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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10
The Alfonso XIII. Arrives st Havana.

HAVANA, March z. - The Alfonso
KILL, of the Spanish line, with l5o0
soldiers from Spain, arrived at this
city Sunday. Rockets and batteries
for IN hour were never silent. and
bugles sang accompaniment 70 the
steeple bells ashore.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10
Horses for New York.

SHEIBYvIILE, KY, March 4.-The
Maple Grove stock farm shipped to
Kellogg's sale in New York Wednes-
day night by express six blooded trot-
ters. valued at 42O, 200.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10

Foreign Count-They tell me there
are great many cases of insanity among
the men in your country.
American Heiress-It is useless to
deny it. A great many of our men do.
marry for love.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10
Turkey's New Minister.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, March 5.-Ai Fe-
rouck Bey, tho newly appointed Turk
ish minister to the United States, has
started for his post at Washington.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-03-10

"Your wife is forehanded little crea.
ture."
"Forehsnded The day stayed at
home on account OF the big snow storm
she made me get out the lawn mower
and oil it.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
I'm Time Of War"

The following prayer has been licen-
sed for use in the public services OF
the Protestant Episcopal church
so Lord God, who sittest on the
throne, judging right, inspire our
liverty of the sons of God, the good OF
all the mankind and the coming of thy
kingdom.
"Bless with thy continual presence
the soldiers Of our army and the sailors
of'our fleets: send them Thy holy spirit
of fortitude, that they may be
faithful to their country and
true to Thee: shield them
from all dangers, both froE sonl
and body: from psrils by land and by
sea; from the deadly pestilence and
from the violence of the enemy, and
cover their head in the day of battle
with the shadow of thy wing: restore
the sick and wounded to health and
home; bring to the dying the message
of life eternal; comfort the Borrowing,
relieve the distressed, and hasten the
coming OF peace in all the world,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
OIn setting itforth . the clergy OF his
diocese the Right Rev. DIR. Henry y.
Satterlee says: while we pray most
earnestly for our faithful soldiers and
sailors, let US not forget to pray also
that through the war and after the
war our whole nation will realize her
responsibilities, and rise to the high
ideal of the work that God has given
her to do in helping 10 civilize the
world
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
points For Women.

The two RACES 10 Paris just now are.
first. for shaded silk, which is worn in
sashes, in belts. in hats and in parasols:
and, secondly, for collars which, tight
ly fitting both front aud back, have
two little points on either side which
reach almost to the ears. Sunshade
handles are study in them selves this
year; many of them are certainly a
fortune in themselves. Real stones are
used for studding the handsomest OF
them, while the carving and chasing
of many OF the Others are exquisite.
The elaboration of the muslin frock ap-
parently knows no limit, while the
greatest variety is insured by the
many ways OF mounting them. Linen
and pique frocks are also developing
remarkable possibilities this year.
They are hsndsomest when made in
strictly tailor fashion, with fancy uu-
lighthouses. In hosiery there is de-
cided tendency to return to the white
stockings quite natural reaction sf-
ter the fancy for gsudy stockings.
Light blue foulard is the material of
a smart gown. The foulard is pattern
ed with q wavy design in white, while
the trimming consists of narrow black
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13

velvet ribbon and white guipure. Upon
the skirt the velvet. in triple rows.
edges the three deep flounces, the up
permost flounce being headed by a
deep, irregular shaped band of the
guipure. This band is on either side.
/ ordered with the velvet ribbon,
gathered very full. The bodice has q
pair of velvet edged ruffles matching
the skirt flounces. and which, hanging
from the yoke, are a graceful finish to
the bust. The corsage proper is of
the foulard, drawn - fit the figure
tightly, and girdled at the waist with
a black velvet alt. The yoke consists
of ere -swise tucked white lisse, and is
transparent. The stock is of tucked
lisse, with couple Of rows of the black
velvet II give it character. The
sleeves, OF the foulard,. are banded by
double rows Of the velvet ribbon from
shoulder I, wrist, while the yoke is
framed by band of the guipure,
bordered with ribbon ruching. Ac-
compsnying this gown is a hat Of
white, trimmed with blue aud black.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13

