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LAUEY LIKNET S UOHT LVEICS.
to beautiful srmsa.
f'h. beautiful Miring
Tot:.e I King'
But not a * urn w >nt to ilo :
It i* caiilv fta
Tl.<- grasa i
That tiiir.o '• f•. ira' f e fry haa.
That caro's float
I r jji ft ong-birti' throat.
Winging iti *ay to the leafy wood,
is known to all,
B'th great and small,
Bo I ay, ■ Holloa!’ which is just as good.
BEFORE,
H walked to see her every night,
A half a dozen dies;
His -onl hbs eager, hi- heart was light,
His face ail wreathed in amides
lie loyod her so.
AFTER.
And now be walks thes* wears - miles
And longs forenrnin; day.
With • ar'i-r soul and heavy heart,
Aud wife two loagufH awuv
He love- her - ..
a rick lit rtiirMF.,
A rhymer at in i: rickety chair,
On a rickety table wrote
His rickets - rhymes for it rickety sheet,
In n rick' tv wnv afloat.
On a rickety bed lie *dept lie- died
His rickety rhymes likewise;
And only it rickety bourd now t* 11s
Where the rickety rhymer lies'
raEEi'S FORTUNE!
<it. —
The Stolen Heiress.
A TALE OF NEW YORK IN 1835.
BY PROF. WM. HENRY PECK,
AUTHOR OF
* The Quern'* Secret “ The Ton er of Hold,”
“ The Half-/h-red, * '■Harold* //ate,”
41 Jhe Bride of Barrr’onaEtc,
CHAPTER XXIX
EDWAIU) AND VEBNEENA.
Meanwhile Edward and Yerneena did
not grow in the least impatient for the re
turn of 1 >ame (iripparil to the counting
room. They had much to say to each
other, aud eagerly seized the opportunity
to do so.
Seated aloof from the few persons who
had remained in the ofliee aficr the depar
ture thenco of the dame and the Captain,
the lovers conversed in well-guarded
whispers of their own affairs.
Dame Grippnrd’s atliable manner and
friendly words as she moved away had not
deceived the lovers. They knew that she
had not cast aside all kopo to separate
them forever.
I havo not the slightest doubt,” re
marked Edward, after they had conversed
for some timo, "that Dame Grippard in
tends treachery toward us. Though sho
said so sweetly just now that we may mar
ry in her cottage to-morrow should wo de
sire to do so, 1 am perfectly sure that she
would find cause for delay were we to ac
cept her pretended offer. What say you,
my darling- Suppose we say that we
desire to be wedded there to-morrow, aud
that she cousents, are you willing?
My dear Edward you know very well
that 1 shall never bo willing to marry you
until your father consent to our marriage.
Dame Grippard knows the same. Remem
ber, love, that oven if I am not the least
kin to her aud that is something which
we can not prove, and may never be able
to prove L am ignorant of my parentage,
and your father is a proud man in such
matters, you havo often assured me. He
would despise mo hate mo—perhaps
curse you for marrying a girl who an not
say who her parents wore ep eq that
her parents were ever
Oil. MY fiwrP ilward, do not ask me to put
such animosity between him and you. ’
“Dear love,” urged Edward, “I have not
the least doubt that if yon go with me or
without me to my father, and tell him
nil that you have told mo to-day of what
the old wretch said and did, in your bed
room last night, ho would be as firmly
convinced as 1 am that you have not a drop
of her blood in your veins. lam sure, too,
that he would at once take yon under his
protection, find compel her to reveal to him
all that she knows of your parentage."
“And, my dear Edward, she might prove
to him that 1 am indeed her grand
daughter. As he has so intense a hatred
and detestation of her he certainly would
never consent to our marriage after that.
True, he would, 1 am sure, protect me
from her schemes to sell me to such
wretches as this Spanish Captain. No, no,
dear love; do not try to persuade me in this
matter. 1 repeat that I will naer marry
you without your father's consent!
“Of course, dearest Edward you would
be very happy for a time, for years, per
haps. as my husband, despite your father's
displeasure, yet at last your great love for
him, which never had a rival in your heart
till you met me, would turn your thoughts
remorsefully toward him in his old age—
von are his only child, remember, and he
would willingly lay down his life for you—
except in a mat cr like this, which he would
esteem a family disgrace.”
Edward would have spoken here, but
Yerneena continued quickly;
“Hear me to the end, my darling! As
the years rolled by the remorse iu
your heart would increase. You
would daily reproach yourself for having
blasted, in your eager aud passionate love
for me, his high hopes of you, an 1 1 should
become, oh. so miserable in detecting,
from time to time, the signs of your re
morse!
“He might curse you, and refuse ever tc
speak to you again as many a proud
father has done. That is a horror which I
dare not. and will not. thrust my life upon,
Edward!”
But for the near presence of others, the
lovely girl would hive burst into tears of
bitter sorrow as she uttered these words
is her final resolve. Tears did fill her
beautiful eyes as she turned them firmly
upon her lover's,
“Courage, darling!'’ whispered he.
“Turn your eyes away, they are full of
tears, and 1 think those fellows in the
Spaniard's service are watching us. Be
brave, my darling, aud let us try 10 decide
upon taking some speedy step to bafiie the
aid woman- for somehow 1 suspect she
means quick treachery toward ns, and that
she is now plotting for its success with the
Spaniard up stairs. You have refused to
adopt any plan I have proposed. Now what,
do von propose for our consideration? ’
"l am willing, dear Edward, to partly
adopt one of yon: p 1 ans— though 1 shall
labor under the . esciousness of being a
schemer to try to win your father's good
opinion. You said. I think, that he has
never heard my name?”
