Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V / 4 THE COUNTY RECROD. Published Every Thursday ?at? KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. LOUIS J. BUIsTOW, Editor and Proprietor. Perhaps it is merely a coincidence, but Spain sued for peace just one day after Miss Lizzie Lesdener of Oklahoma announced that she bad organized a company of female rough riders to go to war. The inventive facilities ol" the American girl seem practically unlimited. The Atchison (Kan.) Globe says: "By tying sandpaper about her ankles an Atchison girl produces the same effect as by buying an expensive silk skirt. The pieces of sandpaper rub together and sound just like a $12 skirt." Fretty rough on the dressmakers, though. Travelers.over the line of railway from the City of Mexico to the city of Vera Cruz are said to be greatly luimesse i witu some%oi me engines they see iu use ou that route -doublehea lers as they are termed. The Mexican railway company has already as mauy as a dozen, adding them from time to time t<? its stock as business has demanded. Each of these mammoth constructions weighs 100 tons, and is capable of hauling 100 tons up a four and one-half per cent, grade. They are of Scotch manufacture, and have now been iu the service of the road about ten years. The fact is mentioned as somewhat singular that these double-headers are used by no other road iu North America. Many of the United States senators from Southern states come from small towns, the policy in many parts of the South being to recognize country rather than city statesmen. Neither of the representatives of Texas is from Galveston; neither of the representatives from Georgia is from Atlanta; neither of the senators from Nortb Caroliua is from Raleigh; neither of the senators from South Carolina is from Charleston; neither of the senators from Kentucky is from Louisville; neither of the senators ft*Am Woof I'li'orinio io frA?r\ Wltoolinrr ivu* livm *7 uvwu*, and neither of the senators from Miseouri is from St. Louis. Some of the towns represented are Marietta, Ga.; Bennetsville, S. C.; Tyler, Tex.; Scotts\il!e, Va.; Marshall, >*. C., and Marion, Ivy. Tennessee is the only Southern state whose two senators represent the two chief cities. There is a volume of instruction on the elements that go to make up our volunteer army in the published report of the previous occupations of those soldiers of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment who were ki led in the first laud battle near Munila. One was a fanner,one was a country storekeeper, two were coal-iniuers, one was the son of a school-teacuer, one was a college student who had enlisted ou the day before the graduating exercises of his class. This is not an exceptional list. It is merely a fair type and sample of the young men who in every state of the Union came forward promptly and cheerfully to answer their couutry's call, comments the New York Herald. They represent all classes and conditions of citizenship, dying on a common level of military heroism as they had lived on a common level of civic patriotism. As pretty an illustration as we have yet seen of the new spirit which marks the interchange of comment between Englai^l and America appears in the last Spectator to arrive by mail, says the New York Times. Discussing the statement of the English captain at Manila, when asked bv the German admiral what he would do in case the Germaus interfered with the bombardment of the city the statement being that only the English captain and Americau admiral had or could get any information 0:1 that del-, icate topic The Spectator says: "There is something very naive in the German admiral imagining that we should allow him to bully Admiral Dewey?though, as far as that goes, there is no reason to think that the American sailors would want auy one's help if it cauie to lighting the Germans." The first part of this sentence is entirely friendly, and only a * A.i^A. lew uiuuiua im; puasjuimjr iuui it might be a little irritating to American nerves would not have worried the Spectator a bit. But now an afterthough* comes, atul it gets instant expression. The words as they stand are not exactly a lesson in tact, to be sure, but aren't they delightful. They make the Atlantic ocean seeui narrow indeed. No Spanish fleet ever comes home to roost FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. THRILLINC INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. Marvelous Escape of the l'ortucuese Kuccaneer, Karthelcmy, From His Spanish Captors?Underwent Incredible Sufferings?Saved by a Cingalese. One of the representative men of the early American buccaneers was Barthelemy. Want of water once compelled him to run his vessel into a port in Cuba, after capturing a prize containing about ?80,000 in money and rich merchandise. On weighing anchor, three Spaniards hove in sight and captured him easily. Barthelemy was carried io Campeachy, where he was immediately recognized, and the captain who had taken him required to surrender him to justice. The