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? ' LEFT BHATHINITS WAKB. A TORNADO CAUSES RUIfl IN MANY IOWA TOWNS. Nearly a Hundred Killed Outright and Two Handred Injured?A Vast Amnnnf nf P>Ann?ftT flMfrnr^d ?Several Towns Swept Out of Existence?A Path of Devastation. The worst storm cf wind, hail and rain known in years between 8 and 11 o'clock p. m. swept over a narrow strip of country BOO miles long in Iowa and everything In Its path was laid waste by the hurricane which 1a many places developed into a regular oyclone. In the path of the "twister" werti left rained towns, devastated farms and several hundred dead and injured peo. pie. Starting about ten miles Bouth of Spencer in Northwestern Iowa, the Btorm of wind at 8 o'clock began its work of destruction. Taking everything before it It swept across the State Just north of Emmetsburg and Algona. It touched only the southern part of. Lincoln Township, and thence passed eastward to Manly Junction and into the southern part of Worth County. The latest reports from the stricken district of the destruction wrought indicated that the loss of life was about seventy-five, the Injured number, perhaps, 390. Some of those hurt were expected to die, and it was considered not unlikely that fully 100 persons would be numbered in thfe list of the storm's fury. The property loss Is very heavy. The fury of the storm seems to have been spent with the destruction of Spring Valley. In this plaoe four persons were left dead, some severely hurt, while the property loss is estimated at $85,000, the residence portion of the town lying directly in the path of the At Leroy, lying' southwest, four wero killed and several fatally injured. The destruction of property amounts to ahout 875,000. This Is a heavy blow to the Tillage, for Us chief business houses lie In ruins. Fifteen miles north of Mason City, Iowa, four persons were killed outright and as mnny mora probably fatally hurt, while all the buildings struck are' total wrecks, the loss bolng In the neighborhood of 900,000. East at Lowthar, a town of about 100 persons on the Chicago and Great Western, three persons were fatally hurt and the whole country for miles around laid in ruins. The loss in that vicinity will probably he not far from $100,000. Five miles north of Osage, Iowa, six persons were killed and a large number hurt The destruction of farm property is quite heavy. West of Mason City, near Britt, two persons were killed outright, while north of that town some half dozen lost their lives. Three miles north of W?-sley, Kossuth County, J. Bingham's house was overturned and oaught fire. The inmates had a narrow ' escape. The killed in that vicinity are M. Castle and wife, J. W. Ding man, Mrs. Tweed, mother of Thomas Tweed; two children of Tjomas Tweed, M. Sohweppe and two children, Fred French and two children, Infant of Mr. and Mrs.' Eden, and Mr. and Mrs. Kockaw. North of Algona seems to have been the scene of the greatest number of deaths, BAre persons being killed in Kossuth County than 11 any other one county through which the tornado passed. Nineteen funerals were held at Algona next day. North of Emmettsburg, which seems to have been the place where the tornado first assumed dangerous proportions, two lives wore lost. From there the storm went tearing across the country, demolishing everything In its path. Foi the most part of its oourse it traveled through a farming district, Leroj* and Spring Valley, Minn., being the only two towns of any consequence that were damaged,' bat even here the deaths were comparatively few. The fact that the storm went through a part of 8pring Valley, and most of the resl, dents were not aware of its work of destruction until the fire bells were rang, shows what a narrow strip of country was swept. As the storm traveled through the oountry and avoided villages and towns, the propsrty loss Is largely confined to farm buildings, and theso being badly soatfered make even ah approximation of the losj Impossible, bat conservative estimates plaoe the damage at not less than 61,000,000.: Incidents reported from near AJgona. whence a relief expedition of surgeons ana others went out show the fury of the stjorm. The little town of Cylinder, twenty miles west of Algona, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, was literally swept from the face of the earth. About twenty-five miles north of that plaoe a family named Culden, four In number, were all killed. The town of Wiltteman, twelve miles west of Algona, was unharmed, but Bcbert Stevenson, a farmer living four miles north, was killed, and his wife fatally Injured. Eighteen persons who sought shelter In too nouse omae uunwit pmue wo uiurc ui leu hut. They were going home from the county lair at Algona. A little further on fourteen others were huddled into the Begelmair house. Here Carl Barryoke was badly hurt and bis wife was probably fatally Injured. Charles Leo and wife and Ave children were blown away. One of the ohlldren wis killed and the wife badly hurt, and all of the company who escaped death were Injured. The wife and children of Fred Pompe, In Fenton Township, were In the house which was completely wrecked, but they were oovered up by the wllng Wjdla and not one of them was hurt. Georgew. Beavers, three miles north of Algona, had just reached home from the fair. He got Into the bouse with his wife and two ohlldren and an adopted boy, and was just going down cellar when the tornado struck the house and demolished It.completely. The