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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
An Irish Mud Cabin.

II consists of two rooms and posi-
bly, n small semi-detnched outhouse
which is used as n store-room for per-
ishable articles. There IL not chink
in the walls or thatch save narrow
chimney, which seldom il lever answers
its purpose the doorway faces the
cnst and emits the smoke. What little
light penetrates inside through the
tiny window discloses the deep choco.
late stain from the eternal turf-reck
which pervndes the atmosphere of the
interior, and literally paints walls,
roof and furniture a uniform color.
The furniture is rough and also scanty,
o few stools atoning for the occasional
complete absence of chairs.
The mud floor is always more or
less wet from the patter of the chill
dren's bare feet or from the animals
which have free access to the house.
At night there is a goodly company
within the walls of this spacious
there are two or three box
beds or berths, where the children
! sleep, according to their age
and sex from nine to twelve is not an
uncommon number in n family. In
the state berth in the calliogh, or re-
cess nt the side of the hearth, the
father and mother repose unscreened
from the live stock OF the farm, and
breathe the same atmosphere as some
eight quadrupeds beside the poultry.
Pigs, cattle, dogs, cats, and probably
a horse or donkey, have their bed
space, respectively, and iealously re-
sent any encroachment by bedfellow.
Astonishing as it may appear, there
are hardly any disagrecable odors.
The overpowering smell of the peat
smoke evidently acts as a complete
disinfectant, and fortunately it is in
noxious to the inhabitants of the
hovel. Equally astonishing is the fact
that the whole community are in COM
parative harmony, and even the babies
rarely cry. There is plenty of occu-
patton for all the family who are able
and willing to work, the mother doing
little else but nurse the youngest in
ant.-Cornhill Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
FASHION NOTES.

Some of the new crepons show
changeable effects.
Novel French creped silks are
printed in chine devices.
Fancy dress buttons match Dres-
den designs in silk and satin ribbons.
Many of the new silk waists have
entire fronts of guipure or point de
Gene lace.
Undressed-kid gloves of pale cameo
pink are worn with evening toilets of
cream or pale rose-color.
Box-pleated waists of light-colored
Liberty satin are fashionably worn
with full gored skirts of white serge
or crepon.
Pure undyed silk with weave re-
sembling canvas and rather coarse in
texture is called Arabian silk. 1t is
nsed for tailor suits for morning and
travelling wear.
Dimities, organdies, lawns, and
light silks are more tempting just now
than any sort of cloth, and lovely
gowns OF these delicate fabrics are
made in most instances without lining,
and worn over silk petticots.
Black and white striped taffetas, or
CANDIES and swivel silks will be much
worn this season, and they make ex-
tremely stylish gowns, combined with
trimming of brigh. satin or velvet to
give the dress a touch of color.
Melton cloth of the finest quality
is used by fashionable tailors instead
of covert suiting for costumes and
jackets for cool days at the seaside
or in the mountains. Alpaca and En-
glish mohair are likewise extremely
popular.
Costumes of pure white, from the
plain crepon or silk parasol to the tip
of the shoes. will be one of the pre-
yailing fashions in simmer dress. and
they will be worn morning. noon, and
night, in all the varying graces of
elegance.
Yokes, revers. sailor collars, and
bands of satin of velvet ribbon edged
or covered with Jet are favorite modes
of decorating silk or light wool
dresses. The bands extend from belt
to neck, and three in front and three
at the back are the usual number.
When used over contrasting color
they are very effective. making . short
waist look longer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
His New Straw II.t,

