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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Mill,nery of the Moment.

Tulle and chiffon form the two chief
components of the millinery Of the
moment, and just imagine what the
goffering and tucking Of tulle mean.
Recollect the hopeless way in which it
sticks to ones fingers and the bedrag-
gled appearance both tulle and chiffon
have when not absolutely fresh. AL
together the best millinery this year
displays the highest workmanship in
is manipulation. and the most beau
tiful hats, which look as If they are
blown together, are the results of four
Or five days labor. Even simple cy-
cling hats have stitche taffeta rosettes
and bows, all of which necessitate a
great deal Of work. The picture hat
is lovely and whole crowns are formed
of ostrich plumes.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

about as mucn lime in soap and wa
ter as they do in actual wear.
Outside the fitness Of things that is
the reason white is so pre-eminently
the proper thing-the more it is boiled
the whittier it gets. How would it be
With pink or blue?
A wide hem should be the skirt fin
:sh, but something more "fixy" may
be more becoming round Miss Little
girls neck; hence this suggestion. AS
pictured thesn fancy collars are made
If tucked linen or null and lace or
embroidery with insertion.
And very attractive they are.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

I concluded to try your med.olns and
I can truly say it does all that ye1
claim for it to do.
Ten bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and seven pack
ages of Sanative Wash have made q
new woman of me. I have had NO
womb trouble since taking the ffth
bottle. 1 weigh more than have in
years can do all my own housework,
sleep well, have good appetite and
now feel that life is worth living. I
owe all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
be Compound. feel that it has saved
my life and would not be without it for
anything. am always glad to recon-
mond your medicine to all my sex, for
know II they follow your directions,
they owill be cured. ."-MRs!O ANNn
THOMPSON, South Hot Springs, Ark.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Look These Up.

In many educational journals nova
days we see pronunciation tests, catch
words, etc, 1ich may be valuable for
technical use, and yet not being needed
every day in everyday talk are-like
certain folks 1 know-chiefy interest
ing ON public occasions. should like
to put down here list of words that
are very generally mis-pronounced.
Everybody knows how to pronounce
them, perhaps, but being such COM
mon little things-mere street waits
with unwashed faces, nobody takes the
trouble to ''speak them fair" Now,
to know what Is our duty and fail to
do it is q much more culpable thing
than not to do it because we don't
know what our duty is. So here they
are, little, commonplace creatures
which are mispronounced every day:
Toward, again, bade, brooch, apri.
cot, often, catch, hearth, aye, lien,
greasy, sew, scare, years, idea. area.
bouque-. ague, bleat, rise (noun). arc
tic, shone, route, gaunt, canine, juven-
lie. corporal, tete-a-tete, bicycle. were.
recipe, frontier, depot, process, recess,
romance, TRADE. essay, tarpaulin. won.
The above are in common use and
of common abuse. Some of them, of
course, come from our sister, France.
and people are likely to say they are
not expected to pronounce foreign
words correctly.-TeXas School Jour-
nal
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
TRANs.PAclflo TREAD
VIII Exceed One Hundred Million Doll
lars This Fiscal Year.


