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lovable and trustworthy. That is. the poor
people are. They have been subjected to
oppression in all its forms, until at last
they know of no other life than that of
poverty, with its grinding toll its nepriva-
items. So with the common people--and
they predominant hereof Porto Rico. They
a new opportunity. Not that they under
stand what it may be, or how to avail
themselves of it when it comes, but they
have enough sense left to know that moth
ing could be worse than the life they lead
now
But while the opening of the island to a
reoeveiopment Speaking of its conquest
possibility of the near future> will mean
the releasing of the common people from q
hidebound deSpotiSm, ii is by no means GER
tain that there will be great opportunities
for the acquisition of wealth. either by the
exploitation of mineral agriculture
sources, by immigrants from the United
States.
The conditions that have prevailed fer
centuries cannot be changed in a day. the
lands to which titles have been held for
hundreds of years cannot be a;cnated in
short time; even the lands that may fall to
our government by right of conquest will
But that there are mineral resources worth,
exploiting, tracts well worth purchase for
development by means of modern agrcul-
tural operations-coffee lands m The nils
and sugar lands along the coast--xe have
every reason to believe. Gold was found
here in considerable quantities at the time
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slowly and deliberately. Those who wish
to become good swimmers must cultivate
self-reliance. and they should always bear
In mind that water itself has a sustaining
power far greater than that Of most other
liquids. The slow stroke is the very es-
sence OF good swimming. IL enables the
bather to initiate the lungs and thus uncon-
scIously turn them temporarily into life
preSerNers. To move slowly is to get plenty
or breathing time. and to get plenty of
breathing time is to get plenty Of strength
TO repeat the movements which propel the
body through the water. The second gold
en- rule which the beginner should school
herself TO remember is that the living hu-
man body is specifically lighter than water
and that, consequently, il does not neces-
sallly SINK therein. Confidence in the sus-
tanning power Of water is the only secret
TO swimming. The best way to convince
the novice OF the buoyancy of water is to
let her wade cut until the water comes up
10 her breast; but before doing this she
should take care, when i'm shallow water to
immeise her whole body so as to avoid
the rush of blood TO the head from which
many bathers suffer through neglecting 10
DO this With the water once on a level
with the breast the bather should lie on
her back and extend her arms out beyond
her head. but not raised out of the water.
mis- position makes breathing easy and
counterbalances the weight OF the legs
The Father should lie restfully and avoid
stifening the neither limbs The hips should
De rigid. the feet close together but nor
out OF the water, for If they were they
would oNerbalance the weight of the head
ana carry II beneath the surface.
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THE PERFECT TRUNk.
Ii Is Now Possible to Pack Without
Worry and Fuss.

1t Is Now Possible to Pack Without
Worry md Fuss.
From the New York Herald.
With delight will the woman who is far
seeing and up TO the times go about her
task of trunk packing this summer. No
longer is she to have visions of possibly
crushed gowns at The end of her journey,
and of hats "squashed' out of all SEM
blance to the original styles. For there has
come fresh era in trunks and boxes"
and packing will have no more terrors.
The trunk that has been popular for so
many years-the trunk that was simply
a packing case, various in size and shape
with one deep tray divided up into boxes
OF odd siZes-has this year passed into the
realm of departed fashions. In its place
there Is a new trunk of very different pat
trays, and in the case of the largest even
six-all fitting snugly into the trunk s
framework.
Each of the trays is intended to hold
one gown and three small pieces. They are
quite as convenient for mems clothing
trousers and coats travelling in them with
out rumpling or creasing. In the trunk s
very bottom, under the lowest tray, boots,
slippers and heavy articles generally may
be slowed, held in place by the tray direct
ly over Them the necessity of tightly weGg-
ing thus being avoided.
