VEILS FOR SUMMER
Domes
Metropolitan New of Interest
to All Readers
City Items in Terse Form
Faithful Dog Avenges a Policeman
NEW YORK. Patrolman Lawrence
Cum ml nil of tho Knot Ono Hundred
nnd Fourth Direct pollco station, on
whose pout tho car barn gang has Its
headquarters, was beaten savagely by
members of that band and was In the
hospital for several weeks.
Tho first request Cummins made to
Capt. Corcoran when ho reported
again for duty was to bo assigned to
his old post: Ho said bo wanted to
nhow the loughs that ho was not
nfrnld of them and that they could
not drive n policeman from his place
of duty. Capt. Corcoran took the
imiio view and sent Cummins back.
From the moment ho rosumed his
work Iho gang annoyed Cummins, but
It was not until tho othor night that
the roughs got a chance to "do him
up" again. Ho found about n dozen
of them on tho street Insulting wom
en who passed,
"Mnvu ou," commanded Cummins.
Hut a truck driver, 10 years old, hurled
Insults at tho pollcoman. Cummins
urrcstcd him. Tho rost of tho gang
disappeared. Cummins started for
tho pollco station with his prisoner,
but as they went along thero was a
Law Can't Suppress Babies' Howls
TOOTH"
fin mfi
JWI DfATl
PINCHED
BROOKLYN, Anxiously nwaltlng
tho outcome of tho Important caso
of Tucker against Coch, tried In tho
Flatbtish court, Brooklyn, Flatbush
mothers lenrncd with groat rollof that
they would not bo forced to tho ox
penso of equipping their toothing bn
bios with Maxim slloncors, Coch lost
and tho bableB of Flatbush wore tri
umphant. PnBBlng, Solomon-llko, on tho great
Ihbuo, Magistrate Nnumor ruled that
even a Flatbuah Infant must havo
tooth to go through tho world with.
Should ono bo expected to worry
through llfo with' kuiiib Innocent of
molnru and Jnclaora, missing tho JoyB
of sinking them Into sirloin at 30
conts a pound? To bo suro not. Was
Mr. Coch a toothless baby 7 Of courso
ho waBn't. Didn't ho cry when tho
soothing syrup failed to soothoT Ho
did. Well, then, why Bhould tho
Tucker baby bo denied that world
old prlvllego of Infancy? Mr. Coch
could ndduco nothing to overthrow
thlH nrgutnent.
So It was ruled by tho loomed court
' vn r
Mississippi Catfish Are Thirsty
CT. LOUIS.-Il 1b only within tho
J memory of tho oldoBt of river men
that tho rivers forming tho great Mis
n sHlppl system hnvo been bo Jow In
the 'Bummer na thoy havo-this year.
THo old-tlmcra finy tho low BtngoB thin
year cnt. bo comparod only with thoBo
of 1804, when tllo cntflBh hnd to climb
out Into tho Holds to moisten their
, parched throats with tho dew.
North of 8t. Loula steamboat trafflo
-.Is nlmost nt a standstill on account or
il0 low water in tho Upper MIbsIbbIp
Tl. Tho Diamond Jo lino has boon
rforcod to take off ita through boats to
SM'jluUnd Una groat dlflloulty in got
l,tS Its local packela through to Bur
llngton. In. Many excursion boata
arq tied up. Soveral of tho boats havo
been damaged In an effort to navlgato.
King Hog Makes Lucky Farmer Glad
KANSAS ClTY.-vTho greatest mon
eymaker on tho farm during tho
paut year has boon the hog, Tho
farmer with n carload of hoga waa
assured of an automobllo, a trip to
Huron, or inoro form land. Novor
In modern history hnvo Iiorb boen
Hold at such high prices, on a strictly
gold basis, of courso, as during tho
past uevernl months.
Early In the present ypar thoro
woro ropOrtB of a "hog ahortagoV. f rom
many liog-rnloliiK districts. And mar
ket recolpta boro out tho roporta.
From January 1, 1010, to July 1, 1910,
recolpts nt the flvo loading woatorn
inarlteta Chicago, Kansas City, Oma
call from a t6ot. Tho prisoner broke
from Cummins and ran Int oa house,
Tho gang bad gone to a roof, torn
away tho chlmnew and waited for th
policeman and his prisoner. When
tho signal was given and tho prisoner
had fled from tho firing zone his
friends hurled tho chimney brick
down at Cummins. After three bad
struck him on the head he fell un
conscious. Men who saw tho attack
ran to tho station. Sergt. Illgglns and
eight bluecoats raced to tho rescue of
their comrade.
