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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20

BALTIMORE. March 1.-THE new United
States torpedo boat RODGERS sailed at noon
to-day from the Columbian from works
dock. where she WIS built, her destination
being Norfolk She has not yet been ac-
septed by the government. and while on
her way down the Chesapeake will be test
ed as 10 speed and control. If accepted she
win probably go TO Key West TO join the
fleet At that point. The Rodgers Is almost
an exact duplicate OF the Foote. now in
commission. On her first trial trip she
broke her engines and failed to meet the
requirements OF the contract under which
she was built
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-20

New YORK, March ls-The work on
vessels IN the navy yard Ia Brooklyn Is
salng rushed along a. rapidly as possible.
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-10
-O COMBINE book publishing and
 | poultry keeping is an idea which
 it takes an enterprising woman to

10 COMBINE book publishing and
 poultry keeping is an idea which
 it takes an enterprising woman to
 ! carry out.
 This woman is Mrs. Sarah L.. Bliss. who is the publisher of the Brooklyn Blue Book, and at her coun- try place, just outside the borough or Brooklyn. and within the limits of Greater New York, she has started a chicken farm.
 Commencing less than year ago with twenty-five chickens, she has now over 1000 fowls, ducks and turkeys.
 'Ts there any money in keeping poul- try?" was the question asked o' Mrs. Bliss at her Brooklyn office.
 'I will give you some notes from my expense book" was the reply. and then you can judge for yourself. Of course, the first year one cannot expect to reap great profits"
 'It costs a penny week to feed a hen. She will lay about 1S0 eggs per year. For these an average price of three cents each is given, four or five cents in winter and three cents in sum- mer. If you care to put it down in dol lars and cents you might average it in this way:
 hen: fooo for year at 1c week,..... 52 1S0 eggs per year at Sc each... 40 Balance in the treasury at end of year, Balance in the treasury, per 900 hens. 4Ss0 co Balance in the treasury, per 20o hens 9'6o oo
 T intend having at least 2000 fowls, and then I may clear $6000; wages, taxes, etc, will take a good s2O00 or $500. At present I have only one man to help me, and pay him $32 month, or $3S4 per year; three men will require in wages $1152.
 Ducks are more profitable invest ments, for the reason that their food is not so expensive. Where it costs a penny a week to feed a hen, the bill of fare for duck may be of variety and quality to please the most fastidious duckling and cost only one-half penny per week.
 In the expense account it will be noticed that "broilers" are not men, toned. They are small gold mine in themselves. and should pay the expense of the chicken farm, leaving clear profit for the eggs. Mrs. Bliss has never found any difficulty in disposing of her eggs, 500 every week going to one hotel. She considers the cochins and the wyandottes the most profitable breeds, and she has some original theories in regard to Henrietta's daily
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withstand the sun and wind than those of deeper shade. In fact, they are called 'fadeless.' The roses are all of the soft full blown variety and are ex
