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A STARTLING CENSUS SECRET Remarkable Disparity in the Kumerical Streng'h of the Bexes. GAINING IN GIRLS THE MID-WEST The ¢ giving Derorations —A Varety of wad mtagion of Rearty Lang Fads of th ¥ hion “Thanks- Dudes Notes pie Ten Gossip, Census bulleting prosent an instruct- ive comparison of the numer of the séxes. The whole males {n the United States in 82,087,88), and the whole males 50,551,570, asa whole, the every 100,000 mal vears before ther 54 females to every 106,000 males, while in 1570 there were 97,501 fomales to ¢ y 100, 000 males. The femaios exceeded the males in 1800 to a4 greater extent than 5 per cont in the Distr of Columbia, Massnchusetts and Rhode Island. Suppose 100 men should want to got married? If thoy were allowed but the ratio five of their number would have to 2o without wives. According to the provious censuses a givl and a quarter to a givl and a third gots lost overy ten years. Whither does this girl and o fraction go? The whole number of states and terri- tories where the femalos exceed the males in 1800 is cloven, as against sev- enteen in 1880. All the states and terri- tories showing un excess of femules over males in 180 found inthe South At- Iatic and noith Atlantic divisions. Ten years ago there were five states and territories in which the number of females wus less than 50 per cent of the wales—Idaho, Nevadn, Wyoming, Ari- zona and Montana—while now there is no state or territory where the females do not represent at loast 50 cent of the males, Montana just getting inside with 50,382 to 100,000 mules. This shows that many eastern givls have wone west 1o save the aation. “The great sumber of women clerks in Washington is responsiblo for tho pre nonderance of the sex in the District of Columbin. There they outnum ber tho men as 110242 is to 100,000. Massachusetts hus always had more girls th ys, the latter grating us soon as able 1o walk, The vls cannot get away, sont the prasent ime they are 105,810 to the even 100,000 of the other se Rhode [siand crowds plie beauty show close with 105,628 to 100,000 of the commoner clay. ‘These ktates and the District had two por cert more of girls ten years ago, showing hat many of them have met their fate, One would urally suppose that tah would show the greatest prepon- evance of women, but the census fig- res give them but 88,212 to 100,000 men, fot enough for the Christinn ceremony bf marriag New York state has girls enough yet 0 go around, but the percenta de reasing, und soon thero wiil be hardly novgh. At present the ratio is 101,480 to 0 men, and in New Jersev irls e lolt over aftor the 200,000 of both joxes have become half that number by pninisters’ foel The other states in which the men, hoys and boy babies ave in tho minor are Connecticnt, New Hampshire, Ma land, Virginia, North and South Cavo- lina., But other states are draining these moroe highly favorod states, the males being in excess elsewhere, The states in which the female ele- bment ropresents 45 per cent of the male ire us follow Lounisiana, A jeorgin, Maine, Mississippi, Tenvessce, dhio, Pennsylvania v, Dela: vare, Vermont, Indiana and West Vir ini; From 90 to 95 per cent of its lement as compared with 100 per cont £ m ile populution, the states of Illi- mols, Plorida, Missouri, Wisconsin, A kansas, Jowsn, Michigan and Te ean im, In Ka Utah, Mexico, Nebraska and South Dakota the girls ave still fewer, and only from eighty to ninoty of them to mateh 100 of the tougher fiber. he states aud tervitories girl can fecl that she 0 wbove pur wre North Diko \homa, Californin, Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, Arizonn, Wushington, Nevadn, Wye joming and Montana. In these latter divisions girls are woefully scares and from 000 to 10,000 men o of every 100,000 ave bachelors by tho forco of circumstances, In ninctecn es and tervitovies the girls have cd in ten years, but in twonty-nine states and territories thoy have [ost. Tho groap of states comprising M i, tho two Dakotus, and Kinses reports a substantiol gain in wrivl The per cont of gain - females foxeeeds the mule gain in each state Towa has an cxeess of es, a Tnin in yonrs of 17 cent, whilo tho gain in Tomales sume period e 16,15 per cent. There is a surplus f 81,000 wmales in Ahssour the emnales show o gain of 2428 per cont wgainst 22 80 poc cent The Lwo Yakotas report n small arity in the o the totals bheing 281,84) males to 7 fomales. ‘The fovmer gaiuad 7 per cont and the latter 4. ki reports H78.524 males to 48 I8 females, i gain of 12083 per cent in ho former and 1 per cont in tho fattor. The vumerical difference in he