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manufacture of matches. The invention
promises to revolutionize European
match manufacturing, and is perfectly
timely. because wood for this purpose
is concstantly growing scarcer and more
costly The new matches are consider
ably cheaper than wooden matches and
weigh much less-a fact which counts
for much in the expectation. The sticks
of these matches consists of paper rolled
together on bias. The paper is rather
strong and porous and when immersed
in a solution of wax, stearin and similar
substances, will easily stick together
and burn with bright, smokeless and
odorless flame. Strips one inch In width
are first drawn through a combustble
mass spoken of above. and then turned
by machinery into long, thin tubes,
pieces of the ordinary lengths of wood
The herald., 1896-11-29

and all the varying shades of violet and
dahlia.
Entire gowns of velvet have not been
worn for many long year. This sea-
son they are regarded as the most fash
ionable gown possible for receptions
and dinners. But the velvet gown to be
a success must be designed with great
care. 1t must cling to the figure like
glove, and must never be much trimmed
A little real lace will add to the artistic
effect of velvet costume, but ribbons
or chiffon would ruin it, Nothing is
more incongruous to the woman who re-
CARDS dressing as an art than the over
trimmed velvet gown.
The velvet hat is now so much the
vogue that it may be bought in the
shops untrimmed. 1t is always in the
best taste when made of black velvet.
In addition to the large picture hats of
velvet, with their graceful nodding
plumes there are fetching little velvet
toques in plenty this year-toques which
are sold with a collarette of velvet to
match.
AS for the velvet coats, they are made
in many styles, for both maid and
matron One of the prettiest for a debu
tante is a short. loose fitting little coat
made of black velvet. 1t hangs in two
plaits, both in the back and a the front.
Between the plaits and on the choulders
it is trimmed with black silk braid,
which has tiny pink chenille rosebuds
and green leaves intermingled with it.
The braiding entirely covers the high
| collar and the coat is lined with pink
satin.
Another exquisite velvet coat is loose
| affair. This also is made of black vel
vet, and it has full front of white
| chiffon, upon which black lace designs
are appliqued The coat is lined through
| out with ermine.
| An odd velvet wrap which, since its
| arrival from Paris, has received much
| attention, is q combination cape and
| tght-fiitting jacket. 1t reaches only to
| the waist line, and fits closely to the
| figure in the back and at the front. This
! jacket is made of emerald green velvet,
studded with jet. In place of sleeves
black satin capes fall over the arms.
| The collar is high, becoming affair of
| the green velvet wrought with jets.
| Many of the velvet capes are made
| with colarettes of fur A charming
! little velvet cape seen recently was made
with a revers of turquoise blue satin
| which folded back over the corsage to-
ward the left shoulder. The revers was
| framed in a ruching of black chiffon,
| and the cape was of black velvet.
| The velvet corselet and the broad
| crush belt are other fads of the hour
! The broad belts are especially becoming
| to women with slender waists. Many
! of them are seven inches deep. They are
| not only worn with street gowns, but
| party frocks.
Those most In favor are made of silk
velvet, sold by the yard, but unusually
| pretty ones are made c., ribbon velvet
| From five to eight bands of narrow rib
bon velvet will be used to form one
belt, and at the left side each band
will be finished with a pert little bow
The corselets cling closely to the fig
ure.--New York journal.
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tween the sheaf and the arrows, but this
was again omitted some years later.
The mountain depicted in the seal as
used to this day is said to be Mount
Logan, situated just east of the city Of
Chillicothe, named after the great Min
go chief, Logan, called the white mans
friend whose cabin was upon this noun
tain, and upon whose side he lies buried.
The state capitol at the date of this law
creating the seal was at Chillicothe, and
1t was but natural that the designer
should embody the mountain in his seal.
What the arrows and sheaf signify are
but problematical. The arrows, seven
teen in number, probably represent the
number of states comprising the union
at that time .as Ohio was the seventeenth
state admitted. The sheaf of wheat and
the boat were doubtless intended to rep
resent the CHIEF industries of the new
state, or an indication of it's expected
future commercial and agricultural i'm
portance. = Chillicothe (Ohio) Adver-
tfSer
The herald., 1896-11-29
IT IS A VELVET SEASON.
Picture Gowns and Hats-The Loose
Coats-Moire Velour.
This is essentially a velvet season,

