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SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1886.
Cleveland In North Carolina.
President Cleveland has been exercis
ing hie veto powers to the discomfort of
the good people of Asheville, N. C.
Congressman Johnston worked very hard
and had a bill passed by Congress appro
priating SBO,OOO for a public building.
Mr. Cleveland thinks that rent is so
cheap it is better for them to continue to
rent. The good Democrats of Asheville
had invited Mr. Cleveland to visit them,
but thinking by his recent actions that is
neither “wise nor just,” they withdrew
the invitations. They are much worked
up over the matter. In the meantime,
the Democrats of Cabarrus are raging,
because he will not turn a poor woman
out of a little postoffice and put some
Democrat in the place. Those who have
been favored by him and those who want
nothing say he is a splendid fellow;
those who have been disappointed (and
they are legion) say they would never
vote for him again.
Personal.
Mr. J. Will Brown was in the city this
week. lie will bring his family home
next week.
Mr. Israel I. Walker passed through
the city last Tuesday for Salisbury where
he expects to spend the remainder of the
summer.
Miss Sallie B. Lord arrived in the city
last Tuesday morning from Wilmington.
Miss Georgic Williams returned home
last Saturday evening from a very pleas
ant visit to Chester, S. C.
Prof. N. W. Harllec was in the city
last Wednesday nnd witnessed the mar
riage of Mr. Leary to Miss Latham.
Miss Annie Mannel, of Salisbury, is
spending this week in our city visiting
friends and relatives.
Rev. W, E. Partee, of Concord, was
married to Miss Edith Smith, of Lynch
burg, Va., on Thursday morning,4 o'clock.
John Henderson is very proud of the
boy. All are doing well.
The Christian Union Herald is a monthly
paper published in this city by Revs. A.
D. Waugh and W. E. Partee,
A pleasant ice cream supper was enjoyed
at Miss Ella Jones’ last night.
Miss Hattie Mcßeth leaves us to-day for
Bascomville, S. C.
Mrs. John Hand has gone to Morehead
City for the summer.
Hon. J. C. Dancy passed through the
city yesterday on his way to Lincolnton.
The Messenger will endeavor to be
more original and readable after this week.
Our office is in the Davidson building
over Mr. Jethro Sumner's barber shop.
Remember the excursion to Gastonia
next Friday. Let everybody go and
have a good time. 75c. round trip. See
bills.
Service and kindness neglected suspend
friendship.
As every thread of gold is valuable, so
is every minute of time.
Truth, the open, bold, honest truth, is
always the safest for any one in any and
all circumstances.
There should tie as little merit in lov
ing a womnn for her beauty as in loving
a man for his prosperity; both being
equally subjected to change.
The London Economist publishes from
the report of the British mint a compila
tion of the coinage of nearly all countries
for 1885, showing that $65,344,150 gold
and $75,804,005 silver were added to the
world’s stock of coins in that year. Os
the new silver coinage $28,950,000 was
in India, and $28,848,960 came from four
mints in the United States, leaving only
•bout $18,000,000 for all other countries,
•nd of this the Japan mint produced
$5.800.000
A pickerel was caught in a comtield in
llic Rock River (III.; bottoms while en
raged in huski ig corn. The water of
the river has covered the bottoms for
eight months, and much of last year's
corn remains ungathcred. The fish swim
into the fields and nibble the graira of
corn out of the husks.
FEAST OF BONG.
CURIOUS MEMORIAL SERVICES
OF THE JAPANESE.
Religious Rites Lasting Several
Days and Nights—Orations and
Decorations Addressing
the Dead—Fireworks.
The Japanese Feast of Bong, says s
contributor to the Now York Observer,
occurs during the month of August, par
taking of the character of a national holi
day, and is similar, in many respects, to
t?#) Chinese Feast of Lanterns. The
ceremonies continue through a succession
of days and nights, and are participated
in by the masses, seemingly engaging
the interest of rich and poor alike, in the
remembrance of their dead, to whom the
occasion is dedicated. Religious ritci
•re performed by priests in the temples,
where thousands of people flock on the
first day, after which the cemeteries are
visited. For weeks before the event
preparations for it begin, and it is in
augurated with the decoration of dwell
ings throughout the city with flags and
itrangely-wrought devices, symbolic and
legendary, displayed at every point.
