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Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

solute leadership rests here
Other stores match us-in
in spots +; here a few, there a
few; with prices as a rule
enough higher to pay the
costs of their indirect gather
ing.
The Dress Goods Salon is
the home of the novelties-be
their texture cotton, linen,
wool, mohair or silk. For in
stance
Irish Dimities. plain and fancy, 25c.
Organdie Fantasie, 25c.
English Lappet Lawns, soc and 35c.
French Printed Organdies, size.
Organdie Raye. 40e
French Printed Plumetis, 500.
Batiste Trianon, 40c.
Batiste Faconne, 40c.
Batiste Negeuse, 4Oc.
French Azslee, 40c.
Plain, figured and bordered Pique,
25o, 37Isc, 40c, 5Oc, 6Oc, 65c and 76c.
And Dress Linens, 35c to
$3.50 a yard-for the novel
weaves. I2Hc to soc for the
plain.
And the story is stopped
without word Of the silk-and-
wool beauties-75c to 81 a
yard.
Enough to ask you come
and enjoy them.
BLaeh Dress Sln6S-
There is ease and safety in
buying black goods here. They
are shown in such a flood of
good honest daylight that
color defects could stand no
chance. -Four long sections
are devoted to the selling,
dividing the goods in this
wise
SECTION No. l.
897 kinds Crepons, Crepe de Chenes
and Etamines,
SECTION No. p
$50 kinds figured Mohairs, silk-and-
wool Brocades, all-wool Armures
and figured Brilliantines.
SECTION No. s.
1856 kinds fine Serges, wide vale dag
onals, Serge Cheviots, Storm Serges.
SECTION No. a.
1853 kinds all-wool and silk-and-wool
Henriettas, Cashmeres Veilings,
Challis, silk-and-wool Tamisse, Clar-
ette, Melrose, Drap d'Alma, Eudora,
CamePs-hair Grenadines, plain and
fancy weave Mohairs.
lust a price-word-
TWISTED SILK GRENADIREs-
44-inch all pure silk and perfection of
loom weaving The first time these
goods ever sold for less than 1850.
Today's price is sl50.
BLACK ALL-wooL CHALLls-
No fabric more in demand tban ALL
wool Challis for Summer wear II
was hard work to find one of the
quality we are selling at 25c. To
compare with other merchandise IL
should bring half as much again.
All other grades up to 81 a yard.
BLACK FIGURED EXAMINES
A little carly in the season to talk Of
less prices on the newest stuffs. bnt
little furry caused change Of
price on six designs that have been
selling freely at $3.50. Our price
tbs morning is Sc so.
BLACK CREPE DE CHEHR-
Only few more pieces of that won-
derful Black Crepe de Chene than
sold at 81, and now SOC yard.
Enough to last few hours.
-. loHN WANAMAKER,
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

The Rhode Island Republicans, at their
State convention last week, adopted a
platform containing the clearest and
most outspoken financial declaration yet
made by any political gathering. 1t
was as follows;
The existing gold standard is the
measure OF value adopted by the nations
with whom the United States have tho
most important commercial relations,
and the very suggestion Of departure
from it inflicts injury to the credit of
nation whose honor should never be
questioned at home or abroad. 10
those who toll for their daily bread
currency redeemable in aud of equal
value with gold is essential. While the
capitalist may protect himself against
the fluctuations even of. silver, the
laborer and the artisan, tho salaried
official and the widow arc powerless to
guard against the changing values of u
currency which great and beneficent
government should make absolutely
secure and unchanging in its purchas.
ing power.
OF course, the Rhode Island Re-
publicans did not endorse Mckinley
after adopting such a sound financial
platform. Mckinley could not stand
upon such declaration. II he is
nominated by the national convention,
as now seems probable, it will pe with
the Ohio "straddle" as the financial
plank, and not the clear cut deliveranco
Of tho Rhode Island Republicans.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

W ne meantime wo must Keen of
eli'Eihg to ind MuH ptn t0Fy.oad
ilo ronsumDtiog lategiyan Hndarts
Hs I''e'gn couniElrs Nornipg Nrws
lAe Ran annf I've the Ncws ! lo
lHrlso 4nrb 8n I6rcir1 5taois,,
t. Practical. e.aa..pemr' lia coun=
trs lnen l.t thrrlsE OF Tho
Hl from .whia t.is
country. 10 .. grrea4 il In
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aeSa !ise p.ti G4n
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

In 1870 Browns Bronchial Trochesn
were introduced, and their success as a cure
for Colds, Coughs, Asthma and Bronchitis,
has been unparalleled.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16
sonnd Money wm Win.

