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By T, L. GANTT,
The Wind-Swept Wheat.
Faint, taint and dear—
Faint as the music that dreams we hear—
Shaking the curtain-fold of sleep
That shuts away
The world ’ fl hoars ” voice- the sighs and sounds
of day,
Her sorry joys, her phantoms, false and fleet—
So softly, soltly stirs
The wind’s low murmur in the rippled wheat.
From west to east
The warm breath blows, the slender heads
droop low.
As if in prayer.
Again, more ligliily tossed in merry play.
They bend and bow and sway,
With measured beat,
But never rest. Through shadow and through
sun
Goes on the tender rustle of the wheat.
Dreams more than sleep,
Falls on the listening heart, and lull its care,
Dead years sent back
Some treasured, half-forgotten time.
Ah, long ago,
When sun and sky were sweet,
nliappy noon,
We stood, breast high, ’mid waves ol ripened
Rrata
And heard the wind make music in the wheat!
Not tor to-day—
Not lor this hour alone—the melody,
So solt and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer’s
ear!
01 all that was and is, ol all that yet shall be,
It holds a part—
Love sorrow, longing, pain;
The resUessness that yearns;
The thirst that burns;
The bliss that, like a fountain, overflows;
The deep repose;
Good that we might have known, bnt shall
not know;
The hope God took, the joy be made complete—
Bile's chords all answer from the wind-sweps
wheat. — Christian Union.
The I ale of the Black Warrior.
Y(s, Kiris. I graduated at Rossmore
seminary, though my accomplishments
may not have Jed you to think so. 1
don’t suppose I reflect much credit on
that institution. Most of my time there
ing was spent in trying to do as little study¬
and have as much fun as possible,
and there were a good many other girls
there the who went principle. through I the course on
Fame suppose I was
one of the worst of the lot, and the dis¬
cipline there didn’t improve any of us a
hit. In fact, I believe we would all
have behaved better if there hadn’t
been quite so much discipline.
Romances! Of course ther Were
romances. Did you ever hear of a
female seminary without romances?
Every girl in the school had a lover,
and some had two or three. And then
seven or eight of the girls all had the
same one. These fellows used to hang
around the iron gate after dark, and
steal brief moments of blissful and sur¬
reptitious with the objects converse of through their adoration the railings in
the garden. Old Betty, who answered
the gate bell, I have no doubt, turned a
missives very pretty penny tile by conveying secret
between pupils and the
jeunesse doree outside. Mind you, I
don’t speak from personal experience of
these things. Iam only telling you of
what I heard.
The funniest affair of that kind,
though, was the Killjoy affair. I must
tell you about that.
Professor Killjoy, you know, was the
rofessorot history and philology, and
lugubrious-looking for a more
sour and man you
never saw. lie wasn’t half as bad as he
looked, though, but all the girls used to
hate him, chiefly on account of the
teach horrid and rubbishy stutT he tried to
us. The professor had one hobby,
and of that was “ antiquities.” in lie had one
the large rooms the lower hall
fitted up as a museum, and here he had
the mustiest old collection of ancient
arms and pottery, and tapestry, and bas
reliefs and what not, that you ever came
across in your life. It was just like an
auction room, and he used to take the
lecture history class in there the once a week, char¬ and
to them on “cuijelorm
acter’’and the “ age of Raineses,” as if
any of vis cared how old Rameses was,
or 'whether he had any character, “cune
form ” or otherwise.
Down atone end of the room was the
professor’s especial pet. armor—helmet, This was a
whole suit of rusty steel
breastplate, gauntlets and all—and the
professor had it mounted on a frame on
a pedestal, with a big battle-ax in its
hand, just like life.
It was an awful affair to look at, and
if you were to come upon it unexpect¬
edly on a moonlight night, half it was of just
the thing to f righten you said it out your
wits. The professor was very
valuable, and once belonged to a knight
who had fought in the first crusade.
“ This, ladies,” he would say, “ is the
veritable armor of the famous John of
Orleans, better known in history as the
Black Warrior, who perished at the
siege of Jerusalem. How many of you
can give me an outline of the historic
event in which he lost his life?”
There was generally a dead silence
after this, md the professor would close
the book with a sigh and dismiss the
class.
But it was about little Annie Killjoy
that I wanted to tell you. Annie was
the professor’s niece, She entered the
seminary quite unexpectedly in the
middle of the term, and it was soon
whispered about among the girls that
Annie was already provided acquired with what they
most of the others after
came there—that is, a lover; and that
the had been sent to the school by her
parents,who lived at a distance, in order
so separate her from her betrothed, and
to break up the match.
Annie herself did not deny it, and, o
course, ail our sympathies were enlisted
for her understood at once, especially that the as gentleman it was gen¬ in
erally the struggling lawyer,
case was a young, the sole ground of
whose poverty was
objection to him.
To tell the truth. Annie was a very
sweet and lovable little thing, with blue
eyes and a peachy complexion and a red
mouth—just the kind to make friends
and to drive all the young men distracted
about her.
