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PART 11 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE T EIGHTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 0. 1888, ~SIXTEEN PAGES. 178 NUMBER GIGANTIC UNLOADING SALE. ALL WINTER GOODS AT WARM WEATHER PRICES. NEVER WERE SUCH REDUCTIONS MADE IN THE DRY GOODS TRADE OF OMAHA. VISIT QUR STORE AND ASCERTAIN THESE FACTS FOR YOURSELF Broadcloths, $1.00 D Monday we will place on sale 16 picces 60-inch broadcloth. They are mhL and ends. If you can find a color in the lot 1o suit you they ave the cheapest lot of goods ever offered. yard, worth $1.50. Satins, Safins, He. Monday we place on sale 60 picces fine satins in all the new colors. They ar worth 90 You can buy them next ard, Ladies doing fanc work will save money by taking advan- tage of th Graham's Cocoa ut Oil Soap, B¢ Infant’s Toilet Set, This infant’s toilet set, as cut above, is a beauty und should be in every household ‘where an infant resides. Only $1.. each, in all colors of plush. pieces at §10.68, worth & ENNISON BROS Towel Roller, |Ladies” Hudkerchiok 25 Monday, only $1 K00 Towel Roller are worth ¢ On 8 Cents. , as cut above, They ale next week at & Toilet Sets, $1.00. We will offer next weck 300 Toilet Sets, fine ( uloid Brush. Comb and Glass, in white and amber, only $1each, orth §2. 6-Foot Step Ladder, 98 Cents. Whoever bought a step ladder befor, for Y8 when it is 6 feet long? TOILET SOAP 3 CENTS A ('AI([:I. Ladies’ Merino VESTS, 29c. Ladies’ White . pearl buttons, silk cat ‘These v are worth 60c. W too many. Take them away at 89¢ have *h. Decorated China Set, $10.95. . A hand:ome Decorated China Tea Set of 3 10 200 hander cred edges, plain white dozen ladi fine linen hiefs,handsome embroid- scolloped borde “hemstitehed, faney colored borders. These handker- chiefswere bought to scll at 50c, but we have too many and will offer choice of entire lot next week at 25c each. Bamboo Easels, $1.48. Ironing Boards, $1.50. These ironing boards, as cut above,‘are called the ““Ladies’ New Found Friend.” If you ever get one you will never be without one,and at” the price, $1.50 cach, everyone can buy. They are worth §2.50. g CHILD'S CHINA MUGS, se. SILK HANDK.ERCHIEPS, 2 Cens, 70 dozen ladies’china sitk, faney col- ored border, light centers handker- chiefs, usually rotail at s0c; cut price, 22¢ each; one-half dozen is the limit DOZ GROSS WAX CANDLES, Se CENTER TABLE, This table, as cut above, isu fincly finished antique oak, and is worth and sold in'Omaha at fi00,_Our price next wéek, $.0%, 48 Cents. r, as éut above, {& & wearcr. Tt will 1ast 100 years if proberly taken careof. ‘The childron all like them. Dont forget to buy them one, Only 45¢ eath. , 101 CHILD’S CHAIR, Gents’ Silk Muffiers| Genfs Black 98 Cents. 87dozen gents’ all-silk brocaded eream Muflers, that would be cheap at $1.85. Our unloading sale price is 98¢, each. BRASE HANGI Plush Albums. TRINMED NG LAMPS, 81. FINE andsome Pludh Album, above, is the best value ever offered in Omaha. We have them in all new de- sivable colors. y are on sale next The cut A GOOD SCRUB BRUSIIL, 5 CENTS. Beaver Shawls, $5.95. 50 fine Beaver Shaw light and durk colors, reversible shawls are worth from #10 to $1 ing the warm weather our pri 95 to elose LADI BLACK HARE MUFF s, in mediom, These Dur e will be S 'S, 89C. with high colored bor le g Casey next week this handsome hla ete with brush and vlacki, U812, worth §2470, You ean bu ingease coy cut above, AMERICAN BROKEN ¢ POUND, A CARLOAD OF China Cuspidors, 49c. e chin cuspidors, gsually in and take thein away next week at 49, 1,000 NOVELS AT lic EACIHL Knotted Fringad Towels, (8c. 10) dozen satin damask kuoited fringe towels s towel would be considered cheap at ¥e. On sale Monda; ax lde -1521 Douglas Street THE PROTESTANT BUBDIISM. A Curious Phase of the Roligion in the Japanese Empire. INTERVIEW WITH A NOTED PRIEST Prospects of Buddhism as an Ameri- can Religion—A Buddhist Tem- ple — How 200,000 Wome Gave Their Locks to Buddha. Carp's Letter. Copyrighted by Frank G. Carpenter, Kiora, Nov. 10.- [Special Correspondence of Tue Ber.