Speaking of tho financial aspects Of
the pending political campaign, Mr..
Henry Hentz, chairman of the sound
money committee of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce, expresses the
opinion that sound money will win.
He said:
| firmly believe from what l have
seen and heard, and | have latoly been
in conversation with business men and
public mon, from Cabinet officers down,
in different parts Of the country, that
in case one Of tho two great parties
takes stand for sound money. and the
other straddlos tho issue, the sound
money platform will win. | have
learned enough 10 convince me that II
the Republicans nominate Mckinley on
the Ohio platform, and the Democrats
nominate a man OF the Cleveland
type, like ex Governor Russell of Mas.
sachusetts, on a sound money platform,
the latter will carry New York and
Massachusetts and win the election.
Thousands of Republican business
men will vote for II sound money Demo-
crat II their own party platform wavers
or quibbles on the subject. On the
other hand, Democratic business men
will vote for sound money Repuhli-
can IL their convention is CAPTURED by
the free-silver men. find that this
is the opinion of leading mon In Wash.
ington, Boston and Chicago. Business
men, ah whole, regard the money
question as the issue OF the hour, and
want 1t settled now, once and for all
time. With verdict in favor Of sound
money they believe there will he n
revival of confidence and prosperity.
The forces Of free silver are making
their last stand, but l believe they
will be defeated.
Mr.. Hentz undoubtedly voices the
sentiment Of the business interests of
the country when ho says that they
regard the money question as "the
issue of the hour" 1t must be met
and settled at this years election.
That the Republicans will squarely
meet IL does not seem probable, in view
of the undouhted sentiment of that
party for Mckinley and his Ohio
"straddle. The country, therefore,
must look to the Democratic conyen-
tion at Chicago for platform and a
candidate that shall truly represent the
issue Of sound money.
Such declaration and nomination
might cause an open rupture in the
Democratic ranks, but even this would
bo better than the meaningless "strad-
die" contemplated by the Republicans.
AS Mr. Hentz says, the money question
is the issue OF tho hour, :" and it must
be met unequivocally. And in the end,
the cause of sound money will win.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

Alr. II. a. i'ia@rlsan will not aa
wnt tho Republican nomination tor
twg'rnnr this g,ur llo very wisul.
declines to b. As eats paw to pun
AuJivks Chostnuts out Of the fire.
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16

EYNn 0n tha m0nn9 question Srcalor
hoeli prosprvcsan absolute silence. In
the event nI hIa NOMINATION for Prosi
don't by tho 50. Louie convention, ho
would doubtless accePt whatever iinan-
cial plank the convention saw fit to
make for him, Mckinley, on the other
hand, has maIa bis financial platform.
The Ohio Republicans adopted it, anil
4. win so throa4ir NJ st. Louis il Me.
Ninloy doea. fui it is not sound
money plank. eiHr.
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Share the Same Nest.

". G. Adams relates an interesting
circumstance touching the domestica-
tion of the quail. Up at Milo, in the
Tule River mountains, Postmaster
Richardson has q barn in which 9
mother quail has for two seasons built
her nest. This nest is shared by q
domestic hen, with apparently no OBJ.
lection from the quail. The hens
eggs are removed from the nest by
Mr.. Richardson's boys, but the quail's
eggs are allowed to remain Last year
the quail successfully raised q family
of birds in this nest. She is back
again, and has deposited several eggs
for this seasons crop. The boys say
that after the young birds appear the
mother bird will futter off the nest o
short distance when the nest is ap-
preached, and allow them to catch her
in their hands. The quail has learned
that no harm will be done to her or
her little ones.-Visalia (Cal) Times.
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Rancid Butter Made Fresh.

