text: {0 e ci\"-,:.”'iv‘ e L Y g o [’ ik ;y-' 4 ) ‘ \( vﬁ,‘uh q?'-'f;,»‘. ¢ vy ] Ry A : ,if" b R, ¥ . - i : vy : 9 gl SCiy ' h by R PV ".'g» fx}ﬁ <. " %I\l RS .’,:‘.’Q“k' v ) / R \;{t' v b m___,L'{ ‘f" ’ 1 ) B ey : o L . fz*rr*- R O e y o «ﬁg’ ’ i 3o WY TN & SRR L L el eel B A S RRS g ' OLNEYVILLE. . Pranch of Companioos of the Forest to .Be Form .5 From th: Square. ?\@ﬁ, w is a strong movement on foot xg 2 Olneyville for the formation of a ~\ AnC -of “Companions of the Forest,” e . suxiliary organization to the For 3“' jters of America. The subject of the ation was broached at w» recent | mmeeting of Court Gen. Sheridan, No. 22, " of this place, and it met with an en | . thusi ¢ response. There are three e cou of the Foresters in the vicinity, | and it is thought that with so much b:' b material a most prosperous " Branch could be obtained in Olneyville. | Last evening William A. Phillips held 8 meeting at the town clerk’s office in X ) on and issued second naturali . mation papers to about 20 residents, . mostly 0.K.0f whom were of British | birth. Mr. Phillips says that about 30 ﬁ‘} non-citizens have signified their | iatention of becoming American sub . Jects, and that he will issue first pa [ pers to them next week, mostly all of s{m Jhe says, being Italians. The Olneyville free public library will be today and remain so until September 6. The management announced that all the books now out will be available on the latter in consequence. The members of the Tabernacle School held a picnic at Silver Hook Park in Warwick Thursday afternoon. There was a good attendance, a party wagons being used to convey the yth thither. On the afternoon a horse driven by Edyford Cooper of South Scituate fell in a fit in front of a house owned by Henry Hall, also of the above place, at 472 Plainfield street. He was bled finally restored to his normal condition after which he was driven home by Mr. Cooper. CRANSTON. The Pocasset fire engine company decided last night to attend the lawn party of the Olneyville Temperance Cadet on Monday night next. It was also decided to hold a fair such as was held for one week by the company last October. The fair will be held during the first part of October and will last about seven days. Owing to an informality notifying the members about the meeting last night, another special meeting will be held Tuesday evening, at which time a vote will be taken on the question of attending the firemen's muster at Mount Hope Park August 25. The consensus of opinion that the company will not Attend the muster. No. Nixon of Princess avenue, Phoenix to spend a brief visit of the large merchants of the town, violated the town ordinances, and upon wooden signs on trees, bridges, and fences. Action over the made-up school accommodations has been caused by the fruit. A petition has been addressed to the town clerk asking that a special financial town meeting be called for Saturday, September 3, 1898. The petition asks the town to appropriate $15,000 for the purpose of purchasing and erecting thereon a new school building, with an assembly in Cranston village. It further asks that the town treasurer be allowed to borrow the requisite amount. The petition is signed by 16 property, and many are sorry they were not given the opportunity to sign it. The Citizens’ club of Cranston has taken the matter in hand and is assisting the vexed parents. The parents say that for the past four years they have been promised respectable quarters for their children, but more influential districts get all that is going. The petition asks that a committee be appointed to supervise the construction of the new building. R g T Y oy #‘Mﬂu of the town council was Bield yesterday afternoon, and liquor licenses were granted to William Hallas and Egisia Gazette. The death of Private Butler, a volunteer from this town in the First Rhode Island Volunteers, was referred to the committee. He called attention to the fact that, though the boy died on the 16th, no official news of his death was received until the 18th, and he thought the hospital authorities should have at once telegraphed. He said that Town Clerk Clever in the meantime had consulted with the state authorities with to bring the body home. But had learned that the state authorities had little authority in the matter. He said it was his belief that the people of the town desired to give Peter Butler an expression of their appreciation as a soldier by a public funeral. The motion was made that a committee be appointed to act to bring the body and give it public