 quisite in coloring. No matter how fas- tidious one may be in the matter of headgear they can not fail to find something that satisfies their cravings.
 The shops are all well supplied and have an endless variety. There is the "Shepherdess" for the fin de siecle, the rolled walking hat for the tailor-made girl, the flower toques for the airy
 fairy -girlies. fiaring hats for my lady picturesque" hats for long faces, short faces, thin faces, plump faces-in short, any kind of face. And even if San Francisco does refuse to obey absolutely the mandates of H. R. H. Dame Fashion, the" effect is just as charming as in cities where they are more subservient to the royal effects. Shall I confess 1t? I think it more charming For give me, above all, va riety. ALINE DE MEREAU.
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fested in the sudden interest he dis played in the welfare of my Easter bonnet. As I said before the house was built of logs and in fair weather sunlight streamed through the spaces between the logs, while in stormy weather-thereby hangs a tale.
 "The day before Easter was heralded by a storm. The roof leaked, the water dashed in at the windows and streamed in between the logs, and 1 spent the entire day in hunting for a dry spot for my Easter bonnet. No sooner would I be assured that the box con taining it was secure from the deluge than I would be as speedily convinced of it's danger Pans, boiler, pots and
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the St. Paulus Lutheran Church. "I was living at the memorable time near Fort Wayne, Ind, and as I expected to be married later in the summer and come to California to reside, 1 con- cluded to economize in favor of my wedding rousseau. 1 sacrificed my pride by wearing my old Shaker bonnet to church. Only a woman will under stand that it requires courage to make such a sacrifice. All the more unpleas- ant because the village wherein 1 lived was a small one. and my friends seemed to outdo themselves in hats and gewgaws at this particular time; while l bonnet ed in the Shaker. with its green apron back and green ribbons, felt glad that a green barege veil covered my burning face, and sorry that l had not sacrificed something of my trousseau instead of so much comfort by wearing my old bonnet"
 "The only regrets ever felt over an
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nary supplied half of the congregation.
 It was impossible to get even glance at our sweethearts without be- ing guilty of the rudeness of turning squarely around. That to me, as to the other girls. seemed the cruelest of all sacrifices to endure for the sake of the then fashionable Easter bonnet"
 Mrs. $. J. Murphy relates an Easter bonnet experience that all early settlers will appreciate
 Shortly after our marriage" Mrs. Murphy began, my husband and I went to our new home, a settlement way down in Georgia. This home was a log cabin built in the edge of the woods and our neighborhood, though somewhat scattered, turned out en masse on Easter Sunday. Besides there was a new attraction-they wished to see the bride. Need I add that the bride herself was anxious to look well? My husband, too, took a great interest in my appearance, and this he mani
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W,-s. Huntington.

