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POXTaHKEEPSIE SEMI-WEEKLY. NOVEMBER EAGLE 27. 1889 1. 7 @tir C!p0iiMtJti;t0rs. Written foi the Eagle. EDMUND m m ON IB3BN. T H E E M -IN E N T â^ C a i T I C A E D SCHOLA& W R I T E S O F T H E EO R W B G H A E GBEIHS AED DEBCBIBES HIS E E W .PL A.Y. IBSBNâS L I F S â HI* SOCIAL DRAMAS AND TH E IR PURPO S E â IBSRNâ* NEW PLAY ALSO B E PUBLISHED IN BN » L ISH â A S T B i r - INH SITUATIONâ TH E MORAL OF THE THE LADY FROM THE SEA. The name of Henrik Ibsen has now be come so familiar to the American public that it seems almost needless to remind the reader of the incidents of his life. I may, however, be permitted to repeat once more that the most illustrious Scan dinavian writer of our age was born in the little timber-port of Skien, in Norway, on the 20th of March, 1828. His parents were Norwegian by citizenship ; but of a stock in which Danish, German and Scotch elements were curiously mingled. Like Heats, he was brought up to busy himself among âplasters, pills and oint ment hoxe*but soon threw off this bondage of the apothecary. In 1850 he published a stiff historical tragedy of âCatalina.â From this he rose, slowly but steadily, to poetical work more char acteristic of himself. He developed an extraordinary gift in lyrical drama, a power oyer rhyming dialogue not easily to be matched in the literature of any country. His plays in rhyme, as musical as is Apolloâs lute, enjoyed a great and deserved popularity. In âLoveâs Comedy,â 1863, in âBrand,â 1865, in âPeer Gynt,â 1867, he produced dramatic poems of in finite wit and vivacity, on the adornment of which he had expended all the treas ures of metrical art. To the dismay of his admirers, he forthwith rejected rhyme and meter altogether. It was not an easy matter to conquer a new public, but / Ibsenâs patience and belief in his own judgment wore indomi table. He has at last so completely con verted the world to his prose that there may even be some danger of his old fault less verse becoming neglected. Be that as it may, his new order of writing has developed into a series of seven social dramas, the composition of which has exclusively ocoapied their author during the last fifteen years. Of this senes of plays much has lately been said in E n g  land and Am erica, and the second of them in order of publication, âEt Duk- kehjem,â or âA Dollâs House,â in a ver sion scrupulously faithful to the original, has been played this summer before crowded audiences in a London theater. This performance wai confessedly a pro foundly interesting one. It was closely studied, vehemently attacked, passionate ly supported. I t wa* univer*ally conceded that the play contained such elements of life as call forth eager comment and lead to excited discussion. A single perform anee of an earlier, and perhaps a cruder piece, âThe Pillars of Society,â provoked a scarcely less lively demonstration of various opinion. Plenty more of Ibsenâs refreshing and invigorating breeze of fresh air will doubtless be blown across our jaded London stage to stir its odor of the footlights. In the meantime enough has been said and seen to make the gen eral character of the great Norwegian poet understood among us. Everyone who cares for theatrical literature at all has now had an opportunity of testing the new product for himaelf. The play called âThe Lady from the Seaâ is the latest of the series of seven social dramas mentioned above. It was brought out last Christmas under the Norwegian title of âFruen fra Havet,â Those who have seen or read all seven plays know that they possess a strong general likeness to one another, but that they differ greatly in theiiâ barometric conditions. In some of them the press ure of the moral atmosphere is over whelming. In some the quivering needle of the dramatic instrument points to storm, as eminently in âGhosts,â in âThe Wild Duck,â and m âRosmersholm,â gloomy and sardonic pieces, in which a sort of mystical pessimism is made to bear upon tragic conditions of human error and. distress. This habit of describing by preference the barrenness and hopeless distraction of unfortunate individuals, and of leading them into cuh de sac, had grown In the poet, to the alarm of some of hi* greatest admirers. In âYildanden,â or the âWild Duok,â he had written, in l§84f, a play which is full of genius, but obscure, cynical and distressing to the last degree. âEoamersholm,â although its dismal problems are solved by suicide, breathed, nevertheless, an atmosphere