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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR ? EDGE FI ELP, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895._VOL. LX. NO. 43. Ten years ago there wore 7000 latea and pends in Minnesota. One-third of these are now dry, and the others are largely shrunken in area. The New Orleans Picayune protests that there is no use in trying to civil ize the Indians by eduoating them, or in any other way but the good old one : Make them work. Work is the great civilizer. Tankerville Ohamberlayne, a Mem ber of the British Parliament, is unseated by the English courts. And all because he was found to have paid the railroad fare of a single voter, amounting to fifty cents. *? Japan is going to build up her com? mercial navy by giving subsidies to shipbuilders for every ton above 1000, and to shipowners for all ships o! 1000 tons that oan make ten knots an hour, the subsidy being increased for every 500 tons additional burthen or every knot additional speed. American agriculture, after feeding itself last year, and all the towns, vil lages and oities of the United States, has also sold in the outside world's marketa more than $500,000,000 worth of products. So the farmers of the United States have furnished 69.68 per cent, of the value of all the ex ports during the year 1895, estimates the New York Independent. Vermont is being systematically stocked with various species of game birds from other States and lands, un der the direction of a department oi the State Qame Commission. A few days ago a number of Mongolian pheasants, whioh have been intro duced in several Pacific States with much success, were received at the headquarters of the commission. The birds are to be kept in confinement and the eggs distributed in various parts of the State. The eggs will be set under domestic hens, and the young pheasants will, at the proper time, be set free in the forests. A consignment of Virginia quails and .harp-tail grouse is now on its way to Vermont to be used for the same pur pose. _ A careless London bicyclist has been indicted for manslaughter, con victed and sentenced to four months' imprisonment. He was riding down tern, and ran into and killed a pedes trian. The four months' imprison ment carries hard labor with it. It is to be hoped, observes the New Or leans Picayune, that this inoident will be borne in mind by wheelmen a id police justices of this Country, ev m though it oannot be regarded as estab lishing a precedent for the latter to follow. A lesson of severe character is needed by numerous riders here, who are disposed to go at breakneck speed without regard to the rights of anybody else. If serious results should follow their recklessness, it is certain that they should be dealt w ith harshly, both by judges and juries. The Chicago Times-Herald says that in case war were declared between tais Government and that of Great Brit:,in the United States could muster 141, 356 soldiers of the National Guard. These, in addition to the 25,000 men of the Regular Army, would doubtless be a sufficiently strong force to ob struct the entrance of any force ambi tious to invade, and give time to re cruit volunteers. In thirty days from any given date twenty-five Governors of States say they could produce in the aggregate 2,194,800 men. Seven Governors of whom the inquiry was made, would not give an estimate, but each was willing to guarantee the full quota of his commonwealth. Here with is given in tabular form the States, together with the regularly en listed military forces in each, which could be mobilized at once. In the second oolumn is given the number of men which the Governor or his rep resentative says could be put in the field in thirty days from a call for troops : In 24 hour*. In SO days. Alabama. 2,500 . Arkansas. 50,000 Colorado. 1,000 5,000 Connecticut. 40,030 10 ,000 Florida......x. 1.8 0 . Georgia. . 3,252 50,000 Illinois. 22,000 250,000 Iowa. 2,3C0 . Indiana. 3,000 40,000 Kansas. 1,C00 100,003 Kentucky. 1,200 . Massachusetts. 6,000 350,000 Michigan. 2.203 10,000 MlnnesotB. 5,0 M) 30.000 Mississippi.. 1,610 50,000 Montana. 601 8/00 Nebraska.. 1,400 5,400 New York. 13,154 400.000 North Carolina. 2.000 *).G03 North Dakota. 6P0 2,000 Ohio. 6.500 . Pennsylvania. 7.5^0 800,000 Bhodels'and. 1,300 3,000 South Carolina. 4,003 155.000 South Dakota. 800 17,500 Tennessee. 8.000 30,000 Texas. 2.500 100,000-1 Virginia. 3,000 . Washington. 1,100 5;000 West Virginia. 0?O . Wisconsin. 