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pretty dressing sack is not difficult to make,
and with bit of lace for the trimming, with,
perhaps three or four ribbon bows will make
it rs dainty and frivolous as one could desire,
or left plain with perhaps a row Of white braid
around the collars and cuffs and pocket, it
is rs severely unadorned as any Puritan could
fancy. Dressing jackets are really very CON-
Portable and saving devices, and it is hardly
necessary to enumerate to women folk the
times when they are useful. This one is made
with fitted back and fronts gathered at the COL
lar, aud falling loose from there The sleeves
and cuffs are ruffled with lace, and there must
be pocket, which may have ribbon bow. 1t
may be made in flannel, cashmere, silk lined
with flannel. or for Summer, of lawn.
Three months elapsed between Mary Ande--
sons first appearance on the stage and her
second performance" a heart-brealing inter-
val" Manager Macauley, of Louisville, KY,
then offered her his theater again for a week,
and she presented the>chief roles in five plays:
"Fazio," 1.-THE Hunchback." Evadne," The
Lady of Lyons" and Romeo and Juliet"
OF her first weeks engagement she writes: "At
the end of the week / was in debt to tho mana
ger for the sum of 81. the houses having been
large enough only to cover the running ex-
penses. All / had gained by week of hard
work was a sad heart and very sore throat
Besides, creditors became unpleasantly impor-
tunate, for my scanty wardrobe was not yet
paid for. This consisted of white satin dress,
simply made, which did service for all the parts
1t sparkled in silver trimming for Juliet
was covered with pink roses for Julia; be-
came gay in green and gold for Evadne.' and
cloudy with white lace for Pauline The
unfortunate gown owed its many changes to
the nimble and willing fingers of my mother,
who spent much time each day in its meta
mOrphoses. A train of velveteen, d white
muslin dress, and modern black silk gown
(which. like Mrs. Toodles.' we thought would
be so useful but which had TO be discarded
after its first appearance) completed my ward-
robe-surely meager one for five plays of i've
acts, each requiring at least IL gowns. We
had built up financial we'll as artistic hopes
for that week, and were disappointed in both.
But it proved more successful than was at first
thought, for shortly after Ben De Bar Zone of the
greatest Falstafis of his time) engaged me for
six nights at his st. Louis theater At the end
of that time / found myself in his debt 5000;
but the houses had steadily improved, and the
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FORT SUMTER TO BE REBUILT.

Upon the recommendation OF Gen. Miles Fort
Sumter is TO be restored TO good condition and
armed with l0-ineh rifles for the protection Of
the harbor Of Charleston. Likewise. three bat
tcriUs 10 be built on Suliivan's Island for
guns and moriars. There is something like
$4,000 available for the defense OF Charleston
and this will do the work. outside OF furnishing
the armament Since the war the old fort has
been almost abandoned by the Government
The only representative it had there was an
old Ordnance Sergeant, whose main duties
seemed 10 be to watch the Government prop
erty rot. Ono Of the batteries on Sullivan's
Island Will he located near old Fort Moultrie
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y Flag Presentation.

Henry III. Adams. Commander. on behalf of
Lafayette Post, New York City, last week pre-
sented large silk flag to the Sc. Paul Cadets of
that city at their Parish House, No. 20 Vesey
street. The cadets were under the supervision
OF Col Morrison. Rev. DIR. William Montague
Gcer spoke few words in behalf OF the cadets
in response to Commander Adams's speech.
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one newsboy,

One OF the stylish black satin coats is shown
in the cut. The lares are made quite large AMI
with sharp l.stiTensd points that make them
menace to any eyes that happen to be on their
level. The lapels may be faced with black
satin; or white satin jettcd; or with blaek-and-
white striped or brocaded silk or satin. with
white satin with ablack edge; or Of lace, black
or white. over black or white. The coat has
two fancy buttons at the waist line i'll the back.
1t is very carefully and snugly fitted in the
back, though the fronts are so fluffy. wide,
Deep full, abot Of white lace fills in the front,
and an inconspicuous, plain black skirt goes
with the costume.
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Gnns for Canada.

The Manchester tEnglsnd) Courier stated last
week that orders have been given at the Wool
witch aud Davenport Arsenals for large
quantity Of ammunition. together with great
number of magazine rifles. Martini Henry rifles
and other guns, for shipment TO Canada in
January. The Courier also stated that the de-
fcnses of Canada are to be gradually strength
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
GEN. w. T. SHERMAN'S
PERSONAL MEMOIRS
TO BE PUBLISHED IN
THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

We take great pleasure in informing
our readers that we have secured from
the publishers of Gen. w. T. Sherman's
Personal Memoirs ID. Appleton &
Co., New York-the exclusive right to
republish them in The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. This is the
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THE SUGAR PLUM TREE.

