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12 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JUNE IT, 1884.---'TWELVE PAGES. THE WOMAN’S KINGDOM. The Home and the Houiewife and Gossip ol the Hearthstone—Talks With Women and About Women. [Short letter! on Home Tople. e«mo»tljr «ollelt«t. Writ* “Woman's Kingdom' on ono corner of the eqjreiop.) A Olore. “Ah! yesterday I found n glove Grown shabby, full of tiny rip*, Bat dear to me because my lore Once through It timed her Anger-tH*. A glove, one would not care to nee I’pon hlanrm In public street; Vet here I own there In for me No relic in the world ih» sweet. A faint far scent of lavender steals from It a* the clover smelt When through the fields I walked wffh her And plucked the blossoms for her belt. Faith! hut I loved the little hand That used to wear tills time stained thing; Its slightest gesture of command Would set my glad heart fluttering. Or if it touched my fingers, so. Or smoothed my hair—-why should I speak Of those old days? It makes, you know. The tears brim over on my cheek. Poor,stained, worn out, long wriated glove! 1 think It almost ifeidcrstand That reverently and with love I hold it in my trembling hand. And that It Is so dear to me, With Its old fragrance, far and fahit. Because my mother wore it, she— On earth my love, In heaven my Mint." Or ali« Tilr. words in the English language there is none so sweet as mother. It fills t)j> heart with the purest, holiest emotions; touches a chord of tenderness that vibrates through our whole being, and opens the very Hood-gates of our soul, overflowing it with the holiest, most cstntie joy known to the human heart. The n!>ove little ]»oein of a mother glove will bring vividly to the mind of many, how dear to the heart, is any memento of our mother. And if thul precious mother has been removed forever from our sight how doubly dear these treasures heeoirfe. Ifer Ilihl< with its well worn pages, thejglasses out of which the dear eyes looked their last on earth, or even a glove brings bock u thousand loving recollectIans *f the past, and causes many weary heart to cry out: “Backward, turn backward, oh! time In yo flight. Slake mu a child again Just foi*lo-night; Slother, come back from the eeholess shore, Take mo Into your arms as of yore.” I heard n man whose lock* were silvered over, say that lie could feel the touch of his mother's hand H(>oii his head even now. is n pure, good, Christian man. lie could he none other when he has to old age retained that love find reverence for his mother which eausea him in imagination to feel her tender, gentle touch! God bless our mother. We not love them half enough, and never cal repay them by a lifetime of devotion f«i that they have done for us. A Fariiionam.k Wedding.—New York will anon have u sensation in tho marriage of Miss Carrie Astor,, the youngest daughter* of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Astor. Miss Astor has re reived offers by the bushel. She refused Count dc Harnoncourt, it is suid, although his family is 900 years old. The young man she is to marry is Mr. Ofme Wilson n young mail 2N years old, toll, handsome and n great favorite in society. Miss Astor is 20 and made her debut in society three years ago. Sin* is slight ly below the medium height and of slender form. Her camplexion is while, her eyes gray blue, shaded by long lashes, her hair pale yel low, worn in n Grecian knot. She is heiress to several millions of dollars. The young lady and her mother are now on the sea bound for Paris after thu bridal tfousseait. The wedding will take place in the fall and be a splendid a flair. Many valuable sets of diamonds rubies, sapphiues and pearls ure to he reset for tlio bride, and over her white satin dress she will wear a laeo veil of rare value. Several Worth and Tingat dresses will In* in the trousseau and flue laces and other apparel will also l»e iuntried for the young bride. Our Curr€*Mpnmt«mtM. Will J.T. Ilutfhey please give me the pi lee of the book, “Mother, Horae and I leaven r' Will I have to pay the postage? Will some ono please tell mi why Leap Year belongs to the ladles? Is It eoifcid- errd proper for n lady to take any more prlvihvtw then than any other time?. •'Viola.”* Dixon, Ga. May 27, I iiavk read much In the “Woman's Kingdom" that has been a source of profit to me, as well as pleasure. 1 would like to give your reader* a hit of my own eX|H*rience. 1 do all of my own work except washing; have the can* of two mischievous little boys, and find ample time for crocheting, quilt making and, in, fact all kinds of fancy work. 1 manage this by having a place for everything and everything In Its place; regular hours for theculln- ary department, for meals, for attending to my children and indeed for all my household duties, lly adopting this system, young housekeepers will save mat h time, money and.et'*, s. H. |i. Bowden, Ga., May, 9th. 1 Till no It very good of you, Mr. Editor, to allow women a chance t.» say a wool In your ooluma— pf>°r things they so seldom have an op|M>tuulty to talk that fhls publicenronmoment will omlmlden u <wk9 an eftyrt vw^'y. taito- If you arcaii attention, please lei me My a wool to you. I have a hobby—that Is quite allowable you know, but this Is sir ha good one: My hobby is my flower garden—why, that's nothing you ex- claim-we nil have flower*. I answer, hut who doe* your having and