2,403 1C0,000 Wyoming. ?00 8,000 Total.144,756 2,199,800 The desired information was not ob tained from several of the States. A safe inside estimate of the militia forcett that could be moved on a day's notice a paid be 150,000, in round numbers. A SONG OF LIBERTY. Across the land from strand to strand Loud ring th? bugle nota?, And Freedom's smile from isle to islo Like Freodom's banner floats! The velvet vales ring "Liberty!' To answering skies serene; The mountains sloping to the sea Wave all their flags of green! The rivers dashing to the deep The joyous notes prolong, " And all their waves in glory leap To one immortal song! Ono song of Liberty and hie, That was, and is to be, Till tyrant flags are trampled rags And all the world ls free! One song! the nations hail the notes From sounding sea to sea, And answer from their thrilling throats That song of Liberty. They answer, and an echo comes From chained and troubled Isles And roars like ocean's thunder-drums Where brave Columbia smiles. Where crowned and great she sits in state Beneath her flag of stars, Herheroes blood the saored flood That crimsoned all its bats! Hail to our country! strong she stands, Nor fears the war-dram's beat; The sword of Freedom in her hands The tyrant at her feet! -Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. TBE PHANTOM BELLS BT MBS. M. Ii. BATNB. HE ladies of the Chateau Fronte nac had invited their brother's fiancee to make them a visit in order to explain to her the strange shadow which hung over their house for nearly a . hundred years, and to whose baneful influence she must become habituated, \ when a member of the family. When they first saw Clotilde, Bhe , was so young and timid they made up their minds to wait until Gaspard him self came, but one night as they sat ? around the great hall-fire there was a ? great jingle of sleighbells and the , sound of swift runners on the crisp - snow outside, and then that muical clash at the door which announced E the stopping of the turnout, and the 2 arrival of guests. ^ Surely there was nothing uncommon in this, the coming of a party of merry s people to a country house, and on a magnificent moonlight night when \ the whole landscape was as light as day I Yet instead of looking pleased a or surprised, the ladies sank back in c their chairs, and covering their faces t with their hands, murmured a _? -prtyer- -- Clotilde, the little one, olapped her hands, and asked earnestly : "Might it be, my friends, that it is Gaspard, who has oome with a sur prise?" "No, no, Clotilde, it will not be our Gaspard. Mon Dieu, how then shall we tell her? Child, go you not to the door? Those sleighbells you hear are not jf the flesh and blood-I mean the driver is not-" But the little Clotilde had run joy ously to the great hall door, and though no servant stood there to open it, she swung it wide on its massive hinges. A bitter blast of cold air rushed in with a dreary, wailing sound, and no sleigh stood outside, but even as the startled girl watched, a clash of musical bells and the swift sound of the steel-shod runners filled the area of snow. She turned whiter than a lily in the somber moonlight, and flung the door to, affrighted. "Come to the fire, little one; you have seen, theo, our skeleton in the oloset?" "I saw not any skeleton-nothing nothing, but I heard the bells -oh, what does it mean?" "You tell her, Agatha," said the younger sister. "I would gree.tly prefer that she should hear it from your lips, Cecile," answered the oth sr. "lam not afraid," said the girl proudly. The color was coming back to her lips and cheeks, and her eyes sparkled. It could not be worse than the legends of the Loup-Garou which her uncle had told her since she was a child-not so very long ago that-but now she was a woman and would not show fear. "You will now know why our Gas pard has dark spells when not even his sweetheart can comfort him, why the shadow is never lifted from our lives, and we oannot be quite like other peo ple. Perhaps you will not then like to marry our brother, who is the best and dearest in the world, but like us, under the ban." "It is the more I would love him if I might, when he has the trouble ; but tell me, please, is it that some wicked souls come back because that they can not rest?" "We know not, petite, but the story ia like this : So long ago, maybe, that not our oldest relation can remember, there was another Gaspard de Fron tenac, a brave, good man like this one, but hot-headed and fiery. And you know, the steep hills that shut us in -so high with the big ravine-the preoipice on either side? And in the winter there was always snow, and the people went coasting and sleigh-riding with swift horses down those long hills, but never could two meet, for the road was just the width for one sleigh, and the people all knew this, and they waited at the plateau on the top, and each took his turn. "It was my great uncle's pleasure to take his young wife and go ont on , these steep hills and drive her like the ? wind with a swift flying hor.