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MADEHEROWNDRESS.
Howard Fielding Describes His Bet.
ter Half's Master Stroke
In THE WAY OF SAVING MONEY
Days Of Ve1atious Errand-Going Attended
by Heavy Expense.
AN INTERNATIONAL MISFIT RESULTS
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH ]

By clever stroke of economy, eminently
characteristic of her sex, my wife has just
saved SO at cost of about $50. It all
came about through her desperate need of
an "outing" dress. We are going into the
country. have already selected my ward
robe for the occasion. 1t consists Of one
suit Of clothes, which has long been q
nuisance, and which shall now get square
with if have to spend most of my time
running through blackberry bushes. Every
time tear il shall look upon the event as
an insult to the tailor who made the suit,
and shall, therefore, rejoice,
I can't see why Maude can't do the same.
She has no need to captivate anybody. Ny
health is good and my conduct exemplary,
so that both doors to freedom are closed
against her. And yet she insists On having
another dress. Maude proposed to save $40
on this dress by making it herself. She
said that she was tired of dressmakers.
WASN'T FULL OF TRUST.
Yeti distrusted Maude as a dressmaker. I
remembered how, long, long ago, she made
me a smoking jacket, which afterward mys-
teriously disappeared-that is, its disap-
pearance was a mystery to Maude, because I
managed it very carefully. Ihad never felt
revengeful about the jacket and did not
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another store, and told me that she thought
the hoodoo had passed away. However, be-
fore lunch time, she had succeeded in cut
ting out two sleeves for the same side of her
body, and was again in difficulties and a
somewhat rufled temper. 1 went out and
bought little more jersey cloth. after
which visited 16 stores trying to match a
button.
About noon the next Isy Maude had the
dress in q condition to tiy Oh. When she
| finally got it on and had inspected herself in
| all sorts OF attitudes, she asked me what 1
thought. Now, to tell the truth, couldn't
have thrown stone out # the window without
hitting somebody whom the dress would have
fitted better than it fitted Maude. By this
do not mean to intimate that it would ever
have fitted anybody. It bore only casual
resemblance to the human form, anyway.
But of course I couldn't break Maude's
heart, so said, with enthusiasm: "My dear,
it fits you as we'll as that smoking jacket
YOU made fitted me-the one you always
thought the envious janitor stole"
SHE WAS DELIGHTED.
"Ah! Howdy, do you think SOP" said
Maude, delighted. "But don't you think
there's little too much fullness in the mid
die on the back?"
''Not for an outing dress, said I, they're
all made that way this year"
II believe I'll have dressmaker come in
and just look me over" said Maude.
eff YOU do" said 1, She'll 60 out of the
business. When amateurs can make
dress like that there is no use for profess
sionals."
"Howdy, you're making fun of me, but
at any rate I've saved What's that pa
per your scribbling on?''
1t was an estimate OF the Saving" and
really never meant to have Maude see it,
but she grabbed it before could prevent
her. This was the way the balance stood:
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TEARING OUT THEIR BREASTS.
One of the sickeniuR PrntIces of Indians Mt
the sun Dance,

One of the sickenius Prntices of Indians n,
tho sun Dance.
Philadelphia Press.l
AT the sun dance one of the young Indian
devotees is suddenly seized by the medicine
men. He is stripped naked and laid on the
fat of his back. Then the flesh of hi,
brawny chest is gathered into the left hand
of one of the doctors" who, with the
other drives a keen knife through the mus
cles and tendons, and forces after it q stout
wooden peg or skewer, which is left to pro-
iect couple of inches. 4 similar skewer
is drawn through the lett breast. Stout
thongs are fastened to the ends of the neqs
and these in turn to long lariat attached
TO the top of pole perhaps 20 feet high
White men who have been permitted to
look on turn away sick and faint even at
this part OF the performance, but the war
riors never vince. Now they stand the
bleeding victim on his feet and give him an
eagles wingbone whistle, and now. NV
brave, is your turn.
Fix your eyes on the blazing sun. never
remove them Tor an instant; blow your
whistle and set to work. Leap, tug. strain:
throw your whole weight against the skew.
ers. What you have to do is to tear your.
self loose from that awful pole, and to do
IL tnese she"ers must rip thelr way through
tendon, muscle and bleeding flesh. Ave,
leap, howl run backward with all your
speed, hurl all your weight against yonr
tortured breasts and break loose if Won can.
Only thus will yonr vow be fulfilled.
Sometimes the splendid muscles hold ant
for hours. Sometimes the sun goes down
and still the fainting victims strain at their
fearful flesh. Sometimes they swoon awav
exhausted from loss of blood, but mostly
they bear the torture as only Indians can
And when at last they succeed in breaking
loose and fall with their torn and bleedine
breasts blowing the dust of the terrible in.
closure, rush is made by the friends and
relatives o. the triumphant brave: he is
borne tenderly and proudly away; he is
petted and nursed, praised, his wounds are
dressed, and their scars become in after life
the silent and hideous witnesses of his hero
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THE OCEANS UNDER-TOW
1t is NeIrher Mysterious Nor Treacb.rou
bus a Simple Result of Waves.

