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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Outing Costumes.

Although wheeling hasn't nearly so
many devotees among the fashionables
as it had several years ago, the fair
society belle still rides in a desultory
fashion and still keeps correct and
up date wheeling costume in good
order in her wardrobe. There is not
much difference between the bicycle
costume as prescribed by fashion now
and that worn for golting, only the
golf skirt is little longer. As wom-
en- are riding in much longer skirts
at the present time the majority of
them make the one costume do for
both.
Another thing, the rainy-day or
short skirt is SO much the vogue,
even for clear days, that several find
a place among ma bellies gowns.
The Two new ideas shown in the large
cut will serve equally well as bicycle,
golf, outing or rainy-day gowns, and
are reproduced from Harper's Bazaar.
The slde-pleated shirt-waist of the
first one is a most attractive model
for any shirt-waist, either of wash
goods or silk, for utility or dressier
wear. The front has a centres stitched
band and three deep outward-turning
pleats from shoulder to waist. The
back is similar, only with box-pleat
in the centre. The design of the skirt,
with its unusual yoke effect, is es-
pecially suited to heavy galatea pique
or very light weight two-toned cloth.
This yoke is quite fashionable with
New York women, and gives quite a
trimmed appearance to an otherwise
plain skirt.
The salient feature of the brown
covert cloth one, trimmed with
stitched bands, shown at the right,
is it's charmingly unique little jacket.
This is belted in at the back, and
fashion autocrats aver it is sure to be
popular, as it is so practicable, besides
looking we'll either in wash goods or
heavy material. The hat is also a
good one, as it is soft and becoming,
yet it shades the eyes, too. It is Of
the latest style, heavy linen, corded
with black velvet and trimmed around
the crown with bands and rosettes of
the vslvet.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Packing Butter in Glass.

A new use has Leen found for
glass. 1t consists in packing butter
in a box made of six sheets of ordi-
nary window glass, the edges being
covered with gummed paper. The
closed box is then enveloped in layec
of plaster of paris fourth of an inch
thick, and it is covered with spe.
cially prepared paper. As the plaster
is bad conductor of heat, the tenn
perature inside the hermetically sealed
receptacle remains constant, being
unaffected by external changes. The
cost of packing is only about 2 cents
per pound. 1T is used to great ex-
tent in Australia. Butter has been
sent from Melbourne to Kim berley,
in Africa, and the butter was found
to be in perfectly sound condition.
Cases are now made which hold as
much as 200 pounds of butter.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Myriads of suns.

There is quite evident conspiracy
on the part of the telescope and cam
era to belittle this intinitesimal speck
of cosmic dust on which we live, and
they are succeeding. 1t was bad
enough to knock the earth out of his
position as the centre of the universe,
but now he is being relegated to a
position that, astronomically, seems
worthy of very little attention. Pro-
fessor Wadsworth OF the Allegheny
observatory is now showing, on a
curved plate, photograph of the con-
stellation Orion and adjacent region,
covering 1000 square degrees, OF lit
tie patch measuring less than 33 de-
grees on side, or about one eleventh
of the great circle and what do you
think? 1t shows so, 900 blazing suns.
The professor says he has only been
able to catch the light from TIE larger
of the suns in that patch, and that
these planets are yet beyond the joint
power OF the two cyclops, the tele-
scope and camera.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
NEW AND NOVEL OUTING COSTUMES.

self in evening wraps. A full length,
sc mewhat box-shaped coat, narrow at
the top and widened decidedly at the
bottom, is made low-necked in front
in accordance with this new caprice.
The material employed is amber col
ored brocade, and it is lined with pale
yellow liberty satin. About the
shoulders is wide, round marine
collar of Venice lace, sloped down
quite low. The sleeves, which hang
in bell-shape from the shoulders, are
heavily incrusted with Venice lace
about the lower part, both on the out
side and on the inside. Down the
full length of the front the wrap lacks
four inches of coming together. Both
edges are trimmed with long folded
piece of pale yellow satin, held at reg
ular intervals with square pearl
buckles. A fichu or silk scarf O.,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
AIaska's Mineral Value.

