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the mercury. ti'atnrnd as teoond-class matter at the San. h 1 dcrsvillo Postofllce, April 27, 1880. SandersTllle, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED UT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. Subscription $1.50 per Tear. THE MERCURY. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, Sandergyille, Ga. Terms Cash. Office at his residenoe on Harris Street. April 3,' 1880. __ A. J. JERNIGAN, Propbietob. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. , $1.50 PER ANNUM. YOL. I. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1880. NO. 22. THE MERCURY. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. rr All communications intended for this paper must be aooonqjanied with the hill name ot the writer, not necessarily for publi- cation, but ns ft guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible ior the view* cr opinions of correspondents. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, April 3, 1880._ Sandorsville, Ga. DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville, Ga. Office at Sandersvilie Hotel. April 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SandorsvUlo, Ga. Spocinl attention given to collection ol claims. Office in the Court-House. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, Sandorsville, Ga. Prompt attention given to all business. Office in northwest room ot Court-Uouso. May 4, 1880. At Evening. Upon the hills the wind is sharp and cold, The sweet young grasses wither on tlie wold, And we, oh Lord, havo wandered Irom thy fold; But evening brings us homo. Among the mists we stumbled, and the rooks Whore the brown lichen whitens, and the iox Watolies the straggler irom tho scattered flocks; But evening bringB us home. Tho sharp thorns prick ns, and our tender leet Are cut and bleeding, and the lambB repeat Their pitilul complaints—oh, rest is sweot, When evening brings us homo. Wo havo been wounded by tho hunter’s darts, Our eyes are very heavy, and our heart* Search lor thy ooming—when the light departs, At evening, bring u« bcino. The darkness gathers. Through the gloom no star Rises to guido us. We havo wandered far. Without thy lamp we know not where we are— At evening brirgs ns homo. Tho olouds are round us, and the snow-drifts thicken. Ob, thou dear Shophord, leave us not to sicken tho waste night—oar tardy lootstops quicken. At evening bring us homo. C. C. BROWN, Attorneyat Law, Sandorsville, Gn. Will practice in tho Stato and Unitod States Courts. Office in Court -Honse. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, Sandersvilie, Ga. Office next door to Mrs. Bayne’s millinery store Ion Harris Street. DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandersvilie, Ga. Muy lie conNultod at his cfltoo on Haynes street, in the Musnnio Lodge building, from 0 am to l p m, and Irmn 3 to 5 p m; during other horns at his residence, on Chuioh street, when nut piolrssionslly engaged. Aprils 1880. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY REPAIRED BY JERNIGAN. POSTOFFICE HOURS. 7:00 to 11:30 a. m. 1:30 to 6:00 p. m. E. A. Spluvan, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY, Only $1.60 per annum. PUBLISHED BY JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNIGAN. 56>*”Nono genuine without our Trado 11 On hand and for sale, Spectacles Nose Glosses, Etc Music, Music JERNICAN fob VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, BOWS, STRINGS ROSIN boxes, etc. “ Well, you see, 1 haven't always been captain of a first class steamer—no, siree ! I ran away to sea when I was twelve years old, and I’ve worked my way up from the bottom of the ladder. Well, when I was thirty, I was ‘captain of a large sailing vessel that was in tho South American trade. " I sailed from the port of Callao, San Francisco being my destination. My socond officer was an Englishman, but my first was an American, only two or three years younger than I, as good- looking a fellow as I ever saw; tall and straight and handsome, with eyes like blue china. He was aright good fellow, too; brave and honest, nut frisky as a kitten and up to all sorts of larks. “Well, wo crept up the coast, stop ping at every ninth door, as our orders obliged us to do, taking in all sorts of things, all booked for San Francisoo. Finally we came to San Jose de Guate mala, which is the port for the city of Guatemala—that'llos ninety miles inland —and there we liove-to, and waited lor a chance to go ashore. "Did you ever hcarof the surf on that coast, ladiesP NoP Well, it often rolls fifteen or twenty feet high, and a good art of tho time no boat can live in it. orry we’re not going to stop this trip, or you might see it. You see, there’s really no harbor—nothing but an open nt ihc Machine Needles 3 OIL and SHUTTLES °r all kinds of Machines, ior sale. I will also order parts ot Machines that get broke, and now pieces are wanted. - A. J. JERNIGAN. Brown s landlady passed him a dish vegetables at the dinner-table and j ®, llel ped himself to about two spoon- oi,L 3 ’ , t ? 