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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-07-31
WHEAT CROPS In DANGER
Because Of Inability Of Farmers 20
Secure Harvest Hands.

CHICAGO, July GA special TO the
Chronicle from St. Paul says: The scarcity
OF farm labor In the great wheat fields Of
the Northwest made itself apparent to-day.
when the railroad Offices received appeals
by wire and mail asking for thelr aid IN
behalf OF the farmers. whose crops are
threatened because they cannot secure la
borers TO harvest the grain. The employ
ment agencies are advertising al over the
country, but can ind very few availablo
men, The wages offered run from 81 -
2-z5 day and board r,
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DETROIT TUG FOUNDERS.
Capt. lie May, Trying to Swim Ashore
I'm q Heavy Sea, In Drowned.

HARBoR BEACH. Mich, July oo---The
tug Grace A. Ruelle. of Detroit. foundered
in the heavy sea while crossing Saginaw
bay last night. Captain julie lie May. OF
Detroit. and Engineer Fred Sayre were the
only ones on her and took to a raft After
drifting for twelve hours Captain lie May
endeavored to swim to the shore but was
drowned. Engineer sayre was picked UP an
hour later. -
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Strict Quarantine.

NORFOLK, Va, July 30.-The Board OF
Health at midnight issued this order: I'm
til further orders. strict quarantine n
hereby declared against Old Point. Phoebus.
Hampton, Newport News and adjacent
country"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-07-31
wyman VIII Take Charge.

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Surgeon Gem
eral Wyman, OF the Marine Hospital serv-
ice. was informed Saturday night OF an out
break Of what 1t was feared was yellow
fever at the National Soldiers Home at
Hampton and Immediately sent surgeons in
the service from Wilmington, ~. c.. Nor
folk and Washington TO investigate the
sickness there, report on its character TO the
authorities here and TO take measures TO
prevent the spread of the disease. DR.. wy
man himself will go to Hampton in a few,
days TO take charge of the work Of pre-
venting a spread of the disease IL IL DEF
velops into genuine yellow fever. Two OK
the surgeons dispatched to the home report
ed to-day that the symptoms very much re-
sembled those of yellow fever, and that.
while they could not be positive In their
diagnosis, they were inclined to the belief"
that the illness was the dreaded yellow
jack. The government will adopt strict
precautionary measures to prevent a spread
Of the disease and will fight its progress
with all the skill and resources at its COM
mand.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-07-31

WASHINGTON, July 30.-Secretary Alger
and Mrs. Alger returned to Washington
this afternoon. The secretary will formally
relinquish control of the war department
tomorrow. and his successor. Mr.. Elihu
Root. will take charge. Senator Burrows
Of Michigan, returned to the city on the
same train. but neither knew of the others
presence in the train until it was some dis
tance out Of New York.
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No One Outside the Home Had Any
Suspicion that the Disease
Was Present.
WYMAN TAKES QUICK ACTION
IN SPITE OF DOUBTS IN MINDS OF
SOME AT WASHINGTON.
No Explanation OF Where the Fever
Came From or How IL Reached
the Institution.