whole family was carried with too grains about four rods into the road. Beavers had the baby In his arms, and with It he mada his way to the house of Christaln Dan, his father-in-law, for help. His wlfs was just drinu when he returned. "OH TO PEHN." This Is Now the Rallying Cry Through* ' out the Japanese Empire. Mail advices from Japan received at the Japanese legation at Was&lngton say that the Progressionist party In Japan has issued a manifesto giving Its views with regard to the prosecution of the war. The most interesting announcements are these: "Of the various powers in the world capaable of being the most dangerous enemies to Japan Is Chlnti, after wnwh come Great Britain, Pranoe, Russia and Germany in the *. given order. ... "To settle the sontest decisively and to Insure the permanent peace of the Orient it is necessary to strike a blovp at the heart of the enemy, Pekin. "In three months more the mouth of the river on which Tien-tsin is situated will freeze, thus blocking up the passage till the next spring. Therefore, it is essential that Pekin should be attacked within the next three months. "Pekin once taken the Chinese army in Korea would surrender at discretion, and, therefore, whenever possible, lighting in Korea should be avoided." Complete harmony prevails among Japanese of all sorts and oondltions. Irrespective of partv or faction. uOn to Petin 1 is the national rallying cry. GOLD GALORE. For Seven Months tlie Increase in Production Is $20,000,000. Director of the Mint Preston is in receipt ofoffloial information from the gold-produolng countries of the world showing that the lnorease in production thns far for the year aggregates $20,TOO,000. This covers a period of only seven months, and he believes it probable that the increase for the year will ezeeed 140,000,000. Of the amount of increase to the 1st of August between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 was produced in this country. South Africa reports an increase of about $10,000,000, and the balance was produced on the African coast. The reports from several countries, including Australasia and Bussla, hare not yet been received. For the same period there has been a marked falling off In tbe production of iUtot. THE NEWS EPITOMTZTID. | Eastern and Middle Statec. Oeobox Scimocsg was hanged In the A)* leghany County (Pennsylvania) Jail. He murdered his wife and two children 4n Pitts* burg. Offices Petzb Dillon, of the ^Heghany | (Penn.) police ioroe, was Instantly*killed by catohlng a live wire. i Mare. FTOscn-ilADi, the prima donna, died at Warrenville, N. J., from cancer of . the stomach. .The commission revising the judicial system of New Jersey practically completed its labors at Trenton. Organized bands of thieves have been operating the principal streets of New York City. Admiral Erben was assaulted, but fought the thieves off. Broker William T. Meredith wa9 robbed and brutally beaten, and many others suffered losses. The police seem to be unable to check the spreading epidemic of lawlessness. Judge A. S. THtrasTojf, of Elmira, N. Y., was killed by falling down a stairway In Pittsburg. Joshua S. Hetmer. late President of the wrecked Lockport (N. Y.) Bank, was sentenced to hard labor In Auburn Statu Prison for Are years. Sooth and West. At Montgomery, Ala., Wilscn Wood ley, colored, was hanged for murder. At Fort Smith, Ark., John Poynter, a murderer, was also executed. Pzbbt Cook, a notorious thief, captured near Lincoln, Oklahoma, with several stolen horses In his possession, has been lynched by a committee of larmers. A* Lexington, Ky., Desha Breckinridge, Bon of W. C. P. Breckinridge, after a street encounter with Judge Klnkead, his defeated father's political opponent, set upon J. D. Livingston, who had worked for Owens, and stabbed him with a dirk. Ex-Vice-President Ezeta, of Salvador, and his fellow exiles were not held for extradition at San Francisco, Cal., It being decided that their offences, if any, were of a political character. St. Mast's College. Oakland. Cal., was partly dt gtroyed by Are; loss, 8200,000. Johs Fabbell, sixty-four years of acre, of f!hirtn(rn. Ill . shot and instantlv killed his only sod, James. James had nude a demand for money and, upon being relU3ed, was about to strike the old man, who then lired the fatal shot. W. C. Owens was declare! officially the Democratic nominee for Congress In the Seventh Kentucky District as against Colonel Breckinridge. While Daniel Stevenson, living near Clearfield, Iowa, was driving with his wife and three children, they were run down by a runaway team. Stevenson and two of the children were killed. Jra At.t.ek, who allied Dixon Hunter, both of the Choctaw Nation, was shot to death In 1 accordance with his sentence by Sherlfl < Jackson, of Jackson County, Indian Terri- . tory. j Washington. Sinci the inauguration of the Democratic i Administration 1,597,233 silver dollars have . been coined under the unrepealed provisions Of the Sherman act. Supebvisixo Architect O'Rocbee's reslg- j nation was accepted by the Secretary of tne | ( Treasury In a formal note. ; Suit has been begun by susrar growers in | Washington to compel Secretary Carlisle to | 1 WVUUUU^ IA/UUIJ ?UJ UCUMi , I Secbetabv Hebbebt has placed Professoz 1 Hnrfrnftas, United States Navy, la complete I j charge of the Naval Observatory. ! Chief Hazex, of the Secret Service, has ; . received Information irom the Sab-Treasury . * at New Orleans of a counterfeit twenty itoilar national bank note. It is on the