Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1891, Page 12

TALKS 0N OMAHA FACTORIES | Laundry and Toilet Soap of ail Kinds Made in Omabha. THE MAKING OF WAGONS AND CARRIAGES. Prominent Business Men and Manu- factu-ers Talk About the Necessity of Doing Something to Stim ulate Trade. Tn pursuance of the plan of informing the paople as to the importance of fuotories and to what clnas of goods they are making in Omata, I callad upon the soap factories aad carringe factories during the past woek. There arc two soap factories in tho oity the W. A. Page Sonp company, located at Flirst and Hickory streots, whero they have as finea plant as can be found in the west, and tho P. J. Quealoy Soap company, whicn was establishiod by Mr. Quealoy in 1803, These two factorics employ thirty-throo people with a pay roll of $20,00 a year. Careful inquiry as to the families of the om ployes showed that the factories aro directly supporting mnty people. The a was brouzht down by the number of boys and young employed who aro not crodited with supporting any one but themselves, though the majority of them do contribute more or lcss to the support of families. men Both factories buy all their supplies in Oma ha that can be obtained here. The tal- Jow comes mostly from South Omaha pack- ing houses, tho boxes aro made bv the Omaba hox factories, and the wrappers are printod by Omaha job offices. Tuey pay all the way from $200° to #00 per month for printing alone. “The method of making soap is appacently very simple, and yet 1t requires a groat deal of care and n thorough knowledge of the business. Tho tatlow, clean and white, is placed with other ingredients in large ket~ tles, thoso in the W. "A. Page factory hold 40,000 pounds each, Tho operation of boiling requires avout tureo days. 1t is then drawn out fnto . mixer, whero by tho aid of a ro- volviug wh fashioned something like the scrow propellor on a steamboat, it is thor- oughly mixed, and at tio same time any desired ingredicnt. such as perfume, is aaded. I'rom the mixer it is run out into what are called frames, but what might be described s voxes on wheels, Thoe frames are ahout four foot long, threo and a half high, and tifteen fnches wide. After being tioroughly cooled the soap is cut into slabs the thickness of a bar and laid outo the tablo of & machine which pushes it against wires placed the right distance apart to cut it into strips the width of a bar. Those strips are in turn placed into a similar ma- chine that cuts them in the right leugth and the barof soap is completed. The better graaes all go through the stampng machines and aro then wrapped and placed in boxes While the process is briefly described, it reauires about two wueks to complete, as tho soap has to bo placed on racks and cured sov- erul days and then considerable time is lost i cooling. ‘The Omaha soap factories make all kinds of soap, from tho cheapest to the best laun- dry soap and all kinds of toilet soap. At the W. A. Page factory I saw ten different kinds of toilot soap, the best being equal to anything made in the United States. The best laundry sonp 18 also equal to the best makes of other soup factories, and why should it not be! The Omaha factories have exactly the same kind of maclinery as the factories In other cities and the materials are identical. [ have heurd ladies say that thoy could notr use any soap but. some cortain well advertised brands mado in eastern cities and yeta chemical analysis of an Omuha soap of tho same price would show the two soaps to be practically the same, A well known business man recently de- cided to introduco the principles of home patronage iuto his household, but his wife drew the line ou soap. She must have —'s best laundry made 1n the east, but she finally consented to give the Omaha made article a trial. The verdict was unequivical, “T can’t got along with the Omaha soap.” The gentloman was not quite satisfied and beggod that one more trial mizbt be made. This time he bought an equal number of bars of the Omaha soap and tho lady's favorito brand and after changing the wrappers had thom sent home. Awain the verdiot was against tho Owaha article, but when the lady learned of tho trick and that she had really pronouncod against her favorito, and had shown herself unable to distinguish between the two wikes except by the wrappers she zave in gracefull There can be no possible excuse for using foreign made soups on the ground of quality and when it comes to prico the Omaba fac- u;rlu are meoting competition 1n that: respect also. Omaha housekocpers could if they only /thought so use Omaha made soaps exclusive- ‘ly without any disadvantage to themselves, At tho present time the Omaha factories are not making half of the soap usod 1in this city. It the peoplo of the ity would patronize this branch of home industry as they should thore would be room for four” factories here or tho two now here could more than doublo_thoir capacity and instéad of supporting airectly ninety-five people thero would be 200 people drawing a living from them. Besides that the incrensing of the soap factories would re- quire an increaso in other plants. They would requiro twico as many boxes and tho box f! s would haveto put on extra men; thoy would requircmore printing and somo job office would require an extra man or two and so through the whole list of the manufactories which would be required. So furas 1 have investigated local man- ufacturin interests [ have found nothing for which there is so little excuse as the failuro of the peoplo of Omaba to kivo all their pat- ronage to thoir home soap factorios. While there are many consumers wnoare proju- diced in favor of somo- foroign made brand there are thousands of nouseleepers who nave no proferance and who merely order thelr grocer to send them up a certain num- ber of bars without specifying the brand, In cases like this tho grocor who will sond anything but the nome made articlo is acting tho part of a traitor to tho best intorests of his city. It may bo added still further thut the majority of the peoplo who are weddod to some eastern mado brand would never have hoard of that particalar make had it not been for their groocer who educated them 1wto bolieving that it was tho best. Unfortunataly thero is uo way of getting hold of such grocers excepting by some such moaus 