captain had taken a fancy to the prisoner, aud would have retained him. but the Spaniards thronged the harbor, crying: "We have caught Barthelemy, the Portuguese, the most wicked rascal in the world, who has done more harm to Spanish commerce than all the other pirates put together. We must hang him at once." His capture was an event of national importance. Heavily ironed aiul surrounded by a strong force of men, armed to the teeth, the captive buccaneer was transferred from the deck of the frieudiy captain to another vessel. It was judged unnecessary to go through the form of a trial. A gibbet was all that was needed. A Spauish sailor? whether from humanity or brutality, we know not?let Barthelemy know that the scaffold was nearly ready and the rope noosed. There was no time to be lost. He could neither elude the vigilance of his sentinel nor swim the distance which separated him from the shore; but he was not discouraged. Freed from his irons, he called the sentinel to him, and with a single blow, skillfully directed, laid the man dead without a groan. Then, corking two empty wine-jars, he tied them under his arm-pits, and let himself down into the water by the main chains. The greatest danger to be apprehended was from sharks. Fortune favored him, however, and he floated to land. Even then?such was the training of the Spanish bloodhounds?escape seemed impossible. There was only one way of baffling these wonderful hunters, and that was by lyiug in a stream of running water. Barthelemy had read of fugitives escaping them in this way. He chose a running stream, halfchoked by fallen trees, and lay there for several days, listening to the bav ing of the houuds and the shouts of the men in pursuit of him, supporting life by gnawing the roots which grew on the edge of the stream. At length he ventured to tiy. With one last look at the gibbet intended for him, now plainly marked in relief on the evening sky, he set out at nightfall for the Golfo Tristi, his only baggage a calabash of water. Incredible as had been his former sufferings, he underwent greater ones now. His food was the shellfish thrown up on the beack, often putrid and poisonous. Sometimes the shore was so thickly overgrown with trees that he could not advance except by swinging in the air from branch to branch. At other times his path was intersected by deep streams filled with caymans; and his only resource was to try to frighten them away by throwing stones into the water, then dash in and endeavor to cross before they had recovered their courage. One large river he crossed on a raft, the branches for which he cut down . with a knife made out of a rusty nail i he found on the way. Indians,Spaniards and jaugars were on his track. To add to all, the heat i was overpowering* Yet he surmount- | ed all; and on the fourteenth day j the distance - was over one hundred miles--he had the delight [of behold- 1 ing a buccaneer ship careening. He was received with transports by his old friends, and immediately of- i icicu iv icau ilit:in a^aiuoi a pi i/.c , worthy of them nothing less than the very ship in which he had been a prisoner in Campeachy. He soon 1 found volunieers to accompany him, and a day or two afterward, at the dead of night, noiselessly boarded the Spaniard. The sentinel challenged him. "We are sailors," said Bartheleiny, "returning from shore with goods that have paid no duty." The faithful sentinel muttered a hope that he would not be forgotten, but the next moment he was killed ~ ~ .1 il. ~ 1 i... 1. td h ttii'i me vessel mtieu. n d Where Barthelemy came from, or how he ended, 110 one knows. He first loomed up as the captain of a small buccaneer craft, carrying four ' three-pounders and a crew of thirty men. Hayonet Versus Hull. A few mornings ago there was an J amateur bullfight in Gibraltar. It appears that a bull went mad, and rushing to the sea plunged iu. This evidently did not agree with the animal, for he quickly emerged, and the first object meeting his gaze was Mr. ; "Thomas Atkins," of the Munches- ; ters, restfully standing at ease on ' sentrv go. whom he thoughtlessly charged, utterly forgetting the fact that "Tommy" was not defenseless, , being armed with no less formidable weapon than a rifle, mounted with a bayonet. The thundering charge of j the enraged bull did not disconcert j Tommy. He scorned to seek the ! shelter of the friendly sentry box close by, but immediately, regardless of consequences, brought his bayonet to the charge, awaiting results. The bull a plucky fellow gallantly went for the bayonet,which, in the staunch and tight grasp of Mr. Atkins, was f driven up to the hilt in the animal's breast, causing him to halt for a sec-1 i ond or two, but, at the same time, the 1 concussion sent the unfortunate sen- j : try reeling and partially stunned him. The bull, though fatally wounded, i hud still strength enough left to again j ! charge at his now disabled and de- ( 1 fenseless enemy, and doubtless this j | would have been the end of "poor j i Tommy Atkins" but for the timely ar- j