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Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff of Troy.
Mo, says if every one in the United States
should discover the virtue of DeWitt's Witch
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AGENTS, 423 KING STREET.

NY PRESCRIPTION FILE, which in
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INTERNATIONAL BUILDING AND
Il LOAN ASSOCIATION, OF WASHING.
TON, D. C.-Notice is hereby given that the
annual meeting of the international Build
ing and Loan Association, of Washington, D.
G, will be held at the Office of Judge J. K.
NJ. Norton, No. 1913 south Fairfax street,
Alexandria Va, at 10:45 q. NJ, WEDNEs-
DAY, July 19, 1899, for the election of di-
rectors for the ensuing year and the transac-
tion of any other appropriate business.
CHARLES LYMAN, President.
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MEETINGS.

VTyHE ANNUAL MEETING of the STOCK
4 HOLDERS Of the C. c. SMOOT 8; SONS
COMPANY will be held at their Office, sol
south Washington street, MONDAY, July 3,
at 1Os m. By order of the Board of Direc-
tors. ROBT. s. JONES,
ie19 2W Secretary pro tenn.
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FXECUToR's NoTICE.-Having quail.
IL fed as executor of the late
HENRY SHELTON, 1 hereby give notice to
all parties having claims against his estate to
present the same, duly verified to me, and
all parties indebted to the said estate are re-
quired to make prompt settlement. lume-
diate attention to the above is urgently 80
licted.
JOHN F. PARKEB, Executor.
SO north Columbus street
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By e. II. Lunt, Auctioneer

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF ONE OF
" THE MOST VALUABLE AND DE3IR-
ABLE PIECES OF REAL ESTATE IN THE
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
Qualities In Umbrellas.

Many curious umbrellas are made. One
[ have seen can be taken apart and put
in ones pocket. The stick is of wood
about an inch in diameter. The cover
can be turned inside out and folded into
a small bundle. BY touching a spring the
ribs come off, straighten out and may be
placed in the hollow of the stick, which
is tlsn a ~presentable walking stick. 1t
is found very convenient by its owner,
who is a drummer. Another is still more
ingenious. The handle is curved, and
when a spring is pressed a pipe flies out.
The ribs are slowed away in the center,
and the owner has a walking stick, but
in the center there is also a rapier, which
may be drawn out. Another neat inven-
ton is a hollow stick which contains a
Camp chair. Three steel supports are
pressed out of the top ~ the stick, a trl-
angular piece OF canvas put on, and a
seat is had which is ut least as comfort
able as a bicycle saddle. All Of these
strange umbrellas come from the old
world.-John Gilmet Speed in Woman's
Home Companion.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

States railroad commission. In 1897 he
was elected by the faculty to deliver the
masters Grafton from among ten men,
receiving the degree of master at the
New York university commencement.
Since then Professor MacCracken has
studied at the Chicago university and at
the Clark university of Massachusetts.
For two years he was instructor of
philosophy at the New York university,
and was then made assistant professor
of philosophy at that institution. He
is now finishing the Phi. d. course at
the University of Halle, Germany, and
from there he will go to Missouri to as
sumo his duties as president in Septem-
Der.
The fact that one of the largest col
leges of Missouri has chosen this young
man for its president p%rejudices all Mis-
| sourians in his favor. 1t is thought that
he will win for Westminster the cordial
aid of the North Presbyterian church
as we'll as the ardent interest of its own
synod, that of the Southern Presbyterian
church
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
FOR OUT OF DOOR WEAR.

Cheviots, percales, dimities and ging-
hams are all seen in the summer frocks.
There is a small quantity of French null
and of broche Saline. These all make
up pretty and seasonable dresses.
For garden parties dimity and main
sock are made, with much lace and a little
ribbon. These and the pique and linen
duck suits are made with blouse effects,
and many of them are in tailor suits.
Some have embroidery and others straps
of white and facings of white. Others
again have braid in more or less elabo-
rate design.
For carriage or for a garden party
there was a model of a dress in silver
gray taffeta with pale pink stripes.
Around the bottom of the skirt were
three founces of plain gray taffeta with
pink silk null ruchings at the top and
edge of the iounces. The blouse waist
had one of the new shaped yokes, which
is intended to give a long, sloping ap-
pearancet to the shoulder.
Beneath the yoke was a simulated
figaro made of rufles of the taffeta and
silk null. The hat worn with this was
of rough Japanese straw, with a queer
drapery of tucked white silk and two
enormous plumes ana one of the new
armorial jeweled slide buckles.
A pretty checked gray and blue taft
feta dress for short railroad trips had a
seam in front of the skirt, which brought
the checks bias. Narrow black velvet rib
bon was used to trim the waist and
skirt. A novel vest and revers were pro-
duced by white muslin embroidery.
A few years ago no one would have
worn any kind of a silk gown for travel
ing. The wearer would have been called
vulgar. Then nothing lighter than mo-
hair was used at all. ''The world do
move'' if the sun does not.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

