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MORNING SERVICE.
MAIEL DUNCAN.
Hark 1 the old church bell is ringing
With a deep and gladsome sound
O’er the woods and waters swinging
With mnsic deep, and voice profound.
The morning’s rich and golden light
Is streaming on the chancel floor, .
And thro’ the old church’s vaulted height
The blessed chant is heard to pour.
The Lord is in kit holy temple; let all the Earth keep silence
before Aim.
Oh ! dear old sounds, of blessed prayer
That roll along the dim old aisles,
And float out on the morning ait
Thut angels bear to Heaven—while
The summer breeze has caught the sound
And bears it on its pinions strong.
The trees, with summer glory crowned,
The blest, the holy strains prolong.
We praiH Thee O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.
And now the organ's solemn notes
Are trembling on the morning air,
The choirs' voices sweet and deep
tear now the burthen of the piayer
And quivering thro' the arches high,
A hundred voices, tun* d as one.
Are ringing upward to the sky.
Then—the words in solemn tone
The peace of God. which pas,eth all understanding keep your
hearts and mind, in the knowledge and love oj God.
Now 1 Bright and red the noonday sun
Travels towards the western sky,
As like a king, whose race is run,
He gently sinks in pomp to die.
Upon the river’s dimpled breast
His 8<>ft and crimson glory falls,
On many a white cloud s fleecy crest,
And on St. Peter’s hallowed walls.
Ashtebula, March 8th, 1878.
CLARA’S MASQUERADE.
BT HESTER E. SHIPLEY.
‘Shall yon go to the grand fancy ball next
week?’Mrs-Lanier asked this question in an
affirmative expectant way, that caused Clara Ry-
land to hesitate a moment before sbe replied.
She had dropped in, as was her custom of
mornings to talk over the news of the day, past
and present, with her friend and neighbor. They
liked to discurs Mrs. A’s new bonnet, and Mrs.
B’s old dress, Miss C’s proposed marriage, or
Miss D’s postponed one, just as you and 1 do.
They interspersed their conversation with little
womanish thrusts at each subject, not from any
malice or special ill-will, hut because it is a way
women have; Miss By land spoke at last.
"Yes, no 11 really can’t say definitely Hattie,
for I am in Miss McFlimsy’s predicament.’
‘You Clara Ryland, have nothing to wear?
Well! 1 have heard of ghosts of excuses, but
this is certainly a veritable one. I know of half
a dozen costumes in your wardrobe at this mo
ment which, with a trifling addition of trim
mings would suit admirably. That one of the
Scotch lassie, for instance, in which you sang
‘cornin’ thro’ the rye’ so charmingly, at the
Tableau last year, or —.’
‘I dislike to interrupt the flow of your elo
quent protest—but that costume of all others I
will have none of—fancy me appearing as a
Sootch lassie with my swarthy skin,and midnight
eyes, simply because my friends think 1 sing a
Scotch song well. I wonder now how I could
have given in to such a palpable absurdity ior a
moment.’
She quoted Harold West’s opinion, and very
nearly his words ns she said this; bat did she
unconsciously. She credited to her improve
ment of taste in matters of this sort, this chaDge
of opinion. Her swarthy skin and midnight
eyes had not occurred to her as any serious ob
stacle in the personation of a Scotch lassif, when
a few months previous, she had come out before
many admiring friends and sung with a charm
ing naivete:
•If a body kiss a body
Need a body cry ?’
But she had not known Harold West tbrr,; he
} no since beamed upon her, a bright particular
star, and she was now mironscjoij.sJy totaling
11 rstlf upon bis model, or what aba conceived
i- to le, iiom wti.t was tat pihle by the way of
uttered sentiments. She Lad made him her
criterion in matters great and small, falling
down and worshipping him with the blind devo
tion characteristic of, and pertaining only to the
state of first love. She was very young. We all
get over that sort of thing sooner or later.
