The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1895, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1895. 23 n Rocking the Baby. her zood-night kiss 1 brow iildhoods Realm ignorance is more charming than all knowledge, and his little sins more be- wuch'mg than any virtue. His flesh is angel’s flesh, all alive. “Infancy,’ says Coleridge, ‘“‘presents body and ‘spirit in unity: the body is all animated.” All day, between his three orfour sleeps, he coos like a pigeon-house, sputters and spurs and puts on his faces of importance; and when Re fasts the little Pharisee fails not to sound his trumpet before him. By lamplight he delights in shadows on the wall; b, light, in yellow and scar- let. Carry out of doors, he is over- powered by the light and by the extent of q nd is silent. Then ently begins his use of his fineers, and he studies power, the lesson of his race. First it appears in no great harm in architectural natural ot Tes- tas Out of blocks, thread-spools, cards and checkers he will build his pyramid with the gravity of Palladio. : With an acoustic apparatus of whistle and rattle I the laws of sound. But ¢ ior countrymen, studies new and the youn 4 speedier n ortation. Mistrusting the cunning of his_ small e wisies to ride on the necks and The small enchan- and—no seniority of v of character; uncles, aunts, grandsires, grandams fall an easy prey; he | conforms to noboby, all conform to him; {ail caper and make mouths and chatter | bble and chirrup to him. On the | and b: strong | hair of 1 “The \e rides and pulls the | led heads. ’ says Milton, “shows i ing to spank you an’ shake you an’ tell you to stop. That's ’canse you is my own littie girl dolly, an’ I love you so hard; ‘cause if you was anybody’s little girl 1 mustn’t do that, ‘cause I heard my really mamma say if anybody touchted any of her childs she’d make ‘em-smart. ’Course she meant anybody but her own self, but I guess God makes her own hand smart some when she spanks too hard. ’Course she don't really spank too hard, you know, dolly; only when you think you are_doin; something to make your mother glad, an you try very hard, an’ then when it was naughty after 2ll, an’ you get punished, then it hurts even if they don’t touch you the least’est bit. . “One day I picked just one or two flowers off from a plant a man leit here, and I put some water in one of the little satin boxes on mamma's table. And I thought it was a 'sprise, but when my really mother saw them she screamed and said I was an orchard, or something like that. I was pretty sorry, ’cause the water leake 1o some of the drawers a little and spoiled something, I thought I felt plenty enough sorry, but everybody talked so much about it that I 'most didn’t care, or else I was glad. 5 “If T was you, dolly, I wouldn’t scold my little childrens most all the time. “You know they can’t be good all the time like grown-up peoples, not even if you scold them and spanks them, and tell’ them to stop every single minute of their lives. “Babies is little angels, and big folks knows everything and can see you all the time, but most everybody says that chil- dren makes a noise. “When I get big I am going to ride to the end of the cars, and then I am going to walk miles and miles till I'm ’way off by myself. Then I am going to scream and holler, and holler and scream. I'm going to roll over an’ over on the ground, too, | an’ T hope my dress will get tared awful, Then I'm goin’ to run home quick before all dis- tumes, Miiler does not ing of chil She has given much e comfort of the little new- and has brought many innova- f r tiny arm es and were ¢ 1 heavy skirts, some of them 1all of them betrimmed, drag- an_entire and all of them v adjusted. com- v for the re- must still | h- | ash gowns | A Cherub After Raphael’s. e piece from e mor waist. to_fit about the with big puffed y need no other garniture. 1 of gin i s00d for a boy or girl. gingham or cloth is he neck before and quite plain, Buta tte, of a plain color plaid, falls over th > , and narrowed, tri hem in front and back. ece might be of black vel- Scotch plaid dress, or it may be ered flowering for a gown of cotton. re much in vogue for chil- ith shirring or accordion are made as quaintly pictur- any artistic soul could wish. Simplicity must rule, of course, and noth- ing disfignres a chiid like any aping of the nsof the grown-ups, unless it be of : picture gowns of cther days. for little boys is a full blouse rtan plaid siik, and an accompanying nd overjacketof pongee. Ties of the n plaid are worn, and they are both ng and broad. 