08t bankrupting the dish, when ao said to him, with a smile on her * ace nn( ‘ ire in her eye: “Those are Ir'v Potatoes, Mr. Brown, and some of ., other boarders may want some.” Beg y° ur pardon,” choked Brown, in surprise, ns two or three effected an un- p easant lodgment in his windpipe; “I nought they were peas,” and tnen ho finished his dinner hurriedly. Brown 8 now hunting around for another ooarding-piace.-Boston Globe. LOVE ON THE HIGH SEAS. " Now,” says the captain, “ we slm’n’t sec any more land for a week, and you young ladies ’ll have nothing to do but ; et some of these fellows lull in love with you.” “Fall in love 1” cries Hetty, her tip- tilted nose curling with incredulity and disgUBt. “Who could fall In love at sea, I’d like to knowP” “Who couldP" nsks the captain, ir, innocent surprise. "Why, everybody docs. Why notP" Why, the sea’s so nasty,” emphati cally exclaims Hetty. “ Of course I don't mean Ihe water, but everything in it and on it. Ships are so dirty and smell so, and everybody’s seasick and cross and selfish. How could any man fall in love with a seasick womanP Ugh!" and she views herself and Deb with disgust. “ Now, that’s a big mistake you make," says the captain, eagerly. “Do you think a woman can t be attractive when she’s sca-BickP Why, sailors most always court their wives at sea, and there isn’t one woman in a hundred that isn’t sick. Why, what else have these youngsters got to do but think of the womenP In a storm it’s diflerent; but in calm weather a sailor hasn’t enough to do to keep him busy half the day, and naturally hisoyes ana thoughts are occupied the rest o’ tho tirno with tho prettiest girl on board. Look at my first officer over there, pretending to talk to the doctor and looking as de mure as a cat. What do you suppose he’s thinking ofP You, I’ll bet my hat!” Hetty smiles in evident unbelief, but glances furtively across deck toward the handsome young first officer, where ho leans on the rail, blowing rings of smoke into the deep blue sky. He is ostensibly absorbed in one of the doctor’s long-winded yarns; but just here his eyes, which have been fixed on tho yellow const to windward, some- how or other slide round to leeward, and bestow a sidelong glance on Hetty’s pretty little half sea-sick figure, stretched nt full length in a steamer- chair. Mischievous Deb and the quick- sighted captain detect both, and laugh unmercifully. Hetty blushes, and the first officer uncompromisingly turns his back and a deaf ear to the captain’s guffaws. * “ There, I told you so,” said h ! s su perior. “ Now you won’t bo out of his head for a week. Oh, I tell you it don’t make any difference a girl’s being sea-sick! Cupid hns to havo his fling at a sailor ns well as at every one else. And they strike thoir colors quickor’n any other men, for their love-making has to be all done in the course of the voyage. If they hang back and shilly shally, why, the first thing they know they’re in port, and off goes their lady love, and that’s tho last they see ot her. As for the sea-sickness, why, they ex pect that, and it doesn’t discourage ’em the least mite in the world. But tli one thing that’s pretty hard on a sailor, and that is, if his sweetheart’s sick, he can’t get her to listen to him at all. While he’s making love his very pret tiest and courting his very darndest, why, she’s thinking all the time how her head does ache, or wishing she had some more ice, or wondering when they’ll get into port. And she don’t mane no more account o’ the poor feller’s feelin’s than if a mosauito was a-buzzin’ round her ears. Oh, I tell you, a sailor’s a much-abused animal! And tho gallant captain sighs and shakes his head over the sorrowful lot of his fellows. It is evening on shipboard; dinner is ovcv, the day’s work done, and all who can move are assembled on deck. The sun, which has hung all day like a copper gong on a brnss ceiling, is now mercifully disappearing. The moun tains of Lower California shine in his fast-fading rays like “the golden lulls of heaven,” while one little hummock of an island, long and high and narrow rises out of the sea like the grave-mound of some ocean god. For once the water is smooth; noth ing breaks its stillness bnt the steamer s trail, and the low-flying gulls now and then brushing its surface. I* ar, far away —far as the eye can reach—is pothing but the same expanse of deep blue waters, broken only by those yellow hills, now fast vanishing into distance and night. Overhead, only another and wider expanse, still “deeply, darkly, beauti fully blue,” and behind a cloud the bashful new moon just beginning to look forth upon the boisterous world below i • Prizsbv. from London, explains to a gaping audience how the scenery now before them suffers from comparison „U> th.t.t tho BXtajJta« g roadstead—and except, in the Bay of [host Funday, this place shows the higl and lowest tide in tho world. The peo- E le here tried to build a breakwater out eyond the surf, but it breaks over it half the time, and when it doesn’t it knocks it to pieces. Sometimes vessels