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World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-04-28
GHAvELPoINT HAPPENINGS.
~ JOSIAH AND ME.


/ will now take mp my pen,
And try to write for the GREssET
again.
Rainy weather al present.
S. s. and League was rained
out Sunday.
Rev. Davis preached two very
interesting sermons at GRAY elpoint
ON tho third sun. Mr.. Davis will
preach here each third Sun. every
one should be out to here him.
Rev Kenney was in the neighbor-
hood last week.
Bertha Simmons has been hired
to teach our school tor the ensuing
term,
Say, "Pansy Blossom" you
wanted to know who could beat
Mrs. FriskOy in having little
chickens well our P. NJ; MRS Will
liams can she has over ITO little
chickens,
Antha Rogers attended church
at Gravelpoint the third Sunday;
Estella Williams was on the sick
list last week but is able to be
around at present writing,
Eilet Weatherman and Emmett
Hunter have loft for Kansas City
here they will work Dung til
summer.
Candidates, candidates, where
are they at, ! guess they think
there isn't anybody lives in thi.
part Of the country.
The Chicago Art Picture Cos wa
delivering pictures In this part las
week.
Well as news is scarce will say.
hope to see you all the Goth Of May
! would like to make q rhyme.
Butl cant think Of any this time.
So ! viii quit and say,
ThatI viii write more some other da,
Bye bye.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-04-28
SHELLEY Ridge Items


BY STRAWBERRIES AID BLACKBERRlES
Here we come again with our
little budget of news after a
weeks absence.
Rainy weather at present,
Planting corn is the order Of
the day,
Sour Kraut aud Mabels items
were just fine.
really enjoy writing for the
WORLD CRlssET.
Buck, Guide and Tom Shelley
visited their father Mr.. Shelley on
last Sunday:
Jasper Garrett visited Mr.;
Shelley on last Sunday:
Mrs Shelley visite d Mrs: Patter
son on last Friday;
Jim Linthicum was the welcome
guest Of Mr.: Shelley on last Sun.
We are having fine meetings al
JAH-Ville now;
Oh Sugar and Molasses'
really enjoy reading your Items
Ifthis escapes the waste basket
| will try again:
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-04-28
Editor CnEsszT::

n Eultol CkEsnIIs
As ] see your
little paper is always On the SIDE
OF right, ! want to say through
is columns to the voter OF Texas
Co. Tint now is the time Tor
every Democratic show h,s colors
for there are two SIDES Of the qtles-
ton before US Honest Govern
ment on one side led by Folk
Aud CO ruplion on the other
ed by Butler and others : We bt'
lieye thar Folks feet are bif
enough to tramp the Jelly out q
the other fellows and make theu
walk on peg-legs il the place Q
| the people. Vote for him.
by a Correspondent.
World's cresset. [volume] (JAH-ville [Colony], Fowler, Mo.) 1891-19??, 1904-04-28

Rev. l.. S Garrett I'd. CnFssEr
as the dear little pape the CrREssEr
has came to mo The second tlmo
and I don't know who has been ~
kind 10 have II sent IN me-, VIII
write few lines and thank tho
one very much for their ki dn"ss
in sending me this paper. Tor ON!
II do love IN hear from mf good
noighhors and friends in Mo
II has beer nine years since !
lett 10. Bn, Oh | love hat
country: have Some relat'v's ~
Mo. that are very ncur and deai
10 mo, and have some friends
there that love dearly; some o.
The names in the CREssEr are very
! familiar to me, we all reed every
word on the paper, one can !
hardly wait for another 10 gc
done with il
| For Fear my letter will be t.
lengthy will close
| Wishing the CREssET success
hope TO sec this in print. Regard
To all lib" correspondents.
Mrs. Belle Sutherland.
Bass, Kentucky.
TAYLOR Co.
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"By SUSIE
Good morning kind Ed. and Cor.
I thought / would write q few
items for tho WORLD's CREssHr ]
think Il is tho best paper in the
world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-15

