Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 11, 1889, Page 12

T v OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1889~SIXTEEN P. v Owing’to our rapnidly increasing business, we have been obliged to erect an eievatqd wrapping counter and cashier’s office, giving us over 150 feet of new counter and shelfroom. We have also added an improved system of basket carriers, which will greatly increase our facilities for delivering packages to our customers without any delays. Ladies will now find our ART department in Millinery Annex A WORD OF EXPLANATION.--We’re going to have a Dull Sea- son Sale this week, with prices to suit. Prices to suit the season and—you. Now, don’t misunderstand, The sale isn’t going to be dull. No; madame! It's going to be the liveliest dry goods circus ever you saw in this town. Everybody’ll be eager to get here when they read this *‘ad.,” and eager to come again after the first time. WHITE GOODS. PARASOLS. GINGHAMS & SATEENS DRESS GOODS. GENTS’ FURNISHINGS i l 30 pleces Striped Seersucker, at 7o worth 10c. 40 pleces New Fall Calico, latest designsand col- ors. this weel at 7140 worth 100 30 patterns § to 12 yards, best quality Fremch B Sateons, worth 40c, will be closed out Monday morning for 19ca yard, Kemnants from to6 yards, st mero nomsnal i Trimmings. Still greater reductions. Grandest display of trimmings ever shown in Omaha. Ornamental Gimp, ail colors, 49¢; reduced from 7te. Tinsel Galoon, all colors, (9¢: former price e, Latest Persian Designs imported, 0 mches wide, at $1.98; worth B0, Wohave a full line of various kinds of' tim« mings. Bargains all around £ or A ugust salu. Hosiery. i, rematintir of o atosk. of Ladiss® Beins | mer Hoslery we ofter at nominal prices, which | are sur e to effect & speedy clearance. ! Ladies’ Fancy Striped Balbriggan Hose, ‘double neels and toes, all new styles, at (9c & pafr; worth 35c. | An elegant 1ine of Ladfes' Fancy Striped Cot- ton Hose, also boot patterns, full regnlur, double heels and toes, at 245 & pair; worth i0c. A large assortment of fourthread Frencn Lisle Hose, In fancy stripes and boot patterns, at 420 a pair; worth e, Black Brilliant Lisle Thread Hose. double heo.s and toes, At 29¢ & palr. At©g.—All our fine Ifc plaid_and strips Natu- s00ks, Will ba closed out ut §¢ & yard. At |8, We will close out all our lace stripes, hem sttteh and satin stripes, originally sold for Ze, sale pries, (5o 8 yari. At 250.— Monday morning we will sell all our fianred Linen Lawns, regilar price 8 Mon- day morning 98¢ n yard, Remnants from 20 § yards, ab less than halt price. Handkerchiefs. Ladies' Handkerchiefs, printed border, 4o each; worth We. Ladtes’ fine Linen Lawn Handkerchiers,whits and colored, hemstitcliod burders, good value for 2c, cholco |15 each. Gents’ Linen (ambric Handkerchiefs, in plain white and colored borders, larye stze, & bargain at (2%g each. Boys’ Shirt Waists. On sule during this week ull of our 81.00 qual- ity B Star” Shirt Walsts, handsome pat- s, Prench Percale, at 490 each. Boys Flannel Shixt Welsts, “King" brand, rogular price $1.5(, for 98¢ encii. Lace Curtains. Monday we will offer a‘number of odd pairs of Laee Curtains in Tambour, [risn Pojnt, Brus. | sels and Nottingham. -The prices have beencut intwo, and an excelient opportunity 18 offered o get asingle pair of Curtwins cheap. Lineuns. 160 yards 64 inch Halt Bleached Damask at 45 per yara; free from dressing, 50 yards G5-inch Half Bleached Damask at 55 per yard freo from drossing. 100 yurds 72inch extra heavy Bleached Dam- ask 4t $ por yard: splendid Yalue at #1.50 per yard, Now s thetime to buy. We have only a few left. They will go regardless of cost, at exaetly half price. Art. Qreat bareains in 8t amped goods. 50 slightly solled Stamped Scart Tidies, Tabloe Covers, at 28c each: worth double the money. 50 Stamped Linen Shoe and Laundry Dags at 380 each: worth#e. 0ads and ends in Plush Balls and Tassols only 250 dozen; wort’ Tie. Underwear. Special bargains in our Underwear depart- ment, commencing Monday. Ladies” Muslin Night Dresscs, tucked yoke, trimmed sleeves and Beck, for 50C: reguiar peice Toc. Ladles' White Skirts, wide hem and tucks, only 50c: cheap at 85c. Ladies’ White India Linen Aprons, stamped orders, in all eolors, only 250 each. Suits. To make room for our immenso stock of Fall goods, we will ofer the rollowing grand bar- gains: Ladies' Black Faille Stik Dresses that sold for $47.00 and 845, for $25, All our Ladies’ Weol Suits from 07,50 to &5, for $20. All our Children's Wool Sufts from $T3.50 to $7.50, only $2.50 each. Ladies’ Calico Wrappers, “Our Own Makg;"” only $1.69. s e, I 36,00 from 50, L Lo i 40 _pleces 24 inch Half Wool Cashmeres and Sergos oniy |00 per vard. 20 pieces 38 inch All Wool Heige, brownand gray Inixtures. 