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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17

and hemmed and tucked at the bottom II
they gored the skirt decoration may
take any fancifui flight with shaped frils
or lace and ribbon drapings.
"A Dancing Dress.
Worn with white bodice Of thin lace
slightly decollete and with short sleeves,
a taffeta suspender dress In gay or deli
cate color would do admirably for dancing
purposes at the seashore. With a high
bodice and elbow sleeves, the very same
frock Is also suited to piazza and lawn use.
though Tor these services 1t Is generally
accompanied by a flower trimmed hat Bare
heads mean dsheveled coiffures at the sea-
shore. SO hats are generally worn, and the
hat material most often advised is Grin
horsehair. Headgear of genuine horsehair
braid or lace Is very durable, and the CO.
quettish shapes seen in 1t permit the most
festive treatments. Fabric gloves-those Of
spun silk, silk net and taffeta and lace
are shown by the shops for dressy seashore
use. But 1t remains more the thing to go
bareheaded even though the fashionable
sleeve Is so generally short: for what would
be grave tndiscretion in town Is all right
upon the beach,
The smart man who camps for a summer
hour by the sad sea waves is even more
sensible In dress than the feminine elegante
The Beau Brummels. big and little, have
generally yachting, outing sailor look
masculine toggery being designed with an
eye to comfort more than anything else.
ne white DUCK anu serge trousers ana Dlue
serge or flannel coat and white canvas cap
and shoes most often constitute the grown
up get-up. Little chappies wear serge and
flannel sailor suits. with long or short trou-
sers. and the REFER flannel jackets. which
make tiny maids comfy" on blow after
moons vary little In style from those worn
by baby boys. For the rest wool sweater
is an invaluable seashore garment. The
smallest boys wear them nowadays, but as
the reds and blues streak with salt air,
white ones have come to be regarded as
more stylish
Sou'wester Hats.
To return to the canvas ''sou wester''
hats, which worn by small boys and
girls alike. These practical head-coverings,
which are shown in pure white and cream
at the children's outfitters, are deliciously
comical upon juvenile heads. They are
much worn at the French seaside resorts.
where the toughest effects in real life are
copied with charming art in daintier ma
terials. One of the real sea garments, imi-
tated In rough line and worn by smart
French women, Is the life savers shirt of
coarse cotton or linen. This has small
sailor collar with placket deep enough for
the head to go through, for there Is no
other opening.
At Cape Cod, where the art student colony
grows bigger each summer, these shirts, the
genuine articles. are in great demand, and
the life savers do a thriving business sup
plying them to future Corots and Rosa Bon
hours. The rest of the artistic get-up at
the cape Is quite as picturesque, flannel
berehs, French student caps, topping many
q head These are in white, red and blue.
The canvas sou wester hats, which are worn
here by boys and girls alike. are generally
lined with green to shade young eyes from
the glare of sand and sea.
MARY DEAN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17

and hemmed and tucked at the bottom II
they are gored the skirt decoration may
take any fanciful flight with shaped frills
lace and ribbon drapings
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17
ade Over Silk or Lawn.

These Brussels net frocks are made up
over both silk and very fine lawn. If a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-17
For Boating Use.

For ordinary boating. fishing or rough
land excursions a blue sailor dress with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
WHEN A PILOT WAS KING.
Story of a GREAT Steamboat Race on
the Mississippi.

The Girardeau's hittin' a good lick
tonight"
Huh! Twelve miles an hour at the
best. And down stream at that. They
don't make boats to run these days"
A long train Of freight cars crawled
noisily along the crest of the stone
levee. The man who had referred to
the steamer turned and looked fiercely
at the snorting locomotive.
What's the use?" he asked. indicat-
Ing the remorseless rival of the river.
None on EARTH" returned the other.
But in its day the Robert E. Lee was
the swiftest thing that ever cut
through the daddy of waters All!
There was boat! Six high-pressure
boilers, triple steel engines, a tiller that
obeyed whisper and a PROV like an
eagle! Nothing that moved could throw
smoke on her deckw
Two ancient mariners were standing
Just outside the engine-room of the
Sidney street ferry Florence. The sub
Ject was introduced by the passage of
the steamer Cape Girardeau on her
southern trip. The first speaker was
Oliver G. Richey, head engineer of th,
Florence. The second man was Cap
tain Jesse I. Jamison, aged "A. retired
river man. Captain Jamison was chief
pilot on the Robert II. Lee from Cairo
to St. Louis in her spectacular race
with the Natchez. July "a, 1870. He
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
Too Pointed.

