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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

costumes. The result is not a success.
| When she faces the audience in this
particular robe, the outlines are accept
able to artistic Judgment, but when she
turns around and shows her back, the
incipient coat-tails hanging over her
shoulder blades-for all the world like
the comic short coat of negro min
strel, so familiar in burnt cork fun-the
| spectators arc inclined to litter, not
| withstanding that the fair Pauline is at
that moment listening to Claude Mel
notes poetic description of the Lake of
Como. III Mrs. Potter is wise, she will
take pair of shears and cut those tails
off her jacket; and if any feminine OBJ
server is at all inclined to copy that
costume for summer wear, let me assure
her that she will excite more laughter
than admiration.
Lawn tennis is q diversion in which
the summer girl usually allows herself
wide latitude. This season she will
pretty generally take TO the blouse
waists. These are an importation from
England, not from Paris or Berlin, and
our bellies have been slow TO put them
on for ordinary occasions of dress; but
round of the more fashionable dress
making establishments convinces me
that they will be adopted generally for
lawn tennis playing, in place of the by
gone jersey waists. They are equally
conducive to an expression of pliabil-
ity, and their seeming looseness con-
veys an impression of even greater
suppleness than the jersey impaired.
Sad to say, however, they are likely to
induce tight-lacing, instead of the ease
of stays which their appearance sug-
gests. The girl who cannot comfort
ably wear an eighteen-inch belt or less
with blouse, manages to do so by
means of violent compression, and so
the lawn tennis player may not be what
she seems as to untrammeled condition
of clothes.
Paper fabric will actually take the
place of genuine cloth to some extent
in the forthcoming summer toilets. A
modification of what we used to call
Fedora fronts is herewith sketched.
But the rather startling novelty about
it is that the chemisette, or ut least a
portion of it disclosed between the
front edges of the jacket, is composed
of paper stamped and cut in imitation
of lace and embroidery. / am told that
this innovation was premeditated TO the
extent that an order was sent to China
more than a year ago for the manufact-
ure of the stuff in the fibrous sort of
paper produced only i'll that country.
Thus it is that the masculine example
of paper collars and cuffs has been fol
lowed, in an idealized manner, by
feminine acceptance of paper chemi
settles. The paper looks exactly like
soft, unlaundried linen, and is quite
tough enough, it is well to say, to pre-
vent easy accidents in the way of rents.
Patterns are ingenious limitations, not
only of plain fine muslin, but of lace.
That is timely, because there is a ten
dency to use lace more generously with
demi-toilets for the afternoon. Some
ladies are returning to the handsome
real laces so long laid aside, while the
merchants still find their best profit in
the fine hand-woven imitation laces SO
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

accord with the many, and VINO are,
therefore, ahead of the majority. The
dotted fabric of her gown is wool of n
very light gray speckled with black.
The black lace around her neck and
down her front is in accordance with the
newest use of lace as an establishment.
She is a type of the neat and quiet
summer girl for 1888. If she
were not pretty, she would easily
pass unnoticed among many more gaudy
creatures in the throng No more than
a rod behind her sauntered young
woman in a sombrero hat, made of very
fine light felt, and with its brim rolled
up coquettishly in front. Her hair was
cut off squarely at the ends, and was
left hanging loose to n point trihe
below her neck. Thus her whole head
lacked only moustache to be an ideal
ization of Buffalo Bill. Such hats are
likely TO be worn considerably during
the hot weather mt the resorts, and they
will be serviceable as shades as well as
admirable for picturesqueness; but in
the city they are decidedly too extrava-
giant, and one is apt to rate the wearer
as a social scout of too daring char
acter The number and variety of
wide-brimmed hats is as great as the
many strange ways in which the brims
are bent. They are turned up in front,
at the back, or at the sides; some have
wide wing-like side brims, others have
the front excessively wide and straight,
aud many of the Tuscan straw cape
lines have the brim held down by the
strings. Masses of trimming, generally
consisting of ribbon and flowers, are
heaped on these.
1t is in jacket that Mrs. James
Brown Potter, who quit our highest
society circles TO become an actress, is
more ridiculous than sublime at a city
theater. She is enacting Pauline in
1.-The Lady of Lyons" and she has
undertaken to introduce originality
into the Directoire costumes of the
period of the play. Mrs. Potter is a
1ong-limbed, angular beauty, well
enough adapted to the short-waisted
dresses in question, but in her efforts
at variation from the usual thing, she
has in one instance run into the gro
tesque The waists of all these gowns,
as you know, stop short within two or
three inches of the arm-pit, and from
that point to the feet stretches length
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13
FOR THE LADIES.
"A Palatable Ola Podrida Prepared
Specially for Our Fair
Readers
Fashions IN Dress, Notes on Housekeep-
ing Affairs and Other Topics
of Interest.