380 yurd. @pieces 40 fnch All Wool Albatros Cloth, closing price a yard. 8 Blacos 3P A French Novelty Stripes,for 40¢ a yard. These are decided bargains. House Purnishings. Our rematning stock of Baby Carriages we will close out at half thelr original value. Ostrieh Feathior Dusters at 35o: WOrth b, gCliumols Skina, extra sizo, 380:" Fedt ced om B3c. Tea Sets (Albort shape), 55 pleces, $4.50: wortl A Palm Leaf Luuch Baskets, (8o: reduced c. Bollinger's Adjustable Lace Curtain Stretcn ers, $2. $3 and $3.50. Fans. On Monday morning we will pace on sale ail our Fans laft over from the season. They will De put ta lots as follows: »t 1—Japanese Decorating and Satin Palm Leat Fans, 3¢ each. Lot ?—Japanese Folding Fans, s01d all season atdfc, for 5c each. 3 ancy Satin, Japanese Fans, big bargain, 19¢. . Consisting of ilack Satms, Black Painted Ganze, Colored Satins, Olive Wood and Ivory Handles, choice 79, and Open Embroideries. ‘The bargains going will fill you with aston- shment aud amagument, o T for 600—2> Dieces 22inch Plque and Swiss Flouncing reduced from 8ac. 45-inch Hemstitch Kmbroldery Flouncing, 9Q0; worth 815, ot of extra’ quallty dainty Bdgings for Dress Trimmings at 810 yurd, Immonse lot of Romnuants at half thetr actual value, We are determined to_close out immediately gvery surplus plece of Embroldery in our stock. SILKS, All light weight Silks to be closed out in Aun* gust. Great Sweeping sale. Our 81 China Stlks,we let them goat 390. $1.25 pure SiIk Fa'lles, all good shades, we close them out at 97¢. A few pleces of black dress Silks, regular azlua 81, ¥1.2% and up. You can buy them for C. Odds and ends of plain and Novelty Bilk, at Cost. Come early Monday. Gloves. To-morrow wa our Lisle Thrend price b, Our c Lisle Gloves, black and colorod at A iN ¢ 27c¢ Taffota Jorsey Gloves at {30 a pair. Flannels. wokineh wido Dross Flannol , all colors, at 600+ vor Outing Flannels reducea to less than halt price to close, clal bargain in Unbleached Cotton Flan- nelsat o ver yard, place on sala the balance of loves at 380 & pair; former Black Goods. v 1l close out al our Black aud_ White ‘enc] atteens, sold earl tl 5 and 4ic, now 230, T I O semson &t Priostley’s Tam. Y 1 whtlgstley's Tamese Nun's Velling, wortt 7ocr Priestley's Silk Warp Clalrette, will close at 97c. Will close out all of our remnants of Blac Goods af huif price. . B0 Kure you sea (hose bus w108 at Barr's Black Goods Department, worth $1.25, Country orders for gdods or samples will re- ceive prompt attention if addressed to The ‘Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co., Omaha, Neb. ) o Ctosing ont bargains in our Gent's Furnish- Depattment, Come early and got fist choice. Men's Outing comfortable and woather, striped patterns, bost workmanship, equal to custom m: $1.19 Genuine “C & G" French Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, worth 81.00,for 490 euch: a great bargatn. Nutural Gray and Striped Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers, it 49 eatt, Worth . All of our lino of 25c and Hc Gents' nuckweas, at |50 each. ncy Flennel Shirts, the most prop. o wear for present worth $2.00; spectal drive Notions. Great bargains for the coming week in povular Notion Department, © i Immense stock of Balt Ivory Buttons, allcol ors, 3¢ dozen. - Pocketbooks and Purses, worth 35c each, Monday only |9, Stockinette and Foather WetghtDress Shields, all week, |30 pair. Pint bottle best Day Rum, worth 8¢ bott] for |8¢ bottle, . l‘ DO Lubin’s Perfumes in Jockey Clab, W Roso and Violet, por bottte, B, o " hite Pear’s Soap, worth 1ic cake, as long as it lasts 8¢ cake Pint bottle best ammonia, excellent article for the tollet, 9¢ bottle. Millinery, : Spocial bargains in Millinery to make room for Fall Goods, 100 Untrimmed Hats aud Bonnets at euch; worth $1.60 each. ave 75 beautiful Wreaths and Montures at 390 each; worth §1.25. 100 beavtiful Wreaths and Montures at enach; worth $4.00. i) Great Central Dry Goods Store, fronting on 16th and Douglas sts. railway center of Omaha. In the retail and street THE PAWNEE INDIAN TRIBE. . Their Home Near Fremont in the Early Days. TWO WHITES KILLED AT A SHOT. The Excitement it Caused Among the Settlers at Fontenelle—How Fre- mont Evaded an Attack— A Reminiscence. Indians in Early Days. FREMONT, Neb. August 8.