8s & manufacturers’ ussociation. CARRIAGE PACTORIES, Omaha 18 located & long way from the forests whero hard wood timber is grown and from tho steel wid iron mills but the rough material which ontors into the manu- facturo of wagons and carriages is easily transported and then too the mu- torial entering into wagon mak- ng s small m comparison to the labor item. ~ Wugon building is turgely & matter of skilled labor and that can be had In Omaha in any amount wanted. Omaha has soveral factorios that are turn- fog out work that can compare with the bost make of any other city, but they are not ro- cowving & fraction of the support which Omaha might give them. Some of tho oldest and woalthiest families in the oity uso nothing but home made carrisges but there are 160 many who take a run east whoa they want something in thav line. If thoy wont to the Omaha repositories which seil eastern made goods, no one would complain a3 theso repositories are all doing something for tho city, but they even neglect them. Of course they buy the samo makes east as the dealors hore sell and they usually pay more for them. ‘There aro five firms in Omana that make cariages, A J. Simpsou, W, . Drummond & Co., E. D. Meadimber, Frost & Harris and William Sovder. ‘These factories emvloy 110 men with a {:-rly pay roll of #6938 It would @ surprise to most people to tak o a walk through anyone of the three Iargest of these factaries and notice the class of work belug turned out. The faotories are suppliod with every applianco known ana they ewploy the best workmen to be ob- tuined. Thove ure smiths working at their turning out the best of forgiugs, and there are expert workers in wood an 1 skilled palnters. | saw somo s fino carriages as can be seon tu the city boiug turued out for lcal busiuess men, and wnere were bheavy dray wazons boing made for the looal manu- faciuring and jobbing bousoes. "The business is apparontly in 8 prosperous condition, ana the manufacturers are able to moot all_competition. The only troublo is that tho busitess is kept down by the apathy of the Omaha people, who do not taks inter- ost_enough in local fnstitutions to give th their patronage. A manufacturor told m that on @ recent Sunday afterioon, out of ¢ earriages which he counted in Hanscom park, only one was of Omaha make Is it any wonder that Omaha has not becom a groat manufacturing point, that men are somotimes out of employment here and that business {s somotimss duti, whens very dol- lar that a (arge proportion of the people can sorapo together is sentaway to eastorn cities! As many of these turnouts were doubio enrringos costing all tho way from $00 to £1,000, it would be putting it very low to say that they cost on an average #200 cach. Then wo have $12,800 that had boen sent east for carriages that could have been dublicated here for thn same money and $200 kept in Omaha. In other words, the carriae riding people spend $1 in Omaha and $64 in eastera citic What an array that was to pass before an Omaha carrings maker's oyos, and what o courageous man that manufacturer was that he did not go an burn his factory for the in- surance money and leave the town. A fow weoeks apo | visited an_eas'ern town of about 4,000 peopla that is supported by one carriags factory. I inquired of one of tho managors whero tho patronage came from to support such a mammoth concern as there wore no large cities near at band. ©0," said the manufacturer. “the west buys the bull of ourgoods and yeu will find plenty our make in your ow " Yos thers are pleaty of his make in Omiba and thoy give ovidonco of the disinterestedness of tho peo- plo of Omaha who aro willing to contribute to tho building up of _fourishing towns all over New Yoric and New England iustead of building up their own eity. I remember a former promineat politician” and oftice holder in Omaha who bought a carriage from thut vory factory and he was so afraid that a dollar or two of his money might remain in Omaha, that ho dul not try to obtain it through a local doaler but ‘sent direct to tho factory., - Ho was dofoated at the next election because voters could not be im- ported from the east as readily as_carriuges and he is now trying his fortunes in another city. Instead of one hundred Omaha and Nebrassa is able to give employment to scveral hun- dred men if carriago buyers would only soe to thoir own interests. DAVENPORT WHAT BUSINESS MEN SAY. George W. Lininger.—The manufacturers must organizo and the plan outlined in Tur Ber contained a good many useful sugges- tions. All this tali on tho subjoct, while it may do some good, wiil not remedy'the evii, the manufacturers themselves must take 1t in hand and push it. Somo one ought to cali a meeting of manufacturors at on T have been talkitg with Mr. Boggs, prasi- dent of tho Real Kstate Ownors' Association, and he tenders tho use of their room to the manutacturers, and will do anything that he can to co-operate with them in what he realizos to bo & most important movement, One of the first things 15 to give us u list of the goods made in Omaha. 1 asked my folks tho other day to adopt the home patronage rule in ordering supplies for the house, and wus met immodiatoly with the question, ‘What kind of goods are made in Omiha and whero can we got thom? A brief list of the staplos that could bo pasted along side of tho telephona would be @ most useful thing until the manufacturers could compilo a complote list 10 pamphlot form. The suggestion in Tur Bek to enlist the ladies in the work was a vory good one, and they can do much toward belping Omaba. It may become necessary bofore wo got through with this to make a house to house can- vass o induce housekeepers to use Omaha goods. Wae dre experiencing dull times in Omaha because public works have been stopped and thers are a good many idle men here that will leave the city uniess they get work and the only kina of work that can be given them is in factories. What a great thing iv would be if every housckeepor in Omaha would commence av once to use Omaha mado goods. Take the one article of flour for exawplo. There is ooe flouring mill in Omalia that turns out a first class article and it every family would commeuce calling for that flour in ten days we would have their surplus oxhausted and they wouid bo employing every man that they had room for and ba unable to