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Evening journal., 1888-12-31
WOMENS ENTERTAINMENTS.

You'll doubt your eyes, Reason to- but they won't be de-
Iceymg you The priceags just where they belong
buyers carnival in Wraps Jackets Ulsters and Raglans
me nancy yen expect 10 put ayzX mast yeLv buy
o OF the sort you have in mind No need to figure on what
trimming cost; soegA the s6 al0ne a the 0cke600k aes
oull eei like plying the work people Don't The loss
away on this side OF them Big loss to somebody No mat
ter The things are now within your reacand as if Green
back big or little went with each We only point out few
OF the styles here The Thirteenth Chestnut streets part
Of the second floor is overfowing with them
an backw re S2snows
see Elsaea
sand
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now
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Evening journal., 1888-12-31
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, December a. 1888
LAST ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THIS YEAR.

Just stopped long enough after the great Holiday
are prepared tell which
translate ypetoId into business 0 : ~ 0"us
An Occasion t
ARENU
We have been doing ggreatba gan nbuyng
0 al
All things damaged by handling hunted out
All stocks depleted by sales have nrepIen nsbed
Many new things have been dfor openings
AR MAN
store is thus to be filled with bargains ndrea
ola new born
The e and movement are to be kept appeals your sefntee and
You will be compelled t topro by them
me OF artofm
more diligently than daily story
JOHN WAMAMAKER
Evening journal., 1888-12-31

Iapean, Vi" Ezekiel T. Cooper of Dover.
and aavs,e seen almost any day on some
service. ny Delaware trains. riding with
invaluahs, poured one Of his undelivered
formitSeeches into the ear Of philadel-
nlar nes reporter on Saturday. Two
almc , and important points were made
If ne eloquent colonel. First. Mr. Mas
would be elected and the Democrats
.fere shaking in their boots lest his pop
ular manners-and railroad passes pre-
sumably would clean them out by
1890; and the second was that Delaware
would give its old fashioned Democratic
majority in 1890. We can understand
the relationship between Mr.. Massey IS
election and the old fashioned Democratic
majority in 1890, but we fail to see the
colonels other conclusion. The colonel,
it will be remembered. deserted the Sauls-
bury camp Of veterans last fall for the
Wolcott military playhouse, just in time
to sc. badly whipped Is he barking up
the wrong tree agains Or perhaps it
does not matter
Evening journal., 1888-12-31
pink, and black, also in various combinations Of the
APRONS AND PILLOW SHAMS.

In the White Goods stock southwest of centre first floor
"O APTo1s sheer embFoed eubdered Tbspr
sas Pillows shams Prices
During the holiday trade these goods are sold mostly by
sample some are used for decoration and display and therefore
become soed The goods thus offered an average of less
than half are perfect except soiIed
Evening journal., 1888-12-31
LINENS.

The whole muster of them is marching to the drumbeat
OF sensational prices Let there no doubt in your mind
aa quarter or zrd to tie Of each dollars avozh and
1o~ get 10 tie close retail Price oty stores 4da AaLf and
10~ get t4e acreage retail Prize You needn't guess bring in
the samples and compare Or when you carry the other
thing in your mind Put anybody eses Linens beside ouhc
and we know what the outcome will be lC
no dealers America (o the world for that matter) car
get closer to the linen makers than we are No one cak
handle the linens for less We know of no one who handles
them Tor SO little Year in and year you are saying that
we lead IN Linens Just you'll say we are betterng our
best See if you won't
Evening journal., 1888-12-31
Table Linen f:

tiRs no 4ls. ss 12TsSk Table
fine uifup sNn
Inens6
re 35perdoz
HrEg4i lag.redho
fr ioiie blue borders
ca FchT
ruu 3k
55anis
$3.50 to S4tA ,anGo H"e 'eenieuucei
Bed Linen:
slng yard; j - D0eAee"hS
heglc ana inches
Linen Sheets Pillow cases Foster
Toweing
he
ana
per yard
Some of the finest makes of Tabeclohs soed tossed o
otherwise out of seeming will 60 condition prices So win
everything that has suffered by lingering careless usage
Evening journal., 1888-12-31

TIE stare z0zX be closed al
o'eloek 2. N. to mo1vozO-
Ne70 Years Day.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
The Tyranny OF "Tips."