rival of the guard, who succeeded in i j driving oft' the beast, which soon after ! I expired. Tommy is now quite a hero ! ! in his war, and has been dubbed by I bis chums, "The Matador," though Ij must relate that, like most amateurs, iu his coufusion aud ignorance, he i neglected to claim and appropriate the usual insignia of victory, viz., the i bull's ear. Life Saved In Odd Way. Commander Thomas, formerly of th< j gunboat Bennington, had his life I saved aboard that ship by a Cingalese j mess attendant in an odd sort of way. I He was doing a bit of inspecting on 1 the berth deck, aft, one afternoon1 j when the Executive Officer of the shij:' | fame to me neau 01 me aner oerm : J deck ladder and shouted down below j to anybody within hearing: "Is the Captain below there?" I Commander Thomas heard the call, ' and. without making any reply to the ' question, started from the pay office I for the ladder, intending to go above j to the main deck to see what the First j | Lieutenant wanted. The hatch right j j at the foot of the ladder had been care lessly left open by a seaman who had j gone forward for a bit of gear, and it was dark on the berth deck. The Commander had his eyes raised to the head of the ladder, anyhow, as he approached the ladder, and had he made ; another step he would have plunged | to the bottom of the deep hatch and been mangled to bits. He was arrested by hearing a piercing voice behind him exclaim: j '"Blast the skipper's eyes! Blast , the skipper's eyes!'' With his foot still raised to take the | step that would have plunged him inj to the hatch, Commander Thomas turned his head suddenly. "Who's that?" he asked. Then the Cingalese mess attendant, , leaping out of the darkness, had the skipper clutched by the sleeve, and jerked him back from the open hatch by main force. Thomas couldn't quite j see into it for a second, until the Cin( galese, who had fortunately picked up Englisti on a British wind-jammer, pointed to the open hatch. The Cin?i 1?: 1 Ji.lui | CA|;imucu m m.i U1 uncu uiatcvv i that the exclamation he had used was i the first bunch of English words that ! came into his head when he saw the j Captain's danger. He couldn't reI member the English equivalent of the word "stop" soon enough, he said, ' and so he had blasted the skipper's | eyes as the best way of attracting the ' officer's attention. "And so the first thing that crops into your head is to blast your skipper's eyes, is it?" asked Thomas of the Cingalese. The man got all of the ho?t nf it on Rennincrton after that. New York Sun. Hi* Soul Wan Heroic. Tt was off the Horn. Waves suck as are eocounted only there in all the world raced irresistibly. The ship labored mightly through the night. In a lull the cry, ''Man overboard!" rang from stem to stern. Without hesitation the helmsman put the wheel "hard up." The watch peered over the sides of the ship into the foam. All at once a mau rushed up the companionway. He was in his night clothes. Without waiting a moment, he leaped the rail,and plunged overboard. There was only death to be found in the boiling benumbing waters. By some witchery of Neptune, a cross sea tossed the two men to leeward, and the ship dipped them up. They were both un conscious, ana tne nero naa nis man clutched by the hair. Even to the old sailors used to miracles of the sea the safety of the two was not so great a marvel as the fact that the man had dared to jump at all; for he was a timid, seasick landlubber making his first voyage, and his seeming cowardice had been the butt of savage scorn. How, then, had he outdared them all in recklessness? He was asked the question. How could he do it? He answered simply that he had lain awake nights planning just what he would do if he heard the cry, "Man overboard!" It was so hard for him to overcome his instinctive fear of the water tnat ue naa meniauy ana systematically schooled himself to action. Thus, while his body cringed, his soul was heroic. This habit of mind made opportunity impossible to pass by. The intuitive response to his training swept him over the rail before he knew where he was.?Century. Fierce Fight in the Deep. "One of the most horrible predicaments a diver was ever placed in," said Mr. Sully, the famous Newport diver, "must have been that of one of whom I once heard who had to investigate a wreck that had carried to the bottom with her a number of cattle. When he blew off the hatches the v T /i - J-- i ? i I. ^ ? Domes noaieu up, ituu uuu a i usu u school of hungary sharks attacked them. They were all around the diver, lighting and struggling, and he was iu mortal terror less his airpipe should be bitten in two in the midst of the fearful struggle that was going on. At length, unable to bear the suspense any longer, he signalled to be drawn up, notwithstanding that he would have to pass through the thick of the tierce monsters. In his passage to the cnrfitAA lift hrnshed close oast the sharks,and one of them made a vicious grab at him. It just missed his arm, but caught his fingers, and his hand was