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they do not use pillows. "Cuddle down to
sleep upon feather pillow" says this au-
thOrlty, "and notice how it increases the
burrows around the eyes. On the cther
hand, see how beautifully block pillow
works. Place it comfortably under the neck
and you will enjoy the position very much,
and it is marvellous to note how little strain
is put upon the facial muscles and how
smoothly they lie in consequence"
An interesting combination, and one MORE
over which IS very noyeLsshows an arrange
ment whereby tile festoon is draped over a
deep fringe. This is an excellent treatment
for long window having a stained-glass
transoni, as the light will show through the
fringe.
Lace curtains are of the utmost signifi-
canoe in interior decoration. Should the cur
tains be too long, as is usually the case, and
not too expensive, it is better to cut them
off, allowing about a quarter of ayard for
the hem and shrinking; but when too vau-
able to cut, the surplus can be left at the
bottom and the curtains caught up into fan
shaped piats. To do this take the lower
back corner up to the tasSel hook and gather
the curtain into plaitS.
Time was, only short while ago, when
man III furnishing room had the choice of
ebony, cherry, black walnut or brass cur
tain poles, and one or the other had to do.
To-day. however, the wooden pole is stained
to match the woodwork or the furniture of
cases where the furniture is brass. or where
there is general prevalence Of brass fur
nishings.
Lace curtains are seldom used now alone
as window treatment, but are combined
with some soft-toned light silk festooned at
the top and down the side a little to break
tile harshress of the plain white color.
Tie demand among the Weather classes
for genuine tapestries for wall hangings has
encouraged the manufacture in this country
of haDd-painted wall haugings and the work
is so cleycrly done that the c0lors Look ex-
actly es ii woven into the goods.
An old bedstead, very handsome, was
offered at auction last month in London.
Five shillings were bid for it, until someone
discovered that Gladstone had slept on it
every night for seven months and thereupon
the price ran into fabulous sum. 1t illus
tratcs the fact that people who hunt antique
furniture nowadays place little value upon
it unless accompanied by history or an
ancestral pedigree.
Old Italian furniture of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries is now being shown
by the extremists of the furnishing trade.
The French schools are becoming passs and
Sheraton and Chippendale are the fashion,
able periods in vogue.
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spoke OF his old rival. and, knowing that /
had just painted the dying mans portrait,

spoke of his old rival. and, knowing that /
had just painted the dying mans Portrait,
he said:
you, who have lived so long abroad, far
from our political contests and QuarTels,
ought to be an impartial Judge. Jackson,
during his lifetime, was held up as a sort of
hero; now that he is dead his admirers
want to make him out saint. Do you think
he was sincere?"
81 have just come from his death-bed," l
answered, land if General Jackson was not
sincere, then do not know the meaning Of
the word"
shall never forget the keen look shot at
me from under Mr.. Clay eyebrows but he
merely observed:
Il see that you, like all who approach that
man, were fascinated by him."
Davis, speaking Of Jackson's provarbial OBJ
horse, Jackson remarked: That horse is
seventeen feet high" Seventeen hands
you mean, General" "What did 1 say?"
You said seventeen feet" "Ihen, by tile
eternal, he is seventeen feet high"
Clay would never have sworn to the sew
enteen feet. He knew how to make himself
loved as well as admired. After his defeat
by Polk he refused to see any one. 1t was
with great difficulty that his friends obtained
his presence at banquet given in his honor.
When he entered the dining-hali, where 200
guests were assembled, no one present was
able to restrain his tears, so popular was
MIR. Clay and so great was the disapp0int-
ment at not having him for President.-G.
z. A. Healy, in the North American Re-
view
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cH1cAG0s COL UuB Us TOWER.