NEWPORT NEWS. Va, July 3o.-Thers
are thirty cases of what is believed TO be
genuine yellow fever at the National Sol
diers' Home, near Hampton, and three
deaths frcm the disease were reported to-
day. There were several other deaths at the
institution yesterday, but it cannot be
stated tonight that all Of them were caused
by yellow fever. Newport News and Hamp-
ton will quarantine against the soldiers
home tomorrow morning. The govern
ment authorities at Old Point have already
adopted this step and no strangers are al
lowed TO enter the reservation Quarantine
Officer Hobson. OF this port, went TO the
soldiers home tonight and verified the
statement that there are now thirty cases
OF the disease at the home and that there
were three deaths from the malady to-day.
While no one outside OF the soldiers home
knew anything about the existence OF yel-
low fever until to-day, ii is said that the
disease made its appearance three days ago.
The most rigid quarantine regulations will
be enforced to prevent the spread OF the
malGdy.
The news has created great excitement In
Newport News, Old Point and Hampton.
and the most vigorous measures will be re-
sorted to to prevent its spread. There are
1900 old veterans at the home and several
large excursion parties went last week.
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death roll in the Philippines from gunshot
wounds, accidents and disease Is sixty-two.
Including the sick and wounded who are re-
covering, we dropped, all told, 2O4 men. On
the Hancock are more than one hundred
wounded soldiers. The entire regiment Is
glad to know that 1t Is to be mustered out
in San Francisco. We have had pleasant
trip" concluded Colonel Mulford. land II
has improved the men wonderfully. Quite
a number of them will have to go to their
homes, but I am assured that every one
will soon be all right"
The first man to grasp the hand of a re-
turning Nebraska volunteer was Mr.. Whea-
ton. whose son, Burt Wheaton, is first lieu
tenant and adjutant Of the regiment. The
young officer was lowered on the gang
plank and father and son greeted each other
with some difficulty. The quarantine officer
does not board incoming ships between sun
set and sunrise, and there was nothing to
do but wait for the morning with what pa
tience was possible.
The men on the Hancock numbered 1,136
and include the two Utah light batteries
and six discharged men from the Twenty
second Regiment, u. S. A. Colonel Mui-
ford, who is in command of the Nebraska
regiment, succeeded the late Colonel Stot-
senberg, killed in battle Lieut.. Col. Cotton.
of the Nebraska regiment remained at Ma
nila, where he will engage in banking.
Only one man died on the Hancock after
she left Manila. He was Private Richard
Walph, Of Battery A, Utah Artillery, and
he died of typhoid fever at Nagasaki
Among the officers of the Nebraska regi-
ment who were severely wounded. are Cap
tain Hollingsworth and Lieutenant wads-
worth who was on two different occasions
shot in the legs.
At an early hour to-day the quarantine
officer Of the port boarded the Hancock
and after careful inspection gave the ves-
sci a clean bill of health. Soon afterward
the sick and wounded were taken in ambu-
lance to the hospital at the Preside. 1t had
been arranged that those of the men able
to march should be landed at noon and
march to the Presdio by way Of the prin-
cipal streets. AS an attendant guard Of
honor, six companies Of the Second Oregon,
with the regimental band, were detailed at
the dock. 1t was found, however, that the
men could not conveniently be landed ear
lier than 3 o'clock, and that even then some
of their paraphernalia and trophies of war,
which they desired to use in their triumphal
march, were deep down in the hold and
would not be available.
Governor Poynter, of Nebraska, made
these representations to Major General
Shafter and at the urgent request of the
Governor, General Shafter ordered that the
landing of the Hancock's passengers be de-
| layed until Monday morning at o'clock.
| Ignorant of the amended arrangements,
| thousands OF San Franciscans, in holiday
attire, lined both sides Of Market street.
and waited for hours to shout a welcome
| to the returning soldiers.
| 1t was not until the Oregon companies,
| who had been assigned as an escort,
marched back alone, that the waiting
| crowd understood that they must bottle up
| their enthusiasm for twenty hours longer.
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try are, for religious or other reasons, rot
suitable for application to foreigners. But
the chief justice Of Samoa Is an American or
European and administers American or
European law. 1t would appear. therefore,
that there Is no reason why he should not
take cognizance Of all suits brought against
foreigners, nor why foreigners should en-
Joy privileges Of extraterritoriality except
