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London Daily Telegraph.
In all Babylon there
wed a man I hate.
! Arbraces? Wilt
How, now,
thou bid for
maiden so beautiful as Althea, the
daughter of Beleses. Yet her lot
was far from happy. She had
fallen in love with Balinea, who
had nothing to recommend him
but a face like a woman’s and a
voice like a lark in the morning.
Her father would have her wed
the rich Arbraces, and because she
refused he vowed she should be
sold at the yearly auction of maid
ens, and perhaps be bought up by
some horrid dwarf.
- But Althea was true to her poor
lover, and even the prospect of
being sold at auction did not
cause her to swerve in her alle
giance.
Time passed and the day for the
yearly sale of maidens was at
hand. All Babylon was stirred
by the news that the peerless
Althea was to be placed on
sale.
The girls were ranged on a long
long stone bench, closely veiled,
and saying not a word. Anxious
parents whispered to their chil
dren. An old man with a white
beard chuckled to himself over a
bag of gold. ' A poor man, whose
necessities were known to all
Babylon, though he was virtuous
and of good character, solemnly
stared at the little crooked figure
of Gissa, who had come to be sold
of her accord, and who, doubtless
would bring the greatest sum with
her. i
The green and white rube, belt
ed with embossed silver, about the
taper waist of Althea; the white
hands, the gorgeous armulets, the
long earrings of rich gold, distin
guished Althea from her com
panions, though she was closely
veiled.
Those who were buyers wgre
pirinitted to speak to. the.maid
ens. Arbraces approached Althea
first.
“If all my fortune must be paid
for thee, I will win thee, beautiful
Althea,”
She answered him with a
bitter laugh. Then, trembling
and pale, Balinea came near her.
“Althea, best beloved,” he whis
pered, “I have sold all I had, but
the sum is a mere trifle. I shall
lose thee, for thou art fairer than
all the women in Babylon. Ar
braces will have theo. Pare well!
When thou art his I will kill my
self;” but Althea caught him by
the wrist:
“Listen, Balinea,” she said;
“when the time comes Arbraces
will have none of me. Then thou
mayest refuse to take me. it is
possible. Remain, but swear that
thou wilt keep silence until I place
my hand thus upon the other.
Then, if {bon wouldst have me,
cry out: ‘Give me Althea!’ if not,
go thy way, and I will live a maid
upon my father’s home forever.”
“What dost thou mean, Althea?”
ctied Balinea; but she made no
answer.
And now the crowd was bidden
to silence, and driven back to a
certain distance, and the crier
Spoke thus:
“The rulers of Babylon, believ
ing that women should be wed, for
• that they are feeble, helpless crea-
.tures, unfit to labor for tnemselves,
unlearned and weak of will, so
that they need protectors and di
rectors, have instituted this auc
tion of maidens, that no woman in
Babylon need .lack a husband.
For the beautiful mast a greater
price be paid than for the others,
that each* man may have some ad
vantage. To-day oiir" highest
priee is asked for Althea, daugh
ter of Our good eitisau Beleses and
his wife Nasara. Althea, unveil
thyself.”
Althea, at his bidding, arose and
"advanced. She lifted her white
hand and tore the veil -from her
head. A shriek arose as she . did
so, and lookers-on stood petrified.
Instead of the beautiful face
they expected to see* they'saw a
torn and bleeding countenance and
ahead destitute of every hair.
Two great .braids, which she cast
on the stones "at her feet, alone re
mained of her plenteous tresses.
A roar arose from the crowd,
and Arbraces fell forward in a
swoon, and was borne away by his
friends. Balinea-started forward,
but was checked by the soldiers.
Again the crier spoke:
“She who was the loveliest has
now become; the most hideous.
Veil thyself, Althea.”
Then another name was called.