—(Special toTne Bie.J—Three miles south of Fremont near the summit of the pre- cipitous bluffs which skirt the Platte river, are found the only remaining traces of the warlike Indian tribes which held possession of this seetion of country in early days. These traces are pits which were once a great deal deeper than now and which were used by the Pawnee Indians as caches for storing their corn. They recall many things of interest which transpired in the stirring days of the frontier, about the time when the first white men came in from the east and determined to es- tablish a home in this wilderness. For upwards of twelve yearsthe home of the great. Pawnee nation was here— a tribe of Indians reputed to have been the MOST WARLIKE OF THE PLAINS, who were so valiant in war that they did not hesitate to give battle on a fair field where the numbers of warriors were three to one against them. They came here about the year 1848, Prior to that time they had their headquarters and rendezvous at two places—one at the mouth of the Cedar river, near where the town of Fullerton now is, and the other on the south banks of the Platte, at Pawnee Bluffs, about opposite Silver Creek. Owing to their numbers and their skill in battle they were terrors to any other single tribe. But in 1848 there was an alliance of the Brule Sioux, Arapahoe and Cheyennes, who succeeded in routing them and driving them from their strongholds. They formed a treaty with the Omahas, who agreed to permit them to enjoy certain privileges in the eastern part of Nebraska territory, south of the Platte, the restrictions not bclngol a very radical nature, since the Omahas could not be exacting with this powerful tribe. There were what were known as the Upper and Lower villages—the former about three miles directly south of Fre- mont, on a commanding height of the Platte river bluffs, and the latter a few miles down the river, ahout where the postoffice of Estina, Saunders county, now is, nearly o) ite the town of Val- ley. 'The two villages each contained about the same npumber of in- babi the joiny population g about “eight thousand souls. The villages were not laid out with reference to any systematic plan but were each @ up of & haphazzars up of okons (Indian for house). m-y of these okons were thirty feet in diameter and accommedated a number of familiecs who lived in common. They were constructed with a high ocenter pole to which were fastened at the top, longer poles, which came to the ground at a distance of several feet {rom its base. These were first covered with brush and afterwards with dirt sad sod, making them comfortuble houses, so far as protection from the elements was concerned. Thore were four bands of the tribe, namely: The Chowels, Kitkahs. Skee- dees, and Petah-Lan-etats. Each one of these bands had a chief who was au- thority in most matters governing the 1immediate interests of the members of his band, but answerable on questions of greater interest to the chief of the whole tribe. When the first permanent sctilers came here THE HEAD CHIEF WAS CORUX. He was a remarkably fine specimen of the Pawnee. type. He was straight as an arrow, with well developed phys- ique piercing eyes and an intetligent cust of countenance. The oldest settlers who still live here, speak of him in térms of the highest admiration. He could talk a little English and would trade more or less with the settlers. Abeut 1860 Corux was succeeded aschief by Petah- la-sharar, who was also one of the finest specimens of his tribe. Petah-la- Sharar maintained h1s supremacy until the Indians were removed to their res- ervation at Genoa by the government. The settlers and the Indians were on reasonably friendly terms from the start, though theso relations were often somewhat strainad. The Indians real- ized that they bhad the advantage of overwhelming numbers, and when oc- casion presented the*) were liable to manifest an 1nsolence begotten and em- boldened by that knowledge. On the other hand, the settlers soon learned enough of the peculiar characteristics of the redskins to know that oven though they were in the minority, if they never flinched in any quarrel, but demanded their rights with that air of bravado which they soon learned to feign, they were safe from depredations intrusions. Petty bickerings were common, but never led to serious re- sults, The first general ‘‘scare” the little Fremont colony experienced was in October 1856. The Indians had begun to feel that they were the rightful own- ers of the lands occupied by the colony —that they were monarchs of all they surveyed-—and so, regarding the white new-comers as intruders, on the 6th of October they dispatched a committee to notify the settlers TO ABANDON THEIR NEW-FOUND HOMES and that if they were not gone in throe days they would attack them. This demonstration of hostilities sent a thrill through che little handful of whites, who then composed the advance guard of