ever considered as part of the site is to many
a great puzzle. Several of the National
Commissioners are concerned abOutthe build
ings now mentioned for that place. How
ever, no trouble should be borrowed on that
account as the fair proper will be placed at
Jackson and Washington parks, and the
agricultural and livestock show will have
all the advantage of being placed alongside
Of the greatest attractions.
Herewith is presented picture Of the
Chicago Columbus Tower, of which mention
was made In recent letter 1t will be CON-
peted in 1893. and Will be 1900 feet high by
4S0 feet At the base, constructed of steel and
iron, and supported by sixteen great arched
legs. The architecture is of modern Renais-
sance style. and it was designed by Messrs.
Kinkel 81 Polk of Chicago. 1t will require
over 1000 tons of steel and 600O tons of iron.
It's estimated cost is S2,0o0.000. In the GEN.
ter will be large dome 200 feet wide and
200 feet high. This is calculated for con-
cert and theatrical purposes, with seating
capacity of $1,000 people. The walls and
canopy will be richly decorated in Oriental
Style Eighteen elevators, with a capacity of
fifty people ca h, will make twelve trips an
hour. Only two elevators will run dis
lance of 1850 feet Many will take ad-
vantage of the trip. Here money will Sc
cure passage for at least short journey in
the direction which all would like to travel.
At the landing will be large restaurant,
where the travellers can rest and lunch be-
fore returning to earth again. AT the apex
will be great globe of 80 feet in diameter,
provided with 16 powerful electric lights,
which will be observable fifty miles dis
tant. Admission fee will be % cents, 90
cents to 900 feet and 81 TO top. When COM
pleted it will be 800 feet higher than the
Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the greatest
architectural construction erected in the
history of man. 1t will be the piide of the
American continent and one of the most at
tractive features OF the great exposition.
Lieutenant 81. A. Reed of Leavenworth,
Kans., is strongly in favor of Secretary
Dickinson's plan for military display at
the opening, and would extend the time to
about twenty days. He allots the time as
follows:
Presenting that as much of the United
States army as the President may permit, of
foreigners who may come and all the Ma
tional Guard who may desire are assembled
/ should assign them to three distinct camps
of cavalry, artillery and infantry. prospect
i've of States or nationalities, and woald ar
range days and exercises somewhat as fol-
lows:
First and second-Devoted to encampment
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is devoted to the special exercise, should be
occupied by competitive drills.
The committee appointed by the National
Congress to investigate the condition of
Worlds Fair matters are at present in the
city performing their task. As yet they re-
fuse TO express any opinion, but apparently
are very well satisfied.
At present the city is full of strangers
gaining information to enable them to at
once begin preparations for the fair. The
officials are constantly interviewed. The
decisions of the present week are anxiously
awaited.
For the first time since the proposal of the
Columbian Exposition the true character
and object OF the enterprise is beginning to
be fully understood. From its first concep-
ton the promulgatols of the scheme meant
it TO be in the broadcast sense Of the term a
worlds exposition. in which all nations of
the earth should equally participate, and as
lar as possible become equally interested.
1t is the celebration of the greatest discovery
in the history of the human family, and one
which has proven more or less beneficial to
all people. In view of that fact 1t was pro-
posed that the exposition should be COM
mensurate with the occasion 1t comment
crates. Aside from that feature it affords
for the first time an opportunity for
the nations to amlcably assemble, each
to bring forth and place for compar-
ison. the productions of their skill and
handiwork, showing the point to which their
ptOple nave auVanccQ, Wlllle the centuries
have come and gone. IN sense the Column
ban Exposition will be a vast Cosmopolitan
University, where the nations will become
voluntary pupils and the work of their ham
dicraft serve as object lessons for the study
and benefit OF all. 1t will form universal
society and reception, to which all the hui
man family are invited, regardless of caste,
creed or color. The children from the East
can meet those from the North, South and
West, and each can learn of the advancement
and progress which his fellow man has made
on his respective portion of the globe.
Here will be achieved peace conquest,
more potent in its influence, more beneficial
and far-reaching in its results, than all the
victories gained in the history of wars The
! occasion is opportune and Will be mighty
factor in bringing about that feeling of uni-
yersal brotherhood, which in time will result
in g" the Parliament of man, the federation
of the world" 1t properly is an interna-
tional institution, in which all should par
ticipate. Its coming will be an Intellectual
banquet, from which all will depart to their
distant homes feeling it was good for them
to have been there. All national strife and
sectional lines should for the while at least
vanish. and that littleness Of soul give place
to the more generous disposition Of human
interest In human kind. JB CAMPREII
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back-parlor friend has rurring appear
ance, and seems .everlastingly 10 threaten to
call ma. ;. The .propriety sketch is all right,
young lady; we are glad you sent it, for it is
very handsome, and this book wants to look
Just as pretty as The latter" cut in COM
plexion .ad., but 1t will never expedite a
match.
We have had portieres of beads ard bam-
boo, and portieres of stringed rice. We now
have portieres made by using plenty of long
silken cords. hanging over back ground of
any solid-colored fabric. The Cord may be
khotted at different points or caught into
strands, or it may be in fish-net form. like
an over-dress. At the top of the fabric,
where it is attached, the cord is worked into
loops. friDge-like so as to make kind of
frieze. The color harmenies are of course
left to ones own Judgment. but the scheme
is an admirable one, and open to many pleas
ing varieties.
The handsOmest railroad car in this coun-
try Is undoubtedly the one just finished by
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SAVED The BOYS LIFE.
: Lid H. I tis:S