The friends of Billy McHalc, who
is popular with tho bankers and bro
kers along Third street, are having n
quiet laugh at that young mans ex-
pense. One of McHale's friends,
while passing hat store during one
of last weeks sizzling hot days, no.
ticed him inside negotiating for the
purchase of n straw hat. Now, Billy
is particularly tidy in his dress, and
like most people possessing that char
acteristic, is somewhat sensitive re-
garding adverse criticism. Knowing
this, the waggish friend determined to
play practical Joke. Despite the
broiliug hot sun the joker visited
twenty or thirty of Billy's friends
in different parts of the city and re-
lated the fact of the purchase of the
hat. He then arranged to have
McHule at certain resort that even
ing, and instructed all tho friends to
drop in one at u time, and remark
in an off-hand way: "That'sa nice hat
you've got, Billy, but it's too old for
you, That shape was intended for o
man so years old" Billy started in
to explain to the first six OF eight
friends; that he was tired of fippani
straw hats, as they made one look sc
giddy; then he swore at the salesman,
but finally, when twenty-five friends
had criticized the new headpiece, Billy
grew furious and tearing the unlucky
hat from his head, he dashed it to the
floor, and with wild yell jumped
upon it. There's the hat, take it,
keep it, and you can all go to thun'
der!' The next day Billy appeared
in his old hat. Philadelphia Record.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
WOMEN FLORISTS.

A young woman who is succ ssful
florist in London has made her fame
principally through her wedding
bouquets. She does not favor the
shower bouquet SO popular with us,
as she says that it is rarely held grace
fully, the only way to hold it being
close to the gown below the waist,
and to hold il in this one place con-
tiuually becomes awkward and mono
tonous. She, however, favors flowers
loosely arranged, and has a great lik-
ing for using black velvet ribbons to
bind flowers OF either gay or pale
hues; finding it more effective than
ribbons of the same tint as the flowers.
At the recent fashionable wedding,
for which this young woman furnished
the bouquets, those for the brides
shaded brown foliage, and asparagus
ferns tied with moss-green velvet rib
bph thul iDE tut DEltt WIS VI tuDt-
roses, eucharis, and orchids, combi
nation that would seem to our florists
in very bad taste, because of the asso-
citation Of the tuberose with the funer-
ais of young children, and also be-
cause of its powerful odor.
Cherry geraniums with black rib
bons for bridesmaids bouquets com
mend themselves to the eye, as do
field daisies and grasses in loose
punches, with floating bow and ends
of black velvet ribbon.
The American liking for wedding
flowers, however, is quite different,
and one flower only is often chosen
for bridesmaids and house decoration,
even the bride, though her bouquet is
of rarer blossoms, carrying out a
color scheme thus there are green
and white weddings, in which the
maids carry lilies of the valley, with
their foliage, which is itself like green
ribbons, and the bride has white roses;
or if it is pink wedding, the brides
flowers are of palest blush-roses,
while the maids carry those deeper in
hue. Sweetpeas are suitable and
beautiful for a country wedding in
June. Ribbons, wherever used,
should not be 30 wide nor used in
such quantities as to obscure the
flowers. They must appear to be
a necessity, not an ornament. New
York Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
In Sun or Shade.

A fair boat lightly seeks the sea.
Whose waters blue are crested whit,
The filling sails in buoyant glee
Are bearing forth into the light.
And like an angels wings are brigh
From every earth-stain free.
Another tack, and, turned away,
Tho white sails, Swallowed, are but dark,
so good deeds look like III the day
That idle slnnders set their mark
Upon life's fair sailing bark,
Needless as clouds at play.
Dut ISLANDERS are like shadows, all,
They shift, or pale aud die;
Meath rudest blame we need not fall,
Face we undauntedly the sky,
Aud light before the storm winds fly
At only duty's call.
HELEN SMITH, In Independent
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