distinctly less oppressive, and now in âThe Lady from the Seaâ Ibsen has sud denly changed hi* mood, the tragic ten sion is relaxed, the mercury flies back, and we have a drama which is full of sympathetic passages, and which close* in sunshine instead of in rain and tempe»t. In one'of Sir Walter Scottâs letters, he says: âA very intelligent young lady, bom and bred in the Orkney Islands, who lately came to spend a season in this neighborhood, told me nothing in the mainland scenery had so much disap pointed her as woods and trees. She found them so dead and lifeless, that she could never help pining after the eternal motion and variety of the ocean. And BO back she has gone, and I belieye noth ing will ever tempt her from the wind swept Oreades again.â The condition of instinct which Scott here describes is that which Ibsen has taken as the central idea of his piece. The action takes place in a small Norwegian town, built, as so many Norse KjdbtUdtr are, at the head of a nar row and tortuou* fjord. It would be idle to speculate what town in particular was intended. But the description fits in re markably well with Grimstad, the place where Ibsen lived from 1843 to 1849, while he was studying to be an apothe cary. Here there is the same sluggish ripple around the town, the same sleepy water-way to the genuine sea, same glit tering and tossing ocean outside, the lime external belt of lonely skerries, with a lighthouse on the largest of them. It 1 * true that a stage-direction fells us that the scene is laid in the north of Nor way, but this is belied by the course the i steamer takes in the fifth act, and to rea lize the scene we must perhaps conceive it to be somewhere on the southeastern coast between Christiansand andLaurvig. It is not necessary to tell the story in detail. It is part of Ibsenâs magnificent genius for stage arrangement that the plots of his plays unwind themselves without a hitch in their natural evolution. The attention is arrested at once; no more is aduced than the memory needs to retain, and the tension of excitement becomes steadily greater to the close. He who has the ^play before him holds a better thread of the plot than 1 can give. But it may be briefly said that Dr. Wan- gel, the town physician, after a common place happy marriage, in which two daughters were horn to him, has lost his jrrife. As his motherless daughters grow up, he determines for their sakes, as much as for his own, that he will marry again. During a professional excursion to the lighthouse on the outer skerry, he falls in love with Ellida, the beautiful solitary daughter of the lighthouse keeper. She IS quite young, scarcely older than his elder child, Bolette. Ellida accepts him, after having frankly told him that he is not her first fancy, although she is now free. They marry, and tliey are happy; but Ellida shows herself to be psychically abnormnl. She is like the girl in Sir Walter Scottâs letter; she cannot breathe in the town to which she has been trans planted ; she pines after the motion andl variety of the sea, and in the absence of this brilliant sedative with which she has been wont to calm her nerves, her mental! disease grows upon her, and she becomes a neurotic invalid. Gentle and unselfish, and mated to a wise and tender man, »he is yet melancholy, restless, irritable, and unfitted to fulfill .the duties or enjoy the pleasures of her position. The step daughters are unable to win her sympa thy, and they fall away from her; her only child has died, and since that time, in her growing melancholia, she has evaded her husband also. Her only enjoyment is bathing; her only perfectly lucid inter vals are those which she spends upon the ocean. Her husband makes her only worse by injudicious doses of morphia. Such is the condition of the principal characters when the play opens. As the piece develops, the irritant, which is playing havoc with, the brain of the sweet and patient Ellina, is discover ed. Late one autumn, while the light house keeperâs daughter was still upon her rock, the second mate of an A m e r i can vessel, which had taken refuge in the IQord. came out and made friends with her father and herself. This was a wild man, a Quain from the A r c tic Regions, with a strange and violent personality, which at once exercised an overwhelming influence over Ellida. AH this manâs life had been spent at sea; of the sea, and of its beast* and birds, was all his talk; with his close-curling hair, rich blood, and color-changing eyes, he