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right thing ready to say, and, with her
wonderful memory of names, faces and
places, she was never without some
personal inquiries to make of each
stranger. Her social instinct was as
marvellous as the gift of second sight,
and when she accompanied Mr.. Doug
las on his famous journey through the
South to visit his mother, there was not
a person encountered in all that tour
that size could not have recognized at
sight and called by name had they en-
tered her parlor unannounced a year
later. Mrs. Hayes is the only lady in
public life who has created the same
interest among the people as Mrs.
Douglas. Wherever the Little Giant
went the crowd would cheer and call
for his wife, Just as the loyal citizens
have since welcomed Mrs. Hayes at de-
pots, state fair grounds and the like.
Mrs. Douglas popularity was wonder
full at that time, aid her face and win
ming ways made friends right and left
for the Senator, ut that time a candi-
date for the Presidency. AT one of her
receptions in Washington a great shy,
awkward constitute / from the most
rustic region of Illinois presented him
self in Mrs. Douglas doorway, sent
up there from the Capitol by the Sena-
tor, who had assured him that his wife
would be delighted to see him.
The visitor was anything but parlor
Ornamental rude, unpublished son of
the prairie, unused to any of the ways
of society, but power in the politics
OF his home, and a man whose influence
could be of vast assistance to Mr..
Douglas. Entering the room gave him
a nervous chill, Mrs. Douglass pretty
greeting threw him into a fever, and
her inviting him out to the refreShment
room completed a case of palsy.
Ignoring his trepidation, she chatted
away to him herself, paid no attention
TO his stammerin@ refusals, and poured
out the tea into some miraculous little
cups of egg-shell Sevres. Grasping the
fairy calyX in his fingers for first sip,
the delicate bit of Sevres was crushed
to pieces, and the hot tea poured in
stream over Mrs. Douglas S silken train.
With gay laugh, the lady said:
How brittle they are! just look at
mine, and with mighty effort she
broke another cup between her fingers.
Reassured, the constituent drew his
DItdtil anu lOlnu 0lUlStII AT ease. WnlIe
that Incompatible hostess talked to
him, asked about his mother, his wife
and his children, all of whom she re-
membered SO well and called by name.
The man went home to work for, vote
for and swear by Stephen A. Douglas,
and way back of his political convic-
tons lay the pieces of those two broken
teacups. Some ladies were discussing
the incident at a lunch party the other
day, establishing Mrs. Douglass right
to fame, and routing the mythical Mrs
Senator Bingham, of whom the pervert-
ed story has lately been told. Said one
pretty woman, Il woulnd't break my
best teacups for any constituent in my
husbands district. -" Out of the group
there was only one who couragcously
said, I'D break my whole dinner set,
if it would send my husband to the
Senate; and buy new ones when | got to
Washington, she shrewdly added
Letter to 81. Louis paper.
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The Broncho Died Happy.

BillParker, well-known mining man
of Colorado, tells story about horse
which he says is true. Several years ago
he bought buckskin bronchoin the Ute
Agency from IN Indian for a quart of
whiskey and shipped it to Leadville.
About a month afterward he went to
Leadville and one day thought he would
take a ride. He put a saddle on the
brute back and cinched the animal
up in the manner that all meek-eyed
bronchos are cinched and jumped
astride. Ri, says he felt himself rising
in the air, the broncho sticking to him;
then he felt A shock, and remembered
nothing more until he was fished out
| of the Arkansas river. The animal had
run away and thrown him over an en-
bankment thirty feet high.
A week or so afterward one of Bill 5
friends wanted to 60 prospecting, and
Mr.. Parker very generously placed
the broncho at his disposal. The result
was that man and horse were picked up
at the foot of a sixty-foot precipice-
the man with broken leg, the horse
tightly wedged in between two rocks but
little hurt. A number of ambitious
miners then attempted to conquer
the vicious brute, but no one ever sue
ceeded in staying on his back. Finally
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maid or two, who have lived with her
so long that they seem like half-sisters;
/ she has in daily use the precious china
and the old chars that the envious city
nieces have yainly tried TO rival at auc-
/ ton rooms. She manages the book
club and the church sociable; she is the
contidante of all love affairs; she calls
upon the new corners, if worth-indeed,
/ the new corners, if worthy, bring letters
/ to her. To the older inhabitants of the
/ town she always seems young and even
elegant; she has a prolonged tradition
/ of precedence that outlasts youth and
/ beauty; if she has a sister they are
/ spoken of to the end of their days as
1.-THE Parker girls. All this is the joint
result of womahhood and home, or of
that womanhood which creates home.
