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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-10, Page 7y.,k1tSs901110111MtsMt> ,MIRI-41t`<KZK,kltit 1 What: flannelled to au Engineer X 1 A L UMP�'f a �` g o l.f ©AL, • oat the Eve. as(ia CFttne. xpYtitle3eSt iltititititSt�tiiiRitASt4W4l*4 i THE STOPPING; OF THE CLOCK. 'Durprising falls the instantaneous calm, The sudden silence b my chamber small. •4 starting lift my head in haft alarm -- The clock has stopped—that's all. The clock has stopped! Yet why have 1 so Lound An instant feeling almost like dismay? Why note its silence sooner than its sound? For it has ticked all day. Pio many a We beside my own go on. And such companionship unheeded keep Companionship scarce recognized till gone And lost in sudden steep. end to the blessings heaven daily grants. Are in their very commonness forgot; 'We little heed what answeretb our Wants lentil it auswesa not. •A strangeness falleth on familiar ways. Aa if some pulse were gone beyond recall— Something unthought M. linked with alt our days -- flame clock bat stopped—that"a i1L I .'-George ii. Coomer .in Youth's Companion. fle dandled the black mass on hili fingers. "Five turns of the key, and then five minutes before the explosion, every tura a minute! If 1 push the job through, I'll never tackle another. God of heaven, I wish we were all sate in the boats!" Ise replaced the grim handful of doom in its cradle again, replaced it in its box and went up to thewindy deck. The heat below laid a fiery hand on bis. throat and brain. A slice of young moon, with a few at- tendant stars, slowly climbed into be- minance against the last ardors of the sunset as he leaned moodily against the deckbouse. $ow the miserly hour caught up its golden coin of minutes and fled'. "Tittle -time, time -time, time -time!" sang the watch bell monstrously soon. "It's got to be done!" he muttered be- tween his locked teetb as be stepped unsteadily out of the moonlight along the engine room passage, once more unpacked the fatal lump, turned the key five times and with a flying heart descended the steel lathier to the en- gine room, the bomb ticking in the Loose breast of his shirt as he went, "Hullo, Tudor! Forgot your jacket?" gang out the chief as be stooped over the rails and tried the heat of his bear- bags. earIngs. "Aye!" replied the third engineer att be passed. In the fierce tunnel of light from one of the open furnaces the nude stokers Mild a trimmer piling forward the coal to them from behind seemed like gnemes of some eastern legend. Poor devils: A chatter lute the sound of a sewing machine from the thing in his breast seemed to chant their requiem. He slipped the black abortion below an end or one of the boilers, caught up Isla jacket and ran on deck, Under the shadow of one of the after lifeboats he stood, sick with terrible expeetancy, awaiting the end with his watch in his band. Two minutes gone: Three! `!'ben a little figure in white came forward out of the darkness of the poopdeck. It was the captain's daugb- ter. "Is that you, Mr. Tudor?" she said. "Yea„" he replied hoarsely. Three minutes and a ball gone. ,"I want to tell you bow sorry I ant tor being harsh with you last night 1--I didn't mean it." "Alice, Mice! Quick, for God Al- reighty'e sake! Can you love me even a little? Quick, qufek!" "What's all this hurry about, hir. Tuder? Put your watch In your pock- et. What a question!" But In her face he saw something sweeter than the silver moonlight which revealed it. Four minutes and a half! With a bound he was in the passage agai% slipped noiselessly past the chief, who did not see him, his back being turned, caught up the accursed thing under bit jacket and like a flash tore up the deck again. With all his strength he threw the Lutup of Coal far into the dimpling sea and sank on the deck, the perspira- tion running from eery pare. Then, with a terrific rattling thun- der, an immense flower of fire arose out of the deep, a great, sudden billow snatched at the ship, heaved her aloft like a cork and rased whitely away Into the moonlit distances. Then all was still save for the fretting and fum- ing of the sea as it slowly settled. again. The witole ship's company carne peer- ing on deck in a. dazed state of alarm. The captain sprang on the bridge be- side the mate and shouted some orders unheeded. But nobody except the girl in white noticed the broken man lying prone in the shadow of the