Ii Is Nerher Mysterious Nor Treacherou,
bus a Simple Result of Waves.
Frequenters OF the sea shore lsarr =,
speak of the ''Under-tow," saws Duf;eld
Osborne in Scri6ner, as though il ver.
some mysterious force working from tb.
recesses of treacherous ocean to draw
unwary bathers to their doom, Asa matter
of fact its presence is obviously natural
and the explanation of it more
than simple. As each wave rolls
in and breaks upon the beach. the volume
of water which it carries does not remain
there and sink into the sand: il flows hack
again, and, as the succeeding wave breaks
over it, the receding one forms an under
current flowing outward of strength propor.
tionate to the body of water Contained in
each breaker, and, again, proportionate in a
great measure to the depth of the ditch.
Where this latter is an appreciable de-
preston, il can be readily seen that the
water of receding waves will fov into il
with similar effect to that of water going
over q fall, and that person standing near
is very likely to be drawn over with It. and
thus, if the ditch is deep enough, carried
out Of his depth. This is all there is to the
much-talked-of "under-tow" and the num-
erous accidents laid to its account
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-06
ARN0LDs NEW POEM.
Its Purpose is TO Mako Christianity Appear
Ctaurep nud Raffar

Its Purpose is TO Mako Christianity Appear
Clearer and Better.
Pail Mall Budget.1
Sir Edwin Arnold is busy with his new
poem, "The Light Of the World" which he
hopes to finish before leaving Japan. The
purpose Of the poem is said to be "to repre-
sent the scheme OF Christianity as it was
conceived by its founder; to clear away the
disfguring and con using elements that
have grown up about it in the course OF hall.
civilized centuries; to reconcile it with
modern science, and to still the strife of
dogma, superstition and error that obscures
its true character" If Sir Edwin's poem
falls to soar, it will not be from want Of
high aspiration.
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him the pattern, the price of the goods and
10 cents for himself, and sent him after the
flannel. He did not return. Then I
went in.
ANOTHER LARGE SUPPLY.
THE 57-cent flannel is all gone" said
the girl, who now evidently regarded me
as iunatic. "I'll give you the other
three"
Let her CO." saidI.
When got home it proved that the 81
cent flannel was the kind Maude had pre-
vleusly bought and the 13 yards addi-
tlonal would have to 90 into profit and
loss; On the following morning Mauds
made another assault on that dress. She
succeeded in matching the flannel at
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Net saving (below zero).
AN INTERNATIONAL MIsFIr,


Maude sent out lot of postal cards to
dressmakers the next day. Most of them
replied that they were busy, but French
lady, somewhat past middle life, was able
to come. I shall never forget the look
which she cast upon that dress, nor the way
she afterward talked to it in her native
tongue, which Maude fortunately does not
understand: However, she got the dress
into shape in the course of two or three days
and Maude wore it into the country when
we began our outing yesterday. can see
her in the garden as write. She has the
dress on. don't like the thing, 1t is an
international misft since that French
woman got hold of it. Maude doesn' t look
comfortable in it.
Ah! she is going to sit down. Well,
thank heaven. that settles it. saw them
painting that bench this morning. It is
bright green, to match the grass.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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THE WESTINGHOUSE COTTAGE.