and / dislike her almost in proportion
to my liking for her in the first place.
1t seems to show such an unpleasant
disposition. l am sure you cant I'M
derstand it"
Eyes 1 can exactly" said the older
woman. you are only learning what
we all of US have to learn in time. You
are learning that people who make
real and satisfactory friends are hard
to find. You try to make friends of
people who would be agreeable to you
as acquaintance. You have admitted
them too far into your finer reserve,
and are proportionately displeased
when you find that they strike wrong
chords. One can have acquaiutances
galore, and it is very pleasant to have
them, but friends? All, that is a diff
fereut matter
"Did you ever hear the story of the
Frenchman and the lady of whom be
was enamored? He had asked her to
marry him, but she refused. Il can
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
A Queer Kissing Business.
From Notes Aud Queries.


"Old fashioned Hungerford is onc9
more celebrating Hocktide with all it's
quaint,cust pms and ancient cerenon-
les. This interesting ceremony begins
with the annual 'macaroni supper, and
will be continued to-day, when the two
managers Of the rival banks. who have
been elected "tuttimen' for the ensu-
ing year, go round to the house of the
tenants in the town and exercise their
prerogstive of kissing all the ladies in
every house. Hungcrford is one of the
last remaining unreformed boroughs
of England, and still retains its ancient
official nomenclature, electing to have
a place of mayor and corporation, a
portreeve, a keeper of the Golfers.
hayward, two ale tasters. and bell
man.
1.-THE tuttimen (who are also collect
ors of the poll tax have from time i'm
memorial called at every house in the
borough and received from each lin
habitsnt, if he he male, a penny, and
in case of the ladies kiss, the cerem-
ony being announced from the balcony
of the town hall by blast from the
Hungerford horn blown by the bell
man. Afterwsrd a dinner is held, at
which the officers for the ensuing year
are elected"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
A LETTER FROM CAMP.

Dear girl, we're waiting at the front,
Il much prefer your side,
Prepared to bear the battles brunt
Whatever may betide,
No casualties to date, altho'
I've not recovered yet
From wounds received at home YOU know
what l mean. Don't forget.
While it is true a soldiers fair
Is fit for any king,
The flare" ehave down here, swear
Is quite another thing;
And matters must annoy,
But still, when wars alarms
Are over may not enjoy
At times ''a call to arms
I've learned to read the bugle's note
From morn to dewey eve;
So home again, I'll teach each note
To you, Nell, by your leave,
And one command especially
Termed TAPS so sweet and clear
II makes me think of you and me-
at says lights out" my dear.
You see military vein
Runs through the lines above;
1t all refers to a campaign
Whose countersign is Love-
n eigh-ho.--slouch hat and service suit
Have little to enthuse;
This circle dear, is a salute
Good night, Your boy in blues
New York Tribune
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
American Girls.

An artist who has just finished q Wis
it to this country is quoted as saying
that we do not as a people do justice to
the beauty and refinement of our great
middle classes, especially in matters
pertaining to the dress and department
of the women. "Stsnd." he exclaimed,
at the side door of any one of your
large industrial establishments on
some Saturday morning in June, and
watch the outrush of the working
force! The girls will not be only we'll
formed and we'll gre omed, so to speak,
but many of them will have an air of
distinction which the thoughtless fancy
must only belong to good blood and
breeding. Their costumes, of course,
are such as come within their means,
and it is just here that their good taste
is shown. Give an American girl an
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Making ClOthespinS.

