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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16

and convenience; and she hastened to
explain the use of the white drapery.
If one would see herself in the decep-
tive mirror as others see her with the
eye, or as nearly as possible, let her
hasten to dry goods store and buy q
quantity of soft, pure white material
gauze, if possible; if not, Swiss or
India muslin will answer very well.
Be sure and have it pure white. and
after polishing the surface of the mir
ror gather the material at the centre
of the top and bring it down softly on
either side, framing the glass in folds
of pure white. When this is done to
artistic satisfaction peek in and see
what transformation. The true tints
of the complexion, the expression OF
the countenance and eyes, the correct
color of the hair, will be accurately re-
fected. This is one of the milliners'
oldest secrets. Many of them drape
the glasses on opening day in the
softest drapery of pure white. 1t is
done with the view of giving the fair
patronesses the best view of them
selves possible, administering in this
way little subtle fattery, thereby
disposing more easily of the greater
amount of goods. Buffalo Enquirer.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
Fashion Notes.

Gray is the fashionable color just
now.
Exquisite pearl and gold embroid-
cries are again coming to the front.
Sterling silver is as popular as ever
for the small articles ior writing and
toilet tables.
New models in tailor gowns have
Persian OF gold cloth colors, revers
and vestings.
A dressy visiting gown is of cadet
blue, with bolero waist, the bolero
to be of heavy lace.
Openwork felt will be fashioned
into hats, as will also white kid, en-
broidered in silver.
Put fastenings in the placket in two
places to prevent gaping and showing
the underclothing.
Changeable silks will be used a
great deal this winter for evening
wear. The shades most sought after
will be the pinks. the new blues and
delicate greens.
At the present moment tucks and
folds are more fashionable on 81;
than hounces though the latter =,
also often seem, and the new models
show continuance Of this style.
Thus far most of the new skirt
models, both for utility and demi-
dress uses, are absolutely untrimmed,
unless the rows of silk machine stitch
ing about the hem can be called trim
ming.
Fancy crepons, especiall.r those
with velvet appliques, cordings and
chenille dottings on changeable
grounds, are the prime favorites for
winter wear. Better dressers have at
last returned to the woolen fami y as
the best fabric for continued service
and high effect.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
The BRITISH HEN.
A Conference in England to Improve the
Poultry Raising Industry.

A Conference in England to Improve the
y-Raising Industry.
Great Britain is the largest egg i'm
porting country. No breakfast table
is we'll furnished without eggs, and
British hens would give up in despair
if it were intimated to them that they
ought to supply all the eggs the popu-
lation can consume. In fact, the
number of hens is so very inadequate
that over 1880, 900 of eggs, worth
$40, 900, 600, are imported every year
to make up the deficiency in the home
supply. Nobody wonders more than
tho British do themselves why they
don't raise more poultry and eggs,
and so poultry conference met at
Reading to talk the matter over.
Mr.. Walter Long, president of the
British board Of agriculture, told the
delegates that forty-three eggs were
imported each year for every man,
woman and child in the United King
dom, and every one of these eggs
might just as we'll be raised at home.
He would do all he could to facilitate
this desirable result. Some of the
delegates said that the poultry farmer
might reasonably expect a profit of
five shillings a year from the eggs of
each hen, and there was no reason
why the home production should not
be largely increased. Various ways
of encouraging the industry were ap-
proved.
Among the diversions of the confer
ence was a trip to Baynards in Sur
rey, where the delegates were con-
Quoted over the great poultryfatt
ing establishment of Mr.. G. E. Brooke,
who annually sends SO, 900 fowls to
the London market. This market
has some peculiarities which the poul-
try farmer must take into account.
The chicken must be sent to market
with its head on, for the buyer will
not invest in fowl whose head has
been cut of. The idea is that chick
ems that are mutilated may possibly
have been killed by some animal. 1t
is also important that the chicken
should have white on at least light
yellow legs, as the poultry buyers OBJ
ject to black legs. There is no good
Bfounu lor tulS opJectlou, uut coh-
sumers will have their way and their
whilns must be gratifed. If chickens
with black legs are forced upon the
market they bring only about half
the price OF those with light legs.
The great hen countries of Europe
are France, Austria Hungary, Russia,
Italy, Belgium and Denmark, and
thus England has plenty of neighoors
that are willing to supply her wants.
Canada is now trying to get part
of the trade. If China might only be
economically tapped for poultry and
eggs, that country could beat all
creation in the quantity supplied, for
that empire has more fowl than any
other country in the word.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
About Babv's Hair,

