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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-26

by sea and in wood a month or more
from now. For we do not bark back TO
the modes of spring.
The cape has It's advantages I'm the day
OF big sleeves. II is light, II doesn't crush
or wrinkle the delicate fabrics beneath
and on the slender figure. for which all
costumes are designed and all styles
made, II is sufficiently becoming OF
course. there's no warmth in e., but this
Is a minor consideration.
note a decided preference for black in
the designing OF capes. 4 lady who con-
fesses 10 middle age Will prefer a COM
promise garment, which. with lis distinct
sleeves OF black six or satin and Es-
pagnole lace falling well below the 81
bows. IS Il cross between mantle and
cape. Such a mantle usually has broad.
long sash ends falling well toward the
knee I'm front 4 younger wrap seldom
allows any hint OF itself TO fall below the
waist line. and viii likely stand straight
out from the plated neck in accordion
plaits OF silk net shimmering with mar
row bands Of satin through the mesh
and broader epaulets Of the same with
embroidered plaits. A plastron front usu-
ally falls just to the upper edge OF the
belt.
The crepon girl is under this outer shell
OF wraps. and fle blouse girl-oue and
the same-crepon below the waist, silk
blouse above. This is about the only in
stance I am able TO recollect where a
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-26

giving the effect OF a pompadOur mate
rial The skirt is plain. The body IS IN
three plaits behind In front one large
plat IN the middle. showing a shot tat
feta fiounce. accordion plated on each
side The sleeves are Of the same tafeta
plated. cut ia the middle by a douole
crest Of accordion taffeta plated.
Another object OF interest Is a small
cape OF crepon. not coming below the
waist II is II lavender crepon. in
point before and behind. forming large
and wide godefs over the shoulders. IL
Is trimmed all round with small ruche
OF shot taffeta. In front IL forms a sort
OF draped shawl, stopping at the waist,
where II is confined by a large satin bow.
The neck is trimmed with shot taffeta,
with a large white satin bow behind.
The brides wedding dress was made
by Worth or rather by his sons. II Is
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-26
THE WOOD FROLIC.

The Morning Star was bitter bright, the
morning sky was gray:
And We hftched our teams and started for
the woods al break Of day.
Oh. the frost IS on the forest, and the
snow piles high!
Along The white and winding road the
sled bells tangled keen.
Between the buried fences the bilowy
drifts between.
Oh, merry swing the axes, and the
bright chips fly.
So crisp sang the runners, and SO swift
the horses sped,
That the woods were all about us ere the
sky grew red.
oh. the frost Is on the forest. and the
snow piles high!
The bark hung ragged on the birch. the
ltchen on the fir.
The lungwOrt friDgei the maple, the gray
moss the juniper.
Oh. merry swing the axes, and the
bright chips fly!
So s.iu the ar and chill the air the
branches seemed asleep,
But we broke their ancient visions as the
on. The fros, is On the forest. and the
snow piles high.
With the shouts OF the choppers and the
barking ot their blades,
How rang the startled valleys and the
Tahb.t-haunted Elades.
oh merry swing the axes, and the
bright chips fly
The hard wood and the soft wood. we
feile~i them Tor our use;
And chiefly for its scented gum we loved
the sCaly spruce,
on the frost Is on the forest, and the
snow piles hiSl,
And here and there With solemn roar
some hoary tree came down,
And We heard the rolling OF the years IN
the thunder % its crown.
Oh merry swing the axes, and the
bright chips fiy.
And SION again the winter world was
voiCeless as OF old
Alone with ali the wheeling stars, and
the great white cold.
on. the frost il on the forest, and the
snow piles high
Charles d. G. Roberts.
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New York, May Especial Correspond
ence.-There are no bridals in May. but
that gives one the more time for consld-
ering prayerfully the trousseau in prep
aration for the month of marrying. \
splendid young brunette. whose wedding
is fixed for an early date in June, has
ordered from one of the largest houses
in New York. evening frocks whose
richness makes the eyes OPEN one
dress is TO be OF cherry and white SILK
white skirt and short, round. cherry
colored blouse bodice. The cut OF the
blouse is peculiar. II Is square in the
corsage and edged about the white shout
ders with an embroidery of white cut
beads that culver and sparkle with every
rise and fall of the bosom and every rip
pie of merry laughter. More beads are
woven into dainty belt at the waist. ana
vet others are used in narrow cdgings 10
strap the skirt seams. The nodlce is
sleeveless. except for rain or nead
fringe over the pretty white arms.
White suede gloves are ordered 10 COM
pIete the costume, and knot OF gold
and white and cherry color 70 wear IN
the hair.
Another reception dress belonging 10
this same trousseau is OF black SILK,
draped with the most exquisite black
gauze. The gauze in its turn is spangled
with emerald beads. producing an effect
quaint almost wierd. but strangely beau
tiful The skirt is nine yards round at
the feet at The very least, and its flash
ings of green lights are something Won
derful The bodice is cut very low. with
blouse effect of the gauge in front, but
with close-fitting waist in the back and at
the sides. Black slippers are ordered. and
their butterfly bows twinkle with emer-
aids.
Far more simple and reminder may
no of the bygone DAYS of girIhood is a
princess frock of white silk over which
is draped white chiffon. a marvellous belt
of pearls clasps 1t at the waist. and more
pearls are sewn about the low-cut corsage
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Q6QSt<u IT.. Azan9>tE