As the feast day advances, the temples
•refilled with devotees,who listen to the
“Bouses” in flowing robes, as they chant
'.heir litanies before their triune gods.
Then the pilgrimages to the tombs fol
low, and it is apparent to the unaccus
tomed eye that preparations have been
made to prolong their sojourn at the
graves of friends beyond the present
day, for an abundance of food and other
essentials are among the articles con
veyed thither.
Arriving at one of the cemeteries, we
find the approaches to the same—the
roads and by-ways adjacent—bearing
the appearance of holiday preparations,
reminding one of an American village
fair. Gay colors prevail, noticeable in
the flags and lanterns, as weil as varie
gated dress of the people, which mingle
with the bright hues of a profusion of
flowers—all together dispelling any pos-
Ability of gloom associated with the oc
casion. Booths for the sale of articles
of food and a variety of bon-bons,which
find ready purchasers, are seen here and
there near the gates of the cemetery.
Many pilgrims are thus tempted to en
large their supplies of eatables and
knick-knacks, which are abundantly dis
pensed ns offerings to the dead, being
placed upon their graves by endearing
hands.
Groups of people of all ages assembh
•t the tombs of relatives, where they re
main during the day, and with the requi
sites for camping, or more properly
bivouacing, with nothing above them
but the starry heavens, they continue
their visit until two or three days and
nights have passed. Protected from tht
sun's rays by day, by their sun shades,
the day passes with the preparation and
eating of the food brought, and the dec
oration of the hundreds of graves with
flowers and the offerings liberally dis
pensed. While thus assembled, the
throngs are addressed by a stately per
sonage, who officiates as a kind of re
corder and historian, who moves about
among the people reading from a book
he bears an endless dissertation on the
affairs of the country, recounting publii
occurrences of interest which have trans
pired during the preceding year. Thus
are the dead supposed to be informed
concerning every topic of interest, as it h
to the departed that this address is modi
in grave and impressive accents by tht
stately sage, whose prerogative it is toen
lighten those whose lives are cut off from
things earthly.
The younger portion of the assembled
gathering are similarly instructed by an
other dignitary, who receives the pro
found respect of all, and who in turn re
counts the legends and native lore of tht
land to listening crowds. Thus arc th«
the young, as well as their elders, in
structed in much that other people;
gather from popular literature concern
ing the history of their country and their
rulers of by-gone periods, the achieve
mentsof armies in battle and the coun
cils of the nation.
When at the close of the day tiff
darkness gathers, fires are lighted in th»
midst of each family group, and th(
evening meal of rice and fish is pre
pared over a kind of furnace called he
baches. Hours are spent in sipping tei
from tiny porcelain cups, and during al
these ceremonies the dead is invoked tc
share with the living every luxury, henci
plates of rice and fish, with delicate por
cclain cups containing tea, are invariable
distributed among the graves, where
these portions of the dead participant)
are left mingling with flowers and shrub
bery.
The night scene at the cemeteries i»
even more striking to the visitor thas
that which meets the eye by day.
Myriads of lights twinkle and flash front
the hills, and lanterns now aglow, sway
ing in the breeze, reflect the hundred
varied hues and countless devices pic
tured on the banners and streamers, and
the carved and quaintly drawn images,
which, with the illuminated temples is
the vicinity, impart to the occasion •
weird and incomprehensible attraction
which mystifies while it entrances the
beholder * «ar=»—
As the night advances nnd the light ol
the lanterns wane and dimly burn, grouj
after group of the assembled thron*
spread their mats beside the graves ol
their dead and sink to sleep. The second
day’s proceedings are a repetition, with
some variation, of the first, but on thi
third day the scribe dwells, in his dis
course, on subjects of a more local anc
less important character, in which thi
village gossips enjoy a harvest of infor
mation, in which every household seemi
to possess an interest. - ——-
The Feast of Bong terminates on tht
third day with a great procession lasting
into the night, which occupies for thi
time being, the main streets of the town
Animals and birds may be seen moving
in the procession, propelled by some in
visible force, which, on inquiry, we lean
is supplied through the agency of con
cealed men and boys. Many men and
women bearing miniature ships and
junks, gaily trimmed, and loaded wit)
“chow-chow” for the dead who havt
been lost at sea, is a feature which is re
garded as important in the event of thi
fsnst. The moving pageant is enlivened
by many instruments, whose performers
follow in groups rather than as organized
nands, and the music they discourse can
not be regarded as at all harmonious or at
tractive. More musical are the efforts of
bands of musical girls, who pass in re
view, as a feature of the pageant, in
which a place is reserved for them.
