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NAPOLEON'S STOMACHACHE.
It Played an Important Part in the De-
 feat of tfe French.

1t Played an Important Part in the De-
 feat of the French.
 Suddenly, in the midst of an order to Gen. Vandamme, v@1o was to head off the retreat near Kuhn, q hundred miles to the north, the emperor gave sharp cry, elapped hand over his lower waistcoat buttons, and doubled up com pletely, unable te think or act.
 Napoleon had the stomachache.
 You laugh ait this; but let me tell you there is nothing so demoralizing as pain. Headache and indigestion have wrecked more than one great cause. Men who can withstand armies have surrendered to the toothache. Ma Doleon was never victorious on the sea because he was always too seasick to command in person. Napoleon could not endure pain, and lost bis crown through q stomachache. For the cramp that caught him that day at Pirna kept him from pursuing his routed foes. and with that failure to act began the conqueror's downfall
 At all events, he gave up his plan of conducting the pursuit in person. He returned to Dresden. Disaster fell upon his generals whenever they fought without him. Oudinot was beaten at Grossbeeren; Macdonald was overthrown at Katzback; Vandamme was captured at Kuhn; Ney was routed at Dennewitz. The allies turned back. With fresh troops swelling their recov- ering ranks, they drew about the man they had sworn to destroy.
 His vassals forsook him; his tribu- taries deserted him. France was left alone, and, yielding to the advice of his marshals rather than following his own wise judgment, Napoleon gave up his plan of marching upon Berlin. His enemies drew about him; they in- closed him in ring of steel; and on the 10th of October, 1913, the emperor and his men stood at bay under the walls Of quaint old Leipsic-a handful against a host.
 The bloodiest battle of modern times has been called the Battle of the Ma tions. Itwas France againstall Europe. For three days it ragged. Ninety-four thousand men were killed or wounded. Then the Saxons in the ranks of France went over in body to the enemy. Re. treat was q necessity. Napoleon was beaten. Elbridge 5. Brooks, in St. Nicholas.
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costumes and gleaming colors, making a charming sight. This is the shuttle. Then the dealer points each one to his or her place as they pass him by in in- discriminate disorder. The hand should have been played over and record of plays made, beforehand and each card should know to which hand he or she belongs so there may be no real confu- sion. They are thus arranged in the four hands on the open side of the square, with the player of each hand standing before his men. The leader holds his list in his hand and calls out what card he will lead-the king of spades, perhaps. The small herald blows his trumpet and leads out the king, and each of the other cards follows him in like state, led by the herald from his own hand, till the four meet in the hollow square below the spectators, and the pages re- tire. The four in the center then dance little figure, something adapted from the minuet, quadrille, lances or any fancy dance. The three conquered cards then bow low to the winner, who leads them off to make way for the next trick, and so on-each time the little dance, and the stately march, and the fanfare of trumpets. This goes on until the hand is all played, when the winners of the game stand up together and the whole procession files by, bow ing as they pass, and on to the open lawn again, where they go through marches and countermarches, the four small heralds ahead.
 So much for the general order of the performance. As to details, there are many to be considered. The first is as
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Ut Makes Such a Direrence.