The late Gov. Marvil wrote a passanie
hand. as you see He was not very wen
educated but ne could read and write.
Accordingly. the signature Is given IN
fac-simile here, that posierity may not %
unjust 10 the state Of Delaware. No man
who could neither read nor write mas
ever been elected governor Of any one OF
the United States OF America.
Add.cks is the central figure OF tins
fight. soon destined 20 put 20 the severess
test the legal acumen OF the United safes
senate. j. Edward Addlcks brought ms
whole muddle about His followers saa
II would De Addicks or nobody. and tney
are all prepared 70 swear that since u
not Addlcks IL IS nobody. Nobody has
really presented Afidicks' side Of it--wns1
he thinks OF himself. whether he fees
that he did wrong. how he excuses MS
conduct. and finally the moral OF ths
whole episode. On all OF these slbJecs
he spoke very freely with me.
Elm the first place" he said, there has
been no election The senatorship from
Delaware is vacant. The next thing
have 10 say is that am going 10 be sena@
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really convenient and sensible style sue
ceeded In retaining It's hold for two sea-
sons.
And what Is pre.tier than a prettv girI
IN pretty silk blouse?
Do you know a girl who buys neckties?
Then she has no brother
The shirt waist. starched and coIIared
calls for pretty ties: but IL is so tiresone
70 buy them. when you could use the
money for something else. and when
there's a man In the house who has lots
Of lovely ones. Isn't it2
ELLEN OSBORN.
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was supposed 20 80 with his daughter.
Consnelo. but that young lady viii not 60
without her mamma and Der ma NINA WAS
not asked. That, az least. Is the way .he
roSslps pat II. Little Harold : Wander
hIt IS 20 he 4 Teee. ar3 Willie * IT,
ia 20 be there 81 any rate. Eut x AIRS
Alva Vanderbilt were there and happened
70 meet Mr Willie Il would ne ernh8rras-
sting. one Is curious % know row & viii
be settled. hFt one hates 20 ask
However, avlnE the NaB3erh.tt con
tineent ana taking q look az the a hers.
there VIII he Nj. and Mrs. Or1e Wilson
NJ ana Mrs Joan Jacob Astor. NJ
Noses Taylor a Young fellow wh0 Is
worth SO o. 01e an5 is expected 20 marry
into the Vanderbilt; family one 10 these
DAYS: Robert Goeles twor,A So. doa essa
ne3en Gcelet. chUm ~ tse PRINCE ot
vafes: Mr. AMI Mrs. EhCidEe Gerry
Eugene 1EiSxiss-h0t there = 80 use
slrlngiEg aiong lhs names 90 lot Ok
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or the sth &C June which VIII certain
~ De- the marriage Of ths yeAr-not even
excepting ne recent Gould nupftais-ana
Il vii - . strictly American affair. Dot
withstandlng the fact that the BRIDES
mother IL worth g.. GO eso. and that the
groom la a yOuax Croesaa. The brlde-to-oe
fzs Two uDc1ss worth fs1gos. apiece.
Ell half a dozen worth f1lsa.nn each.
Igat a. sb~ r. to wei rsain American cit
ixtn nobody has given much attention 20
IRE aTatr. Had Miss Adele Sloane given
herself 20 q penniless grandee from the
other st6e she would no doubt DC famous
by this dine.
The engagement Of Miss Sloane 20
James A Burden. 1r.. was announced last
February. The wedding H. 20 AXE place
a. Lenox. Mass The affair viii Be sol
ennized In Trinity, the exquisite church
OF which Rev. Dr. william GrOsvenOr ~
90 pro %. and that clergyman viii offici-
ate.
But before entering into that part %
the matter lt l. well TO observe that this
a. 70 BE- strictly a Vanderbilt occasion.
Miss Sloane, q has been remarked time
and again. Is the second Of the grandchii-
dren % the lafe ". ~. Vanderbilt TO wed.
The young lady H. the daughter Of Will
lam ID. Sloane. ghO married a daughter
Of the late millionaire and got sisdso.0o9
by the performance. Dir. Sloane himself
Is worth many miilions IL his own right
however. This is the daughters third
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r-uffle az the neck and lace cascades down
the front OF course, II is a might gown.
but when IS has been transformed into
an Empire robe, with the help OF a dark
blue ribbon glrlle. and has been further
ripped op-en in front 10 how back Ike an
open princess gown against a white lace
r,ctticoat. who IS going ~ say Il Is not
the priectiest negftgee ever devised?
There's nothing Ike making your
economies look as IL you preferred them
50.
The beginning Of the cornaower cult
came 10 America ike the beginning 81
America Itself, IL q little sailing CcaiL.
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She VAS 4 phantom ~ delight
Wen r~St she heam mel upon nv sfph;
lovely anoarffion sent
tn hf q moments arna newt
Ee~ ewes ~ stars or twt}iSr' faf-
LIS. tRilfEnt's too her auskv hair.
Itur a}i things else about her drawn
From NaVttrne ma the cheerful dawn.
\ &angtvg shape. an image CAV
To haunt. - startle and WayI1v.
-Worisws,r-h.
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Out of the heat of early May came a
cold blast. as If from the Pole, and the
streets blossomed again with wraps-Sum-
mer wraps this time, though the air was
far from summary. And thus we got a
foresight of the wraps which will be worn
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RRItIt>NTS

