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gone mad. For instance, many ostrich
feathers are uncurled and artifcially stiffen-
ed to stand out with some of the look Of the
fretful porcupine. Made cocks plumes of
vast size and eccentric tendencies are also de
rgueur; while marabout interSperSed with
cog, forms a poetic if odd combination ador-
able for youthful heads. Sets of boa and
muf are made in the same materials, these
in suitable colors going smartly with the
costumes trottoir.
Pretty Hats.
Chapeaux for these last toilets are by
far the prettiest of the season. A French
sailor of drawn tule with taffeta edges,
and trimmed widely and fatty at the front,
is one very suitable headpiece. The turbans
are very jaunty, and they are in bunchy,
draped shapes or else in stiffened tricornes,
whose dentings and trimmings seem part of
Of beautifully coiffed heads. This is by far
the best Of the new seasons millinery,
though the modified oddities, on the right
head are often beautiful too. The woman
who wears them properly is slim and grave
eyed: and sometimes ash-blonde, which Is a
rare and beautiful French type.
New interest Is felt in wells, and the finer
sorts are enormously long and bitterly dear.
Around many Of the spotted tulle ones is
used a narrow silk fringe. which has the
effect of raveled ribbon. This is in the
color of the veil. which Is often only draped
ornamentally around the hat brim and al
lowed to hang in the back. Some superb
lace wells show borders of swallows, butter
flies and bees; though in adjusting these
webs over the face care is taken to have
this border below the chin, for otherwise
the effect would be very disfiguring. A snap
ca veil, whose design is often copied for
mourning has scarf ends, which tie In q big
bow at the back of the hat.
NINA FITCH.
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The Brides First Kiss.

From the New York Times
The car of Tintwistle, England, hav-
ing declared that the foolish and irrev-
erent'' custom of kissing the bride after a
wedding ceremony should be stopped he is
thus answered by one signing himself
six Times a Best Man" in the London
Mall
"As I have on six occasions filled the
inviduous position of best man, trust you
will grant me space to deliver an emphatic
protest against the abolition Of this good
old English custom, which Is, apparently
wished by some clergymen and many Gu
rates.
is there to be mo- reward for the unfor-
tunate best man., who has borne for hours
on his shoulders all the worries and re-
sponsibilities of the important ceremony;
the rallying of the trembling bridegroom,
the supervision of all the social arrange
ments and the departure Of the happy pair
from the church, to say nothing of the
lavish scattering of largesse to every
hanger-on within and without for which
by the way. he is very seldom reimbursed ?
l repeat, is there no reward for all these
manifold difficulties successfully accom-
plished?
ITO the bride and bridegroom it is the
solemnly joyous moment of their lives
All the playfulnesS of eager friends and
oven the ecclesiastical chivalry of the min
lister should not be allowed to rob the
parties of kiss, the remembrance of which
will remain with the happy pair all their
lives"
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as II trailing petticoats must receive seri-
GUS blow. No really smart woman in Paris
walks in anything but a short skirt, and
four or even six toilets trottoir are not
thought too many. Serges In wide her
ring-bone weave. plain French cloth and
mems cloth are choice materials for these
dresses, whose short jackets are very loose
and whose skirts are killed and entirely
untrimmed There is even a skimpiness
DELIGHTFULLY."- girlish about the whole get-up.
and to wear one of these costumes of the
best sort is to drink truly of the fountain
OF youth. With their three-quarter sleeves,
the long gloves and jaunty hats which go
with them, they take off a good dozen
years from ones age. provided the figure
has retained some of youths slimness of
course-and very necessary provision by
the way.
Hats delectable and mysterious, hats
stupid and vulgariy explanatory, express
the moods of millinery. The little cockey,
insolent shapes are gone but new REFORMS
are not always any more identifying. The
widest efforts are Jade by some modistes
for originality. with the result that many a
woman's head look as If she had suddenly
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Flexible Felts.
From Dress.