sexes in Kansas is 66,000 in favor of ho m ous0 in ten years wns: Females, 46:92 per cent; males, Jo. 15 per cent, It isappurent that in kouri group of states the girls are more fhin Bolding their own aud will in a ew decndes overcome the male mnjovity. number of 1800 ia numbee United States fore, theco for 4 015,250 femnios. For the are wero per 100,- ofler Miunesota, New whe per cent Towa, the transmis. A chicerful old darkey oncesnid * jm de cotchinist disease da is,’ hgree with (he wisdom of that remarl. ome peovle seem to thi ita sort of rime 10 ving out a me achinnation; f by careloss chance an involuntary augh escape the prizon of the lips they mimediaroly put on a soricus air, as if shamed to'be the guilty owner of sueh pn articie. But, oh! deliver me from hose hideous litile chuckles that some adividuals carry around roady to pro- luce the luumuu' they meey you, 1 al- ays disteust i “chuckle,” Mako a uote bfit. my friend, poonie who chuckle v“f few wmoments, as if i coustunt dmication of whatever you may say, ..lp s deeeitful, and will take nd- an nl ou if the . Never tell Imm g in conliden for the gory will be retailed, and those chuckles mlmluuun ch 2 chuokles of devision, « Give me a ringing musical laugh, one hat steikes upon tho lvull)umm. witiy merry jingle, that ripples out in s Laflin 1 fully ory cadences liko T'ennyson’s song of | hud for the'! brook, thut curls up the corners of the mouth and twinkles in tho eyes as well—a **cotchin” luugh The Awmerican peoplo wre « fua loviag | when you hear ical strength | of fe- | THE OMAHA svered with giided nnd printed 1eather ] and ov and much pre- Go. to the thea- race, a race of laughars, for comedy to tragedy. ter. A jolly the stage. e is lnughing, at some sil thing mayhap—no matter—he laughs and vou suddenly discover that you are jelly ton, His mock mi-th affects you, for you have “caught the laugh. Yos, the old darkey was correct, “Laffin am cotehin.’ ‘Soms day you are walking along with sident thought absorbed in real or fancied v uble, v laugh and looking up people, for somehow, o has _compiuy: that gay g5 bk 4hg smile to your s, sad thoughts §irg bidished. “God bless the happy Iahgh,” sas I, “I%or mivth doth search tho bottom of annoy; Sad souls are slain 10 merry paoy." About one thing T shall register apro- test (I long tosay “kick,” it's so ex- pressive). Why is it that womon are a ways deseribrd as laughing *‘te he while the men sy “ha, ha''? 1 susp that they intend toapproprinteit forthe mascuiine gender. But don’t you be- that n woman ocan’t lnugh “ha, Just listen to the next feminine laugh and you will hea: no “te he’ in it. How ¢ some are of smiles, for those are companions you know. Why should these melancholy Danes carry themselves as if life we oue long funeral day, for as Bob Ing sol would doubtless say if the Lord did not want us to laugh, why did o give us a inugh Grace H. Lwo " Chrysanthemums ave the most suita- ble flowers we have for use at the Thanksgiving dinner; they ar 0 in keep- ing with the seas)n. They and the “duy we celebrate™ are in touch with each othe Nothing ean be more up propeiite, siys the Ladies' Home Jour- nal, than a groat.bowl of pso flowers, cut with long stems Let white and vellow kinds predominate, using n few of the dai k maroon ones to give toune to tho lighter coior If more than one table is used in the room ov the table is a large one, as it islikely Lo be in homes where the day is kept in the oldfash- ioned way, thore might. ho a howl ‘il with flc s of but ;one eolor for table, or for the center and ends of the long table, As Thanksgiving day is roally » sort of hurvest festival, vases filled with whont, oats and graceful grasses ure quite appropriate, and can be made very effective if tastefully areanged. Never crowd them: allow each k used to display its individuality, S let roso haws, or the crimson cluste the harberey can be mixed with yellow eeain and made to heighten fect. rait can be made to take place of flwers asa decoration of table with charining color effects. Great clusters of mountain ash verries cin ho made to serve as a founaation. Wor in among them heads of bearded wheat and wlnw rye or oats. [Upon these foundation colors display your purple and white grapes and ruddy apples and pears. Orangescan be added for vhe suke of color, but they will hardly be ed worth eati i It you wish to decorate the room you ean produce fine eifects with mountain ash berrvies, or the red alder, grows plentifully in mo py pluces throughout the no:th. ¢ in with e, &s a background, nches of en. To relieve the color of een and fruit, use wheat freel affect is desirved,aip wheat . thin