honors. Councilman M. C. Ryan said he agreed with the remarks of Mr. Dillon. The council then appointed as the committee Mr. Dillon, M. C. Ryan, and Town Clerk Cl and the committee was authorized to draw on the town treasurer to defray expenses, the son of John A. Porter of Valley Falls while playing about the freight yesterday, in that place, fell. From the freight car and dislocated an arm and his face. Dr. Smith at the point of death. A bou, 400 members and friends of the Fling Social club made their fifth an excursion to Rocky Point last night on the steamer Pawnee. Riley Brothers' orchestra was in attendance, to the strains from their instruments as well as enjoy the occasion. The committee was as follows: George Dewley, chairman; Mathew Kelley, secretary; Malarney, treasurer; William Davidson and Frank Beau. At the house occupied by George on Lonsdale avenue yesterday afternoon, an oil stove exploded, setting the woodwork in the kitchen. Was damaged to the extent of about $300 before the department could be under control. G. A. R., yesterday received a shipment from the commander of Prentice M. post of Attleboro to attend the day of the Attleboro fair, to be the G. A. R. day. A meeting of New England posts was held yesterday. For from business furnished, New England Cure for Rheumatism. A. PATTENETY, The work of crushing the stone for macadamizing the main street from the Cranston line to the end of the sample half mile at Riverpoint was commenced yesterday. Considerable unfavorable comment has been caused by the selection of new teachers in the public schools, the vacancies in nearly every instance being filled by teachers from other parts of the state and from Massachusetts and Connecticut, with the result that on the opening of the fall term next month many experienced teachers who hold state certificates and many graduates of the state normal school, who have spent the past five years preparing themselves for positions which they expected to obtain in schools in the neighborhood of their homes, find themselves relegated to second place in favor of teachers from other places. In many cases this action on the part of the trustees is resented by the taxpayers, who have, at considerable personal sacrifice, educated their daughters as teachers in expectation of their being able to secure positions in the local schools, and it is probable that the ill feeling engendered by the recent appointments will result in a change in the trustees in several districts at the annual elections. The tax assessors of the Phenix fire district have completed their work, and their report shows that the 316 persons assessed represent a total valuation of $1,817,200. In the readjustment of the assessments the valuation of the property of the Harris company was reduced $60,000, as the owners convinced the assessors that in past years they had been overtaxed. Rev. R. H. Wolfenden of St. Barnabas' church at Apponaug is spending his vacation in North Adams, Mass. The services at the church tomorrow will be conducted by Rev. L. M. Hardy of St. Philip's. The church, Crompton. The rails for the electric railroad which is to connect the valley villages with Providence have been laid as far as the bridge over the New England railroad, between the “Gorton Arnold Stand” and Natick, and the work is being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, but as the road approaches completion some of the business men in the valley who were at first greatly pleased with the prospect of trolley connection with the villages of Natick and Pontiac, and expected a large increase in their business from the patronage of the residents of these two villages, are commencing to lose considerable of their enthusiasm, and are asking themselves whether or not the opening of the road between the valley and Providence will not have the same effect on the business of the valley that the completion of the Pawtuxet Valley road had on business in Phoenix, when many who had always patronized the local stores were attracted to Providence by the easy means of transportation and the larger stock and lower prices of the city merchants, with the result that the business of the local storekeepers suffered severely, and the residents date the decline of the village from the opening of the railroad. George Brown is seriously ill with typhoid fever at the residence of Alfred Brown near Summit. The funeral of Mrs. Cordelia Brochu, wife of Joseph Brochu, who died at her home in Scituate Thursday, was solemnized from St. John's church at Arcadia Centre this morning, Rev. Father Bourgeois officiating. The interment was in St. Joseph's cemetery at River Point. Proprietor Mechanics of the Clyde Hotel lost a valuable driving horse by colic last night. A number of boys who were walking on the track of the Pawtuxet Valley railroad, near Pontiac, yesterday afternoon, picked up a signal torpedo, which had probably been dropped by some of the trainmen, and, placing it on the rail, hammered it with a stone to see if it would explode. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and one of them, named Johnson, was knocked down and had his face and arm badly cut and burned by the explosion. WARREN. The members of Mechanics' fire company took out their old Jeffreys hand engine last evening for a trial squirt on Market street. With but twenty-six men on the bars, the machine threw a solid stream 173 feet. Another trial will be made this afternoon, when fifty men will be stationed at the brakes. The machine has recently been overhauled and repaired by Potter and Collamore and will be in the contest at Mount Hope Park next Wednesday. Mrs. Mary A. Read is recovering from a painful but not dangerous injury, caused by being knocked down by an express wagon. She is attended by Dr. All. An interesting tub race was engaged in at Chace's shore on Touisset Neck yesterday in which Charles and Joseph Estes, Granville and Lewis Meader and Misses Josephine and Gertrude Estes were the contestants. The first prize was won by Miss Josephine Estes and the second prize by Miss Gertrude Estes. All the other contestants were swamped before the finish. A. B. Gardner, treasurer of The Wai ren Institution for Savings, Dr. Preston Day and William C. Barker, are enjoying an outing in Maine. Cornelius O'Brien and family, who have resided here ten years, have removed to Lowell, Canton Sowanset, will make an excursion to Newport, Narragansett Pier and Block Island, next Friday by steamers Day Star and Mount Hope. Mr. Daniel Bray has gone on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. George Halvows at Westerly. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bertenshaw, of Woonsocket, are visiting his sister, Mrs. James Bachelder. CENTRAL FALLS. The work of assessing the city tax for the current year is now nearly completed by the board of tax assessors and they say that the valuation will be larger this year than it was last. The Royal Weaving Co., the Farwell Worsted Mills and the Copper Co. are corporations which have enlarged their plants, causing the value of their property to be materially increased. The liquors recently seized in Patrick Doonan’s tenement over the Ledge House were ordered forfeited to the state yesterday in the district court. Mr. Doonan was not present. It is commonly supposed that a number of men who have been inspecting lots at Hendricks and Cleveland streets and at Kendall and Claremount streets are looking for a site for a cardigan and stocking knitting industry. Apparently most interested will not be able to make any facts in the case. THE NEWS, PROVIDENCE, B. I., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1898, AT THE THOMAS END. Mrs. Kelley Recovered the Stolen Coat. Capitol Hill Notes. Housewives have been for a long time, whether with reason or not, sus picious of peddlers in this part of the city—that is, most of the housewives who are not sharp at a bargain outside of # big store, Generally they do not open the doors wide to this class of men, but Mrs., Maria Kelley, who lives on Alaska street, is apparently not of the class that is afraid, for after tell ing an Armenian that she did not want to buy anything, she watched him as he went through the entry. The Ar menian, unaware that he was watched, picked a good coat from the hall rack and started walking slowly away. His gait was soon more rapid, for he ascer tained that Mrs. Kelley was following him. The faster the Armenian moved the faster Mrs, Kelley followed, until Langdon street was reached. Then the Armenian dropped the coat, and con tinued his flight. Mrs. Kelley picked up the coat and went home. 4 kY’ Capt. Stevens of the Second police station is enjoying a couple days' fur lough, and the residents along Officer Gilfoil’s beat are a bit lonesome, for he is away until Monday morning. A couple of wheelmen were very angry from their experiences on Ran dall square last evening. One of them was riding along carefully, with little thought that a horse going along close to him would cause trouble, The horse had a sudden attack of nervousness or jealousy, and turning sharply threw the cyclist