fill orders then. In a very little time we would seo them eularging their plant or other parties putting up mills, I believe in extending this ~matter of home patronage to the wholo state and in keeping all our money in Nebraska, * A. J. Simpson, carriage manufacturer,—I hear people suying almost overy day, ‘“‘we must have mors factories in Omuha to give employment to taboring men and to keen money in circulation.” I tell them that thero 1% 110 uso in paving out money to get factories to come here and then starve them to death. The city is full of factories now that are not running near full capacity while the peopls are sendiug their monoy east to buy the same goods that might be made hers and then mourning bezause we do uot have more factories to make things lively. If the peo- ple of Omaha will stand by the factories that aro already horo they will soon doublo thoir capacity and othor fac- tories will come without any invitation. Thelocal carriage manufactur- ers have all reduced the number of men em- ployed but if the people would buy one half of the carriages used Iin Omaha of home makers they would all be doubling their forces, . R. F. Hodgin, secretary of tho Nebrask: State Business Men's associadon—1'1e Beg is doing & great work for tho city, My asso- clation believes in the principles of home patronage and you will find that members throughout the state are buying the most of their goods 1nside the stato 30 far us possible, There are a large number of canning factor- ies located at different points in the state. If every Nebraskan would insist on having only the Nebraska brands thero would be a rapid increase in the cavacity of the fac- tories. You touched upon clgars 1 a re- cont article in Tus BEr, if every smoker in Omaha who smokes domestic cigars would buy those of home make, I es- timate that wo could furnish employment to 500 cigavmakers instesd of ouly 100. [am smoking home made cigars that T will put up against any eastern make for the same money, and let any good unprejudiced judge decide as to the quality, Then too, I think 1t 4 big advautage to smoke Omaha cigars, because I see how and where they aro made, and do not take any chances of getting some- thing from a tenemnant house full of fith and disoase. ‘Uhen there is another point. How many of the bank checks used by the Omaha banks are printed in this city,and yet Omaha concerns can do as zood lithographing as any of tae banks use. [f the banks would get all their work done hoere where thoy make their mon it would be a big item. Another thing that does not look right to me is to vee big siwns posted up on the now buildings announcing that the furnishings are being made by some eastern firm. This watter of home patronage is an almost inex- Maustible subjoct and one that can be writ- ton and tatked about for weeks. The wore the question Is ngitated the more beneflt Omuba will receive, . Mr. Drammond of W.R. Drummond & Co,, carviago makors—I have just returned from Moutana and read the articles in Tiue Bee on bomo patronage while out i the country. 1 was especially intorestea, as I looked upon it as astep in the right direction. With the best chmatein the world for carringe-making and with as good material as can bo obtainea and the best skilled labor, the Omaha manu- facturors are prepared to compete with any of the oastern \agou-makors both in quality and price. Lately we have been making the polico patrol and hose wagons for the city und have filled an order of the same kind for Butte, Mont. [f Omaha can put out work that will staud the rough usage ot the firo de- partment, we ought to be able to do most anything in the wuy of carriage and wagon oullding. ——— Betier than the lmported, Soterian Gloger Ale—-Excelsior Springs Co.'s. ealabysl SR In spite of his agy, Princo Bismarck has lost nono of his gallantry. o a yound lady who lately asked to be allowed to kiss bis hund, b repliod, “Oh, uo! That is not good enough for 50 chaeming a damsel " Whore- upon his excellency, without further ado, gve the young lady'a kiss. The prince is very active in business mattors whoen at homo on his estate. In his brick kilos at Frodrichsrubo be is producing a now kind of briok and tile. In place of his saw mills which were burnod aown not long since, ho bas erected new ones, which aro busily’ en- gaged in executing some large orders for wood pavement. Tue prinee's income from bis wills and othor mndustrial works is ropor- ted to be upward of §0,000 a year. e Use Hallor's Gorman 1iiis, W0 groat 0o o stipation aud Liver regulator. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ATHENS, IN LATE SUMMER, How the Dwollers in ths Greoian Oity Manage to Kill Time, EDISON A GREATER MAN THAN JOVE. Picturesque Walks anl Boulevards Frequented By the “Four Hun- dred"'—Chauncey M. Depaw as a Rival of Demosthenes. Aritexs, Aug. 10.—Special Correspondence of Tire Bee, | ~Tho heat In Athens is intonse, but the Groeks know how to get through te summer comfortably. They live out of doors autl exchange no calls; the curtains aro taken down, the carpets and rugs folded away, the furniture and pictures covered up and tho houso generally abandoned, except- ing perhaps the kitchen, and the meals aro served in the garden. The rich Grooks and all forelgners leavo the country at this sea- son for cooler climes, Many of comforta- blo income go up in tho mountains to Cephis- sia or take a cottage at Phalerum, the an- cient seaport, and now the lushionablo sea sido resort of Athons. A steam traiv runs overy half hour, taking the multitudes for a plungo in the Blue gean. Kven the poorer classes grudge thomselves not this expense which is slight. The Greek L ve of Dres Now Phalorum is tha new promenade. The Greoks have a passion for dress and always wear tho latast Pavisian styles, awhile, strange to say, Amorican residents often don the anciont Greok 1obes, and aro anxious to invest in the picturesque costumes of the peasant women of today, or the rod fez and white fustanclla (kilt) of the men. The higher classes speak Fronch as weil as Greok, flock to the summer theaters (French and Talian), and sip ices by the hour at the cafe gardens Old Phalerum, two miles farther cast, on tho coast, is the rosort vt the common peoplo, who como with their basket about 5 o'clock in the evening, lunch on the rocks aud return t0 tho city 