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I J Smart Frills of Fashion w ..... erience of France Cited by o Justification - ftf. IV. Stabbing 9 fid Hubert in a letter smiles at British fears of a Invasion and talks of the wild panic iu London in yut he need not go so far back the coast towns of .Willi AlliMUU OiaiCS VCIf JUat ca iiaun.-iinivuvu he Spanish-American war, though Cervera's fleet was sands of miles away. France neglected repeated warnings to keep her fron- r protected, and Germany after Ions secret preparation might nor napping and descended on Paris is a war which Regression, except in the eyes of this military nation, which fbly will be the greatest menace to universal peace until loulldihg up a wonderful home empire, and with her great pjctly secure from invasion; but she has few colonies to pro ry cfc.cure seaports, so that it hard to understand her feverish fiild a mighty navy. It is hardly likely that England with her Jtlying possessions and her own exposed coasts can cdmplacently r very existence is at stake. Only the ignorant in each nation cheap sneers at the other's expense. History in the past has in her worst hours of trouble Germany has found foes around her but never England. Germany is forging ahead now, bat her riso fio more wonderful than the stupendous power gained over, the ory quarter of the glohe by practically the smallest country in course we are iramea to mini: me ijruisn siow, ooiuse, una quite cheap insults commonly thrown at them, but the fact remains ;sh have opened up the entire world, while other nations stayed ey have built up a foreign trade which is amazing. On their piany and ourselves have eagerly followed, and perhaps with and by avoiding their mistakes and profiting by their experi- eat them out in the end, but we have yet to oust them. And oast, too loudly when we have yet far to go? The jir-riri"?$ Jarvellous" Handy Man ' 1 r "III . .. ,r ef CLflN'Ml .. 6tEes lawr. r r i i i r -Cartoon by Maurice Ketten, in the New York World. SIX BABES DIE AS "WITCHES" 1. Reading Coroner Investigating Deaths of infants Treated by Incan tations--Had Summer ComplaintOperations cf "Doctor" Not Only Allowed Infants to Perish, But Started Neighborhood Feud. J "Ey Eugene Wood J Y . t OU know the Handy Man, don't you? the fellow that mr.kes his own fly-screens, and they fit; that knows how to give the cow castor oil, for she won't take it from a spoon like a person; that rigs up a reel for his lawn hose instead of hanging it on a hook to spring a leak; that lays his own cement walk and steps, the steps just a little out of gee, but look how little it all cost him; that builds his own mission furniture which has to be moved with a pry when they sweep; that paints everything about his place that paint will stick to; that takes his clock apart to clean it instead of sousing the works into gasoline the way the fellow does that comes around to the house; that can fix the doorbell when it won't ring, and has all the locks and hinges on the place so that they pretty rear work of themselves. You know the Handy Man , don't you? Well, I don't like him. I repeat I don't like the Hasidy Man at all. But you understand as well as I do that all my mockery V.lw. n. ,.JV rt-y-v .M.mirr.ft oil Vita mnAl'flrr rf ma and m V uiw ua9 uecu cm cilui i lu feci, ictcuc iui tin ai-io "'w' j -j thumbhandedness. In my heart of hearts I must own up that all our present high estate is from his handicraft. The erected man must first have hands that could relieve the Jaws from holding things ere ever the wide-stretching mouth could shorten and contract ( enough to form the sounds of speech. Nc story writer has ever dared to make his castaway on a desert island as naked and empty-handed as were our far-off ancestors when they landed on this planet, not a penny in their pockets, and no pockets. Heady to perish were our fathers, and all the way along, from the first flaking of a flint to give it a cutting edge, to this day in which the yielding air has finally made a solid pathway for our travel, it has been the skilful hani that has created for us a world to live in the hand of the Handy Man. Hampton's Magazine. f Actors Old and Jieiv The "Palmy Bays" of the Profession Jtlways Receding Reading, Pa. Coroner Strasser is busy procuring evidence in the case3 of six infants, all of whom died within twenty-four hours. It is charged by the Coroner that all six of the chil dren were treated "by "witch doctors," but that the only thing they wers suffering from was summer com plaint. Coroner Strasser has reported