8 coats for tots of either sex are rom the soft silks in narrow strips— gray and pink, brown with white and ther pretty combinations. The coats are d, of course, and may be snugly wadded the Japanese fashion. High-crowned s with shirred fronts are made to with these out-of-door garments. are of plain silk like a stripe of the 1d they may be trimmed with lace at is used upon the little cloaks as made in bonnet. wns to wear with guimpes are dies and_lawns in small flowered They have puffed shoulder- bbon trimmings, and are made , giving the *‘airy butterfly” nall wearers. straps full and fly effect to the Domestic Life. The perfection of the providence for children is easily acknowledged. The care which covers the seed of the tree under tough husks and stony cases provides for the human plant the mother’s breast and the father’s house. T e of the nestler is comic, and. its tiny, beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy, patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high re- posing providence toward it. Welcome to the parents the puny strug- gler, strong in his weakness, his little arms more irresistible than the soldier’s, his lips touched with persuasion which Chatham and Pericles in manhood had not. Hisunaffected lamentations when he lifts up his voice on ]\Hgl . or, more beanti- ful, the sobbing child—the face all liquid grief, as he tries to swallow his vexation— softens all hearts to pity and to mirthful and clamorous compassion. The small despot asks so little that all reason and all nature are on his side. His s have much to thank | field where precedent ruled | babies | am is made in | ‘ byl MISS DOLLY’S BIRTHDAY AGAIN. shows the day.” | v man_his own | d so suppliesa bles us to as the morning 1 alizes to nembrances perience. almost too fast i of the house, the red tin horse, | who, like rade foster- and feed him, the faces all in turnabsorb- and with good ap- | overeign subdues them without knowing it. The new knowledge is | taken up into the life of to-day and becomes a means of more. The blowing rose is a new event; the garden full of flowers is Eden over again to the small Adam; the rain, the ice, the frost make epochs in his life. What a holiday is the first snow in which Twoshoes can be trusted abroad! What art can paint or gild any object afterlife with the glow which nature es to the first baubles of childhood! St. ’s cannot have the magical power yver us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed. How the imagination cleaves to the ! warm glories of that tinsel even now! What entertainments make every day | short and bright for the fine freshman! The street is old as nature; the persons all have their sacredness. His imaginative life dresses all things in their best. His fears adorn the dark parts with poetry. He has heard of wil'tl horses and of bad | boys, and ith a pleasing terror he watches | at his eate for the passing of those varieties each species. e first ride in the country, the first bath in running water, the first time the | skates are put on, the first game out of | | doors in moonlight, the books of the | nursery, are new chapters of joy. The “Arabian zhts’ Entertainment,” the | even Champions of Christendom,’” “Rob- | inson Crusoe” and the ‘Pilgrim’s Pro- | gress”—what mines of thought and emo- tion, wha ardrobe to dress the whole | i are in this encyclopedia of And so by beautiful V) ut art yet seem the erpiece of wisdom, provoking the | love that watches and educates him, the little pilgrim prosecutes the journey through nature which he has thus gayly | a ire m g, yei petite’ the in it gets dark, and I will play that I'm a lady for along time after that. “Your 'noying me now, dolly, so you can just go to bed, an’ I'm going down- stairs to see if I can find any nice orangens to eat.’ The Silver Chest. Now that silverware is being offered for sale at such unusually low prices—manu- factured articles can be bought at less than their equivalent weight in silver dollars, it | is asserted—it seems an excellent time for the pretty German custom of the silver chest to come into more general favor. Many American families haye already borrowed the fashions, and a silver chest is bought for each little daughter before her christening day. Friends soon come to know that single spoons or other prices are acceFtuhle gifts for the little maid,and each birthday, Spring Styles for Little Tots. each Christmas or Eastertide swells the contents of the silver chest. Everything goes into she chest, and nothing comes out, no matter what pressure