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that time was among our auditors.


that time. was among our auditors.
did not know this at the time, and hat
never heard of Grant, but when | me
him afterWard when he was command
er of the Army of the Potomac he tolC
me that he had heard us sing years be.
| fore.
AT ST. Louis. where we went to hold
a meeting, our lives were threatened
and the mayor refused to lease the hal
| to us. So many threats were made
that we went to the mayor and de-
manded the protection due American
| citizens. He replied that we must leave
! the city, as we had no business there
! We tried to induce him to allow us to
| hold a meeting on the steps Of the city
| hall, saying that we would take the
| chances, but he would not grant us per-
mission, and we had to leave the city.
We went to Chicago, where we were
given great welcome, and sang to an
immense audience.
SINGING TO THE SOLDIERS IN
CAMP.
my brother Jesse died in 1858. and
another brother, Judson, died in 1885,
on singing AS the war drew near the
excitement became intense, and every
where our halls were crowded with pep
pie Many times we were Kissed and
abused and threatened. Then came the
war with all its horrors. We sang,
remember, at a vast meeting held in
New York for the purpose of raising
troops General Scott presided at this
meeting, and when we arose and sang
The Star Spangled Banner the big
crowd was stirred to its very center,
and we got the greatest ovation there
that | ever remember Of receiving any
where. After the battle of Bull Run we
went to Washington, visited the hospit-
ais, and sang to the wounded and held
ever so many benefit concerts for the
widows and orphans of this cruel war
all over the country. We got permits
sion from the secretary of war to cross
the Potomac and sing to the soldiers in
their camps Duh anti-savery songs
caused US to be almost mobbed when
We sang before two New York regi-
ments, and we were forced by the COM
mandng officer to cross the Potomac.
The cabinet and Mr.. Lincoln heard us
sing the songs and then decided that
We could go about anywhere in the
army that we liked to sing them to the
soldiers, and we did, After time we
were not Missed when we sang them be-
fore the Union troops. and later came
the emancipation of the slaves for
which we had been 30 long working.
After the war we toured the country
in the interests of temperance and one
by one my brothers and sisters died and |
left me the last of the family | now
journey about from place TO place sing /
Ing the old songs and am always warm
~ greeted, but find my old friends few
er in number, the places which once
knew me well changed and forgetful of |
me.
But | have seen some great scenes.
lived in stirring times, done what |
,ould for the cause of suffering human
ty, and shall continue to do SO until the
Great Leveler finds me"-Portland
.Me) Press.
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queath.'
What" said the woman on the edge
Of the grave, raising her head from the
pillow, DO you mean to say this farm
I've worked in for the last ten years
and made the best one in all the coun-
try, amt my own to do just what
like With
Only yours to live on, said the law
yer.
Then amt going to die
And she didn't She lived nearly
twenty years longer and made enough
money to buy two more farms, which
she took much satisfaction in declaring
were her own to will as she would.
when I say that death is-painless /
have some cases in mind which a lay
man might think proved just the con-
trary. For instance, at the hospital one
| dayI saw man suffering from acute
| Bright's disease and told the nurse to
give him hot bath-that is. to wrap
| him in blanket she had first put into
boiling water and then wrung out. /
stripped the man and laid him out,
ready for the blanket. The nurse was
in hurry and did not wait for the wa
ter to get hot before she soaked the
blanket. and when she brought it, as I
found out few moments later. 1t was
cold The instant it touched the patient
he stiffened and his body heightened,
should say three inches, while his eyes
literally burst from their sockets. A
stroke with stick would have knocked
them off. If ever a face showed agony
his did. 1t was horrible and, hardened
as physicians become. I was faint. 1t
all happened so suddenly and unexpec-
teddy. In a short time the man was
dead, but he had not suffered, at least
not consciously, and without conscious
ness one does not know pain. The mo-
ment of the chill Of that cold blanket
was the last moment of the patients
conscious life. If death is ever painful,
it is rarely-I am convinced of that
'Mr. Myers the London essayist, tells
of a clergyman whom he knew who
died and came back to life again This
death was as real to the clergyman as
anything in his life had been. He was
climbing the Alps with party of
friends and guides. and feeling tired he
laid down for a little rest. He fell
asleep and soon was freezing. AS he
froze he felt himself leaving his body,
pulling out from the feet first, and
gradually drawing up into the head.
Then he stepped out entirely. all but
thin thread. He could look down on
his body and see distinctly the thread
like connection. He could also see what
would have been impossible had he
stayed in the body, that Is his friends
and the guides going on up the noun
tain. They were hidden from view
from the place where his body lay. He
liked being out. and he watched his
friends with interest. He chuckled to
seehis own guide stealing some of the
lunch. After a little he saw the party
turn round looking for MIN. Then some
Of them came back and found his body
stiff. They We're alarmed, and began
rubbing him and giving to him stmu-
ants. He did not like 1t, for he did not
wish to go back into his body. But
there was no help for it. His friends
were so persistent in their efforts that
he had to return. When he found him
self back he awoke and told what he
rad seen. They were astonished, for he
had seen everything just as it hap
3ened. He believed he had been dead
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Kelly Handle Bars,
Rims, Hubs, Sprockets, Cranks,
Chains, Pedals, etc.