1t Is not that the average clever woman
mathematician would at once declare en-
tirely too small. The trunks of the past
have presented no unsolvable problems
when 1t came to filling them up. But with
these new trunks the wear and tear and
the worry of packing is all past and gone,
and the daintiest dresses can with the
greatest expedition be laid in the trays and
the cover closed
To put hats in trunks this year will be no
part of the feminine philosophy. The wo-
man who has pretty hats will be foolish 10
trust them in the recesses of trunk amid
linen, gowns and the odds and ends Of mi
lady's gear. Modern mechanical science
has devised a very simple answer to the
question, How can We most safely carry
our elaborate summer hats?'
hat box has been invented that, though
small in compass itself, can hold six hats
of the greatest amount of fuss and feath-
ers.' In this. on sides, bottom and top.
there are small metallic arms that turn and
can be slipped over the brim. The sides
carry four hats, the bottom the fifth the
cover the sixth. Firmly held in place in
this manner none of these can interfere
with each other. This hat box locks in
precisely the same manner as does trunk
Not only does its cover lift up, but on OPEN
ing one Of the sides fails. Thus any hat
can be taken out or put back without dis
turbing the others.
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towns and cities, where opportunities for
bathing are infrequent, the youngsters are
not so inviting in appearance as In the
country districts along the coast, or where
In fact, pools and streams are available.
The country people live as nearly in
state of nature as they can and as the
laws will allow, simply because a state of
nature fits them best and Is comfortable
The children reluctantly don the garb of
civilization at or near the age of ten OF
twelve, and then Only after many and tear
full protestations. In their innocence, they
see no harm in going naked: they are GER
tainly free from that pruriency which in
variably attends the wearing of clothes;
their forms are symmetrical, their health
is generally good. But for the existence of
feyers and of such noxious insects as CEN
tipedes, tarantulas, scorpions, etc, child
life in the tropics would be without any
alloy of unhappiness.
In the Market Places.
1t is in the market places that the COM
mon people most assemble and may be
studied to the best advantage. There, as
well as in the shops. 1t will be seen that
their transactions are-of a very humble
character. chiefly measured in small
change and not In dollars. Each vender
has a space assigned, within which are
piled small heaps of fruits or vegetables
that he or she has brought from the coun-
try. and not infrequently fighting cock is
tied to the leg of the little stool on which
the vender Is sitting. A good bird, by the
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Dainty, rose-tinted finger nails are at an
end Finger tips that have shown a high
polish and delicate point of nail are past
and gone-that is, among the ultra-fash-
ionables. And it is the athletic the sport
ing girl, that has brought il all about.
She-this vigorous young woman that 10
out in the air at all times and is setting tho
pace for all the girls of this generation-ex-
tlbits now hand with nail that is cut
squarely and automatically, and shows
but dull polish. If indeed il shows a poi
ish at all. Never a suspicion of coloring
matter is on this nail. 1t has been treated
only with soap and water, and its pink il
a faint one beside the deep pink that was
so popular a year ago or even this past
winter.
Thus the finger nail of the modern girl %
very prosaic compared to what 1t was and
looks more like boys than it does her
very own.
Golf has been the power that has Danish
boyish-appearing nail in its place. For in
mild feminine sports the pointed nail of
high polish was all very well. but the girls
found ii did not do when IL came to golf
The high polish was destroyed in short
order, the point got in the way. and fire.
quently during an exciting stroke broke
on one or the other of the golf sticks.
This was not to be endured. The golf
girl is. before all else, very practical. She
had long been so proud of and had mani
cured so faithfully must CO. and in It's
place she made this new nail the fashion
1t is not an artistic nail. but 1t serves it's
purpose, and is being thoroughly adopted
by the girls that delight in games.
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From the Philadelphia Record.


Glass ware will last longer and look
better If the following hints as to its care
and preservation are regarded. Tepid
water, the best CASTLE or other pure soap
and a stiff brush are the first essentials
After washing and rinsing, place the cut
glass in a lockwood sawdust. This will
absorb the moisture ia the cuttings. Next
remove the sawdust from the plain sur
faces with soft cloth. BY following these
directions the original clearness and SPAR
kles of the glass will be maintained.
Shot should not be used in carafes, cruets,
toilet articles and similar articles. Ii is
very apt to scratch the glass and thus
mar its beauty. Prosaic potato peelings
are the best aids. Let them remain in the
glass ware over night and then rinse out
with little tepid water.
very important point is to avoid sud-
den changes from extreme heat to extreme
cold, and vice versa. A pitcher or tum-
bier which has been filled with ice water,
If plunged at once into hot water will be
apt to crack. Use tepid water, and the
risk of breakage is avoided.