may be bronght to bear, until the wedding-day arrives, Then the little maid who has treasured her gifts with true housewifely care is sure to find herself possessed of a most comfortable little outfit of silverware to carry to her new home and table. Philosophy of Babyland. Mamma—Jennie, you must wait until | to-morrow. Jennie (aged three and a half—with A New Joan of Arc. begun. He grows up the ornament and joy of the house, which sings to his glee, to rosy boyhood. Ravra Wanpo EMERSON. Dorothy and Dolly. “Now, dolly, I awful sorry for you, but you’ve got to be & little girl and let me be your mother. Anyway, you've been playin’ you was a lady for along time, and you ought not to say a word when I take off that bootiful dress with big sleeves, all made out of really silk, and make yon be just only a little girl again. Nobody can’t be a lady all the time, and even my really truly mamma takes off her sleeves an’ things an’ turns into just a meat woman when she gets all tired playing she’s a Jady. *“But she ain’t just likegou, though, dolfy, ‘cause when I takes off your great big shoes you’ve got just leetle bits of feet inside of ’em, and when my really mamma takes off her leetle bits of shoes she’s got gmt big feets inside of ’em, an’ she says, 0h! how it hurts.” “Now you're my little girl dolly and I love you, and everything youdo I am go- tragedy)—To-morrow never comes. Mr. Politics=I know your papa, Miss Dolly. He is a good party man. Dolly—My papa? Oh,no; he is too fat and old to dance and he never goes to par- ties at all. Neighbor (on the street)—Good-morning, my little dear. I can never tell youand your sister apart. Which one of the twins are you? Little Dear—I'm the one what’s out walkin’.—Good Housekeeping. Little Dot—I don’t see how the cows can eat grass. Little Dick—I s'pose when they is youn, the mother cows keep saying to their chil- dren, “If you don’t eat grass you sha’n’t have any pie.” Mrs, Newlywed—John, love, you really must grow a beard. Mr. Newlywed—Nonsense, pet. Why do you wish that? Mrs. Newlywed—So that when yon carry baby at night be may have something to hold on to.—Harper’s Bazar, Uncle—Why, Johnny, what is the matter that you are crying like this? Johnny (at his sister’s wedding)—I know that all the p-p-f)reny girls are going to get married before 1 get grown up. Mother—Why, Aennchen, what are yon doing with that big dictionary ? Aennchen (5 years old)—I am only looking for my dolly’s lost slipper. Papa said you can find anything in that book.— Leschalles. Mother—I gave you 10 cents to be good yesterday and to-day you are as bad as you can be. Willie—Yes; but I'm just trying to show you that you got your money’s worth yes- terday.—Babyhood. “WouLp You? ‘Would you rufile the down of the butterfly? Or scatter the violet's dew? ‘Would you rub the sofi cheek of the peach awry? Or rumple the roses? Would you? And the first lovinz kiss of an unkissed maid, The fairest bloony ever that blew, As sweet and as frail as the flowers that fade— ‘Whoever would take it? Wonld you? V. D. Ellwanger in Life. ———— The water in the strait of Gibraltar is 150 fathoms deep. ecollections of Thye wyer, Polifician, edill Lincohy " and Stafesmar). ktyew by sseloseth B The “plan of campaign” which paved the way to Mr. Lincoln’s first nomination for the Presidency was laid out in the Illinois State Central Committee and in the office of the Chicago Tribune. Ms. Medill was secretary of the committee and editor of the newspaper. It was arranged that Lincoln’s name was to be mentioned by the lilinois coun- try newspaper press, but the Tribune, though the leading Republican paper of, the West, was not to take the initiative. A dozen county papers down in the old ‘Whig belt of the State were to broach the subject; then the Journal in Springfield was to copy what they said, and the Tribune also, with some editorial indorsement. A Rock Tsland paper was the first to open out for the Presidency. This plan was duly carried out and it worked like a charm. The people of Illinois took kindly to the idea. ? The committee had little to do with Lin- coln’s trip to New York and his Cooger | Union speech. Mr. Lincoln wrote that speech in Springfield in Tesponse to the invitation to make a speech in New York. He brought it to Chicago and left it over night with Mr. Medill and Dr. Ray for ex- amination, saying: ‘‘You boys read that through and note such changes as you think ought to be made in it.” “We went over it carefully,” said Mr. Medill, “and made a number of marginal and separate notes, suggesting changes. He