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to swirl back and across the yellow glare
of the deck lights before piling up in a
murky wall astern. The captain kept
watch with his mate on the bridge. The
engine-room telegraph stood at full
speed. Down below in the engine-room
the third engineer went quietly about
his work, while his chief stood on the
working platform under the huge steam
valve, smoking his pipe.
After his rounds, the assistant came
across and stood by the old mans side.
"It's an awfully dirty night" he said.
"In the stoke-room you can see the fog
pouring down the ventilators like steam.
Strikes me the shipper is running big
risks" ..~.
"Yes, he's reckless tonight. I'm pref
ty we'll :lsed to young chaps with hot
headed notions, but the older grow
the less like the captain who boasts in
pert that he never went half speed:
Sooner or later he gets lesson. Some
times the engine-room pays for it. Most
ly, I might say"
The younger resumed his rounds
through the machinery, his light had on
a bearing, swift touch on driving rod,
a squint at an oil cup, turn on valve.
The swerving bedplates, the laundering
cylinders far above, the clacking pumps,
the whirring shaft sang about him as he
went Suddenly the steady roar of the
huge engines was dulled. The hard
pressed thrust blocks ceased their shrill
cry. The pluneing piston rods slowed
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Looked That Way.

When a young woman at Allentown, Pa,
entered the proper office alone the othei
day and asked for marriage license, the
clerk naturally inquired: "Where is the
young man." 1--WE got him at home," re-
Joined the woman, and the license was
granted. Wonder if she had him chained.
-Boston Globe
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Insurmountable.

An indignant letter dictated by clever
old gentleman runs thus: "Sir, my stenog-
rapher, being lady, cannot take down what
think Of you I, being a gentleman, can
not express it; but you, being neither, can
readily divine t."-Argonaut.
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Either think twice before you speak, OF
speak twice before the other fellow car
think.-Chicago Tribune.
The Worthington advance., 1904-10-07

Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump.
ton has an equal for coughs and co!ds;mJ. Sol.
F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. 10, 1900.
The Worthington advance., 1904-10-07

Straw votes show which way the hot al
blows.-Judge.
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SHE SLEEPS OUT OF DOORS.
Mrs. Grove Passes Every Night in Sleeping
Bag on = Porch.
From the Chicago Journal.

Tucked snugly away In an eiderdown
bag. famed by the chill winds OF Lake Michi-
gan, caressed by the moonbeams and winked
at by the stars, little woman out In EVanston
sleeps every night out OF doors. she Ii MIS-
Martha Foote Grove, dean of women at
Northwestern University and head OF Will
lard Hall at that institution.
Il am no convert to outdoor living. said
Mrs. Grove, because / have aIways been
n believer in IL. Why should not one sleep
out of doors In Evanston as well ~ when
one camps out West?"
MY sleeping bag? 1t ia not extraordinary,
II ia of denim lined with an eiderdown quilt,
II ia really bed that folds around the sleeper
There IL a head covering that will protect
the ewes of the late sleeper from the morn
ing sun.
Il have spent the summer in the upper
Sierras. Up in the Sierras the atmosphere
ia always dry. Consequently every one IN
camp sleeps outdoors, right on the ground
You simply put on your sleeping bag and
lie down II you would sleep in the morning
after the sun has risen you protect your eyes
by the flap that comes over your head,
Here ia the porch-my sleeping place. "
abe said RS she came out on the broad versnda.
and assure you 1t 10 delightful. Afraid
OF porch climbers? Why. no, veteran
OF the Sierras should be fearless In Evanston,
Every one In California sleeps outdoors
a. much as he can. Sleeping bags are com
'' Shall do It in cold weather. An altitud,
OF 10, 600 feet In the serras bring Gold weather
! And I slept there But my bag Ia not water
proof and couldn't do IL in damp weather
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ting out in a peak in front. This has feather
and streamer ties, 1t is costume hat Of
felt or cloth or liberty velvet, and il becom-
ing only to the most modish of women,
having their hair done with mathematical
precision, and for the tailor-mate girl.
Then there are bonnets especially de-
signed for older women-not those who
bought the plain little models few weeks
ago, but for women who want to disguise
the trappings Of age, who wish excess Of
smartness even with change of outline in
their clothes. These bonnets have the
wide brim f1aring out and back. The outer
brim, which IL the only one that shows,
il deliberately trimmed with passemen-
tarie, spangle ornaments or art nouptdu
buckles.
The handsomeet OF the bonnets for older
women are in velvet or chenille braid In
black, black and white, or any color to
match the toilette. Feathers are used
singly and in groups-very short feathers
and aigrettes and pompons. Usually a
SNOWY bit Of trimming springs up from
the left brim, for instance, two Prince OF
Wales feathers, and aigrettes caught with
jewelled buckle or a rabbits ear twist
of velvet. The ties are wide, though OF
the softest liberty satin, and long.
For winter dressy affairs, bonnets will
combine lace and fur. often put on the
rolled up brim in panels, or there may be
strips of narrow fur run through coarse
insertion. Jet and lace. spangles and
lace and fur and flowers will be combined
in the richest of the bonnets for elderly
women. The most elaborate have tulle
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PICTURE BONNETS ARE HERE.
OLD-FASHIONED HEADGEAR IN
IDEALIZED FORM.

