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J All sites Nut, Stove, Fgg and Ihoketi. 4 Trices the lowest, l'rompt attention to i I all orders. J. S. POYTHRESS, v- I Henderson, N. C. ALEX. T. BARNES, UNDERTAKER AND deai.eh in FURNITUR H I.ASSITFK IICILDIXU, HENDERSON, N. C. A full line of FUN Ell A L SUFPUES of all kinds. Terms cash 1 carr a complete stock of Fl'llNI Tl.'HE of every description, MATTll ESS ES, M'KIM.S, &c, all of which are sold at LOWEST PlllCKS. ALEX. T. BAIINES, Lassiteh Bcii.ding, npr'Ai Henderson, N. C. NEED OFJBUCATION. HOW THE STRONG LEAD THE WEAK. Some Causes of the Farmer's Present Condition He Must Think and Act for Himself A Higher Standard of Education Will Enable Him to Do This. Correspondence Progressive Farmer. I did not begin this article expect ing to explain these hard times, nor to offer any plan whereby the dis tressed condition of the laboring peo ple could be relieved. I simply wish to mention a few things which, in my judgment, has a tendency to render this country ridiculous. It has been asserted that it was a law as old as the hills, that the stronger should control the weaker. Whatever may be the truth respecting the correctness of this statatement, in our opinion, it yet re mains a matter of choice with the great mass of laboring people whether they will continue longer to follow the teachings of political tricksters or not. We know that it is natural for some men to have influence over others. The man who is by nature handsome, will be an object ot admiration, and when flattery and politeness accompa nies his deportment, he will have more influence than his less beautiful broth er; not that he is more honorable, but because his manners are fascinating, he has an influence that the weak can not resist. And when it becomes ap parent to him that people are disposed to believe what he says, regardless of investigation, his sense of superiority becomes exhalted and he loses no time nor spares no pains in qualifying him self an imposter. I have no objection, and can see no impropriety ; in fact, it is advisable for the unlearned to consult the more informed for inform ation, such as the means by which the illiterate becomes enlightened, how ever, the unlearned would do well upon all occasions to investigate a little for his own advantage. The most unfortunate position that any man ever occupied is a position of willful ignorance. To be dependent upon what others say in things pertaining to your own individual interest, is humiliating in the extreme, but to surrender your own knowledge and experience at the behest of an ostensible dictator is abominable in the sight of the devil. In religion we have different ideas as to the true mode of worship, such ideas being a result of our inabilities to correctly comprehend the imports of holy writ, but in this life, wherein men are daily realizing the baneful resultsoffalseteaching.it does seem to us that such experience ought to create an anxiety lor education that could not be repelled until all men were acquainted with the fundamental principles of political economy. We know, and are sorry to say, that many of our people cannot read, and in all things wherein they have no experi ence, are dependent upon what others say. This isa sad condition of any peo ple, but should not be accepted as a sufficient cause lor their being sud- jected to influences injurious to their own advantages; they have common sense and their experience in all things should be made the criterion of their actions upon all occasions. A man who would attempt to rub a bull's nose in the dirt just for fun and get tossed over a ten rail fence, could hardly be persuaded to try that again. man who fails in his attempts to accomplish an undertaking, and by operation becomes a victim of mis fortune, will steer wide from such in the luture, indeed, men in all things are inclined to heed the past, so far as their domestic affairs are concerned. In politics the rule has been the re verse. Men, both learned and un learned, have been lead by the siren influences of political demagogues. Notwithstanding that, it was obvious when once considered that the polti cian could have no motive in wasting time and money that something might be done for the laboring man. Once in two years he would come before the people with a single dose, and in every four years the people have been drenqhed with a double dose. They took the medicine like little men, and hied themselves to all the political gatherings, gave heed to the vocifera tions of the orator of the occasion, and on election day voted for something, but didn't know what. This condi tion of the laboring people, in my opinion, accounts to a great extent for the present condition of things. The remembrance ot man seems to be inferior to that of animals. Time and again have they been captivated by sophistry ; yes, I have known men to respect things detrimental to their own advantages ; but never in my life have I known a dog when once ostracised for his own unsolicited familiarity, and having to leave town with a canteen tied to his tail, the victim of public in tolerance, with fire crackers being her alded at him from every quarter, that ever wanted to go to that town any more. The great indifference that now obtains among the laboring peo ple, if persisted, must sooner or later terminate in their subjugation. The authenticity of holy writ cannot be impeded ; it is a