grew to .seem to Ellida no m ortal man. but the incarnation of the sea itself. They became betrothed, but he murdered the captain of his shipâin justice slew him, according to his own account âand after a weird half-ceremony of marriage on the solitary ick, flying from the law, he left her. She has seen him no more, for the attraction which he exercised wa« a personal and direct one, and began to fade immediate ly that she ceased to be in his presence. A.ffection for she had never had, only the resignation to a strange will, the subjection to a physical nature extremely sympathetic to her âthe surrender to a visible embodiment of her irresistible master and possessor, the ocean. The powers of light and darkness which contend for the spirit and body of Ellida are, on the one hand her husband, gentle, conscientious, tender and a little weak, and on the other the Strange Man, with his imperative instincts, his absence of moral purpose, his determined physical attraction. The Strange Man is autoch thonous ; he seems to have sprung with out recent parentage from earth itself, or rather from ocean; he appears on th* stage as one fresh from âloud wastes of the thunder-throated sea.â It will be seen that in the creation of this strange figure, Ibsen, as all realists do sooner or later, slip* back into the old romantic manner. The fact is that hi* imagination has proved itronger than his theory, and he is great enough to refuse to be the captive, even- of himself, A more im portant Criticism will doubtless occur to the reader of the play, namely, that the scene in the third act, where Ellida, Wangel and the Strange Man are brought together, too closely reseml?l'J5 that in which they meet again In the fifth act. What seems inadequate to us when we reid Ibsenâs plays is so often justified when we see them acted, that I should not mention this if it had not been noted by one of the poetâs staunchest admirers, Mr. Alfred Sinding-Larsen, who called attention to it as a blemish in the article he wrote in the Norwegian Morgenbladet, on the occasion of the first performance of the play in Christiana. The outcome of the struggle between these angels of darkness and ot light is the central interest in âThe Lady from the Sea,â The reader must study closely the curious and fascinating conclusion of the play. It is highly characteristic of Ibsen, whose object is not, as some of his English admirers have too rapidly con cluded, to preach this or the other foible in iocial or philanthropic moral*, but to illustrate tbe result of liberating the in dividuality of a person whose will is led captive b y' convention. In the case of Ellida, it will hardly be advanced that any sermon is preached in the course of the singular struggle which goes on for her between her husband and the stranger. First and foremost, Ibsen is studying the effect of certain modes of procedure on the nervous system of an individual un der peculiar psychical conditions. Sec ondly, he is investigating the result of cut ting away all the bonds which restrain the action of a woman in modern society. The world, with one voice, has decided that ^ to sever these bonds is to destroy married life. Ibsen says: Let us try, and let us try in a case where all seem* to point to disaffection and the instant ruin of the matrimonial structure. We try, not upon a type, but on the solitary case of Ellida, and the result on this neurotic subject ii Jhat liberty brings health, and health brings love, gratitude, and duty in its train. It is an obvious criticism to say that the experiment was,in the highest degree, a perilous one; that Ellida might have been a little more under the Strange Manâs influence that she was, and that, in that case, she would have fl.own to him from the moment when her husband left her free- to act. The reply is, a* it should be in the case of the final scene of the Dollâs House,â that Ibsen is not dealing with an order of manners, but with an isolated moral case; that be knew that Ellida would choose to stay with her husband, as he knew that Nora would slam the front door behind her. Given his knowledge of what actuates his creations, he takes the liberty of leading us up, step by step, to the crises of their lives. When his disciples insist that he i« preaching them a sermon, he is really working out a problem, and watching the evolution of an experiment in character. At the same time it would be going too far to attempt to deny that, in âThe Lady from the Seaâ as in his earlier creations, Ibsen