The sudden change from heat to cold 10
just dangerous. Glass ware should
never be removed from closed cabinet
where ii has become heated and brought
Immediately into contact with cold SUBJ
stance. Cool the glass for time in wafer
before sCbSecting il to the extreme tom.
perature.
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way. sells for $50 when of assured pedi-
gree. and the chief diversion of those who
have little loose change now and then is
to frequent the "valla de galloS.' This.
with an occasional performance at the the
alter. a musical entertainment and in the
country restricted picnic at which ali
the young ladies are carefully guarded
from the men-this is the sum of their d.
versions.
Making love. of course, goes on all the
time, for the creole nature is soft and Ian
gushing. complaSant, easily tickled by
compliment and prone to banker after the
FORBIDDEN fruit Scratch a Porto Rican and
you find Spanard underneath the skin.
so the language and home customs OF
Spain prevail here as in Cuba. The ladies
OF the upper classes are strictly secluded
and have little freedom yet entrance into
society here is more easily attained than
in Spain or in Cuba. That the ladies are
charming goes without saying. They differ
from the HavaneSe as the gentlewomen of
New York and Newport differ from their
sisters In the country. They are insular.
even provincial perhaps. but they possess
charming traits of character, gentle man
rcrs and speech. goodness of heart and I'M
affected frankness with their friends. Their
acquaintance is an easier matter of ac
compliShment than that of the Havana la
dies; still they are surrounded with the
same safeguards that hedge about the
others, and which the ardent young men
deem so superfiuous.
Society in Porto Rico.
To one who has had the pleasure of meet
ing them at home and of being introduced
into their society by a mutual friend. the
remembrance of their graciousness seems
like bit of good fortune that rarely falls
to the lot of the West Indian traveller.
Those of gentle birth and breeding are
sweet and f1ower-ike, with bright alert
ness peculiar to the Latin woman trans
planted to American soil and climate.
Their glances swift and meaning. their
great black eyes capable Of seeming quite
full of expression; their features are not
always classically regular, but usually at
tractive. They petite of form and have
81, all hands and feet. dress in the latest
style from Paris the latest being usual
ly two years old by the time it reaches
Porto Rico) and, in word, are thorough
ly feminine. 1t is this charm of feminin:ty
that makes the creole, whether French or
Spanish. so potent with man. 1t
creole, it will be MISUNDERSTANDING, a
rative of MartiniQue-who captivated and
ruled Napoleon. She ruled him, that is. in
all matters domestic and within her ken
and comprehension: her limitations were
those of her sex, her weapons were tact
and persuasive charm of graciousness.
The best season for visiting Porto Rico
and making the acquaintance Of the coun-
try people is during the winter. January
is Janus-like. looking back to the rains of
December and ahead to the sunshine of
spring February is reliable month,
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From the Home Decorator and Furnisher.
For the sweeping Of floors nothing is bst.
ter than wet newspapers, fine salt gener.
ously strewn over the carpet, or cornmeal
slightly moistened. Short sweeps are tho
way to bring out the tints of floor cover
ings, particularly when old. Some foolish
people wipe them after being swept with
water ir which is a sprinkling of ammonia.
This fades the colors and If often done Ia
sure to produce 4 bad result. Sweeping ID
an art and the old-fashioned housekeeper
knew how to handle broom. busters arc
excellent if made of Turkish toweling; those
made of silk are allowed to get gritty but
soft cotton on which are a few drops of
kerosene oil will prove boon for certain
woods that accumulate dust.
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white, was almost as successful. A white
dimity dotted with pale blue was made
with a full accordion plated skirt edged
with lace ruching; 1t was draped over an
underdress of blue corded lawn. The cor
sage ard sleeves, also blue lined, were mys-
terieS of lace and tucking.
An odd dress of a cream-clored taffeta
spotted with black. green and pink was
trimmed at the hem with zigzags of lace
and green ribbon ruches. the same orna-
mentation appearing at the waist, and on
yoke and sleeves. The effect, which might
easily have been bizarre, was piquantly
pretty on the fresh, peachy girl who ap-
peared thus attired.
Crcnm-Colored Muslin.