deckhouse. Like a sudden hideous revelation the explanation came to her. His wild eyes, his sudden question, the watch in his hand, his mad, headlong race below—all was clear now. Unnoticed in the general panic, she crossed the deck to him. He was lying face down on the cold iron plates of the deck. She touched him on the shoulder, and he looked up with a white face. "I know it all, Tom," she said bro- kenly. "May God help us both." "God help us! You may help me, Alice—help me from hell! Your love could save me yet perhaps." "I loved you all along. But after this"— She sobbed. presently she spoke again. "Now, get up and go below. This. must never be suspected even by my father. It will be safe with me. I still Iove you enough for that" He kiss- ed the skirt of her dress and pressed her hand, like a benediction on his head. When Captain Grimshaw reported the phenomenal seismic disturbance he had encountered in the neighborhood of the Abrolhos reef, it created a con- siderable sensation in the scientific world. And from the records of the registry in a certain church within hearing of Bow Bells, there is the best of reason for supposing that Alice Grimshaw's love persisted and was al- lowed the best opportunities for sav- ing the soul of the third engineer.— London Star. The cattleboat Goshawk's midday sights bad shown her to be in latitude 12 degrees 34 puiilutes south by 36 de- grees 42 minutes west longitude, witieb meant that sbe was coming up to that •tlangeroun eoilection of reefs and rocks known as the Abralbos shoals. The ,hart which covered them was from a I'`reneb survey in 1361, and es any amount of unrecorded changes might ;have been wrought since then by that minute mason of the deep, the coral insect, Captain Grimsita.w was very mina 0n the qui vivo so long as his ship was in the neighborhood. For, being a wise master mariner, be de- vended but little on either the chart or the Abrolhos light itself. But If the captain dial not fancy this particular pato!) et the sea tor reasons relating to navigation. the third engi- neer did for purposes of his own, In short, Ile boped to earn, the ship's in- turanee money and a couple of bun- dred pounds for hiniselt soluewbere itt the vicinity. It eras an excellent local- ity for a plausible story about the Gas- bawk running on scone uncharted shoal and sicking as she backed into deep water. So when be was relieved of his half watell at 6 o'clock by the chief engineer he went straight to the engine room mess table for Iris tea, carefully forgetting his blue jacket wrbere it buug on a rail on the forward side of the engine room bulkhead. Having partaken hastily and spar- 2ngly of the bail ten and potato bash supplied, the turned Into his own room, tucked the door and arranged a pair of trousers to hang so that one of the Ings might cover the keyhole. Then he knelt. though not exactly in prayer. be- side bit sea chest and prpceedeal to un- pack it. till at length be rearbe;l a atmall wooden box with a sliding top. At first sight it did not appear why his band should tremble a little as he pull- ed the lid aside and drew from its web wadded cradle a very commonplace bunt) of coal. It was exactly like any other piece of coal, about the size of a large fist—say the mate's—and it had all the jetty sparkle and shine of the newly broken article. The only difference between it and the other lumps In the bunkers has that £40.000 worth and a few men's lives lay In its nascent possibili- ties. On closer inspection, it re- vealed one little pgcultarity, a little square projection such as any lady or gentleman who does not use a stern winder may see in his watch any night of the week. Tom Tudor's own watch - key, which he now tried upon it to see ff everything was in proper working order, fitted it exactly as a matter of fact. "Another hour, and it will be pretty nearly dark. That will be my tinge." he thought to himself with anything but a fiendish chuckle. As yet he was consid- erably' removed from the villain teres atque rotundas of a sanguinary fiction. Of a truth he was conscious at the mo- ment of a. curious sickness, a tickling An his stomach which not even the re- cent potato stew could account for. No, it was the thought of the coming ap- palling moment of flame and death— ete,nd the captain's daughter. "Curse the captain's daughter! When be had entered into this nefarious eon - tract with certain unnamable people at Thome; he bad not counted