took our notes to_his_hotel before he left Chicago for New York and examined them at his leisure. A very few of them he adopted; the others he threw away. He generally had his mind made up before he asked for advice, and he was not an easy man to move.” ‘When the time came for the Tribune to take up Lincoln’s name for the Presidency in downright earnest, Mr. Medill went to ‘Washington with the view to start the boom from the capital. His picture of a newspaper correspondent’s life at Wash- ington thirty-five years ago may be in- structive to the corps of to-day. “Telegraph tolls to Chicago,” says Mr. Medill, ““were 5 centsa word. As we were not very rich mostof my * dispatches’ went by mail. My office was under my hat and my headquarters were at the Washington House, where many of the Western Con- ressmen and some of the Easterners were iving. Among them were John A. Bing- ham of Ohio, and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, and members from a dozen other States. “Before writing any Lincoln letters for the Tribune I began preaching Lincoln among the Congressmen. I urged him chiefly upon the ground of availability in the close and doubtful States with what seemed like reasonable success. At length I sent to the Tribune a ringing Lincoln letter, making his availability my strong | oint. It was the first letter written east of the Alleghany Mountains in any lead- ing newspaper urging Lincoln for Presi- dent in preference to the great and over- shadowing Seward. “When the Tribune came back to Wash- ington with that Lincoln letter I realized tkat I was in for trouble. Beforethat time there had been a mild Seward party at Washington, but the line was not sharply drawn. Now, however, the Congressmen of the party were nearly all pronounced for Seward, even Owen Lovejoy himself. Farnsworth of Chicago was for Lincoln, though he loved Seward. 3 e 7 %md been invited to a grand reception which Seward was giving to the British Minister at that tfime. I bad hardly en- tered the drawing-room when Seward saw me. He tapped mé on the shoulder, say- ing, ‘Medill, I want to see you.’ "He took me into his wineroom and commenced at once: ‘Medill, you have stunned me. I've read that letter of yours in the Tri- bune, in which you advocate Lincoln for President in preference to me, giving rea- sons—availability—that are wide of the truth; saying I hayen't the strength Lin- coln has in States like Pennsylvania, Indi- ana and Illinois, and would be defeated as Fremont was defeated, and that your man, Prairie Statesman Lincoln, can carry the essential States, which I cannot. Do you mean that?’ e I assured him that I did believe it. “Well,’ he retorted, ‘I consider thisa personal insult. I had always counted on you as one of my boys. You appealed to me from Cleveland (referring to the letters written by Mr. Medill in 1854) about changing the name of the party, etc., and 1 trusted you,’ etc. He ended by saying in anger: ‘Henceforth you and I'are parted. The golden chain is broken. I defy you to do your worst: I know three daily papers in your city that are with me. (This was true. The Tribune stood alone in Chicago for Lincoln) and I shall never regard you again as a friend of mine.” And he turned on his heel and strode out, while I said sharply in reply: ‘Success next fall I esteem of more importance than any man’s friendship.’ X “And he was as good as his word,” Mr. Medill continued.” “I met him several times afterward in Lincoln’s chamber when he was Secretary of State tothe ‘man out on the prairies,’ but he never gave me more than a formal bow. Lincoln knew all about the episode, for I had told him, but, 13,e never referred to it by word or look. Mr. Medill kept -on writing Lincoln let- ters from Washington, and the Tribune made “Old Abe’” the issue. Once or twice he met Mr. Lincoln after returning home, and the candidate said: “‘See here, you Tribune boys have got me up a peg too high. How about the Vice-presi(i]enc —won’t that do?”” At one of these encounters the corre- spondent said to Mr. Lincoln: “We are not playing second in this dance to any musician. You're an apt man at telling apropos stories. Now let me tell you one that my schoolmaster used to tell me. ‘When you go to a theater,’ he would say, ‘always buy a box ticket, because with that vou can anywhere in the house; but if you i)uy a pit ticket you must sit in the pitor goout.’”’ “How do you apply that?” asked Lin- coln. *Easily. Start in for the Vice-Presidency and you have lost all chance of the higher place. 