Twlco n week a Dadmatln dog, Bes.
sle, who belongs to truck company No.
20 on Ono Hundred and Fourteenth
street, visits the East Ono Hundred
and Fourth street station, and has a
supper at tho ezpenso of John RIttor,
That night sho was there and sho
went with tho rescuo squad.
When tho men entered tho house
from which the bricks had been hurled
on Cummins the dog went with them.
Hitt whllo tho sergeant and bis men
wont to tho roof Bcsslo stopped at tho
second floor.
Hack In a dark corner of tho tene
ment hallway sho had caught sight of
a man, and, Instead of going further,
sno leaped for him, She got a cood
pn his trousers and he could not boat
her off. Five minutes artorward the
policemen on their way back to tho
strcot nftor a fruitless search, heard
a scuffle They found Bessie' still
holding on to tho man. Ho was the
escaped prisoner.
that it was well within tho old Ro
man, tho English common, tho ro
vised or unrovlsod statutes, tho city
ordinances, Magna Charta, or oven
tho plain or common variety of law
for any Flatbush baby to howl and
yowl and rip up tho palpitating si
lonco of tho Flatbush night and turn
it inaldo out whllo his "toofena" aro
punhing thoniBolvcs out as a protest
against a milk diet. Thlo applies to
both boy and girl bableB not only In
Flatbush, but all over Brooklyn.
Sumnor Tucker and Arnold Coch
Hvo In adjoining cottages, or villas,
as they obtain In Flatbush, In Mar
tenso Btrcot. All wnB woll between
them until tho Tucker baby arrived.
They had borrowed and loaned lawn
mowera, exchanged pardon scods and
talkod radish, lottuco and othor gar
den crops. But with -tho coming of
tho Tucker heir a gulf oponed.
Llko most infants of Its age, tho
Tucker ono Is busily engaged In
bringing in teeth. Now, Mr. Coch has
no objection to tooth. Ho owns a lot
hlniBolf. But tho duv nml nlirht vnnnl
domonBtratlonB with which the Tuck
er baby accompanied their efforts to
push through mado Coch poevlflh. Ho
Huggestod a, motor boat mufllor or
Bomethlng llko that to Mr. Tuckor
and tho latter wan Irrltnted. Ho had
hlB neighbor summoned to court, say
ing ho had abused him.
But Whllo tho Btenmhont Intprnota
nro suffering tho pearl button fac
torloB and tho poarl huntora aro reap
ing a harvest. HundrodB of men, worn
on and children can bo Boon along
tho wator front of ovory town hunting
clams. Tho bIioIIr aro sold tq tho but
ton fnctorloB oftor being searched for
yonralB. Many flno pearls havo boen
found. Ono found by n Dubuquo man
wub sold for $400.
if it woro not for tho wator that
comos out of tho Missouri, steamboat
tralllo would bo suspended botweon
here nnd Cairo. Whllo tho MIbbouiI
haB not rlson this year to within 1G
foot of tho flood stage, It hna main
talned r. steady flow of water, enough
to keop tho Bteambonts going on the
Mississippi and enough for tho boats
runlnng on that stream. Still, unions
thoro nro rains booh in tho north tho
Missouri la Ilkoly to go very low this
fall, although not an low ns It hna
been in somo years, It has boon many
yours since tho Missouri has fallon bo
low tho toro Btago. ' It Is now eight
foot nbovo that Btngo, which la about
tho usual flow in tho fall.
ha, St. Loula and St. Joseph woro, In
round numbers, two and one-fourth
million head Iubb than during tho cor
responding tux months of 1009. Ar
rivals at tho flvo big points In tho
flrat half of 1909 numbered 0,280,000.
Hi tho flrat half of 1010 receipts at
tho provloitBly mentioned markets
woro 2,990,000, In othor words, a
growing population wnB fed on 75 por
cent, of tho hoga that wcro consumed
In the flrat alx months of 1909, Tho
direct effect of tho decrease In hog
reoolpts, whllo tho population was un
questionably Inqrehnlng, was a sharp
advance in market valun of bwIoo.
At tho Kansas City stockyards fto
average coat of hoga for tho flrat six
months of 1909 was 0.G4 per hun
dredweight, tho llrat half of 1910
thoiaveragoco8t'iat tho, aame mar-net
Waa I9.S1, showing, n gain of. $2.07 por
hundredweight, ornbout 40 per. cent
At all tho other 'markets the adva'nc
in prices waB practically" equal to th v
at Kansas City.' I mx t .
By JULIA.
Tho veil for summer la the airiest
of creations, falling; about the hrlm of
hats and over faces aud floating free
to tho summer winds. Dots, set on,
havo been shown Ichb favor than !at?