law of an unrepeat able character, irrevocable in its mandate and unevadable in its jurisdic tion, that a house divided aeainst itself cannot stand. If in the universe of intellectual be ings, there ever was a people that ought to be watchful of one another's welfare, it is the laboring people. If, in all the realms of Christendom, there ever was a people that ought to be united, that ought to be harmonized, that ought to be bound together by the strong ties of mortal fraternity, it is that people who eat bread by the sweat of their brow. I don't know as it is a condeming sin for a man who has no children to be a slave to the unrelenting cupidity of plutocracy, but he whose wife and little ones are dependent upon the price of his labor for their daily bread will, in our opinion, be held responsible for his assistance in establishing things in jurious to the safety of those whose actions have never beep accountable for the sufferings upon them. The laboring people are undergoing more to-day than ever before in their lives. The hard earnings of their labor that should be the rightful properly of them and their children are daily devoured by the money power. They are poor not because they haven't been energetic and industrious, their circum stances are meagre and humble, their advantages few and limited, their prospects dark and gloomy not because they have refused to work, but because, when they have worked, the price of their labor has been stolen by the usurper at the instigation of legislation. M. D. Chambers. ALMOST PERSUADED. The knock was loud at thy heart to-night ; llast thou let thy Master in ? He touched thy eyelids to give thee sight ; For a moment the world lost its false fair light, And hell seemed near, and Heaven seemed bright. And heavy the weight of sin. Hast thou opened yet ? For He standeth near. And He bids thee look and see The side they pierced with the cruel spear, The nail-torn hands and the thorn-crowned head. And the blood as thine atonement shed, That the curse might part from thee. Hast thou opened yet? Oh, the words were plain. That have touched thy heart to-night, They told the Savior's life of pain Homeless, sorrowful, tempted, lorn, That a sinless robe might by thee be worn In Heaven's own spotless light. By that life and death with thy soul He pleads And fain would His rich gifts tor ing; There is full provision for all thy needs, A sight of the crucified gives thee peace From the curse of sin and its fear, release; From the hour of death the sting. There are robes of earth that in dust will lie, And songs that will end in tears ; Sunshine to set in rayless gloom. Flowers to hide their way to the tomb, And through endless ages a lost soul's cry, For the wasted, vanished years. There's a home were God wipes the tears away, Where we lay aside the sin. Where never a ransomed one will say, " I am sick or pained, or grieved to-day," And the servant wants to show thee the way, And to bid thee enter in. Joy in the presence of God to-night. If thou wilt arise and come ; But the joy of friends if they see thee sliglit The robe, the crown, and the home of light And choose the path that will end in night And hell for the soul's long heme. A Prize Number. The December New Peterson is in many respects ahead of all former months, ex cellent as those issues have been. The illustrations are more numerous and better than ever, and a glimpse of the contents is enough to make one want to read from the first page to the last. The opening article, "The Land of the Liberator," by M. MeCarthy-O'Leary, is a sketch of Irish life and scenery, written in the most captivating manner and illustrated by a series of admirable photogravures. "Figs From Thistles," by Lucy II. Hooper, is a beautiful story and possesses an additional interest from the fact that it is the last written by thegifted authoressonlyafew months before her death. " Puss in Boots," by Agnes Pepplier,is in that popular writer's best vein, and the illustrations are worthy of the sketch. "Pocahontas," by Alexander Brown, is an exceedingly interesting paper by Virginia's noted historian. "Under the Southern Cross" is another charming paper profusely illustrated with excellent photogravures. " Helen," by M. . McClelland, is as in tense as it is realistic. "The Laziest Man in the Settlement," by Herbert Bashford, will make the older Western authors look to their laurels. "The Fireside," contains papers by Minot J. Savage and other distinguished essayists. The book reviews, by Robert C. V. Meyers, are the best we have seen among the month's magazines. At its reduced price $1.00 a year the New Peterson is certainly the cheapestand best magazine in the world. Send 5 cents for a sample copy. Address The Petersou Magazine Co. Philadelphia, Pa. Prize History ot the Fair. We are pleased to learn that the World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated re ceived the highest and only awnrd as the most authentic and complete I : nstrated History of the great World's Fair. This valuable work contains full de scriptions of the Fair with 3,000 large, copper-plate half-tone, photographic illustrations of the gounds, buildings, exhibits and attractions of the Exposi tion. The illustrations are from photo graphs, showing the laborers as they turned the first shovel-full of earth when the groat Fair was begun, and the prog ress of the Exposition groundsand build ings in all stages of construction