‘No,’ she resumed, after a pause in which Mrs.
Lanier, had regarded her rather curiously. ‘If
1 should go at all, it would he in the character
of Night; there’s a costume at Spencer’s—well—
it's just lovely; all black tulle and silver stars,
with a crescent as tiara; only twenty dollars—
just think how cheap.’
‘Why should not you purchase it then? John
Hylands only daughter surely will not find so
paltry a snm a formidable barrier to her enjoy
ment.’
She did not add as she thought: ‘‘He is a mis
erable old wretch I know, and doesn’t allow you
half enough money to dress on.’
And Miss R3 land, ti joj ing the bliss of igno
rance replied: Ordinarily no; hut when you re
flect that 1 have already spent three-fourths of
my allowance, and the June roses scarcely yet
in biocm, you will admit that the sum is not so
paltry as you were at first disposed to consider
it.’
'There is nothing easier than to ask him for an
advance.’
‘Possibly not from your point of view; hut
from mine, nothing less likely to he obtained.
Yon do not know my respected father. Debt is
the unpardonable sin in his eyes. I am positive
he would cut off the remainder of my allowance
if he knew I had already committed it. Ho
would just raise his paternal orbs to my abash
ed ones, and demand to know in the (one of a
Greenland breeze, what Lad become of the third
quarterly payment, which he handed me only a
week ago. Then I should Lave to launch out in
embarrassing detail about that set of garnets and
the grey siik, the purcLase of which was an ex
travagance I admit, hut—but .’
‘Harold West thought they would ‘so enhance
your brunette beauty.’ I happened to overhear
him tell yon so, eh Clara !’
•M iss Ryland reddened perceptibly.
‘I thank my stars, Wiiinot doesn't look so
sharp after my pin-money,’ concluded her
friend.
‘Husbands are mere easily managed than
fathers 1 take it, else 1 should forswear matri
mony at once and forever,’ returned Miss Ry
land. ‘But Hattie, I must have that costume by
lair means or foul. I do wish custom did not
tie our hands, and doom us poor women to de
pendency upon the will or caprice of the other
sex.’
•Neither vioes it,’ quickly replied Mrs. Lanier,
who had recently joined a society for the eman
cipation of women. ‘There are many avenues
open to us, law, medicine, antLorsbip— any
thing in fact which the sterner sex may choose.
•Well, I haven’t brains for those you have
mentioned, or inclination for those you have
not, but I will tell you what I could make, a first
rate mulatto femme it chambre.'
‘Be ashamed of yourself Clara Ryland.’
•Why ? Doesn’t ‘Honor and shame from no con
dition rise' according to the old couplet ?’
'In theory, yes.’
'I am going to try a little practice. Look here
Hattie,’ and she drew a daily paper from her
pocket and read, ‘Wanted for a few days several
oapable servants, male or female, as waiters at
the Exchange. Liberal wages.’ ‘Now, I think
By ‘brunette beauty’ can be turned to account
what with my rippling black hair and coal
black eyes, with complexion to match—a bril
liant bandanna, a pair of blue spectacles and
immense hoop ear-rings—behold me!’
‘Oh ! Clara, you quite take away my breath.
Are you really thinking of applying for a situa
tion ?’
‘In disguise, yes ! and I want your assistance
in carrying out my plan. It will be quite ro
mantic. I shall let it he understood at home
that I have run np to Grandpa’s for a week. I
shall stay with you at night, which, as the Ex
change is just around the corner, is easily man
aged. You oan write me a recommendation—
but Wilmot! How I do wish he could he trans
ported to Paradise or some other equally distant
place, for that length of time. I know he will
not approve of anything that savors of romance
or woman’s rights, and how to avoid telling him
is the question.’
The thrust at woman’s rights went home.
‘ That can he managed easily enough. You
shall have the latch-key of the library which
opens right on the street, the room at the head
of the stair is at your service. I don’t see that
it is necessary to take Wilmot into our confi
dence at all; he would he sure to object.’