attends to your flowers? *>h; that Is a different question—of course we dont do that. Now theu comes in the crowning point of my e*|H*cUI hobby—Oh, my sisters If your fingers are stiff, and your head aching from the everlaal' “stitch, stitch, seam, guwt and hand," thj^ ^ ? your flowers and tute; If some paar % ualjeau* loiv with «r fur„, ,h4( Ultr. (ho |r»h. drlitiou, Wi ^ UmK , >jf A pdflaetw to run* the nllmept, don't begin tak lag Medicine-don't travel, dont sit down and nape -showMo* year hue, tackle the weed*. At ft ret yon can’t do very much, but as your muscle* gtA area^lotaed to the work you’ll love It as I do. Yonrflowets Will repay your tender care and you’ll bt drawn dose to your Father in heaven as you watch the unfolding of the leave*, the bunting of the buds, and your tired mind will be rested, your tingling nerves soothe! and the weary body re freshed. Vh> excreta- w111 do you more g*H>! than walking, driving, or even horse-buck riding, which in the halcyon days «d "auUl lang syne”— 1 con sidered the very acme of bibs. Your fre»h young girls with all your ‘‘Germans,” buggy drives and flirtations will laugh at me, I expect, but I am talking to tired people, to women who need exer cise and diversion and If I can induce ©uediskeart about but for the present neck and the ends may bang unconfined below deal more to bilk to y ml feu. N«T a Buffl. Seri von county, Ga. 1 have beon wishing for some time to write you n few dots from the woman in Poverty Suburbs. It Is iiu open question If she has any kingdom In Poverty Huburta where there Is iui overplus of work, not enough to eat mid less to wear, and many hungry mouths to feed. The monotony of the neighborhood Is often relieved by a fight among thu boys in which, alas! the angry, tired, overworked mothers too often bike part. They are more to lie pitted than blamed, for they have no help from tho fathers who are gone all day and in all probability come homo at night under the Influence of drink—which has brought and thrir wives and chili*rm to this low state where there are so few of the comforts or noeccasarfes of life, and nothing to brighten a life of drudgery. Hut to this dark picture there Is a bright side and 1 will give It to you in my very next dots from Contort Avenue. I have listened a long time to the censure of boys, and I want to ask the girls If they are not somewhat to blame for the waywardness of their friends and brothers. When your brother comes in expecting a hearty welcome or cheerful words, how often he Is greeter) by approaches,for not get ting home sooner to bike them to church, or for bringing In so much mud on Ills feet, or for having forgotten something. If your brother is incline* to lie rude, as most boys are, do not reproach him •cry wrong thing lie does, or every little thoughtless deed. Harsh words drive many boy from home and make them go farther In the waywardness. Kind words you will find will go much farther. I've tried it. Kympathlsu with the In their troubles, and enter Into their H|*ortx and amusement*. In all things treat them kindly, and you will never regret it. Mattie. H. If. Milner, tin. Fancy Work. Artificial Ploweh*.—Tho art of flower making has tacomc perfect. They are not only reproducing growing flowers, hut arc preserving natural flowers by a jieciillar Parisian procoss.Thcrc are horse chest nut jmrr* with the shell half open and thu chestnut ready to drop out; there are hop mid thistle flow ers, pine burrs and various grasses, combined with bright lined artificial flowers and green leaves. Tiger lilies in thu colors of those growing on the Isirders of creeks and (Minds in thu far south, and the flowers blooming liure nr In other countries, tho one quite ns beautiful as the other. Crazy Quilts.—The ladles have become III love with making crazy quilts that you seldom And a family where some one Is not at work one. They can la* saved a great deal of labor and trouble If they will send to the Ladies Exchange,70 Cal lie street, Atlanta, mid buy thu most beautiful squares. They are mude In all designs, some gantly emboldens!, some hand painted on satin and velvet, and others In rich silks of all colors. They are sold at very low prices, much less than the | k* I ecs can liegotton together for. Beside saving work, It will Ik* helping the cause of the noblest iUHtllutUm ever Inaugurated In Atlanta. A Lahy's Pim'KKTBook.—Home man, ft.*r no one but a limn ,would have written such a thing, say It Is am using to notice how a lady always carries her (MieketlsHik In her hand. And that there Is generally very little in It in the way of money, but It is stuffed with rcccl|oi for cake, memoranda of articles to In* gotten while shopping, Jilts of |MK>try lit from thu ncwspu|H*rs, and such like trill! Tills Is a slander upon our sex, and if we do not carry our poekethooks in our hands, It Is tatter than biking money around loose in our (MK'kets like thu men do. I suppose it being so much harder for women to get It makes them more careful. IIoilNehoUte Heei)its, OUR VOTING Ffll I Papa takes the Advocate, Southern Cultivator, j a great leap. In an instant he had clambered down ^ 1 Vui\0, j j.