1t is rs Large ns a Public Building and Will
stnrt m Architectural Rage.
New York World.l
The biggest thing in Cottages" away
from Newport, is certainly the new house
which is being built for the Westinghouse
at LenoI. Seen at certain hour in its
unfinished state, this vast and spacious pile
OF white marble has the effect of that ghostly
ruin which forms the scene of one of Hoff-
mans most fantastic and tragic tales.
If it were intended for a public building
In city Of the first rank it would not re-
quire ampler dimensions. There is little
doubt that the example of the Westing-
houses will start a rage for pretentious
architecture in the Berkshires, just as the
architectural ambitions of Charlie Osborne
and Governor Tilden set the ball rolling in
the same direction on the Hudson years ago.
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care to see Maude infiict similar garment
upon herself. However, there is only one
real "boss" in our household, and am not
it. So Maude decided to make the dress.
She bought some flannel with anchors on
it Tor the skirt, and some jersey cloth for the
waist. l think it was on Tuesday that she
attacked these goods. I was at home en-
gagged in writing novel. During this dress
making experience I changed the plot of my
story somewhat, and instead of uniting the
hero and heroine in marriage, as 1 had at
first intended, riveted the bonds of we'd
lock upon the villain in the midst of thun-
der and lightning, accompanied by strong
sulphurous odor.
think it was about II o'clock in the
forenoon when Maude called to me. I was
just depicting a summer night, and was
trying to make the gentle moonlight sleep
on the sur ace of the lake in a new way.
"Howdy," said she, 'I begin to be
afraid that 1 haven't bought enough of
this flannel. I wish you would run over
to Smiths and get some more. If you
don't hurry they'll have sold it all out.
It's on the bargain counter"
THE G1GGLINe SALES GIRLS.
Smiths is FIVE long blocks from our fiat.
and oh! how hot it was that day. And obi
am so sensitive to ridicule, and 1 never
know whether the girls behind the counter
are laughing at me or Just merely laughing,
as girls will, from the vacuity of their
minds. However, found the bargain
counter and asked to see some flannel with
anchors on il.
1--WE have four styles" said the young
saleswomsn. (which would you prefer?"
1t was just like Maude to send me off with
out a pattern. Of course, hadn't the re-
motest idea what the stuff was like, so
said that would take yard OF each, for
didn't propose to tramp over to that store
again for all the flannel In it. 1t cost me
81 40, and consolatory claret lemonade
made the total So 55; but it was the
first time 1 had ever been successful
in matching goods, and this thought
me, although Msude near
ly wept at my extravaganza. |
1 think had only one other errand before |
lunch time, and that was an easy one. After
lunch I had to go out and get some buttons.
I asked Maude what she wanted OF the mis-
erable, confounded buttons, and she asked
how supposed her dress was
going to stay on without them. From this
[ thought 1 got an idea of what she wanted,
md 1 went out and bought half dozen
good, reliable suspender buttons, but they
we're declined with scorn and derision when
returned.
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SHOOTING WATER WELLS.
An Adequate Flow Obtained From a Dry
Hole in England.


Hole in England.
At the pumping station at Ford, England,
of the Herne Bay Water Works Company,
the process of Shooting well was recent
ly successfully carried out. According to
the London Engineer the well, although
carried 576 leet below the surface, yielded
little or no water. Under these circum-
stances the firing OF several heavy charges
OF an explosive at intervals in the bore hole,
from the bottom upward, was tried with the
view of breaking into fssure and thus
striking water. The explosive adopted was
roburite, fired by electricity.
The first charge consisted of q pounds of
roburite, at the bottom of the boring; the
second charge weighed % pounds, and was
lowered to point 80 feet above the place
where the first was exploded. The second
shot was so successful that it was considered
to proceed further. A large
volume of water at once made its appear
ance at the mouth of the bore pipe, and has
since continued to rise.
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Willard Loves the ViolonceIIo.


Not everyone is aware of the fact that
Henry Willard is as devoted an amateur on
the violoncello as was the late Joseph W.
Drexel. AT recent sale OF old musical
instruments in London bid of 81, 800 was
offered for an ancient cello, it was stated,
on Mr.. Wizards account. The bid was lost.
The instrument went to an English amateur
and collector iof e6OO.
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A Rule for Riches.