When somebody asked Graham
Saunders why he did not go to visit
the sQuire's family any more, he hest
tated for moment before he ven
tured to put his reason iD+o words.
I'm not one that's looking for
Sights" he drawled at last, land
never paid much attention when they
spoke about folks that generally came
at meal-tmes, nor any of their re-
marks about large appetites. Nor
never applied any O. their statements
in regard to not waiting for invita-
tons or outstaying your welcome to
myself. l considered such talk wasn't
worth noticing.
But when squire come out to me
at about four thutty one afternoon,
when 1 could smell baked beans cook
ing as easy as I'm sitting here. and
said he'd count it favor if I'd note
down where the glass stood on our
north porch at o'clock that night and
at s in the morning, twelve thutty at
noon and p. m. for the next three
days, and then let him know at the
| postoffice SOS he could compare 1t with
theirs-I called it pretty considerable
| like a hint for a man that claims TO
have good manners, given to one that's
got sensitive streak. same as have,
though try to keep it out o sight"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05

more than ST month. and frequently
much less. The difference appealed to
his economical soul, but at that time
no electrical ploWs or harvesters were
on the market; their use was deemed,
even by electrical supply companies, a
part of the millennium we are prom
ised, but which is not on the cards Of
the present. Accordingly the farmer
became a student of electrical applica-
ton and methods of power. If the
electric supply companies couldn't help
him he proposed to help himself Dur
ing the winter he had small motor
placed on a bodied wagon, not
very much dissimilar to the truck of a
street car, with trolley pole attached
Then he had posts erected at suitable
intervals along two sides of the fields
in which he intended to use his electric
motor pillow and along these was strung
a stout steel wire rope
Now he was ready for the unique
feature Of his plan. Two uninsulated
copper wires were suspended between
the two lines of the steel rope, one the
feed and the other the return, and at
tached to them on a pulley arrange
ment, so that they could be moved
easily along the field, while at one end
they were connected with a heavily
insulated cable, which carried the cur
rent from the main feed wire to the
field wire. The field wire was support
ed on poles with forked glass tops,
modelled somewhat after the clothes
pole idea, which could be removed
when the motor pillow reached any of
them, and placed back of it, thus en-
aiding the motor to be driven at will
through its trolley pole connection,
while the wire carrying the current
was always kept at a fair distance
above the field. The pillow was fas-
tened to the front of the motor car
and both were operated from the seat
on the motor box. 1t sounds cumbrous
to describe, but the farmer used the
method successfully for blowing, har-
rowing and harvesting, did all in less
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
"Humph! Guess you think the en-
gineer's the whole thing"
HE is in q boat race"

"Humph! Guess you think the en-
gineer's the whole thing"
HE is in boat race
Much racing he could do If wa
| didn't hunt easy water for him. About
fifteen miles below town we sighted n
feet of steamers and tugs that had
come down to meet us. There was the
Harry Johnson, the Eagles and eyery
crack boat that happened to be at the
st. Louie wharf at the time. Before
we got back up the river with every
we got to them they turned around and
headed back up the river with every
ounce Of steam they could carry. We
beat 'em to town-everyone of 'em-
so far we lost sight of EN-"
THAT was the Fourth Of July?" re-
marked the engineer
THE Fourth of July, 1870" replied
the pilot, solemnly
ION a celebration day mans eye
sight amt always good"
II didn't have drop that day" said
the steersman, Indignantly
mo! Well, let's hquidate now. The
Lee was good boat-a bully good
boat Here's to her memory. And
here's to the Natchez-the peer Of 'em
allr'
The race between the Lee and the
Natchez from New Orleans to St Louis
created the most intense excitement in
the Mississippi Valley. Bonfres blazed
from the river banks by night and can
non Numbered by day along the entire
course.
The boats were apparently well
matched and the rivalry had been
keen for a long time. At last it hap
pened both were scheduled to leave
New Orleans at the same time and
their captains agreed on a race to ST
Louis.
The following paragraph is from
Mark Twain's Life on the Mississip-
pi:"
The steamer left the wharf of the
southern city at 4:55 p. m. June 30,
1870. The Lee arrived in st. Louis at
11:25 a. M, July 4, three days, eighteen
hours and fourteen minutes out of New
Orleans, six hours and thirty-Six min
utes ahead of the Natchez. The officers
of the Natchez claimed seven hours
and one minute stoppage on account of
fog and for repairing machinery. The
Lee was commanded by Captain John
w. Cananon and the Natchez was in
charge of that veteran southern boat
man, Captain Thomas 2. feathers.
It's a little singular that the result
Of the race never changed the minds
of the Natchez's friends as to her capa-
bilities. They sturdily insisted that
she could beat the Lee in a walk il
she had "a fair show"
Captains Cannon and Leathers and
Pilot Enoch King are dead. Jamison,
Kings comrade in the Lees wheel
house from Cairo to st. Louis. lives at
1850 Easton avenue, this city. Both
Jamison and Richey run the river
when Mark Twain was pilot and au-
thor, with whom they were we'll &C
quainted.-St. Louis correspondence
Chicago Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
The uncertainty Of that night turn.