Fifteen years ago the clipping" Of
walters in hotels and restaurants was rs
a constant and practically inevitable re-
quirement almost unknown here. The
system came into vogue as somewhat
natural result of the large influx of for
eign waters and of the acquisition Of
European ideas through the vast and still
increasing tide of summer travel. With
true American impetuosity and energy
we have carried on the practice of "tip-
ping" till it has now become nuisance
of extremely exacting and annoying pro-
portions. 1t is impossible to take meal
in a restaurant, to stay in hotel or to
enjoy the somewhat questionable luxury
Of berth in sleeping car without, in
addition to paying the large profits of the
proprietors of these institutions, giving
also a very considerable percentage in
the shape of tips" The system is so
thoroughly organized that it is impossible
for the man who desires any comfort to
avoid paying this customary blackmail.
Without it, he cannot even get the food
OF the attention which is purported to be
offered at a high price. Any regular
traveller will say that it is hopeless to try
to obtain more than one good or well
served meal in hotel unless the waiter
is remembered. The same experience
will be encountered in any Of the better
class Standardization Magnus in The
Epoch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
He ResiRned at Once.

A village newspaper, giving an ac-
count Of a lecture by a noted lecturer,
said briefly and indefinitely that it was
"a wonderful flow of language
seems to have been the idea of the hearers
of certain colored minister, mentioned
by an exchange, whose gifts were rather
superficial.
The length Of the words he hurled at
his hearers was only limited by the
amount of oxygen he could take into his
lungs at one effort. This was all very
well for time, but the church did not
seem to prosper, and by and by change
was decided upon and a committee of
one was appointed to ask for the wordy
minister's resignation.
When the errand had been stated, the
preacher Indignantly asked what the
congregation expected for nothing.
"Waal, now, doan yo' see, we duzzent
expect"-
'Isn't my character away up yam above
procrastinationr
mo trouble bout dat; but. sab, yer
isn't fur enuf dedicated to-
"Kaint l talk confidently enough ter
suit de most rapashus2"
"Dat's it, chile; dat's it; hole right
on where var now. Yo' kin talk and
yo' kin talk, but yo' doan't pint out; yo'
can argyfy an yo' kin argyfy. but Yo'
doan't show wharein."
The resignation was handed in directly.
Youths Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
Popular Stories In England.

The Young Ladies' Journal is an ele-
giant miscellany which 1 have frequently
observed in the possession of the bar
maid. In lone house on moorland
was once supplied with quite consider
able file Of this production and the
weather being violently devoutly read it.
The tales were not ill done; they were
well abreast of the average tale in cir
culating library; there was only one diff
ference, only one thing to remind me
was in the land Of penny numbers instead
of the parish of three volumes: Disguise
1t as the authors pleased (and they showed
ingenuity in doing SOY it was always the
same tale they must relate-the tale of
poor girl ultimately married to peer Of
the realm or lat the worsD baronet.
The circumstance is not common in life,
but how familiar to the musings of the
bar maidl The tales were not true to
what men see; they were true to what
the readers dreamed.-Robert L. Steven
son in Scribner's Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
England's Army and Navy.

Since the year 1866, just upon the close
OF the Crimean war, up to 1SS7--a period
of thirty-two years-the army and navy
OF Great Britain has cost-now, what do
you Think Nine hundred and twenty
five million eight hundred and fifteen
thousand six hundred and fifty-five
pounds sterling Can the mind of man
grasp such a gigantic sum, and contem-
plate it satisfactorily in all its bearings2
Nearly S5,000.000, 900. Imagine that
To hear army men talk, one would think
the army had been self supporting, and
had been able to get along only through
the supreme military genius of its officers.
According to them the army has been de-
MED the common necessaries of life.
Now, what has been done with all this
money! Where has it gone to. What
has become of it? Is there nothing to
show for it2 There has been no great
war in which England has been engaged
to account for the legitimate expenditure
of such gigantic sum of the peoples
money. Has it given the army general2
Let us stop again for a moment and
reflect on the enormous magnitude of
this sum of money squandered, APP
parently with no results. Five thousand
millions of dollars! Why, the national
debt of the United States on Aug. 81,
1868, when the civil war had been going
on for two years, was, after deducting
the cash in the treasury, not quite
50, 900, 900, 900. The great cry now is
that the army and navy are inefficient,
and unable to keep the French out Of
England whenever they choose to come,
because they are not given any money.
But what is the use of giving them
money! 1t is like pouring water into q
sieve. Nothing ever comes Of it,
Cockaigne's London Letter in The Ar
gonaut.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
Treatment for the Rheumatism.