The United States paid 81, 200, 00o
for Alaska, and last year it yielded
$5,S31 1856 in gold and silver alone.
These figures are given by the statis-
tician of the mint The increase over
the precious metal product of 1898
was 80, 1877, 0Ss. Until last year most
of the gold and silver obtained il
Alaska came from the quartz mines
near Juneau, and most OF the vast in
crease of last year came from the new
gold fields OF Cape Nome. 1t amounted
to about 81, 400, 900.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

identical article worn by our grand
mothers in ''antebellum days"
Double sleeve" is another name for
it. All the smart challies and foulards
boast this arm covering, which, of the
foulard or challie, ends at the elbow,
while underneath falls q scant fluff of
white muslin net or lace, its fulness
gathered into close band at the
wrist The first figure of the cut, re.
produced from the New York Even.
ing Sun, shows pretty frock in mot
tied foulard having undersleeves and
yoke in transparent net. Embroidery
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
A Fashionable Summer Cape.

Among the most unreasoning fads
of the day is the low-necked summer
cape. An idea of the arrangement may
be had from the accompanying small
sketch reproduced from the Chicago
Times-Herald. The cape is made of
peau de sole and trimmed either with
liberty silk ruffles or heavy silk fringe.
1t is contrived especially to reveal the
wide guimpe or yoke of the bodice be-
meath, and is avowedly more orna-
mental than useful.
The same craze has manifested it..
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
PEPPERED THE BANDIT.
An Amusing Western Experience.

'It's queer what different IDEAS
men have as to how they'll act in case
they ever get involved in train or
stage 'stick-up, or hold-up, as you
call it back this way. Myself, I've
been stuck-up at the point of one or
more guns on three different occasions
and on each occasion I've pointed my
two mitts heavenward without any
fuss of feathers whatsoever, and de-
livered the goods with nary whim-
per. But l never figured on doing
anything else. Before I ever got held
up at all always said to myself that
when the time arrived for some fellow
to poke gun into my face and re-
quest me to elevate my arms, I'd do
what he asked me to do without any
question at all, and let him have all he
could find on me without any side
stepping or murmuring. 1 considered
that that was the only sensible thing
to do, and / consider SO yet. SO,
while its cost me heap more than L
really could afford to fork over my
little .valuables on the three occasions
the boys of the road have nailed me,
/ always patted myself on the back
and told myself that, while 1 mayn't t
have been very heroic or dare devilish,
did the wise thing in getting away
with a complete and unpunctured
hide.
''But I've often met chaps who
We're simply going to cut dog in two
in case anybody ever tried to stick
them up at the end of a gun. They
were going to decline to be held up,
and teach the bandit or bandits a
lesson. It's remarkable the bravery
some of these fellows were going to
exhibit whenever any bold, bad prop
osition with mask tried to coerce
them into handing over the stuff they
had on them. In nine cases out of ten
these large and ample takers are the
very first to cast up their paws when
the command rings through the car or
coach, Hands up!' and the last to
take them down when the robber has
fired his little parting volley and taken
to the tall cactus. But you can never
tell how mans going to act in q
stick-up.
"About six years ago I was riding
through southeastern Colorado on q
westbound train. I was only making
six-hour journey of it, and so l
took the smoker and stayed there.
There were about 25 or 80 men in the
smoker, all pretty comfortable looking
chaps. A dyspeptic-looking little man,
about 40 years old, with Bostonese
dialect, sat III the seat ahead OF me,
and an hour or so after I boarded the
train he engaged me in conversation.
"'Belong out this way?' he asked
me in characteristic New England
drawl.
"'Yep, said I.
"'Reason 1 ask you that, said he,
is that I've heard there have been a
lot OF hold-ups on the railroads out
this way lately. That right?'
Pretty near said ].
Ever find yourself mixed up in
one of those affairs?' he asked me.
"'Couple times" told him.
"'Did you let them go through
your he asked me, with searching
look.
Don't you think otherwise for a
holy minute, said /. Il am my sole
remaining support, and, in general,
and life pretty good game. It's the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Tunic a Ia Grecaue.