Great Possibilities Found in Bonnets-They
Are Gayer Than the Gayest or Picture
Hats-The scarf knOtted Under the
chin Their Hall Mark - Novelties.
Having meekly accepted the return Of
the orinoline, who is there among us bold
enough to cast the first slur at the bonnet
that has also crept back while eccentric
incongruity in fashion Is at food tide9
There are some very sweet, plump, rosy
faced women, moving down sunny slope
lust the other side OF middle life, who will
rejoice exceedingly over the new fashion
for old-fashioned bonnets, They have
longed for appropriate headgear, have
lost much time and money in pursuit Of
the vanishing bonnet, and have suffered
from a sense Of much incongruity In the
strange snowy creation that has for dec
ade done duty as a bonnet understudy.
But this years bonnets are not wholly
for these peaceful ladies who walk In pleas
ant places. Bonnets are in vogue again
for various occasions, for theatre, for
concert, for visiting, for all times when a
huge picture hat would seem out Of place.
The first bonnets displayed were un-
compromisingly OF the old type, without
any sort of weak kneed catering to pictur-
sequences. They were small OF crown and
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the trees are laden as they have not been
for four or five years past, and there have
been several good chestnut crops in that
time.
Trees, little and big, seem well fruited
Even the dying giants Of the forest bristle
with spiny fruit.
The early promise OF the chestnuts was
remarkable. Chestnut tops showed hoary
in late June all through the woodlands OF
the suburbs, and now they bristle against
the sapphire sky OF autumn so that the
leaves are almost hidden.
AS usual when the trees bear an unusually
large crop there Is considerable proportion
of defective nuts, and these already thickly
strew the ground, especially beneath trees
that are not robust. The unusual number
of fallen burrs has started a rumor that the
chestnuts are ripenlng early. ana TINS
supposed unnatural manifestation IL held
by some to threaten something portentous
in the coming winter
Az q matter of fact most Of the fallen
chestnuts do not repay the trouble OF the
finder in opening the burrs. 1t Ia the irony
OF nature that the worm Is born with the
chestnut and a great crop OF chestnuts
means also a great crop OF worms.
The notion that the chestnuts are ripen-
ing early and without waiting for the touch
of frost has set suburbanites to nutting
earlier than usual Within the next week
every chestnut within reach OF good
climber or a strong thrower will be har-
vested. before it has ripened.
Luckily the great trees OF The Bronx. giants
twelve or fifteen feet in circumferenc e and
l5O feet high, carry their crown OF bristllng
fruit far beyond the reach OF the most ad-
venturous boy or man. The chestnuts 30
situated calmly await the touch OF the
frost and the coming Of powerful all night
autumn wind
They will brown for days in tantalizingly
wide open burrs, while the nimble squirrels
| gather their harvest and the baffied subur-
| banite looks on, helpless. Then whoever has
the luck to be abroad on some gloriously
bright mid October morning when the woods
| are new clad in sudden splendor, will hear
that delicious and suggestive sound OF the
nuts pattering down upon the crisp and
bright new fallen leaves, a sound to turn
gray heads brown and drive the wrinkles
| from the face of age, 80 full 1t Is OF boyisf
Each perfectly ripe nut shows brown and
brilliant against it's background OF purple
russell or golden leaves, and the briskest nut
ter cannot keep up with the haii That accom-.
the nuts, and there IL a rich aftermath fol
him who comes with sharp eyes and g
poking stick with which to disturb the new
laid carpet Of the woodland:
UP in The Bronx it is the 1ta Ian residents
who will gather most OF the chestnut crop
for the women are now. abroad scourinf
the woods for winter fuel and incidentally
watching the progress OF the chestnuts
They will note when the first sharp fros
has opened wide the burrs and will go u
bed early on the frst wv, wind .y; mgft aiser
urchins to gather the final fruits OF tn
harvest The nuts that 60 home to b
ground into rich meal for Italian house
Holds are the very finest Of the season.
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is shown In sapphire velvet Directoire
bonnet. The crown and brim are covered
with the new English velvet in the most
glowing of deep blues. long deep blue
plume covers the right side Of the crown
and droops over the bair at the back and
the crown Ia nearly hidden under many
twists of necklace of Partisan peacocks
eyes set in gun metal. 1t Is worn with an
autumn gown of blue and green wolfe
And the metamorphosis Of the bonnet offers
the consoling suggestion that there is not
much need to worry about an ugly fashion
once it is subjected to the alchemy OF the
America girls good taste.
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sight escape. and the first advance OF bon
nets were all captured by the rosy checked
battalion whose war cry is common sense.
But these sublimated bonnets, they are
gayer than the gayest of picture hats.
The self-made picture bonnet is more
audacious in outline, more glowing in color,
more individual and stirring than picture
hat descended in direct line from pictures
of the famous Duchess of Marlborough.
It's the same the world over. Who 40
proud a land owner as the Socialist with
q recent inheritance?
The Directoire bonnet is one Of the most
interesting offshoots from the dwarf parent
bonnet. 1t is in every pale tint OF felt, with
a wide brim fiat at the sides, tall crown.
feathers tumbling over the rim in 'front.'
ribbons about the crown and fastening
under the chin.
1t il always in harmony with the Louis
gown it is designed for, gray, white black,
delicate rose or daffodii, and it has piquant
personality and toplofty air in the pres
ence OF mere hats.
The Victorian bonnet is more ingenue
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THE WOMEN or JAPAN.
Social barriers Of Feudalism Swept Away
by the war.