1f you must ‘“‘come down a peg,’ as ou say, it will be mlgihty easy later on. The Seward fellows will jump at such a chance to get rid of you. But now it is President or notbi$. Else you may count the Tribune out. e are not fooling away our time and science on the Vice-Presi- dency.” * i “But,” persisted Mr. Lincoln, *‘howam I going to get the nomination? What States can I carry in the convention after Illi- nois?” And he took out paper and pencil to figure it up. “You will get your own State, solidly, to start with,” answered Mr. Medill, “and- Indiana. Do you doubt that?” i “No—o, I guess not. I've lived in both States.” ¥ “Well, those are the two pivotal States in the West that Fremont lost, and you can get Pennsylvania.” . 3 8 “Pennsylvania? Why, that's Cameron’s tate.” “Yes, it’s Cameron’s State—to trade on. Our men don’t expect Cameron to get any- thing but a Cabinet position. Now, if you can carry the Keystone State in the con- vention you can c;niay it at the polis. New Jersey goes with ennsylvania. Other States will flock to your roost. Now, you can’t show me how gou can be beaten if you carry those four States.” ““There’s Chase—he holds Ohio,” mused Mr. Lincoln. “Chase is not formidable for President.” “Towa is for Seward—and Wisconsin.” “That’s doubtiul.” “There’s Michigan.” “Yes, Michigan is the daughter of New York, and is for Seward. But you’ll get Missouri, Kentucky and Nebraska. As for Ohio—leave Ohio to me. Yon will get of its vote at least. Iam sure of that.’ *Aren’t you an optimist?’’ Mr. Lincoln finally asked. “A'man ought to be ina fight of this kind,” was Mr. Medill’s retort, ‘‘and you must be an optimist, too.” And before the campaign ended Mr. Lincoln was as optimistic asthe most hope- ful of his party. The Republican convention of 1860 was held ina great wigwam temporarily erected for the m-%ose on Market street, Chi- cago. Mr. Medill co-operated with the chairman of the State Central Committee, Norman B. Judd, in arranging the dele- gates’ seats. This allotment was one of the minor circumstances leading up to Mr. Lincoln’s renomination, and Mr. Medill tells of his share in it with an irresistible look of mock contrition. ‘It was,” he says, ‘‘the meanest political trick I ever had a hand in in my life.” New York came to the convention, of course, under the management of Thurlow ‘Weed, solid for her favorite son, William H. Seward. From the Lincoln point of view it was highly desirable to isolate the Empire State delegation and place the del- egates of the doubtful States as far outside of the sphere of its influence as possible. Most important of the doubtful States for Lincoln was Pennsylvania and next Ohio. This circumstance furnished the key to the Lincoln committee’s plan of ar- rangement. New York was seated at one extreme end of the vast hall, with no Btate for neighbor that was not already hopelessly for Seward. At the other ex- treme was glnced Pennsylvania, at so long a remove that the voices of Seward orators of New York could barely be heard by the doubtful delegates of Pennsylvania. Close about the Keystone State, on the side toward New York, were packed the faith- ful Lincoln delegation of Illinois and In- diana,and also the New Jersey delegation, which was accounted but a tail to the Key- stone dog. There were convenient passages leading from the Pennsylvania seats to anterooms, which were also directly in communication with Illinois, so that when delegates from Pennsylvania betook them- selves trom the hall for consultation they ‘were reasonably certain to meet delegates from Illinois or Indiana primed with an argument for Lincoln. Judge David Davis waylaid many a Quaker in this simple fashion and expounded the truth as it was in him. The Ohio delegation was placed on the other side of Illinois and Indiana. “I took my seat,” says Mr. Medill, “among my old friends of the Ohio dele- gation, as I personally knew all of them, and did what missionary work I could. Joshua R. Giddings soon espied me and, without ceremony, ordered me out. He made a bitter little speech for my benefit and for the edification of the Ohio dele- gates within hearing. It was to the effect that Lincoln did not amount to anythin, and had but a limited acquaintance, an Seward was the natural leader of the party. My friends among the Ohioans came to my rescue and told meto stay, and 1 did, and_we had a nice little argu- ment. Iremained with the Ohio men. ‘After the second ballot I whispered to Chairman Carter of Ohio: ‘Now is your Pnt time. If you can throw the Ohio vote for Lincoln, Chase can have anythin he wants.” ‘H-how