Following with the moving throng we
find that the most impressive scene is
yet in store for the on-lookers. After the
procession has passed through the town,
it arrives at the water side, where those
who have borne the little food-laden
ship consigned to the dead of the sea,
launch upon the waters these miniature
vessels as maritime memorials, dedi
cated to the memory of those who among
relatives and friends have in other days
gone down to the sea in ships never to re
turn. One by one these ship-bearers
step aside, and approaching the water’s
edge, launch their boats seaward,
consigning them and their freight with
many God speeds to the realms of the
deep sea’s dead.
Each one of these little craft are sup
plied with a paper lantern and combusti
bles, which, after being set afloat, ig
nite and continue to burn for a length of
time. At this stage of the proceedings
already the darkness has followed the
end of the third day, and soon the sur
face of the water is covered with hun
dreds of these burning ships, the lights
of which, mingling with those on land,
the blazing rockets and the illuminated
temples and habitations, with the in
creasing splendor of pyrotechnics of all
descriptions, make up a fitting finale of
the strange and startling scenes associated
with the Feast of Boner.
A Tragedy es the Far West.
A dispute arose in an Indian camp
near Stockton Hall, Arizona, recently,
ind before it ended a buck named Pizzui
with his Winchester rifle shot and killed
Ah Quinthe and his squaw, a daughtei
of Chief Leve-Lcve, mortally woundei
mother buck and another daughter ol
the chief, and slightly wounded two
ather Indians. Then the murderer fled,
pursued by mounted braves. Head Chiei
Surrum arrived at the camp soon after,
•nd his first order was to kill all the rel
•tives of the murderer. The squaws and
pappooscs hurried to the miners’ camp
near by, and begged hiding places in
their cabins, and this aroused the miners,
who told the chief that he could not
carey out his bloody plan, and that he
must countermand his order. He re
luctantly complied, but issued fresh
orders to bring Pizzur in at any cost.
In the mean time the avengers were
riding fast alter the fleeing murderer,
and followed his trail into the Wallapa:
Valley until darkness put an end to tht
pursuit. Early next morning they took
up the trail, and, after riding twclvt
miles, they came upon the dead bodiei
of the murderer and his horse. It wai
apparent that after riding his horse unti.
he gave out the Indian killed him, and
then, putting the muzzle of his Win
cheater to his right eye, pulled the trig
ger, and cheated his pursuers of theii
anticipated vengeance. ,
Galley Slaves.
A galley slave is a person condemned
for a crime to work at an oar on board
»f a galley; a low flat-built vessel with
»ne deck and navigated with sails and
oars. Among the early Greeks and Ro
mans these slaves were prisoners of war.
l’he Carthaginians manned their galleys
with captive Mauritanians. The single
doubtful passage in Valerius Maxiums
has lead to the supposition that criminals
were sometimes condemned by Romans
to the galleys; but it is probable that
they were first used for that purpose
under the Byzantine Empire. In the
middle ages the galley-rowers were con
victs and infidel prisoners, who were
chained to the benches on which they
sat. Tho Turks nnd Barbary corsairs re
taliated, and captured Christians were
put to the same labor. In the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, France, Hpqin
and Italian republic! used the g»” ,_.i as
places of punishment for condoned tgim
inals, who were called by the French
Galerians and by the English galley
•laves. —Philadelphia Call.
Last year there were only five W. C.
r. Unions in Mississippi; now there arc j
•bout seventy. Antigo, Wis., has a live j
anion of sixty-eight members. Seventeen ]
taloons have been voted out of town.
THE GAUCHOS.
COWBOYS OF THE ARGENTINE
REPUBLIC, SOUTH AMERICA.
A Plctnresque Combination of Sav>
aeery nnd Conitlinesa The
Gaucho'e Dreaa and Food-
Cattle and Sheep Interests.
A Montevideo (Argentine Republic)
letter to the Chicago Hern says; If it be
true that the beef-eaters govern the
world, then Argentina must bear her full
■hare of government, for she has been
sating beef ever since she has been eating
anything. Her plains and climate are
specially adapted to the easy and proflt
•ble raising of cattle. .There are no long
winters through which they must bs
nursed. In many of the large States
they thrive better in winter than in sum
mer.