1t is not only potent for itself but it ex
tends its potency over all other homes.
/ What, compared to this, is the social
I position given by wealth to the lonely
old bachelor of the country villagep
/ Though he be millionaire, he is simp-
/ " 1.-The old bach.
The truth is that as people grow old
er it is the man who becomes depend
emit and the woman the central and es-
sential figure of the household, since
she can do without him and he cannot
do without her. The proof of this lies
in the fact that we see all around us
self-sufficing and contented households
of women, while house that contains
men only, is a barrack, not home. In
youth it is easy to ignore this, to say
with Shakespeare in Henry ".
'eTis ever cummon,
That men are merriest when away from
home
but the merriment is shallow, the laugh
ter is forced, and years, and Illness,
and sorrow soon bring man back re-
pentant prodigal, to his home and to
woman, the only home maker. Thorn
as w. Higginson in Harper's Bazaar
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An Excellent Thing IN woman

81 remember" said a well-known
writer lately, ''the first queen of soci-
ETY. that / met. She was Scotch
womau of good birth who married an
American while he was in Europe.
Rumors came before her to his home,
her brilliant success in London society
and in the Austrian court where her
brother held a diplomatic position;
and when she arrived with her husband,
the society of the little city where he
lived was soon at her feet.
Every man and (better proof of her
power every woman who came near
her yielding to her singular fascina-
ton. I was child of twelve, visiting
in a country house near the town.
Zone morning some one said, There
comes Madame l.. | ran to the
window to see coming through the
trees a stout, freckled red-haired
woman without single agreeable
feature in her face.
Il was amazed and disguised. But
when she came in and talked-talked to
mel sat breathless under a charm
ner fascination was wholly in her voice
1t was low, clear. musical. The
woman's nature was expressed in it.
unpretentious, keenly sympathetic,
but above all, genuine. 1t was her
one power, but it was irresistible.
The charm of a sincere, sweet voice
never fails to influence us, though we
are often unconscious as to what it Is
that has touched us. Madame de Main
tenon is said to have maintained her
power over Louis XIV. when she was
old and ugly by her strong sense and
exquisite voice Madame de Stael, on
the contrary, croaked out her sentences,
alive with genius, in the tones of a
crow. 1t is strange that while young
people are so careful to improve every
advantage which nature has given
them to make themselves attractive,
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Doom ofthe steam Engine.

Whatever else may survive in the flu
steam engine is doomed. Its fate is
first to be confined to the driving of
large dynamo machines, which will dis
tribute force at present supplied by a
myriad of small and wasteful engines,
and then to be superseded altogether
by the gas engine. Gas and electrisity
may be mutually hostile, but they are
to unite their forces in order to eXtirpate
the steam engine.
The objectionable sin of the steam
engine is that of waste. Even the best
of them consume two pounds of coal
per horse power per hour; whereas,
says Dir. Siemens, when the gas pro-
Queer has taken the place of the com
pick and dangerous steam boiler, it will
not take one pound of coal to develop
one horse for one hour. But before gas
vanishes steam it will supersede as the
agent for the development of steam. A
pound of gas gives forth exactly twice
the heat of a pound of coal, and even this
may be improved upon. To burn raw
coal is TO squander our Inheritance.
DIR. Siemens gives us some startling
figures to prove that the by produces of
the coal annually used in gas making
are worth three millions sterling more
than the coal used in producing them,
without allowing ANYTHING for the value
of the gas Beside the products al
ready utilized, 100000 tons of sulphur
are now wasted every year, which may
yet be converted into a source of in
come. BY abolishing the use of raw
coal, DR.. Sicmens maintains that sci
ence, as with some magician's wand,
will "banish the black pail smoke
which hangs over our great cities, and
restore to them pure air, bright SUD
shine and blue skies. Nor shall we
even have to suffer as compensation for
the multiplication of enormous gaso-
meters. The coal will be converted into
the bottom of the mine-a prospect
not altogether to be contemplated with
out alarm by the workers in fiery
seams and the gas carried by the pipes
wherever it is wanted.
