Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1898, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1898-24 PAGES Correigme rage be SM Dene STYLES FROM VIENNA Black and White Are Again High in Feminine Favor. DINNER GOWN OF BATISTE AND LACE | Simple Materials, but They Are Richly Trimmed. > THE BOLERO I BACK al Correspondenc Star, VIE 1 through to return with with th are 3 the py ents which | The world of feshic Ss rested mer mon to the capitals Is vial their important ev clientele in | questi to wear?” for an ele wh may prove sug India pilets f informal dinne te 1 weather | earers ing stu High Art Co »dice of whi nbinati anciful de. which where the blouse ead revere of tiste over assumes umed with V: ruffled lace. The f kK satin and a full bow of th. similar bow higher at the closing of ia Httle feminine readers it is submits to various ns. Thus the same | and w S particu- silk b the covered with black Valen- lace “and insertion znd yellow of which would be great | a belt ¢ nd white will be € mostly carried nsparencies of black ite the ut in the shape or tull biack lace ov of tr f Wie or other silks with large . n spots, which will be very fashional also for the foundation of rich mantles and | c2pes—which, by the way, will be incom- plete witaout the addition of a large bow in the front with rf erds han, from it. oe Ww 2 spetted materials #8 and costumes, they are often made with a similar material without the or another plain fabric of a totally nt character, either in the shape of double skirts or flounces, tabliers or sim!!ar aprons or tunics, all of which will be much the joints concealed by passement- of other trimming Nor will the fashionable spots be con- fined to silks only, as some extremely chic tailor models are composed of black cloth trocaded with pea spots and have the seams strapped with narrow biases of black satin. ‘There is no getting away from the bolero. ‘Three years ago it took the world by storm and met with such popularity that the conservative devotee of fashion be- are used for | they look a trif idea to take the place of the becoming strive for effect by hiding s of the Ru then returning in de- bolero. But lately ter aphantly t th “ts promi the Gress material or o —though always with the blouse the front. Our charmi sists of silk cord of in this line con- to harmonize like nétwork s—an effect h origin of (Cit Drecoit, Vienaay, toe GUARD THE CHILDREN’S EARS. Serious Harm Often Done Through the Carelexsnexs of Parents. m the Philadelphia Times or ch the g h wn. n silk cord } of the San F A high English medical authority, Sir William Dalby, has recently written a treatise 01 preservation of the h | in which he Ss with strongest id iniquitous rt are apt to anda 1 howeve one superfi understand how easily r may rupiure the e; on rec > not rstand the sement will do well to ent tro’ of thing injected ft 1 on the e ally covered rch beyond be carefully ting cfr tton mu. safe home better up first in nnel and applied into the ears, otherwise nt influx of water may Capes and Wraps. v's Bazar, s are exceedingly M made y about the nail sleeves are in cpre very long a hion for quite a while. Many are made of peau de soie, some that are seen at ilk in all the queer | old-fashioned There is a shade of for instance, ed with narrow Ivet ribbon pes fit close shoulders, bu jen out around the waist. Sometime are made with a double cape, but ve but one, and the trimming consists of a narrow ruffle of silk, ed; either side with the velvet ribbon put cn auite full. The collar is very high and flaring, and is made ef ruffles of th d with velvet, or else just of If. As yet these capes are oni s driving wraps, and it will be some time before they are secn in the street. It is just as well, perhaps, for at present they are so markedly diff from anything that has been worn that conspicuous. The tenden- cy of capes is apparently to elongate into & point at the back, and sometimes at back ne aoe both, much after the fashion of shawl. a ++ To Freshen Crape. From the Ladies’ Home Journal. In buying crape it is well to ask for the Waterproof and thus avoid anxiety when in the rain, as the ordinary material will spot nd lose its crispness when wet. When this dees happen, or if the crape has worn rusty looking and shabby, it may be steamed and thus renew its glossy, crisp texture and ap- pearance. This process has been tried for many years in my immediate family and gives the most satisfactory results, and it may be repeated as often as necessary. Rip the hems out of the veil or the trimming to be renovated, as each piece must be flat. Brush the dust off with an old Plec> of silk and pull out all of the threads. Then have a clean broom handte and around this wrap each piece of crape, keeping it smooth until all are on the handle and fastened with small pins. Do not pull it very tightly. Keep a wash boiler half full of boiling wa. ter