Fourth ' , National Bank of the city of New York, : check letter A, L. E. Chittenden. Register} ' F. E. Spinner, Treasurer, dated March 1, < 1864. Qeobqe Axdeiison, Secretary o! the I American Legation in Brazil, has resigned. ; i He was appointed to the position a year ! , ago from the District of Columbia. The report of the Bureau of Statistics for 1 July shows that 706,023,895 pounds of sugar i were Imported free oi duty iu July last, < against *79,032,642 pounds in July, 1S93. ; Foreign. I'hz roof of a school building in Naples, I Italy, collapsed, burying twenty children. < Most of them were taken out dead. ( Additional details of the naval light at Yalu show it to have been a tremendous triumph for the Japs. The Chinese lost Ave ships. None of the conqurlng fleet was de- 1 stroved, though two vessels were slightly damaged It Is officlallv announced that Dr. Bafael Nunez, President of the Republic of Colom- ! bia, died a few days ago. Bafael Nanez was born at Carthegena on Soptember 23, 1825. The Empress of Japan has called on the ladles of her court to assist her In preparing hospital supplies for the wounded of botn China and Japan In Korea. The recent army manoeuvres In Europe show that military ballooning has mode 3uch i progress that new cannon and new rifles 1 Will hare to be invented In order to resist the new engines of war. A destbttcttve storm raged in the Akita and Iwate prefectures In Japan and was followed by great floods. Over three hundred persons were drowned and more than 15.030 nouses were destroyed. Fbaxce Is preparing to begin active operations against Madagascar tor the purpose of maintaining French authority over the Island. The Dutch have nearly destroyed the capital of the island of Lombok, and the besieged Balinese are sufferine from /amine. . EMPBESS OF CHINA. The Great Celebration In Her Honor Postponed on Account of the War. 8torles have been printed recently of the enormous amount of money spent on the birthday celebration of the Dowager Empress of China, and this lavish expenditure was harshly criticised as revealing the selflsh character of the Empress It appears, however, that injustice has been done her. as she has ordered the money to be devoted to prosecuting the war with Japan. Dr. T. F. Scott, a missionary, who has just returned from Tlen-tsin, said: "In consequence of the war the Dowager Empress will not celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of her birthday this year. The ceremony has been looked forward to for several years, and 20,000,000 taels have been raised for the purpose, that the event might be observed with all splendor. "Now the entire celebration has been abandoned at the request ot the Dowager Empress herself. Sne has requested that the 20,000,000 taels raised for the purpose be utilized la prosecuting tho war with Japan." ____ DIED LISE A BRAVE. How Jim AlleD, the Choctaw Murderer, 3Iet His Fate. Jim Allen, a Choctaw Indian, twenty-four | years old, was shot to death at the Pushmataha Court grounds In Jackson, Indian Territory. Allen walked with a steady step from the jail to the court house,a distance of flftv yards, unhaudcuffed. He knelt by his coffin and prayed. He pulled off his coat and hat, rolled open the bosom of hh shirt, and painted a small heart about the size of a quarter of a dollar over his own heart, and took his seat on a lemon box. He sat in that position just thirty-five minutes, when Deputy sheriff Jackson killed him. Allec. killed Dixon Hewter, a Choctaw, who was a witness against Allen on a charge of theft, in May, 1339. 411en beheaded his victim with an axe. CHOLERA PATIENTS BUBNED. Houses Destroyed in a City Where the Disease is Raging. Sixty houses in the oity of Blaszkl, in the Dlstriot of Kalish, Russian Poland, where the aholera is making fearful ravages, were set on fire and completely destroyed. Several of the Inmates, who were suffering from the disease and who were too weak to try to i aave themselves were burned to death. / '. - > / ' AJJ INTBEPID MARINES. A Small Schooner, Wifh a Single Sailor Aboard, Crosses the Atlantic. The little sohooner Nina arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, recently, from New York. . ' Captain Frletsch, the only man aboard, reports that four days out from New York the Nina sprang a leak and he had to bull J, and rig a new pump. In doing so he hurt his right leg. Off the banks of Newfoundland the Nina encountered a gale and was hove to thirtyeight hours. The rudder was sprung and the Captain lowered himself over the stern CAPTAIN FBIKTSCH AKE to repatr It. Bat be was unable to fix it so J it could be usud, and he was obliged to steer for 2000 miles with rope Rearing. The adventurous mariner lost his reckoning some time afterwards and drifted for days without knowing his whereabouts. Finally, he spoke the steamer Menantlo and " ' * " ?T,__ %T# Ik.n got Ma position, rne .iuu mou uoau Btraight for Queenatown. The Nina, a schooner-rigged sharpie, forty feet long, nine feet beam, drawing two feet LATE3 NEWS, The Connecticut Democratic State Contention nominated Ernest Cady for Governor, his principal rival, Morris B. Boards- ( ley being given the second piaoe on the Joket ? j Tex Falcon, having on board part of tho members of the Peary Arctic expedition, ar- j ( rived In Philadelphia. The battle ship Maine showed the unexpected speed of 17.55 knots on her Informal | rial trip, off New York, proving ner tho 'astest ship of hor class afloat. The vessel vas still in an unfinished state. The Republican Executive Committee of forth Carolina issued an address declaring usion with the Populists and urging every >ffort for the election of non-partisan Fudges this fall. Ex-Pbesidejit Habbisoh and Governor tfcKlnley opened the Republican campaign I n Indiana at a mass meeting in Indianapolis. Orders for enough flour to supply the 1 * ? V, ? ?