Then, rs Flagmnn McKigney Leaped, He
Was Killed by the Locomotive.
Edward McKigney, faeman at the
Grove-street crossing of the Pennsylvania
Railroad in Jersey City, was killed yester-
day morning. Since the railroad company
began to elevate the tracks in the city there
have been no gates at the crossings, but the
number Of guards has been quadrupled to
prevent accident. Mckigney was one of the
new men. He had been employed in a
foundry for twenty-five years, and had ac-
cumulated sufficient property to live on for
the remainder OF his life. He had also
raised family, and their earnings made it
possible for him 10 give up his employment
in the foundry and take life easy. Thomas
Tenant, the trackmaster on the Jersey
City division OF the road, an old friend Of
McKigney, suggested that he might take the
place Of hagman 10 occupy his time and add
something to his income.
About $3.50 O'Clock yesterday morning a
west-bound express train approached the
crossing at moderate speed. Mckigney
and his fellow flag-men stood on either side
OF the crossing waving their flags. A boy
darted behind McKigney, and was on the
track before the latter saw him. A warn
ing shouti from the other fiagman attracted
the attention of both, and without a mo-
ments hesitation McKigney jumped for
ward, seized the boy and hurled him out of
the way OF the approaching train. AS he
was in the act OF IeapiDg from the track
himself the locomotive caught him. He was
dashed to one side and killed almost in
stantly.
The boy escaped, and was probably so
badly frightened that he did not return to
learn either the name or the fate of his
rescurer. 1t was said that he wore n mes
senger's uniform, but neither the Western
Union nor the American District Company,
the only concerns in jersey City which emf
ploy uniformed messengers, has been able
TO learn that it was anyof its employees Nc
kgney's body was taken to his home, 100
Railroad avenue.-N. Y. Sun.
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duties; all the duties incident to the estab-
Ishment of an army in bivouac in the field.
with guards. etc.
Third-COmpany drills, separate parades
and guard mountings for each arm on its
own ground.
FOurth-Battalion drills. grand parade and
guard mounting, all arms invited on the en-
campment grounds; all will probably have
arrived by this time.
Fifth-Street parade.
Sixth-Skilmlsh drills. This will ft the
National Guard tor what is to follow.
Seventh-Battle formations for attack and
defense.
Eighth-Attack and defense of a position
with infantry and artillery only. Not a sham
battle as ordinarily conducted, but one on
military principles.
Ninth-The same, of greater extent, and
with all arms. The troops will be in good
condition by this time.
Tenth-Grand review by the President or
his representative.
Eleventh tOct. 12th)-The formal dedica-
ton Of buildings and grand military ball.
Twelfth. thirteenth and fourteenth -
Knights of Pythias and Zouave drills, cleo
trio light drills. etc.
The forenoon, except on the first second,
fifth, tenth and eleventh days, when all day
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FALSE COURBETS.
The Count erfeits OF French PictIrss In
City nj Paris.