The original cowboy is the production
of South America. He rides a horse as
if ho and the animal were one. He comes
near to realizing the old thought of the
Mexicans, when they first saw the Span
ish horsemen, that this mounted human
body was a dist inct order of beings. Ona
would not hunt on the pampas among
the gauchos for the millennium, nor for
• higher order of beings, any quicker
than he would among the cowboys oi
Arizona. The gaucho is not unlike the
cowboy, except that he is every way
more so. He is more of an Indian, sot
he usually has quite a per cent, oi
Indian blood, undeniably declared in his
high cheek-bones, straight, coarse, black
hair,and copper or dark-tinged skin. Ht
rides wilder horses, and with either more
or less trappings, as necessity compels or
fortune allows. He needs only a short,
club handled, heavy-lashed whip, with
which he first tames his horse and then
his herd. He is also greatly delighted
with saddle and bridle heavily plated
with silver. He sleeps where night over
takes him and feeds on tho dried meat
which he carries; under more favorable
circumstances he has a small fioorlesa
cabin as headquarters.
Here he takes his breakfast on broiled
meat. He goes after the herd, leaving
his wife, whsn he has one, in the hut.
and he returns late at night to be fed on
meat. For months at a time he never
Mates vegetables or bread. Sometime;
he has a little pulverized farina, into
which he dips his meat. His dress is,
like himself, a compromise between the
Spaniard and the pampas Indian. There
is the broad-brimmed sombrero, bor
rowed from Spain. Then he wears ovei
his shoulders his poncho. This is the
garment upon which he sets his heart. It
is like a shawl, with a slit in the middle,
through which he thrusts his head, and
allows the ends of the shawl to hang
down over his arms. When his arms are
extended at full length the poncho look;
like a shawl folded through the middle and
held up by the folded edge. This is often
embroidered most elaborately and orna
mentally. When he comes to town wear
ing this garment he Bticks to it regardlcsi
of the temperature. We have seen thi
poor fellows on the steamers, with tht
thermometer nearly 100 in the shade,
wrapped in one of these heavily cm
broidered shawls, perspiring as if in I
Turkish bath; but they would nevei
think of putting them aside.
Next he wears a chirrepa. This non
descript is worn where civilized mer
wear pantaloons. It looks like a squan
or oblong piece of cloth, folded diagon
ally, one corner fastened to the wais'
and the opposite corner brought up be
tween the limbs and fastened to the bell
in front. The limbs seem to be looselj
enswathed with it. The chirrepa maj
be very comfortable, hut it is far front
trim. Under the chirrepa the gaucht
w ears calconcillous, a loose pair of whiti
cotton drawers. Thus got up, tht
gaucho adds the Turk to the combina
tion of the Spaniard and the Indian in
his composition. Mounted on his horse,
with his lariat hang to his raddle, he it
a distinct product of South America.
It is not well to regard him as a savage
Though he feeds on meat, and enjovi
both dangers and hardships, he has is
his veins some of the best blood of Europe
Go to this man’s hut on the pampas,
push aside the untanned bull’e-hidt
which serves as a “portiere” at the door
way, greeting you with all the dignity
and ostentatious politeness of an old
Castilian knight, he will offer you a seal
on the skull of an ox. Be careful and
bring to the front your best and courtly
manners, and exercise your most prudent
judgment in determining how much oi
his smooth Spanish speech is meant ano
how much is to be set down as pari
Spanish compliment. •*
Tha gauchos are chiefly interested ii
cattle. This industry has risen to won
derful proportions. In 1864 there wen
10,364,000 horned cattle in these conn
tries. In 1884 this number had incrensei!
to 16,000,000. The slaughter of cattli
amounts to 3,500,000 per annum. Twt
millions of these are for home consump
tion. Each person in the republic con
sumes one-half of an animal each year
the other 1,500,000 are consumed by thi
saladcros, or slaughter houses, whicl
prepare, freeze, and export the meat t<
Europe. With the refrigerators and salt
ing establishments the market of thesi
plains is the world.
More important than the cattle inter
rat is that in sheep. The fortunee o.
this industry have gone through every
shade of trial and success. At one timt
the carcasses of the sheep, like corn i»
lowa and Kansas, were burned for fuel
They fed their furnaces. The 23 ,111,004
of 1864 have increased in twenty years t»
70,010,000. Tha price has advanced
from thirty cent* per head in 1880 ti
$1.40 per head in 1880. The iheop prod
ucta have increased twelvefold in thirty
years. But it has taken fifty years tt
double the weight of the fleece. The ex
ports from this industry retch the clevei
sum of $40,000,000 yoorly.
