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LUIBS & I00IAIS, PiNistors.
WAYCBOSS, - - - GEORGIA
A certain English charity has twc
objects: To prevent country girls, as
far as possible, from coming to London,
and to protect those who do come. Ex
tended in other cities, the society pro
tects all girls traveling by placing in
railway stations placards on which are
given addresses of good homes, and
also the address of a lady referee.
Tho Philadelphia Ledger urges every
body to read the newspapers, and says
to do so properly is an art. “It should
call judgment into exercise, to form
sound opinions and quicken discernment,
to separate truth from error and false
hood from fact. Good newspapers are
perpetual educators; and the intelligence
of a community may generally be
measured by the number and character
--of its well-supported journals.”
In 1870 the American flag floated over
097 sea-going merchant steamers, hav
ing a tonnage of 018,799 tons, while in
188JJ the number of such vessels had
fallen to 205, and the tonnage had in
creased to only 040,187 tons. The same
period of fifteen years saw aa increase in
the number of se t-going merchant steam
ers under the British flag of 100 per cent.,
or from 2,426 to 4,802, and at the same'
time an increase in tonnage of 800. per
cent., or from 1,601,707 tons in 18701
mm,302 to
The Industrial League of America has
issued a little pamphlet on strikes. The
writer, who speaks for bis organisation,
takes strong ground against strikes and
urges that all labor toubles should first
bearbitrated. If that fails to bring
shout a settlement he argues that a per
petual boycott be placed on the employer
complained of. A list of important
strikes which have occurred since Jnnu-
uary 1, 1882, shows what they ccst the
employers. Among them are the follow
ing, with the amounts lost by the cm-
..81,000,000
Booth western Railroad strike..
Cloakzoakers* strike
Brooklyn..
8treet car strikes since January 1—250,000
Total lorn canine strikes $2,300,000
The employes sustained a loss of $2,*
500,000 by these same strikes.
The Sphinx of Egypt, who enjoys a
world-wide reputation for discretion, is
to be investigated at last. It is reported
that a company has been formed in Paris
to rid M. Maspcro in carrying out his in
vestigations. It is thought that the
Sphinx is a tomb, and that under it or
inside of it some valuable and interesting
material may be discovered that will add
a few years more to the length of history.
Tho work will be carried on with care, so
that the great Sphinx may not be disfig
ured by the somewhat tardy autopsy.
“Living among the humble classes of
Chineso working in San Francisco is
very cheap. A man who cams only four
cents a day will live on two cents for
two meals; the remaining two cents
will pay for the shelf oh which he lies
at night and what clothing he may need.
For ten cents a day a Chinaman can get
In Chinatown two meals of rice, salt fish
and vegetables &&d wash each meal
down with a cup of good Cargon. Ten
persons eating twice a day of two kinds
of meat and vegetables, and the never
absent rice and tea, can boSTd lor $1.25
each a month.
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A shopkeeper in London, wishing
—btfar-his'place in mind, caused
' a metal bar and some other innocent
• looking apparatus to be set up outside
his show window, and connected it with
an electric battery, so that anybody
pausing to look in, and resting his hand
upon tho bar, received a considerable
shock. The contrivance did fix notice,
but its effect was not altogether de
sirable. People refused to trust them
selves to the interior of a shop whose
peculiarities, even upon the outside, were
so marked, and a large and savage dog
In the doorway would hardly have been
more effectual in driving away trade.
From stable recently prepared by the
Director of the United States Hist, itap-
pears that daring the calendar year 1880
a total of $14,409,404 worth of gold was
utilized in the arts and manufactures of
the United States. Of this amount,
$7,905,108 was used in jewdiy and
watches; $3,698,308 for watchcates; $1,-
084,824 in gold leaf; $827,000 for watch
chains; and the remainder in smaller
sums for dental supplies, pens, instru
ments, plate, spectacles, chemicals, and
jewelers’ supplies. During the same
period, a total of $0,056,030 worth of
silver was utilized for similar purposes.
Of this amount, $2,000,294 was used for
plate; $1,815,599 for watch cases; $1,-
098,220 for jewelry and watches; and
the remainder was divided among the absoli
^thcrqaffi. specified for gold. The table r n
is of considerable importance, for by
giving the amount of gold and silver an
nually utilized in the arts, it permits an
approximate estimate of the available
metallic currency of the country.
OUTWARD BOUnD.
(A Heart’s Sailing.)
Whither away t—for what harbor unfurled
Rutter thy sails? Wilt thou cirri* the
world;—
Thra the low waves of antipodal seas,—
Sight the leaf-plumage of tropical trees!
Or, like a warm-breasted sea-bird, go forth,
Bark! will the mild equatorial moons
Lure thee to anchor in azure lagoons?
Heart! must the chill of th* northernmost
Answers it not—dropping over the rim
Of the horizon to spirit-lands dim.
