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A TOP-HEAVY SCHOOL SYSTEM. The State Superintendent of Ed ucation of South Carolina, Hon. W. D. Mayfield, reports that the com mon school enrollment in that State, last year, was 206,709, and the cost of the system, including salaries, was $485,000. The average school term was three and one-half months. The common school system is topped off with two male colleges, the Citadel, in Charleston, and the South Carolina College, in Colum bia. The first of these has 69 boys, at a cost to the State of $290 each, or $20,000 in all. At the college there are 60 students, 46 of whom pay for tuition and the fees, leaving but 24 to be educated at public ex pense. to the State was $41,500, or $4,729 each. The question now naturally arises, is it better to tax the State for the complete education of twenty-four young men, while the average boy must be content with less than fifteen weeks per annum of tuition. There are several first-rate colleges kept up in South Carolina by private patron age and endowment, and the people are cogitating whether it would not be better to add a month to the term of all common schools, and turn the college over to tbe Agricultural Col lege. RAISED FbISTsUM TO DEFEAT WATSON. N. Y. Tribune. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 19(Special).— There has been considerable alarm felt here over expected arrests, at the instigation of Congressman Tom Watson, of a large number of Demo crats, under the charges of illegal voting and interfering with legal voters in the recent election. It is a fact well known here that large sums of money were raised to secure the defeat of Watson. The business men generally made personal ap peals to the houses which they dealt with in the North, especially those in New York City, for funds with which to defeat Watson. The argument used to effect this was that Watson was the sworn enemy of capital, and that his defeat was a matter of im portance to every investor in the country. Insurance and railroad companies responded liberally, so that $40,000 was in hand for use, in addition to the local funds. Rich mond county cast nearly 10,000 votes, where 5,000 has heretofore been considered a good vote, and of these less than 1,000 were for Wat son. Owing to the fact that Mr. Cleveland carried the election, the Democratic managers have been talking freely of how “the boys did up Tom Watson.” In this way Watson has become possessed of much information which will aid him in making cases against many promi nent men. These cases will have to be tried before Judge Emory Speer, who is a Republican, and who, during his own Congressional career, became fully acquainted with the methods which were used aganst Watson. The vote returned for Richmond county was: Watson, 1,782 ; Black, 10,776. The census gave the county 45,194 population. Therefore the Democrats returned a vote for each 3.6 of population. Just now the Constitution’s special correspondent in Washington is en deavoring to show how great a man Mr. Speaker Crisp is. And the Con stitution is preparing its way for an editorial hedge when the Democratic Congress shall go on record as hav ing killed free silver. Some Happenings of ’92. From January 1, 1892, to January 1, 1893, the old earth-ship will have finished another voyage around the sun, a distance of 570,000,000 miles. She will also have made 365 revolu tions on her own axis, aggregating a disatnee of 8,760,000 miles, thus giving her passengers a double free ride, saluting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and the constella tions as she spins by them, each one of them swinging out into space by the same Creator, and each whirling around tbe same central luminary, the sun. Os the 1,400,000,000 people she has been giving passage on her daily and annual revolutions, all are in pursuit of some special object. Some for pleasure; some for gold; some for plunder and spoils; some toiling for gain; some relieving suf-' sering humanity; some making hu manity suffer more; some bearing heavier burdens; some skipping along with lighter weights; some carrying words of sympathy and comfort to the troubled; some ad ding pain to those already laden with sorrow; some making merry and some shedding tears; some binding up lacerated hearts; some making others more miserable; some rejoicing over heirs just born ; others weeping over loved ones just de parted ; some laughing by the cra dle ; others mourning at the gave; some living in luxury and with a surfeit of good things; others in need of the necessaries of life ; some living in view of eternity; others living regardless of the future. This is indeed a land of sunshine and shadow; of kings and subjects; of princes and peasants. Seeing PEOPLE'S PARTY PAPER, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30. 