Exports to Asia and Oceanicsl, in the
fiscal year which ends June 30, will
for the first time in our history exceed
OO,000,000. In no part of the world
has our export trade grown with such
amazing rapidity, with the single ex-
ception of Africa. In 1898 our total
exports to all Asia and Oceanica
amounted to only $27, ,421 ,S31, so that
in the fiscal year now about to end
they will be about four times as great
as those Of eight years earlier.
The growth in exports to Asia and
Oceanica is chiefly in cotton, bread
stuffs, provisions and manufactures.
Exports of agricultural machinery to
British Australasia in the nine months
ending with March, 1900, were $780,
323, against $349, $50 in the correspond.
ing months of 1898. Exports Of flour
to China in the nine months ending
with March, 1900, was 46,961 barrels,
against 14.G16 barrels in the same
months of 1898: to Japan, All ,430 bar
rels, against 107 ,401 barrels in 1898;
and to Hong Kong, 1,OO9,24S barrels,
against 647.6SS barrels in the same
months of 1898 Carriages and cars to
Australia amounted to SAP, ,2o4, against
$251 ,S02 in the corresponding months
of 1898; cotton cloth to China in the
same period, 15GS30, ,255 yards, against
77,990,61G yards in 1898. Raw cotton
exported to Japan amounted in the
nine months ending with March. 1000,
to $11,517 ,96S, as against $5,S43,071 in
the same months of 1893. Builders
hardware exported to Asia and Ocean
lea in the nine months ending with
March, 1900, amounted to $1,254 900,
an increase of so per cent. over the
same months of 1898; while boots and
shoes sent to Asia and Oceanica in the
nine months ending with March, 1900,
reached nearly one million dollars,
against quarter Of million in the
same months of 1898.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
The BOer Enyoys.

Secretary Hay quickly made it clear
to the Boer ENJOYS that the admins
tration could do no more than it al
ready has done to bring about peace
in South Africa. The United States
Government acted promptly when an
opportunity offered, through the ap-
peal made to the representatives of
the various nations at Pretoria. and
was the only nation which did act.
AS it's offer of mediation was then
courteously declined by England. no
further opportunity is now afforded.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
For Golfinr or Cycling.

A band of white epe de chine is
folded about the crown of white
silk golf hat for ladies. The brim is
broad and shady, the deep crown is
indented sharply in the middle.
Matron and maid, misses and children
alike wear outing hats of stitched
straw. The coarse braids are pre-
ferred to the smooth. The hat i
bound with a strip of red or green
flannel and is trimmed with a band
passed around the crown and a bow
to match the flannel with polka dots
of white or black
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
The Easiest Way.

The easiest ay to modernize q
sleeve of either wash frock or spring
costume, is add the flare cuff CT
tucks or embroidery and to introduce
the triangular bit of decoration so
much affected in the upper part of the
sleeve just below the shoulder. This
makes it up to date, and for the COM
fort of womankind, it may be added
that the sleeve is not very tight. So
that it looks close fitting is all that
is necessary. 1t need not cling close
ly to the arm. Loose l.eeves add to
ones comfort in warm weather, which
makes tight sleeve feel like a wise
or q bandage, or both.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Democrats For Mckinley.

Judge Allen B. Morse and Hon. Il.
A. Montgomery, two of Michigan's
most prominent Democrats, have an
nounced their intention of support
ing the Republican ticket this year.
They stuck to the party, hoping it
would purge itself of Populism, but
now realize that the present Democrat
ic managers are bent on going to
the extremes. The exits of the Dem
ocratic party are going to be busy
places this year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Democratic Frauds.

Democratic papers are making a
great outcry about the Cuban postal
frauds. But they forgot to point out
that the record of defalcations of Gov
ernment funds shows stealings of $5.17
in every $1,000 under Democratic adj
ministrations, as compared with only
46 cents in every $1,000 under Rcpub-
lican administrations.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Southern Exnorts.

The export trade of the South for
the past twelve months amounted to
over S4OO,OOO,O00. more than one-thlrd
of that of the entire country. These
are figures which speak more eloquent
ly than the narrow Southern politi-
clans who contribute so literally to the
Congressional Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Toes Of Criminals.

A great doctor has studied the
fingers and toes of 1900 criminals, and
finds deficiency in the size or num-
Der of toes quite frequent among them,
although very rare among ordinary
men. He has also observed that pre-
hensile toes, marked by a wide space
between the great toe and the second
toe, is condition quite common
among criminals,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Railway Earnings Larger.

During the first four months of this
year railway earnings for the whole
country were 15.S per cent. larger
than in the corresponding months of
1899. In the same months of 1898 the
increase of Is per cent. over the earn
ings in 1897. In 1890 the increase was
As per cent. over 1898. Business has
kept on steadily improving ever since
President Mckinley was inauguratcd.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
A Democratic Chance.

