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1 times taken from the stable, led to a rt mote part of the farm, and confined in tobacco pen,' as the inclosures for curing tobacco were called. The poor animal would, perhaps, be half-starved before the owner found him--a very inappropriate way to celebrate Christ
 mas. But in general, the tricks were harmless enough. A snowfall. or a cold potato. or piece of stale pie. hid. den in shoe--or occasionally dead mouse or live kitten-caused infinite amusement among the children. Pret- ty nearly all the familiar April Fool devices of the north were practiced by us''
 "NVere there any other characteristic features of the day?''
 ''As l have said, it was the great fes tiyal of the year. It lasted through series of days, and great parties of relatives and friends made sort of joyful progress from house to house. There were freedom and abandon in if hardly known in the northern states in these times, at any rate. Even the slaves were given at least four days of freedom from toil. Preparation was made long beforehand Abundant food for the stock was placed in such way that they could feed themselves Great piles of fuel were made ready, and huge fires roared in the great chim- neys. Stoves, of course, were un- known. 1 have never seen jollier com paDies than were gathered about the great glowing fire-places in these rude rooms bright with the ruddy. dancing light of the flames. Christmas in those days was very different from Christ mas now; but it was Merry Christmas none the less.'' G. KAY.
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Dogs to Carry Mail to Alaska.

James Jackson, an educated Indian, who is to personally carry the mails from Juneau to Fort Cudahy, on the Yukon river, has arrived at Port Towns end, Wash, on the steamer Willapa. He came down to secure 20 or 30 strong dogs to pull the sleds across the noun tains to the Canadian post office on Forty Mile creek. This service is mere ly private enterprise, being main- tained by miners, who pay 50 cents fer each letter. The Canadian government guarantees s350 for each of two round trips. This is rcckoned as being a most hazardous journey. Several min CTS in years past have lost their lives trying to make it.
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LIEN U5B0RN'S LIE FIR.
rzints That Bustles Are Creeping
 on Us Unawares.
rhe Girl with the Chatelaine-This Years skleeve and Last Years Coat-Bicycie Clothes for skating-Wiu Paniers
 Come Again?
COPYRIGHT. 1895