This is essentially velvet season.
Not only are there entire velvet gowns,
but velvet foats, capes and collarettes
are all the vogue. The velvet hat is the
hat of the hour, and even the winter shirt
waist is now made of velvet.
And much of this is due to the fad
among women at present for picture
dressing. The gowns most in favor
are those which are artistic and are
copies, perhaps, of some old-time pic
ture. Large picture hats are in demand,
and the collarettes are valued according
to their picturesqueness. Velvet lends
itself Admirably to picture dressing, and
this constitutes one of the reasons for
its great popularity this year.
Moire Velours is one of the new velvets
of the season. 1t looks much like moire,
only that it is in velvet instead of silk
Then their is the mirror velvet with it's
exquisite changing color, the velvet
glace, which has an exceptionally bril-
liant sheen, and the plain silk velvet and
velveteen. Al of these velvets come in
the newest shades
The colors most in favor are sapphire
blue, deep epeen, black, cherry, pink
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Our Tremendous TWO-Weeks



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THE NOVICE

The loved may die. or he may change;
And if he die thou art bereft;
Or II he alter nought is left
Save life that seemeth strange.
A weary life. a hopeless life,
Full of al I'LL and fear-oppressed;
a weary II q that looks for rest
Alone after .eath's strife.
And loves joy hath no quiet even;
1t evermore is variable;
Its gladnesS is like war in hell
More than repose in heaven.
Yea, it is as poison cup
That holds one quick fire -draught within
For when the life seems to begin
The slow death looketh up
Then bring me to a solitude
Where love may neither come nor go;
Where ever peaceful waters flow,
And roots are found for food,
Where the wild honey bee booms by,
And trees and bushes freely give
Ripe fruits and nuts: there | would live.
And there | fain would die.
There autumn leaves may make my grave,
And little birds sing over it;
And tlAre cool twilight winds may fit
And shauowy branches wave.
Aee christine Rossetti.
The herald., 1896-11-29
Crusaders Seek to Cover S0cie-
tvs Neck and Shoulders
TWO LEADING REFOR MERS
Mrs. Elizabeth Graunis and Charlotte
Smith Ignore Natural Bes1ties
But the First Night of asew York's op-
era Season Shows as,Many Decollete
Gowns on View as Ever

NEW YORK, FNov. 2o.-There have
been three performances of the much
heralded graph opera, and the decollete
gowns of thS society women are as low
as ever. 1t may seem remarkable to
link thes9 two facts together in one SEN
tence, but it must be remembered that
Mrs. Elizabeth T. Grannis, president
of thG Social Purity league, and Miss
ChSTlotte Smith, who descended upon
Gotham for the particular purpose of
obliterating the short skirted and bloom
cred bicycle girl, have pledged them
selves to reform the low-cut gowns and
cover up the glistening white shoulders
and necks of society,
1t may here be observed that Mrs.
Grannis began her crusade against the
decollete gown some three winters ago
and has since delivered any number of
denunciatory broadsides into the ranks
of swelldom, but without the smallest
trace of success.
1t is much the same with Miss Char
!otte Smith. That lady has devised the
most elaborate system for the accumu-
lating of evidence showing that short
skirts and boomers are the forerunners
of tremendous crops of evils.
SOME HORRIBLE EXAMPLES
Their assistants frequent the haunts
The herald., 1896-11-29
sOnE REAR VIEWS OF DEcOLLETE GOWNS
WORN BY FASHIONABLE WOMEN

or wax matches being cut off automatic
ally by the machine. When the sticks
are cut to size they are dipped into the
PHOSPHORUS mass, also by the machine,
and the dried head easily ignites by fric-
ton on any surface.-National Druggist
(En gland).
The herald., 1896-11-29
PAPER MATCHES.