The Washington Star observes,
Sarcasm and reproof have beea hurled
ut the Kodak tiend. Professional
humorists have depicted hi.N as doing
all sorts of absurd and annoying
thing until even the unir .erested citi-
zen has come to regard the amateur
photographers as an unmitigated nui-
sance. But even IS HE despised
mother-in-law is generally much bet
ter than she appears to be in the comic
papers, SO i the amateur photo
grapher superior to such portraits of
him MS have compelled laughter. 1t is
entirely reasonable to insist that the
amateur is responsible for the tremen-
dous advances made during recent
years in the art of photography. TAX.
ing up the camera first as a
toy, many of the brightest of
Americans have become in
terested in improving the mechanism
of that remarkable instrument, and so
we'll have they succeeded tn 1t we now
have cameras capable of doing about
everything that camera could be ex-
pectel to do. Scientists, who, had
photography remained i'll the hands of
the purely professional, would never
have become interested in the won
derful art, found them selves deeply
concerned soon after becoming pos
SCISSORS of the magic boxes, and as a
result Photographic methods have
bounded forward 30 that they are now
quite abreast with the times and far
ahead of where they would have beea
had matters remained entirely in the
hands ofthose whose interest in photo.
graphy WIS OF the purely commercial
sort.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

but they have to be sought for. To.
day the French may dispise the Sou
dan, but the Soudan is for them the
means of arriving at the Niger basin,
which is a marvellous garden provided
with very luxuriant vegetation, and
filed with charming spots watered by
countless tributaries, which will pour
into the great river which is yours
the immense wealth of their banks"
In conclusion Mr.. Stanley is re-
ported to have snid "The French
are still engaged in the policy of an
nexation. Explorers are always on
the move, but the time has now come
to set to work. You have established
military station Mt Timbuctoo, but
that is an isolated post connected with
no point of the French colony. The
river is waiting for the steamboat, and
the country for its railway. Without
them all these conquests of yours will
remain barren"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
BENEFITS OF BICYCLING.

A French physician who has writ
ten approvingly and at some length
on bicycling for women believes that
the training it gives to hand and eye
and muscles will make women walk
better aud carry themselves more
gracefully and freely than they do.
He has noticed that while few
women walk we'll and preserve n satis-
factory balance, the effect is ruined
by their indocision and uncertainty of
movement at street crossings. Other
weaknesses that are very prevalent
among women in middle life are
obesity and shortness Of breath, and
those he believes, are to be overcome
by riding the wheel. New York Post.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

By no means the least interesting
items of news from London, maintains
the New York Tribune, is that the
carriage roads OF HYDE Park have at
last been opened to bicycle riders, at
least until 10 o'clock in the morning.
This will be great boon to clerks and
others who must do their riding be-
fore before business hours, if at all
1t is shrewdly suspected, however,
that fashionable society is really most
interested in the matter, and that Lord
This and Lady That will be seen
wheeling about the Park. Royalty
itself has set the fashion, and it, loyal
devotees must follow it.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

Professor Wiley says that "one of
the grandest discoveries of modern
science" is the agency of microbes in
enabling plants to absorb from the air
the nitrogen, which is the chief factor
of their growth. The theory was first
suggested by Pasteur, and it is thought
to be fully confirmed by the research
as of Independent Investigators. If it
ioes not deceive expectation it will
completely revolutionize agricul-
ture. To increase the growth of
plants it will be necessary to feed their
roots with water containing the proper
microbes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
QUAINT DECORATIONS IN FAss.

Quaint decorations on fans promise
to be popular this season. Among
these are noticed fan leaf bearing
various scenes descriptive of the joys
and sorrows of apple stealing. On
the panache is shown the sequel.
Through the gilded bars of the prison
window peers forth the woebegone
yisage of the culprit. This is clever
ly carved in ivory, in high relief and
shows well on the ebony ground.
Lovely fans of bronze gauze, with
black gnuze, are introduced largely.
The dainty French scrolls outline the
former. On the latter are painted
most delicately water lilies, dragon
flies and water plants. The centre
subject is entirely carried out in
graduated shades of brown on cream
and brown background, the attitudes
of the figures are graceful and the
distance is cleverly given. Quite as
artistic as the leaf are the sticks, the
gliding being slight relief. Bulrushes,
butterflies and foliage ornament the
panches. New York Telegram.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

rules of the game prohibited selling
more than one gold piece or silver
dollar to one person, but there were
many "ringers," who, after receiving
their bright new piece of money, took
the foot of the long line again and
slowly moved forward to the desk.
The sale lasted only one day. -Phila-
delphia Press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
They Come High.