‘Tnat’s a darling; you just manage Wilmot
and I'll manage the rest.’
Two or three hours later, a plainly-dressed
mulatto girl rang the bell at Mrs. Lanier’s front
door.
‘I wish to see your mistress,’ she said, in an
swer to the question of the servant as to her
mission.
‘Come this way then,’ and she was speedily
ushered into Mrs. Lanier's presence.
* My name is Jane Cooke, ma’am,’ she said, in
reply to that lady’s look of inquiry. ‘Do you
want to hire a seamstress or nurse?’
‘No, I have a machine; but Charlie does need
a nurse; what are your terms?’
Then a swift suspicion darted through her
mind as the mulatto smiled slyly.
‘Clara Ryland ! I never would have known
you; your disguise is perfect,’ exclaimed Mrs.
Lanier, springing up excitedly, and turning
her friend around as if to assure herself of her
identity.
‘So with the blue spectacles, I shall be be
yond the possibility or probability of detection,
think yon? I called simply to test my disguise,
as I am on my way to the Exchange.’
‘Oh ! Clara,’ cried Mrs. Lanier, who at heart
was an arrant coward, ‘aren’t you afraid some
one will recognize you by your speech or fig
ure ?’
‘Not the least. Fine feathers make fine birds
in my experience. I am very queenly and dis
tinguished looking as Clara Ryland, because
I am viewed through the golden haze of my
prospective dollars and cents; but I imagine
Jane Cook will not attract any undue amount
of attention by the elegance of her print-clad
figure, certainly not by the beauty of her fea
tures. Good-bye. J shall send my trunk to
you this afternoon (you know I had to take one
to my grandpa’s) when Wilmot isn’t around to
ask inconvenient questions.’
And Sue vanished.
Once within the walls of the hotel, her reso
lution nearly failed her, and she began to think
she was paying too high a price for Harold
West’s admiration. She made her application
to the clerk with a beating heart; it was readily
received and accepted, and she dismissed to the
servants hall. Here she felt more out of place
than before. The coarse jests of the servants
grated upon her nerves and caused her to with
draw herself from them whiefi in its turn gave
offense to them. Altogether sbe had a thorough
ly disagreeable and miserable day of it and
heartily wished herself at home.
Released at nightfall by special permission,
sbe sped along the darkning streets, qui^te
breathless with exercise an<i apprehension
reached Mrs. Lanier’s house, adjusted the key in
library door, passed noiselessly into the room
assigned her, turned up the gas to a mellow
light, and threw herself upon the bed. She lay
there in a st mi-con scions stat- thinking a good
many unfavorable things of the world generally
and hotels in particular; uDtil she fell asleep
with the pale yonng moon looking in upon her
tLrongb the parted curtains. Nature having at
last received indemnity for the fatigues of the
day, her slumbers grew lighter.
‘ Tap, tap’ came in a spirit-rapping way from
under the bed.
Sbe became aware of some disturbing element
in her dream, hut in a degree so vague as not
to awaken her fully.
‘ Tap, tap, tap !’
She shook off the remnant of drowsiness, and
listened.
Then came a sort of growl, and rustle, followed
by a sound as of some uuwieldly body in mo
tion.
Gracious heavens ! What could it he?
