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! Car fonder patonts liavo of late been issued from the Washington Patent Office at the rate of seven a week. The General Assembly of tho North ern Presbyterian Church has resolved that it hos and will have control of the theological seminaries, whether the trustees consent or not. ?.The craze over roller skates somo years ago is nowhere near so sweeping and widespread in its effects ns the present craze over tho bicycle,"main tains the Chicago Record. Our Chief Naval Constructor, Iltoh born, says that twelve-inch guns are the largest necessary to get the bet results. His conclusions ?re based on the experiments of foreign Pow.-rs, anil the outcome of the Japanese war. . General Booth, of thc Salvation Army, is planning to send euch au in dustrial colony to Canada as will as tonish tho world. His scheme com prehends the transportation of 10,000 persons, and he is sanguine that these peoplo will stay and prosper there. With a population about half that of this country, Franco is getting along toward the billion dollar mar!; in annual expenses. The interest on tho National debt is $370,000,000, and tho cost of the array and navy ?18 ),? 000,000. The revenues this year are I estimated at .36G3,000,000, and u defi cit of about SI0,000,OOO is probable. It is not generally known, declares the Now York Sun, that "the territory proposed to bo annexed to this city slightly exeeods in area the present annexed district. The new area meas ures 13,000 acres, which is nearly equal to the area of Manhattan Islaud. Tho entire area of tho city is now about 41* square inilc?>. With thc new annexation it will bo a little short of sixty-four square miles. New York even then will bo ono of the smallest in area of tho large American cities." Tho English ruliu3 classes ure show ing a high degree of intelligence in tho manner of their recruiting system, admits tho Atlanta Constitution. They havo got rid of thc fundamental idea of an aristocracy of birth. They no longer insist that ia order to be en titled to rule others tho aristocrat must bo able to trace his pedigree back to Odin and Thor. They arc carefully constructing a now aristoc racy on tho fundamental principle that tho strong are entitled to rule thc weak. Whenever in tho England of to-day a strong man appears thc rul ing class at once attempts to concil iate him. He may be a successful browor, or a great aud powerful pawn broker or an artist or a poet or nu ac tor or a soldier. It makes no differ ence what he is or where ho comes from. If he shows ttrengtb, if he demonstrates his abilty to thrust his way to tho front in the struggle for existence, if ho has shown tho power to push the weak aside or even if he is merely excellent without being ag gressive, he is watched in the hope that his strength can be added to that of the governing class. If there was ever au historical event of peace that deserved commemoration by painting or statuury it was the lay ing of the Atlantic cable, maintains tho New York Independent. In our own history tho Declaration of Inde pendence or the signing of the Eman cipation Proclamation may bc greater, but they wero evora ts of war as well os of peace. It is highly proper that thc Chamber of Commc-rce of New York City should havo houored thc memory of Cyrus W. Field and tho distinguished men who were associated with him-Peter Cooper, Moses Tay lor, Marshall O. Roberts, Wilson G. Hunt, Samuel F. B. Morse, Chandler White and David Dudley Field, by the unveiling of a noble painting of tho projectors of tho Atlaatio cable, by the venerable artist, Dauiel Hunt ington. Mr. Field is represented as standing by a tablo in the presenco of his scated associates, and oxplaining to them his project on a map. Mr. Do pe v delivered the address in honor oE Mr. Field. Two brothers of Cyrus W. Field aro now living, ono Justico Field, of tho United States Supreme Court, tho other, Dr. Henry M. Field, of tho Evangelist. Justice Brewer, of tho Supremo Court, is his nephew. 