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NOVELTY WALKING GOWNS.

recently saw some beautiful new ier-
seys. Some had vests of velvet, broad
cloth, satin, silk or jersey cloth in con-
trasting colors; some were made with
vests and trimmings in close cashmere
patterns and Persian embroidery. others
had military effects; others again the
empire and directoire styles wrought out
IN their collars and lapels, and all have
seams and side forms, so that they arc
perfectly adjusted to the figure. The
backs and fronts at the bottom are better
finished than ever before, and they set
better and are more ornamental Until
now the form of the Jerseys left some
thing To I've desired in finish but now the
most carping critic cannot complain, for
no waist can be made to fit like Jersey
or give such perfect ease and durability.
Riding habits are undergoing great
change, and one which fills the heart of
the man dressmaker with dismay. La
dies are now finding out that Jerseys are
easier to ride in than the stiff ''habit
basques" Of late years, aud they are
adopting them, and riding skirts are no
longer made So tight that the wearer has
to button them all the way up.
The skirts are now made yard and
half long, and only the front breadth is
gored. The rest is plated in at the sides
and back. The skirts are two yards and
half around. The effect il thus far
more graceful, and pleasing TO the eye.
1t is TO be hoped, however, that ladies
will not run into the other extreme and
make the skirts SO long as TO he danger
Qua The trousers will not ha DISCARDED
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11

1t Is remarkable how moral courage
will almost always overcome brute force.
When Gen. Clarke was subduing hostile
Indians he once had before him chief
whose record was one of bloodshed and
pillage, and who made it n boast that he
feared no man. Clarke treated him with
contempt, accused him of being squaw
who would never fight. and had all his
insignia of rank stripped of him. The
savage, who had always been accustomed
to being cringed to. was awed by the in
trepid bearing of the white man. and
begged for peace and pardon. He never
gave any more trouble. Louis Globe
Democrat
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Good Appetite.

A certain well known college professor
began his career as teacher in coun-
try school district and, following the Gus
tom OF the time, "boarded around" one
winter His arrival at one rural home
took place just at dinner time, and he at
once sat down with the family to enjoy
the repast.
He does not remember that his appe.
tite was particularly sharp that day, but
at the close OF the meci the mistress OF
the house looked across the table toward
her husband and remarked:
"Well, John, guess you'd better kill
that heifer after all. Youths Compan-
ion
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CENTENNIAL ECHOES.
Prentice milford D,scourses About Things
Washing tonian--In Wax.

Prentice sfulford Dlscourses About Things
Washing gtonian-In Wax.
Especial Correspondence
SAC HARDoR, May 9.--Washington's
coach. Washington in wax in the coach
Martha In wax. Sitting as they used to
on q journey for hours after n quarrel,
looking out of opposite windows. Quar-
rel In wax. Washington taking the
oath. Oath in wax. Washington taking
the oath with n 'stick in it," In wax.
Washington's eyes opened TO the future
glories of the republic. Republic in
wax. Washington writing Beautiful
Snow" In wax. Washington's corns.
In wax. Washington "swearing off,"
Swear in wax. Washington composing
yankee Doodle" Doodle in wax.
Washington's boil. In wax.
Washington in wax trying to talk
through a telephone. In wax. "Hello!'
"Whatl" "Who are your In wax.
"Ring up TO-" Beware Of entangling
alliances" In wax. Washington's old
clothes. In wax. Washington's shoe
strings. Waxed. Washington's mus
taches. Waxed Washington's Derby
hat. In wax. Full set Of Washington's
shirts. Nine dollars per dozen. In wax.
Three pair Of Washington's new breech-
es. Washington's oil stove. His hair OIL
In wax.
Fiftytwo chairs Washington sat in.
Forty-fivo beds he slept in. Washing.
ton with Daniel in the lions den. British
lions. Wax. Washington seeing the
elephant. Elephant in wax. Washing.
toms trunk. In wax. Elephants trunk.
Ditto of course. Washington at spell
ing bee. Bee in wax. Washingtons
first courtship. Courtship in wax.
Washington's proposal to Martha. Pro.
posal in wax. Neutrality-suspicious.. Ac-
ceptance in wax. Their first kiss. Kiss
In wax. His patriotism. In wax. His
love of country. In wax. First in war.
In wax. Second in peace. In wax.
Third in the hearts of his countrymen.
In wax. Fourth in the affections OF his
countrywomen. In wax. Fifth. Not yet
out. In wax.
Washington's crochet needle. Wash
ington's thimble. Bar of Washingtons
favorite soap. Washington's rolling pin.
In wax. Sample of Washington's hash.
Wax. Washington's bread bowl, corn
cob pipe, chopping tray and chopper.
The Washington sausage. In wax. Chaw
of Washington's tobacco. Wax. Wash
ington on bicycle. Wax bicycle. Martha
on tricycle. Wax. Martha Washington
interviewed by reporter. Before cut
ting down his fathers cherry trees Re-
porter in brass. Washington in wax.
Hatchet in paralIine. Washington wax
ing wroth with Lee at Monmouth Wroth
In wax. Washington's love of country.
Love in wax. The last buckwhea, cake
he ever ate. In wax. His farewell sau-
sage. In wax. Tho last bread he ever
mixed Mixture in wax. His parting
pinch of snuff. Pinch in wax. Snuff also
in wax. Concomitant sneeze. Sneeze in
wax.
The love America bears to Washing
ton. Bear in wax. The eternal graft
tude of his fellow countrymen. Country
men In wax. Gratitude also in wax
The thanks OF millions yet to 10 for Sc
curing us our liberties Liberties-in
wax. Thanks in wax.
Millions yet to be. In wax. AS Wash
ington truly said, "Theres millions in It'll"
PRENTICE MULFoRD.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11