Sbe sat bolt upright and listened, every nerve
strained to its utmost tension. All the horrible
things she bad ever read or heard of rushed
through her mind, theft, burglaries, murders,
and worse. She must not scream, she must not
solicit help in any way but her presence should
be betrayed to Wilmot, in which case it must
he explained, and then the story of the masquer
ade dress must come out, and then Harold West
would not see her in the highth of her brunett
beauty, and then ’
Another guttural sound, a gurgling and rust
ling under the bed interrupted the current of
her thought. She was not a coward—not a bit
of it, hut this being taken at such a disadvan
tage was not calculated to inspire her with any
undue amount of courage. Something must be
done; this horrible creature under the beri, the
more horrible because unknown, was peparing
to do, she knew not what. She must have more
light—and seizing the screw in her haste and
fear, she turned the gas out and found herself
in utter darkness. Like a reprieve came the
remembrance of a box of matches she had seen
on the dressing-table, and felt her courage rise
rapidly as she laid her hand upon the box, hut
as with nervous eagerness she drew the matches
across the sand, her hand came violently in con
tact with a cologne Lottie which consequently
went to peices on the floor. At the same mo
ment a great shaggy Newfoundland dog, the
especial pet of Mrs. Lanier's son and heir
emerged from under the bed and came forward
wagging his tail in expectation of his accustom
ed caress.
‘Oh Pluto!’ exclaimed Clara, droppiug the
match arid fairly hugging him ; ‘dear old day,
is it 3on? O11, you frightened me almost to
death,’ and she sat down beside him, winding
hi-r white arms about his great black neck, in
her intense relief.
The room in which this little scene was being
enacted was jiiBt above that of the lady of the
house.
‘Hattie,’said Wilmot, laying down the Times,
from which he had been reading aloud items of
news or gossip, it strikes me that some one is
in our great chamber. I have beard unusal
rr.ises there two or three times to-Dight.
Think 1 had best investigate matters.’
‘Rats,’ returned his wife, compendiously,
without looking up from her sewing.
Crash ! over head ; it was a bottle shivered,
there could be no mistake. Then oame a muf
fled scratching.
‘Rats never made snch a noise as that, since
the world was made,’ Wilmot exclaimed, jump
ing up exoited and lighting a lamp. 'I shall
fathom that mystery pretty quick.’
‘They do say this house is haunted,’ said his
wife, quietly, knowing her husband's weak
point—‘but that idea ia too absurd to be tolera
ted, yon know.’ •
Wilmot was not very sound upon that point,
so he said neither yea nor nay, nor even the
impatient ‘pshaw,’ in which he usually in
dulged on similar occasions.
‘If it is a real old fashioned ghost, do call me;
I would like to see one, of all things,’ his wife
called after him as, lamp ia hand he proceeded
up the stair. Then she added sotto voce, ‘I
wonder what Clara will do? but she is doubtless
equal to the emergency.’
The higher Wilmot ascended the weaker grew
his courage, and all manner of ghost stories,
from the raw-head and bloody-bones of his
childish days to the latest newspaper sensation,
loomed up from the depths of memory. Hav
ing at length reached the upper hall, as he
peered beyond the radius of the lamplight into
the darkness beyond, he saw a sight which
chilled his blood, and produced a most uncom-
iortable weakness about his knees. A tall spec
tral white-robed figure advancing toward him
with outstretched arms. Had it been, instead
of this apparition, a great burly house-breaker,
with murderous intent, approaching him Wil
mot would then and there have shown fight,
hut this visitant, from another world as he be
lieved, was too much for him. He looked for
one supreme moment with horrified gaze at the
figure—he essayed to speak, but his tongue re
fused its office ; a cold perspiration broke out
over him, a/id his nerveless hands released the
lamp which'’fortunately was of brass, and it
went humpipg down the stair until i found a
resting place in the hall below ; not much ahead
of Wilmot, however, for that gentleman finding
himself in Egyptian darkness, with a ghost
handy, turned and ran—yes, actually ran down
the stairs at a rate that would have shamed an
express traifi. Once in his own room under the
cheeriDg influence of light and society he be
gan to feel ashamed of his incontinent flight,
and determined to keep the whole affair to
himself, so when his wife said: ‘What is the
matter, dear? you looked so white and chilled.’
He only replied —
‘White, eh ? Well, it is a bit chilly in the
hall, and that confounded lamp went out, so I
nearly broke my neck coming down stairs.’
•I will find it, and relight it,’ Hattie answered,
promptly rising to do so, with a laugh in her
eye.