311 rra!ions of a Cat. A well-known resident of tho city is tho owuer of a cat that has proved its right to bo classjd as a reasonable being as clearly as a cat can. The gontloman removed to his present residence from Coronado last May, and took thc cat with him. Thc ani mal was not satisfied with tho ne v quarters and disappeared. Nothing was heard of it for somo months, whe n it was learned that tho cat bad so-.no how made its woy to tho ol I homo at Coronado. The new ten tuts treated tho cat iu a way that oau?ed it great anguish, kicking it out of tko houij and allowing it to starve. Tho treatment had th;* effoct ufter a timo of scuding tho cat away in dis gust. It then came straight back to tho new home, whero it know it would be well treated. It appeared there thin as a shadow, and has not mile any more efforts to get away. As the bay is more than a half a milo wide and as the cat could uot easby have taken the ferry, it is apparent that it made its way around the head of tho bay, a distance of fully fifteen miles, in order to reaek its friends.-^San Piogo (Cab) Uaiou, ? ? _ '_ _* Afr' _ , _-? - - ==TV^^T=TmAJK~l)?^ = ?DGEF?ElJ), S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 2?. 1895. _ VOL. LX. NO. 26^ _(_ ,---"*- 1 ~~^* A FAMOUS PRISON. I?EXTOXVILLE HAS SIIHLTKUBD MAXY NOTORIOUS CROOKS? Daily Routine nn<l Labor of tho Convicts-Al ways Employ ed| Even If They Uut Turn a Crank. \ j 7 HERE is a vast and compli I outed system of prisons in _j[ England, where persons (, iimenablo to the law?aro con liuod. English law, says tho New York Journal, is peculiar iu that it reaches a result quicker thau out in tho United States. A man in tko clutches of the English law gets his Fcntenco und begins his timo of pun ishment quicker than in America. Uut at th-j samo time tbero may bo taken into consideration tho old saw that quick haste makes less speed. English law gives penalties for some thing liko fivo subdivisions of crime. Capital offenses aro punished by haug iug inside of prisou walls. Next in liuo comes thc crimes for which penil servitude from five to life-long years is tho penalty. Then comes tho numberless offenses, for which tho punishment is imprisonment, with or without hard labor. This latter im prisonment is usually applied for all olfenscs which" aro punishable with imprisonment when the scntenco is not punishable with penal servitude. {Sentences of this kind arc usually given from ono month to ten years. Money tines for misdemeanors, which ?ire served out in jails, make another subdivision. When comes the ques tion of thc confinement of prisoners i rom ono to fivo years in Houses of Correction. England and Wales together have fifty-seven prisons, while Scotland brings up the rear with fourteen, making a grand total of seventy-oue institutions. In additiou, Ibero aro tho local prisons, or penal institutions, in the city of Loudon, which will ewell this list still higher. Early in English history every class of criminal waa huddled together much tho same way as in vogue in tho average Kt ito Prison in America. But in 1823 the English took a step which America might well follow. They de cided to separate prisoucrs into classes. It gives a sort of criminal quarantine, and stops the spread of vicious infection which is bound to come when tho morally dead associate with thc beginner in crime. Of all tho prisons, tho most famous from thc fact that it has sheltered moro than thc usual number of fa mous crooks within its walls, is Pen tonvillo Prison, or, as it is better known, tho "Model" prison of all England. Within it ia now confined Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright and felon, and it is now, for that reason alone, a curiosity in the criminal world. It is, further, a fair sample of the average Euglish prison. Pentonville Prison is a series of buildings walled all around with in sano asylum-like windows. Entrance is gained through a portcullis gate way, with a square porch flanked with by a square e'eck tower. Itjrequiros a Government order to inspect tho pris on, but anyone interested in tho con finement of convicts has no troub?o in gaining the necessary permit at tho Homo Office of tho English Prison Department at Whitehall, S. W. Possibly tho first thing that strikes the vrdnd of thc visitor is the exquis ite cleanliness of the prison. In tho dainty privato homo ot a New York woman of fashion no moro attention is paid to cleanliness than in Pen ton villo. All the floors in tho iustitution aro of cut stono highly polished, and all of tho walks are of carefully kept street asphalt. Uuliko American prisons, thero is no traco of that "prisou smell" which is tho first thought that strikes the visitor to an