The sale proceeded. Yast sums
The clay used in making "pipes
The house committee on manu- j jg obtained chiefly from pits lo-
factures ;has been inves tigatiug cated in blew Jersey, although
trusts, and on Monday submitted
a report in which is stated that
the task which it had undertaken
was a far greater one than it had
any idea it would be when the in
vestigation was begun. It seems
that the tendency now is to form
combinations in different lines of
business for the purpose of pre
venting competition, and raising
prices. Every few days a new
were bid for two beauties; moder-, combination is formed, and prices
ate prices for others. Even Gissa,
with her little pointed face and
pretty hair and eyes; was not too
ugly in the eyes of the man who
received a fortune at her hands.
Only Althea remained unsought—
too hideous for any to desire.
And now she lifted her hand, and
at the signal Balinea strode for
ward.
“Give me Althea,” he said—
“Althea, who has done this for
me—Althea, beautiful forever to
my heart. Give her to mo ancl
keep your base-gold. I’ll none of
it.”
But Althea, giving him her
hand, and still remaining veiled,
spoke quickly:
“I claim my portion, said she.
“Such is the law of the Babylon
ish sale of maidens.” And she
gathered the gold into her veil as
her lover led her away.
And so sayeth tradition: The
gods smiled upon the lovers, and
all Althea’s beauty returned; the
lovely tresses grew again; the
wounds healed without a scar, aDd
the constant Balinea bad a lovely
wife .as well as a fortune. And al
though old Beleses might vex him
self, he could alter nothing, for
the woman who was sold at the
yearly auction of maidens could
not be taken from her husband,
and they lived and loved for many
happy years in the old city of
Babylon.
George A. Knight, the 14-year-
old son of a Cleveland, Ohio, citi
zen, died last week from the ef
fects of what at first seemed a
slight injury. Several weeks ago
the boy was accidentally shot in
tke hand by a blank cortridge in a
toy pistol. Physicians dressed
the wound and pronounced it not
serious. It was apparently doing
well until one day last week, when
young Knight’s mother discovered
a piece of wadding in the hand.
On the following day the cords in
the boy’s neck began to swell, and
a doctor, who was summoned,
declared that tetanus had set in.
A council of physicians was held,
and everything was done for the
sufferer that science could sug
gest, but to no purpose.
t*- o -3
A curious idea as to relative val
ue is given by tbe publication m
the same issue of a St. Paul news
paper of two local court items, one
of which states that a certain rail
road company has been sued for
$5,000 damages by the adminis
trator or a citizen who lost his life,
it is alleged, by the negligence of
some of the company’s employes.
The second item is to the effect
that another railroad. corporation
has been sued by an engineer who
wishes to obtain $20,000 as a rec
ompense for the loss of his foot,
which was badly injured . while
he was temporarily acting as brake-
man.
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GhLeary’s Famous Cow.
are raised. The public hears at
once lof the most important of
these trusts, such as the Standard
oil, linseed oil, cotton seed oil,
and sugar trusts, but of the many
smaller ones it knows nothing,
and, doubtless, wonders why the
prices g£ certain articles which
are in common use have suddenly
advanced.
The house committee points out
that trusts, recognizing their ille
gal character, have, in order to
there is a large bed of clay being
worked at Glen Cove, L. I. The
clay costs $3 at the mines, but, with
the freight charges, etc., it amounts
to about §5 a ton before it is land
ed at the factory. As soon as it
arrives the clay is spread out and
seasoned by beingterposed to the
heat of the sun, which generally
occupies several days. It is then
mixed with water and passed
through a mill, which crushes it
and removes the stones and grit
which clings to the crude clay.
It i3 then kneaded with the hands
in the same manner in which
bread is kneaded, and carefully
freed from all foreign substances.