. ESPECIAL NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS. J
1t is timely to consider the summer
girl. She knows pretty well now what
she is going to wear. Here is portrait
of a June specimen found on the Broad
way promenade. She is presented here
as type of current elegance, quite de
void of exaggeration, and yet exempli-
flying several new ideas in fashions.
Her bonnet is one of the approved
shapes, and her manner of filling its
high, pointed front with fluff of her
own hair is an innovation. She also
expresses neatly a new notion of using
a single material for whole dress.
This is small fact as compared with
the greater one, that of employing diff
ferent and often incongruous colors and
embodying them in one toilet She be-
longs to the few who dislike to be in
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13
Masculine Nanities.

A COAT should now be left unbutton-
ed so as to show the vest.
THREE and four-button cutawavs
are proper for morning wear and half
dress.
The clumsier a madeup scarf is now
tied the better, as long as the effect is
original and artistic.
A FoUR-BUTToN cutaway of black di-
agonal has been introduced with favor
by grooms at recent day weddings.
A NEW white waistcoat is made for
wear without laundering or starching.
1t is sponged tailor fashion when
soiled.
PooLE's new spring overcoat hangs
straight and full in the back, like box
coat, and showing no waist line does
not appear to fit.
A NEW scarf is made in the form
of a mutton chop. Laid across the
stripes of red cross-barred gridiron
shirt it has an appetizing appearance
beyond description.
SUsPENDERs are TO be found to
match the color of every fancy shirt
sold. A swell wardrobe can not be
without six to dozen pairs of these
useful articles in various degrees of ele-
gance.
A DREssY-LooKING summer costume
that is growing in favor is made up of
coat and trousers of fluffy dead-black
material, very light in texture and worn
with white waistcoat The wearer al
WAYS looks cool.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

of drapery unbroken, save when the
wearer introduces rectangles by sitting
down. These rigs are graceful enough
in pose, but motion is pretty certain to
render them awkward. We have
! become so accustomed to hanging our
skirts at the waist, and our ideas of
graceful locomotion are so associated
with that division of the feminine an
atomy, that it strikes us as absurd to
see skirt hang from the breast line
and not TO be agitated at all until
point third of the way down is reached
when the wearer begins TO walk. Now,
Mrs. Potter, or the designer of her
wardrobe, seems to have been struck by
the idea that miniature coat-tails at
tached to very abbreviated jacket
would impart interest," to one OF her
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

long popular. Gauzes, net, blonde, and
silk muslins, together with ribbons, are
combined with frills and jabots of lace
in plastrons, vests, and fichus of vari-
Gus kinds. Even for full-dress toilets,
the senorita jackets, like the one seen
in the picture, are worn with full
blouse of cream-white China Grape
CHicdqo LedQer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

FEMININE attire threatens to become
as sable as Hamlet's inky coat, for in
certain Partisan circles black is being
extensively worn. Not only are the
gowns, bonnets, wraps, and parasols
sable, but the lingerie, the corsets,
hosiery, and underwear have the tint of
midnight.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

ONE half of the diseases of fowls arise
from being exposed to dampness, not only
in the houses but in the yards. A yard
should not only be we'll drained, but should
be raised in the center, in order to allow
the water to flow into the drains. Leaks in
the roof are very dangerous, and when
northeast storms occur, that portion Of
the coop should be very tight.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

