davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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early summer headgear tilted over the eyes. Bonnets for early autumn have bell. crowns and are trimmed about the brim with lace or embroidery. An erect plume of feathers on one side balances bows on the other. Taffeta ribbon is still preeminent and the finger width is enough for a bow. For seaside or country wear in late August or Septem- Der the Panama hat is driving the sail or off the field. Flowers or half-hand- kerchiefs of bright silk furnish the trimming. The sailor hat, so far as it survives, has to abandon it's stiff de corum and the severe simplicity of it's plain ribbon band. Its crown, as meta morphosed, is lost under outings of chiffon or dotted net and its brim is laden with hollyhocks or peoples. Sep tember millinery runs good deal to leghorns. An extremely quaint and picturesque hat that I saw yesterday was large leghorn twined up in the back with long streamers of black vel vet to loop under the chin. Spikes of scarlet cardinal flowers with green leaves stuck out from the curves of the pliant brim and were laid about the crown.
 Some very pretty late summer frocks appeared at an out-of-doors fete few days ago at Southampton, Long Island. A red and white striped silk was most effective. The ground was white with narrow perpendicular bars of crimson. The skirt was cut up on the left side to show a simulated underskirt covered with narrow white glace frills. There was bolero bodice with horizontally frilled white glaee front and reyers of crimson. The frillings were carried across the back and were arranged to give the usual look of width at the shoulders. Perfectly plain coat sleeves were used, with crimson and white silk vest and high lace collar. The hat was large, soft white straw trimmed with black ostrich plumes. The parasol of crimson and white silk, like the skirt, was edged with black and white lace friils.
 Equally noticeable was a ehina-blue and white muslin in half-inch stripes running about the skirt horizontally. On the white stripe was design of forget-me- and roses. Below the hips on either side were set side pieces of plain bhe musin in 'sun-ray" kilt
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red taffeta fastened with diamond but tons. This cape was edged with an al- most microscopic frill A Victorian bonnet, not of the extreme type, was worn, of red drawn muslin, with black feathers. The slender brunette who wore this costume was like a tropic butterfly in it's rich glaneing tones.
 A green foulard dress was worn at Manhattan beach recently, figured with quaint hieroglyphics in white. A band of Irish lace insertion was set about the skirt, which had no other trimming. The plain bodice was gathered into narrow belt and worn under A rudi mentary bolero of Irish lace over white satin edged with green. The plain tight sleeves were of lace and the hat was white chip trimmed with pink holly- hooks and white wings.
 White serge dresses are coming to the front in brilliant style. There is noth- ing prettier for country wear in early September. A recent example has n plain skirt with narrow gold braid out lining the seams. A modified mouiik jacket is edged with double rows of gold braid up and down the fronts and about the basque and collar. More braid is carried about the armhole and along the outer side of the sleeve. The jacket opens upon white silk vest laid in fine tucks. A folded sash of green glace silk repeats color note found in the hat which is of white Leghorn straw trimmed with white chiffon and green ribbons.
 White pique dresses will hold their own for some time to come. Bands of red and blue Russian embroidery are much favored for trimming them. Fou- lard will be worn until October and very dainty princess dresses are being made in that material. Among the earliest autumn wraps are cloth canes which are longer and fuller than last seasons. They have upstanding col lars and are lined with silk and trimmed usually with braiding.
 ELLEN OSBORN
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mer McKim, of New York. Mir. McKim is the oldest man in the party, his age being about B years. The others are about 25 years old.
 The balloon in which the party is travelling is declared to be the largest ever constructed. When inflated it measures from mouth to head Ills feet and it's greatest circumference is 228 feet. More than 1,600 yards of Pilgrim cloth was required for its manufacture. This cloth is sewed in three thicknesses and the bag is lined with oiled silk. It is also thoroughly coated with prepara- tions which make it impervious to the weather. These dimensions are much larger than those of the balloon of Prof. Andree.
 From the balloon hangs an immense car, the most commodious ever sent into the clouds. It is circular in shape, 24 feet in diameter and 12 feet high. In addition to living and sleeping apart ments there is complete plant of Don Carlos invention for generating gas and keeping the balloon supplied with power while in the air The capacity of the balloon is 195, ,000 cubic feet, and it cannot lose more than two per cent.
 Instead of having only one escape valve in the top, like most balloons, this one has four, placed equi-distant from each other in the sides. This novel ar rangement of valves enables the aero- nauts to adjust the balloon to the vari- ous winds and currents it encounters. It is steered by rudder of 16 fanges, which is so arranged that it may be moved at will around the car The rud- der may also be used as a propeller.
 "I have an improved apparatus for manufacturing hydrogen gases" said Don Carlos, in speaking of his trip, "and
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If l am successful. 1 beae,e the balloon will maintain an average speed of 60 miles an hour.
 ''lt 1t had not been for Miss Lee. thls expedition would not have been under taken" Don Carlos continued. T was astonished when she proposed such a trip, and remonstrated with her, but she said she could persuade someone else to take her, so i consented. Wom- en, as rule, are much more daring than men. Men hesitate long tune before they summon up enough courage to make a balloon ascension. out women seem to have no fear.
 Perhaps they do not fully appre- ciate the risk. But Miss Lee IS the most reckless aeronaut ot-her sex. The prospect of this trip simply fills her with delight, and l have become as en- thusiastic about it as she. l beheve we can show the pack travellers, who chmb wearily over the hills of the klondlke, that there is an easier, speedler and less expensive way to reach the gold fields; and 1 should not be surprised If our method of covering the journey is initiated by others before the close of the next season.
 So great is the confidence of num- Der or capitalists in this daring plan, that they are reported to have backed the enterprise to the amount of $20O,- 900. 1t Is further stated that among those interested In Miss Lees voyage are Henry Jacobs a well-known con tractor of Kansas City; John A. Low, of Millersburg, O., who is retired banker, and Frank Allmon, one of the wealthiest and most popular bonlfaces in the Buckeye state.
 After passing as far west as Bis marck, N. b., the "kfond1ke winch is the appropriate name borne by thls unique fballoon-will be brought to earth, so that it can be thoroughly over- hauled and reprovisioned. From Bis marck the journey will Joe continued to Seattle, and from the latter city, it's course will be straight toward Juneau, where the last descent will be made be- fore the final plunge northward to the gold fiel.ls. In the Klondike, Miss Lee intends to stake out claim and work it on shares with her fellow-voyager She expects to return. in her novel air ship, which she hopes to have laden with big cargo of pure gold.
 Whether this bold new woman pio- neer will meet with the success which she so confidently anticipates in her hazardous enterprise, is question that cannot yet be answered. Seldom in the history of ballooning has journey so long and adventurous been recorded, and never since the first ascension has woman had the hardihood to set out upon an aerial expedition of such mag nifcent boldness as this trip of Miss Eola Lee.
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ELLEN OSBORN'S FASHION LETTER.
Gowns for Late Summer with New Ideas for
 the Early Autumn.
Copyright, 1s97.]