the matter to the District Attorney. Reading has many "witch doctors," and there have been cases in court time and again of persons who de clared that neighbors "verhexed" them. No sooner does a child become ill In this section than the neighbors rush in and declare the child is "ver hexed," and a "witch doctor," with his incantations, is sought out. In the cases of the children that died while undergoing this treatment several were simply treated by chant ing mystic words while a red cotton cord was passed over the body. In other cases a bag containing charmed words was hung about the neck. The Coroner said: "Many children die every summer from summer complaint that do not have an attending ph3rsician. Upon investigation I find that the parents are of the middle class, and spend their money calling in old women who make a practice of 'powwowing' and using charmed words. "What is more, these women de scribe the 'hex' to the parents, and this is the cause of many of the neigh borhood feuds that are aired in court. "The parents of these children in nearly every case imagined that their offspring were suffering from witch craft, and they immediately hustled them off to a hexerai doctor. It is about time that the authorities Inves tigate the illegal practice that has existed so long in Reading and Berks County, and which is the fundamental reason for the many deaths. "Parents are entirely too super stitious. In many cases they believe that their children have a spell cast over them and Instead of consulting a regular physician go to a hexerai doctor and procure either a hoodoo or a charm to drive away the evil. "This charm or bag is worn on cer tain parts of the child's body and is kept there for a certain length of time,. Certain passages of the Eible are repeated daily by one of the fam ily to break the 'hoodoo,' and the powwow doctor calls daily and goes through funny stunts in an effort to chase out the imaginary spirits." Ty Charles Eattell Loomis. of New York o I LD fogies of all ages (some are not yet 21) make me tired. You'll always find the old fogy who longs for the days when actors "could really act and when Shakespeare was ade quately represented. Old fogies of this year of grace hark back to the "good old days" of the late '70's, but I remem ber that critics who wrote in those days were in the habit of picking flaws in Edwin Booth himself and prating of the days of his father and Macready and Forrest. Now as a matter cf fact (I like to bo didactic this hot weather) those who saw the recent production of "Twelfth Night" at the Academy of music saw the very best Malvolio that has been seen in New York in thirty years. I have seen at least half a dozen Malvolios, Americans, English and one German in that time, and Edward Sothern more nearly real ized the part than any other. Thirty years 'rom now some old fogy of that time will be mourning for the palmy "old days of the first decade of the twentieth century, when Shakes peare was really played," and yet I'll venture to say that each age will raiao up its own capable actors. For versatility there was of course one Edwin Booth, but as great as lie may now be doing turns in some cheap East Side music hall. Not only do we have the poor always with us, but genius is peculiar to no generation. Perhaps the man who will make New York remembered may to-day be crying for his bottle, in New Zeatend; but those who did not see Sothern and Mar lowe mipsed a dramatic treat that in a smaller theatre would have been almost too good to be true. td Armageddon Ey Hyacinthe Rinvrose HE word "Armageddon," which has figured so largely in patriotic speeches and newspaper headlines recently in Eng land cannot be found in any of the leading dictionaries, it is takerv??! course from the Apocalypse, where it is the name givyfi the field of the final struggle between the powers r ' f f and evil. Literal ' gnifies "the mountain of Megiddo," Megiddo being a cfOfln the great plain at the foot of Mount Carmel. ' It was there that King Joslah received his death wound In the battle against Pharaoh Necho II., King of Egypt. J Lord Rosebury, Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Balfour during the past week lave prophesied that the German Ocean is 6hortly to be the Armageddon where the fate of the British Empire is to be determined. It is a disquieting t'-rt tl-.At the leaders of bcth the Government and the Opposition appear to cct as unavoidable a coming conflict between England and Germany, f :r ly we are rattling back to barbari sm when two great nations of the same