in taking care of an infants hair it
i necessary to remember how delicate
and sensitive the scalp of child is,
and also that the bones of the skull do
not close till nearly the end of the
second year. At first a baby's head
should be washed every morning with
some good soap If scurfy spots ap-
pear on it, they should be gently
rubbed with little vaseline or salad
oil before the head is washed, but
they should not be touched with fine
tooth comb. 1t is mistake not to
soap the head we'll, for if this is not
done the scalp is pretty sure to be-
come scurfy; but it is an important
matter to rinse the hair properly with
clear water and to dry it with soft
towel. The very softest brush that
can be obtained is the right one for
baby, and no comb should be used.
After two years it will be often enough
if the child's head be washed once a
week. Then shampoo should be
used, made of the yolk of an egg and
soap beaten up in warm water to form
q good lather. This should be we'll
rubbed into the scalp and ripsed out
with plenty of warm water. If the
water is hard little borax may be
used to soften it. When children
have long hair and are apt to catch
cold, it is good plan sometimes to ap.
ply little eau-de-cologne to the scalp,
but this must never be used i'll the case
of infants. Opinions are divided as
to whether cutting the hair tends to
strengthen it, or whether it does
equally well to grow as nature wills.
In any case it is a good plan to keep
the hair fairly short for cleanliness
sake, and also because long hair is so
often burdensome to children. 1t
makes them hot and uncomfortable
while romping about, and it also is
apt to become badly tangled during
play and to cause good deal of trou-
BILE, and sometimes also pain when it is
combed out afterwards by the nurse,
who is not always as gentle as she
ought to be. Home Notes.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
Advocates n Fourth Meal.

Here is good advice to thin people
want to grow fat. 1t is contrary
to all early training, but it is full Of
good common sense, and comes from
pl ninent physician. His sugges-
tions are as follows: eff you are thin
and want to put flesh on your bones,
eat before going to bed for the night.
Physiology teaches us that there is
wasting away of tissue while person
is sleeping as well as when he is
awake, and this being so, there should
be continuous nourishment.
"Food taken at dinner or in the
early evening is always digested at
the time of retiring, and the activity
of the process of assimilation con-
tinues until long after we are asleep.
If the tissues are not nourished they
are pulled down by the wasting pro-
cess, and as result sleeplessness en-
sues. On full stomach, however,
or with some food to sustain the sys-
tenn. there is building up of the
tissue.
There is no need for rest in the di-
gestive organs, provided the quantity
of food eaten is not above normal dur
ing the twenty-four hours. Too long
Intervals between meals are bad for
the stomach, from the fact that the
cessation and resumption of work of
the digestive organs tends to enfeeble
them. A moderate working of the
organs through the twenty-four hours
is much more beneficial. would ad-
wise those suffering from insomnia to
take something to eat before going to
sleep always. A glass of milk and
bread, or any digestible food will do. %
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
PIE .ed to Marry Only widows.

TL-fe is a bachelors club in the
West whose only rule to which mem
bers swear allegiance when they join
the club is "Marry widow" Young
girls and old maids alike are barred.
One explanation of this rule, given
by member, is 'We consider it the
part OF wisdom to marry some one
who has already discovered that men
are not angels"
Another member gives this philan-
thropic reason: "Young girls always
have the best chance with their fresh,
blooming faces, and we think the
widows ought to be given show, as
their lives have been blighted in a
measure, as it were. Anyway, they
seem to understand man better"
Another view of the case is the fact
that anything forbidden suddenly ac-
quires wonderful interest. A lot of
bachelors who pledge themselves to
marry widows are sure to discover the
hitherto unappreciated charms of all
the maidens in town"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
Married Women at School.