TOXIC. Aug. 2S-There may be better
workers than the Japanese women, but
have not seen them, and their work during
the present war cannot be measured by
any ordinary scale Of human values.
With characteristic nicely of detail they
set about the work at hand seeking neither
praise nor criticism as they solve their
problems. Possibly they have their petty
jealousies like other women, and their
differences to adjust, but these are not III
evidence, and no machine could run 40
smoothly II not we'll oiled.
Their wisdom and foresight In large and
small matters are IA remarkable as the
nations preparedness for war, and 1t Is the
more wonderful when you consider that
many of them have been reared in luxurious
ease and most OF them in close seclusion.
few have gone out into the world with
their husbands since the Restoration;
few more have participated in official life
at home, but the majority knew nothing OF
work prior to this war. With an ability
that challenges the admiration OF foreign
ers on the spot, they stepped into the arena
with the fighting men.
The barriers Of feudalism that made II
impossible for a woman OF rank to asso-
ciate with one of no rank, or to come into
personal contact with the lower classes, are
removed forever Even the imperial prin-
ceases work side by side with the wives OF
army and navy officers, officials, merchants
and teachers. They are banded together
In common oause-Japan In the hour OF
need!
or course rigid etiquette Ii observed In
the outward formality Of rising and bowling
when the imperial prinoesses enter and
leave the room on the occasion OF gather
ings to do Red Cross work. No conversation
= Ia addressed to them, and they work al
tables with their ladies in waiting, with
whom they chat, as others do throughout
the room, no further restriction being I'm
posed
And this in land where but forty year
ago the eyes Of the Mikados subjects ooule
not look upon his face and the tmper1a
court was as securely safeguarded from
the outer world az the sacred confines o.
Lhasa have been up to the present time.
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NUT CROP IS SHORT.
Therefore Some Folks Think the Coming
winter VIII he Mild