This was his formula: Set your foot once
for all, and with crushing force, on all your
prseoncsived notions Of responsibility. Hav-
ing done that you are emsncipated. You
are free lance OF fortune, and may conquer
in whatever field promises the best harvest.
You may keep a. many moral scruples az
you please. and need NOT violate any ofthem.
You are not compelled to svindls or rob.
You can give mensy's worth for the good
money yeA GET Yea Rzs net hindsss2 u
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No Tims Like the Present.

or TWO Hamburg Figs will put the bowels In
healthy condition, and will prevent the devel-
opment OF serious trouble. 25 cents. Dose
one ng. At all druggists. Mack Drug 20.
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Her First Lesson.

Of course, little pride would have to be
humbled; and, OF course, she would have to
work pretty hard. But she had made up
her mind to all that. Poor people have no
business with pride, anyway; and hard
work would take her mind off her troubles.
Moreover. OF the $50 or SIS per week which
she was promised she would save large
share. Very soon her savings would con-
stitute little capital, and capital simplifies
the problem of money-making. So the first
few weeks would be the hardest.
A brilliant offer of refined and exceed
ingly remunerative employment at home,
was the one she finally decided to accept.
She sent five 2-cent stamps as required;
then she sent FIVE more and 81, as further
required, for full instructions and work.
ing outfit. She received these and then sent
81 more for materials not included in the
working outfit. II she would send more
dollars she would win better results, she
was told, but she did not send them. She
began to see that there WAS no end to the e1-
pense and no beginning to the profits. For
all this preliminary related to an absolute
method oil glass decoration, by which she
could not earn salt to out on her potatoes.
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Get Rid of Prejudfces.

once heard a man proclaim the doctrine
that no intelligent person with the faintest
rudiments of an education need remain
poor for the space of month in this coun-
try. ALI that the money seeker need do is
to get rid OF certain prejudices. He may
keep all his principles; only shuttle off and
trample upon his predjudices and predllec-
tions. Having done that he need work no
harder to get rich than to stay poor.
The individual had practiced what he
preached. He had annihilated his preju-
dices and had accumulated many dollars.
But suspect he would have enjoyed life
more as he used to be-poor and preiudiced.
That is the trouble with his theory and
practice. By the time you have learned
his system thoroughly you have got rid of
yonr present capacity for enjoying the wealth
you are to gain. Unless you are very ex-
ceptional person you will have transformed
yourself into a mere vulgarian, and will be
able to take only vulgar pleasure in your
gettings.
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More Golden Promises.

So she turned next to the individual who
desired to make the fortune of any educated
lady of good address. The preliminary pro-
cesses here were the same as in the other
case. So was the result. For the applicant
learned at last that she was to buy a corset
from the advertiser. This she was to put
on, and it would impart to her figure such
ravishing grace that every woman beholding
her would be devoured by envy and would
know no peace until she got just such cor
set. ALL the fortunate possessor would have
to do, therefore, was to stand around where
people could see her, and then take their
orders. The commission offered on these
orders certainly was liberal, but the needy
woman did not claim it.
Another offer OF profitable employment in
the privacy OF home was next considered
This employment was found 10 consist of
making knitted and crocheted articles .or
a wholesale firm. This she did try, being
won thereto BY the tact that no extravagant
promises o fortune were made. To this de-
gree of practical wisdom the poor woman
had come in that short time. She had q
little money to show Tor her work in this
case, hut the demand for the work was not
long continued.
HOPE springs eternal; and after a season
of vain endeavor to get employment as a
saIeswoman, this harassed and baffled vic
tim OF fate sent off some more postage
stamps. In return she was offered instruc-
tion in a wholly impossible method of
coloring wood engravings so that they
would look like French chromos, and she
was offered the formula for com pounding a
mixture which would make green cotton
umbrella look like silk and would render it
immortal. And so on, and on, and on. She
expended time and money enough on these
blind experiments to have insured course
of instruction in some practical line OF in
dustry. And that was what she had to
come to after all. Then she knew peace.
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STILL ANOTHER FAILURE.