ings extending to the ground. These gave decidedly original touch to the costume. The blouse bodice was worn under little square-cornered bolero of blue glace silk edged with narrow ruff fe. There were the usual tight sleeves, shoulder frills and high neck rushings. The large hat was of white straw trimmed with bluebells and white feathers.
 A very beautiful dress was a soft silver gray cloth, the skirt of which was cut close-fitting in front, with all the fullness thrown into double box plaits behind. A delicate traeery pattern in silver braid was carried about the hem and about the basque of the moujik jacket, which turned over in Medici collar and broad revers reaching the waist line. These were faced with white satin and covered with silver passe- menterie. The vest of white silk was tucked horizontally, and had at the throat that little touch of black chiffon without which in the eyes of many Peo- ple no summer dress is reckoned quite so pretty as it might be. A white lace parasol was carried.
 Open-meshed red canvas draped over rcd taffeta was the material of quaint. ly beautiful frock worn at breakfast given on board a yacht moored off a fine country place on the banks of the Hudson. Two narrow frills of red mousseline de soie were set about the skirt, with a considerable interval be- tween them. The blouse bodice was gathered to a tiny pointed yoke at the throat, of tucked mousseine de soie. A pointed cape of red mousseline covered with embroidery in black fitted about the shoulders and it's long narrow fronts were caught under a corselet of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-22
Immense Aerial Houseboat Soon to Start for
 the Klondike Gold Fields.
Latest Flight of Newest WomanPans of Miss Eoa Lee and Her Fellow VoyagersBaIoon Bigger Than Andree's-
 Two Story Compartment Car
Copyright. 1s97.l