To ENJOY itself and let others enjoy it,
a mind should ever keep itself larger than
its own thoughts.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

THE line of life is a ragged diagonal be-
tween duty and desire.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13
WHEN YOU take live poultry to ma,ke

WHEN you take live poultry to market,
give them a good feed and drink before
starting. Avoid crowding them too close
in a box; tying too many together by the
legs. III overcrowded or tied tight they
become feverish, the same rs beef that is
overheated, and tn ir meat is not so good,
and sometimes injurious. BY looking az,
ter these minor matters your poultry is
soon in demand on the market.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-06-13

THE more an animal is exposed, tho
greater share Of his food goes to keep up
bodily heat.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05

Arsenal. She demanded OF the
commandant the reason of her dis
charge and he showed her u copy
of the confidential circular of Gen.
Beneps. The matter has created
great indignation here, as 1t IL the
first time that any man has at
tempted to manipulate Army affairs
in the interests of either political
party. Gen. Benet makes 10 at
tempt to deny or palllate his Of
fence he Gays it was done on the
advice of Secretary EndIcOtt, for
the purpose of making places for
the Democratic Congressman who
we're bringing great pressure to
bear on the Secretary. Whether
this case of the plainest violation
of the civil.service reform law will
be looked after by Senator Hale's
special investigating committee, or
whether 1t will be brought up
separately before the whole Senate
has yet not been fully decided upon
but the universal sentiment among
fair.minded men is that General
Benet and Secretary Endicott
should be punished for the gross
violation OF the law.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
A PeddIer Killed by Bulldogs.

LANCASTER, Oct. flames Rife
a farmer living near Sbippensburg
keeps three full-bboded English
bulldogs. On Saturday Isaac Lif
ter, a peddler, drove up to his
house and entered the yard. As
he opened the gate the three saw
age dogs sprang upon him and
threw him TO the ground. There
was no one at home but Mrs. Rife
and she was afraid to so to his aid,
The dogs dragged the peddler out
into the road and down the road
for a quarter of mile, where they
left him lying unconscious.
Mrs. Rife ran to the nearest
neighbors, two miles distant.
When che returned with help Lit
ter had recovered consciousness
and had dragged himself to his
wagon. His eyes were torn from
their sockets, the flesh was entirely
stripped from the face, his throat
was torn 80 that his windpipe and
all the tendOns and arteries we've
exposed, aud the flesh on his legs
and body was gashed TO the bone
in twenty. eight different places.
Both hands we're torn of. lie
was carried to the farmhouse OF
Daniel Lyons, where he died last
night. lie was from Harrisburg,
where he leaves a family.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
Yellow Fever and Politics.

A REPORT THAT 1T THREATENS
TO HELP THE REPUBLICANS IN
FLORIDA AND LOUISIANA.
LOUISVILLE. Sept. 20. "A prom
inent gentleman who has arrived
here from the South says there is
danger of the loss or Florida and
Louisiana to the Democrats in the
approaching election.
In both States the negro vote is
largely in excess of the white.
Many Of tho latter have come North
to escape the fever, and the Repub.
Leans realize their opportunity to
get the full cOlored vote to the
polls. The whites who have left
cannot return in time for the No
vember election. They come chiefly
from the cities and smaller towns,
and many Of them have hitherto
been effective in persuading the
negroes 10 vote the Democratic
ticket or not vote at all. The alb.
sense of their influence over the
negroes and of their active work
for the Democracy in other dlrec-
tons, will seriously endanger the
result.
"The negroes, left to themselves
says the gentlman, "gill be natur.
ally controlled by their Republican
leaders, aud Will not only poll
larger vote than usual, but will
vote the Republican ticket almost
sOlldly." 5. II. q. h.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
Bishop Taylor on Stanley.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL, Oct. o.
Bishop VIM. Tay Tor, the distin.
guished African bishop of the
Methodist Church, before leaving
Springfield expressed his views on
the disappearance Of Henry W..
Stanley, the African explorer. He
said that from his knowledge Of
the conditions of things in Africa
it was highly probable that Stanly
had gone INTO the interior OF the
country where he could not be
heard from for year or two, and
that interested persons were taking
advantage of his absence i0 create
friendship for individual schemes
to organize searching parties,
whose real object was something
else than the recovery or assistance
of Stanley. A desire for public
sensations, perhaps, prompted
maDy of the publications respect.
ing the explorer. For his own part
the bishop did not believe there
wonld be any special cause for
alarm IL he was not heard from for
q year of two yet.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
L. T. & r. E. STONEBURNER'S
AnnOunCeme
Please give us your attention,