institution where convicts are pun ished in the land of tho freo. Tho caro taken in ventilating and airing Pentonville Prison is ft point which is not looked after all over England, it may be confessed, but in this caso care is certainly taken to reach a decided condition for good. Tho prison intorior is divided into four long corridors, which radiate from a center like ribs in a woman's fan. All of tho corridors are stone paved and aro well lighted by glass in tho arches of tho roof. Like tho in terior cf the new prison in the Tombs, tho walls on each side of the corridors are pierced with cells. Abovo tho corridors, too, are thrco tiers or atones of other cells roached by light iron balconies and steps. This deli cate tracery of iron work is joined here und there across tho balconies by narrow bridges, whero fjurerils sit il ay and night in commanding position which overlook the corridors, with their teeming population of criminals locked in the cells which range along them. To tho observer there is nono of that horriblo aemi-darkness of tho in terior of an American prison. The main feature in tho centro structuro seems to be an effort to gain a bright, cheery and airy building. Even tho windowB do not partake of the barred TTTONIN'O TnE THANK. and grutcd style so apparent in Amer ica. Tho frames of all tho windows uro of cast steel, but tho window framos themselves are mado so small as to serve as light givers and safeguards as well. The cells arc thirteen feot loug, pix by seven feet in width and nine feet in height. Somo of them contain looms io: carpet weaving, but in that case the cells are nearly twice as large as the ordinary ones. Against the wall on one side is placed a bright copper baud bisiu with u water faucet near it. A small (doset, well supplied with water pipes occupies one corner of the cell. A sha led gas jet i* in a conven ient point io tho wall, while thero are ?helves m the spoon, platter, nong. and soap box of thc prisoner nailed upon tho wall nt ono 6ido of the door. During tho day tho upper of theso shelves is used for tho rolled up ham mock of the prisoner and his bedding. When night comes tho hammook ?3 slnng about thrco feet from the ground to iron bracos set in tho walls of tho cell, which gives tho advantage of a good bed and one that does not toko up room in tho daytime. A lit tle table and a stool makes up tho re mainder of the furnituro of each celi, whilo on tho walls of each is placed the rules of tho prison, which convicts must carefully obey. Tho prison garb, of a drab canvas, shot plentifully with broad arrows, is fully as beautiful as the drab and palo yellow striped cloth of tho Now York State Prison convicts at Dannemora, Auburn or Siug Sing. With each suit io furnished two chaug03 of plain whito cloth underclothes, a Scotch cap and heavy cowhido shoes. All convicts in Pcutonvillo Prison arc known as soon as they becomo prison ers by numbers. If a mau before ho became a prisonor boro tho proudost title in tho peerage of England, Scot laud, Ireland or Wales, ho becomes upon his ontrancc to tho institution only a number. Ho is A 2171 or 13 G051, as the caso may be, and ho-must wear at his breast at ail time3 a big brass badge bearing his number. "Look out there, A 2171," sings out a guard when addressing a prisoner. And all through tho prison lifo of a convict only this number is used. It would puzzle even tho warden of tho prison to tell thc namo of a prisoner without reference to tho records upon which, opposito his name and number, stands tho Christian and surname of tho convict. Prisoners aro by no means starved A TREADMILL IN A: (Convicts In the etulb in Pcntonvillo. Tho allowance for breakfast to each convict is tou ounces of bread, three-quarters of a pint of cocoa, with two ounces of puro milk and two drachms of molasses. For dinner half a pint of soup, four ounces of meat, beef or mutton alternately, five ounces bf broad und ono pound of potatoes is tho menu. For tea each mau gets a pint of gruel, niado of aa ounce and one-half of meat, and sweetened with five drachms of mo lasses, with fivo ounces of broad. In case of a certain lino of punishmont these rations aro reduced. The most salutary form of punishment is in tho (looking of rations. A prisoner will give in quioker when placed on a star vation diet than for any other cause. In tho prison there aro four