- run j. j^ogiie'n illustrated News, Di-Kolb News ami • from his perch and was iu the engine-room. the waist. Nuwr.v Imported wraps with grenadine grounds _ ... r • The Constitution. Hove to sec The Constitution embossed with velvet leave* nnd diamond shapes, Devoted to the Instruction and Entertain- come.sol can rend Betsy Hamilton and Uncle edges beaded with cut jet and trimmings of lace, \ ment of the Boys and Girls Who | Remus’ letters. \our little friend. Joe Bond. »ri! very effective. j Read The Constitution. - i.ltlionln, (in. Tiif traveling cloalu this Mason are preferred of 1 ,, wrliln" for thluricnirtmcnt ,.,n„ „i ... Dear Aunt 8nife: Ian, a farmer - , 'laughter, plaids mid checks, bars and stripes, in dull colors, ' one side of your paper, ami put "Our Young KoVka'• tMvvc • veftn ‘ °^* " c * ,Jlve vacation now and I urn in one corner of your envelope.] »)#»! in h*vo « iihia i>.n« oim. Tmr ,l/>vim - cate Cake.—Throe cu|mftil flour, two of gar, three-fourths cupful n|. sweet milk. whites of six eggs, half eupof butter, tcuspooufiil cream of Urbir, one-fourth tcus|tooufiil soda. Flavor with lemon. Good and easily made. Extra Nick Pie Crust.—Three cupfuls sifted Hour, out* cupful lard, half cup cold water, little salt, mix, roll out two under crust, take the re mainder, roll thin, spread a very little butter, sprinkle with flour, divide ami use for uppe •rust. HuaratsK Cake.—One egg, one cupful sugar, one half cup butter, olio cupful sweet milk or If you have no milk,water; twotcaspoonsfu! baking pow Flavor with lemon, suflleleiit sifted flour to make It proper eotislstency, and you will Imv nice cake for tea. Hmunrai Eons.—Boll hard six eggs ami when cold, separate the yolks and whites, inash the yolks very smooth and cut the whites im tine ns pmslhlc, have a taking dish ready and crumble In stale broad then a layer of eggs some of each, whiles, and yolks, a small lump of butter. |H*|H*r and salt (a little citycnuc |>cp|»cr I* in addition,) then broad ninths ami eggs nitd etc., nml so on till the dish Is filled; let thccliop|>cd whites boon top; add a tin up of water, and then take. Orleans PutmiNo.—The Juice of one lemon and oneornttgcmixed with halt cup of pale sherry; (shir the whole over one ami a half pints of stale sponge cakoenimta. To one pint of tailing milk add half eupof sugar and half In»x gelatine,which should Ik* soaked In a gill of water two hours When the gelatine Is dissolved In the milk put iu a tasln of water to cool, and when perfectly odd Id n quart of cream whipped to a still* froth. Pour into your mould iu which have some candled fruit l*art of the cream nml gelatine. Pour the remain der over your cukc. Then pour all Iu the mould >r the cream nml fruit, and pack In hi* and salt tr two hours. This is a delightful pudding. Knnhion Notes, Violets ami immdcs are the favorite flowers for corsage Itoquvds. CRM’E trims many of the new bonnets. The colors are pretty and dainty. DKAitEp shoulder i*api's made with high shoul- •n» will be much worn over black drowse*. Linen colors and cull*, with plain blue and pink lawns are very fudilouablc for morn^ t|t 1 wear. House dresses for country Vieaf Art? iutulvol Uuf lawrn, pHnteil and w #ft ||e* talton laun, batiste, white ami printed. 4l |,| z , - ,,hyr* and ginghams. Cravat rows ^ Q0 ( fashionable now. The nar- row-collar«AlchfluUhc*olTall the high bodice* is always^ aitsMil by a pretty artistic or fancy brooc^ For the strict or out-of-door wear the plain lap ped tan.I of ribtsm for the collar ami a severely simple clasp or small velvet knot or bow is the cor rect wear. In the beautiful imitation of Brussels and Chan tilly lace the designs of the old lace arc reproduced and even the color bear* the tone Imprint of age*. Till; umbrella Is «uppo*cd to match the suit this year, and the surah, ottoman, gros-graln and old- fashi«mi*l changeable silks ap|a*ar iu all the uew colors. Velvet will be u«cd all summer as hand* and biudiug of hats ami Unmet*; aL<*o to ixnnbine w ith the lightest am! most sheer materials Iu formal drove*. Lace U u»e*l In groat quantities to trim stylish e«*>tuuu-*. Sometimes 100 yards of lace are put ou a drow, and os many as thirty yards to trim a mantle. enlivened by a few threads of bright red, blue, yel low, green or white. Thp. plastron of lace, muslin or lbue, attached to it neckband of ribbon, covered with lace, and some- times edged at tho top with same, will be much worn this season. The favorite form for the popular white lawn suit is the Mother Hubbard yoke and belted waist, with a tucked skirt, not gored, but gathered or plaited to the waist band. Gold braid, gold lace, gold heads and a variety of yellow flowers, from daffodil* and buttercup* to dandelions and yellow asters, occupy a largo place in bonnet trimmings. Bio oilt darning needles and big gilt pins are tho lutest fancies for bonnet and hut decoration*. They are thrust through one side of the crown diagonal ly and at right angles, forming a cross. The dressiest Jersey* have white silk Jersey cloth wulsteoats, nml ure made of silk Jersey cloth for the Jacket In all colors and block, ami these are frequently decorated with embroideries of ’lino heads. Black will be less used this season than for ernl previous, and the reason doubtless lies In the quiet elegance of smoke greys and blues, the mouse and fawn shailbs, and the variety of wood and bronze browns, of which weavers never Bcefti to tire. A correspondent semis us the following for util izing old dresses: Tasty ami comfortable garment* may In* made for children from two to four year* of age from the tack widths and flounce* of the east off dresses of the