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An elaborate public reception is to be accorded him there and every Formo- san dignitary is to take part in what is practically recognition that the island is now a Christian state as a re- suit of the generation of labor of one man.
 The adve ntures of this missionary it is superfuous to say have been more extravagant than those of Robinson Crusoe and Gil Bias put together. When he arrived in the land he was the only white man within miles and miles. He was ignorant of the language. The Chinese hated all Christians. Plots to murder him were as thick as leaves in Val1om brosa. He began his work in 1872, stranger in the land. To-day there are in his mission, scattered through out North Formosa, sixty organized na- tive churches, four of them self-sup- porting; living baptized membership of 2,717; communion roll of f,s05, and each one of the sixty churches is min istered to by trained native preacher At Tamsin he hass established Oxford college with fifteen students in train ing for the ministry.
 My work began at Tamsin," said the missionary, speaking of his first
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It seems odd to make dress gayer by adding d lot more black to it, but try this ideal
 There was once an actress and she wore on the stage hat.
 That was an individual note. What followed was leaf out of the romance of trade. A manufacturer noted the hat and copied it. Though the design was not patented in any way and was initiated right and left, this manufac- turer cleared thirty-two thousand dol- lars as his profit on the one model in . single season.
 That was several years ago. If it was this season, l should say that the manufacturer might be making his fab- ulous profits out of some of the pat- terms of great picture hats, wide brimlned, flat crowned or no crowned, worn well back upon the head, trimmed underneath with lace and above with pert wings. With slight changes, this type of hat has not only held it's own for two or three years, but must stay in favor so long as gigot sleeves are worn. For one does not well put a lit- tie hat above big sleeves.
 One compares to fans of delicate texture the outraging folds of plaited chiffon so much used.
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MISSION AMONG SAVAGES.
Dr. Mackay's Strange Life as Min
 ister to Formosa.
Native Wife and Her Children Landed, a Stranger, and Alone, to Preach the Gospel, and Now Power
 in the Country.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

On the t4th of October next there will sail from Vancouver one of the strangest and most remarkable white men who ever set foot op Chinese soil. It is Rev. ]. L. Maclay, for twen- ty years Christian missionary to the widest heathens on earth. The clergyman is accompanied by his wife,
 t native Formosan, and by their three children, Master George William and Misses Bella Katie and Mary Helen. The missionary will revisit the land of his birth. He came back to civilization for the sole purpose of seeing his native Canada once more. Needless to say that his arrival in the dominion with his native wife and the three beautiful children proved q sensation in religious circles. In far Formosa, the return of Dr. Mackay is eagerly awaited by the whole population of that Chinese island
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Successful New Insulator.

Woodite has proved very. successful as an insulator for high-tension cur rents During the three years in which it has been used for this purpose at the Deptford station of the London Elec- tric Supply corporation there has no4 been single breakdown or failure, says a London exchange. Before try ing this material there had been great difficulty in insulating the pole-pieces of the field magnets of the large dynamo. A tension Of 40, GOO volts has proved un- equal to piercing woodite sheets one eighth inch thick. The material has also the advantage of being unacted on by oil, even at high temperatures.
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POETRY ON THE BOWERY.
Stanzas Steadman or Glider Gould
 Not Have Written.
They Didn't Toss the Turk-Parhetic His- tory of the Horse That Backed on the Dump-The Vivid Dream
 of Waiter.'
COPYRIGHT. 1895.

