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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03
NEW AUTUMN SKIRT.
Avoid the Shaped Flounce and Pin
Your Faith to the PaneI-Front Cir
cular Gut

The summer skirts, made for the COM
ing month, have often the volant en- foPme,
but It is far safer not to use the shaped
rufIle in arranging a gown the usefulness
Of which is to be carried into the autumn,
writes a Paris correspondent. The best
form of autumn skirt has a front panel
and closes in one seam of this; the rest of
the skirt is cut in the circular shape,
close over the hips, with few slight rip
pies disappearing in the waistline behind
and ruf1ling out about the hem. The front
panel is quite straight and makes at the
bottom a break in the lilylike ruflies Of the
springtime.
Tabac brown cloth makes an attractive
walking suit for October. The front panel
of the skirt is embroidered with green
chenille and fine black braid, and widens
at the bottom to button over the side
breadths IN. two square tabs. Buttons
covered with black silk are used. The
bodice is a blouse, with little embroid-
cry down the sides and a Marrow vest Of
green silk. Oddly shaped basque pieces
are attached to the sides, meet behind and
drop down as a short sash These are of
the cloth. heavily embroidered
Another model is OF bright red Tor
huntsman's pink cloth, piped with
darker shade. the whole decidedly gay,
but most attractive for the country DUR
ing autumn. The front panel of the skirt
Is untrimmed but the sides lie over II In
scallops that slope away at the bottom.
and these are piped with the darker red.
The front OF the bodice is smoothly
draped, giving a princess effect and has
dark red cloth buttons on each side. A
Jacket makes a tiny bolero in front, and Is
long behind with small coat tails. The red
again pipes the jacket. Several models at
different eouturieres' have shown this ex-
act idea--a princess front, with the
basque back One Is of gray, with purple
velvet bands In place Of the pipings and
steel buckles instead OF buttons.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03
sARpoU's ROMANCE:
His Future Wife Nursed Him to Health
and Gave Him His Fortune

~. En+ure Wife Nursed Him to Health
and Gave Him His Fortune
writer in Casselrs Magazine tells
nrettv story of sardou. In his z9d OF
oath year. (the date was April, loo4, ne
Ia contrived to produce at the odeon
comedy called the "Taverne aes h'u,
s,on+sn The author himself hau
,,n,aad II simply THE Tavern" The
l 80 of the theater, which is SIT
- ., the students quarter OF PARIS
,ononed If. with an eve to gam, ne ne
Students Tavern Whereup4t.4, ,, "a
soboIsrs thinking themselves q es,5n,,. :,
s,,.er,nfIy damned the piece Saiuu ~, !.
gistrass both of mind ana pouy, Ia Ia
u Nv extreme, and he was preseh'.y 4. III,
~ ~ in his garrett by terrible 49, 81 e
- tvnhold fever. on ahotnei ii nertain
tbe house there was llVllis ,,ho had
nretty Mile de BrecouII e,,i inter
sometimes met the uhsueees sotrs
eating dramatist upon ny 80, learned
es st.ts.ins him the young lauy iearI ~ y
MlssIis onneT he was stricken, ana
IN VIA .iag 70 the top story, she lnstaileu
mouhts.i - his bedside. So good a nurse .,
neIss! sen DO Brecourt prove that VIC
dia Ga mio was presently in courageous courage US
torlen "ain, and there is nothing TO
healti oent that the devoted nurse pe.
ada eNuep' ,,orv short time, the not Tess
came ~ ,,Jfs Yes; there Is somethihs
deVoscu ,Hd for his young wire, haNin p
else - ,ie liee. promptly placed IN his
saVel ne ii,o means of fortune. she u WaS
hands w him under the notlce OF
D DeG just that great Ss d@ aT.r The e en
founding az, t"e and support of Deiazet
couragGim n sardou the talent which wa, was
being si his SScandide Ithe piece lee hs n9a
s siTSGd re syyS e 3er S shf FIRST aia
ieres Armes ~ aNf-- Garats and the
tlnct success Sa'nf s.e;eryais." Suffering vas va,
Pres en sp the empty purse began t.
and nine ny sed lllood-tlde Of prosperity
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-03