is occupied with didactic ideas. His individual cases are interesting to biro, as throwing light on the puzzling enigma of marriage, and on the possibility of its outlasting the coming rev#- lution in social ideas; and, in his portrait of Ellida â as often before, in his Dora and his Rebekka and his Fra Alving- Ibsen shows himself to us as the poet who, more than any other of recent times, has endeavored to cast behind him the mere traditional estimate of womanâs in dividual capacity. In the Middle Ages, â v^omen were looked upon as the tempta-^ tion and scourge of men. In later andâ more sentimental times, they have been regarded as the guardian angels of the wandering male. The latest, didacticism has used them as decoys, as sign-posts, as sleuth-hounds in the cause of virtue; but always in relation to man and his impor tance. Ibsen is the first great writer who has amused himself by seriously speculat ing what future woman may have, if she shapes her life wholly without relation to the prerogatives of the other sex. Let U3 be thankful that any poor sufferer can buy with 25 cents a bottle of Salva tion Oil. Venoorâs predictions, though in the main pretty accurate, are not infallib e. But Dr. Bullâs Cough Syrup was never known to fall to cure a cough. âąâ Been writing?â âTea â âWho to?â âOh, dear! Why donât you speak gram matically? The ideaââWho to!â You should say, âTo whom to.â â No, Cedric, the small boy who has been doing wrong could hardly be called a locksmith because at hia fatherâs approach he makes a boll for the door. A â Souvereignâ that Costs One Dollar. Dr. David Kennedyâs Favorite Remedy, of Rondoul, N Y , is known to be a cer tain cure for Nervousness, Debility, and the ills peculiar to women. This sover eign remedy stimulates the Stomach, Kid neys and Liver to a healthy action. For all troubles of the blood and urinary or igans it has no equal, and a bottle, which costs only one dollar, should be in d&wlm ^ house. SnooperâDejones is a man of ability. Is he not ? McUorkleâHeâs a man of ir ritabilitv. if thatâs what you meanâ Brakes Magazine The hen is a splendid example of per- severence, but sheâs an example you canât always set. M e rit W ins, We desire to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr Kingâs New Discovery tor Consumption. Dr. Kingâs New Life Pills. Bucklenâs Arnica Salve and E'ectric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory results do not follow their use These remedies have won their great popularity purely on their merits. HUMPHERY & FORMa.N 388 Main Street, Druggists tu.th,s&wâ1 'God save the kingââand kings , For if he doesnât I doubt if man -will longerâ I think I hear a little bird who sings The people, by and by, will be the stronger. âLord Byron, 1821. We presume that if ripples on the mouth of a river make it smile, high waves make it roar. Tbe queen of all bees Is the husking bee. You can distinguish her by her ved ear, If a billy-goat Is a buttet, is a nanny a buttress? The woman who wants to be called pet names gets mad when you call her a little tart in tbe National flower discussion the marrygold and tbe toddy blossom have been grossly neglected. 32 & 34 West 14fli Street, H e a d q u a r ters i n NEW YORK For tlie best fitting Loudon dyed A l a s k a S e a l s k i n GARMENTS, SHOULDER CAPES, Bokes; Bugs & Pur Triituningsi AH Sew Styles is Stock jmd Hade to Order. /miW E R 'S V ^ I Great InviCforatoiv ^ â Rleed Purifier, Flesli i M a k e r a n d N e r v e T o n ic . B Cares Malaria. Billoosneas S 1 1 ^ Scrofula. Dyspepsia. Let^ |w?wiv W tor Removing Pimples ana p l l I C For Sale, Wholesale and Retail, by WOOD & TITTA.MER, 288 Main Streei. A. M. DOTY,'^ 5 Main Street. Gm2386 IS REED THE MAH ? That Will Control the GaveJ m the Next Congress. IT LOOKS VERY MUCH THAT WAY Southern Members Decide on ffim ir Caucus Last Night* The New York Delegfation to Vote for tHa Main Man As a UnitâThis With, the Sonth and. His Own Tâollowers in New Xiusland it is Said Will Undoubtedly Se cure Him the Place. / W a sh ington , D. C., Nov. 26.