1892 that life is made up of such vicissi tudes, and the duration of it is measured only by a span, we ask the question, What is man as the em bodiment of life? The poet ex presses it in two short lines: “This narrow isthmus twixt two bound less seas, Tne Paet, the Future —two eternities.’’ We go further, and ask, What is the use of man’s existence? from whence does he hail ? and to whither is he tending ? and what will he be when he leaves the world ? All of these questions are speculative, and pass through the mind of every in telligent being. When we take in the situation and understand the duties and responsi bilities of life, we conclude the world a stage, its people the actors, death the closing scene, the grave the open exit into eternity ! Empires rise and fall; nations are born and pass away; republics flourish and then decay; political parties spring up and domi nate, and are obliterated. Yet the world keeps moving and the clock keeps ticking, as Galileo said, in the face of his “ flat-earth ” opposers, “it does move ;” for which declaration they punched out his eyes; but he continued to say “ it does move.” From what is written above it would seem that the whole world was a morgue in which dwelt the earth’s dead. But not so. Watch for the bright side. The population of the earth could be twenty times what it is now, and it not be as densely peopled as Great Britain is to-day The marching or ders of this terrestial ball is “ move and live; stand still and die.” So she moves and progresses and in creases. Man hears the command, and obeys. While there is one Sahara there is many oases and fer tile territories—many picturesque landscapes many snow-capped mountains—many gorgeous valleys, and many meandering streams. Each varying season brings something to admire. There are many beauti ful scenes, many harmonious sounds. The earth brings forth fruit and flow ers ; she gives food and raiment for man, if he will only bestir himself and secure it; yea, even the beasts of the plains are provided for. Christ mas has come, and Santa Claus has left many good things to the lit tle ones, over which they are rejoic ing, and the older ones are being re juvenated by looking at the antics of the children. All of these things re mind us that the year 1892 is coming to a close, and at 12 o’clock on the night of December 31st old father Time will lift the gavel and announce the end of 1892, and moving the hands on the dial of the chronome ter proclaim the arrival of 1893. A happy year to all. J. P. L. Thomson, Ga., Dec. 27, 1892. The Democratic party must di vide. Within that party are now ele ments more antagonistic than divide into parties the mass of the people. When the division comes, will the money-supply' ring end secede, or will it retain the organization and force the great majority of voters to seek other party affiliations. Summary of Monetary Laws. In 1785, the Congress of the United States, under the Articles of Confederation, adopted the silver dollar as the unit of money. On the 2d of April, 1792, Congress, in the law establishing a mint, enacted that “The money of the United States shall be expressed in dollars or units,” the dollar “to be of the value of the Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current,” and contain 37 grains of pure silver. The same act fixed the weight of pure gold in the eagle at 247.5 grains, or 24.75 grains of gold to the dollar, which made fifteen pounds of coined silver equivalent in all payments of one pound of coined gold. In 1834, the weight of pure gold in the eagle was reduced to 232 grains, and, as no change was made in the silver dollar, the equivalency between gold and silver became 16.045 of silver to lof gold. In 1837, the quantity of alloy in both the gold and silver coinage was changed, so as to make the coins of both metals nine-tenths fine. The quantity of pure silver in the dollar was not changed, but the quantity of pure gold in the eagle was increased to 232.2 grains, so that the equivalency between gold and silver became 15.988 of silver to lof gold. Since 1837 no change has been authorized in the weight or purity of metal in either the gold or silver dollar. It will thus be seen that in the whole history of the United States the weight of pure silver in the silver dollar has never been changed, while the weight of pure gold in the gold dollar has been changed twice. The Next Nebraska Senator. Beacon-Independent (Broken Bow, Kan.) From the manner in which Con gressman Bryan’s speeches and old campaign issues of the Lincoln Her ald containing Bryan thunder come pouring into this office, it is evident that Mr. Bryan has determined to enter the race as a Democratic can didate for United States Senator this winter. Just where Mr. Bryan expects to rustle votes enough to elect himself to the United States Senate