SAMPLES COST HONEY.

\ bl* retail dry *oods houaes In town Chicago »end out every

FORTUNES SPENT BY THE BIG STORES IN SUPPLYING THEM. r«V Fm»U RmIIi* II*# Kst#BI of Ik# •aiapllac l>«pmMmk#u la lU« Madant K#i»ll Urjr GeoUi »k#|M - II M»# H#r#a# a ttraat k'aciar la Ik# 1 rad#.

Ten

down

year 120.000 yard# of woolen drea# gooda, re. reaentlr.g a retail price of 75 ceata a-yard, and mly that an Individual cuatomer may aatlafy heraelt as to what la beta* worn, or—in one 1-a**) out of live—that she may order a dross pattern from on* of these samples. Eighty thousands yards of allk are cut into minute triangles, squares and parallelograms, meaning a retail loss of $80,000 a year to these ten stores. And on the top of this, nearly every line of goods In a house suffers from the shears of the sample cutting department, aggregating In these ten stores more than *160,000 a year. These totals amount of $317,000. And In the face of these figures It may be said that the "sample erase,"" as It existed In the time of the craxyqullt. Is virtually a dead fad. Few people realise the extent of the sampling department of the modern retail dry goods house. Fewer still realize that when a bolt of drees goods comes Into the house and Is unpacked, the first thing done with It Is tc snip off a full yard from the bolt ranging from twenty-five to fifty yards, and perhaps two yards from the bolt that runs longer than this. As much of this goods is fifty-four to sixty Inches ( wide, the average of one yard to the bolt Is low. as is the price fixed at 75 cents. From one-third to one-half a . yard of this clipping goes directly to the sample cutting room. In sending up these clippings they are bunched according to values and without ref-erehcr-'to colors or shades. There may be ten strips from 4s

cost price Is marked. The manager of the cutting department receives this, and with some general directions the goods arc turned over to the boy who is to do the cutting. The average Width of the strips into which this cloth Is cut us 1 1-1 Inches, and the average length of the samples cut from these strips is three Inches. Before cutting Into sections the strips of cloth, perhaps six deep, sire stuck through with the pins of the price tag and at the interval of three Inches. Then the strips fire cut across just above the tag. . Thus the manager of the department

colors, but of uniform price. They are classed «s to material, also, so that a person familiar with goods may explain Just what kind of gooto-she wants, and out of the selection of shades and colora^sent to her she may choose something to snit her. Cutting these goods on another scale /or dressmakers. the samples sent out are 3 by 6 inches, and frequently In some goods of peculiar pattern In the weaving the shape of the sample must be altered in order to show the novelty. Sticking a pair of pin points through six or eight thicknesses of woolen dresd goods Is easy, but to stick them through as many pieces of cotton goods is another task, and in order to make this easy the cutter jabs the pins into a cake of soap before him. the soap acting as a lubricant without greasing the samples. The tag which

l so the

is pierced by these pins points and held to place bear the name o dry goods firm in miniature, and are marked the price and width of the

goods.

There are Chicago houses which have a steady call for these samples from Maine to California and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. In filling these requests, too, envelopes weighing one to eight ounces, are sent out, the average being about four ounces at one cent an ounce. - As a probable reaction from the times of the "crazy quilt," about one-fifth of these samples sent out come back to the bouse sending them. There Is seldom any request made that this he done, and there are few of these samples that are of any use to the house when they have come back. There are two reasons for it: First, the samples have been tossed and fingered so

rr h

1 that they are not presentable.

aany j

represented by samples that may have

on the other hand, many pieces

gone out four weeks before, already

have been sold out

A few houses which send out silks from a sample-cutting department: however, ask for their return, on pain of not sending out to the delinquent the house's next catalogue. In most cases, however, silk - samples are cut at the retail silk counters and sent up to the mailing room, and when so culthe salesman, below cots his mark Into the samples In such a way as‘not only to Identify It. but to spoil it for any crazy-quilting bee. In spit* of the large pieee of goods, cut especially for the aample deportment.. too. there Is scarcely a bolt .of dressmaking goods in a downtown hdboe which has not been shipped and hacked at its end. the samples being passed out over the 1

On a piece of goods that retails from $2-50 to $6 a yard, these farther inches cpt from a bolt that Is only twei s yards long represent an appi

A boll of goods tweniy-flvs yards long will make about three dresses. whOs from flve of thaas bolts the making of owe dress •osily may ha locb to umplea. In <A* of the largest retail fcbgaas • ~ far Um hliag

rf the la Cfckago the

goods and about Sept. 1 for winter goods. At such Mmes 600 letters a day Is n fair average. In this house the silks, laces and finer goods generally are cut at their several retail counters and cut only on order. For this purpose sample blanks are sent down to the salesman, and if other samples are asked from the sample-cutting room thry are all "assembled" in plg-oon-holu boxes, from which they are mailed Just as soon as the list Is complete. "No one not in the business knows

of-the large departments tor sample cutting. "It would take an expert mind reader, working in conjunction with the owner of the mind, to find It out with any certainty. In my experience a vast number of qut-of-town requests for sai>\ples are prompted by the desire of women In obscure places to know ‘just what is being

worn.'