There are probably very few peo-
pie outside the trade who know any
thing concerning the vast number of
clothespins that are annually required
to supply the millions of housek eepers
throughout the United States" said q
wholesale dealer in such goo Is in New
ork to the writer yesterday. sit is
estimated that as many as 50,000,C00
dozen, or GO 900, 900 single pins, are
manufactured in Eastern and Western
factories every year. The product is
superior in workmanship and finish to
anything Of it's kind turned out any
where in the world, and is shipped to
all parts of Europe, where it can
be sold cheaper than the rough and
poorly homemade article.
''Clothespins are made in this coun-
try principally out of beech and maple.
Blocks of this woo are fed to very
ingenious and exceedingly rspid-run-
ming machine which has three separate
compartments. One of these cuts a
block of wood up in,o dozen or more
pieces, each of which is suitable for
forming pin. 1t next seizes and cuts
the 'crutel'. or place that is to grip
the wash on the clothesline, and the
hnal operation turns the neck and
head of the pins and smo )thes and
finishes them off by the bushel, read =
for use. The pins are then packed
into boxes, each containing 12O, and the
boxes are then nailed up by another
labor-saving machine, ready for the
market
There are two grades of clothespins,
hrsts and seconds. The best quality
are worth 35c and the inferior ones sell
for 2oc per box Wholesale,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
The Friendships of Women.
New York Times.

New \ ORR TIMES
~ have become so dissatisfied with
so many people lately" the younger
woman was saying, that | am almost
afraid that | am pre55imist. | meet
women with whom | am charmed and
| cultivate their acquaintance only to
find in u short time that there is some
thing about this one that | do not like
AMI another thing about tnst one, I'M
til | am not only displeased with them,
but with myself. 1t seems to me that
L must be disagreeably critical and
fastidious. think l could count the
people-the women whom care to call
my frieuds-upon my fingers"
And if then they would cover the
fingers of your two hands / should say
that you were cosmopolitan in your
tastes, returned the older woman with
decision. l find that as | grow older
the word friendship means more and
more to me, and l become more and
more fastidious as you call it,.
but it is not that alone" went on
the younger woman, almost heststinR-
ly. "When | have thought | liked a
woman very much and then find L am
disappointed in her fairly dislike her.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
An Old Maid Aunt.

There is an anomaly in town, an
anomaly which should receive an ova-
tlon as a relic of times long pest. The
anomaly Is very pretty young VIC
man who proclaims openly that she is
an old maid aunt. 1t is long time
since an old maid aunt has been seen
outside of n story book. But this
young woman seems to fill all the re-
quirements except that she is not still
mourning gallant lover lost in the
civil war-she Is not old enough for
that-she is not mourning any long
lost lover at all, and she has not the
preternaturally meek aud subdued
though cheerful spirit with which the
literature old maid aunt is usually en-
lowed.
The young woman modern old maid
aunt happens to have older brothers
and sisters who have families and who
do not live in their native town
They have the usual ups and downs in
cident. to family life, whoopinS cough
aud measles, the papa or the
mamma i'll or going away, and always
sewing to do for the babies. So the
old maid aunt Is sent for uI On any and
all OF these occasions.
Really" she said one day last week,
relaxing for few moments from the
dignity OF being housekeeper for
Brother John,!I don't mean to imply
that am so very good, but | don = Ike
To sew for myself, and / do love 70 sew
for other people. Why, L took two of
she baby IS old dresses today and made
one good one out of them. L have
travelled all over the country after my
relatives, aud really | have had an
awfully good time out of it."-Dsllss
News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Gibson's "American Girl"

1t is confidently asserted that Charles
Dana Gibson is less insistent on the
Americanism of his typical American
girl" than his admirers have always
been. One portrait painter is quoted
as saying that Gibson's American girl
is anything but American. He goes
into detail on the subject, and he takes
eyebrows, eyes, jaws, shoulders, and bust,
and shows that the beautiful and often
times heroic creature whom Mr.. Glib
son finds such pleasure in depicting
rare and fine as she is, is still in none
of these particulars American. Con-
tinuing the argument, he contends that
Gibson's 'girl'' is, after all, but an
dealized-though still pretty close
reproduction of Mr.. Gibson's favorite
model, Miss Davis. Now Miss Davis
has an Irish father and Spanish mo.
Their, and presents in striking form the
peculiar charms of that not unusual al
lance.-Kansas City Journal
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Maxine Navajo BIaketS.