|—1 have just finished an after- noon in the company of Mr. Akamatzu, who is one of the most noted Buddhist priests of Japan. He is one of the heads of the lurgest Buddhist sect of the country, and he pre- sides over the biggest-temple in the Japanese empire. The audience room of his temple, with its money-changers and its multitude of worshipers makes one think of the scenes in the great temple at Jerusalem in the days of Christ. It covers half an acre, and the ante- rooms and chambers of the temple form a labyrinth of Japanese apartments walled with gold leaf and decorated with costly carvings and paintings by the greatest of Japanose artists. 3uddhist religion embraces among its rs one-fourth of all the people in the world. It coutains more believers than any other religion, and it is the chief gion of Jupan. There are here 72,000 Budhist tem- ples, and Kiota, which is a city the size of Jincinnati, is said to have 3,500 temples of this religion, Still, Buddhism came into Japan 500 years after Christ was born, though it originated 600 years before that time. The Japanese Buddhists have as many sccts as Protestant christianity, and these vary widely us to their doctrine and their be- liefs, The pricsts of many of them shave their heads until they shine like so many bil- liard balls, and these lead celibate lives. Other seets believe in marriage, ana the sect of Mr. Akmmatzu is one of the most liberal of the whole. Its believers may be called the Unitarian Protestants of Jupanese Budd- hism, and its theories vary so widely from the generally accepted ideas of Buddhism that my conversation with Mr., Akamatzu cannot fail to be interesting. A GREAT BUDDHIST, It was in one of these gorgeous gold-walled roows that [ met the great Buddhist, a short, slender, full-bearded, kind-eyed man of forty- five. He was dressed in along black gown of asort of silk grenadine, with sleeves which hung down like those of a Japanese lady, a foot or 0 below the wrist, His feet were clad in the whitest of foot mittens, and he had left his sandals on the ground outside 1 had likewise been directed to take off my shoes, and thus, in stocking feet, we sat on European chairs and talked together, Mr. Akusmatzu had spent two years in England sbout fifteen years ago, and he spoke our language fluendy, He talked freely, using & great many illustrations of the commonplace order, and surprised me continually at the liberality of his views and the wide extent of his ing ana information, He was very particular in his statement that all Buddhists wero not as ho was,and that many of the dif- ferent sects did ot look upon religion and christiunity as ho did, but he said the Budd- hists beli that they are all going the same way, aud that the sects will be finally united . in tho Niurvana. 1 askod s to the GROWTIL OF BUDDIISN, My, Akamatau replied; *Japan is i at deplorable state as far as religion is con- cerned. The people of the better classes are largely Agnostics, They bolieve in no religion and though the bulk of them are nominally Buddhists, they are really infidels. 1 believe that any religion is better than no religion, and there is at present room in Japan for allthe work that both the Budd- hists and the Christians can do. When the two religions have conquered the empire and the sects come together there may be trouble but not before. We have now our preachers and the Christians have their missionaries. There is a vast tield before us and there is room for both to do good. Our teachings are in muny respects the same And we both aim at the establishment of & better morality and the elevation of man."” “Your iaca of religion 1s far different from that of the other Buddhist sects, is it nott” 1 asked. 1S CREED. “Yes," replied th e priest, *‘the Buddha we worship is the amita Buddha, the bound- less Buddha, the chief of all the Buddhas. Amita means boundless, and we believe that Buddha is boundless in all his attributes. We believe he is a god of bound’ mercy, of boundiess goodness and purity, and of boundicss light. We believe that his light and life are perfect, and our religion is one of faith and works. From the time of put- ung faith in the saving power of Buddha we do not need any power of self-help, but need only keep his 1 y in heart and invoke his name in order to remewber him. We believe in the doctrines of cause and effect, and that the statcof our present life has its causes in