She had a lonesome time of it, though,
for she was not allowed to room with
any of the other girls, but was assignee
a dormitory next to her uncle’s. The
excuse made by the matron was that
there were no vacancies elsewhere, but
we all knew that it was because the pro¬
fessor wanted to keep her as closely as
possible under Lis own eye.
For a month after her arrival Annie
moped and pined, and looked the very
picture of desolation. The roses faded
out of her cheeks and she came to the
recitations with her eyes all red, as if
she had been crying. Suddenly, how¬
ever, she recovered her spirits and be¬
came the blithest and apparently the
happiest her girl in school. The change in
noticed was it, so and surprising that all the girls
other, we knew that, somehow
or Annie had heard good news.
One day I overheard the professor
talking to her in the hall. '
“ My child,” he said, “ it pleases me
much to see that you are Becoming con¬
tented with your lot here, and are re
agining your good spirits. Shall I write
to your parents that you are entirely
cured of your foolish infatuation for the
young man of whom they wrote to me?”
The little minx east down her eyes de¬
murely and said:
“ I .think you may, sir, If you wish.”
But that very night after the lights
were out, when I slipped out of the
back door and went to the garden-gate
—well, really, I didn’t mean to confess
all that, but never mind, I’m not going
to tell you whether I went to talk to
Yemmecdrn anybody through the bars ox not. so
uric me. As* 1 was saying,
when I went out to the gate, somebody
cii the other side suddenly sprang up to
it and reached through the grating. It
was so dark that I couldn’t distinguish
his features; I only knew that it was
nobody that I expected to meet. He
stretched his hand out to me in a wild
sort of a way, and exclaimed :
“Annie!”
I drew back and said, in a half-whis¬
per, “ Don’t make so rpuch noise. It is
not Annie.”
I “ I beg your pardon,” he said. “ I—
heaven’s thought it was Miss Killjoy. For
sake tell no one that you have
seen me.”
“ Of course I won’t,” I replied; “ for
I don’t know you.”
“Isn’t there any way to unfasten this
gateP” Not he asked, shaking it impatiently.
“ that I know of,” I answered.
“ The matron takes the key out every
night, and all the doors and windows in
toe building are fastened on the inside.”
This last piece of information was
gratuitous, but 1 thought it might inter¬
est him.
“You’re not a burglar, are you?” I
asked, trying to get a glimpse of his
face as he turned it toward me in the
gloom. No; I’m
“ Oh!” a I. lawyer.”
“ said
lie moved away aud put his finger on
liis lips.
“ Mum’s the word,” he said, and dis¬
appeared m the shadows.
The next afternoon the regular semi
weekly lecture to the history- class took
place in the museum. I think the sub¬
ject was “The Prehistoric Roots of the
Phoenician Alphabet,” or something of
that kind, and you may be sure that we
were all glad enough when it was over.
It didn’t seem to me to be a very ex¬
citing subject, but Annie Killjoy, who
sat next to me, appeared to be in a per¬
fect She tremor white during the entire lecture.
looked was as a sheet, and her eyes
so big and bright and excited
that I was really anxious about her.
I don’t believe she heard a word that
the professor was saying, glance and every few
moments she would down the
room toward that horrid old suit
of rusty armor, and then look around the
class half in a scared sort of way as though
she expected every moment to see
John of Or leans rise his battle-ax in dis¬
gust and squelch the professor and the
Phoenician alphabet at the same blow.
Her eyes took that direction so fre¬
quently that after a while I began look¬
ing that way, and all at once I seen
something that made my heart almost
leap out Black oi my Warrior body.
The was alive!
Yes, there was certainly a man in the
armor. I saw his eye glittering through
the bars of the rusty visor, and I am
confident that when it met mine it
winked.
The shock ol the discovery was so sud¬
den that I suppose I would have
screamed had not Annie pinched my arm
almost fiercely and whispered;
“I know all about it. Don’t say a
word, or I am lost.”
That tcld night, when the lights Sallie were rung
out, I mv room mate, with Hig¬
gins, that I intended to lie down
my clothes on.
“ There is mystery in the air,” I said,
“ and if I am not mistaken, there will b p
a sensation in this academy before morn¬
ing. For my part, Isha’n’tgo to bed
until I see it out, and I advise you, if
you want some fun, to sit up with me.”
Sally looked at me wonderingly, and but
refrained Irom asking any questions, until
we kept watch alternately after
midnight, one of us sitting up in the
dark, while the other slept on the out¬
side of the bed. At last, about one
o’clock in the morning, when the build¬
ing, had become silent as the grave. I
heard a door softly open and close, and
the rustle of a woman’s diess in the
hall. This was followed by a thumping
noise on the floor below, like that made
by a person walking on stilts.
There was a clanking sound, and
more thumping, and' then I heard the
prolessor’s door open, and I thought it
was time to awaken Sally and run into
the hall.