There is a conglomerate type of character on the East side of New York which is at once interesting and anus ing. It is mixture of the Irish and American nationalities. The social language of thls type IS a mixture of American and English slang, together with a word here and there taken from the Gallic. Several attempts have been made of recent years by writers to de- scribe the characteristics of this queer type, the most successful of these be- ing series of articles called the 'Narywelly Sketches" which appeared in an evening newspaper a few years ago. It is a field full of suggestion and information, particularly as re- gards the literature of the locality, which has vogue only in limited sphere because it needs translation out side of it's native habitat. As this arti- cle will deal almost exclusively with the so-called poetry of the area it will be necessary to explain that it deals largely with local subjects, and that liquor saloons and their environments have much to do with the subject mat ter. Among those who have immortal ized themselves by the wooing of the East side muse are William W. De- laney and Denis J. Daily, printers, and Andrew Sterling. One of the most charmingly representative of the poems written by Mir. Sterling relates the humorous story of how fthe Turk" was tossed. It will be necessary to ex- plain that occasionally there arrives from New York from the retired dis tricts in Ireland, such as Connemara or Kerry, quaint specimen of man who wears long coat, a high hat with narrow brim, and who necessarily smokes a short-stemmed pipe called a "dudeen." This type of Irishman is always ready to either drink or fight, and they are designated by the young Irish-Amerieans who hang around the street corner saloons as Turks. To ''toss the Turk, in the language of the initiated, means to trip him as he
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check with n feather and bunch Of heather. And the skirt will never drag in mud less than eight inches deep.
 Of course costume de chasser IS for most women an absurdity, but special business, walking or rainy day dress is not: and here is the way to it, if one walks hand in hand with courage.
 The styles of the season lend them selves to the arts of the woman who wishes to make her froclxs do double duty when they may. A morning or rough service gown good for boating, shopping, marketing or the like, if strongly marked with gray and black upon the bodice-the skirt being neu- tral gray-may be transformed into n promenade gown for dressy afternoon use by donning a bigger and more showy hat, and by drawing close up about the neck a tiny cape in black satin or moire, scarcely more than a wide collarette, whose long wide black ribands fall well below the waist. Such capelet may be edged with lace, or with very full plait two inches wide, or i'll some other way have it's gay char acter and purpose emphasized. A sim. pie band will not do at all
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been Christianized The doctor berau og living among them in the hardest prlvatior studying their language and never manifesting the smallest distrust ID thel. good faith. His method gained upor them almost from the first. These tribes are known as the Black Flags. They live in the mountains of Forlnosa. They have drilled head hunters who more than once lay in wait for .sthe hlack-bearded barbarian" as the doctor came to be called in their dialect. This was before he had come into personal contact witf these fierce savages. Dr. Mackay is the only white man who has ever had ar opportunity of conversing with the weird people. The picture herewith is from the only photograph of them ever taken.
 Apart from the purely religious fea- ture of the doctors labors, he has made remarkable discoveries in relation to the geology, botany and zoology of Formosa and also with reference to the ethnology of it's inhabitants. The doctors private library and museum at his native home have for years been a source of. interest to scientists all over the world and his marvellous collection has always been at the free disposal of those who wished specimens. His notes have been ir demand at all meetings of scientific societies and there is no
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chiffon of deeper shade, in narrow plaits laid on over tight lining. The low neck opening Is finished with a band of black pearl and embroidered guipure. Bretelles of the same pass over the shoulder and down back and front, hanging rather loosely in front. The sleeves are bouffant, draped with fan-shaped wings.
 It is worth while noting that the skirt in the costume last described clears the ground completely, all around.
 Even where the knicker is not used in outdoor costume, the Parisians are boldly experimenting with short skirts, very short ones. A hunting costume brought over with the winged dinner gown consists of check homespun, gray and brown, trimmed with brown leather. The latter, for which black leather might be substituted, is placed in wide band at the cuffs and at the skirt edge, and forms the lapels of a low rolling collar over starched diekey. The hat is made of the same
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Discovered in a Potato.