If a girl in Russia wishes to study
at any of the universities in that coun-
try etiquette does not allow her to do
SO until she is married, so she goes
through the civil ceremony of mar
riage with man student, whom very
probably she has never seen before,
and this marriage is quite legal, though
perhaps they may lever speak to each
other again. On the other hand, if
they like each other and wish it, they
are married for life; if they don't, the
marriage is dissolved when their uni
versity course is finished, and they
are free to marry some one else. The
celebrated mathematician, Sonya Ko-
valevski, whose autobiography at
tracted considerable notice few years
ago, went throug gh the marriage cere-
mony with student whom she then
saw for the first time and who after
wards became her husband. The edu-
cation of women in Russia stands better
than in most European countries, ow
ing to the persistent efforts of the
Russian women themselves. By 1886
they had managed to get four univer-
sity colleges for women, with 1442
Students; one medical academy with
500 students and numerous interme-
diate schools. There are over 700
women doctors in Russia, of whom
near employed in the
: the Zemstvos.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
An Automobile Elopem ent.

Strange to say it is Berlin that re-
ports the first automobile elopement
1t is strange to say for two reasons.
The horseless carriage craze has dealt
mildly with Prussia's capital, the
honest Berliners looking at it with
somewhat doubtful approval. In the
second place filial obedience ranks
very high with these Prussian young
men and maidens.
Nevertheless, Herr Gut of, a
young engineer, and Fraulein Elsa,
a daughter of Herr Heinrich, after
one futile attempt by rail, succeeded
in slipping away from the parental
espionage in borrowed automobile
and gaily whizzed to Stettin, where
they took steamer for ST. Peters
burg and ere duly married.
From al. accounts the ride to Stet-
tin appears 90 have been safe and
pleasant journey. There was no
mounting in hot haste; no fierce pur-
suit. Pursuit would have been futile.
No horse could catch Cupid's heavy
tired express on this memorable we'd
ding journey. And so they went
bounding down the .evel road that
leads to Stettin town. One stout arm
was stretched to the proper lever, and
with the other the young engineer un-
doubtedly braced up the brave, but
slightly teary fraulein.
And SO in a pleasing and highly
successful manner, for Papa Heinrich
has invited the runaways to como
back and be forgiven, does the auto
mobile gracefully rumble into a new
role. Motor Vehicle Review.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
; FOR WcMAN'S BENEFIT.
An Opportunity for Women.

In regard to the many women who
wish to be self-supporting, here is a
suggestion that appears in a period.
cal and that seems plausible one. OF
all the amateur photographers there
are few who are really successful in
developing their own negatives. The
majority send them to the photogra-
piers, pay largely for the work, and
wait as patiently as they can for their
turn in the rush. A woman who would
carefully ain herself for the work
should be able to make a respectable
amount of money while the craze for
amateur photography lasts.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
The jew at the South.

Judaism in this country, Ger iainly in
the south, is a religions designation
rather than race distinction. The
Jew here in Virginia is as truly and
as essentially virginian as is the ma
tive Gentle. He so regards himself
and is so regarded. Richmond Times
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Botaa;sts and entomologists know
that desd stump, or dead tree, stand
ing near living trees is source OF
peril to them, by furnishing refuge
and breeding place for timber-borers
and other injurious insects. Trees,
as we'll as men, need hygienic sur
roundings.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16

The Widen process for coating steel
and iron consists in the use of bath
containing "a per cent. by weight of
zinc, IA of tin, Is of lead, and O. 8 Of
aluminium. AS in galvanizing, The
articles are dipped into the melte1
alloy and the resulting coating is
claimed to be the best known, being
firmly adherent, resisting injury.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-11-16
A Mark OF superioritx.

''Wherein does man differ from the
lower animals?" asked the professor.
And the youth answered without hesi-
tation.
sHe can ride bicycle"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04
RAILROAD NOTES.