-e, and | she loved the sport and wrapped in j furs, with ber curls floating in the I wind, a fine picture the country folk j thought her ; and that Gaspard was muoh admired, too, for so the story has come to us, and their pictures are in the salon, though some think us ! not of the right mind to keep them there. "It comes soon now, petite, the trapc Jy o? those two. One night, just ! s'ich a night as this, they went riding ! ia the to gay spirts, and going up ! hill for the second or third time ! what should they see but another sleigh comi?g down ! It wae coming fast, atad my great uncle knew it ir** death for one side or the other, since paf? they could not. Auel h: shouts! to the other driver to halt ! "Ab, it was too sad. OD, OD, came the other sleigh, fast like the wind, and my great uocle Gaspard taw that it would into him crash, and he quiokly drew a pisto1, and fired to kill the horse, before ii was too late. And his own horse, he get suoh a fright he plunge over the side, throwing him out, but taking his bride down to death ! "He lived, but like a man in a dream, till some one tell him the truth that on that night there was no other sleigh but his own, and that he saw the shadow was of his own, in some way I know not the exact, the moonlight make that effect by what you call projecting the shadow, and when he know that, he take again the pistol and with it end his misery and his life." A long silence succeeded this weird tale and then Clotilde asked in a broken voice : "Is it then that the sleigh is a sh 031 ?" "Yes, petite, a:-what you call phan tom." "I am not afraid. I accept, and will pray to give the poor ghosts peace." It was not like the Loup-Garou, not to the mind of Clotilde half as dread ful, but she was not really afraid of these because her old uncle had much sense, and he did not believe one ol these stories, although tell them he did, and most graphically. Again on the following evening oame the sound of bells, and this time Clotilde went not near the door, but sat moving her sweet lips in prayer. Then the door was flung violently open and a brusque, cheery voice oalled : "Hello, there, Viotor, Alphonse/you varlets, where are you hiding?" Certainly this was no ghost, and the three women who clung about his neck gave frantic evidence of joy at his ooming. Clotilde was not one of the three. A big old man in a fox-skin coat had taken her in his arms, and was talking to her in gentle burr, the uld uncle who told her the dreadful stories, and then she slipped one small band into her lover's and looked at him with shy, happy eyes. "It was BO good of you to come in stead of the ghosts," she said, when later they sat cooing in a corner, while :he uncle, who was a great favorite vith the young Gaspard, was making umself agreeable to tho ladies. "Then you know, dear little one?" aid the young man. "And you aro tot afraid to make your home in the Chateau Frontenac?" "Not with my Gaspard," came the oft answer, "but I like it better if the ghosts came not, and your sisters, hey are sorry, too. But afraid-no !" "What of this so much being ?raid ?" asked a gruff voice, and the dd uncle of Clotilde hobbled over to he corner where snatches of their Then he wastold the story 61 lae ghostly sleigh, and looked wise and thoughtful for the rest of the evening. I The shrewd French Canadian was ! filled with marvelous stories of ghosts ; which he loved to relate, but none of j which he believed, not even his stock fright-story, the legendary Loup Garou. The next morning Uncle Pierre was missing from the chateau, but no one was disturbed, he had taken his gun, and would return when he pleased, which was at nightfall, and simultan eously with his coning rang out the jangling, invisible bells. He found the family shivering around the great tire as if they wei e strioken with deadly cold. Even Gas pard looked troubled and the little Clotilde was trying to assure hi" -iat she was not-"Oh, no, not ' least afraid 1" "Fin?is the night," he said in salu tation, "and the air is the clear, so you hear-r-r, oh, so far ! Heard you not, my Clotilde, the sleighbells that come me with?" "Ob, oh," cried the ladies of the chateau in a faint chorus; "the bells do make our hearts to shake," and they said