The navajo blankets are made entire
~ by avajO squaws, who spent most
of their time during the winter in
weaving them. At most any time dur
ing this season the squaws may be seen
at as little distance from their huts,
seated at their lo pms, busily at work.
The outfit is extremely simple, two
sticks on which strings. are hung, a long
flat stick to ram the threads with, one
shaped like cylinder, with which to
keep them straight, and small one
like comb to prevent tangles, moth
ing more.
The wool used in these blankets is
taken from their own sheep and dyed
with natures dyes, which they make
from various herbs. The blankets are
used largely for rugs by those who buy
them and will last for fifty years; the
color being durable as well as the tex
ture.
OF late days, since the Indian has
had such access - the traders stores,
they have been weaving another kind
of blanket, made from Germantown
wool, which they take in exchange for
their com mOdities, but whether these
blankets will ret lin their color as we'll
as the others remains to be seen.
The spring and early summer is the
time for buying and selling. Some
times the squaw carries blankets about
for sale, bnt never alone; her lord and
master accompanies her-not to help
her carry them: no indeed, She does,
that. no matter how many or how heavy
but to see she that does not get cheated.
The care that the chef takes u see
that she does not get cheated is simply
because he will get the money, she be-
ing content to receive bit of gaudily
colored calico or some poor tobacco
Most of the weavers of the real Navajo
blankets are ID be found at some little
distance from the towns and villages.
New York Tribuns
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13

straw hat and shirt waist, with neck
tie and belt to match. and she steps
out on the sidewalk as fresh, as comely,
and as well dressed as her more favored
sisters, and, what is more remarkable,
in infinitely better taste than any other
working girl of her class in any quar-
ter of the globe of which l know any
thing"
The French girl. he further main
tanned, though attractive in her work
ing dress, was invariably sombre-a
black bombazine, low shoes. and black
stockings, sometimes an apron, and
less often a bonnet-while the Ger
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
not marry you, she said, 'but will be

not marry you, she said, but will be
your friend
My friend? No. answered the
Frenchman; 4 love you and would
marry you, but my friend? No, | do
not know you well enough"
Il am more and more impressed ev
cry year with the difficulty and almost
lmpossiblity of making real friends.
The trouble is we all are human. We
are young and enthusiastic with
warm friendships, and we expect per-
lection in one thing, we accuse them
of being wanting in all: we give
them up altogether. Aud gradually,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13

with heavy hearts, we find that the
lists of our friends have become at
tenuated. BY that time however, we
may have learned our lesson of the
humsnness of the world, and if we
can reinstate some of our old friends,
taking them for the good that is in
them, toleratipg the bad, knowing that
they must do the same with us, we are
doing we'll And we must make ac-
quaintances serve q long Apr entice
ship before we admit them to the
ranks of our friends.
cit is the greatest comfort in the
world to tell your troubles to some
sympathizing friend. but it is DANCE
rOus. There are many things about
family life that should be kept in the
family. They do not involve you
alone. Read Maeterlinck' essay on
Silence in the Treasury of the Hum
ble." 1t will give you food for thought.
Perhaps one should be more careful of
any other persons secret than of tn cir
own, buG can they be blamed if they
are not: There was common little
rhyme that clipped from paper a
long time ago, which is addressed 20
the man who tells his own secrets.
One verse is worth remembering:
II you yourself can't keep it.
Then who can:
Could more expect OF any
Other man!
Yet you put him, il he tells it
IL he gives away or sells it.
Under ban
sit is all true. We can't keep our
own secrets, and we scOrn the people
who tell what we have told them. 1t
is hard, even after we have learned
our friends, though we should know
by our intimate acquaintance with our
selves aud own good aims that we look
for an impossibility.
But isn't there some rule of guild
ance in choosing friends or the people
with whom we will be more or less in-
timate?" asked the young woman af-
ter "a pause.
That is a large question:" replied
the oder woman thOughtfully, land
one each person must anwer individual
ly, but 1 can tell you a rule which [
have found for myself You have al
ways found that the rock upon which
the intimacies you have had with some
people have foundered has been made
up of comparatively small things.
haven't you? There may have been a
fundamental cause for the formation
of the rock, but in itself it was nothing
great. Wasn't that so?"
Eyes, indeed" replied the young
have been so much annoyed with my
self. There have never been great
moral or mental problems: it has al
ways been some small thing, some lit
tie lack of refinement
"Ah, that is it, broke in the other
woman. Refinement. There you
have it all in a nutshell. That is the
rule by which L guage the women with
whom l desire to be to some degree iu-
ta1u Trno nnf
is more than superficial.
ARTISTS say that the true test of
feminine beauty is refinement. L be-
lieve that is the true test of women's
lives.
"You may know brilliant women in
this line and that, charming women, in
one line or another, but be sure that
the woman whom you take for q friend
is thoroughly refined, and while we
never find perfection in any way, such
a woman will not be disappointment
as friend"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Women and Science.