"Yes, Yerneena. He has never heard
your mini?. In that letter of which I wrote
to you ho says:
•' ‘I have never before heard that this
woman. Helen Grippard, has a daughter,
or a grand-daughter, or a niece, or grand
niece, or relative of any degree, and 1 an
sorry that so vile a wretch has any kindrec
in this world. When you write again let
me know the name of the girl whom youi
friend is -o anxious to marry.’ ”
“Ah, Edward, you see how bitterly het
detests her. How bitter he would be
against you were you to wed me without
his knowledge! How he would scorn yon
for using such deceit writing as if lor a
friend, but really to discover his opinion of
the act you have thought to do. Ah. n y
darling, let not your love for me fill your
noble heart with ”
"Enough, my darling Yerneena, inter
rupted Edward. “Let us speak of what
you were about to say just new —of my
plan, which yon agree to at least partly
adopt, bpenk fast, love, for the detestable
old woman may return at any moment, and
insi-t upon your returning with her to her
cottage.
At this moment Jansen entered the office
THE MONROE ADVERTISER; FORSYTH. GA-, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. ISSS. —EIGHT PACES.
from above. The lovers continued lo vrbis-
P'r cf their aflairs. Jansen g'anced around,
and then approached Pettis, who was seated
on a high stool near a tall desk, writing
very busily.
“What are yon doing. Mr. rettis?” asked
the Bwede, while Its bine eves roved cov
ertly toward Ba/ilio and Urbandt in an
other quarter of the spacious office.
I am setting down an inventory of
everything in this ffiee, Jansen,” replied
1 ettis, briskly. "Some things in the ware
rooms, also. W hat can Ido for vou Jan
sen?”
I‘ame Grippard wishes you to go to
her. }on will find her above. I think
she wants to look at what you Lave written
\ou will find her with Cap am Balbatt, in
the room near "
Oh. I il soon find her," interrupted Pet
ti-., swiftly gathering together his papers.
Just wait a bit till I get these well in hand. ”
And, continued the Swede, turning his
eyes s ptarely upon Bnzilio, Captain Bal
bata and Dame Gr.ppard desire to consult
at once with you, sir, concerning the cargo
md supplies for the next voyage of vour
brig.”
Having 6aid this, the Swede entered
one of the warerooms behind the counting
room and vanished.
Bazilio had no sooner heard what Jansen
said to him than he turned and whispered
to his outlaw father;
hoard him? ‘Cargo aud supplies
for our next voyage.' It means, of course,
his scheme with the dame to abduct and
marry the girl. Remain here for the pres
ent. It will be well to keep out of oni
dame s sight as much as possible. I was
sure the Captain would not attempt the ab
duction without first consulting with me in
our dame’s presence. You and I will make
this game ours before the end.”
1 rbandt nodded, and Bazilio departed
with Pettis. The outlaw seated himself od
a coil of rope remote from the loveis, and
seemed to have all his attention devoted to
whittling an anchor-shaped toy from a
fragment of soft wood.
The girl will be a grand prize for my
lad, (bought he, whittling, and whistling
softly. “Sho is as handsome as her mother,
and that’s saying a great deal, for hei
mother was the handsomest lady I evei
saw in all mv life. Our dame cau doubt
less prove who the girl is, or she would not
be trying to sell her to the villain of a
Spaniard at such a stiff price as twenty
five thousand dollars in advance. Oh, the
girl will be a grand prize for Marvino, anc
he'll share some of the wealth with me.
He never went back on me in all his life. I
can see very plainly that he does uot intent
to go back on me now. Bless his soul
What a noble son he is! That is, to me.
“Ho, I wonder if our dame will love him
as devotedly as she used, after she discov
ers that he is still alive and ready to marry
the lass she stole to be his future wife
when he was only ten years old, and the
lass but two! Not if she should suspect
that our lad intends to share with me. Not
if she should discover that I am alive to he
loved by our lad as devotedly as when he
was a child.
" T am sure she has not suspected the
truth yet. There was somewhat of a sheen
of suspicion in her eyes, I thought, as she
turned away with the Captain. But I feel
quite safe. She of course believes that I
have been dead all these years.”
Quitting the counting-room, we will ac
company Pettis and Bazilio.
CHAPTER XXX.
BAZILIO IS STARTLED.
Bazilio and Pettis were soon in the
presence of the dame and the Captain. As
Pettis entered the room the dame ex
claimed:
“Pettis, I hope you have brought an in
ventory of things below. Ah, Mr. Bazilio,
1 believe Captain Balbata has something
to say to you privately. Captain, you can
converse as softly as you like with Mr. Ba
zilio over yonder near that closet door,
while I speak with Pettis of the papers
which I see ho has brought. Come closer,
Pettis. I suppose you have been quite
busy below?” ‘ f
“Asa hec -a_tar in.rv-.. Hiiry
pard,' b* oplied, irtiTie seated himseu neir;
nor and begun to display his papers osten
tatiously. He imagined the attention oi
the old woman was closely upon his papers,
while in fact it was keenly, though covertly
toward Balbata aud Bazilio.
Balbata had risen from his chair as Ba
zilio was entering the room, and moved to
ward the closet she had mentioned after
ward. Bazilio, unsuspicious of his detec
tion, followed the Captain, and was soon
with him.
“Before saying anythiug of other mat
ters, Bazilio,” whispered the Captain, his
eyes blazing angrily, “let me inform you
that I have discovered, from certain re
marks made by yonder old cormorant, that
Bratton’s pocketbook of which you had
the plucking—should have contained, when
you plucked it, much more money than you
to’d me at our hotel this morning it did.