âTbe .Southern Republican members of Con gress held a conference to determine upon a joint candiate for Speaker. f Tbe general impression is that tbe Southerners decided to vote for Mr. Reed. Congressman Wade, of Missouri, was originally esteemed a Cannon man, but when accused of having gone into âąthe Reed ranks, he did not deny tbe impeachment. ^ niâ. . , ...... ew Eng- Ly, â land support, be is likely to be tbe next Speakerâ. ' It is stated on good authority that tbe two-thirds rule will prevail, arid as Reed has tbe reouisite two-thirds majority, the New York dele gation will vote as a unit for him. } Congressman Flood, whom, it is un derstood, is for Major McKinley, is tbe member wbo proposed the two- thirds rule, and it is reported that be intends to abide by it. Rumors have been prevalent for the past week: that the New York dele gation would cast several votes for JMr. Reed and then scatter, each mem ber voting for his choice. An understanding at present exists to tbe effect that the New York delega tion would go solidly for Mr. Reed until it has been clearly shown that he stands no chance whatever. The rule of cast ing a complimentary vote now and tbi tvill not be observed, but a strong fight will be made in tbe beginning for Sir. Reed. _______________ HIED IN JAIL FROM POISON. â JVIvs. Sears's Last Attempt to R ill Herself / ^ Was Successful. / T kexton , N. J., N ov . 26.âMrs. Annie Sears, wbo was arrested here on Sunday night on a charge of arson committed at Wheat Sheaf, died in the county jail from the effects of rat poison, which she had swallowed with suicidal intent pre vious to her arrest. Three weeks ago Mrs. Sears tried to renc an empty fuelling. While she Job uâse, and it to her. She sw o r e vengenance âąI 1 1 T-k n r% i 1 A v/as n e g o t iatin g for it John T h o m p son bought the house, and then refused to mb i t to he r . Shi on Thompson and all bis family. A week later the Thompson family took up their residence in their new home. ]\Jrs. Sears paid them a neighborly visit. The following day Mr. and Mrs. Thompson went to town to pay off the mortgage and renew the insurance on the dwelling. While the insurance man was drawing up tbe policy the house upon which it was being drawn was set on fire. Mrs. Sears had en tered the house, it is alleged, in the absence of the family and saturated tbe rooms with kerosene and fired the house. > Since that time she had been in hid ing in this city. The detectives found .her at her sonâs house in bed. When they placed her under arrest she ran to a back room and attempted to jump from the second story window, but was prevented by Detective Leahy, who had entered the house by tbe rear. On pretence of getting some clean clothing she was allowed to go to a bureau drawer. Here she seized a box of rat poison and swallowed a quantity of it. Detective Pilger seized her by the, throat, and it was tliought she âwould recover, but she died from the [effects of the poison. Mrs- Sears was 'jvell connected in Bucks county, Pa., hnd had well-to-do relatives here. REPORTED UPRISING IN HAYTI. 6,000 Men Said to Be Armed to Depose Hippolyte. N ew Y obk , N ov . 26.âTh© steamer Prince Frederick from Port-au-Prince, November 20, has arrived here and âbrings news of an uprising in the Island of Hayti. It is reported that there are 5,000 men armed to depose Hippolyte. The Cleary Bribery Case* f B inghamton , N. Y., N ov . 26.âJudge 'Smith, holding circuit in this city, denied the motion of counsel for ex- 'Alderman Thomas Cleary, that the in dictment for bribery against his client \be dismissed, or that the people he compelled to proceed against him. ,The judge also denied a motion by the 'defendantâs c o u n s e l to th e e ffect th a t the case he brought to trial during the term ,in February next, or that the defendant ,be discharged. The people must give the defence fifteen days notice at least of their readiness to resume the prose cution. The rulings of the judge in effect continues the case until the Febâ ruary circuit in this city. N. T. L. E- & W. Railroad Earnings. - N ew Y oek , N ov . 26.âT h e report of the Board of Directors of the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1881, shows the gross earnings of the entire system leased lines and branches have been $24,595,273.27; working ex penses have been §17,854,424.95; net earnings from traffic, $6,740,948.32; .rnings frgm other sources, $1,576, ^16.51; surplus for the year, $774,776.45. i A City Recorder Ousted. [ H arsisbueg , Pa.,. Nov. 26.âJudg^ <Simonton has made a decree in the ^matter of the Commonwealth vs. A. D. iHuey, Recorder of Bradford City, oust- jing Huey from the office. He claimed âątitle to the office under the Act oi ^larch 24, 1SS9, hut the Court declare? âthe law unconstitutional. / Cattle Killed in a Wreck. 'f L ancaster , Pa., Nov. 26.