ecivilization. They knew that the Indians were in earnest but they re- solved to meet them in this crisis with the same spirit of defilance which they bad shown their red neighbors from the beginning. A council was immedi- etely held and a course of action was promptly decided upon. It was de- termined to ‘“hold the fort.” J, G. Smith was immediately dispatched to Omath to interview Governor Izard and procure assistance. The governor gave him a quantity of amunition and two hoxes of army mus- kets, He also provided him with fourteen men to reinforce those on the ground (eight in mumber), so that the total enumeration of this little army wus but twenty-two men. Smith rode o Omaha in the n'l“iht, and b evening of the next day after the col- ony received notice to leave everything was in readiness for the attack. X listle fort had been speedily improvised and Eukau pluced on duty at pight, who od their beats on the prairiesin the silent watches of the night with con- trepidation of spirit. They marched and counter-marehed and built bonfires, and by this means struck terror to the hearts of the ememy. While . these things were going on the Indians sent out scouts, who came near to the military camp of the whites, but were not allowed to enter or to discover their real strength. These scouts returned to camp. The third day passed and the Indians had failed to keep their word. They sent a flag of truce, with the in- formation that the chiefs had reconsid- ered the matter and had decided to abandon for the present their inten- tion of molesting the whites. The military discipline of the little handful of whites during these trying days, was under the following officers: William G. Bowman, captain; William E. Lee, first licutenant; John A. Kountze, second lieutenant. A year previous to this incident and before the Fromont colony was founded these Indians had TERRORIZED THE SETTLERS at Fontenelle, which was then id Dodge county and the county seat. They had on more than one occasion gone up the Elkhorn river to the vicinity of Fonta- nelle and given the colony a little scare. It was in the latter part of June, 1855, that the first real conflict between the Pawnees and the Dodge coun ettlers took place. On a Saturday evening while Mr. Porter and wife and George Demaree were going home from where they had been breuaking prairie on Beil ereek (now in Washington county) they were overtaken by a heavy rain storm which made it ~ hard traveling and which had swollen the little streams. They decided to go into camp for the night. Sunday morning they heard re- ports of guns at a little lake not far off and supposed it was some members of the Kontenello colony down there shooting fish, which was a very common sport. They went down tosee them and to their amazement found a large number of Indians there. One of the Indians, a dare-devil sort of a fellow, rode up to Demoree and took his hat. Demoree started for his wagon with the remark that he would get his guo and shoot that Indian. In a few minutes another Indian rode has- tily up and levelling his musket, crack went the old flint-lock and the bullet pierced Demoree in the head. Porter, who was just beyond him, at that mo- ment turned to survey the situation and iull as he did so the same bullet which had crushed through Demoree’s brain also penetrated Porter’s breast, and both men fell dead from the same fatal bullet. Mrs. Porter was bending over the form of her dying husband when another Indian rode up and motioned her away. As she left she saw the Indians SCALPING DEMOREE but left her husband untouched. She divested herself of all the clothing she could spare aud sped to the Tontenville camp with all the speed she could com- mand, frenzied with the bloody scene she had just been an eye witness to and her brain on fire. When she arrived at the camp and told her story the ex- citement ran high. There was a general scramble of the women and children for place of safety, while the men hastened for their guns and other weapous, some of them even arming themselves with piteh forks. The Indians had followed close after Mrs. Porter, and when they arrived they saw the Fontenellers hurrying to and fro with guns in hand, and con- cluded not to remain and give them battle. The red skins beat a retreat and were followed a short distaace by a small company of whites, They es- caped through the brush and across the river. After this the settlers went out and brought in the dead bodies of Por- mrud“goumn. As they came into the settlement bearing their dead com- rades, who had been s0 wantonly slain, there was a stiange mingling of fear, sorrow and vengeance on the part of the little