stages of service. In the first-class the prisoner has to perform first-class hard labor for a certain number of hours in each day. That means ho has to work in tho treadmill or upon what is known as tho "cranks." Tho treadmill, or treadwell, is not a particularly useful machine. Tho prisoners call servico upon it "tread ing the win J," and that is about what it is, for it seems to serve no useful purpose, except to keep prisoners em ployed. The sole uso tho machino has is merely to keep a certain number of men employed when there isn't any I thing else for them to do. Each tread whool or mill is BO con structed that if necessary twenty-four men can bo omployod upon it at a time. Tho mill is divided into tweuty four littlo compartments or 6talls. Each compartment is something less than twenty-four inches in width aud is scparatod from tho adjoining ono by high woodon partitions. Tho mill is couuectod with a"fun, which is so ar ranged as to givo ouough resistance to tho mill to make thc words "hard la bor" mean what they say. Thcro aro twenty-four stops in tho wheel, which aro eight inches apart. This makes tho circumferouce of tho wheel six teen feet. Tho wheel performs thirty revolutions in ouch quarter of au hour, and each man walks on an average fifteen quarters of au hour a day. So he ascends something liko 720U feet, or 2400 yards, for a day's labor. Crank ?abor consists of making 10, 000 revolutions of a crank, which is placed ou u narrow iron drum put ou legs with a long handle on ono aide, which, whou turned, causes a scries of caps or scoops in the interior to re volve. At tho lower part of tho drum is a quantity of Baud, which tho cups scoop up and carry to the top of tho w?eel, where they empty themselves. A dial plate rogisters the number of revolutions made. A convict at or dinary rate of speed makis 120 revolu tions of the crank au hour, so to turu 10,000 of them means about eight, hours an I twenty minutes' labor. In case of physical inability to do treadmill or crank labor, tho convict is placed at second-class labor, which moans the plaiting of oakum, atone UT&fiJt?w?? aud kmdrod pursuit, AU ? prisoner has to dc is to Bit and pick from three to six pounds of old ropo per driy into oakum. Tho quantity picked into oakum in Pontouvillo Prison will average about threo and one-half tons a week. It is sold, and brings in some return for tho labor. In addition, trades aro taught in tho prison which aro usually akin to the useful arts. Punishment in Pontonville Prison have been made into live classes. First comes the loss of advantago which tho prisoner gets in being rated in olasses. Then comos tho transfer from tko highest to tho lowest class of servi tude. Next comes fasting and a bread and water diet, and thc next stage is confinement in a cell of correction. Lastly is ranked bodily chastisement, but this ia limited to eighteen lashes to prisoner under eighteen years of agc and thirty-six lashes to older men. A nother point, too, which all the Eng lish prisons havo in common is in giv ing convicts with exceptionally good behavior record.* before 6cutenccs expiro "tickets of leave," which allow thom to leave an institution .and koop at large without a return during good bohavior. In all English prisons tho "routine" of daily work is about tho same. In fact, tho prisons do not ditler much in styles of architecture, and neither do they differ in routiuo work. At 0 o'clock every week day morning tho Chiof Warden gives tho signal to "un lock." Tho oGiocrs of tho different wards hurry from cell to coll with koys in their hands to open each nar row dwelling. lu Bomo of tho more modern prisons tho American plan of a crank which, when it turns, locks or unlocks tho cells upon a corridor at once, is uso. As soon 03 tho cells aro unlocked N* ENGLISH* ritlSON. i are picking oakum.) each prisoner hurries in his under clothing for a tub of water from tho faucet in his coll, with which ho cleans out his littlo homo. This is dono un der military rulo. Prior to tho beginning of tho day's work tho "cleaners," as tho men who cleau cells aro called, tho "cooks," or those who do duty In tho kitchon, aro marched away in long prison filoj to their respectivo dut ios. Thon somo of tho conviots wash tho cells, others sweep tho pavements un til thoy glisten, while all aro watchod by armed guards from tho littlo mid air