solution of gum asabic prinile powdered mica over them will glisten in lamplight as if covered with frost. One Phunksgiving st yeur held as a center piece a rout pumpkin nestied among autumn After the substant al dishes of 1 had justice done them. the upper half of the pumpkin was re- moved, showing a “‘heart” of luscious fruits and dainty candies. P Bracelets and dudes are the latest combination. The bigger the braceiet the bigger the dude; that is, the larger i kepp upon his uming the attiwude of a sentence for high- robbory the greater his 1 to distinetion in dudedom. Twisted bands of silver wi a- half nmore or less on euxch wrist, are oper thing, though bands of wold, studded with briliants] ave oceasicnally worn. In Chieago, according to the Tribune, it is excoedingly “vulgah’ to expose these ornaments to publi /0 0N the streets, Toey are only visible in the slusion of the drawing ro or the dude’s own apactments. On going out the b i wrists are which must he ext this movement grac seoms 1o distinguish purious swell, *Oh, yes,” said a Sta ] ) in answer to u question. wcelets for men ave fad that is spreading vapidly. It strug icago less than a month ago, but the lis ve got it bad, We vo done a rushing business in braca- for the last ten ds Most of the ond the; o buying for but tho ude they dis- an avticlo that will just fit insido the vives thom away, Dicad of s mins, I supposc, prompts them to p their arm orna- monts concealed whan out walking.” Tk aterials nsed bud”’ costume f a rose-colored China silk, which fits rather smoothly in front, just sufticient fullness in” the ke it graceful. At the lower edgo is a knitted flounce of pink chiffon, and over this are arranged loops and knots of piok vibbon of a deeper shade, The bodice is high, fits the figure gracefully, and bus for its decorntion a plaited frill of chiffou-—-each group of plaits being canght with a kuat of vibbon, the whols strip boing worn s a fichu might be, and draped in at the waist, where it is caught by the waist vibbon of pink. The full sleeves ure of the chiffon, tied at the elbows with a band and kuots of ribbon, long gloves of pale, rose-colored undressed kid coming up to meet them, The hair is parted in the ceuter, drawn bacels in a low knot avthe hack, where it is funtusti tied with a pink ribbon Phis is quite a delicate, avtistic dress,as woll as pretty and inoxpeusive, undergoing v is a test which the real from the eLLin, ‘The has back to A Dora Russell, the Amorican girl become the 1ol of the musie- wople of St. Potersburg and aw, and a favorite u‘l over Fovope, i8 & native of ¢ ‘leveland, When she wus o 11ttle girl she nm,d lu declare she wus going tobe o great singer, and, daily rangiag her dolls in a row, would trill and warble before them likea little bird Sho never lost sight of that pur- pose. During hevr tecns her wholo edu- cation was conducted with reference to her future, and her schoolmates, who were devotedly fond of her, ehristened Ler, icipation, Mademoiselle Ella- doru. * ¥ he stean veatilator guvish gildings, is at best an unmiti- gated pioce of uglingss in any room. A capital way of concealing these pines is to place pretty ornamental screcn about them leaving plenty of room on wll sides for the heat to radiste, Jusu now beautiful Japunese screens can be this orany other purpose at small cost, a8 o liking has sot in among fushionuble people i e e scroens, gilded and hung with brocade, soa for those that eowe from Vienna pipe, with: its charaéter appenrs upon | | winter. T} Their laugis and | DAILY in Rennissunce lloln{un In the pocket of"n tailor the swell girl carries her knife, boly who thinks this is an knife such as can be gotten is mistaken; it is invariabl gold, and, in addition, is ratel with some speeial design, A vory original one has a heart of lapis-lazali framed in diamonds set in_one cosner of the hundle and the name and a curious cipher carved on the or. A very general fancy exists for huving the name engraved upon the knife in an exnct cony of the way would write oue's own initials, Any ordinary at any shop made of owner's one The Latest Fashions. Slippers laged with ribbon to imitate sandal effect o orn with empire owns, Pelerines of fur, whicn wo used to eall fur tippets, are to be much worn this y scem Lo the lat shoulders and smooth walste Velvet is mueh worn this winter for streot costumes, even children avpear- ing in rich cloaks of the solt m«t which not long ago was used exclus for evening. Piaid sleeves with revers to are very fashionable just now, be worn with either green or or even black Cinnamon is the favorite brown this your. It looks particularly well