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TT HAS become the fashion in Chicago for
men to buy their wives bonnets. The mill,
ners like the change, aud say that as a general
thing Il man knows better than woman what
is suited for her.
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The Mothers Friend. used few weeks be-
fore confinement, lessons the pain and makes
labor quick and comparatively easy. Sold by
all Druggists.
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Losses in Battle.

General Theodore A. Dodge ends one
of two articles on "Valor and Skill in the
Civil War;" printed in the Century, as
follows:
And in this connection it may not be
amiss once more to give our national self
esteem tid-bit in the following table of
losses in sundry battles in the eighteenth
aud nineteenth centuries:
Percentage
of killed
aud ,countlcd
Of number
engaged.
Prussiaus-Up to Waterloo, in eight :. -
P,1,ssions-At Koniegretz ........... 1856
AI hs+t i.S'Np ~ ...,'......... ILL
Anstr;ans-Since in two $50
French-Up to Waterloo, in nine -
rronnhNS;nca in nine $50
Germans-Since 1745, in eight battles. II. 81 81
English-In four battles ............. 10. 81
Federalism eleven battles .......... l2-Ss
Confederates-In eleven battles. l4.1o
From this table it is manifest that, ex-
cepting the troops Of Frederick and
Napoleon, the American volunteer has
shown himself equal to taking the
severest punishment of any troops upon
the field of battle. The wonderfully
pertinacious tactics of those two great
Captains, rather than the discipline OF
their troops, explains the excess of loss o.
their battles. And while the capacity to
face heavy loss is but one of the elements
which go to make up the soldier, it is
perhaps of them all the most telling.
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There is r-ti,ng in life so earnestly to be
souch. frs. T., rhnracicr and prob;ty.
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connAence neaot ct SUCCESS

So successful has Dr. Piercc's Golden A1edi-
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manufacturers now cell it through druggists
under p,Sitiuc guarantee of its benehting or
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time, is also cured by this wonderful medicine.
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The world moves, and we move with It.
The same may hc snid of II eye one.
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TEXT: 'Lit up your heads, O ne gates
and be ye lifted up. ye everlasting doors;
and the King of Glory shall come in.'-PS.
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The angels throng'd His chario. wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then swept their golden ilnps and sung
Tho o,lnriou. work is DONE