that of not being amendable 10 the juris-
diction of native courts, which will deal
only with such matters as are decided ac-
cording TO native customs Hitherto consular
jurisdiction has been a powerful means
of embittering internal strife in Apia.
Each nationality has it's own law and the
consul who administered that law was pop
ularly regarded not as an impartial judge,
but as the protector OF its own nationality.
We believe that by abolishing this outward
sign OF separate national institutions and
by submitting all nationalities to one court
and one law a great advance will be made
in the direction of removing petty rivalries
and jealousies and restoring good relations
between the various white colonies
THE third class Of evils arises from the
lawlessness now prevailing In Samoa out
side the municipality. For many years there
has been no law in these districts and native
institutions permitted chiefs TO commit
crimes with impunity. Murder. theft and
other offenses were left unpunished and
trade suffered owing to the difficuity OF af
fording planters adequate legal protection
ip their dealings with the aborigines. We
hope to improve this state OF things by Civ
ing the chief justice an enlarged jurisdiction
over all these islands. so as to include all
cases between natives and foreigners. as
well as the lower grades Of crimes COM
mitted by natives against each other. To
tighten the work Of the Supreme Court We
have made the municipal magistrate a court
(Contin1ed o Second FaGeJ
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of dynamite fall 800 feet down a shaft
and never wink, and IVe seen All Italian
drop a half cartridge from his hand to
his boo and not a grease spot did the
poor fellow leave behind y
that the poor fellow deserved a
better fate, for he made a desperate fight
for it before he scattered. He was load
ing a block-hole at the time, and had just
broken a cartridge in half, when he
dropped one of the pieces. Before it could
touch the ground he half caught it, and
then began a desperate brief juggling act.
Again and again he half caught the
deadly thing. Then he missed it. He
made one last effort, and stuck out his
ground, but it didn't work. There was a
him. Which shows that dynamite is like
a. woman, because in my time 1 have
dropped similarly hundreds of cartridges
of dynamite. and still l am here and with
a good digestion.
But it is in winter, when dynamite
freezes, that it is most capricious. Then
il you want it to go off it simply refuses,
or burns with a dull roar. like q boiler
blowing off steam. 1t is in thawing
dynamite that most of the accidents hap
pen about which you read. There are
two ways of thawtng dynamite-one. by
placing the cartridge on a steam boiler
or within safe distance OF a fire; the
other, by immersing them in pals of hot
water. As the latter method draws out
considerable of the nitroglycerin from the
cartridges, and, therefore, weakenS them,
it Is often discarded in favor of the more
risky thawing by an open fire. I once
saw an experienced powder man thaw .
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an odd, wavy appearance. The waist
hooked a little to the left OF the front,
and Its fastening was mph sized by a
scalloped and tucked bit of amber silk.
outlined by jet beading and showing
bright jet buttons as the ostensible
means Of fastening. The sleeves were
tucked from shoulder to wrist, and even
the waist-belt was not exempt from the
same commentator. With this waist
was worn a stock of amber glace silk
with a bow Of ribbon-edged lace.
tucks on fronts are very eff
fectlve, and these are often set in threes
or fives. with a fine insertion of lace be-
tween. one in coral pink has tucks con-
verglng to the middle of the front. where
they meet a cascade of white mousseline
de sole, bordered with black velvet baby
ribbon.
Another front of white silk has up7
right tucks IN sets of four. and between
these an embroidered pattern of ros3-
buds n leaves. The collar is entirely
plain, with the embroidery appearing lit
the upper edge. 1t rises in two stiff
points behind. The new collars in this
severe style are not nearly so becoming
as the soft frills of chiffon and lace which
hide with such magnanimity any defects
of ones neck. y
The fad of wearing a steel necklace
fitting closely around the collar of ones
street gown is very ugly, especially for
hummer. but it has in a measure estab-
lished itself. The girl who adopts it
wears also a steel waist-belt and steel
ornaments among her hat trimmings. n
A few handsome chiffon driving cloaks
and evening cloaks are among the sum-
mer novelties, as we'll as elaborate silk
%cloa1s, lace-trimmed. One Of these
cloaks is peculiarly attractive with it's
falling lengths of gray chiffon, decorated
with huge choux of black tulle.
ELLEN OSBORN,
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SUMMER DOOR HANGJNGS,