in biscuit color this hat would be very
pretty, too, and rather more servicea-
able than in white AS a design also
for a black picture hat, either in beaver,
in felt, or in chip, this sketch could be
copied very successfully.
The third hat illustrated is quite novel
In design and very becoming. 1t is in
tended for a girl of about Is or 16, and
should be made in brown smooth
beaver, with fairly high crown, which
is, however, entirely concealed from
view, by something very smart in the
way of trimming This trimming con-
sists of three large fiat wheel-shaped
rosettes, composed of little frills of
brown mirror velvet, closely gathered.
Each rosette is finished in the center
with a large fiat button covered also
with velvet. The three rosettes are set
round the crown, back to back, and form
a most original and effective trimming.
Fur toques will be worn a good deal
this winter, but they are not altogether
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attempts will probably be made by
western nations to acquire it's secret.
The powder is not used as a propel
liant in guns, but as an explosive in
Shells 1t seems to be some variant
of gun-cotton, though it differs con-
siderably from gun-cOtton, is superior
to that compound in destructiveness,
and is stated to be inferior only to
blasting gelatine in explosive effect.
1t was first used by the Asama in her
action with the Variag off Chemulpho,
when shells charged with it in a very
few minutes put out of action every
officer and man on the Variag's upper
deck. The sides of the Russian ship
were full of minute holes which for
eign observers after the battle ina
gined had been made by shrapnel bull
let's. But actually no shrapnel had
been employed. 1t is one of it's pecu-
liarities that Shimose powder blows
the steel case of the shell to innumer-
able fragments, each about the size Of
a large pea, and these fragments Aad
caused the terrible carnage. In some
cases deep punctured wounds were in
fiicted, which looked as though they
had been caused by bullet, but when
the wound was examined there was no
fragment of metal in it. Exactly how
or why these wounds are produced by
Shimose powder is still something of
a mystery.
Shimose powder is used by the jap
anese artillery on land as we'll as at
sea, but on land it's effects do not seem
to have been SO remarkable, possibly
because it has been fired from guns of
small caliber, in the prOjectiles of
which high explosives rarely give the
most satisfactory results.
The Iguin fuse is the invention Of
Vice Admiral Iguin, second in COM
mand of the general staff of the Japa-
nese navy, and we'll known in Eng
land, which country he visited at the
time of the coronation review, in COM
mand of the Asama. Its merit lies in
it's simplicity and certainty of action.
The proportion of shells which fail to
burst with it is exceedingly small,
though this is a result most difficult
to obtain, as was seen when our fleet
bombarded Alexandria. On that oc-
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MISSES FASHIONS
MILLINERY, COATS AND FRoCKs
FOR YOUNG GIRLS.
APPROVED COMBINATIONS
Hats Should Match Costumes, and
Blouses Be Carefully Chosen
with Reference to Coats
and Skirts

