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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

MAssAGE-N, Meleen. scientific mas
sage, 5S6 Commercial street. upstairs over
Goodman's store. Office hours from 10
to II and 2 to 5.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

In Consequence Of the difficulty Of OBJ
tanning Insurance cover for coal barges
at a reasonable premium at Sydney, N.
;. W., unless surveyors certificate Is
produced certifying that the cargo has
been properly secured with shifting
boards, II will be necessary in the future
10 grant charterers clause I'm the fol-
lowing terms: 1.-THE master on comple-
tlon OF loading, to furnish The charterers
or their agents with a certificate from
Lloyd's or Underwriters association sur
veyor. at port Of loading, that the cargo
has been trimmed and secured with shift
ing boards to his satisfaction"
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

Six hundred and elghty-two steam and
sal vessels, OF 1s27l9 gross tons wsre
built and documented In the United States
during the last fiscal year. compared with
776 steam and sail vessels. OF 1z1, ,07 tons
during 1894. an increase Of 1900 tons.
The steam vessels numbered 2s3, Of 75,7
gross tons. and the sail vessels $50, OF
$500 ton, a decrease OF 5000 tons steam
and an increase Of 1900 tons sail, as
compared with 1894 Construction on the
great lakes comprises 90 vessels Of os.ole
tons AZ compared with g vessels of .e.s7e
ton.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

The Eclipse went up to Deep river
yesterday. She will fetch down a big
raft of logs for the Astoria box factory.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

The Mayfower took the Coffenbury
funeral party round TO Greenwood yes
terday.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

The Lincoln continued her work in the
vicinity of Harrington poin: yesterday.
She VIII take soundlngs alongside the w.
S. Ladd today.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

The Russian bark Fenia sailed from
Dundee on July for Astoria, Ore.
The Manzan.ta Is due here tonight or
tomorrow from her Puget sound trip.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

The Glasgow ship st. Enoeh, which has
arrived at Queenstown from San Fran
cisco, reports having passed the derelic;
American schooner Alma Cummings on
June about 800 miles southwest of Coroo.
The derelGct, which was timber laden,
burnsd nearly to the waters edge, and
was in such a position as to render her
a menace to safe navigation.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

Boston boasts of schooner, the Polly,
built In 1904, that is still in service car
rying granite. The Polly was a Yankee
privateer in the war of 1872
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-07-16

Sunday was q day Of excursions and
most of the small stelmers were ell
gagged in Transporting picnic parties. The
Mayfower went to the Lewis & Clark,
the Eclipse to Bear Creek the Queen
to Deep river, the Dwy,r to the bridge,
and the North Pacific 10 Ilwaco. All
of them were crowded with pleasure seek
ers.
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BUYING VANS.
|, walled incIosure

joining itaon the right is a walled inclosure
for the accommodation of "bread-kind, v
the name given to yams, potatoes, fruits,
and all green stuff. We are the only white
folks who come to market The others
send servants, but we like the drive and the
humorS of the scene. The quality in
Jamaica will do nothing for themselves
that they can get done for them.
Needing nothing in the 'house'' we pass
through, with glance at the gingerbread,
the pretty white bread Ioayes, and the va
rious dough preparations, some of which
we know by experience to be not half bad.
Now we emerge from the cool shadow into
the ardent sunshine OF the outer inclosUre.
This is as bewildering a place as ever
mortal stepped into. Crowds of women in
bright print dresses, the effect of which
at little distance is white in the sunlight,
many children, and few men threng the
space till movement becomes difficult.
A policeman with a smiling black face and
spotless white jacket stands about wherever
he can find room. Here and there donkey
is being drawn through the press by its
owner, two heavily loaded panniers on
its stout little back. Everybody is chat
tering in high key, laughing pushing,
gesticulating, many of the women bear
on their heads huge wooden trays heaped
with produce for sale or Just purchased
Out OF sight Until you stumble ever them
are the vendors squatting on the ground
amid heaps OF yams, sweet potatoes, plan
talns, cocos, cocoanuts, chochos, cabbages,
end such fruits as are in season, mangoeS,
genips, eherimoyas, oranges, pomegran-
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and green are here; small but excellent
pineapples, genips-smau branches tipped
with round green fruit, with a skin that
cracks when you bite 1t and comes off, re-
vealing a soft, orange-colored pulp cling
ing to large stone, and tasting something
like grapes. Otaheite apples, pear-shaped,
bright yellow and red. with clear, white
pulp, crisp, sweet, and delicious; ackees.
used as vegetable, also bright red and
yellow, opening on the tree to show the big,
black seed within, which is poisonous.
Salt fish and ackees are fayorite dish
with the peasantry.
We examine critically the piles of vans,
select the best. and say to the dealer, ''Three
shillings' worth-make them up The
phrase means that he is to make them up in
shilling piles, four or five pieces, according
to size, in a heap. This having been done
We regard the heaps dsapprovingly, pick
out an inferior piece that he has slipped In
and replace it by better, shake our head
and look discontented He adds another
piece, perhaps, and finally, after much
hesitation, We take or re Iect the bargain,
as the case may be. Everything is bought
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France at this moment, but isn't she a

