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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25
NEW FASHIONS IN NECKWEAR.

There is no end of new de-
signs in neckwear. All have
the high collar, but not so thick
ly lined as they have been.
Those finished in front with
crepe Decline or mousseline de
sole and lace are always effect
i've.
The lace jabots that are worn
are much prettier when made of
a piece of ribbon to which the
lace is sewed quite full. The
ribbon is then attached to the
collar, hangs straight down,
and the lace falls OF itself into
graceful folds.
The sailor knot of crepe de
chine, with the lace ends or ac-
Gordon pleated chiffon, make
any gown look well, but is par
ticularly pretty with the new
waists made of ribbon and lace.
Perhaps the very newest effect
is0the stitched taffeta stocks.
They are made mostly of white
taffeta, stitched in red, pink,
lavender or black silk. There
are several different styles Of
these stitched collars.
Another new fad is to wear a
scarf of pure white silk illusion,
tied quite tightly around the
neck at the top of the collar
with a fluffy bow at the left
side.
One of the newest devices in
vented is perfumed ribbon. 1t
is used profusely in lingerie and
infants clothes.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25
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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25
DEFINITION OF A BABY.

The bachelors horror, the
mothers treasure. and the des-
potic tyrant of the most repub'
lican household.
The morning caller, the noon
day crawler, the midnight
bra wler.
the only precious possession
that never excites envy.
The latest edition of human
ity, of which every couple thinks
they have the finest copy.
A native of all countries who
speaks the language of none.
About twenty-five inches of
COO and wiggle, writhe and
scream, filled with suction and
testing apparatus for milk, and
alarm to tregulate
supply.
A quaint little craft called in
laded with simplicity
and love.
A thing we are expected to
kiss and look as If we enjoyed
it.
A little stranger with a free
pass to the hearts best aifec-
tons.
That which makes home hap
pier, love stronger, patience
greater, hands buster, nights
longer, days shorter, purses
lighter, clothes shabbier, the
past forgotten, the future
brighter.-Ex.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25
MY OPAL STUD.
Short Story of the Day From The
Chicago Tribune.

l was delighted when | got
my opal stud. | was not su-
perstitious about opals, and
this was Il bewitching one,
tinted like a beryl stone, all
misty blue and slumberouS gold.
but, unlike a beryl stone, with
a sudden, Elusive flame in it
such as / have seen glOrYfying
the mOuNtain SHOWS before the
sun appeared above the hori.
ZOn.
Il don't exactly like the fast
ening of this stud" | had re,
marked to Roland Holdworth
when he gave it to me. 1t
seems insecure. The trinlSet is
much3 too beautiful thing to
lose"
30, you won't lose it," he re-
Joined, with an enigmatical
smile. | did not stop to think
what he meant. | thanked him
and went my way. He was Il
man toward whom | had never
felt drawn. Indeed, | would
have almost declared that we
were bad friends. This sudden
exhibition of kindness was.
therefore, welcome to me. |
am a friendly man. and the dis.
like of another man for myself
annoyS me. | am the more an
noyed when the dislike arises
from Il triviality-lf a princi.
pie is involved, that is another
thing. | can see there NAV
actually Oe some utility in a
hatred born of fundamental diff.
ferences of opinion. | could
nerve myself for a constitution.
al and enduring animosity. But
puerile disagreement-that
E0thers me like a mosquito.
1t had CHANGED that, both of
us being young men, with a
readiness to be entertained, or
even adored, by the loveliest
woman to be- found, that Roland
Holdsworth and | CHANGED to
pay our addresses to the same
lady. I was not profoundly in.
terested, but 1 enjoyed myself
sufficiently well in the compa-
ny of the lady in question to
take her to the theater now and
then and to call once a fort
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25
A TRIO.