The new woman is on her way to the Klondike gold fields, and being an es- sentially intrepid and adventurous creature, she has scorned the patient burro and the clumsy raft as a means of transportation and taken wing lit orally by the aid of specially prepared balloon. The new woman in the pres eni case IS personified by Miss Eola Lee, beautiful young lady who has expert cnced the ups and downs of an enthusi- astic aeronaut since she was a mere slip of girl. She is now at that age where woman is no longer q but will not permit herself to be called 30.
 Miss Lee is a new woman only in so far as she is enterprising and unconven- tional in her occupation. Modest in her bearing. brilliant conversationalist, with the refined features and easy man. ner of society belle, Miss Lee is the last person in the world one would point out as an absolutely fearless faeronaut; yet she has had many thrill ing adventures above the clouds, and can recount not few narrow escapes from death. She is as much at home III lHe SWlnglDg car or an lnHaIed gas bag thousand feet in air as most young women are in the drawing-rooms of their homes.
 Miss Lee is slender, graceful blond. somewhat above medium height. Her hair is of the wayy kind, light brown and rather closely cropped, and the beauty of her clear-cut features is en- shanced by a pair of bright blue eyes. Miss Lee was born in Lancaster, O. Her first ascension was made with the late Prof. Mcdonald at Cincinnati; she was then but 15 years of age.
 When the first news of the remark able finds in the British Colombian gold fields was spread throughout the coun-
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Not In Good Form.

A couple of stylishly4dressed young women met on Market street yestef' day, shook hands, kissed, inquired a17er each others health and proceeded to gossip. Suddenly one paused, anu staring at the other fin surprise, askeu.
 What in the world makes you looA so thin?"
 '"rhin? Why, I weigh more than ever did"
 But you look as slim as rail-
 The slender girl reflected momeh'' then blushed furiously.
 "Oh, let me get off the street. muse be fright" she exclaimed. T left my hips at home on chair."- San Frane's- co Post.
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for mixing oxygen and hydrogen to produce a non-condensing gas. The furnaces are cylindrical metallic cas- ings with asbestos Things, forming conically shaped frepot in the bottom of which are grates which support the charges of material"
 The car is divided into two stories, it's several compartments as comfortably equipped and furnished as small fiat. On the first floor are the generating and storage-rooms. In the latter are kept the voyagers' provisions, clothing and other necessaries. The general and sleeping apartments are on the second floor. and Miss Lees boudoir is char acteristically feminine in it's dainty appointments. Two other rooms are occupied by the men of the party. To assist them in passing the hours pleas antly the aerial argonauts have pro- vided themselves with musical instru ments.
 Miss Lee is an accomplished violinist, and Don Carlos is an adept banjo play CT; so if western farmers are awakened from their midnight slumbers by strains of music in the air, they need not imagine that company of disem- bodied spirits are lowering over their homesteads
 T believe said Don Carlos, discuss ing the question of aerial navigation, "that we shall find the upper air currents similar to the trade winds that prevail on the ocean. It will doubtless be necessary for us to experiment with the various currents before we find the wind we want. We shall carry at least 1000 pounds of water in a tank as bal last, which we may let out as circum- stances require. In this way we may attain greater heights, while by open ing a valve in the balloon we may descend to any desired level. 1 have faith that we shall demonstrate the correctness of my trade-wind theory.
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SCHOOL AND cAuPo,