France at this moment, but isn't she a
successi"
1t is becoming more and more the habit
of epicurean households TO serve the cheese
with the salad. That it harmonizes better
with our dinners when served at that
point is the natural result OF the place
we give to sweets. The French, who put it
just before the coffee, care little for
anything in the line of dessert and account
the sweets very unimportant detail Of
the dinner.
Felix, of Paris, makes nearly all Mrs
Langtry's underwear. She W ears neither
chemise nor undervest, but q little affair
in silk that is something like both, and has
the merit, like the possessions of the White
Knight in Wonderland, of being her own
invention. She wears the divided skirt
for petticoat-as it is conceived by the
French mind A yoke is fitted smoothly
over the hips, and to this is wed the
divided skirt, each half of which is four
yards in width, but is brought into much
smaller compass by almost infinitesimal
accordion pleats. Over this, also sewed
to the lower edge of the yoke, falls another
skirt, again accordion pleated The ma
terial of both these garments is very
light, firm silk.
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ing handful of small very small) change
hangs at my belt. A large sum umbrella
and wrap are put in and off we go, fol-
lowed by shouts from the children hang
ing over the verandah rail to remember
the cakes, the candy, the slate pencils or
the tennis shoes they have been wanting
since last week.
For the first mile or more the road winds
nealy on a Level round the projecting
spurs of the hills. Few houses appear;
high upon the hillsides stands an occasional
cabin with an almost perpendicular path,
red amidst the dense green, mounting up to
ii. Beside each, by way OF lightning rod
towers a tail coacoa- palm planted for
this purpose only, for the nuts do not ma
ture at this height, over two thousand feet.
Ten minutes after starting weare whiriing
through the little village OF Bamboo-two
shops, a couple of cabins, school house
and chapel. The children are at school,
and we hear the roar of voices chanting
rotations and have glimpse of rows
of benches crowded with brown faces.
At one place large cattle pen occupies
some thousands of acres far below and
yet almost at our feet; the tall grass
Of the pastures looks like the finest
cropped lawn, cattle are like mushrooms;
the Great House stands on an island
knoll commanding on one side the sea
and monarch of all ii surveys on the other.
Cattle ranches pay in Jamaica; even the
deaths due TO occasional drought cost less
than 1t would to make permanent ponds
TO obviate them.
Hereabout our road joins the main coast
road, wide. smooth, and hard. And be-
fore long this brings Us 10 Brownstown,
lying in its little valley, the houses peeping
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ates, sweetsops, bananas. The yams are
great dark brown roots eight inches in
diameter and two or three feet long; the
hairy cocos are also dark brown roots, but
more like sweet potatoes. These are usually
sold by men. The chocho Is a pretty vegeta-
bic of light green or cream white hue, as
big as two fists, pear-shaped but ribbed
like a musk melon and hairy. They are
OF the squash and cuGAmber family, and
taste like vegetable marrow. Plantains
are larger than the average banana and OF
slightly different tinge Of yellow, but SO
much like them in appearance that you
know the two apart rather by instinct than
specification. Plantains cannot be eaten
raw like bananas, but are firmer and better
than the latter when cooked They cost
five times what bananas do, and are rather
scarce here. We usually buy out the whole
supply in the market. and all the eggs go
into our basket also.
Heaps of mangoes, brilliant yellow, red,
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greens 10 give an effect like flowers. The
frills are gathered to the neck and over them
falls softening lace ruffIe.
ELLEN OSBORN.
What to Do with soiled Clothes.

