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Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31

and slightly depending at the knee. On
one hip there is Il row of buttons and bands,
and with these few preliminaries she Is ready
for her dress. If a corset cover Is worn at
all. that Is the merest skeleton bodice, with
no skirts below the waist line, and is just
as often woven OF silk or thin Isle thread
like the under vest. When the hour comes
to go on; the silk boomers are slipped OFF
and a pair OF wooden knickerbockers, made
exactly like a mans golf trousers, but hung
on a yoke, are drawn on. Tney are not
at both knees. A pair of high bicycle shoes,
are buttonch up over the calf of the legs.
Upon this falls the dress skirt, and for the
first time a woman walking is In actual COM
fort. By exchanging chemise, pantaloon.
cotton p~etticoat and flannel skirt for tights
and knickerboCkers, neatncss and perfect
warmth have been gained. The same woman
might on a cold day hang a dozen petticoats
from her waist. and some Of them ponderous
padded ones, but she never could be truly
warm. She would carry just triple the
weight needed, and b. obliged to lift yards
Of heavy material over every mud puddle,
where now her top dress skirt is her only
care.
In these days OF p~etticoat independence
a woman can pack a dozen changes OF un-
dergarments in the space one ueed to oc-
cupy. She keeps her shoes just twice as
clean, for there is naught now to whisk
niue or dust over them; she exchanges her
winter woods for summer Isle thread, and at
the counter where big nounce5 used TO tempt
her eye she soberly asks to see the latest
thing in trousers. These are for sale In
every shade OF silk, made OF the new dark
blue, red and green ribbon serge. that
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31
COSTUMES ron HoTsEMAIps.
Four Neat Dresses for the Tidy serv-

fOuT Neat DrcSNef TOT Inc THY SCrN-
ant. .in
Nothing gives a home n greater air Of
comfort and refinement than neat and
tidy servants. OF course, in wealthy fami-
lies the livery Is most Important, but there
is no excuse for people with a fair income
not giving attention to the appearance Of the
maids. Even when doing her toughest work
there is no reason why a house servant
should not be neat, and If the mistress
takes an interest in her attire the maid
will have more self respect.
Four dresses are needed-three for the
morning and one for the afternoon. The
morning gowns are the working ones and
must be of cotton, cambria, gigham or per-
cale-and should be either pink and white
or light blue and white. in stripes, spots,
plaids, or small checks. Eight yards Of
material. with three yards Of lining and one
one dozen white or pink or blue bone but
tons should not make the price exceed $1.50
for each frock. Three yards around the
bottom are sufficient to allow, for full skirts
are unnecessary and are in the way. The
bodice should be trinity fitted, the sleeve
neatly cut and placed in the gown, and skirt
and bodice Joined with a plain band of the
material two inches wide. A turnover
collar and cuffs finish the bodice and with
a nice apron and muslin cap the morning
attire Is fresh and neat and not expensive.
A black frock for the afternoon is a nee
essary part of a first class maids outfit.
This can be made of cashmere, alpaca, serge,
or almost anything that Is not figured. Six
yards of material. double width, will be
ample, and this should be neatly made,
with plain skirt and bodice, tightly fitting,
and neatly buttoned down the front, with
small black, gold or silver buttons. The
sleeves are plainly finished, for turn back
linen cuffs are to be worn. and a tidy linen
collar, half hidden under the narrow collar
band. The linen apron is a trife more
elaborate than the morning one, and can
be finished with a little rufle or embroi-
derry, a bow and long ends, and straps to go
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31

Nancy Jones of marlborough. Tenn,
whose husband was Darling Jones, a
private in one OF the North Carolina
regiments, is the youngest of the rev.
dictionary widows, being now about
SO years of age. The other five are
Nancy Cloud, who is living at Ctum, Va,
and is the widow OF Sergeant William Cloud,
of Captain Christians Virginia line; Esther
S. Damon of Plymouth Union, VT, whose
husband was Private Noah Damon of Massa-
chusetts; Mary Snead. living at Parksley,
Va, widow OF Private Bowdoin Snead;
Nancy A. Weatherman, who lives at Elk
Mills. Tenn, and whose first husband was
Robert Glascock, a ffer in one OF the Vir-
ginia regiments, and Rebecca Mayo, living
at Newbern, Va, widow of Stephen Mayo,
a soldier from Virginia. That these women
can be the widows of revolutionary soldiers
Is readily understood in view OF the fact
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31
CATCHY STYLES FOR SPRING.
The Trreprcssible shirt waist and
IT'S Acccssortcs.