—Philadelphia Bulletin.
THOMPSON’S HOUSE.
old school-friend, offered
house for a month. Circumstances—
more plainly, jpy means—would not al
low me to go abroad, I dislike the sea
side, and never go there for pleasure, so
I gladly
my hot and
his (offer, and leaving
;y rooms and office to my
landlady’s mercy, I went down to the
quiet old cathedral town for a month of
country air.
at some little distance from the dwellings
inhabited by Canons and Dean, in those
sedate precincts.
It is very old, and was evidently built
it has been divided. Thompson _.
other half. Hit own part has the
half of a beautiful, old-fashioned
at the back, sod on the first day
mio unt u»y
arrival, I did nothing, I fear, but
der up and down the shady lawn, and
give myself up to the pleasure of having
- • hich must be done
Journeymen plumbers in New York
work under cast-iron rules as to time,
wages, etc. A card is posted up
\ every
shop with the rules of the organization,
which must be obeyed by men and boss.
Work begins at 7 in the morning and
ends at 5 in the afternoon, provided it is
then light enough to see. If it grow
too dark to work later, the men stop
and call it a day^ .work. They refuse to
use candles oPgas. Journeymen are
p*rid $8.50 .a day for nine hours, and
eight hours on Saturday. They have an
hour a i day for dinner. Only one ap
prentice is allowed to every four journey
men,' and a helper is never allowed to
touch a tool. Only the regular ap
prentices are taught anything. No mem
ber of the union is allowed to work with
a non-union man. Every job is visited
from time to time by tho walking dele
gate of the union, who inspects the men’s
cards. If a non-union man is found at
work the union plumbers are withdrawn;
if that does not suffice the workmen of
every kind in the building are withdrawn.
A boss cannot do any work bimaelf unless
he is a member of the union in good
standing. They cannot do any in their
own Bhops, although practical plumbers
and have served their time. These rules
svsn&****
But the next morning after breakfast,
I started on a long expedition in search
of interesting chui
which I knew the neighborhood was rich,
and about which I am an enthusiast—
natural, perhaps, as lam an architect.
On my return that evening I found
Thompson’s good housekeeper—he is
not married—rather anxious at my late
hours, and excited at the arrival of new
tenants next door. They had been ox-
have just now only one old servant,whom
I have known all i
. — my life, and I never
knew of her doing such a thing. Besides,
she is not musical,” smiling as she said
it. “I can answer for my aunt and my
self, and—for full assurance—our piano
is not yet unlocked. I hare the key,”
touching her watch-chain. “I have been
too occupied with my aunt to touch it as
yet”
“It is more than I can understand,”
said I, rising. “It must be accounted
for by some kind of ecbo. I will write
to my friend Thompson about it I am
only staying in his house for a week or
you to understand how gladly
I would put a stop to what annoys you,
were I able.” She gave me her hand on
leaving, and I thought hers one of those
faces which seem more beautiful as you
know them better.
I wrote to Thompson, and got in a day
or two the following characteristic note
“Dtab Wtsdhaji—You most have been
asleep. People next door, too.' Never heard
any piano, and I have lived there fourteen
years. The man who was there before me is
dead, so I can’t send you to him for informa-
Yours. F. T.
. I called at the end of the week to tell
Miss Mayne the result of my letter. The
aunt was better and down stairs; they
gave me afternoon tea, and I came away
thinking that the mystery, as it still was,
had at least obtained for me two very
pleasant acquaintances.
But -the unexplained music did not
, though not every evening. I am
and one day when Mrs.
talkative mood, as she took away my tea,
I brought her conversation round to the
jeefc of haunted houses, hoping that,
subjs
there were any tradition belonging to
Thompson’s house, she would mention it.
After many stories which she took
pains to say she “should not think pf
believing,” she said: “This looks
Morse was most anxious that they
should prove as quiet and inoffensive as
lady, “who never annoyc _
me in the least, and she was there before
I came—fourteen years ago last May,
that is.”
AU this and much more of her fears
and anxieties lest the new neighbors
hours, “as they did next door where I
lived last, which was why I left, sir, for
their noise was dreadful,” Mrs. Morse
told me, ss she held in her hand the
toast which she h:id brought in for my
tea, and which, in her abstraction, she
she said:
likely house for such stories, But I have
never heard, nor look to hear or see any
thing; but some people are so silly.
There was a silly girl we had here, a
feou^mqjsL glwayq ffineying she heard
music at night near her room—she slept
down stairs—and at last she left through
it, though I couldn't tell master such a
tale, but had to tell him something more
sensible. Such nonsense! I used to tell
her she dreamt of what her head was full
of, for she was all for music—wonder
fully fond of it. Why couldn’t she mind
her work and sleep at night without
dreams, as honest people should?”
With this last moral sentiment Mrs.