In small room it is sometimes difficult
to know how to dispose of soiled linen.
An ingenious arrangement, which may be
used where a basket or swinging door bag is
notdesired, isgecured with the aid of a cheap
corner bracket. This should be enameled
and fitted about three feet from the floor.
Nextmake a clothes bag, the bottom being
stiffened out by means OF three -cornered
piece Of mill board. Into the upper hem
pass piece of stout wire, bending it so as
10 fit into the corner of the wall, in order TO
keep the bag open. Screw a hook under
each corner OF the bracket and sew a loop of
tape at each corner OF the bag to hang it by,
allowing space between the top OF the bag
and the shelf to drop in the linen easily.
The bag can thus be taken away to empty
On the shelf nail a curtain OF muslin, ere
tonne or art serge, and on the top Of fitplace
some pieces OF china or other ware.
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island for carrying water. Cacao, made
up in sticks and called chocolate, sells
at quatty stick; it is oily, and
Favored with cinnamon. Cocoanut oil
for cooking Is sold in bottles. Green
cocoanuts are always in market, and
men and women are grouped around the
vender, who, with his machete, strikes
slice off the top, leaving a hole to which
the buyers lips glue themselves. Hard
cocoanuts, such as we are familiar with,
in the States, are used only for grating
and oilmaking.
But it is time to go home. The
horses are watered, the horse-boy feed,
our marketing woman gets her six pence,
our purchases are loaded into the buggy,
and we set off up the long hill in the
brilliant sunshine. Looking back and
down upon the market as we draw away,
we see seething, gay colored mass of
women, donkeys, vegetables, fruits,
spread out in the sonshine and shadow;
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in this way, though yams are only sold by
the shilliDg's worth. a quatty Ca penny
ha penny is the usual price of q pile Of
mangOes, genips. or chochos; the price is
constant, only the quantity varies An
other measure of price is the giIl-three
farthings, and you have to make your own
additions. That's quatty and gill,
missy and, there being 10 such coins, you
pay two pence farthing. Six pence and
Quatty is, of course, seven pence ha'
penny, bit is another imaginary coin,
and represents four pence ha' penny;
while a ''tup" means not two Pence,
but two gills. No coin larger than a shl-
ling is ever seen in market, and change is
hard to find.
Honey is for sale in bottles; beeswax
in fiat round cakes, a pound in weight.
Raw brown sugar is brought in tin oil
cans, which are also in use all over the
The Washington times., 1895-03-17
THE FASCINATING PILLOW.
A Few Good Ideas About Harmonious C oil
ors and a Story OF a Wedding Gift.

There are continually new designs in pill
lows, and the white merino or cashmere.
in which the empire wreath is worked in
gay tones, is this season the new departure
II has ruffle of pink satin, and on each
end voluminous bow, and is placed on a
sofa with good effect. This winter the
market overflows with materials for these
tasteful objects. Bits of satin and silk can
be purchased atIow prices at all the empori-
ums where draperies are sold. Tones and
tints of all coIorings, and such d pile Of
back resters'' can be given to the sofa
lounge that VIII be an ornament to any room,
however poorly furn n.shsd. Not long ago,
when pretty society girl belongingt to a club
OF twelve, contemplated matrimony the
club held meeting, IN which they determined
that twelve pillows of different tints, tones.
and colors, should be the wedding gift
Each member did her very best in this di-
The Washington times., 1895-03-17
NEW SPRING MODES.

Written" and other successful novels, is a
Londoner these days, and Mrs. Harland is
one of the most successful women
in London literary circles. Her success is
purely personal. She doesn't do any
thing. She is very pretty and gracious aud
popular, and much admired by young
BeardSley, the creator of the last new kind
of curious women in art. and a small
London idol to-day. Mr.. Harland points
out his wife as not a New Woman"
Look at her." he says, probably she
doesn't know the name OF the president of
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THE NEW WOMAN.