is not at this writing made plain. While Mr. Bryan’s views on free silver are in advance of those of his party, yet he preferred to stick to his rotten old party hulk in pref erence to coming to the Populists, and he is in no position to expect or urge his claims to Populist support. The tail should hardly expect to wag the dog in this Senatorial contest. We are satisfied that the People’s party members will not consent to cast their votes for either a Republi can or a Democrat. The next Unit ed States Senator from Nebraska must be an Independent, or the two old parties must be driven together in unholy combination against the wishes of the people. If an old par ty man is elected to the United States Senate from Nebraska, by all means let him4>e elected by old party votes. The People’s party is in no position to make any concession of princi ples, or to sacrifice the welfare of the cause in the future, just to gain a temporary advantage that will be of no material benefit to it as a party. Let the other fellows pull their own chestnuts out of the fire. The people wait for reform. The Democrocy is pledged. Nothing stands in the way of carrying out those pledges but a “ most rascally virtue” of prudence. The people are no longer all fooled by pretenses. They expect results —and that soon. Without a Quorum. New York World (Dem.). The Democrats have an enormous majority in the present House. Yet the Democrats are not just now. in actual control. The Speaker meant this week to have the Raum report and resolution acted upon, but a canvass shows that there is not a Democratic quorum present, and this important piece of business—important from the point of view of common morality as well as from that of the public service— must go over until after the holidays. The fact reflects shame upon the Representatives who have antici pated the adjournment on Thursday and gone home for their Christmas junketing without waiting till their work is done. There is no employment except that of legislators in which shirking of this kind would be tolerated, none in which it would not speedily cost the shirkers their places and their pay. Why should it be tolerated in Con gress ? Why should men hired to repre sent the people be allowed to absent themselves at will from their posts of duty ? Why should men who are ordi narily honest consent in this way to draw pay for a service they do not render ? It is time for public opinion to in sist upon some measure of reform drastic enough to prevent this scan dalous neglect of public duty. TERMINAL’S SUIT BEGUN. The Complaint Served in the Big Georgia Central Case. New York World, December 18. Receiver Walter G. Oakman be gan the fight in behalf of the Rich mond Terminal Company against the Georgia Central Railroad syndicate yesterday, by serving a summons and complaint. The complaint has not been filed in court. It is lengthy, and contains many charges. The re ceiver seeks to compel the defend ants to return nearly $8,000,000 paid to them in October, 1888, for a con trolling interest in the securities of the Georgia company. Charges of fraud, breach of trust and conspiracy are brought against such well known men as John H. Inman, James Swan, Robert W. In man, Bernard S. Clark, Harry B. Hollins, Fernando A. Yznago, Ber nard J. Burke, Walter Luttgen,, Isaac L. Rice, Emanuel Lehman Philip Lehman, William Kessler, Ed ward Kessler, Gustav E. Kissel, John C. Calhoun, Simon and Isidor Worm* ser, Jacob Scholle, James and Jesse Seligman, Charles Blum, Frederick St. Gour, Alfred S. Heidelbach, Isaac Ickelheimer, Edward W. Clark, Harold M. Sill, Patrick Calhoun and the Central Trust Company of New York. In the complaint it is alleged that the syndicate brought about the sale of the Georgia Central by mis representation. Ex-President In man particularly is charged with having used undue influence. The defendants in the present suit then were directors in the Richmond Terminal. It is alleged that on Oct. 22, 1888, Emanuel Lehman, one of the syndi cate, proposed in the name of his colleagues and himself to sell the entire 120,000 shares of capital stock of the Georgia Company at $35 a share. The directors of the Termi nal Company, who also were di rectors of the Georgia Company, ac cepted this proposal. Receiver Oak man alleges that that the directors knew that the Georgia Company had done no business and that the scheme was to dump the worthless stock on the Terminal Company. The purchase was concluded with the firms of H. B. Hollis & Co., Emanuel Lehman, Augustus Belmont <fc Co., Isaach L. Rice, E. W. Clarke & Co. and Gustav E. Kissel. Soon after, it is alleged, the financial ne cessities of the Georgia Central Rail road became so pressing it refused to loan a stipulated sum of $3,500,- 000 to the Terminal unless the notes given were cashed immediately. The were