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Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21
Our Grandmothers' Needles and Ours.

From The Home Maker
From the earliest days, women have used their
needles to produce results which in their own time
were called beautiful. If we fail to find our ideal
of beauty in some of their work, it is because
1.-THE old order changeth, giving place to new,'
and our tastes have been cultivated to fit our day
and generation.
Not to the marvellous Flemish tapestries, or the
hand made laces of the old world or the weaving
Of India rugs, do we refer, but to the wonderful
industries that filled our grandmothers' and great
grandmothers' days
What household does not possess heir-looms,
faded and worn perhaps, or possibly bright from
careful preservation? And do they not tell much
of the care the activity, the skill, and even the
thought of the last generation? What one of us
as children has not chosen the pretty blocks of
delane in grandmother quilt, with the 81 take
this one' and II choose that" which make pos
session in childhood? Such vines and flowers and
bright colors are not found now, and there is no
one to put them together if found.
Then the samplers that one will still find in
many ''spare ROOM in old fashioned country
houses; what selecting of coors, and trying of
ewes, many times by the dim light of talow
candle, they show; what skill to set each stitch
Just right so that the pattern should not be spoiled;
and then the name and the age of the maiden who
worked it with its date of long ago! Who can
study one of these bits of old-fashoned fancy
work without an interest in the girl of the past,
who wove into 1t much of the brightness, perhaps
much of the.sadness of the life which surrounded
her?
A never-to-be-forgotten sampler was one studied
at intervals through long night-watch, in coun-
try house. An imposing tombstone, with the
names inscribed Of those who had departed this
life and those who might reasonably be supposed
10 do so within an allotted time, held the central
position. Clustered around were three weeping
women, their faces so covered by kandkerchiefs
that only the fiat curls arranged at either ear re-
NAMED visible, while the lack of elbow joints in
in the arms, gave an exceedingly stiff appearance
to the mourners; and the covered faces suggested
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21


skill in facial expressions. very little boy, with
trousers to his heels also weeping but unprovided
with handkerchief completed the picture. The
effect produced was indescribable. The midnight
hour, the jointless, weeping women, the sorrowful
boy, and the ghostly suggestion, produced an i'm
preston that only tine can efface, and spoke vol
umes for the success of the fair worker in carry
ing out her design, if not in the cheerful choice of
subject.
The album, and log-eabin quilts, wax-fowers
and shell-frames, crocheted and knit counterpanes
of marvellous patterns, each had its day, but the
needework in worsted and silk shows forth the
manner of life, and occupied the thoughts beyond
the other efforts of their time.
Will not the craziest of all crazy things, the
crazy quilt, elicit as many smiles from our grand
children as our grandmothers' samplers do from
us? The wild chasing of fancy stitches over its
surface cannot compare in real fneness to the
shadings and care in the older fancy work. Per-
haps there will be similar enjoyment to that we
take in the old delaines, when our quilts are mel
low with age and the silks have become old-fash-
Toned. However they are viewed they will have
to take their chances with the rest for they seem
to be the style of work this generation will leave
as heirlooms
Not only in quilts but in sofa pillows, tides and
even in pillow shams, has the crazy fever held
sway. While spending an evening at distant
city, some years ago, pretty quakeress said to
me as she ran her needle in and out of crazy
patch, els thee fond of crazy work" Upon nay
answering and nquirng about her own tastes, she
said II have made nine crazy sofa pillows in mo-
ments that otherwise might have been called
wasted" With an inward smile felt that some
of our busy lives would hardly admit of nine crazy
sofa pillows, but we cannot judge another's life
by our own, and they certainly had not been idle
moments.
Some of the fine bits of linen, doilies, and
covers, and pretty afghans, will doubtless find
their way into the next generation, together with
some of our pretty outlining and embroderes,
but much of our fancy work follows the fashion
of season, is used, then thrown aside, or given
away.
Would it not be pleasant occupation for our
girls to fashion something, the best of its kind in
the style of the days they live in, so well, and so
prettily, that 1t would be worth keeping as re-
minder of these days when they are past, and we
ourselves are among the old-fashioned things; and
would also be worth sending down the time as our
grandmothers' things have come to us?
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