Random Sketches of Her Frcs N and
Faucies.
Mrs. Jenness Miller wants to know why
women become passe. A great many wo-
men have been asking the same thing with
passion ever since the fall. Mrs. Miller
points out that MEN are frequently as hand
some at fifty as at twenty; they don't look
young, perhaps, but they look vital and
handsome. She thinks women might have
equal success if their hygienic conditions
were as good; if they were, in short, as good
animals.
The Washington times., 1895-03-17

cottons and trees OF the banyan sort. We
draw up at the market house steps, in
narrow alley; the big clock on the tower
tells us we are on time Baskets are taken
out and handed to robust colored woman.
We alight, and the buggy is taken TO
shady spot hard by to await our return.
The market house proper is a large roof
on pillars, rising from high stone foun-
dation. In ranks upon its cement floor
are the booths orstalls, where meat, bread,
ginger ale, and the like are on sale. This
covered place is seldom crowded, but ad
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. =
The Sleeve stinIarrs.

The sleeve continues to be immense, but
in point of fact varies little from the leg
o'-mutton in its different developments
or the balloon and the divided 'meIon
shape. But little trimming is seen on the
sleeve itself, the apparent reason being
that the revers, or portions of the trim
ming attached to the yoke, give the eff
feet required
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at the side, and finished off with loops
and ends.

A dress without steels and without lining
is of pale rose satin OF princess cut, with
bertha of duchess lace and lace headings to
the sleeves So loosely is this yoke cut that
il is all matter OF adjusting the drawing
decollete
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INGsToN, Jamai-
ca, w. l., Feb. 25.-
Every Saturday
at nine in the morn
ing two horses
hitched to a covered
buggy are brought
to our door. Big
baskets are crowd
ed in behind and a
small bag contain
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little detail OF construction. insignificant
apparently; but can any genuine Partisan
novelty be that?
To secure a even more exquisite fit of a
tailor made skirt, or indeed OF any other,
over the hips, the sartorial sages now en-
ploy hip-seam, running from the point
or the hip backward and forward, with a
slight downward trend for few ilches-of
course, usually just one breadth. In cut
ting this seam q slight coDvexity is allowed
for, so that the breadth when prepared with
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How Did You Know?

That women run newspapers now
The public must confess,
But pshawi we people knew somehow
They always loved the press.
Louisville Times
The Washington times., 1895-03-17

rection, and on the day the event was to
take place twelve large boxes arrived,
tied with narrow white satin ribbon. In
each box was pillow-a beauty of itself
But on its broad cover was pinned a bou-
quet to match the covering OF the same. A
more beautiful, quaint, or charming we'd
ding present was never seen or one more
appreciated by bride.
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Her Chat About New Hats and
Easter BOnnets.
FLIRTATIONS In VACATIONS
They Are to Be Materially Aided by Soft
Pink and White Ginghams il Tartan
There's Fascination in Undulating Hair
Hard to Tell Tea Robe from Night Gown

HE pussy willows
IRE out. and so il is
proper TO talk about
cotton gowns. When
] was a little girl in
New England / used
towadethroughsn snow
drifts up to my knees
TO reach tie ''pus-
sies,' and yet after
the first ones were
pulled il was imme-
diafply gprinc
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One of her friends says of Mrs. Schuyler
Van Rensselaer,, the writer on art: Mari
anna herself is not only witty and gay, she
is positively rackety, but her solemnity as
The Washington times., 1895-03-17

In Philadelphia, her home, they call
Agnes Repplier Miss Reply-er," which
is not bad, remembering the way she jumps
into the arena against various solemn
scribblers OF the day.
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EVENING COIFFURES.

this transverse seam would not lie flat
upon table, but ''full up" in the mid
die of the cross seam.
Do You see how a very little fullness here
would improve the set of the skirt and make
its hang at the edge matter ofless uncer-
tainty?
The newest collarettes are little frills of
velvet in threes; say, of petuma and two
The Washington times., 1895-03-17

a writer verges on the awful. 1 once said
to her IF you were to see chip lying on
the floor. and were to write about it, it
would straightway become the most i'm
portant, most dignified chip ever Clipped,
and its relations would widen and widen
till they took in the universe
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Mrs. Julian Hawthorne Writes of
the Yam Markets.
AND FRUITS! SUCH FRUITS!
1t Makes Ones Mouth Water to Read
Mangoes. Genips, CherimOyas. Pome-
granates, swestsops. and 0ranges-Gay
Crowds of Buyers and Sellers Who Chat
ter, Laugh, Flirt Push. and Gesticulate.