cashed by Inmann, Swan & Co., and the affair was con cluded June 19, 1889. The Allianca Herald says: Nearly every Alabamian will re member with what zeal and ardor* the Democratic stump-speakers in this State denounced the internal revenue tax and how anxious they were to repeal it. This highway robbery of a few years since has now become the most equitable and best way to impose taxes. Not only that, but the indications are that the taxes on spirits will be increased from 90 cents to $1.25 per gallon. It was one of the great evidences of perse cution and by tyranny of the Re publicans to continue this iniquity, which was the cause of arraigning so many of our people before the Unit ed States courts; but now the whole programme is changed. That was a great wrong a few years ago, is now the best evidence of wisdom. The pee pie can realize the extent of false pretense and perfidy thus practiced. SOME KENTUCKY KILLINGS. Christmas Was a Bloody Day in the Blue grass State. Lexington, Dec. 29.—Notwithstand ing the Mayor’s proclamation prohibit ing the discharge of fireworks or fire arms within certain boundaries. Sun day was the bloodiest Christmas ever chronicled in the annals of Lexington history. Three lives paid the penalty of two frequent indulgence in the flowing bowl, while two other unfortunates !re ceived probably fatal wounds. Richard Higgins, a negro, backed by a nogro desperado, attacked Riley Owens, a white painter residing here, and while reaching for a second rock to throw at Owens, received a bullet through the brain. The desperadoes then pursued Owens with drawn knives, but he escaped into the country and has not yet been appre hended. Ephraim Taylor died from the effects of Christmas drink, but all the circum stances point to a sensational case of poisoning. Taylor, after partaking c-f innumerable drinks of eggnogg and steaming cups of tom-and-jerry, ac cepted a drink from a flask which some one offered him. Ten minutes later ho was seized with violent pains in the stomach and died. At an early hour Monday morning Tom Oldham shot alid fatally wounded James Smith. As usual, jealousy was the incentive. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon William Higgins, a well known negro man was found dead. His demise is due to a Christmas debauch. Killed by His Mistres. Hopkinsville, Dec. 29.—A shooting took place in the western portion of this county, and resulted in the killing of a man named Bud Adams, by his mistress, Mrs. Jennie Whitefield, a daughter of the notorious John Chamblis, who was killed eight years ago by E. C. Hopper. Chamblis went gunning after Hopper, who seized Chamblis’ gun and shot fliim with it. At his trial Hopper was ac quitted. Adams whipped one of the woman’s children by Whitefield, which so enraged her that she drew a pistol and fired upon Adams, the ball taking effect in his brain, producing instant death. No arrests have as yet been made. The murder took place in a thinly populated community. THE COUNTY DEMOCRACY. That Power in Politics About to Become Defunct. New York, Dec. 28. —It is predicted that before the last of this week the county Democracy will be no more. For some time all sorts of rumors about the disintegration of the organization has been heard, but not until lately has it been discovered that they were based on fact, so says The Sun, and. continuing it says: “The story now is that about all that is left of the organiza tion will go to Tammany. The primaries are tomorrow, and a well known local political leader said that he believed the county Democracy would never hold another meeting. A number of Judge Martin’s friends said that Charlie Jackson, the chairman of the county Democracy for some time, expressed a desire to enter Tammany. Should Jackson enlist under the banner of Tammany, he would probably carry with him most of the county Democrats. “Jackson has not been in close af filiation of late with either Ex-Mayor William R. Grace or Ex-Police Justice Maurice J. Power. Neither* Grace nor Power is at all likely to »be included in the movement toward Tammany. Both believe that between March and May next, an opposition organization to Tammany will be well under way. But it wont be the county democracy.” Shooting in Temple, Texas. Belton, Dec. 29.—Pat Mallory shot and killed Sam Walker in Temple. He was arrested, brought here and put in jail. Two years ago John Mallory, Pat’s brother, was killed there by J. B. Sherra and Sam Walker, who were arrested and tried for this killing. On the first trial both were convicted, but the court of appeals reversed the case. On the second trial Walker was acquitted and Sherra was given twenty years in the penitentiary, which he ‘is now serving. It is supposed the killing was the result of the former killing. Walker was shot and died within twenty feet of where John Mallory was killed. South Carolina Banks Hedging. Charleston, Dec. 29.