For a lace dress worn over lace
slip, you can have a tunic la
Grecque, draped in all one piece, in a
fashion copied from the classical
drapery noted in the friezes OF Hellenic
architecture or on some antique vase.
In case this place is adopted, remem.
Der to follow the line unbroken from
the left shoulder downward and over
to the right hip, from which point the
drapery can be adjusted as you will so
as to secure symmetrical habit.
Keep the lines as long as you possibly
can,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Hoods SarsapariIIa
the Best Medicine Money Can BIT
Windinilis In France.

Windmllls are largely being used in
France as source of mechanical
power, used to generate electricity.
The wind as hitherto bloweth where
md when it listeth, but now when
ever it blows where there Is a wind
mill with dynamo geared to it, it
may be made to charge accumulators
whether it listeth or not, and the ac-
:umulators will give up their stored
energy when the wind is taking rest.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
An Irresistible Persuader.

Advertising "dodges" have had
their day; their usefulness has almost
leparted, and they can now be en-.
,loyed successfully only when they
possess extraordinary merit. The
,ublic prefers a straightforward ap-
jeal to its intelligence and it's reason
ng capacity. The sensibly written
ind we'll cor structed advertisement is
IN irresistible psrsuader. -Philadel-
,nia Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Weary
Women

Rest and help for weary
women are found IN Lydia
e. PAsskisa,,,'s Vegetable
Compound. II makes w0-
men strong and healthy to
bear their burdens, and
0verCOss,es those Ills to
wl,iola women are subject
because they are wosss0n.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
The Lace BOlero.

The lace bolero is still seen on
some Of the evening dresses, and this
is beautiful in the real fabric over a
delicate tint of rose pink, which will
become popular as an evening shade.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

over velvet trims the foulard, while
the left side of the bodice is fastened
with silver buttons and clasps. The
other cut shows simpler undersleeve
model, but one equally effective. The
turn-back finish of the upper sleeve is
known as the "Puritan cuff"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Try Grain.Oy Try Grain.Oy

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a
that takes the place OF coffee. Children
may drink 1t without injury as we'll as the
adult. All who try 1t like 1t. GRAIN-O
has that rich seal brown of Mocha or
Java. but is made from pure grains; the
most delic ate stomach receives 1t without
distress. Il the price OF coffee. 15c. and
Csc. per package. Sold by all grocers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Fitted With Darts.

One feature of French underclothes
is that they are never made with
yokes. They are fitted with darts,
and where fullness is necessary it is
gathered in with ribbon or tape.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

New YORK Cry (SpeciaE. - OF
course the very newest sleeve devel-
opment-"the sleeve of the year." as
it is called--is the undersleeve. As
the cut shows, it is much like the
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
In Danger.

Mrs. Brooks-John, do you think
Mr.. Joblotz is going to marry our
daughter?
Mr.. Brooks-Yes. if he doesn't look
sharp. Puck
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

To Cure Cold in One Day.
Take LAXATIVE BRoMo QUININB TABLETS. All
druggists refund the money II ii fails TO cure
E. W. CROWS signature is on each box. 25c
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease, 8
powder for the feet. 1t makes tight OF
new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns, Bunions
Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Feet
and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