‘Never mind, dear; it is nothing but rats—
let ’em rip,’ he returned more emphatically
than elegantly, and Hattie knew that Clara had
out-generaled him in some way, though she
could not divine how.
Clara in the meantime, with her face buried
in the pillows, was trying to smother the laugh
ter in which she dared not indulge outright.
‘Wasn’t thai a capital idea splendidly execut
ed ?’she said; ■‘he’U not come back 1 11 warrant.’
She was up and off the next morning before
the servants were astir, being careful to lock
her bed-room door behind her.
The invigorating air of the early June Morn
ing blew freshly in her face as she wended her
way to the Exchange, and brought with it a
bouyancy of spirit unknown to late sleepers. The
keen enjoyment of the senses produced a cor
responding relation of mind; she felt unusually
happy; her thoughts ran back as they did from
every point to their great centre and inspirator,
Harold West—this demi-god, this prince among
men. this soul of honor, this son of chivalry,
whose high and exalted idea of women was but
an outgrowth of his own iuate nobility. Wealth
and power were surely desirable, but love, snch
love as his, so pure, so deep so—plump she ran
against an old lady with an immense market
basket upon her arm, and the indignant remon
strance launched at her in unmistakable Hiber
nian vernacular:
•Shure an’ it is a knockin’ the breath out o’
me yer mane?’ speedily brought her out of her
air castle—a greater air castle than she deemed,
poor child !
.. . - *■"" jpgg boring servea at the Hx-
ance at the end of the specified week, the fact
disturbed the placid countenance of Mr. West's
mind to the degree which induced him to ascer
tain the reason why in his own elegant person.
To whom the porter hands in reply to a letter
which is sent from the village in setting forth
his undying devotion to, and desires to be ad
mitted to the presence of Miss Ryland, a slip on
which is written :
‘Matrimony is a nuisance. Let not your im-
pecuniosity of finances force yon to try it with a
woman who throws herself persistently at your
head.”
He has never discovered Miss Rvland’s in
formant, and Wilmot will always believe in
ghosts.
OLD DRESSES MADE OVER.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PRACTICAL HINTS POR LADIES OF AN ECONOMICAL
TURN OF MIND.
While biiiafcj,
change she was /ireoted to wait upon two gen
tlemen , who had seated themselves at one of the
tete-a-sete tables used at thut hotel. The out
lines of one figure, the one turned from her, was
strangely familiar, hut a second took located it—
it was, it could be none other than Harold West.
This was a contr;-tempt for which she had not
! bargained. Half suffocated by contending emo
tions she went lorward wi‘h a tray bearing two
cups of coffee which had been ordered, and set
them beside the gentlemen respectively, with a
hand that trembled in spite of her efforts to
steady it.
‘It’s a confounded bore,’ this demi-god was
saying to his vis-a-vis, ‘this being obliged to
come out on pain of extra charge to ones break
fast. ’
‘We will not fear extra charges when we have
married the heiress, eh, Harold ? We can lie
abed all day if we wish, and tight the tiger all
night when we have papa Rylaud’s money to
back ’
She lost the remainder of the sentence, the
answer to which, she would have given worlds
to hear, and surely never were beaf-steaks and
omelette brought more expiditionsly than by her
on this occasion, but all she caught was:
‘She is so sweet upon me that I can’t well re
fuse you know. The girl is not particularly
clever and on the order of a fifteenth amend
ment in complexion, but then money like char
ity covers a multitude of defects. They say the
old fellow is aeucedly stingy—guess I can man
age him.’
And this soul of honor, and prince among
men stopped the further avowal of whatever
other intention he might have cherished with a
liberal appropriation of omelette and muffin.
Clara retreated behind his chair to hide the
indignant tears sparkling behind the blue spec
tacles. This, then, was her hero of heroes, her
chivalrous, her noble and true. To boast of her
affection for him to this stranger, this fighter of
the tiger, as if he barely tolerated it, for the sake
of her money, while she thrust it npon him.
