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Middletown transcript., 1896-10-10

Twenty-three sections of the
store are devoted to Dress
Stu1s. Helpful hints follow.
The only disappointed visitors
to Wanamaker's are those
who don't take time to see all.
The Dress Goods Salon
holds high-art novelties /; rich
stylish stufs with an air OF
exclusiveness, and stufs for
evening wear. Some mex
pensive stufs are there, too.
Genuine English Cheviot, 46 in., 7sc
5colorings of German Homespuns, "A
in.,s1.
colorings of French Homespuns, "A
in., 81. 25.
colorings of Scotch Homespuns In
light mixtures, 46 in, $3.50.
6colorings of English Plaid Cheviot,
46 in, $1.75.
s colorings Of Bannockburn effects,
46 In, 50.
15 colorings of Tailor Cheviots, 48 In,
$2.25
4colorings of Sail Cloth Cheviot, IS
in., $1.25.
Five color rings of Panama Cheviot, 4S
in, 50.
4colorings of Rasin Sacking, 4s In,
Sits
5colorings of Tailor Tweeds, 81 in.
S1.75.
Crossing Main Aisle you
come to these groupings
Section r.
Contains moderately rough fancy-col-
orod goods from 75c to $3.50 yard.
Section -
A wide range of materials Covert
Cloths, Whipcords, ,Two-toned rough
Cheviots, Boucle Checks, Silk-and-
wool Sharkskin Coverts, Scotch
mix Fancies and Mixed-colored
Cheviots. 81 to $2.5o.
Section s.
Two-toned and solid color goods
GRANTEES, Hopsacks, Pebble-cloth,
Serges, ,Cheviots, Alma, Pique Cords,
Wool Surah. 75c to e1.7B.
Section f.
Solid color and Boucle-Wide-wale
Diagonals, Storm Serges, Cheviots,
Homespun, Two-toned Hopsacks,
sPlain and Two-toned Boucles, Cra-
venettes, Shower-proof Serges. Plu-
ette. Csc to $i.50.
Skip a dozen sections, to
the
CLoAKINGs.
The gathering is a revela-
tion of loom-beauty. A hint
Of the prices
Light Fancies, Boucle Plaids, Si.M
Two-toned and Plaid-back Cheviots,
t1.76
Crochet Plaid-back and Fancy One
Knickerbocker Bouele Cheviot, sass.
Two-toned caterpillar curl Cheviot,
e2.50.
Multi-color Boucle Cloakins. sa7a
Solid Cokoys-
Luster Wood Chcviots cripple weaveA |
a.
Wide-wale ali-wool Cheviots, $50.
Caterpillar-weave and Boucle effects,
e2.60.
Mohair-curls and Figured Bouele, a.
SIX Faesd
One Of the new coatings Qn black is
silk faced with matelasse- figures.
The first season for them and exclu.
sive for MS In this market. They
have become popular in their lrst
introduction. Two qualities. 20 In.
a and S6.
4styakhags-
Only the English IS safely
.ood-though were sorry to
lave to say it. Most lustrous,
most durable.
Black Astrakhan. ss 80 to % . yard.
Gray and Cream az -.
Brown at $50 and ek II.
Persian Lamb fblack), Is, "a and g.
kerseyB tans. browns, green's, blues.
xsds and black y .toto ea6o : yard.
JoHN WANAxAx1R
Middletown transcript., 1896-10-10
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x be Boys /!
1as ~

We've the sort Of Clothes here that wear resisting
built for bomade nay but made strong and priced
small you'd think meant the knes pants alone and
the whole suit.
Middletown transcript., 1896-10-10

ket value or the silver in them. In
other words, the few who are produ-
GERS of silver are to be guaranteed by
law dollar, whether the stuff they
bring to the mint to make the dollar is
worth ninety or fifty-three or forty
seven cents or any other sum. The ma
chinery and labor Of our mints are to
be given to these producers without
remuneration to the other stockhold-
ers who do not produce silver. We
who do not produce silver are asked to
agree that, in trade and exchange be-
tween ourselves, it shall be forced
upon rs by law, and that we bind our
selves to accept it lby the purposed le-
gal tender act) at its face value stamped
on it In the mint. But it isnot only
proposedto coin free all silver pro-
duced in our country and by our citi-
zens at 16 to l, but to coin free all
Mexican silver, all China silver, all
Japan silver, In short, all the silver
that can be induced by sfree coinagen
to dow to our mints and to use our
national credit to lift 1t from about 81
to / up to 16 to /. Where do we who
are net silver producers come in on
this dealf We are asked to give the
silver mine owners the free ;use Of our
mints with their expensive machinery
and expert labor, to manufacture Q de-
based coin that is really worth In the
worlds markets approximately fifty
cents. We are also asked to bind our
selyes to accept It for one hundred
cents. Is this not counterfeiting BY
law?
70 make the free silver proposition
plain. let one man represent : million
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WESTINGHOUSE YOUTH.