An active demand for agricultural i'm
plements is reported from Louisville, KY.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
Welding tubing by electricity has
been tried in this country as we'll as
in England, and it is said that the
experiment will prove to be successful.
AS the result of 30 years of expert
ments at Rothamsted, England, it is
shown that in the winter months more
than half of the amount of rain that
falls penetrates into the soil and be
comes available for the supply oil
springs, while in the summer only
one-Quarter of tho rainfall is absorbed
by the soil. The maximum quantity
of water in the soil is at depth OF
about 40 inches.
Lake Tanganyika, in Africa, offers
a unique field for scientific explora.
tlon. This region, like Australia, is
one OF the few localities where ami
mails still live that have become ex.
tinct elsewhere, certain whelk-like
mollusks of this lake appearing to
have been driven from the ocean and
to be identified with fossil forms %
old Jurassic seas in Europe.
The printing zerograph is now
under trial in Germany and England.
Fifteen to twenty words per minute
can be sent with little practice. Sue
cessGul trials have been made on an
iron telegraph wire from Berlin an /
Frankfort. Machines have also worked
successfully on metallic circuit lines
from Brussels to Antwerp and be-
tween Paris and Rouen. This line
consists of 100 miles of iron wire and
the remainder underground. Two
machines are at present on trial in the
general postoffce, in London, and
have been worked on the new under.
ground cable from London to Lean.
ington.
A new solder for aluminium has
recently been patented, which the in.
ventor claims will melt at low TEN.
perature, and will adhere readily to
the aluminium, forming surface
which will not be attacked by mois.
ture. The solder is composed of an
alloy of tin, zinc, and bismuth, the
tin being largely in excess OF the other
constituents. With zinc chloride as a
fux, the solder can be used on brass,
copper, nickel, iron, and other metal.
The difficulty of finding satisfactory
solder for aluminium has prevented its
use in many instances in place of brass
or tin, and also in electrical work
where close and perfect joints are
desired.
There is now in the patent Office two
watch movement escapements, which,
when they appear, it is said, will as
tonish the world by their simplicity
and capacity. They possess more of
the best points of timekeeping than
the marine chronometer. The advan-
tage of the new escapements is that
they gives impulse at the line of the
centre without drop or engaging fric-
tion. and also at the neutral point OF
the balance spring, point which the
matchmaker will appreciate. Impulse
before the line OF centres and neutral
point distributes and accelerates the
balance as the force of the hairspring
is added to the impulse in the lever
watch. Those who have examined
the new escapement say it is an ideal
one, with the soft, clean and distinctly
musical beat. Springers and timers
are just beginning to find out the
fault of the lever. All the faults of
all old systems are said to be fully
overcome in the new escapements,
which are the only invention OF es.
opponents for century.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Card playing is said to have we'll nigl
died out in England.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
JeII-O, the New Dessert

Japan has gone into cloak making q nc
exported $77, ,615 worth last year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
You VIII Never Kno

In forry-eight months there we're "a
suicides In New York City.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Chicago's total debt is S17 600 900, while
New York City owes S2s8, 100000.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

What shall We Have For Dessert
This question arises in the family daily. Let
us ans wer 1t to- day. Try Jell-O, u delicious
and b healthful dessert. Prepared in 2min. No
boiingl no baking Simply add little hot
water Il set to cool. Flavors: Lemon Orange
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
Do your Feet Ache and Burne

Lithuanian in Chicago bears the name
Of John Uppermost Short.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

DeIH-VS tHHC fNcss
pleases all the family. Four fiavors:-
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry
At your grocers. 10 cts.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21
HOW MUCH
YOU EAT

Is not the question, but, how much you di.
sest, because food does good only when it
digested and assimllated, taken up by
:he blood and made into muscle, nerve,
bone and tissue. Hoods Sarsaparilla re-
stores to the stomach Its powers OF diges-
tion. Then appetite Is natural and healthy.
Then dyspepsia is gone, and strength, elias
tlclty and endurance return.
Ston ach Troubie-"I have had
trouble with my stomach and at times
would be very dizzy. l also had severe
headaches and that tired feeling. When
had taken three bottles of Hoods Sarsa.
para 1 was relieved" MRS. ANGELINA
JARVIS, S Appleton St., Holyoke, Mass.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

The Best Prescription for Chills
and Fever is a bottle of GROVES TAsTELBss
CHILL Tonic. 1t is simply iron and quinine ID
a tasteless form. No cure-no pay Prlce ooc
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

