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Show modern vessels are large. Wonderful Growth of Steamships FROCKS Fnc&.TME CLAIMS in American Dentist, Expelled from Dresden, Denies Wrongdoing. There is a growing opinion in Dresden that the expulsion of the Ameritransatlantic trip, will recall memo- can dentist, Lewis A. OBrien, is not ries of the national excitement attend- so much due to any questionable relae years ago, tions with the former Crown Princess ing the arrival forty-fivof that wonder of the modern world, Louise of Saxony, as to the desire of the Great Eastern. That premature and impracticable ship, whfch would have been broken up within a few years but for her exceptional utility in cable laying, a use of which her builders had no thought when they designed her, was 680 feet long, eighty-thre- e feet beam and sixty feet extreme depth of hold. Hr displacement was 22,027 tons. The Cedric is 700 feet long, sevenfeet in breadth of beam, ty-five forty-ninand feet depth of hold, and her displacement Is 38,200 tons. Her external dimensions are those of the Celtic, but her capacity is a little greater. She will need a crew of 335 men and will accommodate 2,600 passengers of all classes. She represents only the present state of the shipbuilder's art, says the New York Times. That much larger vessels will be built Is altogether probone-thir- Little Girls School Frock. Frock of dark gray-bluserge, for child from 5 to 7 years old. The plaited blouse has a pointed yoke composed of overlapping bands of the material, and the tops of the sleeves are made In the same wav. Straps of the cloth extend over the shoulders, forming sort of bretelles. The collar is of embroidered linen and the cravat Is of e d able. JAMES H. BLOUNT IS DEAD. the court to cleanse the capital of that may recall the unforeverything Best Known as Man Who Hauled tunate period of the Crown Princess Down American Fag in Hawaii. career. James H. Blount, the man who Dr. OBrien admits the original orhauled down the United States flag der of expulsion gave him only twenty-fou- r hohrs grace, but he denies having received any compromising letters from the Crown Princess or having had any acquaintance with her other than the most proper and professional LONG BEFORE THE PUBLIC. Minister Prefontalne of Canada Is an Expert in Municipal Affairs. Raymond Fournier Prefontalne, K. C., recently appointed Canadian minister of marine, belongs to a family that settled In New France, 1680. Born at Longueuil, P. Q., 1850, he was educated by private tuition and at SL Marys college, Montreal. Mr. Prefontalne was mayor of Hochelaga, 1879-8since which time he has sat in the city council of Montreal. In 1898 he was elected mayor and again in 1900. In 1902 he offered himself as before the candidate, but resigned polling day. A liberal in politics, he In Hawaii, died at Macon, Ga., last sat in that interest for Chambly in the and for Quebec legislature, 1875-8week, of congeston of the lungs. Mr. Blount represented his district same constituency in the house of . At the general elecfn Congress for twenty years. He commons, 1886-96made his first appearance in politics tion of 1896 he was returned for the In 1872. He was one of the leading Democrats in Congress during his long period of service. His chief title to fame, however, rests on his action in pulling down the American flJg ia Hawaii after the Dole rebellion against Queen Liliuokalani in 1893. In May of that year. President Cleveland appointed Mr. Blount minister to the Hawaiian republic. He returned to the United States In November of the same year and retired to private life. Since that date he had remained quietly at home attending to his private business. -- ANARCHISTS MEET AT LONDON. the Central Figure at the Gathering. The foreign anarchists of London held a meeting the other day, at which Louise Michel was by far the most Interesting. She Indulged in no tricks of oratory, but, holding her hearers by the sheer force of personality, new constituency of Maisonneuve and clasped and unclasped with nervous in 1900 again returned both for activity her hands, in which she held and Terrebonne. a handkerchief. She spoke of the Louise Michel Black Hand, a term applied in Spain to a group which the workmen say is only an adaption of trade union prln- - French Veteran la Lively. Ernest Legouve, oldest member of the French academy, has entered upon his ninety-sevent- year, but is h still well and hearty. This wonderful old man visits a fencing hall every morning at 10 