A Wisconsin judge has granted an
injunction to prevent a man marrying
a widow with four children. Perhaps
some such heroic treatment may be
adopted by the gentlemen who have
been trying to rescue the Democratic
party from the embraces of Populism.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Farm Values.

1t was under the last Democratic ad-
ministration and the last free trade
tariff that the farmer could exchange
his pound of wool for a pound and Al
half Of sugar. BIT under the McKin-
ley administration his wool was worth
more, while sugar was cheaper, and
the pound of wool brings four pounds
Of sugar.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

that is worked around with hand or
machine embroidery. The fashion
that has heretofore been popular of
wearing silk waists with pique skirts
still prevails, but now the white waists
are the correct thing, and the thin
materials, like the embroidered mus
lin,wash silk or those made of lace and
ribbon. are preferred, and over them
will be worn bolero or Eton jackets
of pique.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Sending Eggs Abroad.

Supplying our colonies with eggs Is
one of the benefits to farmers of the
expansion policy. Last year we ex-
ported 100000 dozen eggs, as conf
pared with only $4,000 dozen in 1875.
Lay on, oh, hen!
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Medical Book Free.

'Know Thyself." book for men only,
sent Free, postpaid. sealed, to any male
reader mentioning this paper &c. for post
age. The Science OF Life, or Self-Preser-
walton, the Gold Medal Prize Treatise, the
best Medical Book OF this or any age, $40
pp., with engravings and prescriptions.
Only 25c., paper covers. Library Edition,
full gilt, 81 90. Address The Peabody Med
icaI Institute, No. Bulfnch ST., Boston,
Mass, the oldest and best In this country.
Write day for these books; keys to health.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Protects the Throat.

A piece Of inch-wide white saith
ribbon sewed inside the neckb.nd of
a bodice protects the throat from the
defacing mark that Is common result
from the wear of the prevailing high
dress collars. 1t Is not intended that
the ribbon shall show from the out
side.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
AFayorite Material.

Embroidered holland is a favorite
this year among the summer fabrics,
and piGue treated with incrustations
of coarse lace is as effective as 1t is
striking. Pique and duck costumes
are again worn. Some piques shown
are quite light in weight, having an
openwork dot. really an eyelet hole
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
WHITE MUSLIN DAINTINEss.

which finishes at the back with bow
that is drawn through buckle Of
sparkling jet. The chiffon drapery is
caught down to the hat here and there
with very small and q.ite inconspic-
uous pins with jet heads.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

When the Kansas City platform
builders get together they will find
that the Sioux Falls and Cincinnati
conventions have about cornered the
gloom output.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Blue Straw With Jet.

Black silk roses trim pretty pale
blue straw hat, which has the brim
turned up at one side. A little fol-
iage Of gree is introduced into the
spray of black roses. The crown is
smartly draped with pale blue chiffon,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

Mr.. Croker could not put Judge
Van Wyck into the New York guber-
material chair, but he let him i'll on
the ground floor of the Tammany Ice
Trust.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Aguinaldo,s Representative.

The voters Of South Dakota will not
have to so to the Philippines to de-
liver a blow to Aguinaldo. They will
have this opportunity when they
choose a legislature to elect the sue
cessor to Mr.. Pettigrew.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

The Hon. David b. Hill has forgiven
the Democrats for throwing him out
of the Chicago convention and will
give them an opportunity to repeat
the performance at Kansas City.
David has a forgiving disposition
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
A Matter Of Interests.

The foreign shipping interests are
represented at Washington by an ac-
tive lobby. The American shipping
interests should be represented by the
American legislators.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
They Like Disaster.

A Treasury surplus always furnishes
n Democratic convention view-with-
alarm material. Democracy never fails
to shy at solvency.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
The Missing Link.

Mr.. Bryan now has two-thirds of
his nomination. The missing link will
be supplied by the Kansas City con-
vention.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Scarce "A Buf.aloes.