-
The Trreprcssibie shirt waist and
ITS Accessories.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.--Just as the dimlties,
will open the prelude to springtide head
Binghams and organizes blossom forth in
the shop windows exactly on the first week
OF the new year, so is the shirt waist season
now at hand. while next week we can con-
Hdently expect to see what new deviations
wear. Just about five years ago the shirt
waist. rs n garment for ease and yet ele-
gance, was a completed work of art and
comfort. Succeeding seasons have not at
all improved upon the splendid first per
fected realization OF n nice, warm weather
bodice. Some changes have been made III
size Of sleeve, gradations Of cum and collar
and material used. but nothing radical has
been dared, and. as to the shirt waist going
out OF fashion. that is n rumor to be less re-
garded than the goulish whimperings Of
wind In the keyhole.
Less alteration than usual has been made
upon the pattern of those we wore last sum-
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over the shoulders give a nice air to this
attire. The cap, too, may be a little more
dressy, and can also be furnished with
streamers and a bit of very simple lace.
With four such dresses a housemaid can
make a most satisfactory appearance. Hay
ing these will save much wear and tear
of her own costumes, and she will find it
more economical. If the mistress has to
furnish these simple dresses she will not
grudge the money when she realizes how
greatly the tone of her house is elevated
by her tidy servant, whose hair is neat
under her cap, and whose dress is ire
nroon che b1a
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31
WIDOWS OF THE REVOLUTION

Seven Pensioners Whose
Served Under Washington.
"Seven women are still drawing pensions
as the widows of men who saw active serv-
ice in the war of the revolution; women
whose husbands served under Washington
more than 100 years ago. writes Clifford
Howard in the Ladies' Home Journal. 9TH
eldest of these surviving widows of the rev.
olution is living in Los Angeles, Cal. She
is Mrs. Lovey Aldrich, now in the ninety
eighth year of her age. Her husband was
Private Caleb Aldrich, who was born in the
year 1863, and served as a soldier boy in the
New England campaigns Of the war. Mrs.
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that their husbands we're well on in years
when they married. As, for example. when
Esther sumner married Noah Damon in the
year 1SS5-hfty-two years after the close OF
the war-she was but 81. while he was as.
The last revolutionary widow pensioner who
had married prior to the close OF the war,
and had therefore actually lived during rev
dictionary times, was Nancy Serena. widow
of Daniel +. Brakeman She died about
twenty-seven years ago. only a year or two
after her husband. who was the last Of the
revolutionary soldiers on the pension roll"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31
%yERMONT's NEW WOMEN.
They Wear BIOOmers and Kick Foot
Bull Despite Protests.

st. Jchnsbury. VT, is the staidest old
town in the United States. THE streets
have six rows of trees in them. When a
stranger wants a drink he must get a ply
stefan to prescribe. st. Johnsbury has a fe-
male seminary, and the Green Mountain girls
declare now that their girls are the finest
foot ball k.akers in the country. They
don't play match games. but they kick every
afternoon. Although their boomers are the
sorrow OF the elders of the town, the girls
insist they are the only proper foot ball
garb, especially as they admit OF padding
which skirts don't. The girls have APP
peared more than once with scratched and
plastered faces. and a st, Johnsbury belle
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IN THE ROBES OF A DEAcoNEss.

The Work of Miss Agnes Briggs in
the SIums of New York.
One of the leading charity workers in the
slums OF New York is Sister Agnes, known
to the world as Miss Agnes Briggs. To look
at her one would never think her capable
Of doing the enormous amount of labor which
she accomplishes. She is a dainty, sweet
Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-31

with several strips Of pink plaster on her
white brow or pink check is a regular
heroine at afternoon teas.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30

DIED.