A Linn Grove girl found package of love letters that had been written to her mother by her father before they were married, says the Sioux Rapids Republican. The daughter saw that she could have little sport and read them to her mother, substituting her own name for that of her mother and a fine young man for that of her father. The mother jumped up and down her chair, shifted her feet, seemed terribly disgusted, and forbade her daughter having anything to do with a young man who would write such siclening and nonsensical stuff to girl. When the young lady handed the letter to her mother to read the house became so still that one could hear the grass growing in the back yard.
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DaPEW'S DOLLARS. Of people to ,.hom he is indebted for large sums. T. may surprise those who have been Ied to look upon Depew as millionaire and q friend of mlllionaires to learn 4bat his name upon 6 note is no unfa- niliar thing to the finaneiers. Now, Denew has some very bitter enemies naonle with whose schemes he has in- terfered at one time or another. They are perpetua1ly seeking to embarrass him. if only for revenge. One trait in Denew makes him peculiarly liable to ;riury of this kind connected with want of friends. This trait is readiness to ipdorse a note for any friend in need of the accommodation. Not many days oro ouite a number of notes bearing +5e indorsement of the great fnancier were seen on Wall street It may sur nrise the uninitiated, but it is fact that Chauncey NJ. Depew's indorsement is not always sufficient to sell note. He is known to be rather open-handed md generous As he once said of him. self. the dollar he gets has usually wings.
 Consequently, when, in the early days of July Wall street bankers saw the Depew notes in the market, hostile clement combined to diseredit them. Every man brought into contact with the money market knows how easy it is to throw suspicion upon even the highest credit There was no difficulty in pointing out that Depew's indorse- ment must be about in many strong boxes; that he is always branching out into various schemes; that he is rather an extravagant finaneier, and finally that he has not, by half, so great for tune as is generally supposed.
 The Depew notes dragged, and the fact proved somewhat humiliating. The great orator was about to sail for Europe and he did not like those bits of paper to be floating about behind him. He proceeded to Wall street one morning and entered a banking house.
 T want to take up those notes with my name on them, he said to the head of the institution
 eImpossible!" was the reply.
 "Impossible?" echoed Depew.
 ..Yes. They're all sold.''
 Depew went about to various other places, but could not find anyone who would part with the notes, even for a liberal iducement.
 Now it transpires that the whole episode was trick on Depew. Once his back was turned the notes were taken out of their resting places in safes and hawled about, solely for the purpose of humi1iating the after-din- ner wonder.
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This has l O n UNCLE SAM $ JA1LoRs.
 been pet idea with New York con tractors and politicians It is believed that the first institution of the kind would be located near New York city. There is a scheme on foot to have about million dollars appropriated to begin with and then when the site has been selected another million can be ob- tained for the purpose of beginning the building itself. Other parts of the country will be interested and it is likely that ten millions will be appro- priated before anyone fully realizes the nature of the project. Of course, there is no denying that the average United States prisoner has very easy time of it in the way of being able to make his escape, for county jailors never take as much care of them as they do of ordi- nary prisoners. Still, the idea of build- ing national prisons has so far only commended itself to contractors.
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GoING TO CHURCH.

rather fond of GOING TO CHURCH. strolling quietly about solely to avoid recognition. It was an evening service, and in the course of it two or three young women wearing boomers entered with great noise and crowded into a pew near the ex-president. Naturally they attracted considerable attention and Mr. Harrison picked up his hat and walked out
 Girls who could go to church in 'bloomers, he remarked, subsequently,
 would go to their mothers funeral in the same attire
 There was quite a discussion on the subject in the Fifth Avenue hotel and the ex-president's party agreed that there are occasions when even the most liberal would feel offended at the pres enee of boomers. MT. Harrison, how ever, does not object to bloomers in their proper place.
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A Strange Pair of Pets.