1ate in tho night. Bathing Resort for the Poor. Between the two towns is a long strotch of each where e coun- try people como from milos away— ou Sundays and _holidays—in funuy two-wheeled carts, The farm horse or don- key pulling and sweating in front of his bur- den of twenty or thirty men, women and chil- dren. How they ever get homo with those loads I do not, understrnd—one man_pulling tho beast in front and another lashing him from behind. Hero the country peoplo bring their simple food of bread, cheese and ret- zinato wine, and give their donkeys, dogs and childron tho benetit of oocan batns, plunging altogether in promiscuous confu- sion. Athens of Modern Days. In Athens night is turned into day and day into night. Tho shops aro closed at mid-day and the squares doserted, evorybody sleep- ing away the hot afternoon hours. And itis not until after the late dinuer, about 9 or 10 o'clock in tho vening, that' the “four hun- dred” venture out and gather at tho cafes, to meet together and hear the latest bit of scan dal, for in their love of gossip, the Athenians are unequalled. With it they have musicand lazily sip ices, with wine and cigarettes aud Turkish coffe, and so tho time_slips away until morning. But who can criticize their indolence when the air by dayis like a furnace roady to bake bread and the pulse of nature has run down and ceased to boat. A Picturesque City of Old. Promenading is a favorite pastimo of tne Athenians in tho early eveuing hours. There ara many charming walks about Athens, and though the educated Greeks and the foroigners l0ve to turn the'r steps to the Stadium, the Acropolis, the Keramerkos, or ancient burial-ground, the Stras, the “Thesoum and the remaining columns of tho temple to Olympian Joves,tho general public loves tho moderu parks, the quaen’s gardens, tho boulevards, linea with their graceful pepper trees with their slendor, forn-like olinge. Horo one mects tho gay and handsomo Groek ofticors, booted and_ spurred—tho pic- turesque Cretan with his bagoy trousors, red sash and gracoful mantle. The Crotans to a man have fine figures, handsome features and & stages tride that Booth might onvy. Conscious AtheniangMaidens, Next comes the stiff Athenian maidens, conscious and proper—safely chaperoned by ner unmistakable Greek mother, who has re- luctautly adopted the Kuropoan gown of basque and skirt, but draws the line at head- dresses and continues to reject French bon- nets, wearing about her head & Greek laco haudkerchief, fastened into the braid behind in a peculiar manver. The daughter is not oblivious to a bevy of university students passing near, but only maunifosts that knowlodge by a slight roll of the eyo; she is well trained and does not turn her head. It is no wonder thut the Amor- ican girl is stared at, as she swings along indifferent to others and uuconscious of her- sell. Next comes a company of Groek priests with their black caps and lugubrious robes flapping ubout in the wind and giving them the appearance of so many ravens. The hair is braided and pinned in & small knot bebind, ridiculously fominine, but they have good faces which bear the mark of holy lives. Costumes of the Queen’s Own. Now we see a group of the queon's own enards, in braided jackets and short white potticoats much like tho Scoteh kilts, only shorter. They look at -a distance, whon drilling, like a flock of trained ostriches. Some disrespectful American has dubbed them “penwipers.” The contrast botween the dignitied flowing draperies of Pericles’ ume and theso “ballet girls” is as startling as anything could ve. The logs are encased in placo of tights in white folt gaiters, tight fitting, with shoes of red leather, pointed and turned up at the toe. Yards and yards of white cotton cloth is plaited into the little skirt, which staods out exactly like a ballet dancer's, On the head a scarlet fez is worn, artis cally pullea down on one side by a hoavy silk tassle, and a white embroidered belt for dirk and pistol completes the costume. ‘They look very pretty and graceful flitting about among the trees—tho’ no costume could be imagined wore un-soldierlike, or ill-fitted for war. Nurses by tho scoro with families of ohil- dron in very short frocks and bare legs and arms, loitor in these shady walks. Tho nursos are usually French or English girls (as the Grecks believe in beginning enrly with the languages), and their bloudo hair and complexious and blue eyes contrast well with the olive skins, raven tresses ana big black eyes of the little Grooks, and there is always un cndless variety horo in the crowds as it pours wlong. Promenades of the Grecian Motropolis The most popular boulevard takes in the Yl'm-ilu'\ of Zeus, that follows the bed of the Ilisus past the haunts of Socrates, aud the Stadiuw, whoere the Panathenaic gumes were colebrated, w magnificont amphitheatre is cut out of tho mouutain. It would be charming for u basebull ground if the Greeks ouly kuew it. Hut they coutent themselves with athletio games there evory four years, wheve prizes are taken for fool races, for running, wres- tling and boxing, as of ald, Leaving the Stadium we como {nto another beautiful wide avenue; on ono side is the queen’s gardon warting toward us o grato. fully refreshing perfume of flowers. ~ While the othor sido is lined with besutiful houses in Pentelic marblo with piilared porticos. Hero ure tho Krench and Italian loga- tions and further on the now palaco of the crown prince Con- stuntine 1s in of buildiug. At length Wo came out onggho Uephusia road, which brings us around in front of King (ieorge's alace and the Place of the Coustitution, 'his road is dotted with cates and theaters, for the Gireeks are ousy-going and pleasure- loving. Greater God Than Zeus. Last nizht I saw under the enormous columns of Jupitera tent, displaying Edison's phouograph, side by side with & Greok cafe, whore wierd music was being ground out by the bour from four strange looking stringed instruments. Au vager and expectaut crowd of Groeks was omptying itself iuto the tent At 50 septa a head o listen at the phone, In front of the tent was tho great in- ventor's nama,dn flaming Greok lottors. [ wondered 1f ME.