-"Black Beauty" that o.,,
 story of horse, is used as sofatet book in the public schools of M; tssaalng oils. cap
 Mir. H. N. Higginbotham :.
 cago. has offered $500 in prizes 7. ~ Chi best essays on ''The Field Mns ao' sht by pupils of the public schools lssean as u city. - 'aal
 Bishop Thoburn now sufferv
 broken arm. While riding from N0l! loia 2 Tal, Northwest provinces, India .a'at t spect the missions in Eastern Kns - n he was thrown from his pony. 'aoa
 Uganda has advanced enough <. civilization to have hospital ea a..a 1T lished by the governments at Manoe s'sO ~ capital. It will have mems ward se'.as .. six beds, a woman's ward witb sla s beds, an operating room and sta loa room. A missionary doctor win lsois ~ charge.
 -Ex-Ambassador Bayard before :. turning home from England. nroo,.., Y a reproduction of the chair nsaa is0 John Bunyan in Bedford jail, as alsa copy of the charges under which ba s.. committed to prison, and proposes s' s' present them to the Baptists at VI, 4 mington, Del. -
 -Dr. Cheyne, of Oxford, the wall known student of the Old Testamaa.t will deliver a course of lectures af th. Union theological seminary, New Yorl in the autumn, on Israel After the FS odus." He is also to lecture in Brool, lyn, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and nss haps at other points.
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ry Miss Lees spirit of adventure be- an to disturb the tranquility of her aind. As the repetitions of the scenes Ff the old '49 days in this new El Dora-
 Q of the far north were narrated to her " fortunate friends who had struck $ rich.e iier determination to see this
 nd of gold with her own eyes became
 4ore fixed. Having made up her mind 20 to the Klondike, it was only
 atural that she should choose the bal son as the speediest and, to her mind,
 he most available means of travel.
 But Miss Lee found that it would be |ecessary to have balloon expressly
 4ade for such an unusual expedition, md that the balloon proper, as we'll as
 he car attached to it and all the ap-
 aratus used in connection with them, $ould have to be of special charac-
 er. Her balloon must be as strong and nioue in construction as the one in 5hich Prof. Andree set forth in quest | the north pole, but all this did not hunt the daring new woman aeronaut. #s.E Arriving in New York, Miss Lee made
 Tn noe1nsnts with Don Carlos Stevens, < l1alloonist of many years experience,
 ho with Prof. Charles La Strange. a
 oung but expert aeronaut. undertook build and launch a cloud craft that Sould not only withstand the buffeting the upper air currents, but would also eoyide a kind of suspended camp, inn 2 to cold, and light enough to easily carried by a gas bag of suit
 ple proportions. The building of this |eal airship is at last practicallsy ' Irnpleted. Miss Lees castle in the air $ is become a picturesque reality. and < ie is ready for one of the most dra- |atic and dangerous voyages ever
 la<le by woman since the world began
 Besides Don Carlos and Prof La i '31I.,nRe 5ranRe, Miss Lees travelling eonpan.
 sn are said to be pr. |. c. Held
 F. Chicago physician, and Morti-
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FAC-SIMILE OF oRRIs BENso
 LETTER.

cannot have the undivided time of special teacher, as Helen has had.
 Orris is at present enjoying his vaca- ton at his parents home in Grahams- vile, N. Y. The following letter, de- scriptive of his vacation pursuits there, was recently y received in New York, and is printed exactly as 1t was written: "Glahamsvine Sullivan Co.), July 6, 1887. My dear friend:
 Tt is nice place I have a nice mill in the river here I will write some things on my mill. like it. my pug dog is nice. dandy is his name he plays with me. he can play with ball and other things. he plays to bite me, but he do not bite hard I like the dog. he follows me. I have jumping jack on
 Your loving friend
 "ORRIS BENSON"
 This letter is really one of the most remarkable of Orris' achievements, as it was written with a pencil on ordinary note paper, without any frame such as blind persons use to guide their hands when writing. With frame, putting a letter in the right place is compara- lively easy. In this note some of the letters are placed on top of each other, and the dots of the small 'i's" are often far from the right place; but many of the letters are well formed. Let the reader try his own hand at it with his eyes shut, and see if he can do as we'll For that matter, blind boy who can rig up a play mill with a jumping jack geared to it can do almost anything.
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LETTER FROM oRRlN BENSON.
How Hoy Who Is Blind and Deaf
 Amuses Himself in Sumner.

The most remarkable student ever known at the New York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb is Orris Benson. He is 15 years old, tall and strong, but is quite blind and deaf. Until he went to the institution he was dumb also; in fact his mind was wholly undeveloped. Now he has learned to talk, although he can hear nothing; he knows arithmetic and his tory, and can write little tales and very intelligent letters upon a typewriter, which he uses with great skill. Dr. Enoch L. Fancher, president of the in- stitution, says that Orris has brain
 development equal to Helen KeIler's, and that with equal chances he would rival her as a wonderful case. But he
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She Wanted to Know.