A trio, a rose between two
thorns, three of a kind, but who
was who. Place A, Boulware,
Il. b. Bris'ow and II. e. Lear
between the Burlington rails
and they make good showing,
but when the Major is in the
middle they all put on a bold
front.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25

night. Perhaps | might have
contemplated greater intimacy
/ than this l can hardly say.
But ! discovered that Holds
worth was calling often and
that he was exceedingly seri.
Gus about the matter. so |
ceased my visits. did not
care to interfere with another
mans happiness when | was in
a state of more or less indttfer
cnCc about the outcome OF my
temperate courtship. | therefore
ceased to pay any marked at
/ tention to the girl, only calling
now aud then by way Of courte.
/ Sy and to prevent any feeling
ON her part that was displeas
ed or piqued.
And then, like a bolt out Of
the blue, came her declaration
to me that she loved me, that
she would never love or marry
any one else, and that her life
had no meaning for her apart
from me. [ was dismayed--
horror stricken. | asked her If
| had been needless in my as.
ISOLATION with her, or if she
had found me too free with my
compliments. In brief, | III.
CURED with earnestness if | had
led her to suppose that | loved
her. She confessed that | had
not. She said that to her I'M
speakable pain she had realized
that she was no more to me
than a dozen other young ladies
of my acquaintance, And that
fact, she said. had persuaded
her, after much thought. to tell
me the truth. She felt that |
loved no one. Might it not be,
therefore. that | would learn to
love her, and if ! realized that
her happiness depended upon
it, might it not have an effect
upon me? | told her with re.
gretful Candor that | found my
self disinClined for the subject
and that the discussion OF it
caused me much suffering. |
could not endure the thought
of my position. The rejection
of her love was the most pain
full thing that had ever come to
me. l found myself terribly de. |
pressed by the situation, and
felt an aversion come over he
for all women, so far as women
stood for sentiment.
For three months past | had
devoted myself entirely to the
society of men, and it had been
at the Athletic club that Holds.
worth had presented me with
the opal. He was off for Europe
on a jaunt, he said. He had
not been well for some time.
He thought vacation might
do him good. | had suspicion
that the refusal of the lady of
whom | have been speaking to
consider his often repeated Of.
fers of marriage. had had some
thing to do with his indiSpoSi.
ton. But it was a matter |
could not help. l offered no
condolences. | mentally re-
solved to keep as far away from
the lady as possible. 1t seemed
more likely that when she APP.
preciated the futllity of her
foolish fancy for me she would
accept with gratitude the de.
votion of a true lover. So con.
soling myself, l went about my
affairs.
The first day that wore my
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25

k moving as | did, that she was
a modest and naturally reticent
woman, that her reason was up
set. l felt actually i'll for Il
moment.
II shall wait only 4. little
while longer she continued.
"Then if l discover that there
IS no hope / shall end an exist
ence which has no meaning for
me without you
"Oh, no, no. [ cried. "Do
not say such a fearful thing! 1t
is impius! Do you feel no re
sponsibility in the matter OF
living? Do you think life was
given to us to do with it as we
please?'
She did not take the trouble
to answer me She looked at
me with great golden eyes-the
straugest eyes | had ever seen
and said:
IF. within a month, you have
not learned to love me l shall
die" / cannot describe the hOr-
ror those words inspired in me
or the almost unaccountable
dislike that they made me feel
for Miss Whiting.
That night l was to go to a
supper at the club and kept
my engagement, though it was
difficult for me to even feign
enjoyment. Going home on the
train l noticed that l
h ad lost my opal stud. 1t was
a pretty thing, and ! regretted
it's disappearance. But the next
on my way to business
a conductor banded it to me.
Il noticed that you had been
wearing this lately he SAID.
Soon as I saw it | knew it was
yours.
That was the morning that [
was told by my superior-I am
Il practical chemist by profess
oion-that my services at the
laboratory would no longer be
required. This was emoarraSs-
ing. | was foolishly free with
my money and had little laid
aside, and | could think of no
opening for specialist like
myself, nor could | in the least
make out why | should be dis
without an explanation.
1t was mysterious, to say the
least. For two weeks l did
little but write letters and read.
a fatal depression sat upon me
and kept me from exerting my
self. | was out one day at
desolate prairie station iEdulg-
ing myself in glimpse of the
country, when ] discovered that
| had again lost my opal.
1T is gone tins time for sure"
| said to myself. But the next
day it was sent to me by mail.
The telegrapher at the station
had found it Immediately after
l had passed, and he had known
me well, because we at once
boarded at the same place. And
that was the day that Sara
Whiting killed herself.
l read of it in the evening
papers. No one could make it
out. There seemed to be no
cause for the deed. The morn
ing papers, however. brought
out particulars, and extracts
from the poor girls diary were
printed. They inculpated me.
My miserable, though involun-
tary. association with her act
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-01-25