The time -honored scheme of rolling up
a piece of paper and using it for lighter
has been utilized by an inventor in the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-04-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Washington democrats in session at
Tacoma elected national delegates and
Endorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Cleveland, but differed from it
upon the financial question.
In convention at Denver the Colorado
democrats adopted platform opposed
20 bond issues and in favor of free sill
yer and selected delegates to the nation
al convention who indorse the platform.
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, adj
dressed the gathering.
The North Dakota republicans in con-
vention at Fargo declared against free
silver and elected national delegates in
favor of Mckinley.
Richard p. BANDS boom for the pres
idential nomination on free coinage of
silver platform was launched with en-
thusiasm by the Missouri democratic
state convention at Sedalia, and dele
gates in his favor were elected to the ma
tional convention
The republicans made the following
congressional denominations: Maine.
Second district, Nelson Dingley, Jr.;
Fourth. Charles A. Boutelle. Ohio,
Fourteenth district, w. S. Kerr. Ten
nessee, Second district, HI. r. Gibson.
North Carolina, Ninth district, Rich
mond Pearson.
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FOREIGN.

Miss Eva Booth, youngest daughter
of Gen. Booth, has been appointed com.
mandant of the Salvation Army in Can.
ada and Newfoundland.
An immense landslide at Trubh,
Switzerland, devastated many farms,
whole woods were carried off and the
loss was immense.
Gold bonds of the provisional repub-
lie of Cuba to the amount of So, 900, 900
are to be placed on the American mar
ket.
A dispatch from Havana says that
the insurgents have hanged % Span
iards in the Sagua district.
Three prisoners of war, Gregorio
Borges, Esteban Hernandez and Jose
Bacallao, were executed at Havana.
They belonged to an insurgent band.
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THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Proceedings of tho First Session.
A bill was introduced in the senate on
the 14th to prohibit the transmission of the
reports of results or bets on prize hghts
or races from one state to another, and
making such transmission q miSdemeanOr.
Senator Squire CWash.) spoke on the need
of coast defenses and Senator Chandler
spoke in favor of the claim of Dupont, OF
Delaware, to seat In the senate. -. With
out dissenting voice the house passed the
Fertilization bill. making appropriation Of
s11, 3s4,613. The Arizona statehood bill was
reported favorably.
The time in the senate on the 18th was
occupied in discussing the claim Of Mr..
Dupont to the vacant seat from the state
of Delaware. In the house joint resolu-
ton providing for the election OF Gen.
Franklin as q member Of the board of man
ayers of the National soldiers home was
discussed, but no action was taken.
The resolution for an investigation of
recent bond issues was taken up in the
senate on the 10Th and Senator Hill de-
Tended Secretary Carlisle and his admin
istration Of the treasury against insinua-
tons of irregularity. A favorable report
was made on the bill for the reorganization
Of the army, increasing the force to 30,0O0
enlisted men,. LIN the house the fight
against the reelection of Gen. w. B. Frank
lin as member of the board of managers
of the national soldiers home resulted in
the defeat Of those who opposed him.
In the senate on the 18th Senator Hill
resumed his speech In opposition to the
bond resolution and yielded for the intro
duction of a bill on Pacific railroads which
caused lively debate, during which Sem
ator Allen (Neb) charged Senator Gear
Qa.) with lying. Adjourned to the Goth.
In the house the contested election case
from the Sixteenth congressional district
Of Illinois resulted in favor of MI. Rinakcr,
the republican contestant. A bill was in
troduced to increase the internal revenue
tax on cigarettes from so cents per 1000
under the present law to $50 per 200. A bill
to pay war claims caused much discussion
but no results,
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AN AID TO TRADE.
Seasonable Weather Brings Improvement
In Business.