They have made law in Baltimore-a law, that
wonderful, godlike thing that the average Ameri-
can thinks can do anything-by which the saloons
are closed at midnight, and police official told a
reporter that the only difference it makes is "that
the fellows who start out for drunk accomplish
their purpose and land in the lookup earlier than
before Twentieth Century.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

1 have drunk deeply of the draught of SCIENCE
have loved it with passionate love, and now l
am becoming an old man and can say that every
discovery of science has brought ire more nearly
face to face with the love of God.-Charles Kings
ley
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

A Partisan visitor asks of young girl who is
about TO marry widower, "Now, my dear, did
he make his first wife happy" "Dld he make her
happy" exclaims the girl. "Why, madam, she
has the handsomest monument in the cemetery!'
-Woman's Penny Paper.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

1t is always good to know, if only in passing, a
charming human being; it refreshes one like flow
ers and woods and clear brooks.-George Eliot.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21
Why Woman Is Mans Best Friend.


First and foremost, woman is mans best friend
Because she is his mother.
Second, because she is his wife.
Because she is patient with him in illness, en-
dures his fretfulness and "mothers'' him.
Because she will stick to him through good and
evil report, and always believe in him, if she loves
him.
Because without her he would be rude, rough
and ungodly.
Because she teaches him the value of gentle
words, of kindly thought and of consideration.
Because she can with him, endure pain quietly
and meet joy gladly.
Because, on her breast, he can shed tears of re-
pentance, and he is never reminded of them after
wards.
Because when he is behaving like fretful boy
and we all do, you know, at times-wth no
reason in the world for it, woman's soft word.
touch or glance will make him ashamed of himself
as he ought to be.
Because without her as an incentive he would
grow lazy there would be no good work done,
there would be no noble books written, there would
be no beautiful pictures painted, there would be
no divine strains of melody.
Because she has made for us a beautiful world
in which we should be proud to live, and contented
to die.
Because-and this is the best reason of all
when the world had reached an unenviable state of
wckedness, the blessed task of bringing it a
Savior for all mankind was given to woman,
which was Gods way of setting his seal of APP
proval on her who is mother, wife, daughter and
sweetheart, and, therefore, mans best friend
Edward w. Box, in Ladies' Home Journal
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

A woman, Nine Wiggishoff, has recently been
elected to the Bureau of the School Fund in Paris
1t is the first time that woman has been chosen
to fill such position in that country.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

Marian Harland says AS rule the home is to
the nation what the Ark was to the drowned Old
World. 1t carries the hope of humanity in it.
Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-21

If you want to find out what women are doing
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CHRONICLE.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
TALK OF ARBITRATION.
A Ray of Hens fsF the LOclxed-oUt New
 York ClO9kmRkeVS.

A Ray of Hens tsr the Locked- Out New
 York ClORkmRkers.
 NEW YORK, July 10.-An air of Oonh- deuce now YeFvadss the ranks of the locked-out oloakmaksrs. The glad tid- ings has reached them that the manu. lecturers were tired of the struggle and were not only willing but anxious Tor arbitration,
 A feeling prevails that the lookout will not last longer than this week, and enough has been learned to justify thls conclusion,
 The Mapufaoturers' Association held an important meeting at the Prescott House and had long consultation over letter sent by the Rev. Father Duoey, in which he expressed his willingn ess to act as @ mediator. He suggested the Rev. R. Heber Newton in the aame capacity if 1t should be considered necessary.
 Emil Meyer, president of the Manu- faoturers' Association, said afterward: We are willing to arbitrate at an hours notice. We will be willing to meet the representatives of the Amalgamated Board, and we think 1t would be a good thing to have Father Duoey or the Rev. Heber Newton or even g representative of the United Hebrew Charities" MT. Meyer also said thet they would decide as to what points they could arbitrate about first, and then, if agreeable to all parties, would proceed with the arbitration.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
IA LOCKOUT NOTICE
New York Clothing Cutters to
 Follow the Cloakmakers.
EIGHTY FIRMS IN THE COMBINE
The Cause of the Trouble Alleged to be
 c Boycott.