nee stock are, without a cause for war, preparing to meet each other In the paddoa which has been so much talked about the pest week. GUILLOTINE REVISITS PARIS. Only Fifteen Seconds Needed to Behead a Parricide---An Awesome Scene. Paris. The French mind being pre-eminently logical it Is difficult to believe that it will not demand a change in the method of carrying out execution. The law demands .that they be publicly performed In a public place. In practice no member of the public, strictly speaking, saw any thing of the execution of Duchemin, the only eyewitnesses being 150 jour nalists, a dozen mounted gendarmes and twenty policemen. The difficulty in finding a place for the guillotine since the Roquette prison was pulled down has always been proffered as an excuse for the practical abolition of capital punish ment which Paris has enjoyed or suf fered for the last ten years. That this difficulty does not exist wr.s shown when the guillotine was erected at the middle of the 300 yard v.'all of the Prison de la Sante. It stood in the centre of four chest nut tree3 belonging to the double line of trees that border the Boulevard Arago. Opposite this wall are the grounds of a huge unoccupied con vent, so that nothing overlooked the snot. The only drawback was that there is no door to tfie prison on this side. Therefore the condemned man. leaving by a door on Sante street at right angles to the Boulevard Arago, was driven some seventy yards along this street and then 150 yards to the place of death. Some 1200 troops were on duty, barring every road around the prison. Double and some times triple cordons both on foot and on horseback fifty yards apart made it an assurance that nobody ould ap proach except those possessing a po lice pass. At about 3.45 Deibler's men began erecting the guillotine. Silently, without the sound of a hammer, with out a spoken word of command being given, it was put together by the light of a candle flickering in an old time lantern, and this was used even when Deibler wished to test the machine with a spirit level. Everything was exact. In an hour's time one of the executioner's assistants blew out the candle. All was ready. The1 knife was run up to the top of the frame, but no .tes't drop was made, bo confi dent wag Deibler in his men and the machine. It was cow the dawn or a perfect Bummer day. As the sun rose it re vealed the maroon colored "timber of justice." Its position among the trees robbed it of much of it3 crude horror. Shortly before 5 o'clock, when' it was full daylight, the prison van came around the corner and up the boule vard and stopped opposite the guillo tine. Two men let down the back, which formed steps from the vehicle. Then down these came first the prison governor, then a priest and then a figure which might have been Lazarus coming from the grave at Christ's command. It had its hands fastened behind its 'back and a loose covering hanging from the shoulders. The body was naked except for a pair of linen trousers. Over the face hung a black veil, thin enough to allow the features to be visible, for the Code enacts that parricides must be taken to the scaf fold in bare feet and with veiled head. Duchemin was twenty-eight years old, but the livid face might have been that of a man any age over sixty. It was the faoe of a man with out consciousness or feeling of any kind for whom assuredly the bitter ness of death had already passed. Within fifteen seconds from the time the prison van stopped the knife had fallen. This seems incredible, one of the newspaper correspondents took the time by a stop watch. In hose fifteen seconds Deibler's aids seized the cloak and veil, conducted the condemned man three paces be tween the van and the machine and laid him in place. The knife fell in stantly and the body wa3 pushed Into a basket. How such perfection can he at tained when the men have so little practice on living subjects is little short of marvelous. The speed com bined with the evident Insensibility of the doomed man robbed the specta cle of its horror. It had more re semblance to a clevpr performance of the disappearing lady act of the mu Bic halls than to a tragedy of death. For those who were watching with in three yard3 the work of setting up the dread machine In the darkness and silence will remain a memory long after the recollection of the ac tual execution has faded away. Calderon is Foreign Minister. 