Early Uo* of Artillery.
- When Romulus was marking out thi
limits of his new city, gunpowder wai
already known, and 2,000 years befor;
the birth of Schawrtz, pieces of ordnance
had been cast in China The Moon
used gune in Spain in the beginning oi
1200, if not in 1100. The claims of the
Chinese having now been generally ad
mitted, it is supposed that ordnance
reached Europe through the Moors ol
Spain or the Venetians. Neither, how
ever, had any connection with China It
is unaccountable that it should not have
been perceived by the Turks, who con
quered the northern portion of China in
the early part of the Thirteenth century,
and were established all around the Black
Sea with the exception of a strip between
Verna and the Bosphorus.
It is now doubted whether, indeed,th;
Black Prince did use guns at the battle
ofCressy; but there is no doubt that
Murad I. had before then employed them at
the battle of Cossova. On both side:
they were used, the Turks having already
instructed the population with whom
they were at war. Employing artillery
in the field, it was easy (reversing th;
process in Europe) to apply it in for
tresses ; the peculiar nature of the Strait;
of the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in
vited its use. To the batteries Disced
above Constantinople is attributed th;
fall of that city, the supplies from th;
•Black Sea being cut off.— National Repute
liean.
He Cured the Horts.
A Connecticut farmer drove a horse at
tached to a rack wagon to the wood lot
for a small load of wood. The animal
would not pull a pound. He did no’
beat him, but tied him to a tree and let
him stand. He went to the lot at euneet
and asked him to draw, but he would
not straighten a tug.
“I made up my mind,” said th;
farmer, “when that horse went to tht
barn he would take that load of wood. )
went to the barn, got blankets and cov
ered the horse warm, and he stood unti)
morning. Then he refused to draw. At
noon j went down, and he was hungry
and lonesome. He drew that load ol
wood first time I asked him. I returned
and got another load before I fed him. I
have drawn several loads since. Once hi
refused to draw; but as soon as he saw
me start for the house he started aftm
me with the load.”— Hartford Times.
Seventeenth Century Toper*.
Most of the Saxon drinking-cupe were
made without foot or stand, so that they
must he emptied before they could be
set down again on the table. But these
seventeenth century topers required that
a man, after drinking, should turn up
his cup and make a pearl with what was
left on his nail, “which if shed, andean
not make it stand on by reason there is
too much, must drink again for his pen
ance.” This was drinking “supernacu
lum,” or as Fletcher phrases it, ‘ad
unguem.” Another proof of having tossed
off his cup like a man was for the drinker
to turn it bottom upward, and, in ostenta
tion of his dexterity, give it a fillip to
make it cry “ting.” After all these tip
pling! a man was held to be sober who
could 1 ‘put his finger into the slime of the
candle without playing hit I, miss L”
Argonani.
Sad Fate of a Young Lady.
In Aspen,Col., a party of young ladies
climbed to the top of the fire bell tower,
sixty feet high, to obtain a good view oi
the city. Eppa Stewart ctepped to the
edge of the tower, nnd was leaning
against a corner post, looking over th
country, when tho janitor, not knowing
of the presence of the ladies, seized thi
bell rope to call a meeting of the fire
company. The sudden clang of the
great bell startled Miss Stewart, and she
plunged from the dizzy height to the
pavement. She was carried into n neigh
boring house, when it wax discovered
that both legs were so bad! j crashed
that the feet hod been driven to withn. a
few inches of the knee. The bones of
her left arm were broken ‘nto . printers,
•nd five ribs on the right side avers
broken and torn loose from the spine.
She was alive when picked up, but her
death occurred soon after. „
In the little German village of Segc
berg there lives a humble shoeinakei
named Honelaeh, who has collected
2,563 different kinds of beetles, 1,39(1
being native and 1,17:1 foreign. They ore
all scientifically arranged and classified,
and the collection i» an exceedingly t*l
uable one from aacientific point of view.
Although he is now eighty yean of age,
llomelach is still an enthusiastic student
of beetles, and he probably knows more
about these insects than any man living.
LADIES’ COLUMN. f
White Hands.