have to ride at anchor for a week before they can send a boat ashore. “We’d only just hove-to when I noticed that a ship at anchor not far off w»s making signals of distress, and that a boat was putting off in our direction. Of course, we were anchored far out beyond the surf, and it was comparatively easy for the boat to reach us; so It was soon alongside, and ono of the men came up the ship’s side and told me what was wanted. It appears the ship was a coffee-ship from San Francisco, and lind conic to San Jose for its cargo. It was only half loaded when one of the boats cap sized in tho surf, drowning tho captain and first officer. The second officer was very low with a fever, and they had no body to navigate the vessel; so thoy’d had to wait in port till some other slii came along, and could lend ’em a officer, or somebody who understood navigation. “ Well I called up my firstoffloer, and put him aboard the coffee ship, and in a day or two we both sailed. We were going over just the same ground—or Bea, rather—and aa the two vessels wore about equally fast, we kept each other in sight most of the time. We’d been out about ten days, and were in Ameri can waters again, when all of a sudden the ship hove to, and signaled us to stop. We ran as close to them ns we could, and then wo hove to, and pres ently through the glass I saw a boat biing lowered and tliat there was woman in it. “ I was surprised, as you can imagine, for I didn’t know there were any pas ents and hiifmwudcauiB uuu AB’ll Pull through.” Meantime, Hetty and Deb. seeing the oaptain had a story in leserv , when he courted her. I’ll just ten you about it, if you like. sengers on the coffee ship, through there were hall a dozen on my own. In n few minutes up the side came my first offi cer, more than half-carrying the i-retti cst little Spanish girl I ever saw. Oh, ladies! she was a beauty! Eyes like all the stars in the flag, and the sweetest little face—kisses just stiekin; out all over itl But wasn’t she the sickest lit tle mortal that ever set loot on deck? tell you! she was nil green and yellow, and looked half starved. I don’t be lieve she’d kept down a quarter of a din ner ior a month past. ‘‘‘Hullo, Jack! 1 said I: ‘what’s the matter?’ And I gave tho lady a seat on tho lounge in my cabin. The poor little tiling couldn’t sit up straight, so I just hoisted her feet up and made her com fortable nmong the pillows. “ ‘ Captain,’ said lie, ‘ I want you to marry me to this young lady.’ “ ‘ Marry you P’ said I. ‘ What do you meanP She’s too sick to be married man! SL>o can't stand up. If you and she want to be married, why don't you wait, till you get ashoreP’ “You see,ladies, wo talked out free before her, for she couldn’t understand a word of English. “ ‘ If we wait till then,’ said he. ‘ you and I’ll be going to her funeral instead of her wedding. We’vo got to be mar ried, and right away, and you’ve got to marry us.’ “You see again, ladies, we were ver great friends outside the ship, and when we were alone together we dropped all ceremony. “ ‘What in thunder are you in such a hurry forP’said I. ‘Why can’t you wait till you’re ashoreP where are the lady’s friends.’ ‘‘‘Her stepfather’s aboard my ship, he said. “ ‘ I thought so,’ said I; ‘ and I won’ have anything to do with it.’ “ He just turned and winked at me ‘ out o’ the tail of his eye,’ and then I remembered, in a moment of misplaced confidence, I had told him some little circumstances in regard to my own marriage. “‘Hem!’ said he, grinning like monkey, ‘I think they’re sometimes justifiable. Now just look lieie, cap: ‘listen, and I’ll tell you all about it, That little girl has no relations, nothing but a stepfather, and she’s dependent upon him for support. Well, the old coot’s a doctor, and crazy at that; or, if he isn’t, lie’s the meanest cuss on earth. He’s taken it into his addled old head to discover a sure cure for sea sickness, and because just the name of ship sets pooi little Delores to casting up accounts, he’s been taking her on all sorts of long voyages, nnd trying his various decoctions on her. So I want to marry her to get her out of his way Of course I’m in love with her and all that,’ said he, looking kind of foolish. ‘ but if that was all, Fd wait till we got ashore. Of course I can’t make him let her alone unless she’s my wife, and if he has control of her much longer she’ll never see port again.’ “ ‘ Do you mean to say,’ said I, star ing at him in surprise, ‘ that he tries experiments on her—gives her things that ain’t medicine?’ “ ‘ I do,’ said ho; ‘ and I mean to say that the last thing he gave her was a bottle of bed-bug poison, and it most killed her.’ “‘By the Flying Dutchman!’said I, ‘ I should think it would 1 Where’s the old coot nowP” “ ‘ In irons. I told him I wouldn’t have any such doing aboard my ship, and he slapped my face. So I put him in irons ana came off to you.’ “ Well, ladies, I just went over to the sofa where the little girl was rolling her big black eyes at us, and wondering what in thunder we were saying. “‘How old are you. my dear?” I asked in Spanish. “You see, I’d been married moro’n two yenrs, and I thought I’d a sorter right to be paternal. “ ‘Eighteen, Senor Captain,’said she, in tho softest voice in the world. “ I think that voice did [the business for me. Said I: ‘ Do you lovo this young man nnd wnnt to marry him? You needn’t If you don’t, because I’ll see to it your stepfather doesn’t bother you Any more.’ I didn’t dare look round at Jack, for I knew he’d bo looking blacker’n thunder nt me just then-. And, indeed, lie took a step toward us; but I made him keep off till she should have nn- swored for herself. “ Well, she blushed very prettily, and hesitated for a second, then answered very sweetly that If the Sonor Captain didn’t mind the trouble, she should rather marry the Senor First Officer. That the Senor First Officer had been hor only frlond: that, although she had taken mnny voyages nnd seen many people, sho had never before found any ono who cared to interfere on her be half ; that she had felt very gratetul to the Senor First Officor, and had now become attached to him, nnd with the Senor Captain’s permission would gladly become his wife. “As she said this, Jack got out of her sight behind the door, put his thumb to his nose, and twinkled his fingers at mo in the most disrespectful manner. I had a great mind to put him in irons for mutiny—but no matter. “ Of course there was nothing to be done except marry them; sho was over eighteen, nnd at sen a captain’s as good ns a parson, you know. So I called up tho passengers nnd the officers; and the ladies dressed hor up in their own finery, and we had a wedding in short order. After that the Bhip’s surgeon prescribed nn antidote for tho boa-bug poison. “Tho second officer went over and took command of the coffee ship, in Jack’s placo, and ho sent back Delores’ trunk and clothing. At first I thought wo shouldn’t be able to get along with out him, for Jack was so terribly In love with his little seasick girl I thought he’d be of no manner of use. But we had good weather most of the time, and Jack did hiB duty like a man. “ But it was real touching lb see him to down to his wifo’B cabin and bring iier up on deck every day, and fix her comfortable on a bed the steward made up lor her under an awning. And there he’d nurse her and caro for ncr just as if he’d been a sister ol charity. You might ha’ seen then, Miss Hetty, how a Bailor can lovo a sea-sick woman! Well, sho soon got better and stronger. Jack and the doctor fixed her up between’em and a healthier,live lier, happier little woman never sot foot in San Francisco. Jack took her right to his married sistor, and thcro sho staid between voyages till sho had a lot ol children,land her husband bought her a house of her own. What about the coffee snip ? Oh, that made port a day before us, and I he old doctor had us all arrested the minute we touched land. So we were all lmulccl up in court, and Jack had it out there with his stepfather-in-law. “ I think the court was rathor against us at first; but tho bed-bug poison and the slap in tbe face did tho business, ind turned everything in our favor. He was afterward decided to bo a lunatic, and turned over to his brother’s keep ing. “ Wnat’s become of Jack P Why, ho sailed with mo lor several years as first officer; now he’s captain of tho com panion-steamer to this. That good ooking young fellow that’s been making eyes at you. Miss Hetty, is his son; ana I daresay ho agrees with his father that sea sickness makes precious little differ ence when a man’s once fairly in love." The moon is quite up now, flooding tho sea witli silver. Between us ana that shining mirror interposes the head of ycung Jack, showing in fine, clear- cut siliouctte. What wonder that Hetty has to put severe restraint upon her eyes tliat they shall not wander in that direc tion? The captain Eaunters away to do the agreeable to other passengers,while Deb strays down the deck to listen at a little closer quarters, to the tinkle of a guitar and to a soft tenor voice humming a Spanisli love song. As she strolls back, she finds a mascu line form usurping her place; and peep ing under Hetty’s downcast lids are a pa.ii* of honest sailer eyes, whoso dawn- : ng love and hope no sea can fright or quell. FOR THE FAIR SEX. Aiioulatlon of Old Maid*. Tho Old MaldB’ association, of Geau ga county, Ohio, had a picnic on the lake recently and mustered eighty-six souls. This society was an outgrowth of the war, and was organized in 1863 by a bevy ol young ladies whose brothers and sweethearts were fighting for their country nnd left them without the resources of male escort, except the laggards wbo remained at home. Unwilling to accept the gallnntry of these young men, the young ladies pre ferred to depend upon themselves, and formed tbe association mentioned. Out of revenge the gallants dubbed these in dependent damsels “ old maids,” and they ncceptcd the cognomen and made It their own. A humorous constitution and by-laws were drafted by Mrs. C. E. Henry, then a single young Indy, and one of the lounders of the Institution. Man was declared the “common enemy,” and ono of the chiol objects of the society was a continued wnr against advances. He was religiously ex- ded irom all meetings, and a special clause of tho by-laws said that any member who should marry should bo fined one hundred big copper cents and should be branded with tar on the soles of her feet, “ U. D. I.,” meaning “ up and done it.” 1 he boautiful consistency of woman’s nature will be appreciated when it is known that every one of the oharter members and nearly nil of eligible age since are married.