trimmed with fur or smartened up with a colored cont The ball dresses are ver this winter. ‘T'he silks and never been riches and there isa prodi- gal way of using lace and embroidery which gives a sumptuous effect. Silkk will be a very popular fabric dur- ing the winter for houss aud visiting £owns, as there are Loo muny tempta- tions in the mar 1\«[ in the silk line to resist. The season’s new tweeds friezes or homespuns, woven by hand from the soft undyed wool, are the very best of their kind. The newest dress skirts much gored umbrella shape, and some of them have an astonishing ‘‘flare around the lower portion. Fringes arve largoly gold, lined crystal, irides and bronze bands, Colored velvet or satin sleeves with sish to mateh ave very pratty with white ball dresses, and are very useful in freshening up last season’s toilettes. A band of fur at the bottom of a white silk or sutin also covers the marks of wear on tho edges of the skirt. New and very lustrous Freneh failles imported that are s pad o* plaited aney velours or velvet These ma- ning tints,and match and may blue cloth handsome wting have are of the 1 in jet, garnet, n golden tan, golden "guady red, Napoleon blus, netian green, gray and gar- olive, violet, V. net ather turbins are again‘shown with low crowns, plain or indeated, the brims close and rolling, the shape long nd oval oftener than roand, ana the whole made of tips of pheasants’ or doves’ feuthers, with aigrettes in front of the samo plumage, tnickly massed. Persian effocts are much employed for artistic indoor dresses. These ave com- bined with valvets in deep rich winter tones. The picturesque_collars and esves nre the special poiut of decora- tive study, and the princesse the style among thess charming irt trimmings are eve 2y are where visi seldou le. Pufl ings, plaitiy, ruches, tiny frills, fur and feather bands abound; and some- times, on very elegant costumes, the slender fur border is headed by a rich bead and metal passementerie. A new and very shaggy make of choviot is among the fushionable fab- ries for winter traveling costumes, coats, and long cloaks. No particular color predominates, but briiliant bits of ved bronze, red, green, gray and gold ean e discoveed on closs inspction of the pattern. It is s1id that the **Mother Shipton™ or high pointed crown hats will be fashionible this winter. These. how ever, will never be so pretty or becom- ing as the ( orourhs. While hats arc of the lurgest, bonnets are of tho smallest, A bow with an aigrette or flower, or a tiny eapote of the shape of a Henri Deux cap, with strings to gi a dignified touch to their jauntiness, are the favorite shapes so [ “Ata recent very elegant wedding in Dublin high life,” tes a lady to an American friend, “the beautiful " young bridesmaids—sisters of the bride—wore white colored velvet gowns trimmed with ot fur, and white felt hats trimmed with' ostrich plumes and lden-brown velvet. These dresses wero in Bmpire style and weve greatly admired. The bhride’s dress was of white satin and veiours en princesse, with exquisite bertha an i skirt flounce of point 1 Hor v rave diamond ornaments extended even to he gold bouquet holdec and inlaid fan. fler traveling costume was of dark blus Rus- sian velours with Connemara cloak of blue camel’s hair, lined with mink and trimmod with u very deep capo collav and edgings of Russinn sable,” Notes About Womon, at Britain it is illegal now to y girls in shops under 18 for move than scventy-four hours a week, nnd shonkeepors who disoboy the law are liable to be fined, Mprs. Lydia Hoy A r of “Phe Li i s prepar- ing a work for the woman’s depurtment of the Columbian oxposition, to be en- titled “What America Owes to Woman, The highest-priced t in the United States belongs to Mrs, Marquand of New York city. It was designed and piinted by Alma Tadema snd cost 46,000, Mrs. A. M. Mankly has bequeathed to the city of Washington a largo sum of money for the erection and mainten- ance of a home for destitute women, as a memoria) to her mother. In memory of her husband she has wilied to tho Chil- dren’s Aid Society $30 00io» ths erec- tion of & home. To celebrate the \'hl'i\h\lli!l[_{ of her v daughter and her own 34th birth- , the empress of Germany gave 100 AP baby clothing to the bowes in the empire, and the emperor released 400 women imprisoned for var- ious offenses. I'rom one town in the union comes the report of n ¢ ub of women whose mem- bers pledge themselves to go to the fair next year in a simple, serviceable gown, and comfortable in fit, and voham- pered by extrea length of skirt. A small, light bag, which may be carvied in the hand, must hold all the othoer necessi- ties, and, with & minimum expenditure of nerve force, this club will enjoy a iaxieom of sightseeing, From the reports of the Woman's Christian Temoperauce union in Denver it may be computed that more than 8300, 000 kas been raised and expeuded by the different socioties throughout the United ates during the past year, and wore than 150,000 women are united in the cause of temperance, Two hundred and eiphty-two coffee houses, friendly houses and feeding rooms have been es- tablisned and wre muintsined by the so- clety. 