DR.. Jean Coumeigt, in collaboration
with Mr.. E. A. Gutter, says they have
just discovered process by which
they can convert rancid butter into
butter of the freshest kind.
Everybody knows" DR.. Coumeigt
said, "that butter is composed of O
mixture of fat, oleine, margarine,
stearine. palmitine, butyrene and the
fatty acids known as capric, caproic,
butyric, in variable proportions, which
give the color and taste of butter.
''The cause of the rancidity of but
ter is the action of the oxygen of the
air, which sets the fatty acids at lib.
erty. I need not go into this peculiar
chemical change. Since the discov-
cries of Pasteur on the subject of fer.
mentation everybody knows that it is
microbes which fix the oxygen of the
air on the alcohols and caseine matters
of butter to transform them into com.
pound ammoniacal and fatty acids,
which set at liberty, cause the rancid.
ity of the butter.
"Mr. Gutter and I set ourselves the
task of finding means to neutralize
the butbyrilamines and fatty acids
which cause the rancidity, and our Ell.
forts have met with o complete sue
cess. After having melted the butter
and having neutralized it with an ap.
propriate base, it is submitted to sev.
eral washings, after which it presently
becomes as sweet and clean as when il
first left the dairy.
"You would ask me, Does it lose any
ofits original properties by this opera.
ton? answer, No. On the con
tray, by our process we can tell i'm
mediately whether q, butter is natural
or artificial. And the loss incurred
/ is so Insignificant as to be almost i'm
perceptible. New York Herald.
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LITTLE MISS ASTOR.

That the Duchess of Buccleuch
should have consented to become the
guest of Mr.. W. ". Astor, at Give.
den, and also at his town house in
Carlton House Terrace, may be re-
garded as the greatest social victory
that he has ever achieved. For Her
Grace of Buccleuch has hitherto been
the leader and the moving spirit of
what was known as the antl.American
league. The latter consisted OF num-
ber of the grandest ladies of English
society, wAo, with the object of resist
ing what they were pleased to de-
scribe as the American invasion, bound
themselves never TO permit an Ameri-
can or Hebrew to cross their thresh-
olds, or to attend any entertainments
either given by Americans or where
Americans were known to be among
the invited guests.
No one, save Mr.. Astor himself, can
tell exactly how be managed to effect
the co1VeTsion OF the Duchess Inas.
much as the rent roll of her husband
exceeds 100000 per annum, the
consideration can scarcely have been
Of pecuniary character, such as has
been rumored in the case of the Count
esses of Cork and of Warwick, who
are reported to have received phenom-
enally large checks lor their vapor-
ings in Mr.. Astor's Pail Mall Maya
zine.
The honors at all these entertain
ments given by Mr.. Astor are done by
his fourteen-year-old daughter, who
gives every promise of surprising the
rare beauty and charm of her lovely
mother. Little Miss Astor takes the
place of her dead mother at table
with the utmost self.possession and
dignity, aad retires Immediately after
ward to her apartments, and presum-
ably to bed. She was in New York
the other day for the purpose of be-
ing confirmed at Trinity Church, but
few persons knew of her presence
here until the day of her DEPARTURE
New York Journal.
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we'll to the center by two rows Of shir-
ring, and the fronts lap In surplice
fashion at the bottom. The pufed
sleeves are made up in full length. A
novel completion for the puffs is given
by roses, made of the white lace and
satin, sewed to narrow bands joined
to the lower edges of the puffs. The
neck is finished with a lace ruff.
A fashionable travelling gown is made
of etamine. The skirt has front
gore, a gore at each side and a gathered
back breadth. The basque waist has
seamless back. A ripple peplum of
fancy crepe lengthens the waist sty.
lishly, its ends being wide apart, but
concealed by fancy belt. The sleeves
only have one seam, and are finished
in Eton cuffs. A collar made of
wrinkled ribbon rosettes finishes the
neck.
A box coat is considered quite the
popular travelling outside garment for
brides. The latest tan cloth jackets
Of this type have quite regal air, with
their deep cuffs and Ellzsbethan col
lars.
Figured organdie axes up an artis-
tic morning or tea gown. It has a
forget-me.not ground figured in blue
and olive green. The quaint short
waist has shirred back and plated
fronts. Dropping over the sleeves and
waist is q deep pointed Bertha. The
high, round neck is followed by shir-
ring of lace, as is the waist. The skirt
has three cores and is gathered quite
full into the waist, The sleeves are
leg O mutton.
The most exquisite underwear is made
of China and India silk. Chemises
have Mexican open work yokes and
are made long. Long and short pet
ticoats have many narrow ruffles and
are much trimmed with ribbon inser-
tion and lace.
Hosiery and gloves are in dark
colors. Those which are generally
popular are pansy and black, brown
and ecru, violet and olive green and
beige and oak leaf brown.-New York
Mail and Express.
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Merchants, Marks.