oclock and has a fast bout with one of the fifteen-minut- e He hardly weighs sixty instructors. Desvai-lierepounds.' His daughter, Mme. old and is Is sixty-eigyears also ardently devoted to exercise, being easily able to swim the Seine M. Legouve twice without resting. says he has a triple wish to be able until the last to hold his fork, his razor and his sword Bteadily In his hand. s, Western Character. CapL Seth Bullock, who was the first sheriff of Deadwood; has been visiting in Washington. He Is an old friend of the President, who Invited the captain and his wife to attend a musicale at the white house. Well, Seth," said Mr, Roosevelt as the exsheriff was leaving, How did you like the music? It was too far up the gulch for me, Mr. President," was Mr. Bullocks characteristic western reply. In days gone by Capt Bullock was remarkably handy with his shooting utensils and is known to have pacified for good not a few bad men. Old-Tim- Anarchists In Council, clples in that country, but which the people and the police declare to be an anarchist organization. Malatesta is at its head. Her Bpeech, delivered all through in French, was a passionate vindication of the principles of an. . archism. e one-legge- d ary world of France. Railroads Gratitude. And So Ad Infinitum, A German scientist who Is the suc- cessor of Prof, Koch announces that he has discovered an insect which destroys the mosquito. This Is Imly, has been given a pass for himself portant, but we shall withhold our confamily over the entire system for gratulations until It Is found whether a period of ninety-nin- e years as a re- or not it will be necessary to find another creature to destroy the insect gard. Edward S. Glasscock of Harrisburg, Si., who prevented the wreck of the Big Four passenger train there recent- , ,,,r. Status of Liverpool Museum. Sweet Home. When completed, the Liverpool the heart is. The dodgers heart is seldom found far museum will, Sir W, B. Forwood says, way from his taxable estate. New be second only to the British Home is where ork Mail and Express. and the girdle is of the material. Wiener Mode-AlbuDutch Steaks. Take the remains of a cold boiled steak, mince it finely and add a little ham to It. Mix with half its weight In bread crumbs, one ounce of butter to every half pound of the mixture, season all with chopped parsley and sweet herbs, pepper and salt. Bind all with a little nice brown gravy, In which an egg Is beaten. Butter a sheet of thick white paper, and place the prepared meat on it in the form of a steak, double down tbe ends as you would a salmon steak. Place the packet in the oven, and bake for half an hour. Serve on a hot dish, with a Scatter good gravy poured round. shopped parsley and horseradish on the steak, and pass a good gravy round. Convenient Slipper Bage. Cinderella bags are Intended for Slippers and come In all styles from the pretty silk bag to hold satin dancing slippers to the utilitarian type made of denim and intended to hang In the closet The evening slipper bag has a handsome painted design upon it, showing a tiny figure of Cinderella, or It may be a slipper painted gracefully upon It. The closet slipper bag is . plain, showing an outline embroidered slipper, while the boudoir bag comes in between these, in artistic value, and may be of silk, with a painted design, or else of soft leather, with a figure of the famous Cinderella done in sketchy lines. Suspended by brown or blue ribbons, this boudoir bag is very ornamental. A convenient bag to hang beside the dressing bureau, is made of nineteen rings wound with silk, and two inch satin ribbons. The rings are about the size of a quarter of a dollar and are arranged In a triangular form. In six of these rings, a wheel design In embroidery silk fills the center and the remaining eight are open. The open rings form a border around the triangle of filled rings, and satin ribbon Is woven In and out of them, ter of the minating in a bow at each-entriangle. A triangular piece of card board, covered with satin, forms a back for this bag of rings. d , of sal ammoniac. Dissolve In a quart of water on the stove, and add a pint of laundry ammonia. To two gallons of warm water add a cupful of the sothe carpet and lution sponge thoroughly. For Afternoon Wear. For afternoon wear an exquisite albatross dress was recently mads. In its construction were used silk embroidery, chiffon and passementerie. The gown was of one tone, ecru being the color, and all the seams were cov- - Try a sumbhth for rheumatism. Try clam .broth for a weak stomach. Try eranberiy poultice for erysipelas. Try gargling lager beer for cure of sore throat. Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try eating fesh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try the croup tippet when a child la likely to be troubled with croup. Try buttermilk for the removal of freckles, tan and butternut stains. Try hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain and renew frequently. Try taking cod liver oil in tomato eat cup if you want to make it palatable. a Try hard cider wineglassful three times a day for ague and rheumatism. Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening. Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to relieve whooping cough. Decorated Lamp Shades. Decorated linen lamp shades have a deep plaited effect, but look as if opened out. They are made on a firm foundation, and while the airiest of thin shades in appearance, they are in reality the most substantial. Roses or flowers of the showiest colorings are the highly effective decorations of these large shades. Pretty Walking Hat. The walking hat illustrated is of stitched brown felt with a brown mar It Is curious and, indeed, startling, says the Philadelphia North American, to find that right here in this city there has existed for nearly fifty years without the knowledge of more than a few persons an association of men devoted to a unique and unostentatious Public Ignorance of their enterprise is all the more remarkable from the fact that among these men are some of the wealthiest, most incitizens in fluential and the community. f But it is the unusual character of their beneficence that attracts Interest All these men are wealthy some beyond the dreams of avarice but their purpose has nothing to do with the amelioration of the condition of the pauper. On the contrary, there is a society for the rescue of the decayed millionaire. They call it the Merchants Fund association, and the 49th annual meeting was held the other day in a little old room in South Fourth street, away from the clamors of the more pretentious virtues. In a word, the plan of these kindly old gentlemen is to relieve once wealthy companions of their early days, who have since lost their for well-doin- best-know- n -- tunes or In other ways suffered the vicissitudes of time which come to so many. The act of Incorporation, dated 1854, says that the object is to furnish relief to indigent merchants of Philadelphia, and especially those who ere aged and infirm, and there is a commentary on the ironic whims of circumstance In the fact that since that time 1300,000 has been paid out in ben- efits, In that first year seven merchants were aided, while In the year Just beneficiaries were on past forty-thre- e the roll and $10,200 was disbursed. Comparison of these figures might afford matter for interesting speculation. more reckIs the merchant of less than he of half a century ago, or is it that the number of merchants and, therefore, of has Increased, course, the number of unsuccetsful merchants. More than $400,000 is now in the invested fund of the organization, and It is almost constantly receiving accretions, so that there Is plenty left wherewith to provide for the unfortunate plutocrats of the future, If the supply of unfortunate plutocrats holds to-da- y K out Say All the Stars Are Aglow t Declare That, Like the Sun, They Are Masses of Burning Matter Fires Die Down and Then Blaze Out Again as of Yore . , Scientists terie. The waist was of silk embroidery and so were the upper parts of the sleeves and also the cuffs. The full, baggy portion of tbe sleeves was composed of accordion plaited chiffon, and the same Soft material appeared In the neck of the gown. Revived Fancies. Not only is dress ever varying from the Empire to Louis XV, and vice versa, but the decorations for the dinner table are en rapport, in many cases, with this revival of a really beautiful period. Those who are the happy possessors of baskets In old Sevres or Dresden china, are fortunate indeed, for they make the arranging of delicate flowers and fine foliage, the center ones preferably higher, an being easy matter, greater beauty added by the presence of long trails festooned from the center to the cor' ners. n, watcher in the old barony of in the year of grace 1901, seas a new star suddenly blaze out in the midnight sky, to fade away only as its predecessors had done, leaving, perchance, not a trace in the sky to tell the spot where once a world existed. Among the