Love g a smoke raised wth re nime Of
signs
Being rurged a Ere sparkling 81 loves
eyes
Reiog veVe'. soa nourlshci with loves
tears.
whar IS it else? : madness most DIS
erect
\ choking sau ana preserving sweet.
-Shakes0care.
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Weather permitting. open air hand con-
cert this afternoon 10y First Regiment
Bale. LeSc-1 Park.
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WEDDING OFTHEYEAR
Million Dollars to BE Spent on
the Burden-Sloane Affair.
THE ooulps TO BE oUToosE.
vanderbiif's Granddaughter 90 Have a
e1o.OOo Trons-ean. AMI Many
MIIiionafrs~ 10 H. Present.

HE legislature 60 a
great STATE played 20
f.sf srtfT rot 80
many dsys ago ty
81 or 0fsi entFeatv
% ufshHe hefreass-s
30 fzeEtgW them
se.Ees o. rafher
n ctr inheritance.
Z . o r. Amer ans
cnlw There - a
RstblE coming 90
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Gossio has been weii defined - putting
TWO and Two together and making e five.
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Hers IS row way - prepare bananas.
Remove ths dark ends and about a third
OF tle skin. turning the res, away from
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The Morning Star was bitter bright, the
morning sky was gray:
And We hitched our teams and started for
the woods at break Of day.
Oh. the frost IS on the forest, and the
snow piles high,
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Emerson SAYS that no oua can be
master of conversation who has not
learned much from women Their pres
ence and Inspiration are essential 20 its
Success
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TOmorrow's Menu.
BREAKFAST.
Hominy. Fruit. cream.
Lamb Chops. Radishes.
Stewed Potatoes.
Bread Rolls. Gomez.
LUNCHEON.
German Toast.
Canned Salmon. Crest Salad.
MIXED Eclaires Tea Sliced Oranges.
DINNER.
Olives Radishes.
Roast Lamb. Mint sauce
Drowned Potatoes. Green Peas
Lettuce and Cucumber Salad
Toasted Crackers Clubhouse Cheese.
Sliced Pineapple. Gomez
Rock Island Argus., 1895-07-31
ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS,