from the swamp covered with brush and trees, to the world-famed "White City," filled with treasures of art and works of genius from the store-houses of the world, and adorned with its spires, tur rets and gilded domes. In all it is the richest and most valu able work ever published. It is the World's Fair on paper. By perusing its pages the great Exposition can be re visted in years to come. It should be in every lib.ary and home in the civilized world. Send 25 cents for sample number and full particulars. Reliable agents wanted. Address J. B. Campbell, President, 150 Adams St., Chicago, 111. For pity's sake don't growl and grumble because you are troubled with indigestion. No good was ever effected by snarling and tretting. Be a man (unless you happen to be a woman) and take Ayer s Sarsaparilla which will relieve you whether man or woman. Oppose the first appearance of evil. CANNINB FACTORIES. HOW THEY ARE OPERATED IN MISSOURI. Some Interesting: Facts Concern-! ing: the Fruit Canning1 Industry S Suggestions From Which Our People May Profit. The following article is taken from a recent number of the Schuyler county, New York, Free Press, a copy of which our friend Mr. M. B. Prince was kind enough to hand us. As it may be of interest and value to our readers we take pleasure in pub lishing the article which explains it self: The following interesting sketch of a canning factory was sent to the Schuyler County Farmers' Club by H. Wickham, of Carthage, Mo., and read at its last meeting : Believing that the members of the Farmers' Club of Schuyler county and the people of Watkins and vicinity are somewhat interested in establishing a canning factory, I send a sketch of one here. It has been an unfavorable year here for a canning factory as the early frosts in the spring so injured fruit that there was little for canning purposes. The only surplus was in strawberries, and they were shipped to Omaha and Denver at prices that would not pay to can, consequently many of the can ning products were vegetables, begin ning with peas the first of June, corn the first of August and tomatoes soon after ; then beets and pumpkins, and finnally chickens come last in Decem ber. Contracts are made with the growers the fall or winter previous to the grow ing of the crop, for the products of a certain number of acres, seed being supplied by the canning factory so as to insure good quality in products. No home-grown seed is used (the subject of your discussion.) The peas are from Canada, the corn from Maine and the tomato seed from Ohio. Mr. Livingston, of Canton, Ohio, is a man whom they trust, in preference to any wholesale seed house. All growers' products are bought and measured by weight to save time and troble, at the rate of 40 cents per bushel for peas, 10 cents for tomatoes, $8 per ton for green, unhusked corn of good quality and $2 to $6 per ton for pumpkins, according to scarcity. The rates on chickens have not yet been established at the factory, but for New York ship ping buyers are now paying six cents per pound. They are shipped from here by carload lots, same as stock from Watkins. This factory is now canning its third year's products and is growing in favor with the public, its reputation being well established with growers, employes and whole sale houses. This season's product was all sold in advance to one Kansas City firm. The increase in favor with growers is illustrated in the increased acreage of tomatoes. The first year they canned the product of 60 acres, last year 100, this year 300 and peas and corn in proportion. The daily capa city for canning is 800 bushels of peas, 30 tons of corn and 1,000 bushels of tomatoes. The peas are shelled by a huller, run over three screens and put up in three qualities. The corn is husked by one set of hands, silked by another, assorted by experts, put in the; cutters by the single ear, run thence into a steam cylinder, where it is cooked on its way through to the other end, and there received in cans as fast as they can be handled ; which are im mediately sealed and cooled. The growers here many of them use the same ground for peas and toma toes, setting the tomato plants as soon as the early peas are gathered. A fair crop of peas yields from 100 to 125 bushels to the acre, and from 150 to 300 of tomatoes, owing to the fertility of the soil and dryness of the season. The canning factory is teaching valuable lessons on how to save and ure home-made fertilizers. The factory is not able to secure all products needed for canning within hauling distance, so a portion is ship ped in on cars, they having a special switch to ship in cans, box material and products. The cans are made in Chicago and the box lumber (white pine,) all cut for nailing, is from Wis consin. The employes are about one-third men, who do the heavy worK, ana tne - , rest women and boys, the force of helP4 varying according to the rush of the season. The early dry season retarded the growth of tomatoes and the later rains make a rush ot them now. The low price of farm products has caused a large increase of patrons for the fac tory. They now have contracted for next season within hauling distance 200 acres of tomatoes, 350 of corn and 200 of peas. The proprietors of the factory intend to raise their own beets. In addition, Sarcoxie, a town 15 miles distant, has contracted for 200 acres of tomatoes ; one man has 40 acres, and other places have 150 acres of