^ kflnn imnf Ia Vlfa ! iiaxitei lur a yvac uuvo i/oou ooui ?v J sountryfrom Brazil, according to advices j received In Washington, the Btock to be 1 Jhipped la time to take advantage of the re- ! dproclty treaty, which will be abrogated January 1. ANTi-Tonnos feeling in Pekin, China, 1s growing steadily, and foreigners are frequently insulted by soldiers in the public streets. Majob Lectweix, in command of the German expedition in Sooth Africa, sent against the rebellions Damaraland Chief Witbool, stormed the lattor's camp. Witbool escaped, but afterward sent messengers with offers of peace to the Gorman commander. Lieutenant Diestel and eipht German troopers were killed. Abctic Exploeee Wellmah arrived at New York on the steamship Spree. The New York Democratic State Convention at Saratoga nominated David B. Hill i for Governor, Daniel N. Lockwood for Lieutenant-Governor, and William J. Gaynor for Judge of the Court of Appeals. The great West India storm reached the Florida and Georgia coasts and did great damage to orange, cotton and rice crops. The President appointed General William Ward Doffleld, of Detroit, Superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic 8urvey, to succeed Professor T. C. Mendenhal), resigned. The place is worth $6000 per annum. The Sugar Bounty Division of the Internal ? ~ > 1 .TI/< ivevenue cureau una u?u aimuusu, ?tu, with Its present force, will be known hereafter as the Income Tax Division. Secretabt Hebbeet approved the design adopted by the Board of Construction for the three torpedo boats authorized by the present Congress. These boats will resemble closely the Ericsson with slightly increased size and power. Gexebae Eouzquiza has been elected President of Paraguay. a dispatch from Shanghai, China, says that Li Hung Chang Is to be superseded as Viceroy of Chl-Ll by Wu-Ta-Cheng. EMBRYO GENEEALS. The Number of Enrolled Cadets at West Point. A report received at the United 8tates War Department from the Superintendent of the KnnAamv *f WpRt Point. N. Y.. mimaA j ftwuuv?; , ___ . ^ shows that 820 cadets ware enrolled at the beginning ot the academic year. The first, or graduating class, hasftrty-three members; the second, seventy-four members; the third, thirty-seven, and the fourth. 106 members. The leaders in the first three I classes are Schulz, of West Virginia; Burgess, of Mississippi, and Gurney, of Michigan in the first; E. R. Stuart, of West Virginia; Hoffman, of Pennsylvania, and Calian, of Tennessee, in the second, and W. D. Connor, of Iowa: Cheney, of Connecticut, and Oakes. of New York, in the third. The standing of members ot the fourth class has not been determined. Two cadets, both In the third class, are receiving instruction under Joint resolutions of Congress. They are from Salvador and Venezuela. ESCAPED FEOM SIBERIA, i ! Two Thousand Prisoners Overpower ! Guards and Make for Korea. By the steamer Rio Janeiro, from the Orient, news was received of the escape of two thousand prisoners from Siberia. The men were employed in the construction of the Siberian Railway, and had, as late developments proved, been planning to escape for several months. Meagre advices received at Yoko- i hama concerning the break for liberty state that the men overpowered the Russian soldiers who were guarding them, and, securing all the arms they conld, fled. When last heard of they were making their way I toward Korea, and it is believed that they are now safely within the borders of that country to secure passage t* more distant Darts. 1 aft, was brought to New York last Jam from Milwaukee, where Captain Adolph Frietsoh built her. She sailed from New York August 5th. at 4 p. m., and made the voyage across the Atlaatio In thirty-eight days, only eleven days behind the time of Lord Dunraven*8 yacht Valkyrie, when she returned from America. Leaving Milwaukee without a cent, Cap* tain Frletsch brought his boat by the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal and the Hudson River to New York. Here he put the craft on exhibition, raising money enought to fit her oat with new sails, new rigging, charts, nautical instruments and supplies. In shipping clroles considerable doubt was expressed as to ihe Nina's ability to > THE 8CHOONEB XIXA. cross the ocean In safety. In fact It Is said she leaked when she started. The Nina was spoken August 26th by the steamship Menantic, which hove to on a signal from the schooner. Captain Frietsoh sailed close alongside ana *o prove tuai u? was quite alone asked that ?n officer be sent on board. The third officer of the Menantic boarded the Nina, finding e\ erythlng snug and comfortable. Captain Frietsch said he was in the best of health and spirits and glad to hear a human voice once more. THE LABORWOBLD. The Scotoh miners* strike Is over. Moxtbeax* Canada, Is to have a oo-ope* alive bakery. The woolen factories of this country employ 220,000 persons. The engines of the world can do the work of 1,000,000,000 men. It takes 150,000 men and boys and girls to carry on the oyster business for New York. The Britteh Trades Union Congress wiled on Parliament to sbut out "destitute aliiSBB." VTestebw New Yobk farmers