— New York Tribune. Tho well-known writer of books of adventure and travel. Captain Mayne Reid, has been engaged the past three years in experimenting with seed pota toes, with a view to escape the blight which has been so disastrous to the potnto As the brought from Mexico alone showed not a spot of hlitlit, all the other kinds hav ing been found to be diseased inn greater or less degree. The Mexican potato, he claims, also will yield almost double hob Deen so uisaswous io uie ***** crop in England and Ireland. lew recognized in the result of his experience, those f? oln ® man the frnm Mot inn nlnnn allowed not « ee P WSpeot Of ills fCllOW-Citizeni, IM hav- once cool-headed, imperturbable gam eater bier, who, in his day, figured promt tnto nently along tho Pacitto coast, and wai as many bushels to the acre, and sug- for twentvveaff gests that the government take in hand L Aealt that game *? r ' fLe importation of the seed in large bg Dye quit,>OW‘ quantities. Tho Chicago fire of 1871 burned 9,000 OUUJC acres and destroyed $160,000,000 of toned „ me at a oer taln place you prob* property. The Boston fire burned over 1 - - - * - - - — T - sixty acres and destroyed over $70,000 000 of property. There is) now on forty ncrcs in the dry goods district, between Chamber street and Canal street, nnd Broadway and West Broadway, New York city, more value of merchandise A Sad Bathing Place. A correspondent of the London Globe, writing irom Hull, an Austrian “bad" (bath), says: The fearful ravages of these diseases meet one at every turn — here a livid wretch wrapped up and being drawn about in a wheeled chair; there some one painfully supporting himself on a crutch; sadly sitting un der this tree a aroman, her hexaand face wrapped up, a mass of scrofula, and many equally l>alhsome sights. Nu merous arc the suicides which here take place, for people put off coming till hope is gone, and when they find it too late go to some quiet corner and send a bullet through their heads. But the saddest ot sad sights is the children, of whom there are many suffering in silence or crying with pain. No romp ing here, no shouts of pleasure, no games in the fields, no rosv cheeks and eunburnt legs, but crooked limbs and suppurating wounds, a heritage from their parents. The little patients sit sad and downcast or walk quietly by their nurses. Many of them suffer from eye disease, and are led about blindfolded. Hall is quite a moden " bad,” for al though tlie springs havo flowed for ages—as records show—they were, until forty years ago, used only by peasants in the neighborhood. The waters are very powerlul, and many a casus desperatus has found a new lease of life through their agency; but they are limited in quantity, for their flow, although regu lar, is inconsiderable. Hall can thus never become a large “ bad,” and could not supply the wants of more than 3,060 invalids. About half that num- be. are there now. I ascertained on inquiry that one Englishman was takin the waters—they are bathed in am drank—and this gentleman and au American are the only two “ Anglo Saxons” who have been there for the last four years. Strange to say the most numerous community of foreign ers is that of the Russians, of whom there are many first-rata families. Of the good Austrians and Hungarians one meets in Hall some of the oreme. Could the stones of thiB quiet place but speak they could tell some startling family tales' Tli* Family Puri*. The money question between husband and wife is one of the most serious draw* hacks to married happiness, and it is time it was adjusted on a more just and equal basis. The life of utter depend ence wliioh some women lead is crush ing and degraded. Men do not realize the utter helplessness nnd vacuity to which the system condemns woman Now, docs anybody believe tliat it is nocessnry for the welfare of tho family that she should go to him for twenty- five cents every time she needs it for car-laro or a spool of thread P Is it right or just to take her imbecility in money matters for granted before she lias been tested? Is it not just such women, who are left by the failure of some speculative craze to their own re sources, with tho burden of a family upon their unexperienced shoulders who often dUplny wonderful powors o:l energy and calculation, in addition to thrift nnd persevering industry, which ought to put all such men to BhanieP Women, as a general rule, cau make one dollar go us far as two in the hands of men; and many conceited individu als, who now consider that tho social system bounded by four walls of their dwelling wouid cease to revolve if they were taken out of it, would find groat happiness and great pecuniary advi tago in putting the control of all tho in terior details of thoir homes in tho hands ol their wives, with a division of tho income equal to tho requirement.