what we have done in our previous existence up to the present, On this account our religion forbids all prayers for happiness in the present life, because the eveats of the present life cannot be altered by the power of others, We may better our condition in the next life by attending to our moral duties in this, by loving each other, and by keeping the laws TRANSMIGRATION, “Then you have the doctrine of transmi- gration ' “*Yes, all Buddhists believe in that. We believe that mind or soul is never lost. It goes from one transmigration to another, sing higher or sinking lower in the scale of creation, ns its actions are good or bad. Some of the Buddhists believe in bells. And there is a theory that thece are eight hot hells and eight cold hells, The eight hot hells are states of blazing fire, The eight cold hells are those of freezing water. The lower classes believe these hells to exist in reality. It is with the higher classes much as with the brimstone damnation of christ- ianity, The blazing fire and freezing water are not made by other beings but by our thoughts alone. We have theories that the lowest and wickedest of men may spend their next state in the souls of beasts or in- seets. The good man by doiug his best for the right in this world is born with a better soul into the next transmigration. By being good there he rises higher and thus goes on step by step and life by life untl he reaches the Nirvana.” CWHAT 18 THE NIRVANAD" “It is hard to explain this in English, I find that christians do not rightly appreciate it Itis nota state of soul-annihilation, as many suppose, It is not a negative state, but a positive one, Nirvana means eternal happiness, and it is the state of Buddha. In it we believe that all the bad that is in man's nature is annihilated and all the good con- tinues to grow. It is a state in which all the eyil is taken from man's uature, and his hap- piness comes from his appreciation of the true, the beautiful and the good iu its per- fection. Buddhism believes in the extine- tion of the evil passious of mankind, and that when these are all cut off the miscrable stato of transmigration ends. Covetuousness, angor, vice, bypocrisy, pride, are dead, and the pure soul enters the Nervaua.” “This 1s a beautiful theory, but do all Buddhists hold it “Not at all,” replied the priest. *“The nominal Buddhists wear merely the cloak of the religjon, and many people of the lower classes expect to receive good fortune in this life for their religious work," “Do any of ibhem worsuip the images themselvesi” 4 thivk not. They worship them ouly as Lo representative of Buddba, They do net believe that the wood and stone has life or power." “Do you think that Buddhism will ever become THE CHIEF RELIGION world, in other words, will all the in the world sometimes be Budd- Of the people nists1" “I1 hardly think so,” was the reply, “‘though Tunderstand there are Buddhist Ameri and Madame Blavetsky and the theosophi are treading close on the heels of Buddhsm. Still, I would not like to say that all the world would eventually be Buddhists.” “But the christians claim that they will eventually christianize the whole world,” said I. “Well, as for claiming,” replied the priest, with a twinkle of lns eye, *I can claim as much as they can, I can claim that ull the world will be Buddhists, and I can set down the day, hour and minute when this will be. But it would only be claiming after all. Thereare now 106,000,000 Protestant chris- tians in the world. There a 200,000,000 Roman Catholics. We Buddhists ‘at the lowest estimate number 340,000,000, and Buddhism is not at a staudstill. Before the sixth century we were not known in Japan, and we spreud over this whole empire in a very short time. Some of the mikados of the past were Buddhists, and the day will come when there will be a Buddhist presi- denvin the white house who will push the Buddhist religion to the front in the United States.” Jo the Buddhists give largely to their church®? ““Not so much as they should,” rephied the priest. *Still they do very well, consider- ing the poverty of the tount This church in which we are now talking has an incomo of ar,. And another branch of s denomination is building cathedral which will cost well up into’ the