The uncertainty Of that night turn
ed my hair gray. We hadn't a ghost
of an idea where the other boat was
and dreaded every moment that we'd
hear her plowing through the gloom
ahead of u.s.
That's what you'd a heard If ].
Bennett had been there" said Richey.
as he looked out the side window to
see how close they were getting to the
ST. Clair wharf. He'd q made Won
ducks look like roustabounts on a sand
fat Jack was an engineer, a horn en-
gineer. but he was the crossest man L
ever saw. When he got in dead earn
est his room was hot enough to run the
engines without the boilers"
Andy Pauly, wasn't slow" insisted
the other steersman. but he was safe
Still, we thought he'd run that fog and
we kept a-goin upstream, cuttin' the
current in long, oblique slices same's If
the devil was chasin' us. We were
drawing six feet and kept the leads
men on the for'cas'le all through the
night. When the fog lifted toward
mornin' and there wasn't any Natchez
in sight we began to breathe. The old
boat was keepin' up her gait beauti-
fully and we knew nothing that wades
could beat us into st. Louie"
1.-The Natchez was the best boat"
said Richey, as he closed down the
steam in obedience to the excitement
of the bells.
"Why didn't she beat them?
II told you why"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
Brain-Wearing Professions.

A scientist has gathered from sta
ustics that the military and naval
professions most quickly wear out the
brains. Out of 100000 soldiers and
sailors 1919 were confirmed lunatics.
Next came the liberal professions, ar
fists heading the list, followed closely
by lawyers, and more distantly by doc
tors, clergymen, literary men, mad
civil servants. In 100000 about III
of these so mad. OF domestic ser
wants and laborers 1856 out of 100000
90 to the asylum, and of mechanics
only sixty-six. The sanest people, APP
parently, are commercial men, of
whom forty-two in 100000 go mad.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05

The average tyro the that much
as pntns done wholly in white paint white Shadows
often form the chief interest picture
ght and shade which
faacy just mentioned above beginners carefully
views with the directly behind hem could
place This direction
with
the worker
ground by taking
angles to the first point of that the directly the right
left change
fully lighted while
with charm dtinctness in
Thought best for the
pecialy applicable
the point Of should be with
light but there
of
of
always
the right hOur.-Phl NJ. Riley in Photo
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
WIFE AND FIVE CHILDREN SLAIN.
Iowa Farmer Arrested Accused of
Murder of Family,


The bodies of Mrs William McWH-
liams and her five children, hacked with
a knife and the skulls crushed in with
blows from a hammer. were found at
their farm home six miles south of In
dependence, Iowa. The husband and
father was arrested, charged with the
crime. The children ranged in age from
3 to IS years.
The murder was a most brutal one.
Evidently the mother had been killed
while preparing meal. for when the
bodies were found food was cooking on
the stove. She had been killed by blows
Of a hammer, and her skull was crush
ed. Then she ha>. been hacked with a
knife. After her murder the children
evidently had been called in one by one
and murdered in n similar manner. The
baby, not 3 years old, when found still
wore n hood and mittens and had in its
hand piece Of bread. One blow of
the hammer had sufliced for it and then
the murderer laid it in its dead mothers
arms.
The murder was discovered by milk
man named Saunders. When officers
reached the house no trace of the hus-
band could be found, but an abandoned
suit of his clothing was found badly
smeared with blood. He came into In
dependence by a circuitous route. Nc
Williams denies he is guilty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05