At the present moment the novelties
may be divided into two classes-the
bright and pretty fancies in the made up
goods for summer and the heavy, rich
stuffs now in the importers hands for
winter. We might include a few of the ad-
vance ideas in made up fall garments,
for these are all ready now or nearly all.
But, somehow, it goes against ones
feelings, especially in these hot June
days, to handle or even look at the heavy
winter stuffs, silks and velvets. | may
say this, however, they are magnificent
in texture, design and finish. The color
ing also is rich and in the deepest, warm
est shades, except where there is inten-
tionally something gray or in some other
modest tint for the conservatives
These heavy, stiff silk fabrics, with
with their superb raised velvet fgurings,
will make up well in the directoire styles,
which, it is now confidently expected,
will be the vogue this coming winter.
Things have been drifting that way for
some time, but, like every gradual
change, we experience O mild shock
when we find it finally upon US.
The distinguishing feature of the d.
~rectoire mode is narrownes of skirt. So
far, the unprecedented popularity of the
shirt waist in all its varieties has simply
left no room for the directoire waist, but
when cooler days come doubtless we shall
nave the entire costume. We now have the
narrow skirt, at least as far as the upper
part is concerned, and we have any
amount of wraps almost exactly like the
old ones, and many bonnets resemble
those of the DAYS of the directoire.
Pattern skirts. with a deep band of
Persian design in brocade, are among
the new importations. When we see them
In the street or anywhere, we shall think
our Observation-Disclosures have stepped out
of the past. l do hope, though, that the
ridiculously short waists will not come
in, though the new designs unfortunately
tend that way.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
GHOST OF THE SEA.
Reappearance of the Flying Dutch
man on the Atlantic.

The officers and crew of the steam
ship Albatross, trading between London
ard the Cape of Good Hope, report that
the ghostly Flying Dutchman recently
appeared to them in the south Atlantic
ocean. The most marvellous thing about
it all was that, though the steamer was
going II knots and the wind was quite
light; the apparition to windward kept
pace with her knot for knot. The
Dutchman's sails were distended with
wind. She had half a gale behind her at
least. She keeled over until her molder-
ing deck and rusty guns were clearly to
be seen, yet those on the steamer felt
hardly a breeze. Equally strange was
the absence of life on the ancient galleon.
Not even a tortured soul was there to
guile her path.
1t was the stubbornness Of a wicked
Dutch nobleman, one Falkenberg, which
rendered this miracle of the seas posi-
BILE. According to the accepted version
of the story, as given by NJ. jail ia his
.Scenes de la Vie Maritime" Falken-
berg set out on a voyage of discovery
during the early part of the seventeenth
century. He had a stout ship and a gal
liant crew, each man as hot headed and
obstinate as himself. The Dutch in
those days were reckoned among the best
~navigators in the world, and all might
have gone well with Falkenberg had he
restrained his blasphemous temper. He
tried to round the stormy Cape Horn
against a furious gale and of course fail
ed, for the clumsy, slow sailing vessels
of those days were not much good at
reaching to w~indward.
Falkenberg made the vain attempt
again and again, for the elements seem
to have united against him. Then in his
rage he swore an impieus oath that he
would do it or die. The crew, getting
tired of this ceaseless battle against head
gales, not %unnaturally kicked" To quiet
them, for their obstinacy was of the true
Dutch type, their captain threw a few
men overheard and kept on smoking his
pipe and drinking his beer.
To and fro, with wearisome monotony,
the vessel tackled, but never a mile to
windward did she make. Then the Holy
Ghost descended on the ship, probably
for the purpose of arbitrating between
the captain and his crew, but the impious
Falkenberg was not the one to be daunt-
ed by spiritual manifestations. He drew
his pistol and fired point blank at the
heavenly being. The only result was
that the bullet pierced his own hand and
paralyzed his arm. Falkenberg seems to
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

Gray cravanette and silk warp hem
rietta as well as the finer grades of mo-
hair are all suitable for travelling. The
~cravanetted covert is also a beautiful and
eleganr material, and the wearer is not
only well gowned in it, but is not at the
mercy of dust or rain, for neither af-
feet it.
Dark gray, almost black, cravanetted
covert was in one travelling suit, and it
was really elegant. The skirt was plain
save for several rows of stitching around
the bottom. The sleeves and short jacket
basque were also stitched in many lines.
The front was open over a white pique
shirt and had facings on the basque of
the same. A high collar Ii black satin
tie gave a mannish look to the front. An
other gray suit has a flat, white coat col
lar.
Hats for travelling should be such as do
not crush or spoil easily. And as to shape
and style each lady is at liberty to take
what best suits her. The choice is surely
wide enough. But wings, quilts and cog
plumes are the best trimmings.
In Paris we are told that all the grande
monde wear china Grape gowns with
~overhanging of heavy guipure lace. This
lace is neither cream, butter, putty nor
fax color, but all combined, SO that when
applied over the white crepe or delicately
tinted pink, blue, mauve OF yellow it
shows up admirably.
These crepe gowns are made up very
deliberately, and nothing a be more
graceful or artistic.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
NEW SUMMER SILKS.