— Woman's Journal. Faslllon Mole*. Lace mitts to matcli costumes are worn for evening. Lisle thread gloves are the favorites for summer wear. Handkerchief bows for tho throat have gingham-like borders. Zones pointed back and front are again worn with dressy toilct3. Just now it is nt the left side of the neck that the bouquet is fixed. The fashion of won: ing flowers, cither natural or artificial, never goes out. The most fashionable parasols arc of Surah silk or satiD, in any color pro ferred, or black or white and hand painted Square bows of gros grain ribbon _.ado of three loops and one notched end, drape the sides of taffeta silk over skirts. Three-cornered pieces of India mull, dotted with tiny specks of black, blue or rod, aro worn in kerchief shape close around the neck. They have a wide hem. Colored stockings are much worn both plain and with small patterns or embroidered corners near the ankle Silk stockings for the evening are some times embroidered with pearls. The most fashionable colors in millin ery are straw color, bran color, all the tussore shades, seal brown, Du Barrie rose, white, almond, biscuit, violet, heliotrope, the cashmere shades, and red. Linen, brown Holland, workhouse sheeting and pique seem to have utterly disappeared from fashionable life, and their place has been taken by sateens and Foulards, soft Indian silks, and cream-colored Corahs. Unbleached lace, embroidered in col ors, is worn by artistio English women witli all washing dresses—colored dots and sprigs upon either dark or light grounds are the favorite style; also quaint Japanose patterns. Very odd-looking dressing jackets have appeared, made of the favorite pockotjhandkerchiefs; those in red with a gay Indian arabesque in yellow on them are very bright. The trimmings are coffee-colored Languedoc lace, with bows of the handkerchiefs In London, in Rotten Row, round felt hats are as much, if not more, worn than the high silk hats; and every lady appears to have a bouquet of flowers pinned to the side of her fiabit. Jit is just the one touch of color that is wanted, and the only one that is admissible. New neckties are of lace—old gold, yellow, brown and cream; swathed round and round the neck, like a coach man’s wrap, the end fastened on the left side with a scarf pin, or else witli a long brooch, and below it the inevitable bou quet, which is universally worn. Guimpes of lace and mull, and of em broidered insertions with Swiss musiin are sold in the shop3 for wearing inside square necks of dress. They are made to fasten behind and are ouly deep enough to cover the shoulders, where they are held in placo by tape strings. Tbe neck has usually a full ruche or a high plaited ruff. TIMELY TOPICS. THE LAST DEAL. Tli* OnfeMlon of • BlhrMI* •“■**** -A b la tit that Mail* Hlat iwttt •» Foravor. ■I never dealt again!” The words fell from the llpe ot a gen* tleman well known in Leadvllle, yet ly tiling, ana DUt ior a signs a once saw I should probably be a gambler still. Hereby hangs a tale. Tet me tell it i Some three years ago I ran a high* !r ably know, for it strikes me I saw yo» •' there. It was a square game, aa I will leavo any one to say—a thriving game. lately broken out in a very explosive way. A woman whoBe husband was in a house of detention, feloniously and ot malice aforethought carried to him con cealed in a pie a quarter of an ounoe of tobacco. For tills offense one Mr. Bar- „„„„„„„ .. _ stow, a magistrate, sentenced her to couidnMTsay a'word,Though, and yeti imprisonment nt hard liked tUe w. Ho had lots of the filthy. . j Any _ _ for I dealt lor Halt the bloods in town, and olten I had as many as five layouts at a time, with too much business on -i ... hand to even get time to rest. One than was burned in Uljleago and Boston ove ning a young man strolled in, with a at their great fires. The average loss ^ 0 j curious stare on his face, and I per ncie h. Chicago was $57,093; in concluded right there that he was green. Boston, $1,160,067. The value per acre I u. fairAiaired and had a pair of in Now York is $6,000,000. Distributed “ffio e“ s and ol6ar-cut features-^ in in stores, twenty feet front by 900feet noccn t. loo king young fellow, if ever I deep, each store would contain $6,000,- gaw one j t reqa ired a glance to ... Twenty-five Moves conduct) you that he was a stranger in of the size above named contain as the gambling-room. He soon was nt much in value as the who e amount of k om | though, for I saw in his blue property destroyed in Chicago by the eyeg ^ he lo “ 0 of play, and after that great tire. evening he wai a constant visitors He ‘ TTT . , played his pile right up and up and The wrath of Englishmen against any £ e / er growled if his luck was hntd, and act of injustice under