about quarter as much as its body.
Together with the apteryx, there once
lived in New Zealand q bird that
reached the height Of nearly twelve
feet, the dinornis. Popular
Science Monthly
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1.-THE Baby Is Cutting Teeth

Be sure and use that old and wel-tried rem
edy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for
cbildrens teethlng. 1t soothes the child.
softens the gums, allays all pain. cures
rhoea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
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for over an hour, and says what he
saw proves this to himself. New
York Press
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Best Spring Post Made.
Agents for the
Morrow Coaster Brake,
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Coaster Brakes.
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incapacity, excepting in some State,
married women. A female over twelve
years OF age in New Mexico and over
sixteen in New York may bequeath
her personal property. But eighteer
is the age fixed for devising real estat,
in California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Dakota, District of Columbia, Illinois,
Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Ne
vada, Utah and Washington, while in
the other States the testatrix must bt
twenty.one years OF age.
Married women may devise theii
separate estates in Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Da
kota, District of Columbia, Idaho,
Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Nevada,
North Carolina. Tennessee, Utah, Yer.
mont, Virginia, Wisconsin aud wy.
oming. 1t is necessary in the other
States that married woman have the
written consent of her husband before
disposing of her property by will.
An unmarried woman's will is le
gally revoked by marriage, but her
property may be arranged in such a
manner as to permit her to dispose OF
it after marriage rs she may desire
Woman's Home Companion.
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The New Hats.

1t is in the new hats and small bon.
nets that the greatest departure will
Immediately take place. While the
cry of the fashionables 10 for the fur
toque. with plumes OF malines and
brussels net, still the we'll versed real.
ize that that is no longer new story
from the highest standpoint, though
it may be from the popular fashiona.
BILE standpoint.
A Partisan authority Of undoubted
position shows msline toque in
which are twined small ermine tails in
black and white, the maline being
white. The tails run horizontally
around the hat and are placed at in.
tervals between the maline. but show.
ing the fur distinctly. The hat is
unique and peculiar. Tho great ten.
dency of the moment IS toward lower
crowns. fatter hats and smaller diane
ters.
Hats will undoubtedly turn back.
ward from the face, many strings will
come into use and big neck bows OF
malines net, lace and other materials
will quickly come to the front. The
Empire following, while not strong,
is surely coming.
The hats that best suit the confined
outlin es of costume of to-day are the
small affairs, either low or with tall
crowns. Dry Goods Economist.
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Sailors Scarce in Germany.