| Edison would £y @ nizs his own namo or if Ho knew that in Girasce today, in the moonlight shadows of that mighty temple, he waswzreater god than Zous. The Enengy of the Amecdcans, Other Amerjcans, blessed with the various gifts that God bstows, favored us with thoir presence during the August days Mr. Vanderbit, with his two sons, and Chauneey M. Figpow boing aniong those who utilized very moment of their brief stay, exhibitinz the most astonish ing energy wyd enthusiasm in visit- ing the anciéht temples and battle- grounds in defiato of this oriental sun Wo gayn thaw, & picnicon the Pryx, t place of the anclent political assemblies of the Athenians. ! ! We poured libations on the ancient altars in their honor and drank to their health in tho best Greek wines, Mr. Depow rospond ing to the toasts in_n most graceful manner from tho bema of Demosthenes, Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Depew. Mr. Vandorbiit croated quite n stir in Athens, the Greek papers for several days being devoted to the life and fortunes ot the groat millionaivo, Peorsonally Mr. VAnderbilt is youthful and elogant, and so gonial that his miliions wero uite forgotten in the charm of his presence. 1is two sons woro frosh from their Greek studies at Yale and thoroughly enjoyod their visit here. Mr. Dopew is flne looking, portly and smiling in _person, ready and eloquent in speech, and whethher he speaks from a modern or an ancient platform, no is a credit to the glorious country he repressnts. M. L J. MANATT. g HONEY ¥OK THE LADIES, ‘The floral panier on vall drosses is a short- lived absurdity. The pancake for ladies has boon a great success; now they want a turner. The waist flounce is one of the most intor- esting foatures of dress at tho preseat time. A woman with a short, tat neck may wear, becomingly, the black velvet band. Let the thin, long necked woman leave it ulone, ‘T'he shirt of the near future will have but- tons down theentire front—except when they are lost, which will bo nearly all the time. The cone hiat is black straw, also a cone crowned boat hatgwnd a hat with low, broad, square crown an¥a brim haviog a half inch roll are being trimmed for autumn wear. Black silk broche is among the favored ma- terials of tho hour, Prettiost among drosses of the kind worn at a hoted sunmor resor t is aricn Lyons silk, coverad with small saiin spots. A separate coat and vest does not permit tho usual blouse or skirt t be wora; but smali sleeveless vests with the front simulat- ing a blouse are useful aud do away with the necessity of a jacketas well, Skirts with piped gores are seen in num- bers. Many have a gored seam diroctly up the front. Ail fulness at the waistis dis- pensed with, and the very little nocessitated at the extremo back is added. New imitation paper, or, at least that much used in fashionable circles, 18 parchment vellum. This is a heavy paper of cream shade and is dull, finished, not unlike un- dressed kid. Dinuer cards are made of the same dull surface board. The coming of autumn aiready warns the pruaent house-mother that she should pro- vide warmer underweur and hosiery for her charges. Delicato children and invalids—all persons whoso eirculation is weak -will do well to put on woollen hosiery as soon as the fall opens. Laco upon protty evening dresses is ar- ranged on the skirt with two flounces, ribbon being employed to'thread in_and out, should the pattern admit. Otherwise the ribvon is run on flat just above the flounce forming o heading. Watered ribbon two-inches wide is most used in this direction. The September flower is the golden rod; the September fruit the apple. The Septem- ber colors are crimson and gold—emblematic of the chauges made in the hue of the month’s foliage by the first frosts. The Septembor stone is the chrysolite, which, if worn during the mouth, averts sadness from the mind, according to the Iore ot the lupidaries. A tailor made: gown of an early autumn model has the basgue slashed. Theé material is woolen and the skirt is plain, with lengtn erough bebind to drag—more's the pity. The trailing of our dresses isn’t bad indoors or on the lawns and verandas av the summer ro- sorts, but for sidewalks it is deplorable. So skirts are bound to be refashioned soon. For later autumn wear than the fall aresses thus far described 1s the tweed gown shown in the last illustration. It is of a light brown, with gold galon front and military capo tossed back from the shoulder and tied with beaver colored ribbons. The stripes of vel- vet that form tho striking trimming on tho skirt are of beaver colored velvet also. The hat is trimmed with ostrich feath ers. A very pretty and stylish way of making a light tan cloth costume is with a bodice held by straps over the shoulder. The straps and flaps are hined with colored silk,and the skirt is made perfoctly plain. A tie of the colored silk is worn with a pink or blue shirt, and there is a jacket belonging to the suit which mav be worn or not as desired. A tan-colored parasol lined with pink silk and a brown hat trimmed with tau ribbons and gauze and a bunch ot pink roses, complete the stylish cos- tume. Here is an idea for those who are artistic and original. It is something new and very pretty and consists of providing your own designs for embroidery, taking them directly from nature. This is how you can do it. Flowers are preserved by dipping them in parafline. By moistening” white paper with benzine it becomes translucent, theu you can easily sketch impressions of tne flowers. When the vaper dries it again is opaque and the impression sketched remains. The last midsummer wedding of the season has taken place. Theso are tho gowns worn by the immediate bridal party: The bridal dress was of ivory-corded silk, trimined with old Honiton lace and orange blossoms. Her ornaments were diamonds and pearls and she carried a bouquet of white flowers. She was attended by four bridesmaids in dresses of pale coral and Cambridge blue voile de laine, trimmed with Valenciennes lace: hats to mateh, trimmed with wreaths of rose potals. They carried baskets of exotics, and wore also coral and pearl brooches. A decidedly pretty dress seen at Saratoga one day last week was a combination of pink and silver. The dress was of pink cashmere, mado with Greek draperies. These fell in graceful folds about thé slender figuro of the fair girl. Around the lower edge of the skirt was a broad baud of silver. The bodice was cut V-shaped, both back and front, and out- lined with