.patterns on a net ground or largo
incased nets with figures woven In.
Those veils which aro not 'of thn
floating kind aro of tho latter variety
and aro worn with wide-brimmed hata
and drawn to the back and under tho
collar. It requires some, enro to pin
and adjust them correctly, and getting
unaor tncra Is a matter that consumes
time. They aro verv nent In nnnrnir.
nnce, however, and very bepoming.
nenco their wearers are willing to put
In tho necessary time to ndlust and ro.
adjust them.
Tho lace veils show lleht nnffnrn
having a scroll border and butterflim.
birds or even tiny chanticlers woven
in. Tho heavy figures proved too un-
PARISIAN MODEL
Tills model Is of.bntlsto made with
tucks and finished In front with
band of embroidery And a plnlted frill
of tho batiste.
The epaulets and deep cuffs nro also
tucked and tho rather full sleeves aro
encircled with bands of th embroid
ery. Needlework for Qlft-t.
Pretty work to keen on hand for
Bummer and to get ready for the next
gift occasion la tho shirtwaist frill of
nheer handkerchief linen and fin but
tons made to match.
Tho Bcallonod ediro of a rrm.liintml
atrip for tho frill la done In chlna-bluu
embroidery cotton and n sot of six
buttons for tho front box plait of the
Bhlrtwnlst completes tho gift.
Cover button molds with china-blue
linen worked with whlto cotton. Thoso
two, mounted upon tissue papor (after
the frill la pressed Into plaits) nnd
boxed, mnko a moBt nttractlvo Httlo
gift and reprosent hours well spent
Bed Leather Bolts.
A pretty and odd finish la glvon to
the belt of many a Russian blouse by
a touoh of red leather. Sometimes
it is Just an oblong piece of leathor
Bewed on tho bolt, at the back whero
tho blouBO Is fuBtoned to coat. Some
times patches of leather aro sowed on
tho front whore tho belt fnntonn whiin
thoso mny be used on a coat of any
ooior wuu wuicn red may bo oom
blnod. it is particularly nffnnttvn nn
uiuuocd ui uiuun. uu uuo snopuoru a
checks.
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BOTTOMLEY.
becoming to moet with anything llko
general favor. They wore, In fact, dis
figuring Black chantllly nnd white
wash nets with scroll bordcra aro tho
most popular of floating veils, nnd
fancy largo-meshed nets hold first
place In tho others.
The net veils Just described have
been adopted for mourning wear as
cooler than tho ubuoI mourning fab
rics, for thoso peoplo who must bo out
a great deal. They aro bordered with
bandB of crapo or with sluk grenadine
or other mourning fabric. Rowb of
grOBgrnln ribbon, graduated In width
or otherwise, are also used as a bor
der finish. VellB of this kind hang
rtrnlght from the hat brim and reach
below tho bust line.
A wldc-brlmmcd sailor for general
wear, trimmed with a band, and
adorned with a white net yell is about
na satisfactory as any hat can be.
BLOUSES THAT ARE POPULAR
Very Attractive and Becoming De
signs Aro Being Introduced
This Season.
OvorbloiiBe effects nro extremely
popular this summer, nnd Home very
nttractlvo and becoming designs of
this order nro being Introduced. Tho
wnlst may, of course, bo worn with any
preferred skirt of harmonizing design,
either nttached In Boml-prlncess style
or adjusted Boparately.
A French lining forms tho basis of
many of tho waists, PArvIng as a foun
dation for tho underbody, which will
prove tho most offectlvo if mndo of
nllover laco, not or tucking, tho stand
ing color being of tho Bamo material.
Tho waist proper Is tucked from both
Hhouldor aoama In front rind bnck, the
front tuck8 terminating olther nt bust
depth or nt tho walatllno ns preferred.
At tho neck edge It la cut In circular
fnahlon, with a deeply pointed opening
nt tho center front.
Tho aleevo caps mny be mado with
or without nn opening to correspond.
Two aleeve models aro given for tho
underbody. Tho one-seam fitted sleeves
mny bo mndo In full or shorter longlh
while the puff sleeves nro In elbow
length only.
The present season la very prollflo
In pretty fabrics that would be entire
ly appropriate for the purpose. Silk,
ennhrnoro, nlbntross, mcssallne, shan
tung, foulard and chiffon pongeo are
advantageously used.
Hate for Young Girla.