millions. Our people give as much us they see fit. We do not fix the umount of their contributions, and there 1s no tithing among us,” THE TEMPLE In company with Mr. Akamatzu I next took a walk through this vast temple known in Japan as the Nishi Hongwan Ji. We walked through corridor aftér corridor in our stocking feet and inspected room after room carpeted with mats and walled with gold leaf. The walls were made of sliding screens and upon cach of these wer ings by the old masters Priceless of a mnoted left-handed artist, who lived about three hundred years ago, formed the freize work of one side of most of the rooms and this was made up of birds and animals of life size so accurately cut that the l)lum} seemed to flow through them, We visited the great audience room of the temple, the roof of which is uphei pillars and the floor of whi matting to cover it. of richly painted panels bound with lacque: and great brass lanterns, each of which would have filled a good-sized hogshead, hung from the ceiling. We went through spleudid reception rooms, aund this sect of Buddhists have some of the finest of the Japaneso temples. The art of Japan is con- nected with the tewmples, and in them al found the finest specimens of Japaucse carving and bronze work. We looked at the great bell of the temple, which is rung by a log of wood so held up by means of a rope that its end points against the lower patt of the outside of the bell, and which is rung by aman pulling this log back and letting it strike against the bell, We walked through the beautiful temp'e garden and watched gold fishes of about five pounds each swim- ming by the hunareds within the lake in its ceater, We chatted the while of chris! Ly and Buddhism, and as we went out we saw a SERVIGE BEWNG CONDUCTED in one of the anterooms by a Buddhist priest. From five hundred to a thousand are-headed men, women and children in RgOwas sat on their bare heels on the floor and attentively listened to the priest, who read from manuscript his sermon. His read- ing was a sing-song drawl, but the audience was devout, and the whole' was not_without its solemnity. We then went past the treas- uryof the temple. The priests sat behind little cage-like desks a foot high, aud the crowds thronged around with their gifts with the pushing and crowding of a ban' a busy day. Money has changed and gifts in kiug were given, aud from what I could see this branch of Buddhism seemed dead. AN £8,000,000 TEVPL this scet which is now: being built. cost &,000,(0) when complete 1 ished next y It has nine y in_ bujlding, and made up entirely from the o, peoble. forty and'in these s ing the great log: Formosa into the the numerous pic to make up a gre: thing is done by are sawed into b lineat of of wood w t Japancse temple. band, Logs four ards by band, and gr of Senator ied by a load for a team chieron horses, a built from the ground to’ the temple. This templo-will cov ground, It will, like all of Japan, consist o mense ridge-roofed building, the an bow, and the beams and every | will’ be a mass of gorgeous " curviug. Wwol 'll‘lns ro0f was put up on_gre v this building consists of te of poles, which range in ness of a fat mun's body of a fishing rod. These with ropes and upc are built, Here can by where else in the world, 1 modes of architectuge of th: wonderful what mgn’s he by machine no derricks and o Titachin Work upon this temple has b wlabor of faith and lov the. are tied ancients, cts of the count the temple, and striking obj apparatus is the offering of speak of wouen, TIE ROPES which have been used in hauling the mense lozs, which make up the ma the temple. They ave numbered by or wman hang in tirst floo nearly one hundred feet highund twenty f wide, s0 thick that thew shut oat the Great cables of browiisi black. long strands - from the ‘They sre entirely Two hund made of what{ of human_hair. offering to Buddha. | The whol togathor and the thig cords were retwi: until they became thiek ones Th grew into ropes and th ropes bec massive cables, I fngored them 80 fingers largce that would ngt my thumb upop were as They were dry, y thumbs meet. 1 them and than alive. Still I gould seo th lives were wrapped up in this rope. tne fine, brown, siliy locks of the m haired woman, @nd? long