The Counterfeits OF French PictIres In
the City of Paris. -
The counterfeiters of French pictures, 10
appears from the Paris journals, having be-
come aware that the market is overstocked
with false Corots, Rousseaus and Dupres,
have begun TO turn their attention to Cour-
bet. A cousin of the painter, II. Eugene
Courbet, has lately been busy tracking them
out and has discovered no less than six
clever painters WHO are making dishonest
living In whole or in part by initiating the
Communist painter. He was first attracted
to Geneva, where his cousin had taken
refuge after the fall of the Commune. While
there COurDet was oppressed by the fact
that he could not return to France until he
had paid for the Nendome Column, whose
overthrow he had decreed. He accordingly
set to work with great industry. making use
of some four OF five of his pupils to push the
work faster. Two of the cleverest of these
caught so well his spirit of tricks and color
and handling as to readily palm off their
work TO. his. After his death they estab-
liShed themselves in Paris and forwarded
their pictures TO Brussels to dealer, who
charged himself with the task of adding
Courhet's signature and disposing of them.
Four other fasIfers, not so dangerous as
they and not so clever, have since turned up.
These all keep themselves on the safe side
of the law by not signing CourbetS name to
are out of France. The innocent amateur,
however, who buys If these dealers and
afterward brings his pictures into France is
liable to have them confiscated.
The story may serve as warning to those
would-be connoisseurs of ours who really
care more for the possession of the name of
an artist than his work. 1t is safe to say
that more than half of COurbets to be found
In private picture collections in this country
belong either to the class of pOt-bOilers which
were dashed off by this constituencies
painter during his sojourn in Switzerland,
or TO that of the more or less clever counter
feits by his puIils Courbet is what Is
called "a painters painter" His rugged.
vigorous, almost brutal style must, even
when he is ut his best, be 'cayiare to the
general, who richly deserve to be punished
for pretending to like what they would not
think Of buying but for the fascination of
the signature on the canvas or panel. That
even the connoisscur may be deceived in
judging of Cour5ets work is proven by the
revelation that among the forgeries just de-
tected was one Of the. paintings passed by
the jury of experts and con,picuously hung
at the great Paris Exposition of last year
The Art Amateur.
Mr. Stanley makes the length OF the Nile
mil
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HENRY CLAY'S PICTURE.
A Painter Who Did Justice to
the Great Orators Mouth.

On one occasion he said to me: 'Mr.
Healy, you are capital portrait painter and
you are the first who has ever done justice
to my mouth, and it is well pleased to ex-
press its gratitude" Clay's mouth was a
very peculiar One-thin-lipped and extend
ing from ear TO ear. But" he added, you
are an Indifferent courter; though you come
to us from the French Kings presence, you
have not once spoken to me of my live stock.
Don't you know that l am prouder OF my
cows and sheep than Of my best speeches ?"
IcOnfessed my want Of knowledge ON the
subject, but | willingly acc ompanied him
around the grounds and admired the superb
creatures, saying they would do very we'll
in picture. / fear that that was not the
sort of appreciation he expected, and that
sank very low in his esteem from that mo-
ment.
But on another occasion / proved worse
courtier still. His jealousy of jackson is
still known, and the two men formed very
striking contrast. During a long sitting he
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The Chi d of an Evil Parent.

Malvolio says in Shakespeare's comedy of Twelfth
Night, '.Some are born great. some achieve great
ness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"
So it is with nervousness. Some are born nervous.
some achieve nervousness by their own mpru-
dence and neglect and come have nervousness
thrust upon them by disease. The basic starting
point OF this aiiment, which grows rapidly and
sumes alarming proportions when 1t reaches the
stage OF hypochondra and chronic seeplessness. is
weakness, the child OF Indigestion. parent OF many
evils. For the incapacty OF the stomach to digest
food, and of the system to assiniate IL after di-
gesti6 Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has proved
a sovereign remedy. sleep becomes tranquil, appe-
tite improves, abnormal sensitiyeness nerves
Is succeeded by steadiness and vg0r in those deli
cate tissues, bodily substance increases when that
signal restorative of digestion is Systematically
used. Conquer also with II malaria, rheumat SIN,
kidney inactivity. liver complaint and constipa-
tlon. -
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Caroline Harach.I

The life Of Caroline Hersche, one would
imagine, was anything but favorable to long
lasting. insufficient sleep. irregular and
hasty meals, long fasts, excessive toll, both
bodily and mental. were the conditions of
her life-at least during the fifteen years she
was her brothers housekeeper and astro-
nOmical assistant A lady who devoted her
self TO hard work. one Of the necessities of
of every starry night. covered with dew or
boar frost, on grass plat in the garden,
would not. one would think, be likely to
make old bones. At the age of 49, however,
according to her nephew's account, she
skipped up two fights OF stairs aud ran
about IKE girl OF 70. She died at the age
OF 9S.-All the Year Round.
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DESTROYING tn. Pyramids.