There isa young lady in Philadelphia whose father is a wealthy hotel-keeper and from whom she inherits a love for cats and dogs. In her home in West Philadelphia there are fully twenty cats and just as great variety of dogs. One of the strangest sights in West Philadelphia on pleasant afternoon is to see the young lady in question take her favorite pets out for an airing. This pair consists of thoroughbred bulldog and genuine Maltese cat. Usually they are chained together, and it is beautiful sight to see the tender solicitude with which the big dog watches over the safety of it's little companion. If strange dog should happen along and make dash at pussy, she doesn't seem to have the least fear She runs beneath the big bulldog, and, instead of arching her back after the fashion of the feline race, purrs softly and contentedly The strange dog never cares to come too near.
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course of S THE NEW VANDERBILT. thoughts towards solemn things. He reads many books of devotion and has been detected in the act of entering a church. More than this, he has be- come to some extent a battler for or thodoxy by contributing to various so- cieties for the propagation of Gospel truths. The theory regarding this change in the man is that trouble has made him more religiously inclined than anything else. He has sold off all his light French pictures and has bought Bibles and hymn books for his servants. The wild report that MT. Vanderbilt may take holy orders has been in circulation. but it seems to be based upon sheer surmise merely. All the same the man of millions has made himself more interesting than ever in his capacity as crusader. Where 1t will end is the problem concerning the solution of which society is most interested. DAVID WECHSLER.
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gown. Said gown was embroidered with pale green and fell open in front over wbite lawn petticoat, up and down the front of which ran cascades of lace rutfles. Her hat was a Tapping green straw trimmed with white roses.
 Green and white is a combination of which one sees much, notable ex- ample being green and white or gandie with a floral stripe of pink roses and green leaves. This is made as a very modern princess dress with the large sleeves set on below the shoul- ders. The skirt has a plain hem, but the back of the bodice is finished with a frill of broad lace which forms a basque, while a wide cape-lilze fchu is draped full across the shoulders. The hat is a large leghorn garlanded with green leaves.
 There is a new embroidered holland or grass lawn of which one sees much here on all informal occasions. It is made almost invariably of the Marie Antoinette style with short taffeta pet tieoat and fchu. Cropping back of Ma poleon and the empire modes one comes ASIc upOL DcllC Au WIlO butter pats in the park of the Trianon. And well may American girls wear her modes for, though she fell martyr to liberty in France, liberty in the United States had no better friend
 A land of liberty it is which Marie befriended. yet that liberty is in matters of fashion menaced. More and more, as we mold ourselves upon British mod els, does conformity reduce the ways of the rich to painful uniformity. But, queerly enough, uniformity in ways tends to diversity of gowning. For when all in ''the set" must have differ ent costume for each different work or play, the hour glass becomes lzale;do- scope and each time it is turned it pro- duces a different but always brilliant figure.
 Take the bathing hour at Bailey's Beach; and you may be sure the hour is one when few excursionists are about. Here are bathhouses very different from the paintless huts you see at so many beaches of less select ressort. Suppose you are there early enough to see Mrs. Ogden Mills or Mrs. yanderbilt-the Mrs. Vanderbilt, of course, wife of Cor nelius-or Mrs. Gnelet step lightly from
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to the arrangement of the sexes in the distribution of the cards. Of course the aces should be the four handsom- est young women to be found, the king and knave should be men-the kings tall and the knaves of medium heights and the queens, women. As to the rest of the performances, one way is to make all the black cards young men, and the red ones young girls.
 The matter of costumes too, is inn portant. They may be very simple, or, again, as elaborate as one desires. The aces should be entirely gowned in white with large red or black figure to indicate the suit to which she be- longs on the front of each one's skirt, or on a sash across the breast. The kings and queens should appear in some attempt at a court dress, how elaborate to be settled by the means at ones disposal.
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fabric, so far as the name goes. Well, then, a gray blue grenadine, with figured satin stripes; q hyacinth blue crepon with light blue chiffon waist, covered with points of embroidery shimmering with sequins, or black lowered crepon over pale blue silk are combinations that have caught my eye. Bluet-the blue of the corn flower or bachelors button-genesta bluet-it has as many names as a princess-is in- deed the princess of tints this summer Were 1 to name a single tint more popular than any other, this would be one.
 Newport children are the most charming in the world on close in- spection, as Parisian children are the least so. The Parisian baby at close quarters is too often seen to be as badly made up" as it's mamma, with its salved lips, rouged cheeks and powdered chin. The Newport baby is tanned, sunburned, athletic and just fat enough. Simple Gretchen frocls for the little girls and sailor suits for the smaller boys, sailor hat for the sis ter and yachting cap for the brother, they play in the sun all day and hunt barnacles at low tide and trundle their cycles along Bellevue avenue.
 When little miss gets older and goes a-wheeling, she is followed by grave, unsmiling, erect footman, also on wheel, a funny spectacle.
 ELLEN OSBORN.
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even here in the sI