The distance from Philadelphia to Sai
Francisco by rail Is 3177 miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Welding tubing by electricity has
been tried in this country as we'll as
in England, and it is said that the
experiment will prove to be successful.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

what good ink is unless you use Carter's. 4
cssts no more than Door ink. All dealers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-21

Lydia e. PInkham's Vegetable Compound
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-18
FRUITLEss CONFERENCE.
Another Effort to Settle the Strike, but
No Agreement.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 1.-THE culmna-
ton of the prolonged struggle between the
ST. Louis Transit Company and its minia-
ture army of employees is not yet in sight.
Notwithstanding the conferences held dur
ones. was devoted to conferences, but up
to late hour tonight no solution tend
ing to end the fight had been arrived at.
Shortly after 8 o'clock this afternoon the
union grievance committee and the Transit
Company officials again met al the Planter
Hotel and continued in session two hours.
The strikers committee submitted a coun-
ter proposition to the one handed to them
by the railroad officials last night and
which was rejected by the executive COM
mittee of the railway mems union at an
early hour this morning.
The Transit Company officials at this
afternoons conference in turn rejected the
counter proposition of its employees, the
hitch resting entirely on a clause which
calls for the complete reinstatement of all
the old men. The railroad officials fatty
stated that under no circumstances would
the men employed by them to supersede
the strikers be displaced. After the adj
Transit Company, stated that his offer was
final, that II lay now altogether with the
men whether the strike was to continue
or be called of. The grievance committee
at once left for the West End Coliseum.
where the general committee of the
strikers union and practically all the
striking employees were assembled I'm mass
meeting. The proposition of the railroad
company was submitted to the meeting
for ratification, but I'D TO 1920 O'Clock to-
night the matter was still under discussion.
1t Is stated that In case of a rejectment
OF the proposition a sympathetic strike of
all labor unions In the city or a labor DEM
onstration in the near future will be dis
cussed.
Officer ]. 7. Cokely. who was doing guard
duty on a car of the Jefferson-avenue line,
was shot and fatally wounded this after
noon during a disturbance at jefferson
avenue and Randolph street. Mrs. Myrtle
Christensen and her niece, Miss Elizabeth
Parson. who. II Is alleged. fired the shots
at the cars. were arrested and locked up.
Eleven men from Milwaukee who went to
work for the Transit Company to-day de-
serted their cars on the first trip and went
over to the strikers.
1.-The point on which we cannot agree. -
said T. b. Edwards. chairman of the
grievance committee. us the first clause
IN the proposal made by the ST. Louis
Transit Company. The company demands
that I'll men now In their employ shall b
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-18
2O5 Stevenson Building.

retained in the positions assigned them.
That means that the strikers when they
returned to work would be put on the list
back of these nonunion men and would
have to wait perhaps for years before they
would regain the positions they held before
the strike was declared. The men Will
never agree TO return TO work and let the
nonunion men ill the places that were
formerly theirs. IL the company does not
change that clause I'm the proposal We VIII
not be able TO agree and nothing viii be
left for US but TO fight il out"
President Whitaker said: THE proposal
made to T. L. Edwards. chairman of the
grievance committee of the union, and his
associates is final. / will never consent to
the discharge of the men who were en-
ployed 10 take the places left vacant by
the strikers. i also insist on giving the in
creased scale of wages to those men who
have served long enough TO entitle them to
that benefit should they desire it.
AS the result of disturbance on Jeffer-
son avenue tonight. I'm North St. Louis.
Edward O'Leary. a striking motorman,
was shot in the thigh. His injury was pro-
nounced serious.
A riot call was turned in tonight from
Twenty-first and Franklin. A crowd OF
fully 1900 persons gathered on Franklin
avenue, between Nineteenth and Twenty
first streets. and 500 men and boys were at
work cutting the trolley wires and tearing
up the track. Policemen dispersed the
crowd.