show you how admirably now fixed furnish
you with the very best Of -four any and all times
We would however apologize first for all the dsapponmen we
have caused this year. and you admit that they unavoidable
when had all the the mill could supply at the time we
began business last August and steady increase of trade naturally
threw Us back and kept
We went work and put entenew Of nnkng hoping that
the extra supply Of would enable keep up but found
could ahead and determined put another pair of buh
which done together with other expensive improvements the bolt
ing machinery.
This work has been very slow all mlwgt work and hence
inability keep with the demands Of trade We had spared
pains expense this work and completed dis
covered chopg facilities very inadequate have there
FORE other heavy expense and after long and tedious put
entirely water wheel and heavy gearing such will enable
grind any mill We think have all that men could de
to meet the demands of our trade and
ANNOUNCING all friends and and the public general
that fully prepared wait upon all who come CONFIDENT
that almost feel like Offering premium for the first
disappointed after wheat fit grind matter how much he
want nor how many may have been there before him.
lnasmu have increased capacity far beyond any de-
mands that will be made upon take pleasure telling you what
other improvements have hand Of which already finished
and ready FOR immediate use and which will be fully completed
as the season for their use reaches U.s.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
Mr.. HACKMAH'S DISCHARGE

TO the Editor Of the Washington
Post:
see in to.dsy's issue you credit
Public Printer Benedict's brother
with the statement that INV dis.
charge from the Government PRINT
ing Office was not due to the card
published in the Post Of the Dist
instant, bnt in consequence OF the
fact that my personal relations
with Tn. T.. Benedict we're not Of
cordial nature. Let me explain
Prior to December last | was an APP
plicant for the position Of proof.
reader upon the Congressional Re.
cord, strongly Endorsed AZ to fit
hess and worth. Mr.. Benedict in
conversation with intimates OF his
about that time stated that was
highly endorsed, and that he was
satisfied of my fitness tor such
position in every particular, but |
was a Pennsylvania, and served
throughout the late war IN the
Confederate army, therefore he did
not think 1t "politic" to appoint me
to a prominent ~ position. He
thus set himself up as a Judge,
tried me IN bis own mind, and TAX
ing advantage of my necessities,
condemned me for having been q
Confederate soldier to the penalty
of service IN the Government Print
lug Office, az a piece hand at fifty
cents per 1000 ems instead of
proof reader at 90 per day. | call.
ed upon him with reference to this,
and his manner was 30 offensive
that | vas then and there l,npelled
to denounce him for thus dlscrim-
mating against me. Because OF
the position it would place him in
to do 10, he dared not cut me off at
that time. My card in the Post,
therefore, gave him the long walt
ed for safe pretext for my execu-
ton at this time.
The discharge was made Satur-
day. Mr.. Benedict left the city the
following Monday.
b. F. HACKMAN.
Washington, Sept. 2G.
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To our farmer friends.