Copyright, 1895, by Bachelor. John
son & Bacheller.)
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You should keep your fine laces wrapped
in blue paper il you don't want them to
turn too yellow, yellower than is desirable.
Henry Harland author of "As 1t Was
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Tint Other Man.

held three aces-drew one more
Ny joy you'll understand:
And then the man who had stayed in
Said he'd lay down his hand.
Judge.
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and the laughter, the buzz, and the shriH
cries follow our ears in softeDed diapason
as we surmount the rise and trundle east
ward.
MRS. JULIAN HAWTHORNE. "
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To DO Justice to ones hair nowadays
one must have il drawn back from the
face, carelessly undulated, caught up at
the sides with jew eIed combs and rolled
into a soft knot at the top of the head. To
cOmpletean evening costume shot ribbon
may be drawn through the roll knotted
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Entered for Competition in a Priza
Baby Show.
POUR HUNDRED"IN MINIATURE
fns Exhibition Il TO Take Place By Photo
graph Only, and the Goulds, VanderbiIts
and Other Smart Infants Entered for
Unique Prizes-An for sweet Charity
VIII the Cleveland Children Be Thsrel

ew York, March
16--Gotham is to
have a swell baby
show. Not on the
order OF the time
honored exhibitions
where the crying in
fants were arranged
in lines, dressed in
their best embroid-
cred skirts and
tucked waists, but
n EhnW nP k.hso-.g
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02

It appears from the records that there
is an epidemic of crime in the city of
New York. During the three weeks from
Nov. TO Nov. % according to data print
ed in the New York World, there were in
the city no less than six murders and at
tempts to murder. three suicides and at
tempts at suicide, twenty-seven burglar
les and robberies. several Of them being
highway robberies with the use of wea-
pons; and two attempts at wreckng troll
ley passenger cars. We do not know how
the record compares with the records for
corresponding periods under other admin
istrations. But the story of the month
pages in the criminal history of New York.
The World doubts that the record was
ever equalled. or even approached, in
that city.
In looking for a reason for this extra
ordinary prevalence of criminality, there
the responsibility to the manner in which
the laws are being administered by the
reform city government. Byrnes. whose
name was a terror to criminals.
whatever may have been his
connection with Tammany Hall, was fore
ed out of the management of the police
department, which department is now I'M
der the direction of Commissioner Roose-
welt. 1t is charged that Mr.. Roosevelt
is devoting the whole of his attention. and
exerting the full strength of the police
force. to the end of enforcing the excise
law. to the neglect of the criminal classes
That is the way some of Mr. Roosevelts
political opponents look at the matter. II
would hardly be safe for an outsider to
say whether that view is correct or not.
But the fact remains that crimes of vio-
lence and crimes against property have
been very frequent in New York during
the last few months.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02

The Secretary OF War speaks very earn
estly in that part of his annual report
which deals with our seacoast and lake
frontier defenses. Although 4 plan for
these defeuses was adopted nearly ten
years ago. very little has been done to-
ward carrying il into effect Ia that olan
it was proposed TO forufy twenty-eight
ports the estimated cost OF the fortd-
cations being about S9s,oc0.O0o 1t was in
tended that it should be completed by
1885
Thus far only about 100000 has been
appropriated. and hardly a beginning has
been made toward carrying out the plan.
1t is apparent that this work Of providing
defenses for our seaports and lake
frontier ought to be pushed forward much
more rapidly than it has been. 1t is true
that there is no prospect that this country
viii soon hn involved in a war. St.I.
war might be declared suddenly We are
just now becoming very aggressive in re-
spect to the Monroe doctrine and Cuba
may be cause Of trouble between this
government and that of Spain. While we
have no fear of the ultimate outcome Of
any war In which we may become in
volved, vast amount of damage might
be done our seaport cities by the cruisers
and battleships of a strong naval power
before we could get ready to defend orr
selves. Our coast dcfenses therefore,
ought to be completed at an early date
as possible.
In presenting this subject to congress
the Secretary of War does not speak too
strongly. Its Importance cannot be over