Free ventilation should be secured, but
without draughts, and the temperature
kept between SO and 70 dogs. Fahrenheit.
The patient should be clothed in flannel
and lie between wooden blankets. His
covering should be light. An excess
of bedclothing will add to the pain
in the inflamed joints, and un-
necessarily increase the sweating. 1t
should be studied effort to spare him
any painful movements possible, and
every ministration should be gentleness
itself. Milk, with seltzer water or lime
water, prominently meets the require
ments as the principal article of diet,
during the active period of the disease.
If this proves insufficient, or is not well
borne, then other light and concentrated
food can be administered. Some
authorities insist that animal food and
alcohol are contra indicated during the
height of the fever. The latter should
certainly be prohibited, as a rule, but the
patients diet need not be SO much re-
stricted as in other highly febrile disor-
ders. Those who are habituated to the
use Of stimulants should not be entirely
deprived Of them.-Journal of Health.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13

As approached the landslip, saw .
number of brown monkeys rush to the
sides and across the top Of the slip, and
presently pieces of loosened stone and
shale came tumbling down where stood.
fully satisfied myself that this was not
merely accidental, for 1 distinctly saw
one monkey industriously with both fore
paws and with obvious malice prepense,
pushing the loose shingle off the rock.
then tried the effect of throwing stones
at them, and this made them quite
angry, and the number of fragments
which they set rolling was speedily
doubled. -
This, though 1t does not amount to
the actual throwing of objects by
monkeys as q means of offense, comes
very near to the same thing, and makes
me think that there may be truth in the
stories of their throwing fruit at people
from trees. At all events, the general
statement that the act Of throwing
things is never performed by any animal
except man is certainly not correct, as I
have myself seen recently captured ele-
plants project branches of trees with the
design of hitting persons out Of their
reach.-Traveler's India Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
Best Style Of "Strong Writing"

There is generally an effort on the
part Of young writers, and sometimes
with older ones as well, toward "strong
writing" 1t is considered clever to
abuse people, and very frequently Justice
is sacrificed to crafty this desire. Strong
writing is all very well in its place; the
trouble is that too often in the effort to
make it ''strong" the misguided young
ster only succeeds in making 1t rank.
Abuse without argument is never strong.
There is no particular cleverness required
to call brother editor ring tailed
baboon; a spotted monkey would be
equally effective and would mean Just as
little.
The most killing style of strong writing
is where the writer never forgets the fact
that he is a gentleman, and that his mat
ter is to be read by gentlemen and ladies.
Under ordinary circumstances abuse is
never convincing, but rather reflects
upon the writer than upon its intended
object. We may laugh at it as an ex-
ample Of western journalism" but 1t
disgusts US all the same.
Nor is abusive ''strong writing" con.
fined to the western press. The New
York papers, when argument is lacking,
fall back very readily upon billingsgate.
and, like the squid, think to conceal
their own discontinue by discharging
their ink upon the hated rival. Yet,
after all, it is only ink, and in the long
run 1t serves only to spatter themselves.
The Journalist.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
A Disgraceful Spectacle.

1t is difficult to imagine anything moro
horrible or revolving than the spectacle Of
a woman hanging by her teeth to the car
of balloon until the machine has risen
out of sight. l think it is q disgrace to
our age that, while we legislate for the
protection of life and limb in all kinds of
Industrial employment, no check should
be placed ON shows the only attraction Of
which is the danger to the performer.
The evil will, however, suppose, always
exist as long as there Is free competition
between managers and free competition
between the poor creatures who risk their
lives to earn their living, but that is one
reason, at least, why the law ought I'd
step In and put a stop to such disgrsceSU
sbows.-London Truth.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
HOW TO GROW LONGER.
BY Taking Turkish Baths It Can BE Ac-
complished-A Doctors Testimony.