- me glorious WOrh Is uo.i.'
Itwas the greatest day in heaven. As He
goes W the steps of the throne taa5 5hlr0y-
TIRES wears before He alb licatoi for our ad.
vantage there rises from all the hosts OF
heaven shout, sanity, cberubic, seraphic,
archangeiic ;Hallelujah. Amenm
Ocartlen of olives thou dear honorca spo.,
The fame of thy glory shrll nc'er be forsos.
No wonder that FOR at least fourteen hun
tred years the churches have, forty days at
ter Easter, kept Ascension Day; Tor the les
sons are most inspiring and glorious. IL
takes much of the uncertainty out Of the
idea of heaven. when from Ollvet we sea
human nature ascending. The same ooay
that rose from Joseph's tomb assembled
from Mount Olivet Our human nature is
in heaven to-day. just rs they had sem
Christ for forty days, He assembled, head,
face shoulders. hands. feet and the entire
human organism. Humanity assembled.
All, how closely that keeps Christ IN sym
nathv with those who are still N the ssrus-
80 SCARS snoultcr scars Ilat VIII Keep
Him in accord with all tha suffering with
all the weary with all tae imposed upon.
No more is He spirit now than 4 body, no
more Of heaven than earth. Those o. the
celestial inhabitants who never saw Our
world now walk around Him and learn from
His physical contour something of what our
heaven will have uncounted bodies as we'll
as uncounted spirits. On Ascension Day He
lifted Himself through the atmosphere OF
Palestine, until, amid the immensities, He
disappeared. He was the only being tho
world ever saw who could lift Himself; surely
if He could lift Himself He can do tae lesser
deed of lifting us.
No star goes down but climbs another sky,
No sun sets here except TO rise on high.
Christ leads us all the way; through the
birth hour, for He was born in Bethlehem:
through boyhood. for He passed it in Naza-
reth; through injusticss, for He endured ths
outrageS of Pilates court room; through
death, for He suffered iton Calvary: through
the sepulchre, for BE lay three days within
its darkened walls; through resurrection.
FOR the solid masonry gave way OH the first
Easter morning; through ascension, for
Mount Olivet watched Him as He climbed
the skies; through the SHINING gates, for He
entered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is gratifying consideration that
you never thought of: We will see our
Lord just as He looked on earth. As He
rose from the tomb He assembled from Mount
Olivet. We shall seq Him as Hs loo'le1 on
the road to Emmaus, as He appeared i'll ths
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that
day of yaledictory on the ridge from which
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Upon application we will send you pam
billet lin addition to price-list catalogue
which explains a special offer we make to
our representatives, and which quotes YER
batim letters from scores of customers to
,,bor, xx,a rafer 81.
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nations till they kneel in prayer. Bene1ic
ton upon the whole earth until every mount
ain is an Olive of conservation, and every
lake a Galilee on whose mosaic of crystal,
and opal, and sapphire divine spendors shall
walk
Oh take the benediction of His pardon, stu
ners young and sinners old, sinners moderate
and sinners abandoned. luke the bene.liction
Of His comfort, all We broken hearted under
bereavement and priydtion an imyral woes.
Take His benediction, all We SICK beds,
whether under acute spas.ns of pain o. in
long protracted inyalidism. For orphanlga,
and childlesSneSs, and widowhood benedic-
ton. For cradles and trundle beds and rock
ing chairs Of octogenarians, benediction.
For life and for death, for time and for eter-
nifty, for earth aud for heaven a benedic-
ton. Sublimest gesture ever made, the last
gesture of our ascending Lord. And He
lifted up His hands and blessed them
Is our attitude the same? Is it the c!enched
fist or the open palm? Is it wrath or is it
kindness? Is it diabolsm or Christisn? God
give us the grace of tue open palm. open up
ward to get the beneliction, open downward
to pronounce bsnedlction lady was pass
ing along street and suddenly ran against
a ragged boy. and she said; II beg your par
don, my boy, did not mean to run against
you: am very sorry And the boy took of
the piece of a cap he had upon his head and
said: "You have my parding, lady, and you
may run agin me aud knock me clear down;
I won't care" And turning to a comrads he
said: .'That nearly took me off my feet No
body ever asked my parding before" Kind
ness. Kindness Fill the world with it:
There has always been too much OF disregard
of others. Illustrated in 1880, in England:
when $4,000 acres of marshes were drained
for health and for crop raising, and the
sportsmep destroyed the drainage works be-
cause they wanted to keep the marshes for
hunting ground where they could shoot
wild ducks.
The same selhshness in all ages. oh, for
kindness that would make our lie u sym
phony suggestive of one of the ancient ban
quetS where everything was set to music;
the plates brought in and removed to tne
sound Of music, the motions of the carvers
keeping time with the music. the conversation
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and exercise nave been; for "a breath of
viii blows eternally through the uni
verse of souls in the direction of the
right and necessary" and women will
not always think the rsiment more than
the body.
A woman at 90 should be like a well
preserved man of that age, just in the
mellow prime of her life -gracious,
philosophical, charming, free from aches
and pains and ready for the travel and
the social pleasures which the leisure of
so should allow. The A~ightiness of
youth, its crudeness and rashness all
past, the wearing ~anxieties of middle
life, the bearing and rearing Of children.
the close economy necessary for most
people in order to e5ncate their off
spring, these all past also, the woman of
80 should be entering upon her happiest
and most beautiful decade. Whether
she shall be or not is to be decided by
constant attention to those trifies in daily
living which most women deem it
'fussy" to consider. But II they had a
fair constitution to begin with, and il
they have only eaten and slept and
bathed and exercised and clothed them
selves properly. they may be still young
at 60 or 20.
, 1890-11-30
G@MrAMA Sssses41