After all. even the Vatican sheperd- 4Sses. herding their fiocks in feecy 4;nery. under pictured skies which re- 1nslined conveniently ralnless = even 4hev wore bust1es-of wool.
 Which from our pretty lambs we'll nnll perhaps, or all of the lightest down scf,mpact; one can't imagine them using woven wire or any such horrible con 4riyance of the age of steel.
 They say that bustles are coming in Aaoain. I hesitate to believe it, and home that the tentative beginnings of them which our eyes can't help seeing x1i1l not grow to such monstrous pro z,,ortions as some of us-alasi-are old sssaough to remember, but will remain zaf least as innocuous as the horsehair- lined skirts which are all that are left x3s from the crinoline panic.
 In way, the things go together. The stiff wide skirts we have now look none ffe worse for the insidious bit of full ness at the back, and so little by little 3he thing might grow again to the an- efent horrors; butt
 Pleasanter to think upon are the tri- fies of scissors, purse, thimble loelzets and the like-in useless silver all- 'which hang from beauty's waist. Even while skating one wears the jingling |cbatelaines, so that a skate key, if she needs it, is one of the most appropriate hits of brlc-a- -brac. Whatever there nav be thus dependent, it must be lit tie and of silver or gold, solid and set
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catch as many as they could. To re- fuse the gift was thought very mean. 1 presume that the eager competition among children now to be first to shout: Merry Christmas is survival of this custom"
 But where did the resemblance to Thanksgiving come in?'' inquired.
 Tn the happy family gatherings at the Christmas dinner. The tables were loaded with a dozen kinds of meat and every variety of homemade dainty. The profusion was astonishing. fam ey that the southern Christmas ban quet has reacted not q little upon the New England Thanksgiving dinner, which was not in the beginning quite so much feast of the flesh"
 But why do you compare your Christmas to Halloween and All-Fools' day?' l asked.
 Because the practical jokes so rife at these seasons were quite the proper thing on Christmas, with us.''
 What, for example?"
 Why, gates were lifted from their hinges and carried off, and all manner of inpish little tricks were then in order. Occasionally they were little too seri- ous for sport-for legitimate fun, at least. For instance, horse was some.
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ao' iHH. or Oak. w $ known that since Bach's death only 12 oak collins had been inferred in the open ground, and the investigation was accordingly narrowed at once. On Oc- tober 22 the workmen came upon some pieces of an oak coffin, but the remains on being examined by Prof. His, of the Leipsic university, were pronounced to be those of a young woman.
 On the afternoon of the same day an other oak coffin was found, and this time the remains proved to be those of an old man. They were taken to the dissecting-room of the university, and after being cleaned and dried were lal'l out in order on a slab.
 The great question to be decided was whether or not this skeleton was that of Bach. Attention was at once concentrated upon the skull. It had four peculiar characteristics. There was a moderately large brain pan, de- veloped in broad occipital bone. The forehead was retreating and the arches of the eyebrows so strongly developed that they formed ridge over the nose, which consequently sprang from deep indentation under this ridge and pro- jected at sharp angle from the face. The eye sockets were rather elongated, being more broad than high. Lastly and this was the most remarkable fea- ture of all-the lower jaw projected be- yond the upper one.
 The skull was now compared with the two portraits of Bach preserved at Leipsic. These portraits are at first sight rather dissimilar, but on being ex- amined closely were found to have in common precisely those structural fea- lures which were so strongly marked in the skull. A collateral piece of evidence was the fact that portrait of one of Bach's grandsons, who was known to have closely resembled him, was con spicuous for the same slanting line of forehead noticeable in the skull.
 It seemed, therefore, only reasonable to conclude that the remains which had been discovered were indeed those of Bahc; but the savants and antiquaries engaged in the investigation were not
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ANTEBELLuM CHRISTMAS.
How It Was Celebrated in tho
 South Before tho War.
It Was Combination of Foursh of July, Halloween, Ati Fools Day and rhanirs- giving. with Special Features
 Of Its Own.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.


 "Christmas in a log cabin ?"
 'Yes. Tell me all about it, please"
 l was addressing a very dear friend "a man whose 70 years of wel1-spent life have borne rich fruits of love and honor. Although New England has been the scenes of his labors for al- most 50 years, he is d southerncr by birth and grew up to manhood in q community almost exactly like that described by Mrs. Stowe in the opening chapters of Uncle Tom.' He is a de- lightful tallSer, but l cannot convey his charm of manner. l had begged him to tell me something about the old fashioned southern Christmas gas he knew it in that primitive society in ante-be'lum days,
 ''ft was not much like Christmas now," he said. "fhere was no Christmas tree. But it WIS the great day of the year with us all, both black and white. It was much as if all the northern holi- days had been crowded into one. It
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These, which had been saved and pre- pared many weeks beforehand, were blown full of air and tightly tied. They were brought out on Christmas morn ing long before daylight, and when warmed before the fire burst, making Q tremendous noise. They were the can non crackers of those days. The up- roar commonly abated about breakfast time, though vagrant guns and crack CTS were heard throughout the day. Every child was ambitious to make all the noise he could"
 ssBut were there no presents?"
 "Yes; though we knew nothing of the hanging up of stockings, and the Santa Claus lore that forms so delightful a feature in child life nowadays. The presents (those that we received, at
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RtOhQSSo q bust which bore. a very striking resem- blance to the portraits of Bach.
 Still the critics were not content. Some of them asserted that the clever sculptor could form any face he pleased over any skull that had no gross de- formities; and to prove their case they requested Herr Seffner to make bust of Handel over the skull of Bach. The sculptor succeeded in producing per- feet external likeness, but internally. to quote the words used blythe writer on the subject, the bust was an anat- omical lie. The artist had been obliged to cover the forehead with a thick layer of plaster, and to leave the chin bone (where in life the flesh is thici5est on the human face1 almost bare. Obvious ly a likeness produced in such fashion was mere monstrosity.
 The professor and the sculptor, en- couraged by this result. set about their task once more. They were obliged to take up the subject practically from the beginning. The possibility of iden- tifying skulls had indeed been much discussed in Germany during the last 20 years. Thus in 1881 Prof Kupffer had studied the skull of Kant; in 1883 Prof. Welcker, the pretended skull of of Schiller; and more recently a skull found at Menidi, believed to be that of Sophocles, had been submitted to Prof. Virchow. But in none of these cases were the methods employed in any way eonelusiye; and Prof. His and Herr Self her had consequently a clear field for ktheir researches.
 The question which the sculptor put to the anatomist, and which lay at the root of the whole matter, was this: Are there certain laws which govern the exact thickness of the fleshy parts covering the several fea- lures of the face?" After course of practical experiments, entered upon
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 - ao1i4A''-'o oH ture. It has now NiA ' '-i'. been found pos sible to do a thing even more remark able. Give sculptor the skull of a man whom he has never seen, on whose picture, even, he has never set eyes, and he will be able in the light of the latest anatomical researches to build upon it a faithful likeness of the dead-to mold upon it plaster DOT trait almost as accurate in every detail of feature as if a cast had been mod eled from it.
 The story of the circumstances which led to the discovery of how this re- suit can be accomplished is of unusual interest. Towards the end of last year the ancient church of St. John at Leip- sic was pulled down to make room for larger building. Before laying the foundations of the new edifiee it was necessary to remove the collins m that portion of the churchyard. Now tra- dition had it that somewhere close by Johann Sebastian Bach, the great mu- sioian, lay buried. Many attempts had been made in former times to find the grave, but always without success
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The Detected Young Man.

