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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. —->-0^e- 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. :—o--« *—— 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 mm 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 - ?. .. 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: - ■ ... ... +* 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.- '