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The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-13
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
WELLSTED,S BODY FOUND NEAR
 THE TEMP0RARY BRIDGE.

Death of Mrs. E. B. c. Barnes Mrs. Ros-
 well B. Farren Recovers Sufficiently to
 Return Home-Union School District
 Meeting-Death of Mrs. Hayes.
 The body of Alfred F. Wellsted, who was drowned in Quinnipiac river Sum day, was found near the temporary bridge yesterday afternoon. It was dis covered by Charles o. Francis, who was driving across the bridge. It had been swept down the river by the out going tide. The body was recovered and turned over to the coroner.
 Elizabeth B. c. Barnes died very sud- denly at her home, 11S Grand avenue, of apoplexy. She was the widow of Henry R. Barnes, who died four or five years ago, and a daughter of the Rev. Saul Clark, for many years pastor of the old stone church in East Haven. Her age was about seventy years. Mrs. Barnes was a very estimable lady and leaves many friends. She was one of the oldest members of the Grand ave- nue Congregational church, having united in 1S4S. She leaves daughter, Mrs. Clarence H. Knox, who also re- sides at the home of the deceased, 11S Grand avenue. Another daughter, Mrs. E. D. Fowler, died last year. The only other near relatives of the deceased is Dr. Keep of Brooklyn, N r. Mrs. Barnes had been in poor health for the past five weeks, but was able Sunday morning to attend service at the Grand avenue Congregational church. She was returning from church at 12:30 D. m. and was ascending the steps of her home when she was suddenly seized with a shock, and falling over back wards, became unconscious, remaining in that condition until her death, which took place an hour later. She was at- tended by Drs. Hall, Boyer and Bald win. The funeral will be held from the home of the deceased, HIS Grand ave- nue, tomorrow at D. m.
 Wilbur S. Leete, who has recently taken deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, will preach at Grace church next Sunday.
 The relatives of Mrs. Roswell B Farren received letter yesterday stat.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-13

curtains washed. An expensive cherry case has been received to hold the big silver cup that was won by the Horse Guards relay team in the armory ath- letic tournament last winter.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

others the folds extend from the hem to
the waist. They are made of the cloth
takenb bias and doubled, but care must be
taken TO put them on evenly, or the en-
tire effect will be ruined.
With these skirts, bodices trimmed
in a similar manne will be worn.
Last week 1 told about the cut of
spring skirts. Let me now tell about
their Innings.
Folks with a plenty of wealth still use
silk for their gown Innings. But, alas,
so few are able to buy that material
that at first glance it would appear to
have gone out of fashion.
For ordinary folk the best skirt lin
ing is rustling percaline or rustleline.
The former has a beautiful finish and
looks quite as well IS silk, but it costs
20 cents a yard, which is rather expen-
sive for a skirt; the latter is coarse in
appearance, has a good sound and will
wearwell; price ten cents a yard. Should
this material also be too expensive
ordinary muslin may be bought for foul
cents a yard. 1t is not to be recon
nOlIuOOS AOWSbcES OCSduoS ~ - uPV "
wear out before your dress material
beside losing it's stiffness very quickly
Many women whoa year ago lined
their skirts with silk now face then
with that material about IL inches up
OF just on that part which shows. Two
yards is sufficient for such use, ant
taffeta should be bought at about x
cents a yard. The silk may be brighti1
coloring.
Following this hint in cheaper ma
terial, fine serge and alpaca face man,
skirts. If either of these materials il
used, however. it is well to select blacl
as the coloring. A black alpaca facing
looks fully as well as taffeta, and Ger
tainly wears much better.
Between the facing and the lining !
placed a narrow band of haircloth, nj
more than ten inches in width. l
serves to keep the skirt away from tn
feet and to give a decided contrast t
the scant width at the waist line.
While there seems to be little chang
in mourning from year to year, mucl
more latitude is now allowed in tn
selection of bonnet and gown. DurinI
the first three months of mournin
for a parent or husband the dulles
lack muat be STRICTLY adhered to. No
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
H LATEST FASHIONS.
Materials and Colorings for Gowns
Of Spring.
How to Lin Your New skirt
Mourning for Maid and Ma
trOn-some simple Dress
ing sncQues.