state that Poles "beat the world" as workers In the Held. The average weekly wages paid lo female laborers of all classes In Germany la *2.17. HocBEatAros In England receive an average of seventy-five cents a week and "found." The letter carriers among the Knights of Labor are agitating for the formation of a Letter Carriers' National Trade Assembly. PnorEssoB Swnro. of Chicago, speaking of labor unions, sala laborers must organize as just men, not as bAndlts, In order to win. The Union Pacific Railroad has notified Its employes that they must not take any part in politics, nor discuss the subject under pain of dismissal. Twelve httndiied miners employed by the Spring Valley (111.) Coal Company quit work In sympathy with the trap boys, who want in advance of five cents a day. The growth of the Knights of Lwoor &51 over the United 8tates Is estimated to be not less than 4000 during the last year. Six hundred locals have been added since last September. Sxvxbal of the Western roads have adopted the system of paying premiums for the laving of coal on locomotives. On some occasions as high as 86 a week has been thus paid to engine orews. The English laboring men are suffering from the same oau3e that has made trouble for the American workers. Immigration from the cheap labor oountrles has crowded out English workmen to a degree that has attracted widespread attention. Laws for the settlement of disputes between employers and their workmen by arbitration and conciliation have been enaoted Ai-lil??!?. /1aU?ai?a Tawa Tvnr&cmq. IU uailiutuict^ VJUIUI uuuj AV n ! } Maryland. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Tee Biennial Convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen convened at Harrisbnrg, Penn. The report of Grand Secretary Arnold shows a balance of $77,000 In the Treasury. Grand Master Sargent and Vice-Grand Master Hanrahan were reelected. Heavy villlans, leading gentlemen, Irish, "Dutch," and "Yankee" comedians, songand-dance men, musloal artists, and other actors to the number of nearly 600 have Joined the ranks of federated labor by taking out a charter under the American Federation of Labor, of whloh Samuel Gompers Is President, as the "Actors' Protective Ualoa No. 1, of the City of New York." ' MURDERED THE TEACHER, Cruel Work of Revengeful Indians In California. Mimrdinff the murder of Mrs. Uiivimahivu *?o? a Mary J. Piatt, teacher in the Indian school on the Piohango reservation, near Temeaula, Riverside County, CaL, has just been received. The murdered woman lfvel with her nleoe, Hattle Leslie, a?ed ten, in a wing of the Bohool building. The Indians were apparently on the most friendly terms with her, and she taught every little Indian child on the reservation. An Indian boy returned to Plchango from Perrls, where the school is located, and reported that the children there were being abused and half starved. Metteo Pa. the chief of the band, called on Mrs. Piatt on the day of the murder and demanded money to pay his fare by railroad to Perris and return for the purpose of investigating the boy's story. This Mrs. Piatt refused, believing the report to be groundless, but telling Metteo Pa that she would Investigate it herself. Metteo Pa went away verv angry, threatenlngamong other things to have the school closed. ' " 1.. ???nnAli This and the omei a sun; Lurvuuwfc . Mrs. Piatt some uneasiness, and she wrote to Indian Agent Francisco Estudillo, at Colton, telling him of the threat and saying she was alarmed. She requested that If he did not hear from her again within three or four days, he should go down and settle matters. This letter and a telegram from Temecula announcing the burning of the Government building at Pichango and the finding of Mrs. Piatt's body, arrived at Colton an hour apart. Tl,? hnd been stunned or killed and placed on the floor, and oak wood had been I piled around tier and fired and the body cremated. In the next room the little girl alept peace- I fully, to be awakened by the flames burning her hand. She ran through the room where her aunt lay roasting under the I burning wood, and in her night olothes reached the house of a friendly Indian. | Only a few charred bones and ashee of the victim were found. The Piohango reservation contains the remnants of the tribe of Temecula Indians. Immortalised by Helen Jackson in "Ba nona." Dubiso the present season of professional cycling In Frahce and England the Americans have secured the largest share of the purses, Zimmerman and Banker or Zlmmerrman and wheeler taking in almost every instance first and second and occasionally first, second ani third. ' ' ' I-;:';' . .-.V'. ' V. -I -i WOMAN'S WORLDT PLEASANT LITERATURE FOB FEHDiIXE READERS. TV Hl'I'U TTATPSpeaking of white hair, a correspondent says there is nothing 00 becoming to some women. Tib ere are society vomen in Washington Whose beautiful white hair is a crown of distinction tiaras of diamonds could not bring. Bat if those women had ever made the attempt to disguise the fact tnat tne goiaen nair waa turning gray, it would show ia-the snowy iodks now. It is a Btfrgular fact that when hair dyes have once been used, they leave a yellow tinge on whitening locks that never can be effaced.?New York Advertiser. A. LTEEBAET BEOOAB W01IA2T. The death of "The Blind Woman of Manzanares* has attracted wide attention in Spain, where she was kacwn from one end of the country to the other. She was a poet and had remarkable talent for writing begging verses, describing her misery. Many of the