Bechuanaland is the paradise of the
workingman. In the course of our So
journ we never saw beggar or starv-
Ing person. Masons in Bechuanaland
were getting wages Of los. to el per diem,
and this with meat at Cd. pound. Ma
tiyes in the coal pits were getting 5s. a
day. When we consider that Kaffir's
food, consisting of Boer meal pap, costs
from 3D. to Cd. day. there is a good mar
gin for saving. We had Baralongs and
Basutos working for us. The former we
found clever with their fingers, but very
poor in physique, with great dis
inclination for hard work. The Basutos
are q fine race, magnifcently propor-
toned, and excellent workers, willing
and intelligent, The superiority of the
Basuto and the Zulu is shown indisput-
ably by the fact that from them are re-
cruited the police and the searchers of
the diamond fields. Some think II proba-
BILE that the native races of South Africa
came originally from the South Sea Isl
ands, but, be that as it may, il is certain
that Jewish customs obtain among them.
Circumcision is universal, and the old
Jewish law of raising up seed TO the de-
ceased brother survives in the South Af-
rican tribal law that when chief dies
his next brother marries his widow, and
the children afterward born from this
union are accounted the children of the
dead man, not of the living father. The
Fortnightly Review,
sszs<- A. .s=s
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care you the girl who was to come to
our house as nurseY asked fashiona-
BILE lady Of the healthy looking girl who
had just entered the room.
81 am, ma'am."
81 have examined your references and
find them satisfactory. You may be-
gin next week"
"But If ye plaze, ma'am, I'd like to ask
yea wan question"
"What Is III"
is 1t baby or poog dog that I'm to
look afther?-Merchant Traveller.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11