I met the professor on the stairs.
“ There are burglars in the house?” he
exclaimed, in an evident quiver of ex¬
citement, at whicli information Sally hand at¬
tempted to shriek, but I put my
on her mouth and stopped her.
“if there are,” J, said, “there is no
need to frighten everybody in the
house.”
“ There are in the museum.” said the
professor, trembling. “I have been
listening, ami am positive they are in
the museum.”
“Let us go and see,” I said, bravely;
but at this moment the door of the mu¬
seum opened, which and by the light of the
hall-lamp, had been left burning
dimly, we saw, on looking over the
banisters, the figure of the Black War¬
rior cautiously twenty-pound emerge, lifting his feet as
though taehed a each, his weight was at
to and rusty armor rat¬
tling at every step. I could no longer
restrain Sally’s terror, and she shrieked
with all her might. The professor sunk
down noon the stairs, pale as ashes.
»* Have the dead come to life?” he
whispered, Warrior faintly. looked and
The up at us,
staggered back against the wall. The
presence ol mind, however, which he
had Jerusalem so signally displayed at the siege
of did not long lorsake him
now. With a stamp of his mailed foot
he struck a ferocious attitude, swung
his battle-ax around his head, and
yelled a terrific “ Aha-a-a-a a!”
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1880.
Then with a rush he gained the lront
quick door, demolished the lock with a few
blows of his weapon, and was
gone before the terrified piofessor could
find his voice.
As the knight stamped off into the
darkness there was another rush from
behind the door, and I saw, though the
professor did not, the whisk of a
woman’s skirt vanishing in the warrior’s
train. Then came the sound of another
smash at the garden-gate and the heavy
roll of wheels, and I comprehended the
meaning of the whole affair, and that
was that Annie Killjoy and her precious
young Of scamp Sallie’s of a lawyer had eloped.
great course commotion, and shrieks the whole produced school a
was in an uproar for the rest of the
night.
In the morning we found the lock to
the great garden-gate also broken, and
the gate, of course, open.
Tiie professor was completely un¬
strung, and wholly unable to
attend to any recitations that
day, so our class was taken in hand
by the principal and a precious mess he
made of it. I think • *he professor
grieved more for that lot of rubbishy
old iron than he did for his niece.
ward, However, on the second day after¬
he receiv ed a letter from Annie,
nouncmg "her marriage to “Fred,” and
begging her uncle’s the^bottom forgiveness. There
himself, was a postscript at by Fred
Or lean’s to say that, although John of
well, he clothing fitted him tolerably
found it to be several years out
of fashion, besides being rather cum¬
bersome for that season; and he there¬
fore returned the suit by express, with
thanks.
Overworked Hearts.
No organ in the body is so liable to be
overworked as the heart. When every
other part of the body sleeps, it keeps on
its perpetual motion. Every increased
effort or action demands from the heart
more force. A man runs to catch a
train and his heart beats audibly. He
drinks wine, and the blood rushes
through its resevoir faster than ever
was intended by nature. Hi3 pulse rises
after each course at dinner. A telegram
arrives, and his heart knocks at his side.
And when any one of these “excite¬
ments” is over, he is conscious of a cor¬
responding depression—a sinking of
emptiness as it is called. The healthy
action of all members of our frame de¬
pends upon the supply of blood received
from the central fountain. When the
heart’s action is arrested, the stomach,
which requires from it a large supply of
blood, becomes enfeebled. The brain
also waiting for the blood, is inactive.
The heart is a very willing member, but
if it be made to fetch and carry inces¬
santly, seMsh if it be “put upon,” as the un
member ol a family often is, it
undergoes a disorganization which is
equivalent to its rupture. And this dis •
in organization begins too often nowadays
the hearts of very young children.
Parents know that if their sons are to
succeed at any of those competitive ex¬
aminations which have now become so
exigent, Hence high pressure is employed.
young persons are stimulated to
overwork by rewards and punishments.
The sight of a clever hoy being trained
for competition is truly a sad one.
The precocious, coached-up children
are never well. Their mental excite¬
ment excitement keeps up a flush, which, drink like the
caused by strong in
older children, looks like nealth but
has no relation to it; in a word, the in¬
temperance of education is overstrain¬
ing and breaking their young hearts If
in the school room some hearts are
broken from mental strain, in the play¬
ground and in the gymnasium others
succumb to physical strain.
Churning by Goat Power.