and rest the handle across the edges of the boiler, so that it may be turned several times during the five hours that th> crape is steaming. Then stand the handle up un- til the crape ts perfectly dry. This usually | requires ten hours. When unpinned it will came alarmed and looked about for a new be found glossy and crisp as when new, and a pleasure to the economical woman, k je land and the Count new cur Feel boat ur THE AMERICA’S CUP How a Swift Yankee Pilot Boat Won the Trophy. VAIN ATTEMPTS 10 GET If BACK SS The Shamrock Will Try, and Will Be Manned by Irish Crew. SPORT IN GREAT 1899 (Copyright, 1898, by the International Literary and News Service.) When Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton came forward and blandly announced that he would build a yacht to compete for the America’s eup in I the deciaration was regarded by English sportsmen as a bit of a bluff on the part of the eminent tea mer- chant, who is an indefatigable and en- thusiastic self-2dvertiser and is went to occasionally indulge this habit on a scale worthy a man who raises ica in Ceylon, is hoga in Chi (0, manufaciures ginger ale in Dublin, makes a superior article of candy in London and who pays wages to scme 10,009 persons and has a fortune re- puted to be in the neighborhood of 350,- 00,900. Unkeeding the sneers of the doubtful, Sir Thomas went catmly and quietly ahead. When he deposited a trifle of £60,000 to the tredit of the builders of the pro- ted beat the idea that he was merely indulging in a new dodge to exploit the cup that cheers, but does not inebriate, 5 from the minds of his Now the multi-millionaire is being taken quite seriously, and the big- gest internaticnal cvent of a sporting char- acter, which ded in bad feeling last year on both sides of the Atlantic, will not permitt to langu' And if Sir omas is after advertising on a gigantic le he will unquestionab s werth, doliar for dollar, as from this the race is sailed he will t figure before the English 1, to whom the ‘America’ y get his mon- one great trophy sport offers to ns and seamanship. Sir Tt Lipton’s whole attitude has cen fair manly. All he has stood for » that the cow be kept clear of excur- sion boats—a matter as vital to the chal- tenged as the challenger—and it is probable that before the race comes off a special law covering this point will be operativ In spite of hostile attacks of that power in English sporting circles, the London Fieid, and i tion that the challenge nen British yachtsmen, a live- y manifest on the other the Marquis of Duf- the Royal Ulster ntion of led, as side. ferin, commodore Yacht Club, being pre ot roe A Real Irish Sha The name of the challenger will be the Stamrock. She will be designed by Will- iem Fife, and Luilt by Harland & Welff of Belfast. Thus she will bear the same ation to the Emerald Isle that the Thi je did to Scotland, the Valkyrie to Eng- ss of Dufferin and At- her owner is of Irish 2 she will be sailed by an and will fly the flag of the Royal acht Club. who now definitely decided will uild and own the cup defender. This w of course, a question of paramount im portance. The syndicate will be com- posed of C. Oliver I Pierpont ‘gan, The Herre construct » new boat. Alrecd ous build- of the speediest class of craft afloat t what th will do. r the last two years they been considering the defender, the ne=d for which they aware was bound to come sooner or They announce that she isto be and will differ in no gr from the old Defender. Her di ent will likely be less, end she will «ss lead on her ke+l Her beam will be ihout twenty-three feet, and a novel inno- fon will be tricd in the matter of her ich will be of steel. I Ss are so slight it would seem re r to one not versed in yachting law that no al necessity existed for the new boat; that the old one would 4 y well for the contest. This, however, is not th» The yacht of today wins or loses by seconds only, and the slightest modific or improvement on the ex-defender may And it is worth 2very dol- rter of a million Mr. Morgan ill spend to gain those few second he © d the Atlantic, where it as sin ired, thanks to th> sclence our de ard builders, period ny: in its i in the z Indeed, th was fea & mor imming Ing the dor buffe Book. She a trip across the At- that the now historic cup, in the de- fense of which millions have been spent, while millions more have gone in the vain effort to restore it to the custody of the sh yachtsmen, was offered by the Yacht Club. Competition for this trophy was open to al! the world. When the America arrived at Cowes her owners issued a general challenge to race any English boat afloat, and for any sum from fifty guineas to fifty thousand. ‘This defiance was received by the English sportsmen as pleasant ebullition of Yankee humor, and no attention was paid to it. Finally, however, a match was er- with ‘the Titania, for $500, the to be seventy miles to