âAn east- bound Pennsylvania Railroad freight .train was wrecked at Falmouth by a broken axle. Fifteen loaded cars were 'derailed, and eight of them fell into the canal. A number of cattle in the car^i were drowned. A Plea for Pare Air. As the Slimmer draws quietly into autumn, and the hot, sultry days of previous months are succeeded by cool days, how gladly we nestle closer to the cheerful, comforting fire which now bmuis in every fireplace, while we think, perhaps, of the happy times we have had diu-ing -the delightful summer. What robust faces we see 1 W hat a change has been imparted to every one who has been so fortu nate as to have au âouting.â And these changes are due to what? Simply to a change of work, sights, but most probably to the needed change of air. It seems terrible to me to see the number of pale and sickly that we meet each year, caused only by the want of more oxygen. Now is the time when we are forming this miserable habit of self de struction. As the days and nights grow colder we box ourselves into airtight rooms and bri^athe and rebreatke the same air, until it becomes so foul and polluted that v/e grow sleepy and dull, wondering what makes us feel so, and if a fresh supply is admitted, we feel cold, and some one cries: âPut down the window,â or âDo shut the door.â But my advice is*.be less sparing of your fuel, hare a rousing fire if need be, but have a window open in every room. Donât be con tent with air from another room. Rest satis fied only with out of door air. A t night donât sleep in a closed room. On with the clothes and up with the windows, and in the morn ing you will wake up with none of that tired, languid feeling, but instead you will be re freshed by your sleep, eager to âbe up and doing.â Of course pure air need not be cold ah', so even tbe frailest need not be debarred from its enjoyment. Therefore donât hiber nate as though you were a squhrel or wood chuck, but live and enjoy the supporter of life, Godâs greatest gift, pure air.âLewiston Journal. Food in Its Relation to Health. Dr. Atwater, in the paper read by him be fore the last convention of the American Public Health association, dwelt on the evils of ovei-eating, and showed that in this coun try people overeat enormously, especially in the matter of meat and sweetmeats, with tESâ result of imdermining their health to a de gree. D r\ Jerome Walker gave facts to prove that meat -^uce a day was enough for any oiâ- dinaiy person. Dr: Atkinson showed the Importance of better cooking for the masses. He considered that a great obstruction to im provement in the art of cooking is the almost universal misconception that the finer cuts of meat aiâe more nutritious than the coarser portions, coupled with an almost insuperable working people against This prejudice is doubtless due to the tasteless quality of boiled meat; boil- ich of the fine fibers, E its tivG flavor. All these blunders and misconceptions must evidently be removed before any true art of cooking can become common practice. The more necessary, however, does it become to invent apparatus in which meat can only be simmered and cannot boil, and also to invent a stove or oven in which neither meat nor bread can .be overcooked, dried up or ren dered indigestible by too much heat. Next, people munt be persuaded that a better and more nutritious breakfast can be made ready to eat, as soon as the family a.re out of bed, by putting meat stews, oatmeal, biâown bread and many kinds of pudding into the cooker, and simmering all night by the use of a single safe lamp, than in any other way.â New York Commeiâcial Advertiser. prejudice among stewed food. iug toughens each of : and de prives the meat almost wholly of its distinc- The Sultanâs Closet Skeleton. If things were done in Turkey as elsewhere, the decease of the sultanâs mad half brother, Murad Y, would have been notified to the diplomatic body, and the Turldsh court would have gone into mourning. But it is forbidden to speak openly of the sultanâs fe male relatives or of the sultanâs heir. The man who w ill succeed Abdul H am id is a wr-etched, lean, palefaced creature of five and forty, named Mohammed Rechad. He is the sultanâs own brother, and is kept a close prisonei' in the palace grounds, lest he should conspire for his majestyâs downfall'. He has certainly no such intention, but usage requires that a sultanâs Jieir apparent should be treated as a suspected criminal, and Abdul Hamid is much too nervous a creature to innovate in this particular. He has a horrible fear lest his brother, Murad V, who became crazy from having been raised to the throne too suddenly, should