Dan Shannon is now firing on the fast
mail run.
Engineer Ed Jolly is back to work
after a few days lay OFF.
Mail car No. sos came in yesterday
on rear of afternoon train and was
taken TO the shops for repairs
Geo. HelWig. formerly night baggage
man at the Santa Fe depot, returned
yesterday morning from Manila He
was a member of the Twentieth Kansas
regiment, and is home on account of
i'll health.
John PARCEL. master mechanic at
Argentine, is in the city for few
days.
John Higgins. engineer on the Topeka
and Kansas City plug, has returned
home and viii resume his run tonor-
row. He has been spending a few days
in Colorado.
w I Allen Of the Rock Island, was
in Topeka on business yesterday, and
left last night for a short trip Of in
spectiOn over the road
Frank Jones. night air inspector at
Santa E'e, has been spending the past
few night in fishing in the river He
reports good luck and already has a
supply of fish stories.
O. NJ. Nicholson, night operator at
Holiday, was brought to Topeka on
yesterdays train. and was taken to
the Santa Fe hospital. Mr.. Nicholson
has had an attack of malaria along
with other troubles and is 50 weak
that it was thought best to place him
under the care of the hospital force.
John Hartley, foreman of the paint
shop, leaves for Philadelphia soon to
attend the meeting of the Master
Painters. which meets in annual ses-
sion during the early part of next week.
Mr.. Hartley expects to spend a few
days sightseeing in the east before re-
turning home
Mark Reardon of the repair sheds.
suffered a painful injury Friday, which
viii lay him up for several days. He
was working on top of a car and slip
ping. fell to the ground, breaking his
right wrist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04
RUBBER TIRED POLICEMEN

[From the Louisville CourIer-JOurnal-1
Washington, Ind, has a gum shoe po-
lice force Every policeman in the de-
paEtmenC IS required by the chief to
wear shoes with rubber soles and heels,
in order. like a fairy godmother, to slip
up noiselessly upon any person who
may be in mischief and nab him when
he least expects it.
If a patrolman reports for duty with
out his gum shoes he is Immediately
reprimanded. and is compelled to give
cause for such base neglect of duty. If
the ofense is committed three times
the copper would better be on the
lookout for a new job.
The advantages of a rubber tired pO-
lice force are obvious The actual ex-
perience of a travelling man in Wash
ington proves the wisdom OF the rubber
clad feet.
Washington, Ind. has the most eff
cient police force in the country" said
a travelling man at the Louisville hO-
tel the other night 1.-The police of
Louisville, New York and Chicago are
not in it with those rubber tired blue
coats over there I was in Washing
ton not long ago, and happened to
want a -nightcap' before I retired I
asked a fellow where I could find a sa-
loon. He gave me instructions about
going in the back door, etc, and I start
ed off I found the place. and was just
about to drink a julep. when I was tap
ped on the shoulder by something I
had heard no noise, and thought the
around, and there was one OF those
rubber tired policemen at my back. He
made no more noise in entering the sa-
loon than a sparrow would in lighting
on a telegraph pole
THE next night a genial coterie of
travelling men got together to have
game of hearts. I didn't want to play
poker, for I hadn't daIlied with the
pasteboards for so long that I knew [
would play a losing game We went to
a room over a. saloon, and the game
commenced Suddenly a policeman ap-
peared as if by magic. He peered all
around, and upon finding that it was a
social game departed.
Another evening I went out for a
walk. Everything was quiet as could
be. and was sober in thought Sud
denly one of those gum shoe men pass
ed me just as noiselessly as he had en-
tered the saloon. I never would have
known any one was within a hundred
miles of me if had not felt a gentle
breeze by his passing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04
Chamberlain at Sunday School