New York, April 1S.-R. q. Dun & Co.
in their weekly review of trade say:
The sudden change from sleighing to
midsummer heat has tested the prevalent
idea that good weather only was needed to
bring general Improvement of business,
everywhere there has been more retail
buying and In some branches better de.
mand at wholesale and at the works hat
resulted, but not as yet In most lines.
mere Is no abatement Of the almost uni
Versal disposition to deal with unusual
conservatism and not to anticipate future
wants. and this has been especially con-
spicuous where combinations have been
formed or prices advanced.
To many interested in iron ore and COKE
steel billets, Bessemer pig and various
forms of steel, it may be disappointing
that the forming of combinations and fix
Ing of prices have not started again the
rush to buy ahead Of needs. which made
last year SO memorable. But it is not easy
to forget the lesson which the past year
taught. Instead of Increasing, purchases
have been on the whole rather slackened,
though little better in plates at the east
and in sheets at Chicago
The boot and shoe makers have put
some quotations shade lower since leather
has fallen below the average a year ago,
and hides at the lowest average since No
Vember, 1884, having declined three per
cent. this week. The northern and north
western demand is backward, though The
south has bought freely. The silk associa-
ton states that 40 per cent. of the machin-
cry and hands in the country are idle part
ly because Of increasing Japanese compe-
tft1on. Several more wooden mills have
shut down and some have reduced wages
ten per cent, while many are working only
half time, but recent advances by apprais-
ers not only disclose heavy undervalua-
tons in the past, but tend to check future
imports. The demand for goods does not
improve. Somewhat more demand for
staple cottons has been aroused by bar
gain prices, but the closing of many mills
for time Is urged as necessary.
Wheat rose about five cents last week.
met some reaction, blu. is shade higher
than a week ago. After remaining I'M
changed for many days, rumors either way
having no effect, cotton rose sixteenth
on Thursday. Heavy commercial and mill
stocks hinder most buyers, and POSSIBLE
ties Of injury to the coming crop retard
sellers at current prices.
Partly because of low prices, which
were again the lowest ever known, the
volume Of business represented by clear
ing-house exchanges, 5.5 per cent. larger
than last year, is 2O.4 per cent. smaller
than in April, 1888. Railroad earnings for
April thus far show gain of only 2.6 per
cent. over last year. The stock market
has grown stronger on stories about things
done abroad, few foreign purchases help
| ing, though trusts weakened on the sign
ing of an antitrust law by Gov. Morton.
March imports were s3,912,455 smaller,
and exports 81, 366, LOT larger than last year,
| and the excess Of exports was So, 144,01o.
Failures for the past week have been
| 223 in the United States, against PAL last
| year and 36 in Canada, against "a last
war;
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LAT Err

An explosion occurred in the Broad
water mine at Neihart, Mont, the 18th,
by which seven men lost their lives and
six others were seriously hurt. The
dead are: Frank Doran, w. ]. Morri-
son, Hugh Mckenzie, Dan O'Leary, d.
Fl. Ross, John Cairns, James T. Gal
lagher. The seriously wounded are:
Jos. Deroen, Jas. Connolly, Geo.
Doran, brother to Frank Doran; Charles
Smith, Mike Tobin and Matte Brown.
Several others are bruised and cut
somewhat.
The latest advices received from
Buluwago Matabeleland, proved be-
yond any doubt that the town is in a
most critical situation. 1t is surround
ed in part by large force of hostile
Matabele, estimated to number from
$4,000 to $1,000; the garrison is not be-
lieved to number 1000 men all told.
The tobacco ware house of Powell &
Hallingsworth, with $40, 900 worth of
tobacco burned at Princeton, KY, the
10th.
Walter P. Brownlow, the 18th, was
uOiAiudtCu 1OI COhS COS Wy IhC ACpuU-
licans of the First district of Tennessee.
The treasury department the 18th
lost $3.50, 700 in gold coin and SIS, 100 in
bars, which leaves the true amount Of
the gold reserve 1928, 512, 465.
Austin Abbott, dean of the New York
university law school, died at his resi-
dence in New York city the 10th.
Henry s. Anderson, an insane Swede
who arrived at Washington from Chi
cago to tell President Cleveland to save
the country, committed suicide the
10Th in his cell by strangulation. He
had been arrested while near the White
house.
Leo Herth, grocery man of Indian
apolis, Ind, was shot and killed the
night of the 10Th by burglars who had
broken into the house. The men also
attempted to kill Mrs. Herth.
Ex-Gov. Boseman, the last of the war
governors of West Virginia, died at
Parkersburg the 10Th.
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Ives Defeats schaefer.