One ThousAnd Men win Have to Quit
 Work-Ths Rev. Father Ducoy Asked
 10 ArbItrAss the Clsakmaksrs'- TrOu-
 bIos-workmen RiOttnE at West su-
 Psrior-rwo striksrs shss Down,
 NEW YoRK, July 10.-Eighty clothing manufacturers, employing 1000 cutters, have decided to lock out their men on Saturday. Recently the. United Cloth ing Cutters resolved to expel any mem- Der who might take the place of looked-out cloak cutter. The employ CTS met immediately, and agreed to make their establishments ''union shops" if the United Clothing Cutters rsscindsd the resolution referred to, and allowed their members to work for the cloak manufacturers who looked out their men. The officer was rejected.
 A few days ago the manufacturers wrote to the United Clothing Cutters demanding that they raise the boycott on Alfred Benjamin & Co.,, of No. 104 Bleeoker street. Copies of the demand were served on the clothing cutters in this city and on their National orgapi- zation, District Assembly No. 93. They were given 4pttl July ! to act. but they have taken no action.
 The clothing cutters met last night but transacted only routine business. They were given to understand that they would be looked out Saturday. They say Che Benjamin boycott is used only as . pyetexs for 2 lockout. Trade is dull at present. The ofapsrs of the union say that the maAufacturers' policy Is to force their men to idleness in the hope that they will in 8 few days go to work fer the cloak manufacturers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
WHAT DO YOU wANTs

An Advertisement in the ''Democrat''
 VIII Help You. Do you want agents? Do you want pupils? Do you want partner? Do you want a situation? Do you want to buy anything? Do you want boarders or lodgers? Do you want "help," male or female? Do you want servants, clerks or me-
 chanics? Do you want to rent a room, house or
 store? Do you want to sell your goodwill and
 fixtures? Do you want to rent or sell your house,
 office, store, lot or farm? Do you want to buy or sell a horse,
 wagon or any kind of a vehicle? Have you lost or found anything?
 If SO, advertise in the DEMOCRAT, for one cent a word. The returns are satis- factory. A twenty-five cent advertise ment last week brought twelve appli- cants for position, within ten hours. A single ito rent" found a tenant in one day,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
He slapped tn. 1aayor.. Face.

CAPE MAY, N. J., July 10.-The resi- dents here are excited over 6 passage at arms between James E. Taylor, Secre- tary of the Phil" lphis and Seashore Railway, and J. try Edmunds, the Mayor of this place, in the course of which the latter was slapped five times was caused by an article published in the Wave. owned by the Mayor, which stated that e certain official was intoxi- oated at c citizens meeting held at the Hotel Lafayette on Saturday. The meeting had been called to consider beach improvements.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
Reid & Hughes
Ladies' Muslin Underwear.

We make a specially of this de- partment and carry an elegant line of the finer grade of goods, torchon trimmed etc., but offer desirable bar gains in lower priced goods also. We mention few lots.
 Ladies' Corset Covers, square and V shaped necks, Hamburg trimmed, at 25c each.
 Ladies' Drawers, good quality at 25c each.
 Ladies' Night Robes, elegant quality and nicely trimmed, at sec each,
 Children's Drawers, all siles, at l94c each, worth 2Oc.
 Ladies Fancy Bordered Aprons 124c each, worth 2Oc.
 Children's Ribbed Vests, all sizes, at 124c each, worth 25c.
 Ladies Ribbed Vests. special value; at 1Oc, l23c, 17c and 25c each.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
POLICE MAKE A RAID.
omcers of the .'HmrnS Stock IsHehanKsa'
 in New York Arrested.

in New York Arrested.
 NEW YORK, July 10. - Tha police d noon made a raid on thes"Mining Stock Exchange" at 51 New street and arrested George w. Rumble, the president of the "Exchange," and James w. Waldson, broker, who is interested in the busi- ness of the concern. The police also captured large amount of pAraphsr- nalia. The other people connected with the place and a number of stock specu- lators escaped.
 Police Captain McLaughliE bought five shares of stock in the "XsnkA" mine par value $100 a share. This Certificate had originally been issued to President Rumble. It was transferred to the cap tain, who paid his money te Broker
 At the time Captain Mclaughlin bought Xenia stock was at pars He had hardly made his purchase, hovAver, be-: fore Xenia took a tumble. Then the captain gave the signal and policemen seemed to come out of the ground.
 At the sight of the blue ceats the "exchange" suspended operations in . hurry. Spectators flew in all directions without stopping to put up margins OF realize on stock on hand.
 The police seized the articls8 of in corporation, $250, 900 worth Of stock certificates in the Xenia and other mines and ali the papers, books, etc., belonging to the outfit.
 At the station house Ramble gave his residence as the Centennial House, Chicago, Waldson hailed from this city.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
IN AMERICAN HANDS
United States Marines Guard
 ing the Corean King.
ADMIRAL BELKNAP IN CHARGE.
AReport that the Naval Authorities Have
 Taken Serious Responsibilities.