an audible prayer. "What you make afraid? Not the bells of echo, that the wind do bring to your door for the too sweet music? Pah 1 Ghost is it, not at all, but the r-r-ravine, and the hills, they do make of the bells of the sleighing companie, the echo which for the miuu-t-e stop at your door ; 'tis echo always this so many years that you think it the ghosts 1" Uncle Pierro waa compelled to es cape from the room when the family had accepted his soientifio explana tion, which he further elaborated in their native tongue, he was so over* whelmad with thanks and praises. So the shadow was lifted forever) from the house of Frontenac, and the story which had eo sad an ending and ' was aocountable for the ghost, is no longer related as the cause of suoh a dreary effect, and it is now the pleas ure of the ladies of the chateau, as it once was the abhorrence, to ask visit ors to listen to the "so strange echo," and out of the materials of a tragedy they have really evolved a comedy. Detroit Free Press. Hanoverian Etiquette. One of the minute points of eti quette upon which the King of Han over insisted was that ho would not receive visitors for a first presentation to him except in uniform. Sir Joseph Crowe had no uniform, and he com ments on "the face that a King who was utterly blind could not see [sio] unless the person he wished to honor was in uniform." An American jour nalist was once refused an interview with the same King of Hanover on the same ground ; but he was ultimately more successful, for, pleading that he was an American republican, and therefore could not do otherwise than appear without a uniform, he was re ceived, the King commenting himself at the beginning of the interview upon the special ground for the ex ception.-The Athenaeum. A Bargain nt Ten Cents. A horse was sold by the Sheriff at oublio auction in trout of tue court nouse and ?as bought by Flint Hen drix, the only bidder, at ten cents. The horse was the property of B. H. Morris, and was eold to satisfy a mort? gage, amounting to about $65. Mr. ifendrix afterward refused an offer of -J. 50 for his bargain, if such it might uo0O3S!<V>r?x!t,- Aiken (S. C.) Journal and Review* MODES Mi MISSES. STYLISH AND SEASONABLE GAB SIEN TS FOB G1BLS. Handsome Coat In Hunters' Green -Waist of Fancy French Plaid -A Garment for Inclem ent Weather. UNTERS* green, rough-sur faced coaung of medium weight was used for the stylish and protective top garment depicted herewith, a double row of handsome pearl buttons dosing the double-breasted fronts. It is shaped acoording to the latest tailor mode, the fronts being widened to fall loosely below the hips, conforming in shape to the fashionoble skirts. The loose, double-breasted fronts are deeply faced and reversed at the top in ooat lapels that meet the ends of the deep, rolling storm collar in aotohes, t The labels and collar can be [ g Taisec^E?1"'^"'^*??AI?A4JirftaMi -*ew*proteotion in inclement weather. The back and sides fit closely, with nnder-arm and side-back p es and a .well-curved centre seam that ends in deep coat laps below the waist line. Bounded ooat plaits that are marked by single buttons give added fullness at the aide-back gores, the stylish rip ple effect at the sides in the skirt por tion distinguishing the new modes. The 'full gigot sleeves are shaped with a single seam, the fullness at the top being plaited into the arm's eye, a ! double seam of machine stitching simu lating cuffs. Pockets axe inserted on eaoh front and concealed by laps that are neatly lined and stitched in tailor style. The edges can be plainly finished or machine stitched, as preferred. AU kinds of rough or smooth faced doth, tweed, cheviot, serge or diagonal in checks, stripes, mixed, plain or fanoy weave will make stylish, comfortable and protective coats for storm or or dinary wear. The quantity of 54-inch wide mate rial requited to make this ooat for a miss twelve years old is 5 yards ; for a fourteen-year-old size, yards ; for a sixteen-year-old Bize, 5J yards. WAIST OP FRENCH PLAID. Fancy Frenoh plaid of dark blue, brown, ecru and yellow is associated, in the waist shown in the second large cut with blue velvet, and trimmed with narrow bands of beaver fur. The titted waist is made of velvet, and closes with battons in centre back. WAIST OF FANOY The fnll front, with bretelles and sleeves, being of the plaid. The full front is oat square at the neok, dis closing a yoke of velvet, the lower edge being gathered fnll at the waist line. The bretelles are notched as revers and extend over the shoulders to the waist lino in baok, bands of