AT the present moment there are some
dainty light silks that command admira-
tion. The weaves are not new, but the
colorings and designs make them yirtu-
ally new. Among them the foulards of
national and marine blue with white de-
signs are perhaps the best liked. They
make very pretty dresses and cool ones.
There are dots, dashes, double crosses
and geometrical designs, also flowers, but
after all | think that the intricate ara
besques and vermicellis seem to be most
favored. The colors are not confined to
blues, for we find every color in the cal
endar, and we find many exquisite white
grounds with colored dots or figures.
Those are all foulards. There is an ex-
quisite white pongee silk, a limp, rapy,
artistic fabric, durable and, above all,
washable. 1t will wash as well as linen
lawn. We all know the good qualities of
pongee. This is one of the daintiest OF
all silken fabrics unless it is japanese OF
Chinese Grape, and it is far more durable
than that. Trimmed with lots of lace
and ribbon, nothing could be lovelier for
home wear.
Printed midas are shown in great va
riety, and they make useful and valuable
summer gowns, as they are cool and llgnt.
Most of the midas have white figures.
Corded ~taffetas are among the summer
favorites. The ground is light and thin,
with bars of heavy round cords running
crosswisa, ,engthwise or both ways, form
ing checks. These cords are generally OF
the same shade as the rest, but the light
falling upon the ridges gives them a
lighter sheen, so that one would say there
were two shades at least.
There is a delightfully."- crisp black tar
feta with a wonderful ulster. This IS
much liked for travelling dresses and
cloaks and also the full tucked waists.
This is really a valuable silk to buy for
its crisp beauty and its endurance OF
rough usage. 1t comes "a inches wide.
Black peau de sole skirts with waists
of this bright taffeta are considered as
among the best of ideas for handsome
wear. This bright black tafeta shows
beautifully under lace dresses.
For house dresses for summer | IN
one place many lovely negligees of india
silk In delicate colors and designs al
most smothered with lace. Some pongees
beautiful by no end of fine silk en-
broidery.
IN one color and also in white are made
a few of them have tunics simulated
bv the embroidery or other trimming
Some of the blue and white satin foulards
have a short bolero of heavy Limerick or
Genoese point lace, from winch the
gown falls in loose folds.
Dimity negligees are also very pretty.
Some are all white and some OF dainty
aeairna nnan dnEnth ) 'front.' some are.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

of the faculty Of Westminster college at
Fulton, Mo. He is a son Of Chancellor
Henry M. MacCracken of New York uni
versity, but mis- own mental attachments
and not his fathers influence have won
for him the distinguished position he is
to assume next fall.
President MacCracken's record has been
a high one for his "a years of life. He
was an "honor man" at his graduation
from the New York university. In 1894
he won the first honors of his class, the
Butler philosophical fellowship of $500,
and the James Gordon Bennett prize
for an essay on the work of the United
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

ready taken two degrees, B. A. and LII.
B. Her favorite form of law is studying
it under its international aspect, which is
nothing if not abstruse.
Miss Bates has a fine mind and ex-
presses herself with great directness, lu-
cidity and fuency, and she has already
conquered four foreign languages. Per-
sonally she is a handsome woman, with a
magnetic presence, possessing b charm
of naturalness and sincerity. She is the
possessor of a large private fortune, so
that her advanced knowledge in law has
come to her as a pleasure and pastime
and not as a necessity.
As a clubwoman Miss Bates is widely,
known. She has been a member of the
National Federation of Clubs and is now
in the National Council as chairman of
the standing committee on domestic rela-
tons under the law. She has also been
president of the Detroit Women's club.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
A Little

When little Mrs. Sunfish is laying her
eggs, she will fight anything that comes
near. Down in a sheltered place she
hovers over her nest until by and by a
big, ugly carp comes along and makes up
his mind to make a meal of fish eggs.
Then the plucky little sunish darts out.
and, with a rush, runs square under the
big carp, trying to cut it with the sharp
fin on it's back. Two or three sharp cuts
of this kind make the clumsy carp
change his mind about sunish eggs, and
he leaves in a hurry, being lucky If he
gets away with a whole skin. Then the
little sun6sh goes back to its nest to-
watch for the next hungry enemy
cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
PILLS TO AVOID CONSUMPTION.
But an overdose Led TO the Dis
covery of the Fraud.