There should be no difficulty this
winter in selecting very charming and
becoming millinery for mademoiselle,
since fashion seems most amiably in
clined to give the milliners carte
blanche, and to allow anything and
everything, in the way of shape and
color, provided only that the hats and
toques selected suit the individual styles
of the wearers, and are in harmony
with the shades of color which have
been chosen for gowns and coats. o.
course, there are certain tones of biscuit
and of tan, which, like the useful browns
and grays, and the always smart cream
and ivory white, look we'll with every
thing A good black hat, too, every girl
should have, but in choosing Aer new
millinery for the winter this season,
mademoiselle will be well advised if
she is influenced in her selection, chiefly
by the colors and materials of the
frocks, in whose company the hats will
continually be seen.
Three very pretty hats, suitable for
immediate wear, are shown in one OF
our illustrations. These sketches have
been specially designed to meet the re-
quirements of girls of different ages,
and they should prove very useful,
think, as suggestions for winter mil
linery. We show a hat suitable for
Sunday best, for girl from about IL to
IA years of age. It should be carried
out with a brim of plain velvet and
high crown, the top of which is covered
with drawn velvet, while soft puffings
of glace silk encircle the crown, very
closely gathered. The silk should be
chosen, of course, to match exactly the
color of the velvet, or, if preferred, the
hat could be made entirely in velvet,
although in this latter case it would
undoubtedly be rather heavy and hot,
state of things which should always be
avoided by girls who are anxious to keep
their hair in good condition.
Next we have very smart hat which
might be worn by girl of IL or Is, even
after she has arrived at that all-im-
portant period when she has put up"
her hair. This hat is made in white
beaver in a most becoming picture
shape, bound at the edge with fairly
wide black velvet ribbon, and cleverly
wired underneath the binding, so that
the brim can be bent about in any shape
to suit the face or the wearer. Draped
lightly round the crown there are folds
of white chiffon, and on one side three
clustering ostrich tips. In pale gray or
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to be recommended for girls In good
furs they are very costly, and In imita-
ton furs by no means desirable, SO that
/ should advise mademoiselle, when she
is wanting a toque, rather to choose
one in soft beaver cloth than in fur.
Beaver cloth is light in weight and can
easily be manipulated to follow the nat
ural lines and curves of the head. and
some very pretty effects are obtained
in these beaver cloth toques by using
lust one large rose, camellia or gardenia,
by way of trimming, accompanied pos
sibly by bud or two, and few leaves.
To consider now our other illnstra-
ton, which gives very picturesque sug-
gestion for quite best frock for early
wear. The addition of a smart little
stole in marmot or sable to match the
muff would make this costume warm
enough for the coolest weather, espe-
ciaIly if the coat were inter-lined with
flannel, as it easily might be. and a
warm bodice in finely knitted wool,
worn underneath the lace blouse, the
pretty front of which our artist has
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-15
WAS GUEST OF THE MIKADo
Kuropatkin Enjoyed Hospitality of
the Emperor of Japan Short
Time Before War.