j. M Johnson was a business
visitor in Quincy Friday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
G|YESA|D TO STUDENTS
Yale University Opens a New
Employment Department.
FINDS WORK FOR MANY
"THEoLOGS'' WILL BE PAID FOR
MINISTERIAL LABORS.

New Haven. Conn, Sept. S.-A new
departement has just been opened at
Yale where students of limited means
can secure an education by their own
labor.
Professor C. L. KitcheH has been
appointed head of the new department
which is a sort of employment agency.
He will go between the Yale men who
need assistance and the merchants who
are willing to give them work Pro-
fessor Kitchell will also investigate
applications for remission of tuition.
scholarships, fellowships, the kinds of
EMPLOYMENT offered and the manner in
which the work is done by the Yale
applicants.
The opportunities for paying ex-
penses at Yale are classified as follows
by the faculty:
Prizes and scholarships, memberships
and choir work, tutoring, remission OF
tuition, waiting on table, organizing
eating clubs, acting as subscription
agents, newspaper writing. typewrit-
ing. and stenography. teaching in the
schools. positions as clerks, telegraph
ers. conductors and motOrmen on
street cars, ushers, ticket sellers at
theatres and concert halls and caring
for yards. furnaces. or residences of
private families in the CITY.
The force of men employed for cleo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
NO NATIONAL BANKS.
Project to Establish One In Porto
Rico Probably Abandoned.

New York, Sept. SIT is probable
that the project for establishing the
first national bank under United States
laws in the West Indies will be aban-
dOned. for the present at least. The
colonial bank of San Juan, Porto Rico.
is the one. in question. 1t was opened
in April. 1899. and has an authorized
capital of S1,0O0O0OO, of which s4OO 600
has been subscribed It has eleven di-
rectors including the president. Will
lam Schall. jr-, and the cashier, E l..
Arnold. who has actual charge of the
bank in San Juan. Last April Mr..
Schal applied to Comptroller Dawes
for permission to make the colonial
bank a national institution. and this
week he received notice that the an
plication had been granted
Since his asking for permission. how
ever. congress passed a law giving to
the secretary of the treasury power.
at his discretion. to name banks other
than national banks, as United States
repositories, and by this law one of the
chief reasons of directors for making
their application has been removed
The colonial bank of San Juan is in
fact. a United States depository now
and the only advantage it csuld receive
by becoming a national bank would be
the right to issue circulation
The directors here decided to send
the news of the granting of the appli-
cation to the directors in Porto Rico
and await an expression of their
views.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
HOW
The
RURAL
FREE
(sneciaI Correspondence.l