Another year of prosperity will make
the advocates of free silver as scarce
as buffaloes in Kansas.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

Sixty-two new silk factories were estab-
lished in the United States last year.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

What Shall We Have For Dessert!
This question arises In the family daily. Let
as answer 1t to-day. Try Jell.O, a delicious
aud healthful dessert. Prepared In min. No
boiling! no bakingl Simply add little hot
water l. set to cool. Flavors: Lemon Orange.
Raspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. 10c.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

To Cure . Cold In One Day.
Tako LAXATIVE BRoMo QuININI TABLETS. All
druggists refund tho money II 1t fails to cure.
4. W. GRovl's signature IL on each box. 2sc.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

The Sioux Falls platform should be
referred to the committee on imagi-
nary wrongs.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
Tho Tan,nany Trust

Perhaps the Tammany Ice Trust Is
what Mr.. Croker would term private
business"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

The Boston Clearing House was estab-
iished in 1856.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

Uncle Sam uses the best of everything.
Tncie Sam uses Carter's Ink. He knows.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

When man is as hungry as bear he
Is just about as cross.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19

It's the rich people who usually give
poor excuses.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-07-19
~ 1kZE
THE E@l@TS OF fNShl0N.

New York City (SpeciaD.-Simplic-
ity should mark the frock for the
small girl. This is especially so in
summer, when these little dresses pass
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15
Truthful Children.

Children are naturally truthful. Ma
ture does not lie. Let nothing be done
to alter this happy disposition. Guilt
vate in them the love Of truth, candor,
and the confession Of error. 1t is la
mentable to think what fearful false
hoods are uttered to deter children. to
keep them quiet, or to make them obe-
dient Threats of being taken by old
men, and black men, and other like
terrors, are resorted to by ignorant ana
foolish servants to brighten them, and
make them lie still in bed 1t is ascer-
tanned that death, fits, idiocy, or in
sanity have been the consequences OF
such inhumanity. But. setting aside
the probable chance of such calamities,
there are other certain results. If the
child discovers the falsehoods prac-
ticed upon him, he becomes boldly in
different to the threats, is more DISC
bedient and willful than ever, disbe-
lieves all that is said to him, and, find
ing no respect for truth in others, has
no regard for 1t himself. Firmness in
adhering to promises, or any particu-.
lar line Of discipline in relation to
children. is Of nrst Importance.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15


night long he called, but she did not
come. Food and drink were placed
near him, after he had been taken from
the trap. He refused them and died
it is believed, of his grief for the loss
OF his mate. Several interesting
stories were told of Mr.. Thompson's
special friends, the bears in the yell
lowstone Park. To study them more
closely, Mr.. Thompson went to the
gathering place of the band, the gar
bage dump near one Of the hotels. The
bears were rather shy, and remained
away at too great a distance for salts
factory study. So he took the rather
novel method of seeing them at shorter
range by digging hole in the dump,
setting his. camera and his sketch
books squarely on some old cracker
boxes and then covering himself again
with the refuse. In this malodorous
hole he remained all day. He took
several pictures, made a number of
sketches of the bears who came to
feast on the remnants of canned goods
and other delicacies found in the dump.
He watched with much interest and
some anxiety scrap" between a
mother bear and big grizzly. Mr..
Thompson was entirely unarmed.
While the fight was going on the lit
tie cub-apparently typical sore
head-was watching the fight from
place Of safety in tree. The branch
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15

CORK, as everyone knows, is one OF
the best nonconductors of heat or
sound. That 1t has not been more
widely used in building is due chiefly
to the difficulty of obtaining it in an
unadulterated form. A product called
cork thing has recently been placed
upon the market, which is made of
what Is known to the trade as virgin
cork" ground, compressed and other
wise treated by patented process, and
which is free from the cement and
glue usually employed to hold the par
tlcles together. We are informed that
the tiles made OF this pure. compress
ed cork form an admirable flooring.
which, besides being noiseless, water
proof. warm and germ proof. is capable
OF withstanding hard usage. BY vary
ing the degree of compression and
modifying the manufacturing process
slightly sheets of cork different in
color and density are obtained, which
when sawed and finished in the form
OF panels, can be used for wainscoting
alone, or In connection with cork tile
floors. Scientific American.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15
SOCIETY At THE. CAPT. Al.