A VIRGINIA CAVALIER-Bv Mollie Elliott
Seawen. Harper d Brothers, New York. Price
81 50. For sale by A. NJ. Robertson, Post street,
City.
Even if George Washington had died in
early manhood without the great halo of fame
about his name the story of his adventurous
and noble youth would have made an exceed
fngly interesting book, and when added to
this attraction we have the curiosity TO know
about the youth of one of the greatest heroes
of history, the volume telling i. should surely
find wide circle OF readers.
The Virginia cavalier is none other than the
father of his country, and the motto on the
first page of the book is mature made Wash
ington great. but he made himself virtuous."
There are a large number of good illustra-
lions and the frontispiece represents
Lord Fairfax delivering sword to the future
conqueror and charging him never to draw it
in an unworthy cause.
Georges stay at Greenwood Court is related,
and the attack on the house by Indians, when
the boy got his first experience in fighting.
The history OF his re ceiying warrant as mid
shipman on board H. NJ. s. Bellona and how
he gave it up In Difference to his mothers
wishes is told. His long tramp through the
wilderness to the Ohio River makes one of the
best fea lures O. the tale, and the closing chap
ter is ABOUT his participation in the campaign
against the French and Indians led by Brad
dock
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MEDICAL.

THE ILLS OF INDIGEsTIoN-rheir Causes
and Their Cures. By Herman Partsch. ND.
Cumbern aud Company. North Berkeley. Cal.
Price So. For sale by William Doxey,
Palace HOTEL
Dr. Herman Partsch of Berkeley has in this
book of $40 pages given us his best thought
on the subject of the reason and the remedy
OF O ne of the most prevalent forms OF human
suffering. He has had Twenty-Five years OF
experimental study of disorders of digestion
and his interest In the study has been made
keen by the fact that he has himself been
great sufferer from this vexatious i'll, which is
not only painful but paralyzing 10 the work
Ing powers of the mind. He learned how to
cure himself and has perfect confidence that
all cases can be cured by proper treatment.
The patient will be pleased to learn that this
proper treatment does not consist in drug
ging, nor in the employment of expensive
doctors, nor even in any painful amount of
heroic self-denial. He is great believer in
varied diet and lays the blame of much of the
stomachs ills to monotonous bills of fare. No
matter how good and how we'll cooked the
food it will not do to be put upon the stomach
with continuous repetition. The lesson OF
healthy living he con enses into this paradox:
THE regular way to live is to live irregu-
larly" He says that generally dyspeptic
will not reform, or wi not remain reformed,
unless he understands as far possible the
reason for the changes urged upon him. The
observant reader will note with curious in
terest the doctors use of the word "reform" in
this statement. 1t seems to imply that he re-
CARDS dyspepsia as a sort of vice like dram
drinking, which a man should post himself
about the evils of and quit it. Indeed the doc
tor considers there is no more doubt about
building up a good digestive power when
rational method is pursued than there is about
the certainty of building a house when O prop
erly instructed man undertakes the job
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A NEW BOOK BY GERTRUDE
HERON.