Woman said the dejected young man, Sis fale''
 "Yes" spoke one listener.
 "Yes. It has not been so many moons since saved up all my billiard money and lived on beans two weeks to blow myself on an opera and supper for a young woman. Then 1 asked her to marry me, and she said she was afraid l was too extravagant tn make good husband. indianapolis Journal.
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J
 Upper and lower forehead, root and ridge of the nose, root and dimple of the upper lip, and all the other features were measured, compared and calcu- lated. As result of the inquiry, ii was found that no great deviation from the average measure existed, except in those who were unnaturally emaciated through illness or who had suffered from unnatural fatness.
 The final estimates given to Herr Seffner to guide him in his task were the normal measurements of eight healthy men between 50 and 72 years of age, with the maximum and the mini mum of each. With this group of facts before him, the sculptor again set to work. Adhering closely to the meas urements supplied to him by Prof. His, he constructed face in plaster over the cast taken from the skull. That face, when completed, was found to be an ex- act likeness of the musician. More over, it proved to be endowed with that convincing quality which belongs to great masterpieces, and which immedi. dleiy coinpelleu tnose WHO SitW lI iO eks claim: Flow lifelilxe it is!'
 The church wardens of Leipsic have decided to lay the remains of Bach in the church of St. John, and they are now collecting funds to erect in it, as soon as the building is completed, a monument to his memory. The pie lures Illustrating this account of the identification of his remains were taken from the report by Prof. His to the council of the city of Leipsic, giving the final judgment of the committee appointed to make the investigation.
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for. the first time in=the history of anatomy, the pro- lessor was able to answer this ques- ttionHin#the affirm atiye.@ Accur a t c measu u r e m c Il t s were taken of 15 different parts of theZfaees of 37 bodies. No por- ton escaped the most rigid com parative s t u q Y
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night hideous with horn-blowing, yell ing and all that?"
 Certainly they did," he answered. "Christmas morning was ushered in with all the noise and riot which now make quiet people dread the coming of Independence day. Crackers-we called them Christmas craakers'-were ex- ploded, and every youngster who could get a gun banged away with it as long as his powder lasted. Pistols we rare ly saw in those days. But there were other devices for keeping up the racket One was exploding hogs bladders.
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least) were rather triviai--raisins, nuts, candy and q few firecrackers; but they perfectly satisfied us. 1t was the rec ognized season for gifts then no less than now; and the unwritten law of the day was that whoever first saluted
 another and cried: Christmas gift,
 might claim one from the person so saluted. Hence the children. and in deed all the household, endeayored to be awake and alert early so as to
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RESTORING DEAD FACES.
How the Remains of the Composer
 Bach Were Identified.
Features Successfully Reproduced on 8 Skull That Had Lain In Forgotten Tomb for More Than
 Century.
COPYRIGHT. Isg5.