windward and At the same time the American were officially informed that ould, if they so desired, compete for the race for which was to be iled August This they concluded to do. Meanwhile the America had been the sub- Ject of much adverse criticism. Her sails, which trimmed flat, in particular did of: fense to the English idea of how canvas should set. It was not for a moment al- lowed that she would be in the race. The contest lay between the home yacht: Her owrers said nothing all this time. They were willing to wait their opportunit: On the 224 of August the America, in company with some eight other schooners and as many more cutters, cleared for the historic race. The course lay around the Isle of Wight. The start was made promptly at 10 o'clock in the morning. An hour and a half later the America was a good two miles in the lead. As she tore along with a refreshing wind, the Britishers took in her performance in epen-eyed astonish- ment. The race promised to be not at all what had been anticipated. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon the surprising Yankee craft rounded the Needles with the nearest English boat, the schooner Aurora, a good eight miles astern. She finished at 8:35 p.m., and when the queen, who had viewed the start from the royal yacht, asked: “Who was second?” the answer came: “There is no second.” In this manner the Royal Yacht Squad- 1on's trophy came to be known as the “America’s cup,’ and it is on this cup that Sir Themas Johnstone Lipton has designs, d perhaps, quite incidentally, on the American tea cup as well. The trophy was won in 1851, but it was not until seventeen years later that it oc- curred to an Englishman to cross the At- lantic and have a try for it. This was in 1867, when Mr. James Ashbury of the Royal Thames Yacht Club conceived the patriotic notion of restoring the cup to England. ‘The race; however, did not come off until 1870, when the Cambria was sent over. The cup was defended by eighteen American yachts. Of these the Magic proved the fastest, Idler came second, while the America finished third. The Cambria won only the tenth place. This one race was considered a sufficient test of the merits of the competing crafts, The fact that the America finished third indi- cates how slight.was the advance we had made in yacht building iA all the years a had elapsed since the cup journeyed ere. a4 Mr. Ashbury, on his return to Engiand, at once began the building of a new boat, the Livonia. This marked an epoch in the international contest, for up to this time no yacht had been especially designed to race for the cup. The terms governing the second contest in American waters were decidedly in favor of the cup defender, for while it was agreed that the Livonia should meet but one boat, the New York Yacht Club stipu- lated that it should have the privilege of selectins that boat on the day of the race. ‘lhe injustice of this lay in the fact that a boat couid be picked which had shown ex- ceptional ability in the sort ef weather that prevailed on the day of the race. As four races were to be sailed, the result of this rather shrewd arrangement was that the Livonia was liable to have to race a dif- ferent yacht each day. The first of the four races was sailed August 16, 1871. It Was won by the Columbia. In the second race of the series she again walked off with the honors. the third, however, she met with an accident and the Livonia won. ‘thé Sappho was now put up as the defender and took two races from the En- glishmen, which proved that we had good beats io spare on this side. While this contest was a matter of con- siderable interest to many, it created noth- ing like the intense excitement and enthu- siasm that all clusses andeall sections, both here and in England, feel now. It had not yet come to be regarded as an internationa! event. When the Canadians Triea. Following the defeat of the Livonia, there was a lapse of five years, and then the Ca- nadian schooner Countess of Dufferin chal- lenged for the trephy. The glory of the American yacht was entrusted to the Mad- eleine to defend. There were two races, and the Countecs of Dufferin returned to Canada without the cup. There was an interval of five years more and then Canada made a second at- tempt for the cup. ‘Phe challenger was the centerboard sloop Atalanta. We now abandoned the schooner type which had stood us in such good stead in the past, and put forward the “single sticker’ Mis. chief. Two races ere suiled—the tirst November the 9th and the ‘ond on the luth. In beth the Mischief won easily. Four years later, in 1885, the Royal Yacht squadron and the Reyal Northern Yacht Club chal.cnged, with the Genesta and Gai- atea, cutters of the eighty-five-foot ciass. Several different arrangements were con- sidered, but the matter settled by a formal agreement that the Genesta should race for the cup in 1885. In 0 he event of her