silver. There were clbow sleeves, finished with a fold of soft lace. Silver gray suede shoes wera worn with this tollet. As the classio maiden glided through the rooms, or posed in Deisarte attitudo, she was a por- fect symphoxy in pink and silver. A protty woman must first of all have clearly out, regalar fentures. She must have full, clear sves. She must have a skin that is above roprduch, uatouched by rouge or powder. She/thust havo glossy hair that has never known the touch of bleach or dye. She must have agood figure, plump enousgh, though never suggestive of ‘an_angle. She must have a white, expressive hand, prefar- ably & small one, biit not of a necessity, if it is well kept and white, She must have small ears and a throat:that 1s like a marble column for her head. Shemust know how to put on her olothes, or sho/loses hulf her beauty. Sho must fully understand what best suits her in the way of hair dressing, aud cling closely to that. v CONNUBIALITIES. Probably one reason so many nice girls marry poor busbands 1s that they never meet any other kind of nen. Harey J, Thoradt, the eighteou-yeur-old s0n of & wealthy oltizen of Buffalo, is in jail for having three wives. It's funny; so muny worthloss looking women get married three or four tim while some of the nicest ones don't get mal ried at all. Miss Julia Dupont Crofton, elaest daughter of Colonel R. . A. Crofton, of the Fifteenth infantry, U. S, A, commanding Fort ori- dan, was marrind August 20, at the residence of her father, to Lieutenant C, C. Walcutt of the Eighth cavalry, U, S. A The ougagement of Miss Hildreth, the retty daughter of the propriotor of the Wost Eud hotel, Long Brauch, and Mr. Moiere |s just announced. The prospective bride groom is the owner of the Tunis Mills in Maryland, aud bolongs to ono of the oidest fumilies in that state. Some lato br Englang aro usu aro wold wire hearts sud truo lovers dosmaids' gifts whieh in ly prosentod by tho groom bangles, with moonstone poarl bracslots, with entwined huart knots Jewelod brooches: initials, aud croseut- old vaagle, with p UNDAY, SEPTIFMBER ¢. 1891—SIXTEE shaped brooches, with monogram of bride and groom in colored enamel. The rumored engagemont of Miss Hope Goddard of Provinco, R. L, who is also abroad, to Mr. Harrisou, an ' Englishman of wealth Is geuerally credited by her friends on this side. 'Miss Goddara is borself quito an | heiress, and has boen considared for the past three seasons ono of the handsomest youug womon in society. Miss Lincoln, daughter of Ministor Lin- coln, will uot only marry a y of more promise than realization, but | diately aftor the London wedding will start | for America instead of spending bor honey- | moon in England o on tho continoat. There | is o ring of the true metal about the grand- daughter of Abraham Lincoln. In 1841 throo couples were married at the sumo time in a homosteud near Gordon, Ga. They are all still alive and_healtny and _are arrangiug to coleorato tneir golden wedding at the homaste: All the descendants of the couplos are to be present, and soare soven of tho nine brothers and sistors of the contracting parties, who witnessed the triplo marriage. From Argonia, Kan., n woman govorned city in a woman suffrage state, the ploasing news has como that there the revolt of woman has at last reached its logical conclu- sion, for u young girl, with the blushing courago of her convictions, has proposed to tho masculine object of her affestions, and the happy pair have just been marriod by Mirs, Gibson, justice of the peace Mr. and Mrs, A, L. Colwell, of Verbank, Duchess count N. Y., celcbrated tho fif- ticth anniversary of hor marriage with a lden wedding at Scott's hotel in that place on the 22d. ‘w'iere was a largo attendance of | friends of the aged couplo and the latter re. coived many golden presents. One of the pleasing incidonts of tho ovent was the cut- ting by Mr. Colwell of alavgze cake from tho centro of which rolled one hundred gold dollavs, The socioty ovent last wook in the vicinity of Boston was the wedding on Thursday of | “Thomas Hitckoock, jr, of Now York, and Miss Lulu Marie Kustis, of Washington, the ceromony taking placo it the parochial rosi- dence of St. Margaret's Catholic church, Beverly Kurms, tho groom being a high church Episcopalian and the bride a Catholic, There wore present at the recontion many fashionablo people from Boston, Now York, Philadelphia, Washington and Chieago. ‘The supreme court of California Las just had a strange cuse on which to pass judg- ment. Some fow yeurs ago the father of a Young woman gave her a bouso on the ocea- “sion of her marriage. It was aftorward learned that the donor was insolvent at the timo of his gift, and a creditor attached the property as having boen conveyed without valuablo consideration. The “court, how- ever, upheld the gift on the ground that the immo- ig American | to be guilty of an PAGES POINTING A MORAL, Too Gooa to L “Your honor,” sald a prosecuting attorney in an Alabama backwoods court, according to *“The Arkansaw Travellor,” “the prisonor at tho bar is charged with killing ono of the most oxemplary citizens of this vountry, Androw D, Boyson, your honor, was in every rospect a_model man. He was a beloved member of the church, and was never known unchristian act. Why, your honor, he was uever known to bet on horses, play poker, drink whiskoy, ot use tobacoo, He - ““Hold on a minute," the judge *yon say he didu't bet on horses (! “That's what I say, your honor," “And ho didn't play poker!" “Never was known to play a game," broke inj And ho never drank liquor?” ever drank a drop, your honor." nd ho didn't ehew tobacco " “Nover took a chew in bis life."” “Wall, then," said the judws, leaning back with a sign, “T dou’t seo ‘what he wanted to live for. "There wa'n't auything in life for him, aud I don't se0 why lie ain’t about ns well off dead as alive. IRslease the prisoner, ‘Mr. Sheriff, and call the next cdse.” Bob and Thomas 1 heard a story of Bob Burdotte and tho late Thowas A. Hendrioks, says a Kunsas City Times man. Several years ago, whilo tho lamentod Indianian was touring the west, Burdette was the funny man on the Burling ton Huwkeye. In that capacity he wrote a @roat many satirical verses concerning Mr. Hendricks. One day Burdetto was at a rail- rond hotel at Iowa City when tho proprietor od him. Seo