—The national bank of Newberry has declared a divi dend of 50 per cent after January Ist. This means that the surplus of the bank will be reduced by $75,000, and that the policy of the present state administra tion of taxing banks and other corpora tions is having the effect of reducing their taxable property. DAILY MARKET REPORTS. Naval Stores. Wilmington. Dec. 28.—Turoentine steady at 27J$; rosin firm; strained 95: good strained sl.uo: tar steady at $1.00; crude turpentine steady; hard sl.<o; yellow dip $1.70; virgin 1.70. Savannah. Dec. 28.—Tur Dentine firm at 27%&28%; rosin firm at Produce and Provisions. New York, Dec. 28.—J’ork quiet but firm; mess, new. $16.00®) 6.50: old $15.(0<i;15.25: family $17.50@18.(>0; Yiddles quiet; short clear 8.75. Lard quiet but firmer; western steam 10.50; city steam 10.00; options. December and Jan uary 10.50; May 9.9a. Chicago. Dec. 28.—Cash quotations were as follows: Mess pork $14.5&®’4.60. Lard 10.40. Short ribs loose 8.30®8,35. Dry- silt shouiders boxed 7.87>5®8.00; short clear sides boxed 8.t)0@8.65. Cincinnati. Dec. 28—Pork quiet at $16.00. Lard firm at 10.27. Buik meats steady, short ribs 8.62}5. Bae,a. dull; short char, 9.62}5©.. 9.75. Chicago Market. Chicago, Dec. 23. Wheat—May, July 7645: Cash . Corn— July •‘5%- Mar. 45%, cash, iO%. Oats —May 34%: Cash 30. Pork—May, 15.62; Jan. 15.57. Ribs—May, 8.40: Jan. 8.30. Lard —May, 9.67: Jan. 10.40. New York Cotton Futures. New York, Dec. 28. Tone quiet and steady. Sales 137,500. January 9.6 9.62 February 9.77® 9.75 March 9.9t>®'.’.87 April 10.01® 9.97 May 10.12@10.07 J ...... ..10.21 a 10. 16 Jul j- 1u.25®1u.24 August ®L').2B December ....... 9.49® 9,§0 LIGHT AND AIRY. The American Girl. The American maiden—sing ho!— Is the boss of the world, don’t you know! She repels melancholy— She’s spunky and jolly And brisk as the breezes that blow! You may think other maidens sublime . Who live in a far foreign clime. But the voice of the earth Says the girl who has birth In the States is on top ev’ry time! She’ll quicken the heart to a whirl Os the most pachydermatous churl; Disturbing and joking— All mankind provoking— Sine ho!—the American girl! FEMININE FANCIES. Mrs. D. P. Schenley, of Pittsburg, is worth $20,000,000. The wife of tbe Corean minister at Wash ington has joined the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, wife of Colonel Shepard, of New York, is worth in her own right $20,000,000. Mrs. Lewis Washington, of Charleston, W. Va., owns the family Bible which for merly belonged to General Washington’s mother. Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, daughter of Congressman Breckinridge, has been admitted to the bar and is practicing law in Kentucky. Miss Longfellow, daughter of the poet, celebrates her birthday each year by giv ing a feast to a number of shopgirls and then taking them for a long drive. Mrs. J. C. Ayer, the “medical million aire,” as she has been called, contributes largely to the support of the Home for Young Women and Children in Lowell, Mass. One of the most gifted astronomers the world has ever knoWh, amLone to whom is due many of the notable uiscoveries of re cent years, is Mina Fleming, of Harvard college observatory. The dowager Duchess of will not be badly fixed financially even if the English section of the family do octracize her. Her Florida estates will produce an annual rental of $250,0001 Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt visits hospitals, makes gifts to prisons and teaches in a mission Sunday school. Mrs. Vanderbilt is very sweet and utterly un ostentatious in her way of doing things. Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymond has established two beds in a Boston hospital, besides fitting up rooms for the general use of the patients. She spends her spare time knitting warm shawls for poor old women. Mrs. Grover Cleveland’s pet charity is a mission kindergarten on Fifth avenue, New York, of which Mr. Richard Watson Gilder is the president. Mrs. Cleveland gives the children food and clothing, and is altogether as delightful as any lady bountiful can be. BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS. Paderewski, the pianist, will be accom panied on his present trip by his son, a lad of eleven years. “Glen da Lough” is the title of a new Irish drama which is to be presented at Proctor’s theater, New York. Charles Frohman will soon produce in Boston a new four act play from the pen of E. A. Barron, of the Chicago Inter Ocean. Marie Jansen and George Wilson, of the Boston Museum company, will star to gether in comic opera under the manage ment of R. M. Field. St. Paul is to have a new theater. The site of the Grand opera house has been purchased by Manager Jacob Hitt, who will erect a theater eight stories high upon it at