n. W. Levy, of ST. Louis. formerly q
Wichita (Kan. bank president, and at
present st. Louis agent for the New York
Life Insurance company, is under arrest
ut Wichita on a charge Cs embezzling
$3!7.
Professor Virgins says the water in the
great lakes is decreasing every year and
that the time is near at hand when
Niagara Falls will cease to be.
The National Wall Paper company has
passed the dividend due July /.
Obituary: At Lexington Ky, Hamil.
ton f. Atchison, who was member Of
MorGan's raiders At Paris France, Leon
Mcunier, one of the proprctors of the
Courier dcs Etats-Unis. At Hampton,
Ills, Daniel Barker. At Charlottesville
Va, Professor John e Miner At Depere,
Wis. l. +. Bolles. AT Greensburg, Ind
Oliver Ennis, ST. AT Moweaqua, Ills,
Andrew Workman. At MeEdota, Ills,
Stephen Long, So. at G-cgorsyille, Mich,
Joseph Gregory.
Denver citizens have organized q vigil
lance committee to resist the payment Of
water rates until they are adjusted by the
city council.
DR.. Henry Sinner OF Mount Carroll,
Ills, while temporarily insane from ill
ness, attempted suicide by hanging him
self in the barn, but was unsuccessful,
whereupon he blew his brains out with a
revolver.
a church organist shocked Mason, 0 ,
congregation by appearing at q prayer
meeting in red bloomers.
a vein of gold ore has been found at
Victor. Colo, which will assay S140 OOo t.
the ton.
Tho bloomer costume has been the
means of breaking the marriage engage
ment between Frank Hammond and Lily
Drew. He said she must give up bloom
ers or him; she gave up him.
Judge John ID. Cation, of Chicago. is
dead at the age of SIS. He was widely
known throughout Illinois, was born at
Monroe, \. Y, and had been i'll for some
time previous to his death.
Between 200 and 800 skeletons have been
found in a cave on White river, Arizona.
They represented children and adults,
and there were indications that they were
the remains of persons who had been
smothcrel to death by smoke.
Emmett Divers, the colored man who
was taken to St. Louis several days ago
from Hannibal, No, to escape lynching
for the assault upon and murder of Mrs.
j: w. Cain, near Fulton, last week,
has confessed both crimes.
II. Clay Merritt, Of Kewanee, Ills,
charged with illegally dealing in game,
was found guilty by justice and fines
We're assessed against him to the amount
of sa3, 6Oo Merritt took an appeal to the
circuit court. There are clear cases
enough against Merritt to subject him to
a maximum fine of over s6)J,0J).
Rock Island Argus., 1895-07-31

Mysterious Tank Contains No Evidcnc,
Against the Rascal Holmes,


Against the Rascal Holmes
CHICAGO July 3l.-Digging in the cel-
lar of the Holmes building was less fruit.
ful yesterday than any day yet spent in
investigating the underground schemes
of the Philadelphia prisoner. Bones by
the dozen were found, but as tangible
evidence against the swindler they do not
seem to count for much. The laborers
dug up Chappelrs mysterious tank, but it
revealed nothing even As cIrcumstantial
evidence against Holmes. Nothing
was found therein but small
quantity of petroleum in its raw state.
A rather significant bit of infor-
nation came to the police when Mrs.
Strowers informed them that Holmes had
once insisted on her taking out a $1,000
lite insurance policy. Not only did
Holmes beg her to take cut the policy,
but he also offered her S. 0)0 for it. Her
friends dissuadcd her from taking
Holmes advice and she never saw him
Gfterward.
Clinton Sherman, formerly living in this
city, ard now at Dalton, Ills, went to
Holmes Castle" and said he had been
employed by the mysterious Richardson,
now missing, to remove bodies from the
Castle" and deliver them to Chappcll,
the articulator.
Sherman is a colored man. He heard
he was wanted and left the farm on
VIII ch he was working and came to the
city at once. He told of several mysterious
happenings in sonnection with the re-
moval of bodies which. he was told, were
''stiifs" procured from cemeteries and
hospitals to be sold to medical stud ents.
Attorney Capp left the city this morn.
in for Little Rock, Ark, to obtain pos
session of a convict there who, it lis said,
knows all about Holmes case.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-07-31
POLICE FIGHT AT OMAHA.
Prospect of Two Forces and BIoodshed-
Attorney Generals Position.