Gen. Alexei Nicholavitch Kuropat-
kin and staff of Russian officers en-
joyed the hospitality of the emperor of
Japan a little over one year ago. 1t was
in June, 1903, that the Russian minister
of war, the now world famous general,
journeyed to China and Japan to attend
the important conference held at Port
Arthur to talk over the Russian posi-
ton in the far east. All the Russian
high officials then stationed at North
China and Manchuria, including the
Russian minister to China, were pres
ent, and to show this distinguished
gathering honor the mikado extended
a special invitation to Gen. Kuropat-
kin and his staff to cross to Toxic and
enjoy an entertainment, however brief,
at the hands of his imperial representa-
tives.
Though the time of the Russian men,
bers of the conference was somewhat
limited, they decided to avail them
selves of the invitation so courteously
extended, and this is how it happened
about Is months ago that Russian and
Japanese soldiers of the highest rank,
who are now using every effort to ami
hilate each other, drank tea together in
the friendliest manner on now hostile
soil.
According to the oriental custom,
when this noble officer, representing
the car of all the Russias, called upon
the mikado in response to the latter's
polite and official summons cups of fra
grant pale-colored Japanese tea were
passed to the guests assembled in the
royal tea garden.
The occasion was an important one
from political standpoint, so the Of
ficers of each country wore their hand
soonest uniforms and all the medals
they could boast collectively.
A picture was taken of the group of
men as they sat under the cherry bios
som trees and in the shadows of the inn
perial palace. To Gen. Kuropatkin was
given the seat of honor in the center,
and on one side sat the Japanese min
lister of war, Terauchi, and on the other
side Maj. Gen. Murata, also Of the mika-
dos army.
The Russian general and his dist1n-
guished staff presented striking con-
trast in appearance to the smaller Jap
anese officers. Kuropatkin himself Is
striking, fine-looking man of purely
Russian type. In full uniform he is the
ideal war god, and even as he slipped his
tea his hosts must have felt a conscious
appreciation of the vigor, strength and
might of this great mans mind and
body, though occasion placed him, from
the western point of view, in rather eff
Terminate surroundings.
Gen. Kuropatkin comes from the an
cient Russian nobility. He was born at
Psoff in 1848.
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ground rate of fire of IL shots min
ute has been attainend, but in the
field the number of shots that can he
fired is not much above four or five.
The breech is closed by screw block.
The weight of the gun is 1000 pounds,
and that of gun and carriage complete
only $500. 1t is described as admir-
ably adapted for work in mountain
GUS country. where the roads are bad.
The mountain gun is a reduced copy
of the field gun, firing the same pro-
jectile, but is much lighter, and can be
carried on mule back.
The Arisaka rifle is a modification
of the Mauser, with an extremely
small coliber-255-inch- is .05
of an inch less than the Lee-Enfield.
BY far the most celebrated of the
new engines used by the Japanese is
the Oda mine. A mine OF this type it
was which destroyed the Petropav-
lovsk. The Oda mine adjusts itself
automatically to any depth of water,
and from what descriptions of 1t have
reached the outside world, appears to
be very similar to the mine invented
by Capt. Ottley of our navy, and wide
ly used in the British service. 1t is
claimed fC~ it that it carries an enor-
nous cha of explosive, so that if
ship should touch it., that ship Is GER
tain to be destroyed. Large numbers
of these mines have been laid near
Port Arthur, and they have accounted
for several Russian vessels besides the
Petropavlosk, which sank in a little
over a minute after the explosion of
the mine. In the case of the Petro-
pavlosk, however, the magazines of
the ship were detonated by the mine.
Taking a leaf out of the Japanese
book, the Russians employed precisely
similar tactics against Admiral Togo,
though to effect their purpose they
were guilty of grave offense against
the law and custom of nations-laying
mines upon the high seas, in fairway
used by neutral shipping. On the night
of May IA, the Russian mining steam
er Amur laid number of mechanical
mines ten miles to the south of Port
Arthur, and next day the Hatsuse,
passing over the mine field, struck two
mines in quick succession. The first
had but insignificant effect; the Sec
ond, however, exploded under the
mainmast and detonated the maya
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dining car with wild game, and this he
does with pleasure unal1oyed; for in
this task-if task it can be called-there
is the minimum of drudgery; first, count
the sport Of the chase, then the vic
torious return to town and the proud
oment of standing, the observed of all
observers, at the door of the hotel
kitchen, on the steps of the grand
through train" l remember young
Indian | saw recently who tried to hide
with racial stolidity the smiles that
would break over his face when the
cook Of a passenger train took from his
hand bunch of 20 partridge
Neither do the Jumper Jacks court
regular work during ''the season." and
these gentlemen of the hob-nailed shoes
take their fall hunting as regularly as
does the German emperor or Lord This
or the Duke of That. No hunting box
is theirs, no private preserve with fat
tened birds and jealousy tended herds;
but the keenness of vision, the steady
hand, the long endurance, won in prac-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-15

Sussex county Delaware, on the day
sitter election, as fo a century past it
has done on the Thursday following
big election, gathered at the county
seat to celebrate the return day. The
actual reading of the returns from the
courthouse steps. the hazing Of losers
and the congratulations of the winners
have passed with the birth of Tile
graph, telephone and newspapers, but
with true Delaware exclusiveness. the
county clings to its unique post-elec-
ton festival. Every man, woman and
child In lower Delaware who could
scour up a conveyance was there, says
the New York Sun. Every one was In
holiday attire and the horses were
gaudy with flags and bunting. Thou
sands picnicked in the courthouse
square and did everything, from talk
politics to swapping horses. The
negro, who forms a large percentage
of the county's population, was out in
force. He had money-he always has
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-15
WORST BEATEN NOMINEE.
Only Forty-Two Votes Cast for Gen.
Scott, Less Than Were Cast
for Greeley.