The Bosphore Egyptien announces new
act of astounding vandalism, which that
amiable journal does not hesitate to insnu-
ate is connived at by the Egyptian Govern
ment. Three gangs of workmeD, under two
local sheiks, are daily extracting blocks
from the lower courses of the two largest
pyramids Of Gizeh. These are broken up
on the spot and carried away on camel-ba
for building purposes. The sheiks allege
that they are doing this work of destruction
by permission of the Government; whereas
they have, it is said, obtained only permit
authorizing them to remove scattered
blocks. That these Arabs should exceed
their license is not surprising; but it is
surely, TO say the least of it. extraordinary
that Government partly administered by
Europeans should have granted such powers
to native oyerseers, unchecked by the
presence of one of their own officials. The
pyramids do not belong to the Khedive nor
to his Government; they do not even belong
TO the Egyptians. They are the inheritance
OF the w0rld.-L0ndOn Times.
The KNIGHTS of Pythias ara so ,va1 ,JriIo,1
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THE WORLDS
EXPOSITION.
The Chicago Columbus Tower
to Be Finished in 1898.
Secretary Diekinson's Plan for a Military
Dispiay-The True Nature and Offset
Of The Great Exposition.

@HICAGO, Nov. 27, 1s9o.-Although
ESSs the past week !has been a busy and
10y exciting one, progress has not been
rapid. The Directors are troubled at pres
ent with the apportionment of the buildings.
The Lake Front is again the bone of conten-
ton. Why it is not once for all abandoned
is hard for outsiders to learn. Why it was
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Suffering From Brown c.,,.

In the county of Surry, or at least in
certain part OF ii, we have two remarkable
diseases. to wit: 'St. Vipers, his dance. {"
and the brown CATERS" The terms needs
no explanation, but may casually observe
that the brown CATERS" are known to or
binary persons as 'bronchitis.-Notes aud
Queries.
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The Richard Wagner Monument Commit
tee In LepSlc has accepted the design sub
mltted by Professor Schafer of Berlin, and
has received permission from the city au-
thorities to erect the statue OH tile Old
Theater place, few step from Wagner's
old home, "on the Bruh." The figure will
cost $4,000.
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divided by a
tall, central
arm. TIL e
scheme will
never be
popular. 1t
vents a
sit-cl er
tie nd Ell cy,
and has a
prim and
proper look
about it, in
d eep and
|, dismal con-
; trast with
! tn Il t old
!; back parlor
| o u n g e
which most
Of US helped
to wear out
on one end,
for in every
well = regu-
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DECORATIVE
FANCIES.
A Central.Arm Sofa That Will
Never Become Popular.
Portierss of Long silken Cords-A Handsome
Railroad Car-The Craze for the Antique
Is Dada Clever Scheme.
[From tie Upholsterer for November.l

A dear, sweet soul. whose folks have
brought her up admirably, sends Us hump
backed sketch. showing q sofa which Is
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lated family Of girls there is always back
parlor lounge. which seems perpetually kept
affiuent and well dressed on one hall, and
badly abused on the other.
The central-arm sofa seems eloquent of a
refined and iceberg conversation, while our
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SCOTTISH CR0FTERS
N THEIR HOMES.
They Earn but Little More Than
Enough TO Meet the Land
lords Demand.
DREARY, LONESOME BUSINESS.

There Is but Little Romance About
the Crofter's Everyday and
Home Life Girls Who Have
TO Join the Herring Curer's
Crew During the Summer
Months-What Crofter's Home
Is Like.
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The Knights of Pythias are so well drilled
that they could put an army of so, 600 men
into the field at two weeks notice.
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Mr.. Stanley makes the length OF the Nile
400 miles.
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Special to THE SUNDAY CALL

g ERWICK Shetland, Oct. 2.
| 1S90-Whatever may be the
( \ average tourists impressions
!. + n from passing gmpses OF croft
! ers' communities, crofters'
= - \ hnr,nc and thn crnftnrs tl1nnl-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-03

ing Great Britain to supply the finer
qualities, need moi trouble US, who
are aware that the whole tendency
of the new law is to stimulate the
production of finer classes of goods
in all branches of manufacture than
have ever been made before. What
is really vital and important in his
speech is the tone of good will that
runs though it all, the frank ac-
acknowledgements that Americans had
better be left alone to settle their
own economic problems to suit them
selves, and the depreciation of any
so-called "retaliatory'' measures.
We fear, however that the Golden
Club and its paid emissaries and adj
vocates in this country will consider
the Grand Old Man as traitor and
mourn over HIM as "lost leader"
for the primary article of faith in
their creed is that America must not
be let alone settle her own economic
problems in her own way.