off his machine. A bit of car track was ugly prominent and it caused another wheelman to come in close touch with the ground. Neither de votee of the exclusive means of getting along was injured. Officer McGroarty returned Arthur Smith, an 8-year-old lad, whom he found astray, to his parents yesterday afternoon. The police of the Second station took care of two drunks last night, and placed two suspicious persons in a place where there could be no doubt of the safety of the district so far as other dwellers therein were concerned. Rev. John Mason, pastor of the Ruggles street church, will speak tomorrow evening at the church on “The Result of War and Our Duty.” BRISTOL. Mr. David A. Pierce who has been in the clothing business upwards of thirty years has been compelled to close out his business owing to his health being much improved. He will leave today with his wife for Springfield, Mass., on a visit to their daughter. Mr. Oliver C. Pearse, who found a coat, vest, and hat belonging to some unknown person hanging on the blinds of his residence at the corner of Church street and Pearse avenue, has not yet found an owner for them. Henry Breckenridge, electrician of the Providence Telephone Company and Alexander McClellan, superintendent of construction, are at work making preparations to transfer the central office of the company to the newly purchased building at the corner of Hope and Bradford streets. The town council yesterday voted to allow the contractor to remove two trees on each side of Hope street to permit the passage of the Y.M.C.A. building to its new location. The walk on the east side of the common and many of the crosswalks are in bad condition owing to the recent heavy rains. Among the 29 naval reserves who were drafted to the Yosemite and afterwards transferred to New Hampshire, from the U. S. S. Constellation were J. A. Allen, R. J. Anderson, and A. F. Dunbar of the Bristol naval reserves. They have again been transferred to the U. S. S. Constellation at Newport. Mr. and Mrs. F. Kenny, well known summer residents, entertained at dinner yesterday a number of their friends. The tables were elaborately arranged with cut flowers. It is expected that when the naval reserves boys return they will receive a grand reception as preparations are already being made for the event. A party of ten couples left here last evening in a barge for Thurston's at Point Pleasant, South Swansea, where an old-fashioned clambake was served at 10 o'clock. The grounds were beautifully decorated with Chinese and Japanese lanterns and Gale's orchestra furnished the music. Mrs. A. S. Williams of Providence will preach in the Advent Christian Church tomorrow. The reader of this newspaper, if he takes the time and trouble to look carefully through its columns, will probably find a half dozen statements tacked on to the foot of reading notices about medicinal preparations. Note this fact: In each and every case, as far as Providence is concerned, as far as the reader's knowledge of the party is concerned, he might just as well live in the moon. Make another note of this. The only remedy on the market which gives testimony at home, local proof in every town and city in the Union, to back up its claims is Doan's Kidney Pills. They all try it, but they cannot do it. Why they are unable to do it, can safely be left with the reader to draw his own conclusions. Here is Providence proof for Providence readers. Mrs. Charles S. Northrup, of 10 Washington street, was visiting at the house of a lady friend who chanced to faint or collapse, in Northrup, a young and strong woman, twisted her back when lifting her acquaintance, and the strain or wrench brought on mild kidney trouble, with the usual attendant pain in the small of the back, sediment in the kidney secretions, with greatly deepened color. Her husband was trying a box of Doan's Kidney Pills obtained at the drug store of F. L. Lotrop and by him she was induced to take them also. She says: "The sediment disappeared and my back became as well as ever it was. I am a thorough believer in Doan's Kidney Pills and have recommended and will continue to recommend them." Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all dealers, or mailed on receipt of price - $1.00—by Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name, Doan's, and take no other. “RICHARD IS HIMSELF AGAIN” PARIS HOUSE! Henceforth from this date L. D. NEWELL & SON will occupy the whole of the PARIS HOUSE from Basement to Dome. There will be many changes and improvements. First of all, for the NEXT TEN DAYS there will be the GREATEST REDUCTION SALE OF THE SEASON. READ THE PRICES. CALL, AND EXAMINE. That will tell you the true statement of facts. THE FAMOUS SHOERS! Special Sale for This Week to close out odd lots and seasonable stock at about HALF PRICE OR LESS. From $1.00 and $2.50. Reduced to 25¢. A pair—Infants’ Fancy Suede and Kid Moccasins. From 3¢. Reduced to 20¢. Children’s Dongola, Patent Tip, Spring Heel, Button and Lace, sizes 6 to 8. From 50¢, Reduced to 25¢. Children’s Dongola, Patent Spring Heel, one strap Sandals, sizes 13 to 2. From 75¢. Reduced to 40¢. A few more of those Misses’ Tan Goat, spring Heel, one strap Sandals, sizes 13 to 2. From 98¢. Reduced to 69¢. Women’s Chocolate Goat and Dongola, Patent 7Tip, Coin ROOO. Tomorrow the Episcopal church will be reopened, having had a few beautifying alterations made in the chancel. The chancel floor has been lowered and the railing that separated the sanctuary from the choir has been moved out to a line directly under the arch in the chancel ceiling. Instead of the common wooden floor covered with carpet, the chancel is provided with a beautifully peolished floor of hard maple. The approaches to the altar are by the changes made more symmetrical, more dignified, and less abrupt. The changes, also, have made more room for the clergyman officiating at the altar. Appropriate to the occasion of worshipping in the remodeled church, Rev. H. C. Dana, the pastor, has selected as his text St. Luke, 19th chapter, 46th verse, “It is written, My house is the house of prayer.” Mr. Joseph Sundan has departed on a week’s vacation. Mr. Daniel B. Wright returned last night from Block Island, where he has spent a pleasant week. Miriam lodge, No. 14, Daughters of Rebekah, will hold its annual outing at Rocky Point Thursday, August 25. EAST PROVIDENCE. A man named Taber who claimed to be a painter and to hail from Salem, Mass., was arrested for drunkenness last night. He had partly undressed and lay down to sleep on the streetcar rails. It was a hard job to get him to the station and it was morning before he could make any statement. This forenoon a horse attached to a wagon ran away from Warren avenue opposite Eighth street and was caught at the watering trough on the square. A broken whiffletree was the only bad result of the run. Some Bad places in Watchemoket Square have been recovered with crushed stone. The prospects are that a big crowd will attend the firemen's muster at Mount Hope Park on next Thursday, and the friends of both companies will go down prepared to see both machines win. Members of the local companies are doing some hustling with tickets for the excursion. LAFAYETTE MONUMENT, John W. Mackay Has Accepted a Place on the Commission. Chicago, Aug. 20.—John W. Mackay, of California, New York and Paris has telegraphed Commissioner General of the Paris exposition, Ferdinand W. Peck, his acceptance of appointment as a member of the Lafayette Monument Commission. Five of the nine men who were asked to lend their names and services to the labor designed to draw closer ties between the United States and France have now sent an affirmative answer to the request. They are John W. Mackay, Senator W. B. Allison of Iowa; Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston; Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania railroad and Alexander H. Revell of Chicago. Secretary Thomsop of the Paris Commission, says that the sculptor will be an American. The commission will select the design and later will give an inscription to the finished monument. DISTRICT COURT, Common Drunkard Sentenced—Other Cases Disposed Of. John Padien pleaded guilty this morning in the district court to a charge of being a common drunkard and was sentenced to a six month sojourn at the state workhouse. Trestian Mowry was arraigned today for having sold adulterated milk and pleading not guilty was held for trial Tuesday. In $200 bonds, John Smith, who it is alleged, drove off a horse which was the property of Dennis P. Winn without the consent of the owner, glided not guilty and was held in $200 bonds for trial Tuesday. ROBBED A POOL BOX. Boy Thieves Stole $1200 at Race Track at Fort Erie, Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 2.