failure to win it, the was to come across with this end in view in 1886 We now had te “build out of our B Gordon Bennett and W. P. Douglass issioned Harlan & Hollingworth to construct a boat after designs furnished by A. Cary Smith. At the same time a Bos- syndicate, composed of General C. J. z4ward Burgess and J. M. Forbes, instructed Sawley, the Bos put up an eighty-one-foot “single sticker,” the Puritan. ‘The final choice of the New York Yacht Club’s committee was the lat- ter boat, her superiority having been de- cided when the two sloops met to complete for the Goelet cup. The Great 1885 Event. The great race was sailed in September of 1885, and the cup still remained on this side of the Atlantic. The following year the Galatea met the Mayflower with no better luck. A Scotch syndicate now toc the game. It sent the Thistle over in 1887. To mcet her General Paine built the steel cutter Volunteer. This race lasted the British sportsmen for five years. They had failed du: three successive years and were Pd. e sport instead was only lying fallow, r, for in {8v2 the Earl of Dunraven lenged with the Vaikyrie, to be beaten the Vigilant in thre sailed Oc- er 7, 9, and 13. But Lord Dunraven was uraged, and in 1805 he reappeared scene with the ‘Vaikyrie III to race the Defend>r. This contest was a fluke and lizzie, and for a time it seemed that the cup would repose unsought in the custody of the New York Yacht Club, but the friendly struggle has received fresh life at the hands of Sir Thomas Linton, and yachtsmen ail over the world have their eyes fixed on 1899, VAUGHAN KESTER. ——— eee WAR BALLOONING. The Revival of Aerenauticn Dates From the France-Prassian War. From the Forum. The revival of the science of aeronautics dates from the Franco-Prussian war. Paris, hemmed in on all sides, and cut off entirely from the outer world, sought to re-estab- lish communication with the provinces, and to this end was compelled to employ the balloon. Rampon, then postmaster of Paris, organized a complete system of aerial com- munication, and no fewer than sixty-four balloons were dispatched during the siege. These balloons carried in all 152 passen- gers, more than 4,000,000 letters and several hundred portfolios. The voyage of Gam- betta was a memorable one. Desirous of reaching the provinces in order that he might complete arrangements for the na- tional defense, yet unable to break through the ~anks of the beleaguering army, he was at last compelled to make his escape from fs in a balloon. Some of the balloons sent out during the siege were lost in the ocean; others were captured by the enemy, who soon became expert in the art, and a few met with ad- ventures of the most singular nature. Worthy of mention in the latter regard is the voyage of the aeronauts Rotier and Mezier, who ascended from Paris at 11 p.m. on November 24, 1870, and landed upen one of the frozen fjords of Norway at noon the next day. Caught in one of the violent utumnal storms, they were carried in a gle night with terrific velocity over ance and the North sea to the shores of Scandinavia. All attempts to utilize for defensive purposes the balloons sent out from Paris failed, owing, not to a sccrcity of men—for aeronautic companies had been formed throughout the provinces—but to lack of material. Nor did the German de- tachment, organized during the war upon French models, operate effectively. After a few ascensions it_was disbanded before Paris in October, 1870. ‘« complete reorganization of the aero- autic department of France did not take place until 1879. This reorganization was due to the energy of Gambetta. The school at Meudon was reopened and a series of appropriations was set apart for the pur- pose ef forming a number of balloon paras, each of which consisted of a windlass, with cable; a machine for generating hydrogen, and a baggage wagon for the transporta- tion of material, ‘on builder, to a hand in ——+ 0+ Cemeteries of Great Cities. From the North American Review. The dead of London require an annual waste of twenty-three acres of valuable ground. If 4,000 corpsés aré crowded into the space of ce acre, the lithit in the case of the most populated, grayeyard, and if we accept the present rata: of mortality, twenty per 1,00) inhabitants; as the stand- ard, New York, with’& population of 3,- 0,000, would have to, provide room for 000 corpses, and would require annuslly seventeen and a half acres, te bury them in. Unless the custom is changed the avail- able room in the vicinfty of-all large cities will gradually be absorbed by remains of the dead. 2 ob In considering the welfare, of individuals tle expenditure of one may benefit another, but citizens should be treated on equal terms. With the exception of Greenwood, slmost all cemeteries used in the neighbor- cod of New York are either poorly man- aged by churches or administered for the benefit of a few fortunate shareholders, ‘The rural cemetery law, as amended in 1879, allows them to divide among them- selves the net profits from the sale of plots. Realizing about $20,000 fer an acre, which hardiy cost $2,000, their Investments bring large revenues and are esteeme val- uable. By assuming the guise of benevo- lent socicties owners succeeded in evading payment of the taxes which their less for- tunate neighbors are obliged to pay. The trustees +re never Called upon to make re- ports to the state, and they give but scanty information to their stockholders. 