After the’elay has been brought
to the proper consistency it is car
ried to" a workman called a “roll
er,” who sits before a bench, on
the top of which lies a smooth,
square board. In making a pipe
the “roller” takes in each hand a
avoid all liabilities for violating j small lump of tne fresh clay and
the laws'against conspiracies for
raising the price of any article,
arranged their combinations with
the views of evading the conspira
cy laws which are m force in some
of the states. How far they Jjave
succeeded in guarding themselves
against the consequence of their
acts remains to be seen. Proceed
ings have been begun in Hew
York to break up the sugar trust,
but they do not seem to be pressed
very vigorously. It is dqubtless
the purpose of congress to enact a
law to protect the’public against the
exactionsoi trusts,but n© legislation
in that direction may be expected
before next winter.
The leading men in about all
the trusts are protectionists, and
nearly all the trusts are made pos
sible by the high protective tariff.
For instance, if it were not for the
duty of 4 cents a yardfon bagging,
the bagging trust, which promises
toh'ob the planters of several mil
lions of dollars within ihe next
twelve months, could not have
been formed.
These trusts are of no benefit to
laboring men. Indeed they are an
injury to them. Since the sugar
trust has been formed, the price of
sugar has been raised sufficiently
to put into the pockets of the ben
eficiaries of the trust between $20,-
000,000 and $30,000,000 annually,
but the wages of those who work
in sugar refineries has not been
raised. The managers of the
trusts go into the open market
and get labor as cheaply as they
can. They have closed several of
the refineries in order to lessen
production, and have, therefore;
deprived a good many laborers of
employemei*t. A trust benefits
only those who have a share in its
profits. It injures labor and robs
the public. Is it not about time
to make war on trusts? In what
way can they be attacked so suc
cessfully as by reducing the tariff
dercly*rolis it out to the desired
length and thickness, leaving a
knob-like lump on the end of each
pipe, which latter is formed into
the bowl of the pipe.
At this stage of its manufactur
the half-made pipe is laid upon a
measure, which marks the regula
tion length of the stem. If the
latter has been made too long it is
then clipped off. When a dozen
pipes have been thus formed they
are passed to another workman,
who sits at a complicated machine,
in which the pipes are further ma
nipulated. The man at the ma
chine first oils the clay, after which
he places the rudely-shaped pipes
in a mould and inserts an oiied
and polished wire through the
stems, making the aperture
through which the-smoke is drawn
in using. The mould is then
placed in the machine and the su
perfluous clay forced out.
The pipes have now taken on
their final shape and are placed in
the sun to dry, after' which they
are polished and put in a large
earthen receptacle called a ‘sagger,’
which is arranged and covered
with a dozen other saggers in the
kiln. The door of the kiln is then
securely fastened, and the fire,
which is fed with charcoal and
coke, is started and kept at a white
heat for fifteen or twenty hours;
Then the fire is allowed to die out
slowly, and when quite extinguish
ed the doors are opened,, the sag
gers allowed to cool, and their
contents examined. The pipes,
which before were of a dull blue
color, and very-limp and soft, have
become perfectly hard and white.
The finished pipes that have been
examined and found perfect are
carefully packed in barrels and
boxes, and are then ready for
shipment.
Mrs
Kicked over a lamp, and Chicago,
the bustling young metropolis of
the west, was laid iu ruins. This
is a striking illustration of the old
saying that “great results have
small beginnings;” The neglect
ed cold, the hacking eongh of to
day, may, a few months hence, de
velop into that direst of destroy
ers, consumption. Be warned in
time. Dr. Bierce’s Golden Medi
cal Discovery,- if taken in the first
stages of this dread disease, is a
certain cure. It is also a sover
eign remedy for asthma, bronchi
tis, sore throat, chronic nasal. ca
tarrh, and all "diseases of the res-
pitory organs.
The cleansing, • antiseptic and
healing qualities of Dr. Sage’s Ca
tarrh Bemedy are unequaled,
A diamond merchant - of blew
York is reported as saying that
when the African tmines were dis
covered there was very nearly a
panic, which was- averted by a
combination of large dealers who
banded together and Bought a
control of all the diamond mines.
Two great companies, the Central
diamond mining company and
the Kimberley company practical
ly control the diamond market of
the world, and no new diamonds
are put on the market except as
they permit; and the price is kept
where it is by the combination,
and is not influenced by supply or
demand.