Saws La Suisse, Geneva:-Several doc
tors Of Cologne have been arrested on a
charge of having, in consideration Of con-
siderable monetary payments, administer
ed to a number OF conscripts certain pills
which produced the symptoms of heart
disease. with the result that the con-
scripts were declared to be unit for
military service. The death Of a young
man who took an overdose of the pills
led to the discovery OF the Ingenious
fraud. 1t t~ranspires that the doctors had
carried on this lucrative game for a long
timex
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

LATEST VISION OF THE FLYING DUTcHMAN.
have grown furious at his own impoteE,
cy, for he recklessly cursed his God and
everything connected with religion.
This scandalous action finished the
matter. The Divine patience was ex-
hausted, and n sentence probably I'M
equaled for its severity was passed upon
the blasphemous captain. He was con-
demned to navigate the stormy southern
seas forever; he was never to put into
port, and his diet was limited to gall as
beverage and redhot iron as food. Be
sides this. he was to be externally on
watch and was never to relegate his duty
for a ome to one of his officers.
The Flying Dutchman was to be the
evil genius of the sea. to torment and
punish sailors, and even the sight of his
i'll omened bark would carry bad fortune
to the beholder. The ship brings white
squalls, head winds, tempests. all kinds
of disasters.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

MRS. EDWARD +.
mems Clubs she was given the important
position of state chairman of correspond
ence for four years. Afterward she was
made chairman of the library committee
and in the course of another four years
succeeded in establishing throughout the
state a splendid system of travelling Ii
braries.
In appearance Mrs. Buchwalter is a
white haired, commanding looking wo-
man of middle age. AS a woman who
has proved her power to lead in her own
state she is eminently fitted to step out
into this broader work of the General
Federation.
Mrs. Buchwalter's -four assistants on
the programme committee are Mrs. Re
becca Lowe of Atlanta, Mrs. Sarah S.
Platt of Denver, Mrs. John Kendrick,
Jr., of Philadelphia, and Mrs. William
Tod Helmuth of New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
The Monastery at 81. uonornt,

There Is q monastery at st, Honorat.
on an island Z a Cannes. France, which
has existed since the fourth century.
During the II centuries since 1t was
built no woman has ever been allowed
to enter ita wallis -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
A BUSY CLUBWoMAN.


toe For the Federntfon's Biennial.
One OF the busiest clubwomen in the
country from now until the big biennial
session Of the General Federation OF
Women's Clubs at Milwaukee In 1900
will be Mrs. Edward r. Buchwaltef of
Springfield, O. Mrs. Buchwalter is
chairman of the programme committee
for the big gathering. She has already
presented a preliminary plan of the pro-
gramme to the federation council and is
now at work on the details.
In her own state Mrs. Buchwalter has
for years been prominently identified
with the club movement. AS one Of the
founders of the Ohio Federation of Wo-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
Newspaper Literature so Years Ago

In these days of practical newspaper
writing, in which bald facts are expressed
in the p~lainest and tersest form, the flow
cry language INDUCED in by some Of the
journalists" half a century ago sounds
peculiar. The following poetic %convulsion
from the New York .sTribune'' in 1S49 as
worthy of a high place in the newspaper
literature of the day
''On Saturday evening, at II minutes
past II o'clock, the sun rode calmly and
mildly over the autumnal equinox and cast
autumn But as yet, the vast ocean Of air
transparent with the memory Of the long
summer days tina have passed over it,
darling their rich beams to its very
depths: Even as we write. however, the
remembrance fades. like the sky's blanch-
ing souvenirs of sunset; and in the dis
tance the cold ghosts Of winter glare and
wave their frozen wings, which creak on
icy hinges-while in the silence of mid
night a prophetic voice of wailing and
desolation means ftfully att the case
mert,"
Few people can contemplate this speci-
men Of literary architecture without ex-
periencing a feeling of awe and sadness,
proof positive that the profession has, in
some things, gained by what 1t has lost.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17

don on June %, is that on Women In
Law" by Miss Octavia Bates Of Detroit.
Women from all parts of the world Will
be there, and few of them have any
knowledge of law or their " standing
before the courts. But Miss Bates will tell
them all about it, for she is a modern
Portia.
Miss Bates is a brilliant young woman,
and she may be relied upon to treat her
subject in a highly original and enter
tanning manner. Doubtless she will sur
prise some of the delegates from coun-
tries where ozme have not been so pro-
gressive as in the United States.
She is a graduate of Ann Arbor univer.
sity and also of its law school and!has ali
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-17
YOUNG COLLEGE PRESIDENT

The Q n
G e s t college
president in
the country is
] o hn Henry
NJ a C Cracker,
who was re-
Gently chosen