The most striking feature of the dairy
ranch of is F. the S. Clough, in San Mateo
canyon, Mr. Clough new dairy house which
of $1,500. recently It is eighteen completed at a cost
feet in ground dimensions, by thirty-six
finished ex¬
ternally in rustic style, and inside is as
trim and cleanly as the thrifty house¬
wife’s “ best room.” The butter-room,
an apartment ten by fifteen feet in di¬
mensions. is carpeted (!) and as inviting
ling as a parlor. The apparatus for hand¬
the milk and making the butter is
complete in every detail, and is designed
throughout for the saving with of labor. A
receiving located vessel, fitted a strainer,
is in the milking yard, and com¬
municates by a pipe with the dairy
house. The milkers pour their milk
in this receiver and that is the end of
their duties. The milk passes down
through the the pipe to a 200-gallon tank in
dairy house, whence it is drawn by
the dairymen, undergoing, meanwhile, a
second straining process. It is then
placed in Water nans to cool aud raise the
eream is brought in pipes
through the house from a mountain
spring lons The churn holds fifty-two gal¬
of cream and turns out from 100 to
120 pounds of butte at each churning.
It is worked by goat power, the appli¬
feet ances being a treading wheel eighteen
in diameter, which connects with
and operates a shaft running into the
dairy-house, and this in turn connecting
with cog wheels working the dashers.
Mr. Gow says that the goats, in operat¬
ing the wheel, indulge their natural
themselves propensity for climbing, and they apply
to their work with great
gusto. The herd consist of some eight
or ten animals, ranging from the grand¬
mother down and the old Billy with the whiskers
high. to When youngling not over a foot
released from their pen
bleating they, one and all, great and small, run
for’the wheel, and the only
trouble to contend with thereafter is the
excess of Dower which they are apt to
give it in the course of their frolicsome
gambols.— Los Angelos (Cal.) Express.
Brymiej’s Championship.
Samuei Bromley, of Mystic, Conn.,
better known as “Fat Sam,” announces
his ability to live or ten days with his
mouth Those aud nose with hermetically Sam sealed.
acquainted see no rea
sou why he snou;d not be ab;e to accom
phsh what is coupled with bis name,
for i3 ab.e to breathe for a time wnh
ouc the use o. mouth or nostn.s, com
mumcation oetween ins iungs am. the
outs-de world oeing kept up t,'.rough
bis < are. A l;cn >moKingaotgar he open
exhales tue smoke through the same ex
traordmary channel, to the profound
astonishment of those who are uuaware
ot this ireak o. nature. Many persons
who have seen the jet of cigar smoke
creeping out of his ears are willing to
sen lori. Though not °/ particularly ‘ Eai. Sam s fond ^ as
of notoriety, Sam thinks he can estab
lish ms abiaty to live practicaLy her
metical,y sealed for tea days.
WHERE SNAKES ARE PLENTY.
Numerous Stories about the Keptiies
(xathered from Many Sources.
At Alma, Kansas, a man named
Schutz fell dead of heart disease, caused
by fright at a snake.
The little son of Henry Leals, of Pat
tersburg, Kansas, died recently from
the bite of a rattlesnake.
Willie Archibald, ofBrookfieldTown
ship, Ohio, ten years of age, died from
the bite of a copperhead snake.
A son of Joseph Thompson, of Butler
county, Kansas, died a horrible death
from the bite of a copperhead snake. Ch4ro
Five Italian woodcutters near
kee, New Mexico, set a lot of wire
nooses to catch squirrels, rattlesnake and found in
one trap an immense with
sixteen rattles.
When Lizzie Haeffer, sixteen years of
age, of Fountain City, Mina., was bitten
by a rattlesnake, they killed a chicken
and bound it upon'the wound, but it
did not save her life.
In Reading, ‘inches Pa., a copjlerhead snake
thirty seven long was found to
contain alive, and eighty-eight four young inches snakes, all
to six in le ngth,,
when it was killed by James F. HinW.
whiie Mra. picking Wistmnn. huckleberries, of Wa^oF, Ind, at
was.
tacked by 4 an enormous blaeksnake,
2&'S5 ^£2g , £r1S2 T ®SL2!
was seven feet in length.
ZacU Mansfield, of Hart county, Ky„
while mowing m a wheat held came
upon a huge yellow and spotted snake
some ten feet long and six inches in
diameter. The snake chased him, and
he had lively work to save himself.
There is on exhibition at Dallas,
Texas, the photograph of a x'attiesnake
recently ville. killed has in a garden at Farmers
It the counterfeit present
ment in the of hide a child’s face clearly traceable
of the snake’s head.
A lively fight between a blaeksnake
and a labbit, at Blue Ridge, Va., grew
ect of the snake’s attempting to dine
upon the rabbit’s young. She bit the
reptile until it was compelled to release
its prey and crawl into its den.