Morse and the tea-things clattered away
together. What she had said was odd, I
thought. Certainly I was more than half
inclined to account for that piano as
something supernatural, but I could not
call next door and say so. It would
seem ridiculous, and I should certainly
ran the risk of being laughed at.
until she had at last shut the door
after her good-natured gossip, and I had
found the toast decidedly cold, did I re
member that I had heard a piano the
night before, as I sat and smoke^, ap
parently played next door. I accounted
for it by imagining that some one must
have arrived there sooner than Mrs.Morse
knew.
She told me the next morning that the
very pleasant memories of Thompson’i
old, and as I began to belive, haunted
house. It did not pass away from my
memory 4 u ring the busy winter days—
neither did the sweet face of Miss Ethel
Mayne.
lady
new neighbors were only a
and her aunt, and on hearing
successfully calmed her fears of the night
During the next week I spent most of
my days in sketching an early English
church near, which I had discovered
success as an architect has come to me,
and I am married.
Last year, by one of those strange
chances which come in some men’s lives,
Thompson had a very large estate left
him in the north of France. He went
to make arrangements for selling it, but
liked the situation so much that he has
settled there, and I have bought his old
house. I have thrown both houses into
one, and made several changes 'since tjie
have been in use for some years. The j with great pleasure; and in the evenings
time m reduced to nino hour, and the «moked man, a pipe while listening to
pay made $8.00 a day about a year ago.
A funny incident occurred in Sacra
mento, Cal., recently. A man named
Marion got into a fight, and as revolver!
were used and he fell, it was believed that
ho had been shot He had his head
swabbed and was given some whisky and
afterward a drink of water, which latter
fluid his stomach rebelled against He
was afterward tenderly borne to a
hack and taken to the hospital. There
ho was placed on a stretcher and carried
from the entrance inside the prison. He
had not spoken a word since being taken
in charge, and while officers and report
ers stood around waiting for the supposed
dying man to breathe Ids last he sud
denly sprang to his feet and roared: “I’ll
jump any man in tho room far $1.”
The Photographic Timet contains an
interesting illustrated article about one
of the most unique photographic galler
ies in existence. Tho gallery is a car
built after the fashion of. a Pullman
coach. It can be attached to any ex-
pre-s train, and in it the photographer
travels all over the country, principally
on the Northern Pacific railroad, of
which he is official photographer. 31.
F. Jay Haynes' had the car built for him
at a cost of $13,000, while the fitting!
cost $2,000 more. The landscapes he
takes for the railroad are done by a
camera m iking a picture 20x24 inches.
The car contains an operating room, re
ception room, storage room v dork rooms,
and all other appurtenances of a first
class gallery.
A New Kotor.
There has probably been no line of in
ventions so prolific during recent years
ms that of motors, particularly as applied
to street cars. The leading ones have
been tbe grip and electricity, bntone has
now been given birth here which may
revolutionize the whole business, and
relegate the grip, if not electricity, to a
forgotten past. Its parentis Jay Noble,
who has been for twelve years the master
mechanic of M. M. Buck’s establishment.
A short time ago he announced that he
had on invention which would be a great
success. He is a very ingenious work
man, and when not actively engaged,
has generally been found studying out
some problem of effect. His present in
vention is an engine receiving power from
gas from coal oil. The oil is in s tank in
the roof of the car, the gas being gener
ated as used, the flash of tbe explosion as
it passes into the cylinder heats the dr,
producing expansion. The only difficulty,
so far, has appeared to be tbe nervousness
of tbe general public in riding on or near
a car carrying oil, but it is claimed that
there would be absolutely no danger
whatever. Mr. Noble claims that he can
furnish power for a ten-horse engine,
which would pull three or four cars, at a
cost of one dollar a day, the engine work
ing absolutely noiselessly. The engine
would occupy no more space than the
lever in a grip car.—St. Louie Globe.
| the piano next door. Generally, I am
unreasonably irritated when I am obliged
to listen to other people’s pianos agamst
my will; there is something very tr -1 —
in being obligod to submit, wit
remonstrance, to hear whatever they
may be moved to play, or—worse still—
practice.
But this was different. It was, I
thought, a woman’s touch, and she
played well—chiefly old airs and sonatas
of Corelli I am very fond of ole
old musi
cians, and there was in this playing of
them something very gentle and sooth
ing.
One evening, at the end of that week,
I found, on coming in, a note, which I
opened, and read in great surprise:
“Miss Ethel Mayne would be very
greatly obliged if Mr. Wyndham would
not allow his piano to be used at so late
an hour. Miss Mayne asks this for the
sake of her aunt, an invalid, who
greatly disturbed by it.”
I read this note over and over agai
each time with more amazement. H<
could I explain, without seeming rude
and brusque, that not only had I never
played during my stay here, but that the
nouse did not even contain a piano?