With the rapid growth of the Ger
man Navy and the German marine
there has been an increasing scarcity
of native crews, especially in respect
of trained young sailors. A few years
ago Germany furnished large por-
tion of the crews of English vessels,
but to-day the crews of German yes
sells are partly composed OF foreign
ers. This change is due chiefly to the
phenomenal rise of German industry,
which has been accompanied by a
uniform rise in wages paid for skilled
labor, which has acted as an incentive
to draw away from q seafaring life.
1t is already foreseen that, with the
doubling of the German Navy now
contemplated, this difficulty will in
crease, and steps are being taken to
meet it, At Bremen the North Ger
man Lloyd Company is organizing a
cadet school to train young men for
the company's service Berlin Cor
respondence New York Times.
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Fashion,s Fads aud Faneies.

Crocheted buttons are revived again.
Mistletoe is an adornment newly
adopted by the milliners.
A coat back with basque effect and
bolero front forms one of the now
bodices on an imported gown.
The tops of sleeves continue to be
more trimmed either with stitching,
cording or some applied decoration.
Some of the corduroy velveteen
and cloth gowns are trimmed with
bands of white kid edged with beaver
fur.
Graduated fringe is one of the
novelties, and it is far more graceful
than the straight variety. 1t is found
in all lengths with knotted bead
ing.
Something new in skirt lining, of
English make, is called merveline. II
is very fine, soft and silky, resembles
MORE, and comes in great variety oi
colors.
Silver fox boas with two feet and
the pointed head of the animal at ore
end and two feet and the bushy tail
at the other are decidedly the fashion,
for young ladies especially.
Hats with decided and rather high
crowns are becoming rather popular,
but the latest advices from Paris as
sure us that it is the hat with the
broad, low crown which is the nov
city.
A very beautiful example of the
ever-popular black and white contrast
is an elegant costume of black cloth
combined with black and white fig
ured velvet, black silk passementerie
and black and white buttons.
The smart form OF the fashionable
lace sleeve is mitten finish over the
back of the hand, kept in place by a
very narrow band around the thumb
or one of the fingers. Several small
buttons fasten this sleeve at the
wrist.
A beaver brown cloth coat stitched
with white silk and completed with a
collar and revers of grebe, is one OF
the seasons developments in the de-
partment OF outdoor garments, which
has surpassed all previous records in
the production of varied styles.
A useful petticoat just received
from Paris is built of lavender flannel,
closely fitting the hips and reaching
to the knees, where it is extended to
the proper length, with deep silk
hounce covered with a number OF
small rufiies edged in turn with lace.
This novelty combines warmth aud
style.
Some OF the skirts made with the
box-plaited backs and plain fronts are
effective, Notwithstanding the killing
comment with which they were
launched, that they are particularly
becoming to bad figures. That
was in comparison with the sheath
skirt. Perhaps they are, but it would
not be safe for L very bad figure to
rely upon the plaits alone for style
preservers.
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Ambiguous signs aud ADVERTISE
ments occasionally meet the eye in
this city. Some are evidently inten
tional, made so with tie object of i'm.
pressing the memory of those who
read them. Others are the result OF
accident. A sandwich man paraded
Broadway the other day bearing one
of the latter kind. 1t read: "Youl
overcoat cleaned and pressed for forty
days for rs cents" A passer by who
asked the sandwich mau why any one
should want his coat pressed for forty
days when plenty of tailors would
press it in few minutes while the
customer waited received only va,
cant stare for answer. New Yorl
Tribune.
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1t is generally understood that
plaids. especially the large plaids that
are worn this season, show of to bet
ter advantage when made up ON the
bias in a circular skirt. The illustra-
tion gives a model skirt designed
principally for plaid materials. The
upper part is sheath fitting, but from
the knee down the skirt flares stylish
ly and falls IN graceful folds toward
the back. The single box pleatis APP
piled narrow at the waist line, but
flares at the bottom, whore it trains
slightly. Although designed especi-
ally for plaid and for double faced
materials. this model would be ap-
propriate for cheviot, camel's hair,
homespun, Venetian or any of the new
novelty cloths.
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The Plano a woman.s Instrument.