From the London Chronicle
Mr. Chamberlain has played many
parts in his time. but few people know
that he was once a Sunday school
teacher Some 80 years ago the right
honorable gentleman used to conduct
a class in connection with the Church
of the Messiah, in Birmingham. At
that time, says M. A P, which re-
calls this piece of biography. Mr.. Cham
berlain affected a pair of mutton-chop
whiskers- AS a teacher his methods
were original, to say the least. Though
the class usually read a chapter of
Scripture. and afterward discussed its
contents, the greater part of the after
noon was spent in threshing out a pro-
bIem in natural science, or dealing with
a period of historical interest.fo which
q text book had been selected
In his treatment of secular subjects
the Colonial secretary was, above all
things, thorough. He had a special Xix
ing for Socratic disputation. Fixing his
eyeglasses and Icungiug in his chair, he
would contradict the most obvious ak
IONS for the sake Of an argument. But
why my dear feIIow2' and What do
Won mean by that, my dear sir2'' were
phrases that constantly REQUIRED upon
his lips; and his delight when he had
completely befogged a man was very
evident The right honorable gentleman
was insistent in iupressing upon the
class their many duties as citizens. and
4 favOrita saying of his to his scholars
was that his religion consisted in doing
his duty to his fellow men, and par
ticuIarIy in alternating the lot of the
poor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Santa Fe Decides on a New
Move.
The Duties Now Performed by
Mr. C. r. Hudson
WILL BE DIVIDED UP.
Both Branches Heretofore Han
died In Topeka.
T. B. Montgomery and B. F.
Williams Possibly the Men.

It is predicted with considerable con-
hdence in Santa F'e circles that the du-
ties now in charge of 1Ir. c. r Hudson
will be divided after he leaves the ser
vice OF the road, and two assistant gen
eraI freight agents appointed TO sue
coed him instead of one. Tt is known at
least that such a move is under constd-
Grafton by the Santa F'e traffic officials.
If the duties are divided one man Will
be placed in charge of the commercial
business west Of the Missouri river, and
another in charge of the rates Both
branches have been handled together
for the last five years by Mr. Hudson,
but as they are to a certain extent an
tagonistic, It is believed by at least
some of the officials that 1t would be
advantageous 10 separate them now
that a change in the Office viii have to
be made. In this event the assistant
general freight agent in charge of rates
would have TO make his office in To-
peka, but the commercial man would
probably have an Office in Kansas City
or Denver.
It is believed that If this change is
made, an assistant general freight
agent to succeed Mr.. J. z. German in
Chicago Will not be appointed
No men have been settled upon for
appointments as YET by the executive
officials Mr.. F. B Montgomery gen
eral agent at Kansas City, and Mr.. B.
F. Williams, chief clerk in the office
here, are looked upon as possibilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04

campmeetings are finding that Stan
1ey's big bluff is about over, and that
it will surely defeat him for reelection
as time goes on. Tim BuFk some years
ago foretold all this, and. by the way,
he is now on deck and ready for &C
ton
We have tried to be fair and truthful
in our statements. Our business is
prosperous and the KIOndike discussion
has shown the masses that resubmis-
sion is on the ascendency and constitu-
tionaI sumptuary law on the decline
Should there be any action the public
can rely on US for the cold facts with
out coloring. We have a brand of liquor
And should the K1ondike be obliged to
go out of business, of which there is
not a shadow of expectancy, q town
will be laid out just across the river
in Missouri where I have a host of
friends and hundreds of those old SOL
diers will get drowned crossing on RATS
and in skiffs unless I run a free ferry
in which case they would be absolutely
safe. They already have several paths
to the river and from daylight to dark
lines are coming and going. passing
and repassiug, and they are not drink
ing river water either.
JOHN BOYER, JR.
P. S--Since writing the above I have
been approached with a new scheme
It is to buy out some of the little KIon-
cultural college and make my wife
matron at the state prison. Then pub
Hsh that the KIondike has been closed.
The agitation is hurting the admins
tration- now have the matter under
adyiSenent. b
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-04
A TRUST IN ENGLAND.
Wall Paper Combine to Advance
Prices $50 Per Cent

New York. Sept. A World dis
patch from London says:
The most daring and what will pro-
badly be the most successful trade
combination ever formed in this coun-
try viii come into operation today.
All the manufacturers of wall paper
with the exception Of four firms IN Lon
don have agreed to pool their profits.
The capital aggregate $751; 600 900.
The promoters have guarded against
foreign competition by an arrangement
with the dealers who have signed the
contracts not to deal with foreign man
ufacturers for ten years. BY the end of
ten years it is expected that the syndi-
cate viii be strong enough to ward off
all competition.
The price of the cheapest sorts of
wall paper is to be raised Immediately
250 per cent About one-third of those
engaged in the trade will be thrown out
of employment
The syndicate expects immense pro-
fits