How much more than the sum you told me
did it contain when you first put your fin
gers into it?” ;
Bazilio’s eyes flashed defiantly, but he
replied quietly:
By our bargain —made before I came tc
Old Anchors to recover for you the five
Bank of England notes which you had
paid Bratton—all money that I might find
on the place, and secure, should be mine.
Mine, without sharing a dollar of it with
you. Captain.”
“Oh, we will say no more of the sharing
of that booty, Bazilio.” responded the Cap
tain, with a hitter smile which Bazilio failed
at the moment to understand. “I suppose
you have with you now all the money you
took from Bratton's person, and from any
thing in this house?”
“I have, Captain, and I intend to keep
all of it. I won it fairly, and at the risk of,
being hanged for my courage in the affair;
What of it?”
"This, Senor Bazilio. Yonder old witch,
who is suspicious of murderous work bp
someone, says there should have been,
found on Bratton's person more than elevep
thousand pounds in Bank of England
notes!”
Bazilio flushed and then grew pale. The
dame had her eyes on his face at the mo
ment. She noted this change of color.
"Oh. the villain!” she thought. "After I
have made good use of him I will have him
hanged for his work of last night ”
"Did you say,” whispered Bazilio, “that
she suspects he was murdered?”
The Captain rapidly made known to Ba
zilio much that we have already told the
reader. While the Captain was whispering
his revelation, Bazilio grew more and more
pallid, for he did not yet know how few
suspected the truth. He feared the secret
had become known to Jansen, and that the
dame was now making it known to Pettis.
He was greatly relieved when the Cap
tain added:
“As yet the matter is suspected only by
the Swede—and his suspicions do not point
toward us. He, you are aware, has sus
pected murder from the first- Only this
old hag and you and 1 know how the ship
chandler died. ”
"Yon are perfectly sure of this, Captain?”
"Perfect y! The old wretch means to
bleed us of every dollar she can force from
us. She has told me what she can do.
Yonder man is a constable, you know. She
can have us arrested before we quit this
room.”
" Was it for this she had the man sum
moned hither?”
• I think not. She has not told me why
| she wanted his presence. 1 know, however,
that she will make use of h m if she sus
pects unfair phy on our part.”
"Unfair play*in what, Captain? What
does she demand?’’
"First, you must pay to her on demand all
the mere,; you obtained from your deed of
last night”
Ho! Diablos! Then she means to gob
ble everything!”
“Everything, Bazilio. She demands that
you aud I. viith such aid as we may see fit
; ;o use, shall abduct her reputed grand
* daughter from her cottage, this yen - n’.ght,
and afterward comp-el the girl to many
me ”
“Ah! gasped Bazilio, his eyes again
blazing with suppressed passion.
"Ye-. 1 azilio—the marriage to be per
formed either in the city somewhere, or on
board our brig, as she may decide afUr
further consul ation with me. \Ve must
also cause the gir.'s lover to vanish this
very night—kil. and hide him!”
And how about the wealth which the
girl is to bring to you . ” asked Bazilio, with
I assumed carelessness.
' By mv sou’, the old cormorant demands
that after the wealth shall hare been se
cured to me as the girl s husband I shall
pay foul -fifths of it into her greedy old
claws, and also one-half yearly of the in
come tha‘ shall thereafter accrue from the
other fifth of the inheritance.”
“Can she prove that the girl is entitled
to the wealth she mentioned?”
“I have not the least doubt of that now,
Bazilio.”
“Are the parents of the girl still living,
and are there no other heirs?
“Her father and mother are still living
for all 1 know. The old woman has said
nothing about that. The girl is th“ sole
heir to the Perclair-Hawksworthy inherit
ance—now unclaimed for sixteen years. ”
At this moment the dame tapped the
floor impatiently with the sharp point of
her staff. Pettis thought sho did this be
cause she was growing weary of his reading
his inventory, and of his running remarks
upon it. Balbata, however, knew it was a
signal to him to complete what she had se
cretly commanded him to do just before
Pettis and Bazilio came up. He instantly 1
whispered to Bazilio:
“She is getting impatient for you to act.
M e are at present at her mercy. You must
hasten to give her all that you got last
night.”
“What! iu the presence of that fellow,
Captain?”
“Yes. She demanded that. But his
suspicions are to be guarded against Mark
closely all I say, and obey, for our throats
are in the jaws of ns dangerous a tigress as
ever sucked blood. ”
Balbata then turned from the closet
door, advanced toward the dame in his
usual brisk, massive, and airy manner, and
said
TO HE CONTINUED.
* STORY OF PINKERTON.
How the Vanity of a Wife Saved Her
Own Life and Her Husband's.
[From the Worcester Spy.]
I believe Allan Pinkerton to have been
the greatest detective who ever lived.
Aside from this distinction, lie was one
of the most interesting of men; and no
writer ever had a better chance to judge
than I. For some years I was daily iu
his company, indeed in his confidential
employ, and in such capacity that there
were repeated occasions for good fellow
ship, and as many for confidences and
reminiscences. Among the countless
incidents of his life which thus came to
me, one that impressed me more deeply
than the most thrilling of liis exploits,
was one in which the pardonable vanity
of one good little woman saved her own
and her husband’s life. Pinkerton never
told anybody anything “by request.” It
nlw'/s came on impulse. We had been
ib New York and Philadelphia together,
visiting Gens. Marcy and McClellan,
Tom Scott and others, and were return
ing west over the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He never dined at railway stations, but
was always provided with a well-stocked
hamper. We had eaten, and he had
just settled back comfortably in his
seat with a few hearty clappings of his
hands together (an old habit, bespeak
ing content with him), when he saw a
bottle, carelessly flung from a forward
coach, barely graze a trackm under’s
head. A look of indignant anxiety
Hashed into his face, soon giving place
to a smile, and finally followed by roars
Wf never
without ’minding me of the
of luck I ever saw,” began the veteran
criminal catcher, “and it happened a
raw Scotchman and his wife that I knew.