bridges above the stono corridor floor. WEAVING IN THE PRISON. A big bell iu tho prison summons tho prisoners to work at G. 30 every morniug. Men hurry to tho tread mills, tho cranks, or report in filos un der chargo of a guard to tho "trado instructor," who sets thom at work. Carpets aro woven on looma in tho colls, shoemakers bustle at their work, oakum pickers hurry to duty, and so on it goes all over the prison. Every convict must work, whether ho only "treads wind" or aimlessly turns "cranks" or is busy at some-vocation. For an hour the prisons hum with thc souud of labor. Thon, at 7.30 o'clock, breakfast ia served to each prisoner while at work. Work con tinues until ll o'clock and then the prisoners aro marched in long liles, lockstep fashion, to exercising yards. In each yard is a long ropo with knots ubout liftoou foot apart, so that 230 prisoners eau got on the ropo at a time. Each tile of 13 J men grasps tho ropo and then at brisk paces for fif teen minutes whirl round in a circle Tho idoa of keeping tho mon fifteen feet apart is to curry out the idea of .separate confinement. Tho only pos sible- timo that tho prisoners can com municate is when in tho lockstep, but then thoy caunot speak to each other, bo closely aro they watched. At 12.30 o'clock daily diuuor is ; nerve J, and thou work begins again j and is continued uutil 5 o'cloek, when another fifteen minutes is devoted to [exercise. At 5.80 o'clock tb6 convict j Lus supper ur gruel nu 1 bread,und j :? littlo btJ'ufp ll o'?look lantern-; are j slyQ'j io tho prisoners nud the ge-? jo tho prison in lighted. From 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. the]prisoners are allowed to read, but at iho latter boar all tbo lights aro put: oat except ono or two in the corridors.. That is tho iweek day routine. On Sundays tho convicta aro marched to tho respect! ve^cb'apels in tho different prisons, and they also have usually a few littlo tidbits for dinnor, but ex cept for thai lack of labor and only one short"tria? at exercise tho day is passed in tho,'solitade of cells. A Bb,' Meteorite in Mexico. A New York Times writer has had a look at'somfl hig meteorites which have fallen iavMcxico. Most of theso meteorites ar?a preserved in tho mu seum of tho .School of Mines in the THE SAN* GREGOMO METEOMTE. City of MOJ??CO, or aro roproscntcd by full size model?. Similar models of tho larger masses were exhibited by Professor Ai: A. Ward, of Bockester, N. Y., in the Mining Building of tho World's Columbian Exposition at Chi cago. The claim to being notable will bo demonstrated by a recitation of the dimensions und weights of some of tho prominent motooritcs. A visitor to tho National School of Mines in the City of Mexico wdl no tice on either sido of tho portal lead ing to the commodious courtyard two large, irregular masses, resembling in shape tho result of a "boil" at a blast furnace oasting bed, or a leak between tho copo and tho drag of a largo cast ing. Tho brown, rusty color of theso massc^gives the impression that they aro specimens of brown hematite irou oro, but at tho fow points where tho structure ha3 boen exposed by chip ping and filing, a metallic lustre, with etriationsicommon 'to meteorio iron, demonstrated the origin of these monster Specimens. Tho principal av.erngo dimensions of tho two pieces Axef . . -.. ? v^jyfp'?th. . Width. ?f"7 ts^ Smf-^jii^-'^ y ?oot,7 Inches. "V. 8 IBot rayhoT? "fl rout 7 ?iicW . "-' Thickness. Weight. n. 1 foot 8 Inches. 20,430 pounds. b. 1 foot 4 Inches. 34,400 pounds. Tho irregularity of form will not bo appreciated from the sizes' given, and the total weight-51,850 pounds, or nearly twenty-five gross tons-thoro being a number of trolibito depres sions cr pot holes on tho surfaces. Tho density is given as 7.8. Tho form of those two pieces also indicatos that they woro originally parts of ono great mass recognized as tho Chupaderos Meteorito, which af ter more than four conturic3 was in 1893 conveyed over 900 miles to tho City of Mexico. The two pio3es wcro found about SOO feet apart. Another notable meteorite, that of San Orogorio, whioh may bo consid ered a rival of tho specimens described, is approximately conical in form, av eraging four feet iu diameter at tho baso aud forty inches in height. The density was found to bo 7.74 aud tho calculated weight 87,920pounds. This mass is also to form a