badly mangled. Perhaps, however, he was glad to get off as cheaply as he did." | GOOD ROADS NOTES. I Function of the ICoail Service. The function of a pavement or road surface is very imperfectly understood, even in sections where stone roads have been in use for longjperiods. It is commonly supposed that a wet spot or bog will become dry if tilled in; that a good road may be made anywhere, simply by making a shallow trench of the desired width and tilling it with stone, and that the surface of a stone road needs to be j "protected" from wear by covering it with loose screenings, sod, earth, or any old stuff that is handy in hot weather. To these erroneous notions are due j many failures to get durability and i satisfaction from attempts at road J building. The importance of drainage is not fully appreciated in most sections, but it is at the bottom of successful road construction, and neither permanence nor economy is possible if it is not amply provided for. A wet spot must be thoroughly drained before a road is carried over it, or it will always be wet, at least in the wet season, no matter what else is done to it. Water under a road bed is as fatal to the life of the road as water in a mau's lungs is fatal to his existence. The not uncommon practice of allowing a roadway to be lower than its sides makes it little better than a mere drain, for water settles on the sur- i face, quickly softens it and prepares it to be cut up by every passing vehicle. A raised and crowned roadbed which will shed water readily is essential. A dry base with a slightly arched cover of stone, capable of shedding the rain, is requisite for a dry, permanent structure. The stone roadway is not only to serve as a roof for the natural base beneath, but is to take the waar of traffic, and not to be covered with other material as a "protection" to it. In places where earth is used for "binding" purposes, and little regular attention is paid to the roads and sprinkling is not done in dry weather, the road surface breaks up rapidly under the influence of the sun. It is then that it has heaped upon it, to "protect" it, quantities of fine screenings, or earth and stones, and sometimes even clay and sod from the gutters. The result is a poor road, for months, unworthy of the name "macadam." If complete drainage is secured at the outset, the road crowned and systematically cared for, with sprinkling in dry weather, and is thoroughly rolled -as laid, without the use of clay to bind it, it will perform its functions satisfactorily and prove a valuable investment of lasting worth.?L. A. W. Bulletin. Farmers Can Mak e Good Roads. .John Uiimer speed, writing 011 "How to Have Good Country Roads," in tlie Ladies' Home Journal, proproses "that in each county there be founded a Road Improvement Association, which shall have a one or two days' meeting in the autumn of each year. To the membership and to the meetings all the farmers should be invited, while all those in the country acting as road overseers, or road supervisors, should be urged especially to attend. At these meetings special, definite, practical instruction should be given in maintaining and repairing dirt roads. Competent men to give such instruction can be secured without cost to such societies, for the United States Department of Agriculture has a Road Bureau, and this bureau will always supply a competent instructor to tell the people just exactly i what they need, and how to do the ' work as it should be done." Mr. Speed also urges that school children be interested in the work and taught the rudiments of road-building and road-keeping. To Make Boiler Road* Possible. The electors of Arkansas will vote at the next general election, on an amendment to the State constitution i designed to provide for local option in road improvements. If the electors in any county vote in favor of a public road tax at the general election for < State and county officers, then the county court shall have power to levy, in addition to the county tax, an amount not exceeding three mills on the dollar on all taxable property as a "CouDty Road Tax," to be used exclusively for building and repairing roads and bridges of the county. Notes of the Crusade. A sample half-mile of good roads is about to be constructed on the Fork and Kiugsville road, in Baltimore County, Maryland. Stone roads on which earth or clay has been used for "binding" purposes get very muddy with every rain. They should be cleaned and scraped while wet, as the mud can best be removed at such times. The series of practical articles cn "The Value of Good Roads and How to Make Them," lately contributed to the press by D. F. Magee, of Lancaster, Penn., are about to appear in pamphlet form. They contain much valuable matter. if It is proposed in North Carolina that narrow tires be taxed on heavy vehicles, one-and-a-quarter inch to pay 31.00 annually, and the amount to be decreased down to five-inch, which should pay fifty cents, while six-inch and wider ones would not be taxed at all. m i TT i _ _ n Btale niguway