00 Couldn't Eat It. Frem Tit-Bits. Friend—“I suppose you've had some hard experiences?” Returned Klondiker—“Oh, yes. I’ve seen times when we hacn’t a thing but money.” COMMODORE PHILIP HICHBORN, CHIEF CONSTRUCTOR, U. S. NEEDS OF THE NAVY Lessons We Have Learned From the Recent War. BATTLESHIPS AND ARMORED CRUISERS Copper Sheathing Necessary to Keep the Bottoms Clean. DEMAND FOR BIG DRY DOCKS Written for The Evening Star by Chief Constructor Philip F born. The war has taught us what some of us aiready held, that the torpedo boat is not the formidable engine of war which it has been credited with being. The navai bat- tles of the future, as of the past, will be fought by the most powerful engines of naval warfare that can be constructed. The battle ship, in spite of its great cust, will ccntinue to occupy the prominent place The torpedo boat will have its uses, but they will not be the most important uses of a naval engagement. During the war just closed the torpedo boat was practi- cally of no use at all. Just before the out- k of hostilities there was a gre, scare on account of the flotilla of torpea beat destroyers which was said to be on i way across the Atlantic from the Cape Verde fslan When the war actually came, we heard nothing more about tl until they were destroyed. In fact, tor pedo boats were not used by either’ com batant except occasionally for patch: beats, a duty to which other craft mig he more antageously assigned. Winslow, it is true, was sent into the har bor of Cardenas to reconnoiter, but thi was gunboat service and not work fu: which a torpedo boat is intended. As for the Spanish boats, there was re: nothing to fear from ehem. quick work of the Terre though the St. Pavl, which he commanded was exactly the kind of a vessel, unar- mored, and presenting a full side, that tor- pedoes might be expected to inilict damage on. ‘The Furor and the Pluton were among the very bast and the most modern of the destroyer class, and yet the Gloucester, which is merely a converted yacht, defeated them both. Oregon and Brooklyn. The war has taught us to rely on our great battle ships and cruisers with abso- lute confic Hitherto the question has been open tu fair discussion in the absence of any pi ration of their work in actual warfare. But now we know what they ¢ The two ve: h, have given ti e best of ther their m without gard to the manner in h they were handied, although that, of cour: ; 1! our ships, are d these are types abcve criticism with Oregon and B of versels which 2 i more in vog' can navy, but in s The Brooklyn, for ins four inches ef armor on her side far more than a match for the Vizca with a twelv armor Z of vessel combines speed with efficiency to a most desirable degree. Z As for the Oregon, she combine strength of armament with a r a amount ef speed and coal carrying capa in a proportion which seems to be eminent- desirable. Battle ships will be built more nd more on the Oregon plan, with greater speed, if possible, without interfering with their effectiven 's fighting machines. The navy will have to be supplied with vessels yarticularly adapted to the work of the war kely to become mere Ameri- | foreign he not only in for which, at the beginning r we were compelled to buy all sorts of ve: sels at 2ll sorts of prices. When the war brcke out we were practically withoat ships suitable for auxiliary service. We had no patrol beats and hardly any dis- patch boats. So steam yachts, tugboats and even ocean liners had to be bought or char- tered for the use of the navy. The result was highly gratifying when it is considered with what sort ef material we had to deal. But in preparing for the possibility of an other war the United States will have to build ships especially adapted for this aux- iliery work. Some of the ships which were bought for this emergency can doubtless be made to answer the purpose permanently very well, but, as a rule, the auxiliary fleet ought to be constructed from specially prepared plans. Speaking From Experience. We can speak from actual experience ncw on a great many questions with re- gard to which we could only theorize three months ago. We know, for instance, that drydocks are needed large enough to re- ceive our biggest ships and numerous encugh to prevent the necessity of their lying long without repair or without hav- ing their bottoms cleaned. Ovr