Boston, April 1S.-The cushion carom
billiard tournament was concluded
here Friday night, the final game being
between Frank Ives and Jake Schaefer.
Ives won by score of SEQ to ss4, and
therefore is the cushion carom cham
pion of the world. It took SO innings to
decide the battle. Ives highest run was
80; Schaefer's, &c; averages: Ives, 4 3d.
GO; Schaefer, 4 22-6S.
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The convention of Nebraska repub-
licans in Omaha selected four delegates
to the national convention and adopted
resolutions against the free coinage Of
silver and indorsing the candidacy of
William Mckinley for the presidency.
Connecticut democrats will select ma
tional delegates June 10 at Hartford.
The prohibitionists in convention at
Lansing, Mich, elected national dele
gates and adopted platform that de-
clares for free silver, prohibition, equal
suffrage, liberal pensions, and election
of United States senators by the people.
In convention at Louisville the Ken
lucky republicans elected national dele
gates favorable to Gov. Bradley for pres
ident. The platform denounces the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver and ia
vors protection.
Maine republicans in convention at
Portland elected national delegates in
structed to support Reed for the presi-
dency and adopted platform declar-
ing for protection and the gold stand
ard.
Indiana republicans made the fol-
lowing congressional TcHomlndtlCnS:
George w. Faris, Fifth district; Henry
| U. johnson, Sixth district, and Jesse
Overstrect in the Seventh district.
The republicans of New Jersey in
convention at Trenton adopted reso-
luton declaring for the gold standard
and against the free coinage of silver
| and elected uninstructed delegates to
| the national convention.
The national committee of the Sc
cialist labor party has called nationa!
convention in New York city on July 4
to nominate candidates for president
and vice president.
Nebraska populists will hold their
state convention at Grand Island on
July IS.
Edwin Partridge, a well-known board
of trade operator, died at his home in
Chicago, aged 60 years.
John Stetson, proprietor of the Park
| theater and of the new Hotel Savoy,
| banker, broker and merchant, died at
his home in Boston of pneumonia, aged
| GA years.
| The republicans renominated Seth l.
| Milliken for congress in the Third dis.
! trict of Maine and Charles w. Stone
in the Twenty-seventh district of Penn.
| sylvania.
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DOMESTIC.

A building owned and occupied by
Walton Brothers with stock of gen.
eral merchandise was burned at Fair
bury, ILL.,, the loss being $25o,oo0.
Nearly the entire village of Dorches-
ter, Neb., was swept away by fire.
Spaulding e. Tewksbury, wholesale
dealers at Boston in straw and leather
board, with branches in many of the
principal cities of the union, failed for
$15O,OOO.
The town of Dagsboro, DEL, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
Ives defeated Maurice Daily in the in
ternational billiard tournament in Bos-
ton and made a new record for a run
on cushion caroms, scoring IS points
against II. the previous record.
Every window glass factory in the
United States will close May 20 because
Of glut in the market.
The report on the trial trip of the In
diana shows the warship to have no de-
fects. Average speed with poor coal
was 1876 knots.
Cleveland, O., has made an assignment
with liabilities of $4,000: assets
$4,000.
John Lehman, aged 3s, street rail
way conductor, killed his three children
and took his own life at his home in
Chicago during the absence of his wife.
Financial trouble was the cause.
Frank and ''Tony" Charlesen, OF
Brooklyn, n. Y, launched 2O-foot
sloop, in which they will sail May q
for Southampton.
While returning from hunting trip
John Leininger and Peter Pretzejler
were killed by train near Looneyville,
N. Y.
The Farmers bank at Maitland, Mo-,
was robbed by three masked men oil
$1,000.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Leo Bergholz, of New
York, to be consul at Erzeroum, Ar
menia.
Under the auspices of labor assem-.
blies John G. Carlisle, secretary of the
treasury, spoke in Chicago on the finan-
cial question. He argued in favor of a
gold standard, and said the unlimited
coinage of silver would create great
panic and that complete commercial
revolution would be the result.
The vault of the Pioneer Banking
company at Pioneer, O., was destroyed
by dynamite and $4,000 secured by the
thieves.
Charles Morris, the confessed murder
er of Mr.. and Mrs. Douthetts at Xenia
o., committed suicide when told to get
ready to go to Columbus to be hanged
Frederick Merrick shot and killed his
wife in Williamsburg, N. Y, in fit Of
jealousy and then killed himself. The
couple, who were well-to-do, had been
married six years. and leave child five
years old.