that l feel you encouraged my atten-
tions." Perhaps" she replied, but how
was I to know whether you wanted to
marry me or only to borrow money from
father?" Philadelphia North American.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-15

a French president, If he cboses con
i've Ike prince. His salary is SIPS.
OOO' ana the annual allowances for In.
cldenlal expenses are equally large
lhe Elysee Is splendidly furnished ana
kept In repair as his town residence. and
the palaces of Fontalnebleau and Ram.
Douillet are also maintained by the
state for his use during the summer
Ihere are large shooting preserves at
Marty where he can enjoy outdoor
sport during the autumn. The late
president Faure liked ceremony. sDlen-
dor and stateliness. Taking the view
that the French people did not wish TO
nave the presidential Office maintained
In an unpretentlous way, he adopted
much of the etiquette of European
courts, drove about constantly I'm n
coach-and-siX under military escort and
gave brilliant entertainments I'm town
ana country Generously as the state
provided for him. he expended a large
share Of his private wealth in keeping
up luxurious appearances and in enter.
tanning guests like the ear with splen-
ala pomp. President LOubet has not
been long In office. but It is aparent
that he Intends to live less pretentious-
~ and In closer accord with ld-fash.
Toned ideas of republican simplicity.
In comparison with his predecessors in
office he Is poor man, and he has the
frugal tastes Of the class of small coun-
try landholders from which he sprang
He represents the great element of
rural France. which studies and prac.
tees economy and dlslikes wasteful.
ness and luxury. Pleasure-loving Paris
laughs over the rumors of reform and
retrenchment In the kitchens and serv.
ant-halls of the Elysee, but the presi.
dents conduct meets with hearty ap-
prevail In the country towns and viii
lagos, where thrift has never ceased to
be a virtue. Even the boulevard wits
We're silent when the president, re.
turning to his mothers home In Monte
limar, gave on unstudied exhibition of
iilial reverence. Catching a glimpse of
her white hair as he drove In triumph
through the town In magnificent
coach behind an escort of cuirasslers,
he sprang to the ground, ran toward
the platform where she was seated and
embraced her again and again, while
she was sobbng from joy ana pride. A
president who is not ashamed of his
humble peasant mother and remembers
her counsels of thrift and carefu.ness.
stands for the best qualities Of staid.
rural France. There is so much that
is sordid and contemplate In the pub
lie life Of the republic with the strange
hurly-burly Of the Dreyfus case, that
a touch of the simplicity Of earlier aud
better times is welcomed.
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mary lines not only tracing the min
utes, but even the smaller divisions.
theoretically it was intended that each
meridian should govern the belt seven
and a half degrees on each side of it;
but there has been a slight variation
from this. The local time of those
places at the edge of the belt will differ
from the standard time by half an hour.
The details of the system were worked
up by w. f. Allen, secretary of the rail
way time convention. 1t was not until
1882 that the railways took hold in
earnest. In that year 90 per cent of
them adopted standard time, and now
the United States and the commercial
world operates on that plan. The time
of the seyenty-fifth meridian is called
eastern time, that of the ninetieth
called central and that of the one hun
dred and fifth mountain and the one
hundred and twentieth Pacific. The
adoption of standard time made New
York's time four minutes slower than