much for salary with a promise of donations. At the donations number less articles too funny to speak about would be given, from barrels of flour down to lead pencils.
 "On this particular year, my sister and myself were given bonnets with the request that we should not wear them until Easter. l should have been glad never to have worn mine: but whatever was given to us must be worn with gratitude. My hair was what was called in those days red. The bonnet was red also. But the two reds were of a different shade, and clashed inharmoniously upon my oversensitive nerves. How to avoid wearing that bonnet at all was my study. I put it away to try on alone after oiling my hair to tone it down shade or two. But the unpleasant fact still remained that it was the most unbecoming thing that I was ever called upon to wear
 Easter morning came all too soon
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HOW TO GET MOST CHARMING
 Effects in Easier Hats.

the marvellous Parisian pompadours. Feminine Paris looks as though it had got out of bed and forgotten to comb its hair. And in the light of these facts the dear things met me at the wharf with their hair parted and coiled the same old way l confess l liked them all the better for it. There is a similarity between that round, fiat knot of hair and pins like mother used to make" Every trace of 'Heimweb" disappeared at the first glimpse of them.
 But why this Aggression on hair when hats are the subject of my discourse? Because on the arrangement of the hair depends the becomingnesS of the hat.
 In Paris the millners display strik- ingly new patterns for hats. Presto! changes the style of dressing the hair to suit the new headgear.
 Milliners and hairdressers work hand in hand. Every Parisienne, after little seance with her hairdresser, can wear "Shepherdess, the latest thing in the way of hats and a creation that is a direct evolution from the Jane Had ings' of last year and can be traced still further back to the Marie An toinettes." Every Parisienne does pos sess a "Shepherdess" and ''entre nous" it becomes a trifle monotonous. Here, however, the milliners import the latest things, people try them on, find them unbecoming and with that independ- ence that makes them so adorable they will have none of them. They do not realize that it is not alone the con- tours of the face, but the arrangement of the hair that makes a hat becoming or otherwise.
 Secretly I am delighted that San Francisco hairdressers cannot live up to San Francisco milliners. If they did we might run riot in one direction in- stead of having such a charming va riety of hats.
 Daintiness is the chief characteristic of the new importations. Feathers have been entirely laid aside fo~ the nonce, and soft and airy aigrettes and ietted quills are occupyin their place Flowers are more beautiful than ever before. and in exquisite coloring and perfection of outline vie with natures own blossoms.
 I have seen the "Shepherdess" dis played in several of the shop windows here. They are equally as fetching as those displayed in Paris, whence no doubt. they hail. Bent down to shade the face rolling high on the sides, and dropping again in back, they are at once picturesque and jaunty It is hard to say just wherein they differ from the hats that Jane Hading made so popular in Paris last year. I think the main difference lies in the fact that they are smaller and the droop over
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"The greatest amount of discontinue ever felt over an Easter bonnet re- lated Mrs. Irving M. Scott, was an ex- perience I had here in San Francisco. was going to Easter service and felt, suppose, the satisfaction and happi- ness that all women feel, until they look over the congregation and see some bonnet prettier than their own. My hair was very abundant, and my bon net very light. There was quite little breeze and my bonnet was lifted from my head without my knowing it. Presently I stumbled over what I thought a little black dog; and as l stepped aside, recognized my bonnet as it went hopping and bobbing along the pavement in my advance. After a little pursuit the truant was rescued. and l gained my pew in time to sur vey the new creations in head-d dresses that are always heralded on Easter morning.
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kettles literally covered the floor. Every few minutes my husband would come in from his work in the barn to inquire if the bonnet were high and dry, for he wished me to be in the fashion shin ing and the storm showed no signs of abating. I was well nigh worn out with my labor that day, but at night I was rewarded by peep at the treasure just before going to sleep. It smiled back at me from it's little dry home and my heart was satisfied"
 When beauty's ensign yet was crim- son on her lips" Mrs. Huntington mother of H. E. Huntington, encoun- tered her first Easter bonnet trial
 "In those days" said Mrs. Hunting ton, the prevailing fashion was the old aberdeeno. This was but flimsy affair. though exceedingly pretty, but poorly adapted to the whimsical East ern summer climate. The frame was of wire and the covering only paper.
 T was in New York State at this
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time and foolishly dared to brave the drive to Easter service without an um- brella. The early morning opened as fair as a day in June, the day of all days for wearing my aberdeeno hat But I had not reckoned on it's close, nor the deluge of rain that was to ut terly ruin my hat.
 When I reached home I still wore the wire frame upon my Lad, but the prettily fiuted paper rim was lying round my shoulders, hopeless mass. :"
 How well 1 remember my first Eas- ter bonnet with it's torments," said Nellie Holbrook Blinn. My father was the pastor of a church in a country town where the clergy had to take so
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'"Those that judge not too severely
 Have said they loved such follies dearly"
 Be that as it may, it is really femi- nine pleasure to study the blooming pews on Easter. And I soon selected from this holding mass a perfect love of a bonnet-the one above all others that I should have liked for myself.
 Now the funniest part of my story is that the next day one of the papers, in giving a description of the Easter bon nets, put the very bonnet that 1 so much admired upon my own head
 T feel again the modification of the Easter of so long ago. said Mrs. Buehler, wife of Rev. J. M. Buehler of
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-10
SHE MAKES A HANDSOME LIVING
 Out Of Egg-F farming.