Electricity will also be made largely
serviceaple for distribution of power.
Even after allowing 80 per cent, for loss
in transmission the gain is still enor-
nous. The electric light will chiefly
be confined to lighting public places.
The gaslight will hold its own as the
poor man 5 friend, and gas heating
will become universal. Thus in thenear
future DIR. Siemens unfolds before our
eyes a world in which there will be no
smoke and no steam, and where coal
will only be visible in the immediate
vicinity of the pit. Electrisity will
light our streets, gas will cook our din
ners, and driving power will be laid on
by wire wherever it is wanted.
There will be no pollution of rivers,
for every waste product will be utilized,
and the sulphurous fumes which have
converted whole countries into scenes
of dark desolation will be employed in
making the wilderness to bloom as the
rose, and in restoring fertility 10 our ex-
hausted soil. in short, science at last
will begin to Danish all the manifest
denominations by which 1.-THE black age"
manufactureshas defaced Ethe beauty
of our land. 1t is not before time.
Pail Mall Gazette.
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TO VISIT THE GREAT ST. PAUL DEPARTMENT STORE WHEN YOU COME TO THE STATE FAIR

they neglect this, probably the most
powerful of all Voices, it is true,
differ materially in sweetness and range
of tone but they may be trained as
thoroughly in speaking as in singing.
The first aim should be to rid the
voice of all aflectation. 1t may be
hopelessly harsh and unmusical but
it can always be made clear and nat
ural; your own, not a lisping imitation
of that of some other person.
Be careful. too, to speak from the
throat and not through the nose. A high
nasal tone betrays an uneducated
American all over the world, A
throat-voice is easily controlled and
subdued to the quiet, distinct tones
used by well-bred people. Discordant
voices are often due to the neglect of
parents Children's voices insensibly
attune themselves to those of their
companions.
A child banished to the society of ig-
norant servants will inevitably echo
some of their tones throughout its life;
while one whose ear is accustomed from
infancy to hear the language of ed
ucated, well-mannered persons probably
possess. like COrdelia,a ''voice ever soft,
gentle and low; an excellent thing in
woman. - Communion.
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Woman the only Home Maker.

A single man may have an estate, a
principality; he can own great hotel
and fill it with guests; but he cannot
create home without a woman to help
him, and that, too, woman whose
service is not for money. When it comes
to a home, there is not 4 solitary dress
maker in the land, ensconced in her
little room with her geraniums, her ca
nary and her sewing machine, who
cannot completely eclipse him, this be-
ing the result not of his sins, but of his
sex.
Undoubtedly each reader will think,
or try to think. of some exception to
this-some single man who is happy,
some 'jolly bachelor" some cheerful
widower. No doubt there are those
who can be happy, especially during
the first half of their lives, without the
sense of home A, man with his
wealth and his paintings, and his yacths
and his delightful monologue; b, with
his perpetual journeyings; G, with his
/
fessor, with that family of hens which
he tended. like herdsman, with long
staff. and which he trained to take food
from stakes stuck in the ground irstead
of scratching in the flower beds-all
these may doubtless have found bach
elor life not inconsistent with happi-
ness; but where, after all, is the hOme?
Neither yachts, nor pictures. nor steam
er tickets, nor dogs, nor hens can sup
PLY that. Home, says the proverb,
sis where the heart is but if so. no
man seems to have heart enough to fit
out home without woman TO help
him 4 woman can do it for herself
there lies her advantage.
It may be harder for a woman to
make money; undoubtedly it is harder.
She makes a dollar, perhaps, where a
man makes twenty; but when ii comes
to purchasing power, her dollar goes
the farthest towards the maintenance
I of ii home. So long as she retains it
she is strong and self-respecting, and
| even if she parts with it, so strong is
/ the instinct of home that she can some
times reconstruct it for herself even in
I a boarding house. If the home is COM
/ bined with little freedom in the use
of money, it gives more comfort and
more local prestige than a man can win
with fortune. What would be the social
condition Of any country village in our
Atlantic states without a tirst-class
maiden lady? She is the daughter of
ID squire somebody, or of ''parson'
somebody else; she lives in the great
square house with its elms and its white
lilacs and its breezy hall; she has a
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Say, boss, dyer want any meal
wormes?' The question was put by
dirty specimen of humanity to the
proprietor of a bird store.