Weatherwise folk hereabouts are prophe-
sying a mild winter because the local crop
of wild nuts Is short.
This year the shagbarks of The Bronx
are bare Of nuts and even the despised
pignut hickories have little fruit. The
butternuts, which nobody, save few
Southern residents, ever takes the trouble
to gather, are a total failure, and even the
black walnuts are few.
1t il an unusual year in these parts when
the beeches bear a crop. They are fruit
full hardly one year in five, and this ia not
one of their lucky years. Even the acorn
crop, never total failure, seems unusually
short.
Only the chestnuts seem to be fully up
to the mark this fall. All over The Bronx
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THE BLOT ON CALIFORNIA.

A Delightful Land With One Thing Lacking,
~ Seen by Bostonian Eyes.
They we're discussing the charms Of the
California climate.
Il never knew but two persons who could
resist the wiles Of that delightful land, y
mother and {. lighter from the Hub. They
came 10 Pasadena while we were there
and they stayed just two days. One OF us
CHANGED to express surprise at their brief
soiourn and the older woman explained
ut is beautiful here, OF course. We
realize that. But, after all, 1t is 80 far from
Boston,
And back they went that very day
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ventor Of something new may profit less
L.. L ~. l. l. i.,aih oAx,

ventor OF something new may profit less
by it than his imitatora"
The workers attempting to write success
full songs have the satisfaction OF know
ing that they can reach the publishers more
easily than aspirants in other kinds OF
work The publishers will nearly always
hold OF a big success that they will take
trouble to listen to what would seem very
unpromising efforts. The popular success
may come from any source and its reward
all corners in the hope that one may turn
out to be the lucky composer.
Styles in popular songs are soon use sec!
up by the composers. who immediately
set to initiating q novelty that pieases.
The craze for .{ntermezzo," 30 called, was
an instance Of the rapidity with which
style can be played out. 'Salome' was
tho first and there followed 80 many that
within a year the public taste for these
songs was entirely exhausted. Now the
military march song holds the field,
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into Victorian coal scuttles, into Directoire
scoops, into the epitome of coquetry that
ties under the chin on Dresden vases, into
a combination poke and picture hat that
Is audacious in profile and Gemure in full
face.
And how about the little bows and folds
and pipings and tiny aigrettes and dis
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or lace ties and are caught with real Jewel
buckles instead of being tied
There is this advantage about these
roll brim bonnets: if they are carefully
fitted to the head they do not mar the long
head and throat lines that have 40 much
to do with beauty.
They follow the curve of the head IN
stead of cutting it, az wide brim does
This is why an older woman who looks
serene and gracious in becoming bonnet
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in shane. the wide brim flares out more
away from the face, there are nosegays
on the under brim and garlands about the
crown, and feathers, too, and gauze scarls
that are tossed about the shoulders.
And the Victorian bonnet should have
a great go, because it 80 perfectly suits
the dsbutante sort Of girl, who is going
in extensively for the Victorian gown
It is a young. helpless type OF hat, at the
mercy OF a drop of rain, needing a train
of devoted cavaliers. In fact, an escort
is as essential to a Victorian costume as
the girdle or bunchy trimming or boned
petticoat.
And that combination OF poke bonnet
and pcture hat! 1t is usually of velvet
with a wide brm faring up at the lett sioe'
lifting bunch of feathers aloft "a 1t turns.
The right side droops patheti'nllv' ana
from tin, ba tx Of the crown are sash
onJs to ii, about a throat that i Lrown
and firm.
This style OF bonnet is most often seen
IN the brilliant fall colors, in all the browns
shading out to frosted maple leaf or OCTOBER
larcb foliage, or sumach or Japanese
ivv or Michaelmas daisies, and in all motor
rod sometimes, or black with splashes OF
blue and green IN,
And there is n very affected bonnet WIN
= hiyb crown and wide brim folding up
eat against the crown at the sides and Jut-
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enormously high crown covered with ribbon
rosettes. all in black, with white lace scarf
and ends. In fact, the hall mark OF the
modern bonnet seems to be the scarf knotted
under the chin or twisted about the throat.
One great lover of novelty has picture
bonnet trimmed with beads. Beads are
so tremendously in vogue that they are
ordered to match nearly every suit, but it
is a new idea to circle a hat crown with
long necklace.
A pretty example Of this unusual within
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that would have appealed to the ascetlo
eve OF the Salem fathers.
Since the New York girl first appeared
in her localized bonnet society has slightly
recovered from its panic Of fear lest II
should look like snowy Salvation Army
lasses all winter 1t has, in fact. discovered
wonderful possibilities in bonnets
The headgear that started out so simple
and sensible in early September has grown
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brim, and meek in adornment. Marrow
strings formed prim bows directly under
the chin. and there was no possibility OF
quaintness or alluring reserve in them
In fact, they did not belong to this day and
generation. Why, they even looked sensi-
BILE!
But not for long A pretty girl OF ideas
waved the twentieth century wand in front
OF one of these simple yet revolving struct-
ures." and straightway the br1m grew
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often appears awkward and foolish and
unattractive in a hat, however stylish.
The real grown-up bonnet is always
worn back from the face, to show pun
or part of hair. When the same shape Is
worn forward 1t becomes a toque or an &C.
centricity, and very few women over 80
can afford either venture.
The mlkmaid hat with Tapping brm.
is also sporting long gauze ties and mas
querading IA a bonnet. One in silver blue
chenille braid carries wide Alsatian bow
in blue across the front Of the crown and
pale rose scarf.
Another curved brim bonnet-hat has an
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wider and rolled back and curved, and the
crown attained some useless dignity OF
proportion and Haunted a plume iheh
she said few cabaistic words and there
suddenly appeared long, wide streamers
that would tie just back OF the lett ear anu
hutter about in every autumn breeze, max
ing the bonnet menace to the heart OF man
kind instead of forbidding head covering
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-02-29
Returned from New York.