Not essentially novel, but effectively ar
ranged. was a dress of cream-coIored mus
lin made over a taffeta skirt of the same
shade. The muslin overdress was finished
with three wide flounces, which were
rendered more frily and more suggestive
of the hoop-skirt that hcvers ir the dis
down on us by being covered with full
rucLes of narrow white ribbon. A second
short apron skirt was of very fine linen
latiste, with a border of lace finishing it
like founce. The corsage was a bolero of
muslin: this was turned back with revers
OF lace, and was worn over a vest of white
null sirdled with a soft folded SASH of
black taffeta spotted with yellow. With
tHlS tOilel belonged Il pdraSol oil white lace
with yellow lining and a small round hat
of yellow straw trimmed with mnh and
black feathers.
Vivid COlOrs.
If there is one thing more notable than
another about the dress congresses that
assemble in shaded parlors or Ieafy lawns
as June deepens to its peasantest, IL is the
craving for vivil colors that strengthens
daily. Dresses of bright scarlet pass and
repass on the streets. One breezy after
noon this week l noticed Oh one block three
young girls in rose pink walking abreast;
not far behind them were two other girls
in airy muslins of pink even deeper.
Within the minute two girls in turquoise
blue came within range of vision, along
with a dress of violet and white, one of
WI lite serge, trimmed with black, and ole
of tan with brilliant sky blue ornamental
ton. The star-Spangled fashions have
made any sort of conservatism in colors
out of the question. A tailor dress of navy
blue serge with white pique blouse and
with belt cravat and hat band of the tri-
color has SO much decision and snap that
delicate effects when brought into contact
with it must be managed with care or they
look ''wishy-washy." Indeed, with gay
flags covering the house fronts and min
Cling with the June foliage, human beings
IL stinctvely put on their gayest. lest they
cease to count in the landscape.
ELLEN OSBORN.
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with clear days and cool nights and with
March and April constitutes the best
portion of the year Nature is a wanton.
after April sets in. and this month and
" hich increase to heavy rains in June,
when the flowers and nature are at their
best. June is a month of flowers as well
as July, in which latter. on the twenty
ntth, the hurricane season begins, when
those tropical tempests destroy everything
in their path, increasing in frequency and
strength in August and September 1t is
not until October has opened and the
great rains of the autumnal equinox have
passed that the Inhabitants of Porto Rico
feel that all danger is over F. A. ORER.
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LEARNING TO SWIM.

The Slow Stroke Given as the Char
actertstfc of an Expert.
From the Woman's Home Companion.
Just as soon as the warm weather sets in
many persons who. at the close of last
summer, were able to swim a few strokes
will again somewhat timorously enter the
water. The majority will find this seIf-im-
posed task far more difficult than is antici-
pated. 1t is necessary to remind those that
indulge in short. hurried strokes that one
of the golden rules OF swimming is move
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The Rayanzi, who live along the upper
Congo. have a strange custom which makes
life burden to the married women, Brass
rods are welded into great rings around
the necks of the wives. Many of these
rings worn by the women whose husbands
are well to do weigh as much as 80 pounds,
and this burden must be carried by the
wretched creatures as long as they live
When the barn owl has young family
1t hunts diligently and brings to its nest
about five mice in an hour. AS both of
the parent birds are actively employed
both in the evening and at dawn forty mice
a day is a low estimate for the total cap
turo.
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7 A SUMMER LUN-
cheon and garden
party with which
June was heraldcd
in one of those Long
Island towns that
have grown so fast
in fashionable favor,
the prettiest color
combinations in the
Dresses of the wo-
men present were
white and yellow or
white, blue and yell
low. The most
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very beginnings of
Porto Rican history:
to go back to that
eventful y e ar in
which the island was
discovered, 1852, we
have it on the au-
thority of the Span
iards themselves that
the aboriginal peo-
pies of all II e West
Indies were very
Clearly and attentive
to the care of their
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Dainty Summer Gowns That Are
Worthy Of Being Copied.
COLORS and MATERIALS FOR JUNE
Combinations That Are Both Ef-
fective and Becoming.