poems are beautiful, and the author enjoyed a large income. She was said to be one of the best reciters in Spain, and many of the most famous men in that country made pilgrimages to her house to hear her. Queen Isabella gave her a pension years ago. She left about S60,000.? Chicago Becord. USES FOB OLD GLOVES. If you have any old gloves with long wrists, just think before pitching tbem into the waste basket and cut off the tops and save them for fanoy work. The kid can be easily cleaned and is ftftrifthlA of beincr made into a number of pretty articles. Several pieces of tan-colored kid stitched together along the edges will make a neat to* baooo pouoh. Bon a drawing string of gilt cord throngh the top, and paint or embroider an initial or device on the side. Yon have no idea how pretty a tfeing it is when finished. An opera glass bag is another thing which can be made from two square pieces of undressed kid. Sqleot a heliotrope or lavender shade and paint pansiee or violets thereon. The ribbon drawing string should be the same color as the flowers. Kid covers for small books, kid hair receivers and fan bags, kid picture frames, card oases, pin trays and a host of other dainty articles can be made from the despised glove tops. This is surely the day of small things. THE BOTTON'S DAY. Buttons have oome to the fore, and they are here to stay., With the exception, naturally, of boas, mufife, etc., far will not be in great demand. It is to be a button season. For both useful and ornamental purposes the button will be largely employed. ^J ?i.i? JCIOUUU ttllU tjquuie designs are already seen on coats and tailor suits. They are very large, and are elaborately ornamented with metal. One of the newest in all-metal buttons is the moire design, very rioh and beautiful. Handsome covered buttons, of finely woven, beautif&Hy designed silk braids, will be used on heavy winter wraps; while for those fortunate mortals to whom bank notes are as plenty as leaves in antumn there are the exquisite and expensive bronze and miniature styles. Silk and woolen braids, of which many lovely patterns are to ,be had, will naturally be seen during the button era. These come in various widths, some of the silk braids being embroidered, too, with jet, steel or gold beads.?New York World. RfrvrTNTNE NICKNAMES. The observant woman takes careful note of the ohanges that are constant* ly going on about her in dress, man* ners and oastoms generally. One of the most felioitous ohanges now taking place is the passing away of the nioknamo and the sensible return to the good old-fashioned cognomens of half a oentury ago. She who was baptized Elizabeth practically ignored that sterling name for years, and was oalled Bessie, Lizzie, Libbie or some other weak and undignified "pet name," but nowadays she signs herself "Elizabeth Stuart Brown" and takes pride in her pretty Biblical name. So, too, that charming girl who was wont to be called Jennie now oomes boldly forward and asserts herself as Jane; and the Oarrie or Nina of a few years sinoe very properly writes herself Caroline. " J J VI ~ J J fciV&n TQ6 QBiir uuu uicaocu nuxu motner Was for a time 'counted unfashionable, but the mother of to-day first of all gives her ohildren good, honest names, and then teaohes them to address her as "mother." It is indeed a oause for congratulation that the little ones are being called Ruth, Esther, Rebecca and other names that have a meaning and a history, for at the present rate of advancement it will not be long before the use of nicknames will be wholly a thing of the past. There are really very few of them that are improvements on the original?New York Advertiser. SOCIETY KEEDS KUBSES. A novel feature of the nineteenth century health resort is the trained nurse, who has beoome an established institution of every fashionable rendezvous. The custom began in hotels patronized by invalids and has exi tended to almost every seaside and mountain retreat in the country. It is weil known that every physician of note prefers to intrust important cases I to the care of special nurses. When I theafl noses oofitir at a summer resort. or as is often the oaae, the patient is ordered by the attending physician to one or the other place for a change of air, a nurse is many times a necessity, and consequently their number increases with the proportion of summer traveL One nurse who is a favorite in Washington is always taken to Nantuoket through the reoommendation of a leading physiqian, by whom she is regularly engaged. The same way with the other resorts. Every city has Its favorites among profes* sional nurses, and in this way the profession often finds summer work . by no means as wearing as one would be led to suppose. These nurses have stated hours and times tor everything, and are ttirb en; * :v? V. V L ' ^. ,, r - ; ; abled to obtain considerable rest af well as enjoyment, even the very busi est of them. One can therefore readily understand vpy the profession U yearly growing in favor among young . ladies of culture and refinement^ whose means are not sufficient to eat able them to ignore work. The ad? vantage is two-fold, as every one wfco has enjoyed the attention of a well' trained nurse in contrast to the igi norant services of the Betsy Prigg and Sairy Gamp order can testify.?Washington Post. FASHION NOTES. China taffetas are popular fot evening wear. Line fine dress skirts with silk; they will hang much better. There are already purple tints dlfr played that promise to be popular. The