The price of these, including 15 cents for
another cooling drink, was just SO much
money thrown away. 1 had to 60 out
again and get some smoked pearl, or some
thing of that sort, and my mission was
made to include cambria and whalebone.
got too many buttons, and not enough
whalebone and the wrong kind of
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MADADIE A. RUPERT.

New York's popular complexion specialist,
who has met with such unexcelled success in
all large cities of the United States and Eu-
rope, has opened permanent parlors in Pitts
burg, where she will keep sale her wonder
fu FACE BLEACH. Face Bleach is not
COSMETIC, not WHITE WASH, but a
thorough tonic and skin bath. 1t opens the
pores of the skin, so the blood can throw of its
impure matter. Face Bleach is healthy for
any skin. IL removes the old dead cuticle that
has accumulated. Face Bleach has been
thoroughly .ested for the LAST TEN YEARS
by ladies whose faces have been cured of hide
Gus blemishes of every nature. One side hav-
ing been cleared at FIRST. The general public
invited to call and see one side ENTIRELY
FRESH AND WHITE, six weeks later the re-
naming side clear. No more CONVINCING
PROOF is necessary. Write to your New
York friends and ask them to call at our main
office and be convinced. Face Bleach per na-
nently removes all blemishes, moth. freckles,
excessive redness, Eczema, Salt Rheum, in
fact every skin blemish making the complex
ion clear, smooth and beautiful. Does not give
a washed out appearance, but healthy look.
This wonderful Face Bleach, guaranteed, will
be sent to any addres, on receipt of price, 81 90
per bottle or three bottles, usually cure IS 20.
Ladies out of city can send for it securely
packed. Send four cents or call for sealed par
ticulars. Very interesting to ladies who are
desIrous of having good compilations.
MADAME A. RUPERT,
Room 203. Hamilton Building
te1-l0l-Su Fifth ave- Pittsburr Pa
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CHASING THE DOLLAR.
Those Who Have Trouble Finding the
Trail Need it Worst.
A PITTSBURG LADY'S EXPERIENCE.
Methods Of the Money Maker Who Invsighs
Against Prejudice.
GOOD POINTS OF BELLAMrs SCHEME

1t is easy for some people to make great
deal of money. 1t is hard for others to make
very little. And those who cannot get
money are the ones who need it most. There
is pathos In that, and tragedy.
Not the least of the pathos and the tragedy
is the rapid and intimate acquaintance one
makes with disappointment. At first this
counts for but little. The spirit is strong
with energy and elastic with hope. It does
not mind tumble or two. After overthrow
it rises to fresh ventures, hardly realizing
that it has been wrenched and bruised. But
in wofully short time disappointment be-
comes despair. There is no sort OF
mischance so utterly disabling as step
ping off the unexpected end Of q
broken hope. After a few times the
victim finds it slow work to recover from
the dislocations brought about in that way.
And there is no path with so many broken
hopes IN it to bring disaster as the path
those helpless people tread who work for
mouey under the lash of necessity, and
without the lantern of experience In their
hands.
One Woman's Experience.
Women could tell most about such dire
full ad ventures. think they are braver In
the trying and slower in the giving up than
men. Therefore they are longer in the way
of disappointment. On the other hand,
they get more profit out Of adversely than
men do, and are more apt to learn by fail
ure how to succeed at last. But the hard
ship Of it is very terrible for them. A
woman whom many Pittsburgers know
laughs ruefully now at the memory
of a course of tribulations she went
through. Scores and even hundreds of
other women will recognize her experiences
as their own, and will think am writing
a about them. So no harm will be done by
the telling.
The bread-winuer was suddenly taken
away from this woman, and then she found
that the bread had gone also. To the sur
prise of everybody, nothing was left for her
but sorrow and the necessity for struggle.
She had never known privation. With
work for wages she had no acquaintance
whatever. Which way to turn she had no
idea; so she went straight forward in the |
path first discovered. A little OF her scanty |
store she invested in postage stamps. In |
idly looking over the advertising pages of a |
magazine she had seen many offers of wealth |
for Just such forlorn ones as herself. She |
would take up with one or another of them. |
The difficulty was ended, she thought, be- |
fore it had fairly begun. She was fortunate
to have found this opportunity SO soon.