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6 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.