5o erowded were the assemblies at the convention that one huilding BEL: made gown | | tort, | the landscape stretch out in voiceless silence, | respond with | born of | | tho line that separates land and Ivish | maternity | | practice; flow meetings were held, ad dressed by Lady Honry Somerset and others, in the diffecent churches. The immense _smount of money spent | by the duke of Martborough’s American wife in reinstating Blenheim frowa ruin | to its former glory as a palace is prob- ably lost to her forever, It is not prob able that the heir of such a father will make restitution, and the laws of Eneg- lana give him the entire estate. Out of the mugnificcat fortune the charming Mrs. Hummersly 1sliabla to retain litde save her dearly-bought title. Yet there are wany Ame gnrd the duchess as an enviable cres ture becnuse her millions paved the way | 10 u place among nobility A TRAGEDY OF THE PRAIRIES, 11 18 morning on the praicies. For iiles ahead, bohing, to the the readish brown, yndulntin right and villows of us echoless as the occah whon first chaos itself. But for the luxuriant carpot of native grass, alroady brown by tno first chiily, broath of ber, the scene wouid bg_as familiar Arab ehild of Sabara a3 to the dusky son of the American savage. Tho sun has risen, but its advent 13 alroady tokened by tho roav shafts of light ‘that are glavcing upward through tno steel gray of the moru- ine twilight. Sien of 1ifo there 15 none. Na- ture has boen banished by tho ghostly scep- tor of silence and with roiseless tread bus re- a K 1o oblivion, There is commotion among the fle that frioge the horizon and the blood- disk of tue rising sun thrusts itself above from sky. At the same instant a sp s seen on tho thermost stroteh of prairie solitude, the sun has finally aroused itsoli sufficientiv to linger on the rim of carth as if hesitating 10 commence its daily journey up the siops of the universe to the zenith ana down again toits evening bath in the Pacific, it stares in sleepy amnzement at the igure of a Soli- tary horseman urging a pantiag stoed along a dimly detined trail to the westward. That horseman has coverad many u leneth- ening mile since tho stars shone tho evening before. ~ As ne comes nearer 1t can be readily guessed that he is & fugitive. A look of anxious dotermination, the hurried glunces T the horizou from whenco ho the relent manner in which he urges forward tho Hagaing fect of the weary horse beneath him, all. tell his story. He would escape from somsthing; and from tho manner of the man it caa b seen that that sometuing is not far behind, 3 When the sun has traversed a guarter of the distauce from the horizon to tho zeuith tne pursuers are seen to emergs [rom vacant space to the eastward, and with equally de- tormined efforts press onward toward the solitary tugitive. A baud of plainsmen with reiribution pictured on every countenance— n band of regulators in’ pursuit of a male- factor—a vigliantes commitiee clothed in the tomely habiliments of prosaic western jus- tice—a mob; call it what you will. On the prairies laws are unwritten; but their pe L ties ure Just as exacting,if not so discriminat- ing, aud their execution, if switter, uot the loss certain, S (i - The hours sweep by in slow procession. The exvanse of prairie which at mora separ- ated fugitive ana_vursuer has narrowed until malefactor avd jury uro within but a few miles of each othier. The sun has reached its hizhest point on its diurnal progress and has aireudy commenced the descent to tho motntaius to tho westward, Another group is passing over the trail in the footprints of the fugitive, A “prairie schoouer’” drawn by balf lean horses in dilapidatea harness, driven by u pale-faced woman, while several frowzled heads peer out from beneath tho dirty brown canvas cover. Auother child with lash and goad urges forward a couple of lagging cattie, while a buugry dog with lolling _tongue trots along disconsolately under the wagon. . GRS . . bo sun 1s hastening to the end of 1ts jour- ney, and the fuzitive is now the captive. Surrounaed by grim-faced captors he tells his story