Paris has an educated beggar in
the person of a young man for
merly a pupil in the Ecolo Kor
in ale, whose modus operand! is as
follows. He comes up to the ter
race or a care, and addressing him
self to the most intelligent look
ing man present, invites him to
ask any historical question he c-an
think of, any date of French
history, from the earliest
to the present time, say
ing, “I will answer at once.” He
fulfills his promise with remarka
ble alacrity, and with equal alac
rity passes around the hat.
In the heart of a large
oak tree recently felled
Cceyman, Few . York, a
large bullets- were fonnd-
look like tbe bullets used i
white j
near
dozen
They
ii the
Boston Cor. Chicago Tribune.
More thanfhalfjthefpeople of the
United States—men, women and
children—wear shoes that come
from Boston. This is, indeed,
headquarters of the boot and shoe
industry for the whole country—
the center from "which the market^
able product of. the great manu
facturing towns hereabout is dis
tributed. The population of these
towns is Chiefly made up of
workers in the huge shops, which
turn out footgear at the rate of
nearly 100,000,000 pairs every
year. Spencer, Worcester, Brook
field and other settlements in
Worcester County devote them
selves to the making of long-legged
boots. Shoes are mostly put to
gether in Plymouth, Abingdon,
Boekland, and other places on
Cape Cod. Slippers afford al
most exclusive employment to the
busy inhabitants of Haverhill.
Low shoes, for summer wear, near
ly all come from Newport, and
ladies’boots, etc., give occupation
to tiie residents of Lynn, Baver-
ly,:Newburyport and Marblehead.
All these goods are brought, for
selling, to the modern' Athens,
whore each big manufacturer has
his ware-house. From the ware
house agents are sent all over the
continent to solicit orders of the
“jobbers,” or wholesale men.
Sometimes the jobber orders
through the agent so many cases,
as per sample shown, but more
often he makes a note of whatever
pleases him and comes to Boston
himself subsequently, to visit the
warehouses and select his stock
for the! approaching season. A
factory proprietor does not ordi
narily make more than two or
three-different kinds of shoes or
boots—for the reason it is cheaper
to produce the same sort of thing
in quantities—and so the whole
sale man trots about from one es
tablishment, to another until he
has purchased what ha calls a
“full line.” Subsequently he
sends out traveling men, to drum
up the retail dealers, who must
buy what they -sell from jobbers.
For the manufacturers, as a rule,
will not dispose of their goods di
rectly to the retailer, thus compel
ling the consumer to pay what
would seem to ths untutored mind
to be an extra unnecessary profit.
And this is rendered the more
AlbSnj Times. : Rome, GB.JConrfer.
A very original^b'et was made at j Thfere gwns it remarkable olti
the West End night before last! man j n the city a'feW days agU
He was seventy-pe veil! ’ years old
between two well-known business :
aggravating when one considers
the differeni between the actual
cost of turning out a pair of shoes
and the price at which the same
pair is finally sold. The expense
of making it is to the manufactu
rer, Say, $1.25—of good stock and
well constructed for wear—and his
price, by the case, is $1.80. The
jobber receives $2.60 for it from
the retailer, who charges his cus
tomers $4.50 for the article—
marked down from 86, don’t you
know. The gains on the sale of
more expensive boots are much
greater.
In a good neighborhood one
may be sure there is good home
influences; and, next to that, as
productive forces in making char
acter, good schools.
The tongue shows to a physi
cian the disease of the body; to a
philosopher the disease of the
mindito a Christian the disease of
thesonl.
There isn’t wisdom enough, put
it altogether, to" tell what makes
one apple sweet and the next one
< sour.
There is more insanity in Cali
fornia in proportion to population,
says Texas Siftings, than in any
other State in the Union.
old-style flint-lock musk<*ts, and
are supposed to have been shot
into the tree during some skir
mish of the Bevoiutipn or of ths
War of 1812.