THE SUGAR PLUM TREE
Have you ever heard of the Sugar Plum Tree9
IT'S marvel of great renown!
1t blooms the shore of the Lollipop Sea
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town;
The fruit that IL bears is wondrously sweet
(As those who have tasted il say)
That good little children have only to eat
OF that fruit 10 be happy next day.
When you've got to the tree, you would have n
hard time
To capture the fruit which sing;
The tree is so tall that no person could climb
To the boughs where the sugar pums swingl
But up in that tree sits q chocolate cat,
And gingerbread dog prowis below
And this is the way you contrive to get at
Those sugar plums tempting you
You say but the word TO that gingerbread dog.
And lie banks with such terrible zest
That the chocolate cat is at once all agog,
As her swelling proportions attest.
And the chocolate cat goes cavoriipg around
From this leafy limb unto that
And the sugar plums tumble. of course, to the
ground
Hurrah for that chocolate catf
There are marshmallows. gumdrops. and pepper
mint canes,
With sirpngs of scarlet or gold,
And you carry away of the treasure that rains
As much your apron can hold.
So come. little child. cuddle closer TO me
In your dainty white nightcap and gown,
And I'll rock you away to that Sugar Plum Tree,
In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.
Eugene Field
IS
1t is figured that more than 22,000,000 pies,
big and little. eaten in New York every
year. The big pies are cut in six portions but
the little ones are not more than enough for
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When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Hiss, she chung to Castoria.
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Are You
COnStipated?

No being can be healthy IL not ready to
answer natures call. ft is a sign OF a
sluggish, weakened. impoverished sys-,
tenn. The best remedy is
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l24th REGIMENT, Ohio VOL. INFANTRY.
NOTICE

Any comrade. member of above regiment, who viii
send his pOstOfice address and name his company to
Mai a. W. Lewis. Medina. Ohio. will receive
(free CHARGE copy of the published Campaigns
Of said regiment II not already provided with one
near relative ola decreased member said regiment
will receive copy of the said book sending tina
above named postage stamps 10 the amount of IL cents
Alex a. Caskey. Secretary Tournaments Or.
ganizafiOn. Cleveland. Ohio
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There is continual proof of the fact that
woman lives longer than man. In France re-
cent statistics show that of 2i3 centenarians
only GO were men. The problem is, how much
secure lives than men, that is. they do not go
to war, nor work on railways, nor about ma
chinery, nor high buildings as men do; that
they live more normal lives,-are not given to
excuses with which men weaken themselves;
and how much due to the fact that always in
Nature the mother animal life is moro care
fully guarded than the male life.
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FIRST OF the GREAT WAR BOOKS

to appear in serial form, and THE Ma
T1oNAh TRIBUNE is the only paper in
the country that has this privilege. This
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Representative Hcatwole, of Minnesota has
among his constituents man named Jay A.
Spencer. who claims TO be the sole survivor OF
the Custer massacre. The man applied for
pension, and it then discovered that his
name was not on the rolls. A friend OF Spen-
Ger writes Mr. Heatwoe from Mortified,
MINI. ;hst Spencer is willing TO make aiii.
davit that be enlisted in December, 1879 in
Co. A, llth Inf, at Fort Smelling and was I'M
mcdiately sent 20 Fort Buford, where he served
under Capt. Van Horn. lie says he was at
the Custer massacre, and was found in hiding
Oh the battlefield, -four or five weeks after the
engagement by al Indian scout, who took him
TO Fort keogh and received a reward of $500
Sper Ger. not satisfied with his exciting Little
Big Horn experience, enlisted again IN 1851.
after his five years term of service. and this
time was on the border during the Riel rebel
lion, where he received a wound of which lac
still carries the scar.
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Since Georgia captured Two places on the
Ways ard Means Committee the people down
there think that Republican Congress is not
altogether an evil.
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Men have to worry some, too, over what
clothes they shall wear; that is, men in fashion,
able society do. and there is an amusing discus
sion going on in the New York papers over the
proper time for man to wear his Tuxedo coat.
You see, the men sometimes have two waists
made to with one pair of dress-suit trous-
ers. One is the regulation, long-tailed. low cut.
dress-sut coat, that he dons when he goes to
formal affairs in the evening; the other is
coat, likewise lowcut, but having no tails-a
short. coat. This he is supposed to have for
informal affairs, but just where the Tuxedo
must be left off and the long-tailed coat as
sumed is not definitely decided. so the men
make breaks" every once in while, and the
Tuxedo, which is really a jolly. comfortable
little coat, brings them into trouble, which it
is fun for the women to behold.
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ii is said that the State Department has
caused Gen Miles to he quietly admonished
tor talking too freely as TO the ease with which
We sNn thrash England in case OF war.
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long time" ga woman has no power to
efface radically by the sole effort of the will an
image that has long filled the mind; she must
replace it by another. She does not destroy |;
she supcrposes. When the second image is
finer larger than the first, that the first is
seen no more, all goes well; this is forgetful-
ness. When it is smaller, so that the edges of
the other can be seen, things go badly; that is
remorse."
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coQUETTIsH IRISH WEATHER.