How many have you got?"
about tree tousand; all very fat, :"
Lets see EN-.
The man drew two tin cans from a
dilapidated coat pocket and opened
the lids. The cans were trimming full
of small and lively crustaceous worms.
They ran from yellow to dark brown in
color, and were an eighth of an inch in
thickness and an inch and a half in
length. The bird fancier took one and
ate it with critical slowness. After a
gulp ne said, ''These are rather inferior,
but how much do you want?'
"A dollar a thousand.
''All right hand 'em over"
In answer to a question, the purveyor
of worms said: Il We caught meal
worms for ten years Biz is generally
good. and can make twelve or thirteen
dollars every week. Where do | get
EN-? Why, in meal of course! In desc
bic grain warehouses on the river
front, in flour mills. and in old feed
stores you can always find 'em, if you
know where to look for EN-. De
people wot oWnes dem ere places are
only too glad to have Professional
like me come in, cos dey breed fast and
eat up lots of stuff. When / fust
began catchin EN-, de bosses use to
pay me half; but when dey foundout
dat | sole 'em again, dey shut down on
de racket. How do 1 get EN-? Wild
my hands, and sometimes wild sieve.
Dey generally 20 in gangs tOgedder,
and when you find one of dem, you
must always find fifty. | put EN- IN
mustard boxes, which hold one or two
thousand, according to de size. Some
days | get tree hundred. and some days,
when luck is good,I get tree tousand.
Den | 90 to my customers. Meal
worms are good for hooking birds,
and ncarley all birds with soft bills.
Meal worms are very healthy, and
taste good deal like shrimps. Dey' re
hard and crisp, and very nice when
You ain It very hungry. | know lots of
fellers in de warehouses what eats 'em
regular, and like 'em. Prices aim very
good now not so good as in de fall. In
de summer they are quieter, and harder
to get, and we put de prices up. Don't
you want to try a couple? No. Well
all right, boss; we won't quarrel about
/ it, So long
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s T. PAUL.

feet high and is wonderful and beautiful piece Of
workmanship.
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Entering the spacious doorways on the Fifth street
front the visitor steps from the sidewalk into the
DRY Goods Department" This department Oecu-
pies a space 60xi50 feet, making it the largest Dry
Goods Room in the state. In this department Will
be found an immense stock. and q general assort'
ment of all goods usually found in First Glass Dry
Goods Department,
SPECIAL attention viii be paid to mail orders
for samples.
THE CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
Near the grand entrance is the cloak department
which is elegantly appointed with costly carpets
magnificent mirrors and easy chairs for the accom-
mediation Of the ladies'. stock Of 100000 VIII DC
put in this department this fall, representing all the
latest styles and finest manufactures including &
complete line of seaskin and plush garments. I'm
ported novelties, shawls, jerseys and etc
AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE.
The grand entrance cannot be passed without
lecture, Of the Moresque pattern. Il opens
on st. Peter street red brick are h
twenty feet WIDE rests on handsomely sculp:uret
columns of gray granite. From the Keystone OF the
arch pile of white brick rises forty feet into the
air. showing of the finest combinations OF
Moorish and Arabian monumental architecture II
the west. Over the double doors Of heavy oak is
row of cathedral colored caPpings The rotunda ha.
an area of 200 square feet, extending back fifty
feet from the entrance to the grand central stairway
Of polished oak, which leads to the second floor
Opening OF the rotunda, ladies' toilet apart
ments, complete in every respect On the north ant
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After Mesmer, the author of mesmer-
ism. was exploded, the Marquis de
Puysegur, the owner of quite large
estate. began to try animal magnetism
upon his tenants, and 50 many of the
sick flocked to him for healing, that
within a circumference of twenty miles
he was regarded as having power
almost divine He was the first dis
coverer of that state of magnetic SOM
nambulism denoted clairvoyance. His
gardner was his first subject. So IA
nous did he become, he found it diff
cult to obtain needful repose, and re-
membering that Mesmer had said he
could magnetic bits of wood, he
thought it possible he might magnetic
a whole tree! There was large elm
on the village green much resorted to
on fine summer evenings. This he pro-
ceeded to magnetic by making passes
and touching it with his hands. He
directed streams of the magnetic fluid
to the branches and then to the trunk,
after which he had circular seats erect
ed all around it. and cords suspended
from it in all directions. ''When the
patients had seated themselves. they
twisted the cords around the diseased
parts of their bodies, and held one an
other firmly by their thumbs to form a
direct channel of communication for
the passage of the fluid
The results of thus magnetizing by
the mass is related in letter to his
brother, dated May, 1874;
Il continue to make use of the happy
power for which | am indebted to NJ.
