil. Lifting the paper, a faint
outline will be seen. Trace over titi -
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witli some bright lead (red or blue is
best), so that the pattern will bo pi HU,
and not rub off'. Do not make or si lift
the cushion until you liavo embroid¬
ered your pattern.
Another way to make the design is
to cut the leaves aud flowers out of e >■
ored mat-era], sewing them on the
goods, being careful not to show the
stitches. Still another pretty way is
to embroider them ou. Plus is a f ir
less expensive way of obtaining the
design.
These pillows may bo made from
almost any material, One of tii
prettiest was made of pnle pink china
s lk ; the leaves were cut from pale
green silk and the flowers embroidered
in pink, shading off from red to white.
Of course a pillow or cushion of this
kind will come quite expensive, The
aide that is to rest on the sofa can be
made from any lining that matches
the material used for the pillow.
Place a deep flounce arxmml the
edge of the cushion. Bind the inner
edge with silk cord, gathering 1 lie
cord up at the right corner with the
tassels hanging down. Avoid stalling
the pillow too stiff. Cotton batting
will be found the best to use fox-this
purpose. These pillows are placed afc
the head of the sofa and are made
either for use or ornament. If for
ornament, the pillow will look better
stuffed full, but if for use it will be
found much more comfortable if soft
and light—New York Recorder.
HAT TRIMMINGS.
The first thing to strike one glam
ing at the summer hats and bonnets i
the extraordinary amount of trim
ming they all carry. Hats are minia
ture • flower beds. Flowers have
rained—nay poured—down upon the
millinery world. They have landed
on every thing in the way of headgear,
Often, too, they have landed with
more force than discrimination by
coming, evidently to small stay, in three 01
four sorts upon one bonnet,
Millioners say, and with truth, thai
bonnets are small. They certainly
are. It is the lappets and flowers and
buckles which keep the season’s bon¬
net from being altogether invisible by
reason of its size. A small bonnet re¬
cently seen was made entirely of jet
sequins, and not very many of them
either. But it had in front wing bows
of frosted jet aud cream guipure, a
jetted osprey, with some cat jet spikes
and stars, and toward the back a clus¬
ter of rose geraniums, with some
sprays Gold trailing down over the hair.
and black is the color scheme
of another dear little French bonnet.
It has a rolling brim and sides to the
crown, but no top, and through the
aperture thus formed nod yellow roses
and two ends of a how of chiffon con
trasting with the gold band of tho
crown, aud the little rolling chiffon
covered brim, For such bonnets tho
hair needs to be dressed high. Bon
uc*t:s which use the hair as the only
crown in the style of the coronet rib¬
bon hats are to be much used. A bon
of this sort is formed entirely of
wings, set at different angles, with
two pink roses in front as the only
trimming.
Roses, with other things, appear on
nearly every hat. One of the few
exceptions seen at a swell milliner’s is
, large hat * , ot ,,, im-.cau chip, , ■ w*„h , 1 a lace 1
tied brim. A big green satin
rosette, holding sprays of lilacs with
foliage, made a graceful trimming.
INDIA SILK DRESSES.
Skirts of India silk dresses made by
Worth are in three tiers, neither
flounces nor overskirts, but in triple
pointed layers, the lowest peiatol t *
the foot iu front and hack, the upper
most gathered slightly to the belt,
These layers are very short on the
sides, and by way of trimming a zig
zag band of white guipure embroidery
edges each of them. Tho whole is
mounted on a taffeta foundation shirt
covered smoothly on the sides with
India silk, and edge ! at the foot with
ia ruche of satin ribbon, three inches
wide, held in triple box plaits. This
•dress is prettily shown in navy Mue
India silk, with cross dashes an-l lines
of white, trimmed with clear white 1 i
sertion in points an 1 a n-a vy ^ xlue
ruche.
In A. D. 42 th • Nil fail * 1 to rise
because of the Jack of r.v:u in the heart
Afidea, tin crop, fi--J, a 1 1 ever a
million people pt-rishe !. in ' y pi.
The average annual rainfall • 1 ei Hu
"hole earth is thiriy-six iacnos.
KEEP COOL,
Oh, uovor mind bow hot it is f
Keep coo!.
Just wear a pleasant, smiling phiz ;
Keep cool.
Don't fret and fuss, and kick and stew,
A* if the joys of life were few.
This weather’s good enough for you :
K»ep cool.
It ought to be hot in July ;
Keep cool.
Of course, you kuow the reason why ;
Keep cool.
The corn and things have got to grow ;
Warm weather helps them on, you know;
The universe must have a show ;
Keep cool.
Just take things easy for a while;
Keep cool.
Don't try to put on too much style;
Keep ooo!.
Wear outing s’llrts, if you’re n ram,
It not, do just the best you eau,
You’ll llu 1 this is the wisest plan ;
Keep ccol.
—Sam orvil 1 e Jem run 1.
ITM AND POINT.
A lazy man does his hardest work in
looking for an easy place. — Ham’s
Horn.