She (poutingly)-Before we were
married you used to bring me candy
every time you came.
He briskly Yes, my dear, and it
cost good deal loss than the meat
and potatoes l bring. you New
York Weekly.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
CAPEs FOR SUMMER,

The latest cnpes for summer wear
are triumphs of color and decoration.
One example is made of glace silk,
that with three colors to il has a cha
meleon effect. 1t is slashed to the
neck at intervals all the way round
and cream guipure is inserted in the
openings While the whole is spangled
with small black sequins and lined
with white silk, special model for
young ladies is short, full black
satin cape entirely covered with cream
guipure spangled with paillettes and
finished at the neck with black
chiffon ruche. Another novelty in
black satin has narrow yoke of green
velvet, and the satin is cut in deep
point at the back, on the shoulders,
with two points in front and covered
with spangles to match the velvet. -
New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

mistakable. 1t was here that ho be.
came jealous.
Besides his own feelings in the mat
ter he felt that he must save a young
innocent girl from wrecking her hap
pinoss on man, who, lie believed
cared no more for her than the ledger
ON his desk.
so he resolved on bold step. He
went to Mr.. Burphy aud told him he
had reason to believe Miss White
was in love with him, nh for her sake
something ought to be dole to cure
the infatuation.
Mr.. Burphy looked positively
stunned, but he agreed to do his best
in any plan Mr., Bradshaw might sug-
gest.
"Supposo you dictate a letter to a
young woman showing your admira-
ton, etc. How would that do?"
Excellent excellent" cried Mr..
Burphy.
Accordingly, the next day, after
Miss White took her dictations, her
employer in rather embarrassed
manner gave her this:
"My dear Miss (you can leave the
name blank)-Will you ask your
mother if l may have the privilege of
calling at your home? 1 am anxiously
awaiting your reply. Faithfully yours,
JosEpu w. BuRpHy."
Somehow there were so many mis-
takes in the letter she had to make the
second draft, and that willy old bach
elor actually saw her fingers tremble.
81 will address it myself" he said,
taking it from her.
"Beautifull" chuckled Bradshaw to
himself, seeing how finely his plan
worked.
The next day there was another let
ter to be written to the same woman.
81 love you," it said. al want to
make you my wife. II you care for
me, say that | may come to your house
tomorrow evening""
This time the typewriter made worse
mistakes than before, and complained
of feeling i'll, and asked to go home a
little before the time.
As she rose to put on her wraps Mr..
Burphy sent Bradshaw out of the room
for something.
"Will you please mail these letters
for me?" he said, handing her two.
"And-and | wish you'd see if I've
addressed them right"
She looked at them, then at him in
a dazed way.
"Why, they're addressed to me! ~
eyes, said Burphy shortly. "Num'
Der right? Please open them and see,
too, if the contents are correct?"
"Good heavens! Was it dismis,
sal?"
She opened the envelopes with
trembling finger AMI faint heart.
why, Mr.. Burphy," she said, it''
a mistake, These are the letters
wrote to that lady"
"No mistake at ALL Quite correct, u
replied that businesslike individual
very brusquely. "Will you have tn,
kindness to give me my answer?"
"You may come tomorrw evening,
she said, and ran out of the office.
"How did it work." asked Mr.
Bradshaw when he came back.
"Im afraid not just rs you ex
pected," replied the proprietor, will
his back to him.
Bradshaw thought so when he go
the wedding cards. New York Adver
tiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

The Baptist general missionary in
the northwest says its hard to get min
isters to stay there, they get 80 lone
some. 1t is interesting to note, says
the New York Recorder, that the same
difficulty was found in New York in
the early years of the century, when
that state was the "far- West" of New
ENGLAND
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

This country is a nation of workers,
exclaims the New York Mail and Ex-
press. Over forty-eight per cent of
all Americans over ten years old are
employed. The total is %, 735, 661.
This is big industrial army. The
percentage of workers will be greater
after 1896.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