Washington, Sept. 6.-There has
been nothing in the history of the post
al service of the United States so re-
marl1able as the growth of the rural
free delivery system. Within the past
two years, largely by the aid of the
people themselves, who, IN appreciation
of the helping hand which the govern
ment extended to them. have met these
advances half way it has planted itself
So firmly upon the postal administra-
ton that it can no longer be consid-
cred in the light Of an experiment but
has TO be dealt with as an established
agency Of progress, awaiting only the
action of congress to determine how
rapidly it shall be developed.
The free delivery of mails in rural
communities can be extended with
great benefit to the people and with
little cost to the revenue. Whenever
the system has been judiciously inaug-
urated IT, has increased postal receipts;
II has caused the enhancement of the
value of farms reached by the rural
free delivery; it has caused general
Improvement of the roads traversed by
The rural carrier especially in the
western states, where the construction
of good roads has been prerequisite
10 the establishment of free delivery
service; il has been the means Of OBJ
tanning better prices for the farm
products. the producers being brought
into daily touch with the state of the
markets. and il has promoted educa-
Uonal benefits by giving the farmers
ready access to wholesome literature,
which keeps them fully informed as TO
the events of the day.
Rocky Road For System
Yet the service. has had its trials to
overcome. 1t was condemned by the
house committee on DOStOffiCe and post
roads Of the Fifty-third congress (HOn.
John :. Henderson of North Carolina,
chalrman.) as a scheme impossible OF
execution, which wO1ld require an ap-
preparation OF at least 500 000. 600 to in
augurate. Postmaster General William
=. BisseH was also Of the opinion that
the department would not be warrant
cd in burdening the people With such
expense, and declined to eXDend the
small appropriation of $4,000 to test
the feasibility of the scheme In 1895
when congress increased the apprOpri-
alton for a test of $40. 900. Postmaster
General William L. Wilson also
thought that the plan Of establishing
rural free delivery was wholly imprac-
Ucable. He agreed, however, 10 put
The experiment ordered to a test by the
best methods he could devise. This he
did in 1895 when congress made avail
able $4,000.
Routes Used For Experiment.
The forty-four routes selected by
Postmaster General Wilson were To-
Gated in twenty-nine states: In order
Of their establishment they were as
follows:
Get. 1, 1896 HaIltown, Uvllla and
CharlestOwn. w. Va.
oct. L. 1895. Huntsville and Hope.
Ind; CollinsvilIe. Barrtown. Eiba and
Summerville. o.: Westminster, Mo-,
and Cairo, Mo.
Oct 10. 1896. GAINESVILLE. Ark.
Oct. %, 1896. Palmyra Va
Oct. %. 1896. China Grove. y. c.
Oct. 20, 1886, Bonner Springs, Kan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
BALTIMORE AT NEW YORK.
Cruiser Reaches Port With Rear Ad-
miral Watson.

New York, Sept. S.-The United
States cruiser Baltimore, in command
of Rear Admiral Watson, arrived here
early today. The Baltimore has been
making a slow trip home from YoI<o
hama from which port she sailed on
May 1. On her voyage she made stops
at Shanghai, Hongkong, Singapore. Co
lombo, Suez. Malta, Gibraltar. Havre
Gravesend, Belfast and Greenock, leav-
ing the latter port on Aug %.
Owing to the existence of bubonic
plague at Glasgow at the time of tbe
VesseIS stay at GreenOck, which is only
twenty-five miles from Glasgow. QUAR-
antine viii abe maintained over her at
her anchorage for a time. No person
will be allowed on board nor will anv
of the ships company be permitted TO
go on shore without the permission of
the healrh officer of the port The tenn
perature of all on board will be taken
before any disposition is made of the
vessel.
The Baltimore viii go to the Rrool<-
lyn navy yard for extensive repairs
As she has been in service for abo,,t
ten years. it win be impossible to know
the full extent of repairs needed nntil
after she has been surveyed. She viii
probably be out of commission for a
year or more.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09

tricaI work by the Yale Athletic
organization is now recruited almost
entirely from the undergraduate In
the theological school a new system
goes into effect today in the diStribu-
ton of the money paid to the under
graduates The divinity students will
make pastoral visits. lead prayer meet
ing. call upon the sick, take charge
of city missions and viii be paid part
or the whole of their scholarship eX-
penSeS according TO the amount of the
work they do. This policy OF distTi-
button of scholarship funds was made
at the demand of President Hadley
who believes that the system formerly
in vogue tended to pauperize the stu
dents
The Yale officials state that never be-
fore have there been as many chances
for earning q part or all of the col
Iege expenses as at present The class
which was graduated last June shows
that of 327 members fifteen entirely
paid their expenses. fifteen others near
Nv all and total of SiXty-nine paid
a large part of their way
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09