here, Bob,” sald the Boniface, ‘‘there’s a man in the dining room whom you ave just dying to meet. Come along." s Who'ls 1t askced tho - humorist bang ing back. “Oh, come o man, and with that into the dining room. Mr. Hondricks - Mr. Burdette,” said the proprictor, whercupon a handsome, smiling man arose from a table, and, turning bis hand to the man from Burlington, said : *Aud 50 this Mr. Burdette, is it{" “Y-—yes,” returned tha now quaking humorist. “‘You're the man who wrote *T'he Bad Man from Injianny,’ are you ! “I did, but that was only in ——o" “Let me seo,” went on the statesman, smil- ing. ‘1t van like this, didn’t it? And Mr. Hendricks procceded to recito the whole poom. Then o recalled another and another, reciting, before he was through half adozon of the sitarical outhursts in rhyme that haa been directed against nim. “I never felt really bashful before,”” said it's all right," said tho hotet Burdette was hustled veceiving of a husband for onv's daughtor is a valuable cousideration, Coupla the names of Pullman and Pinker- ton and one instantly thinks of what power ther wonld be in this union of two of Chi- cago's most famous families, in casoof strike, for instance. That those two fami- lies, whose names have boen written every- where, aro to be united is made certain by the announcement of the engagemont of W. C. Pullinan, the son of Colonel Charles L. Pullman, who io one of the three Pullman brothers, and Miss Allan Pinkerton, danghter of W. A. Pinkerton. The wedding will take place carly in autuma. IMPLETT To the “land that is fairer than day,” it is thought he'll bo ever n stranger, for ho never attempted to pray except whon bhis lifo was in danyer. “Build a hell for these New Yorkers,' shricks Dr. Talmage. \What's the usa? Tho chiances are that thoy would cail on the bal. ance of the country to subscribo toa fuel fund. Harmon Murray, a uegro desporado in Florian, entered a colored churen in fall blast, held up the whole congregation and made the pastor take up a collection for the bouefit of the party of the firat part, The Front Pow—\Who is that man over there who is always siging, “I'm bound for thio promised lund " The Back Pew - That's Jones, He's in the newspapor business, and the wholo congrezation 13 in urrears to him. St. Poter—Who are you? Applicant— An humble Toxas vain maker. St. Poter--Um! You'd better apply one story below. They've been complaining of drouth thero ever sinco the country wus sot- tlea. A Missouri preacher dri week days. He 15 a conscientious man, but it has boen remarked that ho seoms to bo near sighted and hard of hearing when closo fistod members of his congrogation hail his car. Minister—Who is the deceased? Attondant —Ob, ho was a faith heater. He used to go about the country laying on of hands, but oneday he lnid hands on the wrong man; there was o reaction, and tho result was fatal to the hoaler. Foreman—Old Jones joined the church last t. Editor—Goou !~ Make out a bill for soven years' subscription with interost at 3 per cent. [ guess he'll pay up now. Fore- man—-You'ro off there. -When I loft ho was singing at the top of his voico: *Religion’s paid ivatl—ail the dobt I owe!” 1t is narrated that a New England preacher of the olden time was paralyzed during a sermon by discovering his rude offspriug in the jallery pelling tho hearcrs in the pews below with peanuts. But while the good man 4 was preparing a frown of reproof the young hopeful cried out: *“You tend to vour preach- ing. daddy, Ill keep om awake.” When Sam Jones, in addressing a Missouri congregation of 2,500 people, asked ali those who hadn't told a lie in six ‘montus to stand up, only three arose to their feet, aud one of them sat down again when he found out what was wanted. King David “said in bis baste” that all men are hars, and Sam Jones' experiment would servo to show that the hasty opiniou is apvroximately true, —— SOME NOTE Oliver Wendell Holmes was 52 years old last week. But it can bo said, with aimost exact truthfulnoss,that ho is just as buo almost as active,and nearly as young as over. Blawe, Clovolund, MeKialey, Sockless Simpson, Peffer, Hill of Now York,Secretary Rusk, and President Harrison are the Amori- cans who get their names in print oftener then auy others in this country. General Morgan, the Alabama sonator, is a Tennesscean, and a typical Tenuesscoan at that, for he is tall and sparo und straight as an Indian. He is regarded in tho south as a greater authority than Edwunds on ques- tions involving constitutional law. Among the richest citizes of the southorn states today are several colorad m gau active life under wost adver: stances. Mr. Silvester of Gialvesten to possess real estato and personal property valued at more than §50,000. His wife em ploys ouly white servants. E. W. Howard MacQueary, whoso trial for horesy was tho sensation of tho Episcopal cnurch in Ohio recently, is temporarily in Washingson. Mr. MacQueary is a young man apparently not moro thia 50 years old. He is over six foet in height, with black hair and moustache and keen durlk oyes. Edward Everott ilalo 15 cortainly one of the immortals, and yot, in spite of advancing yoars (b is now 10 yoars oid), his life 15 crowded with activity. Ho writes and odits, preaches, organizes charitable sociotie: whose destiuics he coutrols, and now aud then finds timo to take a hund in politics. Secretary Proctor, who will succeod Fd- munds in the seuate, i3 a4 most abstemious man, He does not smoke and his tastes aro simple. He is old-fushioned in his manner, but shrewd ond keen and usually hiis the mark he aims at. Hois another of tho several meu prowinent in public Ife who rosemblo Lincoln physically. Mr. Lowell always parted his hair in the middio and adopted the custom long bofore it becamo an Anglomaniac affectation. He was as courteous Lo a beggar as toa lord, and was once observed holding a loug conversation in Iatian with &o organ grinder whom ho wos questioning about scones in Italy tuat they were cach familiar with, Jesso D, Grant, the youngost son of Cien eral Grant, woo ' has recently beon liviug quieuy in California on o large fruit raunch and farm uas boen given control, with a lurgo continguent interest in a group of il ver mines in Mexico. from which over $1,000,- ves a stroet car on D MEN. 000 havo been taken 1n five years. Youug Grant's with