~A look at some of the sample* returned to us would indicate that a doz- ? societies had passed them lew. There's nothing carried in stock ip this house that we are not asked to cut samples from. Calls for carpet samples are frequent, and many times a large piece has to be cut from the roll in order to give any idea of the pattern. Sometimes before a bolt of goods of any kind la sold two or three cuttings are made into it for samples. then when half a dozen bolts and pieces of bolts that "drag" are finally bunched and marked down more samples must be cut off. "Looking at this seeming waste of cloth, it would seem to be almost too heavy to be considered, but every year the territory of the mail-order business Is enlarging, until It has become one of the great factors In the trade of every big retail house. Considered

The world has six lakes of more than 20.000 square miles. The Caspian Is the largest of these and Lake Huron the smallest. The cubical contents of the mountains of salt In the fgothllls of the i'yreneqs, near Cardona. Sualn. have

mountain of aalt. which was exposed ny a landslide In 1370, Is much small-

The governor of German East Afrl-

that province and to the construction of steamers capable of ascending the tllfht rapids encountered in the *4Bhms emptying into the Indian ocean. ^ * Sods lit* Is one of the deepest-colored blue violet minerals known, and is frequently mistaken for lapus lazuli. It Is found at Litchfield. Me., and also occurs Id some abundance In Dungannon township, Hastings county. Ontario. It is a new and promising ornamental stone, admirably adapted for mosaic work. Inlaying and similar

special uses.

Promessor Nestor Grehant of the Paris Museum of Natural History gives the following Instructions, based on a long series of experiments with animals, for the treatment of carbtfnlc oxide poisoning, which oc< when Illuminating gas is breatl The first thing to do Is to give the suf-

as an established department that must

de-cutting rooms

are Important as advertising eqfitres. Sending a bunch of new goods patterns to the ordinary country town, we might count that at least half a dozen families will see it, and even It our retail trade through mall orders is not stimulated, we may count that many a country merchant la reminded of our jobbing departmant by these studenU of samples. Sample cutting has come stay, but. thank goodness, the crazy 'quilt has gone, probably'never to re-

turn."—Chicago Tribune.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The biggest average farm - in the world Is in South Australia, where the average squatter holds 78,000 acres The largest library-In the world Is the National Library of Paris, which contains 40 miles of shelves, bolding MOO.toO books. There are also 175.000 • " " , 300,000 mapsi ' 5 and medals. It la a hundred years since King Frederick William III of pruama issued an order forbidding officers and men to take off their hats in saluting and ordering the salnte to be bringing the hand to the level of the eyes. Milan has a curiosity in a clock which Is made entirely of bread. The -maker Is a native of India, and has devoted three years of his life to the construction of this curiosity. The« clock Is of good size and goes well. It Is estimated that there are fewer than 10,000 wild elephants left In all the countries on the globe, and that flve of these will be killed off where one Is born. It Is a matter of only a few years when the last one must go. Probably Uje moat expensive book known Is ihatVWch the Ameer of Afganlstan has presented to the Shah of Persia. It Is a manuscript copy of the", Koran, the binding of which is worth $150,000. This binding Is of solid gold. k. the earrings, which an Afghan goldsmith, are Incrusted with precious stones— 167 pearls. 122 rubies, and 109 diamonds ot the purest water. The following curious advertisement recently appeared in a Spanish Journal: 'This morning heaven summoned aaray t^e* Jeweler. Slebald Illmaga, from his shop to another and a better world. The undersigned, his widow, will weep upon his tomb, as will also his two

is open to an offer. The funeral will take place tomorrow. His disconsolate widow. Veronlque Illmaga. P. S.— This bereavement will not Interrupt our employment, which will be carried on as usual; only our place of business will be removed from No. 3 Loss! de Lelntures to No. 4 Rue de Misslonaire. Our grasping landlord has raised the rent."