An extraordinary illustration of what may be accomplished by modern sci ence and modern art working together has appeared quite recently in Ger many. It is well known that if a skilled anatomist be given a single
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In Great Luck.

Friend-How are you coming on? Author-Good. I've got the material on hand for a first-class novel.
 You are lucky man."
 That's not all I've got the material for splendid comedy besides"
 You are fortunate.'
 "Yes; all l need now is the material for a new pair of trousers. .''-Pearson' E Weekly
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with tiny stones if ones purse be long enough. Gems glitter, too, in the gold fhgree of the high comb which ladies, young and old, wear with such coquet. tish effect
 The ''bcefeater hat" has become a stovepipe, low crowned and decked, perhaps, on one side with high Haunt ing plume. Such a hard and glossy bit of picturesque ugliness looks well, sseen as l saw it to-day surmounting Skirt of green cloth with white kid piping and border of black astraehan; 2 black astrachan coat faced with the kla all down the long lapels, and high collared blouse underneath of shot green and blue silk, with an applique of inc lace down the front; and demnre- 1y pretty face above the beloved and Qeribboned stock collar. The piping Qf White kid is carried through all the aeams of the black jacket, and let me
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Running No Risks.

"I'm not going to let this paper be caught in any more libel suits if know it, by George!" exclaimed the city editor of the Morning Sensation. run ming his eye rapidly over a page of copy that lay on his desk.
 And he inserted a word so that the sentence read: Cain, the alleged mur- derer of Abel" etc.-Chicago Tribune.
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quite satisfied. They were anxious to obtain still more decisive test; and it was while meditating upon this problem that Prof. His hit upon the
 remarkable discovery referred to. He conceived the idea of reproducing
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Their Costly Mistake.

Wife (to husband, an insurance agent)-Why, Jack, what kept you SC late? It is after midnight.
 Husband-Business my dear.
 Wife-Business at this time of night Husband-Yes, my dear. A couple of footpads stood me up on the corner and insured their lives for $5.o0o apiece.=The Wave.
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has always placed ING THE ,EoDFT.- the grave, it was INC or \ sIl1rr1 resolved to make
 one more effort to identify the great organist's tomb. At first the task ap- peared one of insuperable difficulty. In the extensive churcbyards that sur round the church are vast aeeumula- tions of human remains, lying layer upon layer. The plague in olden times, the war of Schmalkalden, the thirty years war, the seven years war, the three days battle of Leipsie with Na- poleon, have all added their victims in addition to the normal death rate of the city. To discover one single un- known grave must have seemed we'll nigh hopeless; yet, wonderful to re- late, on the fourth day after the com mencement of the excavations, on Oc tober 22, 1894, the remains of Bach were found.
 Besides the tradition already referred to the searchers had only two clews to
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guide them. These were a couple of en- tries in the register of St. Johns hospi : tai, discovered after
 much labor by Prof. Wustmann, which showed t t h a t the grave was a shallow one, in the open ground, and . that the coffin was made
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ic IS, II an old device, still a good N here the beefeater survives, it is &ere nat pad of silk, putfed and huted Rut the edges, not to be recognized what it is save by one who has seen Euecllne and fall. It is prettier for Iaiiing, when all is said, almost as as tam, but much richer.
 nother popular hat is perfectly flat
 le prlm and piled high with bill
 or ostrich plumes.
 skating gown of gray corduroy vel above the waist and gray cloth R' the bodice is slashed down each P Tn front, to show a cream white
 strip, and the edges are defined
 neck to waist by vertical bands ur' and fur also borders the plain
 N. The. girdle is gray silk-almost @lght be red or some such brilliant -and the sleeve are belled at the eoiero bodices are fitted with wide
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in plaster over d cast of the skull features carefully calculated ire m his knowledge of the human anato- my. This idea he communicated to Herr Seffner, a fa-
 m o II s c erm a Il sculptor, who at once undertook the task, and in two
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bone from the skel- eton of a dead ami mal-dead, it may be, since prehis- tor ic times-he will be able from
 this slight clew to reconstruct for us the entire frame work of the crea-
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Fate of an Amateur.