walks and never sits lest he sleep, and
as he walks he thinks.
A strange turn of the kaleidoscope of
life in this watch lands No. 6 at mid
night, revolver in hand, pacing his
lonely round, in the halls of the Unit
ed States treasury. His first turn in
SO they call it on the watch-is in
the inner room of the cashiers office.
Electricity Aids In the Watch.
How many thousands of people from
the east, west, north and south have
IN business hours looked down from
nose nose gallerles on the busy clerks and
cashiers each penned up in his cage
and paying out Uncle Sans good
gold or its equivalent. The electric
lights are burning and the beautiful
marble room is strangely silent as No.
6 walks in, and passing by all those
wicked cages. and stands in the inner
sanctum sanctorum before the safe
from which during the day comes all
the countless thousands of gold Uncle
Sam pays out.
A network of electric wires envelop
this safe and No 6 has no duty to
perform here, except every fifteen min
uteS to press the electric button by
it's side. AS he passes out through
the main office, thronged with desks
on the one hand and the wicker cages
on the other. No. espies a specially
inviting leather covered arm chair
Guards may sit down, but they must
not forget to turn in their bells at the
very moment they are due.
Loses Himself In Revere.
So guard No. 6 for moment only
drops into this seductive arm chair,
and abandons himself to reverie.
rs this the financial heart of the
great big world" he muses.. Did
not England, in straits for money for
her South African war, pass by Thread
needle street and borrow $25, 900 600
from Uncle Sam? Does not every
pulsing financial heartstring of the
nation send throbbing MESA es
through all the busy days to this very
room, the nations financial heart?
Somewhere lying around these desks
there is a printed report showing all
Uncle Sans financial transactions {;
his receipts and expenditures and cash
balance for yesterday
So. No. 6 muses. between the taps of
his bell and memory brings to him
other scenes. It is forty years now
since hostile camps covered the hills
of Virginia, just across the river, and
hostile guns were aimed at this same
United States treasury.
No. was young then, endowed with
the splendid vitality. ardent patriot
ism and enthusiasm of bOyhoOd, and
with thousands of others rushed to
the defense of an imperiled capital.
sleep under the low green tents whose
curtains never outward flap and No.
s finds himself wondering, in his lone
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09
MARRIED ON HIS DEATHBED.
GEN. EDWARD WELLMAN SER
RELL WEBS AGAIN AT IA.

New York. Sept S.-General Edward
Wellman Serrell. warned by physicians
that peritonitis threatened his life.
three hours later married Miss Marion
c. Roosebach OF Staten Island The
ceremony was performed at the gen
erals bedside in the Hotel Clarend on.
by the Rev Samuel Tyler, assistant
pastor of St Georges church
General Serreu and Miss Roosebach.
who is a daughter of the late Orville
4 RoOsebach, a publisher of thhs. city,
have been lifelong friends. They were
to have been married in October, but
the generals severe illness prompted
him to ask his fiance if their wedding
could not take place at once She con-
scented and the ceremony was per
formed.
General Serreu is "A years old. He
has for fifty years been ono Of the most
distinguished engineers In this city
He was one of the assoc ate engineers
in constructing the Erie railroad, and
the Central Railroad OF New Jersey
He was chief engineer of the Niagara
bridge, built in 1850. ana OF the re-
nowned HOOSac tunnel He has large
interests IN the proposed IStfmian
canal In 1S4S he ACCOMPANIED the first
engineering party of exploration to
Panama
General Serrell was one of the priu-
ciDal promoters of the credit nfObiIier
by which the Union Pacific WAS built
During the civil war he became
colonel of the First New York volun-
teers- He was chief engineer and chief
of staff under General B. p Butler in
1854 and designed the Swamp Angel
battery that bOmbairded Charleston. He
was in 126 different actions
A daughter of General SerrelI by his
first wife, is the wife of Captain Rob
ert P p. wainwright.