This is the season when doors are tax
en- off and stored i'll the attic. A free
draught of air is what is desired through
out the house. Artistic door ~hangings
can be made of inexpensive materials.
There comes this year an old blue linen
which is very decorative and being
smooth, 1t is easily worked.
If the door curtain is to be used as a
screen, select a linen of the desired width
and make it a little narrower than the
opening in the door. String the top upon
a rod and run a rod through the foot of
the curtain to keep it in place. 1t is, Of
course, easily brushed aside. Thread
your needle with coarse embroidery cot
ton and work circles and crescents upon
the linen, letting one cross over the other.
Embroider one in red, white and blue if
you desire Il national curtain and fill them
in with small designs to suit your fame
Plain brown muslin makes a very ar
tistic door hanging. Sew a band Of fig
ured cretOn at the top and bottom, and it
you desire to use the doorway FREQUENT
ly you can drape back one of the cur
tainS with a cord. These are extremely
simple curtain designs and can be car
rlcd out for less than one dollar each.
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dozen cartridges by an open fire, though,
as the sequel will show, he completely
lost his head when suddenly confronted
with an unusual emergency. He had
placed the cartridges within a foot of an
open wood fire and had seated himself
nearby to await developments when one
of the cartridges caught fire. Had he
left it burn itself out the chances are a
thousand to one that nothing very start
ling would have happened, for it is con-
cussion and not fire that explodes dyna-
mite. Instead. he rushed forward, picked
up the burning stick by one end. and.
holding it upward like a candle, began
10 blow and blow until he was black in
the face. He never let &C. until the flame
began to nip his fingers. and then in his
excitement he threw the cartridge to the
ground and began to stamp and grind on
it with his heels as if he Were killing a
snake: and. by thunder! he stamped out
about it. The cart boys called him
Angel after that. because by rights he
ought to be an angel now.
zone day a professor from Stevens In
stftute of Technology came to the quarry
and asked me to perform 4 certain eN-
pertinent for him. We printed with dyna-
mite direct from a newspaper onto a
block of iron. The professor said the ex-
pertinent proved most interesting, as he
had discovered among other things that
dynamite works downward and not up
ward. like black powder. Our way of
proving that in a quarry is to lay a stick
of dynamite Oh top of a bowlder. After
the shot the bOwlder is smashed to bits.
But the professor had his own notions.
He carried three round blocks of iron.
six inches in diameter and three inches
thick. Then he took a newspaper from
his pocket and spread one sheet over the
face of the block. T placed half a stick
of dynamite on top and covered it with a
little heap Of sane and touched her off.
You would hardly believe the result, but
you can see the block or exhibition in a
glass case in the Stevens Institute libra
ry. and you can read on it distinctly-the
printing Of that paper which covered the
block at the time of the explosion. But
the professor had another wrinkle up his
sleeve. He picked an ordinary oa! leaf
and spread it over the face OF a second
block. lie prepared a charge similar to
the first and this time the ribs Of the
leaf and sven its outlines appeared dis
tinctly pressed into surface. According
to the professor. the action of the dynl-
mite was so quick that the ribs of the
leaf had not tlme to burst apart before
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ABSENT-MINDED CONDUCTOR.