FROM Dress
AS for our hats all the stiffness has gone
out of the fets. Soft and flexible under
the hand of the milliner. the strange shapes
known as fez. gamin and plateau are bent
and raised and transformed by cunning
movements into toque or broad pleated
turban, fixed by a finely wrought crescent.
AS was predicted at the race meetings, ths,
large picture hats are In fashion. and never
have such gigantic feathers encrcled these
PREDETERMINED shapes, the brim of which
Is longer behind than in front where It
does not go beyond the forehead and is
posed on the edlfce of hair arranged higher
than ever The crowns are slightly higher:
almost all are much higher behind than in
front to correspond with the upper move
ment of the brim. The Tam o. Shanter
crowns draped with velvet are often seen
in picture hats. the crown being encircied
by drsping of ribbon. 1t is certain that
this ribbon with flowers and velvet and all
the wonders created by the manufacturers
at st. Eetienne and Lyon will be very
smart. These manufacturers have pro-
duced some wonderfully beautiful ribbons
which cannot fail to charm our miliiners,
and which in themselves form an attractive
trimming.
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CHIC FRENCH MOURNING.

form a number of these, which are often
made more graceful with filmy scarfs. worn
loosely about the shoulders. White English
crepe and net combined is thought a cor
rect evening melange for half deuil. though
young girls in the deepest mourning may
wear white always. The somber note comes
in with the hat. gloves and sash. 1t is only
with the little children that the heart rebels
for one sees the tinieSt tots sometimes fair
ly buried in crepe. Somber little chlHon
muffs are also carried by them and from
under the big black hats or elaborate poke
bonnets childish eyes look wonderingly.
Then French mourning becomes absurd
even cruel, for surely white dress and
black accessories are enough for any child
Dull beads, fabulously big, trim much OF
the grown up black millinery. They are put
around high crowns in rows. edge brims
and are often looped with side or back
trimming. Paradise and ostrich feathers,
agrettes. ospreys, peacocks and many
rameless plumes are also the privilege of
deuil. In furs, black fox and monkey skin
are to the fore, while such delicate pelts as
baby lamb, ermine and chinchilla are made
up into loose jackets bewildering with lace
and chiffon. Again, for young girl or very
juvenile widow, little evening coat may be
made Of ermine without the tails. Killed
black chiffon. falling in pillows under edges
and at the front, give the melancholy EN-
phasis.
Splendid Furs.
Apropos of all fur coats. never were they
more beautiful The models are short and
loose, with the softer skins hanging from
the shoulders in heavy pleats. Chiffon, en-
broidered velvet, plain cloth. lace and su-
perb buttons trim them-with two Of these
last, maybe. big jeweled wonders. set in
rosettes of the fur itself at the front Of
the coat.
Some of the trimming combinations sug-
gest economic means for very elegant re-
suits For example, a tiny little coat Of
black baby lamb was trimmed with black
velvet and deep gold and pale green CLOTH
Narrow raw edged biases of this rose in the
neck to form a military collar. the same
edging the three-quarter sleeves above a
braided velvet cuff Delightful indeed,
are the many cunning and really simple
means by which the great makers get
their effects. Take the splendid buttons
alone, which are being used to an enormous
extent here. The secret of their glory Is
restraint. for never more than four at the
utmost appear upon coat or bodice. Upon
one beautiful lace waist which formed part
of q pale brown cloth costume one of these
gem buttons alone was used. In strange
brown stones. which very closely resem-
bled the brown Montana sapphire, this had
a setting of filigree silver; and gathering
the bodice lace with graceful effect. it shone
at the center of the bust like vast brooch.
The bodice lace was white, but slim vine
of brown embroidery. covering it all over,
gave excuse for the jeweled button.
There is a marked prediction here for
short skirts, and so beautifully are the
costumes trottoir being made that it looks
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Wedding Gowns.
From the Tattle