This volume of "Readiana" is full of
excellent material for an estimation of
the character Of Charles Reade. His
catholicity of feeling, his hatred Of cant,
his high sense of justice, his sympathy
with the suffering and poor, are shown
from first TO last in his writings as well
as in his life. What would have struck
you next II you had known him well,
was the difference between Mr.. Reade at
home and Mr. Reade in print. Call upon
him, He would receive you with the
gentleness of a saint mot that pretend
ever to have known saint, but you will
appreciate the simile), talk to you with
singular modesty, listen to you with the
greatest respect, ask you to dinner, or to
take cup of tea as one who receives a
favor by your acceptance, and you would
have gone away thinking of him as the
mildest, sweetest, most long suffering
gentleman you had ever met. But give
him a grievance, tamper with his rights,
tread on his moral corns, then put pen
In his hand, and you would find him a
writer of thoughts that breathe, of words
that burn indeed. Not, my friends, that
ever experienced his wrath. On the
contrary, he was always kind and SYM
pathetic toward me. He took me by
the hand, and said CHEEKY words Of well
come to me when ! came to London,
some twenty years ago. We met for
tho first time at the inaugural dinner Of
Tho Belgrayia Magazine. We were in
troduced to each other by Miss Braddon.
We had long, interesting chat during
the evening; he had read my first novel
(he was multifarious reader) and spoke
kindly about it. From that night we
were friends He wrote pleasant letters
OF encouragement to me; and i'm later
years intrusted me with his defense
against cruel personal attack leveled
AT him by an American Clergyman
Joseph llatton in London Times.
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Ninety-nine children out of every hun
dred will tell faisehool If you speak to
them thus: my son. do not know
whether you did the act with which you
are charged or not. have no means of
knowing, must rely on what you now
say If you say you did not, ! will make
you present Of handsome pony, sad
die and bride If you say that YOU did
the act ! will whip you till you can't
stand up and put YOU on bread and water
for two days. Now truth is beautiful
Speak the truth!'-Nashyille American.
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a Story of Won Rulov

While playing the piano before large
audiences he has often suddenly stopped,
walked to the front of the stage and
made speeches absolutely antithetical to
the spirit and opinions of his listeners.
On one occasion he suddenly took it into
his head that it was positively essen
;ial for each individual member of
the vast orchestra he was conducting
to stand while playing. They had to
stand some Of them with heavy instru-
ments, for nearly three hours.
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mB 0WWu- TtctuteequS hsU1"8 uoUsss
and Ridius nats- -oensrai Fashscn 0eassp.
Especial Corsspondencel
NEW York, May 9.--Nothing hes been
thought or talked about among the
feminine portion Of New York during
the past ten days, except the gowns
worn by the ladies at the great centennial
ball, and suppose the information would
be as acceptable TO those who did not see
them. There Is certain pleasure, chas-
tened and melancholy though II may be,
In hearing how royalty attires itself on
state occasions, and as we have no royalty
We like TO know what our presidents
wife and daughters wore.
Mrs. Harrison wore splendid dress of
pure white silk, 80 thick II fell In heavy
rich folds. The front was covered with
finely plated tulle, and this fastened
with silver spaneles. which were cut
with facets 80 that they sparkled like
frost work. The back was cut en- prin-
cesse, and the train was square. On ono
side panel was worked with silver.
The other was made of marabout feathers
The corsage was cut v shape and the
points filed In with tulle The sleeves
were OF silk to the elbow with a deep
fall of tulle below them. Her gloves
were white and she wore diamonds.
The presidents daughter, Mrs. Mckee,
wore trained gown Of thick white
nrmurc silk with drapcries Of embroid-
cred crepe lissc. Tho gloves were white,
and 80 were tho slippers and stockings,
and the whole dress was much admired.
Mrs. Russell d. Harrison wore a mag
nificent dress, with n long square train
of white satin striped with moire. The
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stripes were or
nanented W ith
brocaded So
buds and roses In
natural colors.
The front was Of
blue satin,d ,draped
with tulle, hand
o m br oidered d
with silk and seed
pearls. The waist
was pointed back
and front and had
a bertha Of tulle
An d blue mara
bout feathers.
These d elicate
plumcs. W hic h,
are rs ethereal asI
t h istle down.
have not been
seen for many
years, and 1t was
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SOME Nrw .JEpsPvs.

Riding hats also are TO I've changed, and
now, instead Of the high hat or jockey,
or Derby, wide brimrned and soft felt
hat, with long. sweeping plume, will
be worn. or course. some conservatives
will try to maintain the present styles,
but their funeral cards are out. am
not sorry, but then, II really isn't my
funeral. OLIVE HARPER.
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Proionging His Life.

Judge-1 sentence you to ten years.
labor in the penitentiary.
Prisoner-God bless you, judge! My
physicians said have consumption and
could not live more than year or two
You have prolonged my life.-Omaha
World
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-11
The Graphophone In Sickness.