II. L. Patty, while riding on horse
back in the Santiago canon, came upon
a rattlesnake in the road, and had just
taken his foot from the stirrup when
the snake struck, imbedding its fangs in
the stirrup leather. Mr. Patty killed
^i!«Ti C iek 1S ^ 0jJ °£L°t bun„ ^« as thick lar p as st
’
^ h-.7,f 1 o
v^irWui n -PiK‘ . Ce ’ °‘ ’ Lsborough, ^ Gar \ be I N. 11 "
mediately ftohf showed V P ° n h J; fight. ft w esr ^ There e ’ w was * ! ° im no ‘
chance of escape for Mr. Drake. Keep
iug up an incessant rattling, the snake
striiek at Drake repeatedly, but in every
instance he managed to avoid its stroke,
and in bail an hour killed ths reptile,
It measured six feet five and sone-liaif
inches in length.
picn Bowling Green, Ky., has the cham
spotted snake. H. B. Wilkins
killed it while cutting grass.. It mea
sured nine feet seven inches in length
by eighteen inches in circumference,
Dissection revealed twenty-three eggs,
SE ‘ V’ aTK jab Ml! oils, ht , four chickens
skinned and stufiSd Foil- nt j a ,.™
ter bushels of bran were required for
the operation
John Geer,of Basket Station, rattlesnakes Pa., has
, killed hundred
over one
within the past three months. Hj.
ways carries a crotched stick. When
he comes upon a snake, he carefully
places the crotch over the reptile’s neck,
just back of the head. Then, if he de
sires the poison to keap the snake alive, he removes
made by the aid of instruments
lor the purpose. He has a regu
lar process for abstracting the oil from
the bodies. The oil is very valuable,
and sells readily for $1 per ounce. It is
saiu to have great curative powers.
Life in a German Schloss.
The routine of life was quiet, even
monotonous,hut to an American woman,
fresh from the “fitful fever” of Ameri¬
The can housekeeping, sweet and restful.
servants were numerous and well
trained, and performed their duties with
little noise, and at the right time and in
the right manner. It must be said in
passing that it took ten men and women
to do the work which half that number
would be required to perform in an
American household. Then, on the
have other hand, it must be stated that they
net half our conveniences. Their
utensils are primitive and cumbrous,
and they have much to “fetch and
carrybut, only looking at results, one can
sigh. indulge The in an envious and useless
absence of those pests of
American housekeeping, the weekly
why washing the and ironing days, is one reason
German servants are able to go
about their work with so much more
regularity and thoroughness. is In Ger¬
many the family wash done no oftener
than once a month—in many places not
oftener than once in three or six months
—and then is done by extra help hired
for the occasion. On Monday of the
week devoted to this work, according
to and my began observations, the women c me
preparations. The eio'-es,
etc., were sorted under the supervision
of wood the lady’s maid or housekeeper, the
laid ready for lighting under th
great boiler in the wash-house, and
every tub, hogshead, etc., filled with
water. The water was pumped labori¬
ously, in and brought from some distance
cumbrous buckets. The carriers wore
upon tbeir shoulders for this purpose
heavy wooden yokes, like ox-yokes,
with a chain and hook at each end, to
which the full buckets were attached.
The next morning at three o’clock they
were at work, busy as bees, and out
Washboards, atoutThfS-touse Llll
those instruments of d°
struetion, were unknown, all ruh hi n a be
ing done between their horny knuckles.
The ironing is done in Germanv by
means of a mancle, where possible, and
the clothes are beautifully smooth and
clean.
Tiie whole atmosphere of the place
j was cooed, peaceful and drowsy. Pigeons
swallows twittered, from morn
j until ni lit. These and the musical
Paying of the hounds, the lowing of dis
tant cattle, and the muffled of wagons
upon the chaussee, were the sounds to
which the ear became attuned. The
occasional shriek of a locomotive was
the tnly reminder of a world outside
this sleepy hollow of a place.— Atlantic
Monthly.
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Red Surah silk is still the favorite
material for illuminating dark or sober
tinted costumes.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Fashion Notes.
Large collars and fichus are much
worn.
Pelerines of jet beads are worn with
black toilets.
Large red chenille cords will be used
in millinery.
Jet and garnet will be used on dresses
and bonnets.
Bonnets will be trimmed with long
piled silk plush,
lined Strings of new bonnets are of plush
with satin.
the Long fall straight directory mantles are
wraps.
q,-,,- „_____. Very p ^ ain . or muc , ^
ruffled and draped. ™
dresses are
° importations, .
=
Cord3 and tassels are worn instead of
belts with the newest costumes,
Very small bonnets and very large
round hats are worn this fall,
in Mummy-cloths stylish of fine pure wool, and
dark colors, are offered for
winter.
- A suceessipn of small
flounces ruflies or
teim the skii*& ol rich fall cos
tumes. "
Woolen goods bordered on one sel
I„ a a with stripes are a “
°
P novelties cSS?LaS°arJ\mong T , , ... s attlaetffe
‘
1 he metal , , ornaments for , hats
new and
, |?°p ts large and handsomely
ae are vei’y
nnisnea.
Si ^ e comb3 of shell, jet, ivory and
co . > . as wea as gold and silver 1 , are
a = aia m ase -
The crown and brim of the bonnet
this fall are smoothly covered with
beaded net.
dresses Among the most fashionable ball
are black tulle toilets embi'oider¬
e d with gold.
Plush and furry felt hats and bonnets
are among the first fall productions and
importations.