Thompson is not in the least musical.
The more I thought of it the stranger it
appeared. One thing was certain—the
piano which disturbed them must be the
same as that to Which I had listened on
so many evenings. At last I decided to
call next morning, and explain better
| than a note could that I was not to
blame. I did so, about 12 o’clock next
day, and was shown into a drawing-room
“The Silent Wornqn.” . ^
51is« Frances Hranuclli, the “silent j uncomfortable loik common
J
Hrannelli met, loved, «nd wss loved in “ V n - - - - ■ ®P enM -
retnm by a youn- res captain then in “ d * taU S lrl . w > th dark hair and sweet
Sta port. ’Her® rtUt^Sopposed tto | £& “• «»smd »I rose, and
match, and, as she believed, interce]
his letters to her and tried to keei
said:
ceep them t “^ r - Wyndham, I believe? I imagine
apart. Violent altercationa ensueS, and I r ou have calied jn answer to my note. *
daring one of them, in a paroiyi’sm of : JP sure ,? ou jS*P * cccd “ to W r ?1“ est -
race, she vowed that she never would on, y. nt> ^ recovering from a
*' ‘In ess, and the piano keeps her
at night.”
“I would, of course, instantly discon-
p • Ion:
rage, she vowed that she never wonld
again open her lips in speech. For -over
seven years she kept her vow, and even
on her deathbed the efforts of her friends , -. „ T ., .... - . -
to induce her to break her voluntary ’ I f«d,‘1f , t were in my power;
silence were futile. As her relative tot . 1 . c * m ? «° «P>»“ ? have played
St“^unS-dmXl,"heS ] aching since my coming here ; indid,
with tears in her eyes, implored te tol"?““
break her vow. if on* o my looSby. I I have thought that Iwaa listen-
aided tlieir^entiva- ! ‘"S P ! ?J n S every night, for I
ties*! b‘ut°to b anl!p£aIs“!he ™ obdullta.' ! ‘whit “must ’be "thi same
Her brother went outside and plucked a j ,
Mr. FergU'On, of tho Unite! State)
Commission, is enthusiastic over the
results of the artificial propagation ol
shad. He tells a reporter of the Balti
more Sun that the run'this year
largest f r twenty-five years, ar.d he
tributes the fact entirely to the fish com
mission's efforts. • He says: “The unpre
cedented abundance
confined
but has extended to all risers which have
been the jvtip'entr of the deposna of ™ tcful A ftw moments after she : -V -I--S-- "
young fish from the Ln.ted States com- ■ Breathed her !a>t. She carried her re- J? , *‘ e 8 erde ? TC *“; h J*■
mission. The yield in Albemarle Sound *entmegt to. to reintive» ta> the bitter 5
, nt- rose, and offered it to he>. She shook I »=credu!ous at
. om I herlead and refused to take it. How-j ^ 7“^- . „ -. „ .,
m ever, when tho matron offered her the! , ‘ do l n “‘ “dera-and, she sard,
ipre- 1 same ffower she took it eagerly and evi- 1 _ ^ an .. 1 .^ w e are nrar enoughtc
lance of shad hat not bee n dently enjoyed the perfume? Vlien her j h “ r t ’“ 3 .
s Chesapeake Bay region ! brother attempted to smooth the dying: 7- 0, r*°
ed to all rivers which h.v. woman’s pillows she strongly dissented; j
pillows she Strongly dissented; j u is tmpossiote, as tne wrnoow. Irom
but allowed a nurse to doTt, and seemed T 11 * "eco^d see some dmtanee.showed
■tefnl. A few moments after she the nearest house to be separated from-
in the rivers of Florida lias been very
. gTtat, and in the Delaware, Hudson and
Connecticut rivers the result was as
jpnmuing as in the others. . The same
of another garden and rambling old
; chard.
“Is it possible.” I said, feeling
A fe^f days later mv holiday came to
i end, and I left the lovely country with
WOMAN’S WORLD.
t An American Beauty.
Probably the most superbly beautiful
woman ever married in this country to a
foreign diplomat was Mrs. Bass, of Mis
sissippi After having passed several
winters in Washington she married the
Chevalier Bernatti, a man of rare ac
complishments, but in no ways good
looking. Her beauty was so celebrated
when she was the Widow Bass that the
mere mention of it suffice) to recall to
many throughout the country the vision
of her superb presence. “A daughter of
the gods, divinely tall, and most divinely
’* TTtft DiPVklinr Rpmatfi hia
fair. ’ The Chevalier Bernatti, after ius
marriage, went to Turkey, where he was
the Sultan present!
an exquisite necklace of pearls.
He
died, and she returned here to recover
from the United .States Government a
considerable sum of money for cotton de
stroyed on her Mississippi plantation.