White hands are comug in fashion;
■gain, lawn tennis, boating, and all th*
naaeulino accomplishments having for ai
time induced women unnecessarily to
redden their hands. Chapped and red
lands are never pretty. The daughters
>f fashion now havediahos of hot water,
ihaped like a flower leaf, on their toilet
tables, in which they steep their hands
for a while before going to bed, then
inoint them with vaseline and put on
gloves lined with a preparation of cold
imam. These gloves should be of wash
eather, and several sizes too large for
'he hand. In the morning wash the
sands with almond powder in water, and
n hot water at that, afterward dipping
them for a moment in cold water to pre
vent chapping. Then rub them—from
Jie finger tips back to the wrist. If a
nanicure is not brought in for the nails
ui ivory instrument should be used for
he pushing back of tho skin from tha
-oot of the nail, and each nail carefully
trimmed with a sharp knife, then rubbed
irith a soft pad of chamois skin.— Cou
rier-Journal. .<
Tho Wives’ Bide.
In nil the vigorous efforts now being
put forth throughout the country for
sore wages and less work, why is it that
the wives’ side of the question is so little
Donsidered? The next time a procession
>f laboring men on a strike parade you;
itreets, just hunt up their wives and ask
•hem about their work. They will tell
you that they rise at 5 or half-past in the
morning, get their husband's breakfast,
get the children off for school, do the
washing, ironing, baking, sweeping and
■crubbing, care for the little ones, get
iinner, do the hundred odd jobs so nec
essary to a pleasant home, yet of which
the husband knows nothing, and then
their sewing and mending till 10 or 11
o’clock at night. They work over hot
stoves in summer, and in cold room 3 in
winter. Sickness even brings no release
If they can possibly compel their wearied
bodies to perform their appointed tasks.
Sunday's work is but little less, and
Thanksgiving and Christmas mean extra
cares.
Week after week, year after year, with
only an occasional afternoon or evening
i respite, the work goes on. What do
these women know of leisure? What
ihance have they for self-improvement,
| for true growth ? What compensation
Jo they receive for such a toilsome life i
Cheap food, poor shelter, poorer clothes.
And what do they think of strikes ? How
many would there be if they were con.
iuited ? Few, very few. Having been
forced to a life-long study of the subject
they geneaally understand economy bet
ter than their husbands. They know
that half a loaf is better than none, and
they realize that no work means no pay.
They know, too, that the burden of re
duced expenses must fail most heavily
upon them. When tho income grows
•mailer they arc told they “must econo-
Dmize.” How can they do it 1 Not by
reducing the expense of the table. Oh,
no! their husbands don't mean that. It
must be done by denial of self and little
ones. The already shabby clothes must
be worn another year. There must not
be one concert or lecture, and not even
j one day's excursion to the woods or sea
shore. Fuel must be used most sparing
; ly, when the husband is not at homo,
and not one cent must be spent for that
which is not a genuine necessity. Mean
while the husband goes on with hi;
smoking and beer drinking. If ths
strikers gain their point, how long will
it take them to make up what they lost in
days of voluntary idleness ?— Plainjielo
I {Conn.) Home Friend.
Fashion Notes.
Velvet flowers of tho most gorgeoui
sorts appear on straw bonnets.
The fringe of hair over the forehead
should always be slightly curled.
, Black, dark brown and navy-blut
! hosiery are worn with walking cos
I tumef.
The wearing of wavy curls resting oi
the neck is restricted to very youthful
ladies.
Graceful head wraps are made oj
pina silk with au edging of silken tasseb •
tied in. /
The short-hair craze has passed a* >
and seems to have been a whim of th&
dolent. 1
Black silk hosiery is worn with evA
ing toilets and with light dresses of even
description.
Many of the new sunshades show bou\
quets of jonquils or daffodils tied on witk \
black ribbons. 1
The black and white striped satin X
over which Paris went so wild last yea \
have come, and bid fair to be populai 1
here also.
Charming and becoming as well art
the little mull poke bonnets which prom
ise to be very much worn during th;
coming summer.
The new foulards are stamped witk
fine designs. Heliotrope and red groundi
will have bunchca of small mushroomi
and ferna, as well as many other tiny de
signs.
Some of tho silks for summer weat
have alternating stripes of lace greoa
dine. Moire antique and satin havt
atripea of close fringe woven in the ma
teriaL