millions of stars are to be found bodies in all Some are stages of 'development. ter. glowing with an Intensity of heat As a rule these vast furnaces burn and light far beyond our utmost conSometimes, however, the ception; others are slowly cooling steadily. fires Beem to die down and then blaze down already they are dull red in out again as of yore. Three hundred color; some are cold and dark and such stars are known to astronomers, dead. will ever perceive No telescope says Chambers Journal they are called variable stars because of the these latter bodies and no camera waxing and waning of their light will detect them. We only know that Now and again the seething fires they are there by their influence over prove too strong for the bonds of at- the light and motion- of bright stars. tractive force which hold the star One of the most interesting sections together, and with one mighty up- of the new astronomy deals with heaval the vast globe is shattered these dead, dark stars, and, although Into fragments, blown into atoms, no eye has seen them, or ever will see them, still we are able to ascerveritably dissolved into thin air. Thousands of years after this ex- tain their size, weight and position plosion the record of the catastrophe just as if they were in the zenith of reaches the earth and a solitary their glory. During the last sixty years searchers of the heavens have made the discovery that the celestial bodies known to us as stars are similar in many respects to the sun, some considerably larger, others smaller, but on the average not much different In size and nature from the sun. They are at least the visible stars are-g- reat glowing globes of gaseous mat- Bon-ningto- 1 St Many Made Idle by a Trust Mercerized duck will make smart shirt-waisuits. Green Is quite noticeable In the new spring cotton goods. Hints of what tailors will do in the spring indicate much trimming. Cotton etamlnes promise to be among the popular fabrics foe summer wear, Pongenette is the nam,e given to the newest comer among the desirable thin cottons. Buttons galore of all kinds and sorts on everything and anything are promised for the spring. Voile, etamlne, grenadine and crepe de chine are still to rule supreme as the correct fabrics for spring gowns. st pyro-graph- ic scarf for about pompon and a trimming. The tan coat has trimmings of dark brown velvet braided m tan. Rc-ma- To Clean Carpet Without Taking Up. A carpet that has been used during the summer and shows the signs of wear, but which you do not care to send to the cleaners before another spring, may be cleansed very nicely by using the following preparation: Five cents worth of tartaric acid, 6 cents worth of pulverized borax, half a pound of common soap, half a pound taOWNS FOR THE LATE BALL8. Case in Point Shows One of the Grieat Evils in the Opesr ation of Industrial Combinations New England Village Wiped Out One of the great evils In operation of industrial combinations, from the point of view of the wage earner, is their power to scatter a community to the four winds or stafve its people into submission to the demands of capital. It has been pointed out that perhaps one man or a small group of men, by the mere act of signing an order to close up a plant, could exercise a power of life or death over thousands of human beings. Something akin to this happened in the beautiful New England village of New Hartford, Conn., last August and September, when the comparatively large cotton duck mills of that place were ordered closed. Nearly 1,000 persons of the 2,300 in the place were compelled to lefrve the town. Nearly a hundred houses were boarded up and rents were offered free to the mill hands who remained, for some mfen who had worked thirty, forty, or even fifty years in the plant were too old to get work elsewhere. With the population out almost in half, the merchants of the place thought they saw ruin before them. The pay rolls of the mills had been more than $175,000 a year, and when the spending f this money stopped it seemed as if the community must die. The income of the churches was cut down, a large part of the forof the Catholic eign congregation church disappearing as if swept out There were fewer by a cyclone.. children for the schools. The value of real estate declined and those who had put their savings into homes found themselves unaole to get rid of them. There were too many merchants, too many physicians, too many barbers and, one and all, they sat down to see who would go away or go to the wall first Gloomy