—80 y the thieves stole $1200 from the pool box at the race track at Fort Erie, Ont., yesterday. The cashier had his attention attracted for a moment but turned in time to see a boy's hand grasp a bundle of Canadian bills. The boy ran and was seen to hand something to another boy who disappeared in the crowd. The police of Buffalo and Fort Erie have arrested three newsboys named O'Brien, Slayton and Mullin. No money was found upon them and they deny the theft. From $1.25 to $9c. Women’s Chocolate and Tan, Opera and Coin Toe Oxfords, in C, D and E widths, all sizes... From $1.50 Reduced to $1.19 Women's Dongola Oxfords in C, S, Opeu. Coin and London Toes, C, D and E widths... From $2.00 Reduced to $1.35 All of our Tan and Chocolate Oxfords in hand turn and McKay sewed... Convivial. From $2.00 Reduced to $1.50- Women’s Dongola and Chocolate hand turn "Princess" Oxfords, B, C, D and E widths... EMPRESS TAN BOOTS from $3.00—Reduced to $2.10-Coin and English toe... STORY DOUBTED. Report That the Mermaid is Short of Provisions Not Credited. Letter Recently Received Here Says the Party Was in Excellent Condition. The Rhode Island and Alaska Mining, Trading & Transportation Company, which was organized last February, by citizens of Providence, East Providence, Warren, Pawtucket and Fall River, purchased in San Francisco the bark Mermaid, and the 20 members of the company went to the Pacific coast and had the vessel thoroughly overhauled. Now, however, information from Kotzebue Sound, by way of San Francisco, says that the revenue cutter Bear found the Mermaid at anchor there, short of food and with Capt. Wickes, her commander, missing. Those acquainted with the officers and members of the company do not place any credence in this story, particularly as Mrs. Fred M. Howard received a letter from her husband early this week, which was written on July 18, in which he says that the Mermaid, laden with freight, passengers and two years' provisions, left San Francisco May 14 for Kotzebue Sound, arriving at the destination July 1, after a pleasant and enjoyable voyage, without accident or trouble of any kind. The letter also stated that Mr. Howard and nine others were to leave on July 19, for the Kowack river, prospecting, and were packing their outfits to last until next spring. Mr. Howard said that all the men were in good health and were in the best of spirits. It is the opinion of Mrs. Howard that, as her husband’s letter was written two days after the revenue cutter was at Kotzebue Sound, he would have made mention of the fact that food was scarce and Capt. Wilkes had left the bark, had there been any truth in the story. The officers of the company are: President, Edward E. Munroe of Warren; vice president, Fred M. Howard of Providence; treasurer, Edward P. Borden of Fall River; auditor, James A. Moncrief, Jr., of Pawtucket; general manager, Henry L. Borden of Fall River. United States Fish Commissioner Says They Are ‘Dandies.’” “Colorado will be the greatest trout State in America,” said J. J. Stranahan recently. Mr. Stranahan is the superintendent of the United States Fish Commission Station at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, and recently attended the Fish Commissioners’ Convention at Omaha. “Colorado,” continued the Superintendent, “is peculiarly adapted for the propagation of trout, although not for many other species of the finny tribe. Moreover, the red-speckled, or what you might call the Eastern trout, will thrive perhaps better in Colorado than in its native streams. I fished at Balley Station, this State, in 1879, and took from the streams there 332 black speckled beauties in one day. That gave me an idea of what the streams were capable. “Possibly you do not know it, but Leadville's trout hatchery is the largest in point of production of any in the United States. It is propagating millions of the species, and the fry, when turned into the creeks, multiply in a surprising manner. Aside from the big rainbow trout, Colorado is going to be the spot ideal in America for sport of this character. When you advertise your gold mines, tell also of your trout streams.” —Denver Post, Bismarck on Dutch Annexation. I was with Bismarck in Russia. He did not go much into society, but studied Russian and sought to establish a close friendship. Between Russia and Prussia, in both of which aims he succeeded. Two men so dissimilar as he and Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Chancellor, could not have been found. But they managed to hit it off together, and the Emperor of Russia had a great liking for Bismarck. The Duke of Osuna was then a Spanish Ambassador in Russia. He was ostentatiously hospitable. One day at one of his dinners, Prince (then Count) Bismarck and I came out of the dining room together. As we passed through an outer room, we saw the Dutch Minister, a somewhat penurious gentleman. Bismarck