“Don't talk to me," sho s vUl; “I know
That in mv c.ho -k’s a ros \
Tut I don't care lo match it with
That blossom on vour nos*.”
-Detroit l-'rce Pr ss,
A Burlington girl islearnin *• to pi-jy
tl ' cornet, aud her admirers speak
of her as “the fairest flower that
Wows.”—Siftings.
Young Jefferson—“l r ou look sweet
enough to kiss in that dress.” Elaine
— “I have several more ju t like it.”
--Brooklyn Life.
Miss Seaside—“I notice you never
fake any more kodak pictures. What
is the reason?” .Mr. Topi on— “No ouo
objects to it now. ”
He—“Her heart is as luirl as ginxn.
T can’t make any impression ou it.”
She—“Have you tried a diamond.?”
— Kate Field’s Washington.
Ililand—“ What is your ideal o? a
summer girl, Van Braam?” Vnu
Praam—“A frigid Boston maiden.”—•
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Mrs. Van Veneering —“Do you know
the Bicldeys well?” Mrs. Jerc Man¬
dering— “Like a book, We employ
the same dressmaker.”—Tit Bits.
Perkins—“.day, Dexter, your stories
remind me of my bank account.”
Dexter — “How’s that?” “Always
overdrawn. ”—Askansas Traveler.
If you want to place a small boy in
one spot where you will bo sure to
find him five minutes later, put him in
the pantry. —Philadelphia Beeord.
“When I go u-swlmmtn' father
Licks me. ez lie ortor do ; ,
But, I bet, he wishes rather
That he could’ve been there, too.”
—Washington Star,
home Mother—“Why do you stay at
all the time? Have you no
friends to visit?” Laura—“Yes, one,
but I cannot endure her.”—Fliegendu
Blaetter.
“Briefkius has graduated from tho
law school, hasn’t he?” “Yes.”
t : Practicing?’’ “Notyet. He’s look¬
ing for somebody to practice ou.”—
Washington Star.
Miss Bellefield (relating an incident)
— “Then I dropped my voice, and—”
Mr. Halkefc (interrupting) - “That
wouldn’t hurt it. Yours is such a soft
voice, you know.”
He— ‘ ‘That fellow over theye cheated
mo out of a cool million!” She—
“How could he?” He—“Wouldn’t
let me marry his daughter.”—Kata
Field’s Washington.
He—“But couldn’t you learn to 'ova
me, Ida?” She—“I don’t think I
could, Gcoi-gc. ” He (reaching for liia
hat) — “It is as I feared ! Yon are too
old to learn!”—Harlem Life.
“So you feel you cannot marry
him. “Yes, I am fully decided.”
* t Why, don’t you like him?” “Oh, I
like him well enough, but I can’t get
him to propose. ”—Brooklyn Lift*.
Maud— “Do you know young
Golightly is awfully rich? Why, they
say he has money to burn.” Clara—
“Has he? Ob. howl wish he’d tako
me for a match !”—Boston Beacon.
“Is Laddies going to marry tho
She young lady he is with to-night?”
“No. He’s still devoted to hilt
first love.” “Who’s that?” She—
“Himself. ’’—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Hand lord—“When a poor fellow
without money asks for a night’s lodg¬
ing, I invariably take him in.” Me
Caustick—“Then you treat him like a
regular guest.”—Raymond’s Monthly.
Now dogs have every one a day
They call their own by right ;
But in tiie feline calendar
The time is always night.
—Chicago Xntor-0 ten-j.
Miss Oldun (listening to the insects
hum)—“I should so love to be a lo¬
cust.” He (inadvertently) — “You
couldn’t very well be one of the seven
teen-year variety.” — Detroit Free
Press.
Hills—“How is Brown making out
as “About an amateur $100 photographer?” Hulls
out, but he is going to
keep on until he makes one picture
tbat willbe recognizable. ’’--New York
Vt'orld.
*Vm—“If every atom of the human
body is renewed every sev fg^ ars, I
cannot be the same wornau^Hfct you
married.” ing that for Ho—“I’ve time.”—New beea^Kpect* York
some
Weekly.
t Tiovv can you call Timmins’s poetry
fi°l , dr - J Nobody reads it.” "‘I
l ‘“‘ n f mean that it was the kind that
? veryoo ly reads; I mean that it is
Die Kind every 00 dy writes.”—Indian
a P°“ s Journal.
Miss Modderne—“There goes the
man I’m going to marry.” Jeanette-
“Why, I know him well; he never said
anything to me about it.” Miss Med¬
derne—“Oh, he doesn’t know it yet
himself.”—Tit Bits.
She--“You have met the beautiful
Mis.-. X., have you not? What do you
think of her? He — “She is one of
that sort of woman that any man could
iie for, but none could live with.”—*
Indianapolis Journal.
Mabel “Do you notice ho .v ntten
tiv.- Tom Terrap n is to that elderly j
Mi G itrox? I wonder if he really
means business.” Maude—“There is
certainly little about her to Dad one
to suppose that he means anything
•Ise.” -Brooklyn Life,