d-d’ye know?’ stutfered Carter. ‘I know, and you know I'wouldn’t say so if I didn’t know. Ask Judge Davis. He holds the guthority from Lincoln.” *‘So Carter got up and boldly announced eighteen or nineteen Ohio votes for Lin- coln, though the delegation had not-been polled. Giddings challenged the vote, but after an acrimonious wrangle, on the ’poll it was found that Carter badn’t ‘nigged’ more than one or two votes. That Ohio vote put him up alongside of Seward. The next ballot brought the victory, and the haughty, lordly Seward’s = goose was cooked.” Mr. Medill’s estimate of the importance of this missionary work is stated thus: “I don’t know that this arrangement of seats in the convention was potential for the nomination of Lincoln; but I have always believed that if Pennsylvania had been placed within the sphere of Thurlow Weed’s influence we shouldn’t have come within fifty votes of success. As for Ohio, if that State had been near New York it would never have broken for Lincoln as it did, and the result would have been Sew- ard’s nomination and defeat at the polls, for all the pro-slavery and conservative elements would have combined against the ‘irrepressible conflict’ man and crushed him, thus electing Douglas.” NEWTON MACMILLAN, Copyright, 1895, by 8. 8. McClure, limited. BLOWN ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. How a Yankee Fishing-Smack Reached a Haven at Fayal. The first authentic news of the Ameri- can fishing-schooner Joseph P Johnson, Captain George Brier, supposed to have been lost during the terrible gales of Feb- ruary, reached here last nightin a batch of letters from the Western Islands, says a Providencetown dispatch in the Boston Herald. February 4 she was at anchor on the fishing-banks, and a month later, after all hopes of her had been abandoned, she limped into the port of Fayal, 2000 miles from home, in a badly crippled con- dition. Captain Brier's letter says: “Instead of decreasing, as we hoped, the cyclone kept increasing, and the seas that were sweeping overand around us were ter- rible to look at. Our stout hawser held bravely uniil the morning of the 6th, when it snapped assunder andaway we wentat the mercy of the gale. Early on the morning of tne 7th a nasty comber came sweeping toward us and struck the much-abused craft quartering, until the mass lay flat on the water. The scene at that moment was almost indescribable—no one can do it jus- tice. As the stricken vessel lay there on her broadside, with every sea making a clean sweep over her, the chances for our lives looked slim. Atlastshe was up again, but in terrible shape. All were there iut one, Manuel Souza Baroas, who had been swept away and was never seén again. The bulwarks on the lee side were gone, the decks swedpt of everything, the figure- head smashed and forstaysail blown to ribbons. The sea was making a plaything of us. All we could do was to hang on, keep her head to the gale and trust to God to do the rest. The gale lasted for fourteen days and we drifted before it. All we had to drink was water made by melt- ing ice taken from the fish pens’in our hold, and our provisions were all soaked. After the gale moderated and I found out our position and condition I decided that the t thing T could do was to make for the Western Islands. We spoke a French bark and obfained two barrels of crackers, which were our principal article of diet for the succeeding twelve days before we reached this port. The vessel ‘is badl; strained and will have to be recalked an refitted. We are in hopes te get awa; somewhere about the 1st of April an reach home some time during the month.” ———— Beveral insurance companies doing busi- ness in Indiana are canceling all policies on saloon property except where the saloon-keeper is a man of financial re- sponsibility. The reason given is that many saloon-keepers will be forced out of business bi the new temperance law, and some of them might be tempted to imrn their places in order to get the insurance. A writer in the Chautauquan u{u that birds are guided in their migration by the stars, and therefore on nights when the stars are hidden by clouds they always lose their way. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. - C. CURTIN (BSTABLISEED 1862) THEGREATSALE THE NEW GOODS ¢ Kennedy Bankrupt Stock STIL.I. OIN. THIS WEEK we will show the daintiest line of NEW WASH in the city. FABRICS to be found JACONAS PLISSE. A new wash fabric as fine as silk and just as beautiful for fancy waists ana dresses, only 20c per yard. FAYAL CREPE. Wool finish, & new fabric, light and dark grounds, tinywsprigs and flowers and sprays sprinkled here and there, 12}4c per yard. DOTTED SWISS LAWNS, in stripes and checks, with sprays of rosesand theirnccompunyinfi summer wear at the watering DUCK SUITINGS in plain, figure leaves and buds on a white ground, so pretty for glaces. and so cheap—only 15¢ a yard and striped, at 1214 cents per yard. SPECIAL SALE. 75 pieces EMBROIDERED FLOUNCINGS, formerly sold at $1 50 and $2 per yard, will be closed out at being slightly soiled. 50c and 75c per yard, on account of THE SEASON’S RIBBONS. “Ribbons are much more used than they were, but it cannot be said that any one kind of ribbon takes is unprecedented in its variety. The recedence of another, and the selection fayorite color combinations for thess are green mixed with some shade of red, pink, violet, lilac or pearl gray.” Our ribbons have been pronounced just the right kind. We have them for millinery and costumes in fashionable widths and colors. Our prices are the lowest for such charming goods. LININGS. ‘“ Haircloth and grasscloth are still scarce, despite the increase in their manufacture.” ‘We have these in stock, so our customers will not be disap- pointed. Linings are as important as dress fabrics now. the right kinds. DON’'T MISTAK First Dry=goods Store ‘We have E THE PLACE. West of Fifth Street. - C.CU RTIN, 911-913 Market Street. SIENCE -~ ) NDUSTR RSN A MEASURING MENTAL Trye.—Professor E. W. Scripture of Yale Uni- psychological subjects attention, has whose are now given special been doing some valuable work with the new apparatus called the pendu- versity, lum chronoscope, or the pendulum timer, designed for recording the time oc- cupied by the various operations of the mind. Some of the tests of this instru- ment, made at a recent demonstration by Professor Scripture, were most interest- ing. Skilled pianoforte players know that one of the main essentials to a smooth and artistic performance is the ability to press any required number of keys exactly at the same instant. This is much more difficult than is generally believed, but the timer will bring the musician nearer to it than any instrument yet devised. A well- known pianist was asked by Professor Scripture to preside at the piano. He was told to move both hands at the same time in pressing the keys. He was quite sure that he had done so until the reading of the timer was taken. This showed that his left hand was fifteen-thousandths of a second behind the right. To obtain this record a telegraph key was ut under each of the performer’s hands. Con- nected to these was an apparatus, inclnd- ing a large spark coil and two metal re- cording }.mints which rested on a revolvin, drum. The -drum was covered wit smoked paper. The moment each key was pressed a spark was made from its pointer, and the distance between the sparks was told off in thousandths of a second by a tuning fork adjustment. In a similar manner the psychologist can ascer- tain the time occupied by any given effort throughout the whole domain of mental life. The operation of the pendulum timer is not confined to sound, and a very elaborate series of tests is being emade b{ Professor Scripture for the purpose ol determining many hitherto unknown phenomena connected with sight, touch, etc. The pendulum timer was made under the supervision of Professor Scripture for Professor C. B. Bliss, who proposes to pub- lish the resultsof a large number of meas- urements on mental time he is now taking. Tre Errecr or CororEp LicHT oON Prants.—Although the store of human knowledge on.the subject of the attributes of colors is gradually growing, and we have even gone so far asto differentiate the sounds caused by the falling of a ray of sunshine on cloths of various tints, comparatively little is yet known of the physiological effect of color on human beings. The votaries of the “blue glass craze,” which came into vogue some years ago, may possibly have been wiser in their generation than those who derided them. hatever the effect of the colored light on individuals may finally be determined to be, its influence on plants is now unquestionably proved. The use of lass of a green tint has for half a century fiean one of the peculiar charac- teristics of the plant houses at Kew Gardens, near London. In 1889 the experiment was made of substituting white glass for green in the east wing of the tropical fernhouse. The im- provement in the growth of the plants was remarkable. In 1892 a portion of the west wing was also reglazed, and the new temperate fern house was wholly glued with white glass. The result has een so remarkably beneficial that it has now been determined to abandon entirely the future use of green glass. CorronsEED MEAL For HuMAN BEINGS.