Five years ago Mrs. John Pippert, of Middletown, Pa., lost her wedding ring by throwing it with some dish water into her garden. A diligent search failed to discover the ring. The other day Mrs. Pippert dug some potatoes in her gar den, and while peeling them for supper the knife struck something hard in one, and to her astonishment on cutting into the potato she found her lost wedding ring. As evidence of this strange tale the ring, the potato, the garden spot, and MT. and Mrs. John Pippert are truthful witnesses.
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days in Formosa. q was alone, without an interpreter, and among those who hated and despised the barbarian What had already picked up of the Chinese language must now utilize or submit to being imposed upon. After four days l succeeded in renting Chi nese house that was intended to be used for a horse stable by military man darins. For this building I agreed to pay fifteen dollars month. 1t was a filthy place. The British consul lent me chair and bed. A Chinese gave me an old pewter lamp"
 Thus the beginning. The home to which the doctor is now returning is that of gentleman and his neighbors are gentlemen too, even if they be For mosans. The island is really as civil Ized as Japan and we need feel no sur prise therefore at the recent attempt to declare it an independent republic. The missionary has botany classes formed of natives, Alphine clubs likewise made up of Formosans and scientific societies of the same membership. lie is even a colonel, in what may be termed a Formosan militia, and drills the natives in regimental tactics with the idea of subduing their taste for the hideous form of native warfare and allowing their surplus energy to assert itself in defense of the villages against wild piratical hordes and heather de- spoilers from the mainland.
 Among the Lam-si-hoan savages in the trackless Kilai plain the doctor has made himself warmly esteemed. Those wondrous people have rarely seen white man, unless, perhaps, he was roasted on the dinner table They were subdued by the Chinese, but re- mained savage in their tastes until the advent of Dr. Mackay, through whose influence they have in large numDers
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The conventional idea of the foreign missionary is now largely tinged by lurid accounts of massacre by Chinese. The impression would seem to be in- evitable that celestials are averse to all Christianizing influences. But here we have large and integral part of the Chinese empire eagerly awaiting the arrival of a missionary for the pur- pose of paying him every possible trib- ute of personal esteem.
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THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Paris. the Home of Fashion, Says
 Adieu to the Skirt.
Frocks of the Season May 1sc Made to Do Double Duty - A Combination of Gray and Black - Big Pic
 ture Hats Again.
COPYRIGHT, 1895.

"Blot out the skirt" says Balzac, land, coquetry, adieu No more pas sionl All powerful is the skirt"
 And the strange tales come to us from Paris, home of the lnielserboclSer garb, that the streets are safer to women bipedally clad than to others, and that times are less troublesome to the police now that many women are thus attired. For the charm of women Is a most potent cause of worriment to the authorities where the maxim runs, for every crime the same: Look for the women in the case"
 Yet the question: Do men fall in love with women in kniclserbockers9' would never be debated by those whe
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Dead Rat in Her Beer.

A brewery firm sued female de- fendant in the Manchester county court recently for the price of a cask of beer. For the defendant it was alleged that the beer was bad, attributed to the presence of dead rat in the barrel
 Judgment was given for the defendant.
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 Use of Artificial Ivy.

Artificial ivy elings to parts of many a modern country house and few among the everyday visitors notice the de' ceution. It is not injured by rain or sun and fills ..long-felt want in the matter of exterior house decoration.
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RETRATN