C«#qy#r Morbid The surest way to conquer morbid' sensitiveness is to mingle with people a* freely aa possible, and. while appraising your own ability and Intelligence at least as impartially as you would those of a friend qr acquaintance. to forget yourself. Unless you can become unconscious of eelf. you win never either appear at your beat, or do the beat Of which you are capable. It requires will power and an unbending determination to conquer this arch enemy to succan, but what baa been done can tie done, and many ’who were held down by it for years have, by their it and'risen to 1

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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

>ecurs athed.

should next be procured from nearest drug store, and the patient forced to respire It for at least an hour. Prof. Grehant believes that many lives could be saved if all pharmacists kept a supply of oxygen on hand, and It was Immediately uacd in all such casefi It Is geenrallyNiellcved that the aushroom is an especially nutritious food: hence It .Is sometimes called the "vegetable boafsteak.” Recent analytes, however. Indicate that its nutritive value has been much overestimated. These results show that it would require about ten' pounds of mushrooms to furnish the equivalent of one pound of beefsteak, and there Is little reason to belldVe that this vegetable possesses any more food value than other fresh vegetables, ft Is. however, rich In potassium salts, and has perhaps some special value on

this account

The English skylark has Inspired everal of the most beautiful poems In our language, and its migrations are of a character which, it would seem, might appeal to English poets only leas effectively than ita song does. In violation of the general rule that birds move southward In the autumn, immense numbers of skylarks, which have summered in Central Europe, arrive In England In September and October, to pass the winter in the British Isles. In October an entirely distinct immigration of .skylarks enters Great Britain from Scandinavia, while all through the autumn Brttiahb red-skylarks emigrate southward, many of them going to the continent for the winter. Yet others remain in England all the year round.

Rorl#E TowmrA Rortb 1 # C##lr#. In the course of his experiments, made with toe view of endeavoring to utilize the heat ot the earth for commercial purposes. Professor William Hallock has discovered that there is no fixed rule governing the increase of the temperature as progress U. made toward the centre. Professor Hallock has lowered thermometers into the wells near Pitts burg and Wheeling, and found an in crease of one degree for every 50-feet. The temperature of the Pittsburg well at-She bottom Is 129 degrees. Other experiment* elsewhere yield very different results. The temperature at the bottom of the Calumet and Heels dine, at Houghton. Mich., 4000 feet below the surface, Is not more than 100 degrees. The heat of the 2600foot level In the Comstock lode la 145 degrees in different localities, the fact -is clearly demonstrable that the heat of the earth s crust grows gradually greater from the surface Inward. Pro-

fessor Hallock may:

•There would be not the slightest difficulty in obtaining steam from the earth's interior because that involves merely a little extra labor in boring down Into the very hot area, and it la os easy, comparatively, to bore 10.00C foet as It Is to bore 60P0; but. in order to give the steam commercial value a method must be provided for dropping the water to thik-hot' area, allowing it time to heat, and yet having It returned to the surface as steam.

500 and

feet have been built since 1870. probably more In America than in all the rest of the world together; and certainly these are much better and cheaper, and hake been more rapldl and safely constructed than those any Qther country- In a wort. Americas engineers have built most of the greatest and most difficult bridges In tbe world, and in lees than half a centuiy. largely within the Inst quarteroentury. have developed the art ol

that

NEW JEKSEY STATE NEWS. Special Condensed Dispatches From Many Poiats. BURNED TO DEATH BY EXPLODING OIL W'ktt Mergan Pays Jersey is Taxes—Wemaa NeM Dewa Frtfbteaed ttorss—UgMalni Started a Cske W.lk-Edwts Beeth Picked Up la Osytes—Charter le Rake Sewing Machines Oraated.

the clerks and maintain tHh departments

lie clerks and t 1 the State House. John W. Broo corporation clerk in the Secretary of State’s office, has compiled from the recent report of 190.* taxes the exact amount paid annually into the State treasury by the companies included in what are generally regarded as the interests of J. P. Morgan. AH of this makes a total of $1.50.783 paid towards the yearly expenses of the State of New Jersey. This sum easily pays for the maintenance of all the different depart mems in the State House, salaries included. except for the pay of the members of the courts.

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Mrs. Joseph H. Gay. of Newark, who is summering at White House, proved herself a heroine. Mrs. Gay went for a spin in her automobile, and met Cornelius Dailey, whose horse became frightened.and started to run away. The animal threw itself shortly and Dailey was thrown violently 6a the ground. MrGay stepped from her automobile and held the floundering horse so that it could not arise until assistance came. A* a result of her brave act the vehicle was not damaged and Dailey escaped

serious injury.

An eccentric character, who claims he is a namesake and relative ol Edwin Booth. " was arrested in Clayton, and when confined in a ceil it was found that he was insane. When arrested the only thing he wore was a tattered undershir" and a pair of overalls. When questioned he stated he was bound for Baltimo-.-He will be held until the authorities investigate his case. It is thought that -hc escaped from an insane asylum.