grown-up member* of the family. Gash mere, delaines, etc., If not too much worn and a bright color; they will look a* well as new. Expenditures will not Incur, and a penny save*! Is u penny The latest fashionable craze Is what Is styled symphony costumes. Everything about the dress must ta vague, dreamy, fanciful and cling ing. HymphonyooBtumca must harmonize. They are generally iu otic color, In which all the shades are blended,and sometimes as many a* sixteen shades are used. It Is almost necessary that these costume* must Ik* made by a color artist,or the ef fect may ta ludicrous. A nocturne costume seen at a fashionable modiste's had n skirt of dark gray camel’s hair, with three small pleating* about the ilgc, shading from the dark color to a medium, Abovo these and extending to the waist was a deep side pleating. The front (dents were of white- gray color, shading on either side Into deeper tints until the darkest shade was reached iu the back. The iMisque was of dark muterial, with a ext of the Ugliest shade and reverse of the medium shades. The back drapery mingled all shades In a t fanciful and indescribable sash. Velvet grenadine* are rich and showy materia!*, \onodmrouumto.bo' U.I I ’ ««*«bb,«»o»njroc«do B .«tly do ( —why, tin - modfoU world will be rtuMU'd ol « •?**«*' * lnWr ***"*■ T *'S r * re *>»* luT «‘ portent, and tha “Woman'. Kingdom - " will wwit ( m>nU- on* triumph for itself, lam not done with you Tiie new face scarfs an* throe yard* In length, yet my sisters like dear old BUI Arp. 1 have a great They are tied In a large bow on the front of the I7H4-IHH4. Itcv. II. P. Walker, D.B., In Central Methodist. Organized Methodism In America is one hun Ired years old this year. “Behold, what hath God wrought!" In ITHIshe was an iufantln tail a full grown adult. In 17*1 she had ubout fit preachers in Ihhi nearly .V.»,7*i0. Iu 17*1 she hud l’*,000 inein tars; Iu 1**1. 4,000,000 members. In 17*1 less than half a dozen Sunday-schools; In 1**1, 29,000, schools. In 17*1 no colleges; 18*1 she lias between *2:10 mid 210 col leges. academics, seminaries, and theological schools, male ami femnletln 17*1 no missions prop er; in 1**1 she has several hundred missionaries,and missions established Iu France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal India, Chinn, Japan, Palestine, Egypt, Hyrla. Turkey, Africa proper, Mexien, Mouth America, Australia, the West Indies, Sandwich Islands, mid many other places. The Methodist church lit America I* one hundred and seventy-seven years younger than the Baptist, church, into hundred and sixty-three years younger than the Presbyterian church, and hundred and eighteen years younger than the CoiigregiitlotiiillMt church. Yet she has 1,000,- oo more memtars than the Baptist htiroh, nearly fl.ooo.ooo more than he l’rcshytcrlnii church, and nearly nno.nno more than the Coiigregationalist church. In INTO she hail church property amounting tofu*,- OOU.OJO more than the Biptfsts, fAl.OOO.OOU more than the Epl*co|atlInn*, yjo.ooo.ooo more than the Presbyterian*, and fo.ooo.oo more tlimi the Roman Catholic. 1 give round number*. Hudson say-; "Tho census table shows that she has one-third of all the church __ giiiiiziitloiis In the United stutej; one-third of all the church edifices; preacher* to one-fourth of all tlieehurch-going (nquilatlon, and has built, on an average, nearly two churches per day for the last twenty years. The MethiNlist papulation In the 'lilted State* is estimated to be 23,440,40.?. Ir twenty-two of the thirty-seven state* of the un the MethiNlist church is first in number*; iu leven other* she I* second; In three others *hc third. The Roman Catholic church is first In five statist; the Baptist l* first In six states, and the ’ongrcgutloiittllst* I* first in four states. Method ism in this country stands first In the number of her communicant*, first in the number and capac ity "flier church building*, first in tho value of hurch property, ami first in the amount of money collected nml exiK'iuled for church pnrpo- l” A Catch. Oh? brightly fair and wildly free The brook slipped onward to the sea. In easy curves, through channel* deep Where shadows nodded, all asleep, And singing, singing, soft uml low. The song aucli happy water* know. • Prone on the gross beneath the shade The crowding nld^ tmihcx made, With chin propped xquarely in my hand*, 1 watched |be water lap the sands, pll*h the woi?rt fringing down lkuq\vq the nmtlets, darkly brown. in long-drawn swell! of drowsy glee The locust*' drone eaiue In to me, And Just above the water’s flow Black, long-legged files skimmed to and fro. While ’ncath the ferns, eUwe to the brink, A frog peercM out with solemn blink. A stump, outpnshlng. made a po»>\ Where waters deepeue I, dark and cool, And glancing In with half-shut eye*, 1 saw my scaly, finny prtafc Ju»t rocking in an easy way, Like ship at anchor in a bay. Ah. no such puny, worthless thing A* small boy* seek with hook and string! Ills ample side* of silver gray Darkened and lUviod (n gorgeous way. And minaow*. huddling a* in fear. Viewed hiut with awe. iur venture I n«ar. Oh! lazy as a fish roul«l be. He swung witliiu his mimic sea: llis fins, with idle flap and flip. Moved with each forward, backward dip. Till slowly, slowly, he ami I Were caught by the same lullaby. -Laura Garland Carr: Boston Transcript. A Long.Felt Want Filled. From the Toronto