feature of tho collection of tho Mexican Geological Survey, whioh occupies the largo building (a former palace) in connec tion with tho School of Minos. Tho illustration is intended to show tho dimensions of tho meteorito San Gre gorio, as compared to men of ordinary stature. Dcop-Sea Thermometers. Thermometers made for taking tho temperature in moderately deep waters have tho tubo encased in a coppor cyl inder to protect it from inquisitivo fishes and from contact with rocks ; there is a ring at tho bottom to which sufficient weights may bo attached to 6ink it readily. The cylinder has a long, narrow door in front of tho scale, which may bc omened for tho reading; and this door closes with joints BO tight that tho cylinder brings up the water from tho bottom with its tomporaturo practically unchouged by the waters through which it passes. Now York Sun. Bcv. Joseph Cook's New Field. Eov. Dr. Joseph Cook, tho noted Boston divine, recontly sailod from Sau Francisco to spend two years lec turing in Australia, China, Japuu and 15EV. JOSEPH COOK.. India. In Boston his Suuday after noon "talks" have for years beeu a featuro at tho Huh. Imbcrt de Saint Armand, tho author of au endless series of semi-historical books on tho Queens of Fra ie.', i* writing a sensational book ou tho his tory of tho Second Empire on informa tion furnished by thu Engross Eu? SUMMER STYLES. WHAT WO 31 KS WILL WK All IX THE II KA TED TERM. Trimmed Skirt Fronts Are Coming Gruss Linen Lawn Outfit Changea in tho Shirt Waist -Latest In Collars. THE day of tho trimmed skirt front is coming to ns slowly hut surely. It is ns yet only dimly foreshadowed, but it is there all tho same. Some skirts havo merely a doublo fold at tho sides ; others havo long A-skaped panels; aud others are trimmed with some elaborate garnituro set on either iu plain or irregulur rows from belt to hom. Ono dress ha3 double rows of largo buttons down the sides; another has a wido band of singlo passemen terie ornaments set on in waved lines; others havo scarfs of 6ilk or ribbon fastened in at the belt and drooping to the hem of thc skirt, with loop?, rosettes and large bows set on at in tervals. One very elegant dress hos tho entiro front wrought in embroid ery, and others have thc front made of crimped materlul or some contrast ing fabric, either in figured or of plain goods, covered with any of the populur ornaments of tho day. Tho dressmakers say, "As soon as wo learn to mako tho gOdet skirts pcr 8?MMEH DRESS IN BROWN WHIP-CORT RIBBON AND KI fectly-they nearly drovo us mad at [ first-they will go out of fashion." [ Thero aro no 6igns yet of diminishing skirt breadths, however, and all tho 6toel wiros, horsehair and generally oxpensivo things used to mako skirts stand out indicato that the teudency is to increase tho voluminous instead of to decreaso it. But it ia all too j truo as soon ns one phase of fashion captures tho public, Mme. la Mode aonds forth a now conceit-a variation only, perhaps, of tho ?tylc that pre ceded it-but different cuough in do grco to have thc cvcr-alluriug charm of novelty. Wo were all swathed in white linen lawn carly in thc spriug-or should have been, of course, according to tho canon of modes. Aa soon as volant fingers fashioned daiuty ouffs, collars and broad collarettes of the whitest lawn, in comes with a swoop grass cloth linen. Everybody must get grass linen if she wants to provo she is in tho current. It is adaptable to bo euro to any sort of gown, and as it can bo washed and is durable, it is really a-very sensible and commend able substituto for thc dainty white largo collars that seem hardly suitablo to wear in dirty streets, exquisitely fresh and attractive as whito always seems. It is a fiat, therefore, that every woman who aspires to bc well and modishly dressed must havo at least ono outfit for neck and wrists of grass linen lawn, and she must boast of nt least ono summer frock in black, whito or a shot effect-in alpaca. Al paca runs a closo raoo with crepou ; tho former is now in tho lead. Polka-dotted taffeta is popular for waists, and comes in all colors and combinations. A skirt of black clair otto with u waist of pol hu-spotted surah makes a pretty and useful eos tumo. lu tho making of capes there is no end, and tho variety sometimes becomes almost a weariness to the flesh. Thero are so many that one can never tell which to