With lengthening days and the advent
Of warmer weather, coatsare becoming
even more rare than they were during
the winter. On cold days the streets
were bright with the coloring of gowns,
but now they fairly glow. Costumes
which a few weeks ago were worn in
doors now appear on the streets with
out amy attempt being made to veil their
gayety. Various shades ofpurple, bright
scarlet, green and gray are the colors
most worn, and these colorings promise
to be the favorites for the spring. Black
appears now and then, but always in
combination with some shade which
drives away its somber appearance. Dc
casionally Russian blue is seen, but
while that color is bright enough to full
fill the requirements, it is so generally
unbecoming that it's popularity is very
uncertain.
New materials are varied. The
smooth-faced drap d'ete will be a fa-
vorite for early spring, but with warm
err days the thinner materials-etar
mine, canvas, grenadine-will appear
The latter will be lined with gay silks
or sateens. Not only will gay lining
stuffs be selected, but these Innings will.
be covered with dashing punches Of
blossoms TO make them still more strik,
ing.
The new accordion-plaited or sun
ray skirt is being made up in draI
d'ete for early spring wear, and can b.
very reasonably bought at the stores
ready to be finished off at top and bot
tom. With the addition of a ~velveteel
orplaid shirt waist, they make very use
full and inexpensive spring gowns.
Folds of the dress material will b
much used to trim gowns for the com
ing season. Some costumes have but fv
or six folds ON the skirts, while o.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
a oooD OLD FLlNTLock.
Did Good Service During the Two
American Wars.

Did Good Service During the Two
American Wars.
Libbeus G. Cummings, of Prospect,
Me-, has come to the conclusion that he
owns one of the oldest guns in the counr
try. 1t is a fintlock, wrought-iron-bar-
relied kings arm, bearing Ghe inscrip-
ton "Georgius Secundas Rex, A. d,
1885," This barrel is AZ inches long and
the gun weighs II pounds and ten
ounces. This gun has been owned by
members of the Cummings family
since 1859, when Alexander Cummings
the great-grandfather of the present
owner, carried it on to the heights Of
Abraham under Wolfe, and helped t.
capture Quebec from the French. After
the treaty of peace with France the
owner started for his home in Maine
and was killed and scalped by the Nor
ridgewoc Indians. Alexander Cum
mings, Jr., went up and recovered thu
body of his father and regained thu
rifle by paying five gallons of rum for it
Later he was among the Maine volun
teers to fight England, and carried hi!
gun to Boston soon after the battle O.
Bunker Hill. He served through thu
revolutionary war in different parts o
Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and
came home unhurt at the end of tn,
war.
The gun has had an easy time of i
since 1888. When Alexander Cummings
Jr., died in 1880 the gun passed to hi
son, Alexander, the third Of the name
and when he died in 1892 the old frearn
went to Iibbeus along with an ole
g~randfather's clock, a flax wheel ant
distaff, a hand loom, two pairs o
wooden shoes and several antique
chairs, all of which were more than
century old. The gun hangs from tw,
sets of deer antlers oyer the big fire
place in the kitchen of the Cumming
homestead, and twice a year it is take,
down and oiled so that no rust shal
accumulate. Last year Isaac Cur
mings, the great-grandson of the orig
inal Alexander, took the old flintloc
on a fox hunt and succeeded in KILN
q fox with it. It did not kick or behav
badly at oil, but the young man saysh
was lame for a week from carrying s
much weight. The gun is to go t
Isaac's son, Alexander, now a boy Of !
years. The Cummings are of north {
ireland stock, and, though not rich,
would take a big pile Of money to bu
that old gun from them.-N. Y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
AN EEL PoT.
queer once OF q Great Govern.
ment Gunboat.