This Scotch fool had been a Chartist; a
price was set on Iris head; he had a
sweetheart, Joan Cartrae, a bookfolder’s
apprentice and a lass that had caught his
heart a singing Chartist songs, who
manned him with his head all out in the
noose, and some friends shipped them
by stealth to Quebec, he as a ship’s
cooper, and she as a cook, on the bark
Kent, April 9, 1840. On May 8 the
Kent was wrecked on Sable Island, but
the crew and passengers were saved by
the aid of frienly Indians, who took ev
erything that came ashore. The cooper
and wife finally got from tiro scene of
the wreck to Fisherman’s Village, in a
small boat, and from there by fishing
smack to Aspy Bay, where the Unicorn,
of Quebec, changed mails with the Bri
tannia, one of the finest steamers across
the Atlantic, They were helped from
here to Montreal, where the cooper got
work heading beef barrels, and the cou
ple soon got to housekeeping famously in
one room. But members of the Coopers’
Union confidently told him this job
would shut down at a certain date, and
so he impulsively decided on going to
the thriving little city of Chicago. After
buying their tickets they had no money
left. The steamer was to leave that very
afternoon. The cooper's httle bit of a
wife came and confessed that she had
criminally ordered a bonnet at the milli
ner’s; that it would not be got for the
charges, and pitifully pleaded that they
wait for the next boat a week later, that
the money might be earned and the pre
cious bonnet secured. The Scotch coo
per roared like a mad bull, but finally
consented. They got the bonnet, but
that husband made that wife’s life little
short of hell, till”—and here Pinkerton
roared the startled passengers out of
their dozings—“news came in a few
days that the boat they would have
taken, had it not been for that lucky
bonnet, blew up and every soul on board
was lost!
“I tell you, that little song-singing
wife has had her way about bonnets
ever since!” chuckled Pinkerton. “For
that little Edinburgh girl was inv Joan!
—and that fool cooper who ran away
from the Queen’s officers was me
Army Discipline.
Nothing exasperates a Cerman officer
more than to see one of his soldiers with
disordered or neglected uniform. Lieu
tenant Prudelwitz on observing a man in
the rank- with a little feather or spider
web on his shoulder, exclaimed:
“Sergeant, who is the scoundrel with
some sort of a living machine on his
shoulder.”
On another occasion Lieutenant Pru-
Jelwitz perceived that the second button
3f a private’s coat was unbuttoned, an i
.n a perfect frenzy he shrieked:
“fellow! Whit do you mean by com
ing on parade without any clothes on?”
—Sifting*.
Bessie's Ihnnpiaiat.
Little Eessie—“Papa. I do he to to
near your pen scratch!”
Papa— “It's the paper, ray dear.'
Bessie —“Well, papa, can’t you get
some paper that doesn’t itch so bad. ' —
Burlington Frc J Prs-s.
Sixty lakes can be counted, it is said,
from the summit of Mount Whitefaco
in the Adircndacks. Whiteface is over
5.000 feet high, and so are Mounts Se
ward, Melntire, and several others, but
the highest is Mount Marry, which
rises 5,337 feet.
WOMAN’S WOULD
PI.r.ASANT literature for
FEMININE HEADERS.
*
An Oregon Girl Bags a Deer.
Miss MolLie Bergen, a lass of sixteen
sumjner-, whose parents reside on Pool's
Slough, Yaquina, heard the dog making
gicafc noise the other morning, and on
looking out saw a deer jump into the
siongh. Shs*stepped quickly into the
house, picked up her father’s Winchester,
returned to door, raised the rifle and
fired.'! The first shot struck the animal
in the head, the second in the shoulder
and the third and list went through the
animal's heart, killing it. She then
stepped down to the bank of the slough,
unmoored a sms 1 boat, rowed to where
the buck lay floating in the water, pulled
the carcass into the boat and succeeded
in getting it on shore before any of the
men folks, appeared. The buck when
dressed weighed 200 pounds.— Port'and
Oreiopim
Blondes Becoming Extinct.
A highly interesting question is being
agitated in Europe. It! as been asserted
that there has been a gradual decrease
of blondes in Germany. Almost 11,-
000,000 school children were examined
in Germany, AVustria and Belgium, and
the result sjfmWed that Switzerland has
only 11.10; Austria, 19.71), and Ger
many, 31. per cent., of pure blondes.
Thus the country, which since the days
oi ancient Rome lias been proverbially
known as the home of yellow hair, has
to-day only twenty-two pure blondes in
100, while the average of pure brunettes
is fourteen per cent. The fifty-three
per cent, of the mixed type are s'aid to
be underg-oTiig a transformation into
pure brunettes. Dr. Bedloe, iu England,
has collected a number of statistics
which seem to point iu the same direc
tion. Among 720 women he examined
he found 309 brunettes and ;!77 blondes.
Of the brunettes he found that seventy
eight per gunt. were married, while of
the blondes only sixty-eight per cent,
were married, Thu- it would seem that
a brunette had ten chances of getting
married to a blonde’s nine. In France
a similar view has been put forth by M.