even here In the summer capital by the sea the dog star reigns.
 A tall, slim blonde made an exquisite picture in white net draped over white silk and embroidered with white floss
 A dark girl who chattered necessarily and very much to the apparent satis- faction of a group of languid summer men was in cream colored batiste. Her frock illustrates the latest thing there IS in summer wear, the thoroughly up- to-date costume of the 1895 summer girl. It had an extremely full skirt nearly straight and with rows of lace insertion set in above lace founces. The white silk bodice was draped with the batiste, except in front where ruches of lace rippled and 1uffied and made themselves of as much impor- tance as was permitted by the great Marie Antoinette fichu of laee-trimmed batiste which was gathered about the shoulders and gave a quaintly piquant air to the dainty costume. A flat hat of fine white straw trimmed with rose wreaths lent an added touch of grace and coquetry.
 With the Calvin s. Brice party was very young girl in white lawn whose freshness and delicacy of beauty were better worth considering than her
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and the nature of the scene made very

and the nature of the scene made very realistic
 There seemed to be money in the idea until the City Vigilance league and other similar organizations got wind of it. They have threatened to set the police upon the projectors of the enterprise under the law for. bidding anyone from encouraging prize fighting. It is pointed out, how ever, that there are already in opera tlon various kinetoseope prize-ring ex- hibitions with which no one has undertaken to interfere. The problem is knotty one.
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her carriage. She will be clad in a cool morning suit of the new holland I have mentioned, a sort of g1orifed linen, or in corn yellow gown with full white blouse front and touch of jet black at either shoulder, or in muslin gown if the day be hot, or a bluff alpaca with brown satin emphasis and creamy lace rhetoric
 And then she will disappear, and presently emerges a figure seeming taller in it's long bath robe, wooden robes mainly, with the lines all up and down, or even broad, but not too sharply defined stripes, of gray and white or yellow and white. Here arc no sharp contrasts, but soft, subdued color effects.
 And then the profane eye may note at once the taste and the modesty of the Newport bathing-gown. There are no men upon the beach at this hour. If there were, they might see skirts of ample width and length worn over snug bathing trousers, black stockings, sleeves to the wrist and rather full at the end, and, in every case, an oiled silk bathing cap to match the gown. Whatever attempt there is to attract attention is made, not by generous dis play of the figure, but by neat and ap- propriate allying of tints The time honored blue serge with white facings or white braid is varied here by blue and buff, buff and brown, dark gray and maroon, or black with any and every color. No light shades are worn except in small quantities by way of relief.
 Lunch over, the afternoon gown ap- pears, and now the rainbow gleams of color quicken the wide lawns and ample piazzas Very pretty is the custom of wearing sleeves reaching to the elbow only, supplemented against the suns ardent kisses by long-wristed gloves That good old material, alpaca, shares with chine silk the honors of the waning day. Watered silks and shot silks still hold their own fairly well, and there are grenadines-grenadines and alpaeas! The slang expression ''any old thing" fits well the present style of
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In case where the strictest :, economy IS desired, all of the young girls performing, except, of course t,,s honor cards, may dress in simple wbits gowns from their own wardrobes. and merely wear a broad white sash across the shoulder ~ 0''
 :. oa the other hand, where Che ques- tion oi expense is not so important. the iiveliest fancy may have full sway. and many charming costumes may ba ae. Visea to add 10 the beauty and pictur- esqueness of the scene; the four aces in white gowns, with no deccr4tian ex-
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eept perhaps q gold or silver border, the queens in royal robes anu crJnine and crowns, the kings in equally gor- geous raiment, bearing scepters, and the knaves as knights or court gentle men.
 All of the ordinary cards may wear court dresses, but of much simpler pattern than those worn by the honor cards, always taking care that some uniformity shall run through each suit of cards. A pretty idea, in an elaborately eostumed affair, would be to represent, as far as possible, in each suit-hearts, clubs, spades or diamonds the dress of some special historical period. For instance, all of the clubs might be in early English dress, knights in the armor of crusaders, and ladies with their tall pointed caps and flow ing veils The hearts would do we'll as beaux and belles of the Louis Quinze period, when all was frivolity and fir tation, powder and patches; the dia- monds in empire or Napoleonic cos tunes; and the spades, perhaps, old Greek or Roman, or, if something more modern is preferred, in Russian dress, which is always picturesque.
 The suit spots on scarfs and dresses should be as large as possible, that the
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his absence for the delights of the hop and the summer watering place, where they can while away the hours in their favorite pastime of dancing and firt- ing with heiresses. The swell young diplomats are accused of being rather giddy just now, much to the disgust of British subjects who have occasion to consult them on business. Sir Julian is something of a diseiplinarian himself, and by the time he returns few of his gay young men may have to endure severe reproof at his hands. The temp tation of frivolity is naturally very strong to these young men, but they are said to be splurging too much just now
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is un q CT to d that he will be asked by numer- o Il S dissatisfied nglishmen, res ident in N e W York, to resto&e the discipline of the embassy in Was h in gton n. The young men Sir Julian has about him are accused of neg leeting all seri-
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the c S c a p e of the post office thieves fro m New York's most noted jail. The incident will be used by the Elm pire state dele gation to illus
 trate the urgen- ey of the need for the esta blish- ment of a series of entirely Il e W national prisons.
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certain remarks he made on the s u b j e C t of boomers has no surprised those who had oppor- tunities of listen ing to his con versation during his recent trip to New York. On one occasion he went to a church in Harlem. No one in the edifce kuew who he W a s, for MT. II arrison is
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'''ISON LAW BREAK it's enactment by
 ING. the principals sown In the Lone Star state. This is alaue possible by the latest of Edison's inventions. That is. just as soon as toaila tia is finished, telegraph descr1p- ,loh of 1t can be used as the basis of ,sns o1 sliding scenes prepared in ad- vance. The pictures would be life size
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audience at little distance may recog- nize the value of card at once.
 There should be soft music to play during the march and the dancing, and the turf where the performance takes place should be very smooth and even for the dancers.
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to serious in- e O nv e Il ie nee through the tac- tics of some of his Wall street e Il e m ie S, who went about say ing that t h e great orator is financially e m barrasis ssed @ n q compelled to ask h e indulgence
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Easy.