rhe queer once OF = Great Overn
ment Gunboat.
One of the most startling possible
ties Of the new ships of the United
States navy was shown by the recent
accident to the battleship Texas at the
navy yard in New York, when the con-
~nections of a sea-cock gave way, and
the engine rooms and some other COM
partments Of the ship were flooded with
water from the East river.
When the water came pouring
through the hole in the ships bottom
the engineer in charge of the starboard
tngine-room, which felt the first force
of the rush, closed the doors leading to
the port engine-room and then made a
hurried exit to the deck. The water,
coming in through an aperture more
than IS inches in diameter, spouted up
like a small geyser until the ship had
zone down as far as the mud under her
keel would permit, and then the flow
was only sufficient to make up for the
leakage from the engine room to the
other compartments.
The discipline on the ship was per-
feet, and, although all the electric lights
were put out, owing to the flooding of
the lighting apparatus, there was nc
disorder. It was not until after the
lights had been restored through con-
nections with the system on board the
battleship Indiana, which was lying
near the Texas, and the pumps had be.
gun bailing the ship, that the fact was
made clear that Uncle Sans cruisers
could be put to other uses besides the
killing of people and the destruction OF
property.
The engine room was full of wriggling
squirming, twisting cells, to say moth
ing of large numbers of small fish
which had been sucked in by the rush
ing water. AS an eel trap, in short, the
Texas was a complete success
While the pumps were at work the
surface of the water was continually
stirred by the strangers who had in
vaded the precincts devoted to the ma
chinery, and the Tapping and jumping
of the fish, with the smooth, sinuous
gliding motion of the cells, made a pic
ture under the glare of the electric
lamps which those who saw it will no
soon forget.
After the water had been lowered il
the engine-room so that the crank-shaf
and crank-pits were visible, the disturb
ance became greater, as, although tn
pump exhausting the water had a sue
ton aperture almost as large as the hol
through which the eels had made thei
way into the ship, a large number q
them escaped the drought, and wer
left stranded in the mud which had sci
tied in the pits.
These were counted on as a basis fo
a fish dinner for "Jacky, "fand althoug
there were not enough left to make
meal for the 400 and odd men on boarC
1t was evident that, as one of the me
put it: "There is no need for us I
~starve, for all we have to do is to ope
the seacock, take the bonnet Off til
fange, and the engine room will cate
all the fish needed ."-Youth's CompaI
ion.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

for dress-up, is not put on in the same
name however. 1t is single, and is
draped on in front of the bonnet under
bow trimmings. The remaining three
sides are finished with a hem two inches
deep, and two bias bands of crepe, the
cutter two inches wide, and the inner
band one inch.
Hats worn without veiis are very
much trimmed. A few have brims, but
the greater number are toques or tur-
bans.
Dull satin ribbon is used, and silk
flowers and osprey and paradise feath-
ers in dull black.
Of all that is devoted to the comfort
of feminines there is nothing quite so
delightful as the dressing sacque, into
which one snuggles when dressing her
hair. These sacques are usually tight
fitting in the back, with loose fronts
that hang untrammeled or are belted in
with ribbons.
Soft cambria, shaker flannel, elder
down, and cashmere are some of the
materials used. Very pretty ~eiderdowrl
jackets may be bought already made at
the stores for 95 cents, but these sacqueg
are SO easily and so cheaply made al
home that even a dollar is an extrava-
CANT outlay.
Shaker flannel is the best material to
use. The quality that a be- purchased
for six cents a yard is good enough.
Select dainty colors, as they look pref
tier and wash better than the darker
shades. The sacques need no lining
and are best when made with a yoke in
front.
One of the daintiest affairs imagin'
able is made of fine white null. accor
dion4plaited to a square yoke. The
sleeves are very wide, and measure tbs
sameat shoulders and wrist. They, too
are accordion-plaited. the fullness be
ing put in in that way. At the wristth'
sleeve is flowing, and is simply edgeC
with narrow valencienneE lace. Til,
bottom of the sacque is finished in thu
same manner
Another, entirely different, is of whit
shaker flannel striped with pale blue
The back is tigh.-1tting, the front fall
in three broad box plaits undera rathe
unique yoke, that hroadcns out owe
each sleeve and IS edged with a marrow
torchon.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

Fifty millions of dollars are annual
ay invested in this country in Soda
making apparatus, and the soda water
trust is capitalized at $13,ooo,0oo. The
date John Manners, Of New York,
originated in 1882 the idea of manu-
featuring gas with which to charge
water. The names Of those two bene-
factors Of mankind-the man who first
stirred together a little common bal-
ing soda and tartaric acid in water.
and the other, probably a woman, who
was struck with the idea Of dropping
some ice cream into her glass of soda
water-have not been preserved.-Chi-
sago Record.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
THE LIDlNG POLE.