must allow that it sometimes rains In Ire
land, but Irish rain is not quite like other
rain. 1t is, as rule, softer than rain else
where; and, if the truth must be told, like
rain, so long as one has not to say, " For the
rain it raineth every day" Irish weather is
not so much capricious as coquettish. 1t likes
to plague you, if but to prepare you to enjoy
the more its sunny, melting mood. It will
weep and wall all night; and 10! the next
morning, Ireland is one sweet smile, and seems
to say, {" Is it raining I was yesterday? All.
then I'll rain no more" And the runnels
leap and laugh, and the pastures and the very
stone walls glisten; the larks carol on their
celestial journey; there is pungent, healthy
smell of dry peat; the mountains are all
dimpled with the JOY of life and sunshine; the
lake lies perfectly still, content to reflect the
overhanging face of BLackro0Fs
Magazine.
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Committee on Invalid Pensions held a

The Committee on Invalid Pensions held
meeting last week. Chairman Picker and his
associates looked over the field and discovered
that already the number of bills referred to that
committee amounts to two-thirds of the total
number introduced during the entire third ses.
sion of the last Congress- and at rough estimate
il is expected that there will be fully 1000 bills
for the examination and action of the committee
during the present Congress. In an informal
discussion of the policy Of the committee yes.
ter9ay there was strong and almost unani-
nous expression antagonistic to the granting
of large pensions to the widows Of Generals.
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It is claimed for the new woman's Bible that
while God is referred to as both male and
female, the devil remains male throughout.
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press was filed with long articles enthusiastic
about the present and full of predictions about
the future."-Ladies' Home Journal.
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cptr OLE TIE CoRpInone-

when the vicjssitudes o! politics shall bring
about bis retirement there is no man that will
be more willingly spared from Washington
than Senator Vest. OF Missouri be is abso-
.htely empty, yet an inccssant talker aud con-
tinually thrustng his vapidity on public at
tention. Take him home Missouri; do.
The appointment of Representative Perkins,
OF Iowa, rs Chairman OF the Printing Commit
tee is generally approved. lie is a practical
printer. and the owner Of the Sioux City
Journal
Did Speaker Reed give way 20 his propensity
for sarcasm when be appointed Boss Stevedore
Miles Crowley. of Texas, on the Civil Service
Committed? Crowley has about ms little use
for Civil Service he has for kid gloves aud
white spats as articles Of personal attire.
II
Again that miserable tumble Of antique abb
surdities the laws or The District Of Columbia.
The ministers Of Washington are trying TO get
Congress to pass law regulating their duties
aud responsibilities in solemnizing marriages
One OF the laws they want repealed is an old
Colonial statute filming them 100 pounds OF TO-
baccO for celebrating certain marriages.
Il
Senator Daniel, OF Virginia, is a lingo from
wayhaciS. lie is enth -iastic in his support Of
The Presidents Venezuelan Message and SAYS
that it is one OF the greatest State papers ever
produced. The Democratic party and the
whole South VIII support IL IS one man.
Ii is said that the State Department has
caused Gen. Miles to be quietly admonished
tor talking too freely AS TO the ease with which
We an thrash England in case OF war.
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Judge Alvey, who has been offered place on
the Venezuelan Commission, is a lawyer OF
recognized ability, who served with great dis
function upon the Maryland bench before he
was appointed Chief Justice here about two
years ago. lie is not, however. prominent in
a National sense, but he is a man for whom tho
President has very high regard. Even when
be was on the Maryland bench, his decisions at
tracied tie attention Of the President and
since his appointment the friendship has been
strengthened IN many ways. The President
wanted 10 appoint him Chief Justice OF the
United States. but it was felt that Judge Alvey's
active service in the Confederate army. during
which he was taken prisoner aud confined in
Fort Warren. rendered his appointment to a
position where he would pass upon war legisla-
tion the final interpreter a political inex-
pediency.
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man from West Virginia said last week
that it is generally believed in Postmaster
General Wilson's district that he is going to
run for Congress again next year. Friends
who are pretty close to the Postmaster General
assert that he will uudoubc lily try for his old
scat in the House in 1896. The feeling is pretty
general, too. that if he goes before the people
again they will elect him. He has always been
a favorite in his district.
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DR.. Samuel Johnson, the great dictionary
maker, said of women: Mature has given
women so much that the law has very wisely
given them little"
ELSIE PoMERoY McELHoY.
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EDITOR BETTER HALF: As my father Is
subscriber to your valuable paper, and / often
read it, take the liberty to offer piece of ad-
vice for the Better Halt" As Winter is here,
and the hanging out of clothes after washing
is by far the coolest work we have to do, / sug-
gest the thorough warming Of the clothes-pins
all whom it may concern. Respectfully
JESSIE NJ. KRIEGER.
We are much obliged for this little note and
have no doubt that it will save many cold fing-
ers on the nippy days, and we have never seen
any suggestion of the sort before. Any devices
for making easier the homework, dressmaking,
or any part of wOman's work, will be gladly
printed. We can form kind of Woman's
Work Guild or Union like the mems Trades
Unions. union of protest against the wash
tubs, brooms and stoves, that insist on very long
hours of work with reward entirely out of pro-
portion to the labor. That is, if we spend the
best part OF one days strength in doing a wash
ing and then can't have clean tablecloths and
aprons why. something is probably wrong with
our relations with the tub, and we'd best see TO
it; and if we spendaong hours in cooking and
never have anything good to eat, we ought to
find out what the trouble is. So help each
other and any woman who has little labor.
saving or comfortable devices, let her make
them known to all of US.
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DIR. Peters
Blood
ViValiZer