Many flounced hats are being worn
by young girls, the' materials being
laco or platted chiffon over lace. Tho
forms theso hats tnke nre extremely
diversified, some of thorn being tall,
Inverted pot shapes, with seven or
eight inch lnce flounces draped from
the top of tho high crown and falling
an tnch or more below tho brim all
round. Festoona of baby rosebuds not
larger In diameter thnn halt an Inch
aro used around tho topB of tho
crowns of such Inco hats; or a single
tinted gardenia with follnge Is placed
at tho left side of the front. Harper's
Ritzar.
Tip on Scalp Massage.
A skillful doctor of tho scalp says
Bhe gets best results for tho holr by
working freely on tho muscles thnt
run down the nock nt oach Bide Just
under tho enra. These connect closoly
with tho blood vesaela In the scalp
and blood 1b forced up Into healthy
llfo.
When electricity 1h used womon who-
can stand llttlo of It on the head can
hnvo it appltod through tips of tin
cera on thoso neck muscles
Secretary Wilson
WASHINGTON. Added to his al
ready manifold dutlca, Jamoa
Wilson, tho secretary of mrrlculturo.
la now mado by congress the chief bug
inspector of tho United States. It
camo about with tho passago of a
law Identical with thn ntirn fnnrl nnd
drug act, but covering all Insecticides
and fungicidea. Tho enforcement of
tho law. as in tho nurn food lnw. In
vested In a commission consisting of
tho socretary of the treasury, tho ace
rotary of commorco nnd labor nnd tho
aecrotary of agriculture. But tho two
cabinet officers flrat named nro sort of
commissioners emeritus. Thn rrnl
work cornea down to the secretary of
agrlculturo.
Tho bug commission nan nnnnlnfnrl
tho legal ofllcora of tho thron de nnrf.
mcnto, n. E. Caboll, commissioner of
internal revenue; Charles Early, so
licitor or tho department of com
merce and labor, and Qeorgo P. Mc
Cabe, solicitor of tho dopnrtment of
agriculture. aB a auhcommlttnn tn
look nfter tho legal enforcement of tho
law. This subcommittee la un nenlnat
a hard problem already. Tho law do-
iinoa nn Insecticide as a compound for
repelling, destroying, mitigating or
How Old Mother Earth Hides Her Age
OLD MOTHER EARTH, llko femin
inity through all tlmo, but with
her far greator success than most of
her sex, has defied mnn to learn her
oge. SclontlBta still admit their de
tent Their latest cstlmato credits
her with "not abovo 70,000,000 years,
or bolow 55,000,000 years." This esti
mate, given official sanction through
publication by tho Smithsonian insti
tution in Waahlngton, ia the reeult of
studies by Frank Wigglesworth
Clarko and Oeorge F. Decker of tho
United Stntea geological survey, who
have followed the subject with consid
erable Interest.
Prof. Clarke, In a paper entitled "A
Preliminary Study of Chomlcal De
nudation," presents a review of all tho
available datn not only for the United
StateB, but for the world of tho propo
sition from a chemical point of vlow.
Mr. neckcr, on the other hand, dis
cusses the question In a papor on "The
Vast Sum Which We Spend on Peanuts
THE person who buya a nlckcl'B
worth of neanuts to munch at tho
ball game, to feed the squirrels In .the
park or to gladden tho henrts of chil
dren at homo, scarcoly realizes that
ho hnB contributed to an Industry that
last year formed a million-dollar crop,
and which placed on tho market in
various forms, reached the enormous
sum of $30,000,000. But It is n fact.
according to Washington statisticians.
This little aeductitve nut a resolu
tion to "oat Just one" Ib soon forgot
ton whoso blrthplaco la America,
waa, until comparatively recently, un
appreciated either na to the "money
in them" or na a really nutritious
product. Today tho peanut plays nn
important part in pleasure, from tho
swell dinner party to tho over-preaent
democracy of tho circus, ball gnme or
picnic. After nil, whnt Ib a ball game,
picnic or n circus without tho pennut
accompaniment?
General Wood May
THE army is- on the anxious seat
With a now boas on tho Job It la
expected Major Gen. Leonard Wood,
chief of staff, will make things hum
until hla own Ideas are put into oper
ation. Although he was appointed to
succeed Major Gen. Franklin J. Boll
last October, since thnt time ho haa
beon on a trip to Argentine to rep
resent tho United Statea at tho con
tonuinl celebration, and has only late
ly returned to Washington.
In tho meantlmo many Important
qticBtloiiB havo beon piling up await
ing hla decialon. Just what effect tho
personality of tho new chief of staff
will havo on tho nrmy Is a matter of
much moment to tho olllcera who J
Know Bomeiniug oi ins Bironuoua ca- (
Now the Bug Man
preventing" any ineect Tho law of
ficers, after duo consultation, admit
ted that whllo thoy understood how an
Insect might bo repelled or destroyed,
thoy did not boo how they could pro
vent an Insect or mitigate him.