complished-A DOCTORS Testimony.
$50 you were rejected, eh2 I'm awfully
sorry, old man. Thought you'd pull
through If any one did, and even hoped
you'd be sent into our precinct. How
did it happen? Too heavy for your size2
Nonsense. Under stature, too2 Oh, come
off. How is it they rejected you and
passed your brotherp He is even shorter
than you and weighs-well, ten pounds
heavier at least. Turkish baths; well,
that's new one on me-"
Thus it was that a member of "the
finest" recently received the intelligence
that friend of his had been denied a
place on the force. The writer, who had
been an unintentional listener to the
conversation, after trying for week to
solve the question unaided, called on DR..
Charles T. Ryan, to whom he put the
following query:
'How is it that men who are under
size and over weight can get ON the po-
lice force2"
"You know" he replied, "that the
police and fire department, too, for that
matter, require all applicants for posi-
tons to be of a certain height and
weight. Some are of height necessary
to appointment, but lack weight. These
men can increase their weight by a GER
tain attention to diet and by exercising a
certain amount of care as to the kind and
amount of manual labor they perform.
Others are up to the standard of weight
required, but oftentimes lack trife Of
the regulation height, or if tall enough
they are perhaps too heavy. 1t is this
class who are benefited by the Turkish
bath. To make you understand how q
man Of the necessary height but Of too
great weight can be brought to a condi-
ton that will enable him to pass the ex-
aminers, it is not necessary to say any
thing, except that we do it. What you
can't see through, however, is how q
thought so. Well, it can't be done,
that is permanently, but temporarily the
Turkish bath can stretch a man, as 1t
were, for an inch or perhaps more. Es-
pecially is this so in cases where the men
operated upon have been used to desk or
bench work.
ga result of sitting at desk or q
bench for years, as you well know, is q
stoop or rounding Of the shoulders. Be-
sides this, the cartilaginous cushions that
lie between the vertebra become settled
as it were, and mans original or nor
NAL stature is lessened to marked de-
gree thereby. That exposure to the in
tense heat Of a Turkish bath, followed by
rational exercise in the plunge and q
thorough manipulation at the hands of a
skillful operator, should straighten a man
up, stimulate the cartilage of the spinal
column and relax the muscles, especially
of the extremities, is only natural, and il
is men of the class have just named
that, anticipating physical examination
for positions on the police force, have
profited by the baths to the end that you
have just mentioned. Being a trife
short Of the stature required, they
have gone to Turkish bath and 'lim
bered up as 1t were, for examination
But for Misrepresentation you might cal
it-many wearers Of service stripes to
day would never have passed the re
quired examination. New York Mai
and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
The sparrows at Home.

The English farmers have t,tfned
against the sparrows as pest to agricul.
ture, and are offering rewards for their
destruction. 1t Is asserted that these
vicious birds cause loss to agricultural
England Of go, 900, 900 to $50, 200, 900
per year. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
In Olden Ttua.

The bushel measures used In England
300 years ago weighed eighteen pounds
Of themselves, and any one who walked
across the floor while wheat was being
measured was liable to imprisonment
New York Graphic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
Il Ii No Wonder.

II Is no wonder the women are COM
stantly house cleaning. John Aiken as4
serts that cubic inch Of air in an ordi-
nary room contains 8o.s1s, 900 particles
Of dust.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
THE KISS OF THE SEA.

A yellow stretch Of ripping sand,
Curved by the bay to two gold lips;
All, lookl the blue sea slyly slips,
Faint, frothing up the shingly strand
just takes the kiss, and then for fear
Refiows, but GIBBS to reappesr.
The sea shells strewn around sing low
The secret SEQ things that they know.
Forrest Greenleaf Linwoud.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13

Chastity enables the soul to breathe
pure air in the foulsst placed
Evening journal., 1888-05-30

the Supreme Court OF Masschusettes, Is
visiting California. and will closely study
the Chinese cheap labor question.
Colonel William p. johnson. president OF
Tulane Uniyersity, has returned 10 New
Orleans from business trip through the
North in theinteress OF tho college.
The Rev. DIR. william c. Winslow, Of
Boston end Of the Egyptian Exploration
Fund, win deliver the annual address at
an Sc. Johns College, Anuapoiolls, Mo,
on June q.
The Rev. DR.. J. P. Nevman. Bishop
elect OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
wiz preach this years baccolsurente ser-
mon at the New England Conservatory OF
Masie at Boston on June II
Secretary Villas has the eavel used BY
him in presiding ever The lsst Democratic
National Convention bound with gold and
mounted in a square Of plush. hanging up
10 his parlor nt Washington.
TVAe late Lady Buebanan well remembered
Napoleon OF 81. Helena. where her father
was governor in 1878. When she was firpt
introduced to him the ex-Emperor said.
II have lopg heard from various quarter
of year superior eloquence aud beauty, hut
n0~ ] am convinced that report has
scarcely done you sufficient justice." And
theu, as abe was eoon to leave the Island,
he added; You must he very glad 70 get
away ''Oh, no. Sire,p said she. al am
sorry to gon 'Abl Well, mademoiseiie,
visa could exchange places with you !"
Evening journal., 1888-05-30
DECORATION DAY.