These marks appear to have been
initiated from the FIemings during the
reign of Edward ILL, and became
very common during the fifteenth and
earl y part of the sixteenth century,
both on seals and signet rings; they
offered somewhat curious field for
research, and are often very useful IN
identifying the persons by whom do
mestic and parts Of ecclesiastical edi-
fees on which they occur we're built.
They were more generally used in the
great seaports Of England than in the
South, fact which is readily account
ed for by the frequent intercourse be-
tween those parts and Flanders. It
may be observed also that such marks
belong chiefly to wool factors or mer-
chants OF the staple.-Archaeological
Magazine.
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Noisy Ball of Fire Comes Aboard.

Captain Dickson of the British bark
Eudora reports an unusual electrical
display during storm in the South
Pacific. The Eudora left Junin, Chile,
on February,29, and while..beating down
the coast toward Cape Horn the storm
was seen approaching the vessels
stern, swapping and sizzling like a
wall OF fire, but travelling only at q
moderate speed, tho wind being light
/ at that time.
When the storm struck the vessel
| it blew with the force of hurricane,
and for time it looked as if the masts
would be blown out. There was great
electrical display oil over the rigging,
and great ball of fire Aoated near
the mizzenmast and exploded with a
report like that of Krupp gun. The
crew were dazed and nearly blinded,
but fortunately no one was seriously
hurt. The vessel labored heavily in
the sen, and the wire rigging was
ablaze with electricity. The storm
soon cleared away, and the sea at once
became as calm as before. .-Philadel-
phia Record.
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PRESIDENT KRUGER's WIFE.

I have seen "Tanta Sanna," the
sobriquet of President Kruger's wife,
on several occasions, and have noticed
her one style. She always dresses IN
black, and the cut of her gown would
certainly not be an advertisement to
o West End dres smaker; comfort, not
elegance, is her maxim. Plain though
Mrs. Kruger is in the matter OF dress,
she has her little vanity. She posi-
lively refuses to see visitor who may
happen to call before she has "tidied
up." The tidlng up takes place IN
the afternoon, and consists OF putting
on her best black gown, with trim
mings.
Mrs. Kruger is famous fer her cof-
fee, with which visitors are always
regaled when they go to the Presiden.
tial residence in Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger
thinks she makes the best coffee of any
good "huisvrouw" in Pretoria, and
she boasts that she can make tin of
condensed milk 60 further than any
one else. Mr.. Kruger, while thinking
her "Mann" the greatest statesman
the world has ever seen, takes no sort
of interest in politics. She, I believe,
does not know what the franchise
means, but anything her husband tells
her in connection with political
matters she unhesitatingly accepts.
In conversation she always addresses
her "Nann" as "Oom," and he in turn
calls her "Tanta." They are happy
couple, although her husbands sleep.
lessness and devotion to the affairs of
State in the midnight hours distress
her considerably.-The Empire.
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BOOM IN SHIRT WAISTS,

"The most prosperous trads Of the
moment after bicycles" says manu-.
facturer, sis that in ladies' shirt
waists. The bicycle is the author oi
this prosperity, too, just as it is the
deathblow to many INDUSTRIES
which perhaps accounts for the con.
tinued popularity of these waists,
though they have been adopted by
everybody, and in consequence should,
oy laws OF fashion, be frowned upon
by the exclusive. The story is tolo
of how the Viennese milliners a few
years ago saw their profits decrease
through the popularity of cheap
straw hat, which, worn by a leader of
fashion, was adopted by all of their
customers. The situation was serious,
for the hat required but little trim.
ming, and its cost was trihing, and q
secret session of the milliners was
called to take measures to relieve it..
A few days afSerward all the workwo.
men in Vienna appeared in the cheap
hats. TIE shrewd milliners had
bought them up and distributed them
gratuitously. The effect was speedy ;
the aristocrats dofed them at once,
and the milliners were soon reaping
their usual harvest.
The reign of the shirt waist is
proof against any such intrigue as
this. They are on sale from twenty;
five cents upward, and in consequence
are, in some style, within the reach OF
every woman. Yet their vogue is so
pronounced in circles where vogue is
made that shirt-waist toilet is not
deemed inappropriate for even more
than semi-formal occasions. There
are shirt waists and shirt waists, to be
sure, and the one worn by the woman
of fashion is q gem in its way. 1t is
made by tailor; its fit and finish are
admirable; its cost may be from 81 to
$40; it is fastened with gold or jewele(
studs; it is held about the waist with
a belt whose buckle is triumph of the
silversnith OF goldsmith, and, though
it is still only shirt waist, its per
lection and elegance are evident ant
high priced. New York Times.
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The Biggest Water Pipe.