Adolph de Candolle. M. dc Candolle
found that when both parents have eyes
of the same color eighty-eight per cent,
inher.t this color. But it is a curious
fact that more females than males have
black or brtrwa eyes to the perportion
of forty-five to forty-three. It seems
that with different, colored eyes in the
two parents fifty-three per cent, follow
the father iu being dark eyed. An in
crease of five per cent, of dark eyes in
each generation must tell in the course
of time. Toroid') Truth.
Mrs. Cleveland's Mail.
An early riser, like the President, his
wife is also, like her husband, busy dur
ing the day. She doc - not assume the
management of the house, beyond such
occasional supervision as in ly be necessary
to maintain order and regularity. The
morning brings to her a volume of let
ters that has been constantly growing.
A thoughtless writer in an otherwise
friendly paragraph, wrote a while ago
that Mrs. Cleveland per onally responded
to all letters received by her. An ava
lanche followed. .She had been receiv
ing more letters than she could answer.
Now there£ere more
b'kc^inuyllflflpen; most
savc wrote for loans IP
ito,ooo, to “save the old
One woman wrote to ask for a
specified number of yards of velvet, that
was to be mazarine blue in color, and iu
addition she wished to have enough
material for a wrap. Of application for
autographs and photographs there is no
end.
To attempt to answer all these letters
would be out of the question. To read
them all is unnecessary. If Mrs. Cleve
land undertook to respond favorably to
all who write to her, she would keep a
stenographer and photographer con
stantly at work, die would gradually
rob herself of her wardrobe, and she
wou'd bankrupt the Pro blent. So a
large part of theecrrcspomiencais turned
over to one of the Executive clerks to be
answered with a printed form signed by
Col. Lamont, Mrs. Cleveland personally
responding only to letters from her per
sonal friends.— Epoch.
Empress Josephine’s Toilet.
I have been hunting in an old book,
published in Paris in 1807, for particu
lars of the Empress Josephine’s toilet.
Four to six times a day did she change
her dress, and she never twice assumed
any plain gown. Her weekly allowance
of stockings was four dozen of silk in
rammer, and in the winter two dozen of
French silk hose and three dozen of the
finest English cotton sto kings. As for
gloves aud shoes. Mine. Bonaparte used
up three dozen pairs a week, and she
never wore any stockings that had been
washed, nor donned more than once the
same pair of gloves or shots. Every three
months she exchanged her diamonds and
other jewels, or had them newly set, ac
cording to the mutations of fashion; and
four times a year her plate, china, furni
ture, tapestry hangings, and carpets
were renewed. She had thirty-six horses
in her private stable, and her .Master of
the Horse was empowered to dispose of
twelve steeds once a month and replace
them by animals of a fashionable hue.
Once a month, too, all the domestics in
Josephine’s household received fresh liv
eries, and eveiy thirty days her ward
robe was divided among her maids of
honor. Of these toilets the court lady
had four, with au equal number of sets of
jewelry—one for the Tuilerics, one for
St. Cloud, one fer Ma'maison, and one
for traveling. B touching certain
springs she could command for her bath
what perfumes her capri e required to
mix with the water, the reservoirs al-
wavscontaining 12,000 fiancs worth of
the finest odors. By touching other
springs a whole gallery of pi turea aud
prints of a gay and vivacious character
made its appearance, and when she
wished to leave her bath she had but to
touch a bell, when, by a mechanical con
trivance, she was lifted into an elegant
moderately warmed and perfumed bed,
where she was nicely dried. Then, by
another meebank al contrivance, she wan
■ lifted on to a splendid elastic sofa, which
glided mro the adjoining boudoir. Who
shall accuse any American woman of ex
travagance after that? —-V- (C York Sun.
Wigs and Wigmakers.
t A New York barber says that one of
the few kinds of woman's woik which
is r.ot overcrowded, and at which com
petent girls can always earn good wages,
is that which, includes the working, cut
ting and general management of the
human hail . The average pay of female
dairdressers is a week. Sometimes it
reaches as high as? 18 a week, and some
times goes down to *5. A girl who
understands the business thoroughly can
command $lB a week anywhere. One
, hairdresser in this city used to employ
140 giiF-, and paid ou f $705 weekly in
wages
The profit lies in false hair. Women
that have their hair cut short, and are
tired of it, buy wigs or “switches” to
wear in the street. Those whose hair is
poor, or who suffer from baldness, wear
; false hair at all times. Girls who con
i fine their attention to hair-working alone
J earn from $3 to $lO a week, it ban
art that needs skill and no small amount
of perseverence to succeed with. The
hair with which the wigs are made is
collected by commercial travelers iu Ger
many and France. England and Belgium
are poor markets for hair, not because
’of the scarcity, for both English and
Belgian women have fine hair, but be
cause they will not sell it. When col
lected it is put through a cleaning pro
cess, severe enough to fetch the dirt out
of an elephant's hide, and then dyed
several times over. The best li lirdress
er3 never buy hair from the head or from
private hands.
Perfectly white hair is rare and com
mands almost any price. Natural curl
ing is also of considerable value. A
good wig of white costs S4O. The ma
terial of which these wigs are made is
clipped from the goat, and sc'dom from
the human head. A pleuteously soft
silky kind of snow-white hair comes
from the Angora rabbit. A perfectly
white and abundant wig of human hair
would be worth at least SI,OOO. Hair
cut from the head after death is never
used by any good hairdresser. It can
not lie used to any advantage, as it will
neither curl nor twist. Hair can be
proved by pulling it to its utmost ca
pacity. When loosened it will contract
to its former length.— Mad an l Exprr r.
A Suggestion for the Girls.