forebodings as to the increase of the poor fund of the town arose; the bells of the mills ceased to ring; the town band, that gave a concert every week, ceased to play; a water power, estimated as worth from $290,000 to $300,000, lay idle; the machinery of the mills was being shipped to the trusts mills in Alabama; only the four walls of three large buildings remained. - The town was dead; the heavy hand of a trust seemed to have crushed Worlds WoVk. HOW ROBSON BECAME AN ACTOR do you e Most Famous Paris Salon. Long Feud Between Senators. An unusual incident occurred in Princess Mathllde, who was a striking figure in France during the days the Senate when Senator Clarke of of Napoleon III., is still in good health, Arkansas walked up to the presieighty-threher notwithstanding, dents desk alone and took the oath. years. Her salons in the Rue do It is usual for the senior senator to Berry, Paris, retain many of the tra- escort his colleague, but In this inditions of those days when literature, stance Senator Berry, whp is known veteran of the conpolitics, music and the arts were the as the thief attractions to the home of no- federacy, and Clark have been bitter bility. The Princess Mathllde is surr- personal enemies for seventeen years. ounded each Sunday by a number of Senator Bacon offered to do the friends and admirers, among whom honors for Clarke, but the latter dere some of the most distinguished clined, preferring to make his debut Members in the diplomatic and liter- alone. A Distress' Organization of Rich Men Formed to Relieve the Fallen Millionaires Who Hare of One-TiUpon Evil Times, me HE IS INNOCENT. the Last Half Century. The coming of the Cedric, the largest steamship afloat, on her maiden e tFlRD ILLS Philadelphia Society Is Unique it me? First Received Encouragement From the Great Webster. Stuart Robson tells this story of how he became an actor. I had run away from home In Baltimore and had drifted to Washington with my playmate, Arthur Pue Gorfrom Mary, man, now a senator-elec- t land, and for several weeks I was on the verge of starvation. Gorman had a lot of push and he landed as A page In the Senate, but somehow I couldnt connect hut I used to hang about the capital Just the Bame, and one day I remember It well, because it was marked by sort of dull, red clouds, that now is spoken of as the Yellow Day in Washington Gorman came to me and said: Rob, If you see Dan Webster hell think It a great chance for Yes, my boy, I do,1 answered Mr. Webster. You were cut out for an actor, and not for a statesman. I daw you yesterday laughing at one of Andrew Johnsons Jokes, and yiur laughter fooled me for a minute. Go on the stage, my boy. That is where yon belong. And I went on the stage, and I am still on the stage. Baltimore Sun. Woman's Caprice. telephone bell rang loudly. Frederick Blllson was very busy with an important conversation. "Who Is it? he said to the office "" The boy. Its a lady." Well who Is she? Says youll find out when you come fix yon. i I was astonished at the assurance to the 'phone. TeU her to wait I cant be bothof Artie Gorman, but I saw Mr. Webered. a and within week through his ster, Blllson resumed his Important coninfluence, strange as it may seem in the light of history, I was made a page versation. When he took up the reIn Congress. Daniel Webster, Toombs ceiver the connection had been brokof Georgia and Jefferson Davis acting en. as my sponsors. That night when Billson called upon I served two terms as a page and the Only Girl he wondered why she one afternoon I received an Invitation greeted him so distantly. from John Sleeper Clark and Edwin At length she told him. Booth to join a company which they 1 think you were just horrid to had just formed In Baltimore, to tour speak to me that way over the phone Delaware and Virginia In Shakespearian plays. I did not know what to do. today. But I never spoke to you at all My mind was In chaos. I wanted to Thats just the point you didnt be better than a page, and yet I had a yearning to the stage. It was at speak to me at all. You see, you adit yourself. Freder Mr. Billson, this time that I met Mr. Webster. He mit was hurrying toward the Senate cham- I never could be happy with a and and heres your ring notan-othe- r ber. word I said to him, Mr, Webster, I have And Billson found that he had made had an offer to go on the stage. one more addition to his collection " Indeed replied Mr. Webster. of data Yes. sir, I renlied. timidly, and an. concerning the caprice of worn- -' A br-r-u- te |