Ig IcETHIHA deefhlog Powders)
Allays Irritation, Aids Digestion, Regulates the
Bowels, Strengthens the Child,makes Teething
the Summer troubles of Children of cuig age*
is safe and sure, Try Itand yon. will never he
without TEETHEfAasioirj?a3 there ere child-
sea in the House* Ask. your
UoltzoiiAW & Gtlbebt, Perry, Oa.
The paper money in Chili- is so
depreciated in value that a gnes-
at a hotel ordinarily pays $60 a
day for his accommodation. At
one time, only a few years ago,
calico, sold at $2,000 a yard in these
depreciated bills.
—Subscribe for the Home
Benew your subscription
[ now.
The man who sits down and
waits to be appreciated will find
himself among uncalled for. bag
gage after the limited express
train has gone by;
Ella C." - * - "
Miss Ella C. . Sabin has been
elected superintendent of the pub
lic schools of Portland, Ore., and
principal of the high school, with
a yearly salary of $3,000.
men of New York, one a wealthy
contractor who did considerable
work on the aqueduct when it was
begun. The other is a promiqpnt
banker and a member of the New
York Stock Exchange. In-case of
Cleveland’s eleetionjthe banker’s to
wear a staw hat with a red bandan
na band during the entire months
of December and January. He is
to have the privilege of purchasing
a new hat every time He sees fit,
but .he is to wear the hat daring the
transaction of his usual business.
In the event of Harrison’s election,
the contractor, who is a Democrat,
and a member of Tammany Hall,
is to occupy one of- the bathing
houses on the beach in front of
Leland’s;Hotel during the month
of Febnary and March. He may
furnish it with a folding cot, one
chair, two kerosene lamps, a cook
ing stove and is to cook his own
meals. He can spend two hours
each day at any place he chooses
in Long Branch; but he is not to
go to New York, except incase of
his own sickness or that of some
member of his family, which sick
ness must be certified to by a phys
ician. He can have the’daily pa
pers and one novel each week.
One thousand dollars is to be for
feited if either person refuses to
live up to the conditions of his bet
and the money has already been
deposited. After| the bet had
been made a gentleman remarked
that the contractor had given odds
of about 10 to 1 on'-the success of
the Democratic ticket.
Paper Underwear.
CONSUMPTION SUBEIiT CUBED.
To rss Editor—Please Inform your read
ers that I have a positiveremedyfor the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been' permanently cured.
Ishall be glad to send two bottles of my reme
dy vstEE to any of your readers who have con
sumption if they will send me their express
office address. Eespeetfully,
.. SLOCUM, fi.
•earl sr.,XewYorfc
Paper fabrics wifi actually take
tbe xilace of genuine cloth to some
extent. In modification of what
used to be called the Fredora
front to be worn by a fashionable
girl, the chemisette, or at least a
portion of it, is disclosed between
the front edges of the jacket, is
composed of paper, stamped and
cut in immitation of lace and em
broidery. This ^innovation was
premediated to the extent that an
order was sent to China, more thaD
a yeaf ago for the manufacture of
the stuff in the fibero'us sort of pa
per produced only in that country.
Thus it is that the masculine exam
ple of paper collars and cuffs has
been followed, in an idealized
manner, by a feminine acceptance
of paper chemisettes. The paper
looks exactly like''soft, unlaun-
dried linen, and quite tough
enough, it is well to say, to pre
vent easy accidents in the way • of
rents. Patterns are ingenious im
itations, not only of plain; fine
muslin, but of lace. That is time
ly, because there is a tendency to
use lace more generously with
demi-toilets for the afternoon.
Some ladies are returning to the
handsome real laces so long laid
aside, while the merchants still
find their best profit in the fine
hand woven imitation laces so
long popular; Gauzes, net, blonde
and silk muslins, together with
ribbons, are Combined with frills
and jabots of lace in plastrons,
vests and fichus of- various kinds
Even for frill dress toilets the sen-
orita jackets are worn with a full
blouse of cream-white China
crape.—N. Y. Mail and Ex
press.