And would like have the close our farmer
friends particular while what think will greatly crafty
and that simply this We work and will have break
and machinery time furnish genuine article Of bur ground
We buy the lump plaster in large quantities
the mill where look at his
ground.
We shall have gone considerable expense fit this up
because know it used do good and will do again wherever
pure article be had such will guarantee be-
THIS WILL BE for plaster would pleased have all
who will patonze by using it, to let know form
idea Of what trade for this season.
WE HOPE OUR EFFORTS
in this direction and give all the encouragement they 1t will
help cheaper the cost of your phosphate besides being element of
much good at the same time.
s Having this great length tried inform the public general
increase the capacity Of the mill well add other
eonyenences and facilities trust these facts suffice ample
unavoidable dapponmen during the last year and
gotten everything place and such shape that each
piece machinery will be place good time for HAVE THE
that 10 keep full supply of
CHOICE FLOUR and FEED, WHITE AND YELLOW CORN
NEAL HOMINY AND GROUND PLASTER all the time AND TO
BE PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF CHOPPING QUICKLY
AND SATISFACTORILY In fact intend to keep and furnish
everything expect get MILL and that on hand all the
time
Thanking you for your liberal the past while under dan
in the future trust may be favored with
continuance of ysur patronage
Respectfully yours
Elnburg Va. L. T. & R. Il. sTONEBURNER
July 6-3mo.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
Things We Should Like TO Know
From the Toledo Blade.

'N'' NAN $1,000 -TAN--N
If the 81 per cent. tariff on wool
is q "robbery,' as the Democratic
free traders assert, what is the
Mills bills tariff on sugar, which
averages 50 per cent ?
If 80 per cent. on wool is a "rob.
berry, what is the 100 per cent. on
rice of the Mills billl
If the object Of the Mills bill was
to reduce the revenue by reducing
the tariff, why not reduce the tariff
on sugar, which-produces sos, OCO,'
600, instead of removing altogether
the tariff on wool, which produces
only S5,000,000 revenue 2
If the object Ofreduclng the tariff
is to tighten the farmers burdens,
why not reduce it on sugar, which
the farmer has to buy, instead OF
removing it from wool, which he
raises to sell
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05
A DOq-F aced Girl.

One of the most peculiar freaks
of nature that has been produced
in any country lives with her
mother in a small cabin near the
banks of Bragg Pond, about four
miles from Willet, Cortland cOun.
". lisa girl about - years Of
age, named Sarah Walls, the
daughter of a woman whom the
denizens OF tbe locality call "Rilla,'
bat whose full name is said TO be
Orilla Walls.
The girl eXites much curiosity
among strangers who happen to
meet her N their fishing excursions,
because of protruding lover feat
ures. Her mouth, nose and chain
seems to be merged into the torn
of dogs snOut, from which she
has gained the sobriquet, "The
dog-faced girl and is rarely spoken
of otherwise. Her laugh consists
of a series of short yelps; her
speech is almost unintelligable,
while her intellect is little above
that of an idiot.
This lusaS nature is said to have
outgrOwn many Of her canine in
stincts, but sufficient yet remain to
make her a veritable curiosity
When still child she often amused
herself by barking, and running on
all fours through the woods. It
was her delight to sniff at decayed
stumps and with her hands tear
away the soft wood in search OF
nice and chipmunks. He speed
through the brush was marvellous,
requiring the best efforts of a man
to keep her in sight.
She and her mother exc ont a
scanty living by fishing and pick
ing berries. The mother Is now
about fifty years old. Though
very illiteraie, she is social and
good.natured, aud does not ap.
pear to think there is anything Ie.
markable IN her offspring. The
girl is of medium size, well de-
veloped, aud save for her dog.like
face would be considered attractive.
-BiRghampt u ~. ~ Republican.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-10-05

Democratic journals continue to
affect establishment that any sane
person should charge the President
with being a free trader. What,
then, do they make of the intel
ligence of the responsible Editor Of
The London Times, who declared
on July 5 that ait would hardly be
possible to put the free trade case
more clearly or more strongly
than the President had done
What have they to say respecting
this deliberate judgment Of the
same journal at that time; "FoI
it is certain that the arguments
which President Cleveland urges
are those which Golden used tc
employ fOrty.fve years ago, and
which any English free trader
would employ now. Such PROPOSE
tons as that taxation ought to be
strictly limited by the needs Of the
country; that it is unjust to tax
the whole community for the bene
fit of special classes; that import
duties 'stifle production and limit
the area of a country's markets,
are purely free trade arguments
The London Times is generally con
sidered a competent expert respect
ing free trade literature. 1t car
ordinarily be trusted to recognize
a free trade idea.