MURPHY.-On Wednesday. September -
Margaret, the beloved wife of Patrick
Murphy and mother of the late Sister
of Charity Rose Adele.
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from her late residence. No. 156 Wayne
street on Saturday, October z, ct nine
Al M; thence to st. Bridget's Church
where a solemn requiem mass Will be Of
fered for the happy repese OF her soul
TTTRNER-At his late residence No. 2o3
Bay street. Jersey City. on Wednes-
day, Sept. %, 1897, James. beloved son
of Mary and the late Andrew Turner,
aged 20 years.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
EWALD.-At her late residence. No. 51s
tuesday. September Is. iss7. Mamie.
wife of Charles Ewald. aged Il years
and 29 days.
Relatives ana friends of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
Lutheran Church, Fairview, near Bergen
avenue. on Friday, October !. at two
P. M.
PRITCHARD.- Suddenly, on Monday.
September q, 1887, Horace Foster.
PritcRard. and husband Of Ada 9:
Williamson, aged 50 years and
months.
Funeral services held on Thursday. at
7;so P. NJ. at HI his late G residence. NO. 4ez
Carriages in waiting at Mott Haven
Station on arrival of 6:55 p. NJ train from
Grand Central Station.
ROTHHARDT,-On Tuesday. September
2S. 1897. Martha. beloved wife of Jacob
Rothhardt, aged 81 years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral from her
late residence, No. Chestnut avenue
Friday. October ]. at two o'clock.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
YELLOW JACKS RAGE
Up To Yesterday He Had Claim.
ed Fifty Nine Lives and
There Were 682 Cases.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 80, 1S97.-A sum
mary of the progress of the yellow fever
epidemic up to the close of the day, yes
terday, made in the Office of the Surgeon
General of the Marine Hospital Service,
gives total of 6S2 cases and So deaths
in the entire country, distributed by cities
and towns as follows
Edwards, Miss, I'll cases and s deaths;
New Orleans, 263 cases and "a deaths;
Biloxi, Miss, 1876 cases and Z deaths; Mo-
bile, Ala. Cup to Tuesday night, 50 cases
and deaths; Scranton, Miss, SO cases
and deaths; Ocean Springs, Miss, %
cases and deaths; Barkley, Miss, 10
cases and deaths; Carlo. ILL.,, cases; At
lanta, Ga, Louisville, KY; Porkington,
Miss, and Beaumont, Texas. one case
each. the case at Louisville and Beaumont
proving fatal.
Official reports from the yellow fever
districts to the Surgeon General of the
Marine Hospital Service for yesterday
give the total new cases and deaths Tor
that date as folloWS:--
Biloxi, Is cases; no deaths. Edwards,
"a new cases; no deaths. New Orleans,
25 new cases; four deaths. Scranton. 3
cases; one DEATH Ocean Springs, case;
no deaths; Mobile, report delayed. Camp
Fontainbleau, refugees admitted. No
additional suspects in Cairo or Atlanta
and no cases at either place.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
JAMES O. CARTER SPEAKS.
Platt's Poodle and the Tammany'
Who-Is-It Severely Scored.

BY Cable to The Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 80, 1SS7.-Mr. James G.
Carter the well known New York law
yer and former president of the American
Bar Association, in an interview here to-
day with representative of the Asso-
ciated Press, on the political campaign
in New York city, said:-
1.-THE nomination of General Tracy (for
Mayor of Greater New York; was un-
doubtedly made to force the Independents
to recognize the Republican machine
but it will not accomplish its purpose, for
such an arrangement would be a viola
tion of the vital principal of the indepen-
dent movement, which is that party gov
ernment should not be applied to muni-
cipal affairs. Such bargain would pre-
sent to the voters proposition to substi-
tute one party machine for another and I
am sure the Independents have not
yielded.
'Tammany will nominate anyone Croker
thinks can win, regardless of what his
views may be or may have been on the
silver question, or any other question
Only a division of the friends of good
government can restore Tammany to
power. 1t seems impossible that good
citizens can consider the triumph of
the party machine to be more inn
portant than the good government of
the city. The Germans have peculiar
views and would seem to be placing the
question of Sunday opening paramount
over honest municipal administration.
They magnify an issue of small impor-
tance. But, it must be remembered,
that Sunday amuSementS are everything
to them. The Raines law is not likely
to enter much into the discussion; but
it will count. The result is that any
movement to change it materially is not
likely to succeed, because the law is of
such great pecuniary advantage to the
politicians, through the inspectorships it
creates and other expenditures"
Mr. Carter was asked if he would par
ticipate in the New York campaign and
he answered.
81 will do everything in my power to
secure a good government for New
York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
oALIFoRNIA's INLAND SEA.