on this dis- turbing element. That be, bard heart- ed and hard headed scoundrel as he 'was, should feel this immense tender- ness for a pretty ailing girl, away with her father for a voyage on account of her health, was an aberration beyond all calculation. Was it love? It wor- ried and pricked him, and it awakened old unwelcome chords in the atrophied sense of fitness which had been his conscience. Yes, it was love. and— bless Alice, the captain's daughter! "If she hadn't been so hard on me last night. I could never have done it," ran his thoughts, waking a fierce ten- derness in 'his sallow, handsome face. "A touch of her hand, and the Gos- lhawk would have stemmed the Thames river again. Suppose the ship sank in a couple of minutes, before they bad time to lower the boats! There are sharks about. I don't mind sending an old fireman or a trimmer to hotter furnaces. But the flop of tbe brutes round her sweet body! It's hor- rible. By heavens, I can't do it, after all!" He bent his forehead against the raised lid of his trunk. "But I'm talk- ing bethel rot. Tbe cursed thing is cal- culated to give the ship half an hour. There'll be lots of time for everybody to get clear except the poor fellows who get blown to atoms from the I stokehole. Tben the weather's quiet, and we're right in the track of ships -- certain to be picked up within 4$ /sours." BRAVE MEN AND COOL THE NORTHWESTERN MOUNTED LICE DON'T KNOW FEAR. P0- Audaaloue Courage i)iaplayed by Them in Handling the Savages. How Chie Ptepot's ulna WW1 fiull- ed—A. Sitting null Adventure. A tiny. force of 750 men, the North- western mounted police of Canada, guards and contents a territory nearly as large as the wbnie of Euterpe. They are big, powerful men physically, most of them of sturdy Scotch or Irish extraction, and the moral force of the brilliant red tunic which they wear is a minor reve- lation of the method by which the tiny British sales govern an empire. Although there are thousands of Indians and half breeds more dangerous than Indians and rough, reckless miners and outlaws in their domain, they ride the plains and climb the mountains and keep the peace of the third of a continent. The mission of these scarlet coated guardians is peace. Here are illustrations. Tbey perhaps picture the method: When Piaput, restless. quarrelsome, drink loving, and his swarthy. hawk tae - ed following spread their circle of smoke tanned tepees near the eonstruetion line of the Canadian Pacific railway beyond Swift Current, there was inaugurated the preliminary of a massacre. or what- ever form of entertainment the brain of Piapot might devise. Then the railway management sent a remonstrance to the powers. The lieu- tenant governor issued an order. and two policemen rode forth carrying her majes- ty''s commands. Not a brigade nor a troop. The officer bearing the written order was but a sergeant. With bins was one constable. That was the force that was to move this turbulent tribe from good hunting grouud to a secluded spot miles away. Piapot refused to move. The sergeant calmly ;are hint 15 minutes in which to begin striking eatnp. Result. 15 min- utes of abuse. The Indians screamed de- fiance at the sergeant and fixed their guus under the sergeant's nose as they circled about him in their pony spirit war dance. When the 15 minutes were up, the ser- geant geant threw his picket line to the cansta- bie. dismounted. walked over to Chief Piagot's tepee and calmly knocked the key pole out. All the warriors rushed tor their guns. and one of the biggest bluffs on record was played by the redskin. But the sergeant continued methodical- ly knocking hey poles out. and Piapot saw that the game was up. Ile must either kill the sergeant--stiek his knife in the heart of the witole British nation -- or give up and move away. Ile chose the latter course. for Piepot bad brains. Atter the trilling at Custer Sitting 131111 became a more or less orderly tenant of her majesty the queen. \With 000 lodges he camped at \Woosl mountain, just aver the border from Montana. An arrow's tight away was the Northwestern mount - est police post. One morning the police found six dead Saltaux Indians scalpel An I*furiou■ Benefaction. It is wen known that missionaries in China do a great deal in the way of al- leviating suffering among those who cannot obtain the services of a doctor. Quite recently a Chinaman lost his sight, and some sympathetic neighbors came and enlisted