corn and 100 of peas. The grow ers under contract have the privilege of supplying the vegetable dealers and grocers with the earliest products at much increased prices. With fair crops the above acreage will make 300 cars of canned goods. To meet the increased business, the firm is preparing to build an addition 80x100 feet and two stories in height. If there is a good crop of fruit here next season, there will be a booming factory in Carthage. In order to stir up Seneca Lake grape growers I make this statement : New York Concord grapes are retail ing here, large baskets, at 20 cts. each; fourteen carloads have been sold and five more in transit ; and at that price the canning factory is con verting them into grape marmalade. The firm is composed of wide-awake men of energy and push, social and gentlemanly men with whom it is a pleasure to meet. Mr. Hendrick is a native ol Car thage. Mr. Magee is a New Yorker, of Conesus, Livingston Co., and I en close his business card, as his father and Mr. John Magee, formerly of Bath, later of Watkins, were old ac quaintances and relatives who fre quently visited in Bath, The market, this one institution creates and the labor it gives to the laboring class are duly appreciated, and as to the profits of the factory I give a few hints, taking tomatoes to illustrate : Two bushels cost 40 cents; they fill a dozen quart caes, which of tomatoes case of two sells to the jobber for $1.50 to $1.75 per case ; from the jobber sells to the trade for Si. 80 to $2. 10 per case, and the re- tailer from 10 to 15 cents per can. Not to weary your patience any further, I close, wishing success and increasing interest in the attendance and enterprise of the Schuyler County Farmers' Club. Very truly yours, H. Wickham. Sheep in North Carolina. (.Correspondence Home and Farm.J I have just been reading in your valuable paper Dr. Wilson's letter on sheep husbandry, which has interested me and I hope many others. As I have been engaged for over forty years in farming and stock raising, and es pecially sheep and hogs, I will give a little of my experience on the subject, if you should think it worth notice please insert for the benefit of your would-be stock raisers. I was born in the year 1822, and raised in England among flocks and herds, my kinfolks being large stock owners, caused me to have a fondness for farming and stock raising. I have taken great in terest in this profession, and especially sheep, for about forty years. In the year 1874 I came to North Carolina. Shortly after I came here I imported from Canada two car loads of thorough bred sheep, ot different breeds, but chiefly Cotswools and Lecester, only a few Southdowns. I selected the num ber I wanted and distributed the bal ance among neighbors, and after a few years' trial I became convinced that these fine bred Cotswool and Lecester sheep would not suit the Southern cli mate. Our heavy rains would cause the wool to part along the back, leav ing the backbone naked and causing them to take cold and running at the nose, thus causing them to become consumptive. My plantation being too small for both cows and sheep, I sold the latter and advised a judicious cross with Southdown males which some have done and made a decided improvement both in wool and mutton. The Southdown being one of the best mutton sheep, with fine, close wool, which will prevent the rains from wet ting the skin, requires less pasture, is much hardier than long wool sheep and is always ready for the butcher. They are very prolific and make a handsome sheep, a specimen of which can be seen at Mr. Stephen Borroughs' or Mr. John McMillan's, near Wil liamsboro; they have two handsome flocks ot said cross. I wish to say to Dr. Galen Wilson, Mr. Covington's line of procedure is right, but he must be careful in start ing with the right kind of stock. To insure success he must remember the pure breed, long wool sheep in the North will not thrive in our Southern States. I would advise him to start a flock of native long wool, common ewes and a pure Southdown or Shropshire Down buck I should pre fer the former. I am writing from my own experience. He can purchase common ewes at $2 per head, which will bring him two sales a year ; first, the fleece will bring about $2, and, second, the lambs $2, so the first year will pay for his ewes and he will be $2 in pocket clear. Some object to keeping sheep because thev want to keeo cows, and I ?tlICTCTII (AlllI l-IJWTt UU 1IUL LlillVl. Ill r , , 11"" H,8"uc, " l"c ollc But if any person wishes to carry on a dairy he can do so by pasturing the cows ahead of sheep. When the cows have cropped the pasture nearly bare change them, then turn in the sheep, which will do well on what the cows leave. They will eat of noxious weeds, briars, sassafras and all kinds of bushes, and manure the land. It has been truly said the sheeps' hoofs are tipped with gold ; they are the most preferred stock a farmer can keep if he is near a railroad to ship his lambs North, as he can ship them early before they are ready North. I could say much more but fear I have already said too much. I enclose one of my old bills to show you what ray reputation has been as a farmer and stock -raiser. Geo. Smerdon. W'illiamsboro, N. C. Thousands of lives ar" saved annually by tb use of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. In the treatment of croup and whooping cough the Pectoral has a most marvelous effect. It allays inflammation, frees the obstructed air passages and controls the desire to cough. Small things increase by union. PRACTICAL RELIGION. A SERMON BY REV. CHAS. G. FINNEY. The Need of Practical Christian ity as Exemplified by the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ. PART SIXTH. 