first-class fighting ships have ben in bad ccndition almost from the begin- ning of the war, ‘simply because we did not have docks large enough to put them into, and although even our smaller craft have been so nearly exempt from injury in actual cambat, it has been impossible to repair them speedily, becavse we had not enough docks capable even ef accom- modating them. Had any of our ships suf- fered great damage in battle it would have been out of the question to put them quick- ly into condition again, and we should have been at a terrible disadvantage. The war has shown, too, that the bot- toms of all our ships should be copper sheathed, so that they can be kept at sea without the necessity of too frequent dock- ing for cleaning. At present not one of our important ships is copper sheathed. ‘The only sheathed vessels in the navy are the six gunboats of the Annapolis and Ma- rietta classes, and the New Oricans and Al- bany, which we bought from the Brazilian government at the outbreak of the war. ‘With copper-sheathed bottoms our ships would be at great advantage in long cruises such as are apt to be frequent now that the war has brought into our pos- seseion far distant colonies. Perhaps the most important lesson which ecount belt. This type Novel Team Used by Mr. and Mre Blandy of Minnesota. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Mr. and Mrs. Blandy are a Minnesota couple who have just made a most remark- able journey. Leaving their Brainerd, Minn., one year ago, wi baby boy, then four years old, th travelled by dog team ciear to California, and are now in camp at Sweetbriar, in that far-off state. The Blandys wanted to ma Pacific coast. They wanted to go h 80 as to see the co object, as was also an opportunity to earn something en route. So Mr. Blandy and his Wile decided to trave: by dog team. “Dogs are used in the arctic regions,” ar- gued M sandy, “why not in the temper- ute zone No a trip to the surely, ene advanced conclusive reasons against his novel project, and Mr. Biand Proceeded to tit v conveyance. This consists of a small spriag ¥agon with one and covered with canvas, the whole Rt weghing 210 pounds with the bag- of the travelers. Mrs. Hiandy and her baby occupy the seat, while Mr. ilandy sits in font on a roll of blankets aud a tent m which perch he drives his dogs. Thes e ix in number, hase cross-lied St. i of mu rnard and Newfound i kind of ut ds, powers In the rear wagon is a . con= taining dishes and prov pots, Keun and an oil stove from hooks above the ck. The of the vagon is made to let down and, supported by a stick, serves as a dining table. When seen by a representative of the San Francisco Call in the camp at Sweeubria Mr. Miandy had a un in hand, and wax “going the rounds among his dog: nting their feet with lannate of glycerine to prevent sensitiv z “I learned this at college,” Mr. will tell you, “when I engaged in Sports and my feet became seasi- When traveling ads he makes applicz aration every evening to insure his animals against und @ pain. br suffering, and the faithful creatures seem to like the operation, for they look at their N. master with graUiude and affection. “Those dogs ure far ahead of any =F —________ | horses,” Mrs. Blandy said, emphatically, we have learned is the necessity of making | when some one suggested that Shetland our fighting ships fire-procf. You re: ponies would be preicrable. “Why, dogs ker that at Manila and at Santi will carry you through the snow to a safe, Spanish ships took fire, and that warm place, and horses would give on fered as much cr more from this cau! pu. And didn't We travel Ziv miles cn the as from the im of our shells. 5 ailroad Horses couldn't we and not at all necessary a shell in stru carry you over long trestles nd ing a ship should set fire to it. It is neces- | three-quarters in length as our Gos did to have a certain amount of wood- | wouldn't take fifty jorses for one rk in every ve: zh so fer as is | de Would I, Bruce?” and she dispensed with. There are S$ about even a fi satisfactory Practicable at some thin which no But it not absoiutely hre-proef. Value of Rapid-Fire Guns, The war kas demonstrated also the valuc of the rapid-fire guns and the $-inch guns S powder is an invaiu- sn tsa sc nr ses suns SAAS great shaggy yellow deg on the h hen the iys set out from am., with their queer rig : mpt this unusual u: riaking inany used declared it was imposstbl No h has | Wagers were made, no tir ork of s me of | siven. Mr. and Mrs. Biandy s mineraii out to do what they wer F jd ac namely, to be drawn across the continent by dogs tre pur- se of seeing the country, carning thetr ing #s they progressed. | And so they c to th push liowing the Northern Pa~ treating the wocd cf our warships in this | citic r not being pressed ior ay, and various objections have been | time, @ speed that w : ° dam- acter of the count losed —never traveling less than