the services of the Local missionary in his behalf. The missionary found his patient suffering from cataract and succeeded in remov- ing it and restoring sight to the China- man. hinaman. The obliging neighbors then, however, represented to the missionary that he had robbed the man of the means of earning his living (he was a "blind" beggar) and that in future he would be expected to take him into his service and keep him. Web doing 11 - There are 10,000 camels et work b 4I !cult In China. Petit Marsellaise. ,Australia. JEFFERSON DAVIS. SPEAR POINTS. Sharp and Pithy Sayings From the The Southern Public Unable, His LovteS Ham's Horn Columns. Widow Erects the First and Only A cheap religion is a useless extrava- Statue to His Memory- - gan1•e. The first statue of Jegereon Davis No sacrifice is bitter when sweetened ever fashioned has just been modelled by by love George Julian Zolnay of New York City., The enistakee of Moses were made in It Is of heroic size, tbe figura being Ainerica. seven and one -ball feet, and it will roe ^ If our ayes were brighter, the stars on a pedestal of suitable dimensions. would be brlgbter. This pedestal will he cut from a blook of It takes both Braes and grit to bear southern granite, and on its, face will be disappointment well. engraved the name and age of Mr. Davis, To profess Christ is'a challenge to the and probably also some suitable insorip- world. not a defense. A wise man's mistakes are the cauital of bis experience. Disposition is the mint that coins aur comforts or their counterfeits. Your ideal may easily become your idol, unless your ideal is Christ, Vice either hides or draws its sword as soon at virtue shows her face. Whoever Seleka over a lie will And a big brood of others hiding under it. "To err is human." That is sound doctrine; nor Is it hard to live up to. The man who can get good out of a good book already bas sonlegood in him. 1 We must have both wisdom and know! - edge to get much benefit out of either. Tbe man who will do good as often as he has opportunity will be busy every day. The commonest kindof obeerful giver is the one who gives nothing but good advice. When we cannot de as we would, tt I will smooth the jolts to be willing to do 1 a,e we sltould. The ax stendilig idle is tits shade ;las mitre triable with the fliesthan tate ane ISTA'Tun OF ash. aWOW DAM. weerine the yoke. tion. The entire expense of the statute One trouble with the world it thud bas been borne by Mrs. Davie gad her there couteat drub dawn e are sO many people in it who aro to st.?am, daughter, airs. Ylsyea at Colorado. the , sole motive for Its erection betug the • Few at us gain ,v the emiet abtea of Desire of the femme statesman's widow others. but be who sails rprofit by hie and daughter to pay respect to bis mem- own mistakea will , ssn b3 baukrupt in cry in ibis enduring fashion. knawladga. Tbe figure is represented as merlin; the very clothes in which Mr. Davis was dressed when be was captured by a de- tacbment of Mi'-higan cavalry in tba mountains of Alabama.. Dins. Davie was carefully preserves these interesting his- torical relics. and she placed them at Ur. Zoluay's disposal. Indeed, she furnishes bin :with all tbe available material that could in any way aid him in bin work. and the result is that the statue la a; singularly true likeness of Mr. Davis. During her recent trip to New York Mira, I);tvia paid many visits to the studio. and on these oc: asiona she gam Mr. Zoluay many valueblo suggestions. Asked wbat progress was lasing made towsard the erection of a public moan - inept of iter husband, she replied that some time would elripse before such a monument would be erected. "'The southern people," sae explained, - "are desirous of having a fitting monu- ment of thele former leader, and they will not cease in their efforts in this direction until their aim is accomplish- ed, If they would he satisfied with an ordinary monument. ample funds for such a purpose would have been forth - amnion long ago, but they wnl be con- tent with nothine :ess than a really great 1 work of are a week. in fart. wbirh %ball I be fully worthy of the rause and of the 1 man whom it is. it"dsuen to commemor- ate. Now, you ran readily see that time is needed in order to accomplish an undertaking of tbi't magnitude. The north. which hav tar greater resources than the tooth, learned this reason when it undertook to erect a public monument to honor General Gram." The