commissioner iucDonald, of Connecticut, says that the roadr. now being built or improved in that State are very satisfactory, and he predicts that in a few years the State will have a system of highways quite up to the standard of New Jersey's, which, he says, is the finest in the United States. Caring For the Complexion. J ^ The complexion depends largely j t upon the general health, aud system- a atio exercise, with good nourishing t food, will do wonders toward giving a a bright, healthful hue to the skin, v The daily bath is also one of the best L skin medicines. If the skin has no s tendency to groasiness a little cold r cream or other emolient rubbed well t into the skin, a( :er the bath, will de- j strov the tendency to wrinkles or i roughness. Colored L:iwn Handkerchief*. Colored linen lawn handkerchiefs 1 have made their appearance again, j Some have a white ground with queer ^ criss-cross and zigzag figures of pale j green, yellow, lilac, pink or blue, or checks or stripes of the same, while others are of the solid colored lawn. All are edged with fine thread or Valenciennes lace, and are not infrequently scalloped or pointed. They : wash well, and appeal specially to j t schoolgirl taste. Novelist* Descended From Clergymen. C The death of Mrs. Lynn Linton a calls attention to the circumstance r that many of the most famous women a novelists came ->f a clerical stock. Jane Austen wa: the daughter of a c Hampshire rectc:, the Brontes were a the daughters of the Vicar of Haworth, e Olive Schreiner is the daughter of * a South African missionary, aud Mrs. ^ Humphry Ward is the granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Arnold, the famous Headmaster of Rugby. ' o A Woman's Service.* Kecojjnized. 1 Margherita Arliua Haram, one of the twomen war corrc ipondents, has been recommended to the war department a for special recogi ition because of the 8 J 7 t u *t, ^ 1, services reuutrieu uj uci iu iuo uuuuu- ed men of the Third cavalry at Santi- ^ ago. A large cartridge taken from the 9 belt of Trooper Armstrong, the first man to be killed at Santiago, has been t mounted in gold and presented to her ? as a medal. Before leaving for Santi- d ago she cared for the soldiers on the t way from Tampa to the Southern hos- n pitals, was instrumental in securing 9 for them good berths, and aided greatly h in making them comfortable. She has also received a set of resolutions from e the friends of Trooper Freeman, of v Winomac, Ind., in recognition of her services in caring for him while he was T suffering from a serious wound re- t ceived in battle. <3 Through English Eye*. I] "The Lady's Pictorial" publishes a c beautiful reproduction of Mrs. McKin- i ley's last photograph?the one in which f she is resting in her favorite chair on d the veranda, while her delicate hands r hold her favorite needlework. Accom- t panying the picture is the following t tribute: It is doubtful ff modern times have t two women who attract so much atten- c tion as the Queen Regent who presides r at El Escurial and the "Lady of the s White House." As a hostess Mrs. o McKinley is unrivalled. The toilets t seen at her receptions may vie with e any in the courts of Europe, and she f' can hold her own against the wives ^ and daughters of the Diplomatic Corps, d being invariably neatly and tastefully a gowned. Her favorite jewels are pearls d and diamonds, of which her possessions are equal to those of any Queen, g a A Quick-Witted Woman. This is the story that was brought back by a young person who had spent a morning at a hospital in Auburn. New York: ! v "While I was there a man and a c woman came in bringing a burned child in a blanket. It turned out that the man did not know the woman, nor j the woman the man, and neither knew the child. As the woman was riding ^ on an open trolley-car on her way to the hospital, she heard a shriek, and a aw n nhilrl in ft door-vard with its 0 dress afire. ^ "She jumped off the car, grabbed a v blanket which hung on a clothes-line, P wrapped it around the child, and rolled it on the ground. The child's mother o came out of the house and picked the g child up. That started the fire again, g The rescuer instantly grabbed the s child from the mother, rolled it on the e ground in the blanket some more, and then ran with it to the car, got aboard, n and brought it to the hospital. The f: man was a stranger to her, who hap- a pened to be on the car, and who car- c ->P- - 1 d ? V? 1 AH as\ f??Am fliD neu lilt? UU11U U UlUL-XV 171 ovs nuut tuv c car to the hospital. The child was badly burned, but will recover. Don't t you think that woman's wits were ' pretty quick?" Harper's Bazar. g Opportunities For Women. In a paper on "Artaud Utility" read j. before the delegates to the recent biennial convention at Denver, Mrs. Candace Wheeler, of New York City, asked a the Federation to use its endeavors to * encourage the humble women of the land to make the most of their home G VolllflhlA QlK7Crpq. iUUUObllCO) auu ' v tions to club members to do practical r work among their