3. It is evident that the standard of Christian living must be raised or the world will never be converted. If we had as many church members now as there are families and scattered all over the world, and a minister to every five hundred souls, and every child in a Sabbath school and every young person in a Bible class, you would have all the machinery you want, but if the church contradict the truth by their lives it never would pro duce a revival. They never will have a revival in any place while the whole church in effect testify against the minister. Often it is the case that where there is the most preaching there is the least religion because the church contradicts the preaching. I never knew means to fail of a revival where the Christians lived consistently. One of the first things to do is to raise the standard of religion, so as to em body and hang out in the sight of all men the truth of the gospel. Unless ministers can get the church to wake up and act as if religion was true and back their testimony by their lives, in vain will thev attempt to promote a revival. Many churches are depending on their ministers to do everything. When he preaches they will say, " what a great sermon that was. He is an ex cellent minister. Such preaching must do good. We shall have a revival soon I do not doubt." And all the while they are contradicting the preachers by their lives. I tell you, if you are depending on preachers alone to carry on the work they must fail. If Jesus Christ were to come and preach and the church contradicts it he would fail. It has been tried once. Let an apostle rise from the dead or an angel come down from Heaven and preach without the church to wit ness for God, and it would have no effect. The novelty might produce a certain kind of effect for a time, but as soon as the novelty was gone the preaching would have no saving effect while contradicted by the witnesses. . 4. Every Christian makes an im pression by his conduct and witnesses either for one side or the other. His looks, dress, whole demeanor, make a constant impression on one side or the other. He can not help testily for or against religion. He is either gath ering with Christ or scattering abroad. Every step you take you tread ou chords that will vibrate to all eternity. Every time you move you touch keys whose sound will re-echo over all the hills and dales in Heaven, and through all the dark caverns and vaults of hell. Every moment of your lives you are exerting a tremendous influence that will tell ou the immortal interests of souls all around you. Are you asleep while your conduct is exerting such an influence? Are you going to walk the street ? Take care how you dress. What is that on jour head ? What does that gaudy ribbon and those ornaments upon your dress say to every one that meets you ? It makes the impression that we wish to be thought pretty. Take care. You might just as well write on your clothes, " no truth, no religion." It says, "give me dress, give me fashion, give me flattery, and I am happy." The world understands this testimony as you walk the streets. You are " living epistles, known and read of all men." If you show pride, levity, bad temper, and the like, it is like tearing open the wounds of the Savior. How Christ must weep to see professors of religion going about hanging up his cause to contempt at the corners of the streets. Only let the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shame-faced ness and so briety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works ; only let them act consistently and their con duct will tell on the world, Heaven will rejoice and hell groan at their in fluence. But, oh, let them display vanity, try to be pretty, bow down to the goddess of fashion, fill their ears with ornaments and their fingers with rings. Let them put feathers in their hats, and clasps upon their arms, lace themselves up till they can hardly breathe. Let them put on their round tires and walk mincing as they go, and their influence is reversed. Heaven puts on the robes of mourning and hell may hold a jubilee. 5. It is easy to see why revivals do not prevail in a great city. How can they? Just look at God's wit nesses and see what they are testifying to. They seem to be agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord and lie to the Holy Ghost. They make their vows to God to consecrate themselves wholly to him, and then go bowing down at the shrine of fashion and then wonder there are no revivals. It would be moie than a miracle to have a revival under such circumstances. How can a revival prevail in this church ? Do you suppose I have such a vain imagination of my own ability as to think I can promote a revival by preaching over your heads f Do you 1 0 ' a ' Eot know that so far as your influence goes many of you are right in the way of a revival ? Your spirit and dejwrt ment produce an influence on the world against religion. How shall the world believe religion when the wit nesses are not agreed among them selves? You contradict yourselves, you contradict one another and you contradict your minister, and the sum of the