The conductor Of an interurban car
threw his passengers into a joyous state
OF hilarlty on a recent afternoon. One of
TIE passengers was a young woman, evil
IDENTITY a friend Of his states the St. Paul
Globe. He smiled graciously at her each
time he passed, but obeyed the rules
about not talking to passengers, although
he evidently would like to have broken
them for "A few minutes. During his lei
sure moments he kept his eye on the in
teresting passenger.
Kent street, he shouted, as the car
rolled along into st. Paul.
"Mackubin street," he called a few Sec
onds later.
The young lady arose and walked to-
ward the end of the car. The bell rang,
and as the car slowed up the conductor
and passenger had a chance to exchange
a few short sentences. After she alight-
ed, the conductor pulled the bell-cord, but
his eyes still followed the Woamn. Then
he put his head in the door and howled:
Friday aight!'
AS the passengers set up a shout and be-
gan to look around, the conductor
caught himself and shouted:
II mean Arundel street"
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TRIMMING FOR BLACK HATS

Many of the new black hats are trim
med partly with wild black edging. One
in ricestraw has two rows of this lace
plated on to the upper side of the brim.
It has one of new high straight
crowns, about which is folded a broad
band Of black velvet fastened by a jet
slide; surrounding this, rising still high
er than the crown, is a large bunch of
globular roses in several shades of pink.
Hats of cream lace on a foundation of
wired tulle will be very fashionable this
season. Their effect is improved by sew
ing thereon rows Of an inch between each
braid. A very stylish hat OF this sort has
for trimming merely a large dull gold
buckle securing the foot Of a fan-shaped
aigrette of the lace placed slightly on one
side of the high crown. Lace wells are to
be preferred to tulle this year. and the
new selections include wells of the most
expensive kinds Of lace, besides admir-
able limitations of the same. They are Of
ten used to drape round tho brims Of
has-a style that will be affected by those
who consider the lace over the face un-
becoming. Long scarfs in net, with de-
signs in Escurial. are now being con-
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Mrs. BIS neck white and plump if I
worked over it I'LL doom's-day. She has
worn high collars until all the throat
muscles are shrunken n wrinkled. Do
You know, when the fashion column said
early in the spring that the high collar
must go, l knew it wouldn't?"
why not?' asked the woman.
Because the stiff, ugly linen collars
have been worn SO long that scarcely one
woman i'll a dozen has a throat fit to
show. Collars get higher all the time be-
cause they have to, in order to hide
CreaSes and discolorations."
"They are very uncomfortable" said
the woman; cup to ones ears"
But it is not true that nothing has been
lone for the mitigation of the towering
linen collar. When worn, it is even more
s~ky-scraping than last year; n with its
lofty walls, it's turnover caves and it's
rounding corners that either meet in
front or slightly lap, it has the oldest
and most incongruous effect, contrasting
with the soft. filmy lace four-in-hands
whose cobwebby d~elicacy it is the fad of
the hour to display above shirt waists OF
the most severe and mannlsh patterns.
But the fight of the soft lawn collar for
supremacy has not been without results.
TIL lawn collar is about as high as its
rival, but far cooler and more dainty. 1t
is made plain with a hemstitched edge, or
it is tucked, or it is composed of
alternate BANDS OF tucklnS ana ace
insertion; frequently it is cut into
little tabs or points at the top and
finished with narrow lace. In any of it's
many moods it is a pretty finish to stock
or lace scarf or fichu.
Besides the lawn collar and the white
gulnlpe, which decorates the coolest and
prettiest Of the summer frocks, fashion
permits the afternoon frock to be open
at the throat or half decollette. Only
quite young girls are availing themselves
of the liberty, however, for reasons set
forth in the plaint of the masseuse. The
throat ruined by the linen collar needs the
softer light of evening and the kindly pro-
lection of many strings of pearls before
it is willing to make a pretense of pub
LEFTY.
OF new neckwear there is no end. To
see the fancy bows displayed in the shops
it would appear that they were meant to
be bought by the dozen, but they are eX-
pensive little %trifles. despite their mo
cent appearance. A day or two ago a
couple of girls who might have been fac
tory hands, paused beside a counter over
flowing with fronts and fchus.
They're meant for millionaires," said
one. "and sometimes I think there amt
nobody except me in New York what
amt a millionaire"
Then they went to a table covered with
bargains and remnants in ribbons. and
one of the two bought a quantity that
made ME wonder if she was shrewd
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
FAD IN RINGS.

Inc jewelers. trays are filled with cur
lous niue rings, which. at first sight,
seem TO carry no eaninS but which.
upon a second glance, are most sugges-
tive IN their symbolism. These in
slve little fancies are the fad of the hour.
for instance. here is a golf stick twist
ed INTO a circle. the gold being corr ugated
TO reproduce the heavy leather covered
hand. While a pearl ball ornaments the
Tip. What more appropriate prize than
TINS could be given the winner of a golf
tournament?
Then. for the rowing girl. we have a
dellcately fashioned loop. made of a thin,
curved spoon oar of the racing shell. And
the hunting girls heart is delighted with
a norm twisted into a circle with a fox's
ntau FOR an ornament. In this COnrec-
ton there is also shown a riding crop
with a horses head.
OF course, the expense attached to these
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enough to get a hatband and necktie
from the game piece. or whether the en-
tire strip was destined to so into a tan
dem tie, as the irreverent call the auda-
cious ribbons of the summer. which go
twice around the neck, tie in a bow under
the chin, are then carried down to the
waist. knotted there and finally allowed
to fall upon the skirt in sliced tabs whose
length is such as to watt joy to the soul
Of all ribbon manufacturers.
The new ties are wonderfully pretty
and coquettish when they are not over
Whelmlng. The scarfs in Persian designs
that are affected by the tailor-made girl
have. sometimes, an uncomfortable re-
semblance to a bandana handkerchief.
The end of many of the silk bows are SO
long and so wide as to be altogether un-
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-24
NOVELTY IN BELTS.

Windsor belts are a novelty that any
clever girl can make for herself to add to
her summer toilets. They are made Of
boys ties or the broad, old-fashioned
WinGsors. Take one of these ribbon
lengths. about eight inches wide and fin
ished in tabled points, and %encircle the
waist with it. To one I'd fasten a hand
some clasp. or any ornament that will
serve as a blind" buckle, and draw the
long loose end through this, leaving the
longer end to float over the dress front.
At the back they may be pinned in place
with a belt holder or pin.