a cost of $150,000. Mr. John Drew is to star in London, ar rangements having been completed for his appearance there next May. It is not im probable that he will also play in Paris. His entire organization will accompany him. Robert Downing produced a new play by A. D. Hall in Chicago on Dec. 8. “Rich ard the Lion Hearted,” is the title, and it deals with the romantic story of Richard I of England. The play was magnificently mounted and richly costumed. Mr. Robert Mantell is meeting with con siderable success with his play, “The Face in the Moonlight.” The season so far has been the best in his experience. He has elaborated his performance of the dual role, and has made the soldier more ro mantic and the vagabond more sinister. FEATHER AND FUR. A bird in the London Zoo, a sheldrake, apparently committed suicide on account of the death of its mate. Charles Wood, of Harleston, England, has a brood of white blackbirds, a fact which is vouched for by several prominent ornithologists and naturalists. Elk hunters in western Washington are so insatiate in their greed for antlers and skins that the extermination of the elk in the forests of that section of the state is greatly feared. The Australian jungle fowl (Megapodius tumulus) makes its nest in the shape of earth mounds of prodigious size, one of which measured fifteen feet in perpen dicular height and have a circumference of 150 feet. Borneo, so far as is now known, is the only island or country on the globe that produces a species of flying lizard. These little flying saurians have all the grace of a bird and as great a variety of colors as a tropical butterfly. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Use whisky instead of water to make liquid glue. Egg stains can be removed by rubbing with common table salt. If handkerchiefs embroidered in colors are soaked in a pail of water containing a spoonful of turpentine, future washings will not affect them. Perhaps all housekeepers do not know that a cork that has been boiled may be pressed more tightly and securely into a bottle than when it is cold. When the crust of a loaf of bread is over baked wrap it in a damp cloth when taken from the oven, then throw over it a thick bread cloth. The crust will be tender. T> keep cheese from molding cover it with a piece of cotton or linen cloth satu rated with strong vinegar. It will keep as fresh as when first cut, and no flies or in sects will touch it. CROWN AND SCEPTER. A watch carried by the Emperor Charles V in 1535 weighed twenty-seven pounds. A large firm of costumers in Berlin has failed on account of their inability to get the German empress to pay her bill. Ferdinand VI of Naples was graced with so remarkable a nose that he was not designated by the lazzaroni otherwise than as il Re Nasine (King Nosy). Queen Victoria never drinks more than two glasses of either champagne or claret, and after dinner her majesty is accustomed to take a small glass of Tokay. Canovas, the great Spanish leader, called upon the little king during his recent ill ness. In greeting him he asked, “How is Alfonsito” (little Alfonse)? The child king, it is said, looked at the famous re publican a moment and then replied, “To mamma I irn Alfonsito; to thee I am the king.” *. WHIP AND SPUR. Tammany leads the list of American turf winners for 1892 with $72,880 to his credit. It is reported that Mr. Richard Croker is going to have a big racing stable next season. The first horse that trots a mile in two minutes will average forty-four feet a second. La Tosca, th« best 3-year-old on the American turf last season, will race again next season. The state of Maine added forty-six new comers to the charmed circle—the 2:30 list —during 1892. In Massachusetts they are sure that if the 2-minute trotter ever does come it will be Kremlin or one of his colts. It is said that Pierre Lorillard, Jr., will next season be associated in the ownership of the Rancocas stable with his father. The recent horse show at Madison Square garden was a great financial success. It is estimated that over SIOO,OOO was cleared. It is said that Kitty Bayard, who got a trotting record of 2:12% on a half mile track in 1892, will be out as pacer in 1893. A table of the winnings of Edward Cor rigan’s horses for 1892 shows that the Loril lard of the western turf captured in excess of $70,000 in prize money. Budd Doble is credited with saying that he could have driven A. A. Bonner’s 2-year-old trotter Tony V to a record of 2:15 in 1892 had it been desirable. Baron Hirsch’s mare, La Fleche, won $126,990 during the season. Her victories included the One Thousand, Oaks, St. Leger, Lancashire plate and Cambridge shire. How are the mighty fallen! Benzon, best known to fame as the “Jubilee plunger,” had a modest sovereign on Miss Dollar when she won the Duke of York stakes, though it was