Tho law is specific in declaring
against misbranding insecticldos. If a
well-meaning citizen of the United
States put up a compound that he
Bays will rid a houao of, say, bugs,
within a spoclfled length of time,
thero Bcoma no way to determine
whether tho compound la mlsbrand
od, unless the secretary of agrlculturo
goes to tho promises and holds a
stop-wntch on the roaches, to see
whether they mltignto or vacate with
in tho tlmo limit
Tho biological survey has Issued an
informal atntoment already.aaying that
tho law la romlsB In that it does not
include rats among tho insects to
bo prevented. An effort Is being mado
to aoo whether tho low officers aro
willing to consider rats as Insects.
Dr. HenBhnw of tho biological sur
vey and Prof. Crittenden of tho bu
reau of entomology are going to call
to 'their aid tho legal advico of Judge
Pugh of tho pollco court. Judgo Pugh,
whllo assistant district attorney aomo
years ago, established n reputation In
tho pollco court by arguing that, lo-
gaily, a lop-eared rabbit was a chicken
within tho meaning of tho act If any
body can provo a sewer rat to bo a
centipede Judgo Pugh la tho man. It
ia believed. '
j -e of the Earth" from a more philo
sophical point of vlow.
Tho age of tho earth always has
been a aubjoct for discussion among
men of science nnd largely without
any definite agreement among tha
representatives of tho different
branches of studies on,account of tho
different points of attack.
Briefly, tho moro recent discussions
na to tho earth's age havo placed the
tlmo na follows:
Lord Kelvin, in 1SC3, estimated tho
earth's ago at 20,000,000 to 40,000.000
and perhaps 98,000,000 years.
Clarence King and Cnrl Barus, In
1833, placed the age at 24,000,000
years.
Lord Kelvin in 1897 revised bis fig
ures from 20,000,000 to 40.000,000
years.
Do Lariparent, in 1890, said It was
07,000,000 to 90,000,000 years.
Charloa D. Walcott, 8ecretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, in 1893, placed
tho maximum ago at 70,000,000 years.
J. Joly, In 1899, estimated tho age
of the ocean at 80,000,000 to 90,000,000
years.
W. J. Sollas, In 1909. placed the
age of tho ocean at 80,000,000 to 150,
OOO.OOflT years.
By far the largest part of the crop
Ib consumed from tho pennut stand,
tho little whistle sign of the roaster
being tho signal for tho average
youngster to suggest to dad or ma
that eomo of them would bo very ac
ceptable, and tho paternal or mater
nal parent's willingness nlno tlmea
out of ten to Invest Yet thero aro
millions of bushels that go to tho
fattening of hogs throughout tho '
Bouth, tho feeding of poultry, whllo
the vinos, often cured aa hay, food
thousands of head of cattle, and even
old Mother Earth Ib nourished by tho
roots of tho plant, which furnishes
nitrogen tojt from tho air.
Tho farming of peanuts during tho
pnBt five yearB not longer than this
has becomo an established Industry
of this country. At present about flvo
sixths of the crop comes from, Vir
ginia nnd moBt of tho balance from
Tennessee, Georgia. WeBt Virginia
and tho Carollnas, although most of
tho southern atatea contribute some.
Aa the peanut Industry has increased
bo has tho use of all nuts grown
mightily as an article of food during
tho last decade, and the entire fnm
ily now forma a most Important part
of tho diet of tho physical culturlst
nnd vegetarian.
Stir Up the Army
roer. It Is expected ho will under
take most actively a number of re
forms which might not meet with tho
approval of tho army at largo.
One of tho questions which will bo
taken up by General Wood is tho"
physical teat of ofllcora. Slnco Presi
dent Roosevelt Inaugurated this sys
tem, many officers havo been hoping
that It would bo modified. General
Wood 'is one of tho foremost of phys
ical culturo enthusiasts. ' '.
Instead of being mado milder, It la
not unlikely thnt the tests will bo
mado harder thnn ever. The dotal!
of troops to the Philippines Is an
other matter that will be disposed of
by General Wood very eobn. Ho has ,
aUo a number of Ideas regarding co
operation between tho regular army
and tho militia which ho will prob
ably attompt to put Into practiso.
General Carter, who has been uct
Ing' chief of staff, will toko bis plnco
as assistant chief. General Bliss.
whom he BuccecdB, will go to Snn
FrnnclBco to rollove General Barry,
wno lauea command or wa: t Point.