statue of Mr. Davie will be erect- ed in Hullywo.ni Cemetery, Richmond, in approved Sioux fashion. ,S, st'vetlth Saltaux. still alive, had seen the. killing. The police buried the dead Indiana and took the living one to their post. With characteristic cheek Sitting Bull came, accompanied by chiefs and war- riors, to demand the seventh Saltanx. In Wood mountain there were 30 polinetueu backing Sergeant 'McDonald. With the chief there were at least 500 warriors. Sitting Bull threw his squat figure from his pony and thrust the muzzle of his gun into Sergeant McDonald's stomach. Mc- Donald was typical of the force. Be pushed the gun to one side and told the chiefs to step inside the gate, stack their arms and come inside the shack for a powwow. They demurred. The sergeant was firm. Outside it was play day in bedlam. The young bucks rode and whooped and fired their guns. "Send your mon away," said the ser- geant ergeant to Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull de- murred. "Send them away," repeated the ser- geant. ergeant. "if you have authority." Sitting Bull and his chiefs made to- ward the door, but there were interrup- tions—red coated objections—and outside in the yard the chiefs' rifles were stack- ed. Sitting Bull, like Piapot, had brains. The bucks were sent away. Then the sergeant persuaded the chiefs to listen further, maiuly by the force of the red coated arguments he bad brought to bear. "Tarry here, my brothers," he said. "un- til I send Constable Collins and two oth- ers of my men to arrest the murderers, The Saltaux are subjects of the queen. We cannot allow them to be killed for the fun of the thing." Then big Jack Collins—wild Irishman and all the rest of it—went over to the Sioux camp and arrested three. The bucks jostled and shoved them and fired pistols over their beads, but big Jack and his comrades hung on to their pris- oners and worked their way to the post, with no sign of annoyance until a big buck spat in Collins' face. A big mutton leg fist shot out, and the Sioux lay like a crushed moccasin at Jack's feet. "Take that, ye black baste!" he hissed between his clinched teeth. "An ye've made me disobey or- ders, ye foul fiend!" Then he marched his prisoners into the post and reported himself for miscon- duct in striking an Indian. During the Riel rebellion the police were always at the front. It was at the taking of Batoche that Jack French, a big, hard fighting Irishman, inspector of police, became immortal. After a hot scrimmage a wounded policeman was left on the field. Jack French saw him and shouted, with a brogue with the music of an organ in it, "What are you doin there, Cook?" "I'm wounded." came back a faint call. "'it's mesilf'llcarry you, thin!" And down be marched, whistling„though two bullets cut the skirts of his tunic. "They're gettin pretty close now,” muttered Jack, but be was only a few feet from Cook. - Ivtay it be remembered, to the credit of the half breed rebels, that when taey re- alized what French's mission was they ceased firing, and when be swung his comrade upon his broad shoulders and started home with him a cheer ran along the whole rebel line. He brought Cook insafeand then went back to the fighting. His reward was not the Victoria cross, for in half an hour he was dead. Cook still lives.—San Fran- cisco Call. wflTyIE Davie MEMORIAL merit. Va.. and the ceremony of unveiling will take plane during the early autumn. The statue of Miss Winnie Davis, which is also the work of Mr. Zolnay, will be erected near it on the Davis family plot, and the ceremony of unveiling it will take place on the same day. As the south takes great interest in these statues, and as the latter is the gift of the Daughters of the Confederacy, it is probable that the ceremonies will be of a publi or semi-public character. SUMMER COSTUMES. THEY ARE AIRY AND LINSUSSTANTIAi, BUT FASCINATING. Dotted Muslin*. Tacked and I.