Gertrude Anterior has earned the distinc-
ton of being almost the only person of letters
who was capable of prom citing discussion in
America during the election troubles, says
the Bookman. Her letters to the Daily
News and the Daily Chronicle in Lon
don have given birth to angry articles
in nearly every prominent paper in America,
and the day is infrequent when her deprecia.
ton of tie American is not made the text OF
some fresh attack. Mrs. Atherton, by the way,
dedicates her next book, Patience sparhawk
and Her Time" to NJ. Paul Bourget thus:
ITO NJ. Paul Bourget, who alone of all for
eigners has detected in its full significance
that the motive power, the cohering force, the
ultimate religion of that strange com posite,
known as The American is individual
will. Leaving the ultra religious element out
of the question, the high, the low, the rich,
the poor, the man, the woman of this sec
ton of the Western world, each, consciously
or unconsciously, believes in, relies on him.
self primarily. In the higher civilization this
amounts to intellectual anarchy, and its ten.
deucy is to make the Americans, or, more
exactly, the United Statesians. a new
race in q sense far more pOrtentous than
in any which has yet been recog-
nized AS NJ Bourgct prophesies destruction,
chaos may eyentuate. On the other hand, the
final result may be race of harder fiber and
larger facilities than any in the history of civ
ilization. That this extraordinary self-de-
pendence or independence of certain tradi-
tons that govern oder nations is as quintes.
sentially part of the women as OF the men OF
this race l have endeavored 10 illustrate in the
following pages"
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ANTIQUE

A BOOK OF OLD ENGLISH BALLADS. The
Macmillan Company, New York. Price 81.
For sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This "quaint and curious" volume has an
accom- paLiment of decorative drawings by
George Wharton Edwards, in Determination
of eve ancient STYLE" ard an introduction by
Hamil ION W. Mabie, the reading OF which will
arouse in terest in these famous old stories in
verse, which have come down to us without
any record of their authors. These old bal
lads, Mr.. Mabie points out, have charm Pc
culiarly their own which it is impossible to
initiate. He says that modern poets have, in
several instances, written ballads of striking
pic tnresquen aud power. but as unlike the
old ballad as the world of to-day is unlike
that OF the time when "Chevy Chase" was
written. He gives elaborate and clever
explanation CT the difference between the old
productions ana modern work, without any
comparison of them in the sense of better and
worse. He says: at is idle to exalt the wild
flower at the expense of the garden flower;
each has its fragrance, its beauty, its senti-
ment; and the world is wide"
The immortal ballad of chevy Chase" is OF
course there, and several about Robin Hood.
There is good version OF "King Cophetua
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QUAKERs AND INDIANS.

THE WAN FUN BELT: or, THE FAIREsT PAGE
OF Il IsToRY-By Hezekiah Butterworth. d.
Appleton d Co., New York. Price 81 50. For
sale by William Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This pretty tale OF colonial life is founded
upon the historic fact that good Quakers exer-
cised such strongly beneficent influence that
Indians within the reach of it became good.
The success of PENIS Indian policy gives am
pie evidence that even in the case of the savage
req man, with all his natural instincts of cruel
revenge, the poets assertion holds good that if
men will be noble the nobleness that lies in
other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise
to meet their own. A prominent place in the
story is given to the treaty of Shackam axon,
which has been called 'the fairest page in
Amer can history" "the only tleaty never
sworn to and never broken" The Indians
held this treaty inviolate until trespasses
were heaped upon them by the white men and
finally forced retaliation. For more than
thirty years after PENIS death his influence
still held sway over Indian councils; mpeiling
them to try to maintain peace by patiently
bearing provocatiou. If all white men had
been as noble as Penn, the saying need never
have become current that "the only good In
dian is dead indian"
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VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF WAR.

THE LITTLE REGIMEN T-By Stephen Crane.
d. Appleton & Co., New York. Price 81. For
sale by VII lam Doxey, Palace Hotel, City.
This book deals with episodes of the Ameri-
can Civil War, ana as might well be expected
from the author of it the accounts given OF the
terrible scenes of warfare are intensely vivid.
More real by far than any paintings could do
this mans words make the camping, march
ing. fighting and dying appear before the i'm
agination. The author N ade himself famous
by writing "Tne Red Badge of Courage" which
has received high praise for its wonderful de-
scriptions. His books have a ring to them like
a battle-cry. In the shifting panorama he
puts before our fancy see the soldiers around
the bivouac fire, alternately joking good
naturedIy, and swearing and grumbling at
their orders and their officers.
We hear wild and frenzed cheers and the
zip of deadly missiles. We see long lines of
blue or gray through mist or smoke, and then
amid sheets of flame 'smen STUN bling over the
ghastly relics OF other assaults" The whole
atmosphere OF his tale is lurid. 'List his dis
course OF war, and you shall hear a fearful
battle rendered you in music" A few quota
lions culled ct random will give an idea of his
power, but are, OF course, weakened by de-
tachment:
can instant's picture of horse in great
convulsive leap of death wound, and rider
leaning back with a crooked arm and spread
fingers before his face. On the ground was
the crimson of an exploding she'll"
1.-THE sober-hued village had been like the
cloak which DISCUSSES the king OF drama. 1t
was now put aside, and an army, splendid
thing of steel and blue, stood forth in the sun
10Th
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ADVENTURES AT SEA.