beaver trimming the edges as shown. A dose fitting collar finishes the neck. The full leg o' mutton sleeves are shaped with one seam, the tops being gathered and the wrists completed with flaring cufia of velvet edged with lur. A crush bolt of velvet is tied in a knot at the left side. Waists in this style admit of a variety of combina tions, and can be worn with skirts to match or contrast as desired. It may form part of a COB tu me of serge, cam el's hair, orepon, ch 3viot, cashmere, or mixed fanoy woolens, and be united 1 ?h silk, satin, velvet, plaid or shiped rio and decorated with any pre* red garniture. The quantity of 44-inch wide ma terial required to make this waist for adiniss ten years old is l\ yards ; for a faur teen-year-old size, 2 yards; for a *?teen-year-old size, 2^ yards. BOSSES' DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKET. ?Blue melton made this stylish jacket that ia simply finished with tailor stitched edges. Two large pearl but tons effect the closing on the left side, an invisible closing underneath hold ing the garment in position over the bast. The jacket is of fashionable length, and is shaped to form ripples below the waist line at the sides and iathe back, the seamless centre being laid in rounded box-plait. The loose fitting fronts lap deeply in double breasted style, closing to the shoulder, pocket laps covering openings to pockets inserted at convenient depth on j each side. The full sleeves are shaped in three sections, in mandolin B 3R MISSES. t:\1o, the seama^being opened, pressed m7^f*^m7?~imm'?h side? Plain and fas-cy coatings, ayn faced clothes, cheviot, "magonaL mel ton, astrakhan, heavy serge, plush and velvet will all develop stylishly by the mode. DOUBLE-BREASTED JACKET OF MELTON. The quantity of 54-inoh i :de ma terial required to make this jacket for a miss of ten years of age is 2 yards; for a fourteen-year size, 2? yards ; for a sixteen-year size, 2} yards. HUMORS ABOUT SLEEVES. It is reported that the bell skirt will live for some time to come in popular favor, and that sleeves really are growing smaller this time. The FRENCH PLAID. latter rumor is a perennial one, and seems to come up periodically from the mere force of habit. Perhaps some morning the world feminine will wake up and find the rumor is an ac complished faot; perhaps the big sleeve will outlast the century. No one can tell. ?s to the former aser tion, it is much more credible, aa the bell skirt has proved its adapta bility, and adaptability is the great Amerioan virtue. The main fullness is all at the baok, and sometimes full ness in the front is simulated by soft plaitings, such as silk or lace, set in. Longest Wagon Bridge. The longest wap;on bridge in the world is situated at Galveston, Texas. It is more than three miles long, and spans the Galveston Bay from north tu south. WOMAN'S WORLD. PLEASANT LITERATI; Il rc FOB FEMININE READERS. LATEST COIFFURE. The pompadour will not reign with out a rival. Thia rival is a thing of waves and beauty, and also a substi tute for the severely plain part affect ed so much by fashionable women last winter. It is warranted to be becom ing, which is a strong point io its fa vor. The part is plainly visible, but the hair, instead of being drawn down with a severe effeot over the ear ., is waved, and the ends curled a trifle, so that on either side of the part the hair is soft and fluffy.-New Orleans Pica yune. ACTRESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. It is not generally known that du ring the years 1841 and 18-12 an ac tress presided in the "White House as hostess. She was the wife of Robert Tyler, Private Secretary to his father, the President. She had been a Miss Cooper, playing Virginia to her fath er's Virginius. Her influence pro cured a deputy collectorship for her father in the New York Custom House. But when, in his last year of Presi dent, Tyler remarried, she retired as hostess, well remembered for the oharm of her hospitality. -New York News. THE YOUNGEST EX-QUEEN. Young Princess Mercedes, of Spain, who celebrated her fifteenth birthday the other day, received on that occa sion from her mother her first diamond in the shape of a pair of superb ear rings. Hitherto she hal been con fined to pearls as jewels., and hence forth she is to be regarded as gre wn np aud marriageable. Princess Mer cedes, although so young, is one of the ex-Queens of Europe, for she bore the title of Queen of Spain during the six months that intervened between the death of her father and the birth of her brother, little King Alfonso the Thirteenth. -Argonant. CAPES