The big water tube which is to con.
duct the power for the new paper mill
at Quinnesee Falls is wonderful thing
in its way. It is sixteen feet in diam:
eter and will conduct an eighty-foot
head of water to play against the hori-
zontally laid water wheels. It is made
OF steel Aanges half an inch thick, and
lies at an angle of forty.tive degrees
The water will pass through it at the
rate OF two feet second, and every
inch of the tube is calculated to stand
10000 pounds pressure. Its cost is
$4,000. The power it can develop
will be but little short of the energy
wasted in Niagara Falls. Milwaukee
Wisconsin.
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SILK LININGS.

SILK LINTNGs.
Transparent fabrics are apronouneed
feature of this summers styles. and,
in consequence, the silk skirt lining ls
of more Importance than ever before.
Very much of the style and beauty OF
q gown is given it by the choice OF it's
lining, which supplies the dash Of color
now needed in everything but mourn
ing dress.
Plain and dark silks are seldom
chosen for these Innings, but instead
charming combinations OF color In
stripes, chine, and changeable effects,
which are really handsome enough for
gowns themselves. However, for Ger.
tain occasions-afternoon drives at
summer resorts, garden parties, day
receptions, etc.-gowns of grenadine,
striped and plain canvas, semi-trans'
parent crepes, goat's-hair and etamlne,
are smarter than those of fancy silk.
The skirts of these gowns are invari-
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and are stylishly arranged over COM
Portable sleeve Innings that can be cut
elbow length or faced to the wrists, if
so desired. The epaulettes are made
from lace mitered at the edges to form
three points over the full puts. The
mode is very generally becoming and
the ripple basque or epaulettes, or
both can be omitted if not desired. All
kinds of silk, linen, cotton, or light
weight woolen fabrics are adapted to
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ably plain, or at most have IN inser'
ton of lace between the seams-o- o
frill of narrow lace down them
through which, of course, the lining
glints effectively. The sleeves, and
usually the back Of the corsage, are
like the skirt, but oftener than not the
front is of plated chiffon yelled with
embroidered lace, or of beautifully en-
broidered batiste. -Demorest's Mag
azlne.
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LADIES AND MISSES COAT SLEEVES.


The demand for smaller sleeves is
steadily increasing, ladies not being
10th to disencumber their arms from
the weight of material hitherto pre-.
scribed by fashion. Two styles of
medium sized leg o, mutton o. gigot
sleeves for coat jackets, etc., are here
given as one pattern. No. l, made of
fancy cloth, is shaped with single
seams, and can be gathered or plated
at the top. A single box plait is laid
at the shoulder, forward and backward
turning side plaits adjusting the re.
mainder of the fullness. No. Q is of
mixed cheviot and is shaped with two
seams, having a smooth under-a arm
portion. When Innings are used they
are shaped exactly like the sleeves,
thus giving the necessary room for
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THE WEDDING TRoUssEAU.

A beautiful wedding gown, quite
elaborate in effect, is of cream psau
de sole, cream satin and lace. The
skirt is made with three wide cores,
and is gathered at the top all around.
1t has a graceful train, moderately
long. The basque waist is made with
q smooth fitting lining. The back has
fullpess only in the lower part. drawn
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the dress sleeves. The wrists are
plainly completed with inside facings.
These sleeves can be made of silk, vel.
vet Or cloth, to contrast or match with
the garment in which they are placed.
In remodeling top garments this pat
tern will be found useful and econom-
icaI.
The quantity of material A inches
wide required to make either No. or
No. 2 design is q yards for q 36-inch
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L0nd0n's Population.

London's rate of growth is diminish
ing, though the population increased
nearly 200, 900 between 1891 and 1895.
The population of lesser London Is
4, ,27l, but, according to the old
rate of increase, it ought to be larger
by $4,000.
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The Child Enjoys

The pleasant flavor, gentle action and sooth-
ing effect of Syrup of Figs when in need Of q
laxative, and If the father or mother be costivs
or bilious, the most gratifying results follow
its use; 80 that It Is the best family remedy
known and every family should have bottle