A DIR. Richardson has achieved some
Instructive experiments in the use of the
graphophone for recording physical
symptoms, such as coughs and pulses.
A cough OF today can always be recorded
and compared readily with one of days
before.
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an inspiration to NEW RIDING HABIT.
have them on this occasion. The silk
used In making these dresses Is every bit
OF American manufacture, and there
were no handsomer toilets than these,
though many came from Paris.
Mrs. Levi r. Morton wore splendid
Paris gown OF heavy brocade with drap-
ings Of point dc Venice some thirty inch
ca deep, which alone must have cost an
enormous price. Mrs. Morton Is very
handsome, and makes fine dress beau
tiful by her own personality, but the
pure white dresses of Mrs. Harrison and
Mrs. Mckee were certainly the most
pleasing toilets at the great ball
1t would not be possible to give a. de-
tailed description Of all the dresses worn
at this great gathering. but there was
ono general effect noticeable, and that
was that all or nearly all the costumes
followed the styles Of century ago as
closely as was possible, and, indeed,
there were very many dresses worn that
have been handed down through success
sive generations since Washington's
time, and very quaint and pretty they
were. One on two young ladies wore
the very dresses that their ancestors had
worn at the inaugural ball one hundred
years ago, without alteration.
There are some ladies who don't think
these old styles pretty, and prefer the
newer modes Of today, and for such
show one of the prettiest | could see.
This dress has a skirt of chocolate
brown faille and very slightly draped
over skirt Of striped novelty goods, In
pink, green and brown, The corsage is
OF the brown faille with drapery vest OF
the stripe. Tho wrap is made of black
ottoman silk and black guipure lace,
which is being revived very extensively
this season. 1t is rich and durable
lace, and being of pure silk threads never
loses its rich luster. Both hats are large
and trimmed with many feathers. Os
trich feathers are very much used every
where wherever they can be.
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mo Boon was Oaly rsopssasy. go ~
Rssetios nss - In-so0s se ~ rrssls
of Ostrich Fsrmins. ard I've Rs,lsssss
About Ostrschsa
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housetop how gossip makes public man
more widely known for his personal
traits or cccentricities than for his genius
or statesmanship. how gossip gives fame,
or at least its common equivalent, noto-
riety, to men who have no other claim
thereto. how regulations are manufact-
ured out OF trivial incidents and names
are sent laundering down the ages with
nothing but inconsequentiai idiosyncra-
- to propel them.
There Is Kentucky's favorite son, Sen
stos Blackburn, surely famous man.
Yet he is better known for his bonhomie,
biz breexiness and as "Joe" than for his
eloquence or craftsmanship. great as
ehess are. II ex-senator Bowen had not
beam . poker player it is doubtful il his
nAmc would hav2 been spread familiarly
- AZ parts Of the country. and his for
msr coiieague. Tabor, is TO this day bet
~ known for his two hundred dollar
night shirt than for his millions and his
business ability. Ex-senator Chace of
Rhode Island, became quickly known
Tor his Quakerish origin and appearance
senator Davis. OF Minnesota, though a
brilliant man, has been helped TO a gen
ersi reputation by the beauty of his wife.
Even asgreat and learned a man as Sen
eeog Esarts would never have become as
samllias TO the common people as he has
~ for the joke about his interminably
Ing sentences and the popular notion
~ his bat was left in the ark by Noah.
= god deal Of . statesman is Senator
lenock. but his personal beauty has
eossied his name further than his ability
eoun have done, had il been twice as
GpeaA Tho fact that senator German
Wns once . page in the senate and after
Uord . ball player has contributed much
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-27
SHE HAD SIX HUSBANDS.
The Remarkable Matri monial Exper.
ION On OF N Ic6,rm ns. nm n ha Wnman