Globe. "Shortage” is a brave word, and fills a public want. It* immediate predecessor, •’defalcation/' was getting somewhat disreputable. Taking Ills Bird. From the Sl Louis Globe-Democrat. Republican crow b better than democratic tur key any day in the year. I tug* and Jug*. Rag* and Jag* two roguish boys.. Left their books and left their toys And wandered away, one pleasant day Much to their dear good mother’s dismay. Past the shops, and past the store*, Past the men about the door*, Up and down, on to the town To find a circus bringing a clown. Now who should stand on the city street But the boys* own father tidy and neat And he opened his eye* wide with surprlso For dirt and disorder, he did despise. (tnil they were ns dirty as dirty could ta; Huts all tore, pants out at the knee; “Tho beggars have come to to town," said he Rags and Jags, come here to me." They came, and were Justly punished that day. For a truly good boy will not run away; A short “If you please” puts all at their ease And if they love mother, who wants to tease. —KatrTannant Woods. If I were to nsk every little boy or girl thut has played “ChidJcaniy-crany-crow," to hold up his hand, I wonder how ninny hands would go upl If I was the man in the moon, I might ask you, for then I could look down and count the hauds; but as lon£ ns I am not, I'll take it for granted that but half the little hands are uplifted and will tell them how to play tho game. I guess some of you call it "Mother Cary's Chickens,” but I used to call it "CftlCKAMr-CRASY-CROW." And I like that name best. Select the two tallest or most active players for the ''mother" and the "witch." Then put the witch iu. the center of a ring, and let the mother take all hor chickens and put them in a row hack of her, each one holding fast to the one right in front of him. Then let them march round tho witch, saying: ‘G'hicnkiny, chickainy-crany-crow! I went to the well to wash my toe; Wihen I got back one of my chickens was gone; What o'clock, old witch?" The witch answers "one," and when they have marched round five times, and the witch has answered "five,” he jumps up saying, "I'll catch another chicken, too," and darts after tho little chicks hack of the mother. Sho jumps aside to protect her brood and they all follow, first on one side and then on the other, trying always to esenjie the witch. When ho catches a chicken tho chick must sit down, and when all aro caught the witch becomes mothers, nnd the play begins over again. Aunt Susie. Our Letter Box, Dear Aunt fluslo: We have vacation now, hut our teacher asked us to study homo all the spare time wc had nnd I have cojnmenced Latin anil algebra aud am anxious to master both, a* Dr. Tnlmuge says "good books aro tho chorus of the age.” 1 like his sermons and Betsy Hamilton and “Our Young Folks." I’ve mado eight quilt* nml can knit, cook, milk and fecit-chickens. Your* truly. Whltcsburg, Gii. Dora Johnson. Dear Auut Susie: I am going to school. I am ten years old. 1'apa Is a farmer and a merchant, I think Pd rather ta u merchant. Mama Im* brother Bob and myself to sweep the yards every Saturday. Your little friend, William E. Jordan. Jordan's Store, Ga. Dear Aunt Husle: Papa Is a farmer, nnd also raises fruit for the market, hut lie will not have more than a half a crop this year. The fruit is several weeks later In ripening this year, and we will not begin shipping until June. Your ueicc, Ella Bu*:i. Terr)’, Mis*. Dear Aunt Husle: I nm nine years old nnd help mama do many little thing*. I can draw water anil wash dishes nnd holy Aunt llettle Iron and sweep. I’ve pieced two quilts since Christmas with dear grand mama to cut the pieces. I go to school when there Is one near. Papa Is n black* smith nnd farmer. He takes The Constitution and we like it very much. Your little friend, 8ai.i.i»: Robert*. Jonesboro, Gn. Dear Aunt Susie: I am a farmer’s boy fourteen yean old. We take TilR Constitution and I love to rend Betsy Hamilton, Uncle Remits and the children's letters. I like the game* you sent us, and hope you will tell us some more. Your little friend, Amur. Story. Near D nnielsvillc, Ga. , Dear Aunt Susie: I am ten years old. My papa takes The Constitution ami I like to rend the little cornin’* letter* very much. Your little friend, Milner’s Store, Ga. AuausT K. Milner. Dear Aunt Susie: l am twelve year* old, and a going to school to a lovely teacher. Papa takes The Constitution and 1 think it I* the best pnj*? wc take. I’m so proud tlmt you give us a place in . Your little nclce, Laura Pittman. Roanoke, Aid. Dear Aunt Susie: lam an only child, and am nearly tlftecu yean old. I have pieced ten quilts and have two more started, lean cook, milk, do any thing of house work, and crochet. Papa takes Tut Constitution and l often lay down my crochet and read it. Your frleml, Lovklla F. Whiten. Harmony Grove, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am u farmer’s daughter living two mile* from Fairbum. Pa take* The Constitu tion and I am very much pleased with It, special ly the Young Folks column. I have pieced eighteen and quilted fourteen quilt*. I can crochet. I’ve crocheted some right pretty trlmmiug aud u towel, have started to reml tho Bible through. Your friend, Jknnte Be. Fairbum, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: We have a nice country home, one and a half miles from WhUesville. We have vacation now and 1 expect to