The girls of a family have it in theii
power at all times to do a great deal of
work in behalf of the male members of
the household, or oft heir acquaintances,
who are out in the rough and tumble,
and among all the temptations of the
open world; but the winter weather af
fords them simpler oppoitunity than all
the out-door days of boating and shoot
ing and lawn-tennis and pieknicking do,
lor it brings about a closer and more con
stant contact, a much fuller vision of
tine qualities, and a much more effective
ground for their exercise. Young girls,
then, who understands this will soon
find that they have all they want to do,
it they will undertake to mike theii
homes so thoroughly delightful that not
only other youths will come to see them
there, but their own brothers will con
tentedly and proudly prefer to stay
therein. With the parlor or sitting room
made tasteful and cheery, as girls cau
make a room, even when forced to de
pend upon themselves for means, with
pleasant people coming in—coming in
because the place is bright and attractive
and the people no less so—with perfect
good nature preserved among them, no
matter what happens to upset the temper,
and therefore the absolute prohibition
of wrangling or of excited argument,
with as much music as may be had, with
a little amusing reading, happy, merry
talk, games of one sort and another, ef
forts being made to have the newest and
those most likely to attract the brothers,
according to their idiosyncrasies—with
all this, and more that will suggest it
self to those girls who are in earnest
about it, the house may be made by them
a place in which the brothers shall look
forward to spending the evening with
nearly as much gratifies'ion as that with
which lovers look for the hour that shall
find them together; and all the more if
Ifche girl who has a lover does not count
a supernumerary.—
Fashion Notes.
Badger is a line and deservedly
lar trimming fur.
Astrakhan and Persian lamb are com
ing in favor again.
Stoles and capes of fur are almost ai
fashionable as boas.
Beaver is the favorite fur for young
ladies’ shoulder capes.
The most fashionable boas reach
nearly to the hem of the dress.
Soft cap crowns are now fin shed w.th
cap like knife pleated borders, double or
triple, of the same velvet.
In bonnets extremes meet, fur for the
promenade being offset by tulle, lace and
fiowers for theatre, or other dressy
wear.
A novel shawl is made of feathers. It
is very soft, but looks like a fine woolen
shawl, not resembling feathers in the
least.
Waistcoats of scarlet leather sprinkled
with small yellow dots are a feature of
some of the newly imported English
tailor gowns.
Reindeer gloves are the latest novelty
in their line. They look like thick wash
leather of an almond color, and are said
to be very durable.
Toques were never more popular than
the present season. Very p etty ones
are made of ruby velvet and cloth and
similar combinations.
There is a tendency with young ladies
to wear the hair low upon the neck, and
some of the newest hats were designed
with this cv:d in view.
Boas composed of uncurled ostrich
feathers are worn by Parisiennes. Muff
to match these boas have cocks’ heads
attached, combs and all.
“ Pinking ’’ upon the edges of the
skirts and draperies is very effective. It
I is often in double rows, and sometimes
j rests upon a band ox velvet.
Among recent novelties in tea gowns
was noted one of cream-colored Ch'na
; silk, trimmed with fluffy gray fur and a
profusion of yellow ribbon.
The English fancy for fine bonnets is a
slender strap and bow of fur, in place of
strings, which, in seal or astrakhan, is
said to be parti ularly fetching.
For dressy mourning, black watered
silk, shined on cord over a cone shaped
; crown and bordered with a twist cf silk
I and crape, is stylish, world without end.
Round ha‘s, with wide brims of
shirred tulle, and crowns of loosely
folded sash ribbons, or else velvet or
surah, are among the startling novelties
for evening wear.
A charming evening toilet was made
wholly of pink moire ribbon. The
straight skirt, of lace, was completely
covered by loops of ribbon falling from
the waist to the hem.
A novel ribbon decoration for a hat
was of ribbon woven in two colors, with
a narrow ribbon of the same sort put
on branchwise. and fastened only in the
middle to the middle of the broader
ribbon foundation.
Simple, loose fitting frocks for little
girls are made entirely of red or red and
white becomingly combined. A pretty
model wa3 of cre tin-colored cashmere
serge, the loose jacket and skirt being
alike trimmed with a triple row of red
braid.
; Striped fabrics seem to be gradually
; superseding plaids and checks, and ex
cept for very tall, slender ladies they are
decidedly more becoming. Stripes of
e cry width and design are seen,some of
the broad, many colored stripes having
! as lively an effect as the most variegated
plaid.
SUGAR MAKING.
THK PROCESSES <>!' \SCCAC
TI RE IN LOUISIANA
A Machine Which Chows up t h e
Cane Into l*ulp— Op-'rating:
the Juices — The Three
Products of the Mill.
Tl'.e Magnolia sugar house is generally
known in Louisiaua as having the best
machinery and all the new processes. It
** much imitated, for two reasons:
First, the conservatism of the older class
of planters, which leads them to stick to
the methods they understand, and sec
ond. the tact that the business of sugar
making has not been sufficiently profit
able in recent years to enable planters of
moderate capital to purchase new ap
paratus. They are obliged to hold on
to their old pans and kettles for want of
money to buy new. I.cl us now go into
the great irregular brick building, with
its three tower-like chimneys and its
general big factory air. which contains
the sugar making plant, promising at
the start to go through hastily, and not
to bore the reader with details about
machinery, or with the fine scientific
points of the business.
I irst the owner of “.Magnolia'' calls at
tention to his bagasse burner, which
makes more than half the steam used to
run the mill. Formerly the bigasse.
which is the cane after it'has parted with
as much of its juice as the mill will ex
tract, was either burned in a furnace to
get rid of it or thrown out on the levee
to help light off the river from eating
awa. the bank. Now every econoin*
ically managed mill burns it to make
steam by the aid of the draught of an
enormous chimney. The l est method is
to burn it on the grates, under which air
is forced by a blower.