three fare most in demand will be mink, sealskin and Persian lamb. , One pretty combination for a gown I is of putty oolored cloth and blue gray silk. A brownish pink called clover color, flax-flower blue, drill greens and cyclamen are among the most fashionable colors. A band of ribbon in irregular folds across the front and finished at the arms with rosettes is especially be- j coming. With fancy waists, collars, vests, j waistcoats, blouses and neck dressing, | one may almost transform an ordinary wardrobe. The bolero jacket still continues the fashion, and checks and stripes, both ?? ?J 1 i?Aman^^vno1v EJUltkU ttUU (UO fashionable. White woolen "sweaters," they say, with soft, blaok silk sashes, will be the thing to wear for bicycle riding on cool mornings. The forget-me-not is the favorite ornamentation on the new belt buckles. Daisies and roses can also be fonnd in their natural colors. Two straps crossing the front and ending under a ribbon belt at the under arm seam, and in rosettes at the shoulders is effective. Feather boaa are soft and pretty, but have your boa made of gauze. It is an elegant novelty and is both an ornament and a protection. A new shape in hats is the "Marjorie." It turns down slightly in the baok and to a point in front. It is becoming as well as comfortable. Bows are set on the shoulders quite irrespective of other trimmings, and a large bow on the front of a waist sometimes extends from arm to arm. A tomato-red silk waist is a pretty addition to make to one's wardrobe at this season. Diagonal bands of black guipure insertion make an effective trimming. The newest waistcoats for wearing with open ooats are made of brown ' Holland thiokly embroidered down the front with fawn-color and white flax threads. Ribbon laid on a skirt in two bands about five inches apart, and drawn together at intervals of eight inohes and j sewn down with rosettes of ribbon, is. a very pretty trimming. If your blaok silk is to be the pre-; scribed skirt, crush belt and c^at basque, you will need eighteen yards. | This reminds us of the time when that ; was the invariable pattern. A belt requiring less ribbon is started { at the left of the front, extends around j the waist, and after crossing the end I is drawn up and finished with a bow or { rosette over th6 right side of the bust. I The yoke effeot is made by bows of ribbon softly folded, reaching from the neck and shoulder seams to the bust and finished with rosettes. Front and baok are to be trimmed in the same manner. Plumage decorated with jet is fash? ionable in quills and wings where the outlines are marked with a jet frosting or the celluloid spangles covar the center, one-half of the entire face of the ornament. A verv effective way of using ribbon is that of bows on the shoulder, consisting of two loops rather long, and two ends that are oaught up under the puff of the sleeve, one in the back and one in the front Velvet is being made up as a trimming in suoh quantities as to warrant the belief that it is an advanced fall style. And there is nothing prettier or more beoommg in the whole category of trimmings. Tha rage for tulle for cravats and jabots is extensive, and the oolors are most brilliant, for instanco, yellowish green, bright red and orange yellow. If the gown is of a neutral color and the hat is trimmed to harmonize, the effect is good. Black ribbon, satin and moire, is used a great deal on all gowns. Even very light oolored orepons, ginghams and peroales have belts, bows and ends of blaok ribbon, The contrast it, while striking from its novelty, very effeotive, particularly on wash gowns. The hats grow more fanciful as the season advances. This is all right for the youngsters, but for their elders it renders it difficult to make a becoming choice. There are very few innovations in the styles at present, and they are all very simple and pretty. The latest French fashion for dressing the hair is to wear it straight back from the face a l'ingenue, with the knot very high on the top of the head. This gives a guileless, innocent look which is very "fetching," if the wearer has a pretty brow, and is young and fresh enough to stand it. Velvets, say returned importers, are sure to be a tremendous success for the autumn and winter' seasons for rnsfcumes. wraps, fancy jaokets, three quarter "dress" ooats, redingotes, combinations, millinery, etc. Plain, changeable, shaded and a host of "fancies" will all have their day in beautifying ohildren, maidens and matrons. A most dainty bodice ia made of soft lettuoe-green peau de soie, and transparent gauze. The plain olosely fitting bodice has a full high pleating of gauze, falling like a bertha over the full puffed elbow sleeves finished with a ruffle of the gauze. Folded rpointed revers of the lefctuoe green are fashioned with rosettee at the waist. Tie era rat is of the gauze and if tied with two foil bows. . I HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. I AS APPETITE FOB DEi"JTEB. 9 'Take a different soc,p everyday," I says a maitre d*hotel up near Central Park. "That will excite the appetite H for dinner."