have a good time. Aunty has promised that 1 shall visit my cousins. vc just come home from a visit to West Point, that I enjoyed very much. We have thirty young turkeys and hail one stolen from the roost last week. Will some of the little cousins write to Yoorlittle nelce, Donie Madox. Whltesville, Harris county. Ga. glad to have a little rest. Papa takes The Consti tution uml I like to reud Our Young Folks. I like Betsy Hamilton, BIR Arp and Uncle Remus, too. Your little friend. Dolme Gap Cobb county, Georgia. Dear Aunt Husic: I've been wanting to write you a letter, but mama keep* me*obu*y, I haven’t ha time. Papa take* The Constitution an< like it. Papa say* It Is the best paper he has ever seen. Your little friend, Bonnie Hornluy. Handley, Ala. Dear Aunt Nusle: I am a little girl five years old ami have been to school three and a half month; Have been through my spelling book und the second render. Gramlpnpu nnd mams think I am very smart. Your little nclce, Ella, Ga. Clovis Faulkner. Dear Aunt Susie: I am a farmers daughter eleven years old. Papa take* The Constitution and w like It very much. Cora* McIntosh wanted know what the seven wonders of the world were. They were the Egyptian Pyramids: the mausoleum erected by Artimlsta: the temple of Diana Ephoxus: the walls und hanging gardens of Bah ton: )he CoIIommus of Rhode*: the statue of Jupiter Olymplns: and the Pharos or Watch-tower Alexandria. Your little friend, Thomaxton, Ga. Mattif. Mathew.* Dear Aunt fluslc: Wc arc fourteen nml ten year* of ago. We go to school together, arc In the same 'lassesand are learning rapidly. We have fine time* playing nnd studying together nml hope make useful men. We are farmers, luw and lov to read "The Constitution.” Your little nephe Willie 11, Lynch, Euln, Gn. Duward Pye. Dear Aunt Susie: I am mama’* oldest son nnd nm five year* old. * We've been living on a farm, but live in Ncwimn now*. Papa is mall agent. He get* Tiie Constitution nml n)f mn read* me the little folks letter*. I think they are very smart. Your friend, Little Karl Griggs. Ncwimn, Ga. Dear Aunt .Susie: We live at a cross-roads, In the wihmIm, nnd every morning wake nt the singing of birds, to breathe pure air and drink good water, such a* you hud In Atlanta when it was In the wood* like our home. There is a large family living near iis that came here many year* ago, when the Indian* lived here. Their name Bell; nml when the Indians wanted to talk of the Bell’s they would say "Dingle, Dingle", nnd the few white people tlmt lived here used the same word* to make the Intlluns understand called them that nnd the family are always railed Dingle now. They much told me this nml he says some of the great-grandchildren don’t know thut their name ever was Bell. He said I must write it to The Constitution tacuusc it was the ta**t (taper In the world. He wants to know the name of the first erson who subscribed to Tiif. Constitution und here lie lives. Your little friend, Lyre, Ga. Julia Pif.rue. Dear Aunt Husic: I nm eleven year* old. Mama and I live with grandma and papa Is iu thu asy lum. Grandpa ha* been dead three weeks nml w very lonely now. We take The Constitution and it 1* a heap of com puny for u*. I rend Betsy Hamilton, Uncle Rent us nml Bill Arp, to grandma. 1 like your paper better than I do my book*. You melee, Lkla M. Strickland. Luthcrevlllc, Ga. Dear Aunt Susie: I am n farmer’* son nnd I help father work vezry hard. We have thirty acre* In cultivation twenty-four of which are planted in cotton. I taKo The Constitution myself nml on* Joy It very much. I like Betsy Hamilton nml Mr. Ciimmlng's letter, and ain sorry Bill Arp quit writing to us. Sister likes Our Young Folk’s eol- mn. Yours truly, George Edward Bucketon. Little Vllle, Clayton county, Ga Dear A unt Susie: Inin ten year* old. Papa’s farmer nml we used to live iu Georgia. 1 do nil mama’s sewing on the machine. My brother take* The Constitution ami 1 love to read the Young Folks column nwi Betsy Hamilton. Your little Texas, nelce, Hattie Rodins. Valley Crock, Texas. Dear Aunt Susie: We arc farmer's daughters twolve ami sixteen years old. Wc are not going to school now. l’apa takes The Constitution nml love to rend Betsy Hamilton nml the Young Folk* column. We wish some of the cousin# would write to us. Your loving friends. Enny and oi.ly Story, Near Danlclxvllle, Gn. Dear Aunt Susie: I am five years old. 1’apa take* The Constitution nml I love to hear him read the cousin's letters. I like your paper so much. Tell Marshall Smith its feather* are blacker than •our and the other half of the moon Is as large n* lie half. Your little friend, Fayetteville, Ga. Joe Dosmam. Dear Aunt Susie: I am mama's baby, and I have juft returned from a trip to the country that 1 enjoyed very much. Didjyou Jever hear a whlp- povrill whistle? I delighted In bearing them in the country. Papa take* Tiie Constitution and 1 leilght in reading Betsy Hamilton and the Young Folk’* column. Yours truly, KatidRarkon Neurnan, Go. Dear Aunt Susie: 1 am D year* old and dout go hoo! nour. We take The Constitution and I like it better than any paper I’ve ever seen. Joe Emma Allen wanted to kuosr what would keep the hawk* otr. We hnng an old tin up In the tree* and let the wind fan Hand the hawks have not been back since then. Your friend, Fairbum, Go. P- A. V.Allkn. Dear Aunt Susie: 1 am eleven Tear* old and go to school to Mr. Smith whom. I Uke very much. Dour Aunt Susie: I am a little boy living in Texiu on a-broad prairie where there ure lots of bright flowers. I can ride papa's pretty mare Nellie” when he letuls her und I have u big dog named "Rover." Papa take* The Constitution nml rends mu the children'* letters nml Uucle Remus, nnd I think they are Jolly. Your little nephew, Author H. Spring. Del Valle, Texas. Under a Fly-Wheel.