the forms of law on e " second card he’d stack the Is oasily excited, nnd tills wrath has | * in b i ue> Xake It altogether, his luck was hard—sometimes the hardest, I think, I ever saw. I ve known him to lose at a single deal seven double shots. . . “ Business for me, ol course, but somehow it almost seemed too bad. I ,. . ... , , couldn’t say a word, though, and yet I twenty-ono days’ imprisonment at hard n ked ti, e boy labor, but took off the hard labor wfion | think from the day be began he must lie lound that she was in a I'clicate state bav0 drop ped a cool $100,000 on the of health. This was enough to set Mr. g ame -nd lie never growled. Bull nnd his wife to writing indignantly \Ye both quit gambling the same to tho newspapers, and letters on iho he, poor lad, for sufficient rea- subjcct appear signed ‘An Angrv son Htld because I loathed the game. Woman." “AnIndignant Mother." “A j t w ’ a8 j n thiswise: Hater of Petty Tyranny." Maylutrate jjjg co | n gave ou t i n a deal or two, Barstow, who has won nn unenviable and be put up a diamond ring, just to reputation by the severity o( his sen-1 8e0 hi 8 \\\ luck out, you know. The chips soon went. He bad a pin, a flam* ing stone in massive metal. He passed that In without a word and drew $800 cold. So help me heaven I I wished him luek as heartily as any player there; but no, his last stack went my way on a losing ace. He drew $300 more, I think, on his watch and chain, and tried ills line of bets again, but his luok was gone. I’ll never forget the pale, haggard look tliat crossed his face, but he was ame. He never uttered a word, and _ept his chair like a pillar of stone. For a moment he seemed dazed at his re* verses, but suddenly his eye caught the thin, worn circlet of dull gold on his little finger. He looked at it a little while, amt a dark wave of hot crimson blood passed over ills face, for tills cir clet scorned to cling even luster than the flashing gem he had passed in before, lie at last stripped it off his finger and handed it to me. It came reluctantly, this worn, old ring. 1 What can I have on thisP’ lie asked. ‘ I don’t know what tcnces, now finds himself unpleasantly mentioned in the house of commons; and large public meetings were to he hold to denounce him in London, when tho homo secretary thought it best to order the release ot tho woman. One of the things which thoy order belter in France tuan in mnny other countries is the treatment of men re sponsible for railway accidents. The disaster nt Ciinehy on tho third cf Feb ruary last may he recnlled by our read ers, when a train of the Northern com* any ran into one of tho Western line, ng sixteen persons and wounding nincty-iour. The principal culprits, the conductor of the first train, who lind neglected tho uso of fog signals, and the engincor of the second, who had run through the log too r pldly, were killed, but a guard and two switchmen were sent before the crimi nal tribunals for neglecting the precau tions which it should havo occurred to them to take in view of the weather its value is, but I’ll redeem it first of and the proximity to each other of the nil.* It might have cost $5 new, but it trains. All three men bore good char- was worthless then, acters, which was lucky for them, as “Still 1 passed out a fifty stack lure one wns acquitted nnd tho other two turn, just to let him try again, ne got off with sentences of four months' planked it down inlhojx imprisonment nnd ten dollars line, be sides the costs, but the Weitern com pany was declare civilly responsible for all consequences ot their negligence The now volumo oi “ Poor’s Manual" gives a very encouraging view o! the railroads of the United States. The most conspicuous feature iot and then lo v upon the tnblo he laid his face on his folded arras. Well, ior a wonder, his luck changed nnd ho won three times. He took no notice of me as 1 told him when the limit barred, and to we played $350 on each card. Would you believe it? In the deal the pot won out and never lost! And still ho lay with his face hid in his arms. The deal was out iDCiU a HViU *• OIUVIJ w» Miv I uuu X DIIUUA IJIUl upt uuu UUU w «wwsv*« statistics is the groat increase of busi- moved, and raising his face I started ness nnd the reduction in the cost oi back in horror at the glassy exi carrying freight, There were at the 0 f his eyes, for the boy was dead close of 1879, 80,497 miles of railroad in “ I’ve often wondered to myself since operation, an increase of 4 731 miles that night what thoughts went flitting over the previous year, a greater growth through his brain as he bowed his head than in any year since 1873. The gross and ilia his face from our sight, what earnings of all these roads were four hundred and twenty-nine millions, against four hundred and ninoty mil lions in 1878. But, as hns been said, this increase in gross receipts repre sented a much greater increase in traffic. ledges of a better life, regrets for a for- iway of hi tunelie had thrown away with a lavish hand, and loathing of his irrevocable course. Who can tell? Wc can but guess at them? but may never feel. His face showed years of torturo endured in Thirteen leading lines which in 1873 that brief game, but it was not until the carried 45,557,002 tonB of freight, on coroner’s jury sat that 1 learned all. which the charges amounted to $112,- Before them wns developed the fact that 004,618, an average rate of 1.77 cents per the ring which had changed his luck, as ton per mi'lo, carried in 1879 07,092,549 it did his existence, was one given him tons, and received $110,311,452, or at by his dear dead mother years before, tho rate of only 1.02 oents per mile. As Poor boy! I never dealt again.”