previously. AT the conference Of the
International Geodetic association held
In Rome in 1888 the. question of cosmo-
politan time was first discussed.
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The sympathies Of the whole country
were aroused by the recent abduction
from New York City and the suisse
quent recovery Of little Marion Clark.
n baby 20 months old. Many aspects
Of this case are worthy Of study. In
earlier days 1t was comparatively
easy act 10 steal n child and carry II
where It's Identity was lost, while the
Dereayed parents were left without
hope Of Its return. Such cases were so
common that the accidental reunion Of
parents with their long-lost children be-
came familiar feature In literature
aud on the stage. The prompt recovery
OF the Clark baby shows that. while the
world Is all the time growing larger. in
another sense II Is constantly decreas-
ing In Size. The growth OF great mod
ern cities, and the free movement Of
people from place to place. would at
nrst seem to make It much easier to
carry out successfully a crime of this
KIND today than II was In the past: but
modern Inventions have more than off
set tpese changed conditions Of society.
W men this child was stolen. such n
glare OF publicity was thrown upon the
crime that no nook or corner OF this
great country could long afford the
criminal hidlngplace. The telegraph.
the steam railroad, the perfected police
system all lent their aid, but more val
u'loie imam all else were the services Of
photography and the newspapers. The
daily journals so faithfully reproduced
the baby's portrait that a young won.
an III country postofIice, as soon MS
she saw the strange child, said: "Wbv
tnat looks Ike Marion Clark" The
modern daily press has many faults.
out occasionally 1t performs service
so important as somewhat to condone
them. ''V''0
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The controversy over the boundary be-
tween Venezuela and British Guiana has
been waged for years. 1t brought the
United States and Great Britain to the
verge Of war in 1895, when President
Cleveland sent his famous message to
Congress declaring that this country
would not permit Great Britain to deter
mine the boundary line by using violence
against Venezuela.
Venezuela never recognized the differ
ent boundary lines proposed by Great
Britain, even as demarcations of disputed
territory.
A brief description Of the most impor-
tant of the boundary lines follows. The
map shows all the several boundaries and
is an invaluable guide to the proceedings
Of the tribunal:
1Sl4-The British acquired 10000
square miles in Guiana from the Dutch
1S36-The British resident minister in
Caracas notified the Venezuelan Govern.
ment Of the urgency of erecting light
houses and placing buoys in Barma Point
and Boca Grande of the Orinoco, show
ing these places were acknowledged to be
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and recently hearing from an acquain.
lance that she was to celebrate her
birthday at such a time, he had the i'm
pertinence to send heran expensive pres
ent of an exceedingly impertinent kind.
1t, or rather they, were in a satin box
and their buckles cleaned with gems.
The widow wrote a note of thanks, and
before she sent it she showed It to
somebody who told the story. This is
what she said:
MY Dear Mr.. Brash: Thank you ever
so much for remembering Fldos birth
day He needed a new collar and the
one you sent looks so we'll on him. 1t
was so thoughtful of you to send two,
for FidO is so bad about losing things"
And then that vindictive woman
signed herself Yours, sincerely
Washington Post.
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a SOLDIERS rALE
Diversions on the Battls-FisI6 W.
the Fight Was Raging. e'