—It was ten o'clock In the morning: everybody was nt work. The click ing and rattling of the lighter machinery, the groaning of heavily laden shafts, the oily thud of hundred* of cog*, mingled In busy din. The huge engine sighed a* with it* brawny arm of polished steel, It im|M>lle«l the muin-shntt to turn the wheels of the factory. Tom worked by the door near the englneroom. He could, therefore, easily see the engine anil all It* surrounding*. The interest of it* rapid ceaseless motion (tartly reconciled him to the fact that, while most boy* of thirteen were enjoying full lib erty outdde, he was shut up withindoors. Till* morning more than usually he had been watching the forbidden splendors of the engine- room, for the engineer allowed no one in his sanc tum. The grout machine fascinated Tom with it* easy grace of movement. Hi* eye* dwelt long on the neat finish of the hexagoual bolt head* thut gleamed about the cylinder. He tried to tell from hi* position how full the gloss oil cups were as they flashed to and fro on the polished arm; and then hU eye* rested on the fly-wheel that revolved so gracefully in Us narrow prison. Only one half of the wheel could be seen at once, the other half be ing talaw the floor almost filling a narrow, n>ck lined cavity called the "pit.” A* Tom watched the whirling spoke* ft seemed i if the mas* of infti stood still, so swift was it* motion. He remembered that once the engineer, seeing his Interest Iu the machinery, had invited him in, and that he had stood leaning over the fratl wooden guard his face so eloselo the fly-wheel that the wind from Us surface blew back his hair, whlge he looked d« dread, lie remembered asking the engineer if he supposed anyone could climb down there while the engine was iu motion. The answer come. There Is not a man Iu the factory that has nerv As he p.t--:ed the doorway he was Just In time to see the child toddle forward und fall Into the pit. With mi awful shudder he waited to see the mon ster wheel spurn the baby girl from its cruel aide*; but no such sight came. Hu dadied forward and looked Into the pit. She sat on the hard, rocky bottom sobbing to herself. The fall had not liarmep her. yet she was still In great danger. Any attempt to move from her posi tion would give the relentless wheel another chance. Tom slipped out of his brown “jumper," tore off hi* light shoes and stood Inside the guard. One eager look In the direction of the Iron door through which the engineer would come and then he began the descent. The great mass of iron whirled diz zily close to nls eyes; the inclined plane down which he wo* sliding was covered deep with dust mingled with oil; the thick, oily, damp air, fanned from the heavy breeze from the wheel almost took hi* breath away. Where the curve of the wheel was nearest it almost brushed his clothes. With hi* back pressed tight against the rock* he slid down until his feet touched the bottom, and now came the worst part of the ordeal—the ponderous wheel, sweeping In giddy curves above him, so affected Ills nerve* that his strength began to fall. There was one space where the wheel curved away from n corner, so he dropped on his knee* there and foran Instant shut hi* aching eyes. The child was in the other corner of the pit sitting; In un open space similar to that in which Tom knelt. As he looked past the terrible barrier she made a movement as if to stand up. That brought tack Tom's fleeting sense*. If *hc should stand up the wheel would strike her. Lying carefully flat upon the tattom of the pit, he began slowly am! cautiously to work hi* way beneath the mass of flying Iron. He could feel the awful wind raising his hair u* he crept along. Nearer and nearer lie mine to the child, nnd nearer to the curve of the wheel. A* he passed bcncuth jt un Incautious movement und a sudden burn on his shoulder showed that he hud touched It. The little one had not seen him at all, yet as she had been sitting und rubbing her eye, but she looked lip now und seeing the face streaked with oil and dust coming toward her she covered her face again with her little hand* nnd sobbed harder than ever. Tom crept on until he came no near to- the child that he could lay hold of her dress nnd then he stopped ami a strange, dizzy blur kept throwing a veil over hi* eyes and he tried in vain ercomc n longing for sleep. He could feel the ceaseles* whirl of the great wheel and it made him- almost wild, curious, ragarie* and half delurioti*. fancies danced through hii head. With an effort he threw them off. aud raising his nice from the- rocky couch, culled aloud lor help. itly u dozen mocking voice* from the pit flung tack the cry into hi* very ears. But the* wheel caught the cry nud whirled it away up into- Ine-room, In disturbed echoes. The little- girl tried to get up, but he held to her white dres* id soothed her the best he could. A moment later, he distinctly heard footsteps In the engine room, then he felt that some one wa* looking into the pit, and then