There is a tendency toward making
sleeves much wider at the wrist than
those worn at present,
Cloth of gold embroidered with pearl,
garnet and amber beads, appears among
choice fall importations.
Bags or reticules carried on the arm
or fastened to the waist accompany
nearly all new costumes.
Long pile silk with plush, in bright, dark
colors, tipped white or old gold,
will be much used in millinery, J
^~ feathers used m the new . bonnets
a f e fastened but once—that is, at the
and the tips are left loose,
Suits in dark colors are being made
for dressy purposes. Surah glaces and
changeable fabrics are used for these,
Shoes grow more fanciful every sea
son, and are now embroidered in colors
or slashed open to display the hosiery,
Coiffures are not quite so low in the
back as they have been, but the ten
deney is to plain and flat, not fluffy, hair
dressing.
It is said that the cinnamon shade
Worth has used during the summer will
be among the most popular colors next
‘
T Large and . finely , finished „ . . , claps, ,
re
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Large black silk collars, .. with flowers
P ai oted on them in water colors., like
designs on a fan, York have made their ap
pearance m New city,
A pretty sast to wear with a white
costume can be made of white toile re¬
ligieuse, finished shawl at the ends with sec
tions of India patterns,
Ostrich feathers, long, demi-long and
tips, -will be used on winter millinery,
quite to the exclusion of flowers. Birds
of all kinds will also be worn .
The new woolen handkerchiefs are a
yard square, which is the whole width
of the fabric, aDd are sold in sets with¬
out cutting the square apart.
For the street dark shades of cash
mere are shown in four of the stylish
purple shades ranging from mauve to
dahlia, all of which have red tints.
A combination of plain goods with
woolen Madras plaid will he the leading
style this fall, and suits of this descrip¬
tion are already becoming popular.
A favorite combination for fall suits is
coachman's drab for the principal part
of the costume, with borderings of
shaded stripes of heliotrope and Ophelia.
Fall bonnets plush are principally finished felts small
copate shapes of and
furry beavers. They are trimmed with
plaid velvet and feathers and are to be
worn far back on the head.
Fine all-wool goods with a border for
trimming are among recent all importa¬
tions. They come m the new fall
colors, and tbe borders, which are from
three to five inches wide, are very hand¬
some.
Uncut or Terry velvet is now shown
in changeable colors, the ribs of a differ¬
ent tint from tbe body of the goods and
will be much used next winter for mil¬
linery as well as for dress trimming,
lining and facing.
The colors for fall are heliotrope in all
shades (which includes mauves and
violets), sea-browns and coffee-browns
(coffee in tbe bean, roasted and ground),
vanilla, a shade of yellow resembling
Indian corn, slate-gray, willow-green,
steel-blue and porcelain-blue.
The princess dress continues to be
worn. Certain alterations are made,
such as having a basque in front, and
the princess cut in the back, or the
basque in the back with the princess
cut in front. Sometimes it is made in
the back with a postillicn or long coat¬
tails.
Tiie «* erman countess,
But the German countess, according
to my observation, is briskly a plain, domestic
creature, who trots about during
the forenoon hours, attired in a simple
short dress, with big apron and snowy
cap, a heavy key-basket jingling in her
band. Shearrangestothe minutestde
tail the meals, of the family, the servants
1 of the house, and the laborers in the
court, all of whom receive a separate
bill of fare. Every article required in
the preparation of these meals, even to
the salt, is ca; efully weighed out. Each
servant has so much sugar, tea, and
coffee per week, which he can consume
at pleasure. I hat this alone is a labor
i oug task every housekeeper will admit
At dinner the countess appears freshly, dinner
but still simply, dressed. After
she is seen with knitting in hand, or a
YOL. YI. NO 18.
great basket of mending by her side,
working American with housewife, as much assiduity, as any
herself much time hardly allowing
as for reading or
recreation. Each napkin, towel, etc., is
held up against the light, and rigidly
inspected; coarsest crash each towel thin place, even in the
for kitchen use, is
carefully darned. I was much amused,
at one place where I visited, to see the
ing-school, daughter of the house, fresh from board¬
■vfrith going basket thi’ough this process
supervision a great of linen, under the
of her mother. I remarked
rather in the way of seif-eongratulation,
that in America we made ourselves less
trouble.
“ What!” exclaimed the lady. “ You
do nut mend your linen?”
“Not the kitchen towels, at all
events,” I ventured to answer.
“Oh, Frau S-!” exclaimed the
young girl, with melodramatic fervor.
“Take me to America with you! A
land where one need not darn the kitchen
towels must be heavenly !”—Atlantic
Monthly.
Marriage Customs of tUe {Undoes.