"Doyou think woman will ever sue cessfully fill the pulpit2"
 q sec no reason why she should not. It ought to be easy, with the sleeves shewears. .n-Indianapolis Journal
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sim m ons fight,
 even though it takes place ln Texas, not the Empire S tate. An arrangement has been made by a prominent company to re- produce the bat tie in every de- tail almost simul- taneously with
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and women who are dressed in appropri- ate costumes, and whose suit and value are clearly indicated. There must, of course, be fifty-two cards, half men and half women, four persons to play the hand, and page, or herald, for each player.
 The guests are seated about three sides of large space on the lawn. and from the fourth side come the cards. They wander in and out in fantastic march, with no rule, in mazes of dainty
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liam K. Wander bilt, who h a s suddenly b e e n converted into a knight of t h e
 book and pen. It seems that re- cent events have f ur Q d f h Q
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ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER. What to Wear at the Casino and
 on Che Promenade.
Gowns of La Belle Austriohe-The F'vil Skirt Lace Rufaes and Fichu-The Craze for White and Green
 Bathing Costumes.
 COPYRIGHT, IS95.

EWPORT, July 20.-There were girls in white gowns at the Ca sino this morn ing Theyl looked de1ig h t fully cool, though I don't s u pp os e they were, for
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Harrison and BIoomers.

The trouble into which Benjamin Harrison has got himaalf through
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A Series of National Prisons.

The metropolis proposes to turn dis comfiture into triumph in the matter of
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Vanderbilt a Monk.

There is a great deal of interest felt at present in the altered mien of Will,