company - of - whites. A coun- cil was at once held to consider the danger with which the colony was sur- rounded and threaiened. Two men were immediately dispatched to Omaha to consult Governor Izard, The gov- ernor and Geueral Thayer hurried around and collected a little company of thirty men, with Captain Moore and Lieutenant Reaves. By the time the company arrived at Fonetenelle a company of about the same size was mustered by the settlers, so that there was a total force of about sixty men. The little village soon took on the ap- pearance of a military camp. There was the daily mustering and drill of the companies twice a day. This continued all the rest of the summer, or until the disbanding of the army 1n the fall. It was thought best not to avenge the death of the two comrades who had fallen, as that experiment would be perilous with THE OVERPOWERING FORCES the Indians could readily muster, so the settlers contented themselves with merely protecting the little colony. There were one or two threatened at- tacks, but the preparations which had been made guaranteed safety to the set- tlement. N CONNUBIALITIES. A Chattanooga (Tenn.) girl of fifteen has run away from home to marry a man seventy- one years old. A Georgian eighty years old offers $5,000 for a young wife. The costof wives in- creases rapidly after a man passes the frisky age of sixty-five, A Bombay newspaper announces two mar- riages, in one case the bride being aged nine years and in the other fifteen months, while the bridegroom was thirty. This is the sys- tem which Pundita Kamaoai is siruggling against, Peter Waddie, 8 milkman living near At- lanta, will soon lead his ninth wife to the altar, eight having died. The dead are all buried in his yard, and each has a tombstone. Waddie nas the wedding dress of each hung in his closet. A Parisian who had grievances against his wife took advantage of the new lawand ob- tained a divorce. Then he thought hemigh t at the same time suppress the pensicn legally agreed to in favor of nis mother-in-law at nis marriage, but the lady resisted and the ques- tion went to the courts. There it was proved that M. Naquev's law was defective, for it was decideq, that although the divorced man had no wife, ne had not been divorced from his mother-in-law, aud wust continue to pay her pension, ) The matrimonial sexperiences of T. H. Davis, of Clarkson, Mo., have been romantic and fatal. He has been married three times and divorced twice, W the same woman. After the second diyorce Davis went to Texas. aud a year liter ran across his di- vorced wife in thé’Lona Star state. They mado up and marridd 'ugaun, wad, returned here to their old home. The wife's family, who were bitterly opposigd to Davis, stirred up a feud that resulted .in & -hoon:: affray in which Davis was shot and lalled by his brother-in-law, Tom, Vaughan. The latter says he acted in self aefence. Miss Addie Williams, of Fort Gaines, Ga., has for years been engaged to John D, Ashton, a young lawyer of Columbia, Ala. Some time ago he fled from Alabama, it is alleged, because Lo committed a forgery. He went to Maxico. There, it is claimed. he again committed forgery and fled to Hous- ton, Texas, where the Alabama authorities arrested him and carried him back to Colum- bia. A few days ago Miss Williams went to Columbia, and, the authorities allowing Ash- ton to go on the streets for a short while, the couple were married, the man going back to jail and the woman returnmg to her work @8 telegraph operato: Fort Gaines. Hard Texas Siftings: She—Last n:‘ghl I dreamt we wereé at Saratoga and stop- ping at one of the finest ls, o—Don’t talk that w Mouey is 80 scarce mowadays that we can’t afford even to dream of going to Saratoga. IN THE VALLEY OF DEATH. Dismal Scenes Among the Survivors of the Johnstown Flood. THE PENSIONERS ON CHARITY. Pitiful Tales of Suffering Told at the Headgquarters of the Women’s Relief Committee— Work of the Catholic Sisters. Desolation Dwells There. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug. 8.—[Special to THE BEE.]