The general managers of the big in
terurban lines radiating from st. Louis
have determined to keep abreast of the
times. and will supply power to farm
ers for any purpose it pleases them to
adapt it. All the farmer has to do is
TO install his motors and the trolley
lines will do the rest. They will run
the wires from their lines to his farm,
making the terminus at some central
point, say, the barn, for example, and
give him all the current he desires at q
low meter rate. 1t means haIcyon days
for the farmers, and only those who
nave Installed the electric power can
fully appreciate what a saving Of labor
tt means, and what an increased earn
ing power it gives the farm. Already
many farms in Ohio and Indiana use
electricity obtained from a nearby troll
ley line
ON those farms where electric power
haj been installed it has been used for
greater variety of purposes than
even the O. ginal projectors of the
scheme, the nterurban trolley compa-
MES, ever famed of. The American
farmer den nstrates his logical meth
DDS Of reas ming in this use of it.
why" say he, IF 1 have a motor
capable of running my corn huskers,
water pump, wood saw, grindstone
and threshing machine and leaving me
a surplus of power besides, shouldn't
1 apply some of this power to the
kitchen and thus save Maria few
Oackaches?' And so he does. A small
motor is rugged up in the kitchen, and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
ouerdressed Children

An overdressed child is to be pitied
Because you have money do not in
flict the burden of too much dress up
on your little girl. The wife of a
doctor who has money is the subject
of great and unfayorable comment be-
cause of the manner in which she
dresses her little daughters. They
look like walking advertisements for
some childs' furnishing department 1t
is a great mistake since it displays
neither good taste nor good judgment
If YOU have money, dress the children
well. If you would manifest good
taste, dress them simply; as becomes
little children, and teach them to for
get they are wearing fine clothes even
while you cultivate the proper pride
for neatness and eleanliness.-rhila-
delphia Ledger
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05

time than it could have been done with
horses and at one-third the direct cx-
pense, to say nothing of 8 greater
quantity of crops for the market
Other farmers use storage battery
cars for such purposes, but, after all.
their use is comparatively restricted,
most farmers contenting themselves
with the application of electrical pow
er to stationary machinery and the
farm is not up to date that doesn't use
it when situated anywhere near a troll
ley line.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
Fighting Shows Nationality.

"By the way they fight I can tell
mems nationality" said a policeman.
AN Englishman when he is going
to fight throws his hat and coat in a
clustering way on the ground.
"A Scot pulls his hat down tight on
his head and buttons his coat care
fully. The canny Scot is not going to
endanger any of his property.
An Irishman appeals to the crowd
to hold his coat The Celtic nature
desires sympathy and tries to build it
up.
"A German-methodica precise
folds his coat in a neat bundle and
lays his hat on top of it to hold it
down.
AN American is so anxious to pitch
in and have the thing over that he
starts fighting without giving a
thought to hat or coat "-Indianap
Journal
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
ONLY A SIX-INCH STREAM.
But Before 1t Great Office Buildings
and Styscrapers Would Tumble
Into Ruin

Imagine a perpendicular column OF
water more than one-third of a mile
high, twenty-siX inces in diameter at
the top and twenty-four inches in
diameter at the bottom. Those re-
markable conditions are complied
with, as far as power goes, in the Mil
Creek plant, which operates under a
head of 1860 feet, says Hamilton
Wright, in the World To-day This
little column of water which, if iber.
ated, would be just about enough to
make a small trout stream, gives a
capacity of 5000 horsepower, or
enough power to run a good-sized
ocean-going vessel. AS the water
strikes the buckets of the waterwheel
it has a pressure of $50 pounds to the
square inch.
What this pressure implies is evil
denced by the fact chat the average
locomotive carries steam at a .nres-
sure of 100 or 200 pounds to the
square inch. Were this stream, as 1t
issues from the nozzle turned upon
hillside, the earth would fade away
before it like snow before a jet OF
steam. Huge powders, big as city
offices, would tumble into ravines with
as little effort as a clover burr is car
ried before the hydrant stream on
front lawn. Brick walls would crackle
like paper, and the hugest skyscrapers
crumble before a stream like that of
the Mill Creek plant.
1t takes a powerful waterwheel to
withstand the tremendous pressure.
At Butte Greek, Cal, a single jet of
water, six inches in diameter, issues
from the nozzle at the tremendous
velocity of twenty thousand feet
minute. 1t impinges on the buckets
of what is said to be the most power
full single waterwheel ever built, caus-
ing the latter TO travel at the rate of
ninety-four miles an hour.
This six-inch stream has a capacity
of twelve thousand horsepower The
water for operating the plant is con-
veyed from Butte Creek through a
ditch and discharged into a regulating
reservoir, which is fifteen hundred
feet above the power house Two
steel pressure pipe lines, thirty inches
in diameter, conduct the water to the
power house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
The aGeorgia Grind