1t is said that Miss HASTE, a Scotch
woman. is about to undertake a scien-
tific expedition to the South Sea. Fiji
teen women have signifed their inten-
ton of joining the expedition, for
which barkentiue is being fitted in
Sydney harbor. Miss Hastie proposes
to make scientific collections and to
take meteorological observations. Miss
Prince, a botanist, will be in the party,
and conchOlogy and anthropology will
be studied. They intend to visit the
New Hebrides, the Friendly islands
and other groups.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
Hats Piled With Eruit.

Fruit is to be the favorite decoration
of hate: cherries in particular are hav-
ing great run. One of those straw
shapes that bend down over the fore
head, adorned with putiings of that
new chiffon that has black lace APP
plique on its white, and cluster OF red
and black cherries in front and under
the back OF the brim, Is simple and
yet most stylish. Another hat has a
pile of fruit-cherrles, grapes, and
pesches-on the crown. and bows OF
twirled green and mauve ribbon al
either side of the front.-Exchange.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13

mans and English and 1t lians kept
their best clothes for Sunday outings
and holidays. But the effect, he
claimed, was more often one of over
dress than of neatness and appropriate
ness.
1t may be with us that the great de-
partment stores, who cater for the
patronage of this great middle class,
are more or less responsible for
the good appearance of these
girls, and incidentally for this
artists outburts of praise
When hats and shirt-waists can be
brought for fraction of a dollar, with
hundreds of patterns and colors to
choose from, it is perhaps not to be
wondered at that our young women
have won for themselves so enviable a
utation.-Harper's Bazaar.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-13
DRAGON-FLY HAT A STARTLER!

Gigantic eweled
sensation at the capital
The record-union., 1898-10-21
INQUIRY into
CONDUCT OF WAR
CONTINUED from First Page.)

Nebraska, said the regiment was ex-
cellently equipped, except that the food
was poor. He said the clothes were
bad. The pork had also been wormy
and the beef tainted, but these had
been exchanged. He had thought the
clothing better than in the civil war,
but the rations were not SO good as
then. He thought the camp entirely
too much crowded.
Other witnesses examined at the
afternoon session were Lieutenant
Jones, Commissary of the Fourth Vir-
ginia; Private Allen o. White of the
same regiment; Private S. G. Nhomp-
son of the Third Nebraska; Lieutenant
Freeman, Commissary of the One Hun
dred and Sixty-first Indiana; Commits
sary Sergeant Morse Of the One Hun
dred and Sixty-irst Indiana; James r.
Pourie, company Commissary Ser
geant of the Sixth Missouri, and Pri-
vate James T. James Of the Sixth Mis-
souri,
All these witnesses expressed them
selves as satisfied with their treatment.
The commissary officers said the ra-
tions were abundant, but that occa-
sionally the fresh meats We're tainted
owing to the heat. The privates found
no fault, all saying they had enough to
eat and generally the food was good.
The record-union., 1898-10-21
NOTICE OF STREET WORK

Office of Superintendent of Streets, Sac
ramento, October 19, 1S9S
Public notice is hereby given that the
Board of Trustees of the City of Sacra-
mento, passed on the 18th day of October,
1898, q Resolution Of Intention, No. 400,
providing:
That the alley between J and K streets,
in said city, from the east line of Tenth
street to the west line of Eleventh street,
be improved by grading and macadamiz-
ing, constructing redwood curbs and a
brick catch basin to be connected to the
sewer therein.
And all parties interested are referred
to said resolution, a copy of which is on
file in the Superintendent of Streets Of
fee, for further particulars.
JAMES TOUHEY,
Superintendent of Streets.