diet, treating her as though she were a dyspeptic young lady, to drink of hot water each morning. Plenty of ground oyster shells are given, boiled carrots and fish: one great point is to vary the food, not to continue the same diet for any length of time, otherwise Mr. and Mrs. Fowl and all the little Fowls may strike, and threaten to change their boarding place. Plenty of cayenne pepper, of course, is given with the food.
 Incubators are used entirely on the Bliss place, one having accommodation for 600, one for 400 and one for 150, cost ing from S60 to $20 each or whereabouts.
 Eight acres of land are needed for 2000 fowls, and some woodland if pos sible If ducks are kept, pond is necessary.
 Mrs Bliss devotes the business hours of the day to her publishing enterprise, coming in to her office in Brooklyn about Il o'clock.
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from the invention when it is intact and that's all there is about it.
 Of course, it will be hard to stand and just look at that egg and not bite it. or so much as take a teenty weenty flick" but any self-denying young man ought to be able to do that much for the sake of the saccharine sounds that will issue if properly coaxed. There never was such a strange little egg not even the Roc's fabulous one was as weird-for this can make sweet sounds -"Sweet Marie and Sweet Rosy O'Gradv '" or whatever her name was and this is the way it seems to be made:
 It is hollow inside, of course, and on the outside in one end there Is depres- sion. across the mouth of which there are stretched half dozen parallel bars
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Easter bonnet" declared Mrs Colonel Kinne, "carry me back to the time when my little daughter was about years of age. At this time dressed the quaint little thing up like an old lady, and put on her head my new bonnet, with it's pink roses in front and its fall of Chantilly lace behind, and allowed her to go upstairs to call upon her grandmother.
 "When she returned from the visit I carefully laid the bonnet on the bed and left the room to attend to some household duties. When l again en- tered the room I found shred of lace here and bit of rose there. The bon
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initiation upon my red head. I shall never forget my suffering on that oc- casion. My little friends, seeing my discontinue, teased me by pulling my strings and blowine the feathers until my patience was exhausted.
 "On my way home l had an alterca- tion with a girl who rulled my bon net off and threw it in the muddy street I at once jumped on it and left it there as broken monument to donation parties in old New England.
 Thus the day that should have been the brightest of all the year was to me a day of horror, long to be remem- bered."
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the face is less pronounced. There is certain chic about them that the "Jane Hading" lacked. Even the French walking hats droop over the face and are short in back. They are trimmed in drapes, steel ornaments and quills.
 The toques are made entirely of flowers on a straw or wire foundation.
 Charming effects are obtained in those made of the soft crushed roses. the brim made of tiny rosebuds nest ling among green leaves. l notice that the yellows and burnt oranges are holding high carnival here. Last year a birdseye view of "hatted" Paris would have shown one broad, brilliant streak of flaming orange. This year they have toned it down to shade called castor. T. Is a cross between
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A hat, St. Catherine, A handsome one, St. Catherine, A big one, St. Catherine, An expensive one St. Catherine. A nd soon St Cafherina

A nat, St. OaIHerlne,
 A handsome one, St. Catherine,
 A big one St. Catherine.
 An expensive one St. Catherine.
 And soon, St. Catherine. @9 HIS is the burden of my ladys
 song. And, forsooth, if St. Cath
 crime can not give her hat c with all the above requisites, the
 milliners can supply the de- mand They have handsome ones, and big ones and expensive ones. Especial ly the latter. Ask any man who has had to pay for an Easter hat and any doubts you may have as to milliner's efficiency to make out a bill will be dis sipated.
 Hats. hats, everywhere! Large and small, f1aring and dropping, beribboned and befeathered, straw, chiffon, jet, flowers and countless other things besides. For where else excepting in San Francisco does lovely woman sniff disdainfully at Dame Fashion, and fol- low the bent of her own sweet will? l speak whereof I know.
 Did I not waste reams of paper and gallons of ink telling the girls all about
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SWEET MUSIC
 EASTER EGGS.