from the Iattler.
Two unique gowns have been completed
for one Of the weddings next week. The
first. which is fashioned of a fine-faced
cloth in a curious shade Of faded pink,
has an exceedingly long and fully pleated
skirt, the front being left in a fiat wide
panel which is bordered on either side
with three thick satin-covered cords, the
space between each cord being filled with
close embroidering of dull peacock-blue
silk. The sleeves, which are full to the
elbow and slashed to show a soft inner
sleeve of ninon of the same tone. are
corded and embroidered to match. They
are fastened in below the elbow with a
cuff of sable and small cuff of en-
broidered muslin. the sable being held here
and there by rosettes of velvet repeating
the blue and pink tones. The snghtly
folded bodice has a neat and deep collar
in fine points Of embroidered muslin with
a tiny edging Of antique lace and finished
with a small turnover collar Of sable
fastened with rosettes. The other gown,
of delicate gray cloth, had for almost its
sole ornament very deep hem. cuffs and
panel from the low-cut neck to the ground
of beautiful cutwork in design Of roses,
the holes worked in brown silk. through
which cleaned a pale green soft satin
lining, the shoulders being draped in a
still paler gray silk muslin, the fichu effect
being emphasized by some lines of tiny
quillings in faded green and brown watered
ribbon.
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I'm wooden shoes, with bare heads, some
times kneelinG. Only the revolutionist the
man who works on Sunday and takes Mon
day for holiday just to be contrary, has no
respect. Behold, another has broken his
pipe is all he says.
English crepe is used in vast quantities
OF widows gowns of a fine lusteriess veil
ing. Sometimes the costume is all yelling.
great tucks trimming the skirt and smaller
ones the bodice, which takes frequently To a
surplice crossing at the front. A little man
tie of some sort is eXacted for the first
stage. and the smartest widows bonnets are
fiat, three-cornered atoms. trimmed at the
front with white. and pendulous with enor-
mously long wells of crepe, nuns yelling or
lusteress chiffon. After the first six weeks
this is draped at the back of the hat, which
may tie with white crepe strings Over the
face is worn a small, shaped net veil edged
with crepe.
The Lighter Stages.
For the lighter stages of black. gowns are
sometimes very magnificent. and more than
one gives beautiful hints for color Chiffon
cloth, crepe de chine and embroidered net
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Dippers and Thinkers.
IN the London Chronicle.

Fr0m
Some of the queer-looking religions
enumerated in the census of the British
empire are duplicates, or almost duplicates.
of each other. Dippers and Thinkers. for in
stance If not precisely the same, are at
least separated only by fine shades of dis
tinction that the outsider can scarcely per-
ceive. A Dipper, as might be expected, is
a kind of Baptist; there have been Dippers
ever since the seventeenth century. But by
some they are identified with the Thinkers
or Dunkers, whose name comes from the
German "tunken" or ''dunken," to dip. They
are a Baptist sect, founded in Europe just
two centuries ago, but soon compelled by
persecution to emgrate to Pennsylvania
They believe in triple immersion. are COM
monty regetarians and commend celbacy as
a virtue, though not essential to salvation.
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HAPPYIS WOMAN

strong. Quarter of a pound can in two gal
Ions OF boiling water is a good proportion.
when we'll dissolved pour slowly into the
Grains using funnel to avoid injuring the
metal mouth. Let this stand in the pipes
as long as can be. then flush thoroughly II
Is good thing for the housewife to re-
member. that small leak or crack in the
GRAIN pipe may be stopped with soft Iaun-
ury soap or putty, frequently avoiding
much Inconvenience until the plumber cores
to mend the defect O''e'
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The Kaiser's Lack of Humor.
From the Bystander.

There is no one like Kaiser Wilhelm. and
believe he is wonderful man. Only a
man with such wonderful lack of any
sense of humor could be amuAng to the
world at large as he u.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
COAL STRIKE.
Continued from Page OncD

apprehendcd. Although these mines
are operated on the open shop policy,
every operator in the district, it is
said, has signified his Willingness to
pay the advance rate.
The same conditions were reported at
the mines of the New York and Clevc-
land Gas Coal Co, where several thou
sands men are employed. All We're a;
work today and were receiving the %,
per cent advance. The scale commit
tee Of district No. ). met Chairman
Francis l.. Robbins of the Pittsburg
Coal Co. at II o'clock and presented
the 1903 scale for signature.
The conference lasted but a short
time and adjourned to meet again at :
o'clock when 1t is said the scale will be
signed. The first operator to sign the
new agreement was Lewis Findl2y.
owner of the mines at Golfers, w. Va.
who signed at the miners convention.
Orders were at once wired to GOLFERS
to resume work.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03