ten made of woud So treaied, and so on. hing a daily maximum of all th obje trivial when (at one time covering aim to be se borne in mind. ix miles in two days), and stopping awe work Will co: ie more, to Le sure, | 2 Lowns to sell pictures or pick up a few bUL the additionai cos not be consid. | dollars by pain nents on the cred in reaticn to the increased safety | canvas ot th secured to cur ps of war. 1 expect that ‘he Blandys towns amid a im the future t will be no woodwork | roar of cheers and laughter. When they avoard an Amer.can man-of-war which fs | are about to start Mr. Giandy walks among and, stooping down, adjusts all their so ‘as to prvnt the entangle- ment of limbs in harnes: quickly steps into seats himself on the bed- nd, with lines in hand, he low wag ding and tent n, as compared with the guns of larger call- | Calis ta the dogs, and t Ee ff. . At Santiago the secondary b: mag enghire grpgsinforschr fiemnt gtr rather act of the Brook! and ur they trot off at a good gait, raising a big e Br yn and the Oregon are re- | Gust. and ver waiking except. when ported to have been more effective than climbing hill When asked if he ever any other portion of their armament. The waiks, Mr. Blandy re It would take Manila and Sune battles also have | . ‘pre ssional runner to Keep up with my : ship’s equipment. Applet ec grembicndimnge rag wigan ian rather caious tat /no good Memon- | waning end hts Gee pulling’ At Mey, ration hes ‘been given duiin the war of fir ore ani the waniec eich WOMerih mies value of the experimental craft wa.ca | The Bam a screaming send-off whe Me government tins) Ween interested tn: | sce ere favored Snthin wink | Sen aan the ram hatahdin has had no opportunity ir some one in the crowd remark tha » display’ its merits and the Submarine | “piandy ought to be arrested for cruelty to tis true, had a chenee ee Sonnaeceuvl ®. | animals,” but a look at the well-fed and s NOt Appear that the wee tso. but it | well-groomed dogs belies these words. oes nol appear that the results were at all ss casos con ecis.ve as to its surpassing value in naval perations. > HOW ANTS MAKE SLAVES. Warrior Ants Which Small and We: From the Strand. Enslave the aker Species. The warrior ant is a slave-making spe- It is a large red kind, and it makes against nesis of the small yellow amild and docile race, large raids turf ant, numbers of which it carries off to act as servants. But it does not steal fully grown turf ants. Their habits are formed and they would be us: for such purpose. What the warri nt wants is raw i h can be turned into thoroughly we trained 1 servants. So it merely kills the adult ants whi to opp its as- gression and contents ttself with trund- ling home to its own nest the larvae and | pupae of the turf ants which it has put to { fight and ; In time the nd cocoons produce saw in a garden in ed battle going on nd the family of the “h the ground wa Sof the vanquil s of the smailer ant d did they retire w the pr hers and p and uneon- dint of mere num- beat off the invader with heavy but much more often the large and sirong-jawed warriors win the day and destroy to a worker the opposing forces. he ush their adversaries’ heads with -like mandibles. Meanwhile within the nest the other half of the workers— the division told off as special nurs otherwise employed in defending and pro- tecting the rising generation. At the first alarm. at the first watchword passed with waving antennae through the nest, “A warrior host is attacking us,” they hurry to the chambers where the cocoons are stored and bear them off in their mouths ‘rto the recesses of the nest, the lowest end most inaccessible of all the chambers. —+e+ Mixed Metaphors. From the Detroit Free Press. About a century ago there was delivered in parliament the most famous mixed metaphor ever exploited up to that time in public. A member from an obscure bor- ough, feeling that in addressing the speak- er and his brothers he should throw in a: much eloquence as possible, rose from h seat during the discussion of some triy jal matter and said: “Mr. Speaker, I smell a rat; I see it floating in the air; but, mark my words, I shall nip it in the bud.” The mixed metaphor has for years been considered what is technically known as a Feach; but not long ago an embryo Henry Clay, a contestant for oratorical honors in the University of Michigan, sprung one so much more rapid that in’ the metaphor race It may be said to win In a walk. Ris- ing up on his tiptoes and swelling out his chest like a pouter pigeon, the young ora- tor exclaimed as though he Would his words might go a-thundering down the ages: “The star of empire, tripping with light footsteps across the Atlantic, poises on her outspread pinions in the air, and then pitches—and let us hope it may be for ever—her tent above the dom itol at Washington. rer rad tee re Miles of All Nations. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The question is often asked, is a German mile in proportion to an Eng- lish mile?” or, it may be, an Austrian mile, or a French mile, or a Russian mile. ‘The following table is useful: English (statute) mile and American mile, 1,760 yards. Heance and Belgium (kilometer) and Ho!. nd (egal_mile), 1,004 yards; Ryssian (verst), 1,167 yards; Germany (long), ‘10,126 yards: Germany (mile, metric), 1,640 yards; Austrian (mile, post), 8,207 yards; Denmark (mite), 8,238; Sweden (mile), 11,690 yards; Norway (mile), 12,182 yards; Spain (mile), 1,522 yards; Portugal (mile), 2,200 yards: Switzerland (mile), 8,548 yards; Italy (mile), 2,025 yards; Saxony (post mile), 7,432 yards: Scotland (old), 1,977 yards; India (Bengai mile), 2,000 yards; Ireland (ld), 2,240 yards. = “How long ‘TAKED PLAINS.” Vast Changes Wrought During the Past Sixteen Years. From the Globe-Demvcr:t. The vast changes that have been made cut on the great “Staked Plains” the past sixteen years are phenomenal. That large expanse of unbroken prairie derived its name from the Mexicans and Indians, who called it “Llano Estacado” long before the advent of the Americans, The scarcity of water ducing the summer months rendered it a dang+rous matter to attempt the jour- THE GREAT « ney aer them, and it is known that miany caravans of Mexicans in early days making their v from the Rio Grande river into New Mexico perished among their sandy wastes. For many years after the country on every side had been in a measure settled up, the plains were looked upon as # sort of forvidden region, the epitome of everything that was inhospita- ble in nature and t useless for sup- plying any of the wants of n. Those adventurous individ Ss who ventured far into its reported it a treeless, without ign of life, except the that circled high in the heave syote that hurried ross the appeared like a flash among the sagebrush and tall grass that lined the banks of the dry arroyos. Huge whirlwinds would appear to block the way for a time, and then hurry off, as if disturbed by the presence of men in those grim solitudes. In the early morn- ing wreaths of dust went spinning around before the brecze, as if some Gesert sands bad arisea and had just begun to envelop yn of any one perishing ns Was in ISY0, when two Amer- icans and one Mexican, a sheep herder, ate tempted to nake their way from Peco City to Amarillo in midsummer, and, being pcorly provisioned with water and losing the trail as well, soon died of thirst, aa did their horses. A peculiar feature of this accident was that, ~although the coyotes and bvzzards he picked the bones of the Americans clean, the body of the Mexican had baked and dried in the sun and practically intact, owing to the fact that the diet of the Mexicans on the berder is always composed in great part of chile and red pepper, substances appar- ently not appreciated either the buze zards or the coyotes. Since that day no other fatality that is known has occurred on the p on the plains. The progressive rancher and caitleman has year by year encroached on this vast erea, sinking wells, runnii wire fences and rearing a better breed 0} stock than is to be seen today anywher@ in Texas. Water is fouad from twenty to 100 feet, and in abundance. The attitude of the “Staked Plains” district insures the health of the stock the year around, and fever, anthrax or blackleg are seldom heard of in that region. Such great cattle magnates as Colonel Slaughter of Dallas, John Scharbauer of Fort Worth, C. G Goodnight of Midland, and many others of equal note, are now heavily interested in this once forbidden territory. +e Buried Where He Died. From the Kansas City Journal Speaking of strange and sad occurrences, none could be more remarkable than the death and burial of Charles Carter, a well- known farmer residing near Russell. He was cleaning out an old well, when the quicksand suddenly caved in on him, lei ing only his head and chest exposed. When the alarm was given hundreds of people as- sembled and went heroically to work to save their neighbor. It was found that nothing could be done toward removing the sand about Carter's body, so a parallel well was dug and a tunnel run from it into the old well, but even then the body could not be removed, so closely was it grasped by the sands. It was found that a rope at- tached below Carter's arms would pull the body into parts without withdrawing its covered portion, and that method had to be abandoned. Carter was conscious and talked with his rescue: but at the end of fifty-eight hours he died. By this time an enormous crowd had gathered and all sorts of plans were suggested for recovering the body, but finally it was determined to make the well the dead man’s tomb, and it was filled up after religious services had been. held upon the brink. The well was 48 feet deep, and perhaps no other Kansen ever found quite so strange a burial place.