She sweet upon him ! Ob, how she longed for
the masculine girength and privilege of collar
ing him and pitching him out of the door.
‘No, Langdon,’ continued this hero, as if in
reply to something previously said on the sub
ject, ‘matrimony is a nuisance, and but for the
impecunious state of my finances, I should
never tie myself to any woman, least of all to
this one who throws herself persistently at my
head. Bah ! they are a tiresome set. To me,
once, he done with this love-making and gt
possession of, or at least a hold on old Ryland’s
money, and my lady may go hang.’
It was well for all parties that neither gentle
man noticed the mullatto waitress, or her face
must have betrayed her. She felt that she was
fast losing control of herself, that she must
scream or go into hysterics or fly at that false
one and relieve his head of some of its ourling
locks, or do something womanish to relieve her
overwrought feelings. Neither of which she
did, however; she quietly walked back to the
servant’s room, took from its peg her bonnet,
and betook herself to a cemetery not far off,
where, seating herself on a slab, sbe did the
very best possible thing—relieved herself by a
good old-fashioned cry—telling herself all th e
while that there was no man on earth worthy of
suoh tears. Bat they did her good, and sitting
there in the peaceful atmosphere of God’s acre,
she calmly took her resolution and aoted npon
it
When she walked into Mrs. Iatnier’s room a
few minutes later, that lady, looking up, ex
claimed excitedly :
‘What is the matter, Clara ? Have you been
discovered ?’
‘On the contrary, I have made a discovery for
which I would not take millions. Now give me
a bit of something to eat, then ho for the coun
try on the first train.’
When Miss Ryland failed to pnt in an appear-
A very pretty suit can be made by taking an
old black-and-white check, which this spring is
easily matched, cut the underskirt medium in
length, put in a flounce of black velvet eight
inches wide, all around the skirt, slightly shir
red. The skirt should be put in the waistband
perfectly plain, except just behind, where it
should be plaited; these plaits shirred or drawn
together half way down the skirt. The polonaise
to go with this is one of the prettiest patterns
ever seen. Made short in front by reason of
looping the side seams, three altogether, this
front breadth is finished with a side plaiting,
five inches wide, which is headed by a band of
bias velvet three inches in width, and is con
tinued down the side breadths (which are some
twelve inches longer than the front) and so on
round the skirt. The back breadth has a large
quadruple box-plaiting set on the upper part
faced with black velvet. A sleeveless jacket to
go with this has a large vest of black velvet, and
is corded with heavy black velvet cord all around
the jacket, large pockets on the side, faced down
half-way with velvet, collar of velvet running to
a point where the jacket is cut over the vest.
Fancy olack crotchet buttons are placed on the
jacket, and smoked pearl on the dress.
A suit of this kind will be found very useful.
A charming dress for spring and summer cool
days can be made out of fine French camel’s
hair—black, or any other of the prevailing col
ors, though black, in different fabrics will be
worn more than ever for street suits and cos
tumes. The snit can be made out of seven
yards of black camel’s hair, skirt demi-train. It
must have a loop for the street; then it is also
suited for an evening dress in the house. The
bottom of the skirt is finished with a trimming
consisting of a single box-plait, about seven
inches wide, which is continued all around the
skirt. This finished with a knife plaiting of
black silk, headed with a cording in black silk.
The upper part of the skirt is cut out in squares,
tied with narrow gros grain ribbon half an inch
wide, the loops of which are fastened with hang
ing buttons. The fullness of the skirt at the
back is gathered in box plaiting. The basque
has a short, square coat-tail, trimmed with loops
and buttons. The front has a vest of black silk,
finished with loops put on crosswise. The
sleeves are of black, with a revers cuff of camel’s
hair. If preferred, the coat-tails cau be made
long, and tied with loops to match the trimming
on the rest of the skirt. *
A cape to match is short, round in the back.