PHOENIX, Dispatches from Tucson
says that passengers who came in on the
belated California train state that the
cause of the delay was floods in the Sal
ton basin.
1t was the rumored belief that the wa
tiers of the Gulf of California had broken
over the sand bar which separates the
Gulf from the basin. If this should
prove to be true, Southern California will
have the largest inland sea on the conti-
nent, some places more than 300 feet deep
and the waters would extend up through
the Gulf to a point opposite Yuma, con-
yerting that town to a port of the inland
sea- In the meantime many miles of the
Southern Pacific would be submerged.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
TIE COAL TRUST CASE.
Argument at Saratoga ON the Appeal
from Judge Chester.

from u0Sc Cne9ters
SARATOGA, N. Y, Sept. 80, 18a7.-The
third department of the Supreme Court,
Appellate Division, was filled with brill
liant array of counsel today when the
so-called coal trust case came up. The
session was devoted to hearing argument
en- the appeal of Attorney General Han.
cock against Judge Chester's decree,
which vacated the order to take testi-
mony before a referee in order to deter
mine whether or not proceedings should
be begun against various coal railroads
accused of violating the anti-trust law.
The proceedings were taken under the
provision of Chapter 3S7, Laws of 1897.
The counsel included David Wilcox and
Lewis E. Carr, for Robert NJ Olyphant;
Turner, Mcclure and Ralston, for Samuel
Sloan; John B. Kerr, for Thomas r.
Fowler; DeForest Brothers, for j. Rog-
ers Maxwell, and Deputy Attorney Gen
eral John c. Davis and j. Newton Fiero,
for Attorney General T. E. Hancock, ap-
pellant. Presiding Justice Charles e.
Parker informed counsel that the Court
would sit until two o'clock this after
noon and that they must divide the time
between themselves. Deputy Attorney
General Fero then read his brief.
When Mr.. Fiero concluded, David Will
cox read his brief on behalf of Robert
M. Olyphant He was followed by Turn
er Mcclure for Samuel Sloan.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
TAMMANY'S NOMINEES.

NEW YORK, Sept 80, 1Ss7.-The Mail
and Express" says that Leader John G.
Sheehan officially stated today that the
following ticket would be nominated at
the Democratic City Convention tonight;
For Mayor, Justice Robert A. Van
Wyck.
For Comptroller, Bird S. Color, Of
Brooklyn
1t is expected that a prominent German
viii be named for President of the Coun-
Gil.
Robert A. Van Wyck is presiding JUS
tice of the City Court. He was elected
in 1889, is a prominent jurist and sup
porter of Tammany Hail. According to
the Mail and Express" Mr.. Sheehan
said today that he wanted it understood
that Justice Van Wyck voted for Bryan.
Bird S. Color is a member of the Young
Democracy of Brooklyn. He has never
held any public office and is partner in a
banking firm in this city.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30

According to the returns just PUBLISH
ed by the Pasteur Institute, at Paris,
fully ten per cent. of the patients treat
ed there owe their injuries to the bites
of cats afflicted with hydrephobia. These
wounds are considered by the medical
officers in attendance to present a greater
degree of danger than the bites Of mad
dogs, not because there is any difference
in the virus, but because, in the first
place, the teeth of cats, being more point
ed than those of dogs, intiict a deeper
wound, and also because mad dog
usually fastens his fangs into the arm,
the hand or the. leg. while the cat in
variably jumps for the face of the per-
son it attacks. The nerve centres are
far more exposed in the face than in
either the arms or legs, and hence the
virus enters into the circulation more
rapidly by means of a bite in the face
than through one elsewhere in the body.
1t may be added that the returns of the
Pasteur Institute for the last year show
that one per cent. Of the patients who
have submitted themselves to treatment
have been bitten by mad cows.-Newark
Evening News.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
.DEFBNCB AGGRESSIVE.
Luetgert's Expert Throws s
Bombshell Among the Dry
Bones Of the Case.