*n. Trimmed. Meet "'ovular !Favor, White Sick the Chic Dress Llninat i5mart Eton. and Other Small Coats. "Summery" is the one word winch best describes present fashions. The in- tense heat early in the season has suc- cesefully lannehed all manner of airy'. gauzy gowns upon the summer sea of popularity. Filmy. transparent fabrics for fall dress quite overshadow Silk* and satins. Dotted mullets. lace trimmed and tucked up. down, across or "as you like it." are extremely faekl unable, The really swell lining of the mo- ment for semitransparent fabrics of an Ageism:- !!;deny'± of tbt world. In a rotent leak) •if Ar^h!v fur Mi n - b: huwesea is publi..h"d an annual static. Oval table of the railroads of the World, a few of the figures of which will be in- teresting. The total length at ratlrosd in tbe world amounted in 1'i:+: to 454.720 miles, and In the are years from 1893 to 1897 Lha taint increase was e4.485ranee o r . per cant. The same year the total Iangth of railroad in the United States was 18ailee miles, an lnerease in Live years of 3.0 per cent. North and South America and the Weis India Islands are credited with over rine-bast of the total mileage or 2311,:18 miles. Next to the United States among the great nations is the German Empire. with a total of 0,850 mne, and then fellows France with 260173 miles, Russia with 25.003 miles, although, if we include tho TranB- 1 tspian disteiet of Emile, ile, and Siberia. Russia would come third with a total of 2.3,303 mile*. Following France and Rus- sia are Great Britain and Ireland, 31,390 miles; Britiet India. •31,'x00 miles; AM - * I.:03 miles; British North Anieru;a, 1'i,').3L nines, Italy, 0.714 miles, and the Argentina Republic, +.4;3 mil,"•t, I3•'igetnt his the largest amount of railroad in eoillparison with irs total errs. rhe amount beleg ee.2 Miles for each square lute of arca. In comparing the countries by the length of railroad tempered with the intnOunt of population that they serve, we find that the eolonr or i uth Austra- :i:" stand, first with e2,;3 miles for each 1J.o0't people. this result. of course, being Clue to the comparative sl,arrene:as of the papulation. In rhe United States there are 20 miles to ,,colt MON inhabitant,*. In the more densely populated districts of Europe the Ligur.', fall considerably. Ger- many having 5.2 mile* for each 10,1)00 people. The small increase at 3.0 per sent. in the total mileage for the United States is due to the fact that the years 1893 and l'l97 were among the least active in railroad construction In the his- tory of the country, the previous decade baying been ono of extraordinary in- crease, over 13,000 miles, or more than half the present total Length of rallroetis in Great Britain, having been built in it single year. Doester•With Queer Habits. An Indiana doctor has a rooster that has acquired the strange habit of riding over the country with him while he is making his calls. The rooster has also formed a very agreeable acquaintance with the horse, and usually, when they start out, it perohes itself on top of the animal and holds on to the harness, evi- dently enjoying the ride hugely. When the rig stops the rooster always fifes from its perch and crows joyously. The same doctor has another rooster that bas formed a friendship with a big Maltese cat. The two are nearly always together, the cat purring and rubbing up against he big rooster, and they take frequent strolls together. When night comes the rooster goes into it box, and about 8 o'clock the oat joins him, and they sleep side by side. Tbe rooster acts as an alarm clock in the morning. England's rxperlmentors. Most elaborate tests are now being made in England under Governmental supervision with all manner of building material. Such as with floors of steel joists and concrete filling-solidtimber floors with doors of wood and of wood and iron, also, silicate partitions and ceilings. They . are trying all sorts df patented partitions to resist fire; also, fireproof plasters, electro -glared win- dows, etc. All the great public authori- ties are represented on the examining committee. Contractors, builders, archi- tects, insuranoe people and manufac- turers,. who knew of these exhaustive es. periments, await 'them with latatrest. Soon Finished the Picture. The painter Hawkins, at 20 years of age, was the centre of acclamation, but at the close of his life he Is described as baring lived in a fool's paradise, content with himself and fattening on the empty praise he had won. The mischief lay in the fact that he was an excellent boon companion. On one occason he was asked by a Mr. Ackers, a member of Parliament, to ac- company him and one or two others to Paris, the host promising to give him a holiday and pay all his expenses. Hawkins objected. "I'm busy on a pioture." said he, "and I want to finish it for exhibition." "Never mind that," returned Ackers, "Bring it with you and paint It there." Hawkins yielded, as he always did in the end, and the picture was nut into the carriage. As they were driving along Mr. Ackers asked to be allowed to look at it, and when it was uncovered he said: "What do you want for it?" "I shall want £50 for it when it's finished," answered Hawkins. "Very well," returned the member of Parliament, "I'll give it to you, and I'll finish the picture for you, tool" With that he kicked a hole through the canvas, and the artist was thus set free for an undisturbed jolllfoation.