Ram Chandra Bose’s address at the
Emory grove camp meeting, near Balti¬
more, caused intense amusement. He
gave an account of the marriage relation
among the Hindoos, and maintained
that a woman might become a widow
before she was born. “ Sometimes,”
said he, “ boys of three and girls of two
years of age, and very often boys of five
and girls of three, are married, and
sometimes even before they are born —
that is, of course, conditionally; and I
have known girls that were ushered
into the world as widows. A widow is
is not allowed to marry, either, but a
widower may, Hindoo and is often compelled to
do so. women cannot read
they cannot sing, they cannot talk
podtics. They have nothing to do; no
specific In object in life, Miserable crea¬
tures ! the monotony of their lives a
quarrel is about the only healthy thing.
You are laughing, but you must remem¬
ber that quarrels must exist, or nations
and We politicians would who die of inanition.
have women with you are
called termagants. They quarrel some¬
times for a week, and I liavc known
them to continue for twenty-one days.”
OiPDiug.
The Countess of Antrim has effected a
diversion. The cards for her last after¬
noon “ At Home” in Lowndes square
were marked “ Dipping at 4:30 precise¬
ly,” and, as may be imagined, this cre¬
ated a considerable excitement. What
could be about to happen? Was the
countess bent on a bathing party ? Was
it some American surprise? What
could it be? It was simply that each
visitor receptacle dipped and his or hand into a vast
drew forth some small
and elegant present. The idea proved a
great success, and will, I have no doubt,,
be frequently adopted at fashionable re¬
ceptions. It adds considerably to the
opportunities for display; it will enable
people to show off their wealth in an
underiable manner, and that seems the
great ambition of society .—London Let¬
ter.
The Cat’s Decision.—A Fable.
One day a bird of rare plumage and
song sat on the limb of a tree overlook¬
ing a pond, and when said: a catfish arose to the
surface
“ You may be able to fly through the
air, but you can’t swim. You are not
half so big a gunboat as you pretend to
be.”
This salutation nettled the bird, and
he spunked up and replied:
“Iam a better man than you are any
day in the week, and if you were up
here on this limb I’d prove it or break
my wings trying to.”
“Pooh! If you were down here in the
pond, I’d take the brag out of you in
about a York minute!” sneered the cat¬
fish.
After some further sass it was agreed
that they should go to the cat and have
a test to see which excelled. It so hap¬
pened that the cat was out to see if there
was any chance to pick up a bone at
some one else’s expense, and the bird
quickly brought her to the banks of the
pond. see,” began the she
“You cat as
stroked her whiskers and looked wise,
“ this bird cannot swim and the catfish
cannot fly. Therefore, you must meet
on neutral ground. Each thinks that
his decide. cause is The right, catfish and will you come to me
o swim to the
bank and the bird will alight on his
back. One will try to pull the other
down, and the other will try to pull the
one up, and may the best man win.”
The programme was carried out, each
being certain of victory; but while they
were struggling, the cat raked in both
for the When benefit of her stomach.
“ men can’t agree,” mused the
satisfied cat, as she walked homewards,
“ they can always go to law, and the
law will settle the dispute, if it has to
eat the cause of it.
“ P. S.—Titles examined and the tit
lers devoured with neatness and dis¬
patch.” Moral—In the first place, at
In peg away second
what you can do best. the
place, let other people have the same
privilege. Brag is a good dog, but the
umpire rakes in all the profits.— Detroit
Free Press.
Words ot Wisdom.
Never be ashamed of employment that
earns an honest living.
Good health is a blessing that few
think of being grateful for.
Envy is destroyed by love. true friendship,
and coquetry by true
Someremnants of good can be found
in tbe most depraved characters.
When love begins to sicken and decay,
it useth an enforced ceremony.
Justice consists in giving doing them no injury to
man; decency in no of¬
fense.
The pungency of pleasure is as tran¬
sient as the foam that mantles round its
brimming cup.
Against general fears remember how
very precarious life is, take what care
you will; how short it is, last as long as
it ever does.
True repentance has a double aspect;
it looks upon things past the with a weep¬
ing eye, and upon future with a
watchful eye.
What a folly it is to dread the thought
of throwing away life at once, and yet
have no regard to throwing it away by
parcels and piecemeal.
What would be the state ot the high¬
ways of life if we did r ot drive our
thought-sprinklers sometimes. through them, with,
valve open,
An Old Sicilian Town.
It is a very old place, with narrow
streets going up and down by means of
wide, stone paved stairs, which prevent
any carriages. The walls of the houses,
which are never more than two stories
high, seemed crumbling to dust, and re¬
mind us more of Pompeii as it looks
now than any other old town; the inte¬
riors were mere dark holes, crowded by
a rural population. There is but one
object of antiquity, a church, of which
the walls and most of the columns ones
belonged to a temple of Vesta. There is
an old traditi.on about this temple and
the progenitors of the people of this town
which is worth relating:
During the many centuries of decay
of the Roman empire, the strict relig¬
ious laws and customs were so far re¬
laxed that whenever any one of the
vestal virgins was discovered faithless
to her vows, instead of being buried
alive, according to the old law, she was
relegated to this temple of Vesta on
Mount Eryx, where, at length, she and
others like her intermarried with the
priests aud people of the place, who
were of Trojan origin. From their
union This, descended the present tradition, population. yet
of course, is a mere
it is|supported by a very curious physion
logical fact. The natives of this old Roman moun¬
tain town have more of the
type of face and person than any of the
other two millions of people that in¬
habit Sicily. The women are famous
for long their beauty, their fair complexions, superb
necks, large black eyes and
busts. There are also many blonds with
blue eyes among them—a type never
seen in the true Sicilian race.