wal from mining and other speculatious convineed some of his wenlthy friends that thero was good business tim ber in bis composition aud thoy offered him to re-outer the busiuess a basis . = The Latest Conundrum. Whoy s Hallor's Sarsaparilia and Burdock like the most popular soap of tha day, Because they bo'h cleanso the skin and leave it both s0ft ud velvely. the genial humorist, **but that was the time when I would nave welcomed an carthquuke that would have swallowed me up,' Great States. A Mississippian, a (eorgian and a Texan were together yesterday in the rotunda of an uptown hotel, says tho Memphis Commercial and each one was boasting of the excelicncs and greatness of his own state. Said the Mississippian: “My state is the greatest cotton state in the world.”” Then up spoke the Georgian: “I beg to differ with you there for we raise a great deal of cotton ourselves; and my stato is the groatest watermelon stato in the world.” “But,” said the Texan, ‘‘gontlemon, I think the honor of being the greatest state bolongs to Texas. We huve tho greatest variety of crops, and we have tho riclesr soil in the world. Wo can raise anything in Texas except waterimelons.” “‘An?" said the Georgian, with a triumph- ant look. “And why can’t you raise water- melons ¢’ “Because,” smd the Texan sadly, ‘tho vine grows 5o fust and runs over the ground 50 fust that it wears tho little melons out dragging them along on the ground. There never was but one watermolon raised in ‘Texas and the man who raised it put iton a sled and hired two negroes with teams of oxen to stay in the field day and night and pull the melon along as fast as tho vine grew.” ““And what did be do with it?" Mississippian, “*He cut a door 1n the side of it and drove all of his hogs in it, and when they ate their way out in the fall thoy were all seal fat.” ientlemen,” snid the Georgian meekly “let’s take u drink.” Aud this wound up the tri-state controyersy ~1 The Man and the Hear. Two of the best known hunters of Califor- nia are the two Aris, Ari Hopper, father and s0n, of the Sierras de Sun Iafacl, says the Youth's Companion. The father stutters dreadfully, and the son 1s a giant, with a voice like & bull of Bashun, which, try as ho will, he cannot moderato below a roar. Whenever the son bellows outa certain favor- ite story the father marcies upand down, exclaiming as the climax is reached: **B-b- boy, you l-l-I-lie; vou kn-kn-know you lie."” ‘Choy were hunting 1 the San Rafaei mountains and bad driven two grizzlies down & steep, narrow path to a plateau that ended in a sheer precipice, on the edge of which stood u small tree. 'The bears were separ- ated, and tho son following one drove him up the path, leaving the father to tacklo his on the plateuu. After u chase which ended in his grizzly getting away from him, Ari Hopper, jr., ro- turned to the plateau. As he came down the path this is what ho says ho saw: “T'har war the old man up a tree, and so taken up with the bar that he never even noticed bis only sone He'd clum out on the 1imb of that, trée over the precipice, and M zzly Was on the samo limb, reaching oar fully for him with his paw. Bvery time he stuck his fist out the old man would jab it with his bowie-knife, and say, ‘(' back, ' ) back, you pesky fool: d-d-don’t you sed if you c-c-como any f-f-fw'thor the l-l-limb'll broak and k-k-kill us both Right her the old man always explodes, and never gives his boy a chauce to teil truth’ fully how he managed to control his Inughter long enough to “pick off" tho boar with his rifle. asked the 20 Post growler is in recoipt of a growl or two from the city on the Kuw. Ote is from Willinm Auanias MeConnell, who is abead of Katio Immett’s “Waifs of Now York.”” Just how much he is ahead of the waifs be neglects to state, but he writes as follows: **Well, here I am iu *Jayville, where Ihave been coufinod for ton days. 1 don't know what for—it must be the rosult of um- piring that Siudbaa-Soudan bali ¢ame, Aud, to make matters worse, the ex-confodorates are holding a reunion here and the amateurs have given a pecformance of ‘Patience.” The streets are thronged with ‘nanny goat’ boards, but 1t is just lovely tosit in the pa quet of the Coates opera house und botwoen the acts listen to tho bull frogs and crickets on the outside keeping up an accompaniment to the orche It is true, too, that thoy use lawn mowers on the streot cars horo, “That koeps the erass out of the strects and gives them a cititied appearance, Kutie Iim- mett's suason opened very big, and we hiv been doing a land oftice business ll this weok. Good business —good agent. See! Weo go to tho Haymarket, Chicago, Octobor 25, In the antimo I will bo busy billing *All_Out,’ witeh Back,’ ‘Change Cars,’ ‘fas Been' and *Snde Trombone.’ The other Kausas City growl is from a mecting of wholesale clothivg merchants called thero not long ago to seitle up a disas- trous failure. They were the creditors of the bankrupt and were on hand to sce what there could be recovered from tae wreck. Two of them were wealthy Hebrews, who shall bo nameless, One of theso is & rich Chicago merchant and a smart business man, He encountered the other one duy on some voint of settiemont and hot words passed. The othor Hebrow hailed from Omaha nd Qid not know the Chicagoan. “Do you know who I douted. am{” he finally A Clever Tradesman. The following story comes out today for the first ime: “James Whitcomb Riloy went abroad reconily, and on tho vessel coming bacl voluntoored for the regular ship's con- cort for the benefit of destitute mariners, He road a number of bis poows, which were rap- turously received by everybody present with tho exception of two very stolid Euglishmen in the front row, The folldwing ocon- versation ensucd botween them later on in tne smoking room; ‘I say, Arthur, what wus that chap's namo who read the verses! ‘Aw. Thut's Wilcox Riley, He's quito a clover tradesman.’ ‘Bless mo, who'd 'a thought it. | heard he was a literary chap und all that sort of thing,! ‘No, I'm told he's u Hoosier.” You don't say so Iteally, now, what a pity it is that a man like him should bo tied down to a shop.' " And this is what it is to b poet.” “tho Hoosler - - Chambers, tho great Euglsh dietist, says “Champague with the least aldohol 'is re inarkably exhilarativg." 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