choose. A popu lar pattern is very full und short, just reaching tho wnist-liue. It is of cloth, nud is used for comfort rather than any special beauty. Tho collar is a very full ruching of silk, cither plaited doublo or with outside of tho capo ma terial and silk lining. Bibbous aro used iu the greatest profusion ; iudeod, ono might fancy that designers sat up o' nights in try ing to deviso places v/hcro they niijht bo put to advantage. CHANGES IN Till? SHIKT WAIST. Tho most characteristic difference between tho shirt waist of to-day and that of hiBt Booton lies in the sleeve. The lull bishop's sleeve with a narrow cull has superseded the shirt sleeve ou all Euglish shirt waists. These waists aro generally li nish ed by a group of little tucks below the straight band at .lie ueclc. which is not PO becoming as the turndown collar of last season. Tho pouch-pleat, as tho large, sagging box-pleat worn iu front is called, is uot only used on full waists, but ou alose-fitting waists as well, lt is some times made of somo material or color iu direct contrast to tba bodice, Thus a tizhl~?tU?{( botl?oo ol Oriontaj pi|k has the full upper part of tho sleeve."] f and tho sagging pleat of (hill, roso oolorod satiu. Again this blouse pleat may bo of yellow-tinted batiste, striped with Valenciennes lace, inserted iu tho front of a waist of summer silk. Little Paquin pointu of laco ?nd batiste fall over tho collar of tho blouse, aud there may be a quaint cuff of the same sheer materials drooping over the hand. In sertions of butter-colored embroidery or of heavy black laco uro seen in oth er blouses. Thus a waist of black surah has a square yoke and sleeve >- -FRONT OF SPANGLED WIIITE SATIN LTED BATISTE. puffe, reaching to the elbows, of palo blue silk, striped with black gnipuro laco. Or a waist of pink silk ia striped lengthwise with heavy insertions of iuch-wide, butter-colored embroidery. Thcro aro eight of these insertions down the full front, and five down tho upper part of tho sleeve, whioh is pleated to bring them into special prominence at tho shoulder. A row of from five to six or eight ahirriugs is often U3cd at the top of tho expan aive sleeve of the hour. This auccoss fully holds it down so that it cannot stand erect above tho shoulder. Tho blouse seeu iu the accompanying sketch hus a yoke and rutiles set in, jabot-fashion, of buttor-colorcd lace. THE LATEST VAN DYKE COLLAH. Van Dyke collars ore so much used on capos and dresses that this simple [ VAN DYKE COLLAR. now design for a homo-mado collar will no doubt provo very useful. Tho figuro can easily bo worked on silk, net or mull, with Houitou braid in tho second, or even a smaller size. PLAIDS AUK POPULAR. Plaids aro popular, and wool dresses and those of crnpo-surfaced goods especially are exceedingly pretty with this combination. A crapo-surfaood skirt has a waist with tho crape at tho aides und buck aud forming a very deep collar that turns over to the sleeve tops. The vost and full sleeves are of plaid. A handsome visiting dress ia of crapo cloth with passemen terie panels on either side and a plain front breadth of tho material. There are vory full sleeves almost covered . by deep laco rulllos; tho close-fitting body has au elaborate yoko of lace and passementerie aud a high-eollur rolling out from the throat, making the head appeur as though set in a daring cup. LACE FOR DRESS DECORATION. Tho dominant note of dress decora tion is lace, and nothing but the most severe tailor-made coat and skirt es cupes u touch of it. How tho fem mino side of humauity ever uohieved auy dainty or picturesque SUOJJSS ia ares* without tile at I ot' lajj au I chiffon Li H difficult qnettliou t:j AU ?wer at a timo when both seem in lispens ible Addi tions to almost every article of dress. China bas given us 100,000 men, raoftly jaundryipeu, Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG ULATOR, the "KINO OF LIVER MEDI CINES?