When last in Washington she was ac
companied by her daughter. Miss Bass,
who has inherited her mother’s fair,
sunny face, wealth of light brown hair,
and imperial person.
Mary Anderson and the Prince.
“The first time I met the Prince of
Wales,” Mary Anderson is reported as
lying in the San Francisco Alta Cali
fornia, “I was playing
came to the theatre and
troduction to me. I went to the theatre
office and was formally presented to him.
‘Ingomar.
L requested an in
will patiently learn how to cx>k him.
A preserving kettle of the fineatporco-
lain is best, but if you have nothing but
an earthenware pipkin it will do with
care. See that thi linen in which you
wrap him is nicely washed and mended,
with the required number of buttons
and strings nicely sewed on. Tie him
in the ketttle by a strong silk cord called
comfort, as the one called duty is apt to
be weak. They are apt to fly out of the
kettle and be burned and crusty on the
-a—» — like crabs and lobsters, you
have to cook them While alive. Make a
clear, steady fire of love, neatness, and
cheerfulness. Set him as near this as
seems to agree with him. If he sputters
and fizzes do not bo anxious; some hus
bands do this till they are quite done.
Add a little sugar in the form of what
confectioners call kisses, but no vinegar
or pepper on any account. A little spice
improves them, but it must be used
with judgment. Do not stick any sharp
instrument into him to see if he is be
coming tender. Stir him gently; watch
the while lest he lie too close and flat to
the kettle, and so become useless. You
cannot fail to know when he is done.
If thus treated you will find him very
digestible, agreeing nicely with you and
the children; and he will keep'as long
l set him in too cold a place.
Fashion Notes.
Glass buttons closely imitate carved
Parisian modistes have done away w»th
steels in skirts. «
The straw-lace bonnets for summer
show the hair and its arrangement.
uiuce ana was xormauy presented to mm, fifth season of jet, and yet
Within the next two week! he brought, U “ n °'' eU ' M “* *PP clrln 8 «wy d »J-
the Princess to the theetro while I was' Cloaks for small girls are half-fitting
playing Pauline in the ‘Lady of Lyons’. extend tj the bottom of the dress
and introduced her to me. The Princes) 8 ’ c *^-
very kindly complimented me and gave
me the bouquet she carried in her hand.
I was Very much pleased at this kind at
tention. Another time I had an engage
ment to luncheon with the Prince of
Wales, but was compelled to break the
engagement on account of thg severe ill-
ness of mv mother. iTo intention to snub
nessofmv mother. No intention to snub
was ever {nought of, and I hope this will
settle all gossip regarding it, as the
Prince treated me with- the greatest
courtesy and consideration.”
“There were rumors that Lord Chief-
Justice Coleridge and the Duke of Port
land were held captive in Cupid’s meshes
all on your account?”
“There is no foundation whatever to
such senseless gossip.”
A Wife’s Province.
A wife’s life, says a writer in the De
troit Free Pcese, “Household” column, is
made up of little pleasures, of little tastes,
of little cares ana little antics, but which,
when acWed up together, make a grand
sum total of human happiness. She is
not expected to do any grand work; her
province lies in a contrary direction—in
gentleness, in cheerfulness, in content
ment, in housewifery, in care and man
agement of her children, in sweetening
her husband’s cup of life, when it is,
days when I first knew it. Among others,
we use as a drawing-room a large room
at the back overlooking the garden,
which Thompson used as a lumber room,
~ think.
Our stay this year had nearly come to
an end, when on one Sunday evening I
stayed up very late, smoking. Before I (
went upstairs I rraiembered that my wife
itea a book brought up. and I went
into the drawing room to fetch it. There
was no light in the room but the red
glow of the fire we had enjoyed that
chilly evening, and I was bending over
the table to try and find the book, when
a slight movement made me look up, and
standing close by the piano, I saw—I am
very sure of it—a slight girlish figure
with a face I never shall forget—it was
so terribly sad. Slowly she moved from
where she stood, and seemed to pass me.
She wore some sort of clinging brown
dress. I followed into the hall, where I
seemed to see her go. No one was there.
I roused my wife, and together we
searched the house—vainly, of course.
I was not in the least alarmed at the
time, beyond a slight shock on finding
myself not alone as I had imagined;
but afterwards, for months, waking, or
sleeping, that fare, with its terrible grief,
i before me.
Of course I tried in every way I could
to find out what story could be connected
with the house, without, however, saying
why I wished to know, for I felt almost
it oft€n is, a bitter one, in abnegation of
self—these are emphatically a “woman’s
rights;” her heritage, her jewels, which
help to make her crown of glory.
The trivial round, the common task,
Would furnish all we ought to ask;
Parasols are in infinite variety, the jet
lace covers k being the most elegant and
costly.
Elegant short visites of black or colored
velvet or beaded fabrics are worn for
A phantom there is which men call Death.