The ends in front are long and tie across. It
is trimmed with whalebone fringe about three
and one-half fingers wide, which is continued
around the neck. Instead of the fringe the
cape can be finished with loops of gros grain,
edged with drop buttons. A very handsome
suit can thus be made at very little cost. The
camels-hair boing doable width cuts tO'P. great-'
er advantage than a narrower material, and an
adept at the needle can, with the aid of a good
pattern, make an entirely satisfactory costume.
Central Route.
The Connecting Link Between the Trnnk
Lines of the
NORTH AND EAST,
AND THB
Gulf of Mexico on the South.
FORMS THE
GREAT THROUGH ROUTE
AND
Main Artery of Commerce and Trade
TO ALL POINTS,
and offers ibebest ronte, on qnick time, with more com
forts, better accommodations and greater security than
any other Line.
BUY YOUR TICKETS AND Snip YOUR FREIGHT
BY THE
HQUSTCNand TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Pullman Palace Drawing-Room and Sleeping
Cars Run Through
FROM
HOUSTON TO ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO
WITHOUT CHANGE,
and but ONE CHANGE to all prominent points
NORTH AND EAST!
Trains Leave as Follow* t
No. 3 St. Louis and Chicago Express Leaves Houston
daily at 4 p. m.; Arrives at St. Louis daily at 6.05 p. m;
arrives at Chicago daily at 6.55 a. m.
No. 1 Leaves Houston daily (except Sunday) at 8 15 A. M.,
and arrives as follows:
No. 4 Leaving St. Louis daily at 8.47 A. M.,
“ “ Chicago “ *• 10.00 p. m.,
Arrives at Houston “ “ 10.45 a. m.,
No. ‘A “ “ “ daily (except Sunday) at 9 P.i*
In effect January 6, 1878.
F. L. MANCHESTER,
Eastern Passenger Agent,
417 Broudway, N. Y.
A. ALLKE,
Northern Passenger Agent,
101 Clark street, Chicago.
E. E. SCOTT,
Ticket Agent, Central Depot, Houston,
J. WALDO, A. H. SWANSON,
General Ticket Agent, Gen’l Sup’t.
Houston, Texas. 151—tY
PIANOS.
ORGANS.
New, 7 Ort. 8135
New, 7 1-3 Oct. 8H5
New, 9 .Stops, 907
New, 12 Stops, 878
“Magnificent” ‘‘bran new,” ‘‘lowest prices ever given.”
Ch. how this “cruel war” rages, but Luclden JC Bates
still hold tlie field and rain hot shot into the bogus manu
facturers who deceive the public with Humbug Grand
Oilers on Shoddy Instruments. Send for Special Offers,
and circular exposing Jrauds of Piano and Organ Trade.
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College,
DR. A. L. HAMILTON, President.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA.
This old and popular institution is still doing noble
service in the great work oi education. The spacious
and comfortable Boat ding House and College Buildings
— . v , ... have ju.t been repaired and relarnished in elegant style.
A pretty way to make up an entirely new and ! an A will bear favorable comparison with simitar estab-
.... i; .n ,, r 11 rn 1., lishmenU in any part of th' country. The corps of
sty ash avenint. dress is as follows . Take an 1 Sadlers—nine in number—for thoroughness and effi-
old evening s lk, m >r i antique or any heavy j ctoncy. cannot be surpassed North or South,
silk; by pieo ug at the waist it can bemads! The Course of Study was prepared with great care, and
into a priucebso ; if a heavy silk it will req tire 1 ! c ls Ja “f "dtft mo requirements <>1 the tin:
no trimming at the bottom of the skirt. Tn
j braces
front is made of velvet, to imitate a petticoat,
while a tolerably large peasant wn.Ut is also
made ot the »ame, with sleeves to match. Of
course this can be made of a Simpler material,
such as black silk, for instance, and to eke out
a light silk this will be found*exceedingiy new
and pretty. The peasant waste is something
like the bodice of our grandmothers, except it
does not lace across the front. For young girls
this will be just the thing, made up even in
simple materials for afternoons. The bodice
can be made to fasten at the back, side, or front,
as fancy dictates.