Buyers and distributors says that
large proportion of the public of this
continent have only recently begun to
be consumers of canned salmon, n result
ascribed by the New York Sun, to the
recent innovation of packing perfect
steaks of the fish in oval cans.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

In Chicago was built the first great
elevators, boasts the Times Herald.
Before the grain elevator era handling
Of grain was excessively costly. Safe
and cheap storage not only lowered the
price of bread, but tranquilized the
commercial world by furnishing exact
knowledge as to the quantity of grain
on hand.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
DOLLARS on THE BARGAIN COUNTER,

DOLLARS on THE BARGAIN COUNTER.
1t has long been considered a fore
gone conclusion that two things, at
least-money and postage stamps
cannot be purchased in retail quauti-
ties under their face value. A Chi
cago business house, however, has
proved how fallacious this theory is
as regards money. The other day it
sold silver dollars at ninety cents q
piece and tive-dollar gold pieces at
S4.75 each. The primary object of
this bargain sale was not to get busi-
ness away from Uncle Sans Sub
Treasury across the street, but to
prove to the solons at Springfield that
things can be sold below cost, and
that no law can prevent such action.
1t was the twentieth anniversary of
the store, and to commemorate the
event money was put on sale at a
discount. The cashier of the store
made on an average five sales minute
from 0 o'clock in the morning till G
o'clock in the evening, and over S75,.
900 was discounted. The hungry
crowd of bargain hunters was not slow
to take advantage of the offer. Th'
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
WHAT KEEPS WOMEN YOUNG.

A woman is happy just in proper
ton as she is content. The sun has a
way of changing the spots upon which
it shines. Especially is this true of
our land, where one is up to-day and
down tomorrow, and vice versa. The
wisest woman is she who trusts in u
tomorrow, but never looks for it.
To sit down and wish that this might
be, that that woull be different, does
q woman no good. 1t does her harm
in that it makes her dissatisfied with
herself, unpleasant to her friends, and
makes her old before her time. Hap
piness is not always increased in pro-
portion to enlarge success. This may
sound like an old saw, and think il
is, but there is world of wisdom in
many an old proverb just the same.
Contentment is wonderful thing to
cultivate. There would be fewer pre-
maturely old women in the world if il
were given more of trial and it be-
came more universal quality in
womanhood. Ladies' Every Satur-
day.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

The American catfish has been
planted in the streams of Belgium nnd
aourishes there, to the delight of the
fishermen. 1t is regarded as n supe-
rior food fish.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17

Rev. DIR. Armory II. Bradford, the
well known clergyman and writer,
says his experience as preacher IN
various colleges leads him to believe
that there is more skepticism among
college women than among college
men
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-07-17
It is figured out that tho people of
England spend $3.50, 900 day mov-
inc

Maine unanimously suggests stur.
geon and sardines rs suitable articles
Of diet, now that beei's so high.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-07-16
The Treasury Gold Reserve.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 5.-Since
Saturday, the Treasury gold reserve
shows a loss Of t2lS,Vp, stinling az the
clt Sc OF business TO day, At Sl0l .OT, il3.
Mint Director Preston reports the total
coinage at United States mints during
the past fiscal year at 51'6ll,ll2 pieces
of a value IT s53,7l5.54), as follows: Gold.
si3.03s, AZ. silver. s., ,06s. $50, minor coins,
S7i2.594 or the silver coined s3.sJo.0ll were
in standard silver dollars.
Secretary Carlisle SAID this morning he
had no opinion 10 express OF the finan-
cIei Situation or as 70 the resumption Of
eoid shinments abroad. The general feel
ing among Treasury officials Is that he
small shipment 1l ss.rrday sro ,Ss S Sf %nrh yor
sub-Treasury, Is not the beginning OF
c.mtinuous and llrger shipments and
thlt the acknowledgment syndicate will
continue TO supply sterling exchange. ac-
cording TO the terms OF their contract.
which does not expire until OCTOBER lst
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