—Lead- tlie report says, “the rate per mile at I ville (Col.) Chronicle. which the railroadB now carry freight would have been considered impossible five years a?o,” and yet the statistics further show that the business is conducted at a substantial profit. If the dividends are smaller they are more To Cube a Felon.—Take out a por tion ot the inside of a lemon, and thrust the finger into it. Or take the skin of the inside of a fresh egg, bind it on with the moisture of the white ol the egg next to the finger, and it will draw the small globule that causes the sore to the surface. As it dries make new applica tions. This recipe has been often recom mended, and we believe that it has bees very successful. Indian Superstitions About Thunder. Almost all the tribes in the United States believed the thuader to be pro duced by tbe wings of a great bird, anil that the lightning was the serpents w.c ‘ i* , nmr ,„nt nf anil that the lightning was the serpents securely earned and a larger amount of h invariably connected with the the earn in 23 than ever before uas gone _ ... n,„ the earnings than into permanent reserve funds. gone improvements and thunder bird. Among the ancient tribes of the Mississippi valley the thunder, therefore, soon became a thun der god, who could be propitiated with sacrifices. The Illinois Indians offered up n small dog when a child happened | to bo sick upon a day when there was idei Alpaca. This useful material, so much iu de mand at the present day, is manufac- — tured from the wool of the alpaca goat, much thunder, supposing the latter to a species oi the Llama, whoso home is in be the cause of the malady. Many in- the mountain regions of Peru. It lives cidents,like conflagrations,were attribn- on tho coarsest iare, the scanty herbage ted to this angry god, and some tribes that springs up in the fastness of the did bloody penance in propitiation, rocks; but it ha9 a beautiful, wavy coat olten burning to death their own chil* of white, chestnut- brown wool, which dren. Statements that the Indians is nearly a foot in length, very soft and adored the thunder, however, seems to elastic, nearly as fine ns that of the Cash- be erroneous. It was the cause of the mere goat. This is sheared off every year thunder that they worshiped, and be* or two, and sent in little bales or ballots fore which they burned tobacco and to England or France, or to wherever buffalo meat, or cut off the joints of it is to be manufactured. It is then their fingers or throw thoir children washed, dried, combed and finally sorted into the fire when they were overcome preparatory to being manufactured into witli fear. The Peruvians had as au the yarn from which is made the cloth, idol a stone that had been split by the the material undergoing thirteen or lightning. They offered it gold and sil* fourteen different processes in the course | ver. The natives of Honduras burned of its preparation. Ladies will admit i cotton seed when it thundered. Other tliat it is worth tho trouble, however, southern tribes made no sacrifices on Half a century ago this durable fabric the approach of a storm, but abased was unknown to us. But about that themselves in the most abjeot fear, time some sacks oi a queer, fibroos ma- The wild rice being aquatic and looking terial, which looked like “ superannu- like an arrow or spear, it is also attribu- aced horse hair,” were landed on Liver- ted to tho thunder spirit as its origin, pool dooks. There they lay a long time In '.Mexico great temples were built unsold, until one day a young man of upon the sacred spots where lightning an inquiring turn of mind, peering | had struck. A curious notion, among about, noticed some of tbeir contents sticking out of a hole in one of them. He looked curiously at it, rubbed it in his fingers, and finally pocketed it and walked off. The result was—alpaca. He had discovered tho “ horse hair ” to be the wool of the alpaca goat, and,|was one <_. . ... ingenious enough to conceive it into and Piquerad. The tradition was utii* dress goods, ana enterprising enough to | ized by Pizarro’s missionaries to town carry hiB idea out.' Peruviins was that the preserved bodies of twin children who died in infancy should be worshiped, supposing tbit one of them was the son of the thunder, the origin of this idea being the fact that the thunder god of that people wee ized by Pizarro’s missionaries io wwn the Indians the doctrine of the Trinity;