And he follows where'er we go;
Like the north wind’s blast is fcfa icy
An l his eyes have a snake-llke glow,
Ana he follows hard, and he follows close-
Be our footsteps fast or slow.
He sits by the king in his chair of state,.
And he walks by the plowman’s side.
For alike to him is the low or great,
Mean birth or vaunted pride;
Impartial to all he follows all
With a never tiring stride,
to the gladness of peace, or in ixna of
strife,
In the hush of the calm,-or storm,
to the deep, still night, or when danger's;
rife.
At evening, noon or morn
fle walks, be stands and he lies by onr side,
This terrible phantom form.
He sits at our board, and sits at oar hearth,
As a self-invited guest,
And often when loudest the strains of
mirth,
Or keenest tbe wit and jest,
His shadow silently falls upon
That which the heart loves best,
He shatters at will man's best laid schemes
With a touch of his specter hand,
And he dashes to earth the brightest-
With a wave of his unseen wand.
I strive as we will we most obey
* he gives command.
Wherever a thing of life has been
On the land, or in sea, or air.
Where virtue dwells, or in haunts of s|
His shadow has fallen there;—
Leading back the soul in peace to God,
Or gulfing it in despair.
Ob,
To bring us daily nearer God.’
There is in “Crabbe’s Poems” a con
versation supposed to take place between
a husband and wife, which is very beau
tiful. It contains advice to both of
priceless value. I give an extract from
The husband addresses the wife
thus;
Each on the other must in all depend— -
The kind adviser, the unfailing friend.
Through tbe rough world we must each
other aid, #
Leading and led, obeying and obey’d;
Favored and favoring, eager to believe
calling.
Fans for ornament, but incapable of
stirring the air, are m:ide of natural
flowers.
Pearl ball buttons arc used for thin
summer dresses to the exclusion of nearly
all others.
Long-waisteil dresses seem increasing
in favor, the best Paris models being in
this style.
Capes of lace, jet or pearl beads are
worn with low-necked bodices, making
them high.
A four-leaved shamrock in a tiny crys
tal medallion is tbe last ornament worn
on bangles.
A new material of the pongee variety
is called silk long cloth, and is wider
than pongee. •
Large or small, long or short, what
ever style you decide upon for a wrap, it
must be close fitting.
An exquisite tea gown is of change
able peacock blue plush over a silk skirt
of readish tan color.
French modistes are reversing the order
of things and are making dark over
dresses with light skirts.
Pocket handkerchiefs are now made
with very narrow hems, edged with a
border of Valenciennes lace.
Norfolk jackets of Jersey cloth in blue,
scarlet, black, ecru, tan and white are
worn with skirts of all colors.
Cowslips and buttercups are to the
front in general favor, and with the in
clination to black will prove an effective
addition.
What should be truth; unwilling to per
ceive
What might offend; determined to remove
What has offended; wisely to improve
What pleases yet, and guard returning
How a Wife Makes Scolding Pay.
There is a little family in Kennebec
county, in the inner circle of which a
very curious custom prevails, and it must
be admitted that the system is one that
might tend to break up the peace of a
less liberal household. The family con
sists simply of a husband and wife, and
they live happily enough, and there
would not be a cloud on their horizon
but for one thing—the husband’s temper.
In most respects he is an exemplary
and kind young man, and as far as any
one can see he is very fond of his wife,
but when things go wrong during .the
day or when he is not feeling well, it
takes but little to make him extremely
irritable. On such occasions he is wont
to indulge in many expletives itot found
Very small rosary bead buttons are
used to trim and edge jackets that are
fastened with big flat or medium-sized
ball buttons.
Lace zephyrs have plush stripes in
groups of three, and are made up over
self colors corresponding to the ground
of the stripes.
Grenadines and etamines are combined
with plain silks, and velvets, ottomans
and brocades are used in conjunction
with laces of all kinds in creating the
new opera wraps.
Heliotrope is a favorite color or shade
—in silk fabrics, however, for in woollen
it looks dull ana faded. Indian silks are
very cool and pleasant to wear in summer,
and are not very expensive.
The newest English jacket) for young
girls are of corded, brocaded or elastic
cord. They are closely fitting at the
bock, with loose front-, sometimes fas
tened diagonally. They have numbers
of pockets and have large wooden but
tons.
Ladies who have la?e points or shawls
can now utilize them without cutting.
The foundation to a jacket or mantel is
formed of black, cream or colored surah,
and over this the garment is shaped by
i grim, grim thin^ is iLIi pLantomr
Death,
And he follows where’er —• go.
Like tbe north wind’s blasw is ii icy -
breath.
And his eyes have a snake-1 ilc? glow,
And he follows hard, and be follows close,
Be our footsteps fast or slow.
T. T. Burgess i«v Free Press.
PITH AND POINT
Poll tacks—Hairpins.