FOB TRAVELING DRESSES
camel’s hair, bourrette, or this striped black and
white silk will make up very nicely. Kilt
skirts, in various forms, are the most appro
priate for the:se dresses, either with revers of
silk, widening toward the bottom of the skirt,
or alte nate stripes of plain silk and plaited
material. Some have the silk plaited, and this
is another way to utilize an old silk. Plaited
waists are made in the same manner to match ;
the middle plaits, back and front, of silk, the
rest of the worsted material; sleeves of silk,
with small, plain cuffs of the same worsted ma
terial.
For the striped silks, the best way is to make
those np with a demi-train skirt with a scant
single box-plait for trimming, then a polonaise,
plainly hemmed, caught up on one side with
loops of black silk. Too much cannot be
said in favor of the striped black and white
silks for summer wear. They are cool, light,
cheap, and, though they seldom last more than
one season, they always look well, till the last
stage. Another way to make up a borrette is
to have a plain silk underskirt, finisded around
the bottom with four or five narrow ruffles of
the silk, little hem, blind stitched on the right
side, with a narrow bias of the bourrette insert
ed in the hem, Polonaise of the bourette, with
bias bands of silk trimming up the sides of the
skirt, reaching to large pockets, which are faced
down with silk.
for children’s dresses.
Kilted gabrielle3 are very much worn, the
front kilts extending up as far as the yoke; at
the back they merely form a flounce. A very
pretty out-door jacket can be made either of the
same material if desired, or of a contrasting
color, sleeveless, ent open in front, the inverted
point reaching up to the yoke. Should the
jacket be made of a contrasting color, caffs of
the latter must be placed on the sleeve.
BONNETS.
As the season advances, bonnets begin to de
fine themselves more and more ; the coquettish
little affairs with doable brims filled with flow
ers, the outside trimmed with the same,and stif-
flsh little loops of satin ribbon, are beooming
more popular than ever. For every-day wear noth
ing ever looks better than black English hats,
simply trimmed with blaok chenille grenadine,
and a green or blue tip, or, if preferred all in
black, tips of blaok can be used. Dark brown
or bine straws, to match suits, are trimmed up
in the same manner. For dress hats there are
any variety; bronze, gold, and silvered bats are
very pretty. A little gold judiciously mingled
with either a blaok or white hat, looks very well;
but taste and discrimination must be used.
Something new in a fine white ohip is a soft
white plume, inserted in folds of white satin,
that, starting from underneath the bonnet be
hind, are carried op to the middle of the crown;
satin puffing in the brim.
• ■(jU.'iily, the physical, mental and mrnal cuiiiva-
1 ;Ih: pupils.
Discipline is very mild, but f
.sternatic and
The T. rr/ui have been reduced, so far as possible, to meet
the necessities of the times, as will appear from ih« loL
lowing exhibit:
PER SESSION OF NINE MONTHS,
REGULAR course.
Preparatory Department ....130 00
Academic Department 45 00
Collegiate Department 60 00
For extra course, as music, vocal and instrumental,
modern languages, paiutiug, ornamental work, the price
has been put down as low as possible.
Boarding Department.—Room handsomely furnished,
washing, lights and fuel, at $15 per month, or $135 for
the scholastic year.
Payments—quart eric in advance, unless by special
agreement otherwise.
Location—Cuthbert is the most beautiful little city in
Georgia; is approachable from all directions by railroad;
and for good morals, good health, and cultivated society,
is unsurpassed in the United States.
C^"The College is thoroughly non-sectarian.
4E#*Boardingarrangements in the College are first-class,
upils received at any time, and charged from date
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