DEMAND FOR VIVID COLORs

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
Copyright, 1893, by the international Literary and
News Service)
NEW YORK, June II, 1898
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of the conquest, but no great effort has
been made to mine It; only the sands of
auriferous streams We're washed, by primi-
tive means.
While the better classes are mainly en-
gagged in business and are of Spanish origin,
most of the poorer are resident in the coun-
try, or-what is far worsa--living from
hand TO mouth in the towns and cities. 1t
seems very strange that island 3 800
miles in area. much of 1t arabic land. cs,pa-
bic OF producing every variaIy of fruit and
vegetable known to the tropics, should yet
support population large proportion Of
which is poverty stricken. Yet such is the
case, and whether a better government will
change the conditions so radically that all
will be improved in means. and also afford
an opening for enterprisng Americans re-
mains TO he seen.
Hard to Understand.
1t is not strange that poverty exists in
cur own country, where long winter pre-
vents the poor from raising even the neces-
saries of existence; but in a land where the
sun always shines, where it is never i'm
possible to plant and sow. to harvest and
find fruit-to find people there without the
means for supporting life, and in the coun-
try districts at that, seems inexplicable.
The reason for this condition lies not on
the surface of things, but down in the
primitive foundations of society.
The children as has been intimated,
white, black and Colored of both sexes, dis
port themselves in their compilations mere
ly, varied by sucn additions of dirt as they
may receive while at play, and which is
not always removed at night. They are
naturally cleanly. as are most dwellers in
tropical countries. because the bath is al
ways refreshing, and to paddle in cool
streams Gf they may be found and be-
meath overarching tree-ferns and bananas,
is pleasanter than rolling in the dirt. But
cleanliness is only relative term, depend
ing upon the surroundings In the large
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Poor Mrs. Gibbles can't hear more than
half her> husband says to her"
That's all right; she oughtn't to."-Cht
cagO Record,
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Summary Gowns.

Tho dresses were as summary as their
setting, dimities, chambrays and canvas
cloths predominating. A frock Of rose-coi-
was, perhaps, the daintiest. A blue linen
dress with yoke and collar Of tucked white
muslin and skirt heavily embroidered In
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People of Porto Rico Are a Strangely
Mixed Race.
ARE GROUND DOWN BY POVERTY
Would Gladly Welcome Any
Change That May Come.
EFFECTS OF SPANISH RULE
Written for The Evening Star.

10 BEGIN AT THE
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-20
PERSONAL MEN TION.

G. W. Deugler Transacted business at Potts.
vile to-day.
Harry Horrell of West Mayberry alley, is
on the sick list.
Mrs William II. Zimmerman visited friends
mt Pottsyile to-day.
Mrs Jabez Powell, of East Coal street. il
visiting relatives at Pottsville.
Tax Collector NJ. J. Scanlan spent part OF
to-day transacting business at the county
scat.
c. L. Tiers, of Pottsville, supervisor for the
Pennsylvania Il. r., paid visit to town thi.
morning
Meade and Joseph Peters went to Potts
vile this morning to spend few hours with
their comrades of the 4th Regt.
Mrs. Neil McClay, who was guest of rela.
tives in town the past four weeks, returned
to her home in Minersville this morning.
Mrs. William parftt, of Lost Creek No. 2
is critically in.
Walter Burchill, an employe of the Fall
Brook r. r. office at Williamsport, is in town
guest Of c. c. II. Kirliu.
l.. J. Wilkinson. of dry goods fame, today
wore an unusually broad smile upon hi.
countenance. A little baby boy was well
coined at the household this morning.
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San Francisco, oct. 2O.-T. d. Riordan
applied yesterday for a writ of habeas
corpus to procure the freedom of James
Flood, the merchant who arrived from
Kobe on the Doric, and was arrested by
United States Marshal Shine at the
cabled request of United States Con-
sui Lion, at Kobe. United States Dis
trict Judge Hawley heard a statement
of the case and then ordered the pris-
oner released. He decided that the ar
rest of Flood upon receipt of an order
from Consul Lion at Kobe. Japan, was
proper, but that In view of the fact tina !
the consul had failed to reply to cable
messages asking for further inforna-
tion Flood had been detained long
enough. Flood threatens to return to
Japan to bring suit for slander against
his accusers.