?New York W orlcr. Kg PILLOWS AKD PILLOW SHAHS. H Pillows are made in three sizes: H Twenty by twenty-seven, twenty-seven H by twenty-eight and twenty by thirty H Inches. Pillow slips should,be^ an eight H of ft yard longer than the pillow aiter h thay are hemmed, and wicl> enough to H slip easily over it; they mny be either n plainly hemmed or hemstitched. Pil- H low shams should be larger than the pillows that they are to be nsed for; 9 the average sized sfcam is thirty by B thirty inches. If the round bolster is 9 preferred to the shams it may be O stuffed with feathers or may consist H simply of a pastbcard frame over EB which ticking is dravn; it may then & be covered with any special material. Hi Pillow shams and bedspreads are often made of linen and simply or RB elaborately embroidered.?Ladies* H Home Journal. jH CASE OF COOKISG UTENSILS. 9 There is not the least excuse for M prrimy, discolored cooking dishes. |H With even an ordinary amount of care H the tins in one's kitchen may be as bright and shining as the silver displayed on the buffet. Cake tins, patty |B tins and frying pans don't require so much washing as the average cook supposes. If she only turns her labor H| in another direction much better re-salts may be accomplished. The trou- fljj ble is in washing such utftnsils they are rarely ever thoroughly dried and in a little while they grow dull or rusty. After the cake has been removed from a tin and the dish is yet warm, a piece ot clean orowu will do the work of soap and water. IS Frying pans may be thoroughly cleansed by Betting them over the fire with a email bit of fat and letting the H fat melt and almost burn into them, then vigorously rubbing tkern with bits of clean paper nntil they are dry and Bhining. Of course these methods cannot always be employed in BBj place of washing, but they are decid- ^9 edly better aids in keepihg tins new HI and bright.?New York Advertiser.) BR TO HEXD PoaCTTTiATV. To clean porcelains, the best plan is |H| to use soft soap, with an old tooth IB brush Should they be very dirty, a little vitrol and water may be used, KB but not on those decorated over the glaze. The edges of a piece that has been broken and badly mended require the greatest care in cleaning, for, if not thoroughly cleaned, they HO cannot be made to properly adhere to one another. In this sort of work it Hfl is well to prooeed in order with a first HH washing in soap and water,then one in vitrol and water, lastly a washing in^R alcohol. Whatever dirt, glue, grease,^BB etc., may still remain must be removed hv careful scratching with a penknife. ? . To repair a piece of pottery or por-^H celain, after it lias been well cleaned, is often a delicate task. When all tho^H fragments have been saved, and whenKB the piece is of small size, it is possible^? to succeed by simply sticking them^H together with a little silicatd of pot-^^J ash alone, or mixed with powdered^M| plaster of Paris. The silicate can beHtt had at any druggist's. Bat some?HH times a piece is missing and its place^^B has to be filled with plaster of Paris.HM Again, the silicate takes twelve hoor^^P to uet hard, and, meanwhile, it is of-^^l ten necessary that the piece be eup-^H| ported in order that it may not be-^^H come detaohed. It is sometimes, ii^^H the case of a very valuable specimen,^^B better to replace a fragmant that haS^H ! been lost, or has been broken in pieca^HR too small to be reset, with au urtistiJ^Hj mounting in metaL?Tha Art Ama^H tear. RECIPES. Padding Sauce?One cap of saace^^P : one-half cap of batter, yolks of thre^^H 1 eggs, one teaspoonful cornstarch o^HRj arrow-root; stir the whole until ver^^H light; add sufficient boiling water make the consistency of thick creamflBn I Whipped Cream Sauce?Whip a pio^^Hj of thick, eweet creain, add the beatei^^H ! whites of two eggs, sweeten to taste^RH place pudding in centre of dish, an^H| surround with the sauce, or pile up i^H|| centre and surround with moulde^|H blancmange or stewed whole fruits. HH Bean Salad?Young beans make oflHE excellent salad. String them and ci^^H in inch lengths and boil in salt an^aH water us til tender, drain well, and a quart of beans add a chopped onioi^HH I take three tablespoonsfuls of vinega^^^J : two of melted butter, salt and pepp^HS to taste. Beat the vinegar and butt^^^J together, add the seasoning and poi^MH over the beans and nions; mix and set away for an hour or two befo^^^l using. How to Prepare Spinach?Take^^H peck of spinach, cut off the roots | remove the yellow leaves. Wash un^^^f ; free from every panicle of sand afljjflj ! then put the spinach into a lar^^^f stewpan. Add a cupful of boilii^^^l water and a teaspoonful of salt. Cov^^^J the pan and boil rapidly for twen^^^l ! minutes. Brain well and mince. j more salt and two tablespoonfuls ; butter. Serve hot, garnished wfl^H ! rounds of hard.boiled eggs. J Turkey Salad?Take equal parts HflE 1 the 'white meat of the turkey a^^^H | blanched celery, chop togother un^^^J | fine. Boil three eggs hard, remo^HH 1 the yolks aud add the whites cut Sot " bits to the salad. Mash the yolksHHH the eggs to a dour, add sweet cie^^^H ! gradually until you have a cap of 1 cream; flavor this with onion jui^HH salt and pepper. Now add two tab^R^H spoonfuls of oil and six of vine^^^H and pour over the salad. Place^^^H ice half an hour before it goes to tal^^HB Stuffed Potatoes?Six good-si^BHH potatoes, one gill of hot miik, t^^^H eggs, one tablespoonful butter, ^HHBj teaspoonfnl salt, a dish of pepf^^^H Bake potatoes till done, cut in hal^H^H and, with a spoon, scrape out the tato into a hot bowL Leave sufhci^^^H potato in the skins to keep theo^BHH shape. Mash the potato fine, add K^B butter, hot milk, salt and pep]^^^H Beat until very light then stir in oflNH^ tally toe Daaien wo Fill the skins with the mixture, hs^H^H ing it up. Brash over with yolbHHHB the egge and put in ov?n till golHBH brown. HHH