The latest novelties and oddities in
small bits of imported table china are
the rounded cabbage or long pointed
lettuce leaves, curled upward and deli
cately tinted from white in the center 10
the richest natural green. They are to
be had only at the italian shops and
cost from so cents to "a, according to
size. The larger cabbage leaf bowls are
used for salad or fruit. and tho smaller
ones for olives or butter. They are par
ticularly appropriate for butter plates.
as in many a country home the golden
store is enveloped in the cool palm of
dew covered cabbage leaves to make its
way to market.
The association is strengthened when
the dainty butter balls are served on the
lunch table. fresh and cold from the
hollowof sucha leaf plate set upon q
small Venice mat edged with q wreath
of embroidered clover leaves in greer
, 1890-11-30


the brave struggle she made. She took
a room high up in a pleasant house on
the lake front, and paid SO much rent
for the sake of refined surroundings that
she had to limit her diet to crakers and
water, but she made her own dresses
and was so prudent and saving that she
made a good appearance on that paltry
sum.
One night she was looking out of her
window and watching the drawbridge
with its light cleaning in the midst of
darkness, and she turned to her tiny
table and wrote a little story. not over
tour or five thousand words. which she
called 1.-THE Turned Bridge" This she
persuaded the printer who did her en-
ployer's work to print for her. and she
paid him by instalments- She bound
the tiny pamphlets herself in Manila
| paper, fastened by bits of ribbon, and
then set about getting it before the pub
lie.
She, who had never had a lesson in
drawing, made a dozen sketches of THE
Turned Bridge" and all around the
edges of the cardboard she wrote such
sentences as these: Read THE Turned
Bridge Employers look after your little
bookkeepers." "Bookkeepers, see the
portrait of your employers" The
Chicago young man may see himself on"
such a page. Short to read, long to
remember" etc. These placards she
managed to have put in windows all
around, and one she got into a promi-
nent publishing house. The proprietor
returning from his lunch, seeing the
crowd and finally the placards sent for a
copy of the book, and when it lay in the
palm of his hand he burst out laughing
But Miss Thomas sold her whole edition
of /, 900 copies, and might have sold ten
editions if she hadn't been too inexperi-
enced to know that she could ave gotten
put n new one.
This little venture was followed by
"The Poor Little Girl" which is full Of
| the pathos of the cold loneliness of a
| loving young heart who tries to follow
Right through all temptation. and this
opened the way in the Chicago papers
and now every channel is open to her.
Through this book Miss Thomas made
the acquaintance of Ella Wheeler VIII
COX and they are great friends. Miss
Thomas now resides in New York.
Miss Thomas has taught herself mu-
sic, and now she is a brilliant pianist
and she has developed her beautiful
mezzo-soprano voice until it Is a delight
TO hear her sing. She has also taken up
French, and speaks it quite fiuently.
She makes her own dresses, which are
always picturesque and becoming, but
she never allows a gown to cost her over
SIS.
Fanny Edgar Thomas she now signs
her name, but when she began writing
she used the numbers CISCO, and she
now uses them as a monogram, and in
tends to put them on her carriage when
she shall keep one. Miss Thomas is
rather tall, beautifully built, graceful
and corsetless. She has a thick head Of
almost black hair, fine dark eyebrows
and lovely blue eyes, full of sympathy
and kindness. Her highest ambition
is to lead u life spiritually beautiful and
benefcent.
forgot to mention that when Money
Mad" was played in New Yc.k the
management had Mrs. Thomas Turn
ed Bridge" republished as a souvenir OF
the play. which, strangely enough, is
about the very anne Turned Bridge"
o. H.
, 1890-11-30