Mr.. Frank Rogers, manager for
Cheeves Bros. d Co, of this place,
returned yesterday from New York
and other points in the East, where
he bought large stock of spring
and summer goods. Mr.. Rogers
was accompanied by Mr.. Cheeves
of Cameron, Mr.. Cavanaugh, of
g G4inesville, and Mr.. Coleman of
Marlin. Mr.. Rogers informs the
Light that Cheeves Bros. have re-
Gently installed new store at
Gainesville, making their twelfth
house In Texas.
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Escaped an Awful Fate.

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Kings New Discovery for consump-
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bottles free.
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BENEFIT Entertainments
Elks' Minstrel Show and an
Opera TO be Given at Early
Dates.

Two benefit entertainments are to
be given in Waxahachie at early
dates by ar'ateur talent. The first
il scheduled TO take place on the
nights o March Z and 5 at the park
auditorium when the best talent in
the Elks lodge will smear burnt
cork on their faces and give a min
strel show. The proceeds from this
show will 90 into fund which the
Elks expect 10 use in building a
club house and theater combined.
Mr.. L NJ. Boyer, manager of the
Who, What, When Minstrels, is
directing the rehearsals which are
held nightly. Mr.. Boyer SAYS the
talent he has enlisted ia this show
is better than he has found in any
town in Texas. The young men and
young ladies who will take part in
the show are making fair progress
in their parts.
Next December the state o"nven-
tion of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy will be held in Waxa-
hachie. Already the members of
the local chapter have begun the
work of raising funds for the enter
tainment Of the delegates when they
visit this city. A number of enter
tainments have been given for that
purpose and others will follow dur
ing the year. The next entertain
ment on the program for the benefit
of the convention fund is a comic
opera to be given by home talent
some time in March. ReheaTsals
have been going on some time under
the direction of Mr.. +. y. Baker,
and the progress made has been sat
isfactory in every respect. In ad-
dition TO a large chorus Mr.. Baker
has secured the best talent i'm the
city to take the leading parts in the
opera This bids fair 20 he one Of
the best entertainments ever given
by home talent.