Custom does not require that the wife
OF the President should return Official
calls, except in the case Of visiting
royalty. She may limit her calls to
personal friends. 1t is expected that
the wives OF foreign Ambassadors
should make the first official call upon
the wife Of the Vice President. This
is also true in the case of the wives of
the Associate Justices OF the Supreme
Court, the wives of members of the
Cabinet, of Senators and Representa-
tives, as we'll as the wife of the Major
General commanding the army.
Conversely social etiquette has de-
creed that the wives of Representa-
tives should make the first call upon
the wives of Senators, as we'll as upon
the wives of members of the Cabinet,
of Foreign Ministers, the wife of the
Chief Justice of the Associate Justices,
the wife of the Major General com
handing the army, and the wife of the
Admiral Of the Navy. The wife Of a
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15

neighbor's, whose reputation of dress
ing Just as it happens" at home. in
some indefinable way casts a shadow
over whatever virtues she may possess.
woman neatly dressed is ready for
emergencies. The chance caller and
unexpected guest finds her ready to
receive them. But, perhaps, the great
est necessity for looking we'll at home
is the home itself. To the members of
our own family circle do we owe the
first duty. Neatly dressed does not
mean richly dressed. cheap. plainly
made gown may be the perfection of
neatness, and take only few minutes
to assume after the dinner work is out
OF the way. A woman in slatternly
garments is shorn of her dignity and
womaG2i influence just as surely as
was Samson of his strength cn,hs.n De-
a.. by Delilan. Curl papers and
soiled wrappers represent the Delilah
of many an otherwise strong person
ality.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15

midnight. Then refreshments were
served. These consisted of queer little
ca kes- made AspeoAa1ly for the holiday
season,apples. nuts and Berliner pfan-
kuchen, which are perfectly delicious.
Inc latter look like large brown
doughnuts covered with sugar: on
opening them they are found to be
hlled with jam. Our Christmas tree
was relighted, having been furnished
with new candles The ringing of the
oells announced the beginning of the
New Year Guns were fired, and from
the church lofts bugles sounded. La
ter all the windows were flung wide
open, and standing within them the
people held up their glasses and yelled
out, "Prosit Neujahr" to every one
who passed by People on the street
called in to us; even the Droschky
coachmen, as they drove by, called out
Prosit Neujahr." OF all the pretty
customs in Germany 1 thought this
the prettiest. Not only to your friends
40 you wish happy new year, but to
all. At window in the house oppo-
site stood lady dressed in white: he
hind her was the brightly lighted room
with its Christmas tree. Smiling and
holding up her glass she called over
to us, 'Prosit Neujahr." Never again
did see the lady of that house, but
pleasant recollection Of her always lin
gers IN my mind.-Bessie Burnside, In
the January Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-03-15
Hints.

1singlass forms most delicate
starch for fine lace, muslins. etc
To cleanse furnished brass cut a
lemon in two; take one-half and rub
on the brass, then wash with warm
water. and rub with leather. ].
Ground mustard mixed with a little
water and rubbed over the hands re-
moves strong odors from them. Lin
seed meal answers the same purpose
When bamboo furniture is filled with
dust it may be cleaned with small
brush dipped in warm water and salt.
The salt prevents it from turning
yellow.
Vanished and Painted Floors.--If.
once month, the floors be first wiped
clean with cloth wrung out of warm
water, then rubbed with cloth wet
with kerosene and finally rubbed
briskly with coarse wooden cloth, they
will keep bright and handsome for
years.