re cover his senses, but of this there is no chance; and now that Muradâs mother is dead, who will there be to prevent the poor lunatic from being huxâried to his end by a âpinch of somethingâ in his coffee? Muradâs mother, the Sultana Nadine, superintended his house hold and never left him. It would have been impossible to molest him while she Was alive, but it would be only too much in keep ing with Turkish traditions if the unhappy madman were now quietly removed in order that Abdul Hamid might sleep moi'e soundly, âLetter to Glasgow Herald. Katie's Wise Advice, MlâS. X is one of those by no means rare mortals whose discipline is much dependent upon her mood-, while her mood in turn is much influenced by her bodily comfort. It follows that the small daughter Katie is treated with more or less sternness, accord ing to circumstances, a fact which she is I PARKEI HEATH, 326 MAIW STRUT. I8 Offering a large astort- ment of Rose Blankets, Comfortables, Flannel Shetiing AND Gardigan_Jackets. WOOLEN HOSIERS, GLOVES, iTENS UPD,it.EW.'SAB, &c. Spanish, Geroiari Koittii Gsrmanlown and'Saxony lA E Ii Popular Prices For Childrenâs Clothing. BEST^CO Boysâ Suits at $5 and $6. All-W oolâHave our patent waist-band in the pants, and are cut and made in our best style. G irlsâ W i n t e r C loaks Newmarkets, sizes 10 to 18 years, at $ 7 . 5 0 , 9 . 7 5 , 1 2 . 7 5 , And Coats, Sizes 4 to 12 years, at $ 4 . 5 0 , 6 . 5 0 , 1 . 5 0 . InC?shiere?ndCl?th 5 r?^ $ 3 . 9 0 t o $ 1 0 . 0 0 , That are Exc^tionally Good^Valn^ an<ÂŁ. BABIESâ COATS^ e .^ 5 , 5 .S 5 . We name these prices to show that we do not confine our assortment to expensive grades, but commence at the lowest prices for which reliable goods can be produced. 60 & 621.23d St, Net York. A H U N T F O B W(E1AlLiTIH m g tu ciicum o u c m v ^ a , a xocu vvm cu jsue c We are the pUbllsheM quite shrewd enough to appreciate. One day uS,*Tirushatll°fome ^a- recently Mrs. X was reproving Katie in rather fretful tones, when the child looked up this g r a n d o f f e r . from her seat on the floor to observe with the â.-A V5r....? preternatural g ravity of three years: âOh, take a moiâe comferâble chair, mam ma.ââBoston Courier. Grand Premium Offer s o c i a b l e F o a c a e r s . gentâs s i . z ^ A down east constable had a hard experi- ice the other day. He went out after a ' ^ âo o . o o GOLD - W A T C H * ladiesâ or 1 Should there be more than one correct answer eacU I the next ence the other day. gang of poachers, and was not only cordiallj received by them, but was invited to accord pany them on a hunting expedition. Th^; reason for so much cordiality was n ot appai'- ent until the officer found that his late com- panions had managed to leave him alone on ro c k er . an uninhabited island, where they kept him â ateÂź for two days and nights.âLewiston Journal, â --------------------------- - ! each, receive Two Consultations. j CustomerâIs Rubnose's Rheumatic Rem i valued at S65 lod for acute rheumatism the result oi edy good a cold? Drug ClerkâIâI donât know. ;ho next tf-n perHonswill each re- ;y ringr-j B a g g y Havness. The 3xsb. receive a handsome 14 karat, ;te r s s W a tcli.stem w m d i ' ' {vfÂŁ3ersto1,7<S-i;t;ir a âą ive r S uo TA Eheumatic Esmedri | P r o p r i e t o r â o ; o n l y B u li f i n c n e s. size, stem wind and set, v alued a t & S O eacli. W ith your Clerk (to eustomer)-No; n o t h a l f so good ? h a ^ S ^ ^ p ^ ^ as BuUfincheâs.-H a rp8râs Bazar. ' ------------------------â - ------- - I rni-.xi_ii ------------ v/hy-.v-e giv.? away these grand prem- w antnew subscribers to our paper. We taction o r money i-efxmded. A list oÂŁ per- these presents will be published in the TJneicpected Comment. Jim m y Tuffbom (to m inister who is d ining se presen ts will be of our paper. Wben id donâto failiil^to to e nn dd ;a Whe you write men- ^ n t h ^ p a g ^ , ^ n âfc f e s e Q S c e n t s with the family)âDidnât you say in your ^ ^ Address sermon this mornmg that there wasnât any- ^ f^irtland BrOS. & Co.j P. O .âBOX 3 3 4 0 N.Y. ilisve so; v/-hy do you thing in this work MinisterâYes, I âOh, I heard ma say before church time that you were a perfect bore!ââ^Epoch. The contract for the third of the 2,000 ton cruisers has been awarded to BEarrison Lor- ing, of Boston, at $674,000. , The secretary of the navy has accepted the Cruiser Charleston, with a penalty of $33,000 for lack of florae power and $4,500 for delay in completion. Mention POUGHK; EBPSIB EAGL&J E B M O T A I . . m , p. h. FOOTi, m n m