strands the rope these diffgrent loosened and they hun @ horse, of variezated colors, alone contained the lair of 2,000 thin almost to breaking by the pulling of the logs, places among its relics. They are traly monument of the desire of the women of the east for something better than they now have. IDOLATRY. Tn this letter it must be re : embered that 1 have treated chiefly of Prete tant Buddnism, and that the seets of Bud ihists are maay. Idolatry in many of ths temples seews to prevail, and the superstitious which exist T1was the more surprised when our govern ment guide took us to the other temyle of 1tisto it will boen its funds are ings of the 1 went into its workshops. Lnagine ¢ acres of land covered with iow sheds, cds goes on the work of turn: brought from the island of ings, and into rk which go Ever fect thic 3 at ans, two of which would form a good dmer’'s per- ro of men in couples up a wide poadway which has been 00t of the wcres of temple i the sides of which will slope dosynward in the shape of & 't of which Five hundred men_ are now at work upon it, and of all kinds goes on under its roof. at poles beforc work was begun, and the scaffalding of of thousinds om the thick- ist to that together G these acres of roof seen better than any- doubt not, the Tt is san do unaided There are no steam engines, of any kind, o0 and is I'he car- penters and carvers are Buddhists who come to {lo voluntary 1 of the most s of the whole of the building ¢ im- rial of the hundreds of feet, and the lavgest of them s bl wround as the thigh of a good sized They roof to the of tha temple, making a serecn light And these thousands of feet of big rope are mposed ed thousand wo- men cut off their locks for this purpose as an was bri nlm: o. strands me theso with my hauds and tried to rhs‘lhum. but they were and pressed they hard almgst as a cable of wive. Alltbe oil had gone out of the hair aud the whole looked more dead t all sorts of Hewo en were twined in out Wigh those of the white- were braided about short ones and at the end of locks had become down like the tail of One cable women, and some of the sualler cables were worn immenso strain that had been put upon them in the "These ropes will be kept in the temple, aud when tiis great temple is completed they will have one of the honored amon tellin pape & the Japanese worshipe wore than fill the There is the Doctor who, if you put your fingers and then anoint your sor cure. Who, if you have the and rub his wooden abdomen Buddha here, upon stomachache, bi-carbonate of soda, and who, 1f you have a cold in the head, will reli ou by the ternate rubbing of his nose and yours. There a little wooden ds babies’ diseases, and the are big wooden Buddhas for women desiring chil- dren. In the grandest temples at Nikko there is a sacred pony whom you may feed with holy beans at a ceat a plate, and every other count tempie has 1ts stone fbxes which are worshipped, 1 find vestiges of the worship of twenty-five years ago, wyich will not bear telling in the newspapers, ‘and the Shinto religion, which has in Japan 14,000 temples, i ation of relying on th tors and of the worship of silver mi Tist- ianity in the meanwhiie has, I believe, comne to Japan to stay. There are 60,000 Christ- ians of all kinds in Jap: The re many native self-supporting churches, and the mis- sionaries are, as a_class, bright, earnest men whose hol cuthusiastic and_ progressive, FrANK G. CARPENTER. IRMINT DROPS. and have less coal,’ PEPP “Let’s conlescs id the coal trust, A manis known by the condition of the idewalk he keeps. ‘Phere promises to be a great deal of back talk in the phonograph. If there is anything in a na should be a good place for lay Y A pretty girl don't object to reflections on herself when they come from a looking- ilass, The manufacturcrs of verforated seats have combined. The object can be secn through. There are a good many cabinet mukers, but the only mechanical work they can do is the borin An embankment caved 1 on some laborers near Oil City, and the verdict of the jury was: *Died of gravel Corn_is & maize and a dance is a maze, which is pretty conclusive proof that there 18 bond be! s dancing and corns, With a view, possibly, to overshadowing 0t Whiteehape! horrors, Mrs. Ladg- will