mail orders amount to- 100000 which is
fully $40, 900 more than the similar sale
last year. The sale of single tickets at
the local box office does not open until
next Monday. 1t is probable that the
house will be entirely sold out for most
of the popular operas. The large sale
is attributed mainly to an attractive
program, Il different opera being given
nearly every evening. The season viii
open with THE Queen OF Sheba."
The Barneson- Hibbard Company will
put on this summer a direct inc OF
steamers from san Francisco to
Alaska. For ten years all shipments
for Alaskan ports have had 70 60 to
Seattle, where they were tranS-Shippcd
to their destination. San Francisco
merchants have complained that they
did not get Il fair share Of Alaskan
trade, AMI Il new steamship line is in
tended to foster local business. The
Rarneson-Hibbard Company has Sc
cured guarantees for its first seasons
business and will put on the steamers
Indiana, Watson and Buckman First
to start will be the Indiana, on June I.
1t will touch at Nome st MichaeIs
Solomon and GOloVin. connecting at St
Micha"Ts With the Northern CONNER
cial t"Inpany's river boats on the
Yukon.
The Western Pacific Railway Com
parry will soon ask for bids for the con-
structinn of 1o9 miles of roadbcd from
the Nevada Utah boundary to Decth
on tn" Humboldt River. OF this
twenty-five miles is heavy rock and
tunnel work. The hig tunnel will be
12,Om feet long. In California eight
Thousand men are expected to be at
work this summer on the road.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
CUBA A GOOD FIELD.
President Palma Desires Stronger
Commercial Relations.

Baltimore, Md, April 1.-Prcsid"nt
Palma Of The republic of Cuba cx-
presses through correspondent AT Ha-
vana of the Manufacturers Record. a
deep interest in q strengthening Of the
commercial relations between Cuba
and the United States. He says:
"Cuba is in a very prosperous cundi-
tion as compared with a few years ago.
We are advancing steadily. But we
have only commenced our progress
will lie more marked by closer COM
morcial union with the United States.
We have in Cuba wonderful oppor-
tunitics i'll every conceivable line Of
human cndeavor. Personally. am
deeply SOliCitouS that these conditions
be made manifest to the cnterpriSing
citizens Of the United States Money
is plentiful in Cuba: we have already
paId SIS, ,0G0 600 To- the soldiers Of the
revolution. ana there is u surplus of
many millions Of dollars at this time in
the treasury. we want more railroads,
factories and Industries of all kinds in
Cuba
The correspondent noting the large
number of American tourists. nves-
tors, etc, i'll Cuba, adds: The island is
fast becoming AmericaniZcd ana with
in the next fcN generations the English
language Will be i'll as general use as in
an American city. Havana. the capi-
tai city, has many singularIy attrac-
tive features. It's WatCr-supply sys-
TEN handles the output of lvO springs
purified by natura! filtration, and its
pumping apparatus is of the most mod
from every state in the Union. with
New York in the lead. Not few
hav" come to Cuba for a mere visit
but have become permanent settlers.
Millions of dollars Of real estate i'll
Havana province alone has passed into
the hands OF Americans. and American
interests are represented III every part
Of the island. There are about 1900
miles Of railroad in Cuba. British,
spanish. American and Cuban capital
being the working factor, the first
named predominating heavily. The
Cuba Railroad, the United Railways
and the Cuban Central Railway, to-
g"ther with the electric railway Sys-
TENS, are extending their lines. and all
without exception Vie with each other
III the progress of road-bed improve
ments. rolling stock and the purchase
Of railroad necesSaricS generally
Electric lighting and power plants and
water works systems are being eager
ly sought for by Cuban municipalities.
The increase in sugar-canc production
and of sugar manufacturing. ncceS-
stating the installation &c new grind
ing ard refining plants, il notable
feature of Industrial development,
Will" fruit and vegetable growers look
upon the extension of the Florida East
Coast Railway to Key West, only
ninety miles from Havana. as the
means of increasing their business deal
inCs with interior points in the United
States. The Cuban railways are as
SiStinS this movement by rapidly open
ing Up the interior of the provinces
Fuel is scarce, and for manufacturing
and other purposes coal is imported
Timber in certain portions of the island
is still plentiful, and the clearing of
lands for farm purposes in the neigh
horhnod of such places as Puerto
Prize ''re. for instance. will mean the
exploitation OF timber now Standing
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
NO DEMONSTRATION
But 58,CC0 Illinois Miners Stayed Away
from Work.