 Now. I'm not a fighter. nor yit bitter, But whin duty calls me never shirk, So tell you plainly, tho I look ungainly, That they had no picnic whin they tossed
 the Turk. Oh. the ing-leader, free lunch raider. Said: "O'Brien, you had better paint the
 tile; Put crape around it. get an ax and pound it!" And he thought twas funny whin the gang
 did smile It was then that my dander rose like gsn-
 der, For I heard one loafer say he'd flash
 dirk, So I tipped him nately and surprised him
 greatly, And they had no picnic when they tossed
 the Turk. Oh. they gathered round me and tried to
 pound me, But put my back az in big brick wall "You can't go behind me- says I, now mind
 me, If you stand forninst me can bate yez all " Thin the gang did face me and thried to lace
 me. But wan by wan polthoqued thim ali Right and left I pounded, they were dunn
 founded, And at last for mercy they began to bawl. It will readily be seen by the unbi- ased reader that the above lines have
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the world which ensued when Barrett's horse backed off the dump. In order to breathe the delightfully."- poetic att mosphere of this charming fugitive of poesy it will be necessary to explain that along the Hudson river front there are several places where the ref use of the city is dumped from carts into large seows which carry it out to sea. These places are alluded to in the vernacular as the dumps" and at one of them occurred the incident upon which the poem is based:
 There was n man in q street close by,
 And Barrett was his name
 He was the owner of a big ash-cart.
 And q horse that was lazy and lame;
 Now, he loaded up wid ashes and rum
 And he made the ould horse jump,
 But whin be tilted up the cart
 Faith the horse backed on the dump. Spoken "Tare an ages! Millia murther! Will any wan get derriclS?" cried poor Barrett, filled with dignas- ity on the pier. "Thare goes my poor auld horse out to the cruel payl'
 REFRAIN
 o tempora! merinol O blazes
 My heart is bruk. God knows it Is,
 loluCt Ouc uOESG DtCkGG Ou tue QuIDp
 Now Barrett was broken man.
 His heart was heavy as lead,
 Ills jag and he they zigzagged homo
 And both crawled into bed
 He had daughter Julia,
 A maiden fair and plump,
 But she's not fit to go to dog fight now
 Since the horse backed of the dump Spolzen-Wel, thare they were, groanin' and moanin' and achhonin, and the horse in the belly of shark, and nothin' cornin' in but the nanny's milk Chase the duck, growler and drown theml
 REFRAIN 0 wool sorrow 0 blatheri Shure I'll have to work on the big potpes now, Since the horse backed off the dump But for bit of strong descriptive verse we can heartily commend "The Walters Vision.n It's authorship is hidden in the midst of anonymity, but the sterling merits of the composition will be readily appreciated by perusal. 1t describes the delirious dream of waiter who has been betting on the horse races until he has lost all his money. Then he drinks himself into insensibility and is taken to Bellevue hospital, where he utters the following remarkable soliloquy: Upon Q cot he feyerish, lay in Bellevue alco-
 holic ward,
 A waiter once in other days who oft had
 served the festive board. His aim in life, alas had been t0 play the
 races just for gain He cut no splunge, he made no spurt, he made
 no squirt
 They took his coat, they took his shirt, and
 then they took his brain.
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all the rugged simplicity, force and virility which are contained in "Casey at the Bat" and '"rrow Him Down Me Clusky," the acknowledged prize epics of the Christian era. But the East Side muse cannot halt here. She goes on in her jubilant triumphant fashion to re- count briefly, in the words of an anonymous author, the history of the rise of young Irishman to merited distinction. She says:
 Whin landed at Castle Garden,
 Little, indeed, thought l.
 That in this glorious country
 should iver rise so high
 For there was plain Paddy Shay.
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THE Reformed Presbyterian general aynod) has thirty-three societies, 4,602| members and s469, 1000 worth of church property
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Fresh from the Emerald shoro, And now I'm the boss hoor-walker In mammoth dry goods store In a new diagonal suit,
 promenade the aisle.
 Bestowing upon the ladies
 A condescending smile
 The min keepat q distance I'm stuck on mesilf," they say. Shure, know they are only jealous Of the floor walker Mir. Shay But among the more serious efforts of the East side poets is mournful ballad describing the general crash In
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saunters along the street in the even- ing, it being considered rare sport to see the poor fellow come down upon the sidewalk, smashing his hat and breaking his beloved pipe into thou sand pieces. MT. Sterling has described an attempt of this kind very forcibly in the following lines:
 Oh, one evening lately dressed up nately, put on my Sunday clothes, plug hat and
 all,
 And started proudly, while whistling loudly, For Neal Brogan's raffie at Hibernfa hall. Going round a corner gang of rowdies- Oh, know they're rowdies, for they never
 work Says: "Let us give this auld Tad a racket We will have picnic, boys, and toss the
 Turk"
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 curve. Equally Parisian with the dropped shouldered gown is one of darkish, rough cloth, dun color with ir- regular bars and blotches of black whose bodice front is futed chiffon and from each of whose shoulders springs shell-shaped epaulet of white embroid- cry. The wearer seems almost to be taking wing to soar above the grimy streets and away where clothes are no more and the fashions never change. A pretty race or autumn festival cos tune is made of lace and pale blue and white shot glace silk. The parasol is blue and white and lace covered.
 Another, more autumnal looking, is of red currant color shot with white, with black line running through it, the bodice in black chiffon, accordion plaited, with zouave jacket very short behind and a long-pointed yoke of jet-bespangled netting.
 Chiffon blouses and silk blouses are in high favor. Pale green with nar- row threads of black, pale pink with bands of yellow, pale blue with cross bars of dark blue, pale blue with bars of white. It is blouse season. and blouse weather for month yet.
 ALICE AMoRY.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-11-09
Christening u Vessel.