said to me: “You have often heard of Prussian love of annexation. If we stand talking, and do not let him suppose that we are watching him, you will see Dutch annexation.” There was a box of cigars on a side table. The Dutchman approached it, looking toward us, and, thinking that we were not observing him, filled his pocket with the cigars. From the London Truth. AT THE BLACK TAFFETA RIBBONS. PRICES FOR THIS WEEK: NO., 10:ccecccccssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss SILK WAISTS—HALF PRICE. LA%I“E-S' “}ASH“ S&LK WAISTS, n selling PLAIN colored muslins may be newer and smarter than the figured, but never have there been more figured muslins worn, and the variety of coloring and design is endless. A charming dainty gown, from Harper's Bazar, that is suitable for afternoon wear, is of pale yellow “‘muslin with a flower of deer orange. The skirt is made so that it fits to perfection over the hips, and is full at the back. Over the hips and around the back breadths are lines of white lace entredeux, and around the foot of the skirt is a most effective flounce made of strips of lace and muslin; the skirt part is finished in points outlined with lace. The waist is tight fitting, with a vest of fine tucked muslin of plain yellow—the tucks apparently fastened with flat pearl buttons—lines of white lace insertion are put on at either side of the vest, and there are lace ruffles over the puff at the top of the sleeve. This puff is of the plain muslin, while the lower part of the sleeve is of the figured design. Worn with the costume is a hat with brim turned up at the left side, and trimmed with feathers and flowers. A PISCATORIAL CONUNDRUM, It Was Captured With a Crowbar Down in Massachusetts, Daniel A. Buckley of Cambridge had an exciting experience at his summer home at Annisquam lately, which resulted in the capture of a twelve-foot fish, the name of which is at present unknown. The knowledge of specialists is to be called in to determine to what species the fish belongs. Mr. Buckley is engaged in building a cottage on the beach at Annisquam. He was superintending the work that day when his attention was drawn to something struggling in shallow water. Two of his men armed with crowbars rushed into the water and belabored the unknown thing with might and main, the doughty Daniel directing their efforts from the beach. The fish was skilfully guided into still shallower water and fourteen shots from a revolver were put into its body. Finally a line was attached to its tail and after a fight of two hours it was hauled out. Mr. Buckley describes it as twelve feet long, with a sharp snout one foot long. Back of the head the body is barrel-shaped, and it tapers gracefully to the tail, which is powerful and capable of exciting great damage. Although they were many men in the crowd which hered who had followed the sea there was none who could tell what the fish was. Boston Transcript. PIGURED-MUSLIN GOWN FROM HARPER'S BAZAR CLOAKS, SUITS WR APPERS. Must Be Sold. Lowest Prices ever named to close out all SUMMER STOCK. SEPARATE SKIRTS. 25 BLACK FIGURED SILK SKIRTS, grinding. $3.98 50 FINE BRILLIANTINE SKIRTS, 3.98 plain and figured, good........... WRAPPERS. 50 do P w y t [ dosen Perssle Wragpers, srest 50c. DICKENS AS HE WAS, His Appearance Disappoiated His First American Audience. When Charles Dickens was to make his first appearance in Boston before an American audience as a reader, an immense crowd awaited him. The enthusiasm of the people for the most popular novelist then living had risen to fever heat. One of the most ardent of his admirers afterward told this little incident of the evening. "With a few gentlemen who wished to welcome and show him attention, I was in the little room at the back of the platform when Dickens entered it. He was a rather stout man with a somewhat red face, and I saw to my surprise that he was dressed in an ex exceedingly servility to the extreme fashion. "He than this he wore a bouton niere in each buttonhole, and two watches, the chains of which were strung aggressively across the chest. There was a gaudy, bad taste in his appearance which his friends regretted knowing how distasteful it would be to one of his admirers who appreciated his genius, and enjoyed his writings. "No one, of course, could broach the subject to him, and he a red that night and every other man his engagement in the same attire. The universal comment was, 'Why, this is a petit-naitre. How can a man with such tastes be the creator of Tiny Tim and Sam Weller!"—Youth's Companion ion. 