Appalling Loss Of LIfe-sevsn Hundred
 People Killed by n CyOIOns-LOndo on
 Postmsu ThrsatsM to strike To-Day.
 The Financial Crisis In the Argentine
 RepnblIc-Dr. Peters on the Coast.
 LONDON, July 1O.-A report just re- ceived says that Seoul had been occu- pied by American marines and Corea is now virtually in the hands of Americans. The uneasiness in English and Russian naval circles, which was SO pronounced as to render everyone alert for a fortnight past, is just ex- plained in an unexpected way. Instead of the Russians having occupied Corea, as was generally supposed when Brit ish ships began to puff into harbor, the modest United Steamer Swatara, lying of Shemulpo, sent her officers and marines to Seoul. They are now living in the Kings palace,
 Admiral BeIknap was appealed to by the King for protection and he promptly gave 1t. The Swatara was on the Cor can coast at the timo and Its officers were ordered to the palace. The men on the other men-of-war in the harbor were completely thunderstruck and began to prepare for action. Some orders came-no one knows what, but according to one of the British officers 1t meant ight right there. Commander McGowan and his staff aFe feastipg with the King and his two American advisers, Denny and Gen. Le Geldre. The Swatara lies off the oity flying the Stars and Stripes and developments are anxiously waited for.
 |, Ths American naval authorities have taken serious responsibilities, and there is a probability that if internal troubl 6 takes & serious turn they will have to fight their way out of the country:
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The novelist. Friedrich Spielhagen, who has been i'll with typhus fever in Berlin is recovering.
 The Ohio Farmers Alliance vi i'll hold a convention at Columbus, Ohio. on August 13. The organization expects to take a hand in politics.
 All the Louisville and Nashville switchmen, and the freight brakemen on the Short line are on strike at Louis- vile for an advance in wagesr
 The Georgia Melon Exhange, which was formed by leading growers with Q view to regulating output and making sales direct to retailers, has gone under. An unknown man was found lying alongside the D. L. & w. track at Wavl erly, N. Y, about g. ID. There was nothing on his person by which he might be identified.
 It is reported on good authority in Providence, R. l., that Charles L. Colby and Joseph Putnam Earle, of New York, have offered to give $500, 900 for in connection with the Brown Univer- sity.
 In the village of Harmony, Owen O., Ky, the family of Mr, Watson, cou- aisting of his wife, Q babe eighteen
  were burned to death during the tenn porary absence of the husband and father.
 John Roth, pauper in the County Hospital at Galena, Ill, has not tasted food, solid or liquid, in eight weeks, and his remarkable period of abstinsnoe has reduced him phy sioAlly to slight degree only. His digestive organs are paralyized.
 An agent representing an English syndicate, has been visiting Barre, Vt, negotiating for the purchase of the Barre granite quarries. The owners set high price on their property and a few refuse to sell at any figures. The agent has returned to New York to confer with his employers,
 Mrs. Elizabeth White died yesterday at Newburyport, Mass, aged 101 years and seven months. She was born in Passimaquoddy, N. B., and moved to that city in 1855. She was the mother of nine children, six of whom survive, the youngest being upward of 70 years old. Her grandchildren and great. grandchildren number 70. Her hus- band died in 1881, aged 93 years.
 The Board of Pardons of Pennsyl- vania has recommended that the death sentence of John w. Buddy, ot Lancaster, be commuted to life impris- onment. The case of Murderer Coyle, of Allegheny, was thrown out as irrsg- ular. The cases of Murderers Smith, of Allegheny, and Joseph and David Nicely, of Somerset, were continued.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10

A genuine Roman pig or 1eao nas recently been discovered at South Cave, in East Yorkshire The pig weighs nearly 140 pounds, and it was found about two miles north of Humber, close to where the great ferry (Transitus Maximus) of the Roman road called Ermine street crossed from Lincoln shire to Yorkshire.
 The forests of Europe, according to a recent report of one of the state foresters of Prussia, cover the follow ing areas: Germany, 34,596, 900 acres; Russia, 494, 22s, 600 acres; Austria-Hun- gary, 46, ,951, ,7O3 acres; Sweden, 42,00o,- 900 acres; France, 22, 240, 900 acres; Spain, 9,769, 900 acres; Italy, 9,ss4.576 acres, and England, 2,471, 600 acres.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
Death of James w. Stanley.