whole testimony is, there is no need of being pious. . Do you believe the things I have been preaching are true, or are these merely the ravings of a disturbed mind? If they are true do you recognize the fact that they have reference to you ? You say, perhaps, I wish some of the rich churches could hear it." WThy, I am not preaching to them. I am preaching to you. My responsibility is to you, and my fruits must come from you. Now, are you contradict ing it? What is the testimony on the leaf of the record that is now sealed for the judgment concerning this day ? Have you manifested a sympathy with the Son of God when His heart is bleeding in view of the desolations of , Zion ? Have your children, clerks, servants, seen it to be so ? Have they seen a solemnity on your countenance and tears in your eyes in view of per ishing souls? Finally, I must close by remarking that God and all moral beings have great reason to complain of this false testimony. There is ground to com plain that God's witnesses turn and testify point blank against Him. They declare by their conduct that there is no truth in the pospel. Heaven might weep and hell rejoice to see this. Oh, how guilty. Here you are going to the judgment red all over with blood. Sinners are to meet you there, those who have seen how vou live, many of them already dead, and many others you will never see again. What an influence you have exerted. Perhaps hundreds of souls will meet you in the judgment, and curse you (if they are allowed to speak) for leading them to hell by practically denying the truth of the gospel. What will become of this city and of the world when the church is united in practically testify ing that God is a liar? They testify by their lives that if they make a pro fession and live a moral life that is re ligion enough. Oh, what a doctrine of devils is that. Enough to ruin the whole race. Harper's Magazine for December The Christmas Harper's is clothed more handsomely than usual, in a cover of white and gold, while extraordinary at tention has been given to the illustration of its contents. Nine pictures by Edwin A. Abbey, three by A. B. Frost, sixteen by Howard I'.vle, eleven by C.S.Heinhart, ten by Frederic Remington, three by W. T. Smedley, nine bv A. E. Sterner.two by Clifford Carleton, two by W. H. Hyde, and oue each by F. V. I)u Mond, (leorge )u Maurier, (Juy Rose, Peter Newell, and O. Heiford, are among the attractions of the number. Nine short stories repre sent the most vigorous movement in American letters, and these tales are varied sufficiently to include all branches of the art which has reached so high an excellence within recent years. They are : " A Thanksgiving Dinner," an episode of New York Life, by Brander Matthews ; "The winning of the Biscuit Shooter," a romance of a Wyoming ranch, by Owen Wister; "Bud Zunts's Mail," a love story of Simpkinsville, by Ruth Mc Enery Stuart; "The Phantoms of the Foot bridge," a mystical and tragic tale of the Tennessee mountains, by Charles Egbert Craddock; "A Soldier of For tune," a biographical sketch reciting the adventures of a seventeenth century in triguer, by Howard P.vle; "A Second Sping," a story of rural New England, by Sarah Orne Jewett; "Sweet Punch: " A Monologue," by . I. Lincoln Steffens; " A King for a Week," a tale of the French Revolution, by William Mc Lennan; and "A Watch in the Night," a psychological study, by Harriet Pres cott Spofford. To these nine short stories may be added a tenth, " Rachel's Lovers," by Thomas Nelson Page, which introduces the " Editor's Drawer. Toilettes lor LadieH. For stvlish evening costumes the silks of the present season have never been ! 1 r :r..i Tl, surpassea in luucuui vurn-ij. nieiuin weaving of two or more colors predomin ates in these tissues and produces novel and original effects in blending shades, which are still enhanced by the glistening moire surface that is given to many of them. Among ocher novelties the broche moires are particularly attractive, hav ing delicate broch figures of one color standing out against the watered ground of a contrasting color. A rich brocade for reception gowns is called "damas camaieu." This material has repped ground in some solid color with a design in satin of the same color Bhot with white. The painted bengalineg are even ing silks with light grounds, having printed Pompadour bouquets which look as if painted in water colors. They are often combined with a new velours peluche. These items, as well as many nfKoKi u , n o 1 1 atlraptirD flfA I'M , founJ jn the McDowell fashion magazines just received. The latest numbers of these artistic publications maintain still their high standard of excellence, which makes them of inestimable value to all devotees of fashion, and easily accounts for the wide spread admiration they secured at the World's Fair. A special new inducement has been introduced in them in the shae of pattern coupons, by which one can secure many novelties at moderate prices. La Mode de Paru and Album of Fashion only cost f 3.50 a year each, or 35 cents a copy. The French Dress-Maker is $3.00 per annum, or 30 cents a copy, while La Jocfe the home fashion magazine aboveall, comes atthe very moderate price of fl. 50 a year, or 15 cents acopv. It you are unable to nrocureanv of these tmblications atyour newsdealer's do not take any substitute from him. but apply by mad to Messrs A. 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