Handy Going Down, But Stairs Used
Going Up.
Firemen use the sliding poles in the
engine houses when descending from
the dOrmitory floors to the street floor
about their ordinary affairs, just as
they do when hustling down for a fire.
1t is the quickest and easiest way to
go, and naturally they go that way
always. To a man not a fireman, how
ever, and so unaccustomed to it, the
commonplace use of the sliding pole
seems at first strange. He has seen it
usually, perhaps only, from below;'a and
the use of it is associated in his mind
with the sound of the gong, the pound
ing of the horses hoofs, the swapping
of harness and the general hustle of
preparation. To see the firemen come
dropping down the sliding poles into
this scene of activity seems all right,
1t seems like a part of the general
scheme. But if one who has been ac-
customed only to seeing them come
down the poles in this way should hap
pen at a time of quiet in the house to
be on an upper floor, and instead OF
seeing firemen shoot into view should
see one suddenly and silently disap-
pear, that sight probably would at
first be surprising to him.
At first it seems strange to see any
man, fremen or not, slide down a pole
to start for his dinner, for instance
but that is what the fireman does
and it is just the same if he is going
below for any duty in the house. He
goes down the pole habitually, because
that is the simplest and easiest way tC
GO. But he doesn't go back that way
easy as it is to slide down the pole, il
would be mighty hard work to shin vi
1t. When the fireman goes up, then
like everybody else, heclimbs the stairs
IN. Y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

No JOY in Ills CUP.
Wyld-The paper says Easter viii be
pleasant.
Mack-Not for me, Irefused to buy
my wife a new bonnet.-Bay City Chat
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
PREHISTORIC MAN.
Lower Races Arc survisnls OF Inter
mnlIarY Link.


Lower Races Arc survisnls OF Inter
m%nliary Links.
At the receAt meeting of the Royal
society in Edihburg, DR.. Munro read a
paper on Intermediary links between
man and the lower animals. He main
tanned that By the attainment Of the
erect posture and the consequent con-
version Of the limbs into hands and
feet, man became homo sapiens and in
a~ugurated a new phase Of existence, by
means Of which the manipulative
organs became correlated with the pro-
gressive development of the brain. In
the evolutionary career of man two
stages were therefore to be recognized.
First, that during which his physical
transformation had been effected, so as
to adapt him to bipedal locomotion;
second, that during which his mental
organization had become a new gov
erning force in the universe. The one,
being readily effected according to the
laws OF m-orphological adaptation, had
a short duration. The other, an ex.
tremely slow process, consisted of small
increments to his knowledge, acquired
by repeated experiences, and reasoning
from causes to effects and from means
to ends. The one was merely an ADJUST
ment Of physical contrivances to physi-
cal ends, comparable to that by which
the bird, the bat or the whale had con,
verted its limbs to their special pur
poses. The other had to be relegatec
to the mystic laboratory where thought
was converted into its material equiv
alent in the form of increased brain SUD
stance.
The transition from the semi-erect
to the erect posture could not, in poinr
of duration, be at all paralleled will
the ages during which this erect being
had lived on the globe. 1t was also prob
able that this transformation took plac,
in a limited area, so that the chances O.
finding the intermediary links of thi'
stage were very small. On the othel
hand, the probability of finding cree
beings with skulls in all grades Of de
velopment, from a slightly changed
simian type up to that of civilized mar
was enormously greater. He regardeS
the erect posture as the most conspic
uous line of demarkation between ma
and the lower animals. From thi
standpoint the Java skeleton woul
come under the category of human; bu
if this line of distinction was to be de
pendent in amy degree on menta
phenomena DIR. Dubois was perfectl
justified in regarding it as a trans:
tional form, because it was a long tim
after the attainment OF the erect pc;
ture before his religious, moral and il
tellectual faculties became human cha
acteristics.
: DR.. Munro believed that many foss
remains of man were intermediary linl
which marked different stages in IL
history of mankind, and the furtht
back such Investigations carried the.
the more simianlike did the brain ca
become. If the geological horizon
the Java man was correctly defined
the border land between the Pliocel
and Quaternary periods they could for
some idea how far back they had
travel TO reach the common stock fro
which men and ~anthropoid animals b;
sprung. The lower races of to-day we
also survivals of intermediary lin
which had been thrown into the sit
eddies of the great stream OF evolutio
Nature.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

made of it, but it is too expensive to ges
into general use.
Widows wear white null rundown
collars and cuffs, finished with an I'M
obtrusive hemstitching. In their bon
nets the ruche is now usually worn, as
it is very certain to be becoming.
Mourning headgear is shown in great
variety. Veflings come in crepe, nuns
yelling, a fine grenadine, and, rs a nov
city for spring, a coarse-mesaed net.
Crepe wells are little seen. They r apt
to cause headaches, and sJazd the
weather very poorly. Grenadine and
nuns veilings are fnishedof in the good
old-fashioned way, with a broad hem
at the bottom and a narrower on top
The net veil, which is intended merely
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