fellow-women. She defined art in its broadest mean- I ing as being only the true and perfect r doing of things, and described the ar- e tistic impulse as a desire to live up to * one's best inspiration and to make real g what seems true. She called particu- I lar attention to the faoL that tb?r? ?? ? ! t constant effort being made to help | f f M< t Jirtel iromon to do the work of mm. and hought something should be done to id women to do the work natural to hem for generations. The truth that ,11 women who need to earn money and rho are unable to go outside of their tomes to do it makes it urgent that omething should be done for them to nake their tasks as pleasant as possi>le, and the solving of this economic iroblem would be ol invaluable bene? it to womankind. She cited the fact that nearly every >tate in the Union has some woman's 4-U-i IJ 1 Jl uuuabijr uwii cuum uu mrtue[iiuuiuuic, j md that these same industries are ooked upon as drudgeries is because heir work brings so little return and >ecause it does not represent their best tndeavor, this being the case with the romen of the Tennessee mountains, rho spin all the coarse materials used is clothing for their families. Silk aising and reeling, knitting and spinling, were spoken of as being suscep- , ible of great development, and, under >roper direction, becoming paying inlustries; the Mexican drawn work also, >s having a wide sale and with the ~ ight management being made a profit,ble manufacture. She hoped that women might enourage this particular Hue of manual rt/1 nvf fi'rtininrr flma ononin nr o nckTTT IUU Ul l H (UUIU^ f bUUO U|/?U1U^ U " ira to their sisters who have noopporunity to become more than unskilled lousehold slaves. H How to Keep the Hair. A luxuriant head of hair lias been, md always will be, one of the most mportant ornaments of feminine eauty. Women, as a rule, know very little ,bout the care of the hair, with the reult that they have not such attractive ooking heads as they should have. A ine head of hair is supposed to be a ign of vigor and health. The hair, to be kept in good condi:? _i 1,1 iUil, auuaiu nut uc niitatcu uj iw igorous treatment. There is as much lirlerence in the quality of the hair as here is in the skin of the face, and it ,* teeds the same careful and systematic Mention to keep it as it ought to be :ept. Taking care of it one week and leglecting it the next will do no-good whatever. Some women's hair is finf andnlk^ttfl| rkile others i3 coarse and bristly. ?ut whatever the hair may be, it reini?AO nniiol offonflAn [UHCO uuj atvvuviuu, The scalp, like the pores of the face, aust be kept clean to be in a healthy ondition. When it is dry and hard, t requires a nourishing tonic. Some ieople'8 hair, after being washed, will try more quickly than others. It is iot good for it to be too dry; so, when his is the case, be sure and use a onic. Many people differ about how often he hair should be washed. There ^ an be no rule about it, as every head leeds different treatment. For intance, some people wash their hair nee a month only, while others find hat unless they wash it once a fortlight it looks dirty and feels uneomortable. Hairdressers generally adise once a month, but if your hair is lirty before that it should be washed, v s a scalp that is not kept clean cannot lo the hair any good. Fair hair, unless washed frequently, ;enerally has a sticky, greasy appearnep wliir?h is anvthinc but beautiful. -Chicago Times-Herald. Fashion'* Fancies. Shaded feather boas and also coarse rliite net ruches wrought in big henille dots are much used. In adjusting the sashes and belt ibbons of various lengths, the smartooking Empire bow still remains a iopular finish to the waists of both day nd evening. If one wishes to freshen the bodice f a black silk or satin dress, airy lack point d'esprit draperies on the raist and sleeves make a cool and rflttv chancre in the crown. Very smart and pretty are the toilets f rose-colored, ciel-blue, or doveray mohair sicilienue, trimmed with raduated rows of Irish guipure inertion, with a tiny frilliDg of tulle at ach edge. Cream serge is getting in its inning iow. Gowns of this material are requently made with a plain skirt and short sacque coat with a deep sailor ollar, over which is worn another ollar of rich ecru Irish lace. Ttia rflru lnfpst, thine in millinerv is he halo. It is a large plaque of straw, rith the outer edge gathered Tarn o' ihauter fashion. The trimming is daced underneath instead of on top ,nd usually consists of plumes, which lug the hair closely. Parisian women are wearing shoe3 ,nd stockings to match their gowns, n mastic aud cream tones this will io, but when it comes to bright A ;reens, red aud blues the woman of eaily refined taste shudders at the nf such a fad. This notion of a plain velvet band >assed through a paste buckle eo loticeable in summer millinery, has xtended to woman's arm. She now eears a piece of black velvet, fastened ;arterwise through a small jeweled mckle, as an armlet. It heightens he whiteness of the arm wondexully. /