The christening party is standing on
platform under the bow, and just
about where the wnter.line begins.
The word to saw away the sole piece
has been given. A stiffness comes
upon the throng and the zip, zip, zip
Of the big saws on each side of the
ship is heard distinctly more than
fifty yards away. The young woman
who is to name the vessel has placed
one hand against the bow to feel the
tremor of life, and in the other she
holds the decorated bottle of cham
payne, enmeshed in n silk web. ready
to strike the bottle against the bow.
The vessel shakes along her entire
length; there comes a crash; she
breaks away before the saws have cut
her loose; terrific din arises; the
christening words are spoken bni not
heard and the stately ship begins to
glide down the ways apparently with
coming up bay under half speed.
She strikes the water, kicks up big
wave that goes rolling across the
stream, and then drops at the bow
into the water. The tide catches her
in its arms, and tries to run away with
her, but the men on board drop the
anchors into the water, and tho tugs
that have been lying near by catch
hold OF her, and in few minutes she
is led captive to her dock, ever after
that to obey the master mind that
shall guide her over the seas. st.
Nicholas,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-11-09
BRADFORD SQUEALS.
Convicted Counterfeiter Turns
on His Old Comrades.
Secrets OF the Brockway Gang In
Possession of Chief Hazem.

NEW YORK, Nov. DIR. O. F.. Bradford, the
convicted counterfeiter. has ''squealed' on
the Brockway gang. As Il result OF his admis-
sions, Chief w. i. Ilaz,n OF the Secret Ser
vice, Is now in possession of nine plates. ey-
cellently executed, for counterfeitiny bills
and bank notes partially finished bills for
500, 600 Of spurious money. and very valu-
able Information regarding the workings OF
the gang DR.. Bradford received q sentence
or years Imprisonment. instead OF tho
maximum Of fifteen years.
When DR.. Bradford was arraigned before
Judge Brown at Philadelphia Pa, for light
sentence rs a reward for having given the
government important information. Chief
Hazen, after DR.. Bradford had been SEN
fenced. said that DR.. Bradford had practical
ly confessed to him that he had been Il con-
Hazen's men had found the plates buried
near the headquarters of the gan, ut Scheut-
zen Park, Union Ill., not far from the house
at 242 Ann street, West Hoboken. where
Brockway and his gang had been.
Chief Hazen said he now had in his pos
session SIX plates TINT had been used by tho
gang. They consisted of three plates for
countefeitinS $500 gold certificates OF the
United States, two plates for counterleiting
300 notes Of the Bank Of Montreal. and one
plato for a vignette OF President Lincoln To
lit into the centre of the $500 plates. and
spurious bills for Sl00O,00O. DR.. Bradford,
he said, had also told him that there were
three plates for 800 bills at the bottom OF
the Harlem Biver, where they had been
thrown In to avoid detection.
The agents have just recovered, together
with genuine fvre paper sufficient to print
another 81 200. 900 Of counterfeit bills. DR..
pcnitentiary to begin his term OF imprison-
lIlcnl.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1895-11-09

r,.!ies % lace fell asainst the stiffened revers
OF satin. while the soft vest OF chiffon was
covered with narrow lace 10 match the revers.
The browning glory Of the toilette, how
ever, was the court train, which was at-
tached TO the shoulders and fell down ia
long serpentine line lying on the ground five
yards on the ground. The stall" as our
English cousins call il, was Adorned with
band of embroidery about four inches wide,
which took weeks to produce. SO fine and
delicate was every thread of the silver, and
so marvellous was the placing OF the pearls.
one fancies that fairy fingers alone could
execute this ornamcntalion bordering the
entire train. 1t was lined with satin so that
Mt every turn glistening ivory satin wa, visi-
ble while all along the inside in p ace OF
the embroidered band was a narrow stiff
ruff OF plated satin.
The fastening Of this train made separate
from the frock was alone a work Of art, rs 1t
was caught at the sides with tiny roset,es,
and underneath, not visible to the eye were
small ends of ribbon, which tied it securely
in place. Tho underskirt worn with this was
of II rich heavy silk, satin striped and i'm
ished with bilowy masses Of lace, so that at