Mesmer. Every day / bless his name,
for l am very useful. and produce
MANY salutary effects on all the sick
poor in the neighborhood. They flock
around my tree; there were more than
one hundred and thirty of them this
morning. Not leaf of it but COM
municates health! All feel, more or
less, the good effects of it. have only
one regret-it is that | cannot touch
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rhc rreat stnte Of MInnesota, wIth glft Of SOC.


600 worth of property by st. Paul and cash outlay
OF $3.50 900 more for buildings, is about TO give
grand exhibition OF her mechanical arts, and pro
ducts and invites the whole Northwest to come and
see. Attractive that display may be, st. Paul
affords superior attraction in
DICKINsON's MAMMOTH DEPARTMENT STORE
which is Of itself mammoth Mercantile Exposition,
continuously open to the public 1t is an establish
ment which in extent and variety would do credit TO
any city In the entire world, including London, Paris
and New York and any of those cities would be
proud OF such an immense aggregation under a
single roof.
The building, which was once the city street rail-
way depot was transformed at cost which was n
fortune of itself In o Mercantile Palace, and made
as resplendent as the tabled architecture produced
by Aladdin and his wonderful lamp.
1t occupies the entire length of block, running
from Fourth to Fifth street and fronting on st.
Peter street. to which It presents giittering and
dazzling surface OF 4,t0e square feet Of English
plate glass bordered with 600 square feet OF cathe-
dralcolored cappings, representing all the varied
and enchanting hues of the rainbow. THIS Is the
largest unbroken stretch of glass In the world; and
in point OF architecture the building resembles the
Palais Royale of Paris, or Whites world
famous department store In London. Goods OF every
variety are arranged in the windows on hanging
shelves resting against white background, and IN
the night myriad of electric lights more than
transforms night into day and gives a splendor to
the establishment which is dazzlingly beautiful.
TOUR OF INSPECTION.
Passing through the Fourth street entrance, on
the right an immense glass case lifts Itself to the
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This is perfect elysum for the ladies, whose com
fort and convenience Will be studiously considered
On the right enter, adjoining the silver
ware department, find an extensive display of
cutlery of the Northampton cutlery company 8
manufacture, for which Mr.. Dickinson Is agent for
the Northwest. Next find Madame Juneau S
doll department, in which is most wonderfully in
teresting display OF domestic and imported goods,
fine French blsque, china and all other styles known
to the trade Here there is an exhibition of one Of
the most wonderful autOmatons ever seen anywhere,
and which attracts crowds of delighted visitors,
old and young.
1t represents a lady in her boud Or fin the act of
arranging her toilet. She deity applies the lilly
white to her face, admres herself in the mirror,
fans herself and performs several other coquettisb
and pleasing acts, which women know so well how
to perform, to create admiration This figure was
imported especially for this great department store.
Next to elegant display of lawn
tennis and croquet SETS and articles employed n
| out door sports. This department is made up of
imported goods and is replete in every feature. Ad-
( Joining this is cOmmodious book department,
which is of the most complete in the west, con-
tanning all the works of favOrite authors IN hand
| some and costly bindings. There seventy five
feet of shelving and several large bles for the
| commodation OF this display.
A little further we find the boot and shoe de-
partment, representing all the finest eastern manu-
features Of foot wear and next fun line Of drugs
| and druggists sundres Hastily arranged in glass
| cases.
AN ELEGANT FOUNTAIN.
Last and to the left of the grand entrance is the
! confectionery department. A magnificent soda
fountain purchased at cost of $780, stands eleven