prune faille with velvet stripes, made
sheath shaped in front and fan shaped in
the back, quite plain at the foot. The
waist has a Figaro jacket made Of a full
jabot frilling OF Spanish lace, with high
puffs and fills of the same on the shout
ders. The vest front is of maize colored
satin. The gloves are maize color, and
the felt hat is large, cream colored and
trimmed with yellow velvet asters and
black velvet This costume can be worn
as a carriage dress, a reception and visit
ing costume and a dinner toilet. The
black fan has a bunch of asters and a
fiot Of corn colored satin ribbon.
The other charming gown is of faded
indigo blue camel's hair, trimmed with
rich passementerie in cashmere colors,
and a high wired frill of lace around the
neck. A dark blue velvet shirred toqua
is trimmed with shaded plumes in blue.
This is a very dainty and delicate cos
tune for a young girl.
Walking dresses are divided between
the distinctively French and the English.
One lovely walking gown is of the beau
tiful new cachemerienne, which is OF
mauve, brocaded in white lace pattern,
cut on the bias. The skirt has the wrin-
killed. apron drapery in front and full
plaits in the back, the bottom plain.
The corsage is yoke shape, with black
velvet sides coming down to a pointed
girdle, with fots of velvet ribbon at the
side. The sleeves are medium high,
tackled in gracefully here and there. A
dainty little mRuve toque with purple
asters completes this.
, 1890-11-30

ner figure, and she preferred loneliness
TO humiliation
In fact, 10 sum the whole thing up,
personal p~eculiarities are mistaken OBJ
iects OF humor, and SO is anything that
shall injure the amour propre of the
subject, or anything that shall expose
him to the ridicule Of others, or anything
that shall throw an atmosphere of alb
surdity around him and his future ut
terances or actions. To monopoliZe the
conversation, or to intrude our jests upon
other peoples serious moods, or TO herald
them with ones OWE approval, or to
laugh while one tries to make others
laugh, or to make puns where the taste
of the hearer revolts at that form of hu-
NOR, or to insist upon being funny when
your hearers prefer to be serious, or to
be indelicate, or to be ~irreverent OF mat
tiers sacred TO your hearers. whether it
be the holy cats of the Ganges, the ICON
troll of a Spiritualist, the fetch OF a
T~heosophist, or those matters once uni
versally regarded as holy. whatever the
thing may be, If it is a thing held sacred
by your auditor, it should be sacred from
your wit.
In fact, it is very easy to tell what Is
mistaken wit, but l nave not undertaken
to tell, nor do l intend to attempt telling,
what is real wit. Suffice it to say that,
like the poetic afiatus. it is "ndscituy
o Gf-born, but not manufactured.
, 1890-11-30
rrAIIAN BUrrER LEAF AM MAr

ITALIAN BUTTER LEAF AND MAT.
and silver. The mat is a circle of white
satin jean; the leaves are first worked
with a skeleton edge of clover green silk
in Kensington stitch, and finished with
a buttonholing done over a silver cord,
The stitches in the b~uttonhole work are
quite wide apart so as to show the cord.
This silver cord washes well and costs
thirty7fye cents for six yards. When
finished, the linen is cut away from the
outer edge of the clover leaves, leaving
a scollop. Before doing this, however,
the mat should be dampenedi on the
wrong side and laid upon a piece of fam
mel face down, and pressed with a warm
iron. EMMA MoFFErT TyEo.
, 1890-11-30

An old fashioned, plain top bureau,
without marble or glass, is transform.
able into a nice looking dresser or buff
fet. A set Of book shelves, the sort with
carved endsand shelves strongly screwed
on them and the back, may be placed on
top of the bureau, whose plainness they
will set off, The space in front OF the
shelves is to be covered with m EN-
broidered buffet scarf or a damask
towel. Place on the shelves any odd OF
colored pieces Of china or glass, and the
whole will be no mean addition to a din
ing room.
, 1890-11-30
Ha&1%~@~%
FANNY EDGAR o