MASTER ARDICK, BUCCANEER-By F. n.
Costello. D. Appleton Il Co, New YORK Price
80 cents. For sale by William Doxey, Palace
Hotel, City.
The mere name of buccaneer is enough to
attract those readers who love stories of wild
adventure. Bold and buecaneer are two words
which alliterate and affiliate SO we'll that they
keep strong bond of association in our men,
cries. This book is good story of its class.
1t mainly deals with the narration of thrilling
incidents, and makes no pretensions 10 any,
thing else. There are exciting chascs across
the sea, mutinies and terrific fights, captures
and escapes. But Master Ardick is no wicked
pirate, as the title applied to his name might
Imply. He finds himself part of the crew of a
buccaneer vessel after a series of perilous
events which came into his life more as by the
decree of fate than any exercise of his free
will. The style is quaint, and an imitation OF
old.fas hioned narration.
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MOTHER AND SON.

FRANCES WALDEAUX-By RebeCca Harding
Davis. Harper d Brothers, New York. Price
81 %. For sale by A. NJ Robertson, Post street.
City.
This is the story of an aristocratic widow
with an idolized son, who breaks her heart by
letting his heart be ensnared by the wiles OF
an adventures with undesira BILE manners and
a shady past. Then there is the old story OF
marry in haste and repent at leisure. The
mother points to the girl and dramatically
demands of her son that he choose between
wife and mother. The boy quotes, "Those
whom God hath joined together" The mother
replies, '.You have known her for three weeks.
l gave you life. have been your slave every
hour since you were born. I have lived but
for you. Which Of us has God joined to-
gether ?" "Mother," replies her darling SON,
you're damnably unreasonable p
The mother broods over the rash marriage
of her son until her mind becomes unbalanced
and she attempts to murder the boys wife by
poison. The tale ends happily, for the unde-
sirable wife dies and the headstrong boy be-
comes q prosaic and wealthy stockbroker.
The fun of the book is in the incident of the
ridicul ously barefaced mercenariness of the
courtship of titled foreigner, who makes a
IN ere episode in the story, but it is an enter
tanning eDisOde
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DRAMATlZING A NOVEL.

The impression is rather prevalent just now
that any novelist can amass wealth By drama
tizing one of his own stories. Paul NJ. Potter,
who dramatized "Trilby," discussed the sub
ject the other day, speaking as one with au-
thority:
"This idea that any novel can be drama
tized, even by an accomplished playwright, is
sheer nonsense" said Mr.. Potter. mot one
novel in hundred thousand is suitable for
the stage, and regard the accident of 'Trilby'
and the Prisoner of Zenda coming together
in the same year one that is not likely to hap
pen again in our generation. Ask yourself
how many famous plays ever came from
novels and you will realize the truth of what
I say
The dramatization of Stories Mr.. Potter
added, is entirely French art. The French
know how to pick out one central incident in
a story and make all the other incidents sub
sidiary to that. "Until a man learns this
trick" said Mr.. Potter, che cannot dramatic
a novel"
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A Human Soul.

wise man walked by the river,
And the water spirits sigh
As she yearned for a soul, it moved him.
And he answered thus her cry:
" Can you smile when your heart Is achingf
Remember when others forget?
Laugh lightly, while hope is taking
Its final farewell of you; yet
Meet the world, and strive on to the ending
OF life, be it ever SO dread
Firm in faith, without ialter, unbending
With never sigh or a tear?"
"All this l can do," said she.
" Can you face your life if left lonely,
While another has gained his rest,
And you have the memory only
OF one who was truest and best?
Forever to you the worlds brightness
Then passes away for aye;
Can pierce through that darkest day"
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A NOVEL BY CONAN DOYLE.