More and more is made Of Decora-
tion Day as the years 20 by and the
time is not far distant when the occa-
sion will be legal holiday as generally
enjoyed and respected as the Fourth
of July or Thanksgiving Day. The
day is more largely devoted to process
sions and the strewing of flowers
than to recital of the great
deeds of courage. self-eacrifice,
suffering and death which are INSOFAR
ably associated with all memory Of the
buried heroes. Perhaps this will be
changed after the story Of the war by
virtue OF its age becomes novel again
to the generations yet TO ba. We hope
that it will be changed. Il is n grac
ious and beautiful act TO strew flowers
upon the soldiers grave. but it Is
our sacred duty 60 tell again
and again, so that it thail
never be forgotten and never thought
less Of, the story Of the war for the
Union and Ct the brave men who con-
sciously and courageously faced and
met death because of their love for the
Union. They were not only brave,
but they were right. too; and this is
the part Of our soldiers history which
the orator should hand down imme-
MORALLY.
Let us to-day, while honoring
the heroic dead, remember that
there are still number of the
heroic living among us. It is better to
make life easy for one. or to keep out
of the workhouse a single decrepit,
helpless old soldier, or a dscrepit and
helpless mother or widow of a soldier
than to strew flowers on the graves
of ninety aud nine heroes who fell at
the front. The country can never repay
the men who saved il from dis
rupticn, and the very least that we can
do is to make the few remaining days
of those Who are still with us as COM
Portable as our great means will per-
init. Let there be then until the end
flowers Tor the dead and decent PEN
sions for the living.
Evening journal., 1888-05-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Two in one chair:
"Ducky9'
"Whattyf
DO you think / am making any progress
in courtinRr
"well, l should say you were holding
your ovn,p
Tableau San Francisco Post.
Gliding on Glass, Bucher, 400 shipley St.
The elevator is one OF the greatest ale
viators OF modern times.
ladies' and Gents Gold ana Silver Watches.
Milard f. Davis. No. Q East Second st.
when is that raft which they are build
ing up in Nova Scotia going to reach New
Yorks Why, he-rafter, OF course.
DR.. Bocksom's ofice is at N. E corner 2i and
West sts.
Curious, lent iti That lunatlc asylnms
are not allowed to take In sane people.
Bucher, Painter, 400 ship,ey St
The town 10 Kansas which elected a
woman mayor and Common Council
composed OF women hiss been wrecked by
cyclone. No wonder the Supreme Court Of
Washington Territory took away from
women the right to vote as soon as they
heard OF this calamity.
Trunks and Bags at Yergsr's, 4O7 sbipIey
ST.
A man who goes to the root OF things-
the dentist.
AZ the new store. N. W. Cor. Ell and Orange,
cheap Dry Goods and Trimmings 4 Wyatt.
A gouty man should make his will if be
wants to have his leg-at-ees.
Geo. W. Jackson for Coroner.
The kangaroo presents strange anon
ally. When it l.)lespinR its wide awake.
Show Cards, Bucher, 400 shipley st.
An expert has succeeded in photograph
ing the bsatiUg OF the heart. Neat present
for an absent admirer t1 send to his be-
trothed-a picture af bis pslpitation on
reading her letter
G. w. jackson. Bill Poster and Distribu
tor, Wilmington, Del.
The old pyramid.builders must have beer
a race OF hustlsrs. Even their mummieI
we're pressed for time.
Leonard Heks the Tailor. E. Sd.
Coschmen have a weakness for millIners
They knowhow to handle the ribbons.
We are closing out cur stock OF goods K
quit business It will nay you TO come anI
see cur bargains Nj. r. Wyatt, 1l3 W. 9,
st.
Bicyclers who wish to initiate Stevens bl
a trip through Central Asia may gathe
from his book that toothbrush is un
necessary baggage. They can have
brush with the partar any time for th
asking-often without it.
Riding Saddles and Brides for Decors
tion Day at II. Yerger's, 4O7 shipley st.
A tip at the races often costs more thai
a whole dinner at Delmonico's.
VIM. Kenzia, Merchant Tailor. S. W, Cor. 3
; and Smiley SITS Gents clothing cleaned. we'd
seourtd, altered and repalt ed. Speciality
! pants 70 order. from So up. Suits from 81
/, up.
, The recent victories OF The Bard do no
mean q prosperous season for the sprin
poets.
Bucher. Sign Painter. 400 shipley Sc.