Chicago. April Without demon
stration of any kind. bur as quietly as
Tor holiday. $50 coal miners in Illinois
closed down today. The $4,000 miners
employed in the shafts remained at
thel" homes in pursuance Of the strike
instructions issued from the Springfield
headquarters. Coal digging came to an
abrupt standstill. practically through
out the state. Operators IN Chicago an
nolnced yesterday that no precautions
nave ocen taken to provide for protcc-
| ton: The operators have faith in the
| promises Of President Perry of the local
district that order will be observed
am dig the strikers
Small forces Of men, such as eusi-
neers. fremen and pumpmen will be
Kept at work ut each mine to guaran-
tee against injury to the property from
natural causes. This will REQUIRE per-
haps from 20 to 50 men at each shaft
IL will be necessary TO keep the pumns
working continually because water coll
: lects rapidly in the underground cham
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03

tricts and as long as the men remain
away from the mines no disorder is
anticipated.
As far as learned good order prevails
Throughout the district. In the Irwin
field The mines were in operation as
usual and no trouble was apprehendea.
Although these mines are operated on
the "Oren shop" policy every president
in the district it is said has significd
rate.
The same conditions were reported at
the mines of the New York and CleVc-
land Gas Ga. where several thousand
men are employed. All We're ut work to-
day and were receiving the 81 per cent.
increase
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03
NO RESPONSE.
Whistles Sounded But Miners Didn't
Go to Work.

Philadelphia, April ?. Reports re-
ceived Monday from the anthracite coal
roads, state that the order of the min
ers' scale committee, directing that
mining be suspended until an agree
ment could be reached with the oi,cr-
ators. is being obeyed almost to the
letter.
lE three districts preparations Were
made by the operators for a resumption
of work Monday morning. Whistles
were blown at the regular hour ana
everything was in readiness for the
men to go to work, but there was no
response by the miners and the day
took on a holiday aspect. Firemen.
engineers and pumpmen who are not
affected by the order reported az usual
but 1t was apparent the scores Of cars
which had been hurried to the mines
Sunday would not be needed unless an
agreement was reached between Pres
Mitchell and the coal presidents in the
conference to be held in New York
Tuesday.
That great many miners believ,
that strike is imminent and tha
there will be bitter struggle was evi
denced by the departure Sunday ali,
Monday of scores of miners from III
Schuylkill region. A majority of thes
men are foreigners who will so to thei
homes in Europe and there await tn
outcome of the pending strike
In the Lackawanna district there
a feeling among the more conseryativ
miners that an agreement will b
reached at the New York conference.
The only collier in the Luzerne-Wy
ming district which attempted to wor
Monday as far as his been reported
was the Hazelton shaft of the Lehig
Valley Coal Co., which has been loos
ened last week was run through tn
breakers for about an hour after whic
the men returned to their homes.
At many of the colleries in this dis
trict the mules were taken from Il,
mines.
Quiet prevails through the three dis
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-03

roads that are to conduct the cduca-
tors Ia the Pacific Slope traverse
regions where there is magnificent
scenery. about which the traditions
and poetry Of the country cluster.
The jump from Ashury Park, where
last years meeting was hcil. when the
New York city teachers. out Of defer
ence to tic then president Dr. William
H. Maxwell. the city superintendent.
joined hands with the New JerS,.,-
teachers in playing host to the enor-
nous delegations that flooded the city,
Was made hy the Californians on the
strength Of the prudigality Of attrac-
tionS offered.
The California Hospitality committee
for this years convention has project
ed such surprises for the incoming
guests that every train will be held M
by hiEhwaymen who. instead of de-
privinE the travellers Of their valuablcs.
will load th,m with the most luscious
fruits ana wonderful flowers Of their
opUlcnt state.
The \. i. \. may como away with
some hazy ideas on knotty child prob
lens, but il will not he allowed To es-
cape without thorough appreciation
of the California climate as represent
cd in its products.
The rates for round trips offered tho
teachers over the Southern Pacific and
other lines have been cut to the lowest
figure by the intervention Of the san
Francisco Convention committee which
consists of Joseph =. Tobin. James X
Armsby. William Matson and W. s.
Porter.
GOV. George G. Pardce and MAYOR
Eugene f. Schmitz Of San Francisco
have personally Interested themselves
in plan Of campaign which VIII
make the event a memorable one. Dis
tinguished speakers from many states
will be special guests