CHICAGO, Sept. 30, 1S97.-Public inter-
est in the Luetgert murder trial continues
with unabated intensity. All streets seem
to lead to the Criminal Court Building.
Luetgert was in good spirits again to-
day. The testimony of DR.. Airport yes
terday afternoon was greatly to the big
sausage makers liking. DR.. Airport de-
clared the femur, which Prof. George
Dorsey of the Field Columbia Museum
identified as that of a human, was the fe-
mur of hog. DIR. Airport is a professor
of descriptive and comparative anatomy
in the Northwestern University. The dis
pute between these two eminent authors
ties as to the bones has brought about a
crisis in the case. If the jury believes
DR.. Airport, the conclusion can hardly be
escaped that no human body Was boiled
in the vat in Luetgert's factory
When DIR. Airport went on the witness
stand again today he created another
sensation by declaring that the temporal
bone which Prof. Dorsey identified as
human, and from it's formation probably
the right temporal. bone of a female, is
not human. DR.. Airport emphatically re-
marked that there was no indications up
on which to base the conclusion that the
bone was from the skull of human be-
ing.
He believed it came from the skull of
some lower animal.
He also declared that the phalanges in
evidence belonged to the lower animal
kingdom.
Dr.. Airport did not know what was in
store for him in the DISCRIMINATION.
Prof. Dorsey had prepared for the prose-
cution a list of questions that stirred the
Northwestern University professor when
they were propounded by Assistant
States Attorney McEwen. The questions
framed with view to testing Or. ALI
ports knowledge of osteology. Dr. All
port had prepared for the defense the
cross-examinat tion of Prof. Dorsey and
the latter. evened matters with ven
geance today.
DR.. Airport made a statement on the
stand today that caused a profound SEN
sation for a few minutes He was ex-
amining the temporal bone which had
been identified by Prof Dorsey and pro-
nounced by the latter not only tenn
woman.
THAT bone is not a temporal bone
either of human or of the lower order
of animals" declared DR.. Airport, gazing
at the exhibit intently. 1T is a compost
ton of bones put together by artificial
means The trace here which Prof Dor
sey said was the outline of a facial nerve
is a fibre of animal matter with which the
bones are stuck together
The statement was received with some
thing akin to dismay by the prosecution
for moment. Luetgert leaned back in
his chair and laughed.
Assistant States Attorney McEwen be-
gan ho. cross-examlnation of the wit
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
VESSEL FOR CANAL COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 80. 1ss7.-Admiral
Walker chairman of the Nicaragua Canal
Commission, had a conference with Sec
retary Long, today, regarding vessel to
take the Commission to Nicaragua and
to be used by it during the stay of the
Commission in the South. The Admiral
has made request for the gunboat New
port. which has been fitted up for the
Naval Academy, and which will answer
all purposes of the Commission. 1t has
not yet been determined that this vessel
can be spared. The Commission expects
to start South at an early day, and is
now delayed on account of the Carter
Investigation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
BLoODsHED Al THE MINE

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. Sept 80, 1s97.-Today
when the miners employed in the Madi-
son Coal Company's shafts, at Edwards
vile, ILL.,, were going to work, they were
attacked by mob of strikers who were
egged on by thirty or more women SYM
pathizers. The strikers threw stones
and cayenne pepper and beat their oppo-
nents with clubs, but no shots were fired
and nobody was killed. One miner, how
ever, had his skull crushed and numerous
others were cut and bruised. A clerk
of the Madison Coal Co. was blinded
by pepper.
The miners who fought as best they
could with their tin dinner pals. were
finally allowed to go to work. After the
attack the strikers and the women form
ed in line and marched through the
streets of Edwardsville shouting and
singing. No arrests were made.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-30
I'm Jer.ey CftY.
TO PROTECT KLONDIKE GOLD.
The Bear Receives orders to Guard
tho Portland From Deapoflers.

PORT TOWNSEND, Wash, Sept. 80,
1S97.-Accordng to Captain Munger of the
cutter Grant, it is the Bear and not the
Corwin that will guard from all despoil-
ers the tons of Klondike nuggets that
the steamer Portland is to bring from St.
Michael's.
Orders for Captain Tuttle to thus act
as policeman of the seas were taken to
him by the Corwin, which left Unalaska
for ST. Michaers the same day the Grant
started for this point September 10, the
Alaska Commercial Company's steamer
Bertha brought to Unalaska news from
st. Michael's up to the 18th instant.
There were over one hundred men from
the Upper Yukon waiting to come down
on the Portland, and according to sailor
gossip, they had "all kinds of gold,'' but
the officers of the Grant say that accord
ing to their best information no vast
amount of treasure will be brought down.