attempt to play “Lady Macbeth.” “Was it the girl’s father who broke off the engagement (" inquired Jenkins, “No,' re- plicd the jilted lover, “it was her little brother.’” The fourth marriage anniversity spoken of as the clover wed; 15 probably the suggestion widower. The have banks down in the provinces that noone fears will ever be broken into or cleancd out by dishonest cashicrs, They are fog banks, ‘The bobtail car is being driven from this city, but the pernicious bobtuil flush still continues to find its victims here and there inthe metropolis, “Don't you think it exeravagant, to pay $50 for a diamond ring for your wif; “Notat all you seom to forget how much 1 will save on her glove bill.’ “How's business since election?” asked one base ball club manager of another. “Mighty dull,’ was the discouraging repl “I've only sold two playerd this weelk."” it is said that when a girl gets to be thirty- five she is fond of being callod Daisy if thut bappeng to be her first name. At sixteen she insists on being called Miss Smith, When women vote it is tobe hopel that they won't be allowed to bot bonuets on the loction. Otherwise their husbands would tainly be ruined when the time to pay up oame, o, Sioux City th of som young farmers in ceutral Illinois ontest a few days ago. out a chropodist who wished to compete on the ground that he was a profes sional and an expert, “What imust we do to attain our inquired tue professor of wmoral philosophy rs would, inthe columns of this his_eyes ones, will effect a and then rub yours, will bave the same effeet upon you of al- for s are refined and whose work is chair to the quarter-baclk of the colicze cleven “Select the right man to Kick 1t, sir,” suid the foot-ball euthusiast. “I can only be a sister to you, George, nothin 1 - five grown sisters already. and, to tell you the truth not favor avly dispos vous thunk a match withs you would be the' mistake of n Life.” “In that ease, George,” said the girl, drawing herself up with haughty grace, you may name the day.” ND DRAMATIC. Mojeska is contemplating a farewell tour. Minnie Palmer has arrived from Bugland, where she had a successful scason, A Lawrence Barreit-Mary Anderson co partnerstip is talked of among the quid nuncs of the mctropolis, Miss Emma V. Sneridan, who supported Richard Mansfield in London in *‘Prince Karl,” is on her way back from Europs A. M. Palmer hus sceured the American rights for the deputy Registrar,” to be produc the Criterion, Chicago, soon. The concensus of opinion among London critics 15 that while Gilbert's new play for Neilson has good stuff in it, nevertheless it is a failurc Robson and ( of the olden west, Th lund week, Det Buffalo the succecding Miss Isabella Irving, the pretty givl wiom Rosina Vokes brought over last season, hias been engaged by Mr. Augustin Daly as a member of his regular stock com- pany MUSICAL o coming from out will be in_Cleve- afterward, and ok ane Snglish ti sang in **Romeo and Juliet” at and opera house. It was her ance in the French capital for a years, und she was greeted by a per feet storm of “appluuse. Miss Blanehe Marsden, of whom so much has been written, has sighed a contriact with an English comic opera manager for thres years, during which time she will visit Eng land and Australia. Daniel Sully divides towns i California and to buy a half intercst in the | Bijou theater in San Fraucis there us a resident nianager, Fanny Davenport will probably play considcrabie part of Lier next season in ono night stands, s she is more of a financial suceess in the smal towns and citics than she has been with “La Tosca’ in the priuci- cities, Bonfanti, the balict young now as she did a score of s ago, when she pirouetted in “'The Black Crook.'