1 he canes, hauled in the big carts from
the fields, are dumped upon an endless
hand anil carried into the mill, usually
direct to the big iron rollers, but at
Magnolia liist to*a “shredder.” There
are only two shredders in the State, the
machine being anew invention. Its re
volving teeth chew up the cane into pulp.
lue pulp and juice fall upon a rubber
apron, which carries them inlo the mill;
grinding is simply squeezing between
three or four sets of iron rollers. Now
ihejuice runs in a tiough to a strainer,
where a woman gathers up now and then i
these shreds of cane remaining and takes
them ba kto the mill. Next the piicc
is pumped into an iron cylinder called
the “juice heater,”,and heated with ex
haust steam to 100 degrees. This is a
new process not much in use. Next it
runs into tli ■ claiilicrs or defecators,
which aie large iron vats with rows of
steam pipes at the bottom. Here slacked
quicklime is added, which brings to the I
top all impurities, to be skimmed off into
a division of the pan at the end. The j
juice is then boiled and “ brushed ” w ith
a long paddic until the bubbles become
white, when it is allowed to settle for
fifteen minutes. 'there is a side oper
ation for saving the sugar in the shim
mings by putting through filter
presses.
jn the advanced process at Magnolia !
the juice next goc3 through bone "black
filters instead of to tire ordinary settling
tanks, to settle for six or seven hours. A i
filter is a big iron drum containing H
OOl) pounds of animal bone black. Ihe .
“char” mud be washed with hot water
every two days and dried in a kiln. Aft i
first jirC'Sb’u iru hr ufff'canVj ’fcoe’f V : ..‘
“double effects.” This is anew......
""sembling two upright boilers of |
a portable engine. 7^ ac i. i;ko
machine contains 500 tid e-, in which
the juice is boiled in a vacuum by exhaust
steam. The usual plan is to boil in an
open cylindrical pan, having coils of j
steam pipe at the bottom. Now the j
juice goes to freffi filters, and next to
the vacuum pan, which is not a pan, but I
a big iron cupola shaped cylinder, with
an apparatus for exhausting the air and
multitudinous coils of steam pipe. This ;
is the process requiring most skill. The
chief sugar maker attends to it himself,
watching his vacuum gauge and l her i
mometer carefully, and testing every
few minutes his boiling mass lay drawing j
out a tube which does not break the !
vacuum.
lie seeks to keep the temperature !
down to ISO degrees. If it is too high j
some of the surcose will ‘ invert” or
“caramel” into glucose, and the pro- j
portion of sugar will be lessened. First ;
he fills the pin only in part, Then
when he sees fine granulations of sugar
against the light in his test tube he ad
mits more juice, and thus builds up the
grains little by little to huger size.
When sufficiently boiled the thick syrup
is called the “massa cuite.” The “strike”
is now done, air is admitted to the pan
and the contents are run off into the j
“mixer”—a huge oblong iron pan in
which steam arms revolve. Next the
“masse cuite” falls into the “centrifu
gals,” which are small drums holding j
about 120 pounds of sugar. Within the
drum is a wire screen basket revolving
at the rate of 1,600 turns per minute.
The centrifugal force throws out the
molasses through the wire network and
leaves the suga r . Perfectly clear water
is then spurted into ihe drum ffbm
a syringe. This water is thrown out
through the sugar, washing out the re
maining coloring matter. The motion
of the centrifugal is now stopped and
the sugar let out of a trap in the bottom
into a screw conveyor, from which a
bucket band is carried to a big bin. A
man stands in the bin and shovels the
sugar, as if it were wheat, into a tube
under which the barrels are placed one
by one to receive it.
This first product of the sugar mill is
called “firsts,'’ and is the whitest and
best sugar. The molas-es is boiled
again in the vacuum pan, goes again
; through the centrifugals, and a iight
brown sugar called 4 seconds” results.
Yet again the remaining molasses goes
I the pans, but the “masse cuite' is now
* sticky and stringy, and will not yield
! its sugar to the centrifugals. It is put
into iron tanks on wheel- called
i “wagon:-,’’ ea h of which holds about
2,500 pound-, and wheeled into the hot
room'. The temperature here is from -i0
to 100 degrees II re the wagons stand
in closely packed rows for thirty days.
The mass is now- very stiff and waxy. It
is next thrown into the boiler, stored up
well and put into the centrifugals with
cold water, which washes out the mo
lasses. The final remainder of sugar is
: called “thi’ds'’ and is of a dark brown
color. The separated molasses is of a
very poor quality and sells for only about
13 cents a gallon. Distillers use it to
' make alcohol and the glucose manufac
turers buy it to give a cane flavor to
their glucose syrup. — E. V. SmaV.ey in
Century.
Paris is said to harbor the largest num
ber of cats of any city in the world in
proportion to its size. “ Whole colonies
of them,” remarks a French journal,
44 are to be found in the vicinity of the
j markets, where they feel on broken
I victuals and make incessant war on the
i rats.
M hat the Men of Greece Wear. <
I They are tall, with great broad
shoulders and waists as small as those of
women, small hands and feet, with
manly, fearless faces and dark, keen
eyes. I hey usually let their hair grow a
la buffalo Bill and wear long nious
taihe- wlii h curl upward. Add to their
| natural appearance the picturesque cos
| tume ami they become very handsome.