AND CAPE PINS. Gifts run to sentimentality this season in a marked degree. The oddest pres ent, and the most acceptable from a useful standpoint, is a oape pin, a re cent invention, but immensely popu lar in a month's existence. The cape pin is a dagger with a gold sheath. The dagger has a preoious stone in its hilt, or a row of preoious stones, and the sheath, which dangles from a long gold chain, is tipped with a gem. This ia for keeping the rug shoulder cape in position. But a word about the rug cape may be necessary first. Tilia is a square cape made from one of the beautiful woolen rugs so plentifully displayed. Its most fashionable s?iape ;' square ones. It is. hung from the left ! shoulder. Its lining is dull, to match the dress trimmings, and the oape is of the tone of the dress itself. At will it can be brought around the shoul ders for warmth. The cape dagger holds it firm, and is a sightly orna ment. -New York Advertiser. SILK WAISTS REDUCE TRADE. There is nothing the average Ameri can woman enjoys so much as a bar I gain, lt is hardly while to say this, : for no one denies its truth. Partien i ?srly does the woman like to make t j bargain in dress goods, provided she ', can procure the style that is indispen sable. The silk waist has led her into renewed economy. Formerly, a new dress for a woman meant an anxious and tedious fort night or so. There was the selection of the material, with accompanying misgivings as to its texture, shade anfl fitness for the purpose. There were the trimmings to pick out, and the linings and other adjuncts to be pro cured of exaatly the right quality and quantity. When all this was ready, and before the woman had given her self time to recuperate from the stiaiu incident to spending long afternoons in dry goods stores, and watching the clerk to see that she made no mistake, there was the dressmaker to be con sulted. And what a time the dressmaker had I The dress must be made in a certain way, and there was difficulty in making the waist fit. The only consolation for the dressmaker lay in the expectation that she would be well paid for her trouble. But the dress maker with a small business finds her business smaller than ever now. The woman buys three or four silk waists ready made, and has two or three skirts made to wear with them. Then she can have a new dress every time she goes out by changing either the waist or the skirt, and vice versa. How many combinations can be made by wearing three waists and four skirts, say, has never been calculated. Particularly when it is considered that a bit of lace or ribbon put on in an artfully different way on a waist will make it look new, and thus increase combinations almost indefinitely. It is fun for the woman, but it is hard on the dressmaker, who finds herself confined almost! entirely to skirt making, and the "cutting and fitting" in which she used to delight, and for which she was well paid, is falling into disure. Dry goods stores find that their sales of dress goods are nothing like so heavy as they used to be. The silk waist has driven out of sale many thousands of yards of dress goods iu New York within the last year or two. And the silk waist craze is as virulent as ever. Like the jerseys of ten years ago, which had about the same effeot on the dressmakers and dress goods merchants, the silk waist threatens to last a long time. In the meantime, it is doubtful whether New York women were ever more daintily attired than they are this winter. Silk waists and shirt waists show a woman off well.-New York Press. TIIE BRIDAL VEIL. In these days of thc new woman and female league against everything that our grandmothers held most sacred, one of the few customs whioh has so far escaped publie denunciation as de grading and derogatory to the rights of the fair sex is that of wearing the bridal veil. Perhaps it is that the new woman does not marry, and so it may have escaped her attention, Yet rarely an artiole which in its origin was universally regarded as an emblem of modesty and subjection is well worthy of attack by our oracular amazons. In the mean time, it is the almost universal custom throughout the oivilized world for brides to wear the veil at the marriage ceremony. Naturally, the fashion as to color, shape and materials differs, and what would be good form ia one country would be considered the height of bad taste in another. For instance, the Roman brides wear yellow veils, the Bokhara damsels favor rose color, tho Persians and Greeks a vivid red, while the veils of Turkish brides are usually of brocade, and if appertaining to a wealthy