The Remarkable Mntrl monial Expers
fence OF Former Omaha Woman.
From Pomona, CAL, comes the story
given below OF remarkably handsome
woman. In substance, 1t runs as follows:
Mrs. Josephine Baxter, who recently died
here, had as varied matrimonial experiences
as Chaucer's wife Of Bath. She had no
less than six husbands in thirty years.
and lost them all by death except one. Her
career was SO extraordinary in its alterna-
tions of wealth ana poverty that 1t discounts
fiction. She was born of wealthy parents In
Tarrytown, N. Y, but ran away when six.
teen from Albany seminary with James
O'Neill, whom her parents refused to recog-
nize. ONeill taught school in Toledo
until he died, in 1858, and tho young
wife was left to take care Of her baby. After
two years as governess she married Clarence
M. Cushman, of Cincinnati, o wealthy pork
packer. Cushman died in Rome two years
after, and his widow found her affairs so
heavily involved she saved little from the
estate She returned to this country, and
found her third husband in 1896 in st. Louis
IN Lieutenant Oscar ID. Williams, OF
in Colorado. Her husband was drowned in
Montana one year later, and then for three
years she taught IN the family Of Senator
Washburn, of Minneapolis. There she mar
ried Preacher Wilkins, who went as mis-
sionary to Siam and China. He died in Hong
Kong, and she brought her fourth spouse's
corpse back to this country. Her fifth hus
band was Graham p. Esty, o rich Louisiana
sugar planter, who fell in love with her
when she was nurse in Philadelphia
hospital. After three years OF
happiness Esty was ruined by
sugar speculation, and committed suicide In
1882. Then she went to Philadelphia, and
her brother dying left her $4,000, and year
afterward she married Baxter, a lawyer and
q friend of her brother They moved to
Omaha, but owing to Baxter's i'll health
came to California six months ago and settled
in Pomona. Here Mrs. Baxter was attacked
by disease and died in her fifty first year.
She was a beautiful woman to the last
Their residence In this city, II they lived
here at all, must have been very brief. In
quiries were made yesterday, but no one
could be found who knew anything about tho
CQunla.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-27

best books OF the last year, "Trees and Tree
Planting" Harper Brothers) in recent ar
ticle says:
"It should now be admitted for 1t has been
proven:
l. That the destruction OF forests grad
ually but surely decreases the amount Of
rainfall.
2. That springs and small streams almost
invariably disappear with our forests.
B. That our largo streams shrink greatly
in volume, especially with the removal of
the forests from about the sources or head
waters.
a. That the removal of forests. which alone
tend to hold and distribute water uniformly
throughout the seasons, has brought and will
continue to bring in an increasing ratio pro-
portionate to the rnpidity of such removal,
devastating floods upon the river valleys of
our country.
8. That since climate is intimately affected
by conditions of moisture, and that timber
growth absorbs and radiates heat, as well as
protects from sweeping winds, the removal
of forests must materially affect the climatic
conditions OF the country.
@. That the forestry question being one OF
great public interest and moment, and al
ready being largely in the hands Of the gen
eral and state governments, should be taken
entire control of by the same, that uniform
measures may be adopted for the protection
and extension of our forests.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-27

deavoring TO obtain recruits from the ranks
OF the young. The future greatness OF Q
nation must depend upon It's youth. Thd
guileless and energetic minds OF children are
ever ready TO perceive, admire and initiate
whatever IL noble and true. The fruit must
depend upon the seed. Mrs. Peattie has pro.
vidcd the fnost Seed culled from the choic.
est flowers that have sprung up so luxuri,
antly on American soil
The opening chapter presents America as
1t was In prehistoric times, when the mas
todons and mammoths roved the country,
hunted by the mound builders, whose name
earthworks. Then follows in language
simple and picturesque an interesting 40.
count of the landing Of Columbus, and after
that the visit OF the gay Spanish cavalier,
Ponce de Leon, whose bark was waited by
the gentle southern zephyrs to the shores Of
Florida, and In that peninsula spent several
years searching the woods and shores for the
"F'ountain OF Life" The arrival OF tho Eng
lish, French and Puritans Ia graphically. but
concisely described, as also are the develop
ments that follow and which effect the in.
auguration Of the first president Of the
United States. The history Is then contiD-
ued, noticing oil the most Important Incl
dents OF modern history. IL is the first work
Of tho kind to include the history OF the last
ten years. Those who have read the prev
ious works Of this author will expect much
pleasure and instruction In reading this, and
plicity Of the style adopted will prove very
welcome to the young, and this quality COM
bimed with the spirited and we'll arranged
collection OF historical facts will also render
the book agreeable and instructive to read
ers of mature age.