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There is no better soil of cli
mate in the world for raising cof
fee and sugar, asserts the Farm,
Field and Stockman, than that of
Mexico. With a iifctle importation
of improved machinery, an exten
sion of the railway system and
improved transportation in gener
al and a considerable infusion of
of Yankee enterprise and energy,-
Mexico might supply this conti
nent with both sugar and cof
fee.
and was-yoknger than any of his
three brothers living in this coon*
ty-
His name was Eli SiEveffiti:
HiS brothers residing iii thid
county at Everett Springs are
Quinton Everett, Elkana Eferfitt
and Hiram Everet. The oldest*
Quinton, is about hih&t/: Therfl
is a sister who is eighty-two
Theyfwere born in trwihhetfc
covnty, and the three oldest
brothers eaMe to Floyd county
longibefore the Indians left*, add
settled herd: The yohhgfest
brother, Eli, at the same tifflfi
moved to Henryfeounty where he’
has since resided;
This is the first visit ifi Sevens
teen years Eli lias triades to’ fiid
brothers. He says §he coifies id
Borne about every seventeen years;
He passed through. liome;Jhe tfays;
when it was nothing bat a cord
field and a forest. There Was hd
road to his brothers’ honies; and
he went the ieft band of the Oak;
fananla river to Everett Springe!
by an Indian trail; There Was
bat one tavern in Atlanta an$ bail
one or two stores;
Everett Springs is One of tlifl
bast known airtricts" in Fioyd
county, and has long been thfi
home of the Everetts and their,
numerous family. The* bibihei^
are all prosperous farmers afid
the best of law-abiding citizens:
mm
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Some of the New York papeifl
have introduced a late feature ' of
periodic interest—namely,- perso
nal pfen’sketches of notable' or peg
cnliar-iooking personages;
with on the streets or in the
conveyances, who seem to be per- -
sonally unknown to the Scribe that
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pictures them to the delectatidtt of
a still more unknown pdbli&
This is enterprising, and affords
splendid scope to tilts imagiriatiofi;
In good bands -it might be ifiadfi
a3 interesting and eagerly iddked
for as the fedilleton in the French
daily papers. It might also _ hav’fi
the advantage of raising curiosity
in the idle people Wbd need inord
exercise than they indulge ih; A
well-written description of certairi
picturesque individual met With
in certain walks or haunts of the
city might result in a needful
walk or ride in that direction";
The health of that femafkairfd
old lady, Qneeii Victoria; seemif
to be truly marvelofls; and her
power to endure fresh air bids
fair to kill off some of her devoid
ed subjects. The robust old lad/
has a penchant for having c’r lughts
all around her; and even delights
in driving from one of hef roy
homes to another in the early
morning and breakfasting in d
tent With the wind blowing in' her
face, while the ladies in Waiting
are being turned into chronic vic
tims of a succession of -'‘fresh-
colds.”
A lemon was picked . at Do'S
Angeles, Gal., the other day that-
weighed 3§ pounds. Was inched
long and 5 inches in' diamfiter.-
Tiie tree on which it grew had bdfr
a half a dozen lemons on its
branches; bat the weight of the*
fruit bent them almost to the?
ground;
Oat of every 109 femaiei setrdoir
teachers seven marry every ye'ar:
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Woadcrfai Cures*.
V/. D. Hoyt & Ox, Wholesale
and Retail I)rugglsts,- of Ror
Ga.j say: We have heed selling
Have he
If all men were to pay as they
go, there Would be less going and i
mere paying.
Salve for four years,
handled remedies that sell as
or give, such universal
tio'n; There have been s'or
derful cores effected l
ieines in this city. J
of pronounced c
_ been entirely cured
i a few bottles of Dr.
The canning factory of Quitm
is doing a big business.-
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