the old Swiss-Gernnan remedy. which
was discovered by an old German ply
stefan and has been In constant use for
over hundred years, though not extern
sively advertised. it has no gFipe-
ing effect, but regulates the bowels.
strengthens the digestive organs Wills
&c Duriies the blood. thus tOning the en-
tire system. 1t seldom fails to cure ain
diseases caused by impoverished or i'm
pure blood or from disordered stomach.
No drugstore medicine; is sold
only by regular VitaliZer agents.
Persons living where there are nc
agents for DIR. Peters Blood Vltalizer
can, by sending 500, obtain twelve
35-cent trial bottles direct from the
proprietor. This offer can only be Oh
tanned once by the same person.
Write to DR.. PETER FAHRNEF,
n and II4 So. Hoyns Ave-, CHICAGO.
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At the instance of Senator German, the
Senate Committees have been enlarged, so as to
give the Democrats bigger represen tation, and
the Republicans majority of but one.
Il
The Senate Committee "to inquire into the
claims of American citizens against the Gov
eminent of Nicaragua" has been changed to
the Committee on the Construction of the
Nicaraguan Canal" its membership enlarged
from five to seven, and Democrst-Senator
Morgan, of Alabama-very appropriately made
Chairman. Senator Morgan has always been
one of the foremost advocates OF the canal, and
done more than any other Senator in its favor.
Speaker Reed paid a deserved compliment TO
Col. L. w. Blue, of Kansas, in making him one
of the Committee on Appropriations. This is
the first time in the history of Congress that
new member has been SO honored.
Senator Plat and some of the other Senators
who have investigated the state of affairs in the
Indian Territory propose TO bring the question
before the Senate as soon as possible after
the committees are organized and able to re-
of the opinion that Congress should take the
matter in its own hands, and legislate for the
benefit Of the people in general in the Indian
Territory, regardless of the opposition Of the
few men who control that Territory, and call
themselves Indians, but who are to all intents
and purposes white men. The people there
who are not Indians have prepared case to
put before the Senate and the House Committees
when the subject comes up. Mr.. C. b. Douglass,
a prominent citizen of Ardmore, the leading
town Of the Territory, is now in this city, and
speaking on this subject, he said: We've heard
about justice 10 the coored men, the Indian
the Chinaman, and all other races of men. and
now it is high time to practice little justice
toward the white man who has gone into he
Indian Territory and changed it from wilder
ness to highly-cviiized community. Out of
$50, 600 people in the Clickasaw Nation there
are less than 5000 citizens" and in the term
is included ali people vino have the slightest
strain OF Indian blood in their veins The
whites or non citizens rs progressive and
intelligent people as can be found i'm tie older
States, hut they are fearfully handicapped"
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At the instance of Senator German, the
Senate Committees have been enlarged, so as to
give the Democrats bigger representation and
the Republicans majority of bus one.
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LYRICS OF LOVE AND NATURE. BY Mary
Berri Chapman. Published by Frederick b
Stokes Co.. New York. For sale by Ballantyne,
Washington. ID. C.