Diversions on the Battle-FfetS
tho Fight Was Raging. non
During the FIRST engagement Win.
the company was firing at will into ~
woods ahead, says Sergeant King in ~ ,ho
Minneapolis (Kan.) Messenger e..
lorn water buffalo, the Pbil;n,i1-
beast Of burden, meandersd into F. II.
rice field directly in front Of tho I;s
The writer Immediately directed NJ.
fire toward the buffalo, with no anna,
ent result. Afterwards, during hi
in the firing, we shamefully confasssS
to having wasted our strength in tb;s
ignoble manner and were SURPRISED -
learn that every man had dome ill.,
wise. At all events, the beast made
good its escape, for it patiently MOD.
ded ahead until the timber swallowed
it up. During the charge at Calocan
frenzied pig. OF diminutive si1a
dashed from beneath a bamboo hnt
and, apparently, judging that All Tho
connection was for his benefit. tbouobt
best to retire. AS the pig dashed mas,
the writer, We gently assisted with
shove from the butt Of our gun and
thought no more Of it for some tim.
Afterward, upon glancing to the rear
we saw four or five soldiers in hot mr.
suit OF tla same poor little swine. II
is laughable, even in times OF oeace To
watch another man chase hog hnt
when men forsake their places forget
the roar Of conflict. the hum of bulleta
the shouts of the victors, and the walls
OF the wounded, to grapple with an
eight-pound shoat, the scene becomes
ludicTous in the extreme. We took the
trouble to learn that the pig got awav.
AT Calocan the rebels had mounted
two monstTous muzzle- loading guns
captured in former times from the
Spanish. They attempted to FIRE one
Of these. with direful results The
Americans collected the remains of 90
rebels killed by the explosion Of the
gun. The insurgents had not the cour-
age to fire the remaining cannon, which
was loaded and primed when Calocan
was captured. The natives had loaded
the gun with complete curiosity shop.
The cannon was filed with scissors.
knives, coal, pieces of brick, nails,
bolts, thei mometer. a horseshoe, a
car link, piece of rubber hose, and, to
crown it all. large quantity of hoop
iron had been driven into the muzzle
SO tightly that it was necessary to file
it before the charge could be drawn. A
double dose OF powder was found, and
also a quantity Of dynamite. No Won
der the other cannon exploded
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wire. The date of the construction
1S2l-was printed across the top in
letters of fire-in other words, burned
In, as were also the hours. At the top
and in the center is the figure of the
sun a thing Of glory, with a mans
smiling face and rays jutting from all
sides. From the nose of the sun the
steel wire was run, coming to a point
and then fastening directly below the
sun. The sun was then put to work
and the hour markings were defined
OF course, the II noon hour was where
the wire ended at the bottom of the
board. On the east side-frOm the top
the hours ran down In the following
order: 6, Z, S, 8. 10. Eleven was on the
bottom of the board, between 10 in the
corner and II in the center. On the
west side of the dial, running down the
side, were placed g. ., 4, 8, ?, and
was on the lower edge, occupying a po-
stion on the west which IL did on the
east. 1t will be seen that there were
two skies. 1t was the beginning and
ending Of the day. Other markings
! until AlAN sun MNnA AAUM II NOuAu Ut lGNh-
oned on the wall very readily.
Though the storms of seventy-eight
years have beat against the dial, It has
not begun to show the wear. The fig
ures are as distinct as though they
were placed there yesterday. The col
ony passed, another one took its place
and passed and New Harmony became
an ordinary town. Generations have
passed and babies have grown old and
died. but stln the old clock knocks or
the hours just MS reliably as It did in
| 1921, when 1t was put into place. The
old building Is now occupied by mer-
chant who has shown good business
Judgment by utilizing the surrounding
space on the walls by signs setting
forth his line of wares.
Sundials are cdrlosities now. Proba-
bly, less than one person under IS years
out of every 1000 population ever saw
one. Still Il has been but a short time
since the sun dial regulated affairs, and
though watches were used they took
their time from the dial. Up to 1869
there was no uniform time. In that
year Professor Charles Il. DOwd first
took active measures for establishing
a standard time He sought the rail-
road managers MS the persons best
adapted to bring such plan into gem
eral service. In that year in this coun-
try alone there were about seventy
five different standards-all Of them on
the sun basis.
Adoption Of STANDARD Time.
From his work and energies evolved
what is now known as standard time
and which also has the sun dial as its
basis. -Four meridians, each one hour
apart-sun time-were chosen as stand
ard meridians. They are the seventy
| afth, which passes near Philadelphia;
the ninetieh, passing near New Orleans
and ST. Louis the one hundred and fifth,
passing near Denver and the one hun
bred and twentieth. near Virginia City.
By the division thus adopted the space
between them readily became divided
into minutes and they into seconds.
so that after all the world is thus trans
formed into one great sun dial Of imag-
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-15