at the tidy price of 100 to 1. FASHION’S MIRROR. Straight collars, cut as high as can be borne comfortably, are most fashionable for dresses. Nothing for youthful women can be more effective or more fashionable than the fitted blouse waist of tartan silk that tones well with the dress skirt. Waistcoats of fur, merely silk lined to keep them from looking bulky, are in troduced in cloth dresses, usually when the fur neckscarf now popular does uot cover the chest. Following a popular English caprice, red corded silk costumes in ottoman faille and bengaline are made into fur trimmed Russian costumes for bridesmaids at church weddings. Patterned reps appear among the late importations, the grounds of which are bottle or reseda green, marine blue, van dyke brown and magenta, and in spite of the elaborate corsages now fashionable material of this class looks better made simply. Beautiful capes for dressy wear are made of dark green corded silk, with im mense empire bretellelike revers spread ing over the shoulders and back from a few inches below the neck. The capes are of dark green velvet, edged with a roll of otter, seal or other rich fur. Silk petticoats for evening wear are, if possible, more elaborate than ever. One model is of green and crimson shot silk, the lower edge alternately frilled with red and green silk. Narrow ruffles of rich black lace fall over these, the upper edges of both being threaded in and out with bebe ribbons in the combined colors.— New York Post. SUGGESTIONS TO A GUEST. Do not outstay your welcome; do not even stay as long as you are asked to. Be thoughtful of your hostess, affection ate to her children and courteous to her servants. Do not let the old saying, “The first day the man is a guest, the second a burden and the third a pest,” be applied to you. Try to be unconscious of any friction which may exist in the household machin ery, and by your punctuality do your best toward keeping it in regular motion. Endeavor to time your arrival so that it shall not interfere with your friends’ meal hours, and arrange so that your baggage shall be delivered without being a care to them. Allow your hostess time to attend to her household duties, observe the hour nt which her husband is likely to return from business, and try to arrange so that he may find his wife alone at that time. When leaving bestow some little gift upon each of the servants and send some thing to the cook. She is generally the one in the house whose work is most in creased by the presence of visitors, and she is usually the one ignored.—Ladies’ Home Journal. SCIENTIFIC WAIFS. The earth, in addition to its diurnal and annual revolutions, has a slow wabbling of its axis—a motion seldom mentioned even in the textbooks of astronomy. Photography of the heavens has revealed stars invisible to the naked eye or through the telescope, and now Mr. Edison is think ing of a phonograph to catch sounds un heard by tbe human ear. • There has been but one total eclipse of the sun at London since the year 1140, that of 1715, and, according to Professor Holden, , there will not be another until after the opening of the Twenty-first century. A London woman has patented a ma chine for making watch screws that is provided with a thread cutter so delicate as to be almost invisible. It will cut per fect threads on the finest human hair. Recent astronomical calculations have caused the “star gazers” to announce that the surface of the moon is about as great as that of Africa and Australia combined, or about equal to the area of North and South America without the islands. EPICUREAN MORSELS. Ice cream in which jelly has been frozen is a new kind. Terrapin served without the tiny eggs is to be regarded with apprehension. Albeit the most expensive, the best and most palatable way to fry oysters is in oil. To drink wine without diluting it with water was regarded by both Greeks and Romans as a barbarism. A turkey when well cooked should be evenly browned all over. Cranberry sauce or currant jelly is the proper accompani ment. Bon vivants’ gastronomic prizes are the heads of woodcock and smelts, the wing of turkey and chicken, the rooster’s comb, the “eye” of mutton, eggs of terrapin, the crabs of oysters and' reedbirds entire. Codling Moth Statistics. The following points have been deter mined this season at the Oregon state experiment station at Corrallis: F. L. Washburn reports the average life of the moth ten to fifteen days, egg laying taking place during the latter part of that time. Time required for incuba tion, four to ten days; length of life of larva in apple, four weeks (about); tune passed in cocoon before emergence of moth, twenty-three days. The first moths were observed at this station May 16, and the last egg noted, apparently fresh on a pear, Sept. 16. The moth is •t least four Orggor- —— 5