'Carlos Calderon assumed the Min istry of Foreign Affairs in the new Gonzalez Valencia Cabinet, at Bogota, Colombia. It had been reported that Marco Fidel Suarez would be Foreign Minister. Two Dreadnoughts For Chile. The Naval Council at Valparaiso, Chile, has recommended the building of two ships of the Dreadnought type. Souvenir of a Hot Tennis Bout at the White House. "Washington, D. C. Night work has been begun on the addition being built to the executive offices at the White House. Three shifts are now working, and thero will not be en hour's let-up until the addition i3 completed. In the old tennis court, now being excavated, one of the workmen found buried in the clay at a depth of four or five inches a tennis ball. He pocketed it as a souvenir, saying as he did so: "I'll bet Theo dore drove that one into the ground." "Crowned Heads Will Disappear iu Ten Years," is Prediction. Chicago. Near the close of his lecture on "The Rise and Fall of the Polish Republic," at the opening of the Lincoln Temperance Chautauqua Assembly at Evanston, Colonel John, Sobieski created a sensation among his auditors by declaring: "Ten years will see the end of the crowned heads of Europe, and in their places will be men of principles like Washington's, Lincoln's and Jeffer son's. Then will come the blessed day of liberty peace and fraternity." New York City. The plain gulmpe Is one that is always in demand. It can be made from one material throughout, or it can be made from come simple lawn and faced to form a chemisette or a yoke or in any way that may be liked, so lessening the quantity of fancy material needed. This one Includes sleeves of three Borts and can be faced for full length For the Aviator. The divided skirt has been pro?v nounced the proper style for the wo-. man aviator. Eight Gored Skirt. The skirt that is made to give a panel effect is one of the very latest. This one Is snug fitting over the hips, while it provides abundant flare about the feet, and it consequently is grace ful and attractive in tho extreme. In the'illustratio-n it is made of linen and is trimmed with a simple banding, but the panels allow of treatment of va rious sorts. Heavy lace insertion or applique could be used as a finish or bands of the material braided cen broidered. The model Is just as avail able for the thin batistes, lawns and tho like as it is for the heavier linens, pongees and wool fabrics, and conse quently is a generally useful and sat isfactory one. The skirt is cut in eight gores and there are pleated portions joined to the front, side and back gores, which are cut off to form the panels. The closing Is made invisibly at the left of the back. The quantity of material required at the centre front and back or to form a shallow or a deep yoke, and it can be made high , with a collar, or collarless, or with round or a square Dutch neck, so that it really fulfils every requirement. Long plain sleeves are fashionable, aed are much liked when found becoming, but mod-e-ately full sleeves in both three quarter and full length are having equal vogue, and any of the three which may be liked can be used. The guimpe 13 made with fronts and backs. There is a casing ar ranged over the waist line in which tapes are inserted to regulate the size. The long sleeves are iu one piece each, fitted by means of darts. The full sleeves are gathered into bands whichever length is used. When the high neck Is desired the regulation stock finishes the edge. The quantity of material required for the medium size (eight years) is one and three-quarter yards twenty one or twenty-four, one and "three eighth yards thirty-two or one and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide. for the medium size is eight yards twenty-four, five and a half yards thirty-two or four and three-quarter yards fifty-two Inches wide, with sev en yards of banding. Collarless necks and elbow eleeves appear together. An Old Fashion Adopted. Many black watered ribbon sau tolrs and muff chains are to be found, ornamented with .the pretty diamond dusted Empire or other links. The initial idea was born years ago in this country. It was taken up by the Pa risian Jeweler. Plaids For Childrem Pretty plaids of modest size, bor dered with plain color, are among the cew goods designed for children. Smart Lingerie Blouses. Flutings of linen edged with nar row lace attached to each side of the front pleat and to both edges of the wide cuffs appear on some of the new est and smartest of lingerie blouses. The flutings are not too wide to stand out crisply. Silk Coats. Some of the loveliest of the coats are made of the lighter silks, cf crepe, cashmere de sole and such like. i
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