family, are often of almost fabulous worth. What would doubt less appear strangest of all to English eyes is that of a Spanish bride, which is invariably blaok. The anoient Greeks had a very pretty story to account for the origin of th' bridal veil, which, if not strictly ac curate, ia, we think, well worthy of a place in our artiole. It is shortly as follows : Icarus, having given his daughter, the beautiful Penelope, in marriage to Ulysses, begged of him to make his future home in Sparta, to which proposition, however, his son-in-law would not consent. An appeal to his daughter's filial affections having proved unsuccessful, and seeing Pene lope ready to depart with her hus band, Icarus renewed his efforts to de tain her, and even insisted upon fol lowing their chariot cn its way to Ithaca. Ulysses, wearied with the importuni ties of Icarus, said to his wife : "You zan best answer your father's request ; it is yours to determine whether you Till remain with your father, or de part with your husband. You are nistress of the decision." The lovely Penelope, finding herself n this cruel dilemma, blushed, and, vithout a word, drew her veil over 1er face, thereby intimating to her ather that she could not grant his re luest, and fell into her husband's irma < Icarus, deeply touched by thif 1 cene, and being desirous that it i hould be transmitted to posterity as ( ,n example, erected, on the exaot spot ( ??here Penelope had thrown the veil i *ver her face, a marble statue to i aodesty, that from that date the veil ( night servo as a symbol of modesty < unong women. i As we have already hinted, the Spar- ? ans were not, we regret to say, insti led in their claim of being the origi latore of the bridal veil, for it was in . tee among the Hebrews at least five enturies before the time of Ulysses, s is evident from the following pass ge in Genesis : "Rebekan took a veil 1 rhen che saw Isaac coming towards c er and covered herself," it being < suai, even in those early days-1257 1 I. C.-for women to wear veils, espe- I **Among the Hebrews the females wore the veil aa a token of modesty and subjection to their husbands, and this is the meaning attached to the bridal veil throughout the East to the present day, and, indeed, though somewhat obsoured and lost sight of, in Christian countries as well. We may therefore trust that, con sidering the hold it has upon the peo ples of the earth, coupled with its un; doubted antiquity, the bridal veil may yet long be spared the humiliation of becoming another dragon across the path of a modern St. George.-House hold World. FASHION NOTES. F%r boas have lace and flower hang ers in front. Spanifles in gorgeous colors and all sorts i glittering wings and buckles and brooches of rhinestones, pearls, jet and steel are used for ornaments, and added to these are pins enamelled in many colors. Miroir velvets, either plain or shot with another color, embroidered hand somely with gold and jet, or patterned all over in Oriental colors, are a dis tinctive feature of the new millinery, and are especially affective in the large full crowns of the wide-brimmed hats. The winter millinery presents many very elegant novelties and some strik ing revivals of former styles among the large picture hats, profusely trimmed with feathers, and the quaint Dutch bonnets, which are shaped very much like a child's hood, except that they do not entirely oover the head. The large hat is as flourishing as ever, but between this and the small flat bonnet there is every imaginable shape in medium size. Toques are very muoh worn, but they are larger and more elaborately trimmed than they were last season ; in faot, all hats are very showy and picturesque in shape. So long as sleeves do not decrease in dimensions oapes will lose none of their deserved popularity. Jaunty garments, reaching only the waist, are worn even on the coldest days, a chamois jacket worn under the waist making this possible. The richest materials are employed in fashioning these garments. Following a popular English ca price, costumes of red corded silk of the "stand-alone" quality, red Terry velvet, and red bengaline are made into fur-edged tailor costumes foi receptions, calling, and even foi bridesmaids' costumes at churoh vred dinga Very many people have a de cided antipathy to this oolor, bu ; on a dull leaden winter's day red in some of its tones has the effect of a tonic. Very bright colors appear upon the fronts of gowns worn upon the prom enade. Brilliant cherry, orange, yel low, green and other striking colors are used in velvet for stook collar and