We had heard this story, and were
anxious to observe the female part of
the population; but as w walked, or
rather climbed, up and d<mn the steps
of the streets, we saw none but men and*
very old women sitting in front of their
dismal house doors.
oil, There were sliop§ where they clay sold
contained in just such huge
as frying one their sees at Pompeii; the public threshold cooks of
meats at
their front door; lamps both of clay and
bronze, bakers’ of Pompeian shape; bread on
the counters of the precise pat¬
tern as that found carbonized at Pom¬
peii ; and many other thing reminded ns
of that old Roman town .—Atlantic
Monthly.
Brides Carrie a off b? Pirates.
One of the most interesting features
of Venetian life were the festivals
which occurred every year, and served
to keep in remembrance certain events
in the history of the city. Among
these was one kept annually for cen¬
turies called “ La Festa della Marie,”
and this is the incident it commemo¬
rates : In very old times, it was the
custom in Venice to have all the mar¬
riages among the nobles and chief citi¬
zens celebrated on the same day, and in
the same church in the eastern part of
the city, on a little island called Olivolo,
where the bishop lived. On the day of
the fete, elegant gondolas were seen on
the waters carrying people dressed in
holiday attire to the appointed place,
and the young couples landed to the
sound of sweet and joyou3 music. The
jewels and other presents given to the
brides were carried in the procession,and
a lpng train of friends, relatives and other
attendants came after.
In A.D. 933, an event happened at
this ceremony which came very near
The ending pirates tragically Istria, for the happy neighboring lovers.
of a
country, were in the habit of scouring
the Adriatic, and were the terror of all
the cities on the coast. Always alert
for plunder, they decided that the time
for the Venetian wedding feast would
be a favorable one to enrich themselves
very easily. Near to Olivolo uninhabited was a
small island, at that time
and here, the day before the fete,
the wily Istriotes concealed themselves
and their light vessels.
The next day, the gay companies
passed slowly along to the church, un¬
conscious of danger. The services be
San and the espoused couples stood be¬
fore the altar. Then suddenly the
Istriote pirates, swift as arrows, rowed
their boats into the harbor where the
gay procession had just disembarked. In
the midst of the solemn service, the
doors of the church were thrown open
and the dark-bearded pirates rushed in.
With their drawn swords in their hands,
they made their way to the altar, and,
snatching up the terrified forgetting brides, they
rushed to their boats, not to
secure the caskets with the bridal gifts.
Before the horrified bridegrooms and
guests could realize what had“happened,
the robbers were carrying their strokes prize,
with swift and steady
toward the shores of Istria. The
Doge was assisting at the cere¬
mony; but, rushing from the church,
he called on all to follow, till the num¬
ber of citizens soon swelled to hun¬
dreds, as they ran to the wharf, shout¬
ing for vengeance. the harbor,
There were several ships in
and they hastily embarked. Every sail
was unfurled,and they started in pursuit
of the pirates and their precious booty.
The wind being favorable they over¬
took them in the lagoons, or low water
near the shore. It was not to be ex¬
pected the that any quarter would be restored given
to robbers. The girls were
unhurt to their lovers, and all the
jewels were recovered. It is said that
every pirate was fettered and thro wn
headlong into the sea, not one escaping
to tell the story to his countrymen.—
St. Nicholas.
Cows’ Tails as Barometers.
John B. Coyner, a farmer, residing Ind.,
near Palestine, Hancock county, which
relates a singular incident hap¬
pened at his farm a short time since.
His hired man was in the act of water¬
ing the cows, nine in nnmber. trough, They
were standing around the pump
awaiting his action, when all at once,
with tails erect, they made a stampede
down the lane as fast as their legs this
would carry them. The cause of
sudden.freak was a mystery to the hired
man, but it was not long before he was
let into what appears to have been the
secret of the stampede. Suddenly, al¬
though the sky was clear and the atmos¬
phere still, a young cyclone, not over
twenty feet in breadth, darted down
from the sky, and striking the earth
near the pump, twisted off live large
beech shade-trees, standing near by, as
though they had been mere weeds.
When the cows made the stampede
there were no indications of its approach, of
and by what mysterious rule foie
sight the cattle “smelt trouble in the
air” is one of the things which “ no
feller can find out
_
A La Crosse minister prayed and tor chfise
“who are smitten with iiine?s, those
j who have gone a fishing, atid
! those too }."3.Y to dress for ct^rph,”