Stanley, for several years correspondent at Albany for a number of papers throughout the State and veteran newspaper writer, is dead at his home in this city. Mir. Stanley was born in this city July 23, 1S4e. He was mem- Der of the class of 70 of the University y of Rochester. He served in the Sixth New York cavalry during the war. He was prominent in Republican politics of Monroe county.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
APPALLING JOSS OF LIFE.
Seven Hundred People Killed by B cy-
 clone in Muscat.


 clone in Musc1t.
 MUscAT, July 1O.-A most destructive cyclone resulting in an appalling loss of life has swept over this portion of Arabta. Immense damage was done to houses and plantations and seven hun dred persons were killed.
 The greatest damage was done in the country districts, where whole hamlets were swept away.
 Many plantations with the farm houses were levelled to the ground, and the peasants killed in their frantic efforts to escape the fury of the storm.
 Survivors who are struggling into the city report the destruction complete in the path of tho tornado, which ex- tends in e ziz-zag direction for disz tanoe of forty miles.
 Thousands were injured by flying timbsrs and falling trees which were uprooted or twisted off by the force of the wind.
 Muscat Is & seaport town of Arabia, and has 6 population of 10000.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
A BIg Book Company.

NEW YORK, July 10.-The United States Book Company has filed articles of incorporation at Trenton, N. J. The capital stock is $325, 1000. The company has absorbed all the business in low priced publications which has been car ried on hitherto by twenty-one con- cerns. The concern will have no com petition in the publication of low priced books. The company have bought out publishing houses in New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED.
Disregard of Orders Causes a Collision oi
 Trains.

Disregard of Orders Causes a Collision of
 Trains.
 BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July 10.-Disregard of orders caused & collision between a freight and passenger train on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, forty miles south of this city, at 6 a. m. Five people were instantly killed, and a sixth fatally injured. The killed are;
 Engineers John Green and John Webb, of this city.
 Colored Bremen Jim Armstead and Bob Wilson.
 A white pumpman named Parr. Ben Swope, (Oolored) an extra fireman, was fatally injured.
 None of the passengers were killed, and so far as can be learned none were seriously injured.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
RIOTING WoRKINoMEN.
Two of the Strikers Shot Down by N
 Superintendent.

SupSr1neondSnC
 WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, July 10.-A riot occurred here, and for a time the situation was critical. Some 800 strikers, armed with clubs, began to stop all labor in the oity, and succeeded except at Watkins's block and the American Steel Barge Works, where officers and hrSmsn with drawn revol- vers kept them back.
 Contractor Lutten, in defending his men, was badly pounded. Others were out and bruised. The strikers resumed forcible measures at tho American Barge Works, and are now rioting.
 Superintendent Anderson of the works fatally shot two of the rioters The Mayor and police have been oalleG to tho scene. Charle s. Skilling, Telegram reporter, was injured by flying stone.
 The idea is to stop all common labor until all shall have $2 per day.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
Gordon Sash

worn without vest, is growing in popu larity every day. Even if you do no. wear flannel shirt, try one in place of vest on warm day. It has the ad- vantage of combining a neat appear ance with comforts. It is certainly fiattering to find our Furnishing and Hat Department sales, without adver- Using at all, are keeping up with our extensive business. It shows that we have the goods people want, and keep them at attractive C. w. D. prices.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-07-10
Weather Indications.

WAsHINoToN, July 1o.-Tor Now Eng and: Much cooler; fair; northwesterly winds; fair tomorrow.
 For Eastern New York, Eastern Pennsyl- vania and New Jersey: Cooler; fair; north- erly winds.
 For Western New York and Western Penn. sylvania: Fair; northerly winds; warmer ip Western New York and in northern portion Western Pennsylvania; cooler in southerg portion of Western Pennsylvania.