—Perhaps there is no time in & summer’s day more delightful than when the cool, gray dawn is just begin- mng to give way to the warmth of a rising sun, with just a lingering hint of early coldness to keep off languor under the splendid influence of a July morn- ing. Some such thoughts came to me as, at the “peep of day,” I left Pittsburg on the Pennsylvania railroad, in com- pany with a party of six en route to Atlantic City. Our first stop wasat Johnstown, where we were met by a young friend who had provided a con- veyance to take us over the city and along the vnlley as far as our time and inclination would permit. Long before you reach Johnstown the effects of ‘‘the late disaster” can be seen, railroad iron twisted out of shape, broken cars, parts of houses, together with trees, roots upturned, are thrown in masses—the whole mixed with mud to the depth of several feet,in many places, meet the eye at every turn, One never could be prepared for the pitiful sights in and around many of the desolate homes, and you can have no appreciation of the great distress and horror of the surroundings. I first entered the tent where the Women’s Relie! committee were stationed, dealing out the regu- lation amount to the poor, homeless victims, who stand in line, and with huugry glances watch their chance to push forward and grasp the portion intended for them. I was invited in- side and watched with interest every detail, admired the systematic manage- ment on the part of tge ladies, and was touched to observe the feeling shown towards the poor half crazed people. L talked with many of them as they came by, and listened to tales of woe, many of which would furnish abundant ma- terials upon which to base a thrilling story, about which volumes could be written—and then many things untold. Then I went into a building which had been a store—but is now a hospital, and found twenty-five or thirty injured ones who were being cared for by the Catho- lic sisters. Two of them had just passed into the beyond, attended by the sisters to the last, with a skill and quietness, that must ever be the envy of the world, 1 called upon several of ,the leading physicians, and saw the maunner in which they dealt out doses—*‘without money and without price”---1n nearly all cases. The applicants were treated with great consideration, The female physicians of Chicago, about whom 80 much as been said cannot receive too much raise. They are noble, grand women n spite of their medical education, and are doing a glorious work, without a hope of praise or thought of remunera- on. I next entered the Mothodist church, apart of which was destroved by the deluge, and therv witnessed a sight which touched my heart. Aged men, with tear-staines faces and clasped hands, in trembling voices praved that “'they might soon join the dear ones gone before,” and mothers asked that they might be helped to carc for the little ones left to them, and all seemed 80 devout that if vhere was lurking in the mind of anyone present a doubt of the faith of many people in the “‘effi- cacy of prayer,” there was nothing in the scene to substantiate their theory. From this I was driven to the local- ity of the Conomaugh yards, just above the city, where the former tracks of the Pennsylvania road can be seen, with the ties standing on end in the middle of the viver and on the hillside; then to the cump, and walked around among the men who were busily engaged clear- ing away the debris. There are about fifteen hundred at work now, and it is very interesting to watch the different kinds of steam shovels and machines that are used. The state authoritiesseem to be doing all they can to help notonly those in distross, but those desirous of hel 1infi’ themselves. And that the relief fun is being distributed with comparative justic firmly believe, as every act of the committeo seems to be given the utmost publicity. The little cottages that are now being buwlt by Chicago citizens are furmished to each family for $100, and the ladies’ relief commit- tee of Pittsburg supply the necessaries to furnish the house and render it home- like, They have about sixty sowing machines running all the time prepar- ing bed linen and clothing for those in need, and furnishing employment to many women who are glad toearn some- thing. Mus., WIN. S. STRAWN. e HONEY FOR THE LADIES, Doufle cashmere is again a favorite for dreas frocks. Sandal shoes are worn with empire and directoire gowns. Light summer gowns are decorated with a garniture of ball fringe. Black lace overdresses continue to be pop~ ular for half-dress occasions. Chenille embroideries are used as a border on dresses made of cotton crape. Sailor maidens are now wearing a scarf pin in the shape of a Neptune's trident. The accordion plaited dress holds its own admirably considering its many attractive rivals. Small fruits of every descriptios appear among the hat and honnet garnitures for the coming season. A brooch appropriato for summer wear is a tiny canoe of gold, with oars and anchor trailing over the side, The effective union of red and black ap- pears in many of the diess toilets prepared for the autumn season. Dinner gowns for midsummer are made with short, skirts that escape the floor with narrow falling demi-trains. Among the minor