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the same old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another good recom mendation for it ia, that it is BETTER THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak ens, but works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that relief comes quick and sure, and one feels new all over. It never fails. Everybody needs take a liver remedy, and everyone should take only Sim mons Liver Regulator. Be sure you get it. The Red Z is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. THE PERFECT WOMAN. A Story of How That Event Was Realized. In a book by Loon Gazlin, the French author, is the following pretty account of tho distribution of tho charms of tho female sox by a fairy : "To tho Castillian, long and black hair, with which she might almost make a mantilla. "To tho Italian, eyes bright and ardent as a midnight eruption of Vesuvius. "To tho Turk, a form as round aa tho moon and soft as eiderdown. "To tho German, beautiful tooth and nn earnest heart, profoundly in clined to love. "To the English, aurora borealis to glorify or paint her cheeks, her lip3 and her shoulders. "Afterward sho gave gayety to tho Neapolitan, wit to the Irish, good sense to the Fleming. "But when this good fairy, who had served out all those female at tractions to tho daughters ot Eve, had exhausted all her treasures, an attractive little figure came tripping up and asked for her sharo. 'And who are you, dear?' said the good fairy, rather surprised. 'O, I'm a Parisienne,' said tho little lady. 'I'm sorry,'said the fairy, 'but I have given everything to your sisters ; I have ac tually nothing loft.' This caused groat griof to ?V petitioner; so much so that the fairy took pity on her; and calling the other recipients of hor bounty togother, put it to them whether, as she bad been so generous to them, they would not givo a por tion of her gifts to tho little stranger, which they agreed to do. They oach gave her a share of tho fairy's gifts; hence tho Porisienno, who, wo are told, combines in a sufficient degree all that makes womankind delightful. "Tho American was not present when those good things woro being served out, for the very good reason that in that good fairy's timo sho hadn't been invented yet; but she was equal to the occasion. Sho had no idea of being loft out in the cold. Like those fine old Milesian families who had a boat of their own at tho Hood, sho got a fairy of hor own, and told her to talco tho Parisienne for a model, and seo ii she could not im prove upon her. Hence the Am?ri caine. Whother the American fairy waa successful in fulfilling tho in structions of her fair cliont I must leave to better judges to docido; but there is no doubt that original and copy aro very nico." An Affectionate Family Horse. Perhaps a good deal of the Listen er's personal love for horses is trace IIbio back to a singlo incident of his carly childhood. At tho age of six ho once mountod Old Rosy (the term "old" at that time was merely ono of endoarmont, for tho mare was not as old as thc boy) to ride to a neigh bor's. The maro Was fat and sleek, and so was the boy ; her back was so round that her spine was a little hollow instead of a projection. On this glossy round back was no saddle, not even a blanket; the fat little boy's short legs simply stuck out into the air on either side. The greater part of tho journey had boen achieved, and tho boy and maro wore returning homeward, when, in going down a slope, Rosy inadvertently bogan to trot; and thc boy, having no kind of anchorage, began to slide forward upon the mare's nock. Upon that he let go tho bridle, hugged the neck and screamed. Not knowing quite what this performance meant, Rosy continued to trot placidly down the hill, and tho boy continued to slido. Doubtless sho thought it was somo new kind of boy's play. Afc last he slid clear ovor her hoad, and rolled upon tho ground. The maro I must have eased tho fall for him by ducking her nock slowly, and she certainly kept her feet entirely clear of him. lie simply rolled into tho ditch by the side of tho road, quito unhurt but boo-hooing lustily. And thou comes the pretty part of tho story. The young mare 'lid not go on ton steps after tho small boy ! rolled oil her nock, but stopped ' turned back, carno down to tho screaming child nosed him affection ately, and, as ho will swear to his dying day, comforted him as best sho could. She showed him that tho b idle reins wore hanging down within his roach. Under such an influence tho boy of six-which is an age, it is scarcely needful to say, when few Boston boys aro intrusted with thu management of u horse stopped weeping, got up, tv>ok hold of the bridle, nod reflecting!)- led the maro home. NAMES, oayg tn old maxim, aro things They certainly m inflvonm,