In ancient times women played or
lutes, viols and all varieties of instru-
ments of the violin aud guitar family.
In italian and Flemish pictures up to
the end of the seventeenth century
women are represented playing on
stringed instruments. Domenichino
represented st. Cecilia playing on the
violoncello. After the introduction OF
the harpsichord, however, above
all, after the replacement of tao harp.
sichord by the more perfect pianoforte,
stringed instruments were generally
abandoned by the fair sex. Tho
pianoforte now came to be regarded
not merely as the only instrument for
woman to cultivate, but also MS one
which every woman was bound to
learn.
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Two Late yYalst Mnhsls.

A draped waist model is pictured
in the large engraving which can be
easily copied in cotton. The founda-
ton is silk and indicates an entire
bodice closely tucked.
The round yoke is of mousseline de
sole, aud the draped scarf which out
lines the yoke is also of the same ma .
terial, edged with silk ribbon. This
idea would serve excellently for the
waist made OF Persian lawn, and the
draped portion could follow the mode
shown, made of lawn, tucked and
edged with a narrow ruching of Valen-
ciennes lace. 1t could also be cut in
to deep points, sort of handkerchief
points, made of strips of insertion
edged with lace. or of lawn more sim
ply finished. In design of this kind
rosettes would be omitted.
The second model in this group is
of silk banded with narrow black vol
vet ribbon, an entirely new concep-
tion, and one which lends itself excel
iently to the copyist. In cotton waist
it would be made entirely of tucks, or
tucks alternated with insertion.
The back shows an unbroken line
OF tucks from the neck to the waist.
AT the front the line is broken at the
bust, from which point the bands ex-
tend around the body to the side
seams.
In the silk waist black velvet stock
and cuffs are pictured; in the cotton
waist the linen collar would be worn
and the sleeves finished to the wrist.
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enough to make the skirt hang we'll.
The idea is that when the long skirt is
lifted there is only to be seen the silk
under skirt, with all its irou-frou of
rufiles. For light gown the ruflie
should be edged with lace; the effect
is very dainty aud attractive.
One beautiful tea gown is in the
form of sweeping coat of soft, creamy
cloth; from the shoulders to the waist
is an inset of coarse lace, embroidered
in gold, and through this one can see
the shoulder waist encircled with blue,
while soft yellow chiffon falls in front.
Another tea gown has an underdress
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Photographing TombsI

Photographing tombstonsl
industry which has been iD'I
n colored man of this city,
at one time boy-of-all work I
graph gallery. He ha'i
branched out for himself, a1
ready established a remun'i
ness, which promises to CP
wider field in the future
tho various cemeteries viii
eras, and when the day
takes pictures of many Of !
ing monuments. After be \
oped his plates he takes pr0I
among the relatives of the.
and usually finds q ready \
pictures. or course, no hs
chances, for he works en'Il
out orders, trusting to ss1
his sales. Still, he says Npl
dom that he doesn't get an
also has a habit of balI
marble works where tomb
made, and by striking whllj|
is hot he takes a picture O'I
the bereaved relatives have
stone. This is always q y
Philadelphia Record.
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New York C1rY (Special). Very
long trained skirts are demanded for
house wear. Tea gowns, and all gowns
to be worn for formal occasions and
strictly for the house are always more
graceful when they are made long.
The present idea OF the dressmakers
seems to be to make these skirts-and
the same idea is carried out in some
Of the street gowns-with silk drop
skirt that only just touches, but is
finished with two or three accordion
pleated ruffies. The unlined skirt
itself has facing sewed in with the
tiniest of stitches, that must not be
allowed to show; the facing is deep
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some time gets rubbed under the arms
and across the back long before the
rest of it is ut all shabby, and yet il
looks far too old TO wear. 70 renovate @
and make like new make a little
bolero or zouave jacket to wear over
it, either of velvet, lace or cloth.
Narrow lace sewn together does
equally as we'll as that bought in the
piece. |he cloth or velvet could be
edged with fur, aud you will have n
new bodice for trifing cost.
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rlivpnnt Na,nes of po,totnce,.