II you meet darkeyed stranger whose resemble
il amps on an ice pick feeling his solitary % o!c
WIN har will be covered
IN ue TO recognize him however Lii
De The 1 II VIII
Smithsonian vas 0ut'neu by this
This hdeou 5 called mean
PREDATORY insect Onul recently neu uhu
faVor pasture has been the cubcuar On man It's
epupe un time Just after that bug has ha blood us most
oens III ts way elano ETC. gets taste Of human
distib '''HouI rous
v, Inc Kissing bug Is black has fat body and its hunting h ~
$
pointed head and beak as sharp that mosquito W mas narrow
Nctn VINO always asleep feels II SUCKS ITS
Times normal size IN from two to four days Conoion used in sven ten
Ie lulue cause OF the prevalence
abundance OF insect life to be found everywhere Nature the great
rinsecp
Of these the melano win disappear also WIN the disappear
hh parasites which mas provided
AS RUE the melanoleses pcTes makes home under ITS eggs
Inc insect runs park OF rotten
mes mostly night the on tlat
common oedoug In fact the Fupe somewhat
country where and IN all the
m uepsuuons Is commonly known Big Be are caused By
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-15

in Venezuelan territory. In 1871 Barima
Point was claimed by the British.
1S4O-A man accused of murder was
taken to trial in Demerara. The lawyer
in charge Of the defense proved that the
crime had been committed in Cano MO
ruco, and the accused was acquitted by
the court under the plea that the murder
had been perpetrated in Venezuelan terri
tory. In 1896 Great Britain claimed Cano
MorucO.
1S4O-On account Of the boundary posts
planted by Mr.. Schomburgk and which
bore the British flag the Venezuelan
Government sent instructions to Mr.. For
tique, its plenipotentiary minister in Eu'
rope, to demand from the British Gov
eminent the recognition of the integrity
of the territory of Venezuela
1SS1-Lord Granville proposed a limit
line to DR.. Rojas, minister Of Venezuela
at London.
1SS4-Mr. Fortique proposed to Lord
Aberdeen a line to be accepted by both
governments as a final settlement of the
dispute. Other lines were proposed sub
sequently by the Venezuelan Govern
ment through DR.. Julian Niso and DR..
Jose Maria Rojas.
1SSG-Lord Rosebery proposed a new
boundary to the Venezuelan minister
Guzman Blanco.
1S9O-Lord Salisbury proposed a bound.
airy which has been called a "capricious
line for arbitration"
1S95-The Royal Geographical Society
Of London issued a map in which the po-
sition of Schomburgk's line was changed
from its position on the maps Of 1910 and
later dates.
The extreme Of the claim of the British
is defined in a memorandum sent by Lord
Salisbury in 1890 to Minister Urbaneja.-
New York journal.
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pie, and-as Editor watterson phrases
it-"hung her geography into the sea-"

The car Of Russia is quoted as say
Ing recently: Il am sick and tired OF
life. What with its responsibilities. its
hypocrisies, It's festivals and its lies. [
wish I were out Of IT," 1t would be
strange, indeed, II a ruler so conspicu-
Gus had permitted himself TO express
this sentiment publicly, but the att
tude Of mind is not 50 fantastic as It
might appear to some young person wh4
has tired OF life because of its poverty
and hardship. The ears fate is that
other Of the two extremes In neither Of
which Is to be found the truest happi-
ness.
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Widows sweet Revenre.

A story that people are laughing about
concernsay young state department man.
He is a self-made man, and there is
nothing about him to disturb in the
slightest degree ones conviction that
gentlemen are born, not made. OF late
he has been markedly attentive to a
lovely young widow. The widows
well-bred Encouragement of his adj
dresses has been wholly lost on him.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-15

New Harmony, Ind, Is probably the
one town in the Mississippi valley that
has sun dial town clock. 1t is proba-
bly, the Oldest and most reliable time
piece in the country. 1t has been turn
ing off the minutes and hours and days
since 1891 without over so cents re-
pair. II never runs down, never goes
on a strike and as long as the sun does
business It Is reliable. To-day It is
something more than timeplece-it Is
n curiosity. 1t Is hlstorlcal-probably
having an edge over any other time
piece In Indiana in this respect New
Harmony was a colony settlement. The
building on which the dial is placed
was built by the colonlsts and was
used by them as a barracks. Ii was
erected in 1914. There were no rail-
roads In those days and as everything
was local there was no need of any
thing but sun time. The whole world
ran on the same schedule then. For
several years the colony operated by a
number of sun dals and hour glasses,
but this became unsatisfactory and at
last George Rapp, the leader, conceiy ed
the idea of having a town clock.
First of Its Kind.
He was probably the first to endow
any Indiana town with such an adj
junct. He went to the forest and cut
the solldest black walnut tree he could
find. He finished it down to slx-foot
lengths and made a facing 6x4 feet A
strip was nailed across the top to throw
off the rain. He then had the colony
blacksmith turn out a piece of steel
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1899-09-15

The statement that the telephones In
England are very poor viii create no
surprise Electricity as household
and business agent is little too swift
Cor the conservative Britons to manage
with perfect satisfaction. That is pos
slble only In America, which might be
prohted by initiating the more deliber-
ate habits OF their English cousins
while the latter could easily stand a
slight Infusion Of American enterprise
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A French medical paper contains a
strange story by DR.. Koveos Of a rela-
Awe Of his, whose beard and mustache
from being prematurely white sudden
AZ became dark. The editor adds a
STORY of an old priest whose white hair
fell or because OF an attack Of erysipe-
tas and WAS replaced by raven locks.
Are these stories myths Ike those of
the ancient Greeks regarding rejuven-
essence. or was goats juice" used by
any chAncel