vest or plastron front. Instead of velvet, however, very fine qualities of ladies' oloth or broadcloth are uned, the oloth being braided or overlaid with spangled gimp or silk appliques dotted profusely with iridescent beads. Fanoy belts of fine gold plate not more than two inches wide and fas tened with handsome gold clasps, are worn with some elegant dinner and reception dresses just brought from Paris. Oontrasting with these are the Empire belts of velvet or ss.tin, laced oz buokled, or trimmed with iri descent garnitures with buttons to match. Theso belts are extremely wide, and though often very chic abd pretty in effect, are becoming only to th? most slender forms. REGULATOR Are yon taking SIMMONS LIVER REG ULATOR, the "KING OP LIVER MEDI CINES ?" That is what our reader? want, and nothing bnt that It is the same old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. 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A lew doses will demonstrate its tu. perlatlve virtues. Price, 25 cts. per bottle. For sale by druggists 8KATE8 IN IT8 FE CT? Th* Pooullar Formation of ? Phlla dalphla Duok. There is a remarkable duck la the ake which will probably prove the only ?ne of its class that ever has been dls ?overed, says the Philadelphia Pres?, t is a large, snow-white bird, whose dumage Is so luxuriant th&j^-^.^Stj. feet seven inches by^trireV" feet and a half. The wings are very peculiar, be ing jointed very close to the body. This ! enables it to bend them in such a way ! as to form a tent. In terrible winter j storms in its native land it finds this very useful. When the skies o'ercloud and the wind begins whistling merry tunes through the icebergs this cute and cautious duck erects his wing tent above his shivering self, and goes to sleep in peace, knowing that when the snow and sleet descends it will prove harmless. As soon as the cool weather wa? scented those who watched this won derful duck* noticed that a peculiar growth was forming on his feet As the weather grew cooler the growth grew more pronounced. It appears to be a thick cartilaginous substance which gradually extended. It looked like another toe, and it was thought at first that the bird was going to be mal formed. But instead of stopping when tho growth reached the size of the other toes, it kept right on. It grew to be about six inches long, and then the end of it took a curious turn. Instead of turning down like a claw, lt curled up and round in a picturesque loop. Then it gradually hardened. What on earth caused this curious growth was a puzzle. What could It be for? Was it simply a malforma tion, or some adjunct necessary for the duck's happiness? Finally the solution was discovered. The duck had skates on. The peculiar formation was just )ike the "skees" of the Norsemen. More than probable thc "skees" were actually patterned after this growth. These skates were invaluable to the duck in his native land, where Ice and snow, with heavy crust covered thc face of the earth and the deep. Travel by swimming was largely tied up by this ice. Wading afoot was slow and tedious, so kind nature provided a bet ter and quicker way, skating. All the duck had to do was to spread out Its immense wings, stand finny on Its skates, and whiz he would go spinning over the surface of snow and ice at a high rate of speed. With the approach of warm weather these "skates," or rather this forma tion, fall off, and the feet are similar to those of any other duck. Then when winter comes again it makes its appearance once more, and gradually grows to its full size. A peculiar char acteristic of the duck Is that during the the period of getting its skates on it is 111 and avoids all food. It drinks a great deal, however, but this Is not enough to keep It alive. Consequently, it is likely to die at any minute during this time. It also keeps out of sight, and only close search will discover the bird until its skates are fully formed. This duck has never been fully de scribed by scientists, owing to Its ex treme rarity. It Is known by the name of Fakeducus Maxiums. Coal ia Alaska. It is believed that an extensive field of valuable coal has been discovered within fifty miles of Juneau, Alaska. If this proves to be so, It will, of course, mean very much for the de velopment of ihat region. It is known that excellent coal exists In many parts of Alaska, but the discoveries hitherto have been remote from the settled regions. / The French Minuter of Foreign Af fairs has formally announced that there is no Frenoh protectorate of Madagascar, but that Franco baa taken possession of that country,