Has Become y Famous Writer.
With one first effort Fanny Edgar
Thomas took a front place in the advsnc-
ing army Of women writers, and in five
short years she has achieved a name that
many might envy.
She was a young girl with ambition to
earn her own living and be independent,
and to that end took a position in a tiny
Chicago store at 81 a week to keep the
books, address circulars, etc, and those
who know her now would hardly believe
, 1890-11-30
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE S

am determined to keep ahead Of the procession. My line of
House Furniture is the most complete and best of any house in the
city. Everything that.is necessary to furnish a house / carry: Stoves,
Ilnware, Carpets Crockery and Furniture, from the cheapest to the
best Picture Moulding, Uphosterng and Repairing. Best of work
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Cor. Seventeenth and #ddy Streets Al
, 1890-11-30

The English style produces a gown Of
drab smooth faced cloth with n wide
band of brown and white polka dot
surah around the bottom, and the vest
front and forearm of the sleeves of the
same. 1t is sheath shape and tailor
finished with high fiaring collar. With
this is worn the sailor hat in brown,
very correct but not graceful.
, 1890-11-30

The late fall styles are SO pretty and
coquettish that ven a plain woman may
look pretty in them If she only knows
herself, her failings and her best points,
and dresses to make the best of the worst
one and enhance the best. Two of the
prettiest Of the season depend upon the
ensemble for their full effect. One is of
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GROWING GREATER
The Death List Of the Norwich
Horror Increases.
Many Aged Men and Women Were
Unable TO Find Their Way
Out OF the Building.

UTICA, n. Y, May 1o.-The number
Of bodies found in the ruins Of the poor
house at Preston, Chenango county, al
ready numbers thirteen. The impress
sion is growing that the loss of life far
exceeds the first estimate. in the build
ing we're many aged men and women,
some of whom had not left their beds
for months, and others who from weak
ness were incapable of finding their way
out OF the building in the midst OF the
confusion and excitement which pre-
vailed. 1t is believed q number of these
persisted and this belief is strengthened
by the discovery of a body this fore
noon at some distance from the depart
ment occupied by the imbeciles. There
are several feet Of ashes and debris in
the cellar and the probilities are that
when they are removed q number of
bodies will be found. IT, is also believed
that some OF the bodies are so com
pletely incinerated that no trace of
them will ever be found. The follow
ing are known to have been burned,
besides those mentioned in the previous
dispatches:
Mary Vosburg, Otselic.
Roxie Mallory and julia Hunt, Norwich.
One insane woman was captured near
Plymouth, some twelve miles distant,
last night. She was half clad and was
bewailing the loss Of her home. One of
the inmates was scared into his senses
by the fire, and escaping from the burn
ing room by a window reached the roof
and crawled along the ridge and reused
the keepers wife from slumber, thus
saving her life.
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A Mermaid Sure.

w. w. Stanton, mate Of the schooner
Addie Schaefler, now lying at the Mar
ket House dock, while fishing of bass
800 miles of st. Augustine, drew in his
line. and found entangled therein the
strangest fish, il it Is a fish, that has
ever been caught, says q Jacksonville
fila dispatch to the New York Sun.
This strange creature is about six fcet
long. pure white and scaleless. The
head and face are wonderfully human
in shape and feature. The shoulders
are we'll outlined, and very much re
semble those OF a woman, and the bosom
is we'll defined and shows considerable
development, while the lips and
abdomen continue the human
appearance. There are four flip
pers. two of which are placed
at the lower termination of the body,
and gave n the impression that nature
made an effort to supply the strange
creature with lower limbs. Mr.. Stan.
ton ~confesses to quite a fright on first
sight of his queer prize, which, on being
drawn on board, gave utterance to .
low, moaning cry, which might easily
have been mistaken for the sobbing of q
baby.
1t is extremely unfortunate that Mr..
Stanton did not succeed in keeping the
creature alive, which he thinks might
have been done, as the strange object
lived two days after being taken out.
The schooner has been thronged all
day by curious visitors, who express
much wonder ami astonishment at the
TRANCE object. Nj. Stanton, after Wis.
ttiag several ports and showing his
strange creature, will donate 1t TO the
Smithsonian institution. The fish OF
mermaid is in a large six-fcot glass jar
p alcohol.