RODNEY sTONE-By A. Conan Doyle. D. APP
pleton & Co. For sale by Doxey. Palace Hotel.
Price 81 so.
The story of Rodney Stone Is far below the
level of those which made its author famous
and secured for him wide circle of readers
on both sides OF the ocean. 1t bears all the
marks of book written solely Tor the pur-
pose OF supplying the demand for more stories
by Conan Doyle. The plot is extravagant and
the details of the mystery involved in 1t are
too improbable to be interesting.
Fortunately for Mr.. Doyle's reputation the
work has some merits outside of the absurd
plot and the unskillful manner in which it is
developed. These merits are the style in
which the story is written and the descrip-
lions given of certain phases of life in Eng
land during the closing years OF the last GEN.
fury. The class OF people to whom most at
tention is paid in the story is that of prize
fighters, ana the author holds that they were
By no means the worst Englishmen of their
day. He writes with enthusiasm of Jackson,
Mendoza, Belcher aud other champion of the
time, and the best scene in the book is that OF
prize-fght. Pugilism offers new field for
novel writer's and now that it has been en-
tered by Mr.. Doyle others will be inclined to
follow and we may look for deluge of ro-
mances of the ring.
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about old Southern families living on Mississ-
ippi plantation after the war. There is a
well. drawn character of proud, conscien-
tious, financially ruined man. who Is unable
to adapt himself to the new conditions. The
author is a Southerner by adoption, and is thus
able to give a clear insight into the condition
of the country just after the war, when SO
many families were broken up. Here are
some thoughts from the book: "As started
back found myself questioning II we at the
North who fought and suffered but conquered
and came back to unframed homes, could
quite take in yet what that fight had been to
these vanquished broth of ours. Was there
one unscarred home, one unscourged heart, to
be found throughout the length and breadth
OF this land? As one man they sacrificed, and
as one man they suffered"
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MILITARY .RECOLLECTIONS OF GENERAL
NELSON A. NILES The Werner Company:
Chicago and New York.
The general of the United States army has
given us in this large, handsome and splen-
didly illustrated volume narration OF the
most thrilling and interesting events OF his
military career. He has been very generous
in his mention of his companions in arms, ana
has given such vivid account OF the hard
ships and perils which they endured In the
arduous campaigns as will tend to make their
accomplishments be held in grateful remem-
brance by their ellow-countrymen. The book
embraces a brief review OF the Civil War, but
is mainly devoted to General Miles indian
campaigns They are the comments of close
observer with special opportunities for obtain
ing comprehensive view on the exploration,
development and progress of our great west
ern empire. The pictures are by FREDERICK
Remington and other eminent artists.
The first chapter in the book contains obser.
yations on colonial life and character, and tells
the effect that the history of New England had
on the youthful mind of the author. IL was
this which caused him to decide to devote his
life to military career.
General Miles spent six years in campaign
ing against the Indians and his relation OF
this fighting and accounts of the Indian life
and character will be the chief in interesting fea-
ture of the book to most readers We can
prot bly, get here truer and more vivid ac-
count of Red Cloud and Sitting Bull and
other famous Indian chiefs than can be found
elsewhere. Even If we already know much
about them it is entertaining to have a great
soldiers opinion of them. Some of the trans
lations OF the speeches made by these brave
leaders show wonderful eloquence and ele-
walton of mind and they seem masters OF the
art OF condensation in expression. It'll note
worthy that this upright and capable soldier.
after all his ample opportunities for judging,
gives it as his opinion that the prevalent no.
ton of the Indian being incapable OF the bet
ter i'm pulses of humanity and unworthy OF
admission to the brotherhood OF man Is q
great error. He has much that is good to say
of the red man, and shows their great ability
as diplomatists, statesmen and warriors.
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left it sends the owner forth upon pilgrim
age. Then follows an Indictment of spring. in
which the bachelor asserts that the lie by
which II was leading him was springs Oldest,
common est lie-the lying promise of the per-
feet woman. the quite impossible she. He
says it is sadly true that we always find the
golden girl in our first love and lose her in our
second; but further on in the book he some
what contradicts this by saying paradoxically
that W lille it is true the sweetest kiss is the
first kiss of the first woman we love, it is
equally tr ue that the first kiss of the last
woman we love is the sweetest. In the ending
of the book the seeker of the golden girl re-
marks in happy mood: ''As one little sprig of
lavender will perfume queens wardrobe, so
viii short year OF love keep sweet long
life