—Tit-Bite. sTYl,1su GowN OF SLUG MUSI.111. kinds is white taffeta. To achieve the latest touch of elegance your embroid- ere•i muslin. organdie or chiffon must to made up over this. But tousling, etc., are also worn over colored glace silk or fine eateeu. the slip made quite distinct from the gown. Organdie ilnustins in delicate pinks. Mines and greens make up prettily with narrow lace edging the flounces and tonehes of the color introduced at neck and waist. One deep flounce with nar- rower ones above, the skirt ling all round and tight at the top, is a favored fassion, or several very narrow tiouncee quite at the edge. Next to pare white in the scheme of drew and undersiip. harmonies of color prevail, violent contrasts being for the time unpopular. The dainty gown of the first cat in- cludes one of these charming color ar- rangementa. It is of heliotrope sills =Win. the skirt long and full and dec- orated with narrow flounces of tl;o DMZ - lin and with simulated panels £ormeal by narrow ruches, also of muslin. The elip or foundation is of heliotrope taf- feta and the bodice is made on a tight lining of the same color. Dotted antenna are also worn over pale colored slips, and as gowns of this type are best sent to the chemical clean- er both make and trimming can be as elaborate as desired. The model in the second cut is very smart and is simply He Has Conducted Many Concerts. August Manns, the famous conductor of the Crystal Palace Orchestral Band, is by birth a German. His father was a glassblower, and there were 11 in the family. Mr. Manna went to England in 1861, and for a time held a subordinate position in the famous band he conducts. He then reoeived £3 a week. Through a misunderstanding he resigned and went abroad again, but returned in, 1868 to assume the position of conductor. During the interim be has conducted 12,000 orchestral conoerts,in whioh about 1,660 different compositions have been perform- ed, representing the 'works of some 800 composers of all nations. Baroness Burdett -Coutts. Baroness Burdett -Coutts has just cele- brated the 84th anniversary of her birth. Her fortune (£1,800.000) came to her quite unexpectedly when £3 years of age. from her grandfather, Coutts, the banker. ,7nritsln'S 1tulo.iu Egypt. Under British rule tbe cotton crop of Egypt bras doubled, and now amounts to over 600,000,000 pounds a year. Egypt's cotton crop is one of Creat Britain'e strongest attraotf ane to the Nile country. Two OHIO GOWNS. trimmed with quantities of insertion. lace. .The skirt is cut in the full fluted style and is quite distinct from the skirt of cream taffeta. There is immense variety in littI" open coats which are just the thing for a smart costume for the summer holi- day. One of the most chic styles is the new Eton, with spade or tabbed front, which is most becoming to a small fig- ure and sufficiently uncommon to look smart. A costume with this coat, shown in the second cut. is of gray cloth, trimmed with dark gray and white braid The Eton coat fits closely into tbe waist at the back, and two lines of the braid simulate carved seams and, cross the shoulders and outline the fronts. The collar and revers of white silk are closely covered with lines of the braid. and tbe fronts are also faced With the same white silk. The Chic Thing of the Season. "The chic thing of the season is the black silk coat of trackedtaffeta, bor- dered all around with a stitched band of plain taffeta. These form decidedly . one of the most fashionable features of the season's fashions." says the New York Sun. Both black and white silk taffeta coats will be worn with, cotton, silk, wool and lace gowns this season. They are made of the soft, thin and conee- gnentiy expensive taffeta, finely tucked and lined with white. Some of thein are Eton shape, with or without round- ed points at either side of the front, while others have the scalloped basgne finish or are cut in the form of a Rus - eon blouse without much of the reel; Moue effect.