Colonel Anstruther was distressed.
His st. Louis host had asserted that
Missouri was the garden-spot Of Amer
lea for the production of watermelons.
Being a Georgian, Colonel Anstruther
could not allow such a statement to
pass uncorrected.
"Suh!" he exclaimed. Proof of the
abundance of watehmelons lies in the
facility fob eating them. Can you
show me, sub, a man in Missouri who
has yet acquired the equivalent Of the
Geo'gia GrindY'
THE Georgia Grlndv' demanded the
Missourian. what Is that?'
1.-The Geo'gia Grind, sub, is the abil-
ity to feed continuous and unbroken
line OF watermelon into one side of
the mouth while emitting a continuous
and unbroken line of seeds, sub, rom
the otleh side. The mere deveIop-
ment OF that aht, sub. is proof beyond
doubt that Geo'gia raised the most
watehmelons, subj"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
Short News Notes.

a serious labor struggle is feared in
New York City owing to the refusal of
the labor unions, to accept arbitration
decisions.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
resignation of his cousin, Lieut. Fortes-
que, of the army, who was mixed up in
the Taggart divorce case.
Harry c.. Campion of PhiladeIpbia
head of a wholesale drug firm. and a
member of the Union League. died as
the result of injuries received by being
sun over by a trolley car.
1t has been definitely announced that
the Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy
VIII make an automobile tour of the
United States next year. travelling in
cognito.
The HOusesmiths' union has been de-
clared out of the general arbitration
board of the Building Trades Employers
Association of New York for failure to
call off a strike.
y report received by the Canadian
government from Alexander Mclean. Ca
madam commissioner at Yokohama. SAYS
the recent agitation of life insurance
matters in New York has seriously af-
fected the japanese business of both
American and Canadian companies.
Major Simon Mayer, who served az
adjutant general with rank of major
general on the staff of Gen. Chalmers
with Sharpe's brigade in the Confedtr-
ate army, was killed by the accidental
discharge of his revolver at Natchez,
Miss.
A small purse of gold has been re-
ceived at the Jacob A. Riis Neighbor-
hood Settlement in New York City from
the women of Colorado Springs, toward
the sum being raised in memory of Mr.
Riis' wife to pay off the mortgage. If
the mortgage is burned on New Years
Day John ID. Rockefeller viii have the
old Henry strees houses Of the settle
ment remodeied.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
A Bows Question.

A bishop in full robes of Office, with
his gown reaching to his feet, was
teaching a Sunday-school class. AT
the close he said he would be glad
to answer any questions.
A little hand went up and he asked:
We'll, my boy?"
Can / ask?'' said the boy.
Certainly" said the bishop; what
is it?'
We'll" asked the boy, is dem all
you've got on, or do you wear pants
under ?"-Cleveland Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
IrOnieal.

Not without a sense of humor is Mr..
Root, the new Secretary Of State. He
showed it, says the New York Sun,
during the Boxer troubles in China,
when he was annoyed by the silly
questions of an importunate reporter.
How will the President get rid OF
Minister Conger?" finally asked the
lnquisitor. VIII he dismiss him out
right, or ask for his resignation
why, think he will do neither"
replied Mr.. Root Il think he is more
apt 10 try an Oriental subterfuge-
5cnd him poisoned letter"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
Correction.

"a prophet Is without honor in his
own country" said the intimate friend.
You don't mean that" responded
Mr.. Scaddsby. You mean that honor
Is without proft"-Detroit Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-12-05
All at the Market Price.

Baron, what did you give your boys
for birthday preserts?"
Soldiers"
And your daughrer?"
81 bought her one, too; a lIeuten-
ant"-Fliegende Blaetter