Prospect of Two Forces and Iloodshed-
Attorney Generals Position.
OMAHA, July 3i.-This city is much
worked up over the new police law
known as the A. Z. \. law. that goes into
effect tonight. Two police forces and
perhaps bloodshed are immincnt. Gov
ernor Holcomb has written letter ask.
Ing that the new police board under the
tho law be not appointed until the qucs.
tion OF the laws constitutionality has
been decided, and citizens hero have ad
dressed n petition to the attorney general
and the board having the appointment of
the new board begging them to accept the
governors suggestion.
The attorney general declines and asks
when are such things to end if one sci
of men have the right to refuse to obey
regularly passed law until the suprem,
court has passed upon it. The dUly oi
the citizens, he says, is to obey Il law VI
til it is declared invalid. He tells the
governor that IL any blood is shet. it will
be on his head. He offers to Join with
the governor in getting an opinion on
the law after it mas gone into effect.
Rock Island Argus., 1895-07-31
LIBERiAN EMIGRANTS RETURN.
1hey Give An Unloveiy Picture of Lilo in
the African Republic.


the African Republic.
PHILADELPHIA. July 3i.-At the Way
farers' lodge. Lombard street, homesick
and destitute, are three negroes from
Arkansas who have returned from Lii
IBERIA, whittier they went as colonists
some months ago. OF nearly a hundred
companions in the expedition some are
said to have died of starvation and others
nre eking out n wretched existence in
Africa. The three men are farmers Of
Jefferson county, Arkansas. Frank Shell.
ton, one Of the men, has wife and four
children there; J. II. Tucker, another, has
family, and EbeneZer Russell, the third,
Is unmarried. They say the International
Migration society, OF Birmingham. Ala,
offered twenty-fi five acres OF land to every
colonist and used as endorsement the
name OF Bishop 4. NJ. Turner, Of At.
lanta, Ga.
The subs cribers were required to pay
$iOl in advance by installments and
their passage to Savannah. In return
they were to be given their passage, food
and the land on arrival. The ship sailed
in March for Monrovia with ninety-seye
coionlsts, who were in the care of the So.
cety's secretary. The men declare they
were simply dumped ashore and allowed
to shift for themselves. A score of their
comrades died of climatic fever and some.
IT was reported, perishcd by starvation.
Work could not be secured and the flesh
OF dead animals and sualses was seized
upon with avidity for food. Shelton and
his two neightors saw no hope for them
in the colony and succeeded in obtaining
passage to Liverpool. and thence to Phil.
adelphia
Rock Island Argus., 1895-07-31
REDSREMAINQUIET
Troops Probably in Jackson's
Hole by This Time.
TROUBLE WILL LIKELY BE Settled

And Nobody Lose His Scalp-Latest Re.
ports from the Scene Of the Scare-set-
tiers Go on Guard Duiy-Theodore Roose-
welt Tells What He Knows Of Mr.. Los
Hunting Practices-Eiks Slaughtered by
tho Hundreds.
WASHINGTON, July 3l.-General Scho.
Held has received the following tele
gram from headquarters OF the depart.
ment OF the Platte at Omaha, dated July
~: "A courier arrived at Market Lake
this morning reports that when he left
General Coppinger's troops last night in
formation had just been brought in by n
runner from Marysvale that all is quiet
there. The Lcmhi agent telegraphs that
only three Of his Indians are supposed to
be in the Jackson Hole country aud that
there Is no Indication that others will
join the uprising there" The army OF.
Gcials regard this information as favor
able to an early and peaceful termination
e( the Jackson's Hole disturbance. The
troops were duo to arrive at Jackson's 8
Hole yesterday afternoon.
Settlers Go on the Warpath.
LANDER Wy, July 3l.-Fifty thor.
oughly armed and equipped horsemen
have gone to Big Wind river. They were
to be joined by thirty five moro mounted
men Mt Horse Greek and will pick up
such recruits as may be found along the
route. Their destination Is the vicinity
of Union Pass, SO that they might hold
off any hostiles who should come through
any of the passes leading from Jackson's
Hole. The men went out in two sections
only few minutes apart. The first squad
was in command OF Arthur NJ. Spark
hawk, ex- sheriff Of the county. The sec
ond was headed by Sheriff Grimmet.
says ne saw Twenty BAnnocks.
Telegraphic orders have been received
from Governor Richards by the COM
mander of company Is. G. n. g., to Co.
operate with the civil authorities for tho
protection Of the people OF the county.
The passes leading into the Lander wal.
ley will be guarded and timely warning
be given il the hostiles are driven this
way by the military. Frank Lowe, guide
and Indian fighter, reports twenty Ban
nocks camped in Little Paopaogie canon,
nineteen miles directly south of the city.
1t was said they were on no hostile mis-
sion, simply skulking around the
mountains to get out oJ harms way and
doubtless with an eye to future business.