—A South Carolina physician has discovered a mew use for cottonseed meal. He saysthat it is a valuable article of human food, and itis not by any means bad eating. His first idea of using this meal as an article of diet was suggested by his young nephew, who, after looking at the feed of the cows, took to eating the cottonseed mcal from the feed-bins. No restriction was laid upon the youngster, who for two years thrived well on his singular food. This led to experiments being tried in the kitchen, and one-third of the cottonseed meal was | mixed with two-thirds white flour or cornmeal, and baked or fried either as batter or dough. The mixture cooked well, and possessed a rich, nutty fla- vor, very pleasant to the palate.” Cot- tonseed meal is very rich in albumenoids or the nitrogenous elements (flesh and blood formers), as compared with the starch and fat elements (heat producers), possessing a nutritive ratio of 1to 1, i. e., one of the former to one of the latter, while that of whole wheat is 1'to 6. THE INFLUENZA AND VocaLists,—England is in the throes of the influenza, and while the nation generally is trying to find out how it is that the doctors do not seem to know anything about it, the great army of vocalists who have suffered from the scourge are lamenting their lost voices, and asking how they can be wooed back. So prevalent has been this plague among musicians, that the absentees from it have reached at some entertainments the for- midable proportion of 30 per cent. One of its effects is aphonia, an affliction from which amateur vocalists enjoy a remarka- ble immunity, but which, with cruel per- versity, harasses and disables the profes- sional singer. VARIATION IN THE GROWTH OF TREES.— - The popular idea that trees keep on steadily adding to their growth year in year out has been falsified by the observations of M. Mer, a French forester. M. Mer states that the weather affects the growth of trees, as it does that of vegetables. In the dry summer of 1893 the firs of the Vosges grew less than usual, both in height and diameter. A similar effect was produced by the exceptionaily cold, wet summer of 1388. The dry spring of 1892 only dimin- ished the growth in length, and the dr; autumn of 1887 only checked the growtl in thickness. In short there are good, bad and middling years of growth, and M. Mer considers that foresters will do well to give the matter a great deal more study than has ever been devoted to it. Creaxiye Topacco Prees.—There are so many smokers in the world that any new recipe for cleaning pipes is sure to find readers, A shallow cork, or still better a rubber stopper, through which a hole is bored large enough to enable it to fit tightly on the nozzle of a soda-water siphon, is fitted into the bowl. The nozzle is inserted, the mouthpiece directed into a vessel, about a wineglass of soda forced.through, and the pipe is clean, Sefer Pasha’s Career. A once prominent personage in London, as elsewhere, Sefer Pasha, the whilom “Master of the Horse” in the household of the Khedive Ismail, joined the majority last week. Sefer Pasha, a Pole of good iamily, by name Ladis- laus von Koscielski, served “originally 2in jthe Prussian Army, which he had {o leave: for fighting a_duel with his superior officer, Gen= eral Kliest-Retzow, says the London World. He then took service under Sultan Abdul Medschid, and became chief of the Turkish staff during the Crimean war. Sent subse- quently by Sultan Abdul Aziz to Egyptto actas & sort of spy upon Ismail, he was taken up by the latter, and lost all favor with the Sultan. When Ismail fell, Sefer Pasha repaired to a propert‘ he had Fumhmd in Btyrh, and established himself comfortably in the castle of Bertholdstein, which from a picturesque ruin he converted into a fairly luxurious resi. dence. Here he lived jovially and hospitably, visited by hosts of friénds, who enjoyed alike l!:tl;flgec;od, wine, his good cigars and his good He reared thoroughbred Arabs, one of which her Majesty did him the honor to accept, requiting the doner with a present of puj dogs. He was the most courteous of hosts, an | universally popular with his neighbors, 33{1"““}’ enjoyed ‘uge aadlew €0] lomfi). has n & few days of Ismail’s deat owed his old master to the grave. The “complexion brush’’is the late: - dition to the toilet. It is said to gis:e.gl health: w to the heal klgsglo face and remove