The jackets they wear are of velvet
with loose sleeves, which hang down,
leaving expose 1 long, full, crape shirt
sleeves, as white as snow, the jacket
fitting tight in the back, but open in
front aud stiff with gold or silver em
broidery. Around the waist is a scarlet
-adi in which *\re stuck several pistols
atul knives, all richly ornamented, often
jeweled. Below this is the fustanelle,
or white petticoat which reaches nearly
to the knees, and which is so full that
it stands nearly straight. In some of
these fustanelles there are nearly 1.500
pieces, wedge-shaped. This garment is
always of fine linen, and snowy white.
Ibe more pieces, the handsomer and
more valuable, and the prouder the wife
is whose patient lingers have made it.
Below this are worn whit drawers and
leggings to match the jacket, and low
shoes with red rosettes on the point of
the toes. A red fez with a long blue
tassel completei the costume. In winter
they wear a beautifully embroidered
cloak of thick, white wool, which is
carelessly thrown over one shoulder only,
and it reaches to the bottom of the fus
tanelle. All the public employes andolli
ccrswear this costume, and the soldiers,
aside from those who would not aban
don it anyhow, but the Greek brokers
and merchants, who mix mostly with
foreigners, do not wear it, which is a
great mistake it they set any value upon
theirappearanco.— Olirc Harper, in filter-
Ocean.
Governor Mannadiike's Duel.
If was at Bayou Metre that the famous
duel between the late General Marma
iluke, of Missouri, and General Marsh.
Walker tock place, in wi.ich the latter
was killed. The duel was fought at
sunrise, seven miles south of l.iltlc Hock.
One version of the affair is that General
Marmudukc during the battle was hard
pressed on the field and sent for General
Walker at his head |uartcrs t > know what
he should do, as Walker was the senior
in command. Walker visited the field,
but left soon after, and Maimaduke
made a remark which came to Walker’s
ears.
General Walker was determined to kill
Marmadukc, and at the word brought his
pistol down, and carefully and deliber
ately took accurate aim, but Marmaduke
simply threw hi.s pistol out and fired at
once.
The discharge made Walker flinch, as
the bravest man will do under similar
circumstances, and spoiled his aim, so
that the bullet just missed Marmadukc’s
leg. r l h:s rattled Walker's nerve to some
extent and make him since tain, but Mar
maduke had been forming Jiis plan for
flie next shot, lie could not see Walker
distinctly, but he notiec 1 three weeds in
fine with him. The two nearest .Manna
duke were short, and the lhird, about
midway to Walker, was fall and had a
small bunch of seed at the top, but on a
level w r it!i Walker’s stomach. The weeds
gave him tiie line of his shot, and when
Tie next word was given lie raised his
ijstol in line with the ncaicst weed and
svasTu ul the tallest. Hi- aim
General AV alkcr s sto.n.t fUt'OUgh
Burned at the Stake.
A horrible crime, and one of the most
. —... itted in Wyoming.
Hiys llic 1 heyonne foan, occurred last we, k
in the northivc.iorn f oriion e icrrt
tore, not many miles from Fort Washakie
ind on the Shoshone reservation. Ar.
Indian woman, who was probably re
garded a- a burden by the balance of her
band, was unfortunate enough to meet
with an accident, whereby she sustained
a fracture of one iff her limbs. The
bucks, who appear to have everything
their own way, counseled together and
came to the conclusion that the b -t
thing to do with the poor old woman was
to put her to death.
In pursuance of this plan, and after
divesting her of every garment that could
protect her from the cold, they drove
stakes in the ground and lied her to
them, and left lv rto frieze to death.
At the expiration of two days and nights
both of her arms wi re fro e i solid, but
she was not dead. Concluding that
some more expeditious way rnu->t be
adopted, they gathered a lot of old
blanket?, p led them upon and around
her, and set them on tire.
The result of this terrible torture was
that her body was so badly burned that
the inner organs were left exposed. They
then let the lire go out an l left her again
to freeze. At the expiration of twenty
four hours death at last came to her re
lief. _ _
A Fisherman's Telephone.
On some parts of the Coast of Sumatra
and the neighboring islands the fisher
men test the depth of the sea and also
the nature of the sea bottom by theJ
noises they hear on applying the ear to
one end of an oar of which the other end.
is plunged in the water.
At a depth of twenty feet and less the
sound is a crepitation similar totha* pro
duced when salt is thrown on burning
charcoal: at fifty feet it is like the tick
ing of a watch, the tic tac being more
or less rapid according to whether tbc
bottom is entirely of coral or alternately
of coral and mud or of sand.
If the bottom is entirely of sand the
sound is clear; if of mud, it resembles
-the humming of a swarm of bees. On
dark nights the fishermen select their
fishery grounds according to these in
dications. — SH nee Goxiij/.
Proor Positive.
Mr. W. Ilawker, Bournemouth, says:
•‘To me, a Warwickshire man, the most
conclusive proof that Shake peare wrote
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ is the line in
which Antony salutes the Sepent of the
Mile as ‘my chuck.’ This term of
endearment is still heard among the
peasantry of the Midland counties; and
to suppose that a classical scholar, su< h
as Bacon, sbou’d hare introduced a
homely provincialism, so English; and
so utter’}' destructive of the unities, into
an Egyptian tragedy is so improbable
that i pin my faith to the Stratford
butcher’s inspired son as the author of
that robust imagery rather than to the
mantle of the great but pedantic
Verulam.” —London Times.
A Rejected MS.
When Mange came to church in a ro=e
colored bonnet,
i She touched to the quick my susceptible
heart,
i So I out with my pencil and scribbled a son
net
To beauty enhanced by a milliner’3 art.
Which I sent her. Alas, how I wished I hai
burned it!
; For she flouted my verse like a tragedy
queen,
And wrote on the wrapper in which she re
turned it:
“Have you taken rae, sir, for a poor maga
zine?- ’
1 Boston Herald.