A trying position—That of Judge.
Always ready to strike. The police-
If you wish to communicate with the-
finny tribes of the sea first drop them a
line.—Detroit Free Press.
“Say, waiter, do you call t'lis spring
lamb?” “Yes, sir, last year's spring-
lamb.”—Berlin Budget.
Mamma—“Why don’t you move out of
the sun, Kitty, if it troubles you so?” Kitty
—“’Cause I got here first.—Life.
■The new edition of Webster’s dic
tionary is to define dude.” Wo didn’t
possible. —Norristown
A great many complain of empty
purses, but what man was ever rendered
Why did
““ Maud |
was ever renden
unhappy by the conscious possession of
an empty head.—Life.
A good batter is as essential to a robust -
buckwheat cake as to a base ball nine.
It always wants to come in on the home-
plates.—Colton {Cal.) Hub.
Gertrude—“How cruel!
you snub that poor little man?”
—“Why, it’s the latest fashion. Only a-
‘boy cut. ’ "—Harper's Bazar.
“Charming little pink-tipped, shell
like ears you have, Miss Totty. Did you
ever have them p’erced!” “No; but I
have had them bored.”—Judge.
“And that scar, Major. Did
you get it during an engagementf’ He.
(absently)—“Engagement? No; the first
week of our honeymoon.”—Judy.
An exchange has an article headed,
“Every Woman Should Wear a Smile.”
in the dictionary, and has been known ! massing the lace and allowing it to be
as if I should be betraying her confidence
if I made that sad face a matter of every
day gossip at afternoon-teas and dinner
parties.
We are in London again, for the winter
now, and one day lately I met an old lady,
•whohad inher girlhood well-known tne
town in which I spend the summer. She
told me that many years before, my house
had had the reputation of being haunted,
but that the rumor had been hushed up
by the landlord, and forgotten. And she
told me this story:
The house wa) once occupied by a
young husband and wife. They loved
each other devotedly, but the husband
was unreasonably jealous of his brother.
One evening he accused his wife of de
ceiving him as to her love; she was too
wounded to answer his bitter words, and
he went* out. Two hours later he had
drowned him : elf, and his dead body was
brought into the house, into the very
to call his wife almost everything but an
angel. Finally his wife became tired of
this sort of thing, and even the extreme
penitence of her husband when his irri
tation was over failed to suffice. There
fore, taking him in one of his penitent
moods she made him agree to the follow
ing price list of epithets:
Lazy old thing, price..... 5a
Shittless hussy, price 10a
Old fool, price 25a
room where his young wife was playing
while waiting for his return. She lost
her senses from that day, and during the
rest of her mercifully short life her music
‘And,” added the landlady, “she.ii
said to play there still; those who love
music can sometimes hear her.”
For myself the thought of the poor
j-rl’s bitterly sad story will only give an
added interest to the face I never shall
forget, and her music both my wife and
I have listened to and loved for long—
for my wife heard it first when she was
Ethel Mayne.—Household "Words.
Old
..20a
Ugly old hen, price 50a
Miscellaneous 10a
Having once gotten him to agree to
these terms, she procured a pasteboard
box, and having glued the cover on, she
cut a slit in the top large enough to
admit of the passage of all coins and then
waited. It was not long before some
thing went wrong, and as usual the hus
band launched out at the poor wife. But
[own the epithets, and made $2.35 that
attack. When calmed down he cheer
fully paid the bill, and the wife thinks
spread as necessary. These wraps are
trimmed with lace, loops of ribbon and
jet ornaments.
Baby Tigers.
In Forepaugh’s menagerie there are
x as lithe and brightly marked tigers
as anybody ever saw. One morning, at
daylight, the keepers were surprised by
an unusual commotion among the cat an
imals. Tbe men got out strong ropes,
lassoes, and nets, believing that some of
she will have at least $100 saved up at
the end of the year, unless he gets to
at seeing her make tbe pencil
How to Cook Husbands.
Miss Corson said in the Baltimore
cooking-school that a Baltimore lady
lind n-ritfm m rnfirfi for “ovikinff’hiis.
had written a recipe for “cooking’hus-
bands so as to make them tender and
good.” It is as follows: A go<
husbands are utterly spoiled
management. Some women go
l many
if their husbands were bladders, and
blow them up. Others keep them con
stantly in hot water; others let them
the more formidable of the wild beasts
were out of their dens.