Even black silk is allowable Jet black
cashmere or drap d'ete are the only ma
terials permitted, and they must be
made up severely plain.
After that time other goods may be
selected. Coarse mohair, cheviot, bril-
liantine figured with dull silk, may all
be used if they are not blue black. Now
that trimmed skirts are fashionable,
these gowns may be adorned with folds
Of dull silk.
Crepe is not generally used as a trim
ming. Here and there an entire gown y
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17

The rhyme should be- AZ natural e.
sentiment.
All Of our best hymns haye been
handed down to Us from famous Eng
issh authors. With but 8 few exceptions
there have been none written Within
the century. Did these old suthors ex
haust the field or has the spirit o.
sacred poetry departed2 Who writes
a hymn now? But even some Of these
old popular English hymns are quite
faulty or unfortunate IN expression.
When I vas a boy used 70 hear Come
thou Fountof every blessing sung very
often in our church and I got the idea
into my head that angels tongues were
made of fire, for the hymn says. Sung
by flaming tongues ebove.H I did not
like that nor do I like it yet. Thatkind
Of music is q little To- hot for mOrtals
to appreciate and adds nothing to the
attractiveness Of Heaven.
I reckon I am hypercritical about
such things, but I can't help It. When
the SMILES in verse are unnatural they
distress me. AS much as I admire Long
fellow I have never been reeonciled 70
the lines:
'.As a feather is waited downward
From an eagle in his flight"
There is nothing like the falling Of
darkness in that to me. It is a strain Of
thought; might as well have said=
From a buzzard in his flight" and that
would have been horrid. The coming
Of darkness is a big thing and shroilds
the earth from horizon 70 horizon, but
the falling of a stray feather from o
bird is a very little thing-too little for
a comparison. But reckon it is mean
to find fault with a poet who wrote so
many beautiful poems. I was only
eliminating. Sometimes a change Of cx-
preston brings us down suddenly from
the sublime to the ridiculous. Web
ster's last words were whispered: Il
still live" but a young man I knew un-
dertook to repeat them and said;
"Boys, I'm not dead yet" and all the
solemnity disappeared.-Bil Arp, in
Atlanta Constitution.
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stronr securities.

Jinks-Johnson wants to borrow $50
from me. Do you think he is good for
that amount?
Binks-Yes, with proper securities.
"Yhat securities would you sug-
gest?"
"a chain and paddock, a pair of hand
cuffs and adog. That would be enough,
I think to hold him."-N. Y. Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-04-17
rirhtr-one below 1ero.

The lowest temperature ever recorded
vas on December 80, 1871, and was ex-
perienced by Prof. Gorochon. He was
It Werehojansl, Siberia, and the tenn,
)erature was 81 degrees below Eer~-
chicago Record.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-15
TUESDAY NIGHTS CONTEST.
O'Leary and Peterson Will Meet in
the Arena of the N. A. c.
Both Men Training Hard to Get
Into Condition and Lively Mill
Is Promised-Two Good Prelimi-
naries Arranged-Other Boxing
Notes of Interest to Local Lovers
of tho Sport.

The tournament of the Metropolitan
Athletic Club Tuesday evening, the
18th inst, promises to be one Of the
most interesting ever given under the
auspices of that organization. The
contest of the evening will be between
Pete Peterson, of Boston, "The Terri
BILE Swede," and James oLeary, OF
Cincinnati.
OLeary obtained al decision over the
Swede in Sistersville'recently, and the
dissatisfaction over that contest result
ed in signing articles to appear before
the Metropolitan Athletic Club.
Both men are anxious for the de-
cision. and both are training hard. The
Swede has established headquarters at
the Beabout Club, and has made many
warm friends. O'Leary is being train
ed at Billy Sherry's place by Buck
Stelzer, and is already under weight