The postoifice list of the United
States is studded with aippant names
like Ino, Uno, Igo, aud lido. Male.
VIOLENT humor possibly prompted the
selection for Ino of a postmaster
named Wise. or perhaps it was only
sense OF the fitness of things. Igo
was formerly on the Star route to
Ono, but was ordered to be omitted q
few days ago, possibly because the
rhythm OF the combination was be-
coming intolerable.
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sun silks Used in Millinery.

Stiff silks, such as glaces, have been
relegated to millinery, being employed
for hats and som etimes for the back
of cloth gown, satin occasionally be
ing substituted. 1t is usually of n
lighter or darker shade than the rest
of the gown, and also forms the lower
part of the skirt the cloth falling over
it like a tunic. A favorite style for
tea gowns is draped with chiffon in
the front having satin or brocade at
the sides.
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The Latest in Wells.

One has heard on all sides that wells
are out of date; certainly they were
hardly worn during the summer. In
fact, no smart woman wore them last
season, but now the winter winds are
with us again people are glad of the
protection of veil to keep stray locks
of hair in that perfect neatness which
is necessary. The very clearest wells
are now worn; they are of Russian
net. with very wide mesh, the spots
being far apart. At distance these
wells are hardly noticed.
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womon's Right to Make wins.

Men usually make Wills as matter
of course. Oftentimes q woman me-
elects to make will as much on ac-
count of her ignorance of the required
form as through negligence. And in
stead OF inquiring into the subject.
many dismiss it and vaguely believe
that at their death their affairs will he
conducted quite as satisfactorily as
with written testament.
Wills may be made by any person
not disqualified by age or by mental
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The railored shIrt wai,,,

The tailored shirt waist is quite the
most stunning of the styles present.
ed; it is as often OF silk as wool fab
ric. Fleece-lined piques are also
popular. The fronts of these waists
are quite fancy regardless of the tailor
cut of collar, cuffs and back. The
fluffy front has been discarded for the
strips of silk embroidery-that is, silk
on wool or fancy ribbon, which latter
trimming is the handsomest.
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Home-Mndo war Pic

A Paris correspondent o.
field (England) Daily ln'
states that no has seen ne
in military costumes, as
British. maneuvering u
the east end OF Paris in tns'
a Paris newspaper which ~
ny means OF photographs,
pictures Of the war ia"
spot"
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Broad belts of Liberty satin or vel
vet are seen on some of the new cos
tunes, in sharp contrast to the mar
row belts that are so much in fashion.
1t must be confessed that broad
belt, when worn under an Eton jacket,
looks very smart, just the edge show
ing at the back, but these belts must
always be of satin or velvet, cut on
the bias. A broad ribbon belt is
quite out OF style.
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of white satin, with lace coat, cut to
follow the lines of the figure and en-
broidered with brilliantly colored roses
and having scarf ends of pink chiffon
floating in front. A blue tea gown
although white, rose and yellow seem
to be the favorites this seasons sim
gularly pretty. 1t has a trailing coat
of silver mail, with black and white
sash. the ends of which are delicately
AoWered
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figure. The upper part will still ft
closely, but the hounce allowing of so
much more of flare, makes on the
whole a more graceful fulness around
the bottom.
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Women Now Wear Rubber Heels.

Rubber heels for all shoes and boots
are now worn by women. Tho heel is
ready-made affair, about half an
inch in thickness. and its advocates
say that its use lessons the jar of
walking, especially upon city pave
ments, to degree that very materially
affects the number of headaches to
which many women are subjected.