Horace Greeley is often referred to as
the worst beaten candidate for pres1-
dent ever nominated by either of the
great parties. In the November cleo
ton of 1872 Mr.. Greeley was defeated,
the popular majority a. ainst him being
1000.
That majority, says the New York
Sun. though considerable, did not re-
cord the full measure of the disaster
of the Greeley canvass, for about three
weeks later, on November 20, Mr.. Gree
ley died, and when the electors in the
states which he had carried met in
January, only three of them-three
from Georgia-voted for Mr.. Greeley,
and the votes of these three were OBJ
iected to on the official canvass on the
ground that Mr.. Greeley, having died,
was not an eligible candidate to vote
for, his death being "a historic fact"
The house of representatives refused
to receive these three votes; the senate
agreed to. AS a consequence, there
fore, Mr. Greeley did not actually re-
ceive a single electoral vote, but the
Greeley electoral ticket polled 80 cleo
toral and 100000 popular votes.
A worse beaten candidate for the
presidency than Horace Greeley, every
thing considered, was Gen. Scott, the
nominee of the whig party in 1852. His
military achievements, it was thought,
would assure him a. large popular vote.
but he actually received only AZ cleo
toral votes out of a total of 296, and
most of these came to him by slender
majorities.
The four states he carried were Ken
lucky and Tennessee, Massachusetts
and Vermont. He had 1900 plurality
in Tennessee and 500 in Vermont.
The candidate for the presidency who
had what would now be called clean
sweep, or almost clean sweep, was
James Monroe, in the election of 1920.
There were 232 electoral votes in that
year, and James Monroe received 23s
of them. This was before the choice
of presidential electors by popular vote,
which was begun four years later.
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just indicated in the sketch. The smart
style of this dress distinctly echoes those
of Louis XVI. modes, which are exer-
cising such a powerful influence at the
moment upon the fashions both for day
and evening wear, the coat with its
gauntlet cuffs indicating one of the COM
ing styles for madame, no less than for
mademoiselle.
1t is suggested that this charming
little frock should be carried out in a
soft, smooth cloth, in one of those deep
shades of choco1ate-brown which are so
much in vogue The skirt, which is
fairly full, is trimmed only with num-
bers of lines of fine tailor-stitching, ar
ranged in battlement from round the
hem. Similar bands of stitching appear
upon the coat, and also on the gauntlet
cuffs, the latter, by the way, being fin
ished very daintily with frills of ivory
white Alencon lace. Another idea of the
moment would be to have, in place of
the lines of stitching, bands of very
wide, bright silk Russian braid, match
ing exactly the brown of the cloth, and
arranged upon the coat, in the same way
as the bands of stitching in the sketch.
On the skirt there might be three or
five rows of the wide braid, put on at
intervals of an inch or so apart.
AS to the blouses for wearing with
this skirt it would be as well perhaps
to have two. One of these might be in
cream Alencon lace, one iyory-whtte
oriental satin, with a high neckband of
folded lace, and very full lace jabot
to cover the front. This should be kept,
of course, for smart occasions, while
a second blouse might be provided in
dark brown taffetas glace, matching the
color of the cloth, and prettily tucked
and gathered A cravat of Alencon lace
could be provided also to wear with this
blouse, and so match the lace ruffles
which finish the sleeves. The lining of
the coat might be Of leaf-green soft
satin, and little touch of the same color
in the way of small bows of green velvet
ribbon drawn through tiny buckles of
bright steel, might be arranged with a
pretty effect, upon the taffetas glace.
The idea of combining green with
Drown (Wnlcn is always a SucceSSlu III
one, provided the right shades of each
color are chosen) should be repeated in
the hat, which is made in brown soft
felt, and in one of the newest and most
becoming of those Marquise shapes
which are particularly suitable for
young girls. The crown of the hat is
draped with brown taffetas glace silk,
which could easily be of the same kind
as that of which the silk blouse is made,
and it is important that all the shades
of brown should match exactly. Then,
by way of cache-peigne, lifting the hat
IF the hair at the back, and forming
a useful foundation for the inevitable
hat pins, there are draperies and choux
of leaf-green mirror velvet.
AS far as more useful everyday frocks
for mademoiselle are concerned, there
still remains nothing more suitable than
a serge tailor-made costume, with a
three-quarter length perfectly plain
coat, tight at the Jack, perhaps, and
semi-ftting in front, and short walk
ing skirt also quite plain
ELLEN Os1 -oNDE.