They approached the wide stairs with
caution and entered the room. The tiger
den was the scene of a fierce confusion,
and the other animals shared the excite
ment. The men advanced to the front
of the den, and were met with demon
strations of anger. Lying close to the
wall in one corner was the huge Bengal
tiger, and at her side a pair of beautifully
marked cubs,.with eyes clo-ed likp a
young kitten’s. Witn cries of wonder
the men gazed at the treasures, which
had been born daring the night. Still
they could not understand why all the
wild beasts should seem so restless. One
of the keepers, following the eye of a
huge panther, shouted:
“Boys, look! One has got out and
the floor!” One cub had crept through
rs of the cage and tumbled out and
red around until it bad tired out
and gone to sleep. When one of the men
carefully picked it up it uttered a feeble
The scene that followed made
those men, used to dadger as they are,
white with frar. The tigers bent the
bars of their cages, and the lions roared
in unison -• 41
animals.
Last Battle of the Civil War.
freeze by their carelessness and indiffer
ence. Some keep them in a stew by
| irritating ways and words. Others roast
The last battle of the war occurred them. Some keep them in pickle all
Brazos Santiago, Texas, May 13‘i their lives. It cannot be supposed that
18‘jo. A small expedition sent out to ! any husband will be tender and good
of shad has been effected
in which waters shad were
to their introduction by
A citizen of Mettaeahouts, N. Y., says saw a glimmer of light on the question,
that the sting of a honey bee is a sure i “that any of your household walk intheii
»ent is sleep? We hi
for rheumatism. The treatment
to expose the part affected and induce
j bees to sting it. He says this novel euro
has been tried by his' scighbors with
g*"
inf we near uis quite late; audit
mignt be posable—people have done
such strange things in sleep.”
is “Indeed, no,” she said. “I am afraid
that will not do as an ~~
^ managed in this way, but they are really
return by a larger force and ■ delicious when properly treated. In se-
• ' lecting your husbaud you should not
be guided by the silvery appearance, as
in buying mackerel, nor by the golden
were” the Thirty- j tint, as if you wanted^ salmon.
Volunteers, the Sixty- — J *—" *"
surprise a Confederate camp was
taken on its return by a la
defeated with a loss of _
This engagement is officially recorded as
the battle of Palmetto Ranch. The
troops es
fourth Im ,
second United States Colored Infantry, j Do not go
and the Second Texas Cavalry.—Inter■ 1 * “
, Ocean.
and select him yourself, as tastes differ.
Do not go to the market for him. as the
best are always brought to your door.
It is far befter to have none, unless you
the
,e cage from tyhich it had
fallen was certain death to whoever un
dertook it, for with their long forearms
have torn to shreds whatever
reach. Finally one of the cooler-headed
keepers took the little speckled, sight
less beast, and? climbing up the end of
the den, opened a small hole left for
ventilation and dropped the cause of all
the trouble at the feet of its mother.
She tenderly placed it beside her other
offspring, lay down herself, and in two
minutes the cunning-looking kitten was
taking its nourishment and everything
But there is r
talking, they won’t
do it unless fashion says so.—
Ledg.
Mrs. Thompson, the postmistress of
Louisville, although a weak women, is
said to be able to lick a stamp as well as
big strong man could do the same.—
Lowell Citizen.
Somebody has written a book entitled,
“What Shall My 8on Be!” Upon which
some one frankly replies: “If the boy is
bad as the book, the chances arc that-
he will be hanged.”—Siftings.
^Esthetic Boston
Has much to “boast on,”
her pork and beans,
icago
When there’s d
ion greens.
—Good all's Sun*
The circus bill has come and again we-
are haunted by a question which makes
us wake up in the middle of the night
and think and wonder, namely: Does tho-
hippopotamu) keep his mouth open all
winter?—EsteUine {Dak.) Bell.
WISHIHAD—WISHIWAS.
t I would not do;
untrue.
Would tell me what I wish I wish 1 .
—11. Burdette
“There,” said Mrs. Highflyer, as her*
daughter ceased from torturing one of
the nigh-numbered “ops.” of Bethoven,
“that’s what I call a finished perform
ance, eh, Mr. Jones?” And Mr. Jones
nodded and said: “Thank heaven 1”'
“Another big washout up the street,”*
said a Port Jervis man to a reporter of
the Gazette. The reporter, with a nose-
street. “Where-
for news, dashed up
the washout?” he called to a tnan
whom he met “There it is,” said the-
man, pointing to a long line of newly .
washed clothes gently flapping in the-
breeze.
The Norristown Herald is responsible-
for the story that a Western man has ap
plied for a pension on the ground that he
was injured by a Confederate ram during-
the war. The facts are that, while a
sutler in the army, he was violently-
butted through a rail fence by an aged,
but vigorous male sheep owned by an.
officer of the Confederate army.
The National Game.
'Tis now the ball, the little ta’L compact and!
hardened, smooth and small!
It first' comes oat, comes rushing out, along in-
May or thereabout.
It makes a game, a noble game, to which all
sometimes
through, perhaps so last ’tis hid from,
view.
o brave and bold, gets on
would propel a spike.
rbe umpire there, bo patient there, l
loadof grief to bear.
When it is done, the nMmisdM
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