The breaking of an axle caused the wrecking of a freight train on the Nc v York division of the Pennsylvania Railroad about two miles east of ~ All four tranks blocked b;

. fque tranks wye blocked by reason -oTtK piling qlB *' the cars, and it was hot-qntil-abodry o'clock that the track< , nvere Sufficiently cleared to permit the

: sufficient imption of

:d to pern No one v

resumi jered.

-Mrs. William Higgins, wife of a Trenton patrolman, died at St. Francis' Hoipital as the result of a gasoline stove exploding at her home. Her 18-ycar-old ~ daughter Annie was frightfully ^ ~ied and will probably die.

Dash and Sende* 000,000. was incorThe company, is to

wing machines. The in-

corporators arc D. S. \V. Ruther, New York; Adrian Lyon. Perth Amboy. N. J„ and Waldo G. Morse, New York.

The

Corn)

poratt manufacture

of tile scarcity of .feed unty farmers are dispos- ' ’ ‘ ’ :iaUy

.— farm produce

__ . __ _iring teams ratber than keep their own horses. Asa Reeve, oi Woodstown, one of South Jersey’s oldest residents, says that

his first rccollcc ’

— - Jdest residents, says first recollection of hearing and »eeng the seventeen-year locusts was in the summer of 1834. When a small boy he issisled in carrying a surveyor’s chajn lown around Yorktown. and then there were only three farms for miles around. The Pleasantvillc Fire Company had a parade to celebrate the arrival of a new hose carriage, recently purchased. The town fire department includes 1 chemical engine’, a ladder truck, liosi

and twenty-seven n

chemii

carriage am Owing to the indications of an enormous yield ol peaches in Hunterdon. Warren. Somerset and Sussex_counties. this year, the peach basket factories of Flemington arc running to their full capacity, and some have put on night

fore.

Lightning struck the Court House. Wi who ventured too rv voluntary cakewalk.

a trolley pole near oodbnry. and people >car it danced an in-

W. S. Carll. of Lower AUoiray, has just built a house that contains 409 win-, dow panes, and it is said to be the best lighted house, in Gloucester county. Three men'entered the dry goods store of Morris Green. Gloucester City, and stole a pair of trousers which had been previously selected by one of the trio, while the wife of the proprietor was busy in another part of the store. Wheat -fields in Gloucester county are turning the golden hue, and will be in readiness to cut by July 4., Farmers do not seem to be in a hurry to cut their grass, and those who have postponed it will reap a better crop from the recent

rains.

If an analysis of the ercck water at Pattlsboro shows it to’be without salt, a dye works will be brought to that thrifty town, so say the officials who have vis-

ited the place.

During a'thunder shower at Bay-side lightning struck the office part of the station of the New Jersey Central Railroad. setting fire to it. Fishermen ex-

tinguished the blaze.

The Board of Edncation of High Bridge has selected the following teach - ers: Prof. W. II. Black, principal; Fan11. nie J. Sturgeon. Viola M. Crammer. Rae T. Insley. Hanfcah A. Co. nelly and

F. Alctta Apgar.

faster than eight miles an hour .. _ fined $tQO, according to a new ordinance. The W. C. T. U. of WoodMown will rasing Fcurth of

J j§?88 ffitia fipaeo J^oxt '£Q ae H. J

Paint! Paint! Paint! properly, apply them thoroughly and rapidly, and ezercU# . good taste In'the selection of colon. Guarantee all work, cheerfully f-* famish estimates, and promptly attend to all orders. A complete tV Une of Paints, Oil, Stsioa, Putties, Fillers, Brushes, Varnishes, and other Coloring Materials of highest quality. IXAFAYEiPlItE -SeNKETIII 103 Jackson Street, Cape May, N. J. PRACTICA1 HOUSE, SIGN AND DECORATIVE PAINTER. AGENT JOB J. E. PATTON'S BONPROOP PAINTS.

over in price than the commoa grades, wt .... — kinds of plate, white, window and Colored ghua can led in stock.

die exclusively the pr»-

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■ FiortraME ^loxyr m-nsrau.

MEGRAYS’ CENTRAL MARKET, Corner Washington and Ocean Streets, 602 Washington Street, 217, 219, 221 Ocean Street

CHOICE NTTH1S - Skirpless' Gilt Efgt • A SPECULTT. Country Produce, Fresh Daily from our own Fans. no, man. claki axi muiu. susus man. OTThe Largest Market in-Cape May .City.

SEASIDE STUDIO, ADJOINING STOCKTON SURF BATHS, is -Aiortyjw^a ae ax&rxa _a_£cid

* - ’ r Work ol all 1

and Interior Work ol all Kind

...ssro^ig-

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