It was at Asbury Park, and Jonnnlo Washer had ardently declared his ios' to Nellie Chaffee.
 T am wholly yours, Mir. Masher' =. happy girl replied; ssbut would " kindly leave your card before you sv. Not as guarantee of good faith, sas explained, "but I am curious to Kno'l Your full name. "-Tammany Times
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More Wisdom.

What is an old-fashioned patriot ?''
 ssWeIl. he is fellow who doesn't be- lieve that baseball ought to go ahead of fstatesmanship." ."-Detroit Free Press.
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4 Telling Occupatiop.

Rector's Daughter-What do you mean to do with your son James. Mrs Blobb? '
 Mrs. Blobb-Well, miss, he's going to work for Mr Light, the butcher, which IS fortunate, for James be desperate fond of animals.--London Punch,
The true northerner., 1897-07-28
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

DTbe coinage of silver dollars last
year was almost as heavy as under the
Sherman law. but the doubt concerning
their3 future value has disappeared
st. Louis Globe+Democrat.
OPresident Mckinley is meeting
with the penalty which attends promi-
nence. He cannot even have company
at the white house without exciting
the gossips.-Washingto Star.
OThey tried so hard in California 10
be courteous to Mr.. Bryan that one of
the papers suggested that all signs OF
prosperity should be temporarily eff
faced.-St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald.
1.-THE noise of reapers and thrashers
in Kansas is so great that the calamity
bowler has temporarily retired in dis
gust. Great crops and prosperity sure
win keep the howler at bigger dis
count than sixteen to one.-Chicago In-
ter Ocean.
CyThe calamity howlers in Ohio.
Kentucky and Indiana are having a
hard time with the stubborn fact that
the farmers of these states are likely
to realize at least S5.0o0.000 more for
their wheat than they obtained year
ogo.-To1edo Blade.
The true northerner., 1897-07-28
A CAUSE THAT is GROWING.
Bime tnIIism Viewed with Favor I'm
Europe.

Bime tnIIism Viewed with Favor I'm
Europe.
In his first speech at Los Angeles
William j. Bryan tried to be particular
ly humorous in his reference to Presi-
dent McKinley's action in sending spe-
cial ENJOYS TO Europe TO discuss BIZ
metallism and endeavor TO bring about
an international agreement on the SUBJ
ject. In his pleasant way Mr.. Bryan
declared that this proceeding made the
Mckinley administration "a laughing
stock.
If such an agreement should be
reached, William j. Bryan's occupation
would be gone. He would be out of a
job. There would be no reason for his
| political existence. He would cease to
be a popular idol and his present
chances of becoming plutocrat would
fade as the mists upon the mountain
top, fade with the advance of jocund
day.
1t is not so doubtful after all that
something in the direction here indi-
Gated will be done. In England
the sentiment in favor of bimetallism
grows apace. Mr.. Balfour is an avowed
believer in the white metal and his
uncle, the marquis of Salisbury, is un-
| derstood to hold similar views, though
he does not avow them so emphatically
as does his nephew. The growth of this
sentiment in England is regarded as
| hopeful sign by all honest bimetallists,
though it is observed that radical advo-
Gates of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver do not look upon it with the
same favor.
The American ENJOYS, Messrs. VOL
cott, Stevenson and Paine, were intro
duced to Lord Salisbury at the British
foreign Office and were received in
most cordial manner. This directs at
tention to the fact that the French en-
bassy in London has been instructed
to cooperate with the American spe-
cial ENJOYS in their negotiations with
Lord Salisbury. On this point the Lon
don correspondent of the Tribune says:
1T has been known that NJ. Meline and
the French ministry were outspollen
in expressing their sympathy for the
objects of their mission and in prom
ising that their concurrence would not
be wanting for the triumph of the cause
of national bimetallism on information
al lines, but it has not been suspected
that the French government would be
prepared to lend diplomatic as well as
moral support to this movement of
the Mckinley administration in favor
of bimetallism. 1t is, nevertheless, true
that these ENJOYS in their negotiations
with the foreign office and the chan
cellor of the exchequer will have the
hearty cooperation of the French and
American embassies"
When Mr.. Bryan hears of this he
may begin to doubt the policy of de-
claring that the Mckinley administra-
tion has made a laughing stock of it.
self by sending the ENJOYS to Europe.
Albany Journal