! vs kept dar hours, and pre oWroot o chumpagne and between He wants of the 1 scttie next weel Nevada. premier, looks s ye i grucl quail Lar ot Layender,” says the New York ibune, has come 0 stiy, appircs The Lyceum th er s crowded Lo ats utmost at every vecformance, and it is frequently im oue, three days in ady Lindii, the young Awmerican soprano, ed d i1 her voice at Vienna uug v promient Leen en Mr. Gusto his new theater in New York Mr. Louis James and M have just closed their cnga, nt in San Francisco and are on their e, Their New York cogagement will begin in Janu when they will be s SVirginius, 'he School for Beandal” As You Like " Irving and hearsing their new Wainwright e been quietly “Macbeth'’ ut Birming ham this week, though the actual reliearsals do not begin ut the Lyceum till next week: The production is awaited with interest, and will ‘be the theatrical event of the winter son at Londo: harlic Overton has bought the Awerican right for Vacquerie's new play “Jalousic,” which was produccd at the Gymnase theator in Paris a fow nights i Gverton Iras nlso it the Awmerican right with all the scenery aud properties of “Jack Sheppard as produced in Iaris, Furopean musical experts are mourning over the decadence of the art, and furiish some Giscouraging statistics, There is no PLUSH SACQUES, $23.90. 100 Ladies® 1l Plush Sacques, inches long, quilted satin lin ornaments, chamois skin pockets, ing this sale, $23.90, worth & PLUSH SACQUIE, $20.80, WORTH #40. Piush Wraps, $18. An elegant Tadies' Seal Plush Wrap, cont sleeve, tight fitting, long in front, short behind, trimmed all around with seal plush ball teimmings, at $18; fors wmer price, Childfen’s Plush Clonks, 1, 2 veurs, $1.98, all colors. wortl 8. LADIES' SEAL PLUSH JACKETS, §8 FINE CREAM CANDIES AT WHOLESALE PRICF Child’s Table, = = This tabl Delight. of them They 1s cut above,is the Child's o family is happy without good singer in Berlin, At is the only wood one. singers are detestable. body worth mc worse in Italy than operas cannot be singers, provides no- things are for tiie, NOov Weekty, ently scen has an ie figures of which welers A minute repeater open face and gold dial, arc in red enamel Two cabbage leaves overlapping each other in frosteu and burnished finish make a unique cake basket, Very pretty is a lady’s wate both sides with violets and spr a vari colored floral wrcath. Anodd stamp hox revresents a crouching bear i oxidized silver, which, when turned over, reveals three gold lined compartiments, A silver clover leaf teay with fluted b and engraved Venetian conter an etehed water pitelier in the sty XV. A led on ind- ename su ich carving sct for the holidays coisists of roustand game curvers combined with & fish set in oxidized Assyrian and Grocian styles. An attractive conter pie fruit with a cameo bowl and silver frame syrian style, uphield by two cupids, Four clove: leaves of th with a single pearl betwe diamond centre, is the de brooch. For a wedding or thing new is spoons, forks, Armenian style designs An odd ring, the New York setting, and coffec nawed. A new cake basket for the holidays 1 sents a square tray with a Huted bovider the style of Louis XV, the handle be the form of two branches bound tg with twigs. Silver for the are coming into vo with the tigures Cnt s wit chised the latest acquisitions to the toilet tible pressing a siver button inthe center of top piece a spray of cologue shoots f chased silver nozzle, holder i As- vieditating rls cach, nd i holiduy present some- - dinn ves and soup ladie 1 Land engraved in eaf only one of tones in an vlue, brown dlatonds, - the colored order in cthiee opned corks, uppropriately labelod rious kinds ' of wines and liaiiors ue. They are ornamented of fuwous jerais of all diamond ¢ e odorizers in silyer nir, ong 1y the 0o 1op8, silver has ssed cles setan oxidized {ed with emt aund tehos represent the aleohol Bied on a broken A rustic smokin, a tray elabor Vi leave 1, d grapeyvine lamp, in leafl d branch, - Atleifor Iides the Cow-Catcher! Newark Adv cident occurt Lackawanua ¢ wween South Orang Saturday afternoo the train about 40'clock e a young heifer ahend of him tled, in order to yd Wyomit The eng chica South Orange 1hound ohserved track direetly od up and whise enuble the ereature to get off the tr yut it maintained its position as e v us if the locomotive were & pigmy. The train wis not mo ing fust by the time the spot w reuc ud the cow-catcher struck the heifer. The @ nd fireman looked on bo! he . and, not sceing t concluded that it was unde s wheels and the train was st I'o their astonishment found the J sitting com- ntly on the cow her vy its g5, which had been severely . ed. ‘T'he heifer was vemoved W the side of the track aud the train re sumed its journey He ginect h sides of imal