His friends they egged him on the stage, At failure they did scoff; But when they saw his Hamelet. They promptly egged him off
 N r. Herald.
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In the 150 years Chat had elapsed since the remains of the master were committed to the earth the exact To- cality of his last resting place had b e e n.co completely forgotten.
 But now that it was necessary to disturb the S oil W h e r e tradition I..... .xl
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had the characteristic features of Thanksgiving, Halloween, Ali-Fools' day and the Fourth of July"
 Fourth of July!" exclaimed Do you mean that the boys burned gum powder on Christmas, and made the
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it is, if an old device, still a good
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1895-05-04

judging BY the quality Of the worn exhibited
by the students OF the Artist Artisan Institute on
West Twenty third street the future Of the Appli-
cation OF art to ut!ltarian purposes In America
10 destined to be q brilliant one.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1895-05-04
VEHICLES ON THE BOULEVARD.

In q communicat to THE Evening
World" bicyclist Of this city recNes
n Just complaint. lie says that whereas
he and his fellow wheelnen are
promptly warned of II they try to go
uptown or downtown on the wrong side
OF the Boulevard. drivers on oil sorts
Of vehicles. from market wagons and
hacks up to big four-horse brewery
wagons, are permitted to make their
choice Of sides. whichever direchpn
they are following. In a short trip
down the boulevard last night he met
Ave heavy wagons going up the west
side OF tho street. which is the down.
town side under the ordinances.
This IL certainly a subject for police
attention. Under the law OF the State
bicycles are recognized as having the
same rights on the road as other vehi-
cies-no more rights and no less. Their
riders should not be singled out as sub
ject to ordinances which drivers on
carts md wagons are permitted to ut
terly disregard.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1895-05-04
LET JUSTICE BE SWIFT.

On District Attorney Ridgway. OF Brook
lyn. falls the duty OF bringing to trial
the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Com
pany for one of the recent trolley kill
inss. Conviction often follows far be-
hind and sometimes does not even fol-
low on Indictment. Often indictments
are swallowed UP in pigeon holes. The
good die in the street. the guilty never
stand in the dock. Let there be none of
this In Brooklyn.
The evidence Is ready. Try the case
at once Mr.. Ridgway. II guilty. let pun
ishment strike now. Then do not stop.
There ure other trolley companies. One
hundred and nine lives have been lost.
Justice for them all. Not revenge. jus
tice. 1nnict q fns Of 5000 for every
life lost In the past. and there will be no
lives sacrificed in the future. The pub
lie streets will cease to be death traps
for children.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1895-05-04
WHAT 10 BRIBERY

the Evening World" has called Sen
etcr Daniel Bradley's attention to the
provisions of the State Constitution in
relation to bribery. He will do well
also to study the laws on the subject of
selling vote for a consideration. and to
decide for himself how near his offer
TO trade his vote on the Lexow Police
Reorganization bill for such an amend
msnt to the Greater New York bill as
his wishes and his interests prompt
comes to q felony.
Senator Bradley now publishes his
''ultimatum" in 1.-The World" He says
positively ne will not vote for the
Reconciliation bill "unless the Senate
CONSISTS to pass such q Greater City
bill ~ DESIRE" The bargaining Sena-
eor's words are: Nov. II my vote is
necessary to pass the New York Re
organization bill. let the Legislature
make these concessions to me concern
tng the Greater City bill and shall
thsa aid them In passing the Reorganl-
sation BILL"
II two or three Senators had said to
Lou Psyn. I'VE will not put the Fire
mep'e Salary bill through unless we get
. eta1S for our votes" there Is no
doubt their action would come within
~ constitutional definition OF a felony.
what difference 10 there in the two
o0nnne