the chattering of tiie piston in the empty cylinder showed that the nglnc was soon to stop. Less swiftly, and at bust slowly and more slowly whirled Tom’s mighty jailer: fainter and Inlutcr the elattar of the piston, until both ceased, and the engineer, with great bead* of perspiration on hi* white forhend, swung himself tatweeu the harmless spoke* of the fly wheel and got down lose to the prisoners. “Is she hurt Tom?" he grasped. “No, sir” said Tom faintly. “If you’d only stop the fly-wheel I’d lift her out." “It Is stopped, my lad—It Is only your dizziness that deceives you. Let me take my little May.” The engineer reached down and lifted his durllng up from thejlust, and, holding her fast in one arm. climbed out. Tom lay still. Ho did not seem to care, since the little one was safe nnd the fly wheel had stopped. He felt a weariness stealing over him. He would like to sleep n year. The engineer was by his side a moment later asking If he was hurt. I think not;—only a little tired" said Tom nnd slowly and wearily his eyes, closed. Without another won! the strong man lifted the boy up from the rocky floor and Its foul air and, climbing again by the spokes of the fly-wheel, bore him out of Tom’s dungeon. The air from the open window soon cleared the sleepiness away, and he was able to tell the whole story. The engineer grasped his hand but he eoutd not speak, and there ere tears In hi* eyes. Many were the words of praise from the sturdy workmen that crowded In from the steel works "to see why the engineer had stopped." Tom wa* the hero of the day. When the superintendent heard of It, hc*ent for hack aud sent Tom home In style, with a com fortable little present in hi* pocket, and the per mission to be out until he should feel all right again. It took about a week to clear the dizzy feeling entirely away, and at the end of that time he wa* working nt hi* machine Just a* if he had never been under a fly-wheel. Political Xoten. Tut; republicans of Maine have nominnted all their present representatives in congress for re- election. It would be just as well to remember in the present crisis that though times have changed since 1876, Samuel J. Tihlcn has not. A St. I'etekarurg correspondent of the Xew York Sun Is convinced that Bus*in’* greatest weak ness Is her size. That can not be raid of the green* k party. Tiie democratic convention will be smaller than that of the republicans by is, ns no delegates admitted from the territories, but under the two-third* rule It will take .VV> vote* to nominate. The Louisiana house kills a bill submitting constitutional amendment to do away with the lottery company, by it vote of 47 to 42. There wa* hot debate, in which it was said that Lottery Manager Howard had boasted that he could buy the legislature, and the vote was at least eloso enough to be encouraging. LlEUTKNAXT.GoVKRXOR PlXGRRR U still the most prominent candidate for the republican gubernatorial convention in Vermont. Mr. Fred erick Billing* peremptorily withdrew from the ranvnx*.mnnihs ugo, but he has many friends In the state who would be glad to nominate him. The strife over the minor places on the ticket is warmer thuu that over the governorship. Mr. Cox says that Mr. TilUen will be the democratic nominee and that Mr. Hendricks will nominated for the secoud place. He says If the • democrat* are going to have the old ticket they must Uke it all. It is nonsense to talk about split ting It up. It must ta all of the old ticket or none of it. and he thinks it will be all. He ray* Tlldeu will accept. New York, he rays, is all right for the- democruts this year. General T. L. Cling man. of North Carolina,, contemporary In polities with Clay and Harrison, was a prominent whig more than forty year* ago. During fourteen year* he wa* elected to congress surface blew hack his hair, without ever having a nomination by any convcu- in the pit with wonder and tlon, always running as an independent candidate. He ray* that though each canvass lasted five or six months, he did not spend a* much os fcTiO in any one campaign, that sum being more than sufficient mMvmnnniw., jr i'jiw'y*?- »e mh . .... „ , . . Idea tho» more money U needed in elections now enough even if there wa* r.*m»: the space between • than in his day. and rays it i* the politicises and the wheel ami wall being hardly a foot and a half | not the people that are corrupt. i width. I One of the most interesting feature* of the- The boy's eye* next wandered from the objects of ^ programme sanctioned by congress for dedicating his thoughts and rested on the bright bra** domes the Wa*bfngton monument next spring, is an ora- of the force pump* that occupied a brick settle on * tioo to be delivered on the 224 of February. Ira?,, one side of the room, and then up to the maze of (,* the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. who pronounced pipe* that crossed and re-crowed above the toiling the oration at the laying of the corner stone in I*i*. mLmmm He was sometimes called young Mr. Winthrop. in mat hint. ly. those long bygone day*, and until the spurt ot en- Suddenly glancing down he raw a little child enry in completing the shaft male during the last standing beneath the guard close to the great fly- fcw yean, it hardly seemed likely that anybody .b~L Tb«cnrfnMT WM jiowhwt In .fcb. »d EISS^'JSQTUSl'S: - little May was bis only chib!. Tom's heart gave dedicated work.