features of forthcoming fashions are *short jackots of the zouave va- riety, rounded, pointed, and square. Empire green bids fair to continue in pop- ularity for some tume. It harmonizes well with pini, red, cream, and even gray. The black toilets worn this season are very elegant. Black net and lace costuraes for evening are trimmed with fine gold pas- sementerie. Red, tan color, and pale almond cloth is used variously for Lowms XIV jackets for the autumn, for poke bonnets and hats, for traveling, tenuis, and yachting. All the lovely tints of lilac, mauve and heliotrope are suddenly restored to their old- time popularity, l"lzme of the new dyes shade exquisitely into faint tints 51 old rose. Fancy jackets and sleeves, high forming part of the turu-over coll girdles, jaunty silk shirt-fronts, tirely pormissible this season, smart out-of-door costume. Low-throated bodices are now very much the fashion and are seen everywhere. it pol’::; i ' ull ol even on a of these have lappad surplice fronf finished with wide velvet revers ::El&l;ln;l.- minish to & point at the waist. Graceful little Enclish jackets, the com- plement of simple walking dresses, are made in most cases with elegunt fancy vests, though occasionally the bodice of the gown imitates a waistcoat underneath the cutaway jacket. Black laces and white laccs are beautifully combined in some of the new Cordsy and Marie Antoinctte fichus, and capes and gowns formed of this magpie’ mixturo are amoug some of the most elegunt dresses of the season. *‘La Surprise de la Covrse” is the name given to a dress which was in high favor at the English races. A first view 1t appears somewnat like a plaiu redingate, but when thrown open in front displays a petticoat and walstcoat of great richness, o English bridesmaids are wearing directoire costumes of white watered silk with redin- gotes which have deep rolling collars of or- ange volvet, and soft vosts of yellow crepe de chine fastened at the belt with long loops and ends of yellow moire ribbon. A modiste describes an ideal summer gowu made of golden-green crepe de ohine, garnitured with palo pink roses and lenves, with a misty drapery above of faintest amber-brown " silk tuile falling over the creamy petals and sprays of foliage. According to New York press authoritios black hats in Spanish fashions have long graceful searfs, which come from the back, and are of sufficient wiath to veil and envelop the throat and sometimes the shoulders. These are usually trimmed with red briar roses, salvin blossoms or scarlot lobehis blooms, Wide-brimmed Milan braids in corn yellow, olive gray, and like fashionable shades, appropriate for general wear at the seaside and in the mountams, are faced with plaited lace or dark velvet, and simply trim- med outside with large Alsatain bows of moire or fancy Persian or Roman ribbon ar- rauged on the crown. Among the elegant novelties for garden-party wear are thorny rose stems interwoven in basket fashion, forming very charming Maud Mueller hats trimmed alone with rose leaves and tea or damask roses and buds. R The Agnostic. 0. M, Snyder in Boston Globe, His name was William Mullins and He had a sneerin’ way Of turnin' his proboscis up At everytiing you'd say. “Wall, now how do you know?" said he; “Humph, now, how do you know§" The way it closed an argument Wasn'v by no means slow. You might be talking social like ‘With fellows at the store On war and politics and sich, And you might have the floor And be a-gettin’ things down fine, Provin’ that things was so, ‘When Mullins would stick his long nose In With “Hump, how do you knaw!" Hp cut his grass whene'er it rained, He shocked his wheat up green, He cut his corn behind the frost, His hogs were allus leau; He built his stacks the big end up, His corn cribs big end down; “Crooked as Mullin’s roadside fonce,* Was & proverb iu our town. The older he got the worse he grew, And crookedor day by day; The squint of his eyes would His toes turned out e Wi, His boots and shoos were both of them lefts, The rheumatiz twisted 80; But if you said Le didn’t look well He' growl: *“Now, how do you know " And that darned grit led to his death— He was on the railroud track Crossin’ a bridge; I heard the train And yelled: “*Mullins, come back | “Lhe traln is round the curve in sigou!" Says he: “Hump, how do you know " 1 heiped to guther him up in & pail, The engine scattered him 80, e Barbary's Bogus Exhibits. It came out that most of the exhibite of Tunis, Algiers and Morocco in the Parls Exposition were not Alrican pro- ductsat all, but manufactured in Paris. They were at once thrust out, and with them vanished the ma, L of department of the huw}?:m i