and pleads his cause. He is not D rly an ill-lookiog man, but he bad avidently como out second best in the strug- glo with fate. His faca, shows the cortaiu marks of that unmistakable desperation that drives mon to orime, fle never raises his eyes from the traii that, leads back to the castward, oxcept to .flash them inguir- ingly over the faces; of his captors to see if his piea for yfo bas made an im- pression. o is heard in perfect silence and then there is a hurried ¢onsultation in whis- pered tones; one man ppints silently to a clump of cottonwoods growing o the edgo of a “draw’" to the right of tho trail. There is & general mod of assent and auother quickly unwinds a knotied lariat from tne horn of his saddle, The group moves forward and the captive caszs one long despairing look back along the trail; and as roagh bands ave laid upon his shoulders and gruff voices aro saylng* *‘come ulong, now,” he sees in the far eostorn dis- tance'n “praicie schooner” with two lagging cattlo beind. Not a word is spoken; but in a fow mou justice has beeu aaministered in the rude anu homely fastion of the plains. The band of horsemen ride back over the trail and ouoe of them lodds a riderless horse, A few mil k they pass a ‘‘prairio schiooner” dr by balf lcan horses in dilapidated ha driven by a pale-faced, woman, while several frowzled cbildren peer from beneath the dirly bro'vn canvas cov Another child with lash and goad urgos for- ward a couple of lagging caitle and a hunery dog with lolling tongue trots along disconso- lately under the Wagon. b S Novem- Free Tue sun has nearly completed its journey, Its great red disk rests on the western horizon as 1f taking a parting glance at tne brown earth before disappearing bohind the fringe of mountuins rangide in the distance, Its ruddy rays seem Lo intensify as they rest upon a clump of cottonwoods growing ut the right of the trail, They Light up for o mo- ment the distorted countenance of the fugi- tive swineine and turning in the wind which is now sweeping over the prairies in fitful gusts. On the ground a disconsolate woman kncels with bor face in ber bands, whilo several frowzled children pull impatiently at ner skirts, and a hungry dog iifts his nose in air and gives a plaintive answer Lo the nowl of the coyote in u distant canon, C. . It | e Ty A Newing Machine Froe, Our improved oak or waluut $65 machine laced in your bome to use, without cost of 1 cent 10 vou. Cut thisadvt. out and send with address today, Address Alvah Manu- facturing Co., Chicago, 11, g oal storic tiabit, Pearson’s Weekly: The habit of smok- ing dried herbs in pipes is evidently of enormous antiquity, for both in the British islands and in many parts of Lurope and Asia, to say nothing of America, the supposed native land of smoking, pipes of sonpstone and red clay, which could not have been used for any other purpose than the burning of some form of fragrant weed, have been discovered in graves and tumauli which date far beyond the duwn of his- tory. With regurd to these islands, there is not the slightest doubt that ) smoking was practiced long before to- bacco was introduced by Fluwhins und Releigh. In the Historie of Plantes, published in oceurs the passage: “The parfume of the aryed leaves (of coltesfoote) luyed upon quicke coles taken into the mouth of a funnell or tunnell helpeth such as are troubled with shortness of winde and fetch theyre breath thicke and often.” This points only to the medicinal use of the but if there were any doubt as Lo tne antiquity of yinoking for pleas- ure among our ancestors, it would be disposed of by the following statement of Dr. Patrie, one of the most learned of Irish antiquarians, Helsays: *Smoking pipes of b onze are freguently found in | our Irish tumuli or sepulchial mounds of the most remote autiquity. terred in the abbey of Corcumrae, in the county of Clare, ho is vepresented in the usual Tecumbent postiwe with the short pipe or dhudeen in m. mouth,” The ** @7 Whesiar % Wilson with rotary movemeut is thp lightest runging macniug i Lhe markot, and is uaequalled,for speed, durability and quality of work, Hold could uot accommodate the uudlenwn, | by George W.Lancaster & Co., 614 5 10th Si can women who will re- ! chauged from green to | far- | When | 146 State § Mail Depl. 52 pounds, makin; to reducin: troubled with rh trouble or nervous is slower, the disc soften keep at this weiznt correspond Lene men $4.00, enough for one tr ded in plain and Finger Rings Send for our special B lar, sealed. who carry o 42 F West 10 1 34 P Bast Cut this out and keep it, Dr. Suyder ars inclosed. 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