|" HE chocolate hen has laid a can-
 dy egg that is the most wonder
 full thing you ever heard of It
 4 is musical egg, and capable, in
 its turn, of matching out sounds that will fill the neighborhood of the small boy owner with chagrin and as- tonishment. The candy man wondered and wondered what to make this year that would be new, that would cause the other candy men to open their eyes and perish with trade envy and the customers to greedily buy. And that is how the musical egg came about.
 It is so hard that surely Plymouth Rock hen must have laid it-though they say the big chocolate one that weighs fourteen pounds did bring about this curiosity. At any rate, there it is-a glorious preparation of sugar, that makes your mouth fairly water But you mustn't let it-for that would mean death and destruction to the magic egg.
 Every boy who gets one-and as it is somewhat expensive, few will be the proud possessors of the wonder-will straightway want to gobble it up, in- stead of getting it's secret from it in the form of beautiful sound That is, it will be beautiful sound if the boy is a musician-otherwise it will proba- bly, drive the neighbors out of the opposite fiat. If it is eaten, that will kill the piano that laws the golden notes, for music can only be produced
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fawn and dove, with a splash of yellow. and is used mainly for the straws It combines we'll with almost any shade but is particularly adapted to tur- Quoise blue and lemon. The violet shades have given way , the laven- ders and lilacs. This is a characteristic of the season. The deeper shades have all been supplanted by dainty color effects.
 The gorgeous cardinals, royal purples and brilliant yellows have gone out with feathers, and the blush rose lilac and lemon are the favorites. The Paris milliners say that the flowers made in these delicate tints are better able to
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of brass something like a jewsharp, and when blown upon they emit melo- dies more. or less enchanting-mo less, I am afraid, unless you happen to be an embryo Hofmann.
 There is another novelty in Easter vile, Candy County. this year. Tt is a rabbit that goes by clockwork, and never misses a stroke of time. He is a school teacher. and more solemn and stately rabbit it would be hard to find. He is rare old fellow, full of chcco- lates and vanilla and good will, that fairly beam behind the glasses on his ridiculous nose. Why do rabbits al- ways look as if they had colds in the head?
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.Halleluiah. haIlelujahI" sang the choir above her head.
 the words she thought they said. For she thought the very hymn they sang was all about her bonnet With the ribbon and the feather and the bit of lace upon 1t.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-14

This new relation between the earth
and the sun produces a class of physi-
cal disorders peculiar to spring. The
symptoms are quite unlike in different
cases, but the most common ones are
general lassitude, played-out, tired-out,
used-up. rundown feelings, combined
with more or less heavy, stupid. list
less mental condition. Relish for food
and the ability 10 digest food seem to be
lost. Skin eruptions sallow complexion,
biiiousness, coated tongue, ftfull,
irregular sleep, help to complete the pic
ture which is so common at this season.
Life is burden, business a dread, pleas
ure mockery friends bore and social
privileges a tedious round of disagreeable
tasks. Pe-ru-na so exactly meets all these
conditions that the demand is so great
for this remedy at this season of the year
that 1t is nearly impossible to supply It,
Carloads of Pe-ru-na are shipped North,
South, East and West TO meet the ever
increasing demand of the people for It,
II never fails to bring immediate relief.
Mrs. B. A. Harrison, Rison, Ark, says
Nothing too good can be said of your
medicines. They are better than you rep
resent them"
Send 10 The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufac-
turing Company, Columbus, Ohio, for
free catarrh book written by Dr. Hart
man.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-14
Disappearing Gun Carriages.
From Golfers Weekly.

From Golfers Weekly.
The disappearing carriages are built in
accordance with any one of a number OF
mechanical principles; but, whatever sys-
tenn be employed, the practical operation
is the same. In front of the gun is an
immense shield of sand and concrete pre-
senting no projection or angles which
would reveal it's location. Behind this the
gun lies hid. Ii is loaded, given the proper
elevation and direction, rises, discharges
its projectile and the recoil returns it 10
its hidden position.
To test the value of such mountings the
English conducted experiments at PORT
land in 1885. A pit was dug in a natural
slope of hill and in this pit a wooden
model of a. large gun was mounted upon
disappearing carriage 1t was arranged
to appear for half a minute at intervals
of three minutes emit a puff of smoke and
disappear. The Hercules at 800 yards
fired in ten minutes 500 rounds from It's O.
Founders. The gun stuck at the seventh
minute and could not be hauled down In
spite of this, it was struck only sixteen
time, and had it been steel the effect
would have been simply to scratch the
paint. Besides this, twenty-eight 1O-inch
shells were fired at it from a distance OF
$500 yards and no hits were made, the
she'll striking from 800 yards short to BOZ
yards over and from 120 yards left to 1870
yards right. This was under circum-
stances unfavorable to the gun, since Il
did not return the fire. A fixed gun SUBJ
Jected to similar test was struck over
200 times